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CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1917
Cover design — Norma Talmadge, painted by Neysa McMein
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The real romances of the "Continued-next week."
Sweet Sobber of the Celluloid Grace Kingsley 27
About a girl who cried herself into stardom. Photos by Stagg
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Dickens— The Old and New 32
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The Girl on the Calendar 33
That's how she started out but now she is a film star.
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Treeing Mae Murray Just to Shoot Her (Photograph) 35
The Winter Capital of Reel New York 36
More "locations;" this time from Florida's sun stages.
Snow White (Short Story) Mrs. Ray Long 43
A favorite childhood tale told in a new way.
Billie Burke in the Title Role of "Motherhood" (Photograph ) 50
Rum, Romance and Remorse Kenneth McGaffey 51
Pete Props meant well but the director couldn't see it.
Drawings by E. W. Gale, Jr.
Close-Ups (Editorial) 55
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Some Brenon Motions, Reed Emotions. Grant T. Reynard 58
Including also a crayoned visit with Clara K. Young.
Preaching by Pictures 60
How the film has become a valuable aid to the minister.
Shadows of Asia Homer Croy 61
The happy hunting ground of the film cowboy. Draiciiigs by Grant Reynard
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A Vamp with a Goulash Name 73
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The Shadow Stage Julian Johnson 75
A department of photoplay review.
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If you have seen "Intolerance" you know what that means.
The Company on the Cover, Talmadge, Inc. 84
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Plays and Players Cal York 86
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Margarita's Menage 97
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Conclusion of a screenland romance. Illustrations by Raeburii Van Buren
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The season's fashions told in words and photos.
Photoplay's Announcement for the New Year 118
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Limousines Are Clark-Lined This Season (Photograph) 122
"Her" New York (Short Story) Constance Severance 123
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Carmel; Her Caramels Are Coins (Photograph) 131
Scenario Puzzle Contest 132
Seen and Heard at the Movies 134
Questions and Answers 135
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POPULAR PHOTOPLAYERS
ANITA KING
enjoys the distinction of having been the first woman to motor across the
continent all by herself, yet she is not a motorist. Her vocation is acting in
Lasky photoplays but her avocation is being a City Mother of Los Angeles.
Her duties as such are to look out for the little girls who run away from home
to be movie stars. Some of Miss King's recent film vehicles were "The Hace,"
"Anton the Terrible" and "The Heir to the Hoorah."
■ u : ALAN FORREST
has so many admrrers that it will be wise to get right down to the important
facts at once— he is a native of Ohio. 26 years old: he was married last August
to Anna Little, and he has black hair and brown eyes. Now his career: For
three years he played vaudeville and stock before going into screen work in
1912 with Universal. Lubin had him two years and recently he has beenappear*
ing in Mutual dramas opposite Mary Miles Minter.
HELEN JEROME EDDY
for several months improved the scenery around the University of California.
Now, although only 19, she is playing in Morosco films after some preliminary
experience in vaudeville and with Lubin. Among other plays she has appeared
in "The Tongues of Men," "The Code of Marcia Gray" and "Pasquale." She
loves horseback riding, motoring, and Los Angeles where her home is. Im-
portant addenda: brown eyes, brown hair, 130 pounds, unmarried.
GLADYS HULETTE
has been acting since she was two years old, and hasn't grown tired of it yet.
You may never have heard of Arcade, N. Y., but that is where she was born
nevertheless. She was educated by private tutors and learned a lot about
life with De Wolf Hopper in "Wang," Nazimova in "The Doll's House" and
Kalich in "The Kreutzer Sonata." She joined Vitagraph in 1910 and is now
with Thanhouser. She recently shone in "The Shine Oirl."
HARRY HILLIARD
started out to be a sawbones in the Miami Medical College but got switched
off to the stage, and before he knew it, almost, was appearing with such stars
as Lackaye, Dixey and Marie Dressier in the legitimate. Then the inevitable
cinema claimed him, and he has been with Fox since December, 1915. "The
Strength of the Weak" and "Merely Mary Ann" had him in their casts. He
was Romeo to Juliet Bara in the Fox Shakespearean revival.
JOHN BOWERS
played opposite Mary Pickford in "The Eternal Grind," "Hulda from Holland"
and other photodramas during an eventful screen career which includes
services with Metro and World, as well as Famous Players. The latter pays
his salary now. Six years of stage experience gave him a valuable foundation
for the leads he'plays in pictures. He's another one of those! brunettes that
the cinemas prefer; is 6 feet tall and is 175 pounds of real American.
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BESSIE BARRISCALE
is up among the top ones of Triangle's six best sellers as a shining star in the
Ince constellation. She came to the screen well equipped in stage learning,
making her first camera appearance in "The Rose of the Rancho," an early
Lasky. Then she went over to Ince. Miss Barriscale is equally effective in
emotional and comedy roles as witness her artistry in "The Cup of Life" and
"Plain Jane," "The Payment" and "The Comer in Colleens." She is 26.
LOUISE FAZENDA
sounds like the name of a harem beauty, but as a matter of fact Miss' Fazenda
was born in Lafayette. Indiana, which is a lon^ way from Constantinople. Her
parents were Dutch and French which probably accounts for the temperament
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THE WORLD'S LEADING MOVING PICTURE PUBLICATION
PHOTOPLAY
MAGAZINE
February, 1917
Vol. XI, No. 3
Harvesting the Serial
AN INTERESTING COMPILATION
OF FACTS ABOUT THE GREAT
MONEY MAKER OF THE MOVIES
By Alfred A. Cohn
Author of "Waste," etc.
R
EAD it in the Record ; See it at the
Strand !"
It seems a long time since we
first glimpsed this "command" slogan.
It is a long time in motion picture history,
but in reality it was just yesterday — a brief
three years ago. The serial idea itself was
conceived but a little more than four years
ago, although the basic principle dates
back further than definite history picks up
the world's story. Edison and Selig and
Pathe may (juarrel cn-er the fatherhood of
the serial, but Scheherazade was its mother.
There is no dispute about that. And her
r e c o r d — A
•Thousand *-
and One Epi-
sodes — has
ne\er been approached. But we cannot go
back too far as we are dealing with the
visual, animated serial and not the oral
one. Besides, Selig and Pathe and Edison
were never in danger of having their heads
lopped off by a wicked Caliph.
Authorities agree that the first serial
came from the Edison plant and that the
first continuous thriller came from Los
Angeles via the Selig Zoo-Studio. The
former was "What Happened to Mary:"
the latter, "The Adventures of Kathlyn."
After that serial history, chronolog-
ically speaking, becomes a jumble, a mad
scramble and
a piling up of
golden shek-
els ; a wild
Kathlyn Williams and Tom Santschi in "The Adventures of Kathlyn."
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A new and striking pose oj Kathlyn Williams, heroine of the first "stunt" serial. She is now a star
in the Famous Players — Lasky — Marasco constellation.
Harvesting the Serial
21
search for weird or original ideas, and
stars tliat could draw dimes into the box-
office till. Some concoctions were veritable
mints for their producers and backers.
Conversely, there were some tremendous
flivvers. The serial harvest in one instance
would be a plethora of gold ; the ne.xt
venture, a harvest of vain regrets.
Perhaps the simplest way to discuss the
serial's history is in chronological form. At
any rate it should be better understood if
told in narrative form, so here goes :
. "What Happened to Mary," the first
of all screened continuous stories, was a
series ratlier than a serial, with Mary Ful-
ler and Marc McDermott playing the
leads. Edison
]:> r o d u c e d
it with the
cooperation of
"The Ladies'
W o r 1 d" i n
which the sto-
ries were pub-
lished prior to
their screening.
Frederick I,.
Collins, the n
editor of that
magazine, is
credited with
having c o n -
ceived the idea.
He is now
prominen 1 1 v
identified with
t h e McClure
syndicate and
super -pictures.
Horace G.
Plympton, then general manager of the
Edison studio, wrote the scenarios.
The first "Mary" series was followed
by "Who Will Marry Mary" and "Dolly
of the Dailies," also with Marv Fuller.
But there were no elaborate advertising
campaigns and the general public did not
get very well acquainted with "Mary."
Then the daily newspapers stepped in,
coincident with the coming of the adven-
turous Kathlyn. It is said that Col. Wil-
liam Selig's original motive in putting
forth the Kathlyn serial was based on his
desire to utilize his collection of wild
animals Avhich was being brought together
in Los Angeles. He had also Iniilt a
tropical zoo in that city, which is now
A ' 'still ' ' from the original serial — ' ' What Happened to Mary,
ivith Mary Fuller and Marc McDermott.
one of the most beautiful showplaces of
Southern California. Of course he was
also prompted by the showman's idea of
havuig a hold on the exhibitors for an
extended period, thus as.suring a good
income for that length of time and per-
mitting of a concentrated campaign of
publicity. These form today the basic
foundation of the serial's right to live.
The Chicago Tribune published the
Kathlyn stories as they were written by
Harold McCrath from the scenario of
Cilson \V'ilk'tts. In addition to printing
them, the Tribune syndicated the Kathlyn
stories to other newspapers in cities where
the adventures were being exhibited.
These n e w s-
papers paid
for the priv-
ilege of print-
ing the stories.
Now the pro-
ducers pay the
newspapers for
publishing
tliem. From
this source
alone, the
Trilnuie is said
to have cleared
$10,000. In ad-
dition the
T r i b u n e
gained some-
tliing like 60.-
000 new sub-
scribers
because of the
Kathlyn sto-
ries. Later
that forehanded daily participated in the
production and profits of "The Million
Dollar Mystery." "The Diamond from the
Sky" and other serials.
Few exhibitors of those days — the first
release was Dec. 29, 1913 — will forget
how Kathlyn packed their houses. It was
a gold mine for the theater owners and
it was the means of bringing people into
the movies who had pre\'iously scorned
them. Kathlyn had thirteen episodes of
two reels each, issued every two weeks
The exhibitor showing them "first run"
paid $15 a day. A few months ago several
theaters paid $1,000 a week for the priv-
ilege of showing "Gloria's Romance."
Had "Kathlyn" had present day public-
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ity advantages, she
would have made
millions for her
hackers. The his-
tory of this serial
pioneer is not com-
plete without some
reference to those
who played in it.
Kathlyn Williams,
of course, played
the name part and
with her were Tom
S a n t s c h i a n-d
Charles Clary.
Frank Grandon was
director.
Strangelv enough.
produced another serial. He thought he
had skimmed the cream off of a new can
of milk and that a repetition of the idea
would be fruitless. All of which goes to
show that one cannot always sometimes
tell, even in the movie business.
But others liked the idea and two rival
concerns started grinding out "The Mil-
lion Dollar Mystery" and "The Perils of
Pauline." They got into the market about
the same time and were big winners.
However, the "Mystery" still stands as the
biggest money maker ever produced. The
total bookings aggregated something like
$1,400,000 and the syndicate which
financed it. divided net profits of $600,000.
The "Perils" came from Pathe and had
the publicity backing of the Hearst news-
papers, while the Chicago Tribune and a
nation-wide syndicate of papers published
the "Mystery" stories. The latter was in
23 episodes or chapters and there were 20
"Perils," from which Pearl escaped.
Marguerite Snow in "The Million Dollar Mystery. "
Colonel Selig never
It was in "The
Perils of Pauline"
that Pearl White
got her real start to
fame and fortune
as a movie heroine.
Supported by Crane
Wilbur as the hero
and Paul Panzer as
the villain, she went
through a series of
thrills that are still
a well remembered
part of movie his-
tory. "The Perils"
ran close to the mil-
lion mark in total
bookings and, of the Pathe serials, was
exceeded as a gold harvester only by "The
Exploits of Elaine."
The Tlianhouser company, of which
the late Charles J. Hite was then presi-
dent produced "The Million Dollar Mys-
tery" for the Syndicate Film Corporation.
This company merely had the rights for the
United States and Canada. Thanhouser
now has it running in England where it
has already made $40,000 and it is also
running in Japan, South America and
British ' Honduras. The original first run
releases went at $25 a night, c]uite a raise
over "Kathlyn," dropping to $20 for the
second v\'eek and tapering off to $5 at the
age of six months.
"The Mystery" consisted of 23 episodes
of two reels each. All except the last
were written by Lloyd Lonergan and the
twenty-third was written by Miss Ida
Damon of St. Louis who won the $10,000
yirize for the best ending. Mr. Lonergan
also took an active part in the direction
'The Perils of Pauline" with Pearl White, Queen of the Serials.
Harvesting the Serial
23
of the serial and
Harold McGrath
wrote the accom-
panying novel for
the newspapers.
Six months were
required in filming
tliis big winner and
because of the mul-
tiplicity of scenes
mapped out for the
millionaire's home,
the Francis AVilson
property at New
Rochelle, N. Y.,
was purchased out-
right by the com-
pany. .Mr. Hite, who was the guiding
spirit of the enterprise, died before it was
completed. The syndicate shortly before
had had bis life insured for sometiiing
like $100,000.
The plot of the story was the well-proyed
formula of a pretty persecuted heroine with
enemies more powerful than friends — at
least until the climax — and it was embel-
lished with a thrill or more for each
chapter. The hero, a new.spaper reporter,
rescued tlie lieroine at least once per epi-
sode. The heroine of the story, as all good
moyie fans recall, was Florence LaBadie,
and the hero was Jimmie Cruze. Margue-
rite Snow was the lady "willun" and
Sidney Bracey doubled as Millionaire Har-
greaves and the butler wlio watched oyer
the heroine.
This .serial also started the craze for
masked conspirators. There were two rea-
sons for masking the crooks. First, of
course, to make them appear thrillingly
spooky, and the other —
Francis Ford and Grace Cunard in "Lucille Love.
Well, they were
all "atmosphere" —
extra people and
because of the
chance that some
of them might get
the idea that they
were film Booths
or Barretts, they
were disguised, so
that .substitutions
could be easily
made.
Skipping back to
the house of Pathe.
whicli is one of the
most incorrigible as
well as successful producers of .serials,
"The Perils of Pauline" proved such a
hit that Pathe decided to place Pearl
White in another serial. William Ran-
dolph Hearst was so well pleased with
his initial dip into the film game that he
increased his efforts. Two of his best
magazine writers Arthur B. Reeve, author
of the Craig Kennedy mystery stories and
Charles Goddard, who has since become
a successful playwright, furnished the
"Exploits" and "Elaine" came to the
screen, with the Hearst papers closely
co-operating. .\s a concession to the de-
mand for well known stage names, Arnold
Daly was obtained for the leading male
role and Sheldon Lewis, a well known
stage heavy was induced to become the
villain.
Of course you remember the mysterious
"Clutching Hand" of that serial, the iden-
tity of whicli was successfully concealed
until the last episode when it was disclosed
as "Shelly" Lewis. The "Exploits" ran
Lillian Lorraine and Wm. Courtleigh, Jr., in "Neal of the Navy. "
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ity advantages, she
would have made
millions for her
backers. The his-
tory of this serial
pioneer is not com-
plete without some
reference to those
who played in it.
Kathlyn Williams,
of course, played
the name part and
with her were Tom
Santschi and
Charles Clary.
Frank Grandon was
director.
Strangely enough, Colonel Selig never
produced another serial. He thought he
had skimmed the cream off of a new can
of milk and that a repetition of the idea
would be fruitless. All of which goes to
show that one cannot always sometimes
tell, even in the movie business.
But others liked the idea and two rival
concerns started grinding out "The Mil-
lion Dollar Mystery" and "The Perils of
Pauline." They got into the market about
the same time and were big winners.
However, the "Mystery" still stands as the
biggest money maker ever produced. The
total bookings aggregated .something like
$1,400,000 and the syndicate which
financed it, divided net profits of $600,000.
The "Perils" came from Pathe and had
the publicity backing of the Hearst news-
papers, while the Chicago Tribune and a
nation-wide syndicate of papers published
the "Mystery" stories. The latter was in
23 episodes or chapters and there were 20
"Perils," from which Pearl escaped.
Marguerite Snow in "The Million Dollar Mystery.
It was in "The
Perils of Pauline"
that Pearl White
got her real start to
fame and fortune
as a movie heroine.
Supported by Crane
Wilbur as the hero
and Paul Panzer as
the villain, she went
through a series of
thrills that are still
a well remembered
part of movie his-
tory. "The Perils"
ran close to the mil-
lion mark in total
bookings and, of the Pathe serials, was
exceeded as a gold harvester only by "The
Exploits of Elaine."
The Thanhouser company, of which
the late Charles J. Hite was then presi-
dent produced "The Million Dollar Mys-
tery" for the Syndicate Film Corporation,
l^his company merely had the rights for the
United States and Canada. Thanhouser
now has it running in England where it
has already made $40,000 and it is also
running in Japan, South America and
British 'Honduras. The original first run
releases went at $25 a night, c|uite a raise
over "Kathlyn," dropping to $20 for the
second week and tapering off to $5 at the
age of six months.
"The Mystery" consisted of 23 episodes
of two reels each. All except the last
were written by Lloyd Lonergan and the
twenty-third was written by Miss Ida
Damon of St. Louis who Avon the $10,000
prize for the best ending. Mr. Lonergan
also took an active part in the direction
'The Perils of Pauline" with Pearl White, Queen of the Serials.
Harvesting the Serial
23
of the serial and
Harold McGrath
wrote the accom-
]ianying novel for
the newspapers.
Six months were
required in filming
this big winner and
because of the mul-
tiplicity of scenes
mapped out for the
millionaire's home,
the Francis Wilson
property at New
Rochelie, N. Y.,
was purchased out-
right by the com-
pany. Mr. Hite, who was the guiding
spirit of the enterprise, died before it was
completed. The syndicate shortly before
had had bis life insured for something
like $100,000.
The plot of the story was the well-proyed
formula of a pretty persecuted heroine with
enemies more powerful tlian friends — at
least until the climax — and it was embel-
lished with a thrill or more for each
chapter. The hero, a newspaper reporter,
rescued the heroine at least once per epi-
sode, i'he heroine of the story, as all good
movie fans recall, was Florence LaBadie,
and the hero was Jimmie C'ruze. Margue-
rite Snow was the lady "willun" and
Sidney Bracey doubled as Millionaire Har-
greaves and the butler who watched over
the heroine.
This serial also started the craze for
masked conspirators. There were two rea-
sons for masking the crooks. First, of
course, to make them appear thrillingly
spooky, and the other —
Francis Ford and Grace Ctinard in " Lucille Love.
\Vell. they were
all "atmosphere" —
extra people and
because of the
chance that some
of them might get
the idea that they
were film Booths
or Barretts, they
were disguised, so
that substitutions
could be easily
made.
Skipping back to
the house of Pathe.
which is one of the
most incorrigible as
well as successful producers of serials,
"The Perils of Pauline" proved such a
hit that Pathe decided to place Pearl
White in another serial. William Ran-
dolph Hearst was .so well pleased with
his initial dip into the film game that he
increased his eiforts. Two of his best
magazine writers Arthur B. Reeve, author
of the Craig Kennedy mystery stories and
Charles Goddard, who has since become
a succe-ssful playwright, furnished the
"Exploits" and "Elaine" came to the
screen, with the Hearst papers closely
co-operating. As a concession to the de-
mand for well known stage names, Arnold
Daly was obtained for the leading male
role and Sheldon Lewis, a well known
stage heavy was induced to become the
villain.
Of course you remember the mysterious
"Clutching Hand" of that serial, the iden
tity of which was successfully concealed
until the last episode when it was disclosed
as "Shelly" Lewis. The "Exploits" ran
Lillian Lorraine and Wm. Courtleigh, Jr., in "Neal of the Navy. "
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Billie Burke and Henry Kolker in
Romance. "
for sixteen episodes
and it was extended
for eight additional
episodes under the
title "The New Ex-
ploits of Elaine."
Edwin Arden was
engaged for the
new villain as Lewis
had to be elimi-
nated. Figures are
not availal)le but it
is said that "Elaine"
was a tremendous
money maker. It is
still doing a good
business in Europe
and other parts of
the world as "The Mysteries of New
York." Pearl White is probably as well
known in Europe, Japan and the Dutcn
East Indies as she is at home and, because
of little competition, even more of a
favorite.
In the interests of chronological ac-
curacy, we will skip to the Pacific Coast,
where at Santa Barbara, the American
Film Corporation was turning out "The
Diamond from the Sky." a thirty cliapter
"novel" by Roy L. McCardcll. It was the
successor of "The Million Dollar Mys-
tery" for the Chicago Tribune syndicate.
This was the longest serial ever produced.
McCardell won a $10,000 prize for the
scenario and a Chicago woman was re-
cently awarded a like prize for the
winning sequel. In this serial. Lottie
Pickford, sister of the famed Mary,
played the lead with Irving Cummings
opposite. This was also a big moneymaker
and the syndicate which financed it was
well rewarded. Ihe success of "The Dia-
' Gloria's
mond" marked the
beginning of the
ascendancy of John
R. Freuler in the
film world.
And now we will
skip back to the
record fli^•ver of the
serials. It was
originally c h r i s-
tened "Zudora," a
Thanhouser prod-
uct, and was in-
tended as a follow
up on "The Million
Dollar Mystery."
The latter had done
so well for the the-
ater people that the mere announcement of
another serial by the same concern was
enougli to create a flood of applications
from all points of the compass.
Theater owners in all parts of the coun-
try indulged in a grand rush for a chance
to show the new .serial.
Before an episode had been shown, the
advance bookings on "Z,udora," totalled,
more than- S/jO.ooo.
Several reasons are assigned for the fail-
ure of "Zudora." The most logical is that
it took the hero of its predecessor, Jimmie
Cruze and made a villain of him. Here
we had a likable young fellow who during
a period of a half year had been saving
the heroine regularly every week and build-
ing up a strong following l)ecause of such
performances. And lo, wlien he liad be-
come the idol, some mistaken impulse
transformed him into a villainous creature,
operating in an atmosphere of mysticism.
No wonder the exhibitors fell over each
other cancelling their bookings. Not even
Ruth Roland in " Who Pays?," a series rather than a serial from Balboa's studio.
Harvesting the Serial
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change of the name
to "The Twenty
Million Dollar
Mvstery" ' availed.
The conceiver of
this idea probablv'
argued that if a
million dollar mys-
tery could prove a
winner a twenty
million dollar mys-
tery could make
twenty times as
mucli. "Runaway
June," also released
by Mutual, was also
a flivver. "Social
Cleo Madison and George Larkin in ' ' The Trey
of Hearts- "
ing for a salary of
$4,000 a week to
play the lead in a
twenty-chapter .se-
rial entitled "Glo-
ria's Romance." A
separate story, and
an interesting one,
could be written
about this record-
l)rcaking produc-
tion, but in this
article only tlie
high lights can l)e
touched. Miss
Burke drew in sal-
ary for her work in
Pirates," a vKalem serial, was another.
All this time Universal was not asleep
at the switch. "Lucille Love," with
Francis Ford and Grace Cunard in the
leading roles made its appearance during
the summer of 1914 and Miss Cunard
started after the "Queen of the Serial"
honors with Pearl White. Pearl is still
way in the lead though Helen Holmes is
right on her trail. Li^nivensal followed
with "The Trey o' Hearts," featuring Cleo
Madison and George Larkin ; then "The
Black Box," by E. Phillips Oppenheim.
"The Master Key" with Bob Leonard and
Ella Hall; "The Broken Coin," with
Ford and Cunard. Since that time Uni-
versal has turned out other serials, such as
"Graft," "Peg of the Ring," "Liberty"
and others. As a rule they have made
more money for Universal tlian any other
branch of production.
The high crest of the serial wave was
reached just about a year ago when Billie
Burke signed her name to a contract call-
this story the sum of $140,000. A like sum
was spent in a well directed advertising
campaign and so high did the general ex-
penses run that for a time last summer, it
was feared that the financiers of the pro-
duction \A'ould book a heavy loss." How-
ever, tliey emerged witliout financial injury
and may eventually make some money as
the serial is still running. Record prices
were ])aid for first run ]irivileges. A num-
ber of theaters paid $1,000 a week, many
paid $100 a day but more paid $50.
It had been planned to make it a ".some-
what diff'erent" serial because of the star's
personality and great popularity. Rupert
Hughes wrote the story and as written it
was devoid of thrilling "stunts." But, ac-
cording to the insiders, they put one over
on the author when Captain Hughes went
to the border with his company of New
York National Guard. Deeds of violence
and intended thrills became prominent in
the late episodes of the "Romance." Ex-
hibitors complained that the story was too
Helen Holmes in a characteristic stunt in "The Girl and the Game."
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"highbrow," and perhaps it was, for a pub-
lic that had been satiated with Pearl White
stunts. Walter Edwin, director of "What
Happened to Mary," the original film
serial, officiated in like capacity for "Glo-
ria." It is doubtful if "Gloria" will ever
be equalled as an expense account, as it
cost something like $600,000.
The charge of "highbrowism" was also
directed at the Hearst- Vitagraph "God-
dess" which served to popularize Anita
Stewart and Earle Williams, but it made
money nevertheless for both the publisher
and the producer. "The Mysteries of
Myra," produced later by Wharton for
Hearst, or the International Film Service
as it came to be known, was too much im-
pregnated with mysticism to win great
popularity although it had plenty of thrills.
Vitagrai)h did well with "The Scarlet
Runner," a series of separate adventures
of Earle Williams and is now unwinding
"The Secret Kingdom" with Charles
Richman. The International has turned
out a vast amount of publicity concerning
"Patria" in which Irene Castle makes her
celluloid debut. It is a preparedness serial
and so is Pearl White's newest Pathe con-
tinued story "Pearl of the Army," which
"got the jump" on "Patria" in reaching
the public, to use a sporting term.
Another well advertised serial which
failed of marked success despite a great
.star and a heavy advertising expenditure
was "The Strange Case of Mary Page,"
Essanay's sole venture into the realm of the
"continued-next-week." Another star of
some magnitude, Francis X. Bushman is
about to become a serialite and film pro-
ducers will watch the progress of "The
Great Secret" with considerable interest,
because *of the ambitious plans for ex-
ploiting it.
Perhaps one of the "best sellers" among
serial stars is Helen Holmes, the original
heroine of Kalem's "Hazards of Helen."
Interests allied with Mutual, the Freuler
following, captured Helen about a year
ago and issued her serially in "The Girl
and the Game," fifteen episodes of railroad
thrills. It was a big moneymaker because
the promoters did not try to corral all the
money in the world on it. Exhibitors were
taxed a maximum of $1 5 a dav and it had
a tremendous circulation. "The Lass of
the Lumberlands" is the current serial for
exploiting the daring of Miss Holmes.
Reverting again to Pathe, the most pro-
lific dispenser of serials, we come to the
series, rather than the serial, the first of
which was "Who Pays?" made by Balboa
and featuring Ruth Roland and Henry
King. It consisted of twelve episodes of
three reels each. Each episode was a com-
plete drama in itself and had no connec-
tion with any other story of the series.
Different roles were played by the princi-
pals in each. The series had a sociological
twist, as it put up to the spectators the
(juestion as to who was morally responsible
for the various and sundry misfortunes suf^
fered by the principal characters. "Who
Pays?" did a big business and was a pro-
nounced success, though it was in the
nature of an experiment that departed
from the accepted traditions that a serial
must contain mystery, bands of criminals,
and other stereotyped appurtenances.
Balboa successively produced also for
Pathe, "The Red Circle," with Miss
Roland and Frank Mayo ; "Neal of the
Navy" with Lillian Lorraine and William
Courtleigh, Jr., and "The Grip of Evil"
with Jackie Saunders and Roland Bot-
tomly. Meanwhile, eastern producers
affiliated with Pathe turned out "The New
Adventures of Wallingford," starring Burr
Mcintosh and Max Figman, issued in con-
junction with the Hearst papers ; "Who's
Guilty," with Tom Moore and Anna Q.
Nilsson ; "'i"he Iron Claw," with Pearl
White, Creighton Hale and Sheldon Lewis,
and "The Shielding Shadow," with Grace
Darmond and Ralph Kellard.
Of the latter group, "The Iron Claw"
has drawn a multitude of shekels into the
Pathe coffers. A mysterious individual
designated as The Laughing Mask pro-
vided the thrills in this, appearing usu-
ally just in time to foil the villain. This
part was taken by Creighton Hale. Other
recent serials produced under independent
auspices were "The Crimson Stain Mys-
tery" in which Maurice Costello resumed
cinemic activities, and "The Yellow
Menace," in which Edwin Stevens starred.
A year ago, following several notorious
failures, the wise ones declared that the
.serial "game" was a dead one, but it has
proved to be a mighty live corpse. Since
that time it has been a financial pulmotor
for a number of companies that were suf-
fering from a congestion of ideas — or a
lack of them — and it bids fair to remain.
Sweet Sobber of
The Celluloid
CHORUS GIRL OF 1 5 BECOMES
A FILM STAR OVER NIGHT;
AND MY ! HOW SHE CAN WEEP
By
Grace Kingsley
Photography by Sta§g
OH, yes, she seems
different, someway,
^0 n e notices
her — " This one morning
at rehearsal, from Miss
Arthur, who had come
from New York to Los
Angeles to stage "Nobody
Home" for Oliver Morosco.
I looked where she
indicated, and there stood
a fresh - colored, frank-
eyed, round-limbed, youth-
ful looking little chorus
girl, wnth her hair down
her back in two long golden
pig-tails. She was clad in
neat gingham rompers, and
she looked, even in spite of
the traditional chorus-girl
get-up, as if she had just
stepped out of a convent.
Above: Mary
artist. Below:
the floodgates
plays at being an
she's turning loose
in a grand old sob.
She didn't mingle with the
other chorus girls between
dances, but went and sat
down quietly by herself.
There was an air about her
too, as if she felt life to
l)e a signiiicant thing. Her
name Avas Mary MacLaren.
and she was 15. That was
a year ago.
Then the other night I
saw a picture. It was named
"Shoes." And the star's
name was Mary MacLaren.
In her dressing room at
L^niversal City, I found her
the same modest, quiet,
pretty natural child whom
I had observed that hot
morning at rehearsal.
"And here you are a
star!" I exclaimed. "How
were you discovered ?"
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"Well, 1 don't think I ever
was discovered," said Miss
MacLaren. "1 think I just
happened. Vou see when
musical comedy left the
Morosco theater I had nothing
to do. I had no money to go
back to New York, and my
mother and sister were practi-
cally dependent on me. One
day a friend took me out
to Universal City, and intro-
duced me to the Smalleys, but
I think they both forgot me at
once. I went home rather dis-
couraged. Later I got work at
the Universal as an extra girl.
Our little stock of money
was going fast. We were
really almost in want some-
times. So far as my slioes
were concerned, though I
never put pasteboard in the
soles of mine, I did get to tl'ie
point where I painted my
shabby dancing slippers over
and over again with oil-paints,
in different colors, each time
a darker shade. We lived in
a very tiny flat indeed, • and
mother dicl every l)it of the
work, assisted by my sister,
and made mv clothes.
Mary, her mother
and youngir sister
0)1 the porch of their
Hollywood home.
Right : Mary smil-
ing leaves for work.
She smiles because
at the studio she
must cry.
was standing
" T h e n
line won-
d e r f u 1
morning, —
I remem-
ber it was
a brilliant
d a v in
May' — I
watching the
Smalleys direct a scene. I was
feeling very l^lue despite the
(Coiifiiau-J on -pJijr 142 )
A Regular Toff
THERE'S NO SWANK ABOUT C. AUBREY,
AND THAT MUSTACHE —
blimey, he is known nearly all over the world
and has played in Buenos Aires, Singapore,
Yokahama. Vladivostok and all manner of odd
places, awfully curious and all that, to say nothing
of doing Lunnun with Mrs. Patrick Campbell
in "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" and Sir George
Alexander in "The Ambassador." In 1896 he
came to the States and played with Maude
Adams, Grace George, Forbes-Robertson and
thers until his screen career began with the Froh-
man Amusement Company. The leads were his in
"John (ilayde's Honor," "The Builder of Bridges,"
"Jafil'ery" and "The Witching Hour."
His sport? Cricket, old boy.
It's rippin', really !
Just now he is the
idol of London's
legitimate stage in
"Daddy Longlegs."
© Gainsborough
Studios, London
c.
AUBREY SMITH is
a jolly chap, well
dressed, well mannered, well
liked. And his mustache. O,
I say — ripping you know.
Some chaps, have mustaches,
but my eye — at a glance you
can tell they are bounders.
Really ! But C. Aubrey is a
toff and one knows that there
is no swank about him.
You know when a chap is
named Smith he really ought
to have something to dis-
tinguish him. C. Aubrey has
his mustache and his pre-
liminary names. But, my eye,
he has talent as well. Why,
2y
I
THE FODDER OF THE FILM STARS —
ACTORS do eat. So do actresses.
They have to in order to act. The
pictures scattered round about on this pair
of pages merely prove it.
A slave to her sense of color is Bessie
Barriscale, who wears brown to match her
eyes. She would prefer something of
brighter hue, like peaches and cream, but
she has to content herself with a mere
drab pumpkin pie. Still, she smiles bravely.
At the next table are William Desmond
and J. Barney Sherry. They are eating.
More than that, they are eating corned
beef and cabbage. How do they do it?
Who knows? Perhaps the hard life in
the films gives them hardy constitutions.
Dorothy Dalton, at the extreme right
table, is almost too pretty to eat, but the
fact renaains that she has here sauer kraut
and frankfurters. Otherwise there is noth-
ing against the girl
Enid Bennett, who came from Australia,
struggles with coffee and sinkers. To her
it is an interesting phase of American
public life.
But here is the terrible revelation of the
day: Bill Hart, red bloodist, punch player
and what not, confesses a liking for choc-
olate sodas. Every time his six shooter
spits, the fountain fizzes. He has to have
em.
He has a disciple, too — Margaret
Thompson. The evidence on this page
was obtained at enormous cost by a Jap-
anese spy who snuk up on her and "Bill"
and got the picture.
They do eat!
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A CLOSE-UP 5TUDY IN GASTRONOMY
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Dickens — The old and new
OLIVER TWIST" is now in the cinema
as a Lasky production, directed by James
Young. The costuming was done with the
idea of following with as much fidelity as pos-
sible the drawings (some of which are repro-
duced here) of George Cruicks'iank, illustrator
of Dickens' works. Above, at the left, are
Hobart Bosworth and Ray Hatton as Bill
Syh's and T/if Artful DoJ^er; James
Neil! and Edythe Chapman ( Mrs. Neill ) as
Mr. and Mrs. Bro^vnloix; to the right,
Hatton with Tully Marshall as Fagiii. In
the center is Marie Doro as OliT'er, and
below, Harry L. Rattenbury as Mr. Bumble,
and Elsie Jane Wilson as Sancy Sykes.
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The Girl
on the Calendar
THAT 15, SHE WA5 THERE ONCE,
BUT NOW SHE SMILES ONLY
FOR THE MOVIE CAMERA
m^'-
THIS young woman who has gray eyes,
golden hair and, so the press agent
says, an amazing smile worth several
million dollars, is Miss Vivian Reed, who
draws her salary from Selig.
Have you ever seen her before?
Yes, you have seen her. Perhaps it was
when you wanted to write a letter and said :
"Darn it anyway! I wonder if this is the
16th or the 17th." And "after you'd darned
a minute or two you looked at the calendar
to learn the truth, there you beheld the
entrancing Vivian, and darned no more.
Her face, which has appeared on mil-
lions of calendars, was invented, it is said,
to bring peace to the soul of the tired
business man, but my land, a girl can't
always do that, so Vivian went into musical
comedy and finally into the movies.
She has quit Los Angeles for Chicago,
where she may be seen nearly every day
shopping, which is her favorite hobby.
Photo by Hartsook
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A Fortune for an Idea
A CHICAGO WOMAN HAD IT AND
SHE CASHED IT IN FOR $10,000
FROM tons of manuscript from every
part of the world the sequel to "The
Diamond from the Sky," that serial
that bristled with plot and counterplot, has
l^een chosen, and there is one iiappy little
woman in Cook County, Illinois.
She is Mrs. Helen 'O'Keefe of 3019
Eastwood avenue, Chicago, and because her
idea for a sequel was better than thousands
of others, she is richer today by $10,000.
What makes her success all the pleasanter
is that she needed that
money, for she and her
husband Andrew had
bought a little home of
their own and it wasn't
all paid for yet.
Mrs. O'Keefe believes
now that it's not always
bad policy to take a
chance. ^\" h e n the
American Film Com-
pany and the Chicago
Tribune announced that
$10,000 would be paid
for the best idea for a
sequel, Mrs. O'Keefe
didn't pay much atten-
tion to it. ' She had seen
the serial, and it had in-
terested her. She says
it even "stuck in her
mind." So one night
when the two children
were in bed she sat down
and sketched out a
sequel.
Had she ever written
a story? No. Or a
scenario? No. Or any-
thing like either? No indeed ; she was too
busy with her home and children. But just
the same she sketched out a sequel, then
having done so tossed it aside and promptly
forgot about it until the day before the con-
test closed.
"It won't hurt to send it in anyway." she
said. So she sent it.
And now out of 100,000 it has proved
the winner. Scenario writers at the Ameri-
can studios took her idea and put it into
the best screen form, Terry Ramsaye of the
Her first attempt
won her
Mutual Film Company of which American
is a part, wrote the fiction story that ac-
companies the serial's release and which
appears in newspapers all over the country,
and the judges, bent and old from their
efforts, have gone on a vacation. The
manuscripts that they waded through and
found wanting have been put in a pile and
burned and those who wrote them are tak-
ing off their hats to Mrs. Helen O'Keefe
of 3019 Eastwood ave.
The contest had its
interesting feature.-, dis-
closing as it did, how
cursory is the attention
paid by the public
generally toward the
instructions and direc-
tions governing contests.
At the outset it was
stated that the contest-
ants would merely out-
line a plot, do it within
1,000 words and pay no
attention to literary
style, yet every conceiv-
able form of manuscript
was received. Some of
them were weighty tomes
of 75,000 words or
more, some were a de-
light to the rhetorical
eye, stylistic as they
were ; others were cast
into scenario form with
directions for directors,
and .still others dis-
regarded not one, but
all, of the contest regu-
lations.
All of them, however, showed an earnest-
ness of purpose, and hundfeds~ of very
excellent parallel stories, adhering to all
the rules, were sent in, but none seemed as
satisfactory as did Mrs. O'Keefe's last
minute offering.
And though Mrs. O'Keefe' has' no inten-
tion of following a literary career or of
plunging into the cinema world, she ad-
mits if ever there is another contest she
will send in a solution — and the next time
it won't be at the last moment either.
at scenario ivriting
$10,000.
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TREEING MAE MURRAY JUST TO SHOOT HER
A little inside expose, showing how the ingenue is filmed in a tree-top. This incident occurred on the Lasky ranch.
The hatted figure on the platform is director Bob Leonard.
A Fortune for an Idea
A CHICAGO WOMAN HAD IT AND
SHE CASHED IT IN FOR $10,000
FROM tons of manuscript from every
part of the world the sequel to "The
Diamond from the Sky," that serial
that bristled with plot and counterplot, has
Ijeen chosen, and there is one happy little
woman in Cook County, Illinois.
She is Mrs. Helen ' O'Keefe of 3019
Eastwood avenue, Chicago, and because her
idea for a sequel was better than thousands
of others, she is richer today by $10,000.
What makes her success all the pleasanter
is that she needed that
money, for she and Iier
husband Andrew had
bought a little home of
their own and it wasn't
all paid for yet.
Mrs. O'Keefe believes
now that it's not always
bad policy to take a
chance. ^^' h e n the
American Film Com-
pany and the Chicago
Tribune announced that
$10,000 would be paid
for the best idea for a
sequel, Mrs. O'Keefe
didn't pay much atten-
tion to it. ' She had seen
the serial, and it had in-
terested her. She .says
it even "stuck in her
mind." So one night
when the two children
were in bed she sat down
and sketched out a
sequel.
Had she ever written
a story? No. Or a
scenario ? No. ( )r anv-
thing like either? No indeed : she was too
busy with her home and children. But just
the same she sketched out a sequel, then
having done so tossed it aside and promptly
forgot aljout it until the day before the con-
test closed.
"It won't hurt to send it in anyway," she
said. So she sent it.
And now out of 100,000 it has proved
the winner. Scenario writers at the Ameri-
can studios took her idea and put it into
the liest screen form, Terrv Ramsave of the
Her first attempt
won her
Mutual Film Company of which American
is a part, wrote the fiction story that ac-
companies the serial's release and which
appears in newspapers all over the country,
and the judges, bent and old from their
efforts, have gone on a vacation. The
manuscripts that they waded through and
found wanting have been put in a pile and
I)urned and those who wrote them are tak-
ing off their hats to Mrs. Helen O'Keefe
of 3019 Eastwood ave.
The contest had its
interesting feature.-^, dis-
closing as it did, how
cursory is the attention
paid by the public
generally toward the
instructions and direc-
tions governing contests.
Xi the outset it was
stated that the contest-
ants would merely out-
line a plot, do it within
1,000 words and pay no
attention to literary
style, yet every conceiv-
able form of manuscript
was received. Some of
tliem were weighty tomes
of 75,000 words or
more, some were a de-
light to the rhetorical
eve, stylistic as they
were ; others were cast
into scenario form with
directions for directors,
and still others dis-
regarded not one, but
all, of the contest regu-
lations.
.\11 of them, however, showed an earnest-
ness of purpose, and hundf eds~ of very
excellent parallel stories, adhering to all
the rules, were sent in. but none seemed as
satisfactory as did Mrs. O'Keefe's last
minute offering.
And though Mrs. O'Keefe' has rio inten-
tion of following a literary career or of
plunging into the cinema world, she ad-
mits if ever there is another contest she
will send in a solution — and the next time
it won't be at the last moment either.
at scenario writing
$10,000.
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TREEING MAE MURRAY JUST TO SHOOT HER
A little inside expose, showing how the ingenue is filmed in a tree-top. This incident occurred on the Lasky ranch.
The hatted figure on the platform is director Bob Leonard.
I I 1 1 fl I I r
,1*!"?S
The Winter Capital of Reel New York
FLORIDA" — we quote from official pronunciamento of the official eulogist of that state,
and hasten synchronously to announce our neutrality for fear of retributive justice emanat-
ing from Los Angeles — "Florida, "we begin again, " has everything that California has —
and more." The "more" portion of this boastful acclaim presumably refers to the fact that
Jacksonville is only twenty-seven hours from Broadway. This may have had its bearing upon
the fact that Jacksonville was chosen by various of the eastern moving picture producers as their
winter capital, for outdoor locations at times of the year when snow has blanketed Ft. Lee and
Flushing and the Hudson River is too cold for even a villain to be thrown into.
It was Kalem that discovered Jacksonville, cinematically speaking, not by the inspirational
methods of C. Columbus and Dr. Cook, but through the dead reckoning made possible by the
statistics of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Searching for a minimum of rainfall and cloudy weather
in the winter months, Jacksonville was awarded the championship — at least among eastern
cities. Jacksonville welcomed the movie pioneers with open arms, and here we return to the
veracious chronicles of the chief eulogist:
"Kalem established the first moving picture studio in Jacksonville in 1909. Lubin soon
followed, and then Edison. In 1915 Lubin leased its plant to the Vim, and Gaumont took over
the old Edison studio. Edwin Thanhouser, after investigating many cities, established in 1915
one of the most complete plants in the country here, with both glass-covered and open air stages.
The plant of the Eagle Film Company has capacity for six working companies. The U. S.
Film Company has a small studio near the city. The latest announcement of plans for the
industry in Jacksonville is that the Garrick Studios and Southeastern Film have secured a 99-
year lease on the top of the Union Terminal building, and will erect there what they say will be
the largest motion picture studio in the world, 635 by 120 feet, with room for twenty-five
working companies."
In addition to these established studios, of course, companies frequently go to Jacksonville for
special work, renting a studio temporarily for the occasion and utilizing the natural and artificial
beauties of Tampa and other Florida cilifs.
But whether this ambitious Florida metropolis will be able to undermine the popularity
of Los Angeles and its suburbs in the affections of the large number of producers with head-
quarters there, is something concerning which we desire to remain neutral.
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The Si. Johns nver taken from the Kalem
studio. On this stream, which Kalem dis-
covered as a good place for "water stuff,'*
many dramas have been enacted. The
four-masted schooner in the distance has
also served. The construction of the piers
and boat-houses, as one Kalem director
noted, suggests the Malay Straits.
More than one military drama has had
its fighting locale here at historic Fort
Marion. Many a hero has led his
scrappers up these stairs or himself has
been led down to die at dawn. Among
its famous captors was Francis X.
Bushman.
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When the handsome lead and the beautiful star finally get to the last
hundred feet for the "first sweet kiss, " the director pilots them out to
this lovers' lane of palms, tifter which the film is dyed to give it a
moonlight effect. Nothing like a moonlight clinch for a windup.
]
In the center is a wide "shot" at
Fort Marion, an exterior, as it
were. This did great service in
"The Yellow Peril," where
parts of the fort walls pretended
to be the Great Wall of China
during the reign of Edwin
Stevens. At the right is a group
of real thatched roof huts which
were discovered at Pablo Beach,
10 miles from Jacksonville, by
some camera Peary. It is a
favorite location for Thanhouser
and many shipwrecked Than-
houseiites have battled with hula-
gsrbed desperados in this v cin-
age. The grass on these roofs
would completely clothe the
native population ol
according to Florida statistics,
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Every lime (here's a movie mar-
riage, t-ilher comedy or drama,
the director knows just where to
turn for his setting— the Duval
County court house with its
fringe of palms. Right across
the street from it is an old Span-
ish armory that is also used.
These two buildings have prob-
ably stood for more mock mar-
riages than any others in the
country, with the exception of
the Los Aneeles County court
house, which is in continuous
operation night and day.
She bit into the poison apple and the seven
little dwarfs were just §oin§ to bury her when —
Snow White
AN OLD STORY TOLD
IN A NEW WAY
By Mrs. Ray Long
HAVP:RMAN, tlie producer.
was trying to be polite. He
looked as if he were burst-
ing a bloodvessel. But Haverman
purposed to be polite at any cost.
"But what, my dear (iarvin.
should I do with your lingerie
play?" he almost sobbed. "Must
a man go to the theater now-a-days
to see lace and legs? Will he
spend two dollars to see swell
hosiery on the stage when all he
has to do is keep his eyes open?
In God's name I ask you, (Iar-
vin?
"Go look at my stenographer.
Garvin. Go look at any stenog-
rapher. Look at the women you
meet on your way to lunch. Can
you beat 'jem? Because if you
think you can, I can't. The law
wont let me. (zarvin. Why Flor-
rie Ziegfeld himself will have to
go out of business if the styles
don't change. No, my dear fel-
low, no. A poor chorus girl hasn't
got no chance any more."
Garvin was also trying to be
polite. He had disposed his long,
handsome body gracefully enough
in an armchair, but it irked him
to keep it there. ' He ached all
over to assault this pudgy, pig-
headed pinhead who had turned down his
play. Anyone whf) would do that was all
of these.
He leaned forward and oI)served as
quietly as he could. "I thought you wanted
light stuff, breezy stuff — well-dressed stuff?"
Haverman literally held himself down
to his chair. "I, Garvin," he gurgled.
"What the deuce does it matter what I
want? Right across the street, Garvin,
they're selling standing room for their
"Come Out of The Kitchen" play. A
And the girl herself was a daisy.
block away they're "Pollyannaing" them in
droves. And my brother-in-law, Garvin,
he tells me the handkerchief business booms
all over the country because one little Jane
once washed dishes in an orphan asylum.
Tears, my dear Garvin, that's what they
want — tears, calico, and lingerie like grand-
ma used to make."
The playwright picked up his hat.
Haverman wiped his beady forehead.
"I'm sorry, Garvin. "You're a bright
young "man, Garvin. Also I don't want
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you to think that I don't like something "Something nice in the way of settings,"
race and flossy myself. I do, Garvin. But observed Ha\-erman.
ylou got to consider the business, Garvin. "Quite so. And the girl herself was a
Of course classy people like me and you. daisy, a sort of composite of Marguerite
we want to see something that is something Clark and a Harrison Fisher magazine
when we go to a show. But what can we cover. She was undersized and gentle as
do when the average man he turns around a kitten but none of it got her anywhere
on us, Garvin?" for a long time. Her golden spoon became
Garvin reached for his rejected manu- gummed up witli disuse because her mother,
script and stood up. the queen, died when she was born, and
The producer watched the young man's left the king, then in his dotage, to be
preparations to go ^^'ith varying emotions. snapped up by one of the waiting maids.
He really needed a play. He let Garvin Brangomar was her name. She was a
get to the door and then called. "Say. come beauty in a lurid way. and had the grasp
l)ack. Why can't you write me one of of a steel hoisting clamp. Once seated on
them kitchenette plays, that throne she hadn't any
Garvin? You got a good SNOW WHITE intention of letting the
head." f-r-.ijt- n • c ^i • ^ little princess occupy even
,-^ . Ill I Hh. film version of this story ' ., ,
GarvHi turned back J^ was produced by the Famous ^ footstool beside her.
but without enthusiasm. Players with the following cast: .She wouldn't even buv
"They've all been writ- -^^"o"' W^Mc. . .Marguerite Clark shoes for the little girl,
ten." he said. "Anywav. Pru,cc rionmond. .. "Now here comes the
. , ,.- - Creighton Hale ... -,, , ,
there isn t anythmg to Queen Brangomar kitchen stuft, and the way
them. All cut off the Dorothy G. Cumming the Brangomar woman
same old pattern." Bcrthold Lionel Braham worked it was a master-
Haverman waved his ^/''-f. '/'<' »'"<-^- -Alice Washburn ^^-^^^ gj^^ ^^^^^ ^ 1^ ^
hands in exasperation. ..^^r^^'^'m^. fllT M^fo" V-^S P"".-ss cook in
"What IS It to you about Doyle, Major Criqui, Irwin Em- the great kitchens of the
the same old pattern," he mer, Addie Frank. palace like any hireling.
3'elled. "Aint you cut Then at the end of a hard
on the same old pattern? Aint I cut on day she would invite the girl to come up
the same old pattern? What must you care into one of the beautiful rooms to talk to
what you write just so it gets bought? her. Of course, the child wt^uld he so
Don't be a fool, Garvin. If my competi- lired that her eyes would blink. At that
tors get rich on scrubwoman plays, what Brangomar would berate her for having
should I want with you if you can't write such Ijad manners that she was not fit to
me scrubwoman plays? Answer me that, sit in the lialls of her fathers. The poor
Garvin." l)rincess came, in time, to shrink more from
The young man walked back and over being called to her stepmother than from
to a window. There he stood and viewed the hard tasks required of her. And she
the roofs. A twinkle came slowly into his never saw any of the company that Brango-
disgusted eves. He'd had about as much mar delighted in having around her."
of this office as he could stand and was Here Garvin paused. Haverman seemed
planning a break with Haverman anyway. busy studying his nails. He did not look
\\'hy not have a little fun? "Just got an up, so Garvin went on.
idea," he said soberly and turned back to "One morning, before the little princess
the desk. "Want to hear it?" liad been tired with work and was pink
"Sure. Go aliead." and sweet as a rose, she was sent across
Garvin sat down again. "It's about a a forest stretch on an errand. When
peach of a little girl, who was born princess well in the woods she met a young hunts-
of a great country and had the devil of man. She stepped, flurried, to one side to
a time getting her birthright," he began, let him have the path. But he took a look
putting an impressive, narrative tone qual- at the girl and forgot his hurry if he had
ity into his voice. "Really a rich country, any. He asked her name and a few days
you know, great valleys and deep forests later — bing ! The youth came to the palace
and cities with marble buildings, and Wall asking for the hand of the girl. And who
Streets, and J. P. Morgan banks." should he be but the young prince Flori-
Snow White
45
mond, heir apparent to the adjoinhig king-
dom and the biggest royal catch of the
year.
"Maybe Madame Brangomar wasn't
wrathy! In spite of
all her precautions to
keep the princess
out of the way, the
queen could not fai)
to obey the demand
that she be pro
duced, and pro-
duced as the center
of interest for two
countries. And
worse, she liked the
look of Florimond
herself and decided
that she would have
him. So she put on
a bereaved expres-
sion and asked in
well feigned sur-
prise, 'Did' you not
know, Florimond,
that the princess is
dead? Such a sad
story. The dear
child never was
quite right, you
know.' This in a
confiding tone that
could leave nothing
but the impression
that the poor prin-
cess had been an
idiot. 'And finally
she was relieved of
her suffering and
we, who loved her,
cannot but be thank-
ful.'
"Brangomar tried
to keep Florimond
interested. She gave
a feast and all that.
But the prince
didn't rise to her
bait. He went home
promising, however,
to come again.
"And now Bran-
gomar got ])usy. The princess must be
got rid of, but how? She worried about
the method till she spied a tiny wrinkle at
the side of her mouth. Then she decided
to have the thing over quickly. She called
She wouldn't even buy shoes for the little girl.
old Berthold, her own head huntsman, who
had been in the king's service, and told
him to kill the little princess."
The playwright's voice was becoming
singsongv and he
felt like kicking
himself for getting
himself into such a
foolish mess, and
like kicking Haver-
man for letting him
maunder on. He
stopped. Haverman
was still gazing at
his hands. After a
minute of silence he
looked up and
exclaimed im-
patiently, "What's
the idea, (iarvin?
Go on. Just be-
cause you've come to
the end of the first
act must you stop?
What happened to
the baby doll?"
Garvin looked in-
to the animated eyes
opposite him with a
start. Was it pos-
sible that this up-to-
date producer, who
had never had a
failure, was not
stringing him? But
it couldn't be.
Haverman was a
shark in his way.
"Oh, what's t h e
use," he told him-
self. "I'm the goat
and I'll have to see
it through."
"Now old Ber-
thold did a fit," he
went on in his best
m a n n e r . "He'd
helped l)ring the
princess up by hand.
He'd rather lose his
eyes tlian liarm the
little girl. And he
And sav. what she
She didn't
told Brangomar so.
did to him then was a plenty !
answer back, just called her head keeper
and told him to go out and round up
Berthold's four little children who were
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playing in the park, ^\'hen the keeper
brought them to her she called several of
her body guard and told them to march
the little fellows to an old tower in the
palace grounds, lock them in. and bring
her the key. And when that was don.e she
turned her devilish face to old Berthold
and said, 'You know, Berthold. there's no
other way out of the tower than through
the door to which I hold the key. Your
children will slay in the tower till you
bring me back the princess' heart — stay
there till they starve.'
"Old Berthold went down on his knees
and begged the vamp to let liim and his
kids off. But she wouldn't listen, 'i'hen
he prayed her to cut off his hands, to tear
off his legs, to do with him what she
So they started that night, old Berthold and the little princess after the queen
Snow White
47
would, but to let the princess and his
children go free. She only said, 'To-night
your children will be calling for food,
Berthold. To-morrow they will be calling
and more loudly. The next day they will
be calling but their voices will be fainter.
Can't you hear them, Berthold? And the
next day there will be only little wails
from the tower. Then all will be still."
had received them in the big throne room.
"Tears, tears," interrupted Haverman
with delight.
Garvin nodded indulgently.
"So that night they started, old Ber-
thold and the little princess, after the Queen
had received her in th^ big throne room.
The girl thought they were going on a
journey and went joyfully. It was only
after they had gone deep into the woods
that Berthold could
get up courage to
tell h i s princess
what he had to do.
"At first the girl
rebelled. But when
she heard about the
children she gave
in. Still the old
hunter could not
plunge the knife in-
to the tender body.
"While they were
waiting, both
wretched over their
trouble, they heard
a squeaking. Im-
mediately old Ber-
thold ran toward the
sound. With a
thrust or two he had
cut a small wild
pig's throat, opened
him up, and cut his
heart out. "She'll
never know," he ex-
plained tremblingly
as he held up the red
object. 'It looks
just like a human
heart. And you,
little girl, fear noth-
ing. Go straight
across the forest and
you will come to
honest people.'
"So the little
princess set out and
old Berthold went
home to Brangomar
and his kids.
Brangomar was
wild with delight.
She put the heart in
a golden case aiid,
as soon as it was
dark, went to the
home of the witch,
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She had come across
the shack of seven
dwarfs living in the
heart oj the forest.
Hex, who was her friend. She found Hex
Ijoiling up a horrible concoction.
"'What are you making?" incjuired
Brangomar.
" 'A hair lotion for myself,' answered
Hex. 'But it isn't all that it should be be-
cause I haven't a young girl's heart to put
in. That would give me silky hair.'
" 'I've got just what you want,' cried
Brangomar, always glad to do Hex a good
turn. 'Here,' and she showed the heart
she had brought.
" '(ireat,' said Hex, and put the heart
into the mess, boiled it for a time, then
cooled it and applied it. Both women sat
interestedly, waiting till the coating should
be removed. Finally, wlien it was taken
off, Hex exclaimed in horror. For there
grew from her head instead of fine silky
hairs, a covering of curly pig tails. 'You've
lieen cheated,' she cried. 'That wasn't a
girl's heart. It was a pig's heart.' And
the two set to making plans to find the
princess and make away with her them-
selves."
"(jood comedy business," remarked
Haverman. (larvin smiled a sickly smile
and went on.
"And now to get back to our princess.
She had come across the shack of seven
dwarfs living in the heart of the forest.
The old fellows were de-lighted to have
the girl around to cook for them, and she
was delighted because she knew how to
cook. They had a great time for a while
till one day, when the princess was alone,
an old woman came selling combs. The
princess refused to buy and the old woman
went away angry. A few days later she
came back selling apples. She was
Brangomar, disguised by Hex, and the
apples were poisoned. The princess took
one. l)it into it and fell to the floor.
"That night the dwarfs found their little
housekeeper, Snow White, lifeless on the
floor. They made a coffin for her and
carried her back to the palace in state, for
thev had always known who she was.
"When they got there Brangomar was
rejoicing. This put the dwarfs in a
tremble of anger and thev dropped the
coffin. The jar dislodged the bite of apple
that had remained in the princess' mouth,
where the poison on it had caused only
unconsciousness. She jumped to her feet
as Prince Florimond came in. Florimond
left no doubt in anybody's mind about
what he thought of the princess and
Brangomar retreated to tlie home of the
witch. But even Hex was tired of her
and changed
her into a pea-
cock."
Garvin got
The old fellows were delighted to have
Snow White
49
up and walked over to the window again.
He looked out over the roofs to a big sign
badly done and relieved himself by mak-
ing a grimace at it. The room was entirely
quiet and he did not look at Haverman.
"What was the name of your little prin-
cess?" finally asked the producer.
"Snow A\'hite."
"Snow White." repeated Haverman
slowly and with a queer grin.
"It's Grimm, you know." explained (iar-
vin.
"Maybe, Garvin, maybe. But not too
grim. It don't matter how many times
you kill your heroine just so she comes to
life again in the last act. If you can make
her happy too, .so much the better."
"But it's been done before, done beauti-
fully for kids," protested Garvin.
"Sure," said Haverman still grinning.
But only the kids saw it. _ It'll .make a
great show, Garvin. And this is the way
you should do it, Garvin.
"Your Snow
White will be
the princess
of New York. Your wicked stepmother
wil be some cold, scheming dame who got
the upper hand of the baby doll's father
before he died of softening of the brain.
Old Berthold will be the old man's faith-
ful secretary and the witch some fancy
jane of a fortune teller with a pull high
up. And the prince, he'll be young Corne-
lius Vanderpool, son of the copper king
and privately staked out by stepmamma
Brangomar for her own. There you got
it, Garvin, fine as silk."
"But the seven dwarfs," protested the
playwright incredulously.
"Seven old miners babying an undis-
covered coal claim up in the Alleghenies.
Woods, wilderness, possibility, romance."
"But what'll we have to half poison
our princess?"
"How should I know, Garvin? Figure
that out with some medical chap."
the girl around to cook for them ana she was delighted because she knew how to cook.
BILLIE BURKE IN THE TITLE ROLE OF "MOTHER'
Photo bj' Sarony,
Florence Patricia Burke- Ziegfeld is the name of the little mite of humanity that is being fondly
handled by one of America's most popular actresses. Billie Burke — in private life, Mrs. Florenz
Ziegfeld, Jr. This photograph was taken when Baby Florence Patricia was three weeks old.
5(1
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You jest Stan off an bow, an parade aroun wid one mitt in de air an
den bow some more.
Rum, Romance and Remorse
PETE PROPS PUTS THE PUNCH
IN SOME COLONIAL STUFF VIA
THE EXTRA MEN, AND GETS HIS
By Kenneth McGaffey
I KNOW I ain't no Henry
Irving nor any he-Mary-Pick-
ford, but dese guys had better let up on
me or I'm goin to crown some of em wid
a scantlin. I goes in a scene just to do
one of dese nut directors a favor, an I been
kidded about it ever since. Now dese fresh
hicks in de prop room has taken to writin
me mash notes an sendin me bokays. Dere's
a limit to all tings an dose guys had better
begin to fade out cause dey is hawgin too
much footage. I'm liable to buckle and
give em all a little static.
It was dis way. We are puttin on dis
big feature "Lady de Vronde's Legacy,"
one of dose "Who Copped de Poipers"
dinguses. It's dis George Washington
stuff wid de lace cuffs, de corn-startched
wig an de Gazooks an' Odd Zounds. Much
low bowin and drawin swords. I'm a
rutslin props for it and it doggone near
runs me ragged cause everybody has to
have a hunk of lace curtain in dere mitts
for a hankey an de guys are always
Drawings by
E.W. Gale, Jr.
gettin dere swords between dere
legs an getting dem all bent up —
de swords I mean. Dis stuff should oughta
been handled by de wardrobe but dey wish
it onto me cause I look easy.
Dese extras could get dere wigs on de
funniest of any human being. One guy
comes on wid a curl over his shoulder
an it took six people to save his life.
Finally de Lady de Vronde is to give a
swell rag party at her cave. All de youth
and beauty of Mary England is going to
be dere all dolled up in de powdered wigs
an de lace cuffs. We got all de ball room
stuff at de studio out an de engagement
department is told to get two hundred
couples. We get de music from Levy's
an de dancin teacher spends a couple of
days teachin dis here minuet which is my
idea of no dance atall, cause dere ain't a
clinch in it. You jest stan off an bow, an
parade aroun wid one mitt in de air an
den bow some more. I tink a contortionist
on de small time invented de act.
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"Hey!" he yells, "dere is a
thin hver up dere in de
wardrobe, go put Pete in it. "
Over in one corner of de set behind some
bum palms, or someting like dat, day have
got de refreshment booth. De nut director
bein strong for realizem, gets about ten
gallons of Dago Red an den shoots it
full of brandy. I'm in de prop room mixin
it up an seein it's de proper temperature,
an I get to steppin pretty high myself.
We puts it in a big glass punch bowl an
den I go out on de stage to see whats
doin. Dere is de nut director bawlin de
tar out of his assistant.
"Where is me livered servants?" he yells,
jumpin up an down. "Where is me livered
servants ? Here I am wid a million extras
an not enough livered servants ! ! !"
"Whatdye mean by not gettin me enough?
I suppose you are tryin to ruin me life
work by not givin me enough livered ser-
vants! How long am I to be persecuted
dis here way?"
"You ordered six — an here dey are !"
says de assistant.
"Soitenly I ordered six !" yells de nut.
"Ain't you supposed to tink for yourself?
How do you expect me to make dese
wonderful productions if I have to look
after every detail? I
gotta have me mind on
me art — I have — I can't
go tinkin about livered
servants an put all me
energy an vitality into
dese hams. It's too much,
dat's all. I will not be
harassed !"
"Keep your hair on,"
says de assistant, "I'll get
yeh a coupla of more —
just clam yourself. It
won't take a minute."
"All right," says de
nut director, "gettem. In
de meanwhile all dese
ladies an gentlemen will
sit aroun an wait at de
company's expense while
you rustle dem up. Cost-
ing de company tousands
an tousands of dollars just because a steel-
.skulled stuge don't know enough to order
livered servants. No wonder de photo-
dramatic art is on de fritz. What da you
tink of a guy like dat? Not sense enough
to know when I say I want six livered
servants, I mean eight. I gotta have a new
assistant — dat's all. Dere is no use of me
wearin me life away an bavin to do two
men's woik. Dis outfit ain't payin me
enough. I can quit an get a good job."
"But you only orders six," say de poor
goat. "Dere dey are lined up on de stairs
wid nice pink livers on an white wigs,"
he says, "an real silk stockins."
"I don't care to discuss it no more,"
says de nut director. "It's plain to be seen
dat dere ain't enough servants. Get me
two more before I goes mad an walks out
an leaves de company flat."
"I ain't doing a ting but standin dere
listenin to de poor mutt gettin bawled out
an I am here to tell you it did me old
heart good cause many is de time he has
waded into me. I ain't doin a ting, I tell
you, but mind in me own business an maybe
fussin aroun de stage a little wid de broom
everytime a boss goes by an sayin nuttin.
De nut director suddenly takes a slant
aroun de stage. I see him lookin at me
so I gets busy wid de broom an chases a
little dust out of de cracks of de floor.
"Hey!" he yells at de resistant — "dere
is a thin liver up dere in de wardrobe.
Go put Pete in it."
Rum, Romance and Remorse
53
"Not me," I says "I am here to handle
props, I am, an not to wear no pink livers
an silk stockins. I got a lot to do," I says,
"I ain't got no time for no actin. Right
now I got to go get a chair for anudder
director."
"Nuttin doin," he says, "go put on de
liver."
"I'm here to tell you I gotta woik," I
says.
"Go put on dat liver !" he says — "I don't
want no argimients. Besides dere is a five
dollar check in it for you," he says.
"Now you are talkin reasonablb," I says.
"I'll go do it." "But don't let dis get to
be a disease," I says. "I'll do it dis time
but dat dat ain't no excuse for it to become
chronic" I says.
A course I had acted before. I was wid
a rep show on de pitcher an bowl circuit
where besides ruslin de props and leadin
de band I had to play two parts in every
bill. I am dere wid dat chest heavin
stuff even if I don't brag about it.
So I goes up to de wardrobe an dey
crowds one of dese pink unies on me. Gee,
I looked sweet enough to kiss wid me little
white wig, lace bib an stocking on me
shapely limbs.
I gets back to de set an de nut director
has got one of de hams to deal out de
refreshments I had worked so hard to
fix real nice. Dat wasn't my idea atall
so I runs de guy clear down to de udder
end of de room an looks after de flowin
bowl meself. Believe me when dose extras
got a whiif of de grape, we needed de
reserves. I am here to tell you I nearly
got killed in de rush. De noive of dem to
tink I was goin to waste a lot of good
drinkin material on dem when us boys in
de prop room has families to support. I
had to belt a couple of dem over de head
wid de ladle to make dem let go of de
glasses.
Course me dealin out dis stuif I has to
be sociable an everytime a extra has a
drink I had to drink wid him so he
wouldn't feel embarrassed. I'm doing real
well in de background when de nut direc-
tor sees me.
"What's de idea?" he says. "You're here
to deal out dis stuff, not to lap it up.
You're a livered servant," he says "it ain't
An den all of a sudden, dey
start to plow up de floor wid
dere faces.
set
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for you to get a snoot full. Dats up to
Lady de Vronde. She's givin de party.
You lay oif de swill !"
I starts to explain to him dat it was
me Southern hospitality dat made me suf-
fer when I saw anyone drink alone but he
wouldn't listen to me.
I will go as far as to say dis. Dere were
some of dese extras whose parents had
hrung dem up right. Every now an den
dey would slide a little two-bit piece in my
direction as if dey wasn't noticin demselves
do it. Dese lads got de best of service.
AVe got realy clubby an was just gettin
ready to favor de rest of de mob wid a
vocal selection when de nut director calls
dem to get ready to shoot Lady de Vronde's
arrival.
De nut director an de camera was way
out in de middle of de yard so as to get
a long shot of de ball room an Lady de
Vronde, all dolled up, comin down de
grand staircase leanin on de arm of de
Duke de Splotz. All de two hundred
courtiers, or what ever dey were called,
were all lined up an bowed as she came
on down de line. Den dey cut to a close
up of her registerin surprise when she
recognizes de wicked Earl hid behind his
crape hair.
I don't know what got to de rest of
de quartet. It may have been de heat
because I was all right an only had to hang
onto de table to keep straight on me
decorated pins, but dese lads were not
right. After about half a hours rehearsin
he calls camera an dey start to shoot de
scene.
Lady de Vronde wid her head in de
air is comin down de lane an she and de
Duke is bowin high an mighty when it
gets to dese guys turn to bow. Dey all
bend over wid dere hands on dere chests
an den all of a sudden start to plow up de
floor wi^ dere faces. Lady de Vronde,
wid her nose in de air, don't see em an —
bing ! — she does a tumble. Right dere all
de noise an excitement in de woild is
turned loose. Lady de Vronde is one of
dese million dollar a week stars ; an some
temperamental. All dis trouble makes me
sleep so I lays me little head on de ice in
de punch bowl — to keep from gettin sun^
struck — an takes a little nap. What hap-
pens after dat I don't know. But one
ting I am here to tell you. Dose guys
better leave off kiddin me, or de village
quartet will be singin "Lead Kindly
Light—"
Excuse me, here comes de auditor to
check up me stock of brooms an sawdust ;
as dough I was a crook !
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Romance, and
American Enterprise,
told in terms of FIGHT
and LOVE and LAUGH-
TER, the three giants
who drive the world.
DON'T MISS IT!
The story by
Victor Rousseau
The illustrations by
Charles D. Mitchell
CLOSE-UPS
EDITORIAL EXPRESSION AND TIMELY COMMENT
^''^l WHEATLAND, Wyoming, is a town of 800 inhabitants.
Bernhardt It is so off the beaten track of theatre travels that it is
Never Did doubtful if anybody there ever heard of Lillian Lorraine.
This. Even such inferior celebrities as George Cohan and
^^^^^^^^^^ William Shakespeare are not often in mind in this thrifty
stronghold of the provinces.
Yet "The Birth Of a Nation" came along and packed 'em, until it is
estimated that every man and woman in the place, as well as every child of
intelligent age, had seen the Griffith-Dixon story. And there were many
repeaters.
The! price was not a backwoods cut-rate. It was the price the crowds
paid at the Liberty theatre in New York, at the Illinois theatre in Chicago, at
the Cort theatre in San Francisco, at the Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Two dollars.
Two dollars a seat in Wheatland means more than ten dollars a seat in
St. Louis. Not because the people haven't the money, but because it isn't
being done.
Not even Bernhardt, in her most spectacular hours of tented glory, can
trump that record.
Why the
Eight-Reeler?
THOSE who assert that the eight-reel photoplay is a sight-
ship much too long to be handled at the docks of the av-
erage exhibitor should remember that only two or three
years ago many pillars of the optic occupation asserted
that two reels was nature's standard, and that larger
spools were fit only for special exhibitions. Now, two reels
is a comedy standard, and many very thin little dramas are propped and
padded to reach the popular measure approximating a mile.
The eight-reeler seems to have been summoned from the deeps of non-
existence by the top grade exhibition places, charging a quarter or half a
dollar. Unless these houses — such as the Rialto in New York, the Majestic
in Detroit, the Studebaker in Chicago, Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles —
can differentiate their programmes from those of the dime shop, they are in
a bad way. They are being undersold on the same goods.
Even the nickel shows handle five-reel pictures, and advanced vaudeville
has come to regard the five-reeler as a shifty filler to stop sudden holes in a
programme. So, either in vaudeville, or a little bit late at the drop-in palaces,
one is pretty sure to see every five-act play going.
The eight-reeler, plus a musical programme and a short optic extra or
two, can never be duplicated in a house which turns over its whole visual
stock several times a night, or in a vaudeville theatre — with this exception:
the small time exhibitor who chooses the eight-reeler for his patrons must
omit every condiment of comedy or travel and run the big fellow alone.
Some have chosen to do this, bat it is an all-meat meal.
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Photoplay Magazine
There is, of course, even more danger of padding, for thinness wa ered
to five reels is positive transparency in eight. Some vehicles contain too much
character, too much incident, for even five reels. Here is the true pictured
novel, best exampled, at this writing, in "The Common Law."
1g
Slapstick
Savagery
EMPTY honors await the modish metaphysician Henri
Bergson, who tells us, with an air of imparting secret
wisdom, that the cause of all primitive laughter was the
suffering or discomfiture of another human being.
We once saw Fred Mace impaled upon a picket fence,
stuck in a chimney, choked in a bath-tub, suffocated in
a trunk, drawn under an automobile, whacked by a railway train, tipped
out of a balloon, trimmed by a Jane, shot at the front, kicked at the stern,
cracked with an axe, pasted with pie, soused with seltzer, petted by a bottle,
urged by a blacksnake and cajoled by the talons of a mimic wife — as we
say, we saw this, and, between our chortlings of deep grief, we had an
advance vision of the Bergson idea all our own.
As far as Monsieur le Metaphysician is concerned, photoplay "comedy"
has beaten him to it.
Picture Power
in
Politics.
HERE are three politico-movie events which are highly
significant.
Governor Whitman, Republican candidate for re-
election in New York state, ran ahead of Hughes, and
the metropolitan newspapers concede that his great lead
was principally due to the efforts of motion picture
exhibitors, grateful for the gubernatorial veto on the intolerant Crisman
censorship bill, a measure as stupid and bigoted as censorship itself. D. W.
Griffith contributed his share to the propaganda, making a "feature film" of
Whitman which circulated without cost from Buffalo to the distant tip of
Long Island.
In Ohio, where Wilson rolled back the Republican old guard in crumpled
heaps, the motion picture showing the President in action had its widest
circulation during the closing days of the campaign. This film was handled
and distributed by motion picture men in the best business ways known to
the industry.
The great Republican campaign film, on which thousands of dollars were
spent, overshot its mark and was never released. Those who should know
say that this celluloid document was designed to depict the iniquities of Mr.
Wilson's administration, and what the Republicans were pleased to consider
his maladministration in Mexico. But the promoter went a-picturing with
more enthusiasm than caution, and the result was a riotous scenario which,
while it might have entertained the children, would hardly have been
accepted as sober fact by their fathers and newly-voting mothers.
Close-Ups
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No Chance
for the
Amateur?
THESE five words are enunciated not as a question, but
as a statement of bitter fact, by the average photoplay-
wright quite awhile before his choice collection of
editorial rejection slips touches the century mark. How-
ever, it is no new thing, this proclamation of an unen-
terable ring of kept writers; this suspicion of time-clock
scenarioists and the mere names of celebrated authors. Producers for the
stage, and publishers, too, face the same accusation, even as they toil like
Diogenes to find a little honest originality.
It is refreshing to know that the woman winner of the ten-thousand-
dollar contest in re the sequel to "The Diamond from the Sky" is an amateur
of the first water. She had never written a play nor attemped a scenario
before becoming interested in this possibility. Nor is she "literary." She
went at it straightaway, guided herself by such sane advice concerning photo-
play construction as she could find at hand, worked hard — and put forth
the best suggestion among the 100,000 received.
As
Miss Peck'
Sees It.
NO whilom, smiling sceptic gazing at the silversheet in tol-
erant amusement is Miss Mary Gray Peck, of the Motion
Picture Committee of the General Federation of Women's
Clubs! To her the continuous camera is a plumed knight,
a vision instead of a voice in the wilderness, a sun-armed
harbinger of the millenium.
Listen. She's speaking:
"Moving pictures are going to save our civilization from the destruction
which has successively overwhelmed every civilization of the past.
"They provide what every previous civilization has lacked — namely, a
means of relief, happiness and mental inspiration to the people at the bottom.
Without happiness and inspiration being accessible to those upon whom
the social burden rests most heavily there can be no stable social system.
Revolutions are born of misery and despair.
"Cheapness was and still is the original virtue of the films. As long as
a ticket stays around the price of a drink the saloon has to reckon with the
first rival that ever has been able to compete with it and beat it."
Embarrass-
ments of
Petite Lying.
in the role of Munchausen has his
THE ignoramus
disadvantages.
One of his kind, crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the
days when prominent persons were permitted to travel
unsubmarined, boasted of his intimate acquaintance
with the world's leading literary lights of that day.
Someone began discussing "Romola," and, of course, mentioned George
Eliot. The ignoramus beamed. "George was my room-mate at college!"
he exclaimed, delightedly.
A young lady starette, asked last month to supply this publication with
a few details of her no-doubt-interesting life, replied: "I am a college girl;
received my education at Vaser"
SOME BRENON MOTIONS, REED EMOTIONS, AND—
Artist Grant T. Reynard
swears that the microminia-
ture an inch to the left is
William Shay.
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AT WORK WITH LADY YOUNG: ALL IN FORT LEE
The above isn't a mob
scene; it's the leading
lady with some new pho-
tographic proofs; at the
left, a little incidental
music not at all hard
on the ears.
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Preaching by Pictures
HOW THE FILM 15 BECOMING
THE STRONGEST ALLY OF THE
TEACHERS OF THE GOSPEL
ONCE regarded as a contraption of
the blase gentleman who is reputed
to rule over the regions where went
the souls of the bad little boys who went
fishing on Sundays, the motion picture has
Ijecome an ally of the church, in the course
of a very few years.
Viewed first with suspicion by the ortho-
dox and shunned consistently, the screen
has gradually felt its way into the house
of worship. There is hardly a city that
does not now boast of at least one church
where film exhibitions are a part of the
services. Aside from
the fact that the
cinema has brought
religion home grip-
pingly through the
medium of the eye
where before its mes-
sage came only to the
ear, it has solved an
economic problem —
caused previously
struggling churches
to become self-sus-
taining.
Recently The Ad-
vance, publication of
the Congregational
denomination, offered
a prize for articles on
the use of the screen in the church. The
winner was Rev. Dr. Chester S. Bucher, of
Lima, O., and following are some inter-
esting excerpts from Dr. Bucher's article:
"Jesus used a lost coin, a dead sparrow
and a little child as object lessons. Beecher
auctioned oiT a slave girl in Plymouth pul-
pit. Wilberforce made men shudder when
he held up the chains of Africans and
dropped them with a clanking thud on the
floor. Why should the churches disregard
this great potential asset, especially since
it was a clergyman, the Rev. Hannibal
Goodwin, who was the inventor of the flex-
ible film that made motion pictures
possible?
"Out in Shansi, China, our own mission-
ary, Wynn C. Fairfield, is using motion
pictures while he preaches to people in the
"The Trials
of Joseph
in Egypt"
in Sermon and
MOTION PICTURES
AT
Congregational Church
FREE
White Pagoda Temple in the center of the
city. In America it is estimated that the
equivalent of our entire population goes
every week to the movies.
"Two years ago, at Grace Church, Cleve-
land, we decided to use this perfect Es-
peranto in order to speak to people of
all races, ages and conditions. The people
passed by our church, leaving its pews
empty, and filled the seats of the nickel
university at the next corner. For thirty-
five dollars we bought a secondhand Edison
machine ; for thirty dollars we secured a
secondhand galvan-
ized iron booth; for
about forty dollars we
purchased electrical
materials, and an elec-
trician in the church
installed the equip-
ment himself and
operated the machine.
Our regular order of
service was used on
Sunday evenings with
the single exception
of substituting a
scripture lesson on the
screen for the lesson
which had been for-
merly read from the
pulpit Bible. The
Bible film was the basis of the sermon.
The life of Christ was used in a series,
one reel each Sunday night.
"We have heard some criticism from
other churches where the pews are emptv,
but the unchurched people who attend our
service are grateful, and attentive, and
responsive. The loose change ofliering pavs
for the expenses of publicity and of films.
"One of our churches in Detroit presents
a clean recreational program of pictures on
Sunday afternoons, with free admission. A
social hour and refreshments follow.
Splendid programs exclusively for children
can be offered on Saturdays for a penny
admission.
"The Bureau of Commercial Economics
at Washington, D. C, offers a service of
two educational reels gratis each week."
SUNDAY, 7:30
Shadows of Asia
THE INDIAN AND THE COWBOY
ARE THE ONLY UNIVERSAL
SCREEN FAVORITES EAST OF SUEZ
By Homer Croy
Decorations by Grant T. Reynard
Translated, this interesting eight-sheet probably proclaims :
"Bill Hart here tonight. Come one! Come all!"
WE had been sliding down the
rivers of China for days in
their little, flat-bottomed sain-
panSj carrying the boat on our
shoulders when we wished to clear a
rapids, until we were far from civili-
zation's pale. A white face was an
event, whole crowds following and
children crying at sight of us until I
imagined we were in the heart of
heathendom. Then we stopped at a
small village to stay all night — and
found ourselves across the street from
a motion picture theatre ! And, most
startling of all, it was showing an
American film — an old one, but still
American. It was one of the old
chase films where one person starts to
run away and his avenger sets out in
feverish pursuit, another following,
upsetting a baby buggy, until half
the town is on the warpath. It was
that old, and the film was scratched
and torn, but the Chinese
didn't mind — to them it
was as exciting as a Zep-
pelin attack.
The theatre was in a
partitioned off .space be-
tween two high walls, with no
manner of ticket. Paper in
China is valuable, so what's the
use of having tickets when the
purchaser has to give them up
in a few feet? In this nook
between the walls was the
picture theatre ; it was one of a chain,
putting on a show twice a week. The
proprietor showed the films here tonight,
shoved them into his boat and was
kicked up the river by his coolies to
another theater the next night. His
progress was accomplished by a coolie
lying down on his back in the stern
of the boat and straining with his feet
against the paddles, which, threshing
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Preaching by Pictures
HOW THE FILM 15 BECOMING
THE STRONGEST ALLY OF THE
TEACHERS OF THE GOSPEL
ONCE regarded as a contraption of
the blase gentleman who is reputed
to rule over the regions where went
the souls of the bad little boys who went
fishing on Sundays, the motion picture has
become an ally of the church, in the course
of a very few years.
Viewed first with suspicion by the ortho-
dox and shunned consistently, the screen
has gradually felt its way into the house
of w'orship. There is hardly a city that
does not now boast of at least one church
where film exhibitions are a part of the
services. Aside from
the fact that the
cinema has brought
religion home grip-
pingly through the
medium of the eye
where before its mes-
sage came only to the
ear, it has solved an
economic problem —
caused previously
struggling churches
to become self-sus-
taining.
Recently The Ad-
vance, publication of
the Congregational
denomination, offered
a prize for articles on
the use of the screen in the church. The
winner was Rev. Dr. Chester S. Bucher, of
Lima, O., and following are some inter-
esting excerpts from Dr. Bucher's article:
"Jesus used a lost coin, a dead sparrow
and a little child as object lessons. Beecher
auctioned off a slave girl in Plymouth pul-
pit. Wilberforce made men shudder when
he held up the chains of Africans and
dropped them with a clanking thud on the
floor. Why should the churches disregard
this great potential asset, especially since
it was a clergyman, the Rev. Hannibal
Goodwin, who was the inventor of the flex-
ible film that made motion pictures
possible?
"Out in Shansi, China, our own mission-
ary, Wynn C. Fairfield, is using motion
pictures while he preaches to people in the
fO
"The Trials
of Joseph
in Egypt"
in Sermon and
MOTION PICTURES
AT
Congregational Church
FREE
White Pagoda Temple in the center of the
city. In America it is estimated that the
equivalent of our entire population goes
every week to the movies.
"Two years ago, at Grace Church, Cleve-
land, we decided to use this perfect Es-
peranto in order to speak to people of
all races, ages and conditions. The people
passed by our church, leaving its pews
empty, and filled the seats of the nickel
university at the next corner. For thirty-
five dollars we bought a secondhand Edison
machine ; for thirty dollars we secured a
secondhand galvan-
ized iron booth; for
about forty dollars we
purchased electrical
materials, and an elec-
trician in the church
installed the equip-
ment himself and
operated the machine.
Our regular order of
service was used on
Sunday evenings with
the single exception
of substituting a
scripture lesson on the
screen for the lesson
which had been for-
merly read from the
pulpit Bible. The
Bible film was the basis of the sermon.
The life of Christ was used in a series,
one reel each Sunday night.
"We have heard some criticism from
other churches where the pews are emptv,
but the unchurched people who attend our
service are grateful, and attentive, and
responsive. The loose change offering pavs
for the expenses of publicity and of films.
"One of our churches in Detroit presents
a clean recreational program of pictures on
Sunday afternoons, with free admission. A
social hour and refreshments follow.
Splendid programs exclusively for children
can be offered on Saturdays for a penny
admission.
"The Bureau of Commercial Economics
at Washington, D. C, offers a service of
two educational reels gratis each week."
SUNDAY, 7:30
Shadows of Asia
THE INDIAN AND THE COWBOY
ARE THE ONLY UNIVERSAL
SCREEN FAVORITES EAST OF SUEZ
By Homer Croy
Decorations by Grant T. Reynard
Translated, this interesting eight-sheet probably proclaims
"Bill Hart here tonight. Come one! Come all!"
w
E had been sliding down the
rivers of China for days in
their little, flat-bottomed sam-
pans, carrying the boat on our
shoulders when we wished to clear a
rapids, until we were far from civili-
zation's pale. A white face was an
event, whole crowds following and
children crying at sight of us until I
imagined we were in the heart of
heathendom. Then we stopped at a
.small village to stay all night — and
found ourselves across the street from
a motion picture theatre ! And, most
startling of all, it was showing an
American film — an old one, but still
American. It was one of the old
chase films where one person starts to
run away and his avenger sets out in
feverish pursuit, another following,
upsetting a baby buggy, until half
the town is on the warpath. It was
that old, and the film was scratched
and torn, but the Chinese
didn't mind — to them it
was as exciting as a Zep-
-.„^ pelin attack.
>v ^3"\S\^ The theatre was in a
■' ^'-^ * partitioned off space be-
tween two high walls, with no
manner of ticket. Paper in
China is valuable, so what's the
use of having tickets when the
/^ purchaser has to give them up
'\. ^ in a few feet? In this nook
between the walls was the
picture theatre : it was one of a chain,
putting on a show tAvice a week. The
proprietor showed the films here tonight,
shoved them into his boat and was
kicked up the river by his coolies to
another theater the next night. His
progress was accomplished by a coolie
lying down on his back in the stern
of the boat and straining with his feet
against the paddles, which, threshing
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in the water, urged the boat along at a rate
that gave the picture man all the time he
needed to comprehend the scenery.
Thus is the cinematograph film dis-
tributed in China. American pictures are
the most popular ; especially the cowboy
and the Indian. They can not get enough
of the tall, picturesque cowboy plugging a
redskin with a .44. Even the fact that the
titles are in English doesn't keep them
from enjoying the film. Action, action is
what they want : somebody's got to be
doing something — preferably shooting an-
other man's shirt full of holes. Such a
picture they are content to sit and watch
by the hour. No Chinaman would be will-
ing to pay his money, see six reels and go
home; if six reels were all a proprietor
showed there would be a riot before 9 :30.
Time does not mean anything to a China-
man; he's got all the time in the world
and when he goes to a show he wants to
get his money's worth. He likes to go at
six and stay until midnight. He doesn't
set a very high standard in the way of
quality, but he does demand footage.
In India the change of a picture pro-
gram is second in importance only to the
Durbar. They can't have a change of
program very often for the reason that
ships don't arrive every week, and when
one does arrive only the early birds get
seats. The white people have a certain
part of the theater reserved for them.
There are two performances during the
evening, the white people going to the
second. They sit in boxes shielded as much
as possible from the natives: the reason is
apparent to any one acquainted with the
sanitary habits of the native son of India's
coral strand. And by the way, there isn't
a hunk of coral in the whole einpire and I
didn't come upon a single strand all the
time I was there. The latter word, as
used there, has to do with a letter of credit.
In Siam the picture theater is
about the onlv form of amuse- ' *
The Chinese cannot get enough
of the tall, picturesque cowboy
plugging a redskin with a .44.
nient. That and cricket fighting. It
is so hot that games are not indulged
in to any great extent, the people
preferring to take their relaxa-
tion sitting down. Their theatres are
more like our carnivals. They are
Shadows of Asia
in big enclosures, where you may either
go inside the sheltered part where the film
is running, or sit outside at little tables
and drink cane juice and whisky pegs —
or see how hard you can hit a striking bag.
And then after you have injured your
wrist you can go inside and watch Charley
Chaplin.
When a ship comes in there is a change
of film, and the King comes down to the
theatre and it is society night. I will pause
to say that the sacred white elephants of
Siam are largely a myth, the same having
only a few white hairs on the tail.
While Max Linder was
working, before he went to the
war, he was much more popu-
lar in Egypt than Charlie
Chaplin, but now of course it
is impossible to get films into
that beleaguered city.
Cairo is such a cosmopolitan
city that the subtitles have to
be in four languages : English,
French, Greek and Egyptian. Sometimes
the titles are in only three languages — the
first three — with the explanations in Arabic
(the national language of Egypt) thrown
on the wall close by with a projection
machine. The native then has only to look
over to the lantern slide to understand
what the fat comedian is saying to his
two friends who have just pushed him off
the cliff.
The women never sit in the audience
with the men. Never. That would be an
everlasting disgrace to an Egyptian woman.
She sits in a box, far, far from the seduc-
tive eyes of men. The Koran
allows each follower four wives,
but they don't all have that
many helpmeets, for the reason
that the average man can't af-
ford four wives.
Every day American films are
coming to have more of a grip
in the Orient. The war has
made them supreme.
WE5T COAST NEWS OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE
By E. W. GALE, Jr.
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Financing the Movies
"INSIDERS" HAVE SKIMMED THE
CREAM OFF SO FAR BUT THE
PUBLIC'S INNING IS NIGH
By Paul H. Davis
Author of "Investing in the Movies."
THE public — that is. the general public
— has never taken any part in financ-
ing motion picture projects. Perhaps,
a certain part of the public has thought it
was financing when it was merely invest-
ing. There is a wide difference between
the two words. The person who buys
shares in a company from a friend or
broker is merely investing in the security
of a concern which has already been
financed.
: "Insiders" have financed the motion pic-
ture industry of today. And to the insiders
have accrued the immense profits which
hiave been garnered by the pioneer finan-
ciers of an industry which has made
tremendous strides during the past few
years.- There are but two instances of the
public having been invited to finance big
producing corporations
and the public, fear-
ing for its dollars,
declined the invitation,
and the promoters were
forced to fall back
upon private bankers.
These were the Tri-
angle and the World. They were a little
ahead of time. The investing public had
become film-shy because of the operations
of snide movie companies: They had
grown to consider the films as a poor risk,
when as a matter of fact, they are often
excellent risks.
. The public cannot be blamed. It had
been stung by either downright grafters
and stock jobbers, or men handicapped by
a supreme ignorance of the business they
were attempting to found.
It is a matter of fact that it has only
been in the last few years that the general
public has had opportunities to invest in
legitimate companies. The "insiders" here-
tofore have been getting the "gravy," to
use a slang term. The.se were the original
promoters and their friends.
The first exchanges were independent
The time is rapidly coming
when the business will be too
large to be financed by the inside
crowd. The public will be given
legitimate opportunities to in-
vest in the movies.
organizations. Each was a dealer who
bought from manufacturers his supply of
films. These dealers grew until their
equipment and good will in many cases
had a sale value of a hundred thousand
dollars or more. It was by a combination
of dealers or exchanges in different parts
of the country that the first national
exchange company got on the map. This
particular company, which is now doing an
annual business of several millions of dol-
lars, bought up exchanges in the important
cities. These exchanges costing it is said
over a million dollars in the aggregate,
were paid for by preferred stock of the
new company and by notes falling due over
a long period of time. The notes were
paid out of the earnings of the business.
So far as I can find out, no outside money
was needed to handle
the proposition.
Not long after the
organization of this
company, another
exchange organization
was formed. This was
financed by insiders
in a different way. It is said that the
fellows who were next to the plans bought
exchanges for cash. These exchanges they
turned into the new company they were
forming for substantial blocks of stock.
This stock they in turn sold to their friends
— thus reimbursing themselves for their
cash outlay. Their friends really financed
the purchase of the exchange — and it must
be said in fairness to all, that the insiders
and the friends both made money out of
the transaction. This same concern it
■appears at one time after expanding too
fast, found itself out of spending money.
A well known banker who had imagination
saw that the concern had the possibility
of making good dividends. The report is
that he loaned this concern about a quarter
of a million dollars. For this service he
doubtless received a nice block of common
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stock which had a good market sometime
later — thanks largely to his efforts. His
profit is said to have been nearly- fifty per
cent.
At the time these exchange companies
were formed, the producing companies
furnishing the films were owned by in-
dividuals, or were close corporations con-
sisting of a few stockholders. Several of
these concerns, — still making pictures and
mighty good ones, — are today valuable
properties. Their worth is the result of
profit of the business alone. In some in-
stances where producing companies needed
more money than their profits had fur-
nished them, stock was sold to friends of
the insiders. Practically none of this stock
reached the general public.
At the present time
there is a new angle to
the ever-changing financ-
ing of the movies. Many
of the companies require
an advance payment from
the exhibitors who show
their pictures. This ad-
vance payment, while it
may not be used to extend
the company's operations,
is put to the corporation credit at the bank.
I have heard that in some cases this de-
posit of advance payments from exhibitors
amounts to several hundred thousand
dollars. On a deposit of this size a con-
cern can borrow an enormous amount of
money with which to finance its new pic-
tures and extensions.
I know of another large distriljuting
corporation that organizes separate com-
panies for each of its new ventures. The
stock of these new companies is subscribed
for by the insiders and friends of these
connected with the company. Occasionally
some of these shares reach the general puli-
lic. Practically all of the ventures of this
group ^ave been successful and this cor-
poration is building up a following of in-
vestors who are anxious to get in on the
new propositions as they come along.
For the most part the money that
finances the movies has been made in the
business or comes from personal friends
and acquaintances of those who have made
money in the movies; and from bankers
who, after studying the movie situation
have decided that the business is a real
industry warranting their cooperation.
Watch for
"The Big Fade-Out"
A humorous and unusual
story of the movies in the
March Photoplay out Feb-
ruary 1.
The time is rapidly coming when the
business will be too large to be financed
by the inside crowd. The public will be
given legitimate opportunities to invest in
the movies. I have noticed that during the
past year there has been a dearth of fake
movie promotions — which is a mighty good
thing for the industry. There is also a
change of attitude on the part of the men
operating the motion picture companies.
They see that if they are to get the respect
of the public they must give out informa-
tion concerning themselves and their busi-
ness just as other folks do — and are meet-
ing the public demand for facts.
The majority of motion picture the-
atres have been and are financed like a
regular mercantile venture. John Smith,
who has an eye to busi-
ness, sees an opportunity
to open a house. He
takes his own money, and
borrows from his friends
or his bank, enough to
lease the theatre. As he
prospers, he extends his
business and moves into
larger quarters. I have
only heard of a few the-
atre ventures that have been financed in a
big business way — that is for a group of
men to advance the money to get the
proposition started, then sell stock to the
public to complete the deal. Thus the
moving picture industry began witli shoe
string financial methods and by tumultu-
ous leaps reached the mighty magnitude
that is its today.
As I have suggested, you will doubtless
in the very near future, not only have an
opportunity to invest in the Movies, but
will have an opportunity to aid in the
financing of the industry. Bearing in
mind always that the motion picture indus-
try entails a usual business risk, there
may be excellent opportunities for profit.
The success of the new ventures as they
are brought out — the same as the con-
tinuing success of the existing companies,
— depends upon the management and per-
sonal ability of the men back of the con-
cerns. Therefore, before you part with
your money either as an investor or as. one
who is aiding in the financing of the indus-
try, be sure that the people back of the
proposition in which you invest, have been
successful in the motion picture industry.
If yov don 7 know
the way call up
"Broadway
444. •■
"TheCIub, James!"
IT IS THE CAPITOL OF THE
SCREEN RIALTO THIS IMPOSING
PILE IN THE CITY OF ANGELS
By K. Owen
Photography b>- Stagg
WHEN Mrs. J. Skerrigan Phil-
lum, the little known wife
of the famous screen idol,
has waited long after the children
have been stowed away in the hay,
for her renowned spouse to return home,
she goes to the telephone and calls up
"Broadway 444." If hubby is the kind
of a fellow all the girls think he is. he
will soon be on his way to the Hollywood
bungalow fortified with a holeproof alibi
and, mayhap, a highly reliable affidavit
man.
When Llewellyn Z. Bustanoby, the fa-
mous film idol, reaches the Coast to pose
for the Cyclopean clicker at $8.33
per click, it's pesos to centavos that
he'll say to the taxi pilot: "The
club. James ;" provided, of course,
that his well backgrounded spouse
has been left East to enjoy his absence.
And the taxi fellow will chauff him un-
erringly to the corner of Seventh and
Olive and turn him over to the liveried
doorman.
It's the Capitol of the screen rialto —
the Lambs. Players and Friars rolled into
one — this Los Angeles Athletic Club,
where the great and the near-great of film-
dom foregather to court physical per fee-
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Three succes-
sive stages of an
aerial flip-flop
indulged in by
Oliver Morosco,
noted stage and
screen produ-
cer.
about
tion, enjoy social
intercourse, exercise
their mental attri-
butes,* practice table
athletics, and — in
rare instances — talk
themselves.
ITp on the third floor where
the more passive sports obtain,
the motto is the Biblical ijuotation :
"He putteth down one and setteth U])
another." .\rm exercises predominate
here often to the detriment of the
more lower or nether limbs — setting
up drill, as thev say in the army.
Farther uj) in the higher altitudes one
might explore the sleeping quarters — per-
chance might pass the very door behind
which the celebrated Charles Spencer
Chaplin slumbers serenely oblivious of the
pies and falls and bumps of the coming
day. For this, my fellow-citizens, is the
home of that noted comedian of the almost-
million-dollar salary, just as it is the home
of other famous film players, temporarily
or permanently em{)loyed in the city.
In the spacious and splendidly equipped
gymnasium, the casual visitor is almost
certain to bump into some screen notable.
"Hobe" Bosworth may be seen wrestling
with Noah Young, the club's champion
strongman, or trying to break heavy log
chains with his ba-a-are-re han-n-n-d-d-ds.
Or he may spy Bobby Harron keeping
down to weight by use of the rowing
machine ; or Donald Cri.sp, actor-director,
wrestling or doing "brother" stunts with
Elmer Clifton, Griffith juvenile.
If the inquisitive visitor is lucky, he
might be treated to a handball game
between some of the champions of the
studios. Bob Leonard, Charley Ruggles,
Harry Ham and Jack Pickford, if the
latter happens to be on this side of the
continent, or Charles Gerrard. Bosworth,
the dean of 'em all, is a sort of bug on
keeping fit and does extra duty by work-
ing with a business men's gymnasium class.
If you've * ever joined one of
these things ^ you know what a
blow they are to an
artistic soul. Busi-
ness behemoths in
the 300 class trying
to "take off," grunt
dutifully beside t,^-
98-pound barris-
ters who are try-
ing to "put on;"
and the wail of
striving souls and
riven bodies ascends
on li i g h to the
housetops.
' Now one would
not look for stunts
from a producing
magnate, but if you
happen to be around
at the right time you
can see Oliver Mo-
rosco do some ground
and lofty tumbling
that would do credit
to an Arabian tumbler.
Fie knows the first
names of all the trick
paraphernalia in the gym, and the flying
rings and trapezes and such-like come a
running when he whistles. He holds the
all-around championship for all weights
in the Theatrical and Film Producing
Union.
There are also many devotees of what
is commonly referred to as the manly art
"The Club, James!"
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of self-defense. Ford Sterling, for instance,
loves to put the gloves on — someone
else, and the other boxing fans
are numerous. Fred Mace will
still go a few rounds with
anv bantamweight in Eden-
dalc at any hour of
the day and Mack
Sennett once offered
to put on the gloves
with Tom I nee.
Next to the
r^
handball courts,
probably the most
popular place in the
huge building at
Seventh and Olive
streets is the bi
plunge, referred to
by Douglas Gerrard
and other sons of
Albion as "the tub."
This is the favorite retreat of Mr. Chap-
lin, who is now mastering the Australian
crawl and the Kellerman climb. Always
he is accompanied by Tom, his faithful
wallay, who keeps a careful eye on his
mealticket. Some of the best swimmers on
the Coast, where most of the national
aquatic records are held, are members of
the L. A. A. C. as well as of some motion
picture company. Billy Williams, Billy
Gilbert and Cliff Bowes who hold all of
the diving records on the Coast are Kev-
stoners — masters of "water stuff" and Jack
Mower, of Vitagraph, is a member of the
Club's Avater polo team.
It . is the less active sports that have
provided the designation of "Third Floor
Athletes" for the devotees of the cue and
i\-ory spheres. William Farnum is up near
the top of the list of billiard experts and
other cue stars are his brother Dustin.
Allan Hale and Willard Louis. On the
same floor may be found the checker and
chess appliances and the hoisting apparatus
referred to somewhere in the beginning of
the foregoing.
Much beneficial exercise is obtained on
this floor at stated intervals by such nota-
bles as Charles Van Loan, the historian of
the movies, sometimes scenarioist and
of ttime golfist ; Colonel William Selig and
William H. Clune, of producing fame;
Walter Edwards, Dave Hartford and Ray-
mond B. West of Inceville and Culver
City : Charley Ray and his film father,
Frank Keenan ; y\l Christie and his for-
mer comics, Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran ;
Tyrone Power, of lost children fame,
whose favorite recreation is after-dinner
speaking ; Carter de Haven and a host of
others who figure regularly in the Ques-
tions and Answers department.
But think not that the Los Angeles
Athletic Club is a meeting place of only
the film brotherhood. On the contrary it
IS likewise the magnet which attracts
nightly the big men of the Southern Cali-
fornia metropolis ; business men, authors,
newspapermen, mining and oil magnates,
doctors, lawyers and the others that make
up the backbone of the community. Sev-
eral of the chief .spirits behind the
club's metamorphosis from a physical cul-
ture club in a few dingy rooms into a
sumptuous palace are prominent in the
film industry, among them being Frank
Garbutt, president of Pallas Picfures and
noA\- manager of studios for the Famous
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Player-Lasky-Morosco combination, and
Charles Eyton, Mr. Morosco's photoplay
representative. Mr. Eyton has been secre-
tary of the club for years.
There is a side "degree" in connec-
tion with the club which bears the elevating
name of "The Uplifters." This internal
organization has on its lists the names of
a numl)cr of the film colony's leading
spirits in addition to several of the Angel
City's most democratic millionaires, jurists,
doctors and real estate i m p r e -
sarios. Every so
often tliey get to-
gether in one of
the period dining
rooms of the club and
lift their voices in song and
their arms in — well, we might
call it homage, to the spirit
of good fellowship.
Film stars, such as Chap-
lin, like the club f
additional reason that
Bobby Harron keeps
In trim by rowing an
imaginary boat. In
the background
Donald Crisp is
playing Sandow
vides a degree of privacy that is impossible
in a hotel. Privacy is a vital need to a
star of Chaplin's luminosity. Otherwise he
would be pressed into service as a Los
Angeles landmark for rubber-neck guides
to megaphone at.
Interest in tlie club's sports is kept alive
by an almost continuous series of tourna-
ments, both for the followers of the
strenuous life, and the disciples of the
aforementioned passive atheltics. There
are aquatic contests which draw the water
experts from
all over the
country,
amateur
Ij o X i n g
matches for the
va r ious Pacific
Coast champion-
ships.
Loyal L. A. A.
C. men declare
tliat they have the
finest club in the
country. M e b b e
so — anyhow, they
have on their rolls
highest sal-
aried men in
the world
and a spirit
of good fel-
lowship that is
found in perhaps no
other club in ex-
istence.
If yoli have your
doubts about these
assertions, just slip
across to the City
of Angels and
tell James
"The Club"
or ask anyone
at "Broadway
444."
Lost: One Small Star
AND WHEN THE WHOLE STUDIO HAD HUNTED
HE WAS FOUND IN THE AUGUST COMPANY OF
A FRIEND, SOMEWHAT SURGICALLY ENGAGED
THE vaudeville act danced off stage, the lights in
the tiieatre were smotliered down, and the screen
curtain was lowered. Pe )ple snuggled in their
seats with an audible sigh of satisfaction. Next
moment, all over the house :
"Ah!" "Oh!" "The darling!" "O— o, o—o,
isn't he just the SKwrfcst — "
Little Hobby Connelly, whose name in the
studios is "Sonny Jim." had stepped upon the
canvas, and tliose in the audience vho didn't
recognize this genius child-star of the
ladow s t a u e
recognized a t
)nce that he was
the m o s t
charming
mite of an
If there's one thing this little star loves, next to
Ins mother, it's dogs.
un-grownup gentleman and discovered pres-
ently that he was a really remarkable actor,
a little-boy-prodigy without any of the pert
and perk and strut and justlookatmewillyou
that commonly attend infant genius while it
buds. His most recent big hit was in "The
Law Decides," and he received ovations everywhere.
Bobby Connelly belongs to his mother (who always dresses him for the camera), but
"Sonny Jim" belongs to Vitagraph — and you better let him alone if you're the employ-
ing head of a rival companv. Thev think a lot of "Sonny Jim" at Vitagraph, where
they pay him, aged six-or-seven-or-six-going-on-seven, every week enough to — oh shucks,
what's the good of making useless comparisons? You understand how it is, don't you?
Bobby Boy, alias Sonny Jim, threw the Vitagraph studio into an uproar the other day.
Next to his adored mother, the small man loves dogs best of the things that do walk
this earth and possess the sacred right to go behind the curtains of Movieland. Of all
the dogs he knows (and Bobby B.'s acquaintance is neighborhood-wide and entirely
democratic) his chosen favorite is "Big Bob" of Vitagraph studio, a great, shaggy brute.
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When the cam-
era has gone
asleep Sonny
Jim sports.
The director intimated to Sonny Jim
politely ihat in a few minutes his services
would be desired in a "set," and to be ready.
Bobby's mother led him off to his dressing-
room (oh, yes, indeed, he has one all his own)
and dressed him for the part, and sent him
out to play it. But the "set" was not quite
ready.
Presently it was, and the director called
cheerily :
"All right. Sonny Jim on!"
But no Sonny Jim appeared. And never be-
fore had he been one minute late when wanted.
Then the whole studio dropped work and
hunted him. They found him on the studio
"lot," seated on the ground beside "Big Bob,"
bandaging that canine worthy's leg with strips
torn from his
handkerchief !
A few days before he had seen
a wounded doggie bandaged in
exactly the same place — but
perhaps in not exactly the same
way. They had a great time
making Bobbie Boy and Sonny
Jim understand that dogs that
have not been hurt don't have to
be bound up, and that it's the liniment anyway
that really does the work.
A Vamp With a Goulash Name
so YOU SEE THAT SHE
WAS QUITE JUSTIFIED
IN CHANGING IT
She appeared in a few amateur theatri-
cals to which her father objected, but
where fatlier made his real big mistake
was when he took her to Los Angeles,
for there she signed up with the
Little Theatre — and made a hit.
From that it was but a step to the
cinema.
She began as an extra girl with
CJriffith. It so
— ^ happened that
when she first
went to work
Griffith had more ingenues than he
knew what to do with but was
really up against it for
"vamps."
"My kingdom for a
YOU can't tell Olga
Grey that there's noth-
ing in a name because
she had to change hers to
get along at all.
In Budapest, where she
was born, she was called
Anushka Zacsek which is
perfectly simple to any-
!)ody who is a Hungarian
but goulash to anybody else.
Now when a lady sets out
to seize fame by the horns her
name must not under any circum-
stances sound like a goulash, so
Anushka changed hers to Olga
Grey, which is easy to pronounce
and remember.
In the New York schools, where
.she was educated, she found this
made life much easier, and went
to work studying music because
her father wanted to make her a
great violinist.
But every time she drew the
bow across the strings she saw not
the concert stage before her eyes,
but the acting stage, and it was
her dream to become an actress.
vamp
!" he cried.
Then Olga ar-
rived.
A Double Twinkler
VIOLA DANA SHINES ALIKE
ON STAGE AND SCREEN
VIOLA DANA made her appear-
ance the same year as the Span-
ish-American war — 1898 — but
she has lasted a whole lot longer,,
for which let us give thanks.
When she was eleven she
walked into Thomas Jeffer-
son's Rip Van ^^'inkle company and
remained for three years. P'rom that time
on she became a regular child actress and is still regarded
as a stage star.
Two years ago the fihns claimed her, and after playing
before Edison cameras she went to Metro where she has
added to her film fame.
She is 4 feet 11 in height, weighs 96 pounds and has light
green — green, mind you — eyes and a wealth of beautiful
brown hair. She is sensitive, emotional and has a wonder-
ful sense of humor.
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The
Shadow
Sta^e
A Department
of Photoplay Review
By
Julian Johnson
YEAR ago. . . .
What was hap-
pening a year
ago?
Triangle, for one
thing, was shaking the
eggshell chips from its
pristine down while staring about at an
expectant world. Douglas Fairbanks was
making a sensational screen bow. and
Charlie Ray was listening to a nation's
applause for "The Coward." Mack Sen-
nett, uncomfortable in the dress .suit of
greatness, was trying to make a funny
shadow of Raymond Hitchcock. Inceville
was blasting out potential celluloids like
a munitions factory. The Fine Arts stu-
dio, treading with mincing condescension,
began to dispense culture to a crude, crude
people.
Mr. Fox's interesting replicas began —
Vol. 1, No. 1 — with the Bara duplication
of "Carmen." Mr. Walthall's Poe effort,
"The Raven," flapped and flopped. Her-
l)ert Brenon had taken his naiads, nereids,
notions and Annette to Jamaica. Vitagraph
was turning out a programme represented
by "Dust of Egypt," one of its current
releases. The Lasky studio was steadily
at work, as always, on studies of modern
life — Cleo Ridgely had just played "The
Chorus Lady," Victor Moore was doing
"Chimmie Fadden," and Blanche Sweet
was her own double in "The Secret Sin."
The Farrar "Carmen" was still dazzlingly
new. World was toiling with programme
stuff, and Equitable, its short-lived child,
was being born. Chaplin was an Essanay
asset. Tyrone Power belonged to Selig.
Famous was in its eternal struggle to find
a proper play for Mary Pickford. Uni-
versal performed steadily at the accepted
gait nicked on its speedometer, only Lois
Weber raising it above the ordinary pro-
gramme level. And Mr. Griffith, suave
and mysterious, reigned on a throne so
glittering that no other producer dared
turn his eyes that way.
Lots of things have happened in the
year 1916. Some on high have been
brought down, and some of the lowly have
been elevated. There have been so many
changes tliat it is doubtful if there will
ever be another year in the history of
photodramatic art in which so much will
happen. It is not only a matter of improb-
ability ; for various reasons, it seems sheer
impossibility. There has been revolution
or rebellion in every manufacturing
kingdom.
These things are of interest to us as
they forecast tomorrow ; as they tell us
who will probably make screen dramas
worth while in 1917, and 1918, and the
'teens and twenties after.
During 1916 the one producing institu-
tion which has gone on without hesitancy,
without waver or change, is the house of
Lasky. The tone of Lasky plays has risen
in a perfect curve. 'A great Lasky
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drama, "Joan the ^^'oman." which at the
writing of these lines has not been seen by
anyone, awaits release. It features Geral-
dine Farrar in an heroic version, past and
present, of the "Joan of Arc" tale, directed
l)v Cecil DeMille. This play may set the
kingly crown on DeMille's head.
It may not. I haven't seen it, and I
don't prophesy with my eyes shut.
As for that crown, Griffith still
wears it. "Intoler-
ance" is a tremen-
d o u s, s t u p e n-
dous study which
fails' to advance its
maker. It is a mu-
seum of anti(iuity
and a modern pic-
•ture gallery, but it
lacks a story. Mr.
Griffith can tell
great stories with
the simplicity of
greatness. He is in
the zenith of his
powers, and he had
better be about
his producing, han-
dling his impresa-
rioship to those
who have smaller
imaginations and
larger adding
machines.
In the dust and clatter of Triangle's
various financial earthquakes Monsieur Sen-
nett, the one really funny man the photo-
plays have produced, fell out of his comical
bandwagon and hasn't succeeded in climb-
ing back. AVhen Mr. Sennett began to
supervise and be a magnate something went
wrong in his works. Now his laughs are
only echoes.
Mr. Ince, whom this magazine has called
"Rodin of Shadows," suffered severely in
Triangle's series of punctures. In fact, Mr.
Ince is a somewhat abused party, for besides
having to hold up two sides of Triangle, to
^
■
Helen Ware, in "The Garden of Allah,"
a forthcoming Selig release.
The ^^'orld Film Corporation has been
as quiet during the past tweh-emonth as
Mexico at election-time. The exit of Mr.
Selznick was followed by the entr\'
of Arthur H. Spiegel — and Mr.
Spiegel's untimely death at the age
of thirty-two. Mr. Brady suc-
ceeded. In this welter of change
and disaster the tone of World
>ictures went backward instead
of forward. Mr.
Brady is one of
the most energetic
men of tlie the-
ater, and if he
stays in lo n g
enough, and keeps
his interest in the
picture business at
its present tempera-
ture, lie will thor-
oughly rejuvenate
his embattled or-
ganization.
Mr. Brenon re-
turned from Ja-
maica only to quar-
rel with Mr. Fox.
His spectacle. "The
Daughter of the
Gods" seems to be
the celluloid mint
of New York. Now,
Brenon is back to
drama, where he won his original triumphs.
Selznick, virtually forced out of World
by a financial combine against him, formed
another corporation and tricked and^defied
the entire industry by proclaiming the in-
dividual picture against the programme.
Exhibitors support Selznick in a way that
threatens to overthrow half the old pillars
of the industry. Selznick's big bunch of
stars and stellar directors are a mightily
potential handful.
\'itagraph, the proud original master,
stumbled, tripped, caught itself, went on
again half a dozen times. Its output today
say nothing of bolstering a weakening does not enter the class of DeMille, or
third, he was presently compelled to go to
New York and battle all summer in the
monetary reconstruction of the whole or-
ganization. This year has been Ince's
"King's-Ex." He made money with "Civi-
lization." a big picture of weak story,
coward's philosophy, fine acting and setting
and most remarkable photography.
Brenon. or Ince, or James Young, Colir.
Campbell, or George Irving. Lubin is no
more. Mr. Selznick has bought the effects.
Mary Pickford. a corporation, still
thrashes about for entertaining vehicles
and seldom finds them. The Talmadge
Film Corporation, the Mae Marsh Film
Corporation, the Barriscale Film Corpora-
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tion^waves from the big rock Selznick
dropped in the old-timers' puddle — are on
their respective ways. And most of them
are to be regretted.
At Universal City a managerial gentle-
man named Davis is endeavoring to prove
that a time-clock is inspiration's twin
brother. As Universal is the most prolific
producer in the world Mr. Davis' experi-
ment will be watched with interest.
Metro a year ago was impossible artisti-
cally. Today it is a serious factor and
produces much that is worth while.
'T'HE Children Pay. Here is the sanest,
-^ most humanly interesting five-reeler of
the month, although in most of its episodes
decidedly undramatic. It is such a story of
drifting parents, an ever-widening domes-
tic gulf, and the keen sorrows and quaint
joys of a pair of little girls as you might
expect from the pen of a young William
Dean Howells. As a matter of fact, Frank
E. Woods of Fine Arts wrote it, and there
are deployed in its unrolling such redoubt-
able character persons as Ralph Lewis,
Jennie Lee, Loyola O'Connor and Carl
Stockdale. Miss O'Connor, as the demi-
artist mother, provides
a remarkable exhibit of
self-satisfied selfishness,
wholly different from
the usual sympathetic
vehicle accorded her.
Lillian Gish plays Mil-
licent, the oldest girl
who is the focal center
of all . the activity. I
have never seen Miss
Gish draw a more real,
interesting and believ-
able young woman. She
has literal pep and
actual punch — two
qualities which tradi-
tion says are extremely
ungishy. There are
those who say the final
legal situation is impos-
sible. I don't know. I
do know that the body
of the play is a page of
life, of which the
screen shows far too
little.
A m erica n A ristoc -
racy. Ls Mr. Fair-
banks the star of this picture? Seems to me
Miss Anita Loos, who wrote the quaint
little burlesque on our bean-can nobility,
and the odd little type-phrases which join
the illustrations, is the real luminary. Miss
Loos was short on plot, but long on laughs.
Her melodrama is that of an old-fashioned
motion picture ; her satire is worthy Irvin
Cobb. Mr. Fairbanks is being completely
eaten up by his jumping ability. He leaps
into his chairs, over his motors, onto his
horses, out of his difficulties, like a godson
of St. Vitus. Acrobatics and agility are
good, but in this picture they are driven
into the ground, to the exclusion of much
better stuff of which he is entirely capable.
The Microscope Mystery. Another of
Fine Arts' stories rather than plays, full
of genuine types, and glorified with more
accuracy in any hundred feet than the aver-
age five reeler's five thousand. A pastoral
bit, this, of the country doctor who looked
upon the village miser's baby and found
her delightful, but who could be spurred
Mary Charleson and
Henry Walthall, in
"The Truant Soul,"
an Essanay holiday
feature.
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into action only by the villainy of the hus-
tling quack doctors. The humbug "spe-
cialist" has "long been awaiting just such
photographic depiction, and here he gets it,
eight-cylindered and ninety -horse. Pome-
roy Cannon as Dr. Bell, of the Prince
Albert and the divine afflatus ; ^\'ilf red
Lucas as "Doc" Arnold, and Constance
"Mountain Girl" Talmadge as the cur-
mudgeon's child are splendid. The shoot-
ing of specialist Bell is a thrilling, grisly
piece of realism ; no fototlop is this, in neat
fashion ; the "doctor" subsides in a hud-
dled, ludicrous sprawl, and sits on the
porch, stone dead.
Children of tlw Feud. Plere we have
the oldest and only story of the Tennessee
mountains, told for the hundredth time at
least in pictures. The perfection of detail
in this moonshine yarn makes it not only
endurable, but interesting.
A Sister of Six. Bessie Love and the
press-agented Fine Arts Kiddies m a story
of California of the
early days. Well
done, but by no
means notable.
The Wharf Rat.
A boy character for
Mae Marsh, who
brings to the role no
boyishness, and, out
of her frocks and in
a close-cropped wig,
not a particle of
femininity. Quite
impossible.
Atta Boy's Last
Race. A weak-kneed
story which has
Dorothy Gish and
the best of Holly-
wood's optic ma-
chinery, but these
serve only to raise
it hii^her, in order
to fall harder.
nr'HE Bugler of
■^ Algiers. Here
is poetry in modern
habiliments. Here
is the elan of France. Here is drama,
thrill, romance. Such stories as this, by
Robert H. Da^-is and Perley Poore Shee-
han, are written all too infrequently.
Anatole Picard and his sister Gabrielle live
Lillian Gish, in
in a little French village. The year is
1870. Anatole and (jabrielle's sweetheart,
Pierre Dupont. are summoned to the colors
in Algiers. While they are away the black
maelstrom of Prussia descends upon North-
ern France, and their little town is wiped
out. As they have already been erroneously
reported dead Gabrielle, the little sister,
wanders to Paris, and is neither heard from
nor found. Fifty years pass. Heroes are
becoming scarcer and scarcer, and the be-
stower of decorations of the Legion of
Honor is having a hard-enough time to
keej) his office open, without meeting sucli
sudden emergencies as the death of a
candidate to whose prospective embossing
President Poincaire has already been in-
vited. In desperation, he uncovers the
story of Anatole Picard's forgotten hero-
ism in Algiers. He reads in the musty
records of the War Office of Picard's cap-
ture by an Algerian chief ; of the offer to
spare his life if he would sound th'e retreat
upon his bugle — how the intrepid
Picard sounded not the retreat but
the charge ! Picard is summoned
to the capital. He and Pierre,
white old cronies, nuisances and
fogies in the minds of the young
villagers, don their ancient regi-
mentals and decide to march to
the boulevards. Weaker and
weaker grows Picard. but he
will not give in, and at last
IS borne in Pierre's arms
to a farmhouse on the
outskirts of the be-
loved city. He dies.
Pierre, impersonat-
ing the dead Ana-
tole, goes in his
stead, receives the
decoration, the con-
gratulations of the
president, and the
embraces of a little
bent old lady— Ga-
brielle, lost for half
a century, and res-
urrected by that
excellent p r e s .s-
The Children Pay." ^^^^^^^ ^|^g superin-
tendent of archaic heroes. Together they
return to the humble cote where Anatole
lies at peace in the sunset, beneath a ban-
ner inscribed "We Are French." The
silent soldier receives his decoration before
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79
Ethel Clayton
and Carlyle Blackwell,
in "Broken Chains."
■ the embrace of his
aged sister and
her bent but not
broken lover. Some
story? It is one of
Universal's finest ef-
forts. Splendidly
directed by Rupert
Julian, who himself
plays Pierre. Ella
Hall is the dear wee
(jabrielle, and Kings-
ley Benedict a sturdy ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Anatole. HJHIIHHHHil
The Measure of A
Man. A carefully-made and artistically
set-up melodrama of the lumber districts,
featuring J. Warren Kerrigan. The fir.st
fifty feet prophesies the finish. We know
that .Mr. Kerrigan's vim and vigor will lie
victors in Reel V. Louise Lovelv is.
Eagle's JViitgs. Here is an aspiring ap-
peal for preparedness. The best part of it
is its views of munitions plants in opera-
tion ; the worst part the alleged corruption
of our legi.slators by foreign "diplomats."
Such "corruption" wouldn't be able to an-
nex peanuts from the goober-pagoda of a
l)lind Neapolitan.
77.1/ GRIMSBY'S Boy. Here is one of
*^ the dwindling supply of Ince-Keenans,
and it's a thoroughly worthy entertainment.
Keenan plays Jim (^rimsby, a Western
miner who has been done by the fair sex
until his dislike for them equals their rec-
ord of trickery upon him. His boy isn't
a boy, though lie re.solves from the hour
of her birth that she shall be one. But
Enid Markey in any other garb than petti-
coats is still an Enid, and as she grows in
size and prettiness .she is more lass than
lad howsoever. .\mong rough - stuff
fathers, Keenan is at once the roughest
and the tenderest. Grimsby is a capital
cliaracterization in *every phase.
The Honorable Algy. Carefully staged,
conscientiously acted, but with Charlie Ray
miscast in a poor, thin, fluttering story
whollv unworthv Tom Ince's virile stand-
ard.
The Devil's Double. It is difficult to
drape a genuine play about William S.
Hart's embattled person every month, but
here's an effort which is a succe.ss. Like
all really good stories, "The Devil's Dou-
ble" has the virtue of simplicity and
directness. Bowie Blake, Rockv Mountain
prince of chance and faro-banker, attracts
the flickering attention of Van Dyke Tarle-
ton, invalid artist. Westering to fan new
life into his last material embers. Tarle-
ton's whim is to use Bowie as a model, a
proposition the tough gambler indignantly
rejects until the painter's wife persuades
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Mary Pickford {left) with Mary Alden and
David Powell, in "Less Than the Dust,"
her first photoplay since she has been
a separate "corporation."
him to grant the weak, desire of a dying
man. Love springs like a flame in Blake's
heart. It's a pretty clean love, and he beats
it out of the mountains to get away from
temptation. Returning, he finds that small-
time de.sperados have attacked the two, and
the husband has succumbed. From where
you stand you can now see the end of the
road. Hart is fine as Elake, Enid Markey
is appealing as the wife, and Robert
McKim excellent as the fading artist.
The Criminal. A storv of the East Side
Italian quarter in New York City, without
a particle of New York atmosphere. Fairlv
well acted by all participants, and with
especial fervor by A\'illiam Desmond and
Clara Williams.
Bajvhs o' Blue Ridge. Not much of a
play. Only a passive vehicle for Bessie
Barriscale.
thousands in the Sothern
receipts. As we have
endeavored to explain, Mr.
Sothern — a perfect type of
high comedian — is not
limited to long swords and
plumed hats ; but as ro-
mance is a forte of his.
and as romance is the thing
wliicli has made him be-
loved of the American
people in a long and honor-
able career, why did lie
essay extremely dull real-
ism? Picturing is no com-
mencement for Mr. .Soth-
ern ; it should be an
accurate reflection of his
greatest stage success, and
that success belongs to the
days of "If I Were King,"
and like vehicles. "An
Enemy to the King" is a
rollicking ballade of ready
love and nonclialant mur-
der in the period of Henry
of Navarre.
jJUJUmi The Dollar an,/ the Law.
Irvin Cobb turns to screen
writing here. Result, a poor photoplay,
but a mightily interesting treatise on thrift.
This picture has the value of a travelogue
and a personal introduction to the great.
It shows the whole process of banknote
manufacture, and it introduces one to Frank
A. Vanderlip, of the National City Bank
of New York, in his own ofiice.
The Price of Fame. A tiresome trick
story dependent for its efl^ectiveness upon
double exposure. Marc McDermott seems
to share the fate of his one-time team-mate,
Mary Fuller. He can't find a vehicle.
'T'FIE Co.ssaek JVhif>. A corking Rus-
sian storv, evdentlv made some
time ago by Edison, but released only a
few weeks sinc£. It has vigor, action,
speed, suspense and fine heart interest.
Yiola Dana lias the chief role.
A N Enemy to the King. This is Sothern
■^^ dramatically true to form, gar-
nished with the brave boyish beauty
of Edith Storey. Had Yitagraph opened
its Sothern series with this merry piece
of swashbuckle instead of the dreary "Chat-
tel," it might have meant a difference of
T ESS Than the Dn.^t. Here is Mary
-^ Pickford's first picture of her "own"
release, taking its title from one of
Amy Woodforde Finden's "Indian Love
Lyrics." of the same name, though the story
is not even a speaking acquaintance of the
poem. Nothing was left undone to make
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this entertainment a twin-six drama worthy
Broadway and a high price. It had John
Emerson as a director, a perfect cast, all-
sufficient settings, and, theoretically, an
ideal author. "Less than the Dust" has
everything but the absolute essential : a
real story. Hector Turnbull's narrative of
Rhada, the stray daughter of an opium-
devouring colonel on East Indian service,
is notably uninspired. Discovering this
little brown girl who thinks herself a Hin-
doo and really seems to belong to no
race, we recognize the splendid premise for
a big ensuing history. But the history
doesn't come. There is an Indian insur-
rection which does little for Rhada dramat-
ically ; a heart-pang — and finally, the
proof that she is the lost dead colonel's
daughter, the heiress to an English estate,
and therefore a perfectly fit wife for Capt.
Richard Townsend. whom she first amused
and afterward thrilled. The finale is as
comfortable and exciting as Sunday after-
noon. The best episodes in the picture are
its comedy scenes, and the funniest and
most human of these Harold Lockwood i
Rhada's secret designing
of a fashionable Eng-
lish costume to please
her lover ; temperature,
surroundings and ignor-
ance causing her to cut
her precious goods into a
suit of combination
underwear. Miss Pick-
ford as Rhada is the
Pickford of traditicm,
and more. In this play
— for the first time? —
she unleashes her sex.
She is no longer always
the child. Her love-
making has the convic-
tion of passion. Some-
times she is quaintly,
grotesquely funny, some-
times she flashes an al-
most voluptuous orien-
tal beauty. David
Powell could not be
bettered as Capt. Town-
send.
'J^HE Ploiv Girl.
"Mae Murray would
thrill you in five reels of
the Constitution of the
United States I" disgustedly declared one
of my sfcatcr accompanists after "The Plow
Girl." And at that, I think she could —
provided they had much Murray and not
much Constitution. Miss Murray quite
aside, "The Plow Girl" is a unique five-
reeler, the story of a woman-slave among
the Boers of Johannesburg. The yarn
frazzles away to almost nothing toward the
finish — yet it has this all-redeeming virtue:
it forcefully introduces unusual characters
in an unusual scene, and provides at least
a half-dozen strong situations. This play
is Director Robert Leonard's first with
Lasky, and he handles it superbly. The
most remarkable characterization is Theo-
dore Roberts' indescribable Kregler, the
man-driving Boer, half caveman, half go-
rilla. And there is Mae, naive, sensuous,
beautiful child — !
The Years of the Locust. For an abso-
lutely unconvincing celluloid document we
recommend this. The story is old, tiresome
and insincere.
Fannie Ward
i May Allison, in
Tremaine. "
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photographs perfectly flat as to feature,
with not even the shadow of an emotion on
her pained, strained face. Jack Dean con-
vinces not at all.
Unprotected. Here is an account of
female mistreatment in the Southern con-
vict camps, visualized by Blanche Sweet,
\\"alter Long, Theodore Roberts, Tom For-
man; Ernest Joy and others, directed by
James Young. Mr. Young's clever hand
"has saved a play that might have become
sordid and dull.
The Heir to the
Hoorah. Rollicking
entertainment. A
standard play of a
decade ago, screened
up to its original
stage standard, with
all values preserved.
This is a genuine
achievement. Tom
Meighan. Anita
King. E d y t h e
Chapman, Horace
Carpenter, Ernest
Joy and other Lasky
redoubtables cavort
herein.
The Victoria
Cross. .A m e 1 0 -
dramatic imagining
of India, with the
come-back of a Brit-
ish officer who had
slipped, and slipped
far. Lou-Tellegen recreates this person, .so
you know he's some tall, some beautiful,
some muscular. Cleo Ridgelv is M. Lou-
Tellegen's skirted assistant.
l\/f ISS George Washington: If the sobri-
■'■ ^ ()uet G. W. means truth-teller for
boys, it must mean the opposite for girls,
if this pleasant but rather flippant Alar-
guerite Clark vehicle is to be believed. This
is the tripping account of a pretty
boarding-school minx who is some Sap-
phira. Miss Clark's fascination for her
adrnirers, like Miss Pickford's, is very
much a personal matter, independent of
vehicle ; though a good play does help.
THOUGHT and Paid For. Here is not
''-^ only the best World play of the month,
but the best World play in many months.
Having seen "Bought and Paid For" in its
speaking flesh not once Init many times,
and having obtained a great deal of enjoy-
ment from its vigorous, even though ob-
vious, episodes, I wondered if its shadow
self would be other than a mere optic echo.
But Virginia Blaine in the silhouette of
Alice Brady is as real though not as emo-
tional as the Virginia Blaine of Julia Dean
used to be. Staf-
ford, in the hands
of Montagu Eove,
runs ' a powerful
comparison to Rich-
man's Stafi^ord be-
hind - the little
lamps. Only Jimmy
Gilley — alas ! —
is not only noiseless
but noi.some. Frank
Conlan plays this
prominent h i n t e r
and prompt accep-
tor, arid it's quite
plain' "that he was
picked, for his
r e s e mlb lance to
Frank" Graven. ^ The
scenarioist, also,
missed on some of
Broadhurst's clever-
est lines. Josephine
Drake as Fanny is
just acceptable.
The -- Man Who
Stood Still. A not
very successful Louis
Mann play, pictur-
Not only the man
E. H. Sot hern and Edith Storey, in "An Enemy
to the King."
ized I)y Lew Fields.
but the picture stands still.
The Madness of Helen. Two roles by
Ethel Clayton, one by Carlyle Blackwell,
and fifty or sixty wonders by the audience
PS to wjiether or no it's going nutty. A
twin-sister mixer, in which the beholder
is so confused by misleads and dual
personalities that at the finale he believes
his pains and perplexities have been caused
by a picture torn all to pieces in the cen-
sor's hands and flung together regardle.ss.
Poor censors ! For once they are wrongly
su.spected. Title sliould be : The Madness
of the Author.
(Continued on page fj2 J
Here's the Chaldean Who Built Babylon
IF you wish to know who built Babylon — said to have been quite a lively Manhattan
when Mare Island was a colt — you can buy a big blue book for fifteen or twenty dol-
dars which wil'l tell you that nobody knows just who built it. \\'hen interviewed, the
Assyrian nobleman depicted below upon the throne of a chef of the period called this
just darned ignorant liedging. He knows who built Babylon. He built it himself.
Translated from its nebuchadnezzarish syllables into our tongue his name is really very
simple: "Huck" Wortman. Yet the ancients liave been called such a difficult people
to understand !
The present location of Babylon is the Fine Arts
back lot, near Hollywood. Huck's oriental metropolis
Frank Huck
Wortman,
Contractor and
Builder,
Babylon
v/as erected just for shooting, and now all Hollywood
is sore because he won't tear it down. If you are in the
vicinity of "Intolerance" any evening you can behold his
riglit nifty little town in all its pristine glory. ' ■
Sar Wortman has many interesting reminiscences of
his old pal Belshazzar, and all them fellows. "One day
me and Bel," says he — but that's another story.
D. W. Griffith, said to have been the Babylonian
prime minister before the days of Lloyd-George, one
day discovered that his Grand Edificer has lieen work-
ing on the great construction for nearly three months
without so much as a Sunday at home.
' ) "Get out of here !" he exclaimed. "I'll bet
you'll hardly know your wife and children."
So Huck went^iome. Three hours of' mis-
erable, pacing restlessness followed. Sud-
denly Mrs. Huck seized the broom.
"Oh, go back to the job if you
can't get your mind oft" it !" she
admonished. "You were never made
for the idle life."
Perfectly happy.
Huck trotted back
to the lot. He has
indulged in no more
dangerous ventures.
The Company on the Coverj
Pholo bv Bradley
Norma Talmadge, Inc.
TALMADdE, INC., is one of our busiest
little American institutions. Recently she
rushed from California, where she had been
Finearting, to Fort Lee, where she did an action-
ful and passionate play or two under the direc-
tion of Allan Dwan. Then she became a soulless
corporation and plunged into "Panthea," a play
about a tragic lady who, if we recall all the
circumstances, was some lovess. Right in the
midst of this the young corporation took a tour
into Connecticut, and on her return removei
from her old-time home, the Hotel Algonquin,
to an apartment-palace on Riverside Drive. Just
hov-- we are to account for this without telling
the truth about her marriage to Joseph Schenk,
Marcus Loew's booking manager, we don't
know ; you see, the corporation asked us not to
mention her marriage — that is, well, anyway :
Talmadge, Inc., has now tripped to California
for a few days. The study below is a new one
taken for Phoiopiav in her home on the banks
of the Hudson.
Remember when Mrs. Schenk was a shy slip
of an ingenue around Vitagraph. in Brooklyn?
'Plays ancfJ^layeTs
FACTS AND NEAR-FACTS ABOUT THE
GREAT AND NEAR-GREAT OF FILMLAND
PROBABLY no development of recent
months in the land-behind-the-screen has
occasioned such general regret as the grad-
ual disintegration of the Griffith combination of
players — those who have been with the great
producer since the early daj's of his ascendency.
Of those who twinkled faintly in the Bio-
graph days and burgeoned in 'the Reliance-
Majestic era to reach their climax in "The
Birth of a Nation," few remain. The last to
go are the Gish sisters, Lillian and Dorothy,
following closely on the departure of little Mae
Marsh. Walthall, the "Little Colonel," was
the first to leave something like a year and
a half ago. Wally
Reid was next. Mary
Alden and Ralph
Lewis, two other
principals in "The
Birth" went next.
Several of the old
Griffith directors,
notably Christy Ca-
banne, Allan Dwan
and the Franklin
brothers have de-
parted for more
lucrative spheres,
Dwan accompanying
Norma Talmadge,
Cabanne to direct
Bushman and the
Franklins to produce
"kid plays" for Fox.
With them went most
of the Fine Arts kid-
dies. Dainty little
Fay Tincher also de-
parted Fine Arts be-
fore the holidays,
allowing Douglas
Fairbanks to monopo-
lize comedy honors
for the "lot," for a
little while only, it is
said. Well, it was a great combination while
it lasted and made much film history.
THE exact status of David Ward Griffith
with respect to his former affiliations is a
thing of mystery. Since the premiere of "In-
tolerance," he has steadfastly reiterated that
he has nothing to do with Triangle. In effect,
he has disowned all Fine Arts productions
since the formation of that company. It is
generally understood that he has broken with
his former associates and it is rumored that
fabulous offers have been made him by other
concerns.
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Cleo Madison, the daring, has
eloped and is now
ANNETTE KELLERMAN recently was
advertised to appear in person at a special
performance of "A Daughter of the Gods" for
New York school teachers. Instead, she made
her appearance fully clothed.
HENRY W. SAVAGE has entered the uii-
serried ranks of the film producers. His
initial effort was an elaborate rendition entitled
"Robinson Crusoe." The story was not origi-
nally written for a photoplay.
GAIL KANE has found her way back to
the legitimate stage, playing with Laurette
Taylor in "The Harp
of Life." As this is
written contempora-
neously with the
play's premiere, the
harp by this time may
be only a ukulele.
NEW YORK'S
next-to-the-high-
est tribunal has de-
creed against Sunday
movies and the deci-
sion will affect sev-
eral million people
living outside the city
of New York. "In-
tolerance" had its first
showing in New
York.
DIRECTOR-GEN-
ERAL DAN
CUPID hopped back
on the job in Cali-
fornia after a vaca-
tion, so far as film
Photo by witzei pcrsouagcs are con-
taken another chance. She cerned. Universal
Mrs. Don Peake. stars figured m two
romances. Cleo Madi-
son, Mr. Laemmle's foremost emotionalizer,
eloped to Riverside, Cal., with Don Peake, an
automobile man and Gail Henry, bizarre
comedienne of the funny department at Uni-
versal City became the bride of her director,
Bruno Becker, the nuptials having been cele-
brated in Los Angeles. Incidentally it became
known that Miss Henry's correct name was
Gail Trowbridge.
DORIS KENYON, of World fame, is tem-
porarily a Famous Player, having entered
the Zukor camp to play opposite Frank Mc-
Intyre in "The Traveling Salesman."
Plays and Players
WHICH recalls the sad fate of Tom
Meighan, ex-Laskyite. Tom, longing for
the delights of the metropolis after a long
sojourn in Los Angeles, talked himself into a
transfer to Famous Players in New York, the
two companies having become as one. The
sorrowful part has to do with his arrival.
He was met at the train by a director who
slammed him into a taxi and rushed him to a
steamship which departed at once for Cuba.
Which was about zero in home-comings.
LOS ANGELES advices emanating from a
eulogistic scrivener for the press have it
that a life-sized
portrait of Crane
Wilbur is to be
h u n g in the
Louvre, or Bourse,
or something — in
Paris; wherever
it is that they hang
famous folk. The
Horsley star, ac-
cording to the au-
thorized version,
is to pose for a
celebrated Italian
artist who saw
Mr. Wilbur's like-
ness on the screen
in London and de-
cided that the
actor is the "real
American type of
'manly man,' " or
words to that
effect.
LEAH BAIRD,
who quit Vita-
graph for Univer-
sal City after a
long career at the
former has de-
serted the movie
m u n i c i p a 1 i t y,
whose loss is the
gain of Jackson-
ville, Fla., where
Miss Baird is now-
appearing in Vim
Comedies.
VIVIAN RICH
wore t li e
Selig colors for a
month or so this winter. She was "borrowed"
from the Fox Comjjany to play the lead in a
piece which bears the white slavish title, "Be-
ware of Strangers."
IT required just a half million dollars to
induce George M. Cohan to "perpetuate
his art" according to Broadway gossip.
The well known sponsor of the Red, White
and Blue is said to have been persuaded
by the Artcraft executives who will handle
his pictures with those of Mary Pick-
ford. Cecil DeMille is slated to direct his first
picture, a filming of "Broadway Jones."
M^
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MAE AIARSH'S new contract is said to
call for $2,000 a week for the first year
and $3,000 the second. Her first play will
be "Polly of the Circus." This leaves just
three actresses who have not been incor-
porated. Miss Marsh is the first star acquired
by the new Goldwyn Company, composed of
Samuel Goldfish and the Selwyns, Edgar and
Margaret and Arthur Hopkins.
YALE BOSS is back in the films, which
should be interesting news to admirers
of the boy star. His come-back will be made
in "The Half-Back," an Edison production,
and, as the name
implies, a story of
the gridiron.
TAMES YOUNG
J has denuded
Hollywood of his
debonair presence
and is installed at
Essanay's big stu-
dio in Chicago as a
feature director.
He was engaged
originally to direct
Max Linder, the
French comedian,
who decided t o
direct himself.
GILBERT M.
ANDERSON,
ex-Broncho Billy,
seems to have fliv-
vered as a feature
director. He un-
dertook to direct a
series o f eight
photoplays star-
ring Kitty Gordon
of renowned scap-
ulas, for the Selz-
nick corporations,
but his contract
was cancelled at
the completion of
his first produc-
tion, entitled "Vera
the Medium," a
contretemps which
Vera apparently
failed to foresee.
Miss Gordon is
back with World
finery.
@ by Paul Grenbeaux
This picture of Mabel Normand and Aviator Joe Bocquel was taken
on the day tliat Bocquel fell and ivas killed.
with her back and all her
ROSE TAPLEY has joined the Chatauqua
talkers. She has quit acting and is de-
voting her time to making illustrating lec-
tures in behalf of Vitagraph films. Her talk
is illustrated by a one-reeler showing the
inner workings of the business.
GEORGE LARKIN, who has been startling
the natives at Jacksonville by his death-
dee-fying stunts is nursing a bent and broken
nose. A stiff gale blew him from the fo't'gal-
lant royal truck, or, something equally high
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up on a sailing vessel, before he was ready
to jump, and lie struck the water on his face.
He is starring in "Grant, Police Reporter," a
Kalem serial. Ollie Kirkby, who plays oppo-
site Larkin, also entertained the doctors with
a fractured wrist.
GEORGE H. ELWELL, a youthful protege
of Thomas H. Ince who was fast ap-
proaching stardom, dropped dead several
weeks ago while dancing at a beach resort
near Los Angeles. Young Elwell enlisted in
the California militia when President Wilson
asked for volunteers last summer but was re-
jected because of a weak heart. He was
Jimmic in "The Raiders," the first Ince play
starring H. B. Warner. He was just 21.
DUSTIN FAR-
NUM has joined
Brother Bill at the
Fox studio in Los
.Angeles. The former
was a Morosco stand-
by for more than a
year and he will be a
valuable acquisition
for his new em-
ployers. His director,
W. D. Taylor, went
along as pilot.
AND now Bessie
Barriscale comes
to the front as an in-
corporation. The
Ijttle brown-eyed
blonde is to quit
the Ince-corral a t
Culver City when her
contract expires. It
is presumed that she
will give Hubby
Howard Hickman a
job in her company.
PERHAPS, if you
are a resident of
the West, you will re-
member Delia
Pringle, who used to
"knock 'em dead" with "East Lynne," "Two
Orphans," et al, out on the kerosene circuit.
She is now in the Margarita Fisher company
at. San Diego. If you can't remember. Ask
Dad ; he knows.
THERE will be no more burgling on screens
inthe sovereign Keystone state of Penn-
sylvania. The state board of censors has de-
creed and asked that hereafter scenes depict-
ing burglars be sliced off the reel before shown
to the common herd. The ban extends also to
prizefighters and dopefiends. The only ray of
sunlight in an otherwise befogged situation is
the casting forth of some sixty films on white
slavery, an easily endured loss.
APROPOS of the foregoing condition, a
new California company is to film "The
Ten Commandments." It is a safe guess that
several of the ten won't
sylvania.
get by in Penn-
Here's a new face in the films
Han, corralled by Tom
MAKATO INOKUCHI has gone back to
the Flowery Kingdom, having completed
his screen education. The former Balboa
player believes that there is a great future
for a film-wise Jap boy in his native land and
he will endeavor to rake in the yens and sens
with a company of Nipponese actors.
THE Harold Lockwood-May Allison com-
bination cut a wide swath, socially speak-
ing, in and around Monterey, Cal., just before
the holidays, according to authoritative in-
formation. The arrival of the Metro-Yorke
stars to film scenes for a new photoplay was
made a civic affair. There was an address
of welcome "which
lasted eight minutes"
and, to quote further
from the Olivered ac-
count of the func-
tion, this was fol-
lowed by "inteHigent
replies from Producer
Balshofer and Har.old
Lockwood and Bennie
Zeidman, the Yorke
publicity man."
T A SKY'S "The
J— I Cheat," probably
the most talked about
five reeler ever turned
out, is to become an
opera. Hector Turn-
bull the author has
sold the operatic
rights to Camille Er-
langer, a noted
French composer.
The opera is to be
known as "La Forfai-
ture." M. Erlanger is
the composer o f
"Aphrodite," after the
story of ancient Alex-
andria by Pierre
Louys.
-Enid Bennett, an Austra-
Ince for a new star.
CREIGHTON HALE and Sheldon Lewis
of "Iron Claw" fame are back on the
three-dimension stage, so as to say. They are
doing a comedy playlet in vaudeville through-
out the East.
THERE have been other defections — most
of them temporary — from the shadow
stage during the last few weeks. Anna Q.
Nilsson and her husband Guy Coombs are ap-
pearing in a vaudeville sketch bearing the
Kellermanic title, "The Naked Lie." Robert
Edeson and Edmund Breese are starring in the
vocal drama under their own management
and Betty Brown, a former Essanay ingenue,
is playing in New England stock.
IN this connection there should be reference
to Geraldine Farrar, the Lasky screen star,
who essayed several grand opera roles during
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the winter in Chicago.
She is said to have a
pleasing voice. Her hus-
band, M. Lou-Tellegen
also had a recrudescence
of stageitis but it only
lasted five weeks. The
vehicle was his last year's
more or less* success "A
King of No-Where."
ON the other hand, the
celluloid draws a new
recruit from the footlights
in Marjorie Rambeau, a
Californian recently dis-
covered b y Broadway.
Miss Rambeau is the star
in "Cheating Cheaters"
one of the season's big
hits in New York. In
private life she is Mrs.
Willard Mack of stage and
screen fame. She is to
appear on the Mutual pro-
gram under Frank Powell
auspices while also playinj
order to acquire local
color for the big produc-
tion.
NORMA TALMADGE
and her new husband,
Joseph Schenk are in Los
Angeles to s))end the holi-
days with Mrs. Talmadge
and sister Constance. It
is the honeymoon tour of
the Schcnks as Miss Tal-
madge was in the midst of
her first picture as an in-
corporation when the mar-
riage occurred.
GAR-
a new
former
Yale Boss is coming back in the "Half- Back."
He is now almost a man and is again an
Edisonile.
on the stage.
WILLIAM
WOOD is
Ince player. The
Universalite, who has been
appearing on the legitimate
stage in Los Angeles, is to
appear opposite Enid Ben-
nett, a young Australian
beauty discovered in New
H
[ARRISON FORD, well known to the
stage, is a recent acquisition by Universal
to take the place of J. Warren Kerrigan. He
has been playing in stock in Los Angeles.
BILLIE BURKE returns to the footlights
early in February and it is unlikely that
the screen will know her for some time to
come. Miss Burke will re-
sume her vocal efforts in
a new comedy drama that
is being written b}' Ed-
ward Sheldon, and under
the direction of her hus-
band Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.
EXPERIENCE is_ not
the teacher it is
cracked up to be. At any
rate Burr Mcintosh, who
starred in "The Adven-
tures of Wallingford" on
the screen, recently filed a
petition in bankruptcy.
" /V P"TER matriculating
xJL from Columbia Uni-
versity, he engaged, etc.,"
says a recently published
eulogy of Harold Lock-
wood. This captures the
monthly prize.
CONSIDERABLE pub-
licity is being un-
wound concerning the next
big Ince feature. It is all
to the effect that the father
of "Civilization" is doping
out a new one that will m
peace lesson look like
for a tombstone works,
van has been rusticating
York by Tom Ince last summer.
MABEL NORMAND gave Arizona a treat
during the state fair at Phoenix in
November. She and her company of 17 at-
tended that function at Phoenix and filmed
many scenes for her new play in that city.
Phoenix hadn't heard a camera click since the
departure of Romaine Fielding.
FRANK POWELL, who
has blossomed out in
the star business, has
signed up Nance O'Neil,
that well known free-lance
emotionalist for a series
of six photoplays.
KEYSTONE won't
seem like the same
old place with Fred Mace
gone. That famous station
agent has quit the Sen-
netters without stating his
plans for the future.
THIS is the announced
date for the retire-
ment of Roscoe Arbuckle
from the famous comfdy
studio. "Fatty" is under-
stood to have surrounded
himself by a quantity of
money while in New York
for the purpose of pro-
ducing pictures under his
own auspices.
Harrison Ford is not as cute as Kerrigan his
predecessor but there is something mighty
slick about his hair.
A
CLEVELAND com-
pany has added one
of those white slave af-
ake that harrowing fairs to an already glutted market. Its
an animated ad title is "Ignorance" and Earl Metcalfe is
C. Gardner Sulli- the hero with Eleanor Black, a former Ince
in New York in actress, the "wictim."
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Two of the four victims of the Grand
Prize auto race at Santa Monica in
November were well known in the film
colony. Lewis Jackson, the driver, whose car
ran off the course killing him and three per-
sons, was Grace Cunard's chauffeur and
Camerman Jenkins, of Keystone, was the
other. Jenkins was turning a camera along-
side the course when he was cut down.
GERALDINE FARRAR and her husband
Lou-Tellegen were given a private show-
ing in Chicago of "Joan the Woman," wnen
Cecil DeMille brought the big photoplay East
just before the holidays. Miss Farrar was
unable to attend the premiere of the picture
in New York and it was her first glimpse of
the completed production. Miss Farrar cried
and M. Lou-Tellegen
shuddered with horror
when Joan was burned at
the stake and a general
good time indulged in by
all who attended.
MOTION pictures were
employed early in the
winter to promote the boy-
cott on eggs in order to
force down the prices es-
tablished by the specu-
lators in the fruit of the
hen. It proved very effec-
tive in New York.
took the form of an injury in an automobile
wreck near Los Angeles. And as a sort of
painkiller, Tom was pinched for reckless
driving.
EARLE WILLIAMS, having completed
"The Scarlet Runner," has taken unto him-
self a new leading woman in Ethel Grey Terry.
Miss Terry is better known on the stage al-
though she was featured in "Bought," a World
production. She will appear with Mr. Wil-
liams in a number of Vitagraph five-reelers.
M
CHARLOTTE
TON,
BUR-
seen opposite
William Russell in many
an American thriller has
departed from Santa Bar-
bara for the lake zephyrs
of Chicago. She is to be
starred by Essanay.
OLGA PETROVA, the
high voltage vamp of
the Metro organization is
reported to be dickering
with the Lasky company
which has been vampless
for some time. Mme.
Petrova, according to advices, asks the paltry
pittance of 4,000 pesos oro per week, which
is quite some wages.
VERY often a company is justified in
changing the title of a play when made
over for the screen, but it is hard to under-
stand what prompted Universal to discard a
name that is known wherever English is spoken
like "A Christmas Carol," by Dickens, for such
a vapid bromide as "The Right to Be Happy."
CHARLOTTE WALKER has also gone
back to the footlights between films, her
dramatic vehicle being a concoction of Eugene
Walter, her husband, entitled "Pussyfoot
Patricia."
TOM MIX, Selig's director-actor, is having
all kinds of troubles. His latest mishap
ARY MILES MINTER had a narrow
escape from death in an automobile
accident early in December while en route in
her automobile from Los Angeles to Santa
Barbara. She sustained injuries which are
keeping her on the hospi-
tal list but she got off
much more lucky than
her mother and sister,
Margaret Shelby. Mrs.
Gertrude Shelby, the
mother of the girls, was
driving when the car
skidded and turned over
in the ditch. Mrs. Shelby
sustained a broken arm,
her sister was badly cut
and bruised and Miss
Minter suffered severe
cuts from broken glass.
A
N old Thanhouser
favorite M i g n o n
Anderson, is now enrolled
among the numerous in-
genues at L'niversal City,
while her husband, Morris
Foster is likewise engaged
under the Laemmle banner.
U
NIVERSAL CITY
Witzel photo
The hair is getting rather scant but the dirnple
is stilt there. The excuse for this is that Fred
Mace has quit Keystone.
it were and will
note of the defection of
Marie W^alcamp, the
blonde heroine of serial
thrills. She has gone over
to the Hearst camp, from
"Liberty" to "Patria," as
appear in the Mrs. Castle
preparedness serial.
TO offset the month's achievements of Dan
Cupid, Cleo Ridgely, Lasky's blonde lead,
invoked the aid of the Los Angeles courts to
obtain a severance of her marital bonds. At
the trial she alleged that her husband, J. M.
Ridgely, a director, had not treated her as a
dutiful wife should be treated.
LOUISE GLAUM, in a cloth of gold vamp
creation, and Lewis J. Cody, his heaving
bosom covered with a mushroom dress shirt,
provided the high lights at the annual ball
of the motion picture directors at the Hotel
.Alexandria in Los Angeles early in Decem-
ber. Bill Russell, of Santa Barbara, officiated
as peace-maker — keeping the directors from
talking about themselves.
The Foolish Virgin
SHE WAITED FOR HER DREAM
KNIGHT ONLY UNTIL AN UN-
WORTHY SUBSTITUTE APPEARED
By Jerome Shorey
How curious and varied the lamps
Avith which men and women seek to
light the pathways of life's quest.
The desired goal is always the same —
happiness. But while one uses wealth for
his beacon, another employs fame, and
others power, wisdom, success, pleasure,
and what not. That of which we know
least, often seems the greatest good, and
so it was not strange that Mary Adams, .
teaching dull children in a dingy East Side
school, and living among dull, humdrum
people in a cheap boarding house, was
convinced that the road to happiness was
most easily found when it was lighted by
the lamp of romance. In the glowing,
highly-colored pages of tales of chivalry,
she found her greatest joy, and food for
glorious dreams. She knew that no knight
could come a-riding to her door, and swing
her to his saddle-bow, and yet the foolish
virgin clung to her empty lamp and vaguely
hoped.
Certainly, few persons would have
chosen Jim Anthony as a hero of romance,
suited to satisfy such ideals as those of
Mary Adams. Jim himself would have
been the last to admit that there was any-
thing akin to the romantic in his makeup.
His life had not been of a sort to instill a
belief in anything except
such realities as hunger,
pain, brute force, and all
the primitive passions. His
sole recollections of his
childhood were of beatings
by his father, tears from his
mother and seeming enmity
of the world at large.
From this he escaped
before he was ten years old
and went to sea as a stow-
away ; and though this did not bring his
beatings to an end, they were less malicious
when administered by strangers. The sea
claimed him for several years, and then he
returned to New York. Again life became
a constant fight for existence, until Jim
discovered that he had a natural talent for
From a scenario based upon the novel
of this name by Thomas Dixon
"THE FOOLISH
VIRGIN"
THE photoplay version of
this story was produced
by the Clara Kimball Young
Film Corporation with the
following cast:
Mary. ..Clara Kimball Young
Jim Anthony . .Conway Tearle
Jasper Harden. F.dward Elkas
Dr. Melford. ..Paul Capellani
Jim's AI other
Catherine Proctor
mechanics. By day he worked in a big
shop, and nights and holidays he toiled in a
little shop of his own. He was developing
his genius for invention. He wanted to be
free from the grind — and then? He had
no definite plan, save that he never gave up
hope that one day he would find his mother.
Surely there could be no bond between
these two, Mary Adams firmly grasping the
ideal and Jim Anthony in the grip of the
stern realities. Two more completely con-
trasted persons could not easily have been
found in all the swarming East Side. But
one day Mary, going home from her school,
was accosted by a half-intoxicated loafer,
who persisted in his attentions to such an
extent that the girl's fear and dismay
attracted the attention of Jim, passing on
the other side of the street, It was not the
first time he had rescued a girl from a
brute — helpless women al-
ways brought back some
recollection of his mother
and her sufferings. l^ut
there was something about
Mary's gratitude and her
fineness that put her in
another class, and to Mary
he was a real embodiment
of medieval chivalry at
last.
"And so they were mar-
ried and lived happily ever after?" —
Patience !
TJNKNOWN to each other, a third life
had touched these two. Jasper Har-
den, an unscrupulous lawyer, rich through
successful preying upon the poor and the
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Jim, unused to business matters, was bewildered. Five thousand dollars was like a million to him.
vicious, chose to live at a cheap lioarding
house, partly because he was naturally a
miser and partly because he wanted to be al-
ways among the people where he found his
easiest victims. He adopted a paternal atti-
tude toward Mary, and seemed to be always
trying to force himself to do something gen-
erous for her. He had a large collection of
jewels, and he delighted in showing them to
her, but always when he would feel himself
on the verge of making her a present of
something from his hoard, he would gruffly
sweep them all into their cases and lock
them in a strong cabinet, swearing her to
secrecy. A pearl necklace, however, he
frequently would hang about her neck, and
say, "I'm going to leave that to you when
I die," whereupon they would both laugh.-
"You think I'm joking" he said one
evening. "Come. Write your name inside
the cover."
To humor the whim, Mary did as Har-
den asked.
And it was to Harden that Jim went one
day, having perfected an invention for a
motor truck.
Jim wanted a company organized to put
his invention on the market. Harden con-
sulted experts and discovered that the idea
was worth a fortune. He sent for Jim and
congratulated him on his achievement.
"I have arranged all the details," the
lawyer said. "I'll give you $5,000 in cash
and we'll get right down to business."
It was all so sudden that Jim, unused to
business matters, was bewildered. He
looked at Harden's check — iive thousand
dollars was like a million to him. And
when the lawyer asked him to sign a
receipt he scribbled his signature on the
bottom of a sheet of paper. Five thousand
dollars ! What should he do first? He did
not notice the smile that passed between
Harden and his clerk. He was thinking of
two persons — Mary, whom he had not seen
since that one meeting, and his mother. He
would find Mary first — he did not regard
this as a difficult task, even though he did
not even know her name ; and then they
two would go together on a search for his
mother, for he never doubted that she
still lived. This check was just the begin-
ning of his wealth, he knew, and there was
nothing he could not accomplish now.
Two weeks passed. Jim had begun to
mistrust his luck, for he could not find any
trace of Mary, and his calls upon Harden
were anything but satisfactory. The law-
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93
yer was evasive, often sent word he was
too busy to see the young inventor. Then
the storm broke, and Jim's world went to
smash. In a 'morning paper he saw an
advertisement of "The Harden Motor
Truck." In a daze he read it over and
over, and finally realized that he had been
swindled. He rushed to Harden's office,
and was told that the lawyer had left the
city, and would not be back for several
weeks. The clerk, however informed him
that he had signed a receipt in full, and
that the $5,000 was all he w6uld ever
receive for his patent. He had relinquished
all claims.
IT* OR the first time, throughout all his
•*• lifelong fight for existence, the inheri-
ted taint in Jim's blood came to the surface.
He was overwhelmed by a craving for the
bite of alcohol. As he drank his grievance
against Harden merged itself into a griev-
ance against the entire world. He always
had had to fight ; everything and everyone
was against him. Good ; then he would
make the world his victim. First he would
get even with Harden, and then he would
find new game. Even after he had drunk
himself into a stupor, and slept the stupor
off, the idea remained.
Harden had left the city. The clerk had
told the truth, for the lawyer had been
afraid that Jim, in his first flash of anger,
might be dangerous. But
Jim had no trouble find-
ing where the lawyer
lived, and as he inspected
the place one day his
faith in his luck suddenly
returned, for he saw
Mary enter the house.
This would be double
satisfaction. He little
suspected the rich booty
that awaited him in Har-
den's rooms, but he
grinned as he thought of
robbing the man who had
robbed him, and then,
through Mary, learning
about the excitement he
had caused. Even now,
immersed in the details
of the burglary he was
planning, it was not his
own gain but the discom-
fiture of others that most
appealed to Jim. He had no thought of
making a rich haul, nor had he any plan
as to how he would dispose of his plunder.
He was simply making war for the sake of
the war itself, and not for the results it
might bring. He was far from being in
want, for he still had most of the money
he had received from Harden, and the
savings of several thrifty years as well.
So when Jim found himself, one day, in
possession of the valuable Harden collec-
tion of jewels he could hardly believe it
was himself who sat there fingering them.
The burglary had been simple enough to
his ingenious mind, but the results were
half fascinating and half embarrassing. He
was, in fact, almost sorry he had been so
successful, for now he would not dare
revisit the scene. If Harden were to see
him he might easily suspect. And besides,
somehow he could not bring himself to face
Mary. So he sought relief for his dis-
appointment in broadening, his zone of
activities, and added several more success-
ful burglaries to his list of battles against
an unfriendly world; The ordinary bur-
glar, he thought, must be a stupid sort of
])erson ever to be caught. It was all so
simple that he finally decided he would
outdo himself, and rob the famous Inter-
national Museum of some of its treasures.
He visited the place to study the problems
it offered — and met Mary.
Jim lifted the bag
the
upon the table and poured out the glittering hoard;
old ivoman's eyes glittered with greed.
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She remembered him, of course. He
would have gone on, liut she stopped him.
She wanted to thank him again for what
he did that day for her. Then she gossiped
on about other things — about a burglary
that had taken place at the house where
she lived. Jim felt a catch in his throat,
and muttered something unintelligible.
"Yes — it was very sad," Marv went on.
"Mr. Harden was a strange old gentleman,
and owned some valuable jewels which he
kept in his room. He was away a while,
and when he came back he found they had
been stolen. He must have had heart
trouble, because the shock and excitement
brought on a stroke of some sort, and he
died."
"Died!"
"Yes. Wasn't it terrible?"
Jim had not reckoned on such revenge as
this. He did not feel entirely to blame
for Harden's death, nor yet could he
entirely excus_e himself. It took tiie zest
out of his war on society. And anyhow, he
had seen Mary again, and this time gained
permission to call. He had a new interest
in life, and forced Harden from his mind.
He tried to forget his crimes, the
spoils of which he had kept intact
in an old traveling bag, secreted in
his room. He could not fail to
see tiiat Mary liked him : lie was
not exactly her picture of a
chevalier, but he did represent
romance. In this new companion-
ship his life was softening, his bit-
terness melting awav. when it was
all brought back with redoubled
force. He found a woman who
knew what had happened to his
mother.
It was a former iieiLfiibor
who told him — Mrs. Swanson. She too
had suffered, had .sacriirced the sight of one
eye to her devotion to a drunken brute,
before she escaped. She had" often sheltered
Jim and his mother, when the elder
Anthony had been in his ferocious moods,
and so Jim rememl)ered her, in spite of her
forbidding appearance, as one of the few
persons who had ever been kind to him.
She told him all she knew — that his mother,
believing him dead, had left the citv and
made her home in an out of the way place
in the mountains of North Carolina.
All the old rage against the world re-
turned to Jim's heart. Was there no good-
ness— no justice anywhere? ^\'I■lat grudge
did the worki cherish against him and his
mother that they should be so persecuted.
Yet — there was Mary. Jim's determination
was soon reached. He would wed Mary
and then go in search of his mother.
That night he told the girl everything
about his life — everything except his deal
with Harden and his crimes that followed.
And then he asked her to be his wife, and
go with him on his cpiest. Nor did Marv
pause to consider whether all this was
Dr. M elf or d found the. unfor-
tunate woman holding her
son's head on her lap and
singing a ctadlc song; reason
had /Joivn from her brain.
The Foolish Virgin
95
according to her romantic standards. She
found something compelling about J im,
and if he was not tjuite a hero, at least he
had the first retjuisite — a strong, vibrant
manhood. So she rested her head on his
shoulder and whispered a tremulous ^'Yes."
It was no simple frame of mind in which
Jim found himself. Mary consented to a
speedy wedding, and for this he was
happy ; but always he felt that he had no
right to this joy until he had found his
mother. At this thought all the hardness
of his life would return, all the old feeling
that the world was against him. So at
length he decided upon
what seemed a just bal-
jride had no
finding the
"He's come back to ask if it's any use trying to start all over again,"
said Dr. Melford.
ancing of accounts. He would take to his
niotlier the treasures he had collected on
his raids upon society, and they should com-
pensate her for her sufferings.
The quiet wedding over, Jim and Mary
started on their journey. It was a strange
honeymoon, with alternating hours of the
utmost happiness, and of dejection and
foreboding on Jim's part. The bag con-
taining the gold and jewels was a dead
weight on his conscience. He had been
very mysterious about it with Mary, and
told her she must not, on any account,
open it. She teased a little, playfully, and
he twitted her on her feminine curiosity,
so she did not mention it again, out of
sheer pride. But she could not help won-
dering about the bag, and why Jim guarded
it so carefully.
Nance Anthony had made her home in a
little hut on the outskirts of a mountain
village. Time, suffering and her wrongs
had withered her cheeks, whitened her hair,
and bred a susijicion of all the world which
was almost a mania. She eked out a living
by selling moonshine whiskey, her age ajrd
feeble mind protecting her against govern-
ment agents where younger and more alert
lawbreakers seldom succeeded. The village
avoided her and she
avoided the village, but
Jim and his
difficulty ir
cabin.
"We won't tell her at
first," Jim said. "We'll
break it easy."
Nance eyed her callers
with deep suspicion.
"We came up from the
city for a change of air,"
Jim explained.
"Why don't ye stay
somewheres in the vil-
lage?" the old woman
asked.
"We like it better out
here. We'll pay you well
if you put us up. We
don't want much — just
somewhere to sleep, and a
bite to eat."
At last they persuaded
her to take them as lodg-
ers for a few days, by pay-
ing generously in advance,
and were given the one
shocked by his mother's
failing mind.
Ijedroom. Jim,
decrepit condition and
strolled away into the hills. He wanted to
be alone a while. Mary shut herself in the
small room and tried to be patient. It was
all so terrifying. She cast about for some
means of occupying her mind, but she had
brought no books, and the prospect was dull
indeed. Her glance fell upon the myste-
rious traveling bag, and with a cr-y of glee
she snatched it up. She knew there could
be nothing Jim would really not want her
to see. He was only teasing. She opened
it, and gasped. In a tangled mass were
jeweled chains, necklaces, trinkets, and
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money of various denomi-
nations. On the top Avas
a large, flat casket, that
looked familiar. Mary
snatched it out, opened it,
and found — her own sig-
nature. It was Harden"s
pearl necklace. Her mind
was in a whirl. She could
not understand. But per-
haps Jim had bought the
thing from some pawn-
shop. Certainl'- he must
explain. So she waited
for his return, and when
he came he found her
still hngering the pearl
necklace.
The sight of his mother
had hardened Jim again.
It was a moment that
called for all of Mary's
love and sympathy, and
instead she faced him, not through any
fault of her own, with a question. If she
could have met him witli a smile and an
embrace, in a few moments he might have
confessed everything. Now it seemed that
even his wife was taking sides with the
whole world, against him.
"I told you not to touch that bag," Jim
snarled.
"Where did you get this necklace?"
Mary demanded, without wavering.
"I'll tell you where I got it, and why,"
he retorted. Then, savagely, he poured out
the story of Harden's fraud, and his own
determination to get even. There was no
contrition in his words or in his voice. He
was defiant, forgetting everything Imt the
wrongs that had been done him and his
mother — forgetting even his love. Mary
stared at him with growing horror.
"You did all this," she gasped
ended his story, "you're not sorry."
He answered with an oath.
"My God!" she cried. "I can't live with
a thief."
Again the inheritance of brutality from
his father surged into Jim's blood, and with
clenched fist he struck his wife. She fell
to the floor, a moaning, crumpled heap,
and he snatched up his bag of stolen treas-
ure and rushed from the room, slamming
the door. And again the craving for the
bite of alcohol in his throat came upon
him.
he
"(iive me some of that moonshine," he
demanded of his mother, flinging mone\' on
the tal)le. She served him generously,
mountaineer fashion, from a big tin cup.
"All alone in the world, are you?" Jim
asked, finally.
" 'Course I am. See anv folks around
here?"
"Ain't got anv husband?"
"No."
"And no daughter?"
"No."
Jim took another big gulp of whiskey.
"And no son?" He .said it slowly and
with a piercing look.
"Who'r you to come askin' so many ques-
tions?" she almost screamed.
"It's all right," he replied. "I just
wondered."
"I did have a son," the old woman said,
after a pause. "God knows where he is.
I guess he's dead, most likely. He just dis-
appeared— tliat was. Lord knows how many
years ago."
Jim drank more of tlie vicious liquor.
"I'm just 'nufi: of a sport to want you
to find liim," lie said. "Look."
He lifted the bag upon the table and
opened it, pouring out the glittering hoard.
"Maybe if you had this all in monev you
could find your boy," he said.
The old woman's eyes glittered with
greed. Neither of them noticed that Mary
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Margarita's Menace
IT IS ALSO A MENAGERIE, AND ALL
OF IT IS ON HER COMPANY'S ROSTER
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MAX UNDER— The Film's First Comedian
MAX LINDER, the first screen funster, was born in Bordeaux, France, in 1883. At 12 years of age he
was sent to an art school to learn sketching. After two years he told his parents it was not his calling
and they sent him to a musical school. He decided this also was not his career and asked his parents to train
him for the stage. Although the elder Linders were actors they flatly refused. Max pretended to attend the
musical conservatory but instead registered in a conservatory to learn the art of acting. In one year he won first
prize for his work, confessed to his parents and they permitted him to go on the stage. He first appeared at the
age of 19 in the Classic theatre, Bordeaux, in plays by Moliere and other French playwrights. Later he went to
Paris where he played in the Ambigu, Regina and Varieties theatres. He played in "Romanesque, " "Cyrano
de Bergerac," and other dramas by Rostand and later in variety. At the same time he was worfeine for Pathe
in motion pictures. When 27 years old he quit the stage altogether for pictures, playing only with Ffathe. The
Cinema Max l.iiuiir, the theatre ramed after him, now is being rebuilt in the heart of Paris on the Boulevard
Poissoniere. He entered the army as a volunteer when the war broke out and for some time was an automobile
scout, using his own machine, under the special direction of General Gallieni. After his automobile was blown
up by a shell, he enlisted in the artillery service. In the battle of the A'sne he was shot through the lung just
above the heart. When recovered he joined the aeroplane service, but his lungs could not stand the change of
air in rising to the necessary heights. He was honorably discharged.
fcXAU ^
Mr. Max Linder Says:
THROUGH HIS EFFICIENT AIDE. THE
NOTED FRENCH FILM ARTIST, RE-
LEASES A FEW OF HIS LIFE THRILLS
By Gordon Sea^rove
Caricatures by Quin Hall
THE door of the Essanay offices in Chi-
cago opened suddenly and underneath
the odor of the Paris boulevards, a
bearskin coat, a small derby and the pro-
tecting wing of his interpreter, M. Albert,
the imported French comedian, Max Lin-
der, wafted into the room.
It was his second day in the city and
he had discovered that the world was
wondering at his feet ; yea, admired them
because they were so little.
"Most unusual," he said through Mon-
sieur Albert. "They like my feet ! I never
noticed them particularly but here every-
body looks at them."
"Will you train them for comedy pur-
poses?" said the interviewer.
"Mr. Max Linder says he will train
them, assuredly," answered M. Albert.
"He will make them do tricks ; he will
guard them carefully, now that he knows
that they are so beautiful."
Here the comedian made signs of dis-
tress, his expressive eyes rolled, his white
hands gesticulated. The interpreter bent
an attentive ear.
"Mr. Max Linder," he added, "says that
to show that he appreciates the way Chi-
cago people have admired his feet he has
this morning bought fifty pairs of shoes
of many sizes and shapes and of beautiful
colors.
"He will wear three pairs a day at least
and of the forty-six trunks full of clothes
he will select at least three suits a day.
One must dress. Mr. Max Linder believes
this."
So would anybody else who looked at
the comedian ; for his shoes were brand
new, his grey trousers were immaculate,
his white vest pristine in its cleanliness,
his platinum chain exactly in place, his
collar and tie impeccable, his frock coat a
thing to dream of o'nights.
Yet beneath that virgin raiment beat
the heart of a hero, a courageous son of
France who flinched at nothing. M. Albert
gave an adoring and mellow eye to his
master and began to explain.
"Mr. Max Linder says that he had a
very harrowing experience with two bul-
locks," he resumed with enthusiasm. "Mr.
Max Linder says to tell you that he adores
the bull fight, and that once in Barcelona,
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" Most unusual," ke
said, "They like my feet.
Spain, where the cine-
matograph was taking
a bull fight picture, he
killed the bull.
Mr. Max Linder was
weighted down with a
very expensive costume
which weighed seven-
teen kilos, but he killed
him. The bullock was
very fierce, — very
fierce, — and wheij he
approached him, Mr.
Max Linder says he
felt very weak in the
knees but at the same
time he knew that he
must not flinch, so he stuck the sword
deep into the angry bullock's
side. The bullock died.
"Sacre bleu! What excite-
ment. Mr. Max Linder was
carried through the streets of
Barcelona on the shoulders of
the mob and he became at once
famous. He was accorded the
greatest honor in Spain — M. le
Presidente, gave him the ear
of the dead bull and Mr. Max
Linder cut it up in strips "
"Yes, yes, and then what did
he do?" begged the maddened
interviewer. "Did he serve it
up in steaks?"
The dolorous toned M. Al-
bert gave the scribe a hurt
look. Bah ! Such ignorance was pitiful.
Mon Dieu ! These Americans !
"Mr. Max Linder presented the strips
to his admirers of which there are many,"
he explained. "One strip he gave to Mile.
Fornarari, the favorite chanteuse of Barce-
lona, the other to Mile. Napierkowski, the
famous Russian dancer. That is what Mr.
Max Linder did. Charming ladies both !"
Here the actor began making signs
again mostly with his eyes which have been
used in a thousand expressions and in a
thousand different roles. M. Albert lis-
tened again and resumed.
"Mr. Max Linder wishes me to tell of
another time when he was attending a bull
fight and the bullock could not be killed
because it was so fierce. The crowds began
calling for him to come on and settle
the fray. So he went out of his box and
into the arena.
A
It was a bear of a coat.
"The angry bullock charged. Three
times he charged. He was most angry.
The third time Mr. Max Linder attempted
to kill him. But the bull was very fierce,
and Mr. Max Linder wishes me to say that
the bull threw him six metres and that he
was in the hospital for fifteen days there-
after." It was apparent to the interviewer
that before learning to throw the bull,
Mr. Max Linder had some harrowing ex-
periences.
"And was his wife worried ?"
"Mr. Max Linder says to tell you that
he is not married. But he loves children,
yes, he is very fond of children ; and he
thinks American ladies are very nice."
"And what — " begged the reporter, "is
his favorite drink?"
"Hot water with a dash of
lemon ; this Mr. Max Linder
drinks constantly. And perhaps
a cup of champagne. But no
more."
"What is the funniest thing
you've seen in America?" M.
Albert patiently put the ques-
tion and patiently answered :
"Mr. Max Linder says that
the funniest thing he saw was
the way petrol cars stood with
their noses almost against fast
express trains while letting
them pass. This Mr. Max Lin-
der says made him laugh
loudly. This they do not do
in France."
Getting down to the more serious side
of the interview, the diminutive comedian
asserted that as a rule he does not believe
in trick photography to get laughs, but
relies on art almost entirelv.
One of the 46
varieties.
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"Of course Mr. Max Linder will do whatever his
employers wish," interjected Albert, "but he believes in
Art for Art's sake." This did not sound original.
Linder, who still is rather pale as a result of the
wounds he received while serving his country in the
present war, is very eager to get to work because he
does not know how long it will be before he is recalled
to the fields of strife: Moreover, he is eager as only a
French man can be to please this new and strange public
that waits for him, the public that welcomed Chaplin
another importation with such acclaim.
"By the way what do you think of Chaplin?" asked the
interviewer looking hungrily out of the window at a
billboard picturing a large battle.
M. Albert, the true, the faithful, the melancholy
tongued, made answer.
"Mr. Max Linder," he returned, "has nothing to say."
Though Mr. Max Linder doesn't say so, his press agent,
speaking pure iiuent English,
discloses that Mr. Linder has
practically always been on the
stage ; his parents trod t h e
boards before him and as soon
as he was big enough Max
toddled on himself.
Since the birth of the movies
he has been with them, Pathe
of Paris claiming his services
seven years. In Paris he had
a theatre of his own, produced
his own films and showed them
there until the war began when he joined played in vaudeville in Petrograd for two
the automobile corps. He served with it years, getting as salary it is said 120
until he was wounded in the battle of the pounds a day.
Aisne. He is thirty-three years old. Mr. Max
Prior to that however he had ^^ )-rrp Linder's mother says so.
It was apparent that before
learning to throw the bull, Mr.
Max Linder had some harrow-
ing experiences.
Rondeau of Scenarios
T F we but knew some working test
*■ By which poor scribes could be aware
Without suspense and wasted care
What each film-editor likes best,
Our lot we'd count as wholly blest,
And we should grudge nor toil nor care,—
H we but knew !
But markets changing without rest
Are driving us to grim despair.
What can we sell, and how, and where?
Does Fate think life would lose all zest
H we but knew?
AlJis Dunbar.
A
RE you following June Magregor through the mazes stood there in the dusk she knew that if Holt took her in
f the moving picture world — that mystic sphere of his arms she ivould be lost!
which so few really know, and which in this great Perhaps Holt knew this — felt the grip of his own per.
gripping story of love and ambition is
laid bare before your eyes?
' It is a story that will wring your
heart and sear a pleasant mark in
your memory, and if you have
missed the preceding chapters take it
up now when June is facing the
greatest problem of her always shel-
tered and beautiful life. Begin it,
live with her in the hour of her great problem, and follow
her to its solution.
June was the motherless daughter of a Hudson Bay
trader. A sweeter, purer girl never lived than this sprite
of the pines and hemlocks. Then one day a motion
picture company came North for locations and two impor-
tant things happened.
June lost her heart to Paul Temple, the star, and won
his in return.
Tom Briscoe, director, saw in June the stuff that makes
for stars and planned to make her famous, and when the
company went to California took her with it.
Here both her career and her love affair progressed,
and then one day Stephen Holt, one of the principal
owners of the company, beat his way into her life.
Tenacious, dominating, masterful was Holt — all man —
and sometning in June's manner called to him as had no
other woman.
Sense, if you can, June's torture as she found herself
liking this man who stopped at nothing to win his ends,
when she had already given her promise to Paul. Picture
her emotions when Holt seized her and kissed her,
declared that she should be his, and when she realized
that somehow she had enjoyed that kiss, brutally taken as
it was.
Holt had won the first encounter; he had sensed under
her resistance her paitial surrender, and he proposed to
beat down her superficial defenses. But June, torn with
suffering, felt that she must remain true in every way to
Paul and she tried for weeks to put Holt out of her life.
But Holt could not be put off; he sought and got an
interview — an interview that June always remembered,
for, under the dominant force of the man, she confessed
that after all her heart was not all Paul's. This was
what Holt wanted.
Now with the merciless tenacity that marked his busi-
ness ventures he sought to have her break her engagement
with Paul. But this was too much for June. She refused.
And in refusing she reckoned without another character-
istic of Holt — that defied, he could
strike deep, cruelly and hard.
"You break that engagement or I
break you and Tom Briscoe, the
Preceding Chapters
of
The Glory Road
Next Month:
the
was the sul
man that made you
stance of his threat.
Think what that meant to June to
have the fate of the biggest, truest
man in the company, her best friend,
thus thrust into her hands. It was
unthinkable, this threat of Holt's!
Yet the next day she went to give
her answer. Torn with suffering,
duty to Paul on one hand, duty to
Briscoe on another, duty to herself
on a third, she met Holt in a dark-
ened studio. Bitter words, pleadings, recriminations,
entreaties followed, but in the end her answer was "No."
But she had reckoned without her own emotions; reck-
oned without Holt's deadly appeal to her, and as she
Beginning the great story
of an American girl's
world-adventures,
''Peggy Roche;
Saleslady"
sonality — for he seized her and
pressed her closely, and set upon
her blue lips a hot, searing, madden-
ing kiss!
And as he did so the door opened
and Paul Temple stood before them,
seeing with dazed eyes the ruin of
all his dreams and ideals! And
before he had gone June was released
from her engagement to him — and Holt had won another
battle!
It was characteristic of the man that no sooner had he
won one position than he assailed the next. So the fol-
lowing day June received a note from him planning their
marriage for that night. The same day Paul, broken-
hearted, started for the East.
But both Holt and June were reckoning without Briscoe
and June's one enemy — Marcia Trent, the leading
woman, who feared June's abiHty and who wanted
Holt.
And that day came June's disillusionment through the
agency of Marcia Trent.
"1 don't want you to marry Mr. Holt," she said
directly.
"Really!"
"Yes, really. I've got the first claim on him, though
you may not know it. He's trying to put this over on me
on the sly, but he can't get away with it now."
June looked at her steadily. "1 don't think we need
to discuss this any further," she said. "You will excuse
me, please?"
"No, 1 won't, not rill I've said what 1 came to say."
"What do you mean?"
"1 mean that he has been making love to me for over a
year, just like he has to you, and to other girls, only you
never guessed it. He pulled the wool over your eyes all
right, though I did think all along that sprained ankle of
yours on the island was phony."
Stcutled speech was wrung from June, and she whit-
ened perceptibly.
"What do you mean? What do you know about
that?"
"Everything." The other laughed harshly.
At the revelations that followed, something in June's
pure girl's heart snapped; the love of Holt was as ashes in
her mouth jmd the gray light of disillusion filtered into her
eyes.
If Marcia's willingness to reveal this chapter in her life
had not already convinced June of
its truth, the ghastly union of these
facts into revelation would have done
so. The whole edifice stood com-
plete. She shuddered as if she had
come face to face writh a hideous
reptile.
Marcia made as if to speak again,
but June stopped her with a motion.
"Don't say any more. You
needn't be afraid. I sha'n't marry
him." And without another word
she turned away and left the room.
She crossed the dining room like one
who walks in sleep, and the sisters,
at the table still, made no sound
when they saw her stricken face.
That night she left.
In the meantime a friend of hers had wired Paul to
come back. Would he and June meet?
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The Glory Road
By Francis William Sullivan
Author of "Star of the North," "Alloy of Gold,"
"Children of Banishment," etc.
Illustrated by Raeburn Van Buren
XXVIII
JUNE MAGREGOR had not been gone from the bunga-
low ten minutes on her flight to catch the train leaving
for San Francisco that evening at eight o'clock when the
door bell rang and, by what appeared a
fortuitous circumstance, but which was in
reality nothing of the sort, Elaine admitted
Paul Temple. Her little gasp of surprise
brought Elsie.
"So you've got here at last, have you I"
she exclaimed with sick disgust, forestalling
his quick attempt to speak. "Why didn't
you wire me as I told you to?"
His face, which was calm now but set in
lines of purpose, became bewildered.
"Wire you! What do you mean? You
didn't tell me to wire you." He looked
about the house anxiously. "Is June here?"
As much mystified now as he was, Elsie
could only stare at him.
"Didn't you get my message, for heaven's
sake?" she demanded, ignoring his ques-
tion. "I telegraphed you on board the
California Limited so you would get it at
San Bernardino."
"Then of course I didn't get it," he said,
relieved, "I wasn't on the train. I didn't
go." He gave a little shrug of surrender
—"I couldn't."
"Well — " Elsie began, and stopped help-
lessly. "Not one of us thought of that.
And you didn't know that Holt was com-
ing here at eight o'clock to marry June,
or anything that's been going on?"
"What?" His eyes seemed to start
from his head and the room rang. "Com-
ing here to marry her! Where is she?"
"She's gone — trying to get away some-
where. She started for the Southern
Pacific station not ten minutes ago. 'The
Lark' at eight." She glanced at her watch.
"You've got time to catch her yet, but
you'll have to hurry. You can get an auto
at Cahuenga Street." Then, as he clapped
his hat on his head and turned to the door :
"Just a minute, Paul."
She went towards him slowlv and laid
" There's nothing for us to say. Let me go, Paul.
I want to be alone. "
an affectionate hand on his arm, looking
up into his face with steady eyes that for
her were strangely sweet, almost mother-
ing.
"June loves you, Paul, more than ever,"
she said, gently. "She rocked the boat
because she'd never rowed before, not be-
cause she tried to. Maybe you've forgotten
how young and strange she was to all this.
That was the reason, and now she's broken-
hearted. She loves you, and I don't think
she ever loved anyone else."
.With swift response he opened his heart
to her.
"I've forgotten everything," he said,
simply, "except that I love her and can't
live without her. And you," he added,
gently, "dear old girl ! What a brick
you've been !" Suddenly he bent and kissed
her.
"Well, you
the fierceness
nervy cub !" she flared, but
was not there. The door
closed behind him and she stood, the back
of her hand against the tingling spot.
Paul ran most of the way to the motor
stage station where cars were for hire and
closed for a limousine and driver instantly.
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"Southern Pacific Station !" he shouted,
climbing in, "and there's a half dollar for
every minute you make it before eight
o'clock."
DAUL, in two sentences to Elsie, had
•'' given the result of the decisive day
of his life, but he had not explained the
circumstances which had led to that result,
or which had brought him back in time
still to see June.
When, bewildered and beaten, he had
left her that morning after their final part-
ing, he had gone, in accordance with his
announced intention, to Briscoe's apart-
ment aftd packed his bag. And when he
left there, as the telephone operator had
reported to Elsie, he was starting for the
very train the latter had surmised he would
take.
But. during the solitary eight-mile ride
to the station, he commenced to realize
fully the terrible finality of the course
he was taking. Worn out, bitter and
crushed as he was, yet every added mile he
went from June seemed to draw his heart
strings nearer to the breaking point, as if,
having grown and clung fast about her,
they could not let go.
Away from her presence and from those
confessions which she made with such un-
sparing honesty, his cold reason commenced
to give way to the truer guide of what he
felt. The bleak desolation that his feel-
ing of outraged justice and cruel injury
had wrought in his heart commenced to
melt under the slowly returning warmth
of compassion and longing.
He still loved her, and he knew (now
that pride and anger were stilled) that
he had never ceased loving her for one
moment, even in his sharpest agony. He
could not. She was too much of the very
fibre and essence of his being. And now
to go thus, never to see her again, after
shaming and flouting her — ! The thought
seemed to make up his mind then and
there.
But reason could not succumb so easily.
Memories of her apparent breach of faith
and the utter collapse of all that had been
so bright and shining, came back in fierce,
rebellious gusts. Could he forgive her?
Had she really killed his love and was this
longing merely the old habit of it re-
asserting itself?
In the Santa Fe station he did not board
the train. He delayed taking that
seemingly irrevocable step. He must think,
he must know. Checking his bag, he
walked back to the center of town and,
because it was lunch time, entered a cheap
restaurant and had something to eat. When
he emerged, strengthened by the food, his
only thought was to reach some quiet place
where he could fight out his battle.
A Pacific Electric train bearing the
legend "Long Beach" stopped near the
corner where he stood and he accepted
instinctively the suggestion of solitude it
seemed to offer. There in the warm quiet
by the sea he could think, he could decide.
At the beach he walked north through
the noisy "Pike" and out past the Virginia
Hotel to an unoccupied stretch of sand
just short of the tent city. The sun was
hot but the fresh trade wind tempered it to
a soothing coolness. He sat down against
a stump of jetty pile, and looked out over
the sea that tumbled in green and white
before him and was shaded through tur-
quoise and azure to sapphire at the hori-
zon's edge, with here and there purplish
streaks in the midground that marked
argosies of kelp.
Gradually his spirit passed under the
influence of the brooding and unhurried
solitude and he grew calm with a con-
sciousness of both the littleness and big-
ness of life ; the littleness of its individual
struggles and the bigness of its united
potentialities. Balance returned, and per-
spective, and the perception of relative
values.
Feeling had brought him here, but no\A'
reason took command again. He reviewed
his conduct at every turning of his relation-
ship with June since that first distant day
when, lost in the wilderness, he had so
strangely met her. And, by the light of
his present clear detachment of mind, he
saw that he had acted as his ideal would
have required another man to act under
similar circumstances. As with his wife in
earlier days, and with others whose desires
had conflicted with his own, he had con-
sidered her happiness first, despite the
wisdom of that consideration.
And what had it brought him?
He did not need to ask, but he was
honest enough to see that in this case he
had invited the present situation. That
illumination revealed to him a new truth :
that he had passed the point where sacri-
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fice — utter service of others— had continued
to be a virtue, and that such sacrifice is as
great a sin as sellishness. Applying tliis
to his own case, he was ready to admit
that, in consenting to the separation
between himself and June that Briscoe had
demanded, he had wronged both of them
and opened the way for every disaster that
had followed.
Especially had he wronged June, he saw
now, in having failed to reckon on her
peculiar unpreparedness to meet the con-
ditions into which she was so suddenly
plunged. A consciousness of this danger
had been with him that evening in Febru-
ary when he parted from her, but the long
months of unsuspicion had stilled it and
the tumult of recent disaster had obliterated
even the memory of it.
So, gradually, thinking along this line,
her cry that she had given everything to
keep her word to him came to have a mean-
ing. He saw her caught in a drift, the
more dangerous because unrealized, and
fighting desperately back from the brink,
for the moment stationary, neither gain-
ing nor losing. He caught a swift, vivid
glimpse of the battle she had made for his
sake against what, instinct told him, must
have been tremendous pressure, and he
saw her as she had tried so defencelessly
to be — loyal, unswerving and true. And
the old love, the tender, wonder of that
effort, swept over hirh.
Thus she stood cleared except for one
puzzling and sinister thing. Did she love
Holt? Not once had he heard her clearly
define her feelings toward the man and
the old hard, jealous anger seared Paul's
gentler mood like a dash of acid. And
yet, was not that uncertainty and hesi-
tancy the strongest pillar upon which his
reviving faith could lean?
In trying to keep her pledged word to
him, whatever the tragedy it might involve,
she had followed her natural course of
straightforward honesty. Aware of circum-
stances and not involved in a mesh of
trickery, she was always straightforward —
her meanings were known. Her vacillating
feelings for Holt, then, proved as nothing
else could that he had not utterly won
her. The birdlime had been out and she
had been smeared, but not held. Of one
other thing Paul was equally certain : that
had June become involved in an over-
whelming passion, there would have been
no concealment, she would have told him
plainly, whatever the cost.
So, in his sight she became guiltless and
forgiveness and pity and compassion sent
from him the last resentment and hurt.
He had discovered three things here by
the sea : that the present disaster was his
own fault, that June had in spirit and
intention been as true to their pledge as
he, and that in standing aside now for what
might or might not be her happiness, he
would be failing in his duty.
"Good God !" he cried, "if I went
away, there'd be nothing left for her to do
but marry Holt!"
He was absolutely ignorant, of course, of
Holt's letter to June, and of the speed-
ing events of the day. Even awake as he
was now to the true values of the situation,
it did not occur to him that, within twelve
hours of his leaving her, she might be
married to his rival. . . .
Braced, renewed, he got to his feet and
iilled his lungs with a great happy breath.
Then he turned homeward to her. It was
already late in the afternoon. Distant
Catalina Island loomed a hazy block of
amethyst floating in a sea of lapis lazuli.
Banded across the lower sky was a livid
fog bank marshalling for its mighty
advance.
Calculating the time it would take him
to reach Hoilywood, he got an early dinner
in town so as not to trouble the girls and
arrived at the bungalow as has_ been told.
'M[ OW his limousine twisted and turned
^ through the brightly-lighted heart of
Los Angeles. Compared with the snarl of
evening traffic in New York to which he
was accustomed, there was great freedom
of movement here and they made fast time.
Ten minutes to eight ! Two minutes
later the car swerved sharply up to the
columned entrance of the long, white sta-
tion and Paul was out, with an order to
the driver to wait. A few steps took him
into the long, high waiting room with its
glittering chandeliers, and standing in the
doorway, he swept the benches for the
figure he sought, but did not find it.
Where he stood the ticket offices, curving
out into the floor from the wall, were at
his right, and now he went to these. It
was on the opposite side at the Pullman
window that he finally found her. Having,
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"Do you know where she went?" he asked suddenly.
because of her lateness,
been unable to secure either
a lower berth or a drawing-
room on the train, she was
waiting here until the last
minute in the hope that by
a miracle some vacancy
would occur.
She was unaware of his
approach until he spoke her
name, and then turned on
him the gaze of one who
believes he sees an appari-
tion.
"You!" she gasped — she
was a short distance from
the window waiting to be
called and they were alone
— "I — I thought you had
gone-!"
"Well, I didn't go. I've
just been to the house and
Elsie told me you were
here. You mustn't take
this train. I want to talk
with you."
"I'm going," she said,
clinging to her fixed idea.
"You're not," he said,
"you're com-
ing with me.
I've a car out-
side. We're
going to talk
this thing out
now."
"No," she
insisted, "I'm
going. There's
nothing for us
to say. Let
me go, Paul.
I "want to be
alone."
He bent
towards her.
"Do you
want me to
make a public
scene here?"
This was a
side of him
she had for-
gotten, the
side of
intense, quiet
command she
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107
had witnessed but once or twice. There
was a force about it that numbed opposi-
tion, for it wrought the conviction that he
would not be balked, even if it required
the public scene he threatened.
Then suddenly her resistance broke.
Here was the mastery she had lacked, had
longed for. A great wave of inlinite glad-
ness at surrender, of relief and security in
trusting herself to him, engulfed her.
"But my ticket — " she faltered, weakly.
"We'll redeem it," he said. "(live it
me."
The great clock in the waiting
room said exactly eight o'clock when
he led her to his car.
"Drive to Pomona and back," he
told the chauffeur as he helped her
in.
A r five minutes to eight Stephen
■*^ Holt stood in the living room
of the bungalow, a look of
bewildered sur-
prise on his face.
'■Goner' he
said blankly, re-
peating Elsie's
word. "Why,
she was expect-
ing me." He
looked at her.
"Did you under-
stand — know
why I was
coming?"
"Yes, June
told me."
"And she's
gone.'' He
could not seem
to realize the
fact. "She
didn't send me
any word not to
come. I was
afraid all day
that she would,
and I took her
silence to mean
that she would be
waiting. I don't
understand it,
I — " He was
greatly agitated.
"Do you know
where she went?"
"She said she was going to take a train out, she didn't say where to, she
didn't know herself."
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"She said she was going to take a train,
but she didn't say where to. She didn't
even know herself."
"What station? What road?" he
snapped, as the possibility of following
her leaped into his mind.
Elsie had prepared for this meeting and,
since every factor was now in favor of
Paul, had determined to tell the exact
truth. The matter of June's future was
out of her hands now, but her own future
lay undisputably in this man's hands.
"The Southern Pacific," she told him.
"Was she going to take 'The Lark'?" he
asked, with sudden inspiration.
"Yes."
"That leaves at eight, doesn't it?"
"Yes."
Mechanically he looked at his watch.
"It's pulling out now," he groaned, and
for a moment his face mirrored his help-
lessness and disappointment. Then, in-
domitable to the last, his spirits rallied.
"Thanks," he said, gratefully. "I
appreciate your help in this," and stood for
a long moment pondering, his brow knitted
and lips compressed. "Well," he said at
last with characteristic quick decision,
"there's only one thing to do. Drive like
hell to Santa Barbara and catch the train
there. If I can do it in three hours, I'll
make it. If I don't — well, then I'll do
something else.
Elsie had to admire the man. She had
motored that hundred miles, and she
remembered its long stretches of boulevard,
its twisting grades, its racking detour near
Ventura, and the final dash along the sea.
It had offered difficulties enough in day-
light, but at night, racing the fastest train
in California, with only searchlights to
guide, it would be a test indeed. Could he
accomplish it safely? Would he find June
aboard the train if he did?
"Well," he said suddenly. "I'm off. And
thanks again."
He left the house, and a minute later
they heard the roar of his powerful car
as he sped down the street.
"X* O the pair in the limousine returning
from the ride that had given them
l)ack each other, the miles seemed but a
span long. Nestled against his shoulder,
June felt the ineffable peace that follows
long struggle and the balm of forgiveness.
Their reunion had not been hard. Both
had been prepared for it by the resolving
chemistry of their natures and by the one
supreme feeling — "What does it matter?
I love you, and that is enough."
To June had come, with her utter
humility, a truer, clearer conception of
life, and of those things which give it
value. Ambition lay dead in her, for she
saw that without service, without the mak-
ing happy of at least one, existenc-e was
vain, triumph ashes in her mouth. So
her dedication to that duty was made, not
in words, but silently in that deepest shrine
where none hears but what we call God.
But this Paul did not know, and so,
after one of their old-time blissful silences
he said :
"Dearest, we've experimented enough. I
can't — I simply won't share you again with
the pictures."
She sighed in utter contentment and
nestled closer against him.
"You needn't, dear. For a long, long
while I don't want to be shared with any-
thing. I'm through. I'd sooner be a no-
body with you than be alone and have my
name a household word. And if that's
selfishness, make the most of it."
He did. . . .
As the car turned into Rose Terrace
and they drew up at the bungalow for the
last time, Paul looked at his watch.
"A few minutes to eleven," he said.
It was a few minutes after by the town
clock when Stephen Holt, begrimed and
chilled to the bone, drove down State
Street, Santa Barbara. He left his car
at the first garage he saw and hurried on to
the railroad station, with just ten minutes
to spare ; none too many in which partially
to remove the stains of his ride and to
buy his passage. Able to secure one of the
two remaining berths on the train, he
boarded it in a fairly presentable condi-
tion.
As all but the usual smoking room yarn
spinners had gone to bed, the Pullmans
were dark, and he had to sidle along to
his place through narrow canyons of green
curtains filled with obstacles in the shape
of protruding shoes and ends of baggage.
No sooner had he been located than he
started through the train in his search for
June. As he had expected, it was brief
and fruitless. She had undoubtedly gone
to bed.
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109
Then he found the conductor and stated
his case in a way that left no question of
his sincefity.
"I missed this train in Los Angeles and
raced it to Santa Barbara in my car,"
was the gist. "It's a matter of life and
death, conductor, and I must find out if the
young lady is on this train."
In matters of life and death there is
only one thing to do. The search began.
Accompanied by the conductor and Pull-
man conductor, the porter of each car
questioned his feminine passengers who,
without exception,
were still awake.
But June was not to
be found.
As car after car
yielded no trace of
her, a suspicion
grew in Holt's mind.
"She's on the
train, but she won't
admit it," he told
himself. "She ran
away, and she
knows I'll try to
find her. If she ran
away in the first
place, she doesn't
want to be found
now, and she won't
answer to her
name."
His brow clouded
with both hurt and
perplexity. Why
should she have
taken this strange
tack — left so sud-
denly? He felt
confident that she
had fully intended to go with him, and
that something had changed her. He had
meant to ask Elsie Tanner more about
this, but the necessity for overtaking June
had driven everything else out of his mind.
What could it have been? . . .
The search ended without finding a trace
of June, and once the fact was established,
the business-like conductor returned to his
duties. Holt made his way back to his
berth amid the sympathetic assurances of
enriched porters.
"I'll stay with it," he muttered, after
a hurried review of every possible course
of action. "She's here — she must be —
"It's a matter of life and death, conductor, and I
must find out if the young lady is on this train. "
she can't be anywhere else. I ought to
find her in the morning."
As much as possible he avoided com-
paring his marriage night as he had
planned it with the event as it was. He
slept fitfully and uncomfortably and was
up early. But morning completed his
chagrin and defeat. A dozen times he
walked through the train, after every
berth was made up, without seeing as much
as a resemblance to June.
"Lord! what a fool I am!" he said, after
going over the whole situation again, and
ready to beat his
head against a wall.
"Of course I scared
her last night and
she got off some-
where early this
morning. I should
have been out at
every stop."
He was dazed,
panic-stricken for a
moment, afraid of
everything he had
already done, and
more afraid to make
a fresh move. But
one thing grew
clearer and clearer
as the minutes
passed : that, for the
present at least, he
was beaten. After
weighing matters,
he decided to go on
to San Francisco.
When the train
arrived at a quarter
to ten, he sent a
telegram to Briscoe
asking for information regarding June's
whereabouts and then took a cab to the
Palace Hotel to await the answer.
It arrived at noon.
"June here. Married to Paul Temple
at ten this morning," he read with glazing
eyes.
XXIX
"DAUL, if you ever want to see a sun-
set in your life, come and look at
this one."
From the depths of his big wing chair
where he had been considering half a dozen
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telegrams and a bale of press clippings, he
answered, banally:
"What do I want to see a sunset for
when I can look at you?"
"Heavens! A month married and the
man's still at it ! Hither."
He got to his feet and lounged to where
she stood holding aside the curtain at the
broad window. Their new apartment over-
looked Riverside Drive with its strip of
green park, its baby parade, and the broad
expanse of river now a welter of molten
gold dotted with silhouetted craft.
"Very commendable sunset as such
things go," he condescended, and slipped
his arm around her.
"Paul !" She dropped the curtain. "The
nurse maids !"
"God bless 'em! God bless everybody.
Come back and settle this business." He
swung her about and they walked back to
the table.
The apartment was furnished to the
point of livability, but no farther. The pair
were in the throes of nesting, and at times
the room resounded with a strange jargon
of names — furniture makers and periods
and woods. This was not the present prob-
lem, however.
Before they had time to sit down again,
a tall, spare figure of a man entered the
room from the private hall.
"Oh, back already, father?" said June,
happily, and ran forward to take his hat
and see to his comfort.
"Av, and as daft as ever wi' it all," he
returned.
He was a gray man, gray of hair and
eye and dress, with a shrewd, weather-
beaten face that gave no intimation of his
age. He walked with a slight limp. For
many years the factor at Fort McLeod, the
Hudson's Bay post where June had lived so
long and whence she had started out on
her new life, he had retired from the ser-
vice that summer and come south to join
her. He had arrived a week before, some-
what later than he had expected, and since
then had been vainly endeavoring to as-
similate New York.
June helped him into his smoking jacket
and handed him the old familiar plug of
tobacco and sticky-bladed jackknife.
"Where have you been this afternoon?"
"I went to see the picture," he said,
suddenly beaming. •
" 'Anywoman' ?"
"Yes . . . Ah, you were grand,
lassie. I couldna help tellin' the man next
me who I was. There were hundreds
waitin' outside."
The others laughed.
"You old darling," cried June. "You
and Paul are all the audience I want."
"Which brings us back to these," said
Paul, indicating the telegrams and clip-
pings.
As Briscoe had anticipated, "Any-
woman" had commanded serious attention
as an effort along new lines of picture
development. While, as is the case with
nearly all innovations, some comments had
been cautious and guarded in the matter
of endorsement, the majority had been
favorable, and some enthusiastic. Now for
two days June had been bombarded with
offers to return to the pictures, not only
from Briscoe but from other producers
who knew of her departure from the
Graphics.
"It's no use," June said, after a brief
consideration. "I shan't go back. I'm
through. Of course I'm glad it's such a
success, but only for Tom Briscoe's sake.
It means that he was right. He's accom-
plished the one thing he wanted to accom-
plish, and it's enough for me to know that
I helped him when he needed me. From
now on I'm not necessary. It's the idea
that counted. He can get plenty of people
to obey his orders."
"Bless you !" said Paul, fervently. And
then, after a moment, "No regrets? Isn't
it hard to have travelled the glory road so
far and to leave it just when the big suc-
cess comes?"
Again she thought. The spacious, cheer-
ful room was silent except for the ceaseless
diapason of the city's voice. The mellow
sunset light flooded through the windows
and rested gently upon objects that were
already growing dear to her.
"The glory road I mean has led me
home," she said, at last. "And we're only
at the beginning of it, dearest, not the
end."
The End
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The " Pictography "of a Film Play
GIVING THE OLD TRIANGLE ANOTHER
NEW TWIST IS THE EXPERIENCED PLOT
HATCHER'S FAVORITE INDOOR SPORT
By Harry Chandlee
Author of "The Blessed Miracle," "The Struggle," etc., etc.
IF we are going to build
a story of any kind,
the first thing we must
look for is a starting
point ; and when we have
found it, it must be a
point from which we can
see pretty well along to-
ward the end of our story,
or it will not be a real
starting point at all. By
this I do not mean that
we must be able to see at
a glance just how our plot
is to work out ; I mean
that we must have a start-
ing point from which we
can see the purpose of our
tale — from which we can appreciate the
elements which give it an "excuse for liv-
ing"— the energy which makes it "go."
We shall make no progress if we start
writing on a hit-or-miss basis, with no
definite idea of what we are going to do.
We must know in advance what we are
after, and go after it.
I do not mean, either, that our starting
point must be the beginning of our story —
not by any means. We may start in the
middle, or near the end, half way between
the two, or even before our real story be-
gins at all — any place from which we can
get a comprehensive view of what we are
about — from which we can start ourselves
going with a real purpose ahead of us.
Let us say that we have just had a phone
call from a producer who asks us to submit
something as soon as possible. We haven't
an idea in our heads, but we'd like to have
that particular producer's check because his
signature is so pretty — also, rent, life in-
surance and coal bills are due. We start
ourselves to thinking.
"Well," we ask ourselves, "how about
writing a 'triangle story' — one in which
there are two women and a man or vice
versa?"
THIS is a supplemental article
to a series of four written by
Mr. Chandlee on the subject:
"Plotting the Photoplay," the
first having appeared in the
October number of Photoplay.
The first dealt wdth the creation
of dramatic situation, the next
with the evolution of the plot
germ, the third with plot devel-
opment and the fourth with
characters. Mr. Chandlee is a
foremost authority on photoplay
construction and his articles are
almost entirely devoid of tech-
nical verbiage and intricacies.
Two of his newest photoplays
will soon be released. They are
"God of Little Children" and
"A Magdalen of the Hills."
"Everybody does that,"
we answer back to our-
selves. "This story isn't
for Theda Bara. Get a
new idea."
We should listen to
ourselves when we sug-
gest a new idea — there is
no market for old junk —
but our first thought will
go for nothing if we run
too far afield looking for
another. Suppose, instead
of hunting for something
entirely new, we try to
give a new twist to the
triangle plot. Usually in
.such a story two of the
characters are in love — possibly married —
and the third is trying to separate them.
What is the greatest novelty that we can
give to this old arrangement? We look at
the thing from all angles, and it suddenly
occurs to us that if the "third corner" of
the triangle were trying to keep the other
two together instead of trying to separate
them it would be a novel reversal of the
usual order.
We think along this line, and we see
immediately that this twist would make
the "third corner" a leading character in-
stead of a "heavy," so we have to make
one of the others the "villain." Now we
are started on a trend of thought which is
out of the ordinary, I think ; and of course
we can see the general purpose of the tale.
Also, we have started with a free mind ;
we have included no details — no idea of
the characters or their relation to each
other, so we are free to develop the plot
in whatever way it may lead us.
Now we must look for motives. What
would cause a character to strive to keep
two other characters together when it would
be to his or her advantage to separate them?
The answer is easy — an interest in one of
the others greater than self-interest.
Ill
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It does not take long for the plot to
begin to form in our minds something like
this : A man and a woman are married.
Another man is in love with the wife, but
he is honorable enough to keep his love
hidden from her. Then he discovers that
the husband is involved in an intrigue with
another woman, but that the wife knows
nothing of it.
Already we have reached a dramatic
situation in our plot. Question has entered
the story. Will the man tell the wife of
her husband's escapades, cause a divorce
and win her for himself, or will he strive
to preserve the home for the sake of the
wife's happiness? Our
original idea answers this
for us ; the man keeps the
facts secret, and tries to
bring the husband to a
realization of the injustice
he is doing his wife, in
spit© of his own love for
her.
Now we have the basic
thread of our story well
in hand — the struggle of
this leading character to
subordinate his own de-
sires to what he believes to
be the happiness of the
woman he loves. The
theme presents almost un-
limited possibilities; we
may go ahead now with
our development. We must be careful,
however, to remember that whatever comes
into the story must have a definite bearing
upon the thread of it — must play constantly
upon the man's struggle with himself.
If we are to keep interest in our plot, we
must carry it out so that our principal
character is beset by new trials at every
turn — new temptations to yield to his own
desires ; and if the story is to be properly
balanced, each succeeding test must be
more difficult to resist. We set ourselves
to thinking up such tests — remembering,
always, that what we bring into our plot
must be reasonable and in accordance with
logic.
Suppose the wife and this other man
were thrown together for several davs with-
out companions — she dependent solely
upon him for protection against some
danger ; resistance for him would be diffi-
cult. Suppose, again, that during such a
A WOMAN trying to separate
a husband from his wife —
this is probably the oldest plot
triangle of them all. Now how
could this situation be made into
one of novelty? It occurs to us
that by having the third member
of the triangle attempt to keep
the other two together we would
reach something entirely differ-
ent. Now we come to motives.
What would cause a woman to
keep a woman and her husband
together when it would be to her
advantage to separate them?
The answer is simple; she has a
greater interest in one of them
than she has in herself. Thus
we have the beginning of a plot
with many possibilities.
time, the woman should discover that it is
really this man whom she loves — not her
husband — and suppose she tells him so.
The situation would be more difficult for
him — yet he must guard the wife.
These things may seem all right to us,
but we shall need other ideas. We think
again, and it occurs to us that if the man
were alone with the wife under such cir-
cumstances, he might wish to keep her
under his protection, no matter what dan-
ger they might be in — and he might hesi-
tate to change conditions even though a
means for doing so presented itself. This
would give us another "bend" for our
story. Again, suppose
that something happened
to the husband to lead the
others to believe him dead,
leaving the way clear for
their marriage. While
they are planning their
future, however, the man
might discover that the
husband is not dead, but
is in some out of the way
corner of the world, un-
able to return — possibly
cast ashore on an island
from a shipwreck in
which he was thought to
have been drowned.
With this arrangement
we have the supreme
struggle. Will the man
leave the husband where he is and marry
the wife, or will he try to rescue him ? We
have another situation now.
Of course he will have to bring the hus-
band back — and for the sake of a happy
ending, the husband will have to be dis-
posed of in some other way. He will have
to step out of the story in spite of every-
thing which the other does to prevent it.
We have the general outline of our
photoplay now ; it only remains to supply
details of development.
The idea of having the husband cast
ashore on an island suggests that the other
man and the wife might be cast up on
another island — that they might have been
in the same shipwreck. This would place
them in one of the situations we have al-
ready devised. We must account for their
all being on the same ship, of course, but
we have progressed another step, and need
not bother about that detail for the present.
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113
It is time for us to think of characteriza-
tion, locale, etc.
How shall we characterize them? We
must show that the husband is unworthy ;
and that the other man is the one the girl
should really have married — but we must
make her marriage to the wrong man
logical. There must be no reason to sup-
pose that she is not perfectly happy with
him; sh& must think so, herself. We must
give the other man an upright character,
but we must keep him from seeming
extreme in his ideas ; and we must keep
the woman from foolish weaknesses — she
must be a fit mate for the man at the end
of the story.
Now we have a fair
idea of what our people
are to be like, but even
up to this point we have
been plotting in the ab-
stract. We have a com-
prehensive plot outline,
yet we have scarcely any
•detail ; we have not even
named our characters, nor
decided what types of
people they are to be.
Suppose we do so now,
and let us see if there are
any requirements so far
which could be answered
by placing our characters
in any particular walk of
life. We think back over
what we have already done, and we tind
that there must be a shipwreck, and that
all three characters must be in it. It
occurs to us that army officers going on
foreign duty might both be on the same
ship, and naturally the wife would be
along. We'll make these men army offi-
cers ; better still, we'll make them army
doctors. Ordinary officers have been used
often already ; doctors are not quite so
usual. Also, it might be handy to have
them doctors when we come to dispose of
the husband at the end of the story.
Foreign service suggests the Philippines,
and there should be just a hazy idea in
our minds of the means by which we
are going to get the troublesome husband
out of the way along about the time that
we have written fifty-nine hundred feet of
story.
But we have planned enough in ad-
'T'HERE is no market for old
junk. And so we must look
for new ideas. Suppose though
that instead of hunting for some-
thing entirely new which would
take a great deal of time we try
to get a new "angle" or an unu-
sual twist to a situation that is
not new itself. We look at the
old plot from every angle and
then give it a certain twist at its
outset. Now we are embarked
on a train of thought which is
out of the ordinary. And if a
photoplay continues to be uni-
formly extraordinary it is bound
to sell — ask the producers.
vance ; it is tune we were writing out a
rough synopsis ; other details may supply
themselves as we go along. We know
now what we are going to do — what we
are working for. We put a sheet of
paper in our typewriter, leave word with
the janitor tliat we are out if anyone calls
(unless, of course, it happens to be Edith
or Jack on the phone — according to
which sex holds sway over us) and we
go to it !
I ACK of space forbids a detailed de-
•*-' velopment of the synopsis, step by
step. The foregoing is the true "plot-
ography" of a photoplay produced by John
Ince for Equitable and
released last March under
the name of "The Strug-
gle." When finished, the
story ran something like
this:
James Carew, an army
doctor — a man of forty-
five — is in love with Mar-
jorie, daughter of the
Commandant of the post.
He feels, however, that
he is too old a man to
marry her, and he sits
idly by and sees Ames, his
young assistant surgeon,
win her. Soon, Carew dis-
covers that Ames is liaving
an affair with a certain
Mrs. Drew who is visiting
at the post. He tries to avert a scandal and
bring the young husband to his senses by a
severe lecture. Ames makes promises, but
still sees Mrs. Drew secretly, and Carew
suspects that the affair is still going on.
Carew is ordered to the Philippines to
make an inspection of the leper colonies,
and, seeing a way in which he can take
Ames away from Mrs. Drew's influence, he
has the young man designated as his as-
sistant. On the transport, Ames gets him-
self involved in another escapade and
Carew loses all patience with him. It is a
stormy night, and Marjorie has gone to
her stateroom. Carew takes Ames to the
smoking room and makes a last attempt to
straighten him up. "I had you ordered on
foreign duty," he says, "to get you away
from such affairs — for the sake of your
wife's happiness !"
"Like hell you did !" Ames answers
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angrily. "You wanted to get my wife
over in the islands with you — you had to
bring me too ! You're both as guilty as — "
But Carew springs for him.
The two men are locked in a struggle
when the wreck of the boat occurs. Ames
frees himself, rushes to the deck and swings
himself over the side into a life boat loaded
with women — never thinking of his wife.
Carew rushes to Marjorie's stateroom. He
breaks in the door and finds her uncon-
scious from a blow on the head. He
struggles up through the flooded saloon
with her in his arms. When he reaches the
deck, he finds the ship deserted.
Next morning, Carew and Marjorie,
lashed to a makeshift raft, reach the shore
of an island. On another island, Ames,
delirious from an injury amongst the rocks
of the shore, is dragged from the water by
monks — members of an order devoted to
the care of the colony of lepers which the
island harbors.
Almost a year passes. Ames is a half
demented lay brother in the monastry — a
man of changed personality, laboring with
the others amongst the lepers. Carew and
Marjorie are living primitively on the other
island, gradually losing hope of rescue.
Finally, Marjorie comes to the realization
that it is Carew whom she loves.
It is the last month of the year, when
Carew sights a ship. His first impulse is
to light the brush beacon which he has
built ; then he realizes that rescue will
mean their return to civilization — the prob-
able reunion of Marjorie and Ames. He
struggles with himself until the ship is hull-
down on the horizon ; then he lights the fire.
When Carew and Marjorie return to the
United States, they learn that Ames was
supposedly lost in the wreck of the trans-
port, and they plan to marry as soon as
Carew returns from his original mission —
the inspection of the leper colonies. Of
course, in one of the colonies, Carew finds
Ames, but Ames, still suffering frpm the
injury to his head, does not recognize him.
Now comes Carew's supreme struggle.
He can return, leaving Ames on the island ;
he can marry Marjorie and no one ever will
be the wiser. Will he be strong enough
to resist?
Of course, Carew takes Ames back with
him. He operates in an. effort to restore
the husband's reason, but without imme-
diate success. Both he and Marjorie under-
stand that her duty is to her husband ; and
Carew plans to go away. He is leaving —
saying goodbye to Marjorie, when Ames
enters the room. The sight of his wife
weeping in Carew's arms brings back Ames'
real personality — and he picks up life just
where he dropped it — in the midst of the
struggle with Carew over his wife.
; Mad with anger, Ames tries to kill
Carew with a heavy statuette from the
table, but Marjorie catches his arm. He
tries to free himself, and in wrenching away
from her, his sleeve is ripped from wrist to
shoulder.
On his arm, he sees a dull white spot —
the first mark of leprosy !
Ames stares at the mark for a moment
in terror. He rushes from the room out
onto the balcony of the house. Carew finds
him on the pavement below the broken rail-
ing of the porch — dead.
So that is how the original idea of
"twisting the triangle" worked out for me.
CAPTAIN PEACOCKE RETURNS NEXT MONTH!
There is an increasing demand for new
authors, since new authors bring new ideas.
Yet authors experienced as well as inex-
perienced are constantly facing new prob-
lems, unanswerable by previous instruction
in the writing of photoplays, however
thorough. There is a puzzle a minute in
this business. Yesterday's guide-book can't
trace the paths of 1917.
There is no man in the business of photo-
playmaking who has kept as aggressively in
touch with every side of screen drama as
Captain Leslie T. Peacocke, who is not only
writing successes, but is directing them.
Though the living original of "nothing to
do till tomorrow," Capt. Peacocke at
Photoplay's earnest solicitation has pre-
pared a new series of articles of immeasur-
able importance to every ambitious photo-
dramatist.
The first of these will be printed in the
March issue, on sale February i. It deals
with the growing need for the free-lance
zvritcr. We know — have known, for a long
time — that this business needs your literary
ingenuity, but Capt. Peacocke will tell why
you are needed, 'who needs you, and where
and 7vhen you are needed. His ensuing
chapters will describe grave technical lapses
and omissions in the prevailing scenario
writer's equipment, according to the new
demands, and will tell just how these lapses
and omissions may be remedied.
The Winter Pageant
THE HIGH C05I OF DRESSING
DOESN'T WORRY THE FILM STARS
ABKi limousine draws up before a white stuue huilil-
ing. Madame alights with footman holding open
the crested door of the car. A liveried doorman
swings back the entrance portals, and up a thickly car-
peted staircase into a salon furnished in Louis Seize period
goes the chinchilla clad caller. A maid removes the wrap.
Monsieur is summoned. A star of
the jfilms has arrived at the
Fifth avenue house that
Frances Nelson in a dinner gown
of ennine ivith filet lace trimming.
Beloiv: Florence Reed in an evening
coat of peart gray chiffon, sump-
tuously bordered tvith priceless
chinchilla.
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Grace \Darling in a skating costume
of taupe velours bordered with leopard
skin. Center: Mrs. Vernon Castle in a
gown of taffeta featuring the newest
extravagance in hand-wrought
beadwork.
extravagant creations of cloth
of gold robes, sable-trimmed
costumes, all-ermine wraps and ■
evening gowns, and at once he ^
out-Poirets Poiret of Paris. The
actress has come to inspect a private
showing of latest creations on view
for special patrons.
Ask any of the great costumers of New
York who of their patrons indulge in
S
Violet Mersereau in
a street costume of
taupe chiffon bor-
dered with moleskin
and ivorn with er-
mine shoulder cape.
I'lioTo ijy McClure
The Winter Pageant
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names over some of the screen's successes,
oftentimes including young leads, newly
known to the celluloid drama. It is here
there seems to be the greatest rivalry.
Mary Martin in a gown
of heavy gold brocade
with tulle shoulder drap-
ery caught ivith jeiveled
clasps.
Photo liy Arnold Centhe
Center: Pearl White in a
gorgeous gown of silver
tissue and silver lace
combined with rose
chiffon and paillettes.
Below: Marjorie Ram-
beau in an all-ermine
evening wrap.
Whatever inroads the high cost of living
may make they are prone to reach deep
into their pay envelopes and bring joy
alike to the designing couturier and the
ever anticipating gaze of their followers.
Ji
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Photoplay Magazine's 1917
WHEN PHOTOPLAY'S present owners and editorial staff
assumed charge of this publication two years ago they planned
a periodical which would honestly and completely mirror
the great art-industry of motion pictures. Upon these lines
PHOTOPLAY of 1915 and 1916 has been conducted, and the
reception and enduring favor accorded this magazine have gone be-
yond not only the optimistic dreams of its makers, but beyond
anything in magazine history. PHOTOPLAY'S incredibly rapid
gains in circulation broke all records. Now, it is not only the
favorite journal of the film-loving millions in the United States and
Canada, but is a vogue in Australia and the
x^SU English-speaking centers of South America, has
JBKF ■^ many subscribers in South Africa and Japan, is
^^ seen on every war-front, and penetrates fastnesses
from Siam to the Sahara. It has been slavishly imi-
tated but never approached in appearance or value.
"PEGGY ROCHE,
A great story of feminine adventure by Victor
IT WILL BEGIN
HERE is a narrative so spiced with humor, thrilled
with romance and colored with girlish charm
that it cannot but endure. Peggy is the intrepid,
unique American business woman — plus. Heretofore
you have met the United States Lady of Affairs on her
own ground, in shops, warerooms or cross-roads' hotels.
In this story she takes her samples and her intrepid self to
the smoke of battle and the sun of Soudan, from arctics
to tropics — you're not sure whether she'll come back to
America by sea, or fall from the sky.
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Announcement Extraordinary
HERE is our next forward step: Beginning with the March
issue, purchasable February first, PHOTOPLAY becomes
a general magazine and the peer of any publication in the
world. It will not cease to be the true voice of the motion picture;
while adding to its screen news, illustration and comment, it has
enlisted the imaginations of the greatest living writers and artists.
Remember: the greatest fiction of the coming year will be
found in PHOTOPLAY.
New novels by Henry C. Rowland and Victor Rousseau,
pictured by the foremost American illustrators, are to begin in these
pages immediately.
On page 121 is a more detailed announce-
ment of PHOTOPLAY'S remarkable list of
celebrated novelists, short-story writers, and artists,
SALESLADY"
Rousseau. Illustrations by Charles D. Mitchell
NEXT MONTH
THE March story — Peggy's bright bow to you — is
entitled " The Adventure of the Three Georges."
it begins on the porch of the English hotel in Jeru-
salem, and ends in the Sinai desert. Peggy travels in
war-supplies on behalf of her sweetheart, Jim Byrne, of
Stamford, Conn. In this episode she discomfits certain Here and on the other
representatives of rival houses by remembering that the Pase- Peggy Roche.
•' ^ _ There, she's herself;
cart goes before — not the horse, but the blanket. Mysti- above, she's in the attire
fying ? Well, it's an extraordinary mystery story, with "^ f ^f'"'''' b£>l!ipi-
1 „ . , , 1 r -1 on her first great adven-
puzzle and laugtiter confoundedly intermingled to the finish, ture. in Syria.
C03E
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A Bigger, Better Magazine of
ALASKA, the Frontier, the War, the Sea, and the Orient have their
characteristic pens, dipped in local ink, writing on paper of the period.
The stage has its chroniclers. In Mr. Sullivan and Mr. McGaffey we
have given you photodrama's premier romancer and first humorist ; next month we
will complete the trio, introducing the Star Reporter of the Movies. His story is
"THE BIG FADE-OUT" h. l. Rlhenbad,
Mr. Reichenbach is, if you please, our literary discovery. He is a New
Yorker, knows everybody and a lot of everything in the film business, yet not
one of the thousands who know him on the business side of production realize
that he is an A- 1 fictioneer. Demonstrating him as such is our opportunity
and pleasure. His swift, racy style, slightly satiric; his incisive character touches
and his graphic flashes of humor combine to make his writings a distinct
contribution to contemporary reading. The pictures for Mr. Reichenbach's
stories are being drawn by MAY WILSON PRESTON, the most popular
woman illustrator in the United States.
hicnril C Rowland' S %^^^^^^^ novel will begin in the April issue of
^ ■ PHOTOPLAY. This distinguished author
needs no introduction. His stories have enthralled readers wherever English
is spoken, and they have been translated into every tongue. No such novel as
this has been written in a decade. We predict confidently that it will be
THE SERIAL SENSATION OF THE YEAR. It is a marvellous com-
bination of love and adventure, wild sea and alluring land, sheer romance and
absolute realism, the elegant veneer of civilization and the primitive power of
savagery. This story will be gorgeously illustrated by a celebrated artist. Much
more about Mr. Rowland and his magic tale in MARCH PHOTOPLAY !
Here are some of the authors whose stories you'll see in PHOTOPLAY ;
Elliott Flower Cyrus Townsend Brady
Jack Lait Gordon Seagrove
James Oliver Curwood
Francis William Sullivan
And here, some of the illustrators:
Charles D. Mitchell Neysa McMein
E. W. Gale, Jr.
May Wilson Preston Ray Rohn
Herb Roth
Raeburn Van Buren
Quin Hall
Grant T. Reynard
Oscar Bryn
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Photoplays and Players for 1 9 1 7
ONE of PHOTOPLAY'S most interesting recent engagements is MISS
ANITA LOOS, petite twenty-year-old humorist of the Fine Arts studio,
author of the Douglas Fairbanks stories. Miss Loos is writing a capti-
vating series entitled : " Letters of a Movie Star to Her Little Sister." These
letters will begin in an early issue. Watch for them!
In 1917 the screen universe will pass before you, conjured up by the
articles, interviews, reviews, news-stories, investigations, analyses, reminiscences
prophecies, and verbal humoresques of PHOTOPLAY'S exclusive and abso-
lutely unrivalled list of talented writers, among whom may be mentioned :
Channing Pollock Alfred A. Cohn Julian Johnson
Harry C. Carr Kenneth McGaffey
Randolph Bartlett William M. Henry Grace Kingsley
Lillian Howard Leslie T. Peacocke
Raumond StaSS °^ California, undoubtedly the foremost outdoor pho-
tographer in America, has just signed an exclusive
contract with PHOTOPLAY. The remarkable, intimate studies of Western
photoplayers published in these pages have been mainly STAGG prints.
The best screen fiction available will be
found in PHOTOPLAY every month.
In addition to its great new serials, its new short fiction and other splendid
features, PHOTOPLAY will select one or two of the choicest film features
for every issue. These will be written in a high vein of literary excellence, and
photographically illustrated in a way that will make genuine art of the still-
camera's products.
Among PHOTOPLAY'S narrators of screen fiction for 1 9 1 7 you will find
Mrs. Ray Long Constance Severence Clarie Marchand
Bess Burgess Jerome Shorey
Miss NeUSa MclVIein ■"a'^es her first appearance in PHOTOPLAY
with her painting of Norma Talmadge, on the
cover of this issue. Miss McMein's covers will be a feature throughout the year.
Do not think that this tremendous campaign in great fiction means any
abatement of Photoplay's searchlight policy on the outside and inside of the
moving picture business In 1 9 1 7 we are going to give you the same varied
periodical — doubled in value; that's all.
SH
LIMOUSINES ARE CLARK-LINED THIS SEASON
Standing in the door of the Old Home, Mile. Marguerite seems unusually happy. Perhaps because she has at last
made up her mind to stay in the movies. No more of her old pastime — telling some interviewer how anxious she
is to get back where the light comes up from the floor 'instead of falling from Heaven.
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Sometimes the §reat city frightened the little ^irl
terribly, but, really and truly, its heart was all ri^ht!
By the end of his vacation, Philip was perfectly willing to let New York get along ivithout htm.
He loved Phoebe, and knew if; Phoebe loved him and didn't suspect it.
"Her" New York
By Constance Severance
PHOEBE LESTER was Hearing
seventeen, a pretty miniature woman
still redolent of the charm of child-
hood. Her quaintness and unworldliness
were largely born of her surroundings.
She lived with Silas Brown and his wife
upon their farm near Brookscott, a hand-
ful of joined houses-and-barns 'flung amid
the Connecticut hills and forgotten. There
they called Phoebe a "charity child." In
an older day she would have been consid-
ered "bound out." In the Middle West
she would have been a mere "hired girl."
In fact without provincial phraseology, she
worked for her food and clothes at the
Browns, both her parents having died long
since. In the Winter and Spring. Phoebe
received a few months schooling. But the
Browns were not over-particular as to her
education, their particularizations covered
only the kitchen dishes, the mending and
the ironing, but not the washtub, for Aunt
Sally, a buxom black patriarch of all
work, was washerwoman to the whole com-
munity.
In her small attic room between the
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chambers and the clouds. ^^ ^ Van Cortlandt park
Phoebe read a great deal. ^<^^^^^^^^JB '^" '^^'^ Battery. Some
She did not have the j^^^^^^^MI^^BHIS^^F^ were sketches, some
money to buy fine books, ^^^^^B^^^HP^^^/^^^^t- were old prints,
and the Bro\^'n library, ^B^^^^^^B^Q'Jfei^^^ ^^HV' some were modern
including such absorbing ^^^^^^^^^^BHfl^^pPiktJ^K^ rotogravure. Some
classics as Baxter's "Saints' ^^^t t^t^^^^^m^''^^BL \ vCwJ were rijht, and
Rest," the County History ^^n.J^^^^^^ I^Br-xA^ll£, v^BP" some Avere ab-
and "Lives of Our Presi- ^^Kj^^^^KK^f'^'^f^KsS^^J^^^ s u r d 1 v
HBH^H I^^^^^^^Hl^^^^^^^^^P ^^^^ *l Phoebe
her atten- ' ^^^B' j^^^^^^^^^^l^^^^^^^^^H^^^^^^f ^
she picked , '*^^^^^^^^^H^^ ^^^^^^^H ^^^"■I'^r" wort h
up m a g a - 1^^^^^^^^^^ ^^I^^HHi ^aBP''" building —
whe.rever. ' ^.^^ V^W^M ^(^BB^^^iP^^'^^^^b "^S ^^ ^'^^^
>he could.' " ' " infallible
Thev were "You're not singing now, my New York! You're sohhing, and 1 illuminated
^ can't listen any longer!" ,
not current geography,
magazines, but periodicals which liad been there was a large cow-pasture in the neigh-
well read and well thumbed at the neigh- Ijorhood of Fifty-Ninth street ! So much-
bors' houses, funny papers from the village for a defunct magazine of the seventies,
barber shop, fashion periodicals tossed Still. New York was her dream and adora-
aside by banker Bowen's wife — in fact, tion. nnd as every artist has cried "My
everyone in Brookscott knew Phoelie for Paris!" in the full-throated possessive {'of •
the omnivorous little reader that she was, ecstatic passion, so Phoebe whispered "M'fu
and they were all glad to add to her store New York !" as tenderly as she could have
of precious though ephemeral ' literary l)reathed the name of a lover. She envied
material. every rattly old southbound N. Y., N. H.'
In this way Phoebe made the ac(]aaint- &:.H. train whose smoke, stained the New
ance of "her" New York. She had always England sunsets. AA'as it not going to Neiv
loved people. Shy, she longed to be in a York /
crowd, though not of it. Often she
shouldered her way boyishly through the T N the midst of these riots of childish
cornfield, swinging her plump arms and imagination Philip Dawes came to
imagining that every brown stalk that Brookscott to recuperate from a fever ;
struck her was a passing human being. and as the Brookscott House made few
Never out of Brookscott that she could l)ids for the favor of one who regarded
remember — though she had been born in his stomach aught else than a leather imple-
Farmington. Maine — Phoebe daily walked ment of absorption, Philip Dawes soon
Broadway upon the magic sandals of sought an amateur caravansary. He picked
imagination. She took all out Silas Brown's,
the precious little old " HER " NEW YORK There was no great dif-
worthless half-tones from r-r-.TTT- i , ■ r .i • ference in the ages of
1 11 J 1 • I HE photoplay version of this r), -i- r^ j c..
her wall, and, lymg on 1 3^^^^, ^^ '^gnes C. Johnston Pl^'l'I' ^^a^^e^ ^nd Stuy-
her stomach on the floor, was produced by Tlianhouser for vesant Owen, his em-
pieced them together in a Pathe with the following cast : ]t 1 o y e r , or in their
great pictorial relief map Phoche Lester Gladys Hulette breeding or education,
of the metropolis. .A.fter P/jiV//) Dawcy. .William Parke, Jr. but in everything else
a year of careful ac- 5fMrz'r.?(7);f Otw;). .Robert Vaughn they were as far apart as
cumulation, she had an Si Broivn Riley Chamberlaifl Christiana and New South
amalgamation of views Mrs. Brozvn Carey Hastings Wales. Both college men,
that lit up the town from Laura Ethyle Cooke Owen — shrewd, practical,
"Her" New York
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hard — had made the world his oyster. If
he had ever indulged in dreams his thrift
and avarice had been an alarm-clock
bringing him bolt-awake. Philip, on the
other hand, found more wonderful things
to dream about every day, and in the glory
of his dreams, practical matters faded
away. Now, he was twenty-three — and he
earned twenty dollars a week working for
Owen.
When Si hitched up to get '"that boarder
from the city" night had already fallen.
What with a few purchases, and slow-
going on a muddy road, it was half-past
nine when he returned, freighting Philip.
Phoebe was long since asleep.
She woke at dawn. She hurried into her
things as fast as she could, and, not being
able to find the button-hook, half-buttoned
her shoes with a hair-pin. Silas was in the
barnyard, and Mrs. Brown was washing
her face at the sink as Phoebe scuttled to
find the kindling
and get the fire
Phoebe Lester, you've left off your red
flannel petticoat again .'" The voice was
Mrs. Brown's, weary with eternal reproach.
Phoebe's hands felt her trim hips — indeed
rather near the surface on this chilly morn-
ing.
"So I have. Aunty! Isn't that funny?"
Phoebe laughed gaily. Mrs. Brown was
quiet, for she had long since abandoned
Plioebe as impossible.
"Well," continued lier sponsor, "be
that's't may, you've got to git some aigs for
the city boarder's breakfast."
Which was no task for Plioebe, who,
putting a sunbonnet over her flying sun-
rise hair, hop-skipped to the hay-mow. The
hay-mow was the town residence of
Phoebe's one understanding friend, a wise
little brown hen. Sure enough, the brown
hen was stalking grandly from the timothy,
singing a song which proclaimed to the
world, "I have laid one! I have laid
going.
"I
do believe,
A use for the hated red flannel petticoat at last!
It was the finest red flag imaginable, and it brought
the train to a stop so sudden that it was
almost precipitous.
one !"
Phoebe caught
her, squawking.
"You've laid an egg
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for a man from
New York ! Ain't
you proud !" But the
hen seemed to find
no special honor in metropolitan dispensa-
tion.
Soon the eggs were boiled, and Phoebe,
who copked much more carefully than she
swept, had accompanying slices of crisp
toast, browned just enough ; a pat of but-
ter and the blue tea-pot full of coffee.
This she insisted upon using, despite Mrs.
Brown's protestations — and also the old
Japanned "waiter," as the good wife called
her single serving tray.
Phoebe had heard ijoot-scrapings on the
floor above, and bits of whistling. Presently
the stairs creaked, and she knew that the
"man from New York" would be waiting
his breakfast in the dining-room.
What would he be like? Phoebe's heart
thumped until it fluttered the blue ribbon
at the top of her apron. Her acquaintance
Avith "New York men" had been made upon
Miliiceiit, a kind-eyed little blonde, asserted that
Phoebe's pet hen would set the fashion in Longacre,
and u'otddn't that bird hit all the envious janes
in Shanley's right between the eyes!
Brookscott's Palace
the screen. Impres-
sive acting gentry
she had seen, in-
frequently, at
Strand operahousc.
She remembered that they had grand man-
ners, and almost always wore evening
dress. Would he have on evening dress?
Perhaps — no. because his valet hadn't ac-
companied him ! Perhaps his valet would
be along on the next train. Of course he
had a valet ; every New Yorker had a
valet !
She pushed open the door.
"Hello." said a very negligee boy. lean-
ing against the wall, hands in pockets. He
liad on an outing shirt whose collar was
guiltless of starch, and he gave his head a
cjuick toss to get the hair out of his eves.
"Hello," answered the girl, gravely :
"I'm Phoebe, and this is breakfast."
Though Philip was really A-erv hungry
he almost forgot to eat for looking at this
shv-eved, lingering little girl.
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127
OY the end of his vacation, Philip was
'^ perfectly willing to let New York get
along without him. He loved Plioebe, and
knew it ; Phoebe loved him, and didn't
suspect it. But since he hoped for the
ultimate home, Philip planned to return to
work immediately, and to work hard. She
received his love declaration as a matter of
course, kissed him as sweetly and calmly
as though she had been waiting all her life
to kiss him, and immediately fell to quar-
reling about the color of the carpet in their
living-room to-be.
■ The literary bee which anon had flung
itself wearily from side to side in Philip's
fedora now buzzed electrically, and stung
him on every exposed place. Once upon
a time The Workaday World had accepted
a verse of his. With the inspiration of
Phoebe's love he knew that he could be-
come a poet of Longfellow industry and
Robert W. Chambers
income.
"I think you are the
most wonderful poet
in the world !" ex-
claimed Phoebe rap-
turously, after he had
read her several of his
effusions.
"It's almost train-
time," said the genius,
in a terribly matter-of-
fact manner. "I'm
going back and sell a
lot of poems, and then
you're to come to New
York and marry me."
"Give my love to
New York," answered
Phoebe as airily, after
they had kissed, "and
tell it I'm coming
soon !"
Once in the city,
Philip resigned his I'ob.
with its assured in-
come, and went in for
writing with the
enthusiasm of a duck
finding a puddle in the
desert. His enthusiasm
A strange gleam of can-
nibalism flashed baleful fire
in Philip's eyes. "Chicken!"
he exclaimed.
seemed to count for little ; on his desk lay
an increasing pile of those polite horrors
which he called "dejection" slips. But he
moved to basement quarters which he as-
sured himself were "Bohemian," cut out
everything except the necessities of life,
and managed to exist. His thoughts were
troubled when he considered that, pres-
ently, his stij^end would have to do for two.
While Philip's .muse was toiling very
drunkenly and uncertainly for him, as far
as returns were concerned, Phoebe had a
small feathered industry making money for
lier with tlie surety of a munitions manu-
factory.
The little brown hen.
Mrs. Silas, in a burst of philanthropy,
had donated the little brown hen and all
her proceeds to Phoebe. With the regu-
larity of a seven-o'clock whistle, she laid
an egg a day, and as egg prices are now,
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the ovoid might as well have been golden.
Even before Philip came Phoebe had been
saving for a new gown ; now, she dismissed
all thoughts of the gown, and planned her
departure.
Phoebe had not been exactly unattrac-
tive to the swains of Brookscott. One, who
had a Ford and everything to match,
shrewdly courted her, aiming to win every-
tliing in a wife, and to give as little as
possible. As a married man, he should
have been a Boer farmer or an Australian
bushman.
But Phoebe wasted no caresses or
thoughts on him — so little did she care,
in fact, that on a Sunday he complained :
"Si sez you eat more'n you're worth. Yc
better show me a little affection, or I'll
stop courtin' ye!"
Therefore Phoebe resolved that it would
be his Ford which should bear her to the
magic train on the v\'onderful day in which
"Her" New York should claim her for its
own.
"The Day" was a Saturday. The fate-
ful hour was noon. Silas Brown and his
wife had gone to town for their frugal
Aveek-end purchases, and Phoebe was left
to the farm and her own devices. Quicklv.
the little girl packed her small belongings
in an ancient valise. Then she dressed
herself in her best — wliich. indeed, was
fairly good, for Mrs. Brown, while ever
thrifty, was not stingy nor mean. Phoebe
\\rote a note for Mrs. Brown, and won-
dered if she had said good-bye to every-
thing— the little brown hen, with wise and
wondering clucks, wandered fairlv into her
path ! A lump came into her mistress'
throat. Truly, she cotildn't bear to leave
her behind !
Over the telephone she had spent a
precious nickel to ask Andrew, her rural
swain, to take her to Scrogg's Corners and
the train. Of course she didn't tell Andrew
about the train. With a little white lie
about carrying some sewing to old Mrs.
Minley she soon as.suaged his curiosity.
Scrogg's Corners was a mere cross-road
three miles from Brookscott, where she did
not dare to embark because of Silas' im-
memorial propensity to see the afternoon
"cyars" draw in at any time he happened
to be in town.
"Kin I call fer ye at supper-time?" asked
Andrew, greedily, as he dropped Phoebe,
and the armful of hen. and the handful
of satchel, very near the ancient "deepo."
"No," she said gravely. "I shan't be
here at supper-time. I'm only going to
stay a few minutes."
So Andrew chugged on to Brookscott.
The fact that the brown hen was tucked
under Phoebe's arm^ — sometimes in her
basket, generally on top of it — aroused no
suspicion. Phoebe and her armful of hen
were as common a sight in and about
Brookscott as a .society girl and her arm-
ful of Pomeranian on Fifth Avenue.
Phoebe found the station locked and so
deserted that stray oats had taken root in
the door-sill, and were growing luxuriously.
Afar came the whistle of the New York
train — and this was only a flag-station!
In her moment of wild panic Phoebe
began to laugh hysterically. A use for
the hated red flan-
nel petticoat at last !
Laura had anticipated fife
rage, maledictions^
"Her" New York
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Going behind a baggage truck she downed
it and stepped out of it in ten seconds.
She had the finest red flag imaginable, and
it brought the train to a stop so sudden
that it was almost precipitous.
A T the same moment, among the low
•*~^ numbers on Eighth avenue, Philip
Dawes struggled like a hero with the
unrhymable word "Llama." How he had
gotten himself into this blind alley of
diseuphony he knew not ; all he did know
was that he couldn't back out. Minute
after minute he pounded his head and
whirled the worn pages of his book of
S3'nonyms — nothing doing.
"Mama! Mama!"
It was a faint, feeble little voice, and
the vowels were less a word than formless
wails.
"Gee whiz !" exclaimed
'anger of a woman scorned — defiance
arid silly calls for the police.
Philip, nervously, "some nice old ghost
is giving me a lift !"
But, the rhyming word for "Llama" con-
tinuing resolutely, he opened the door.
A tiny boy, swaddled in baby clothes,
lay on the floor. An unfortunate woman —
honest and pure enough, indeed, but a
widow, poverty-wrecked — had placed the
baby there, for she had seen a man deliver-
ing milk and other food at that door, and
she had none to give !
"Johnny," murmured Philip, raising the
baby from the floor, "you came through
with a rhyme for me, and I'll come through
for you. You're going to have a chance !"
/^N the train, Phoebe was in the ecstasy
^^ of her life. The country was flying
before the windows — she loved to look
straight down at the
right-of-way, realizing
that the furious blur
flying under eyes was
pushing her away from
Brookscott and toward
New York!
And across the aisle
sat well, she
was thirty-six, but to her
crowd she was just
Laura. She was magnifi-
cently dressed, accord-
ing to Phoebe's ideas.
The grave little country
mouse attracted her.
"Where am I going?"
answered the Brookscott
child, as the woman of
the world at length sat
beside her ; "why, I'm
going to New York —
my New York — to find
Philip — vi\ Philip!"
"And who'is Philip?"
Laura fairly purred.
When it had all been
completely explained,
Laura explained that she
would find Philip, after
Phoebe had dined with
her, as a matter of
course.
The next hour and a
half ; the change from
steam power to electric-
ity ; tha crossing of the
Harlem river; the wil-
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derness of towering tenements next the
tracks on the upper East Side : the frighten-
hig rush into the darkness of the great sub-
way under Park avenue ; the exit at Grand
Central ; the %ast concourse ; the great
hotels rising like Babel's tower outside ; the
machines, the people, the taxicabs, the up-
roar, all made Phoebe very glad to nestle
under Laura's scented protection.
.She had no idea where Laura took her,
])ut she thought it very wonderful, and
the painted faces of Laura's lady friends
very curious. She felt that when they were
washing the dishes, or sweeping, or attend-
ing to outdoor work the paint must some-
times run and get in their mouths, and she
asked them if it didn't. Whereupon they
all laughed loudly.
Perhaps -the little brown hen. h} her
hennish way, was wiser than her little
mistress : at any rate, the night was warm,
the window was open — and out she flew !
It was a ground floor apartment, and
without a moment's hesitation Phoebe, hat
on the back of her licad, tightly clutching
her satchel, leajjcd after.
To the corner and around flew the hen.
Phoebe following. Tliere. she caught her.
and, clutching her tightly, stumbled into
the!arms of a smiling policeman.
'-Why," she said in answer to his ques-
tions, ''I'm going to gii to Philip Dawes,
my sweetheart, but first I'm to have dinner '
with Laura, just around the corner — "
Quick questions, .sharp and much to the
point, by Commissioner Woods' minion.
Then :
"I wouldn't go l)ack to that house. ISIiss.
77/ take you to Philip !"
They went in a shaking old street-car,
not at all like the beautiful machine which
had met Laura at Grand Central Station.
Phoebe was just a l)it piqued. She remem-
bered not only Laura, and the strange-
looking "girls," but a very handsome
gentleman who had taken her hand at
Laura's introduction just a moment before
the little brown hen's conspiracy of escayje.
.\t the door of that "Bohemian" cell on
lower Eiglith street she paused dramati-
cally, then flung herself against it, and. as
it swung inward, she cried to the outrushing
occupant, "I've come to marry you!"
Philip held her in his arms.
The policeman looked on with a touch
of rvnical sadnctss. Sweet little country
girl, impoverished city chap, country
romance, fond feminine trust — same old
story !
"If you come with me, I'll see ye both
safely hitched before I go on duty!" This
policeman had determined to put a lock on
Cupid's door.
Then — the baby.
"I found him," explained Philip, with
l)rief all-sufticiency. . . •
"Found — did ye say?" The policeman's
disbelief was positively lugubrious.
"There was a note pinned to him, but I
can't rememlier where I put it." ' -
"I'm .so glad- you kept him, Philip,"
murmured Phoebe, cosily. "It makes it so
much more homelike to have a baby in the
iTouse !" ■' •■ '
A week after the wedding Philip and
I'lioebe were deliriously happy and delight-
fully broke. They had extended their
a])artment. or rather, had changed it, to
include a kitchenette and a real attic bed-
room, "of which New York, like all other
modern cities, has 'few.
"Mrs. Dawes," said Philip, coming in
upon a certain bright evening, "you see
before us on the table, our "last dime. And
I'm hungrier than a grenadier — that's a
term that I always use in my poetrv."
"Well." returned Mrs. Dawes, "j-ouand
I can have a pretend, dinner'. Babies and
chickens, tliougli. lun-en't any imaginations.
^\'hat will yuu have u])on the board to-
night. Sir Philip?"
A strange green gleam of cannibalism
flashed baleful fire in Philip's eves.
"Chicken !" lie exclaimed, pointing
dramatically at the little brown hen.
\ wild yelp escaped Phoebe, and she
sank in a hiiddle on her own feet and the
sank in a huddle on her own feet and
bal)y's.
Vet. de.spite Phoebe's woe, in half an
hour the soul of the little brown hen had
flown to the feathered heaven. It \\as
Ijecoming more and more impossible to
keep her. as Pliilip pointed out to her weep-
ing mistress. .She could not be returned to
the farm, so, as a glorious finish, why
sliould she not serve the starving poet and
his lady-bride in death as she had never
served them in life?
Immediately afterward, several impor-
tant things happened to the Dawes family.
Philip, driven by his wife's healthy little
appetite, visited his former employer, Stuy-
(ContiuHcd on page 144)
CARMEL, WH05E CARAMELS ARE COINS
Miss Carmel Myers -a young Fine Arts actress and the daughter of a learned rabbi — doesn't look like a financier
but she cornered the whole California supply of theatrical make-up before the prices rose; and now she's rich.
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MOVING PICTURE
FOURTEEN PRIZES
NUMBER 3
THE PRIZES
1st PRIZE
2nd PRIZE
3rd PRIZE
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TEN PRIZES,
$10.00
$ 5.00
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each $ 1.00
These awards (all in cash, without any string to them) are
ior the correct, or nearest correct, answers to the six pictures
liere shown. The answers may readily be found in the con-
densed scenario printed below. Wliile this is one of the
cleverest puzzle arrangements ever devised, it is really quite
simple to solve.
As you read thruush the scenario, the answers will bob up
at you, one after another. Just follow the directions on the
opposite page. Be sure to write your answers and name and
address distinctly.
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ROMEO AND JULIET
Time -About 1600
SYNOPSIS— BetwL'iii the houses of Montague and Capulet In
A'erona a bitter enmity exists, ever ready to break out in new-
mutiny. Our opening scene starts with a clash at anus between
two servants of each house, joined by a relative from each, then
several more partisans join the fray.
Citizens are endeavoring to stop the brawl, when Capulet and
wife appear, soon also Montague and Lady Montague. Then
cornea the I'rince of Verona with attendants. He roundly de-
nounces them all.
All disperse but Montague, wife and nephew. They are con-
corred of Romeo, who presently appears, much absorbed with
Inve dreams of Rosaline. To break the spell Benvolio induces
him to attend a ball at Capulets, where he becomes immediately
enamoured by the beauty of the daughter Juliet, who likewise
is much impressed by him, tbo he is roundly denounced by her
cousin Tybalt.
Capulet wants Juliet to wed a young noble named Paris, but
sihe objects. At night Romeo scales the garden wall and unseen
by Juliet discovers her at her balcony window, and hears from
her lips "O Romeo. Romeo, wherefore art thou. Rpmeo?" Etc.
Yet unseen he answers her and he finally comes forth and talks
vith her. They avow their loye. Tliey are clandestinely married
by Friar T-awrence.
Romeo is banished for killing Tybalt in self defense.
Capulet demands that Juliet marry a noble, Paris.
Friar L-awrence gives her a potion that will make her appear
as dead for forty-two hours. She is laid in the tomb.
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His message summoning Rumeo is delayed. Romeo receives
word that she is dead and hastens to her tomb, is breaking in.
when he is set upon tiy Paris, whom he kills. lUjraeo takes
poison and dies by Juliet, who regains her senses just as Friar
lawrence comes. T'pon seeing Romeo's body she kisses him.
tlu'ii grabs his dagger and i)lunges it to her heart.
Their children's tragic deaths reconciles Capulet and
Montague.
"For never was a story of more woe.
Than th:s of Juliet and her Rom**" "
LIST
Parts, I'ri)i)>s, Scones, Names, Etc., Etc.
In Verona. Sampson. GrcKor.y. Swords and
bucklers. Being moved. To the wall. Quarrel.
Heartless. Masters. Abram. Balthazar. Naked
weapons. Benbolio. Swashinfj blow. Draw. Tart.
Fools. Tybalt. .Toin the fra.v. Citizens. Clubs.
Capnb't. Lone-sword. Montague. Prince.
Attendants. Kel)cllions subjects. Enemies.
Blood.v hands. Purple fountains. Afternoon.
.Tudgment place. Thrusts and blows,
^li'iterapered. Three civil brawls. Beseeming
ernanients. Men depart. Cit.v's side.
Augmenting. Deep sighs. Enter Romeo, fleard.
T.ovp. Brawling. Serious vanit.v. Fire
mis-shapen. Well-seeming forms. Laugh. Weep.
Mine own. Farewell. Mercutio. Village scene.
SCENARIO PUZZLE
ALL IN CASH
BY PERCY REEVES
DIRECTIONS
The answers for these jiictures will be fouiiU in the list below.
I'iutures Nos. 1 and 2 each have one answer: Pictm-es Nos.
2, 3, 4 and 5 each have two answers.
l.uoU at the pictures and then go thruush the list ami you
will readily find the answers best dcscriljinj; tlicm. each ansnei
IS very short, just as the words appear.
15e sure and number y.ur answeis to correspond with tlic
numbers of the pie'.ures each tepret-euts. I'lace them in seiiueni-i
down the sheet, numbers al the left.
Iteniember to write your full name and aildress at the bottom
Address to Puzzle Editor, Photoplay Magazine, 350 North
Clark Street, Chicago.
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pense to you, so please do not aslt us Questions.
Only ono set of answers allowed each contestant.
Awards for answeis to this set ^vill tte published in Photo-
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THIS SCENARIO AND LIST
.\ftornooD. Our streot.s. Old partisans. Forfeit.
• 'ankerf^d liato. Your aclrcrsary. Close fijrliting.
I 'art them. In scorn. Golden window. Feast,
drove of sycamore. Gladly fled. Morning's dew.
Deep sighs. Pins himself. Stop aside.
Marksman much denied. His will. Loving
terms. Choice. Huge waste. Fair ladies.
Escalus. Paris. My suit. Fourteen years. But a
Iiart. All see. Eartli-treading stars. Fair
Verona. To supper. Ctip of wine. .Tuliet.
Beauty's pen. Gold clasps. Happy days,
(^row-keeper. I?ear t'e li.ght. Nimble soles.
Cupid's wings. Common ground. A grandsire
phrase. Candle-holder. Fairie's coach-maUers.
Court'sies. T'nplaged. One rhyme. Son and
heir. Wondering eyes. Doff thy name. What's
in a name? Merc'andise. Too unadvised.
Boundless, rorfnrming tlie rite. Friar
Lawrence's cell. Streaks of light. Small
flowers. Rosealine. Duellist. Grandsire. Switch
and spurs. Too sudden. It lightens.
Gentlemanlike. Ahhe.v wall. Farewell.
Banishment. Bereaved. Highway. ^Maiden
widowed. Jlistermed. Sharp-ground knife.
T'nmade grave. Holy Friar. Cnsoemly woman.
Form of wax. Take heed. Beg pardon. Good
night. Kinsman. Time to woo. Wednesday. A
friend or two. Pomgranate. Throne. Morning's
eye. Battlements. Tower. Charnel-house. Be
merry. Cunning cooks. Loggerhead. Rtim mad.
Bridal flowers. In Mantua. Forty ducats.
Watchmen. Her statue. True and faithful. The
letter. Monument. Potion's force. Vault. Her
awakening. All arc punished. Their friends.
Castle wall. Over sea. Far and near. Love's
message. Summoning. Hastes. Breaking in.
Senses. Plunges. Her heart. Discovering. Much
absorbed. Arms between. Attendant. A ball.
Mucli impressed. More woe.
DECEMBER WINNERS
1st Prize, $10 00 — P. D. .Tennings, Akron, 0.
2nd Prize, $5.00 — Miss Ida Mai MeCuUom, .Taekson, Miss.
3rd Prize, $3.00 — F. Jlildred Lewis. Uis Angeles. Cal.
4th Prize. $2.00— Carl Wright, Sac City. Iowa.
Teti Prizes $1.00 eacli — Elizabeth Berry. Chicago, 111 : Miss
r.iuline Clearv, Bonnville. Mo. : Jlahel H. Tucker, Marble-
head, Mass.: E. S. Dyer. WbeeUng, W. Va. : Roy .1. Skillman.
Irene. S. D. ; H. D. Oliphant, Farmingt(m. Jle. : Miss Irma
Sawyer, JFiUvaukee. Wis: Edward Watterson. TitusviUe, Pa.:
Claude King, Denver. Col.; Mrs. A. V. Rohweder. Winona.
Jlinn.
Correct Anwers for December, No. 1
1. Heart strings.
2. One reel: sunset.
3. Love letters; sparrows.
4. Cottage; interest.
5. Close up: calf.
6. Recovered.
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Something for Dad to Try
A LITTLE boy attended the theatre with
his father who was quite bald.
The scene on the screen showed the interior
of a dressing-room and the supposed "grand-
pa" of the play came in and pulled off a
false bald head, disclosing a thick head of
hair.
"Say, papa," asked the child, "why don't
you pull off the top of jour head and see
what's under it?"
P. Allan Barr, Savannah. Ga.
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The Terrible Suspense
IT was a melodramatic reel wherein the
heroine in despair finally went to a room
and turned on the gas. A porter, smelling
the fumes, broke the door open and began
groping around in the dark. In the middle
of this scene a husky whisper came from a
seat in the center aisle : "Gosh, I Jiope the
fool won't strike a match !"
B. M. Harrison, Ham[>ion Inst., Virginia.
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Those Troublesome Imperials
IN a film story written around one of the
Balkan states there was a betrothal scene
between the prince of one country and the
princess of another and inimical sovereignty.
They stood before the king awaiting his bless-
ing and sanction.
"I do hate those imperials !" said a woman
to her friend referring to the elderly king's
hirsute adornment.
"I know," replied the friend, "so do I, and
those little countries are always in trouble,
too."
M. Montcith, Columbus. Ohio.
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Look! \Iamma, Look!
AN old gentleman, almost bald, was
fondling a small child whose mother sat
next to him. The youngster ran its hands
over the shiny expanse of pale, then finally
brought it down - and seized hold of the
stranger's beard.
"Look, mamma, look !" she cried in amaze-
ment. "His hair failed down."
B. P. Jones, Seattle, Washington.
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The Film Inflammable
THE odd looking woman and her strange
looking chum sat down in front. It was
their first visit to a picture show. On the
screen the leading man lit a cigar. The odd
looking woman started and seized her friend
bj- the arm.
"I thought celluloid caught fire," she
exclaimed.
"So did I," returned the other, but seeing
no flame she added, "that just goes to show
that there's some fake about these films."
Frank O'Neill Power, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He ■was So Forgetful
IN the picture the old judge died, and some
time after his daughter, searching through
a bureau drawer, found his spectacles and
began to cry.
"What's she cryin' for?" asked one little
girl of another.
"O I don't know," the other replied, "I
s'pose it's 'cause her father went to Heaven
and forgot his spectacles."
H. S. Johnson, New Haven, Conn.
Blo'wed for Good
ELLEN saw "Fatty" Arbuckle in a picture
and said. "Alamma, what makes him so
fat? Was he blowed up for the picture?"
"Hush, vay child," said her mother, "mamma
can't pay attention when j-ou talk."
A few days later they came face to face
with "Fatty" himself when his automobile was
stopped bj' their street car. Ellen danced up
and down : "He was !" she cried. "He was
blowed up for good, all right !"
L. D. Sellcs. Los Angeles.
Not Out of a Copper
A MAN saw a policeman enter a movie
theatre without paying.
"Why don't he have to pay to get in?"
demanded one bystander of another. The
other facetiously replied : "O, you can't get a
nickel out of a copper."
Z. F. Klinker, Los Angeles.
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That crop of hair wouldn't
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buckle has been in pictures for nearly four
years. Your memory serves you well. He was
married at Long Beach in 1908. Yes, Thomas
Meighan played James in "The Return of Peter
Grimm" with Warfield. ■ No trouble a-tall.
B. H., Bronx, N. Y. — Julian Johnson's esti-
mate of Mr. Bushman's Romeo last month prob-
ably answers your request. Yes, Othello ought
to make a pretty good film, but we're not so
sure about "Omelet." We don't seem to recall
a Shakespeare play of that name. Are you sure
you don't mean East Lynne ?
E. M.. Siou-x Falls, S. D. — Never heard of
Leona. The cast in "Saving the Family Name":
Estclle Rvau. ALirv MacLaren : Jan Winthrof.
Jack Holt; Robert' JViuthrot. Phillips Smalley ;
iVally Dreislin. Carl Von Schiller: Mrs. Dreislin.
Girrard .'Mexander.
R. S. S., Lancaster, Pa. — No one but Fannie
Ward ever played in a picture called "The
Cheat." Marguerite Clark is 2S.
C. J., Oshawa. Canada. — Valentine Grant is
23, has blue eyes and reddish hair : Cleo Ridgely
has brown eyes and light hair. Ella Hall is a
native of New York and 20 years old. She has
been with L'niversal about four years. Your
letter was very interesting. Yo\i have the right
idea about life.
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Mame Lee, Duncan, Okla. — So you are a little
Indian girl ? Well, it's a cinch there's nothing
hyphenated about you — 100% American. Even
if we were a mind reader, we couldn't tell you
what Jack Kerrigan's future plans are as appar-
ently, he has not made up his mind. He is 27
years old and 6 feet 1 inch tall. Creighton Hale
was The Laughing Mask in "The Iron Claw."
Hobart Henley is at Universal City, Cal.
Mae Murray are with Lasky ; Pauline Frederick,
Famous Players ; Bill Hart with Ince ; William
Farnum, Fox, and Brother Dustin, Morosco.
Write some more.
E. B., West Philadelphia, Pa. — -No, it is not
a fact that Pauline Frederick is now Mrs.
Thomas Holding. We have always tried to
convey our sincere belief that Miss Frederick
and your other favorite,
Bessie Barriscale, are up
among the topnotchers
of the screen.
Marv, Port Clinton, O. — No, we don't love
Sessue Hayakawa, although we admire him
greatly and thank you for being crazy about our
magazine. Jack Barrymore is 34 years old and
of course, we won't print your name. Yes,
Marie Doro is a dear and she was born in 1885 ;
and — would an affida\ it convince you that we
are masculine?
ToMMv, Pittsburg,
Pa. — Leah Baird is still
in the movies and is in
Vim comedies at Jack-
sonxille. Fla. It is our
impression that her hus-
band's name is Beck.
He is not an actor.
William Farnum is 40
and Mary Miles Minter
14. We have no reason
to believe that either, or
both, have quit counting.
Anyhow, the constitu-
tion does not inhibit the
same.
E. W., New Bedford,
Mass. — You have been
misinformed about
Thomas Meighan. He
has not returned to the
moxies because he never
left 'em. He's still with
Famous Players-Lasky.
Herbert Rawlinson
would be delighted to
hear from you and he'll
send a photo for the
customary two-bit mail-
ing fee. Address Uni-
versal City. Cal. Sure
they have stenographers
in the studios. If they
didn't some of the mag-
nates couldn't write let-
ters.
OWED TO THE AMBITIOUS
Oh doctor, bring the hemlock quick ;
My mind is tired, my brain is sick ;
The letters pile up six feet thick ;
Here's what they say:
"My friends declare I am as cute
As Pickford and six more to boot"
(Thus modestly their horns they toot
From day to day).
"How can I be a movie star?
Please tell the tricks that were and are
For sailing 'cross the raging bar
To fame and kale."
Oh, girls, T cannot help you out
You'd knock 'em dead without a doubt
Yet if I harked to every sprout
I'd fade and pale!
.Ambition's lived since hist'rys dawn
And made tough obstacles its pawn
But, dearies, do not spring it on
Poor brain worn me :
I am no actors' handy source
(I've said this till my voice is hoarse)
Forget it girls — that is your course
— And let me be !
In other words, for the lovva Mike,
quit askin me how to be a movie star.
If I knew how, I'd go and be one my-
self.
L. W., San Quentin,
Cal. — Cheer up ! It
might be Folsom, in-
stead of San Quentin,
you know. Yes, we
know the nature of the
resort you are honoring
with your presence and
hope that the stay will
restore your health.
Margaret Gibson was
last with Horsley and
Henry Otto is now-
directing Margarita
Fischer at San Diego.
Clara, Dallas, Tex.
— Adda Gleason and
Donald Brian played the
leads in "The Voice in
the Fog" : W. H. Thomp-
son and Margery Wilson
in "The Eye of the
Night"; Flora McDon-
ald and Paul Willis in
"The Fall of a Nation."
Conway Tearle played
opposite Miss Clark in
"Helene of the North"
and Vernon Steele in
"Little Lady Eileen."
John Bowers is still in
business at the old
stand.
Friends, Council Bluffs, Ia. — Creighton
Hale and Pearl White are not engaged to be
married to each other, or anyone else at the
present time. Marguerite Clark assures us that
she is neither dead, nor married. Fritz de Lint
played opposite Petrova in "What Will People
Say?" Because of his present matrimonial
status, it is probably safe to state that Edward
Coxen is not contemplating marriage. Norma
Phillips intends to return to the screen and
Billie Burke also, as soon as Billie. Jr., gets old
enough to wait on herself.
H. H. H., Lakota,
Wash. — Oscar Eagle is
a director for the
Gotham Company. He
was born in Gallipolis,
O. We have no record
of Esther Lyons. So far
as we know, Sedley
Brown is still living in Los Angeles.
L. M. S.. Easton. Pa. — You say you have
passed many a dreary hour seeing Crane Wilbur
and Francis X. Bushman on the screen, but we
are sure you don't mean it. Now, do you ?
We'll try to have Crane's picture in the magazine
before long.
J. v., Odlumbia, S. C. — Pardon the colloquial-
ism, but our idea of a boob is a gink who will
bet on the age of an actress. Mary Pickford is
not yet 24 and Toronto was her birthplace. She's
been married about six years.
J. C. T., Philadelphia. — "American Aristoc-
racy" was filmed in the vicinity of New York ;
"The Vagabond Prince " in Hollywood, Cal., and
"Bella Donna" in Florida. Thank you ma'am for
the kind woids.
G. F., Los Angeles.- — None of those you men-
tion, except Wallace Reid and Dorothy Daven-
port, are married.
Interested, Guelph, Ont. — Delighted with
your appreciative and sensible letter. Wish we
could print in full your remarks anent those who
are more interested in the matrimonial condition
of the actor than in his art. Fannie Ward and
Flecrette, Anniston, Ala. — The Fox version
of "Romeo and Juliet" with Theda Bara was
made in .■\merica — every bit of it — mostly in
New York and New Jersey.
(Continued on page 148.)
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The Foolish Virgin
(Coiifiinied from page g6)
had opened the bedroom door and stood
watching them. She realized that Jim was
helplessly drunk, and feared — she could
hardly tell what. But there was nothing-
she could do, and she quietly closed the
door again, but left a sliglit opening so she
could listen.
With croaking exclamations, Jim's
mother l)athed her liands in the money and
jewels.
"Yes, I could find him. Gold will Imy
anything," she whined. "You'll give it to
me. You're nit just fooling an old
woman."
But the perverse spirit aroused in him
by the liquor would not let Jim speak, and
he swept the fruits of his crimes back into
the bag again.
"Tomorrow." lie said. "We'll talk it
over tomorrow."
He lurched over to a low couch, Hung a
blanket over the bag and used it for a
pillow, and soon sank into sodden slumber.
His mother watched him wolfishly. She
tried to get the bag out from beneath his
head, but this always aroused him enougli
so that he would grip it firmly. But the
lust for gold was awakened. All her life
she had been poor, oppressed. Here was a
fortune within her grasp. I'hat thought
alone possessed her, and she did not, could
not find room in her poor, sick brain, to
think of tomorrow. So she stealthily crept
to the cupboard and got a knife, and then
crept back to the sleeping man. All this
was out of Mary's range of vision, as she
crouched beside her door, but suddenly she
heard a groan and the sound of a falling
body. She rushed in, and saw Jim lying in
the light from the fireplace, blood flowing
over his coat from a wound in his breast.
"You've killed your own son," she
shrieked, and threw herself l)eside the
prostrate form.
"My .son? My son? No, no, no! He's
going to give me the gold so I can find my
son," the old woman moaned.
Mary discovered that Jim still lived.
"Where's tliere a doctor, quick?" she
demanded. "It may not be too late."
"Dr. Melford — he lives in the fourth
house at the left, going towards the village.
But tell me — is he my son? Is he my Jim?"
And Nance knelt beside the unconscious
man, while Mary darted for the door, call-
ing liack :
"Try to stop the bleeding. I'll get the
doctor."
When Dr. Milford arrived he found the
unfortunate old woman holding her son's
head on her lap, and rocking to and fro,
singing a cradle song. The last vestige of
reason had flown from her tired brain, and
she thought Jim was a baby again. It took
much patience and gentleness to. persuade
her to allow the doctor to dress the wound,
which he discovered was deep but not
dangerous. And in the morning Nance was
taken away to an asylum, where she died a
few weeks later.
Jim recovered slowly. Mary took the
doctor into her confidence, as the simplest
way of explaining the strange incident. She
could not bear to see Jim again, she said,
and so a woman was brought from the vil-
lage to nurse him, and) Dr. Melford took
Mary into his own home, which, he said,
was sadly in need of a housekeeper.
One evening Jim's nurse brought a note
to the doctor. Jim had been up and
around, she told them, and she had gone
home for the day. When she returned she
found the note pinned to his pillow, ad-
dre.ssed to Dr. Milford. It read :
"I'm IV ell enough to trait el, so goodbye.
I know my wife never wants to see me
again, so I won't bother her. Tell her I'm
going to send back all those things in the
bag to the people that they belong to, as far
as I can."
When the doctor took the news to Mary,
he found her knitting baby garments.
"I suppose it's just as well," she said,
with a sigh. "Now I must go back to my
friends."
"May I not be considered a friend?" the
doctor asked, gently.
"But — I can not impose upon you."
"I want you to stay," he insisted. "I'm
a lonely man, Mrs. Anthony. It will be a
kindness to let me take care of you."
He was so obviously sincere, that Mary
consented.
A WAY in the open country of the trap-
■^^ pers, far from all that the city had
meant to him, Jim began rebuilding his
life. He saw at last that the man who
looks upon life as a constant battle, must
always be loser, for it is impossible to fight
life and come out victorious. He often
wondered what had become of Mary, but
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always he felt that she had passed forever
from him, and that he had no right to
intrude. But as year followed year, until
four had passed, the desire to know posi-
tively overcame his doubts and his pride,
and he journeyed once more to the little
village in the mountains. He made a few
guarded incjuiries and learned that Mary
had a son, his son — his own boy — and
there came upon him a great longing to
care for the lad, and give him the chance
that he himself ne\-er had been given.
But would Mary take him back? She
was still in Dr. Melford's home, his house-
keeper, often nurse for his patients. A pang
of jealousy shot through Jim's heart. What
was Dr. Melford to Mary? The village
respected Mary, he soon discovered. There
was no gossip-. Yet he could not endure the
thought of another man caring for his wife
and his boy. He would see the doctor
liimself, and learn the truth.
Dr. Melford's first impulse was one of
anger. For four years he had secretly
cherished a love for the wife of this man,
but his instinct had told him that the time
, to speak had not yet come. But Jim's
return complicated the situation.
"What right have you to come back
here?" Dr. Melford demanded.
"None," Jim answered, humbly. "That's
why I sent for you. I just want to know
if it's any use, trying to start all over again.
I want to make good with her, but I don't
want to annoy her if she's happy. And
there's the boy, you know. After all. he's
mv bo\', and I want to do what I can for
him." '
It was the test of a great love. The
temptation to send Jim away was strong.
Dr. Melford believed that a word from him
would drive Mary's husband out of her life
forever. And after all, would it not be best
for all? But the man loved the woman
too deeply to make himself the arbiter of
Iier life. She herself must decide. And so
lie took Jim to meet his wife and son. In
silence they walked together down the
street to the doctor's house. Thev found
Mary and the boy together.
"He's come back to ask if it's any use
trying to start all over again," Dr. Melford
said. And then he hurried away.
"What can I do?" Jim asked. "How
can I prove that I'm right, and want to be
square with you and the whole world?"
"First be a father to our boy," she said,
after a little wliile. "Then, perhaps, the
rest will all come l)ack to us."
"It will," Jim said, "I know it will."
Behind the Screen
^\lu•n you were a king and a peasant was I,
You wrung from the land that I tilled.
Each farthing I earned bv the sweat of my
brow
You taxed ; and your coffers were filled.
When at last we rebelled, my luothers
and I,
We men of your peasant herd.
W^e were seized by your minions and
flogged and torn
And slain bv vour roval word !
But gone is the hatred that raged in my
heart.
For vengeance no longer I thirst ;
I freely forgive all your terrible crimes
But one, and that one vvas the worst !
Perchance you've forgotten, perhaps you
have not.
But I can remember it, — Gee !
That ten that you borrowed when you were
a king
And never paid back to me !
Harry J. Smalley.
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Sweet Sobber of the Celluloid
(Conlinucd from page 2^ )
beauty of the distant mountains and the
greenness of the nearby hills and the sun-
light over everything. I had walked from
home to Universal City to save my bus
fare that morning. I think my dress was
a little shabl)y, and I daresay I looked
woe-begone enough.
Anyway, Mrs. Smalley was talking to
Mr. Smalley, and she happened to look
over at me. I heard her exclaim : 'Shoes !'
I looked down at mine. They were very
neat and presentable, — I had just cleaned
them nicely that morning, and I couldn't
imagine what she meant. Mr. Smalley
looked over at me then. He recognized
me. He came right over and began to tell
me of a wonderful story that he and Mrs.
Smalley had discovered in Collier's.
"They thought I was exactly the type.
They asked me about my work and my
experience, and then they gave me the story
to take home and read. That night I sat
up late. I read and re-read that story,
until I felt that I was that very girl. The
next morning, I met Mrs. Smalley and we
talked some more. She was very kind and
lovely to me. She put me very much at
my ease about the part, which is one reason
I never was a bit nervous in any of the
scenes. I felt every one of those scenes,
and someway Mrs. Smalley knew exactly
what to say to me in directing, so that I
was able to express the way I was sure the
girl in 'Shoes' felt.
"Ever since 'Shoes,' I have loved to
play poor girls. I didn't care a bit for my
elaborate dresses in 'Saving the Family
Name.' My sister says I revel in rag-
bags !"
"My first stage experience? There were
no theatrical people in our family. All
my people were church people. Then
father died, and my sister went to New
V'ork. She sang nicely, and had hopes
of obtaining a place in a choir. But
slie found such positions scarce, and when
she had a chance to go into the Winter
(jarden chorus, she took it. I was at
school in a Virginia convent then.
"One Christmas I came home for the
holidays, and we went over to New York
to see my sister. Down in the convent I
had wanted to l)e a nun, but the moment
I got inside that dressing room, I knew
it was my official home. Finally my sister
got me a position in the same show with
her. Another sister remained at home
with mother. The sister who was in the
chorus witli me fell in love and married
a Pittsburgh man. Then mother met with
financial re\'erses, and it was up to me to
lielp support the family. ^V'e came out to
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east, and Mr. Morosco engaged me at once
for 'Nobody Home.'
"And there you have the 'cut-backs' of
mv life."
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vesant Owen, and solicited a return of his
former position, which he had voluntarily
abandoned He took Phoebe with him.
There was mutual, instant recognition.
Stuyvesant Owen was the man who.
ardently "taken" with Phoebe's lush beauty,
had bought "fizzy water" for her -at
Laura's. The story of the former meet-
ing immediatelv popped from Phoebe's full,
bright lips, much to Owen's consternation.
But as it happened, Philip was not natu-
rally jealous, and as he did not know
Laura's at all, the tale went in at one ear
and out the other.
Seeing that no damage had been done,
Owen's passion once more inflamed him.
He resolved to fullv possess this shy, ex-
quisite, unworldly little creature. Wife of
his former employee and friend — what dif-
ference did that make?
Meanwhile, Phoebe had been quite
seriously urging Philip to turn his rhyming
propensities to commercial use on Owen's
baked bean advertisements. He had written
a careless sonnet of the gad-about housewife
and the ever-ready bean which had made
all of them laugh. It was not only a com-
mercial novelty for Owen to use Philip's
rhymed ads, but it brought Owen into con-
tact with Philip's wife.
Though he lamented that his genius was
prostituted, Mrs. Dawes' husband was lost
in passionate admiration of the smart and
modish frocks his new salary enabled him
to buy for her; and to match the frocks
and the girl, he got a new apartment — this
time a real one. He produced. Owen kept
him tremendously busy.
Finally, Owen accepted Dawes' invita-
tion to clinner. There he found the baby.
And through the baby, it seemed to him.
the trick of separating Philip and Phoebe
Avas to be turned if at all.
Laura was his friend — and had not
Laura assured Phoebe that she knew Philip,
coming in on the train? Happy lie! So
the avaricious man and the ever-needy
woman O'f a fashionable half-world fixed it
up.
Phoebe was surprised and delighted, a
few days later, to receive an afternoon call
from Laura, and she was overwhelmingly
pleased to see Laura's tender, overwhelming
regard for "their" baby. Laura held the
little fellow on her lap. kissed him many
times despite his noisy struggles to get to
the floor, and Phoebe saw the suspicion of
a tear in her eyes. Laura should have been
a movie actress.
"Isn't he darling.'" exclaimed the little
girl married woman. "Philip found him
at his door just before I came to tlie citv."
Laura rose suddenly. She seemed to
stagger, and leaned heavily on the table.
When she spoke, her voice sounded pitifully
worn and old.
"Foolisli child! Do you believe that
story?"
It was Phoebe's turn to flash.
"Yes!" came her resolute defiance. "In
spite of you, and in spite of Mr. Stuyve.sant
Owen — he laughed the other day, when I
said Philip found him ; and I tell you it
hurt me all the way through. I don't see
why you, too — "
Phoebe paused. The scheme nearly col-
lapsed like the great Quebec bridge, for
Laura had a heart, and the poor little girl
was crying. But the woman remembered
the importunities of her dres.smaker, and
bucked up.
"Dear, 1 am so sorry," she faltered with
faultless acting ; "he is my baby."
"Yuiir bab\?"
"My baby."
"His father is?"
"Perhaps this letter will explain."
And she handed Phoel)e a note. It was
in an unstamped envelope, addressed in
Philip's handwriting.
pATE liad ])layed into T-aura's hands in
absolutely unbelievable fashion. A part
of Owen's scheme — he believed in carrying
practical insurance l)y varying his ideas,
so that when one notion misfired, its mate
would do the proper execution — had been
to inveigle the dizzily prosperous Philip
Dawes into gambling. Then Philip "bor-
rowed" the boss's money, and lost it. He
felt that he could not face pure little
Phoebe until, perhaps with his own flesh
and blood, he had made restitution. He
had written her one line: "Darling, I have
done wrong. I cannot ask you to forgive
me until I have righted that wrong." And
he had left it, and had gone away.
That was the note which Laura, ner-
vous, worried, picked up as she waited for
Phoebe to come into her little drawing-
room.
It was the clincher, but she was unpre-.
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pared for Phoebe's next move. She had
anticipated the anger of a woman scorned
— defiance, rage, maledictions, foot-stamp-
ing'and silly calls for the police.
Instead, the tears dry on her ashen little
face, Phoebe had said, gently and sweetly :
"Well- I don't understand it at ail,
but, anyway, you belong here as his wife.
I'm going." And before Laura could even
protest, she had whipped off her wedding
ring, and pressed it into Laura's nerveless
hand. While the woman's reason was all
but drowning in the raging sea of her vary-
ing emotions, Phoebe packed her little old
satchel, and went away.
Then a horrid revulsion came to Laura.
She tore to the telephone, and called
Owen's number with a savagery which
astonished the indignant Central.
"I won't stand this!" she cried at the
conclusion of the furious explanation.
"I'll trim a boob or cut the peacock
feathers off a grand dame as quick as any
girl in New York, but you've made me
murder a child ! You fix it with the Dawes
guy and we'll find her, or by God. Stuvy,
the next number I call'll be 3100 Spring,
and I'll tell the Police Commissioner him-
self the whole story !"
A S for little Phoebe, she knew nowhere
•^^ else to go than to the little sky-aspiring
tenement where she and Philip had found
their first great humble happiness. Before
she went she donned her country frock and
hat. The room was empty now. She raised
the window — a piece of paper fell from it,
dustily, into her hand, but she crumpled
and rolled it there unconsciously — and
stared into the street seven stories below.
The tears started. Phoebe sobbed.
"You're not singing now, my New York !
You're sobbing, and I can't listen any
longer! My heart is breaking, and I'm
coming down to you, to sleep !" She leaned
far out. A sudden dash of rain from the
overcast sky made her, involutarily, draw
back. Without reason, she opened the
crumpled bit of paper in her hand.
It was the note explaining the parent-
age of "Little Johnny." Left there by his
mother, the reckless Philip had carelessly
used it to stuff a sash that banged and
rattled at night. Giddy, sick, but happy,
Phoebe turned again toward home — some-
thing must be wrong — but at any rate, it
wasn't the one great wrong she couldn't
stand. Philip was true ! What else mat-
tered?
OTUYVESANT OWEN was not a man
to be bullied by a woman of Laura's
stamp ; but, like her, he had a modicum
of humanity under his hard wish-bone.
So he began to take stock.
"I'm going to renig !" he whispered to
himself. "This deal is too rotten for me."
He deduced, correctly, that one would
not have to search for Philip ; that, mad
over Phoebe as he was, he would eventually
go home, whatever.
Meanwhile, Philip 7C'as at home, and,
without explanation of Phoebe's absence,
waited miserably for her. She came in,
radiant. Of what she thought him guilty,
he knew nothing. Of what he was really
guilty, she knew nothing. _ There .were
mutual, distracted explanations. ' - /
"But," counselled the ever-wise Phoebe.
"I can sell all my clothes, and perhaps we
can get an instalment or two back on the
furniture, and you know we once lived
in—" ' , ^ '
"Yes ! Yes ! But the law makes no
allowances, dear heart. I am a criminal,
and for a criminal there is no forgiveness
— only the thing they call justice."
The maid appeared in the doorway.
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"Let it come now," whispered Philip to
his wife. "It's best to get it over!"
Owen parted the portieres, laid his silk
hat carefully upon a chair, balanced his
stick on the hat, drew off his gloves.
"Well?" Philip's tense, hoarse voice
rasped the air like a file.
In answer. Owen advanced and extended
his hand. Philip was not too angry, but
too astonished to notice it.
"Let us not try to explain anything that
has happened — anything!" said Owen. "I
feel that I I . . . . well, if
you consider that you owe me any money,
you can pay me in instalments. I guess
you've learned your lesson, and I guess I
can get you a job where you can write
some real poetry. Good night."
"My New York is dear, Philip," said his
wife, tenderly caressing his face with her
hands as they stood alone again. "Some-
times it has frightened me awfully, but
really and truly its heart is all right !"
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K. M. H,. St. I. oris. — Keith Armour is the
iiiaii whom Dorothy Gish marries in "Atta Boy's
l.ast Race." He's a new one having left the
ranks of clothing models to become an actor.
Perfect 26. or something. H. B. Warner's middle
name is Byron. Norma Talmadge is no longer
with Fine .\rts. Something serious might result
if we_ told you our favorites at Fine Arts and
Inceville — that is, serious to us.
R. E. S.. 0.\Kt.AXD. C.vL. — Yes, Louise is a
lovely vampire. Her birthday is September 10
and in private life Miss Glaum is Mrs. Harry
Edwards. She answers letters from her friends
and will certainly send you a photograph if you
tell her also that yovi think she is the most
Ijeautiful actress on the screen.
M. .S., MoyTRK.VT,, Caxad.\. — Canadian mail
kinda hea^y this month. George Walsh is mar-
ried to Seena Owen and — secret, they have a
little bitta ))ab.\ aljout a month old. Harry Hil-
liard isn't hitched. He's five feet eleven inches
and thirty years old. George is only twenty-four.
Thcda Bara is five feet six inches in her Bursons.
W., ToNAWAxn.;. X. 'S'. — Better lay aside your
ambition for a few years. The curls will keep
and your prettiness too, if you don't develop an
ingrowing brain. Besides, it would be perfectly
shocking if you bec.ime a movie star tomorrow
and wrote letters to your admirers, saying
"wrote " for "written" and apologized for your
Iioor spelling. Just hate to scold you like this
but — well, writi- again some day. Leo Delaney is
married to a non-professional and Mahlon Hamil-
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CorxTRY Girl. Peoria. III. — Your letter a
delight. Wm. H. Thompson was the uncle and
Charles Ray the cousin in "Peggy." Mr. Thomp-
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five feet seven. The Havakawas have no kids.
LioLA, ToROXTO, Caxada. — What are you to
lie'lieve al>out "Mr. Bushman's wife and five chil-
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heaven's sake don't act as though he had com-
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discussed her age with us. Niles Welch is 28
and an inch under six feet. Pauline Frederick
is M, five feet three and one-half inches tall,
has brown hair .md blue eves.
E. C, Key West, Fla. — We are informed that
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in "The Reward of Patience." Yep, Louise
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iier soon.
Clara C North Yakima. Wash. — Convey our
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can't conceive of a better holiday gift. Lottie
Briscoe has retired from the screen. Alma
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wasted any of our time, write again.
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DoKO, Vancouver, B. C. — Yes, we're quite
clever, thanks. Gotta be these days or starve to
death. Flo LaBadie isn't married. Billie Burke
is the better seven-eighths of Florenz Ziegfeld,
Jr. Charles Chaplin is five feet four. Suppose
you saw all about Mavirice Costello last month.
Our opinion about F. X. Bushman isn't worth
any more than yours but if a majority of the old
ladies raved about us and a plurality of the
younger ones were nutty about us, we'd feel
justified in being somewhat conceited too.
Janice, Chicago. — So you saw it standing in
the newspaper that Eugene O'Brien said he was
born in Colorado and not in Ireland? Well,
Gene musta bin kiddin' somebuddy. We have it
in his own handwriting that he was a native of
Ireland.
A. D., Omaha, Neb. — Kinda weak on orthog-
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hindrance if you arc contemplating a career as a
comedian or a humorous writer — or both. A
knowledge of spelling is not essential. Dustin
Farnum is with Fox now, Charles Ray with Ince.
Grace Cvtnard with Universal. Yep, pep's our
middle name.
M. T., Madrid, Spain. — Sorry, but we know of
no place that is dedicated to children's pro-
grams although there should be a playhouse of
that kind in every city.
Virginia, Washington, D. C. — Ford Sterling
is still with Keystone and Crane Wilbur with
Horsley. Your judgment of leading ladies is
excellent.
Grace, Oakland, Cal. — Ileen Hume was Kath-
leen and Pauline Curley was Rose in "Where
Love Leads" with Ormi Hawley. Some pro-
ducers consider it bad judgment to have husband
and wife playing in the same company.
J. G.,_ Fort William, Ontario. — The outdoor
scenes in Vitagraph's "God's Country and the
Woman" were taken in the San Bernardino
Mountains east of Los Angeles.
_L. W., Red Oak, Ia. — Wilmuth Merkyl played
with Marguerite Clark in "Gretna Green" and
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figure it out. Neither could we. It seems how-
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Babette, Bloomfield, N. J. — Of course Mae
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smart aleck writer did it for her, so don't cen-
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married and doesn't tell strangers how young she
is. She is dark and some of her best known
plays are: "From the Manger to the Cross,"
"Kerry Gow," "The Destroyer," "The Lotus
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B. M., Brandon, Manitoba. — Lillian Gish was
Elsie Stoneinan and Mae Marsh and Miriam
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of a Nation." Creighton Hale has light hair.
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NAME
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Pauline F., Bedford Hills, N. Y. — Pauline
Frederick is four inches over five feet tall, has
blue eyes and brown hair ; is fond of all out-
door sports (see January issue) and will be glad
to autograph a photo for you if sent to her at the
Famous Players studio. She is usually at the
studio every week day unless there is a lull be-
tween pictures.
E. B., South Bend, Ind. — Blanche Sweet is
21 years old, measures five feet five and lives in
Los .\ngeles. Thomas Meighan and John Bowers
are six footers, dark, and are both at Famous
Plavers.
Hele.v W., Jamestown, N. D. — Marshall
Neilan played with Marguerite Clark in "Mice
and Men." Annette Kellerman is married, Ruth
Roland not. Billie Burke's baby is a girl and
Olga Petrova was born in Warsaw, Poland.
B., Brisbane, Queensland. — Use International
Coupons if you want to send money to the
States. Enid Markey's address is Culver City,
Cal., and Bobbie Harron, 4500 Sunset Blvd., Los
Angeles, Cal. That interview is now on the fire.
Leonard, Montreal, Canada. — Somebody
slipped you the wrong information about our
enlistments, Leonard. Really, we're quite patri-
otic on this side of the St. Lawrence, even if
we don't make a lotta noise about it, and roast
the go\ ernment and such things. Mary Miles
Minter answers letters. Yes, she's a mighty
sweet prl. Sure Canada has a right to feel
proud of Mary Pickford but temper your pride
with a slant at the incontrovertible fact that she
had to come to the U. S. A. in order to eat.
Max,' Spokane, Wash. — Yes, Theda ought to
make someone a good wife, but, believe us.
Max, if we married her, she'd have to say
"adios" to the Shadow Stage. Send jour pro-
posal care of Fox, New York, and address Ethel
Clayton at World. P. S. Ethel has a perfectly
.yood husband.
X. G. H., Cambridge, Mass. — On behalf of my
assistants Mr. Julian Johnson and Mr. Cal York,
I wish to thank you for your praise of their
departments. Both are deserving young men
and should advance rapidly in their chosen pro-
fession. For obvious reasor^s they do not make
a practice of sending photographs to their ad-
mirers.
L. D. H., "Virginia, Minn. — A number of
Florence Turner's English-made films have been
released on t.-is side throvigh the Mutual Com-
pany, including "A Welsh Singer" and "Door
Steps." She is now in this country. Billie
Burke's husband is a stage producer and not an
actor. Hope your friend makes good.
F. S.. Xew York City. — Miss Cooper is now
the wife of Director Raoul Walsh of the Fox
Company, who played /. IVilkes Bootli, the actor-
assassin of Lincoln in ''The Birth of a Nation."
She and Miss Gwynn are not related.
A. G., Oakland, Cal. — Your ode to Billie
Burke has been turned over to the editor. Miss
Burke returns to the stage in about a month in
a new drama.
T. M. B., Warrenton, "Va. — Mr. Foxe probably
didn't mean to overlook you. He has been
traveling about a bit and probably rieglected
acknowledging your letter. Write him care
Norma Talmadge Companj', New York, and if
he don't kick in, report him to us forthwith.
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L. O., Greenland, N. H. — Some of your here-
tofore neglected favorites will appear in the Art
Section soon. Thanks awfully for your words
of commendation.
S. D., Nashville, Tenn. — William Russell is
with the American at Santa Barbara, Cal., and
Williain Courtleigh, Jr., with Famous Players in
New York.
Anne. Jackson. Tenn.- — Just hate to record
your vote against Wally Reid. He'll .probably
read that you don't think he's "so ai'.'fully hand-
some" and then go jump into the Los Angeles
River and break his leg. Hazel Dawn played in
"The Fatal Card" ; Edna Purviance has never
had her name on a marriage license ; Carlyle
Blackwell played in "The Key to Yesterday" ;
Lillian Gish is older than Dorothy and Guy
Coombs played opposite Miss Mintcr in "Barbara
Frietchie."
C. B., Aldanv, N. Y. — The storv "Peggy " ap-
peared in the issue of January, 1916. Mr. Bush-
man was supported by Beverly Bayne and
Bryant Washburn in "The Masked Wrestler."
We printed that in the October, 1914, number.
C. R., West New York, N. J.— Mr. Kimball is
related to Clara Kimball Young. He's her father.
Velma Whitman's hymeneal record is not in our
possession.
J. C, Sydney, N. S. — Better use International
Coupons in sending for photographs. Your
stamps are no good on letters mailed in the
U. S. A. Creighton Hale is not married ; born
1892 ; address Screen Club, X. Y. Wallace Reid
and Tom Forman, care Lasky and James Morri-
son, Ivan Films. Norma Talmadge and Charles
Richman were the leads in "The Battle Cry of
Peace."
Curious. Akron, O. — All we can do is take
Miss Cunard's word for it that she was born in
that dear Paree. What difference does it make
if she ivas born in Ohio? Didn't Ohio go for
Wilson? Grace's age is given as 23 and Pearl
White's 28. Alice Joyce is with Vitagraph.
Y'vonne, Moberly, Mo. — Mary MacLaren is at
Universal City and Pearl White with Pathe.
E. M. C, Buookline, Mass. — Marguerite Snow,
at this moment, is not playing in pictures but she
is arranging to resume activities before long.
We understand Hobart Henley is his right name
but don't know about his relatives.
Glen, Detroit, Mich. — Can't ad\ise you about
employment. Can only suggest that yovi remain
in Detroit. You might try for a job at Henry's.
Five plunks a day would sound good to many an
extra man.
D. P. L., Stamford, Conn. — It was Dustin
^Farnum in "David Garrick" and the girl was
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J. ^^, Norwood. O. — At this writing Vernon
Castle is still alive and flying. Sorry you were
disappointed in Earle Foxe. Very careless in
him to get married. His latest is opposite Norma
Talmadge in "Panthea."
P. White Fan, Brookville, Pa. — Y'es, Pearl
has a farm, raises little neck clams and pigs, and
things. Howard Estabrook is the hero in "The
Mvsteries of Myra." Earle \\"illianis is around
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The Shadow Sta^e
(Contiuucd from page 82)
The Men She Married. "Enoch Arden"
studied from the woman's viewpoint, with
a villainous Enoch. Gail Kane. Arthur
Ashley and Montagu Love, in a swift-
moving, well-staged, finely-photographed
drama. Not new in notion, but convinc-
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niG TREMAINE. Harold Lockwoodand
■^^ May Allison in a moving modern story
of wrong suspicions and eventual justifica-
tion at the critical moment. This picture
has some notable faults, but the personali-
ties of Mr. Lockwood and Miss Allison
denominate it a success.
The Brand of Cowardice. The best
military melodrama of today's America that
I've seen on the screen. Not because it
liasn't faults ; it's full of 'em, military and
otherwise, but it is dashing, dogged, un-
heroic, sex-thrilled and virile. It's a man's
play varnished with the glamour of a pretty
woman ; and it's clean. Here's a real
recommendation for this play, though other
reviewers have given it none. It's not a
play for the peace-eater ; the fellow who
prays to be kept out of war probably con-
siders this just too perfectly dreadful.
Lionel Barrymore and Grace Valentine are
fir.st in command. John Davidson plavs
an excellent Mexican skunk of sweetly
perfumed exterior. By all means the finale
should have been re-shot : here are moments
so ridiculous that they almost spoil it all.
Extravagance. A cold, heartless play
featuring Mme. Petrova. the marble lady.
Mme. Petrova is said to have told an inter-
viewer that she takes not the slightest
interest in any phase of her movie work
except autographing the pay roll. If the
statements attributed are true, her recent
frigid glidings are a full attest.
nEARL of the Army. Two episodes of
■^ this .serial mark it as one of the best
written and best executed notions in hold-
over preparedness propaganda yet gotten
up. Yet, why will hatless army men salute ?
These gross breaches of military etiquette,
coming from intelligent producers and one
of the most experienced manufacturers in
the world, are as unpardonable as the
knife-shovelling of peas at a banquet.
Radiant over everything is the inimitable
Pearl White, absnlutelv the serial queen of
the world.
jyjM BS. Here is the only Keystone in
•^^ months possessing the old double-edged
satire. It is a howl in municipal politics,
with Charley Murray. Louise Fazenda and
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J. F., DuDLEv, M.\ss. — .\ddress both Peggy
Hyland and .'Xnita Stewart in care of Vitagraph,
Brooklvn.
Bibbs, Minneapolis, Minn. — No, Bibbs, Edna
Mayo is not the wife of Henry Walthall, and
what's more, she never will be.
R. R., St. Louis, Mo. — Sure we like our job.
Wally Reid at one time was a member of the
Vitagraph Co., but that was in the dim dark ages.
Hazel Dawn is unmarried — her real name is
Hazel Tout. Vera Sisson is with Metro. War-
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found at 1765 Gower St., Hollywood, Cal. Nay,
nay, Carlyle Blackwell doesn't tell how old he is.
Send along the other sixteen qviestions that you
are "dying to ask."
H. J., Tacoma, Wash. — Here's hoping you
win. Creighton Hale isn't married. He did play
in "The Old Homestead" and so did Louise Huff.
K, W., CiRCLEViLLK, Ohio. — Thcodosia Good-
man is Theda Bara's real name. She is twenty-
six years old and her latest picture is "Romeo
and Juliet." No, she isn't cast as Romeo.
R. S., AsBURy Park, N. J. — Guy and Jack
Standing are brothers. Sorry you were dis-
appointed in not having your questions answered
sooner. Yes, the Monmouth Film Corp. is still
in existence.
P. L. M., San Diego, Cal. — The cast of
"Gloria's Romance" is ; Gloria Stafford — Billie
Burke. Dr. Stephen Royce — Henry Kolker.
Richard Frcneau — David Powell. Daz'id Staf-
ford— William Roselle. Frank Miilry — Frank
Belcher. Pierpont Stafford — William Carleton.
Lois Freeman — Jule Power.
Mrs. M. W., New York City, — Francis X.
Bushman was born in Virginia. His father's
name, strange as it may seem, was Mr. Bushman.
E. E., Council Bluffs, Ia.- — Virginia Pearson
and Stuart Holmes were in "Tortured Hearts"
and Margaret Thompson portrayed the part of
Betty Ainslee in "The Thoroughbred." No
trouble at all.
F. M. L., Los Angeles. — You are a real
Douglas Fairbanks fan, aren't you? Yep, his
pictures are great. He is thirty-three years old,
weighs one hundred and sixty pounds and stands
five feet ten in his never-ravels. His wife was
Beth Sully.
H. S., Okla. City. — Certainlj- you may ask
some questions. Lou-Tellegen has never played
opposite Geraldine Farrar on the screen or
stage.
R. B. B., Okla. City. — Flora Parker DeHaven
is the wife of Carter DeHaven. Lottie Pickford
is Mrs. Rupp in private life. The DeHavens
have two kidlets.
H. B., Calumet, La. — Address Mr. Bushman
in care of the Screen Club, New York City.
Blanche Sweet in care of Lasky Feature Play
Co., Hollywood, Calif.
F. McN., Philadelphia. — Yes, Charles Wal-
dron is the one who played opposite Pauline
Frederick in "Audrey." The cast of "Silks and
Satins" is : Fclicite. Marguerite Clark. /. Des^.
mond. Vernon Steele. Marquis, Clarence HanJ
dysides. Henri. W. A. ^^"illiams. Felix Breton^
Thomas Holding. Annette, Fayette Perry.
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Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section
155
Mary PicI<ford's lending man in "The Eternal
Grind" was John Bowers. Elda Furry was in
"The Battle of Hearts." Also, she is the current
wife of DeWolf Hopper.
P. M., Providence, R. I. — That goat was a
"good actor" in "Hulda from Flolland." He "got
the goat" of a great many people by dying a
perfectly natural death just when he was sup-
posed to. Or maybe he was doped.
v. S., Rudolph, Ohio. — Thomas Chatterton
and Lee Hills are both in California, but with
different companies — the former with the Ameri-
can at Santa Barbara and the latter with L'ni-
versal.
M. P., Alb.\nv, N. Y. — "Peg o' the Ring" was
a serial picture made in California with Miss
Cunard portraying the name part. Correct —
she has a secretary.
Neilan Admirkk, Sacr.\mento, Cal. — 1891 is
the year in which Marshal Neilan was born.
Mary Pickford's company is in New York most of
the time. We play no favorites.
Peggy, Windsor. Ont. — Why Peggy, Tom
Forman has been a member of the Lasky Feature
Play Co. for about two years. Haven't you seen
him in any of his Lasky pictures? Address him
in care of that company, Hollywood, Cal.
Margery Wilson is twenty. She is the one who
was cast as Myrtle in "The Return of Draw
Egan." Tom Forman has appeared in "Young
Romance," "The Woman," "Governor's Lady,"
"The Wild Goose Chase," "To Have and to
Hold," "The Thousand Dollar Husband" and
"Public Opinion." Anything else today, ma'am ?
E. B., New York City. — Ernie Shields was
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Eddie Polo. Mr. Shields' address is care Uni-
versal, at l^niversal City, Cal.
J. V. G., Montreal, Canada. — No, it isn't Mrs..
but Miss Hazel Dawn. Her address is Amity-
ville, L. L Norma Talmadge can be addressed
in care of Lewis Selznick, 49th St., at Seventh,
New York City.
B. D., Missoula, Mont. — It isn't probable that
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Gerrard, Peter, Gerald and Joseph, Gerrald.
Alan Forrest left L'niversal some time ago and
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American pictures.
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hero in "Molly-Make-Believe" was J. W. John-
ston.
Miss J. A. Brooklyn, N. Y. — Tsuru Aoki is
Mrs. Sessile Hayakawa. Address care Lasky.
D. D., De.wer, Colo. — Wallace Reid is mar-
ried to Dorothy Davenport. He and Marie Doro
arc with Lasky ; Anita Stewart is with Vitagraph.
H. W., Delta, Utah. — Has the date of Mar-
Kuerite Clark's wedding been set? We have not
received our invitation.
W. M. S., Gkimsbv, Canada. — Pauline Fred-
erick and Thomas Holding played in "Bella
Uonna." \^ictor Moore is certainly not dead.
Robert Warwick is with World.
R. H. B., Boston, Mass. — A reel is approxi-
mately one thousand feet of film.
Photoplay Lover. Los Angeles, Cal. — Mar-
guerite Clark's picture adorned the cover of the
March, 1916, magazine.
L. K., Los Angeles, Cal. — Here are their
birthdays: Bessie Barriscale, December 8; Dus-
tin Farnum, May 27 ; Winifred Kingston, Octo-
ber 26 ; Marie Doro, May 22 ; Hazel Dawn,
March 23; Lillian Gish, March 11; Dorothy
Gish, October 14. What are you going to send
them ?
M. C, CoR.\opoLis, Pa. — The part of Billy
Weed in "The Clown" was taken by Clifford
Grav.
M. M., New Orleans, La. — J. W. Kerrigan
was born July 25, 1889.
A. K., Chevy Chase. D. C. — Marshall Neilan
is at present directing Blanche Sweet. Donald
Brian is on the legitimate stage. Address Mary
Pickford care .\rtcraft ; Alice Joyce care Vita-
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ton care Famous Players.
E. H., Weuster Groves, Mo. — .\rthur Ashley
was Guy Hamilton in "Miss Petticoats;" Evart
Overton played opposite Lillian Walker in "Or-
deals of Elizabeth."
Mrs. H. B., Corning. N. Y. — Have you read
"Hints on Photoplay Writing?" That book will
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E. !M. B., New York City-. — Here is the cast
of "The Working of a Miracle" : Roy Conover,
Edward Earle : Mrs. Conover. Nellie Grant ;
Mary Turner, Gladys Hulette; Jason Kent, Carl-
ton King: the Nurse. Zenadie Williams: the
Sheriff, Ben Turbett ; Silas Hooper, Julian Reed;
Dr. Wliite, George Wright. Eddie Polo is thirty-
five ; Ernie Shields is thirty-two ; Jack Mulhall
is twenty-nine ; Harry Schumm is thirty-seven.
C. C, Big Timber, Mont. — Mrs. Joe Roach
Cnee Ruth Stonehouse) is twenty-four years old ;
Richard Travers is thirty-one. He says he has
driven e\ ery known make of car and several that
were unknown. Webster Campbell is twenty-
four vears old and married.
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G. A. M., Milwaukee, Wis. — Charlotte 1
Mineau was the lady detective in "The Floor- i
walker."
Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section
157
X. Y. Z., San Diego, Cal. — Blanche Sweet has
played in "The Battle" and "All on Account of
the Milk," in addition to the plays you mention.
R. B., Kansas City, Mo. — Harold Lockwood's
picture appeared in the Art Section in July,
1915; Mary Miles Minter's in March, 1916; Lil-
lian Gish's in September, 1915; Dorothy Gish's
in January, 1916. And interviews with Billie
Burke, Marie Doro and Anita Stewart appeared
in the May, 1916, February, 1916, and Septem-
ber, 1915, numbers, respectively. Mrs. Castle is
with International ; Mile. Gaby Deslys is not.
to our knowledge, honoring the screen with her
presence just now. Monroe Salisbury was the
hero of "The Goose Girl," Charles Waldron of
"Esmeralda" and Jack Standing of ''Fanchon the
Cricket."
R. P. D., Chicago, III. — Since the company
you inquire about released through Pathe, why
don't you write to the Pathe Exchange, 25 W.
45th St., New York City, for information ?
L. M., Englewood, N. J. — Creighton Hale has
had two dozen birthdays. Pearl White's photo-
graph appeared in the Art Section in May, 1915;
and didn't you see her pictvire on page 11 of the
November, 1916, number? Lionel Barry more
seems to be shy about telling his age ; or perhaps
he has forgotten.
F. H. B., Buffalo, N. Y. — Earl Foxe and
Edward Earle are with Metro, Alice Joyce with
Vitagraph, Bessie Love with Fine Arts, Jack
Standing and Jean Sothern with Fox, Jack Pick-
ford and Marguerite Courtot with Famous Play-
ers, Dorothy Davenport with Universal. Tom
Forman with Lasky and Conway Tearle with
Clara Kimball Young. Howard Estabrook is
married to a non-professional.
L. W. H., Waterbuuv Center, Vt. — This is
the cast of "Carmen," as produced by Fox:
Jose. Einar Linden ; Midiaela. Elsie McLeod ;
Escamilla. Carl Harbaugh ; Dancaire. J. A. Mar-
cus ; Carlotta. Fay Tunis; Carmen. Theda Bara.
Teddy Sampson would probably love to send you
her picture if you said "pretty please" — and sent
her a quarter.
B. G., Jackson, Mich. — Glad you give the
other departments of the magazine a little credit.
Far be it from us to hold a monopoly on the
compliments. Olive Golden played Teola in
"Tess of the Storm Country."
L. V. M., Dallas, Tex. — "Mice and Men" was
cast as follows : Peggy, Marguerite Clark ; Cap-
tain Lovell. Marshall Neilan ; Mark Embury,
Charles Waldron ; Roger Goodlake. Clarence
Handyside ; Mrs. Deborah, Maggie Fisher;
Joanna. Helen Dahl ; Minister Goodlake. Robert
Conville ; Embury's Servant, William McKey ;
Matron, Ada Deaves ; Colored Mammy. Fran-
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E. McK., Detroit, Mich. — Write to Edward
Earle at the Screen Club, New York City. Crane
Wilbur is a widower. His wife died about two
months ago.
Pepper, New York City. — Charles Ray is
married to a non-professional. This is final.
Fay S.. DunuQUE, Ia. — Creighton Hale is 24
and he's 5 feet 10 inches tall, and Pearl White is
28 and is just five inches shorter than he is.
"The Iron Claw" was filmed in New York. The
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Snowfl.^ke, Brockton, Mass. — Your letter was
a delight. Miss Frederick is worthy of your ad-
miration as she is a splendid artist, but it is our
belief that her mother attends to most of her cor-
respondence. She has appeared successively in
the following photoplays : "The Eternal City,"
"Sold," "Zaza," "Bella Donna," "Lydia Gilmore,"
"Audrey," "Ashes of Embers." Her description
is given elsewhere. Don't l<now what has hap-
pened to the singer you mention. Enjoyed your
comparison of the "idols" bvit we're neutral.
Anita Stewart is back at work. Write again.
K. W. Salisbury, Md. — Mr. Bushman's middle
name is Xavier. Didst think 'twas Xantippe?
Cannot answer your questions about Miss Minter.
We're not her sartorial mentor. So far as we
know, Helen Holmes' stunts are not faked. We
know of no device that will make a train seem to
be going when it is standing still.
J. H. Westfield, Wis. — Too bad your theater
man can't pick his "plays. The time is rapidly ap-
proaching when he will not be at the mercy of
a film jobber who inflicts upon him photoplays
that are unworthy of presentation. Didn't know
the company you mention had a standard. Harold
Lock-wood did not play in "The Fugitive." Mutu-
al's stars include, Mary Miles Minter, Richard
Bennett, Helen Holmes, William Russell, Charles
Chaplin, Crane Wilbur and others.
D. M., Niagara Falls, N. Y. — Charles Ray was
born in Jacksonville, 111., and educated in Los
Angeles, "^'ou must curb your ata\istic tenden-
cies. He, Earle and Wally have as much_ right
to get married as anyone else. Of course, if you
insist on homicide, see a good lawyer before you
start operations.
Babbie, Springfield, Mass. — So far as we
know, he pronounces it like it is spelled Mon
ta gu. Mr. Love doesn't say whether he is mar-
ried, so you may suspect the worst. Mr, Warner's
last is a McClure picture, not as yet released.
Your qvtestion revealed your sex, so the confes-
sion was unnecessary.
.\dele, San Francisco. — Your grievance is well
based, up to a certain point. Miss Bara — or per-
haps her manager is at fault — has insisted upon
shrouding herself in mystery. It is the theory of
some students of publicity that mystery makes for
popularity — or at least a keener interest on the
part of the public, than familiarity with the sub-
ject. It is rather difficult to get an intimate story
out of a ghost. Of course, this is only our private
opinion. Do you get the point? Howe\er, there
will be an interesting story abovit Miss Bara soon
that may fill yotir requirements. Write again.
We like constructive criticism.
Heinie, Cincinnati. — Quite agree with you
about Sothern in "An Enemy to the King" and
the members of his cast. You are a good critic.
E. J., Spokane, Wash. — Leona Flugrath, Shir-
ley Mason and Viola Dana are sisters._ Vivian
Martin is at the Morosco studio. Gloria Fonda
has appeared in "The College Orphan," "The
Devil and Idle Hands," "The Unmasking," "The
Mills of the Gods," and "Drugged Waters."
Rose 18, Toledo, O. — We object to no form of
questions except those mentioned at the begin-
ning of this department. All of the information
in our possession is at the disposal of our readers.
Send on the box of candy for Beverly Bayne is
entirely unmarried. Happy New Year.
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159
STUDIO DIRECTORY
For tlie coiiviMiicnoo of our readei-s wbo may
desire tlie luUlresses of film companies we give
the prineipal ones lielow. The first is tlie business
ofBce ; (*) inilicates proper office to send manu-
scripts; (s) indicates a studio; at times all three
may be at one address.
American 1'^ilm Mfg. Co., (i227 Broadway, Clii-
cago ; Santa Barbara. Cal. (*i (s).
Aktcr.\ft I'lCTUKEs CORP. (Mary I'icUford), 729
Seventh Ave., New Yorli City.
Balboa Amusbjient Producing Co., Long
Beach, Cal. (*) (s).
California Motion Pictukb Co., San Kafael.
Cal. (*) (s).
Chri.stie Film Corp., Main and Washington,
Los Angeles, Cal.
Consolidated Film Co., 1482 Broadway, Xew
York City.
Edison, Thomas, Inc., 2826 Decatur Ave., New
York City. (*) (s).
EssANAY Film Mfg. Co., 1333 Argyle St., Chi-
cago. (*) (s).
Famous Players Film Co., 485 Fifth Ave.,
New York City ; 128 W. .56th St.. New York City.
Fine Arts, 4.j00 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles,
Cal.
Fox Film Corp.. 130 W. 4eth St., New York
City (*) ; 1401 Western Ave., Los Angeles (*)
(si ; Fort Lee, N. J. (s).
Frohman Amusement Corp., 140 Amity St.,
Flushing, L. L ; 18 E. 41st St., New York Clt.y.
Gaumont Co.. 110 W. Fortieth St.. New York
City; Flushing. N. Y. (s) ; Jacksonville, Fla. (s).
HoRSLEY Studio, Main and Washington, Los
Angeles, Cal.
Thos. IL Ince (Kay-Bee Triangle), Culver City,
Cal.
International Film Co., Godfrey Bldg., New
Y'ork City.
Kalem Co., 235 W. 23d St.. New York City (*) ;
251 W. 19th St.. New York City (s( ; 1425 Flem-
ing St.. Hollywood. Cal. (s) ; Tallyrand Ave.,
Jacksonville, Fla. (s) ; Glendale. Cal. (s).
Keystone Film Co., 1712 Allesandro St., Los
Angeles, Cal.
Kleine, George, 166 N. State St., Chicago.
Lasky Feature Play Co., 485 Fifth Ave., New
Y'ork City ; 6284 Selma Ave., Hollywood, Cal.
Lone Star Film Corp. (Chaplin), 1025 Lillian
Way, Los Angeles, Cal.
Metro Pictures Corp., 1476 Broadway. New
Y'ork (*) (all manuscripts for the following
studios go to Metro's Broadway address.) : Kolfe
Photoplay Co. and Columbia I'ictures Corp.. 3 W.
61st St., New Ycn-k City (s) ; Popular Plays and
l*layers. Fort Lee, N. J. (s) ; Quality Pictures
Corp., Metro office ; Yorke Film Co., Hollywood,
Cal. (s).
MoROSCO Photoplay Co., 222 W. 42d St., New
Y'ork City (*) ; 201 Occidental Blvd., Los Angeles,
Cal. (s).
Moss, B. S., 729 Seventh Ave., New York Citv.
Mutual Film Corp., Consumers Bldg.. Chicago.
Pallas Pictures. 220 W. 42d St.. New York
City; 205 N. Occidental Blvd.. Los Angeles. Cal.
Pathb Exchange, 25 W. 45th St.. New York
City; Jersey City. N. J. (s).
I'owELL, Frank, Production Co., Times Bldg.,
New Y'ork Cit.v.
Selig Polyscope Co., Garland Bldg., Chicago
(*) ; Western and Irving Park Blvd.. Chicago (s) :
3800 Mission Road, Los Angeles. Cal. (s).
Lewis Selznick Enterprises (Clara Kimball
Young Film Corp.), (Norma Talmadge Film
Corp.), (Kitty Gordon), (Herbert Brenon). Grant-
wood, N. J. (s) ; 126 W. 46th St.. New York
City (*).
Signal Film Corp., 4560 Pasadena Ave., Los
Angeles, Cal. (*) (s).
Thanhouser Film Corp., New Rochelle, N. Y'.
(*) (s) ; Jacksonville. Fla. (s).
Universal Fil.m Mfg. Co.. 1600 Broadway,
JV'ew York City ; Universal City. Cal.
Vim Comedy Co.. Providence.' R. I.
Vitagraph Company of America. E. l."ith and
Locust Ave., Brooklyn. N. Y. : Hollywood. Cal.
VOGUB Comedy Co.. Gower St. and Santa Mon-
ica Blvd.. Hollywood. Cal.
Wharton Inc., Ithaca, N. Y'.
World Filji Corp.. 130 W. 46th St., New Y'ork
City (*) ; Fort Lee, N. J. (s).
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M. E. P., Ohio. — Ethel Grandin is not the wife
of Maurice Costello. She has a husband of her
own and there i.s a Mrs. Costello. Earle Williams
has no permanent leading lady. Gladys Clark has
never been in the movies, ,we think, only in
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Grace, Bisbee, Ariz. — Harold Lockwood and
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Lillian, Stamford, Conn. — Viola Dana was
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R. S., Akko.n, O. — The stage comedians you
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Film Fan, Chicago. — "Perilous Love" is the
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have. Marshall Xeilan heroed in "Rags;"
David Powell in "The Dawn of a Tomorrow ;
George Anderson in "Little Pal:" Edward Mar-
tindell in "The Foundling:" Charles West in
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Mabel, Petersburg, Va. — No, we don't mind.
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G. H., Altoona, Pa. — Petrova was the name of
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Edith, Bangor, Me. — Wallace Reid will write
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M. K., Milwaukee, W'is. — -Miss Greenwood is
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E. K., Buffalo, N. Y. — Grace Cunard was horn
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Edward Coxen ; Florence. Lizctte Thornc ; Jacob
Dexter, Charles Newton ; Doris, M. Nichols.
C. B., Washington, D. C. — No, we haven't
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Mrs. a. R. T., Chicago, III. — At last we have
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B. T., Ithaca, N. Y. — Lubin is out of business;
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Kleine, Essanay, Selig and Edison release through
the K. E. S. E. Cast of "The Wrong Woman:"
Marion Ord. Mabel Trunnelle ; Arthur Dam,
George Wright: Dr. Done. Harrv Evtinge ; /fv
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Constant Reader. Long Branch, N. J. —
Harold Lockwood is not married. He says so
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D. E. M., Birmingham, Ala. — Louisville. Ken-
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M_. McC, Collinsville, Okla. — Billie Rhodes
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K. 'V. R., Warrf.nton, N. C. — Yes, Frank Mayo
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Evelyn, Minneapolis, Minn. — Mr. and Mrs.
Sydney Drew produce 52 comedy sketches each
year. That's why we can't publish a list of 'em.
Letters to actors should be sent to their respective
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K.\THLEi.N H., O.'ii.o, Minn. — Guess you'll have
to use your imagination when thinking about the
color of Fred Whitman's hair and eyes. We
don't know. No, Grace Ciuiard's face has not
appeared on the cover — neither has Jackie Saun-
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uses calling- cards lilce this : "Mrs. Joseph Kauf-
man." Francis Ford still appears opposite Grace.
D. W., Altoona, Pa. — Louise Lovely is with
Universal. Ruth Stonehouse was "The Slim Prin-
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■V. K., Detroit. — Yes, there is a new film com-
pany known as the Margaret Anglin Film Com-
pany. Ethel. John and Lionel Barrymore all had
the same parents. Frank Keenan was with Ince-
Triangle, but recently resigned.
Anna R. O. C, Providence, R. L — No, Thomas
Meighan has not deserted the cinema for stock.
He's now with Famous Players in New York.
A. Bernice C, Washington, D. C. — Beverly
Bayne was born in 1895, and she's still single.
Bessie Barriscale is Mrs. Howard Hickman.
E. V. K., New Brunswick, N. J. — Ann Penn-
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she has grown to be 4 feet 6 inches tall with red-
dish brown hair and dajrk brown eyes. As to
Mary Miles Minter, she first saw light April 'l,
1 902, and she's now 5 feet tall and has wonder-
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your addresses : Pearl White, Pathe ; Gerda
Holmes, World ; May Allison, Metro-Yorke, Los
Angeles, Cal.
Dorothy B., Lexington, Ky. — Boston, Mass.,
September 10, 1907, settles your first question
about Leland Bcnham of Thanhouser. While
receiving his education at New Rochelle he was
also working in pictures, playing opposite Helen
Badgley in child plays. Address Fort Lee, N. J.
Rae. B., McKinney, Texas. — Dorothy Don-
nelly played the lead in "Madame X." Edna
Mayo did not appear in the play with her.
"Behind the Scenes.'' — Here is the original
cast: Dolly Lane, Mary Pickford ; Steve Hunter,
James Kirkwood ; Teddy Harrington, Lowell Sher-
man ; Mrs. Harrington, Ida Waterman ; Jose
Canbv. Russell Bassett.
M. E. W., Saginaw, Mich. — The young per-
son who played as Ford Sterling's son in "Fol-
lowing His Father's Footsteps'' was Lee Moran.
M. N. O. — That "darling little girl" in "Naked
Hearts" w^as Zoe Rae. Yes, in "Dimples" the
part of Mary Miles Minter's aunt was taken by
her real mother.
F. W. B., Monmouth, III. — William Farnum's
latest play is "The Fires of Conscience." \'ictor
Moore is with Klever Comedies, a new company.
Laura C. E., South Pasadena. Cal. — Harri-
son Ford of "Come Again Smith" fame is the
Harrison Ford of "Anton the Terrible." Seems
to be a case of the little old Ford rattling right
along, doesn't it? Twinkling stars sometimes fib
about their ages because sometimes the minute
thev even hint at getting old they cease twinkling.
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Elma B., Port Axgeles, Wash.' — Here are
your casts: "Tess of the Storm Country," Tcssi-
bel Skinner, Mary Pickford ; Frederick Graves,
Harold Lockwood ; "Spell of the Yukon,'' Jim
Carson, Edmund Breese ; Albert Temple, Arthur
Hoops ; Helen Temple, Christine Mayo. In
"Daphne and the Pirate" Lillian Gish played
Daphne La Tour and Elliott Dexter was Philip
dc Mornay. Hazel Dawn was a charming Xcll
Carroll and Robert Cain was Teddy De I' mix in
"My Lady Incog." Alice Brady and Arthur Ash-
ley were Jane Lazvson and George Bhikc. re-
spectively, in "Tangled Fates" and in "A Night
Out" May Rohson was Gran'miim. Flora Finch
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the parts of Kit^a. Jeff Dorgan and Waldo were
taken by Eva Taylor, Hughie Mack and George
Cooper respectively. Quite a little task, Elma,
but we hope you're happy now. Betty Marsh is
Mae Marsh's neice.
K. W., Statf.n Island, X. Y. — True Boardman
was born in Oakland, Cal,, in 1885. He is a six-
footer, weighs ISO pounds, has brown hair and
blue eyes. Don't know whether he's encumbered
matrimonially, but assume not.
Elsie E. B., Washington, D. C. — John Bow-
ers, Elsie, is over 6 feet tall, weighs 180 and was
born in Indiana, "^'es. he was on the stage. In
pictures he was with World and Metro, as well as
Famous Players. He is an all around athlete
and gets his mail at the Cambria apartments, 355
W. 55th Street, New York City. As to Henry
Walthall, he is still with Essanay. If Charlie
Chaplin's favorite indoor sport is tea guzzling in
Los Angeles we know it not. Some folks are ever
ready to slander the successful ones.
A. H. G. — Can't tell you about Myrtle Lind.
Eddie Lyons is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs
143 on the scales at L'niversal City, Cal. Maurice
Costello, now with Consolidated Film Co., is 5
feet ,10 and weighed 160 when he last tested the
scales. He looks heavier now.
Mr. 44. — What do we think of Harold Lock-
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he does in an athletic way. He must be a pretty
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Socrates, St. Louis, Mo. — For one who is
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and Blanche Sweet, Lasky ; Theda Bara, Fox ;
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Fan, Amarillo, Texas. — Yes, the Thanhouser
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My land girl, don't ask us why there aren't more
twins in the world ! It's against our rules. There
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Charlotte, Charleston, W. Va. — Charles Ray
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E. H., Plainfield, N. J. — Sorry, Elsie, but
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EVS., Tulsa, Okla. — Tall blondes register weil
if their features are good. No, every movie
star doesn't have to have a perfect complexion.
Blanche Payson, of Keystone, is probably the
tallest actress in pictures.
Anxious Contesta-nt. — There is no set number
of scenes to a reel. To learn more of this you
had better buy a book on scenario writing. No
it is not necessary to divide your scenario into
reels.
"Piggy," Richmond, Va. — "Ho hum" we ex-
claimed "Wallie Reid again." Well, here you
are : His hair, which is all his own, is mixed,
the predominating tone being brown. His weight
is 185, and he's 6 feet 2 inches tall. At various
times he was reporter, civil engineer, cowboy and
editor which might be expected since his papa
is Hal Reid, the versatile playwright. Wallie
is married to Dorothy Davenport. Park Jones
was Jack Dexter, Beth's sweetheart, in "The Raga-
muffin."
A. B. J., Little Falls, Minn. — There are no
back numbers of Photoplay containing an in-
terview with May Allison. Harold Lockwood has
served with Nestor, Nymph, Selig, Famous Play-
ers, American and Metro. Allison and Lockwood
are a good team, as you say.
V. E. W., Jasper, Texas. — Surely, Mary Miles
Minter will answer your letter. Her address is
1515 Santa Barbara St., Santa Barbara, Calif.
J. J. W., Richmond, Va. — My, you missed
some mighty good numbers if you didn't see
Pearl White on the January cover. Marguerite
Courtot on February, Marguerite Clark, March,
Edna Mayo, April and Gail Kane, May. Yes, in-
deed, they can still be obtained by sending the
usual fifteen pfennings.
D. S., Tulsa, Okla. — Master Harold Hollacher
was the small brother in "Hulda from Hol-
land." Yes, Carlyle Blackwell is a benedick. Glad
to hear you are going to be a "constant reader. '
That makes it unanimous.
R. S. W., Miami, Fla. — F. X. Bushman, not
Earle Foxe, in "The Wall Between." Mr. Foxe is
the husband of Celia Santon.
Flo. D., Mobile, Ala. — Here's William Gar-
wood : born in 1886, can be addressed at Uni-
\ersal City, Gal. He is not married. Violet
Mersereau has blue eyes and brown hair.
M. T.. Napier, New Zealand. — Some of the
screen players answer letters, while others do not.
If there is any one in particular you care to
write to, perhaps we could let you know definitely.
S. H., Terra Bella, Cal. — No, we meant the
Fox production of "The Soldiers' Oath" with Wil-
liam Farnum.
Marjorie, Memphis, Tenn. — Sure, we got
your verses to Henry Walthall. We are no
authority on poetry — only on poultry, pumpkin
pie and penmanship — but our judgment is that
your effusion wasn't half bad. At least the
editor didn't hurl anything our way when we
wished it on him. Enjoyed your letter; write
again.
Peggy B.. Mo.xtclair. N. J. — Yes, Peggy,
heard you the first time. As soon as Anita gets
a new picture taken and sends us one, we'll print
it. Address Marguerite Courtot care Famous
Plavers.
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Florida First, Tami'a, Fla. — Did yovi see the
Tampa pictures in the front of the book? They
ought to please a .uood booster like you. Don't
believe Harry Carey is married. Have no in-
formation on the books you mention.
Mrs. S., Buffalo, N. Y. — Hate to break your
heart, but we're not fooling; Mr. Bushman is
actually married. Write again, we dote on orig-
inality and you've the most original style of
spelling we ever lniiii])ed into.
B. L., Leavenworth, Kan. — Which girl in
"The Common Law"? Rita was Edna Hunter
.and Stephanie w;is Lillian Cook. Clara Kiniljall
Young is not dixorced. Yes. do write ag.-iin.
Keep Lea\enworth on the niai>.
'■\\'av Down South." Xokfolk, 'Va. — Gcral-
dine Farrar will probably send you a ])hoto.
Address her at Lasky's. Miss Young's newest
play is "The Foolish Virgin." Don't worry aliout
your imagination. Only clods have none.
Reader, Cleveland, O. — -Antonio Moreno is
28 years old and is not afflicted with a wife. If
he is engaged, he is keeping it a secret. .Some
of his best known photoplays : "Island of Re-
generation," "The Shop Girl," "Price of Folly"
and "The Tarantula."
M. W., RoACHDALE, Ind. — Crane Wilbur is not
married. He is a widower, as his wife died in
November after a long ilincss. He had been
married less than a year.
J. L., San Qlentin, Cal. — Tom Forman was
the person in "The Unknown" to whom you
refer. Lou-Tellegen did not direct the picture.
Do they show films where j-ou are? Pretty nice
of 'em.
G. B., LTppER Montclair, N. J. — 'Wouldn't be
surprised if you were right about Bobby Harron
and Dorothy Gish. We jvist had a grapevine
dispatch from Hollywood which stated that they
would be married before long. Bill Hart is
something over 40 and unmarried. Don't know
what the "S" in his name stands for, but venture
a guess that it's not Sylvester. He's all Ameri-
can of English descent. Why don't you write
Dorothy Dalton and tell her she's your favorite?
Have no information about the other Dorothy.
E. C. Moose Jaw, Canada. — That stamp you
sent isn't much good to us. Anyhow we couldn't
tell you how to be an actress. See page 136.
C. G., RosLYN Heights, L. L — Photoplay
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Sincerely, Grand Rapids, Mich. — Henry
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pictures, his most recent one being "The Truant
Soul."
Ruth, Victoria. B. C. — Both "Eileen" and
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hair and eyes and stands five feet, seven inches in height. Mr. Courtleigh
won a big film following as Neal in "Neal of the Navy," the Balboa serial,
and has added to it as a Famous Player lead. For the latter he has played
in "Out of the Drifts," "Under Cover" and other photoplays.
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JACKIE SAUNDERS
posed for some of the nation's leading artists before her face became
familiar to screen lovers. Her honest-to-goodness name is Jacqueline and
she was born in Philadelphia 24 years ago last October. She was a "stage
child" and played in vaudeville, and stock before joining Biograph in 1911.
She has also played for Pathe and Universal and is now with Balboa, for
which she starred in "The Grip of Evil"' serial and many features.
Photo hy Wit^-
WILFRED LUCAS
was one of the first legitimate stage leads to be seen in the movies. He
was with Biograph early in the game, then with Universal and Fine Arts.
His most notable work was in "Acquitted." Mr. Lucas is a Canadian and
was educated at Montreal High School and McGill University. He followed
athletics after -leaving college and then went on the stage. He spent nine
years in grand and light opera and for two years played in "Quo Vadis."
LOIS WEBER
is the best known and most able woman director in the fihn field as well
as a capable actress and a clever writer. She went into pictures back in
1908 with Gaumont after a successful stage career and most of the time
since she has been with Universal, although she was with Bosworth long
enough to win lasting fame with her '"Hypocrites." She directed '"Where
Are My Children?" "Shoes," "Jewel" and other film "best sellers."
Photo by White
MARIE CHAMBERS
is one of the latest additions to the vampire directory, and a blonde vamp
at that! She made her first screen appearance with Pauline Frederick in
"The Woman in the Case" and was next seen with Norma Talmadpe in
" Fifty-Fifty." She is now vnth World. Miss Chambers is a native of Phil-
adelphia, was educated abroad and played for four years on the legitimate
stage with Mrs. Fiske, Irene Fenwick and Julian Eltinge.
THE WORLD'S LEADING MOVING PICTURE PUBLICATION
PHOTOPLAY
MAGAZINE
March, 1917
Vol. XI, No. 4
y Roche: Saleslady
The Adventure of
The Three Georges
In which Peggy discomfits certain representa-
tives of rival houses by remembering that the
horse goes before — not the cart, but the blanket.
By Victor Rousseau
Illustrations
C h
a r
1 e
D. Mitchell
THEM fellers," said
Ali, the 4iotel drago-
man, "is thicker than
thieves. You ain't got no
more chance against them,
Mees, than me against
Pasha Yussouf Effendi if
he was to get sore on me."
Ali, of the English Ho-
stel, Jerusalem, had taken a
fancy to Miss Peggy Roche since her ar-
rival the day before with her sample cases.
Peggy came from Stamford and Ali had
worked in a garage there in the palmy days
of his life, before family aifairs, coupled
with a misunderstanding with the Connecti-
cut government concerning plurality of
wives, had driven him back to the stony
deserts of his native Syria.
"You see, Mees, they're working glove in
fist," he continued. "Your firm ain't got
no chance at all against them. For v^^hy?
Pasha Yussouf Effendi knows which side
his palm's buttered."
HERE is the first of the Peggy
Roche stories — the adven-
tures of an American girl in the
romantic field of commerce — a
new kind of American girl in a
new field of industrial endeavor.
With this story, Photoplay
.Magazine inaugurates its new
fiction policy — a bigger and
newer and brighter Photoplay
Magazine.
Peggy had learned a
good deal since her arrival
at Jaffa a week before, as
representative of the Jim
Byrne War Goods Supply
C o m p a-n y, of Stamford.
Jim Byrne had been mak-
ing bicycles in a> one story
shack before the war broke
out, but he had caught the
•war orders fever, and between his infection
and Peggy's arrival at Jaffa, thanks to the
blockading British fleet being busy at the
Dardanelles, there were many links, in the
main of a personal and confidential nature.
Peggy strolled out upon the veranda*h.
From there she could see the city of
Jeru.salem spread out beneath her: the
high Water Gate, with its new tower, the
street car^s recentlv instituted, carrying
their motley load of Turkish officers, sol-
diers, bare-legged Arabs in burnouses,
veiled women, Jews, Europeans. Through
the narrow winding streets passed camels
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5*l5$i
"Shouldl fall," observed the Sheikh grimly, "his
to its appointed destiny— which I do not doubt,
and donkeys, with bulging panniers, ob- wliat might literally be called squatters'
structing the passage of the electric car.s rights. Over the low Jaffa plain brooded
with the imperturbability of centuries of a stormy sunset.
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soul shall precede my own
is different. "
However, Peggy was not looking at the verandah of the English Hotel. She would
I scene with any interest just then. She was have known them anywhere for compatri-
regarding the three men who sat on the ots, and also — traveling salesmen.
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Peggy, in the jull
attire of a Turkish
Hanoum was pass-
ing unchallenged be-
tween the two sen-
tries at the gate of
Yussoiif Pasha 's offi-
cial residence.
The thin man with the lined face
George Siefert, of Chicago, representing a
saddlery and leather goods concern. The
stout little man in the white helmet was
George Drummond, of Kansas City, inter-
ested in rifles and munitions. The man
with the bald head was George Hagan, of
Jersey City, and his talk ran mainly to
wool.
Each of the three had his feet cocked up
on the verandah railing, each was regard-
ing the scene
with a sort of
absorbed intro-
spection, and
each had an " , " ' ~ •==-—
iced drink up-
on the little table in front of them. As
Peggy appeared, the three heads turned si-
multaneously in her direction.
Peggy Roche: Saleslady
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Siefert was the only one of the three
Georges who took his feet down. "All hail,
Miss Roche!" he said, the lines in his face
creasing into a wrinkled grin.
Peggy went forward. She was conscious
of the constraint in the other men's attitude.
"I hear we've got into a regular happy
hunting ground," said Drunimond. "Yus-
souf Pasha's buying everything. By the
way, what was your line, Miss Roche?"
"Anything and everything," said Peggy.
"You don't specialize?" inquired George
Hagan, looking at her blandly. "Now I
.sell wool goods and nothing but wool
goods."
"I've got lines in fly swatters, sun hel-
mets, insect powder, rifles, shells, water-bot-
tles, haversacks, and saddlery," said Peggy,
assuming an innocence which seemed to
tickle the three men immensely.
"Well I guess they want fly swatters out
here," said George Hagan, shooing a
winged pest from the top of his bald head.
"Say, Miss Roche, if I was you I'd go see
Yussouf at the Palace. Maybe he'll buy a
dozen for each of the soldiers of the Egyp-
tion expedition."
"Haw, Haw !" roared the other two.
"Now that's a good idea," said Peggy.
"I believe I will, Mr. Hagan."
"Sure. And likewise insect powder.
Lord, Miss Roche, you got us all beat sure
for inventiveness."
Peggy turned away. As she went back
into the hotel she was conscious that the
three men were whispering together. And,
passing through the dining-room behind the
verandah, she was positive that she heard
the word "blankets."
'T'HE three men were hand in glove, as
■*• All had said. They had pooled their
interests and subdivided their lines, rather
than bid against each other, to meet the
rapacity of the local Pasha. But Peggy,
representing a little one-horse concern, was
beneath their notice. She had seen the
looks of amusement which had passed
among the trio when she revealed that .she
was a traveller in war goods. And it did
seem out of place, only Jim Byrne had had
a hard struggle with his bicycle factory and
Peggy was resolved that they should be
millionaires before they married.
She had persuaded him to let her go to
Europe, and he had yielded, at first re-
luctantly, then with the American's faith
hi the unfailing capabilities of the Ameri-
can girl. But as yet Peggy had sold noth-
ing.
Worse than that, nearly all her samples
were held up at Malta, while the firms rep-
resented by the three Georges had their
goods actually ready for delivery, slipped
through the thick blockading line to Jaffa
in Greek vessels always ready to run the
risk of capture with the high freight rates
existent.
Jim had scraped togeth'er six thousand
dollars, by borrowing, by giving notes, by
inducing friends to invest in his new
scheme. He knew that in these days of hit
or miss contracts samples were next to use-
less. And Peggy had one thousand army
blankets which would represent a clean-up
of five thousand dollars, safely stored away
in Malta, with no possibility of their being
discharged until the end- of the war.
DlJT there must be blankets to be had in
Jaffa or Jerusalem. She determined to
see Yussouf Pasha immediately, to beat the
Georges in their field.
It is not difficult for a woman to gain
admittance to the Palace in any Turkish
vilayet, especially if she ' goes veiled.
Twenty minutes after the conversation upon
the porch, Peggy, in the full attire of a
Turkish Hanomn, which the discreet Ali
had procured for her, was passing unchal-
lenged between the two sentries at the gate
of Yussouf Pasha's official residence.
The little Greek secretary who was sum-
moned by the perplexed major domo knew
how many matters of importance are spread
through feminine agency in the East. He
admitted her to the Pasha's office at once
and Yussouf Effendi, happening to have
finished the day's official duties, looked up
with interest at the pretty Turkish girl who
suddenly threw off her veil and displayed
unmistakably Caucasian features.
"Your Excellency," said Peggy, "I — "
The Pasha shrugged his shoulders and
turned to the secretary, who lingered beside
him.
"I speak English," said the little man.
"What is your business?"
"I've got some blankets to sell — one
thousand," said Peggy. "And I can deliver
as many more as the Pasha wants inside of
two months."
The secretary translated. The Pasha
smiled and said something in Turkish.
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"His Excellency wishes to know
of what nationality you are, and why
you wish to sell blankets," he said.
"I am an American," said Peggy,
producing her ready card. "I rep-
resent the Jim Byrne War Goods
Supi)ly Company, of Stamford, Con-
necticut. And we have a choice sup-
ply of almost everything — rifles,
cartridges, ordnance, saddlery, solar
lielmets — "
There was more conversation. "Hut
the blankets," persisted the secretary.
"His Excellency might consider the
blankets. When can they be seen?
Blankets are what is most needed — "
"In the Siani Desert," said Peggy.
The Pasha caught the word and
started. Of course the news of the
expedition against Egypt was an open
secret, and it was obvious that the
soldiers would require blankets in the
cold wilderness of Siani; still, the
Pasha was disconcerted.
He was speaking to the secretary
again when the telephone buzzed.
Yussouf Pasha took it up, then si)oke
rapidly in Greek.
"His Excellency says for you to
go," he said. "Just a leetle minute,
if you please."
And he walked to the door and ad-
mitted George Hagan, who nodded
briskly to the Pasha, and seeing
Peggy in Turkish attire, broke into
an explosion of laughter.
"\'()U know this lady?" in(]uired
the (ireek.
"Well, I should say so," answered
Goerge Hagan. "Fly swatters is her
line, I understand."
"I have not come here to sell fly
swatters, but army blankets," said Peggv
angrily.
George Hagan looked at her in admira-
tion. "Well, say, that's the limit 1" he ex-
claimed. "Where are they?"
The Pasha was speaking. The little
Greek was speaking. Had Peggy the
blankets ready for exhibition? What was
their price? George Hagan began to look
disconcerted. 7'hen, when the girl tem-
porized, a look of relief came over his face.
"Slie hasn't got them. She's four-flush-
ing," he roared at the secretary. "You
know, Konstantinopoulis, four of a kind
and the deuce of spades."
"My line's blanket»
"and I'm buying,
blankets. I'm pay
A 1 qualify — know
The secretary knew ver\' well. The three
^\cre against Peggy now, but she was fight-
ing gamely.
"I can secure them in seven days," she
said, and mentally resolved to comb Pales-
tine fine for them. "The best, all-wool
blankets, at a price ten per' cent lower tlian
-Mr. Hagan's. Your .soldiers will never feel
tlie cold through them."
The Greek translated, the Pasha stared ;
George Hagan rocked himself with unsup-
pressed mirth.
"Well, that's the limit!" he broke out.
"It ain't soldiers' blankets the Pasha want-^.
Miss Roche, it's horse-blankets."
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just now, " she said,
not selling — • horse
ing three dollars for
wherelcan getany?"
Peggy sat in lier room, clothtd in her
normal attire, and in a rage of humiliation.
She had tried to steal a march upon George
Hagan and he had not only beaten her but
discovered her plot, to the amusement of
the Pasha and the little Greek. Brazen as
she had learned to be, she dared not show
her face to the three Georges on the veran-
dah beneath her window.
She could hear their noisy laughter float-
ing up to her. She knew that they were dis-
cussing her discomiiture and rejoicing over
it. Only by virtue of some dramatic turn-
ing of the tables could Peggy face them
again. Not only that, but the story of her
discomiiture, travelling as fast through the
Orient as along any drummer's route in the
United States, would kill all chances of
building up a business for Jim. Peggy pic-
tured him, sitting in his dinky office, selling
goods that he had not yet managed to pur-
chase, a middleman posing as a manufac-
turer, and anxiously waiting for the cable
that was to announce a clean-up.
So it was horse-blankets the Pasha
wanted. Peggy tried to think out tlie im-
plications. A horse-blanket, unlike a sol-
dier's lilanket, becomes useless after a single
winter. When a horse dies on a campaign
its blanket is left with the carcass. No-
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body is going to burden himself with a
horse-blanket until he gets another horse.
If the Pasha wanted horse-blankets, he
must be expecting horses.
But from where? Not from the block-
aded coast of Hungary, the European reser-
voir of horseflesh. Not from the United
States or the Argentine. For horses can-
not slip through a blockade, even a laz one,
as goods can, when concealed in the bot-*
toms of Greek freighters. Clearly the
horses were coming from the desert.
Peggy took out her ever-ready Baedek-
er's Guide to the Holy Land, and read :
"The oases of the trans-Jordan country
produce dates, which are packed in large
quantities at Damascus Mohair, for the
manufacture of carpets . . ." It was
not there. She turned to the next page.
"Camels are bred chiefly by the Beni-Yakob
tribe," she read. "Further south-eastward,
beyond Wady Tefilet, upon the borders of
the bitumen lakes, dwell the Beni- Hassan,
who breed horses in large numbers."
'X'HERE was no further clue. Peggy put
the book back in her grip and sat lost in
thought. It had grown dark. The mem-
ory of her humiliation in the Pasha's palace
Avas still strong.
"It will be a wild-goose chase," .she re-
flected, as she lit her lamp. "I dareTi't risk
Jim's money on it. I daren't."
A noisy outburst from the three (ieorges
underneath reached her ears. She heard
George Drummond's laughter, and the
cackle of (ieorge Hagan. She imagined
the twisted creases in George Siefert's face.
"But I will," she said, and rang the bell.
"Send All up here," she told the little Jew-
ish boy who entered.
A few minutes later Ali was salaaming.
"Ali," said Peggy, "suppose the Govern-
ment makes a contract with a tribal sheikh
— is it in writing ?"
"No, Mees. No Arab will make a writ-
ten contract. They are very ignorant peo-
ple, Mees. They fear to profane the un-
speakable Name, which may be upon the
paper.
"Then how are contracts made? By
word of mouth ?"
"Yes, Mees. The Arabs are very ignor-
ant people. They will bargain like cheap
skates, Mees, but they are too ignorant to
break their agreements when they are made.
They do not understand the laws, Mees."
"Thank you," said Peggy, "that is all
I want to know, except how to get to Wady
Tefilet."
Ali stared at her. "Wady Tefilet, Mees?
\'ou cannot go there. It is forty miles
away on the Jordan. There are robbers."
"I must start in the morning, Ali."
"But there is no road, Mees. You will
die of thirst. It is an inhospitable land, a
stony, desert land."
"You mu.st have a camel for me at day.-
break, and water-bags. Listen, Ali!' It is
to beat those men downstairs."
"The fat one, Mees? And the baldhead?
He called me a .son of a gun but yesterday,
Mees. I who am the lawful begotten chilcf
of the headman of Hebron vilayet !"
"Will you come with me, Ali?" cried
Peggy, with sudden hope. "I will tell you
why I am going there."
Ali listened with kindling enthusiasm.
"And one" fourth of the profits for me,
Mees?" he repeated when she -had ended.
"It is amazing! But I will go — yes, if we
may get even with baldhead and the fat
one !"
Not mounted on camels, but on little
Hebron ponies, with waterbags across t!he
pommels of their saddles, Peggy and her
escort threaded the stony delrles of the
Jordan hills. They had left the last village
behind them. It was late afternoon, the
lieat was terrific, and the goatskin bags, to
be refilled at Jordan, were almost empty.
They were to sleep that night at a house
Ali knew of, upon the river banks, and
]iress forward into the desert the Allowing
morning, in the hope of encountering some
of the Beni- Hassan tribe.
DECiCiY had a thousand .dollars, which'
*■ would not buy many horses, but Jim
would cable the balance via Constantinople,
if the sheikh could be induced to listen to
lier. With the horses snatched away from
N'ussouf Pasha's expectant hand, liberally
besmeared with bribe-money. Peggy saw the
l)lankets thrown back at the three Georges.
The innkeeper of the little solitary place
at the edge of the steep Jordan cliffs proved
to have visited America also. In broken
English he expressed his pleasure at their
visit.
"For since the war," he said, "I see none
but the Beni- Hassan, and truly they would
have robbed me of all I possess, if I pos-
sessed anything but gasoline."
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"Gasoline!" exclaimed Peggy.
"For the Americans, Lady. Twice or
three times a year they come here in their
automobiles, and finding they can go no
further, demand gasoline for the return
journey. This year there should have been
a multitude, but the war, and behald ! my
gasoline is wasted !"
He pointed pathetically toward the great
tank which stood in the empty yard.
"But the 13eni-Hassan — are they near?"
"There is a party of forty, under the
charge of the Sheikh, bringing in the Gov-
ernment horses," answered the innkeeper.
"But first they graze at El-Huddah, ten
miles bevond the river, that they may grow
fat."
Peggy and Ali exchanged glances. The
journey had not been in vain.
. "See that our bags are filled," said Ali,
"before we start in the morning." He took
the almost empty goatskins from the sad-
dles and handed them to the landlord, after
which the travellers sat down to the invari-
able goat stew of- Palestine.
Peggy slept ill, dreaming of the morrow's
coup. Arising at five, she went downstairs,
to find Ali already at breakfast.
"We start before the sun gets hot," he
said.
"Yes," answered Peggy.
"I hear, Mees, from the landlord," he
continued, "that the Bedawi have made a
prisoner of an Englishman, a spy who flew
from Egypt in his aeroplane. If he is
with them, it would be well not to befriend
him, Mees."
"Well, I should say not." answered
Peggy. "I'm not here for philanthropy,
Ali."
"Yes, Mees," said Ali doubtfully. "If
it is Sheikh Mouseben-Ishmael, I know him
well, Mees. He was in the Arabian troupe
at Coney Island three summers ago."
"Has every Arab been to America?" de-
manded Peggy.
"I do not know, Mees. But they are
ignorant folk. iLet us be starting, if we
wish to escape the heat."
They waited with impatience while the
landlord saddled their horses and slung the
dripping water-bags across the saddles.
Presently they were off again, riding
through the stony pass that winds down to
the Jordan, while in the east blazed the red
ball of the sun.
"That gasoline scents the whole place,"
said Peggy, snilhng. "I wonder why some-
body doesn't work those bitumen fields?"
"It is the pitch that you smell, Mees,"
said Ali. "But none would dare to work
them, for underneath lie the accursed towns
of Sodom and Gomorrah.
"Well, they might smell a little better
by now," said Peggy, as they splashed their
horses into the Jordan ford.
""They were through, wet to the waist,
and the ponies, scrambling up the oppo-
site bank, broke into a trot. The country
was less stony ;^ here and there gr9,s.s„and
flowers appeared..' By fhe.time the. sun was'
moderately high tliey, were approaching El-
Huddah. Peggy strained her eyes thrdugh-
the shimmering air to see signs of the
horses.
Suddenly Ali uttered a cry and pointed
eastward. Out of the heart of the sun
emerged a cloud of black specks that re-
solved itself into men on horseback. They
circled, and the sound of discharged rifles
cracked in the distance.
Ali reined in his horse and pulled in
Peggy's.
Three men came galloping toward them,
yelling like demons. They pulled in" their
steeds a yard from where the travellers
sat. Ali spoke quietly, mentioning the name
of the Sheikh.
The next moment the five were cantering
briskly toward the party, which gradually
drew in, until the whole troop rode in a
cluster, with Ali and Peggy in the centre.
Now out of the face of the desert arose
clumps of feathery palms, then skin tents ;
then a white-bearded man rode out in a dig-
nified way, his bridle gay with colored
cloth, the saddle inlaid with tourmalines.
At the sight of Ali he bent forward, staring
into his face.
A\'ith a cry of joy, Ali spurred his horse
toward him, and reining in at his side, flung
his arms about him and kissed him on the
cheek. The two chatted briskly in Arabic.
"It is the. Sheikh Mouse-ben- 1 shmael,"
Ali explained. "He was the leader of the
troupe at Coney Island, Mees. Beyond
doubt we shall obtain all that we need."
The Sheikh stared imperturbably at
Peggy, but said nothing.
However, when they reached the encamp-
ment, he dismounted, and bowing, invited
her to enter the tent which occupied the
centre of the irregular square, at the same
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time driving away the parish dogs that
dashed, yelping, toward her.
The tent contained a table, a bureau, a
chiffonier, and a sofa, on which sat two
women, whom Peggy surmised to be the
Sheikh's wife and daughter. Springing up
with cries and gesticulations, they began to
finger the girl's clothing.
The heat was intense. After a few min-
utes of inspection Peggy went out. Ali was
talking with the Sheikh in the middle of
the open space. None of the tribe was
visible.
"The men have gone to drive in the
horses, Mees," said Ali. "And I have
spoken to the Sheikh, but alas ! He has
pledged his word that the horses go to Yus-
souf Pasha."
"How much does he get?" asked Peggy.
"Ten dollars apiece, Mees."
"Tell him we'll give him twenty, a thou-
sand cash, the balance in thirty days."
ALI translated and the Sheikh's eyes
•** glowed. He broke into an excited
chattering.
"He dares not," answered the drago-
man. "He says the unspeakable Name may
have been upon the paper."
"He signed a contract? But you told
me—"
"O yes, Mees. But Sheikh Mouse-ben-
Ishmael is a very intelligent man. He been
to Coney Island. It is useless, Mees."
"We'll find some way," said Peggy op-
timistically, as the Sheikh went into his tent.
"Ali, I'm thirsty, and that gasoline smells
as bad as ever. Where are the pitch lakes?"
"Five miles in the hills, Mees," said Ali,
pointing. "But it is not the lakes that are
smelled."
Ali picked up a water-bag. "The inn-
keeper is a very ignorant man, Mees. He
filled the bags with gasoline," he said.
Peggy uttered an exclamation of annoy-
ance. However, at that moment the
Sheikh's wife came out with a tray contain-
ing a cut glass carafe and a tumbler of
effervescent sherbet, which Peggy drank
eagerly. And then something happened
w'hich distracted her attention.
The shrill cries of women broke out in
one corner of the square. Peggy saw a man
wearing the British army uniform, with
chains upon his feet, and a ball uniting
them, being hustled and mobbed by the
greater portion of the feminine population.
as an Arab guard, armed with a long rifle,
led him toward the Sheikh's tent.
The Sheikh emerged and took his seat
upon a piano stool whic'h had somehow ap-
peared. Seated there, he presented the as-
pect of a venerable judge. He addressed
the prisoner, who, standing motionless be-
fore him, answered him in fluent Arabic.
The Sheikh seemed to become exasper-
ated. The women shrieked and howled.
One or two Arab men who remained in
camp made threatening gestures.
Presently the Sheikh addressed Ali, who
spoke to Peggy.
"Sheikh Mouse says, perhaps you can
bring reason to this unfortunate man, being
an American lady and speaking the same
tongue as him," he says.
"I'll try," said Pegg\-. "What's up?"
"He came here in aeroplane," said Ali.
"He was shot down and wounded, three
weeks ago. Sheikh says, if he show him
how to work aeroplane, he can go free. If
not, he die. But he says he'd rather die."
"I didn't say that," interposed the of-
ficer. "I said I was not able to show him,
owing to the lack of gasoline. If I were
able to show him, I should then consider
whether I were prepared to do so. Prob-
ably my decision would be in the negative.
But at present we have not reached that
stage. I am not able to show him."
"Did you explain that to the Sheikh?"
asked Peggy.
"What's the use?" inquired the officer.
DEGGY had the gleam of a wild idea,
* working subconsciously in her brain.
"Tell the Sheikh that if I may talk with
him alone perhaps something can be done,"
she said to Ali.
Ali translated, and the Sheikh assented
eagerly. Peggy accompanied the prisoner
into his tent. He sat down in his chains.
"Rum way to treat a fellow," he said.
"I'm Captain Braintree, of the Intelligence
Department. I flew here from the Canal,
inspecting the lay of the land. A bullet
got me in the wrist and I had to come
down. You know the rest."
"And I'm Miss Peggy Roche, of Stam-
ford, Connecticut, U. S. A.," said Peggy.
"My mission here is to prevent the Pasha
of Jerusalem from getting those horses."
"By Jove, I'm with you there," said the
Englishman. "But may I ask why?"
(Continued on page 140)
Motoring
With Mae
When she makes it
say "Honk-Honk,"
it's just too late to
duck.
WAY BELOW ZERO
IN JOYOUS
OCCUPATIONS
By Allen Corliss
til r
I HAVE never faced the cannon's mouth ;
I have never heard the battle's roar ; I
have 'never been m an aeroplane; but
I have no fear of them, or other sudden
deaths, because I have been motoring with
Mae.
Mae Murray is nothing if not a care
ful driver — careful of others. She had
much rather run her car up a tree
than even startle a stray dog — she'd
even prefer to hurdle
the dog.
When Miss Murray
first ciuit New York for
the- Lasky studio and
took one glimpse of the
roads, orange groves,
etc., of Southern Cali-
fornia— (see Chamber
of Commerce folder for
statistics and full de-
scriptions)— she decided
that she must have an
automobile. She told
the dealer that she
wanted one with lots of
horse power as she was
fond of dumb animals.
A low, red, rakish thunderbolt
was her selection ; one of these
wicked-looking affairs that spell she doesn't care if she
speed and make the motor cops never sees New York again.
take its number on sus])i(ioii even when it
is standing against the curb.
The thing had eight cylinders, or
Miss Murray said she always liked
plenty of cylinders in her car as
things were always bouncing out or
dropping oif and one should be
fully i)repared when one is out on
a trij). She had her day ruined
sc\-eral times by things happen-
ing to her friends' cars
and she was going to
take good care that
nothing happened to
hers. Later on she was
going to get a couple of
spare cylinders to keep
imder the seat. One can
not buy everything nec-
essary for one's car right
at the start even with a
motion picture star's
salary, — can one? Miss
Murray remarked that
eight cylinders were
enough to start with, see-
ing as how it was her
first car, but later on she
ht get more, but as she was
new to the pictures, eight was
enough for any ingenue.
Don't think for a moment
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Miss Murray does
her own driving as
she has had a great
deal of trouble with
chauffeurs.
that Miss Murray is not familiar with
automobiles. She is an expert mechani-
cian. Wh}', she can go right up to her
own car — in the dark at that — lay her hand
on any part of it, and say — "This is a fen-
der— this is a wheel — this is the head-
light" and be absolutely right nearly two
times out of three. She might not be able
to do this with every car because it is hard
to keep up with the latest makes, but she
knows her own thoroughly.
Of course she makes mis-
takes now and then, as to
the proper thing to step on at the
proper time — but then, no one is per-
fect. What would the world be if every-
one was perfect — and who would be so
mean as to begrudge a poor working girl
the right to step on the accelerator when
she should step on the brake, especially
when it is her very own car?
Miss Murray does her own driving as
she has had a great deal of trouble with
chauiTeurs. They kept bouncing off the
lackey's seat on the side of the car
and she would have
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to stop, turn around and go back and
pick them U]j. which was a terrible waste
of time, especially if she had an appoint-
ment. She kept a mechanician at home to
clean the machine and help pull it back
through the rear end of the garage when
she came home from work — but on the road
she is her own chauffeur and mechanic.
The Lasky star has a clever plan of keep-
ing down the upkeep — she only drives on
.two wheels at a time letting the other two
tires spin around in the air and cool off.
Vou can't imagine what a weekly saving in
tires this is. According tp certain records
kept by the City of Los Angeles, Miss
Murray owns the only fox-trotting automo-
bile in captivity. When she makes it say
"Honk-Honk" it's just too late to duck.
Mae is from Virginia and she crept into
New York like a little mouse. Florenz
Ziegfeld, Jr., was about to produce one
of his "Follies" and wanted someone to
depict one of the types of Nell Brinkley,
the artist. He spied Miss Mae with her
tousled mop of blonde hair, drooping,
sleepy-looking eyelids and pouty. wistful
lips, and right away she was thrust before
the footlights as "The Brinkley (iirl" and
made a great, big hit. Mae didn't bother
with the bright lights but burned the mid-
night electricity by learning to dance so
that when the wave of dancing started,
Mae was on the first crest. She appeared
with the "Follies" for several years and by
sheer charm and hard work became one of
its stars.
One day Ziegfeld decided to take a
burlesque motion yjicture and Mae was cast
for the roll of "Mary Pickum." When the
picture was shown at the first performance
of the "Follies" in New York, a number of
gentlemen were noticed to leave their seats,
and when Mae stepped daintily out of the
stage door of the New Amsterdam Theatre,
she beheld a long line of waiting motion
picture magnates each armed with an
attractive offer to al)andon the "talkies" and
enter the "movies." She thought it all over
for several days and then accepted a con-
tract witli the Lasky Company, resigned
from the "Follies" — packed her little pie
boxes and descended upon Hollywood.
Now she doesn't care if she never sees New
York again, prefering to scamper around
California sometimes in a cute little jumper
suit, agaiii in knickerbockers or in neat and
nifty frocks with blonde curls stuffed up
under a .saucy Tam-o'-Shanter.
^\']ien she goes by in her car, the whole
town turns out — of the way.
One Life
At night she leaves the scjualid house and all its sounds:
Her man removing shoes, her youngest's fretful whine,
The bickering of neighbors and newsboys on their rounds ;
And in the back the lusty grunt of snuffling swine.
She passes over floors late scrubbed, now tramped again
With mud from off the feet of all her noisy brood ;
Too tired to note the unkempt yard, mussed by the rain;
Too tired to sense the smell of long and ill cooked food.
She trudges on until the white lights bid her cease
And entering, drops wearily into a seat ;
And there forgets the wretched day and is at peace ;
Seeing youtli and life and Covers' hearts abeat.
She dreams of her own hour — the time when she was young.
The song of whippoorwills. a lane, the first sweet kiss.
The fleeting days before she knew that hearts are wrung.
That plans and happiness can ofttimes go amiss.
An hour thus of short content, of love's old sentient tale.
Of beautv hills and sweet clean plains and then the clod
Returns unto her kind. Thus ends fond fancy's trail
And as the "Good Night" flares and wanes, she murmurs "God I"
Gordon Scagrovc.
The High Cost
of Poverty
PITY THE POOR PRODUCER IN
FAMED LOS ANGELES WHO MUST
BUILD HIS OWN SLUM DISTRICT
By K. Owen
PICTURE makers and chauvinists of the
golden west have been wont to remark
with a generous swelling out of the
clavicle that "Los Angeles has everything" ;
meaning filmatically that at hand were moun-
tain arid valley, ocean and desert, palms and
pines, cots and castles, etc.
But for the director with a script that calls
for a tenement or slum district, it has been an
empty boast for Los Angeles is up to date
I
m all but this respect — it has no slums.
Parenthetically, it might be stated that the
Chamber of Commerce of that city ought
to pay advertising rates for this free boost.
The need of slums is an imperative one
in the motion picture industry. Otherwise
there can be no gunmen, no ashcan Cin-
derellas, no drunken sots of fathers and no
slatternly mothers whose surroundings show
every indication of an ignorance of birth
control propaganda. Consequently, when
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Building a tenement disl/ict tuonier, build-
in the slum drama
slums are required, they must be
built to order. Many screen en-
tlmsiasts wuU recall the Bowery
district that was so prominent in
the "Chimmie Fadden" films in
which Victor Moore starred. This
Bowery was built midst the bunga-
lowed beauties of semi-tropical
lollywood by the Lasky architects.
Another slum district was recently
built at the Morosco-Pallas studio for the
newest photodrama of George Beban, the
famed delineator of wop roles, after a
search of Los Angeles and nearby cities for
a suitable slum, proved futile.
A "New York" street was laid out at
the studio and the walls for the buildings
erected. Excavations were made for cel-
lars and underground shops as much of
the commercial and home life of the needy
is conducted below the level of the street
in the dark, ill ventilated basements.
The buildings were only part way up
when it was realized that the street would
have to be paved, and the paving could not
ings, streets aud all atmospheric appurtenances. Adjacent are some scenes
and George Beban as a "wop" iceman.
be a light, tem])orary surface of asphalt because the weight
of the wagons and the countless throngs moving about
would quickly break it into pieces. Consequently a paving
company was called in and ordered to make a complete
street. Then all that was recjuired was to dim the
newness of tlie ciiscinbh-, supply well equipped
clotheslines, beer kegs, ash cans and other impedi-
menta of the perfect slum and Havor-witli the sort of
humanity that accompanies such ])rops.
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TH15 IS JUST ONE OF OLD SOL'S SHADY PERFORMANCES
rhnla by I'vans Studio. Hollywood
Howard Hickman and his wife (Bessie Baniscale) do a little key-work while the boisterous California sunshine inundates their
Hollywood home. Sherlock Holmes deduces that this is morning sunshine, and that the
day is Sunday; therefore the leisure and the music.
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A Western
Warwick
HE COMES FROM CALIFORNIA,
AND HIS PARENTS MADE PLANS
FOR AN OPERATIC CAREER
IT wouldn't impress the average film fan
very much to slip him the information
that Bob Warwick's taste runs to Schopen-
hauer and Nietzsche. Much more interest
would be evoked by a narration of his auto-
escapades, the make of his chase-about and
his taste in chicles. However, that's a part of
the story and must be told. He really is fond
of the aforementioned brands of imported
brain food.
Mr. Warwick is proud of his native state
which recently came into fame — if you are ,
a Democrat — and disrepute, if you are
an old line Republican — ^by supporting
the president at the national election.
His native city is Sacramento and he began
life as a church and concert singer. His
parents had planned an operatic career for
him but he turned actor. He has played lead.-;
opposite many ^^ ^^ ^^^ Warwick
of America's ^H^ / ' ■ and Director
best known JHHR y^ Ralph Ince
actresses. 'W^W yM \ getting into
World
had Mr.
Warwick as a
star and re-
cently he struck
out for himself under
the Selznick banner, his
first vehicle being "The
Argyle Case." Warwick
is a stage name, the original
being Robert Taylor Bien.
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"The first thing you notice as the door opens is the atmosphere of youth. This goes deeper than the heap of
juvenile encyclopaedia here and there. It has only a slight relation to the fact that Miss Marsh herself is only
youth are to be found frequently in homes where everyone from the cat to
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There were
Two Little Girls
Named Mary
By
Randolph Bartlett
("At Home" Studies of Miss
Marsh posed especially for
Photoplay by Bradley)
While the little Pickford
girl kept her "Mary," the
little Marsh girl, working
in the same company,
changed her "Mary" to
"Mae, " and the story below
is all about her. Moreover,
this is the keenest, most
intimate analysis of Mae
Marsh's personality and
genius ever put on paper.
seemed
all
•-ifewBswB^ rntlilm:
toys in the entry — the property of Miss Marsh's nieces — and the volumes of a
a little past twenty. It is a matter of mental attitude. External indications of
the great-grandfather is older than the eternal hills. "
NCE upon a time there was a homely
little girl named JMary. She was
a nice little girl, and a good little
girl, but more than that no one could
honestly say for her. She had a lot
of sisters and a brother, who
to have monopolized
the beauty and brains
the family.
Iti school one day, the
teacher amused herself
and the children by
[jrophesying what each
of them would be
when they grew
up. When she
came to Mary
she hesitated.
I don't really
know what Mary
will ever do," she
said. "She
writes a terrible
hand, she isn't
very smart in
any particular
way — I don't
know what to
predict for her."
''Please,
Teacher," one of
Mary's p 1 a y -
mates piped up,
"maybe she'll be
a actress."
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Teacher and children laughed. Ac-
tresses must be ever so beautiful, and tall,
and clever, as everybody knows. The other
little girl had only
said what Mary her-
self had insisted up-
on over and over
again, careless of
the way her play-
mates and her fam-
ily laughed at her.
Mary had gazed in
awe at billboards,
and prayed to her
patron saint that one
day her name should
appear on one in let-
ters as big as those
she looked upon so
fondly.
Without going
further into the de-
tails of the early
ambitions of this
Ugly Duckling,
this Cinderella, let
us pause to observe
the essential truth of
fairy stories as here
exemplified. Just
as the Ugly Duck-
ling became a won-
derful Swan, just as
Cinderella alone
could wear the
(iolden Slippers, so
Mary is now Mae
Marsh. And soon
there will be many
candles for the pa-
tron saint, because
in a short time the
billboard of Mary's
dreams will be a
reality.
From now on in
this story we will
have to call her Miss
Mae Marsh, for it
happened that in the
first company i n
which Mary acted
before the moving
picture camera there
was another little girl named Mary, who
was there first, and sooner than have two
Marys at once, they called our little Mary
"After she has looked at you with her frank blue
eyes it is impossible to write the conventional, com-
plimentary, frothy things."
"Mae." The other Mary's second name
was Pickford.
And now comes one of the big jokes on
the Marsh family.
Mae's elder sister.
Marguerite, w h o
had preceded her in-
to the pictures by a
considerable period
and had become
quite a personage,
found it necessary
to change her name
to prevent her star
from being eclipsed
by Mae's more bril-
liant planet, and so
she called herself
Marguerite L o v e-
ridge — o n e Marsh
swamped by an-
other, as it were.
For the benefit of
those who do not
happen to recall the
facts about the
unique career of
Miss Marsh, it hap-
pened thus : "Five
years ago the eighth
day of January,
Miss Marsh, then
sixteen (or was it
fifteen?) accom-
panied big sister
Marguerite to
t h e Griffith-Bio-
graph studio in Los
Angeles. D. W.
Griffith was inter-
ested in her at once,
and she has had the
most interesting
feminine roles iii
"The E s c a p e."
" Judith of Bethu-
lia," "The Birth of
a Nation" and "In-
tolerance." which
are tlie four Griffith
master-pictures. Yet
she has not been a
star, in technical
parlance, because
Griffith does not believe in stars. Now she
is to be starred in her own company by the
Goldwyn Film Corporation.
There Were Two Little Girls Named Mary
Which brings us to a typical New York apartment
at the corner of Riverside Drive and Eighty-fourth
Street, one afternoon late in December^ 1916.
The first thing you notice as the door opens is
the atmosphere of youth. This goes deeper
than the heap of toys in the entry — the
property of Miss Marsh's nieces — and the
volumes of a juvenile encyclopedia here and
there. It has only a slight relation to the fact
that Miss Marsh herself is only a little past
twenty. These external indications of youth
are to be found frequently in homes where the
general feeling is that everyone from the cat to
the great-grandfather is older than the eternal
hills. Youth is not a matter of birthdays, but of
mental attitude. And Mae Marsh's mental atti-
tude Saturday afternoon, December 30, 1916.
was not that of a moving picture
star, not that of a young woman
who at twenty had achieved fame
in her work, but almost that of a
bystander, looking on at her own
life, with simple, almost naive
wonder at the past and enthu-
siasm and keen anticipation
of the future.
This impression was
verified a few minutes
later, as a sequence to
one of those typical
interview questions, of
the "Not-that-Tgive-a-
hang-bu t-just-to-start-
conversation" sort.
"Which one of
your pictures do
you like best?" I
asked.
"N o n e o f
them," Miss
Marsh replied
promptly and
decisively.
• "What I
mean is
4his," she
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"I don't
want to
play just
girls that
someone
wants to
marry ! "
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went on: "I can't recognize my self in
any of them. I have seen 'Intolerance'
twenty times, I suppose, and it never occurs
to me that 'The (iirl' in the modern epi-
sode is myself. It is all Mr. Griffith. When
I watch her actions I am no more able to
disassociate Mr. Griffith from them than I
am able to watch the Babylonian spectacles
without thinking of him. In his pictures
everything — scenery and players — is just
so many instruments in his orchestra."
"Then you never have really expressed
yourself, your own ideas, in any picture?"
"I hadn't thought of it in that way,"
she mused, wrinkling her brows in an ob-
vious effort to do so.
"Art," I went on, in my be.st academic
manner, "is self-expression. If you have
always felt that you were under the domi-
nation of a bigger personality, you could
not express your own self. Now tliat you
will be at the head of your own company,
do you not expect to branch out, to de-
velop along new lines?"
"I hadn't thought about it at all. I start
work the first of February. Until then I
am taking a holiday. I don't' know who
will be my director or my leading man or
what sort of a play I shall have. And
what's more, I don't want to. I may have
a little something to say about these mat-
ters when the time comes. But just now
I'm interested mostly in just New York,
and in getting rid of a nasty Eastern cold."
That route to an estimate of what Miss
Marsh may bring to her future pictures
was impregnably blocked, it was clear. This
young woman does not work from carefully
calculated theories. The only difference be-
tween her and most actresses, in this
respect, is that she admits it : and further-
more, she takes no interest in having in-
terview writers build up elaborate theories
for her. But it was worth another try.
"If you have this feeling about the pic-
tures in which you were directed by Mr.
Griffith, how do you feel about those you
did for the Fine Arts with which he was
not associated?"
"I guess I never quite got away from the
Griffith habit. I mean, he seemed to per-
vade the entire organization. It is a little
curious though — my experience in 'Intol-
erance.' We all felt that Mr. Griffith was
so much more interested in the Babylonian
part of the picture than in anything else,
that it gave me a certain sense of responsi-
bility that I never had before. I am sure
I never worked so hard — never put so much
of myself into my work, if that's the way
you want me to say it."
"But you just told me that after seeing
this picture twenty times you could not see
vourself as part of it — that it was all
(Iriffith."
"That's so." slie answered, "it's queer,
isn't it?"
Now that is what I meant when I said,
a while back, that Miss Marsh comes to
this important turning point in a success-
ful career with a youthful attitude of mind,
an unspoiled freshness of viewpoint. A
star of the first magnitude at twenty, she
is without the taint of egotism, and equally
free from false modesty concerning the big
tilings she has done. 'Ihere is, in the Mae
Marsh at Riverside Drive and Eighty-
fourth street, moreover, not a trace of the
Flora Cameron of "The Birth of a Nation,"
of the tenement girl in "The E.scape," nor
of any of her other roles. Less than any
other actress I have met — less than any
artist of whom I have any knowledge —
does this slim girl suggest the possibility of
having done the things which the world
knows she has done.
What does this mean? Has D. W. Grif-
fith been a sort of benevolent Svengali to
an unconscious Trilby? Is a subconscious
feeling that this may be true behind Miss
Marsli's departure from his supervision in-
to her new venture? At least I am confi-
dent that neither a mere egotistical desire
for stellar honors, nor the lure of greater
financial rewards would alone have led her
into the path she has chosen.
Perhaps all this analysis and speculation
may seem a bit impertinent. I realize that
"it isn't done." The interviewer is supposed
to confine himself to remarks about how
charmingly the star received him in her
rose-pink drawnng-room and dropped
pearls of wit and wisdom nonchalantly all
over the Persian rug. until the visitor had
to shovel his way out like a homesteader
in the northwest getting out of the house
after a snowstorm. And here I have been
devoting more than a thousand words to
the. information that Miss Marsh was a
homely child, and that she has no serious
thought for the future.
The explanation is simple. There is
something about this bit of a girl which
says to you with all the force of a royal
There Were Two Little Girls Named Mary
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At the end of the bench sits Mae's very beautiful sister. Marguerite. Facing her is the girl of whom
Mr. Bartlett says: "She demands ofyoti one thing and one only — sincerity, the secret of her success in
the past, the assurance of her success in the future. Sincerity is the biggest thing in the world of creative art. "
command, "Don't coddle me." After she
has looked at you with her frank, blue
eyes ("Irish, an' proud av ut") it is im-
possible to write the conventional, compli-
mentary, frothy things. She demands of
{Continiu'd on page ijo)
"HOW CAN I PUT IT OVER WITHOUT A FLAG?"
THE question is George M. Cohan's, addressed to Joseph Kaufman (the hatless one) who will
direct in motion pictures this redoubtable son of Uncle Sam, namesake of the Fourth of July, inciter
of preparedness, inventor of pep, whirlwind of playwiiting and demonstrator of the mouth-corner drawl.
The photograph was taken three weeks ago for PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE, during an interesting though
agonizingly serious session at the Artcraft studio in New York City. Mr. Kaufman's reply was not
chronicled by the camera, but he is probably telling Yankee Doodle Dandy that all the flag will lack
will be color.
The accession of Mr. Cohan is an interesting milestone in the steady forward movement of photoplay-
making, photoplay-writing and photoplay -acting. A year ago this gentleman, perhaps our theatre's
foremost native product, was positively not to be had in the celluloids. Those deputized to speak for
him asserted — rightly or wrongly — that hundreds of thousands of dollars would not induce him to can
his interesting personality; and they hinted that only old age and the decay of his talents would ever
induce him to embalm their precious remnant. Nevertheless, Cohan has had one of the most brilliant
of his many years, he is not much over thirty, he doesn't need the money — and here he is, "in pictures!"
This IS not a tribute; it is a graceful recognition, by a man of genius.
It has been announced that Mr. Cohan's first screen play will be his own "Broadway Jones."
George M. Cohan was born on the fourth of July, something more than thirty years ago. His father
and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Cohan, were vaudevillians of Celtic extraction; George and his sister
Josephine joined their act, and "The Four Cohans, " ten or fifteen years since, were the most famous
team in the two-a-day. Josephine married Fred Niblo, well-known actor. She died only a few
months ago. George quickly shifted .from vaudeville to play-writing, producing musical farces at first.
From these he essayed genuine drama, comedy and revue, and is now one of the foremost as well as
one of the best- liked actor-dramatists in the world.
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A thrilling story of a life's ambition realized,
told by a lens chronicler of border warfare.
''ACTION!"
HOW A GREAT BATTLE SCENE WAS
FILMED; AND WHAT HAPPENED THEN
By Tracy Mathewson
Illustrations by Grant T. Reynard
F)R three years I chased up and down
the border trying to get a moving
picture of a real fight.
I lugged my heavy pack of equipment
through alkali and cactus, across rivers and
mountain ranges, in pursuit of "action,"
which is a by-word with the "movies" no
less than with the army.
And I always missed them ! I was at
Norias just six hours after that gallant
little band of eight cavalrymen and five
citizens had held off and finally whipped a
band of eighty-five Mexican bandits. I
arrived in a cloud of dust at the old illegal
ferry at Pragresso, where Lieutenant Henry
was wounded and Corporal Whelman was
killed. I galloped into Los Indios just two
hours after the treacherous attack on the
little outpost of cavalrymen. It was at Los
Indios, you may recall, that Private Kraft
added a brilliant paragraph to the army's
history and with it gave his life.
I gat into Columbus the night after
Pancho Villa and his renegades raided that
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town. I went in with the First Punitive
Expedition under General Pershing, actu-
ally joining the army for the chance to get
some real "action." I was allowed to go
no further than Casas Grandes with my
camera and, of course, the expedition put
off all its fighting until I had returned.
While I was turning the crank on the
peace conference at the international bridge
one Sunday — you remember, of course,
those meetings of Scott and Funston with
Minister of War Obregon — there came
word of the raids at Boquillas and Glenn
Springs. I suffered all the tortures of a
desert hike to reach there and join the
Second Punitive Expedition, commanded
by Colonel Sibley of the Fourteenth and
Major Langhorne of -the Eighth cavalry.
As soon as I saw Major Langhorne and
talked with him I felt that I was really on
the heels of real "action." There's a real
soldier for you.
I stuck with him. One mt)rning two
squads left camp on two hot trails, Lieu-
tenant Cramer and a squad from Troop B
followed one of the trails, another squad
took the second. I went with the second
and we just galloped down that trail —
galloped until the trail grew ice cold, then
we dragged back to headquarters, my
equipment straps cutting deep into my
shoulders. Funny I never do notice the
weight of my equipment when I start out.
But coming back —
Well, that evening it weighed a ton. Just
as we reached camp Lieutenant Cramer and
his men returned, tired and dusty, but
beatifically happy. Ahead of them were
two carts loadecl with the loot taken by the
Mexicans at Glenn Springs. On top of
each cart sat an American trooper driving.
Instead of his own jaunty campaign hat,
each driver wore a Mexican sombrero. In
the carts were the owners of the sombreros
— wounded Mexican bandits. One of them
had seven holes drilled through him.
Trailing each cart were three Mexican
horses, bearing gaudy saddles and scab
bards from which the operating ends of
powerful 30-30s protruded. In the middle
of the procession was a little herd of
American cavalry horses ridden off by the
Mexicans at Glenn Springs.
Picturesque, you bet. And I turned the
reel on them.
But as I turned my heart was as heavy
as my equipment.
I missed real "action."
I was so disheartened that my gloom be-
gan to be traditional, I guess, in every
American camp and outpost along the bor-
der.
"We may have war yet," said an artillery
captain, "if we can only persuade Mathew-
son to leave the border."
Such was my luck. I had about given
up hope of ever getting in on a really true
fight with my camera. Then one night
came a telegram from one of my .soldier
friends and hope, that is supposed to spring
eternal, did a double, back flip-flop once
more in my breast.
"Chico Canoa and a big band have
broken loose in Big Bend country," said
the wire. "Killed rancher and wife and
driving off horses toward Carranza lines.
We start after them in an hour. Get auto-
mobile and join detachment at mouth of
Dead Man's Canyon just over Rim Rock.
There at daylight. Looks like action this
time."
Ten minutes later I had my equipment
piled into a big motor and Bill Klondike,
the greatest driver that ever held the flying
wheels down into the trackless sand, had
settled down to a night's drive. We
burned up the desert miles, keeping the
great dipper and its sentry, the North star,
to our backs, I hoping and praying that
nothing would happen to the motor to pre-
vent the fulfillment of my engagement with
the troopers. Bill Klondike was busy
seeing that nothing did happen.
All night long we rode. Our headlights
were thrown on bunches of cattle, huddled
together for warmth. We ran around long-
eared burros, who were always too inter-
ested in their midnight frolics to turn out
for us. We sped by abandoned ranch
houses. Occasionally, from under full-
bloomed Spanish bayonet plants, a big-eyed,
long-eared jack rabbit would scurry and
fly across the desert — probably to gossip
with the gophers and prairie-dogs about the
thing he had seen flash by with eyes like
two suns.
We were driving still when the dawn
came. As the sun reached high enough to
take the chill out of the air we topped the
Rim Rock. Far across the mesa we could
see the little group of cavalrymen as they
reached the mouth of the canyon. There is
never anv chance of mistaking them.
Within an hour the morning breeze
'That
ends me, " wailed Schwartz, "now that blank ety -blank 14th will cop the championship. "
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brought us the appetizing scent of the
breakfast "chow" and shortly afterward
we were at mess with them. Then came
the order to take up the swift march. I
said goodbye to Bill Klondike, who reluct-
antly started back on the hundred-mile
trip. Then I straddled a cavalry mount
and wheeled into line with the troopers.
It developed that
we were on the hot-
test sort of trail
after a pack of the
most desperate ban-
dits that ever rustled
cattle along the bor-
der. The march led
over some wonder-
ful mountain trails.
Mile after mile we
went in single file,
looking down into
depths so steep that
cattle looked like
tiny sotol weeds. It
was the most beauti-
ful country I had
ever seen. But I did
not sacrifice an inch
of celluloid. I was
.saving it all for
"action."
At noon we made
a brief stop for
chow and then
pressed on. Just
after sunset we
reached a spot where
the charred sticks of
a fire and other signs
told us that the ban-
dits had camped a short time before. We
used their fire to heat a gulp of coft'ee all
around.
There was no chance to rest. But none
thought of rest. Even the big cavalry
horses seemed eager to push forward.
Somehow, whenever I see one of these
splendid beasts my hand always itches for
the crank.
At daylight we neared Ojo Chavez and
caught our first sight of the bandits. About
fifty of them were camped in a little clump
of cottonwoods. All the horses and cattle
they had stolen on recent raids were cor-
raled nearby.
"They're going to stay there a while,"
said the officer who had sent me the tele-
"It's action!" I shouted.
gram. "We are going to rest here all day.
We advance tonight and we'll attack in the
morning. Get to your blankets and try to
sleep. You'll need it before you're
through."
There was no sleep for me. All day we
lay on top of an unnamed barren mountain
in the blistering sun. The wind lifted great
clouds of dust that
settled on our lips,
which swelled and
cracked open. Eyes
smarted and burned
but never for a mo-
ment failed to watch
the bandit camp.
But it wasn't this
suffering that caused
me to keep wake-
ful ; I had suffered
before in campaigns.
This time, though, I
seemed so near to
the realization of
my hopes. I just
kept going over my
equipment a score of
times, to be sure
that nothing would
be overlooked. I was
tempted to start
ahead and select my
position. Perhaps
my friend, the offi-
cer, noticed this.
"Matty, if you
don't take a siesta
I'll put you under
guard," he said.
"You are my only
worry. It's a moral certainty that action
is waiting us below and the only chance
against it is your jinks."
This was unkind. But each hour made
the situation more tense.
At last the sun dropped behind the west-
ern range. The eagles ceased to fly over
us. Little night creatures came out of their
holes, looked curiously at us and scam-
pered away. Night came.
We were called before the commanding
ofiicer. "We will divide into two squads,"
said he. "The first squad will work its
way around to the right of those cotton-
woods and wait for dawn. The bugler
probably will sound charge as soon as it is
light enough to shoot. The other outfit
"Action!"
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^vill work down the side of this mountain
and take its position in the arroya and wait
for the bugle.
"We shall be able to surprise them, prob-
ably, and clean up in the first rush. One
unit will be left behind to watch our horses
and cut off any chance of retreat. Wait for
the bugle to sound 'charge' !"
The officers prepared to leave. As we
left him, the commanding officer beckoned
me to him. "Matliewson, if we don't wipe
out this band," he said, "you steal the near-
est horse and ride for your life. Because it
will be your 'fault." Then he told me that
I would accompany the second squad,
bound for the arroya.
The second squad started down the
mountain about ten. Most of the trip was
made on our hands and knees. I carried
my camera myself and I gave it the care
that w^ould have embarrassed a keg of
dynamite. Two troopers had been assigned
to help me with my tripod and other equip-
ment. For four hours we scrambled down
that mountain-side, cut by rocks until our
clothes were in shreds. The cactus and
Spanish bayonet jabbed at us from the
dark.
Finally we reached the arroya. I twisted
a piece of handkerchief around a long gash
on my salary hand before we began the
agonizing crawl once more. Closer and
closer we crept to the bandit camp and then
the commander of our outfit passed the
whisper back to halt where we were.
I rested my camera and snuggled down
into a cactus bed.
The first gray streaks of dawn began
to smear across the sky. I could distin-
guish the bulky form of Sergeant Noyes
just ahead of me. 'I'hen I made out the
ugly figure of a horned toad between the
two' of us. It seemed almost light enough
to shoot, although I was content to wait.
Yet that wait was a heart-breaker. There
I was on the edge of real "action" at last.
Also, I was on the firing line for the first
time. I tried to imagine which I cherished
most, my life or the picture.
"Sh-h-h !" hissed Sergeant Noyes.
I had quite unconsciously been praying.
Praying and watching the funny little
horned toad between Sergeant Noyes and
myself.
"Where's that bugle?" whispered some-
one querulously.
"Sh-h-h !" hissed Sergeant Noyes.
The sun began to cut through the clouds.
It was almost light enough for pictures. I
licked my lips and prayed and looked at
the horned toad. The horned toad seemed
smaller. The sun rose higher.
"Where's that bugle?" demanded a wliis-
per behind me.
"Please God," I prayed, "let me get this
picture and don't let me get shot. And
don't let any of these boys I have ridden
and suffered with get shot. But please
God, let me get this picture."
Sergeant Noyes' big hand went out
slowly and closed over the horned toad.
He tucked it in his breast pocket solemnly.
"Where's that bugle?" insisted the voice
in back of me.
"Sh-h-h !" Noyes hissed again.
"Please God, let me get this picture," I
mumbled. "f)h, God, just let me get some
real action. Some real action. God—"
The bugle !
Clear and sweet came the call.
Charge !
(Continued on pa^e 142 )
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St. Valentine and
the Picture Master
By Douglas Turney
THE greatest motion-picture producer
of them all (each of the hundred or
more of him will, upon due applica-
tion, promptly identify himself through
proper credentials, i. e., notices from news-
papers in which he advertises) glanced at
the calendar.
The date really meant nothing to him
as a date — with his plant and his company
of artists, he could reproduce any past date
in the world's history or forecast any date
to come whenever he chose.
But he did glance at the calendar, just
the same, because he wanted to learn the
day of the month.
It was a 1917 model, much to his regret,
as the calendar-makers are not so progres-
sive as the automobile-manufacturers and
have been unable so far to produce a calen-
dar which can be used with safety either
two or three years ahead of its year or a
dozen years behind.
Be patient —
The part of the calendar at which he
glanced was the part which gave all neces-
sary data about the month of February —
that is, all necessary to the greatest motion-
picture producer of them all, who, inci-
dentally, will hereafter in this chronicle be
called the Picture Master. That is what
he calls himself to himself and it is only
fair, perhaps, to help him to become used
to being known so modestly by the public.
On the part of the calendar upon which
the Picture Master gazed, he noticed three
red-letter — or, rather, red-figure — days.
They were Lincoln's birthday, Washing-
ton's birthday and St. Valentine's Day.
Naturally, he gave his consideration to
St. Valentine's Day as the most important.
It brought back memories of his youth and
of the spectacle he used to make of himself
as a sender of comic and, yes, mellow val-
entines.
He laughed lovingly — (Imagine!) — at
the thought of that spectacle which really
had given him his start in life as well as
the first hint of the great spectacles to fol-
low it.
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He still made spectacles — some said still
of himself.
And, but, oh yes, he glanced at the cal-
endar ! —
"I'll be jiggered!" he e.xclaimed. "It's
at least a month since I turned out a spec-
tacle. I'll have to get one out at once or
the public will forget me."
He summoned the captain of his corps
of scenario-writers and soon the head
plagiarist of the plant (if what amateur
writers of scenarios say is true) stood
humbly in the presence of the Greatest
One, that is, the Picture Master.
"I've been thinking, Shaw," observed the
Picture Master, "that it's about time to pro-
duce another spectacle. I think we could
do something great with St. Valentine's
Day. Wasn't there a St. Valentine some
time, somewhere, Bernard? You might
cram a little on his life and adventures,
George, and then work into the scenario a
modern romance around valentines — hearts
and arrows and cupids and that sort of
stuff, you know."
"Yes, my Master, I know," said the
captain of the corps, sagittary stuff."
"I guess so," replied the Picture Master,
"but don't use any of tho.se French words
in the sub-titles."
The next day, the Picture Master again
summoned the captain of the corps.
"Well, Shaw," queried the Picture Mas-
ter, "are you ready for the spectacle?"
"Spectacle !" shouted the captain of the
corps, who was of a parliamentary bent and
who absent-mindedly thought he had been
asked if ready for the "question."
"Yes, spectacle !" testily replied the Pic-
ture Master. "And you needn't shout about
it, either. I don't want my jealous rivals
to know what I'm doing. Are you ready
for the newest of the spectacles for the
screen-eyed monster — Ha 1 Ha ! Rather
good, that ! But it's going to be better still
when I finish it — spectacles for that screen-
eved monster, the j^'c-going public ! Ha !
Ha!"
(Continued on page 144)
Going Up!
PETE PROPS REAPS THE REWARD
OF VIRTUE AND PATIENCE AND
RISES IN LIFE VIA BALLOON
By Kenneth McGaffey
W^
PIPE me off; give me de nort Drawings by
an de south — I'm a reglar
actor now an am entitled to
wear sport shirts, puttees an manicure me
finger nails. No more of dis shovin furna-
ture aroun de stage for little Petie. I can
loll back an let de odders do de work. Of
course I don't make so much money — but
look at de crust I can put on. Any of dese
fresh prop men come up
an try to borrow a smoke,
I can give em a bust in de
jaw. I got a dressin
room, grease paint an all
de comforts of home. Of
course I ain't been given
no howdy-doos, or intro-
ductions, but I had nearly
a close-up an heaved me
chest an trew a cigarette
on de floor like a real star.
As soon as I learn what to
do wid me hands, I'll run
i'Vancis X. an J. Warren
ragged.
It all happened
in de funniest way
you ever seen. It
was in dis pitcher,
"De Circus (ioil's
Romance." Little
Lizzie was de child
of a saw dust circle
an Handsome Clar-
ence is de brave guy
in de red tights dat
does de balloon as-
cension an para-
chute drop. Dey
had an awful time
jiickin out what job
wid de circus Liz-
zie was to play.
Knowin how she was always chewin de
rag, I suggested a iron jaw act an all I get
is a bawl out for me idear. Den I told em
she oughter do a animal act dat she an de
odder elephants would go well togedder,
but it was finally decided dat she
E. W. GALE JR. ^^'^'^ ^'^ *^" ^ ^^S^ school act wid a
long ridin skoit an a white whip.
De nut director scouts aroun de com-
munity an finally digs up a little one ring
wagon show dat was findin de goin kinda
lieavy an rents it for de fillum. Dey comes
over to de lot, de whole flock of em. A
bum elephant, a couple of camels dat had
lost a lot of dere upholsterin, an a
flock of performers. De greatest col-
lection of hicks I ever-see.'
All de nut director has to do is to
teach dem how to be motion pitclier
actors an believe me, gettin de boys
out of de trenches is
a pastime compared
to dat. Also Hand-
some Clarence an
Lizzie has a deatless
feud on an was mur-
derin each odder
right an left. Tell
you how good it was.
Dey was countin
camera crank turns
in de close-ups so to
see dat one didn't
get more footage
dan de odder. So
you can see dat what
wid a punko scrip,
de nut director was
havin a large an
pleasant time. Clar-
ence has de time of
his life watchin Liz-
zie an de trick horse,
cause her scenes
were taken foist.
But you should have
saw Lizzie get back
at him. Lizzie is
supposed to be de lady what comes in in
de high wheeled cart an has de horse waltz,
lay down an do a lot of fancy stunts. De
goil what handled de horse for de trick
told her just where to touch him wid de
Pipe me off — give me de nort an de South — /
am a regular actor now an am entitled to wear
sport shirts, puttees an manicure me finger nails.
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&At^
whip to make de ani-
mal do certin tings.
Well, Lizzie gets her
cues bawled up an when she comes dashin
into de ring wid de camera grindin merrily
away, she starts to give de horse de cue to
waltz but instead she slips him de high sign
to play dead an down he flops.
Say ! To see Lizzie go troo de air you
would have tought she had been shot out
of a cannon. Wid her long dresses an
everyting she looked like a comet. De
only ting dat kept her from breakin her
neck was her lighting on de mattress dey
use to jump off de elepliants on to, dat
some careless jay had left lay in in de way.
Clarence sees dis an gets his hair all mussed
up laughin. When dey dig Lizzie outa de
straw she lamps Clarence givin her de titter
an believe me, if England ever looked at
Germany dat way, de Kaiser would trow
up bot hands an quit. Right away she lays
all de blame on Clarence.
"Dat brute tripped up de poor little
horse," she says, pointing her finger at de
gay young hero. "Just to crab my scene"
— she says. "An" she says, "if I wasn't
a lady I would give him a bust in de jaw.
As it is, I have to remember my position
an only call him a dirty bum."
"Now Miss Glonsganes," says de nut di-
rector, tryin to stop de riot, "he didn't have
nuttin to do wid it. He was way over on de
pder side puttin whitenin on his teeth."
demands Lizzie,
"She is annoyin
A bum elephant an a couple of camels dat had
lost a lot of dere upholstering.
Den de dame what owns de horse butts in
an bein a wop she is some excited. "What
for you try to keela me Pedro !" she yells.
"You give heem de wrong sign an make
heem fall down when he shoulda do de
cake awalk. You blonde bona head, I give
you a slap in de slats."
"Remove dis persons,"
pulling de up stage stuff,
to muh."
"Remova nuttin," screams de wop. "I
remova your hair I catch you pullin any
more of de comedy on my Pedro," an she
starts after Lizzie. It takes de entire crew
to get de wop into her dressin room.
By an by dey get Lizzie calmed down an
go on wid de scene but she wouldn't do no
more trick horse stuff an dey had to fake
all dat de next day.
Den dey get to Handsome Clarence.
An I am here to tell you dat dey got to him
good. Clarence is de guy what goes up in
de balloon on de circus grouns every after-
noon an he an Lizzie is supposed to be in
love. De bandits an nine million dollars
in gold is supposed to be hid in de neigh-
borin mountains an to get de ten tousand
dollar reward Clarence is goin to go up in
de balloon, locate de bandits an tell de sher-
iff an den wid de money he an Lizzie are
goin to get married an have a circus of
dere own.
Clarence has been up in de air for some
time but never before in a balloon.
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De idea is to take de scenes before de
balloon starts an den run it up a little way
• on a cable an den use de regular balloon
guy for de long shots up in de air. We get
Clarence up in de air about fifty feet an tie
him off wid de cable an get ready to shoot
him scoutin aroun for de bandits.
I notice Lizzie takin a lot of interest in
de proceedin, but I didn't see her lean
against de rope wid a knife in her hand. I
was right dere when de rope parted an
just had time to get hold of de end of it
before it jerked out of sight. I wasn't
worryin about Handsome Clarence (aide
he slipped me for savin his life) what I
was worryin about was havin to build de
fires all over again if de balloon got lost
an we had to fill her up again.
Zip — we go up in de air wid a rush an
Clarence sittin on de trapeze yellin bloody
murder an me hangin on to de bum end
of de rope fifty feet below. I was sucker
enough to tink dat I could hold it to de
ground an den was too scared to let go.
Well, I shins up de rope an sits on de
trapeze wid Clarence. Say dat guy was
scared blue. All he could do was to hang
on an part of de time I had to put me arm
aroun him to keep him from pokin a hole
in de ground something like a mile below.
Gee ! Here we was way up in de air —
nowhere to go an nutting to drink. Den I
remembered dat de balloon guy liad told
me dat when he wanted to come down in
de parachute he pulled a little rope — an
dere was a little rope hangin right under
me beazer so just for luck I gives it a yank.
Zowie ! ! We dropped like a ton of
bricks. Clarence passed out entirely. I
was just try in to remember what comes after
■'Now I lay me" when
de umbrella ting
opened up an we
went floatin down
like a couple of
lil angels. Dey
had de machine
on us as we got
near de grqund
so when we
landed I
Clarence
pole an
him out.
Say!
would
thought
picked
off de
carried
You
have
I was
Mary Pickford.
De nut director
slapped me on de
back an told me
where I could get
a drink. Lizzie
smiled at me an I
had a grand time.
/ was just tryin to remem-
ber what comes after "Now
1 lay me" when de umbrella
ting opened an we went
floatin down like a couple of
lil angels.
Den dey told me de
news. While I was up in de air de nut
director had rewrote de story an made me
de poor but honest hero, an Clarence de
villun. De villun starts to escape by bal-
loon wid Lizzie's papers which were to
make her de heiress to vast estates when
up dashes I — grabs de end of de rope —
shins up it, and after a desprit struggle in
mid air, I returns de poipers to Lizzie an
gets de reward for coppin de villun. Dey
had caught all de stuff wid de camera.
Maybe dem lads in de prop room wasn't
sore when dey heard I had been promoted.
I made one of dem chase up to de corner
an get me a good five cent cigar before I
would go on wid de scene.
Dis being a actor is expensive, though.
I got to save up now for a dress suit an a
wrist watch.
Excuse me while I see dat di-
rector about havin de orchestra play
while me an Lizzie do de final
clinch.
I AM THE MOTION PICTURE 1
By JULIAN JOHNSON
■u :]fm
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■I lii ,(!,
I AM the Motion Picture.
My feet flounder in the clay, but my
head is above the clouds, and my eyes
are with the stars.
1 am the friend of the humble, the servant
of the scholar, the jester of the wise, i am
youth to the aged, a gateway to the impri-
soned, adventure to the indolent, love to the
lonely, forgetfulness to the sorrowing, calm
to the impatient, rest to the weary.
1 am the commonest of common
things. I am art for the artless, buffoon-
ery for buffoons, braggadocio for cow-
ards. 1 revel in backstairs romance.
I am the coarse snuggling friend of
kitchen mechanics, perfumed and un-
bathed. My delight is a silly hero of
clammy virtue and patent-leather hair. 1
teach cheap yawps that the fade-out hug
solves every problem in the universe. I am
a cog-wheeled idol whose temples are redo-
lent of chewing gum and poisonous candy.
My services demand music; I have none of
my own ; 1 steal everyone's music, and blend
it in a horrible mess. I am the matinee
idol of slatternly wives, the dime novel of
defective boys. I am opium to ambition.
1 am the drama's illegitimate child. 1 am
literature's idiot brother.
I am the profounuest possibility of modern
times. 1 am one day old — and on my brow
the sages have already found the seal of im-
mortality. My eyes are so strong that 1 see
over the rim of the world. I am the only
creature who has made Time turn his hour-
glass over. 1 a m the imagination of the sur-
geon and the chart of the doctor. 1 am the
incomparable salesman and the ultimate
newspaper. 1 am magic ink for the shy poet.
I am breathing beauty and living virility for
the romancer who has known only the pale
puppets of words. I am a flash of lightning
above the gloomy forest of history. 1 am the
awful mask of war. 1 am th
alchemist of invention. I am th^
magic carpet and Aladdin's lamp.
1 am the supreme teacher of
the child.
My future is bounded by
infinity.
My feet flounder in the
clay, but my eyes are
with the stars.
I am The Motion
Picture.
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CLOSE-UPS
EDITORIAL EXPRESSION AND TIMELY COMMENT
E
In Re
Butler &
Club.
THE persistence of that obsequious ass, the butler, is
inexplainable. In the early days of motion pictures,
shadowgraphy was a diversion intended mainly for the
thoughtless humble, whose interest in the doings of
Lord Swank, Lady Gink and their gargoylish servants
forever transcends their liking for the affairs of life,
presented with no matter what power or fineness. But pictures have
passed the boob stage. Not every seat in the picture theatre has gum under
it today. Ladies and gentlemen of wealth, and ladies and gentlemen who
have no wealth at all, have interested themselves in the electric pantomime.
The ignoramus, either gold-plated or in rags, is no longer played up to.
And still the butler goes on, and on, and on, like the procession of the
seasons. He appears in farm-houses, and in the homes of clerks; he stiffens
every social function; he is a valet to the garden species of college boy,' and
an old hen to the college boy's mother; the mahster is not allowed to dip
his own soup; the next-door neighbor, dropping in for a shot of pinochle,
is asked for his card. The bachelor is not allowed to hang his own pants
in his own closet, and the business man cannot put away or get his coat and
hat when he exits or enters. Motion picture service in real life would
make half the self-reliant Americans murderers and drive the other half
nutty. Why does this infernal nuisance persist?
The "club," with its inevitable bevy of chortling young male sopranos in
Tuxedos, is another ghastly paraphrase of a comfortable and kindly Amer-
ican institution where formality and boiled shirts are the exception rather
than the rule.
They all do it, from Abe Gonuff, the new Pazazas directorial marvel, to
Lois Weber.
The Movie
Barometer.
AN audit of the books of the Mitchell Mark corporation,
a huge exhibitor concern owning and operating the
New York Strand and many other Eastern theatres,
shows that photoplay patronage during the last quarter
of 1916, as compared with the same period in 1915, had
an increase of from 12 to 20 percent.
Mr. Mark owns theatres in New York state. Other reports show that
patronage is at high tide in the country dominated by Minneapolis and St.
Paul, excellent through the Middle West, comparatively quiet in Philadelphia
and Pennsylvania, constantly rising in the South, generally strong on the
Atlantic seaboard, and at low ebb in San Francisco and Los Angeles. This
is a natural reaction from an enormous overplay of years, in which the
cities went picture-mad — perhaps by reason of the proximity of the people
who made them. We believe that there is a distinct connection between
Pennsylvania disinterest and the inquisitorial censorship of that State, which
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has sufficed not to protect morals, but to destroy interesting performances
sometimes of genuinely artistic merit.
However — we hazard a guess that you don't know where the world's
banner territory lies; it's New England. Here is a great district vividly
characterized by an energetic distributor as "a region of intensive cultivation."
It is very like the farm lands of northern France, save that instead of rich
soil, the photoplay-seller finds people, people everywhere, with the outlying
boundaries of communities almost overlapping, and big cities so close that
the exhibitors — for instance, in the State of Massachusetts — are constantly
in touch with each other, go from town to town to see each other's pictures,
assemble frequently, are easily drawn toward a center for big showings, and
are in a much better position to know what's going on than their widely
separated brothers of the West. Rich as New York and Chicago are in
movie interests. New England far outclasses them.
Reports of substantial increases in business do not mean corresponding
increases in the exhibitor's profits. Your showman has had to pay out
much more money in 1916 — and that not so much in increased rental for
films, as in increased cost of operating, and the constant pressure on the
part of the cheap exhibitor to give a huge show for a little money. Movies
are the cheapest staple in the market today. The cost of luxuries and
necessities alike has aviated, but the cost of motion pictures — to you — has
not gone ahead in any substantial way. Not even justly. Many a show
you see for a dime or fifteen cents should be retailed at a quarter of a dollar.
%
"Personality'
Pictures.
HERE is an untouched field.
If the personalities of big men and unusual women
are fit subjects for magazine exploitation and profound
books and illustrated Sunday supplements, why aren't
they vital screen topics?
Wouldn't you like to see a characteristic one-reeler of
Steinmetz, the electric wizard? Or of Anne Morgan, daughter of the great
Pierpont and tremendously energetic public servant? Or of Frank Vanderlip,
the Chicago reporter who became an emperor of finance, at home and in
his office? Or of Frederick Funston, notre Joffre if we fell into war?
Men who are really doing things are generally a bit annoyed by printed
personalities, but he or she who stands for the Sunday story and the maga-
zine parableist would surely stand for silent camera, which asks only to tell
the unvarnished truth — as the space writer seldom does.
Sunday Movies,
Winning.
THE battle for Sunday motion pictures is on and is
being fought out in New York State. The recent court
decision there against Sabbath film play was a blessing
in disguise; it brought the boil to a head, and it is being
thoroughly picked by practiced pickers.
While the worthy but medieval Bishop Mouzon of
Oklahoma was, in a recent Methodist Episcopal conference, condemning all
film plays as "damnable and immoral," a large group of New York state
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ministers were, over their signatures, arguing vociferously for the Sunday
picture exhibition as an educator, a recreation and a relaxation for the
laboring man. A preacher who does this is an honest fellow; speaking
toughly, he's one square guy, arguing as he is in opposition to his own
entertainment. He is predestined to attract and enlighten on the Sabbath,
and to stamp Sunday pictures with approval indicates breadth and charity
that few laymen possess.
The Mayor of New York City is thundering in the public prints against
the blue laws, and the Mayor of Syracuse has laconically defied them.
Feeding Hash
to the Eagle.
AN indication of the enduring infancy of the film busi-
ness is the reiterated avowal of many m.anufacturers to
use as scenario bases only dramas or novels of estab-
lished repute. This seems to us much like the settling-
back of the rich man's son who waits confidently for an
inheritance; someone else toiled in advance, and he is
in a way to get the benefits — why should he make personal endeavors?
Film manufacturing is even more a trade than the theatre, and in all trades
the tradesmen are willing to "let George do" the pioneering. Most business
men are like sheep following the bell-wether, save that now and then some
particularly restless business man elects to be the bell-wether, pioneer
George — or whatever you wish to call him. To such a one comes, not
infrequently, the eventual big reward; whereupon he is described by all his
associates as "lucky," a man of opportunity, made not by his own efforts,
but by the moment in which fate thrust him.
To deny the aspirations of original authorship is to put the film tomorrow
in a big black box and throw the key away. The dreariest task of the
world's publishers is the ceaseless hunt for the atom of talent in the cubic
yard of chaff; but it is a task resembling the placer miner's quest: the thrill
of discovery is the zest that makes living worth while, and the means of
living come in the collectoral aftermath. Had they sat at editorial desks
the film makers who peremptorily refuse original material would have kept
Rudyard Kipling at police reporting. Booth Tarkington would never have
been heard of outside Indiana, and Robert Louis Stevenson would have
been gathered in by the chill mists of Scotland long before "Treasure
Island." Had these gentlemen been theatrical managers George Broadhurst
would today be a drear gray clerk on the Chicago Board of Trade, Bayard
Veiller still a forty-dollar advance agent, J. M. Barrie, peterpanless, a quaint
Highland humorist known nowhere outside his books.
The photoplay is a new eagle in the artistic bird cage. How long must it
eat hash?
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THERE are two sides to everything except a woman's
argument. As the question of original authorship is
hardly a feminine discussion, hear a well-known manager
state the producer's side of the case.
"A popular play" — says he— "has an impetus. From
the selling point of view it is already in motion. The
most tremendous advertising campaign possible is already finished — free!
On the
Other Hand-
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The American public is a collection of advertisement patrons, and a success-
ful play is sold in pictures before a single foot of film is exposed; I speak
figuratively. A very successful novel is not less popular, though between
the fairly successful play and the fairly successful novel we would choose
the former. If I were to produce an original work of Shakesperean genius
by the unknown young John Smith, and, in an adjoining theatre offer a
passable adaptation of Robert W. Chambers — well, my Chambers 'turnaway'
might bring the Smith picture a comfortable intake, but no more. That is
one reason big directors, in producing original entertainments of full evening
length, have turned to spectacle. Not one of them has dared tell a simple,
brand-new story of every-day life in more than five reels. I quote no past
history; witness, running today, 'Intolerance,' 'The Daughter of the Gods,'
and 'Joan the Woman.'
"The proverbial stupidity of the average free-lance writer grows more
and more proverbial. In thousands of manuscripts, carefully read in my
office, we have discovered only trash and repetitions of old ideas.
"One big, hydra-headed producing organization has, for one year, made
a deliberate, studied attempt to present original pieces and little else.
Profitably speaking, this has been a flat failure; artistically, many of their
pictures have been superb.
"These are facts. Now, if you were a manufacturer, what would you
do?"
We are not a manufacturer and we can't answer, but we believe this:,
that the supreme photoplay triumph will be an original modern drama of
few characters, little scenery — and vivid life! Who'll do the first of these
surely-coming things?
Japan
Substantiates
Mr. Pike.
SAID Daniel Voorhees Pike, in "The Man from Home:"
"Folks is pretty much the same, in Kokomo and Pekin."
Japan goes far to substantiate Mr. Pike. A nation-
wide censorship of motion pictures has been established,
and we observe that the ears of the regulating donkey are
just as long in Yeddo as in Columbus. The trappings and
the suits of wickedness are eschewed with true Pharasaic vigor, but it is
doubtful if the spirit of evil, which is as intangible as the spirit of good, will
be in the least perturbed by a set of proscriptions so barbarically ingenuous
that they might have been written in Chicago, New York or Philadelphia.
The thou-shalt-not-show edict in Nippon extends to:
Films reflecting on the persons or prestige of the royal family.
Films which teach criminal methods.
Films which show opposition to authority, or the defeat of authority.
For instance — this is just our presumption — a victory over the censors.
Films which might arouse low passions.
Films which show bad persons winning success.
A pair of prohibitions not so devoid of sagacity prevent the showing of
excessive penalties on convicts — give us this day our daily electric chair,
prays the American peace-eater — and the exhibition of pictures which might
lead children into mischief or viciousness.
NO LONGER DOES SHE MOURN BEL5HAZZAR
Sne was the Princess Beloved of Babylon's ruler in "Intolerance," this Seena Owen of the movies, who once was
Signe Ajen, a name they thought unpronounceable . In private life she is Mrs. George Wilsh.
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What Next-?
IT ISN'T "WHAT 15 COMING NEXT?"
IT'S "WHO 15 COMING NEXT?" AND
THE AN5WER 15: THE AUTHOR
By Harry C. Carr
Decorations by Oscar Bryn
IT would be cruel
to hold out false
e n couragement ;
but it looks very
much as though this
poor, disheveled al-
ley cat, the movie
author, were at last
about to be invited
to the party.
It isn't really a
question: "What is
coming next?" The
question is : "Who
is coming next?"
And the answer is :
"The author."
Up to this point,
the author has been
a bedraggled Cin-
derella w h o swept
the hearth and fixed
the clothes in which
the stars went to the
party. The director
frankly considered
him of small im-
portance and re-
garded the author's
scenario as only
rough material from
which to make up a
play.
The "punch play,"
which was a
drama com-
posed by
the director, is gasping its last. With the
passing of the punch play, the author is
about to rise and tell the director where he
belongs.
I take it that the course of movie dramas,
since tl\eir inception, has been about as
follows:
The first picture plays were incidents
arranged into plays much as children ar-
range building blocks or mechanical stick-
-em-together toys. The directors lived like
firemen with their boots by their bed sides.
When the fire bell rang, they hustled a
camera out to the scene and "took" the fire.
If the fire looked pretty good in the nega-
tive, they made up the story afterward by
injecting a heroine and a couple of handy-
sized villains. No river could have a nice
peaceable flood ; no railway locomotive
could enjoy a wreck without being libeled
afterward on the screen.
The demand for plays being greater than
the supply of floods and fires, picture people
began making pictures in the studios.
At this period, most of the photo plays
were cheap melodrama. Their manner of
birth was as weird as their plots. Some of
them were made up by the directors ; some
were written by kept scenario writers ; oth-
ers were sent in by outside writers. These
contributing authors were a fearful and
wonderful collection. Two of the most
successful of that day were a night watch-
man and a train dispatcher. An office boy
in a Los Angeles newspaper ran them a
close third.
There was considerable merit in them —
to tell the truth. They had all the "kick"
of the Nick Carter dime novels of our
youthful days.
This was the beginning of the
"director" plays. What I call
a "director's play" is what they
call on the stage an "actor's
play." In the mind of an actor,
there isn't the slightest reason
why a cannibal head hunter can-
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not leave a will to be stolen by a villain ; no
reason why Hamlet, if he happens to have
a good voice, cannot with perfect propriet;}'
sing the latest New York success "Look
Out, White Man: I'll Haunt You Wiien
I'm Dead" wliile talking;- tn the ghost of
iiis father.
The actor argues that consistency is a
paste jewel : that the people come to be
thrilled and it doesn't matter how you
l)ring the thrills in. The main thing is to
liave 'em there. The majority of the early-
day directors were actors. Hence tlie
I)unch play.
The last two years^especiallv 1916—
have witnessed a duel between tlie punch
play and a pioneer who is timidly dipping
in his oar.
The crop of 1916 has consisted of punch
plays, dramatized novels, spectacles and a
new kind of play to be discussed hereafter.
You can tell a punch play on sight.
When a girl comes walking blithely in with
a sun bonnet and a liappy little skip, you
know everything else that is going to hap-
pen. A villain with patent leather shoes is
coming from the city and will elope with
her. And they are going to elope in an
automobile that comes down a long white
road seen through an arch of the trees.
After which the lady is due to return with
an illegitimate child in her arms ; peek
through the windows at night and be for-
given by her yokel lover. This is the fate
of every young lady with a sun bonnet.
You know that every gentleman with a
tough looking moustache and a cigarette
is due to chase the heroine around the room,
kicking over chairs, at length to wrestle
her around in his arms with the evident
intention of eating her. judging from the
way he gobbles at her fair young face.
The hero also gives you fair warning
because, upon seeing the fair voung hero-
ine for the first time, he gives his chest a
mighty heave ; gives a bright smile and
begins winking his eyes in a happv and an-
imated manner. T never could understand
the reason for these winks ; but anvhow
that's the way the hero of tlie punch plav
always does. His cardiacal excitement al-
ways manifests itself upon first seeing the
lady of his new born love bv blinking like
a very happy owl.
Although it is a little off the subject,
there is one other feature of motion pic-
ture plays that fills me with wonder and
amazement. This
is the way the
heroine accepts the
hero's proposal.
For some extraor-
d i n a r y reason,
after a moment of
s w e e t hesitation,
the lady suddenly
yields and butts
headfirst into the
hollow of the
hero's shoulder.
Although rather
tedious on the
screen, in real life
I think this cus-
tom would induce
constancy in love.
None except the
most robust heroes could stand being
nanny goated this way many times in suc-
cession.
'J'his is all director-made stuft'. It is
doomed.
'T'^\'0 or three small veins opened up
during the past year jiromise great
things for the coming vear.
From one of these veins has been mined
the Douglas Fairbanks satires, written by
Miss Anita Loos. Satire is an advanced
form of literature. It is the signal that
the movie play has advanced to a point
where plays never again can be made up
by directors "as they go along."
Her satire on Newport Society ("Amer-
ican Aristocracy") is perhaps the greatest
stride movie literature has made.
Until this little girl came along with
these subtle comedies, movie fun, apart
from the Sennett comics, was deadly serious.
You were always given fair warning that it
was to be funnv. Movie comedies were
told as jokes are told in British newspa-
pers. "A frightfully comic incident ha]^-
pened yesterday on the Strand." etc.
The satire lieralds the arrival of tlie
author.
T said they took two directions — these
veins. The other vein is being mined bv
the practiced dramatists and authors re-
cently drawn into movie literature, and
by a few men who have been evolved
by the movies themselves. The nuggets
taken from this vein are real " char-
acters."
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Photoplay Magazine
Up to the present time, movie plays have
never dealt with actual characters. They
have been much like the old morality plays
of the Middle Ages. They dealt with
moral elements. Every movie hero is just
the same. He is not an actual character.
He is personified nobility.. The villain
has no actual character: he is vice. The
heroine is merely the screen upon which
these two conflicting elements combat one
another. Movie plays have, until now, con-
sisted of an endless arra^- of incidents show-
ing the conflict between vice and virtue.
The first play I ever saw in which the
theme departed from this duel and as-
cended into a world of real characters was
a small one act flash by Mr. Gardner Sulli-
van of the Ince Company. It was called
"The Passing of Two-Gun Kicks." To my
mind, it is the best scenario so far written.
It is clear that plays of this type — real
drama with real characters— are not to be
written by ofiice boys, or train dispatchers ;
nor are they to be produced without a sce-
nario by a director who starts out with a
company of actors in an automobile and
makes up the play as he goes along.
It seems to go without saying that if the
•^ old time punch play is to give way to
more subtle plays written by men practiced
in writing that more subtle directing, more
subtle light effects, and more subtle acting
must be used to put them on the screen.
Any actor can play the part of a villain or
a hero ; but it takes brains and thought to
deliniate characters who "aint no thin red
heroes, who aint no blackguards too," but
are living, breathing individuals like any
other individuals who ever lived or ever
will : to show on the screen, in short, an
actual identity facing the problems of
actual living.
What changes of method will be neces-
sary to bring about this delicacy?
In seeking the answer to this question I
have talked with most of the big directors
and producers in the movie business. I
got much from every one ; but I got most
from William De Mille of the Lasky Com-
pany. What follows are partly his ideas
and partly mine, with the accent on "his."
De Mille thinks that the movie drama has
come to the parting of the ways. Hereafter
it will advance in two directions : the inti-
r-
mate drama of character ;, the big specta-
cle.
The experience of Mr. Griffith with "In-
tolerance" has driven most movie magnets
into a panic over big spectacles. Never-
theless the spectacle will survive. The
trouble with Intolerance was its departure
from the laws of drama. A spectacle is
only permissible if it is subsidiary to char-
acter development. In other words, the
San Francisco earthquake has no right to
be shown on the screen as a mere spectacle.
As an event that brought about a crisis in
the affairs of a certain character, it is dra-
matically correct. -The story must dominate
the events ; the events have no dramatic
right to dominate the characters. The
fatal error of Intolerance was that, in the
great Babylonian scene, you didn't care
which side won. It was just a great show.
r^URING the coming year, there will
*^ doubtless be a paucity of spectacles
because of the alarm that now grips the pro-
ducers : but before the year is through they
will be at work on bigger and more gor-
geous spectacles than ever.
The intimate drama will have a chance
of great development along the lines sug-
gested. During the past five years the
movies have shown more development than
the spoken drama showed in the last 100
years. Because they are now on the right
track at last, there will be less advance
that is obvious to the naked eye. The
prospecting stage is past. The year 1917
will see them slowly milling the gold.
De Mille's opinion is that a real movie
dramatist is very likely to be produced be-
fore the year is through. As it is now, the
best picture companies are producing plays
written by men with experience in writing
for the spoken .stage.
It is not at all certain, however, that the
movie Shakespeare whose advent is pre-
dicted by the prophetic Mr. De Mille will
have any
spoken
plays on
his record.
The Lasky
seen ario
.staff con-
sists e X-
clusively of
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men and women who have put over at least
one Broadway success. But only because
they have studied the laws of dramatics
are they in pictures.
The writer of the spoken drama bears
the same relation to the movie play that the
driver of a stationary engine does to an
automobile cliautl:"eur. They may not know
the screen ; but at least they know the laws
of dramatic construction.
The truth is, what we call the "remark-
able evolution of the movie play" is reallv
nothing but the education of men and
women who had never studied the theory
of dramaturgies.
By a long slow evolution, certain (Ireek
dramatists discovered certain dramatic
principles and passed them to the French
and English dramatists who passed them on
to us. The movie pioneers might have
learned all this from books; but they
learned it instead, as the dramatists of old
learned — from experience.
The whole long cycle of the growth of
dramatic art has been paced by the movie
people in ten years. The rapidity of this
cycle is due to the fact that the average
director of a movie company has actually
produced three times as many plays as the
pioneers of dramatic art ever heard of in
their wliole lives. So they have learned
from experimenting what they might have
learned about dramatic principles from
study. Having learned these basic princi-
ples, they are now ready to begin in good
earnest.
Until lately, the director has had a free
hand in his own productions. The script
of the despised author was nothing but a
ground work for liim to use as a suggestion.
The De Milles have changed this proced-
ure. In the Lasky Company a director gets
his script with the most minute di-
rections. From this he is not allowed to
depart.
The director is
not the court of
highest resort any
more. He stands —
and will stand to a
great extent in the
future — as the co-
laborator with the
W -^'^ P dramatist.
^' 5L. The dramatist
supplies the plot
and action and busi-
ness in its entirety. The
director supplies the un-
spoken dialogue. To the
extent to which he gets his
actors away from the old
stale methods of the hero
who heaves and winks and
the heroine who butts does
he replace bromidical
dialogue by cri.sp, un-
conventional "lines."
In the furtherance of i
this thought, it is evident
that the coming year will
show great strides in the
art of stage lighting.
De Mille's idea is that
the movie of the future
will resemble a series of
paintings rather than a
series of photographs.
The point and pur-
pose of this is plain. By
the device of composi-
tion and lights a n d
shades, the painting is
able to guide the eye to
the point to which the
painter wishes to call at-
tention : also by his col-
ors to fix the mental tone
of his picture.
This power to suggest
by light and shade is
enormous in its possibili-
ties. On the spoken
stage they have begun to
realize it.
A scene of poverty is 3
more strikingly sug- ^
gested by a stage setting
of bleak gray than by ..,
any collection of dilapi-
dated clothe'^ and broken
furniture.
JUST so there are persons — and
I am one of them — to whom
Friday alwa\s seems white ;
Wednesday pale blue ; Thursday
a mixed brown and so on. So
emotions have lights and shades
as well as color.
Now here is the point : Where
the movie drama lacks the stage's
subtlety of words to convey
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LOUISE, A CELLULOID LORELEI
Two days aher Miss Claum's sartorial cyclone was imprisoned in a camera the poor peacock died of jealousy.
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How much is your life worth to you? How much more would
it be worth if you knew that you were soon to lose it?
"Have a care for tomorrow, Raymond Von Seer, for you are fated to be injured, out-of-doors."
The Mysterious Mrs. M.
By Constance Severance
RAYMOND VON SEEK, not murh
over twenty, sound of body, presum-
ably sane, and possessed of enough
money to pay off a Balkan principality's
indebtedness, wondered how he could get
out of the dreary task of living in a grace-
ful and unaccustomed manner.
There was the rub. Von Seer hated the
commonplaceness of things. It was com-
monplace to eat, to talk, to walk, to sleep,
to play — but it was even more commonplace
to commit suicide. Von Seer pictured his
ghost, full of satiric laughter through eter-
nity over a self-made finish ! So, having
no mind to live or die, he sat before the
fireplace of his club apartment in the
middle of a perfectly wonderful afternoon,
drew the shades, and gave his rooms the
look of an undertaking establishment dur-
ing the visit of a rich customer.
While Von Seer was distressed with the
actualities of being, his mental agonies
were bv no means so acute as those of
Green, liis man. Von Seer was not a
dawdler nor a weakling nor a luxuriant,
but his people had always had men, and
Green, as a youth, had served his father.
Raymond inherited him, and, negatively,
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considered him indispensable, just as we presently. "Why don't you get a coffin
consider watch-fobs and scarf-pins indis- to sleep in, like ISernhardt?"
pensable. Green, now more than fifty , "I shall have one soon enough," replied
years of age, nursed his miserable remnant Von Seer, gently.
of life as a miner guards a candle-end "Brrrr !" exclaimed Banks, shivering,
when lost in a drift ; and that Von Seer, and doing a dance step. '"My finish may
whose life was the splendor of a grand be chasing me, too, but I warn it it'll have
illumination, should consider the thing to fox-trot to catch me. I'm going to beat
worth ' nothing — Green feared for Von it out of your ice house before I get pneu-
Seer's sanity as a father fears for the safety monia !"
of a little lost child. Though Banks and Browning forgot the
In his distress Green appealed to Banks purple sadness of their comrade in an
and Browning, Raymond's pals. especially boisterous burlesque show, Green
"He's been thrown by a Jane, and he's oft' didn't forget. And he brought the matter
everything," ruminated even more vigorously to
Banks, not without cer- , <"j«jjg MYSTERIOUS their attention the follow-
tain personal recollec- ing day.
tions. ^^^- ^- "Oh Mr. Banks, sir!"
•"Get out !" contradicted TPHIS narrative is from the he moaned, "Mr. Von
the more material- Brown- 1 Bluebird Photoplay (based Seer stood half the night
ing. "It's his liver. Make "PO" a story by Thomas Edge- bv the open window, look-
him live in the open a S thTflTllowing'ca';? '^''"' ^"g ^own into the street,
month and eat hard grub, / kiunu he'll have nerve
and you'll see a lad who'll Phyllis IVoodman.Mary MacLaren enough to jump tonight!"
be afraid to sleep for fear Raymond Von Seer.Uarrison Ford "Very messy way," ru-
of missing something." Mrs Musslewhtte Evelyi^ Selby minatecl Browning, nudg-
™, ,° ,. °. . Dr. IV oodman. . .Frank Brownlee . -n i , r
Ihe love-diagnostician Green Willis Marks ^^S Banks and narrowly
and the exponent of er- Browning Bertram Grassby watching Green. "We
ratic inwards not agree- Banks Charles H. Mailes mustn't let him do that.
ing, they put the thing up Now a nice little bottle of
to Von Seer himself. Browning asked what prussic acid, say — "
he had been drinking, and Banks asked her "Oh ! Oh ! Oh !" wailed the non-com-
name, prehending servant, fading out of the
"Both wrong," responded Von Seer, with picture,
an Edgar Allan Poe smile. "I haven't "Kidding aside, old Ray is in a funk and
been stung by wine or women, but by life we've got to lift him some way ; it's just
itself. You fellows are fortunate in that in such moods that people really do those
you can't or won't think — " damphool stunts !" Banks spoke. Brown-
"Banks can't, and I won't," interposed ing's grin faded. He agreed. Together,
Browning. they hunted the switch which should divert
" — about the miserable futility of ex- Von Seer's black train of thought into the
istence. I shave this morning knowing that sunshine.
I shall be just as smutty-faced tomorrow At the hour of their visit the day before,
morning. I eat my breakfast knowing that the pair invaded the sepulchral chamber
I shall be hungry in a few hours. I go out where Von Seer sat hopefully awaiting an
feeling hearty and husky, and at night I earthquake, a cyclone, or any kindly ob-
shall be tired enough to drop down any- literating catastrophe.
where. If I get married my wife will "I don't give a curse for your mood!"
presently be an old story and I shan't care howled Banks, dragging him from his
for her. If I see a tottering, toothless, chair. "Browning and I have found the
senile old man in the street I have only sensation of modern times — a fortune-teller
to count the years until I shall be just who actually predicts!"
like him. I know that I carry a grinning "Does she do rough laundry for your
■ skeleton with me always as a reminder of mother, and carry a rabbit's foot?" scoffed
death." Raymond.- "Name's Amanda, Lucinda or
"Life is a, merry little entertainment Dinah, I suppose?"
for you, isn't it?" remarked Browning, "She is a lady of culture, refinement and
The Mysterious Mrs. M.
67
profound mystery. She's not in the game
for money. She's like the prophetesses of
the Old Testament. Dead or alive, you've
got to give her the once-over with us."
Because he did not care enough about
anything to resist vigorously, Raymond per
mitted himself to be motored to the home
of "The Mysterious Mrs. M. . . ." — the
only reference Banks and Browning al-
Towed themselves when endeavoring to
speak her name.
In spite of himself, Raymond was a bit
taken aback by the surroundings of the
alleged seeress. She lived in a pretentious
avenue, and her house was an extraordi-
nary dwelling ; a combination of Far-East
bungalow and Hindoo Temple, with great
date palms rising like green fountains in
front. An ivory-colored door, like a
temple-gate, was swmig back by an im-
pressive individual in turban, jewelled
jacket and parti-colored trousers. For
some moments they stood in the hallway,
the strange servant having disappeared
through jasper-colored portieres at the end
of the passage. The fragrance of Oriental
incense and sandal-wood weighted the air
and spun the senses curiously. Von Seer
wondered if he heard or imagined that he
heard, faint, far chimes like tolling temple
bells. After a long interval the jasper-
portieres suddenly lifted of their own ac-
cord, and at the end of an apartment so
hung with purple velvet that it seemed
blark as midnight "the mysterious" was
descried. A few silver stars spangled the
mournful drapes. Banks and Browning
hesitated as if in a momentary fit of super
stitious terror. Von Seer, who would have
given the devil the right hand of fellow-
ship, walked boldly in. The only light
upon the woman was a strange pearly ray
of ruddy quality which rushed up from a
ball of crystal flame on the floor before her.
She looked at once young and profoundly
old. There were lines like theatrical make-
up about her eyes — deep, furrowed lines
that told of sorrowing years and too much'
knowledge. Banks assembled his nerves
and followed valiantly.
"My lady," he began, "permit me to pre-
sent Mr. ."
"Raymond Von Seer needs no introduc-
tion to me, nor I to him!" cried the
priestess of illusion in a high, thin, weary
voice of indescribable magic and melan-
choly. "When the warm seas boiled and
the mountains were mud billows he was a
P::yllis was tall, slender, wonderfully graceful and her stubborn chin made a mighty bulwark jor her
sensitive mouth and gentle eyes.
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hideous land-crab and I a poison
snake, and we met and fought and
died, and our bodies are today a mile
beneath the coal of what you momen-
taries call Pennsylvania."
"Pretty thought," commented Von
Seer, satirically. "And as for my
name, of course they told you."
"They told me nothing 1" rasped
the priestess, angrily, bidding him be
seated on a chair of heavy teak.
Then, the light and her voice fading
uncannily together: "Have a care for
tomorrow, Raymond Von Seer ; have
a care for tomorrow, for you are
fated- to be injured, out of doors.
Have a—"
The light and the voice were gone
together. The three young men
stared at impenetrable blackness.
"Open that door!" called Brown-
ing, suddenly frightened. The door
opened, silent and unattended. Some
light from the hallway came through.
In front of Von Seer there was noth-
ing but a little table, and then the
funereal purple-black portieres which
enshrouded the room: no light from
the crystal, no woman. The room
was empty.
"Pardon me! I got a date."
Banks' voice was curiously unsteady.
He jammed his hat over his eyes and
strode to the door in correct imita-
tion of an Ethiopian passing a ceme-
tery at night. Browning followed
almost as precipitately. Von Seer
came behind them, laughing. In see-
ing their spiritual discomfiture he had
forgotten himself for the first time
in days.
Absent-mindedly, he ate a substan-
tial dinner, to the great joy of Green, and,
immediately afterward, abandoned himself
to introspection of a new sort.
Why, he asked himself, had the predic-
tion of this theatrical faker made such an
impression upon him? What imp of per-
versity made him wonder and wonder if
some trivial mishap icoiild meet up with
him on the morrow? After all, he almost
believed himself worrying about a possible
minor accident when he was quite sure that
he would welcome a fatal one.
He fell to thinking of it. and deriding
himself, and wondering at outlandishness
of clothed bipeds in general ; and he didn't
Dr. Woodman, giving his wrist a final treatment, held th \ I
over hiti'
sleep. Then, childishly, he resolved to beat
the witch at her own game by not going
out of doors at all. Upon which resolution
he lost consciousness.
The resolution was water-tight till 4
P. IM. Then Green burst into the room,
(juivering with excitement.
"I think the club is afire, sir !" he sput-
tered: "There is smoke all through my
rooms, smoke coming up the stairs, and I
hear a great deal of confusion and up-
roar— "
"Hear it and enjov it." returned Von
Seer. "I'll sit here till I'm done to a
cinder."
The Mysterious Mrs. M.
69
cass would suf-
fer some dam-
age. How idi-
otically they ran
about and
pushed each
other. He —
A coil of rope
caught his
ankle, and, just
across the thres-
hold, he tum-
bled ludicrously
to the street. A
ferocious pain
stabbed his arm.
H e realized
that his wrist
was broken.
"Conf o u n d
that woman!"
h e muttered.
"She's jinxed
me !"
Raymond
Von Seer had
never been ill,
and, with a
healthy man's
ignorance, h e
mistrusted all
doctors,
knew and
erenced
the man
brought
He
rev-
only
who
him
so that her sweet sympathy, her beauty, even the delicate girl-scent of her, flowed
a river.
But he didn't. Presently he went to the
window, beheld the engines roll up, and
was amused at the outcry when he and
Green were glimpsed at an upper window.
"Come down, sir ! Come down ! You're
making a spectacle of yourself !"
That settled it. Whatever his resolu-
tions, Von Seer abhorred the self-adver-
tiser. He shifted quietly into his things,
and strolled jauntily down the main stair-
case through choking- smoke. Green scram-
bling crazily after with bundles and bags.
Raymond watched with amusement the
jumping and tumbling of these footed
worms, each fearing that his worthless car-
into the world.
Dr. Woodman,
who lived some
little • distance
in the country.
Setting . the
broken wrist was an easy matter for the
middle-aged surgeon, but so many hours
had elapsed without attention that Ray-
mond had a pretty case of fever in the
injured limb. Dr. Woodman peremptorily
ordered him to give up thought of return-
ing to town for several days at least.
Impolite curiosity was not one of Ray-
mond Von Seer's failings, but he wished
that Woodman, in a moment of garrulity,
would open up and tell him something of
his patients — at least, something of the
extremely pretty patient whose portrait
adorned his desk, his wall, and the oiifice
door. And, while he admired the un-
i
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known's face, Raymond despised himself
for what he termed an animal's weakness.
Here was he, scoffer and unbeliever, doing-
homage not to a flesh-and-blood girl, but
to a girl's picture. Finally he resolved to
have it out with himself and the doctor.
He asked him at breakfast.
The hearty laughter was Mrs. ^Vood-
man's.
"She's no patient — she's Phyllis ; our
own little Phyllis. Don't you remember
that when you were a little boy six years
old your father one day brought you to
our house, and I had a little girl just learn
ing to walk — you tried to teach her !"
By scratching the old furrows of mem-
ory Raymond could just recall some such
uninteresting procedure.
"Well, this is she," explained Mrs.
Woodman. "She's been away a whole year.
She's coming back next week, and you
must be here."
The insistent return of the girl's face
to his mind so plagued Ra^mtiond that he
resolved to turn to the fortune-teller for
a shift of excitements. No directory listed
her, but, through Browning, her telephone
number was procured.
Von Seer was somewhat astonislied when
assured that she was in, but could not speak
to him. Reasons were not forthcoming.
Two days later he rang again. This
time the equally mysterious servant said,
mournfully: "My lady does not wish to
speak to you. She wisJaes that you would
not call again . . . she cannot speak
to you." The last sentence seemed a ter-
rible pronunciamento, costing the speaker
a profound effort.
Astonished before, the young man was
now wratliful. Having made a broken-
wrist monkey of him. this Madame X
would hold no further converse. He would
see!
It was the door-bell, not the tele-
phone-gong of the Mysterious Mrs. M.
which next he rang The solemn Brahmin
greeted him with eyes wide in their alarm.
"No!" he whispered, wildly: "No!" It
was almost as if he were shielding the ma-
terial evidence of a murder.
Suddenly, lieyond him. a melancholy
voice reverberated from the strange depths
of the house.
"Let the fool come to me !" it said.
In the presence of the woman, more
weary, more haggard, more infinitelv sor-
rowful than before, Von Seer had no time
to ask peremptory questions.
"Do you know tn^hy I would not see
you?" she asked with tense directness.
"I neither know nor care why — "
"You will care. It was because I did
not wish to 'wound you, poor, sensitive mor-
tal. I knew you would ask me . . .
what next? And I knew that I should
answer . . . death."
"Well! Was that all?" Von Seer ex-
}>ressed a flippancy he did not feel.
"That is all," answered the woman, star-
ing at the floor.
"It can't be," pursued Von Seer, going
on in stiff bravery. "If you know the
nature of the entertainment, doubtless you
also know the time of the performance."
"I do. You will die of heart-failure at
midnight upon the second Wednesday in
September."
A CCORDING to this uncanny bird of
■**• ill-omen, the strapping lad had less
than six weeks to live! But he was game.
"Madame," he said, lighting a cigarette
without asking permission, "I want your
full name. This is tjie reason: You have
done me a great service. Life isn't par-
ticularly interesting anyway, and I'm glad
to know just when I'm going to get out of
it. Still, I've a lot of the stuff the world
calls wealth. Until you shuffle off your
clay envelope you need nice fittings for it.
I want to will you my — "
"I need nothing more," answered the
woman, in a voice like a dying man's sigh,
"for I have only one week to live."
"Gee W'hiz !" ejaculated the condemned
man, chilled to the bone. And as hastily
as decency permitted, he made his escape.
"Lord, but it's a great day!" he mut-
tered half a block down street, throwing
his hopeless eyes into the sapphire sky.
What mattered it to him that the zenith
was azure, the simsets limitless gold, and
the air like wine new-pressed and warm?
His was biit a short journey to the. tomb !
Two blocks, and he retraced his steps.
Now he approached the mansion of doom
by an alley. His business was w-ith the
servant, not the mistress, \\nien he re-
sumed his walk the servant had, in con-
sideration of a pair of crisp ten-dollar bills,
consented to keep the young man fully
posted on mysterious Mrs. M — 's health.
Though the fire at the club had done
The Mysterious Mrs. M.
71
Raymond had no business in town, nor had she. They were condemned to home and the country, and
that meant the river and trees, for the days were wonderful.
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practically no damage, Von Seer did not
feel like returning to his city chambers.
He wanted air — he was going to get so
little of it ! He went back to Dr. Wood-
man's.
His arrival and Phyllis's were simul-
taneous.
She was better than her picture — oh, in-
iinitely better! Dr.
Woodman, giving his
wrist a final treatment,
held the boy so that her
sweet sympathy, her
beauty, even the delicate
girl-scent of her, flowed
over him like a river.
Tall, slender, wonder-
fully graceful, Raymond
admired extravagantly
the firm contour of her '
stubborn chin : mighty 'i r »««..
bulwark for her sensitive 'ft hi;
mouth and gentle eyes. tt ml
There s'eemed no es-
caping her. Raymond
had no business in town,
nor had she. They were
condemned to home and
the country, and that
meant the river and trees,
for the days were won-
derful.
Phyllis had a boy's en-
thusiasms and a boy's
bravery, the common-
sense of a woman, a
child's honest simplicity
and the beauty of another
Marie-Louise. Oh. she
was very wonderful !
Raymond had t li e
poise of breeding, the
easy elegance which af-
fluence sometimes begets
in those born within the
golden pale, yet his ath-
letic good-looks, his ac-
complishments and his powers had given
him no iota of insolence or freshness. Oh,
he was very wonderful !
Five days passed, and those two chil-
dren had fallen furiously in love, guarded
by smiling days and star-filled nights and
the happy benediction of her parents. On
the morning of the sixth day Ravmond
realized that he had not heard from the
fortune-teller's servant !
"Sahib, I know not
lady, she die very qu
Half an hour later the telephone rang.
It was the Indian's voice at the other end
of the line. Raymond listened with a heart
which pounded so furiously that he won-
dered if he had a cardiac weakness after all.
"I did not call before, sir," said the
servant, "because my lady is in her usual
health, and I had nothing to report."
Von Seer could have
kissed him. Six day* —
and this damning raven
lived, moved, and had her
funereal being as always !
He was almost free of
the curse. He wished to
live ! Now, he loved life
almost as much as he
loved Phyllis! What a
fine thing it was to have
a splendid razor capable
of a velvet shave! How
fine it was to have an ap-
petite and something to
eat ! How glorious to
have two lungs and a
universe-full of oxygen
and nitrogen and ether
and pep to fill them with !
H o w God-given were
legs and arms and eyes
and ears and organs of
speech and fingers and
toes !
Raymond V o n. Seer
spent all of that day in
the delicious uncertainty
of a man who's about to
propose and who eter
nally defers it, either
from palpitating timidity
or the sheer maddening
joy of postponing life's
most excjuisite moment.
He and Phyllis did every-
thing and nothing. They
walked, they talked, they
motored, they played
around like carefree children.
But at night curiosity, the baffling spectre
who once had not known him, shared his
bed. He was absolutely itching to seize
the telephone and congratulate Mrs.
M. on her seventh day of scandalous
health. But he did not do so. In fact, ho
put off telephoning until mid-forenoon.
Then he rang her house furiously. The
servant was a long time answering.
ivhat to say. My
iek tin's morning. "
The Mysterious Mrs. M.
73
"Sahib," he
began in his
painful Eng-
lish, "I know
not what to
say to make
you know my
grief and
woe. My lady,
she die very
quick this
morning."
People 'do
not drop tele-
phones or
glassware ex-
cept in books
and movies
and plays.
Our habits
work auto-
matically
even in our
dreadfullest
moments ; so,
with exceed-
ing care, Ray-
m o n d re-
placed the re-
ceiver on the
liook. and the
telephone on
the table, while the world crashed discord-
antly about his ears.
There was no doubt of it now. Death
was his portion, and he wondered if the
devil of obliteration were coming just be-
cause he himself had summoned him in that
inconceivable aeon when he hated living.
Poor Von Seer felt like Rigoletto upon
abducting his own daughter, or Faust upon
selling his soul. The Mysterious Mrs. ISI —
was more weirdly horrible in death than
she had been in life.
The lad could bring himself no satisfac-
tion concerning Phyllis, and what he should
say to her. If he told her the truth she
would think him a lunatic. If he told her
nothing but his love, he would wreck her
life.
Phyllis could not understand it at all,
of course.
"What's the matter, Ray?" she asked
quite suddenly, confronting him. She put
her hands firmly on his shoulders, and
her face was close to his. He felt that if
he did not seize her and kiss her madlv he
Telling Green he wished to be disturbed by no one, he locked
himself into his study and waited for his crossing of the bar.
another
would go out
of his mind ;
and that if
he did seize
her and kiss
her at all
they would
both go out
of their
minds.
"I . . .
I can't tell
you,'' he
evaded,
backing
away. "Phyl-
lis, I'm crazy
about you,
but s 01 m e-
thing stands
between us."
He did
not volunteer
any more,
and she did
not ask any
more. When
a man says
'some thing
stands be-
tween," isn't
that s 0 m e-
woman? Of
thing always
course !
x\s day succeeded day, Raymond retired
farther and farther into his House of
Usher upon the tarn of despair. And
Phyllis was wounded deeply as a young
girl can be wounded. Cheaply, she had
worn her heart upon her georgette sleeve,
and Raymond, manlike, had flicked it off
like cigarette-ash on his cuff.
As the fatal day approached Raymond
wrapped around him, toga-fashion, the
stoicism of a young Socrates. He would
return to town, to his own apartments, to
die — he wouldn't muss up Dr. Woodman's
manse, after all their hospitality !
He had carefully avoided Banks and
Browning and the rest, who, as by strange
premonition, had as carefully avoided him.
The faithful Green puttered in the empty
apartment at the club. Von Seer's first
care, on coming to town, was to visit the
eerie maison of the late Mrs. M. It was
closed ; the shades were drawn, and there
was a large "to let" sign prominently thrust
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into the lawn. Enough. The serxant had
told the truth.
With the diabolic nerve of a condemned
criminal Raymond Von Seer counted oil"
the hours and then the minutes of life.
THE last day arrived.
Telling Green that he wished to be
disturbed by no one, he locked himself in
his study and waited for his crossing of the
bar. Green, fussy and worried as always,
tried to get in, knocked, received no answer,
summoned Raymond's friends.
Rayinond looked at his unerring clock
and his equally unerring watch. There was
not a split-second deviation. Both told him
that he had exactly an hour to live, for it
was just eleven. Raymond felt his pulse —
fast and weak ; doubtless his bh)od-engine
was slowing down for the final missing and
backfire of death.
In the calm of eternity's threshold the
vision of Phyllis was with him every mo-
ment. - Strangely, he could not think of the
big moments of his love, but of the inimita-
ble little things in tlieir acquaintance;
how she. had lost an nar on the river, and
had almost upset the boat getting it; how
she ate no butter or potatoes for fear of
getting fat : how beautifully she kept her
hands ; of the turn of her leg wlien he had
flashed it for a moment as she sat upon the
river bank ; of- the hair-pin that hati fallen
down her back to tickle her nearly into
laughing hysterics ; of her customary spell-
ing of "custotnary" with two rs.
His was to be a pleasant, dreamy passing.
Aware that the end of eartli was at hand,
Raymond, glanced at his watch. Its hands
were poised at 12:02. Rather stupidly, he
lifted his eyes to the clock: 12:02.
A wild hope surged through his head.
He leaped to the telephone and began furi-
ously to shake the transmitter. After two
thousand years the lazy girl answered.
"\MTat time is it — exactlv?" he liowled.
"It's just — 12:03," came the unbeliev-
able answer.
It was after midnight. The fatal day
had gone forever, and he was alive !
Suddenly a furious knocking broke
against the door. Wiping the perspiration
from his face. Von Seer walked toward the
door, and opened it.
"Well," said Browning, entering. "Think
life's worth while? Let me introduce the
'Mvsterious Mrs. M.' "
Bewildered. Raymond took a laughing
lady's hand. This person certainly had the
fortune-teller's features, but she was young,
and pleasant, and merry, and there was no
suggestion of death or disaster in lier lively
countenance.
"What was difficult ?" scoffed Browning,
in answer to his confused questions ; "we
simply had to jar you off your base, you
know.. Evelyn, liere, has always wanted to
act — and when the Federal officers pinched
Bramaputra, the Oriental doctor, for faking
without a licen,se, certainlv anyone could
rent liis queer outfit and liis lured help.
There you are !"
"No," exchiimed Raymond; "there I'm
not, and I won't be anywhere until I find
out — " he was at the tele])hone, shaking
the receiver violently on the hook.
Dr. Woodman answered.
"Phyllis? Yes, she's liere — with a young
man in the conservatory. I'll call her."
W'ith a young man, in the conservatory !
The world went back to wearing black.
Then Raymond heard Phyllis' voice.
She was not talking, but laughing.
"Phyllis!" he exclaimed, passionately.
"Something terrible nearly happened, but
it's over — and now there isn't an \t king be-
tween us. I love you — I'm mad about you
— I want you to marry me — ■'"
"Yes." still laughed Phyllis, "I will. I
think it's all just too funny. There's a' Mr.
Banks here now: he came to telh me all
about it — vou crazv darling!"
Delivery room in the
Mutual exchange in
New York City, where
the theatres' messenger
boys deliver used reels
and take out new ones.
ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN
BY THE MUTUAL FILM CORPORATION
FOR PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.
The Middleman of the Movies
If 15 HIS PARTICULAR BUSINESS TO
BRING THE FILM TO MARKET, AND IN
THE BRINGING HE MAKES MILLIONS
By Alfred A. Cohn
Author of "Waste," '"Harvesting the Serial." etc.
IF you are very, very old and have an
excellent memory you can think 'way,
'way back — almost a dozen years —
when the "nickel show" insinuated its
blatant front into the downtown district.
Perhaps where you lived it reared its
ornate head, adorned with screaming side-
show art, on the site once occupied bv •
Schmidt's meat market or the erstwhile
locale of Purdy's dry goods emporium.
Its advent may not have interested you in
the least, particularly if you were accus-
tomed to taking your dramatic sustenance
in three-act doses at the Grand Opera
House. Hut if you were young and a
nickel meant chores and errands and wood-
splitting, the flickering photographs were
a Heaven-sent blessing.
In either event you paid little atten-
tion to the source of the entertainment.
It is different now in some degree. To-
day as you sit breathlessly while Cyrus
assaults the walls of Babylon or the Maid
of France scales the walls of Orleans, you
are familiar with the actors, the director
and the theater in which you are sitting.
In fact you have a pretty fair knowledge
of everything connected with the produc-
tion except one important element ; the go-
between, the intermediary between pro-
ducer and theater, is a total stranger to
you. Yet the business of the exchange —
the middleman of the movies — is today
one of the highest specialized pursuits ever
developed, despite only a half dozen years
and a beginning so humble. that few voca-
tions cowered among more abject sur-
roundings.
Through this middleman, so little known
to the general public, passes monthly mil-
lions of dollars — the millions spent bv the
poor and the rich, the meek and the arro-
gant of all climes, for the civilized world's
chief means of recreation. The movie is
the universal amusement, the one pastime
that all races and peoples understand and
enjoy- So the exchangeman will be found
in Tokio as well as 'Frisco, in Cairo and
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Photoplay Magazine
Hong Kong as well
as in New York
and London.
Unlike its early
environments the
exchange of today
is housed in luxuri-
o u s 1 y appointed
offices, but yester-
day— less than a
decade ago — w a s
the golden age of
the movie middle-
man. Today in the
mad competition to
get screen room for
more films than
there are screens,
the middleman who
grew up with the
reels finds time oc-
casionally to wal-
low in memories of
the past, when the
demand for filpis
exceeded the supply
and the flood of
jitneys promised an
eternal flow.
Those were the
"Service, " Painting display signs for the theaters.
It was in those
days, between 1905
and 1910, before
the advent of the
"features," when
huge fortunes were
amassed by the
early birds in the
exchange business.
They throve like
the proverbial green
bay tree, just as the
theater owners
prospered to un-
heard of extent.
Then came the
invading ''high
brows" with their
artistic ideas and
highfalutin plan for
elevating the price
of admission to a
dime. Some of the
exchangemen took
their newly made
wealth and quit —
if they had not been
forced to sell out
previously
"Trust."
days when the theater man came to the
dingy little office of film jobber, deposited
his rental fee and took away his
"show" for an entire week under his arm.
to the
Others
and lost
clipped into the producing game
or made more millions, eventually having
their photographs appear weekly in various
journals adjacent to verbose interviews
Film repair department. All films are inspected here after using. They are kept in enclosed metal cases,
except those upon which the inspectors and repairers are actually working.
The Middleman of the Movies
■77
composed by bright
young men whose
parents had made
the mistake of send-
ing them to college
instead of turning
them loose on the
world at 15. How-
ever, this is an un-
warranted economic
digression and has
little to do with the
subject.
Broadly segre-
gated there are two
classes of film mid-
dlemen, the regular
jirogram exchanges,
such a.H' Mutual,
Paramount, Pathe,
Universal and Tri-
:ingle. General Film,
and the state rights
dealers, the jobbers
of big features, like
"The Birth of a
Nation," "Ra-
mona," "Civiliza-
tion" and a- host of
others whose names
ire household
words.
The exchange
system is less than
a dozen years old.
Its forerunner was the film peddler who
went from one show house to another with
his film in a grip or under his arm. At
that time, about 1903, the film in short
lengths was chiefiy employed as a "chaser"
in vaudeville houses. Two pioneers of this
early stage of the film industrv are (leorge
K. Spoor, president of Essauav. a million-
aire many times over, and (ieorge Kleine.
another Chicagoan. until recently head of
the General Film Companv. Spoor was
the inventor of the "Kinodrome" project-
ing machine, one of the earliest in the
market, and George Kleine supplied most
of the films for this contrivance.
Then came the first real film plays,
from Pathe in France and Edison in New
York, and as a direct consequence of their
advent, the birth of the "nickel show."
which later became the "movie." The
first "shows" were 500 feet in length
and in duration about nine minutes.
This is "Little Mabel, the Film Inspector." She inspects
the reel to see that it is in good condition before it is sent out
to the exhibitor. Every reel is inspected after every run.
Mabel gets $25 a week for looking at pictures. She inspects
about 100 reels a day. There are sixteen exposures to the
yoot of film, so Miss Mabel passes on 1.600,000 picture
frames daily for Mutual.
Not a great pe-
riod had elapsed
before motion pic-
ture "theaters" had
sprung u]i all over
I lie country, chiefly
iu the large centers
of population, and
then came the ex-
change.
The first ex-
change was started
by Max Lewis in
Chicago in 1905.
It was called the
Chicago Film Ex-
change and Mr.
Lewis is still in the
business in that
city. A short time
afterward the late
"Pop" Rock, one of
the founders of the
Vitagraph, opened
the first New York
exchange.
The first attempt
to systematize the
film business was
the organization of
the Film Service
A s s o c i a t i o n,
in which the Edi-
son company took
the lead. All of the
(■oni|)anies in the producing field, with a
few exceptions including Biograph, were
in the Association, ten manufacturers in
all.
At that time the universal admission
fee was five cents and the picture theaters,
most of them in abandoned store rooms,
had an average seating capacity of 200.
As the entertainment lasted but nine or
ten minutes, the house was filled between
twentv and forty times daily, which ac-
counts for the tremendous profits made
bv the owners of these humble places of
amusement.
In the beginning the exhibitor con-
tracted with the exchange on a weekly
basis for his supply of film, the price rang-
ing from $15 to $.15.
The exchangeman's profits were propor-
tionately large and in many instances much
larger than those of the owner of the pic-
ture "palace." The custom was to buy the
Photoplay Magazine
film outright and then
rent it to the theaters.
The price of new film
ranged between 8 and 1 1
cents a foot and 4 or 5
cents a foot for the used
film. The big exchanges
sub-rented to the smaller
exchanges and the most
difficult task of the ex-
changeman was to keep
account of his profits.
Some with restricted
schooling made more
money than they could
count.
As an instance of the
big profits in the early
days of the picture play,
I. Van Ronkel, owner of
one of the first big ex-
changes in Chicago, in-
formed the writer that
he paid the Lubin com-
pany $80 each for five
prints of the Gans-Nel-
son prize fight. ' Each
one ©f the films yielded
him a profit of $5,000.
The pictures were faked ; that is, the prin-
cipals posed for the camera after the actual
fight. Mr. Van Ronkel also likes to tell
about a $25,000 profit on Pathe's "Passion
Play," the first multiple reel subject im-
ported, on a similar investment. Big
profits are occasionally made on individual
productions these days, but nothing in pro-
portion to the general average of a decade
ago. Also, the exhibitor paid more then
than now for his films. Originally his 500-
foot subject lasted a week, and it was not
until 1909 that the tri-weekly change be-
gan. This cost him between $40 and $50 a
week and he M'as paying for only a 500-
foot subject, while today he shows about
50,000 feet a week.
The formation of the General Film Com-
pany about eight years ago was the biggest
event in the history of the film industry.
The General was a combination of all of
the principal producing companies, " and
soon after its organization it began a cam-
paign to control the industry. Practically
all of the exchanges in the country were
purchased and the General ruled the situa-
tion with an iron hand. Private exchanges
which did not want to sell out were soon
A view in one of Mutual' s Chaplin vaults, with 900 reels of Chaplin
comedy in sight. The vault will hold the films but not the money paid
to see them.
convinced that it was the part of wisdom.
In nearly every instance the exchangeman
took the General's money and went to work
for the "Trust."
The historic battle by the independents
against the General is alone a story worthy
of more space than occupied by tliis article.
Suffice to tell that those who began the war
and waged it are now multimillionaires,
while the once powerful General is but the
shadow of its old self. Two of its strong-
est producing units of the old days. Bio-
graph and Lubin, are no more, and as an
exchange it handles the sole product of but
one manufacturer, Kalem.
Two of the original independents were
Carl Laemmle, now president of the Uni-
versal Film Company and John R. Freu-
ler, now president of Mutual, two of the
most important film corporations in
existence.
Laemmle M'as an obscure clerk when he
opened a nickel theater on Milwaukee
avenue in Chicago in 1906. In three
months he had made enough to open
another. When a like period had elapsed
Laemmle was operating an exchange.
The fight on the General was caused origi-
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79
A view of a corner in the supply department, where exhibitors can buy
anything from a complete theatre equipment to a slide, and the multitude
of advertising novelties you find in your mail box.
nally by the levying of a royalty tax of
$2 a reel on each exhibitor.
Freuler Avas a banker in Milwaukee
when lie took over a theater to protect a
small investment. In 1907 he was operat-
ing the Western Film Exchange in that
city, and this became the nucleus of a group
of ten exchanges which were later amalga-
mated into the Mutual Film Corporation.
Mutual is the biggest distributor of film in
the business and is said to have the great-
est exchange system. It is said to do lousi-
ness with half of the approximately 16,000
motion picture theaters in the United
States. While about a year ago the ex-
changes purchased film outright, nearly all
of the companies handle it on a percentage
basis now. The General recently adopted
the percentage system.
With several of the large distributing
companies, notably Paramount and Tri-
angle, a certain fixed sum is placed to the
credit of the producing unit upon delivery,
with subsequent percentage of booking re-
ceipts. Some of the exchanges, or releas-
ing organizations, take 30 per cent of the
total receipts for dis-
tributing expenses. Some
have allied organizations
which help to finance the
making of the picture
play or serial.
Universal is a closed
corporation with
Laemmle owning 48 per
cent of the stt)ck. But
this is the producing cor-
poration, and in addition
this pioneer of the films
owns an exchange system
that has brought him mil-
lions. This system is said
to control the exportation
of American films. The
producing corporation
was an outgrowth of the
Independent' Motion Pic-
ture company, organized
to produce films during
the early part of the fight
against the trust.
Like Mutual, Univer-
sal will take a choice
feature and rather than
juit it out on the regular
pi-ogram will sell state
rights for its exhibition.
Immense profits have been made on some
of these subjects by both concerns. In
one instance a five-reel film on a much
discussed topic which cost to produce less
than $10,000, was sub-rented in one group
of states for the sum of $175,000 merely
on the publicity which had accompanied
its New York showing.
Paramount, one of the most successful
middleman organizations in the country,
was organized about two and a half years
ago by W. W. Hodkinson. It was recentl}'
absorbed by the producing units whose
product it had distributed. Its profits in
two years are said to have run up in the
millions. Triangle, which came about a
year later, was not so successful in a finan-
cial way. As a result there w^as a disinte-
gration of its exchange system last sum-
mer, the branches in various large centers
being sold to independent concerns. The
year also saw the defection of Kleine. Edi-
son. Essanay and Selig from the General
Film company and their participation in a
new distributing system designated by the
initials of the quartet: "K. E. S. E."
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Photoplay Magazine
Vitagraph was left in control of the Gen-
eral as well as its own system. Pathe,
another big buyer and distributor, joined
forces with the International Film Service.
About .two years ago William Fox created
his big exchange system virtually over
night.
The biggest financial coups in these
times are made in the state rights busi-
ness. This consists merely of purchasing
the right to show a production in one state
or a group of states, the middleman in this
instance making his own terms with the
theaters after jiaying a flat sum to the
original vendor. It is stated that one of
the purchasers of the rights to "The Birth
of a Nation" for a group of middle West-
ern states paid $150,000 for the privilege
and within a year cleaned up more than
half a million dollars. "Damaged Goods,"
"The Spoilers," "The Ne'er-do-well,"
"Civilization," "Ramona," "Tillie's Punc-
tured Romance" and "Purity" are said to
have yielded large sums to the purchasers
of state rights. With these large produc-
tions it is customary to have a showing of
the film in the nation's largest cities under
widely advertised auspices. The longer the
run, the heavier the yield in state rights, is
the belief of the original vendor, so very
often a run is forced in order to impress
the buyer of rights for the "provinces;"
that is, the vendor is willing to sacrifice a
considerable amount in theater rentals,
large orcliestras and much newspaper ad-
vertising, in order to make the proper
impression on the M'atching middleman.
New York City is the natural market for
state rights and the home of these speculat-
ing middlemen is Forty-fifth street, nick-
named "Celluloid Alley." Here, like
amiable crows awaiting the imminent de-
mise of living meat, gather the brokers in
state rights, eager to snatch up at bargain
prices any pictures — the yellower the bet-
ter— for distribution in the theaters which
do not cater to "automobile patronage.''
Just now the market in "birth control" pic-
tures is very brisk, with "white slavers"
running a poor second after a too-long
monopoly of the field. Some of these films
are a flickering answer to the query: "Whjj
are censors?"
Amateur producers also are contributors
to this market, after the exchanges have
rejected their eft'ort. It's a mighty poor
film that cannot see the light of the pro-
jection room via the state rights route.
New \'ork has an institution called a
"Film Hospital," where brokendown,
wornout, spavined films which have been
retired from circulation are renovated and
put into condition for the state rights
market.
Tlie state rights business has grown to
such proportions that there are now main-
tained in this country about one hundred
exchanges under this banner.
From the crudely operated, unsystematic
methods of a few years ago the reputable
exchange has become a highly efficient
business. It has its corps of salesmen
trained not only in the principles of good
salesmanship but also to give individual
service to the patron, all to the end that
the theater-goer shall see his product under
the best possible conditions, thus -helping
the theater owner, himself- and the ex-
change as well. The publicity depart-
ment, equipped with trained writers and
artists, gives its best also to the exhibitor,
and efficient methods in attracting the film
enthusiast to the theater are the most im-
portant factor in the keen competition.
The exchange of today is housed
in luxuriously appointed offices.
\-. A Little Lesson in Spanish
Like her Spanish forebears of
the early Californias, Marin
Sais lives a lot of the time in
the saddle.
' ( ) U C H a spur
to your Span-
ish, folks, and
let's liear how close
we can come to it.
Now then :
Marin Sais.
Mali-;'('<'« Sah-ees.
Bully! ^^ e got it the
first time sure 'nough. didn't
•vve? Let's all move up to
the head of tlie class and kiss the
professor — good-bye.
She — Siun-ynli-rccta AIah-/-,-(7/ Snh-ac'^. not the professor —
is a descendant of one of the finest old Si)anis]i families of the
early ("alifornias. and herself was l)orn on the Rnncho Olompali
in Marin County, just across, the bay from San Francisco, all
among the brown-clieeked Marin hills. Her father was a Span-
iard, her mother an Englishwoman. Miss Sais was educated at
Notre Dame. San Jose, and Notre Dame. Santa Clara, her pur-
pose being to bend her gifts to an operatic career. Histrionic
ability displaced this aim, however, and upon graduating she
gained experience in stock companies. Afterward the pictures
claimed her.
Miss Sais first appeared before the camera for Vitagraph
(Eastern) for a short period, then played six months with Bison
101, and now for six years has been doing successful leads —
chiefly adventurous, dramatic and emotional parts — under the
Kalem banner. Among her best known interpretations were in
"The Girl from 'Frisco," "Stingaree" and "The Love Pirates."
Miss Sais is an exceptionally skilled horsewoman.
Does baby like
urn moosic? Oh,
well, not so
awfly much.
When Helen
STAR OF RAILROAD PLAYJ
THIS is not a Helen's Babies
story, it's a Helen's Baby
story, which is much more interesting, because
it's true.
Not a great many folk even knew that Helen Holmes,
"movie" heroine of railroad romance, was married, let
alone had a baby. You didn't, did you? Baby's ten
months old now and something of a buster. She adopted
it. And rechristened it — her, that is — Dorothy Holmes
McGowan, because Helen's director, J. P. McGowan,
is by way of being her husband.
In the filming of the first chapter of the serial "A Lass
of the Luml)erlands" in northern California the plot called
for an infant in arms, who with its mother is supposedly
drowned in the blowing up of a log jam with dynamite. As
babies, unfortunately or otherwise, are not made to order at
twenty-four hours' notice, the Holmes camp was stumped all
among the redwoods, till Helen herself had an inspiration. /
"I know what we'll do !" she effervesced. "J. P., you \
order the car and we'll motor into Eureka and — "
"Yes," growled the husband of Helen, "and?"
"And rent a baby !" gleed the wife of Helen's hus-
band.
Well, McGowan called the car and obeved orders.
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Rented a Baby
SEARCHED FAR, FARED WELL
"We had a dick — a mischief of a time find-
ing one," confides Miss Holmes. "There
were plenty of babies but they were all
encumbered with mothers, and it seems
that mothers have a way of sort of want-
ing to keep their infants at home,
which is very curious. But at last
success climbed up on our running-
board. We heard of a mother
who had a darling girl baby and
was in such straightened circum
stances that she might consent
to lend it away.
"She did. She was a
dear mother. She did
even better than that a
Helen, Helen! That's
not the way to hold a
baby ! Gracious ! You
really do it very much
better in the apple tree
scene, dear lady.
little "^U^y later, after Baby had
'appeared ^^^F successfully' in 'Lumber-
lands' and I ^|r had fallen heels-over-head
in love with the ' cunning mite. She tearfully
let me adopt the darling, and so now she's mine and her
name is Dorothy Holmes McGowan.
"Isn't it lovely?"
Incidentally Dorothy Holmes McGowan can act. Folks
who don't act fail to connect for any great length of time
with the studio. If you saw the opening chapter of "A Lass
of the Lumberlands" you must have marveled at the insouciance with
which she lay upon her mother's bosom when the dynamite blast blew up
the log jam. That was Dorothy. Act? Well, some!
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'Plays and Players
FACTS AND NEAR-FACTS ABOUT THE
GREAT AND NEAR-GREAT OF FILMLAND
^yea{2/orA
THE big leveling "drive" in the film indu,-.-
try continues. The latest big combination
is that of Pathe and the International Film
Service, owned by \\'illiam Randolph Hearst.
Hereafter one organization will market the
product of both concerns and where two film
newspapers grew before, but one unreels now
and its name is Hearst-Pathe. There are
rumors of other amalgamations and it is very
likely that financial necessity will drive several
large companies into mergers before the spring
floods begin. The
Famous Players-
Lasky-Morosco union
did not stop with an
amalgamation of the
producing concerns
but kept right on and
absorbed Paramount,
their releasing or-
ganization, which
constitutes by far the
biggest step yet taken
in the big "drive."
T has been a long
time since screen-
goers have gazed on
the reflection of Mar-
guerite Snow and the
announcement of her
participation in the
first George Cohan
photoplay should be
received with some
degree of welcome by
her many friends.
Miss Snow will have
the part of the sten-
ographer in the gum
factory which figures
s o prominently i n
"Broadway J o n e s."
Work on the film was
started early in Janu-
ary.
THEY can't hold
out forever.
Meaning, in this in-
stance, that Jane
Cowl, heroine of
"Within the Law,"
"Common Clay" and
other successful stage
plays, has agreed to
lend her presence to the shadow stage and
allow the folks at Shullsberg, Hannibal, Wash-
ihgton Court House and Ash fork to look upon
her tears and weep with her celluloided per-
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sonality. Mr. Goldfish of the Goldwyn Cor-
poration is the person who jingled the tempting
shekels.
N
ORMA PHILLIPS is coming back to the
star of Mutual Girl serial has signed a World
contract and is to be featured in five-reelers
for that company. Miss Phillips has been
among the absent ones for about two years.
AT this
Tyrone
writmg
Power
and a number of
actors and actresses
who went to Guata-
mala to film exteriors
for a scheduled elabo-
r a t e production of
"The Planters," are
still in the spigget)'
republic. Others who
sailed away with the
company, including
Director John Ince,
liave returned to Cali-
fornia to file suit
against the Nevada
Motion Picture Cor-
poration. Another
litigant is Edith Ster-
ling, who was to have
))layed the lady lead.
Since their return
Guatemala has
slumped in movie
picture circles as a
locale for anything
b u t banana raising
and comic revolu-
tions.
WALLIE REID
has returned to
Hollywood after as-
sisting in the birth of
a new movie theater
in Denver and leading
a grand march or so
in the Rocky Moun-
tain region.
This is the lamp post that fell on Charley Chaplin and sent
him to the hospital, this photograph having been taken bv
our staff photographer just three (3) minutes before the
accident occurred.
IV/IARGARET
IL-
JNGTON, one
of the few remaining
inifilmed stars of the
legitimate stage, is having that flaw in an
otherwise brilliant career remedied. Jesse
Lasky signed Miss Illington at the usual fabu-
lous salary and she is now engaged in speech-
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85
less histrionism at the Lasky studio. Her first
photoplay will be "The Inner Shrine," by Basil
King. Channing Pollock dramatized it.
CREIGHTON HALE, hero of serials, is
now a musical comedy star. He has the
leading role in "Oh Boy !" a newcomer to
musical Broadway. He sings five songs dur-
ing the course of the show, quite a change
from Iron Clawing and Laughing Masking
and Snow Whiting.
OLGA PETROVA was the heroine of a
real fire which destroyed most of the
Colonialstudio in New York during the course
of her last Metro picture. That is, she was the
heroine, if that is a good designation for the
heaviest loser. She sustained the loss of furs
valued at $30,000, but she and her maid escaped
with all the diamonds belonging to tlie actress.
Wyndham Standing, who was playing with
Mme. Petrova, was injured painfullj^ when he
jumped from a window to safet}'.
THIS month's medal is awarded to the
press scrivener in Los Angeles who sends
out the tidings that the
name of the ancestors of
Miss Myrtle Gonzales
"has been a by-word in
the Golden State ever
since there was a Califor-
nia." Thus far no libel
suit has been filed by the
existing Gonzaleses.
CHARLEY CHAPLIN
nearly brought about
an epidemic of heart fail-
ure among his financial
backers late in December
when he sustained an acci-
dent during the filming of
his newest comedy, "Easy
Street." In some manner
•a trick lamp post fell on
him and he was severely
cut about the nose and
forehead. He was rushed
to the hospital, where his
wounds were dressed, and
it was two weeks before
he could resume activities.
RUMORS are afloat
that Douglas Fair-
banks, the effervescent
personality who has be-
come a popular majority
of the Fine Arts studio,
would quit the triangular
concern for a better job in
the near future. It has
been admitted on all sides
that Doug has received
offers that would put him in Charley Chaplin's
fiscal class and those on the "inside" would
not be surprised to see him vault over into
another lot early this summer. Fairbanks is
now in New York making several photoplays
under the direction of John Emerson.
From mystery screen
star is some jump, but
MAXINE ELLIOTT, the beautiful, has
come all the way from France to be
filmed by the Goldwyn company, the concern
which will star Mae Marsh and Jane Cowl.
Miss Elliott was the predecessor of Edna
Goodrich as the leading lady in Nat Goodwin's
domestic multiple-reeler and is credited with
being very wealthy. During her acting days
she was rated one of the most beautiful women
of the stage.
TOM MIX, for years a Selig cowboy-star,
has "joined on" with Fo.x in Los Angeles
as a director-actor. Victoria Forde, his lead-
ing lady, accompanied him. They will "do"
western comedies.
IT'S a sorrowful task but a news chronicler's
job frequently is tinged with gloom; and
though there's sadness in his hearrrt there's a
smile on — well, what we started to report was
the recent marriage of Mae Murray, of Follies
fame, poutj' lips and Paramount pictures. The
Lasky lady became the bride of Jay O'Brien,
a well known civilian luminary of the Great
White Way, who goes in for first nights and
is known to all the traffic
cops on Broadway and all
that bally stuffs, y'know.
The nuptials were solem-
nized, as the papers say, at
the Lasky studio in Holly-
wood. T li e honeymoon
tour was in the direction
of the San Bernardino
mountains, where some
exteriors were to be filmed
for the bride's next photo-
play.
HOWARD ESTA-
BROOK, the hand-
some young gentleman
who solved the Mysteries
of Myra, has become a
director, .^s such his first
engagement is with Mo-
rosco and Vivian Martin
is his star.
GAIL KANE has be-
come a Mutual star,
so has quit her place in
Laurette Taylor's "Harp
of Life" company for a
bungalow at Santa Bar-
bara, Cal. Miss Kane,
whose screen appearances
have been confined to
Equitable and World pic-
tures, is understood to
have signed a contract
which calls for a salary of
$57,000. Quite a nifty
situation.
roks to musical comedy
Creighton Hale made it.
ETHEL GRANDIN and Darwin Karr have
been engaged to play the leading parts in
a new serial titled, "The Lure of Gold." Miss
Grandin recently appeared with Maurice Cos-
tello and Mr. Karr was at Essanay.
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K
ENNETH CASEY, who will be remem-
bered by pioneer film fans as "the Vita-
M
graph boy," comes back to the mercury
after a long session in vaudeville
abroad. He spent some time in
London and South Africa. He
left Vitagraph in 1913. Ken-
neth's reappearance will be made
in Petrova's latest and perhaps
last, Metro picture.
GEORGE FISHER, for a long
time with the Ince filmers at
Inceville and Culver City, CaL,
is now a member of the Mar\
Miles Minter company at Santa
Barbara. Fisher's best work was
done in "Shell 43" and "Civiliza-
tion."
ANOTHER Inceite of long
standing, Louise Glaum, has
transferred her affections — if
vamps are endowed with that
attribute — to the confines of the
Lasky plant. With the newly
acquired Petrova and the lissome
Louise on the same lot, the in-
genues and juveniles will be in a
bad way.
lights
Marie "Tillie' ' Dressier is now
a star in her own comedy com-
pany, valued at two millions.
FLORA FINCH, it is reported, is to have
her own company. Miss Finch starred in
the first problem of the Answer Man : "Is
Flora Finch John Bunny's wife?"
AND J. Warren Kerrigan, the handsome
and the great unwed, has also organized
himself into a corpo-
ration with the assist-
ance of New Orleans
capital. Oscar Apfel,
former director gen-
eral for Fox on the
Coast, is to be his
mentor. According to
the official announce-
rnent, the first Ker-
rigan release is dated
next September, by
which time there is
an excellent chance
for the public to for-
get the name.
VIRGINIA PEAR-
SON, Fox vam-
pire, is another who
is preparing to launch
herself as a separate
star, and she is to be
aided and abetted by
her husband, Sheldon
Lewis, of "Iron Claw"
repute. . Valeska Su-
ratt is also reported
to have quit vamping
for Fox. Well, the
fewer vamps, the
fewer wrecked homes
and hearts.
ARGUERITE COURTOT has taken her
duds from the Famous Players dressing
rooms and moved up the river to Yonkers.
In other words, she has joined
the Arrow company, one of the
producing units of Pathe. Mar-
guerite will be missed by the
Famous fans.
THE second release of the
Mary Pickford corporation,
"The Pride of the Clan," was
first known as "The Lass of Kil-
lean" and as such was printed as
a short story in Photoplay. An-
other Photoplay short story,
"Her God," played by Gail Kane,
has been rechristened "The Red
Woman," prior to release. It
was one of Miss Kane's early
Equitable vehicles.
MONROE SALISBURY, the
Alessandro of "Ramona," is
Margarita Fischer's leading man
at her San Diego studio. Mr.
Salisbury recently played the lead
in "The Eyes of the World," a
picturization of Harold Bell
Wright's best seller of that name,
bv the Clune studio.
N'
■ OT content with a "Hall of Fame" for
photoplay films, William Fox is credited —
or blamed — with a plan to erect a statue of
"Cinema, the Tenth Muse," on some unoccu-
pied site in New York. Annette Kellerman to
pose for it? Or Bill Farnum ?
When not in range of the camera, Bessie Love sits in her
dressing room and weaves Indian baskets. Anyhotv, it
sounds and looks nice.
ALMOST forgot
to record the
financial activities of
Marie Dressier. It's
a two million cor-
poration bearing the
name of the comedi-
enne and there are
contemplated a dozen
two - reel comedies.
J. H, Dalton, husband
of Marie, is to handle
the business end and
the films will be re-
leased by Mutual.
Next!
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WINIFRED
KINGSTON
just couldn't think of
playing opposite any
other hero, or maj'-
be they offered her
more — at any rate,
she is now getting her
mail at Fox's western
studio, just like Dus-
tin Farnum, whose
desertion of Morosco
was noted in this de-
partment last month.
Plays and Players
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QUITE an interesting piece of news this
montli is the fact that no new author or
dramatist joined the Lasky staff within the
last thiry days.
WORLD-BRADY recently ac-
quired two excellent stage
stars in Mary Nash and Olive
Tell. Miss Nash has already had
her screen debut in a Pathe fea-
ture entitled "Arms and the
Woman," but hitherto Miss Tell
has been unscreened. Do you
remember that wonderful kissing
picture in Photoplay about a
year ago in which Lou-Tel-
legen was the kisser. Well, Olive
was the kissee, so she isn't
quite a stranger to Photoplay
readers.
HIS stage play "Justice" hav-
ing declared a moratorium,
or something to that effect, Jack
Barrymore has returned to the
green lights. He is to do "The
Lone Wolf," by Louis Joseph
Vance under the direction of
Herbert Brenon, for a Selznick
release.
Some necklace that Edna
Goodrich wears ! You almost
forget to notice her new thin-
ness.
DIRECTOR RALPH INCE has joined the
Goldwyn forces after officiating at the
filming of "The Argyle Case" in which Bob
Warwick makes his lone-star
debut.
ANOTHER recent directorial
change switched William
Nigh from Metro to Fox.
Mr. Nigh will direct one
of the companies at the Los
Angeles studio. Edward Carewe
has also retired from Metro and
it was reported that he would
form his own producing company
with Mabel Taliaferro as topliner.
LOIS WEBER signed a con-
tract with Universal the last
of 1916 that makes her the
highest salaried director in mo-
tion pictures. But she must re-
main with that company for
several years. The contract was
signed in Chicago.
SORRY now that the monthly
prize has been awarded. It
IT seems apropos to mention briefly the fact
that Lionel Barrymore has just expended
the sum of $18,000 for a new home in one of
New York's ultra-suburbs. Merely to show
that the movies pay.
NILES WELCH is supporting Frances Nel-
son in a new Metro film play "One of
Many" which will enjoy the distinction of
having been directed by a press agent. Arthur
James, head of Metro's publicity department
is making it his
maiden effort. Are
other publicity men to
emulate him?
MABEL TALIA-
FERRO, so we
are told, has invented
a contrivance for
"muting" the barks of
a dog. It is a button,
so we read, which
fastened about the
neck of the canine,
presses against his, or
her, larynx when
barking, thus soften-
ing the bark, we are
informed, to the very
gentle consistency of
a cricket's chirp.
Miss Taliaferro
would obtain undying
fame could theater
owners be induced to
purchase these imple-
ments for those who
insist upon reading
aloud the subtitles.
Peggy" Snow has been away a long time, so her return
to the screen in George Cohan's film debut will be awaited
with interest.
should have gone to the racon-
teur in the employ of Mr. Fox
who gives us the salient points of
the new Theda Bara contract. As detailed by
this talented narrator, the document has a life
of three years, during which Miss Bara must
not show her face to the public ; must not show
herself in a theater, attend a Turkish bath,
permit photographs to be taken of herself by
kodak fiends, and must use an invisible net on
her limousine windows through which she
may observe but cannot be observed. (This
curtain, narrates the author, is the product
of a relative residing in Egypt.) We
are also informed
that Miss Bara signed
the contract without
a tremor and that she
is to be screened soon
"in the shadow of the
Pyramids, the scene
of Miss Bara's child-
hood." Which leaves
us with just enough
breath left to state
that from what we
have seen and heard
of the shadows of the
pyramids, they're not
much like shadows of
Cincinnati.
EDNA GOOD-
RICH, one of
the former Mesdames
Nat Goodwin, has at-
tached her signature
to an American con-
tract and will become
a colleague of in-
genue M inter. She
has appeared for Las-
ky and Morosco.
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B
LANCHE SWEET is no longer a Lasky
company came to an end with tiie beginning
of the new year and at this writing Miss Sweet
has formed no new afifiHation. The increasing
cost of stars is excellently exemplified in the
Lasky engagement of this star. Miss Sweet
signed her first year's contract at $350 a week,
it is said, a $100 raise over her salary with
the Griffith organization. The second
year it jnmped to $750 and at this
time Miss Sweet is said to value her
services at $1250 weekly. And yet
there are legitimate stage actresses far'
inferior to Miss Sweet as a screen
attraction who are being paid
more than that.
ALLAN DWAN is no longer
Norma Talmadge's direc-
tor. It is said that he
will take the direction of
Lillian Gish in several
independently produced
features. Miss Gish is
now in New York.
MARSHALL N E I-
LAN, now a Lasky
director, chaperoned a
company headed by Sessue
Hayakawa to Honolulu, di-
rectly after the holidays, and
Rollin Sturgeon, a recent ac-
quisition to the Lasky staflf,
took a company headed by
Theodore Roberts to the na-
tional capital. The inference is
that soon there will appear
Lasky pictures with Waikiki
and congressional scenes.
L»|OTTIE PICKFORD is
Jl back on the talking stage.
She has a part in "The Wan-
derer," playing in New York,
in which Nance O'Neil is star-
ring. Others in the cast famil-
iar to the devotees of the
shadow stage are Pedro de
Cordoba, William H. Thomp-
son, Macey Harlan and Flor-
ence Reed. A regular movie
cast.
CONSTANCE COLLIER is
another screen star who is
gracing the footlights on
Broadway. She is playing
with Thomas A. Wise and
Isabel Irving in "The Merry
Wives of Windsor," follow-
ing an extended tour of Canada.
ROSCOE ARBUCKLE has his own studio
now. The location is Santa Monica, Cal.,
and that municipality is taking a keen interest
in the new fun cannery. Joe Schenck, who
recently became familiar to the film world by
his marriage to Norma Talmadge, is Roscoe's
financial backer.
DW. GRIFFITH and the Philadelphia
, North American have been indulging in
an ink feud over the merits of "Intolerance."
According to the newspaper it has none and
the producer's money proffered for advertis-
ing space was rejected by the newspaper. All
of which is good advertising for the "prov-
inces" to say nothing of the effect on the
citizenry of the Keystone metropolis.
NEW YORK motion picture directors
now have a lodge of their own, a
"studio" of the parent organization which
has been in existence in Los Angeles for
about two years. It is a secret order and
Gee ! what they don't do
to the stars when they get
together. Allan Dwan is
Director of the New York
lodge, J. Gordon Edward,
Assistant Director; J.
Searle Dawley, Secretary;
and Joseph Kaufman,
Treasurer.
A
1
Yes, it's Edith
Storey and
she seems to
like the California midwinter.
What? Oh, just water.
NEW actorial com-
bination has been
effected at the Morosco
studio and in their next
filmplay Louise Huff and
House Peters will be co-
starred.
CHARLEY RAY is said to
be contemplating a retire-
ment from the Ince studio.
Indications point to another
case of starfever. It's a
mighty poor star that can't at
least pla.i a compan}' of his or
her owii.
THE Frohman Amuse-
ment Company is to film
George Bronson Howard's
novel "God's Man," which re-
cently was the cause of a
heavy damage suit, a New
York magistrate getting a
judgment from the publishers
on the ground that the book
libeled him.
HER HUSBAND'S
WIFE" has been re-
vived on Broadway and the
cast looks like another "all-
star" movie 'cast. It contains
the names of Eugene O'Brien.
Henry Kolker, Marie Temp-
est and Laura Hope Crews,
all of whom have starred in
photoplays for various film producers.
THE Bishop Potter property, in New York,
served in "Gloria's Romance." New pur-
chasers object to a girls' school next door, and
the educators reply that they can be no more
annoying than the taking of Billie Burke's
adventures. And the Supreme Court must
decide.
Shapely Shirley of the Sins
The artist houses
Miss Mason in
midnight
pajamas.
DON'T THINK HER
DAINTINESS IS MEAN —
SHE DOES HER SIN-
NING FOR THE SCREEN
\
WELL now, <
she's right
easy to look
at, this sometimes shad- "X
owesque, sometimes re-
vealatorily (Ouch!) tighted ^
sister of none others than
Viola Dana and Edna
FlugFath whose perfectly
good name is Leonie Flu-
grath but whom the Mc-
C lures metamorphosed
into "Shirley Mason."
Parse that sentence if
you dare !
It is plain that on this
page she is inhabiting
pajamas, but why the
artist should think it
pertinent to polish her
off with the stove brush
remains a mystery. JVe
should consider such a
performance imperti-
nent What do you think ?
We have no reason to sus-
pect Leonie, that is to say
Shirley, of taking to ink
baths, or indulging in
lampblack massage, so why
should — Oh ! maybe they
were too thin the art — the
art — artist
F.xcuse.
Anyway, we'd hate to have
to hunt for Leonie-Shirley in
a strange house in the dark.
We should prefer infinitely to
do our searching on the next
page. There the young lady
may be observed flirting with
a parabolical curve. What?
Yes, yes, that's quite correct ;
look it up. And did you ever
glue your eye to a daintier
dive, a more delicately en-
trancing flip
through the"
air into the passionate
bosom of the deep? But
in the almost equally
charming lounge pose we
certainly should sue the
photographer man who
hitched that hay rake
onto us for a hand.
That's a real live
tip to you, Shirley
Mason ; eat it
up.
Our little
lady of the
m i d n ight
p a j amas
and dou-
bled -up
somersault
and delicate
dive and lure-
f u 1 lounge - on-
the-sands is not
quite sixteen sunmiers in the
bud, and everybody who knows
her in and about the studios is
banking on her to blossom forth
into a very beautiful Thespian
flower indeed. She is playing
now in "The Seven Deadly
Sins."
When the narrator, who is a
grave and middle-aged male in
whom the love of loveliness
still clingeth to the stalk, paid
his call at the McClure studios
he found Leonie-Shirley-Flu-
grath-Mason skipping rope
radiantly, a youthful actor in
khaki turning at one end and
another in messenger boy
uniform at the other. Turn-
ing it darned fast, too.
^"Child, child/" alarmedly
cried the grave and middle-
aged narrator, "stop it, slow
down, cease,
give heed
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and quit ; you will crack your heart organ in four places
at that pace. (She was very lovely to look upon, and
the love of loveliness still clingeth to the stalk.)
Twenty silver bells of girlish laughter
pealed out in mockery — but the skipping
stopped. And we sat down on the bogus
wall of a false castle and had speech.
Whereupon your narrator learned
many things, because it has been
ordained since tlie rare
June days of Eden that
the youngest woman
shall be wiser than the
oldest man. Ask the
woman if you do not
believe this; slie will tell
you it is so.
This is some of the talk that came tiut of
hiding while we sat on the doubtful wall
of that make-believe castle deep in the
studio wilderness :
"I am not quite sixteen, but sweet never-
theless, don't you think?
"Jumping rope is good
should a 1 w a V s
take exercise
that is fun.
"I am play-
ing a feminine
P i I g r i m in
what my direc-
tor says is an
ultra - modern
'Pilgrim's Prog-
re.ss.' Instead of wal-
owing through
the Slough of Despond and get-
ting horribly muddy and all,
I cross it in a biplane.
"I consider it a ver-r-ry
gr-r-reat pr-r-rivilege to play
in support of really great
stars like Ann Murdock
and Holbrook Blinn and
Nance O'Neil and H. B.
Warner a n d Charlotte
Walker. They do their
parts so well, you know, /
really.
Into this Lady Sybil began to weep.
On the Brink of the Prussic
By Gordon Seagrove
D
w 1 n
b y
Q u
n
Hall
EDITOR'S NOTE: There have been many
photoplays written in which the father dis-
covers his long lost daughter or the mother
her long lost son in time to save them from
death. The author of the following, who
expects to be hanged for it, unless the
judge proves to be his long lost father,
feels that all the possibilities haven't been
gotten out of this situation, that the pho-
toplaywrights in using it in nearly every
other release haven't gone far enough, and
with a prayer on his lips submits the
following:
Lady Sybil . . .mistress of Heaveho Castle.
Lord Croup her lover.
Duchess de Pontneuf an adventuress.
Arthur Camembert
her admirer and co-adventurer.
James Au Jus his faithful servant.
Nettie . . . servant in Lady Croup's employ.
Os-ivald janitor of Heaveho Castle.
JL assail el ]Vhoop....a religious fanatic.
LADY SYBIL before the grate f^re in
Heaveho Castle rang for Nettie her
favorite servant of ten years' standing.
"Nettie," she commanded, "my tub."
Nettie disappeared, presently reappear-
ing, as servants will, with a large wash
basin which she deposited at Lady Sybil's
feet. Into this Lady Sybil began to weep,
the tears falling first from her right eye
then from her left, and sometimes from
both.
Lord Croup bent forward tenderly.
"You feel bad" he said with piercing
intuition. Lady Sybil nodded and then,
feeling Lord Croup's unspoken query, she
lifted her head.
"I was thinking of the dear childhood
days," she explained.
Lady Sybil was telling the truth.
Though she had married well, though she
wanted for nothing, though she hadn't
written home for 18 years or seen her
family, the dear old days came back to her.
She remembered with a glad beating of
the heart her old father and how he had
often beat her with the wagon tongue ;
her older sister who had pulled out all her
baby teeth and tossed them to the hens.
.She remembered two brothers and how they
cut off her hair to sell to a furniture store
that they might have smoking tobacco and
a third who used to amuse himself by burn-
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Pulled out her baby
teeth and fed them
to the hens.
ing off her eyelashes with the end of his
cigarette. She remembered too her mother
and how she had rocked her to sleep with
a smart right to the jaw, and her uncle
who stole her pocket money. Of course
then life had seemed very bitter, and later
had come the great family split; but now
after 18 years she longed to see them all
again to hear their voices. She felt that
she would give Heaveho Castle itself just
to walk again into her father's tattoo shop
where she and all her family had been
tattooed with some mark of distinction.
"Come, dry your tears," said Lord Croup
suddenly, "we have work to do." To any
one who knew Lord Croup this would have
been surprising for he hadn't heard of such
a thing for months.
"Forgive me," cried Lady Sybil en cas-
serole, "I have let my longing interfere
with the big project at hand. You mean
the Great Ruby?'"'
Lord Croup nodded. LTpon the Great
Ruby he and Lady Sybil had set their
hearts. A beautiful jewel it was, worth
the price of a truckload of eggs. Legend
had it that an American salesman, demon-
strating a patent opener had gouged it from
the eye of an Indian idol. Of course re-
ligious fanatics swearing revenge had
chased him all over India, parts of
Nebraska, Kansas and the middle western
states, through the mazes of Valparaiso
(Ind.), over England a couple of times,
through Rome and all the places mentioned
in Cook's.
But although they had killed the sales-
man and twelve others who were reputed
to have had the jewel at one time or an-
other they never obtained the priceless
blood-red stone. Lady
Sybil herself had owned
it once, but one mysterious
night it mysteriously dis-
appeared into the hand of
some mysterious person
whose name until tonight
was a mystery.
"The Duchess de Pont-
neuf has that jewel!" said
Lady Sybil "and tonight
P'*"'**''she comes here with
Camembert."
"In all probability,"
added Lord Croup, "Ca-
membert will have it in
his rear pants pocket. The
thing is how are we to get it."
Lord Croup looked askance. This is
very difficult to do, but Lord Croup was
a man of determination.
"It is all arranged," said Lady Sybil,
"tonight when Camembert and the Duchess
arrive here it will be as guests at a swim-
ming party at Heaveho Castle."
"But none of them can swim," demurred
Lord Croup.
..r>^*^
She remembered how her father had beat her
with the wagon tongue.
On the Brink of the Prussia
93
"It would do them no good if they
could," purred Lady Sybil who held all
the purring records for Heaveho Castle,
East Sussex, Cholmondeley Road, Gaffot-
shire Commons, West Tottenham, S. E.
Lord Croup looked dubious. He was
good deal of a dub anyhow. There was
a mute query in his eyes.
I "Because," said Lady Sybil, "I have
I filled the swimming tank with prussic
facid!"
Not that!?"
two hours after they ar-
will be dead. So too
Camembert's man and
! "My Gawd!
"Yes, within
rive here they
James Au Jus,
! Nettie and Oswald my trusted hirelings."
I have provided them all with bathing
suits — and they will all take the plunge at
a word from me."
"Good !" said Lord Croup, who had re-
gained his savoir fairc;\t is the only way
jwe can be sure that no one will know that
'we have the jewel. But how are we to get
the ruby — you have forgotten to tell me
that?"
Lady Sybil explained: "I shall send
.the guests to their dressing rooms first and
[you will follow later. As Camembert
emerges from his dressing room you will
sneak in, rifle his pants, get the jewel and
then meet me in vour swimming suit at the
pool. There I will give the word and
everyone will plunge in — except you and
me."
"Excellent. But what of Hassan El
Whoop? Supposing he should be on our
trail with his miserable kris? Not for the
world would I be a merry Kris mess."
"That is the chance we must take," said
the woman, "perhaps we can persuade him
to take the plunge also."
"What a wonderful tender woman you
are," cried Lord Croup pressing her to his
bosom "and after the jewel is ours, ah — "
He was silent, dreaming of the glad
honeymoon in Staffordshire West Sussex-
ford, East Moreland, Gaflfordman Peat
Boggs, East Claffordshire Highlands,
Squart, N. W.
There was a smile of triumph on Lady
Sybil's face as she met Lord Croup in the
corridor, his dressing robe around him.
"They are all outside waiting — in bath-
ing suits." she purred. "I have not seen
them but I heard them talking. And I
heard too the glad gurgle of the prussic
acid. You have the jewel?"
Lord Croup nodded, "I found it close
beside his plug of tobacco," he said. "But
what of Hassan El Whoop."
"He is here!"
"Here. Then our plan is ruined !"
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No, he feels that he has us so safely
in his hands that he can play with us a
while — and so he has consented to swim;
is even now putting on his suit."
"Then let us go !"
And arm in arm they went into the great
room where within the next ten minutes
five (5) people were to go to their deaths
in the reeking pool of prussic acid.
As they entered Hassan El Whoop ap-
peared in another entrance smiling a sin-
ister smile. Nervously Lady Sybil ad-
vanced and gave the word for the guests
to throw off their robes. They obeyed, the
duchess de Pontneuf, Camembert, his man
Au Jus, Nettie, Lady Sybil's maid, Oswald
the janitor, Hassan El Whoop and Lord
Croup.
You could have heard a pin drop in the
silence that followed. You could even
have heard a 1,000 pound safe, or a ton
or two of scrap iron and Lady Sybil turned
deathly pale.
For on the right shoulder of the Duchess
de Pontneuf was a picture of a washing
machine, done in blue and green !
On the left shoulder of Camembert was
an etching "The Cleaners" done in red and
brown !
On the left leg of James Au Jus was
a needle engraving of Venus shaking hands
with Ty Cobb !
On Nettie's bosom was a wagon wheel
worked in yellow and blue !
On the patriarchal chest of Oswald the
Janitor a green smokestack belched red
smoke and a couple of doves in dark purple
twittered beneath his chin.
Lady Sybil clapped her hands to her eyes
then looked again.
Upon the breast of the ferocious Hassan
El Whoop was tattooed a double exposure
of the City of Detroit and a Ford.
And even upon Lord Croup's clavicle was
the picture of a green bell tolling out
sonorous notes done in rich blue !
Everything came back to her — the child-
hood days — her father's tatoo parlor —
and she knew ! :
"Sister !" she cried to the Duchess de I
Pontneuf.
"Brother !" she breathed to Arthur Cam-
embert.
"Brother !" she also breathed to James
Au Jus.
"Mother !" she exclaimed and fell on
the bosom of the aged Nettie.
"Father!" she sobbed and fell on the
bosom of the aged Oswald.
"Brother !" she murmured and fell on
the bosom of Lord Croup. •
Weak with joy, she turned to confront |
Hassan El Whoop, "Uncle!" she cried in i|
amazement, "you here !"
"Yes Sybil," he murmured brokenly,
"but I never dreamed that it was you."
"Nor I," cried Sybil, "the author has
been very good to us reuniting us all after ;
18 years. And to think that had you not
bared your bodies you might have been
dead in yon tank of prussic acid I Oh how
thankful I am that father's tattoos are the
kind that don't come off."
She wept brokenly for several minutes
then her eyes brightened. How small the
world was !
"Come father," she cried happily taking
Oswald's arm, "come beat me with the
wagon tongue as you did in the dear old
long ago."
The High Cost of Filming
p ITY the poor producer ! In addition to
taking away from him a lucrative
market, the war has so raised the cost of
production that his burden is becoming in-
creasingly heavy. Pretty soon he will have
to charge more for his pictures or cut the
salaries of his players. The cost of white
paper is an additional hardship as it has
imposed a severe handicap to the film
press agents and proportionately left less
for the latters' victims to feed the hungry
waste baskets. The producer has suffered
keenest in his laboratory where all chemicals
have gone skyward. For instance, hydro-
quinone developer which cost 90 cents a
pound before the war now sells anywhere
from $7.50 to $9 a pound. Metol,' which
is also used for something or other, has gone
from $4.50 to nearly $100. Dyes, plates
and other necessary paraphernalia have
made proportionate advances on a variety
of excuses and as a consequence the poor
producer hardly knows where next sum-
mer's steam yacht is coming from.
Enter — the Free Lance Writer
THE GROWING NEED OF THE FILM PRODUCERS
FOR THE WRITER WITH IDEAS IS DEMONSTRATED
BY THE WELL KNOWN PHOTOPLAY EXPERT
Capt. Leslie T. Peacocke
OLD books, with com-
plicated plots, and,
for the most part,
character studies ; and old,
time-worn stage plays have
had their day. Most of
those with any semblance
of plot worthy of film pro-
duction have been pro-
duced.
A number of these have
made good film plays and
have netted good returns to
the producers, and, again, others
proved heavy financial losses. For some
time past there has been a rush en behalf
of the manufacturers to secure the film
rights of books and old stage plays, and
fanciful prices have been paid for such
rights. In many cases crass ignorance has
been displayed in the buying. To quote
a case in point.
A few months ago an independent
director filmed a version of one of Charles
Dickens' novels. This was brought to the
notice of the managing director of one of
the large film producing companies and
he was informed that there was likely to
be a big demand for Charles Dickens'
works as feature films. The film magnate
immediately sat down and penned the fol-
lowing historic cablegram:
To Charles Dickens, London. England.
What is the lotvest price you ivill take for
the motion picture rights of all your books?
(Signed)
President and General Manager.
Film Corporation.
This is not cited as a joke. It is an
actual fact. And to make it better, when
the film magnate was informed that the
eminent author had been dead many years
and that there was no copyright on any
of his works, he merely shrugged his shoul-
ders and expressed the opinion that they
couldn't be of much account or the author
would have reserved the motion-picture
rights.
'T'HIS is the first of a new
-*- series of instructive arti-
cles by Captain Leslie T.
Peacocke, well knc • d to
Photoplay Magazine .^eaders
because of his "Hints on
Photoplay Writing" which
appeared in this magazine
last year. Times have changed
since then, and are still
changing; but Captain Pea-
cocke is keeping abreast of
the procession. Begin his
new series now.
have reading line.
This will show you why
there has been much at
fault in the film busi-ness.
It has been largely in the
control of financial poten-
tates with scant knowledge
of literature, art or drama-
tic values, and to whom
fiction is pure childishness.
The Stock Exchange quo-
tations and the scare heads
in the daily newspapers
satisfied their taste in the
rhey had, for the most part,
made their fortunes in commercial pursuits
and invested part of their capital in the
motion picture business when any sort of
production was avidly seized by a public
greedy to be amused by the new and cheap
divertisement.
But the public is more discerning now.
It is becoming more difficult to please
every day. It has been satiated with adapta-
tions from plotless books and stage plays.
It is becoming restless and bored at the
similarity displayed in the plots of the
stories. The old-time thrills — the falling
over cliffs ; the automobile accidents ; tl;e
fighting in barrooms and over stairs ; the
impossible holding-up by one "bad man"
of fifty armed men ; the sick child and the
dying mother and drunken father; the
overacting of heroes ; and the heavings of
bosoms out of corsets by overwrought fe-
males have lost their powers to thrill.
But, right now there is coming a vast
change over the whole film industry. The
big financial heads of the business are now
mostly superior, educated men and they
are delving more closely into matters ; they
are discovering that the foundation of the
business ; — namely, the stories, and their
working out, has been largely in the hands
of a limited number of writers. The public
has long recognized this and many com-
plaints have been made and much has
been written on the subject.
The business managers of the producing
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companies have been slow to grasp the fact
that their scenario editors and staff writers
cannot continue to grind out so-called
"original" photoplay plots, at the rate of,
sometimes, two a week, without displaying
a similarity of ideas and style. Being men
of business and not writers themselves they,
perfiaps very naturally, were under the
impression that those that made a business
of writing were capable of grinding out
"original" plots to order, and at so much
per plot.
And then, again, the directors of pro-
ductions have had, for a long time, things
pretty much their own way ; and many of
these gentry have insisted on writing the
scenarios themselves. Some
have proved capable, but
how many more have not?
Egotism has played a large
part in this. There has
been a satisfaction in view-
ing on the screen, "Written
and Directed by J o h n
Snooks ;" a satisfaction to
themselves alone, in the
majority of cases, because
the manufacturers and the
public have had to suffer ;
the one through the pocket
and the other through a
growing wonderment that good money
should be allowed to be spent so lavishly
and to such little purpose !
But now the business heads of the pro-
ducing concerns have woke up and have
begun to find out that there are brains all
around them ; that all the original plots
in the world are not contained in the
craniums of the professional writers. They
have also discovered that it is not reason-
able to expect their scenario editors and
their staff writers to supply "original"
stories ad lib. They have also awakened to
the fact that old books and plays have
not the drawing power they anticipated,
and that a strong, "original" photoplay,
exploiting a popular "star," well directed,
and scenarioized by a competent continuity
writer, is the best money-maker ; and that
the whole base of the structure depends on
the strength of The Story, no matter from
what source it may emanate.
The best known money-makers have been
original stories ; many of them by unknown
writers ; and the biggest financial losers
have been adaptations from books and
TF you have an original
plot, don't sell it for a
paltry sum. According to
Captain Peacocke, it is worth
at least $100 a reel— $500 for
a complete five-reel produc-
tion. Are you selling your
ideas too cheaply? Read
what this expert says in this
article about "giving away"
the children of your brain.
stage plays. I have seen ridiculous prices
paid for the film rights of books and stage
plays that contained such scanty plots that
most free-lance scenario writers would be
ashamed to submit them in synopsis form.
I have been forced to adapt some of them
with disgust and despair, knowing full
well that out of "nothing" there could be
little gain to either the producer or my-
self. And at the present moment there
are hundreds of books and plays for which
big money has been paid that will never
see the light of the projection machine.
The hard headed business men who control
the film industry know all this now, to
their cost, and many a big scenario depart-
ment upheaval has fol-
lowed, resulting in, as I
have long prophesied, an
urgent and growing need
for the free-lance writer.
This upheaval is not
affecting and will not af-
fect, the .scenario editors
or staff writers, except to
their benefit. They are not
being called upon to grind
out original stories by the
ream, as formerly. Those
who are thoroughly com-
petent are being better
taken care of by the firms that employ
them than in the old days when the
"Writer" was looked upon as either an
abnormal crank, or a necessary evil ! Their
lines of work are different, however.
The scenario editor is now only expected
to read and pass on all 'scripts submitted
to the scenario department. But his judg-
ment is not alone taken as the final one
before a story is purchased. There is more
care being taken in the buying of material.
The scenario editors' relatives and friends
do not receive preference over the out-
siders, as was, unhappily and frequently,
the case in other days. The business heads
of the various concerns are reading these
days and more readily grasping what con-
stitutes the plot of a good photoplay. They'
are not relying entirelv on the judgment
of others, neither are they relying entirely
on their own. Many heads are now being
called into consultation before a 'script is
purchased. Writers' works are not being
gauged on the reputations of the authors,
but on the strength of the stories sub-
mitted. To deviate from this course now
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would ensure bankruptcy to the manu-
facturer.
The stafif writers are now being brought
into closer contact with the directors, and
their main duties are the working of the
stories into logical continuity ; and embody-
ing such suggestions as the directors may
advise ; also adapting into scenario form
the various books, plays, playlets, maga-.
zine stories, or stories in synopsis form that
have been purchased from free-lance
writers. Occasionally, of course, they may
be asked to evolve a story to exploit some
particular star, but not so frequently as
before.
Nearly all the old-time Staff Writers
are working under far
better salaries than for-
merly and their services
are inestimable to the com-
panies for whom they
work. Adaptations are dif-
ficult and it requires
patience and knowledge to
work out a scenario into
good, logical continuity
these days.
Some of the companies
have a staff writer attached
to each Director and they
work in conjunction ; — by
far the most sensible plan, because, after
all, there is nothing like good team work
to ensure success. Two heads are always
better than one, and the director will know
better than the writer the personnel of the
actors he intends to use in a production and
the locations he will be able to procure,
and will be able to suggest many things
that the writer might not forsee.
So, you see the staff writers are even
more valuable to the companies than when
they were merely hack writers endeavoring
to grind out "original" plots at a mere
pittance a \veek ^nd scouring their own
brains, (and other peoples') to supply an
impossible demand.
A great many "Readers" are also being
employed by the various companies to
assist the scenario editors, and these
"Readers" are being selected from the
better known free-lance writers. They will,
undoubtedly, be the staff writers of the
future. In fact, the majority of the staff
writers at present employed have first been
employed as "Readers" and gained much
of their practical knowledge of scenario
'T'HE subject of the next of
Captain Peacocke's arti-
cles in this new series of
helpful stories on filmplay
writing will be on the sub-
ject of "Logical Continuity."
It will deal with a vital
phase of the photoplay build-
er's art as evolved from the
crude methods of an earlier
day.
writing by the reading of 'scripts sub-
mitted by free-lance writers and by watch-
ing the staff writers at work in the scenario
departments.
So, you see there are many plums yet to
be picked in the scenario orchard. There
is always room for those with brains and
perseverance. But the aspiring one must
have both. A good original plot will
eventually find a market ; and the market
is open. Far more open than most free-
lance writers think. Your own fault if
you accept a ridiculous price for your
original plot. Remember that $1,000 has
been paid for the film rights of many
books that contain little or no plot what-
ever. Then why should you
be willing to accept $25
for a plot that will make
a splendid five reel produc-
tion?
Scenario writers can only
blame themselves for the
small prices paid for their
original photoplays.
Twenty-five dollars a reel
is not an adequate price for
a well worked out script ;
yet hundreds are still will-
ing to accept that price.
That was all very well
in the old days when fifteen or twenty
scenes were deemed sufficient in the work-
ing out of a story. That only entailed
a few hours work, and I, myself sold many
scripts at that price ;— aye, and for ten
and fifteen dollars," too, and deemed it good
picking ; — but things have changed mate-
rially the last few years. Strong, original
plots are becoming harder and harder to
find each day and the producing compa-
nies know now that the success or failure
of a production depends more on the
strength of the story than on anything
else.
If a writer is offered, say, $25 a reel
for a story, it stands to reason in the first
place that the company offering it must
want that story, and that same company
will, in all likelihood, have paid $1,000 or
more for the film rights of a book or stage
play with probably not nearly as good a
plot for film production as that embodied
in the photoplay for which it now is offer-
ing a paltry $25. Moreover, a fair sum
will have to be paid to a staff writer for
the scenario adaptation of the book or
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play. Therefore, it is apparent that if a
company needs your story at all, it will,
sooner than lose it altogether, pay an ade-
quate price for it ; particularly if the
scenario is worked out in good logical
continuity.
Now, I maintain that $100 a reel is only
a fair price these days, and any writer
who accepts less for a photoplay with a
strong original plot is extremely foolish.
Also he is helping to spoil the market for
all other writers.
If you have, let us say, a diamond ring
that is properly valued at $100, would you
sell it to the first person that came along
and offered you $25 for it? The chances
are that you would not, unless you were in
straitened circumstances and it was abso-
lutely vital to make a quick sale. Then
why should you sacrifice the child of your
brain for one-fourth of its proper value?
You may argue, of course, that hitherto
you have found it difficult to sell your
photoplays at all, even at the small price
mentioned, but things have undergone a
radical change in the film industry of late,
and it has now come to the point that if
you have a story that is wanted by a film
producing company, it is wanted by that
company just as badly as you need to dis-
pose of it.
The main fault with most writers is that
they do not study the photoplay market
sufficiently, and scripts are being hurled
at companies that do not suit their policy
at the moment. The various companies
are exploiting stars of their choosing, and
they are invariably in the market for
vehicles to suit the players they are ex-
ploiting. So writers should study the
conditions of the companies and figure out
the best market for their scripts.
In an early issue I am going to tell, as
far as 1 honestly know, the best way to
sell your photoplays ; giving my own per-
sonal experiences in that line and the ex-
perience of others who have seriously taken
up photoplay writing as a business.
A great deal has been and is now being
written on the subject of writing photo-
plays— a lot dealing with technique and
other complicated matters ; — but what
we all need to use • is a little common
sense! There is a good market at the
present moment for good photoplays ; and
if you have a good one you should be
able to secure a good- price for it. If you
don't, you are a bad merchant. If your
product is not good, the chances are you
won't be able to sell it at any price ; but
if you receive an offer for it you may
readily conclude that it IS good. There-
fore, being so, it is worthy of a good
price. That's logic.
Now, I do not want you to think that
I am jollying you along and trying to
make you feel good.- I am giving you
absolute facts, as I know them to be. There
is a big demand, right now, for good origi-
nal photoplays with strong plots, and,
therefore, a need growing stronger every
day for the free-lance writer.
Arrived: the Screen Athlete
1_IE is not the intrepid juvenile who leaps
from .skyscraper to trolley, and from
liner bridge to ocean- depths, or climbs the
steep sides of buildings without benefit of
rope or aiding arm to rescue the imperilled
heroine. Far be it from such. The most
exciting thing he does is to sit in the
dimmed pit of the movie theater and watch
the efforts of others, the while neglecting
his duty to the gridiron, the track and the
athletic field.
The first complaint of this new "men-
ace" comes from the faculty and athletic
coaches at Yale. They declare that the
screen has provided a new indoor sport for
the undergraduates that is proving a posi-
tive danger to the success of Varsity ath-
letics. So serious has the situation become
that official cognizance of it has been
taken by the Yale Alumni Weekly which
says editorially: "It is in the upper classes
that the lapses (in participation in sports)
begin to occur, and students not equipped
for serious competition for varsity teams
and too often lured by that growing in-
door sport of attending the 'movies' begin
to neglect their physical needs. There is
a difference of something like 10 per cent
between the freshmen and the upper class
participation in sports."
QHE was some doll and when
she turned on her eyes and
said she had decided to be a
star, she was as ^ood as made
The
Fade-Out
HERE 15 THE GENUINE ATMOSPHERE OF
OFFICE AND "LOT," REPRODUCED BY A NEW
CHRONICLER OF THE STUDIO'S REAL LIFE
By Harry L. Reichenbach
Illustrated by May Wilson Preston
NOT if I live to be older than some of
the original plots we bought this year,
will I ever forget the look she gave
me when she stepped into my office.
She had those baby brown eyes Robert
Chambers writes about and she certainly
knew how to get the most out of them.
She took an inventory of myself, the of-
fice, my new desk set, the litter of unfin-
ished papers and unanswered letters, and
then condescended to talk to me.
"I've decided to go into the movies," she
said.
"Good," I comes back at her, "now get
some manager to decide the same way and
you got it unanimous."
She hated me for that. I knew she
would. But I knew from the minute I set
my eyes on her that I was destined to love
her.
I want to tell you about her.
She came from some tank town in Ken-
tucky where women are worshiped like
white elephants in Siam, and she expected
me to get right down on my knees and hand
her a two years' contract.
Well, I guess I surprised her.
"What have you ever done outside of
breaking hearts and patronizing drug
stores," I cracks.
"Not a thing in my whole life," she
comes back, "but live for my folks. Fa-
ther's broke now — he was awful rich, and
he made it awful easy for me — I want to
do something for him now."
Boy, her eyes were working ! Talk about
your busy little bees : that gal's eyes had
• the proverbial one-wing paper hanger with
the hives standing still on strike picket
duty.
Every time she shed a ray of hope my
way, I wanted to go out and assassinate
Maude Adams and scuttle Bernhardt's ship.
I know an actress when I see one. I've
seen a few — that's why I am sure I know
one when it comes my way.
Here was one. Any time / believe any
woman, I know they are on the level. I've
been slipped the old heart pang so often
my blood pump is full of pores. I've grown
so sympathetic for myself, I can't even look
at my face in the mirror without sobbing.
I've been a big, good-natured boob. All
my life I sought the one girl who could
give me happiness — and thought I found
it in some girl in every picture — but always
the old heart pang.
So I'd grown hard. I hadn't been in love
with a girl in a month. I was oflf the
stuff ; I'd been walking around women like
as if they was a body of water ; but here
was the supreme essence of loyal honesty.
I could picture her going down to the
Woolworth Building and sending a picture
of it to her mother. I knew her thoughts
were the highest. But I was at a loss about
spilling my opinion.
If there is anything that gives a dame
the grand old hammerlock on a guy, it's to
let her know he did the Rome thing for
her. Never tip a dame you love her. The
minute you do, she begins looking around
for a harder problem.
Well, Edith appealed to my fancy. I
mus( of loved her, for I told my married
sister about her the first thing after the pea
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' 'I've decided to go into the movies, " she said. "Good, " I comes back at her, "now
soup that same night. Fkiith was to come
back the next day, and if Rip Van Winkle
had a good night's rest during his twenty
years, I had a bad one that night.
We were casting a picture that week. It
was to be a big dramatic thing, named
"The Rail Rider's Mystery," and we
needed a type just like Edith for the lead-
ing she-role. I decided she would fit it,
and the director made a test of her.
Maj'be I ain't lucky, but I'm .smart.
As far as success and luck and hunches
are concerned, if it was raining soup I'd
have a fork — but on advance judgment, the
old perspicacity stuif, the dope, as they
say — I'm the seventh son of a seventh son
and a fourteenth daughter.
Well, Edith was cast to play the part of
the young loveress in "The Rail Rider's
Mystery" and I tell you, I never want to
go again through such a hell as she put me
through.
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Ul tu^ UiUUs^v^ViJu^liVk ""/ c , ^'^
%ei some manager to decide the same way and you got it unanimous. "
Some women don't use their heads for
nothing except to keep their collars on.
Some women would not think for fear of
getting a bruised brain. Edith thought a
little bit. She thought she had to stand for
everyone in the studio making love to her,
to hold her job.
From the time she got there in the morn-
ing until she took the cold cream off at
night, some Romeo was hanging around.
George, the property man, fixed up her
dressing room like the Uella Robia at the
Vanderbilt — and didn't put none of the
junk he bought on the expense account.
Bob Stonner, the heavy man, used a
policy of attrition. He just hung around
her till she let him take her home one night.
She gave him the air as soon as she got to
the front door — but he'd won his point.
I can remember that night like it was the
night the gas house burned down and
father let me stay up to watch it.
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It was one of the big nights in my life.
I was waiting at the front door of her
apartment house when she comes tripping
around the corner with this heavy guy
sewed on her sleeve. It can't be bulldur-
ham when I say that I was just about will-
ing to slip myself the old adios. I felt so
weak I wanted a pass to the Old Men's
Home.
When I see her slip him the old good-
bye, as nonchalantly as a conductor cop-
ping a jitney, I wanted to go right into
training for Jess Willard's title.
"That guy stands like a broken leg," says
I to myself, and struts up with the hand-
some smile on my face.
When I see Edith smile and her eyes
grow bright, I knows I am the Huyler boy
and start to pull the big stuff right away.
"Look, Edith!" I begins. "I want to
make a couple o' contracts with you : one
for life to handle my future, and one for
tivo years to handle yours — what do you
say?"
"Dick," says she, "don't spoil it all."
If a guy can break a woman's illusion by
asking her to marry him, what sort of a
misdemeanor would he commit if he gave
her a five karat engagement ring?
"What do you mean, spoil it," I says.
"Dick, come on up to the apartment, I
want to talk to you. You've been so good
to me, I got to tell you something. I want
to break it gently — I'm married."
/^AN you imagine anyone breaking that
neAvs gently ?
I stumbled up two flights of steps and
flopped down on a settee.
I could see Edith slipping away, and
me with a couple of glass arms.
"Dick," she said, "don't look so sad. I'm
not in love with him. I am only married
to him. I want you to listen to me now."
I listened. I could just imagine how a
guy feels when the warden comes to take
him to the electric divan at Sing Sing; and
just as he reaches the chair, he gets a ten
minute reprieve.
"I married, Dick, only to satisfy my
father. He wanted me to, all my life I
wanted to please my father. When he
picked out one of my boyhood companions,
I simply went ahead and married him —
and I've been living a lie ever since.
But what was the use of pulling the old
stuff? She didn't love him — never had —
and if she ever learned to love anyone,
from where she sat, it would be the guy I
shaved that morning.
I only touched the ground three times on
the way home.
I wanted to stop in at every drug store
and tell her how happy I was. The tele-
phone booths all had welcome mats in
front. But I went on home and did ten
good hours in the timothy.
P DITH cleaned up in the picture, and I
■*— ' booked her with the Famous Author's
1^'ilm Company for four weeks, to play in
"Who Is Your Daughter."
Pat Abrams, the director of the organ-
ization, tried to tell her how good she was,
and she gave him the same sort of consider-
ation Tammany gave Sulzer. Every man
at the studio wanted to write a story around
her life — but she would not listen to it.
Granville Burton, the famous screen star,
told her she was jiu the kind of girl he
was looking for to play opposi e him, in his
big production of "Romeo -^'id Juliet."
Then he asked her to dinner. She listened
to everything but the eats thing. She .vas
certainly con proof.
I didn't mi.ss many days without seeing
her for a few minutes lill two weeks after
she finished the "Who's Your Daughter"
picture. I had a date to call on her at her
house, but when I got there, I found a note
not to wait ; she was spending the evening
with some friends — friends that would go
and tell her mean old husband all about her.
"I got to meet a lot of my home town
folks," she confided to me the next day.
"They don't — any of them — think I am
really working in the picture, so I show
them the photographs of the scenes. I want
them all to know I am really on the
screen."
"How big a town do you come from?"
I asks her.
"Why, Louisville!" she answers. "It's
about over a hundred thousand people."
"And do you have to take each one of the
hundred thousand out some night for din-
ner to prove you're working?"
She pulled the first sympathy stuff I see
her use.
"Why, Dick," she pouts, "your awful
mean."
"No, I ain't mean," I says, "I ain't a
bit mean, I only wanted to know if you
gotta keep on wearing yourself out telling
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all the hicks that come east how good you
are. You know Edith, you ain't over the
fence yet — you're still jumping."
"I don't know what you mean by over
the fence," she says, "but I got certain obli-
gations. David Stillson would go back to
Louisville and say I was stuck up and suc-
cess was making me forget my friends and
all that, and O ! Dick, I don't want that to
happen."
"Fer the Lord's sake," says I, "you don't
want to keep me half way to the top of the
Singer building while you're demonstrat-
ing to the natives of the twelve southern
states how good you are, do you?"
"Now Dick, you let me work out my
destiny," she pulls, and I do a long hike to
my family heather, feeling like a bell buoy
on a summer day in the Sargasso Sea.
IF Edith was trying to carry the glad tid-
ing to everybody from Louisville, she
could have done it in the time she spent.
When she got to the studio one morning, the
director told her to go home and take a
nap ; she was doing the gay lights too much.
"No, Mr. Dietrich, I have not been run-
ning around," she said, "but two friends
from Louisville came to my home last night
and said that Mae Kingsley had told them
that a friend of hers said he had met a
party in New York who knew I only had
extra work and these parties told someone
who told Mae's friend and I sat up till
after two o'clock telling them about my
work, and then we went out and I met
Howard Breed, another fellow from Chat-
tanooga and points West, and they made me
go up and show him all the still photo-
graphs."
"But didn't you tell them you had to get
to the studio by eight o'clock?" queried
Dietrich, his goat gohig fast at the punk
alibi.
"No, of course not, Mr. Dietrich, but
you know I can't have my friends at Louis-
ville thinking I am a back drop or piece of
scenery — now, can I?" Edith stood with
tears in her eyes and Dietrich melted.
"No, you can't have them thinking you
haven't got Ethel Barrymore lashed to the
mainmast, but listen, little girl" — Dietrich
was of the lovable old school when every-
one's interests was his ; his Wallack and
Booth days came back and he saw the little
beginner, her trials, her anxiety to impress
everyone with her immense importance —
"You don't have to tell them how good
you are, when the picture you just finished
will be playing some swell theatre in your
Louyville purty soon. Then you can look
the whole one lung town in the face and tell
the half cylinder folks that what they see
they must believe, or go to Hot Springs for
their eyes."
She turns to me. "Have you ever been
under suspicion, like? When everyone who
looked at you sort of thought you were an
interloper?"
"Have I been under suspicion," I ex-
plodes. "When haven't I been? Why,"
I cracks, "I been so suspected that I got
to distrusting myself and had to hide my
own money from me. But it didn't hurt me
none ; I just went along and proved
myself."
/^NE night she calls me on the phone and
^^ says Dode Browning from Nashville,
was in town and was going to South Amer-
ica the next day, and that he wanted her to
go to dinner with him, and then meet some
swell people from Atlanta. That girl was
more important to the twelve Southern
States than they are to the Democratic
party. There wasn' anyone south of the
Mason and Dixon Line she didn't mean
everything and all to, and she never dodged
one of them.
Her line of talk when she called me up
run like this:
"Dick, dear, I simply gotta go out to
dinner with him ! He's been a friend of
my Aunt Lizzie's cousin ever since they was
little girl and boy, and the last thing Aunt
Lizzie said to him was that he see me and
find out if I was dressed warm enough for
the cold spell."
"Well," I asks her, "how long is it going
to take him to find out?" There was a
catch in my voice and everything.
"Now Dick, don't be silly. I won't be
with him over a few hours."
Gosh, I thought, she must have some
bunch of clothes on if it will take her three
hours to tell him about it !
I promised to call her at ten o'clock and.
she promised to be there.
DUT she wasn't there when I called. And
^ she wasn't there at eleven. And the
next day she pulls the big alibi.
Dode knew someone who had been run
over by Charles Frohman's automobile and
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he was going to have her meet one of Froh-
man's biggest directors. And she met him:
Sylvester Steigen. When I think of Edith
sitting around talking with that guy, I
want to do a tight rope act on the third rail
of the subway.
Maybe you don't know Steigen. Well,
if he ever had two ideas at once, the gov-
ermnent would raid him for an unlawful
assemblage.
Because his pa played pinochle with
Frohman's pa once upon a time, Frohman
kept the whole family working. Sylvester
couldn't stage a foregone conclusion, but
he could jabber.
He's got more color in his conversation
than a Portuguese native at her aunt's
funeral.
He can sell himself to anyone.
He sold himself to Edith.
She fell like a peal of thunder — and the
first thing she said to me when I saw her
the next day, was:
"Dearie, I'm going in a Frohman show!"
I tried to fade out, but it wouldn't work.
"Who's putting you in it?" I asks.
"Why, Mr. Steigen !" she pulls.
Right then I could have been the world's
greatest acrobat. I wanted to do nine flip-
flops from a standing start.
"That guy? He couldn't put you in a
suffrage parade !"
Edith's face dropped. She wanted to
know all about him. Can't you believe
anyone in the show business, she'd like to
know.
"Listen, Edith ;" I was more emphatic
than I'd ever been. "If a guy makes you
a promise, and he means it, he's willing to
write it down for you. If he's muscle
bound, walk away from him like as if he
was a pest house ; get me?"
She was sure I was cynical. Thought
I'd lost my faith in humanity and all that,
and I had to work hard to convince her.
"Listen, Edith," I sobs, "if you get five
per cent of what you are going to be
promised in the next few weeks, you'll have
enough to start a picture company of your
own, and you can have Dave Warfield play-
ing small parts for you."
I wasn't making any impression. "Go
on," I continues, "go on and be a boob.
Don't take no receipts when you pay any
bills, and whatever you do, if any guy asks
you to let him hold your purse for a minute
to fool a friend, let him hold it."
■■p\ICK, I am going to Atlantic City," she
•'-^ says one day. "Mr. Steigen is going to
take me down to see the opening of 'The
Blue Pathway.' He says I am so inexperi-
enced it will do me good to watch the dress
re'hearsal."
Right away I knew Steigen was going to
need a doctor.
Steigen was just getting down to lunch
when I meets up with him at Childs'. He
was just starting "Pagliacci" with his
pepper pot when I slips the old haymaker
over under the place regular human beings
array their brains.
The noble fellow flopped down like a
stuck steer.
A couple of waiters rushed in, the
manager broke through, and the next thing
I knew the house bull was heading me out.
It set me back twenty iron men for crack-
ing Steigen, which was terrible cheap and
something off for cash and Edith missed
"The Blue Pathway."
'X'HE girl started easing me the glorious
•*• sunset about a week later.
"What you want to go running around
town fighting people for, I can't make out,"
she says. "You are awful assuming."
"Well, what do you want me to do —
build my pockets bigger, so they won't have
so much trouble getting in?" I asks.
"Dick, I want you to promise me you
won't compromise me any more," she says.
There is some old saying about a straw
breaking a camel's back. I think it was
written by some philosophical sharpshooter
like Epictetus. If the saying is right, no
matter how old it is, this is the first time
it ever fit the occasion.
"Me compromising you by beaning a guy
who wants to take you down to Atlantic
City? Say what was he doing — building
up a reputation for honesty is the best
policy, or just taking vou along so he
could write Aunt Lizzie how good you was
looking on a board walk postcard?"
I DON'T know how it all started. I
found the letter on the floor in my office
one day after Edith left. It was from this
guy Stillson. He was a great guy. I bet
he was one of those fellows who likes to
walk in between the hearse and the
mourners' carriage. He probably prayed
for rain the day the orphan children were
to have their oicnic.
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105
I couldn't help reading the letter. That
was the yellow in me.
— It is your place to go back to your
husband, or bring him East. He means
more to you than your career. I admit
I am cruel to my oiun wife and children
and all that, but that's neither here nor
there.
You belong with your husband. That's
a woman's place.
Please don't consider our cases par-
allel. I do not love my wije. You
SHOULD love your husband, and live
7vith him whether you do love him or
not.
Stillson is late in the world. He belongs
in that period where the crab crawled
ashore and became a human being. Since
reading his letter I know just what they
mean by atom only it's smaller than I
thought.
"You belong ivith your husband, but I
don't belong with my wife!" Talk about
your paradoxes ! Here was the guy that
established the fact that there are more
heels in the world than toes !
Yet, you gotta slip him both crosses — iron
and double.. He certainly put it over.
POITH was a changed girl from that
*—* moment.
She talked about Roy Knobontop ; Jim
McCracken ; Boob Brussels ; the college
man who married her sister ; Opie Carder,
tier forgo-tten first love who was now an
established undertaker ; Lisle Hoose, a rich
guy who only uses his head to hang his hair
on, and all the other ginks I'd been worry-
ing about.
I don't know vVhich day in the week it
was.
I comes into my office feeling about like
a groundhog feels when he sees his shadow
and know he's going to make it tough for
somebody for the next six weeks.
He was sitting in my swivel chair, his
trilbies decorating the mahogany, a cigar-
ette at leisure between his ruby lips and a
smile on his face that infringed on his ear
room.
I thought he'tl never stop coming up. oiK
of the chair — he was that tall.
The -way th'at guy grabbed my mit ! Well,
I won't wash it even with soft water, it's
that bruised.
He was one of those guys the closer they
shave the bluer they get.
"Ah'm Edith's husband, an' Ah insisted
on comin' down heah an' thankin' you. Ah
comes from the South, wheah we like men
who help women. You've been wondahful.
Edith says you were so nice she felt
ashamed. Ah wish Ah could tell you how
much Ah appreciate what you've done. It's
great, suh, and maybe you don't think it
comes at a good time. I been out of work
for a couple a mon-ths."
^Vith that the husband beat it.
I LAY back in my chair. My eyes went
shut and I saw Fourth Street, Louisville.
It was all decorated up and a big parade
was coming down street. In front was this
guy Stillson with a banner marked, T Did
It!'
Behind him came all the SpiiTelbergs,
Carders, Brownings, Knobontops, McCrac-
kens, and other Louisville friends. Then
came a float. It was marked Our Star and
there sat Edith. Little girls threw roses
at her as she passed. Men threw their hats
in the aii', and she just sat back and smiled.
Then I awoke. I awoke a new man.
My head was full of little miseries, but
my heart .was hardened.
I was ofl:' women for life. I would so
harden myself that even my mother would
liave to be careful. I made up my mind
never to* fall again. The only star I
wanted to have anything to do with was
star soap — oh ! my bubble busted. And
riglit smack hang in my face, too.
P" DITH'S doing purty good now. She's
■*"* gracing the back row in a Ziegfeld
troupe ; her appreciating husband is one of
the stage crew. Five former Louisvillers
are working in the chorus — -in fact, Edith
brought the whole bunch of cotton grow-
ing states to New York.
Her middle name was cotton, but she
gave me the wool.
Take it from me ; there's nothing in love ;
it's only the advance agent for misery, the
sand bag of delight that -drops on you and
douses your glims. From now on, I'm
scattering my affections. I hate the South.
Hon'est, if I owned Lake Erie an' it was
moonshine bourbon and Kentucky was
bond dry, I wouldn't give a guy from
Louisville a drink.
SOME OF THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO DRAW
BY E. W. GALE, JR.
BEEW Tu!?WIWS OUT SoroE. reel^
Out rt the. T(?irw(Sle tmat are
r^FIKmC A c'EI^TAc^J POETy 5>TEP
106
It'^ easier to get iaitoS^^j^'z;^^*
CrERvifMj^^ THBNJ IT IS To SET ~^§ ^^^^
(MTo THE. i^EvsTOAJE IN These ^^i"^^" '
PiPMG Tir^ES- OPTfilCK ■StumtS . ~\ 5^
•j4"^^o;-
j Here is the gown which Miss Bayne copied from a Van Dyke portrait.
\ satin, relieved with collar and cuffs of wine-colored chiffon and filet lace.
embroidery on black satin.
rhuti.i;r.,ijlis 1.) White. New York
// is of black velvet and black
Corselet vest of blue and silver
Beverly Bayne a Living Van Dyke
THE LATE MRS. MONTAGUE CREATES HER OWN
FASHIONS IN TURNING BACK FOUR CENTURIES
By Lillian Howard
; After spending some three months on
perfection of detail for "Romeo and
Juliet," Beverly Bayne becomes of neces-
sity a devotee of historical accuracy in
matters sartorial.
'. Now behold her costumed in her black
vplvet street frock, a counterpart of that
of the original of the Van Dyke period —
still, much in the mode of the moment I
Of course Beverly Bayne is not arraying
herself altogether after the modes of old-
world heroines, though Juliet's marvellous
and most becoming gowns did give her a
taste for such. And so just as the clothes
of the play were as historically correct as
possible, when it is to be a street or after-
noon gown after the Renaissance period, a
careful sketch from a Van Dyke portrait
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becomes a fashion croquis. It is copied in black
velvet with sleeve caps from below which come
double puffs of satin with stripings of velvet. The
satin corselet vest is embroidered in blue and silver.
The Van Dyke collar of wide, shoulder-draping
lines, of point de Venise in the original, is here of
chiffon in the twine color of the lace, with outlining
points of filet of the same tone. Matching cuffs
finish the sleeves at the wrists.
The season's designers have been most neutral in
their choice of bygone periods from which they
copied. Gowns have displayed notes of all ages
and periods. Directoire collars, Moyen age waist-
lines. Renaissance collars, Slavic embroideries',
Chinese brocades, have all made their appearance.
And too often mixed dates and places have not
made for altogether harmonious and artistic gown-
ing. But the ( ry is always for something new, some-
thing different. This is just where Beverly Bayne
acliieved a triumph when she elected to reproduce an
Left, above. Miss
Bayne in a dove-
colored taffeta
street frock, silver
thread embroid-
ery on collar and
finishing sleeves.
From a French
model, just im-
ported.
Right, below, a
full-length view
of the Van Dyke
gown. Note the
skirt, harmoni-
ously long, but of
convenient walk-
ing length.
old-world original. In this Van Dyke portrait she
perceived the inspiration for the latest tendencies of
fashion, the fullness of sleeve, the full but straight
lines of skirt, the contrasting panel front, the shoul-
der-draping collar, all the newest wrinkles of sar-
torial 1917 gowns.
The motion picture actress probably knows more
about the art of costuming than any other class of
women of fashion. Her knowledge of clothes is not
confined to those worn at the present moment. She
has studied in her work the gowning for heroines
of different periods and her instinct for art makes
her keen in recognizing the source of the mode's
inspiration and adapting it with skill. No more
is there anything really new in fashions than there
is in plots for scenarios. Every sort of a costume
line has been used, just as every human situation.
has been depicted. The possibilities for novelty lie
in the change of details, though too often fashion
comes a cropper in awkward combination of these
details.
They're Just Shooting Douglas Fairbanks
IT'S done every day, or thereabouts ; not
because he has nine lives, but because
this sort of shooting multiplies his live-
liness instead of destroying it. Tiie gentle-
man writing on the heavens witli his index
finger is John Emerson. JIc isn't reail)'
doing anything to the sk\ — that's just a
directoral gesture. 'J'he man behind the
celluloid gun is Victor Fleming, pleasant-
faced youth who is declared a wizartl of
the optic crank. The small j)ers(>n
snuggled under the artillery is Anita
Loos, who writes the J''air
banks plays and tlie u
roarous captions apjier
taining , thereto. Secret
she also wrote most of
the humorous .sub-
titles in "Intoler
ance." Tliis flash of
the Fairbanks crew at
their creative toil was
Avinked during a moment
of "The Americano." a
play of Central Ameri-
can revolution using the
San Diego Exposition
as its background '
architectural lace
Inciden-
tally, "The
Americano" w
probai)ly l)e th
last of the Fair-
banks plays in California for some time to
come, as the actor and his artistic outfit
are now camped, with an idea of perma-
nency, on Manhattan island.
"I want to play some New York fel-
lows in New \'ork," says Fairbanks, who
it .seems ridiculous to call "Mister."
"Why should 1 follow the old custom of
the movies, staging Broadway in some
canon, with a lot of re-
\
formed cowpunch-
ers for the Fifth
Avenue boys. I
e.xpect to be
w o r k i n g
around
M a n It a t-
tan c]uite a
while."
Thts isn't a black-
banged China
(loll under the ;
camera.
It's an author-^
honest !
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Presenting a Six -Part Serial
IN these piping
days of paint
and pout and
powder it is "old
stuff" to see a
dainty girl exam-
ine her vanity
mirror in a street
car or dust a lit-
tle powder on her
nose Avhile the
crossing copper
holds up vehicu-
lar traffic for her
to fox-trot across
to nether curb,
sections of white-
clad shin twin-
k 1 i n g betwixt
skirt hem and
boot top. But
To get a
chance to glimpse
our little Mary
having a silence
interview with
herself in the
man - forbidden
fastness of her
studio dressing-
room, that is
something else
again. Voila!
z e puffs,
Entitled ^'Mysteries of Mary"
m'sieures. Allans!
In tlie extreme
southwest corner
of the west page
Miss Pirkford may
be beheld "on loca-
tion." obviously on
some sea coast with
Director T o u r -
neur, and there
would seem to be
a hint of cameras
to right of her.
cameras to left of
her. cameras, etc.
West - by- south-
east : Mistress
Mary seems t o
have got mixed up
with a bucket and
a gentleman cook,
while they are aim-
ing the camera
through the door-
way.
East- bv -nortli :
Aw sav, can't you
read tliat picture
for yourself with-
out anv side notes?
East-bv- southeast :
A new spring style,
lorgnette a ii x
burro.
Ill
ARE THEIR AGES PERMANENT A5 THE AGE OF MARY MILES?
The perennial fourteen at your right is the renowned Minter; at her right stands her middle-aged grandmother, and the
young person at grandmother's right is Mrs. Charlotte Shelby, her daughter and mother of Mr. Freuler's prize ingenue.
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The Shadow Stage
A Department of Photoplay Reinew
By Julian Johnson
o
.CCl'PiVNTS of thrones are geiier-
allv less interesting than the gentle-
men or ladies behind them ; Joan.
the clair-audient wool-grower of Orleans,
is merely the figurehead of a great spec-
tacular enterprise l)ehind whicli moves one
Cecil DeMille. a sun-])aint('r who makes
lier embattled, renownech and eventuallv
a steak at a stake. Wliich is to say that
Geraldine Farrar. in "Joan the Woman,"
is not the whole show, as slie was in "Car-
men." "Carmen" was the peculiar per-
sonal medium of tliis cosmopolitan witch.
"Joan the Woman" is an historic materi-
alization in which she plavs a leading part
with characteristic energy and effect, but
whicli, as a spectacular photoplay, is no
more dei)endent upon the substantial
prima-donna than upon anv of its otlier
leading principals. Edith Storev. for in-
stance, would have recreated .\rc's fanatic
virgin to much the same effect — perhaps
with even greater exaltation.
Thougli it is not faultless. "Joan the
Woman" is the best sun-spectacle since
"The Birth of a Nation," and in the opin-
ion of the writer only that sweeping review
of arms and hearts has excelled it. "The
Birth Of a Nation" trumps all the picture
spectacles yet made for its insistent human-
ity ; its irresistible combination of power
and simplicity, tempest and tenderness.
Mechanically as well as photographically
"Joan" e<|uals but does not surpass "Civili-
zation." that photographic and mechanic
milestone of tlivver story ; in legend and
development of dramatic interest it would
be absurd to mention "Civilization" in this
connection. Mr. (Jrilhth's radiant crazy-
([uilt. "Intolerance," is also put bv.
Miss Jeanie MacPherson is credited with
the book of this opera for the eyes. She
begins with Eric Trent, of the English
expeditionary force in Northern France.
[Trent is in a trench at night, and. finding
a projecting bit of rusty iron, pulls and
digs until he has extracted the remnant of
a sword of the period of Cliarles VIT. In
liis vision, as he sleeps, Joan appears. The
story of the shepherdess begins.
Trent in a previous incarnation was of
the English who occupied Burgundy.
France lies in anemic disarrav before a
powerful invader and behind a wretched
king. Trent is of a pillaging foray who
drive the laggard soldiery of Charles from
town and field. Joan, the farmer's daugh-
ter, he regards as his special prize, but
Joan's purity has purity's frequent way: it
disarms the conc]ueror, turning his lust to
love. Traitorously wounded by a French-
man, he is nursed back to health in a hay-^
loft by the maid.
But the romance comes to no fulfillment.
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When Trent's youthful blood is again
coursing healthily, Joan is hearing things.
Her day of romance and dream is over.
Mailed Anglo-Saxon hands are beating
down the traditions and the hopes of
France, and, willy-nilly, the militant shep-
herdess gets to the court of the clownish
monarch, still without a sceptre. The same
fury that sped her from hovel to hall puts
her at the head of the army, despite the
opposition of La Tremouille, silken spider
of England in the court of Charles. The
mercenaries are vanquished, sieges are
raised, English generals retire precipi-
tately, French blood leaps and boils as it
always does when Gaul is endangered. At
length united France, with shout and
paean, repair to Rheims' immemorial pile,
and the crown is pushed down on the nar-
row forehead of Charles with exuberant
sanctity.
Bishop Cauchon, a ward-heeler of the
church, spy of London and general minor-
ity leader, has no part in the new and
exultant order. A creature of La Tre-
mouille, it is his task to rid the land of its
Ethel Barrymore and
Maury Stewart, in " The
Awakening Oj Helena
Ritchie."
girl David, or decline from luxury to
actual clerical labor — perhaps to the block
or the assassin's thrust. The ready resort
of the day is superstition. People who
take no baths are apt to believe anything,
and the commentators of custom assure us
that folk of that day were suspicious as
they were encrusted. In politics, too, it is
hail today and hell tomorrow, and Joan
was in arch-politics. Obtaining her from
her English captor — Trent, her one-time
lover, betrayed her — Cauchon has little
difficulty- in indicting as a witch one who
received her ideals of leadership in trances.
The canonical trial is characteristically
absurd and blasphemous. Charles keeps
his hand out through belief that Joan
aspired to overthrow him.
Nevertheless, Joan holds to her faith and
protests her innocence. The red fires of
the inquisitor shake her body into submis-
sion ; her flesh, not her soul, consents ; she
signs what s-he is asked to sign. She is a
witch, by her own confession — a traitor, a
schemer, an agitator. The last chapter is
staged in a square, and in a pillar of fire
Joan's soul goes to heaven, while the re-
pentant Trent and even the malicious monk
who served Cauchon plead her forgive-
ness— as Cauchon himself, shaken by the
horridity of her burning, stumbles hastily
from his ringside seat.
Trent, in the modern
trenches, awakens. He
is chosen from a number
of other volunteers to
bomb a Teuton salient
before attack. His
hazard is successful, but
he stops a German bul-
let, and before he dies
Joan again comes to
him ; in this English-
man's death for France
he has expiated his sin
of the centuries against
her.
In the welter of mag-
nificent impersonations
let us seize upon the
Charles VII of Ray-
mond Hatton as a ster-
ling example. Here is a
screen-made actor whose
study possesses the finest
subleties, the most adroit
effects, absolute verity to
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human nature. It is an old saying that
great parts make great actors, but of all
flip quips, this is the most histrionically
unjust. Charles VII is a great part, but
in all the range of photographic and speak-
ing performances I can think of no one
who would — to me, at least — put this char-
acterization across so thoroughly. The
petulance and the weakness and the vanity
of Charles, Hatton manages to express
without a single bodily movement. His face
is at once a drama and a novel. He has
such fine bits of business ; for instance, !he
scene after the palace revel in which he
thrusts merely the tips of his fingers, absent-
mindedly, down the back of a drunken
woman's dress to caress her .shoulder.
Here, without lewdness, is the complete
expression of an orgy !
Those who object to Miss Farrar's Joan
because she is rising to battle-cruiser weight
had best turn to their histories. Joan is
described as broad, short, heavy. But Joan
had a peasant's face, placid except for
wonderful eyes. One of Farrar's eyes re-
flects Riverside Drive, the other. Fifth
Avenue, and her mouth seems to be saying
"Broadway." This is perhaps quibbling,
but the prima-donna's Joan is a bit too
sophisticated in appearance. In "Carmen"
she was Carmen ; in "Joan the Woman"
she is an accomplished and clever actress,
possessed
of e n o r-
mous physi-
c a 1 valor,
d r a matic
resource in
gesture
which is at
m o m e n t s
thrilling,
and great
personal
appeal. Her appetite for punishment and
abuse has been paralleled only by the hero-
isms of Mabel Normand when Keystone
prolapsed to dress suits and stellar names.
Theodore Roberts as Cauchon makes
the churchly devil of the Middle Ages a
grim reality. Hobart -Bosworth plays the
common soldier Le Hire — and makes of
him a grand figure, figuratively as well as
literally the plumed knight of the play.
Charles Clary as the icy Tremouille is very
fine ; Tully Marshall as the wicked monk
is a graphic figure ; James Neill has a
human bit. The whole interpretative re-
source of Laskyville has been deftly drawn
upon.
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To me, the great moment of "Joan the
Woman" was the episode m Charles'
shabby court where Joan pleads for soldiers
to save France. As she talks the dim and
shadowy figures of- great knights in armor,
on battle-chargers which would have up-
borne the Norse gods, plunge o\'er them
all, through the hall. This
is more than double pho-
tography; it is handling
a camera as Michelan-
gelo'handled his chisel
— it is Michelangelo-
ing the .sunshine.
This is the first time
that the psychic
force of active pho-
tography has been
turned on an audi-
ence along lines
fully demonstrated
by the late Hugo
Munsterberg — a n d
completely n e g-
lected by all direc-
tors.
The material
side of the picture
is splendidly
taken care of.
The reduction of
a feudal fortress,
the sweep of a
great field of knights
the charge are big inci-
dents. The flash to mouth
of a hundred brass
trumpets, the glitter of
five times as many pen-
nanted lances, the arch-
ing of what seem a thou-
sand great swords dem-
onstrate overwhelminglv
the drama of arms in the mailed centuries.
William Furst's musical score is a pleas-
ant one, and while it rises to no particular
merit, it never angers by its complete in-
efficiency— as does the "Intolerance" or-
chestration. Those who criticise Mr. I'urst
for his large use of the "Marseillaise" on
the ground that it was not composed until
hundreds of years after the winds had scat-
tered Joan's ashes, have no imagination.
The "Marseillaise" is not a localized tune ;
it is a melodic expression of the spirit of
France.
Mr. DeMille has not Mr. Griffith's al-
Mary Miles Mi titer
in "The Innocence of
Lizctte," a recent
Mutual release.
most demoniac faculty of making even an
extra do in a picture just what he would
do in life. "Joan the Woman" could stand
a bit more humanity here and there.
Nevertheless, it is a big and splendid thing.
TN writing about "The Americano," the
•*■ latest visual dynamite from the Fair-
banks factory, we are considering Douglas
ratlier tlian the doings.
In an expression about Douglas Fair-
Kinks the temptation is to go far; the
temptation is to say
that he is t/ic represen-
tative American actor
for both ears and eyes.
If not, why not?
America is a large
neighl)orhood of hustle
antl bustle, good nature
and dogged persistence,
fine animal spirits and
outrageous optimism,
much physical magnet-
ism and few of the eso-
teric ungents. There
are those among us who
are cracked, crazy or
strange, poets both ab
and subnormal, dream-
ers, for every hour in
the day, melancholies,
i m a g i n a r i e s, new-
thoughtists, revolution-
aries, voluptuaries,
hermits, heroes, cow-
ards, saints, skunks. Of
course. Hut they do
not rejiresent America.
Tlie good-bad lovable
chap Douglas Fair-
banks always plays dofs
represent America and
the bifi'-bang Americanism for which we
are, justlv and unjustly, renowned.
The most interesting thing about Doug-
las Fairbanks is his future.
Here he is: a .sane, commonplace, ag-
gressive young fellow in tlie early thirties,
getting a groundwork of combined experi-
ence and celebrity from which no middk-
age triumph can jar him. He is devoted td
the screen. 1 )oesn't consider it a mere make-
shift for the big money, but an absolute me-
dium for the best that's in him. He is going
to grow right along with camera-craft, and
when, in a few vears, we come to those
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absolutely certain sun-plays of serious life,
let us hope that he will crown his career
with a man of maturity who will be not
only a triumph of acting but a national
expression.
Anita Loos, the demi-tasse librettist, is a
great help to our hero. Her frolicsome sce-
narios are not only immense entertainment,
but they are satires more subtle than our
contemporary vocal dramatists provide.
Remember, in "American Aristocracy," the
distiller's wife -who
couldn't speak to the
brewer's wife be-
cause she moved in
a higher plane ?
This is scraping the
paint right off the
surface of society,
and since the death
of Clyde Fitch
they're not doing it
in the talkies.
Did we mention
"Tlie Americano?"
Oh, yes ! We have
more story and less
jumping than
"American Aristoc-
racy" vouchsafed.'
The chief concern-
is a Central Ameri-
can revolution, and
the meddling there-
with by a young
New York assistant
to a mining com-
pany. The inciter
of his trip is Alma
Rueben, whom we
have previously
noted as one of the
most charming
brunes in captivity.
The buildings of the
San Diego Exposition furnished fine, ready-
made settings. Mr. Fairbanks literally
falls on his enemies, in this picture, and the
results in front of the projected fight are
electric as an incandescent ; whoops and
howls from the audience .spur the ghostly
battlers to their set finish. After a great
deal of pummeling Douglas really enfolds
Alma, and in the midst of your surprise at
this unexpected denouement fhe lights go
up and your excited fair neighbor sticks
her hatpin into the side of your head.
Douglas Fairbanks enfoying his work in
" The Americano. "
C RANKIN DREW has arrived as a
director. The proof is his fine modern
play, "The Girl Philippa," adapted from
the Chambers novel, and Vitagraphed
about the lustrous Anita Stewart.
I said "fine modern play;" it is the
reality of the people, the many notes of
genuine humanity, the clean, strong love
interest and dramatic force which makes
the enterprise worthy. These things over-
come a sort of scattering of idea — a note
here and there
which seems to
show the director
bewildered, or the
scenarioist b e w i 1-
dered ; but, anon
the action picks up
and plunges ahead
with speed and sin-
serity, and the piece
is saved.
Almost anyone
can make a series of
characters gyrate
through a course of
situations to a given
end. There are
very few who can
make these charac-
ters perform so that
we share their loves,
their sympathies,
their hates and their
terrors, as Drew
makes us share
the emotions of
Philippa and her
people and her ene-
mies.
Doubtless you re-
member the tale.
It's of the present
war, and a girl who
kept the cash in a
country cabaret. . She was a royal child,
stolen- in infancy, but she didn't know it.
If she had known it, there might not have
been a story. Her master and stealer, a
French Benedict Arnold, sells out to the
Germans — but he would just as readily
sell out to anyone. Philippa has various
protectors, ranging from a nun to an
American artist ; she has various adven-
tures, ranging from an automobile abduc-
tion to a gun fight in a cellar. She has
various emotions, ranging from heart-
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broken despair to the
triumph of love and
amazement at her royal
self.
For the first time
since the departure of
her boss brother-in-
law, Ralph Ince, Miss
Stewart emerges from
eclipse. She is a pecu-
liar though potent
quantity, this long and
1 o V e 1 y maiden, and
under dull manage-
ment she droops like a
rose in steam heat.
What is the Stewart
charm? Isn't it,
mainly, an elusive sort
of virginity, an expres-
sion of complete girl-
hood unsullied by the
knowing compla-
cent y of maturity?
'I'here is no one on our
screens wlio can be at
once so ardent and so
pure; and this is tlie
rarest quality in an
age where babies hear
sex-talk.
seen HHHHI^I
Anita Stewart, not-
withstanding her sweetness, play some of
our very l)est worst women !
Mr. Drew himself, and Anders Randolf
are especially conspicuous in the Anitain
support. Nor can we forget, piouslv as
we try, that absolutely distracting religi-
cuse. Miss Curley.
I PITY the fellow who wrote of "Snow
* White:" "How anyone could expect
those possessing adult minds to sit through
this picture is a mvsterv."
Poor chap! As far as he is concerned
the world of imagination is shut behind
an unclimbable fence. If he had been a
manager, he would have kicked out of his
office any man submitting "Peter Pan," a.w\
to him Robert Louis Stevenson, the in-
comparable playmate of every boy in the
worl'd, probably seems a silly twaddler.
For sheer, mere enjoyment, "Snow
White" is the equal of anything I ever
saw. Marguerite Clark is so real and so
earnest as the persecuted little princess that
in tumultuous sympa-
thy even men forget
that no one having ;■
such pretty legs could .'
ha\e any enduring t
woes. i
How we shudder at f
t h e malevolence o f ■
lotting Brangomar!
Mow we sigh at the \
pi i gilt of Berthold, ;
the unhappy hunts-
Raymond Hatton
and Geraldine
Farrar, in "Joan
the Woman, "
the finest
photo-
spectacle in
two
years.
man! Nor is thert- anv scarcity of laughter i
"in Snow White's motherly invasion of the
liouse of the seven dwarfs, wliose beds she
makes, whose floor she scrubs, whose food
she cooks, whose faces she washes. And
how vast is our delight at the plight of
Witch Hex, as she pours over her bald
head a decoction she believes made of the
fair child's heart, liut which contains, in-
stead, a pig's heart to make her shining
pate sprout pig-tails instead of raven
tresses !
7'he man who staged "Snow White" be-
lieves in fairies.
So do we — at least we nunit to believe
in tliem, and anyone who will help us
toward belief in them earns our gratitude
and applause.
Every child in America should see this
play.
If your cliild doesn't enjoy it hugely
have his head examined, for this pictured j
tale is the essence of childish enthusiasms,
beliefs a-nd loves.
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AN oracle of Roman days wrote: "Of
•**• the making of books there is no end."
jSo it seems with photoplays. And the pity
'of it is, to most of these photoplays there is
no significance. There is little attempt to
create art-products of originality and line-
; ness ; there is stupendous, overwhelming,
continuous effort to fill programmes and
beat the other fellow in a general plaster-
ing of wares all over the land.
The open market should have a very
. salutary effect on photodrama, for as open
! market, translated, means best play, most
sales, it should be mere business expediency
to produce good things and fewer of them.
TTHE Famous-Lasky-Morosco group seem
*■ to have the bulge on interesting wares
this month, though their shop-run is by no
, means notable.
, - The novelty on this programme (apart
from "Snow White") appears to be Frank
Mclntyre's first gingerly dip into the
movies, wearing his renowned footlight
character, "The Travelling Salesman." It
is little less than a tragedy tliat Mdntyre
can find no good medium in which to dis-
port. He is a comedian not only oleaginous
but unctuous, and while there are numbers
of the former on and off the silversheet,
genuine unction is a gift
direct from the god of
laughter. The scenario
of "The Travelling
Salesman" seems jacked
about a bit strangely, but
Joe Kaufman, who
waved the baton during
the materialization, di-
rected well and carefully,
and the picture as a
whole is an exceptionally
good one. You will like
Mdntyre, and you will
like Doris Kenyon, who's
becoming a more deli-
cious bon-bon every day
she sugars by continuing
to live.
Then we have "A Coney Island
Princess," with Irene Fenwick, who al-
ways puts an astounding physical at-
traction across without any physique ;
the swarthy Lenore Ulrich in "The
Road to Love," an Oriental tale of ane-
mic story and magnificent accessories ;
"Oliver Twist," an altogether charming
reversion to Dickens, with Marie Doro;
and Pauline Frederick in a speedy but not
noteworthy pirate story entitled "The
Slave Market."
IN "A House Built on Sand" we have the
'■ most intelligent subject turned out of
the Triangle group in the past month ; and
in "Truthful Tulliver" the liveliest enter-
tainment, apart from "The Americano."
For the first : here is a new version of
the caveman-husband story. The girl,
played by Lillian Gish, plans for a simper-
ing society wedding. Her husband-to-be,
a hater of shams, plucks her out of her
luxuriant nest, and carries her off to wed-
lock and rough surroundings as though she
were a Sabine woman. Result, estrange-
ment. At the end of six months imperative
duty awakes her to the realities of life,
and, coincidentally, to the realities of love.
This is a quiet, sanely told, not essentially
dramatic story. Anyone who can behold a
photoplay of this type and talk about the
unvarying falsity of the screen to life is
either a knave or an ass. "A House Built
un Sand" is life.
In "Truthful Tulliver" Bill S. Hart
cal'lates that he'll go plumb back to his
simon-pure Westerner. He is the finest of
George
Walsh and
Herschell
Mayall, in
"The Island
of Desire. "
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them all, and he does stunts here that out-
bedevil any of his previous enterprises in
the sage. He does not walk into a saloon
to get his man — he rides into the crowd on
a dead gallop, and the bad boy, lassoed,
is yanked through a window, carrying sash
and all in his travels on the rope express.
Next, Hart follows a train, swings from
his bronk to an observation car, and plucks
villainy even from the soft surroundings of
a transcontinental limited. Alma Rueben,
dusk jewel we have noted in another set-
ting, is here too, perfidiously as loving to
Bill as she was to Doug.
For the Triangular remainder, moving
pictures, of varying de-
grees of goodness and
constructive care.
'"yHE Island of De-
■*■ sire," a Fox pho-
toplay of the month,
has an overwhelmingly
good start and an as-
toundingly mediocre
finish.
"At last!" I said
as the first few hun-
dred feet slipped past
my eyes. And I set-
tled back for a Lon-
donesque- tale of the
South Seas, and gold,
and yellow men, and
white men with yellow
hearts, and a queen or
two, and of course a
hero. But, somehow,
the story just fades away to a childish bit
of mechanical volcano and dull sentimen-
tality . . . why won't people depend upon
the infinite variety of human nature instead
of manufacturing the violent devices of
heaven and earth?
Notwithstanding his biceps, George
Walsh may meet some real rough fellows
some day who'll take him down, hog-tie
him, and cut his ebullient hair. I hope that
or a barber happens to him. He and
Herschell Mayall are the principal high
lights of this show.
A MONG Universal's best pieces this
** month are "Black Orchids," a violent
melodrama of considerable compulsion ;
an "Polly, Put the Kettle On," a sweet
though unoriginal idyll of present-day life.
DON'T MISS NEXT MONTH'S
''Shadow Stage"!
It will be a jolt to the theatrical
crank who holds boards and foot-
lights sacred as the East Indians
hold their cows, for in it Mr.
Johnson will prove that in the past
twelvemonth the photoplay has
done more to foster truly American
drama than has the stage in the
past half dozen years:
Be sure to read this constructive
contribution to artistic criticism.
"Black Orchids" has a needlessly dirty
note in its plot, but if you wish a thrill of
medieval horror to jar you out of placidity,
have a look. No, we won't tell you what
it is. Cleo Madison, who in months has ?;
perpetrated nothing but matrimony to keep ■
her name in the papers, is the principal
performess.
Douglas Gerrard was the director of
"Polly, Put the Kettle On."
"HPHE Foolish Virgin," with Clara Kim-
ball Young, is little less than a disas-
ter, considering the prominence of the star,
the resources of the company, and the fine
record of the director.
How did Capellani
hapi)en to perpetrate
so tiresome a thing?
"piDGIN Island,"
a Metro comedy-
drama, featuring Har-
old Lockwood and
May Allison, produced
by Fred J. Balshofer,
has much to recom-
mend it — and much to
condemn it. It is a
realistic story of smug-
gling, with the obvious
incidents handled in
such a charming and
lifelike manner that
the distraught reviewer
is tempted to shout for
joy ; yet, on the heels
of a lot of common
sense tumbles a Inmrli of absurdities. What
can you do?
P THEL Barrymore in an even, intelli-
gent, though not especially inspired
screening of "The Awakening of Helena
Ritchie ;" Emmy Whelen in "Vanity ;"
Mme. Petrova, in an interesting melo-
dramalet of the great war, "The Black
Butterfly," and the usual Sidney Drew
diversions are included in the current
Metro budget.
In a rather mild World month "Broken
Chains," written by Joseph Grismer and
Clay M. Greene, featuring Ethel Clayton
and Carlyle Blackwell, is most prominent.
In its "take" World has a bulge on every-
body ; it is at least three months ahead in
its finished material.
THE FAREWELL OF A COUPLE OF WALL NUTS
rhis affecting scene occuned at the Chaplin studio in Hollywood when Fairbanks went to bid his comical colleague
adieu, prior to departure for the East.
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He's Sixteen Years Aheac
By Paul H. Dowling
DAYS OF OLD RECALLED.
AND THRILLING FEATS
OF A PIONEER
KNIGHT OF THE TRIPOD
of old,
when knights wer
bold, there were im
"movie" cameramen. Had there
been, the daring deeds they doughtily did
for ladies' sakes would have loomed up like
slaughtering tin soldier armies in the garret
on a rainy afternoon, compared with the
freak acts of daring "pullt-cl ofl^" in line of
everyday duty by the knights of the crank-
crowned tripod.
See that old gentleman across the street
there? That's "Daddy" Paley. Besides be-
ing dean of motion picture photography and
camera-making in this country, he lias
dandied Fate on his figurative knee fifty
times and pulled the nose of Death a dozen.
He likes it.
With an Indian he paddled the currents
of the St. Lawrence in the night to "slioot"
a down-river boat as it swept on toward a
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huge ruck — and swerved on the current
just m time to go by at a hand's breadth
to safety.
Upon a time Daddy Paley got himself
in bad with the Spaniards in
Cuba and they tiirew
him into a dun-
In the center is one of the early Melies companies on the stage
of the Star Film Ranch at San Antonio. Tex. Francis Font
may be discocered behind a hirsute disguise in the center, and
seated on the floor is Dolly Larkin. The set consisted of the
back drop nailed against the side of the house. Below, Daddy
Paley is filming the boys in blue at Tampa in 1898.
couhl liear a firing squad
into eternitv. They had
Castle, where h
launching souls
caught him with eighteen moving pictures of
the Maine. A\"lien the American consul got
him out lie started filming again and a Cuban
tried tc) stiletto him..- Daddy Paley chucked
him into the harbor.
At the battle of San Juan Hill Daddy got
a Spanish bullet through his camera, and
went on cranking. Then yellow fever nabbed
him and he staggered eight miles through
calf -deep mud and the rain, in the night, to
^ reach a hospital ship that had no quinine.
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Scenario Winners Are Being Chosen
EXPERTS ARE WEEDING OUT BEST AMONG
TWENTY -SIX THOUSAND MANUSCRIPTS SUB-
MITTED FROM HOME AND ABROAD IN THE
TH05. H. INCE-PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE CONTEST
APPROXIMATELY sixty days must
elapse after the appearance of this num-
ber of Photoplay Magazine before awards
can be announced in the Thos. H. Ince-Photo-
play Magazine Scenario Contest, in which
prizes of $i,ooo, $500, $300 and $200, all cash,
are to be won. The Contest closed December
31 at midnight, and for that reason perhaps
some of the contestants have expected an
earlier decision. An ex-
planation is due them.
More than 26,000 sce-
nario manuscripts were
received by Photoplay
Magazine in this com-
petition, constituting an
unprecedented response
to an oiifer of this kind.
Manifestly it would be
impossible for Mr. Ince,
an extremely busy man,
to peruse all of these.
So a staff of experienced
scenario readers was set
at work by Photoplay
Magazine with instruc-
tions to weed aside the
"hopeless" scenarios and
preserve for later sort-
ing every manuscript
which contained the
germ of a usable idea.
This staff has finished
the task, and of the
26,000-and-odd scenarios
submitted has selected
everyone having suffi-
cient merit for serious
consideration. Two of
Mr. Ince's experts
trained in the adaptation
of n o n-st u d i o-m a d e
scenarios to the screen
are now engaged in cata-
loguing and indexing
these, which by the time
you read this article will
be in the hands of Mr.
Ince himself for per-
sonal reading and final
decision.
So you must be patient, realizing the enor-
mous amount of mental and physical work
involved in the process of honestly and fairly
judging such a contest. Within the frame on
this page are given some interesting facts of
the wide scope and popularity of this world-
wide competition.
As may be expected in contests which are
territorially unrestricted and appeal to prac-
tically all classes, a good many of the entrants
threw aside the rules or violated one or
another of them, perhaps not realizing that
each one of these rules was formulated with a
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Vital Facts in the Ince-Photo-
play Scenario Contest
MORE than 26,000 entrants.
Among foreign entrants :
French, French-Canadians, Japanese,
Chinamen, Italians, Australians, New
Zealanders, Hawaiinns.
Foreign-prepared manuscripts com-
pared favorably with the best of the
.\merican-prepared in points of scena-
rio technique and manuscript neatness.
Very few of the manuscripts showed
any knowledge of studio technique on
the part of the author.
One per cent, of the 26.000 manu-
scripts was hand-written and therefore
rejected without being read. The rejec-
tion-without-reading exception was a
manuscript telling in "verse" the story
of Harry K. Thaw. For many laughs
much thanks to the author.
About one in each ten manuscripts
carried insufficient postage. Why be so
foolishly careless?
Seventy-five per cent, of the sub-
mitted manuscripts came from women.
More than ninety per cent, of all the
scenarios revolved around lo\e.
Some of the entrants sent pencil or
pen sketches along to illustrate their
plots. Others sent their own photo-
graphs. We don't know why.
Nearly all of the Canadian authors
.Tnd authoresses sent their heroes to
the European trenches.
More than forty per cent, of the
entrants introduced the sex problem in
their plots.
The Contest opened August 1, 1916,
and closed December 31, 1917.
distinct purpose and after much thought by
persons who have specialized in this field and
therefore know what requirements should be
laid down and whj'. The inevitable result has
been the rejection of some thousands of scena-
rios which otherwise might have stood a
chance of final inspection. When a rule is
made it is made for all, else it is not honestly
made. If an aspirant to a prize cannot or will
not observe the rule, he
or she cannot expect to
receive consideration of
work done.
Sixty per cent, of the
total number of manu-
scripts submitted was re-
ceived by Photoplay
Magazine in the closing
month of the Contest.
N o t w i t h standing the
plain language of Rule
No. 2 — -"M a n u s c r i pts
must be typewritten on
one side only of the
paper. Manuscripts in
long hand will not be
read" — more than a few
aspirants mailed in their
scenarios in long hand.
Of course these manu-
scripts were returned at
once.
It is interesting to note
that where an author
wrote a scenario for a
specified star, as Mr.
Ince suggested should be
done, the star most fre-
quently selected was
William S. Hart and the
plot was a Western
melodrama. Next in
popularity with the au-
thors came Charles Ray,
Charles Ray and Frank
K e e n a n teamed, and
Bessie Barriscale.
The record of suc-
cesses on the moving
picture screen shows that
approximately ninety per
cent, of the picture dramas has been the work
of men and somewhat less than ten per cent,
the work of women writers. Yet seventj-five
per cent, of the more than 26,000 manuscripts
entered in this Contest bore the names of
women authors. What is the answer? Is
there here an indication that women, take
them far and near and without restriction of
class or environment, are less capable of pro-
ducing usable screen stories than men similarly
unrestricted? The brilliance which women
have contributed to the printed literature of
the day rises up to contradict that theory.
And here's a tale of Mexico and a ^irl
doctor without a bandit or a battle
The Evil Eye
By Mrs. Ray Long
ATORRIl) sun was sinking into the
Paciiic as a packet boat steamed up
the dozing harljor of Ensenada, the
northernmost port of Lower California.
The siesta time had been prolonged this
thirty-fourth day that a blood red, murky
ball had ended a gasping night only to
blaze across the sky a dazzling point of
light, and sink again into the peaceful sea,
a dull, blood-dripping portent of evil.
Some few Mexicans sat in the shade of the
dock buildings. Only one figure showed
itself alive and alert.
"Meester Sheldon, he no sizzle, no liake,"
observed a fat Mexican lazily.
"Maybeso," acknowledged a
swarthy inlander from the
grape district up the river val-
ley to the north. "My Tonio,
seek. Fifty people seek. The
boat bring doctor."
As the little boat from San Diego made
its way in, Sheldon, manager of the grape
companies, walked anxiously up and down
the strip of dock. He was dust-stained
and limp from exhaustion. But the sapped
vitality in him was kept going by the
anxiety to get help to his stricken vine
tenders, dying daily from a dread epi-
demic. As the boat came alongside the
dock and her plank was put out, his squint-
ing eyes searched for the man of medicine
he had sent for.
The first passenger to alight was a
blonde girl, beautiful in a trim costume of
starchy white from hat to shoes. Behind
her was a comely young man.
Sheldon stared. He had not seen such
an apparition in years. Even the squat-
ting Mexicans showed wonder. But little
time was left for speculation. Tlie girl
walked straight to Sheldon, held out a
firm hand, sent a firm smile into his pale,
careworn face, and said briskly. "I am
Doctor Torrance, Doctor Katherine Tor-
rance. My father could not come, as he
had been called to Pasadena the day before
your message came. His assistant is ill
She took from her
satchel a black band
with a lamp and re-
flector attached.
and your call was imperative. I could find
no one else in the city who wanted to come
down here. The weather reports did not
please them and it's bad enough in San
Diego. So I came."
Sheldon shook the proffered hand with
trepidation. He could hear the grumbling
from the lolling figures behind him in the
shade. Mexican Joe's voice sounded nasty
as he moaned about his Tonio whom he
must lose. But Dr. Katherine Torrance
did not seem to notice. She looked
brightly into Sheldon's eyes. Her whole
white, uncrumpled person seemed charged
with a revivifying freshness. She turned
to the young man with her and said. "Mr.
Sheldon, this is my brother Clifford, who
was sent to look out for me." Sheldon
grasped the hand held out, felt none of the
firmness and grip of the sister, and uncon-
sciously put a reassuring palm under the
girl's elbow and started to lead her to the
horse he had brought for her.
"Bring my things, Clifford," she called
back, and soon the little cavalcade was
moving slowly over the parched plain to
the river and hills that they hoped to make
that night. Dr. Katherine rode between
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Sheldon and her brother. Mexican Joe
and other natives with packhorses followed.
And whenever Sheldon looked back he
caught Joe swiftly changing a black scowl
to a fawning grin.
A FTER a night in a rough camp and a
■** four-hour ride through the hottest
dawn she had ever known, Dr. Katherine
reached the village of the grape growers,
tucked in a valley pocket of the hills roll-
ing up to the mountain backbone of the
country. Even here one could see the heat
waves quivering over the bushes. But
after a change into a fresh white dress the
young physician started out to \-isit the
fever-filled huts.
In the first she pushed through a group
of mourning Mexicans to the bed, where a
two-year-old child lay. Its black eyes were
almost closed ; it breathed hard and its
dry lips hung wide open. Dr. Katherine
swiftly pushed off her hat, took from her
satchel a black band with a lamp and re-
flector attached, snapped the band around
her bright hair, and pressed the button
that lighted an electric bulb against the
reflector. In an instant she was crouched
at the bedside and gazing into the swollen
throat of the child, illumined by her lamp
and reflector.
After a sharp scrutiny she removed the
band from her hair, took some medicine
from her satchel and turned to the group
gathered behind her. For an instant even
her high courage was chilled. The dark-
faced group had closed in on her omi-
nously. But she gave directions about the
taking of the medicine and the care of the
child, and hurried out, relieved, into the
deathly heat.
She came upon Sheldon talking earnestly
with his assistant, Frank King. King also
had a pale, worried look. He bowed ex-
travagantly as Dr. Katherine approached.
He was not unlike her brother, Clifford, so
Dr. Katherine looked at him a fraction of
a second longer than she would have ordi-
narily as she acknowledged an introduc-
tion. King flushed with pleased vanity.
"Both of you gentlemen look as if you
should be vaccinated." said Dr. Katherine
gravely. "This trouble, which shows first
in the throat, is a bad one to handle. As
soon as I have made the rounds of
the sick I will come to you if you
will tell me where I can find you."
"That will be late in the day and you
must rest," said Sheldon authoritatively.
"However, I live in the cabin at the head
of this street and King lives with me."
"I will be there to vaccinate you at about
five this afternoon," announced the girl
quite as brightly and calmly as if she had
not heard Sheldon.
"Keep in the shade as much as possible,"
rejoined Sheldon. King smiled at the
grave profile of his companion with uncon-
cealed amusement.
At five exactly Dr. Katherine entered
the leafy porch of Sheldon's house. She
found only King there, and a very differ-
ent King from the one she had met in the
morning. He was cleanly shaved and
washed till his skin shone pink. He wore
the outdoor dress of the overseer, flannel
shirt, trousers jauntily tucked into riding
boots, and a soft hat. But all were clean
and shapely. He looked as debonair as a
moving picture overman upon a moving
picture rancho. Dr. Katherine smiled in-
voluntarily while King smiled most volun-
tarily and saluted.
"I knew you'd be wearing yourself out
in one day for these beggars so I've had a
cold bird and a bottle brought out here to
help me head you off for a little rest and
chat," he .said, his smile taking on a flirta-
tious tinge. And he showily took the girl's
arm and led her to a seat beside the little
table bearing cold sliced tongue and fowl,
bread, and cool looking drinks.
"Business before pleasure," said Dr.
Katherine. looking around and seeing
nothing of Sheldon and that the table was
set for only two. She opened her medicine
and ordered prettily, "Vour arm, sir: an
ounce of vaccine is worth a barrel of medi-
cine, and I might as well start on you."
King immediately held out a goodly
arm with the air of a knight pleasing his
lady. Dr. Katherine pushed up the flannel
sleeve and swabbed a piece of the tanned
flesh with .some alcohol-soaked cotton.
During the performance King looked down,
smiling amorously at the shining head.
Finally the girl glanced up quickly from
curiosity just as Rosa, the cameo-faced
daughter of Mexican Joe, came up onto
the porch. She stopped, gazing fixedly.
Dr. Katherine's keen ears heard the silence
of the figure behind. Her peripheral
glance, like the rest of her sex's so much
wider than man's, took in the startled,
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127
questioning and unhappy look on the and alarmed the absent Rosa. "Tongue,"
Mexican girl's face. She dropped her eyes was all she said as she turned from her
and went on in a business-like manner work to the table. But Sheldon glowed,
with her vaccinating. The arrival of her She had said it as if it were the one thing
lirother and Sheldon gave her a chance to on earth she wanted.
watch King covertly for some minutes till After the light meal Sheldon and King
Rosa had hesitatingly delivered the mes- e.scorted the brother and sister to a shack
sage from her father to Sheldon and gone. near their own. King had tried to keep
When the coxcomb succeeded again in up a sort of gaiety. It left him with so
making Dr. Katherine give him a glance many unanswered and unnoticed sallies on
his egotism translated tlie quiet of her blue his hands that he finally quit and
eyes as dismay at the intrusion of the sulked. Cliiford had been too dazed to
others. His hide was si) impervious that talk, and Sheldon and the girl too heart-
he would not liave believed if ;inyone liad sick.
told him what really lay behind those deep
blue pools of light. A WEEK passed in
"What of the condi- THE EVIL EYE ^^ much the same way
tion?" asked Sheldon as r-r-iuL- . . i i ^i ■ ^'^ that first dav- From
. , , . ,^ , I Hh, ijhoto[)lay version ot this , -.,, . ,
he fanned hunself and at 1 gtory by Hector Turnbull was ^,^^b' morning tUl night-
the same time repri- produced by Jesse L. Lasky with fall Dr. Katherine went
manded a servant for .set- the following cast : the rounds of the un-
ting a table only for him- y;^ Katherine Torrance pleasant shacks. Some of
self and King when he Blanche Sweet her patients grew better,
had been told there would Leonard Sheldon. . .Tom Forman but for every one on the
be four. King darted /•>.<'''A' A n,y . .Webster Campbell way to recovery five were
, , > 1 Clifford, katherine s brother... ^ , j- i •,, ,
the servant a look that . ..J Parks Jones taken afresh with the
meant silence. .Mexican Joe Walter Long dread malady. The girl
"It is very grave," said J^"^" l^"th King was brave but bitterly
Dr. Katherine. "Some unhappy in the face of
of the cases I think 1 can save if the this condition. She knew she could change
people will do as I say. Many are doubt- it if she only had the power. But some-
■ful and about twenty have gone so far that thing had risen up between her and the
there is no hope. Only instant vaccina- natives, thin as the atmosphere through
tion can prevent a terrible increase. I'll which a threatening look may penetrate
do that for you and Clifford now, if you but strong as a fortress wall. They would
please." not submit to vaccination. Dr. Katherine
While she .spoke King was thinking, was so busy tending the sick that she had
"Holy Smoke, what a godsend. The little not the time to fathom why. And she
corker will be here several weeks. And hated to ask for more help from Sheldon
much can happen in several weeks." than he was giving, for he was becoming
Sheldon was thinking, "(lod give me paler and more careworn every day. It
.some way to send tliis lovely girl out of was Clifl^ord who gave her the first appall-
this hell. Weariness is on her face already. ing hint of the reason.
Why was I such a cra\en as to l)ring her "Kit, you're wearing yourself to the
up here!" And Clifford, the l)rot]ier. half bone for nothing," he told her one night
deadened with native wine, wa-^ thinking, when he came in later than usual. "Your
"That fresh guy. King, has fallen for Kit ; looks are falling off and you'll never get
wish it had been this Sheldon fellow. I anywhere. These nuts have their thumbs
wouldn't have his job among these black- down on you."
faced devils for half San Diego. But he's The girl paid little heed for she didn't
some gink anyway." see how people for whom .she was almost
Meanwhile Dr. Katherine was deftly giving her life could dislike her. But to
putting vaccine into the arms of Sheldon humor her brother, who liked to think he
and her brother. But she was also think- was taking care of her, she asked : "Who
ing. And what was going on behind her told you the people are against me?"
white brow would have interested her "Rosa told me. She's Mexican Joe's
brother, amazed Sheldon, startled King, daughter, and a looker."
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The girl was really startled. Here was a
new problem for her overtried strength.
"How do you happen to know Rosa?" she
asked as gently as she could.
"Oh, everybody knows her," answered
the youth carelessly. "A fellow's got to
have some amusement in this vale of woe."
Katherine was. remembering Rosa's
malevolent look when she had been hold-
ing F'rank King's arm to vaccinate it.
That made her think hard. "Couldn't you
see less of the girl for my sake?" she
asked.
"She's the only thing good enough to
look at in this beastly hole except you, Kit,
and you know how little chance I have to
do that. Don't you worry. And remem-
ber, it's a good steer I've given you. Her
father's an ugly brute and 1 think the best
thing I can do is take you home."
"Does Frank King see much of Rosa,"
asked Dr. Katherine irrelevantly.
"No. Guess he's had enough of her.
He says she was dippy over him till he had
to stop it. Since then she's tried to get
Sheldon. And I must say neither of them
has been riled any at my going up there.
She's just a sort of college widow around
here. So don't gather unto yourself anv
worry about their, making, trouble for me.
There's no jealousy in the air."
Dr. Katherine went to her brother
and hugged him. Then she went
into the little room. She slept
soon, for she did not
take Rosa's warning
seriously. And as
for any danger to her
brother from the girl,
she summed up her
opinion in one sen-
tence. "Bless him for
the sweet boy he is."
The next morning
Dr. Katherine
started around to tlie
homes of the sick
with more courage
than she had felt for
days. She would
make them like her.
She started for the
home of Mexican Joe
first to treat his .son,
Tonio, who had been
improving. As she
approached the house
smilingly, something whizzed past her
head from a window of the house. She
looked at the object that fell near her feet
and found it was the bottle of medicine
she had left. For a minute she stood
irresolute, then picked up the unbroken
bottle and went to the door. She was met
by Joe himself, scowling blackly.
"No come in," said the Mexican. "Go
away. No want you."
As Dr. Katherine hesitated Joe's power-
ful wife joined him and Rosa could be
seen smiling her inscrutable smile behind
them. Rosa's smile told the girl more
than the angry faces of the parents. She
turned and went to the next house.
Here too she was refused admittance.
.\nd as she walked away another object
whirled perilously near her head. It too
was the bottle of medicine she had left for
the man sick there.
The girl was both puzzled and dis-
tressed. There was nothing to do but call
on Sheldon for help. Since it must be
done, she went resolutely about it.
"I" don't understand it." she told him.
The dark- faced group had closed in on her
ominouslv.
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129
" iliey luive not only refused vaccination
but now refuse to see me and are throwing
my bottles of medicine out."
Sheldon dropped at once the work he
was doing. "I'll go with you and sec what
it is."
At the next place of visitation a little
crowd of dark faces was peering from a
window. When Sheldon knocked the
door was opened and the sullen faces
looked out. "1 want to see Maria," said
Sheldon firmly. 'I'he faces consulted
silently, then way was made for Sheldon.
.\s he led Dr. Katherine with liini lie did
not fail to note the looks
of hostility thrown at ,.
you are accustomed to do on a visit," he
said softly to the girl and she at once
strapped the band holding her reflector
light about her head and pressed the elec-
tric button. Then she tried to look into
the throat of the sick woman. But the
woman jerked away and tliere was a fierce
grumbling among the onlookers.
"What ails you?" demanded Slieldon in
S|)anish.
"The evil eye," cried tlie members of the
group together. "This she-devil has the
evil eye. Look, see," and they pointed to
the little retlettor lamp on Dr. Katherine's
forelu'ad. "Who told \i)U it was the
■row led
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In an instant Mexican Joe
and his wife were upon
her.
1^
Sheldon as soon as the door shut behind them.
The girl's line brow lifted into wrinkles, .p
"Rosa," she murmured. "I see it all now." Her -I
face flushed as she raised it to his. "She saw
„^ me vaccinating your assistant's arm. He
/ ■ was smiling at me. I saw her glance
t '■, and it was full of hatred. She must
care for him and must have thought
I was coming between them."
Sheldon looked down into the(]
\ clear, troubled eyes raised so '
straightforwardly and groaned.
They told him what he wanted to
know, that this lovely girl
was not interested in King
and that she innocently had
involved herself in a danger
from which even he might
not be able to rescue her.
She noted his gravity
asked, "Why should
thing Rosa says carry
weight ?"
"Because she's so
hapjjy," answered Sheldon
flingly, "and because these people
down here are so superstitious that I'm
afraid even I, whom they trust, can't
straighten this thing out. Go at once
to your cabin and pack. No, there is
no other way."
and
any-
such
un-
baf-
S^
"Rosa, Rosa," they answered with one
voice.
"And what made you believe Rosa?"
"Too many come sick. Too many do
not get well."
"But you refused to be vaccinated. That
would have kept down this plague. No-
one gets sick who is vaccinated." And
Sheldon rolled up his sleeve to show them
the scar of his own vaccination. But the
murmurings and black looks did not abate.
Dr. Katherine had not understood the
talk but she understood the looks. Shel-
don interpreted.
"Ask them if there is any other reason
why they believed Rosa," she requested
quickly. Sheldon did and a volley of
Spanish was hurled at him. He turned
from it with gleaming eyes. "Come,
quickly," he said, leading the girl out.
"You are in real danger. Do not show
you know that. I will tell you all as soon
as we are outside.
"What made Rosa hate you," asked
DR. KATHERINE did not argue. She
was determined herself so she knew
determination in others. She entered her
cabin and found her brother there, sitting
dejectedly at the table. "You," he almost
screamed, as he jumped to his feet.
"Heavens, but I'm relieved! We've got to
leave this hole and be (juick about it."
"Why?" blazed the girl, angry now.
"Because these hellions of Mexicans be-
lieve you have the evil eye and will destroy
them. And that beauty, Rosa, is at the
bottom of it. She has told that you are
not only no good about healing this plague
but that you — you have cast a spell, and,
hang it I don't know how to tell it — she
says you've taken the love of that bally-
eyed King away from her, and that he's
the father of the baby that's coming."
At last the girl saw the whole thing.
King was responsible for Rosa's condition.
The girl loved him, but couldn't get him
to marry her. Then she, white and good
looking, had come and King had tried to
flirt with her, which Rosa saw. And her
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131
■work, her real ambition to help these
people, must fail ! Even her life was in
danger. She rose to pack. CliiTord went
out to help Sheldon with the horses.
CUDDENLY the girl felt shadows in
^ the next room. She went out to in-
vestigate. In an instant Mexican Joe and
his wife were upon lier. She darted to a
window and called, "Leonard! O
Leonard !" then turned to the maddened
Mexicans who had come to avenge their
daughter. She did not realize that she had
called "Leonard" instead of "Cliiford."
Leonard was Sheldon's given name. But
Sheldon did, and came like a catapult.
He hurled himself against Mexican Joe,
reached straight for the place he knew Joe
carried his knife, got it, and threw it out
of a window. Then he started in to wield
that terrible American weapon that no
r/iolo can withstand, a hard, educated fist.
He kept his eye at the same time partly on
Dr. Katherine and the Mexican woman.
"What a woman," he told himself as he
saw the strong white arms and courageous
face he loved, half scare, half push the
bigger figure against a door and hold it
there till he could leave Joe bleeding on
the floor and relieve her.
After Joe and his wife had been put out
of the cabin, Sheldon stood guard till Clif-
ford came. He had not long to wait. The
boy entered with a rush and almost a
whoop. "Kit ! Kit !" he called, giving
small heed to Sheldon, "I've fixed up that
Rosa thing. I got that skunk. King, where
he lived. He's soft as an onion. And
when I'd thumped the truth out of him
that he was responsible for Rosa's trouble.
I led him to her. He'll marry her and
she'll do the best she can about this evil-
eye business. She's gone to tell the priest
and ask to be forgiven. God, but I want
a drink."
"Boy," said Sheldon, gripping Clifford's
hand, "I didn't know it was in you."
"Cliif dear, there's fresh water on the
kitchen table, and make it that," called
Dr. Katherine from her room. "I'll be
out in a minute to hug you for about the
best man in the world."
"About the best," laughed Clifl'ord. "I
see where somebody else gets hugged too,
if he has the nerve to ask for it. Say, Shel-
don, you look a bit seedy. I advise you to
try it. It's the best medicine Kit has."
A N hour later the good priest Father
•*■• Silvestro had called many of the
Mexicans together to tell them that the
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beautiful Rosa was to many Sciior Frank
King. From tliat he gently led all of them
to Dr. Katlierine and explained how her
lamp was only the work of man so that she
could see better to heal a throat. He spoke
of her as a good angel, who was too tired
to doctor them longer but would stay to
care for Manager Sheldon, who was a little
sick but not with the plague, and wouldn't
have any physician except Dr. Katherine,
while her father was coming to minister
to them. The priest smiled broadly as he
told this and the Mexicans went home jah-
An hour later the good priest Father Silvestro had
called many of the Mexicans together.
bering amiably and grinning broadly.
"Meester Sheldon, maybe he be sick
right up to his wedding," observed one of
Sheldon's servants to Clifford.
"Maybe, old top," answered Clifford
with a wink. "You've got a good eye and
don't k't it ever think it .sees an evil eye
again, unless it's one of Joe's. There's
onlv one in this valley and he's got a
monopoh' on tliat."
Parcel Post Opened to Shipment of Films
'T'HE United States has oiiened the mails
to the distril>uters of film reels.
'Up to January 1, 1917, all out-of-town
deliveries of film were made through the
express companies, but now film may be
sent by parcel post.
'Ilie chief reasons Avhy, on the face of
the matter, this new facility .^^hould mean
much good to the moving picture business
are these : ( 1 ) Decreased cost of ship-
ment, (2). ability to reach remote markets
hitherto, inaccessible because not served by
express companies, (3) advantage of ten-
cent special delivery service, (4) corres-
ponding advantages in returning of film to
the excliange.
As against all tliis it is stated by some
of the big distributers that the Post Office
Department ruling admitting film to the
mails is so hedged about with special re-
strictions that its ultimate advantage is
speculative ; that it is too soon to say
whether the ruling will be a genuine bene-
fit to the business.
Milady Gerda of the
Danes
WILL some one kindly stop the lady? She
seems intent upon walking out of the
page, and we would have her linger
longer while we gaze enraptured on her stately
charm. Permit us to present you. Miss
Gerda Holmes, your admirers the "movie"
Public. It makes you want to live awhile
longer on the chance of meeting her again,
doesn't it? But softly and 'ware — she is
already engaged as the wife of Rapley
Holmes of the speaking stage. There,
brace up, old top, don't take it so to heart.
The lower picture is a scene from "The
Chain Invisible," a tragic melodrama in
which Miss Holmes played leads with
Bruce McRae; and she did noteworthy
work with Robert Warwick in "Friday
the 13th." Thanhouser, Essanay, Equit-
able and ^^^orld have benefited by Miss
Holmes' acting before the camera. She
is a native Dane, robustly handsome and
came to this country to study music.
Before her advent to the shadow stage
Miss Holmes made her mark on the foot-
lighted stage under the management of
Klaw and Erlanger in "The Round-Lip,"
in which she played the feminine lead.
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Figuratively — Isn't It?
TWO darkey sweethearts were interested
in the pictnre intensely, and when the vil-
lain came on the screen wearing a monocle
the girl exclaimed :
"Say, honey, what's 'at funny thing he done
got stuck in he eye, huh?"
"Dat, Sally," came the lofty reply without
hesitation, "dat am a monnergram."
A^. N. Belt.';, Towaiida. I'a.
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Nossir! It Can't Be Did!
A MAN who had
played host to a
little too much liquor
for the sobriety of his
feet came weaving past
a "movie" theater, and
stopped, attracted by a
flaming poster.
" 'Home, Sweet Home,
in One Reel,' " he slowlx
deciphered aloud. "Nos-
sir (hie), nossir! it can't
(hie) be did."
Miss .Uma Palmer.
Loiijjnwnt, Col.
#
Don't Try to Spoof Him.
Hiram
TWO men talked in
low tones while the
advertisements were be-
ing shown on the screen :
"They say that in this
new picture 'Intoler-
ance' there's a million-
dollar spectacle. Think
of that."
"Oh, bosh, Hiram Jones, don't Ut them come
any of that on you. I've got as fine a pair of
spectacles at home as anybody, and they only
cost rne twenty dollars. That million dollar
talk's just advertising."
And Yet They Would Vote in Jersey
"I WONDER," he remarked sarcastically,
1 as he arose with his wife to leave the
theatre, "what kind of a pistol that was. Did
136
\on Udtice lunv many shots he fired without
reloading.'"
His' wife: "Why yes, dear, I counted. It
must have been one of those thirty-twos j-ou
read about."
-l/r.v. Mary Stihvcll. Nezvark N. J.
A
Mo-rti- .Icior 'r
"And just think not
where we were taki
■;i'as a family of laugh
She — "My. weren't
findiiKi pleasant nei</hl
Say, Fatty. Listen to This
F"TER watching Fatty Arbuckle for quite
a little while small Bobby asked :
"Mother, don't you
suppose he was made
before the high price of
meat began?"
//. Kerndl,
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$
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AS everyone knows,
the "drys" carried
Michigan in the recent
election.
-At a screening of
"The Devil's Double" a
few days ago a scene
was shown wherein the
doctor advised the artist
I in regard to his failing
health, and the caption
read : "You must go im-
mediately to a drier
climate."
"Make it Michigan,"
came in a penetrating
falsetto from the rear
of the house.
E. Marks, Toledo. 0.
•lating experienees)
t-i<.'e)ity yards from
III/ this scene there
in;/ hyenas."
you fortiiiiale in
Grace
Delayed en Route
T;iE star 'was introduced by a subtitle which
mentioned that she had "just reached the
glorious age of twenty." She skipped friskily
onto the screen, but unfortunately paused a
bit too close to the camera.
"Just reached twenty," muttered a woinan ;
"Gee, I wonder what detained her."
Geo. H. Plympton, Brooklyn, N. Y.
ESTJ
ns.&^Answers
"you do not have to be a subscriber to Photoplay Magazine
■*■ to get questions answered in this Department. It is onI\
required that you avoid questions which would call lor unduU
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one play. There are hundreds of others **in line " with vou
at the Questions and Answers window, so be considerate
This will make it both practical and pleasant to serve you
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scenario writing or studio employment. Studio addressee*
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Write on only one side of the paper. Sign your full name
and address; only initials will be published if requested. H
you desire a personal reply, enclose self-addreased stamped
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Magazine, Chicago.
Dixie, Louisville, Ky.^ — No, Dixie, we won't
publish your little tribute to Harold Lockwood.
Not that we love him less but because we love
was Blanche White. She is the wife of Leo
White, for so long the French count in the
Charlie Chaplin comedies.
vou more.
J. H., St. Louis. — The ability to shed real tears
is no valuable asset in itself. For photographic
purposes drops of glycerine make excellent tears.
In fact, they would deceive even Niobe.
Phyllis, Bkonxville. N. Y.
— Thanks for your criticism,
Phyllis, but why be so per-
nickety about it? If Theda
Bara says she wasn't born in
Cincinnati, far be it from us
to contradict the lady. On
the contrary, we hasten to
agree with her. But what
difference does it make, any-
how?
E. P., Neosho, Mo. — Beverly Bayne and Toni
Chatterton are not, William Desmond \s married.
Tom is with American and Bill with Ince. Helen
Holmes claims to be fully 22 and her birthplace
is Chicago. We think, also, that Conway Tearle
is sof]fc actor.
C. B., Washington, D. C. —
Laurette Taylor has never
posed for the movies. Hazel
Dawn is a little over five feci
high and is now singing in
"The Century Girl." Film
actresses do not use rougf
on their cheeks while acting.
Red photographs black. So
far as we know, John Bowers is not married
TT is the aim of this depart-
■*■ ment to answer the same
question but once in an issue.
If your initials do not appear
look for the answer to your
questions under the name of
another.
For studio addresses con-
sult the studio directory in
the advertising section.
A strict compliance with
the rules printed at the top of
this page will be insisted
upon.
Critical, New York City.
— How much did Griffith get
from the booze industry for
his anti-prohibition propagan-
da in "Intolerance"? Well,
don't you think that's a
rather personal question ?
Sorry to admit that we can't
provide an answer.
V. B., Melbourne, Australia. — Your letter
was charming, though we can't quite agree with
your choice in actors. As to your question con-
cerning the championship claims of competitors
in American sports, probably the degree of our
modesty is one of our Anglo-Saxon heritages.
Sister Ann, Omaha, Neb.
— Syd Chaplin is not playing
now but is assisting Brother
Charles to earn his $670,000
a year, in a directorial capac-
ity. We are given to under-
stand that the $75,000 cash
gift he recei\ed from Charles
was given on condition that
he refrain from appearing on
the screen during the life of Charles' contract.
One Chaplin in eruption was enough, he thought.
Some financier is Charles.
R. L. W., Los Angeles. — Wallace MacDonald
played opposite Mary Miles Minter in "Youth's
Endearing Charm." Myrtle Stedman is married
to Marshall Stedman. They have no children.
The cast of "The Vixen" : Elsie Drummond.
Theda Bara ; Martin Stevens, A. H. 'Van Buren :
Knou'les Murray, Herbert Heyes ; Helen Drum-
mond, Mary Martin; Admiral Drummond, George
Clark; Charlie Drummond, Carl Gerard.
Polly Peppers, Boonville, Mo. — Welcome
back, Polly, but if you want to retain our friend-
ship never ask again how we _ like this cold
weather. Peggy O'Neil is playing in "The Flame"-
on the stage. "Peg o' My Heart" has never been
filmed. None of those you mention is married.
Yes, Santa filled our sock, but it all leaked out.
Georgette, Freeport, III. — The girl whom
Charlie Ray was to marry in "Honor Thy Father"
William H., Denver, Colo. — Well, you've got
some job cut out for yourself, Willuni, if you
intend to ride horseback to California and write
scenarios en route. The scenes for "Liberty"
were taken at LTniversal City and on the Mexican
border. Charlev Chaplin li\es at the Los Angeles
Athletic Club. ' Mary Miles Minter is at Santa
Barbara, Cal., Broncho Billy in New York in the
musical comedy business.
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Photoplay Magazine
Babbette, Bloomfiei.d, N. J. — Thanks for your
sympathetic missive. So dear of you ; in fact,
just perfectly sweet. But this job is lots better
than digging ditches in zero weather, although
it's harder on the eyes. It was Myrtle Gonzales
in "The Romance of Billy Goat Hill " and she
may be addressed at Universal City. Fairbanks
twins are now on the stage in "The Century Girl."
would ask if it were true that F. X. B. is married.
Eugene Ormond played with Marie Doro in "The
Morals of Marcus." Conway Tearle has been
married. Earle Foxe is.
R. S. H., Lake Charles, La. — First time we
ever heard Louise Hutf referred to as "The Girl
from the Goober State" or "Dixie's Most Beauti-
ful Woman." You should get in touch with her
press agent. Meanwhile, we'll slip your request
to the editor.
S. W., Springfield, Mo. — Pickford pictures
are not released by Paramount, but by Artcraft.
Fannie Ward's latest picture is "Betty to the
Rescue." Think you know the answers to your
other questions if you are a conscientious reader
of Photoplay.
B. A. G., Jack.sox,
Mich. — Frank Bennett
is married to Billii
West. Elmer Clifton is
still with Triangle and
appearing regularly on
the screen. Never heard
that he was "divine,"
though. He's about 26.
Peg, Spokane, Wash.
— Welcome back. Peg !
Pomeroy Cannon was
Chuckwalla Bill in "The
Parson of Panamint"
and, if we mistake not,
Herbert Standing was
Bishop Wallace. Any-
how, it wasn't Barney
.Sherry, who is with an-
other company. A chuck
walla is a second cou.sin
to a Gila monster. "In-
tolerance" is showing in
a half dozen cities. It is
not a program release.
Nance O'Neil is now
with Mutual. Before that
she played in one of the
"Seven Deadly Sins" for
McClure's. The "a" in
Chaplin is short. Theda
Bara was in "The Kreut-
zer Sonata." Willard
Mack was last seen in
"Nanette of the Wilds"
with Pauline Frederick.
How does "blessed little
Marguerite Clark remain
single"? Blessed if we
know. Maybe she's wis.
to us guys. Thanks for
the good wishes.
THE ANSWER MAN
PASSES
Last night I died and gladly left
This vale of tears terrestrial,
.\nd went on high to vistas dry.
Delightful and celestial.
(Or so I thought) until at last
I crossed the Styx with Charon,
.And then I found, with grief profound.
That all my dreams were barren.
A thousand shades came rushing up —
Maids, youths, and even sages.
And then — My land ! — they made de-
mand
Of all the actors' ages!
"How old is Mary Pickford, sir?
How old is O. Petrova ?
\nd is it true, in '92,
The great and good Jehovah
Set Beverly upon this earth.
Likewise the Normand Mabel?
Is Fanny Ward just sweet sixteen.
Or is that merely fable?
Is Clara Kimball twenty-one ?
(For one so Young that's plenty.)
Is Mary Miles six, nine or ten.
Or all of these— plus twenty ?"
They shot a million questions more
And left me this to ponder :
That Heaven was just like the jolj —
The job I'd left down yonder.
To Charon then I made this plea :
"Remove me from these ladies.
If this is Heaven, Char, old boy.
I'm going South — to Hades I"
(Wio. H., Manitoba, Can. — Lonesome Luke, we
think, is Hal Roach in private life and he can
be reached, care Rolin Films, Los Angeles, Cal.
Ford Sterling is still
with Keystone and Bob
Leonard is a Lasky di-
rector now.
Flo., '16, Williams-
town, Mass. — June Ca-
price was born in 1899.
Edward Earle hasn't in-
formed us whether or
not he is married. Celia
Santon is Earle Foxe's
wife. Yes, Richard Trav-
ers played in "The Man
Trail." "Her Surrender"
is Anna Nillson's latest
picture.
G. E., Toronto, Ont.
— T hose Canadian
stamps are very pretty
and will do for our
small nephew's stamp
collection, but they won't
get by in the L'nited
States mails, you know.
Or perhaps you didn't
know? Your question is
answered elsewhere.
L. J., Superior, Wis.
— Beverly Bayne is the
one who asks Mr. Bush-
man wherefore he is
Romeo. Crane Wilbur
is with Horsley and
Mary Miles Minter wilh
American.
J. S., "Vancouver, B. C.
— The wife of Sam DeGrasse is Mrs. S. De-
Grasse, if he has a wife, and, so far as we know,
Harry Carey has none. Sorry we can't be more
definite.
G. D. S., Cincinnati,
Ohio. — Pauline Freder-
ick, which is her real
name, has blue eyes and
brown hair. She has one
sister, we think, but not
on the screen. Yes,. Miss
Frederick has been married.
Kellard Lover, Buffalo, N. Y. — Silly girl, to
talk about men being "perfect darlings." and you
only 14 ! Wait til! you get a little older and
you'll call 'em something else. Ralph Kellard
is a year more than twice as old as you and can
be addressed at Pathe's, Jersey City, N. J.
Skattli: TiLiKUM, Seattle, Wash. — Mabel
Normand has just made a picture 'called
"Mickey" with her own company. Pronounce
iheni Pur-?'i'-ance and Pa-^/u;y. The charming
Billy is not the mother of Gloria Ziegfeld, but
of Florence Patricia Burke-Ziegfeld.
S. H., New Bedford, Mass. — Irving Cum-
mings played with Miss Frederick in "The
AVorld's Great Snare." Doug Fairbanks' latest
picture is "The Americano" and Jewel Carmen
is now with Fox. \'ernon Steele is back in the
speakies.
Polly Peppers, Booneville, Mo. — It was little
Harold Hollacher who sat in the flypaper in
"The Reward of Patience." No, Lottie Pick-
ford's baby didn't appear in this picture.
E. F., Niagara-on-the-Lake, N. Y'. — Your
writing doesn't look like that of a person who
Mrs. A. T. V., Detroit, Mich. — Your LTncle
Sam will give you the best security against hav-
ing your ideas "lifted." We know of no substi-
tute for the Register of Copyrights in Washing-
ton. You may feel confident, however, that any
reliable film company will be fair with you.
(Continued on page 152 )
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Pe^^y Roche: Saleslady
(Continued from page 38)
"Because they're sold, and — well, you
wouldn't understand, but it's a business
deal. I want those hprses, and I'm going
to drive them across the Siani desert and
sell them to the British Government at
Cairo."
Captain Braintree stared at her. "By
Jove, we'd give a good deal for those
horses," he said.
"But the Sheikh won't sell unless we can
get his men out of the way, and they're
guarding the horses now."
"And tie them at night to picket lines,"
said the Captain. "You've no more chance
than I have, Miss Roche."
"Suppose you could get away?"
"No gasoline."
"But the machine?"
"Is all right. Three uprights twisted,
but they'll hold out to Alexandria."
"I have gasoline," said Peggy.
Captain Braintree started. "What did
you say?" he demanded. "You'll tell me
you have an enamelled porcelain tub next."
"Well, I haven't that," said Peggy.
"But I have gasoline. If I can help you
get away, will your Government buy those
horses?"
"I'll buy them myself. It's part of my
job."
"How much?"
"How would thirty dollars apiece suit
you? But you'll have to buy them from the
Sheikh."
"That's all right," answered Peggy.
"Excuse me a minute."
She called Ali into the tent and repeated
the substance of their conversation.
"Ten dollars for the Sheikh," she said,
"five for you, Ali, and a clean-up of fif-
teen dollars a head on — how many. Cap-
tain?"
"There must be a thousand of them,"
answered the Englishman.
"I have a thought," said Ali. "It sounds
impossible, but remember the Arabs are
very ignorant folk. Only the Sheikh has
been to Coney Island."
And he outlined the details of his plan,
while the others listened, the Englishman
unperturbed, but Peggy incredulous.
"If it works," said Captain Braintree, "I
can better it. I learned to loop the loop
at Farmingham." Beyond which he would
say nothing.
"Where's the machine?" asked Peggy.
"You'll find it lying under the crest of
the hill," answered Braintree. "There's an
Arab watching it, ready to shoot in case it
flies away. Take a good look at it and fill
up the tank."
As Peggy and the dragoman made their
way toward it the Arabs came riding in,
driving the herd before them. Splendid
steeds they were, of the wiry Arab breed,
led by a sagacious old mare whose every
evolution they followed, until she drew
them up in line against the picket ropes.
"If that mare will follow me," said
Peggy, "I'll get the whole herd across the
desert to Suez."
'"T'HE American lady has spoken with
the prisoner," announced Ali to the
Sheikh, who sat in judgment that evening
outside his tent, surrounded by his men.
"He would rather not show you the work-
ings of the machine, but he would rather
show it than die."
"He shall assuredly die tomorrow unless
he shows it," said Mouse-ben-Ishmael.
"This is the truth," said Ali. "In that
machine he can go to any corner of the
world within ten minutes."
"To Mecca?" gasped the Sheikh, who
had never yet made the pilgrimage.
"To Mecca," said Ali gravely. "That is
the reason why he was unwilling that such
a machine should fall into the hands of his
country's enemies."
The Sheikh stroked his beard thought-
fully. "For a whole moon I travelled, by
water and land, before I reached Coney
Island," he said.
"It is a secret device of the Feringhee.
Did you not, at Coney, make the journey
to the moon in five minutes?"
"Aye," said the Sheikh. "And yet, after-
ward I doubted whether I had really
reached the moon, and not some midway
place, such as the star Alghenib, which
hangs between heaven and earth."
"Such unbelief becomes the infidel, O
brother, and not the faithful," retorted Ali.
"Nevertheless, tomorrow at sunrise the
Feringhee will conduct you in five minutes
by your silver watch to Mecca and back ;
and if he fails he shall die."
"If I reach Mecca I shall not wish to
return within five minutes," answered the
Sheikh. "Yet be it as the Feringhee says."
(Continued on page 148)
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"Action!"
(Continued from page 42)
Out over the edge of the arroya we
scrambled. I jumped over with my
camera and tripod. I jammed the steel
claws into the sand and rocks just as the
rifles began to spit.
"Please God. let me get it," I cried.
"Please God—"
Then I turned the handle and began the
■greatest picture ever filmed.
"Give 'em hell, boys!" I shouted, and all
the oaths I had ever learned came back
to me.
One of the tripod bearers smiled at my
shouting and as he smiled he clutched his
hands to his abdomen and fell forward,
kicking.
I snatched up my camera — how feathery
light it was — and went forward with our
rifles.
I timed my cursing to the turn of the
handle and it was very smooth.
"Action!" I cried. "This is what I've
wanted. Give 'em hell, boys. Wipe out
the blinkety, blank, dashed greasers !"
All the oaths that men use w^ere at my
tongue's end.
I was in the midst of it. I learned the
whistle of a bullet. They tore up little
jets of sand all around me. All the time I
turned the crank.
One greaser made a rush for my camera.
As he swung his gun. some one shot over
my shoulder. The greaser threw his hands
high over his head and fell on his face.
"It's action!" I shouted.
"Next time let go that handle and duck,"
called Sergeant Noyes, as he passed me. "I
was lucky to get him. They think that
thing is a machine gun, I guess."
"To hell with them !" I cried. "Let 'em
come and die in front of my camera. It's
action !"
To my left I heard more cursing. Big
.Schwartz, the greatest football player of
his regiment, was holding his big right foot
up. McDonald, his bunkie, was slapping
on a first aid bandage where a Mexican soft
nose bullet had torn its way.
"That ends me," wailed Schwartz. "Now
that asterisk, blank Fourteenth will cop the
championship ! Who's going to punt for
us?"
McDonald began to weep.
"Get out of here, you little runt," yelled
Schwartz. "Go in there and get those
blankety spicks."
To the right the bandits tried to make a
stand. Noyes and a little squad threw
themselves forward. I went along, still
cursing joyously.
Right on the edge of the melee, I set up
the camera again. I turned the crank glee-
fully.
Then in the finder I saw Sergeant Noyes
fall to the ground with a big hole torn in
his forehead. Slowly from the bosom of
his shirt crawled the little horned toad and
blinked in the sun.
Our boys drove them back into a draw.
My camera was set up in the thick of it. It
was the finish of the reel. From the first
charge to the last stand I had recorded the
greatest motion picture ever taken.
"Action!" I cried, as our boys cut them
down.
Then somewhere out of that tangle of
guns a bullet cut its way.
"Zz-zing !"
I heard it whistle. The splinters cut my
face as it hit the camera. It ripped the
side open and smashed the little' wooden
magazine.
I sprang crazily to stop it with my hands.
But out of the box uncoiled the precious
film. Stretching and glistening in the sun,
it fell and died. I stood and watched it
dumbly.
Some time later, they found me sprawled
face downward under the tripod. They
thought I had been killed, until they heard
me sob. And then they knew it was only
that mv heart was broken.
i
If you like the atmosphere and the patois of the studios, read
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"The Big Fade-Out" by the same author, Harry
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St. Valentine and the Picture Master
(Continued jrom page §o)
"Ha! Ha!" echoed the captain of the
corps. "I couldn't have done better my-
self if I had read forty scripts in search
of it!"
"Vou couldn't have paid me a liner com-
pliment," appreciatively declared tlie Pic-
ture Master.
They laughed together in perfect har-
mony.
"Well," finally demanded the Picture
Master, "what did you find? — You've taken
long enough for it."
"Well, my Master," replied the captain
of the corps, with solemnity, "I read in the
dictionary that, according to an ancient be-
lief, the ftiating season of birds began on
St. Valentine's Day, which was so called in
honor of ^'alentine, who was beheaded on
that date."
"Fine !" burst from the lips of the Pic-
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we'll get some poor supe. I mean simp, to
double with the lead, and accidentally
make it real. Magnificent !"
"And," continued the captain of the
corps, "I found there were at least three
Saints Valentine, all named as martvrs un-
der the same date."
"Oh, H-h-h-hush !" The Picture Master
was always a gentleman and no matter
what he may have started to say, he didn't
say it. "How often have I told you not to
make such extensive research? We can't
go into the details of the lives of three
Saints Valentine. It would confuse the
public! AN'hy, it might even confuse me !|
Think of that ! You must always bear such]
possibilities in mind."
"Possibilities, my Master?" murmure^i
the captain of the corps, deprecatingly^p
"You mean impossibilities! Confuse you?'^]
The idea !"
"^^'ell. well." observed the Picture Mas-
ter, mollified, for he took his compliments
as he took his oysters — raw, "well, well.
It's annoying — not you, G. B., but his-
tor\-: — but it can't be helped now, I suppose.
Of course, I might change history, but it's
hardly worth while. We'll drop this — it's
almost March, now, anyway — and you get
busy on St. Patrick. And don't dig too
deep into his past. And when we get
tlirough with him, we'll do some American
saints, say, St. Louis and St. Paul. A suc-
cessful American owes something to his
country, anyway."
"And the country owes something to a
Picture Master," suavely commented the
captain of the corps, who knew a thing or
two or three.
"Very nice of you," observed the Picture
Master, who kne\v when one received his
due. "And now you may leave me."
The captain of the corps left him and
when the Picture Master was alone, he in-
spected himself in the full-length mirror in
his sanctum.
"St. Valentine was only a foreigner,
after all," he commented. "And there
were three of him at that. But there's only
one Picture Master."
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its shades of meaning, it has an enormous
advantage in the power of suggestion In-
light and shade.
Seeing this great new phase of dramatic
art coming, the Lasky and possibly some
other companies — compels all its directors
to study the paintings of Rembrandt. When
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copy the effect of Corot ; but Rembrandt
was found better suited to the purpose.
When I first heard these things I was
filled with wild alarm. Heavens ! Was
the movie to become high brow and feed
us psycho-analysis?
But sober second thought tells us that
this will never be. The drama can never
be high brow. The audience, as Victor
Hugo pointed out, consists of three ele-
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ment ; the female or emotional element and
the good old rough trade which licks up
narrative. You can do without either or
both of the first two, but the drama can-
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a good play which lacks appeal for the
third estate.
The late Hugo Munsterburg predicted
that the movie would show great advances
in psychology. He pointed out that the
movie play has the great advantage of being
able to visualize a man's thoughts. The
spoken drama must fall back upon the
clumsy soliloquy to show the mental work-
ings of the characters. The movie can
actually show the thoughts, intentions and
mental operations of the people in the play.
At first consideration, it would seem im-
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help of spoken words.
I pointed this out to De Mille. "How
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I asked. "Here you are in your studio. I
see you in puttees and smoking a pipe. If
you jump up and swing your hat I will
gather that you are glad. If you begin to
break up the furniture I wall believe that
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me the grades of your anger and the source
of your jov and their effect upon vour
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(Continued f
"It will be necessary to feed the ma-
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sumes," said Ali.
"Let it be done," said the Sheikh, waving
his hand.
At sunrise the expectant camp clustered
about Braintree and the Sheikh as they en-
tered the aeroplane with Ali. The Captain
adjusted the strap about his waist and
waited.
"Tell him to hold tight, lest he fall," he
observed to Ali.
"Should I fall," observed the Sheikh
grimly, as he loaded a grim looking re-
volver, "his soul shall precede my own to
its appointed destiny — which, I do not
doubt, is different."
Amid gasps of amazement from the Be- .
dawi and screams from the women, the
aeroplane rose into the air, circled once or
twice, and shot into the distance, flying
some thirty feet above the ground. The
eyes of the spectators followed it until it
disappeared behind the. hills.
Exactly six minutes later it reappeared,
this time at a higher altitude. When it
neared the ground it was perceived that
only Braintree and Ali occupied it. Mur-
murs arose, menacing shouts. The Arabs,
fearful for their leader, were restrained
only by the fact that the aviators had come
back. "
Ali leaped to' the ground. "Men of the
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of your Sheikh. He is in Mecca, and he
wishes that every man of his tribe shall
journey thither to make him a bodyguard,
that he may meet the respect due his rank.
Nay, one at a time," he added, as the
Arabs, doubting no longer, clustered about
the aeroplane and endeavored to ent^r it.
He took a passenger, and once more the
machine flew over the hills, Peggy waiting
with fear that gradually became enthusiasm
as she saw the increasing excitement on the
part of the Bedawi. Mad with. eagerness
at the thought of joining their chief in
Mecca, they yelled like maniacs, discharg-
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and thither to catch the first sign of the
returning aviators.
Forty times, until the morning had worn
away and the hot noon sun beat down on
the encampment, did Braintree and Ali
make their mysterious journey, until at last
•they stood alone with Peggy before the
rom page 140)
picket lines, at which the horses neighed
uneasily, missing the cool shade of their
mountain pastures.
Peggy looked around. A few women
watched them from the tent doors, but
dared not come within measurable distance
of the men during their lords' departure.
Peggy edged toward the mare, the leader
of the herd, while Ali and the Captain
selected the horses on either side of her.
"Now !" she cried, leaping^ upon the
mare's back and kicking her heels into her
flanks.
"The startled mare plunged forward,
broke her light tether, and took the way
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understood the plot at last. One or two
rifle bullets hummed through the air above
the riders. A few more moments and they
were in the open country behind the hills.
Peggy eased down her steed.
"You didn't hurt them?" she called to
Braintree, panting at her side.
"No," he gasped. "Just dumped them
out above the bitumen lake. They fell into
the soft pitch. We'd better not delay too
long. Miss Roche ; the Sheikh ought to have
made his way to shore by now. Lord, you
ought to have seen the faces of those fel-
lows as they saw the others floundering in
tlie sticky stuff."
"It is," choked Ali, pressing his sides,
"It is as good — it is as good as Coney
Island."
"And I trust you to pay that money to
the Sheikh, Ali," said Peggy, as she rode
on.
"But not by my hand," answered Ali
beside her.
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the Sinaitic desert.
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"We'd have ought to have cleared up a
clean twenty thousand on those blankets,
with prices what they are, and here's Yus-
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you one thing, and one only — the same
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to her work. That one thing is the secret
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technical details are being learned, and
sincerity comes mighty close to being
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operates in Miss Marsh's ambitions is shown
in the one positive desire she expresses con-
cerning her work.
"I don't want to play just 'sympathetic
ingenues,' " she said. "I love Miss Blank,
and Miss So-and-so, (mentioning two stars
who, for obvious reasons, cannot be named
here) but the sort of characters they almost
always have to play are very tiresome to
me. There is nothing to them — no special
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her first actual starring engagement. And
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the left front row of a burlesque show
chorus. But it was not nearly so pleasant
to look at her as to sit opposite Mae Marsh
and watch her blue Irish eyes light up as
her alert mind encounters a new idea, and
proceeds to make that idea her own.
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Peg^y Roch : Saleslady
(Continued from page 148)
souf Pasha cancels the contract and no sort
of explanation. Result! blankets left on
our hands and no chance of getting them
out of Palestine now that the blockade's
shut down."
"Try him with fly swatters, George,"
said Drummond. "Lord, I haven't stopped
laughing yet about that little girl!"
He broke off, staring as if petriiied, for
at that moment Peggy Roche came tripping
up the steps of the English Hotel.
"My line's blankets just now," she said,
"and I'm buying, not selling. Horse-blank-
ets. I'm paying three dollars for Al qual-
ity. Know where I can get any?"
The three Georges glared at her. "You'd
better use the ones you want to sell the
Pasha," Hagan growled.
"I mean to, and they're yours," said
Peggy. "Three dollars apiece. I can get
them through the blockade. I'll pay the
freight to Alexandria. Anything doing?"
"That'll just let us out even," growled
Hagan venomously. "Say, what's the game,
anyway?"
"Just this," said Peggy. "You had the
blankets — only I got hold of the horses."
NEXT MONTH
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Salesmanship
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Submarine''
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March 1.
Questions and Answers
(Continued from page 138)
L. H., Hot Springs, Ark. — Mary Miles Minter
played lately in "Faith," "Dulcie's Adventure,"
"The Innocence of Lizette." Dear Miss Lois,
we who are about to dye salute you ! We are
accustomed more or less to being addressed with
a Please, but when you lay between the layers of
your gift-talk a Pretty Please we are constrained
to fall upon our noble forehead and weep tears of
gratitude, not to say of appreciation. Where do
you get it, Miss Lois L. H. ? Ah, where?
Lo, Leth BRIDGE, Alta. — Blanche Sweet has
been with Lasky, at Hollywood, Cal., but we
understand she is there no longer.
A. M., Peoria, III. — When you asked us to
"open another one" we really thought — but it
was contests to which you were referring, was
it not? Ever try our Puzzle Contest?
Dumb Belle, Colonial Beach, Va. — Glad you
have overcome your natural diffidence and writ-
ten us; it -must have taken a lot of nerve.
Carlyle Blackwell does not direct himself. Yes,
they do say that he was educated in Ithaca, New
York. The best-dressed man on the screen?
Now, if you had asked us who the most-dressed
man was, or the least-dressed woman, we might
hazard a guess or two.
M. M. S., PiTTSTON, Pa. — William Shay, who
did not play in "The Eternal Sappho," but did
play in "A Daughter of the Gods," is 26 years
old.
M. J., Calgar\:, Alta. — The nearest photoplay
studio to which we can refer you is located in
Chicago. See Studio Directory in this issue.
P. M., RiDGEFiELD Park, N. J. — Anita Stewart,
Dorothy Gish and Marguerite Clark are all un-
married. Dorothy Philips is married.
K. K., Kan.sas City, Mo. — Lionel Barrymore
and Lois Meredith played in "The Seats of the
Mighty," George Le Guere and Valli Valli in
"The Turmoil," Robert Gaillard and Edith Storey
in "The Two-Edged Sword" and Mahlon Ham-
ilton and Ethel Barrymore in "The Final Judg-
ment."
J. I. L., Tacoma, Wash. — Lizette Thorn was
Mary Miles Minter's mother in "Faith." No,
Pauline Frederick is not married now. Helen
Holmes, who was born in 1893, is married to
J. P. McGowan. Ethel Grandin is 20.
"Bashful Eighteen," Kingston, Ontario,
Can. — Of course it is none of our masculine
business, but just the same we ponder why a
female who has attained to the ripe age of
eighteen should plead bash fulness. Why, we are
credibly informed that Eve was only sixteen
when she stole the apple, held conspiracies with
the Snake behind poor Adam's back and fixed it
up to crab the apple. And you're eighteen and
bashful ! My, my, how times do change. To
change the subject, if we were you we'd try to
calm ourself ; what's the good of being "madly in
love" with Hennery Walthall when already he has
a wife yet? or with Cave Man Tellegen when
Jerry has him clutched by the hair of his head?
E. T. S., Anniston, Ala. — Thanks for your
nice letter. Isn't there anything we can do for
you .'
Alice in Wonderland, Buffalo, N. Y. — The
"release" of a picture means the placing of that
picture on the market. It is "released" on the
day on which it is first shown to the general
public.
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Two Big Brown Eyes of Frisco. — If you're
so sure that Francis Bushman is married, that
Ford and Cunard are man and wife and that
Theda Bara is the wife of Stuart Holmes, we'll
not argue with you, even if we do happen to
know better. Probably you won't believe us
when we tell you that Tom Forman, Charles
Chaplin, Hobart Henley, J. Warren Kerrigan
are not married and that Charles Ray and Her-
bert Rawlinson are. Glad to know that Wally
Raid hasn't false teeth or a wig. Now if you'll
just keep on relaying us a little information from
time to time, we may be able to keep going.
Billy Gordon, Philadelphia, Pa. — Here are
their dimensions. Wallace Reid : height, 6 feet ;
weight, 185 pounds. Robert Warwick: height,
5 feet 11 inches; 170 pounds. Francis X. Bush-
man: height, 5 feet 11 inches; 175 pounds.
J. P. L., Thetford Mines, Quebec, Can. —
Blanche Sweet is unmarried. Sweet is her true
name. We do not presume in this department
to say whether one producer or another has made
the better dramatization of a picture. Inasmuch
as Frank Mayo is the husband of Joyce Moore the
person who writes this column doubts very seri-
ously the report that Frank is engaged to Rutb
Roland. Wouldn't you too ?
Wood Violet, Skelton, Conn. — Anita Stewart
is still with Vitagraph. Her picture was in the
Art Section last August. Cast of "The Last
Act" : Ethel Duprey, Bessie Barriscale ; Mrs.
Cora Hale, Clara Williams ; Smette, May Allen ;
Ernest Hale, Harry Keenan ; Lewis Bressler,
Robert McKim. Cast of "Sis": Sis, Arline
Pretty ; Bill, Thomas Mills ; Harold, Garry Mc-
Garry ; Uncle Si, Jay Dwiggins ; Aunt Jerusha,
Edwina Robbins ; Miss Perkins, Florence Natol.
Cast of "A Man of Honor" : Carter, George
Mario ; Banker, J. H. Gilmour ; Twins, Marion
Fairbanks and Madeleine Fairbanks ; Pugilist,
Bert Keyes.
Emily, Bangor, Me. — Hartsook Photograph
Studios are located in San Francisco and Los
Angeles. Blanche Sweet is not married.
R. F. S., Akron, Ohio. — Never heard of the
Carlyle Blackwell Film Company. Douglas Fair-
banks is 33 years old and has played in "The
Lamb," "The Habit of Happiness," "Double
Trouble," "The Good-Bad-Man," "Reggie Mixes
In," "Manhattan Madness," "American Aristoc-
racy," "The Matrimaniac," etc. "Macbeth," star-
ring Sir Herbert Tree, has been released by
Reliance. John Barrymore has appeared in "The
Man from Mexico," "The Dictator," "Nearly a
King," "The Red Widow," and "The Lost Bride-
groom."
Sylvia H., Stockton, Cal. — The dessert scenes
in Mr. Griffith's "Intolerance" were filmed in
California, and the city of Babylon was repro-
duced in Los Angeles. More than 16,000 players
appeared in the picture. Marjorie Wilson played
the part of Brown Eyes. Billie Burke's baby is
a girl. That's all right, you are more than
welcome.
A. M. H., Seattle, Wash. — Juanita Hansen is
not a Seattle girl. She was born in Des Moines,
la. Theda Bara is 5 feet 6 inches tall. "The
Slave Market" is Thomas Meighan's latest pic-
ture.
Crickett, Waco, Tex.— Sorry you had to wait
so long for an answer. Send us a stamped, self-
addressed envelope next time. Louise Huff is at
the Lasky studio in Flollywood. Bessie Love is
with Fine Arts, Los Angeles, Cal.
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155
Miss J. S., San Francisco, Cal. — You delight-
ful person ! Thank you now and yesterday and
through many tomorrows for the violets ! We of
this column lived several years in California, and
haven't forgotten the violet trays at dear old San
Francisco's windy, fog-draped street corners,
bless 'em. An answer to your question : Paul
Capellani played the male lead in "The Dark
Silence."
H. S. S., Medicine Hat, Alta. — J. Warren
Ker-r-r-r-rigan's nationality ? Trying to kid us?
He has gray eyes and lives at 1765 Gower St.,
Hollywood, Cal. Geraldine Farrar's birthday is
February 28 and Pauline Fredericks' is Au-
gust 12.
H. F. H., Hammond, Ind. — Mary Pickford
starred in "The Bishop's Carriage." She has
golden hair and blue eyes. Yes. of course, every-
body thinks she's "a pench ;" why shouldn't we?
Miss Aircastle, Tulsa, Okla. — The tallest
movie actress? Some day we'll get busy with a
tape measure and let you know, but at present
we haven't this information on file, although we
suspect that Blanche Payson of Keystone with
her 6 ft. 4 in. of brawn is at the top' of the list.
There's no reason why tall blondes shouldn't reg-
ister well.
T. L. M., Franklin, Tenn. — Jack Nelson of
Universal and Lark Taylor of Vitagraph are Ten-
nesseeans. The former was born in Memphis
and the latter in Nashville.
S. -C. H., Atlanta, Ga. — Glad you don't think
that a wife demoralizes a man, because Earl Foxe
has one. Margaret Fielding was May in "The
Mischief Maker" and John Reinhard was the
artist. The drug clerk in "Public Opinion" was
Tom Forman.
E. K., Worcester, Mass.— "The Mysteries of
Myra and "The Scarlet Runner" are among the
serials being filmed at present.
Dorothy D., Sea Cliff, N. Y. — By enclosing
to each at the following addresses twenty-five
cents to cover cost you likely can get the photos
of: Earle Foxe, care Dramatic Mirror, New
York City; Douglas Fairbanks, 923 Longacre
Bldg., New York City; Mary Pickford, 729
Seventh Avenue, New York City. It is always
a pleasure to receive the is-it-sos and whys and
will-you-pleases of good folk who have honored
us and themselves by reading Photoplay Maga-
zine through the years. The Lord love Uncle
Sam for his mail sack !
M. B., Kansas City, Mo. — Mae Murray is
S feet 3 inches tall and a blonde. The African
scenes from "The Plow Girl" were taken in Cali-
fornia.
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L. G. P., Lawrence, Mass. — "The beautiful
young fellow" in "Anton the Terrible" was Har-
rison Ford. We're right again; Ruth Roland is
still with Balboa.
A. W., Port Richmond, N. Y. — David Wark
Griffith was born about 1870 in La Grange, Ken-
tucky. He is the son of the late Brigadier-Gen-
eral J. W. Griffith, C. S. A. After two years of
stage experience, Mr. Griffith began his screen
career in 1908, first as an actor and later as a
director for Biograph and Mutual. He was the
first man to use close-ups and cut-backs. Since
1915, Mr. Griffith was general manager of the
Fine Arts Studio and one of the three vice-presi-
dents in charge of the Triangle company, from
which he recently retired.
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Marie, Tipton, Cal. — John Bowers played op-
posite Mary Pickford in "Hiilda from Holland."
Francis Ford is divorced. Jean Sothern is with
Art Dramas. You are not only welcome but our
creditor for letting us do you a favor. Credit
again.
J. B., Bandon, Ore. — Gail Kane is with Mutual.
Yes, we think that J. Warren is "a perfect Apollo
Belvidere," one of the best we ever knew.
A. M. — Cast of "The Pretenders" : Helen Pef-
tingill, Emmy Wehlen ; Hubert Stanwood, Paul
Gordon ; Silas T. Pcttiiu/ill, Charles Eldridge ;
Maria Pettingill, Kate Blancke ; Inspector Burke,
Edwin Holt. No, Anita Stewart is not married
to royalty. That's another way in which you
resemble her, isn't it ?
G. K., Pelham Manor, N. Y. — Francis Bush-
man and Howard Estabrook are over 30 and
are married to non-professionals. James Mor-
rison and Warren Kerrigan are 28 and 27 re-
spectively. Both are bachelors. Jean Sothern
is 18.
Ri'TH, Waterbury, Conn. — Anyway if you
searched all our columns yovi didn't waste your
time, did you ? Thomas Meighan has the honor
to have been connected by matrimonial ceremony
with Miss Frances Ring, sister of the delectable
Blanche who startled a theatre going world by
warbling of a lover who wore rings on his fingers
and bells on his toes and held an elephant at
arm's length across the seas as a St. Patrick's
Day lure to his desired bride, all of which you
remember of course, X. Y. Z.
J. W. J., Richmond, Va. — Since Pearl White
is the pivot of your existence, we'll tell our staff
of artists and writers to give her some attention
soon. Ralph KcUard is her leading man. Glad
you called our attention to her.
Kay, St. Louis, Mc— Marvel Stafford played
the part of the hero's sister in "The Apostle of
Vengeance." It isn't every miss in her "middle
teens" who is sufficiently discriminating to in-
clude Frank Keenan in her list of favorites. We
zvere surprised.
Rex H., Hot Springs, Ark. — Sorry we can't
tell you where to procure a pair of waterproof
shoes, but we have none in our files. No, Mary
Miles Minter is not engaged. Madge Evans was
born in 1909.
Canadian Boy, Winnipeg. — Myrtle Lind's ad-
dress is 1712 Allesandro St., Los Angeles; Mary
Miles Minter, Santa Barbara, Cal. ; Mary Pick-
ford's, 729 7th Ave., New York City.
H. H., Atlanta, Ga. — William T. Carlton was
Pierpont Stafford in "Gloria's Romance." Henry j
Kolker has appeared in "The Bridge" and "The j
Warning." Billie Burke is going back to the i
footlights. Theda Bara was born in 1890,
Pauline Frederick in 1884, and Viola Dana in ' ^
R. A. B., New York City. — Our word, lady
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M.\RG.\i(ET A., Dot. B. C. — Rhea Mitchell played
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was the wamp. Lola May was Dolly in "Honor's
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R. C. W., Clara, Mo. — My, iny, what a traveler
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In being so crazy about the superior merits of
Photoplay you merely show your common sense,
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opposite Marguerite Clark in "The Crucible."
You are most mighty welcome. JPuU the bell
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H. A. E., Boston, Mass. — "'The Fear of Pov-
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that Pathe is acting as a releasing agency for the
Thanhouser picture.
"Bob White," Webster, P\. — Robert el
Blanco, we strongly suspect you of being a
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at it. Viola Barry played Maud Brezvster in
"The Sea Wolf;" Cleo Madison played Hermion
and Frank Lloyd Dionysius in "Damon and
Pythias;" Stephen Gratten played M. Brassard
in "Should a Mother Tell ?" Here also be more
answers, Miss Bob: In "The Rosary" parts were
taken as follows : Vera Wallace by Kathlyn
Williams, Young Brian Kelly by Charles Clary,
Alice Wallace by Gertrude Ryan, Father Ryan by
Frank Clark, Widow Kelly by Eugenie Besserer,
Bruce Wilton by Wheeler Oakman, Kenwood
Martin by Harry Lonsdale, "Skeeters" Martin by
Sidney Smith, Evarts by Fred Huntley. Good
bye, and please write when you're coming again,
so we can arrange a lovely time for you.
H. P., Des Moines, Ia. — We hasten to your
relief. J. W. Johnston is 6 ft. tall; weighs 180
lbs. ; has dark brown hair and dark blue eyes ;
swims, rides, paints and sings. He was born in
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L. C. R., Wilkes Barre, Pa. — Mary Miles
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Shreveport, La. She is 5 feet tall and weighs
no pounds, has blue eyes and golden hair, and
her hobbies are motoring and writing verse and*
prose — yes, actually. She is with American and
her address is Santa Barbara, Cal.
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Jeanne, New York City. — Permit us to trepan
out of your delightful head the idea that it is
necessary for anyone to write us questions in
order to keep us busy. We walk* knee-deep in
(juestions six mornings a week from our modest
home to our modest office, and frequently have
difficulty jimmying our way into the lift because
several tons of questions have accumulated them-
selves at the entrance thereof despite the efforts
of several mail men with scoop shovels who labor
valorously and more or less profanely to decrease
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of the adorableness of .Miss Dorothy Gwynn, with
which we totally agree, but will vouchsafe the
information that you may get in touch with the
Jady in care Pathe, Jersey City, N. J.
Peg C, Omaha, Neb. — Francis Ford is not
married now. He was born in Portland, Me., in
1882. Hal Cooley's address is Universal City,
Cal. You'll get an answer if you write to Grace
Cunard.
' G. M. W., Detroit, Mich. — Mabel Taliaferro
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Peggy, Toronto, Canada. — It pleases us to
know that the convalescent soldiers read Photo-
play. Constance Collier is not acting for the
screen at the present moment.
Meta K., Los Angeles, Cal. — It was Vera
Mersereau who danced in "The Dance of Death.''
She's on the stage now. William Courtleigh,
Jr., is ^ with Famous Players. Lillian Lorraine
isn't with any company now. Forrest Taylor isn't
with Kalem now. Florence Turner's studio is in
England, but she is now in this country.
M. J. V. L., Bay City-, Mich. — Grace Valentine
was born in 1890 in Springfield, Ohio.
A. E., Cortland, N. Y. — Address Mary Fuller
at the Iroquois Hotel, New York City. She is
not connected with any film company at present.
N. E. W., Lake Charles, La. — So you ''know
most everything there is to know about Theda
Bara and Wallace Reid," do you? How surprised
they will be when they hear it ! Here are a few
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Los Angeles. Write to him at Culver City, Cal.,
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Mrs. B., Houston, Tex. — Alexandra Carlisle
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Miss Owen, Pasadena, Cal. — Tom Forman is
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The Newcomer, Oakdale, Pa. — Jose Collins
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Junior '18, Bandon, Ore. — Douglas MacLean
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B. F. C, Stockton, Cal. — House Peters did
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Some old pictures are laid on the shelf and oth-
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M. S., New York City. — House Peters is with
Morosco. He plays the leading part in "The
Happiness of Three Women." Yes, quite an
undertaking.
Amethyst Sake, Dorchester, Mass. — Wallie
Reid's eyes are blue and his hair is light brown
and he's just as stunning off the screen. Marie
Doro is a pronounced brunette. Don't think
she'd write to you.
M. S. K., Detroit, Mich. — "Gloria's Romance"
was filmed in the east and south. Ella Hall was
born in New York on St. Patrick's Day, 1897.
H. J. D., Denver, Colo. — Yes, we have a rec-
ord of Josephine Ditt — quite a record, as she has
played successively with Essanay, Horsley, Amer-
ican and Universal, She is still connected with
the latter company. She has played in "Damaged
Goods," "Mill of the Gods" and "The Foreign
Spy," Betty Schade is 2i years old and of
Teutonic descent.
E, B., Trenton, N. J, — Lillian Walker did not
appear in "Hughie of the Circus."
YosEMiTE, Macon, Ga. — Rhea Mitchell is with
American at Santa Barliara, Cal., and at no time
of her life has she been married, she says.
N. S. W., New York City. — It is nice of you
to thank us "again, and again, and again," but
really you could have stopped on the second one
without hurting our feelings the least little bit.
However: What Mr. Ince meant when he said
he preferred a "working synopsis" was about
this : A scenario containing each and all of the
technical directions necessary to the actual film-
ing of the story the scenario tells. Few persons
unfamiliar with studio conditions are capable of
preparing a working scenario which will pass
muster, but it is possible for an amateur to so
clearly indicate the working directions he wishes
followed that his terms are intelligible to the
director.
M. S., Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y, — Marguerite
Clark is not married. She lives in New York
and Wallace Reid lives in California.
M. M. W,, New York City. — George Walsh
is his real name. He is 24 years old and hails
from Manhattan. Maybe he'll get his hair cut
some day.
G. L. M., Panama. — Norma Talmadge is 20
and the wife of Joseph Schenck. Marguerite
Clark is 29 years old, 4 feet 10 inches tall and an
American from Cincinnati.
I. C. & M. C, South Amboy, N. J. — Your
initials sound like a railroad. Mary Miles Minter
is only fourteen. Write to Anita Stewart care
of Vitagraph, Brooklyn, and she'll answer your
letter. Pauline Bush is not acting for the screen
now.
L. S. K., West Somerville, Mass. — Lottie
Pickford and Irving Cummings do not appear in
"The Diamond from the Sky" sequel. Scenes of
"The Pride of the Clan" ("The Lass of Killean")
were filmed at Marblehead, Mass. Was the draw-
ing you sent supposed to represent the Answer
Man?
High School Girls, Cincinnati, Ohio. —
Three little girls from school, your idol, Tom
Meighan is married to Frances Ring.
J. R,, Boston, Mass. — Edward T, Langford
played opposite Clara Kimball Young in "The
Dark Silence."
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Gabrielle F., Xew York City. — It is as
much a mystery to us as to you that you have not
received answers to four of the five questions
you say you have sent to this department in the
last two years. It is our endeavor to make all
answers promptly, either by personal letter or in
these pages. Could you have misdirected, forgot
postage or inadvertently neglected to mail ? If
you have been a regular reader of Photoplay
Magazine you cannot well have overlooked
articles published about Mary Fuller, her life
and career. Cleo Madison has formed a com-
pany of her own. Mabel Normand's new picture
is titled "Mickev."
Maurice M., New York City. — Violet
Mersereau was born in your own city. Jane
Novak is, as stated, the wife of Frank Newburg ;
they have been married over a year.
Ruth N., Maxkato, Minn. — Wallace Reid has
no children. He is twenty-six years old and
has blue eyes. We have no doubt that he will
be flattered by your interest in him.
Virginia G., Norwood, O. — See the Robert
Warwick story on page 35 of this issue. Quite
a brisk letter "you write. Miss Virginia. But we
confess to ignorance of the word "movatized"
you wield so confidently, and unfortunately we
are not able at the moment to place our right
forefinger on "some sweet quiet pale young
thing" to enact your Dinah. We'll think about
it though earnestly.
A. H. B., MoNACA. Pa.— The leads in "Then
I'll Come Back to You" were played by Alice
Brady and Jack Sherrill. We are not informed
that an}' of the plays you list has been published
in book form.
A. G. C, Ft, Wayne, Ind. — You write:
"Please send me full particulars as how to be a
moving picture star. I am a young girl of six-
teen years of age and am greatly interested in
being a star. Do you think there is any chance
for me ?" No, frankly. Miss A. G. C, we do not.
That is blunt talk, but unpleasant truths are
always more or less blunt. You are one of about
a million or more young girls who would like to
be moving picture stars and who have each about
one-millionth of one per cent, of a chance to
become. If you have been a steady reader of
Photopl.w Mag.azine you have encountered in
these pages ad\ice which we shall now, once more
and patiently, repeat : At the beck and call of
the moving picture companies are the very finest,
most clever and accomplished, as well as most
beautiful and successful, actresses of the speak-
ing stage. \\'hen even these experienced beauties
are sorted over and half of them rejected because
they are not suited to become screen stars, what
chance have j'ou? Don't you see? We are
not meaning to be unkind : we are trying to be
kind, so kind that you will be helped in dis-
missing from vour thoughts a futile dream.
Thelma S., Los Angeles, Cal. — Your per-
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Miss nor a Missus barely escapes prescience.
Your resultant deduction that we are a mascu-
line person does credit to your female powers of
ratiocination. You are really quite a logical
person to be wearing pettiskirts. Here's to you.
Cousin Thelma, with that information : Hal
Cooley was born in New York City in 1888:
educated Northwestern Military Academ\^ High-
land Park, 111., and University of Minnesota ; on
the speaking stage in stock : in the pictures suc-
cessfully with Selig, American and Universal ;
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scenario, for the same reason that it's wise to
secure permission to use your neighbor's lawn-
mower or his vunbrella before appropriating it.
G. E. P., Grand Rapids, Mich. — It is almost
easier to gain admittance into the presence of a
crowned head than it is for the average citizen
to visit a motion-picture studio. You must have
some special influence before you are privileged
to scuff your toes in the sacred dust of a movie
lot.
M. A. K., Mobile, Ala. — E. Mason Hopper is
Rvith Hennessey's husband. Mrs. Hopper isn't
with any company at present.
J. S., Atlantic City, N. J. — Jack Mulhall is
married to Laura Burton. Tom Mix has a wife,
pendinj^ the decision of the court. Marguerite
Courtot is enjoying single blessedness.
Hi S., Chicago, III.— 23 E. 26th St., New York
City, is the address of the Bray Studios.
O. P., Superior, Wis. — Myrtle Gonzales is at
Universal City. She was born 22 years ago. We
haven't heard anything about a screen strike.
Do they want higher wages, or more close-ups?
Gwendolyn, Baltimore, Md. — Maude George
is a Universal actress who hails from Riverside,
Cal. She is 5 feet 7 inches tall — a stately vam-
pire.
I. L., Kansas City, Mo. — Wallace Reid will
send you his picture for a quarter. Ann Penning-
ton's pictvire has not appeared in our Art Section
yet, but it has appeared elsewhere in Photoplay.
W. L. A., CoRVALLis, Ore. — Helen Arnold, our
"Beauty and Brains" girl, is now playing in sup-
port of Ethel Barrymore for Metro. She played
in "The Witching Hour," with C. Aubrey Smith
and Jack Sherrill. Write to her, inclose the cus-
tomary fee of one-quarter dollar, and she will
send you her photograph.
W. D., Meriden, Conn. — We'll send you a
copy of the October number of Photoplay at a
bargain rate — 15c.
A. F. H., New York City. — Maurice Costello
is no longer with the Consolidated Film Com-
pany and he's still married. If you really think
that a shoehorn would be of assistance to F. X. B.
in adjusting his headgear, we'll suggest it to him
in your name.
S. C. H., Portland, Ore. — Yes, Thomas Meig-
han is considered a prominent actor, quite en-
tirely prominent. He is with Famous Players in
New York and is married to Frances Rii^g. Seen
him in "The Heir to the Hoorah" ? He has
never had anything to do with auto racing, not
in a professional capacity, at least. Send the
Answer Man a stamped, self-addressed envelope
with your questions if you desire a quick answer.
M. L. F., East St. Louis, III. — Carlyle Black-
well, another one who was so heartless as to
take unto himself a wife, is with the World Film
Corporation, playing with Ethel Clayton. Yes.
you can get a picture of his six feet of dark ro-
mantic beauty by writing to him in New York —
and don't forget that two-bits.
E. H., Scranton, Pa. — Lou Tellegen and Cleo
Ridgely took the leading roles in "The Victoria
Cross." And you only ask us one question !
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STUDIO DIRECTORY
For tlie convenieuce of our readers who may
desire the addresses of film companies we fiive
the principal ones below. The first is the business
office; (*) indicates proper office to send manu-
scripts; (s) indicates a studio: at times all three
may be at one address.
AMEiiic'AX Film Mfg. Co.. ()2ii7 Broadway, Chi-
cafio ; .Santa Barbara. Cal. (*i (s).
Artcr.vft I'lCTURics ('OKI'. (Mary I'icktord), 729
Seventh Ave., Xew York City.
BaI.I'.O.V AMUSBMK.XT I'ltoDUCING Co.. LOH!^
Beach, Cal. (*( (s).
Califohma Motion PlCTliti; Co., San Kal'acl.
Cal. (*) (s).
Christie Film Corp.. Main and Washiustou,
Los AnKeles. Cal.
Co-NSOLIDATKD FILM Co., 14.S2 Broadway, New
York City.
Ediso.n, Thomas, Inc., 2826 Decatur Ave., New
York City. (*) (s).
E.sSANAY Film Mfg. Co., l.'i.'i::! Argyle St., Chi-
cago. (*) (s).
FA.Mors Players Film Co., 485 Fifth Ave.,
New York City ; 128 W. 56th St.. New York City.
Fine Arts, 4500 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles,
Cal
Fox Film Corp., l.SO W. 46th St., New York
City (*) ; 1401 AYestern Ave., Los Angeles (*>
(s) ; Fort Lee. N. J. (s).
FiiiiiiJiAN Amusement Corp., 140 Amity St.,
Flusliing, L. 1. ; 18 E. 41st St., New York City.
Gai jioNT Co., 110 W. Fortieth St.. New York
City: Flushing. N. Y'. (s) ; Jacksonville, Fla. (s).
IIOKSLEY Studio, Main and Washington, Los
Augeles, Cal.
Tiios. H. INCB (li^ay-Bee Triangle), Culver City,
Cal.
International Film Co., Godfrey Bldg., New
York City.
Kalem Co., 235 W. 23d St., New York City (*) ;
2.j1 W. 19th St.. New York City (s) : 1425 Flem-
ing St.. Hollywood. Cal. (s) ; Tallyrand Ave.,
Jacksonville, Fla. (s) ; Glendale. Cal. (s).
Keystone Film Co., 1712 AUesandro St., Los
Angeles, Cal.
Kleine, Geokge, 166 N. State St., Chicago.
Lasky Feature Play Co., 485 Fifth Ave., New
Y"ork City : 62S4 Selma Ave., llollywood, Cal.
Lone Star Film Corp. (Chaplin). 1025 Lillian
Way, Los Angeles, Cal.
Metro Pictures Corp., 1476 Broadway, New
York (*) (all manuscripts for the following
Ktudios go to Metro's Broadway addres.s.) : Rolfe
Photoplay Co. and Columbia Pictures Corp., 3 W.
(ilst St., New York City (s) ; Popular I'lays and
Players, Fort Lee, N. J. (s) ; Quality Pictures
Corp., Metro office; Yorke Film Co., iloUvwood,
Cal. (s).
MoRosco Photoplay Co., 222 W. 42d St.. New
York City (*) ; 201 Occidental Blvd., Los Angeles,
Cal. (s).
Muss, B. S., 729 Seventh Ave.. New York City.
Mutual Film Corp.. Consumers Bldg., Chicago.
I'ALLAs Pictures. 220 W. 42d St.. New York
City ; 205 N. Occidental Blvd., Los Angeles, Cal.
I'ATHE Exchange. 25 W. 45th St., New York
City: Jersey City, N. J. (s).
Powell. Frank, Production Co., Times Bldg.,
New York City.
Selig Polyscope Co., Garland Bldg., Chicago
(*) : Western and Irving Park Blvd., Chicago (s) ;
3800 Mission Hoad, Los Angeles, Cal. (s).
Lewis Selzxick Enterprises (Clara Kimball
Young Film Corp.). (Norma Talmadge Film
Corp.), (Kitty Gordon), ( Herbert Brenon). Grant-
wood, N. J. (s) ; 126 W. 40th St., New York
City (*).
Signal Film Corp., 4560 Pasadena Ave., Los
Angeles. Cal. (*) (s).
Thanhouser Film Corp.. New Rochelle, N. Y.
(*) (s) : Jacksonville. Fla. (s).
Universal Film Mfg. Co.. 1600 Broadway,
jVew York City : Universal City. Cal.
Vim Comedy Co., Providence. R. I.
Vitagraph Company of America, E. loth and
Locust Ave.. Brooklyn. N. Y. : Hollywood. Cal.
Vogue Comedy Co.. Gower St. and' Santa Mon-
ica Blvd., Hollywood. Cal.
Wharton Inc.. Ithaca, N. Y.
World Film Corp.. 130 W. 46th St., New York
City (*) : Fort Lee, N. J. (s).
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M. L. D., West Philadelphia, Pa. — Clara
Kimball Young's mother did not play with her
in "The Common Law." Julia Stewart took the
part of Mrs. Neville.
Pauline Frederick Admirer. Garden City,
S. D. — Your favorite's birthday is the 12th of
August. We'll do as you say and beg for an
interview with her. Grace Darling is with Inter-
national, Godfrey Bldg., New York City.
B. V. D., Chicago Heights, III. — Joyce
Moore, Frank Mayo's wife, is decidedly not Alice
Joyce Moore's daughter. Alice Joyce Moore's
daughter, Mary Joyce Moore, happens to be only
a year old.
G. T. — Dustin Farninn was born at Hampton
Beach, N. H., May 27. 1874. Maurice Costello
is of Pittsburgh descent and Pearl White is half-
Italian. half-Irish. "The Yellow Pawn" was
filmed in California.
H. E. W., Cambridge, Mass. — Bessie Love will
write to you if you write to her, care of Fine
Arts, Hollywood, Cal.
B. McC, Joplin, Mo. — Niles Welch was born
in Hartford, Conn., and attended Yale and
Columbia. Your guess is as good as ours on the
question of his marriage.
De N. McK., Salisbury, N. C. — Harold Lock-
wood is with Metro in Los Angeles. Address
Creighton Hale at the Screen Club, New York
City. They'll send photographs.
R. W., Atlanta, Ga. — Niles Welch was the
man who played in "Miss George Washington" —
leastwise, he was one of 'em.
M. K., Harmony, Minn. — William Pike played
opposite Beatrix Michelena in "The Unwritten
Law." Irene Cuttrim was Estelle in the same
picture.
J. C. B., Fort Wayne, Ind. — Winifred Green-
wood isn't with any company at present. We'll
give Mabel Van Buren and Mary Martin a little
publicity, if yovi say so. At least, we'll instruct
the editor so to do.
N. I. W., Toronto, Ont. — Cast of "The Fall
of a Nation": Virginia. Lorraine Huling ; An-
gela, Flora MacDonald ; P'assar. Arthur Shirley ;
IValdron, Percy Standing; Billy. Paul Willis;
Thomas, Philip Gastrock. It was Katherine
Harris who played with John Barrymore in "The
Lost Bridegroom."
Babe, Detroit, Mich. — Misfortunes never
come singly ; Dustin and Harold are both mar-
ried. Now, then, if you are able to read further
after that double blow, we'll inform you that
Eimar Linden was Don Jose in the Fox produc-
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A Cornstalk, Wellington, N. Z. — Antonio
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Elsie McLeod wore a wig in "Carmen." Louie
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G. R. C, Parkersburg, W. Va. — Jack Sherrill
was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1898, and was
educated at the Berkeley School in New York
City. He is the son of William Sherrill, the head
of the Frohman Amusement Company. Although
he was married about a year ago, it is reported
that he will not long remain so. Mr. Sherrill is
5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 135 pounds. He
has brown hair, blue eyes and a light complexion.
Some of his best-known pictures are ''Then I'll
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"Just Out of College" and "Body and Soul."
J. H., Norfolk, Va. — "Two Gun Hicks" is the
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B. R. L., Washington, D. C— No, Lillian
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F. U., Victoria, B. C. — S. Rankin Drew, the
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M. J. S., Los Angeles, Cal. — Elsie Janis and
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JuD 16, Pomona, Cal. — "Where Are My Chil-
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Mack, Collinsville, Okla. — Sorry, but we
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were laid in New Jersey. Seen Creighton Hale
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L. M., Granite Falls, Minn. — It is with a
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Portraits of Your
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Rupert Julian
Blanche Sweet
Jackie Saunders
Craufurd Kent
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Henry King
Ruth Roland
Fannie Ward
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Odie, San Diego. Cm.. — William Desmond and
Bessie Barriscnie are both with Ince.
Movie Fan, Pewee Valley, Kv. — Walter Hiers
was George Crooper in "Seventeen." Mary Pick-
ford wore a wig in ''Madame Butterfly." Yes,
Wallace Reid is 26 and perfectly magnificent.
Marshall Neilan played opposite Mary Pickford
in "Rags" and Niles Welch played opposite Mary
Miles Minter in "Emmv of Stork's Nest."
Cupid, Washi.vgtox, D. C. — Scenes in which
dwarfs or small people are shown in contrast to
normal-sized actors are produced by a very
simple trick of photography. In "Snow \\'hite"
actual dwarfs and children were used. June
Caprice, whose real name is Betty Lawson, was
born in Boston in 1899. She is 5 feet 1 inch tall,
weighs 105 poiuids and has blonde hair and gray-
green eyes. Of course you know she is with
Fox. Arnold Daly and Creighton Hale are on
the legitimate stage.
M. C. PiTTSFiELD, Mass. — Mary Pickford has
no children. Earle Williams did not play in
"The Daring of Diana.''
M. A., St. Catharines, Ont. — Yes, Owen
Moore is Mary Pickford's husband. Goodness
gracious, where have you been ? Antonio
Moreno isn't married yet. Blanche Sweet hasn't
a husband.
J. B., Norfolk, Va. — Harold Lockwood is 29
years old and 5 feet 11 M inches tall. He has
brown hair and blue eyes.
G. H. K., Indianapolis, Ind. — Naomi Childers,
of Vitagraph, may be addressed at Brooklyn,
N. Y. See the studio directory.
M. J., Lawrence, Kans.— Impossible for us to
give you any information concerning scenario
agencies. We have no means of knowing posi-
tively which ones are reliable and which ones
are not.
F. B. Antwerp.— Virginia Pearson and Theda
Bara are not sisters — not even cousins. Mrs.
Kimball, mother of Clara Kimball Young, played
in "The Feast of Life." Arthur Hoops died just
after he had completed his part in "Extrava-
.gance."
H. L., Boston, Mass. — Ann Pennington was
born in Camden, N. J., in 1895. "Seventeen"
was filmed in and around New York Citv.
R. L. X., Cambridge Springs, Pa. — Camilla
Astor is now a leading lady for Selig, in Los
Angeles. She has played in "The Code of
Honor," "Little Papoose." "The Shipwrecked,"
"The Captive," "Chimmie Fadden," "For the
Defense" and "The Thousand Dollar Husband,"
for Lasky.
L. M., Jefferson, Te.x. — Kathlyn and Earle
Williams are not related, but Mae and Mar-
guerite Marsh are sisters. Billie Burke's real
name is Ziegfeld. "Easy Street" is Charlie Chap-
lin's latest.
J. M. U., Jefferson, Tex. — Anita Stew;art is
not married. Theda Bara did the \amping in
"A Fool There Was."
F. W. C, MoLSON, ^^'ASH. — Yes. "Tess of the
Storm Country" certainly contributed toward
Mary Pickford's fame The World Film Corpo-
ration produces no plays that are less than five
reels in length.
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H. E. K., Amsterdam, N. Y. — Pauline Freder-
ick is with Famous Players and Theda Bara is
with Fox. Write to them there.
Tipsy and Cutie, Stevens Point, Wis. — Your
remark that an Answer Man is a handy sort of
thing to have touches us more deeply than any
of the thousands of tributes with which our desk
is daily submerged. We don't know what you are
leading us into, but we'll admit to a liking for
redhots, peanut butter kisses and blondes. What
then?
Bert-Ponds, Marston's Mills, Mass. — Lois
Wilson of Universal City has been in pictures
for about two years. "The Chaperon" is Edna
Mayo's latest picture.
W. G., Pierce City, Mo. — Harry Myers is 34
years old. Ray Gallagher played in "Saved by
a Skirt." Billie Rhodes was recently unmarried.
LucUa Maxam is 22 and the wife of William
Brunton.
Ah-Kah Blvlah, Port Richmond, N. Y. —
Bessie Barriscale is a Mrs. — Mrs. Howard Hick-
man, to be exact.
D. D., Rochester, Minn. — Frank Belcher was
Mnlry and David Powell was Frenean in
"Gloria's Romance."
L. W. H., Waterbury Ctr., Vt. — Yes, "Robin-
son Crusoe " has just been filmed by Henry W.
Savage and previously by Universal. Bryant
Washburn was born in Chicago. "Ham and
Bud" pictures are still being produced by Kalem.
Mr. Bushman is married and the father of a quin-
tette of children. Heaven help us to be strong !
Miss Bayne is not married. You want to know
what the new dances are? We've heard that
there was one called "Walkin' the Dog." "The
Children Pay" is Lillian Gish's latest picture.
She is unmarried. So are Lillian Walker, Flor-
ence La Badie and Gladys Hulette. Robert
Brower was formerly with Edison. Cast of "The
Heart of a Hero" : Nathan Hale, Robert War-
wick ; Colonel Knowlton, Alec B. Francis ; Guy
Fit::roy. George McQuarrie ; Tom Adams, Clif-
ford Gray ; Cunningham, Henry West ; Alice
Adams, Gail Kane ; Widow Chichester, Clara
Whipple. Will that be all today ?
G. F. MacD, Buffalo, N. Y.— The Triangle
Studio is sometimes in the market for some
kinds of scripts, but not always in the market
for all kinds of scripts. C. Gardner Sullivan is
scenario editor for only the Ince angle of the
Triangle.
Mrs. A. S., Pleasant Hill, III. — Cleo
Ridgely, of Lasky, recently disposed of her hus-
band, with the assistance of a Los Angeles judge.
A. M. H., Pittsburgh, Pa. — You will have the
pleasure of seeing Milton Sills play with Irene
Castle in the serial, "Patria." He is a native of
Chicago.
Polly, New Ulm, Minn. — We never had oc-
casion to ask for a library or a hero medal, so
we don't correspond with Mr, Carnegie. He
lives at Skibo Castle. Theda Bara is with Fox
at Fort Lee, N. J. Send her a quarter for a
picture. Don't send Andy one, though. It
wouldn't be good form.
I. B. K., Los Angeles. Cal. — Mae Murray is
5 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 115 poimds, has light
hair and gray-blue eyes, has been in pictures for
about a year and is just 20 years old.
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A. N. H., Paterson, N. J. — Strict originality
is the quality that is regarded by scenario editors
as above the price of rubies.
Mr. DeM., Pittsburg, Pa. — J. W. Kerrigan is
to play in his own film company, it is reported.
R. J. L., Merced, Cal. — Robert Edeson has
played in "The Call of the North," "On the Night
Stage," "The Absentees," "Mortmain," "The Cave
Man," "For a Woman's Fair Name," "Fathers
of Men," "The Light That Failed" and "Big Jim
Garrity."
Mrs. H. T., San Diego, Cal. — William Des-
mond was born in Dublin town, he says, as
his black hair and Irish blue eyes will testify.
He has grown up to be 5 feet 11 inches tall and
weighs 170 pounds. Mr. Desmond was on the
stage for 8 years before the screen claimed him.
D. W. T., Washington, D. C. — Fox's "Romeo
and Juliet" was filmed in the month of Septem-
ber. Dorothy Bernard's husband directs pictures
and sometimes acts in them. His name is Van
• Buren.
FoRDHAM, New York City. — Henry Walthall
has been married for several years. He is in
Chicago, with Essanay, at present. Annie May
Walthall is his sister. Isabel Fenton's picture
has never appeared in Photoplay.
C. M., New Brighton, Pa. — William Farnum
is with Fox at Los Angeles.
S. W., Attleboro, Mass. — Elmer Clifton was
the hero of "The Little Schoolma'am. ' Send
him a quarter for a picture.
J. A. G., Philadelphia, Pa. — Yes, indeed. Mar-
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mention in "Who's Who in the Theater."
Alice, Springfield, Mass. — Sis Hopkins' real
name is Rose Melville. Tean Sothern's address
is 220 W. 42nd St., New "York City.
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up the eighty-seven questions that you ask us,
because the editor seems to think that we just
simply must have something else in this magazine
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Bon Ton, Willows, Cal. — Write to George
Walsh, care of Fox, Los Angeles. Edwin Carewe
was the leading man in "The Snow Bird."
Henrietta, Allentown, Pa. — Ivy Close was
connected with Kalem. She is back in England.
Jeanne Eagels is 22 years old.
W. F. W., Hood River, Ore. — Bessie Barris-
cale is S feet 2 inches tall. So is Billie Burke
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Erna F., St. Louis, Mo. — Pauline Frederick
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Jr., in "Under Cover." Pearl White, Creighton
Hale and Sheldon Lewis played in "The Iron
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M. J., Pasadena, Cal. — Dorothy Gish is 18 and
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D. D. — Madam Petrova was born in Warsaw,
the capital city of Poland. She has been on the
stage for a dozen years, appearing in "The
Quaker Girl" from October 23, 1911, to May 18,
1912. Here is a list of her photoplays: "Tyres,"
"The Heart of a Painted Woman," "My Ma-
donna," "The Vampire," "What^Will People
Say," "The Soul Market,"
tion," "Playing with Fire,
sel," "The Black Butterfly"
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NiLES Welch Admirer. Joplix, Mo. — Your
hero of the light brown hair and azure orbs is
(juite of marriageable age — 28 — but we haven't
heard that he's actually done it. Sorry we can't
say the same of Earle Foxe, who took the part
of Richard Leigh in "Ashes of Embers," but —
it does seem a shaijie, doesn't it — he's married.
Write to Mr. Welch at 220 W. 42nd St., New
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Louise. Brishane. Australia.-
address is Culver City, Cal.
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BiLLiE Burke Admirer, Chicago. — Yes, Flo
Ziegfeld'was once the husband of Anna Held.
H. M. T., Bronx. N. Y. — Joan Sawyer, who
hasn't told us whether or not she is married, was
born in 1884.
M. E., Newport News, Va. — Thanks for your
ofier of assistance. Just now we need someone
to keep the Earle Williams fans pacified. Want
the job? Write to Juanita Hansen, care of
Keystone, Los .\ngeles.
E. D. Booster, Sherman. Tex. — You know, it
has always been our opinion that Elliott Dexter
didn't reiiuire any boosts from the Answer Man.
However, since you recjuest it, we'll see what we
can do for him.
M. L, El Paso, Tex. — Billie Burke was inter-
viewed in the May, 1916, number of Photoplay.
Elsie, Hastings, N. Z. — Mary Pickford's ad-
dress is 729 7th Ave., New York City. Yes,
Blanche Sweet was once called Daphne Wayne,
the name having been wished on her.
Kangaroo, W. Melbourne, Australia. — Sorry
you Australians took ofTence at being called "Eng-
iishers." Do you mind if we refer to you as
Britishers?
Peggy, 17, Pasadena. Cal. — Howard Gaye was
the Nazarene in "Intolerance." No, Wally Reid
is not burdened with a university degree, hut he
has some fine dogs.
D. J., Rockawav Beach, N. Y. — Theda Bara
will send you a picture of herself if you write
to her at Fort Lee, N. J., and enclose a quarter
in your letter. Lm afraid you'll have to color
the picture yourself, however.
W. L., Seattle, Wash. — If we thought that
the details of our placid existence would make
interesting reading matter, we'd bare them to a
cvirious world, but, honest, the most exciting
thing that ever happens to us is the morning's
mail and occasionally a belated arrival for dinner
in the evening.
T. C. F., Harrisburg. Pa. — .Ann Pennington is
one-half inch shorter than Marguerite Clark — 4
feet 91A inches. Hazel Dawn isn't married.
Norma Talmadge is.
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M. N., Eagle River, Wis. — Cast of "Pvippets":
Pantaloon, De Wolf Hopper; Harlequin, Jack
Bramniall ; Clown, Robert Lawlor ; Columbine,
Pauline Starke ; The Widow, Kate Toncray ;
Pierrot, Edward Bolles ; Scaramouche, Max
Davidson. Cast of "Honor Thy Name" : Colonel
Castleton, Frank Keenan ; Viola Bretagne, Louise
Glaum ; Rodney Castleton, Charles Ray ; Rosalee
Carey, Blanche White ; Mrs. Carey, Gertrude
Claire ; Jack Deering, George Fisher ; Rosita,
Dorcas Matthews ; The Moth's Mother, Agnes
Herring; Uncle Tobey, Harvey Clarke.
F. M., Primghay, Ia. — Harry Hilliard was
Caprice's husband in "Caprice." Marguerite
Clark measvires 4 feet 10 inches, perpendicularly
speaking. Harold Lockwood says he is not mar-
ried. "Tess of the Storm Country" and "A
Girl of Yesterday" were produced in 1914.
Lee, Cape Girardeau, Mo. — Raymond McKee
is with Metro. Mary MacLaren, Louise Lovely
and Ella Hall play leads for Universal. Yes,
Francis Ford is divorced. Billie Burke has re-
tired from the screen in favor of the stage, but
Marguerite Clark is still loyal to the "movies."
Lucille Zintheo, Peggy Bloom, Lucille Sat-
terthwaite and Helen Arnold are now acting for
the screen. Marie Walcamp is with International.
A. E. F.. Mt. Holly, N. J.— Annette Keller-
man is married. The following players took part
in "The Explorer" : Alec McKenzie, Lou Tel-
legen ; George Allerton, Tom Forman ; Lucy
Allerton, Dorothy Davenport ; Dr. Adamson,
James Neill ; Mclnnery, H. B. Carpenter.
Ted H., Muskegon, Mich. — Mae Marsh is
single. Write to Gloria Swanson, care Keystone,
at Los Angeles and ask her for a photograph
or a curl. We'll hazard a guess, however, that
she'd rather part with the former.
T. F., Shreveport, La. — Norma Talmadge is
with SelznJck, Louise Glaum with Ince and
Theda Bara with Fox.
A. B. B., Charleston, W. Va. — Matt Moore is
working for his sister-in-law, Mary Pickford.
They play together in "The Pride of the Clan."
J. C, Sydney, N. S. — Tom Foreman is with
Lasky and James Morrison with Ivan. Write to
them in care of these companies for photographs.
We agree with you that it is a crime against
society for homely women to appear in pictures.
Why can't they confine themselves to such activi-
ties as require merely brains? Jimmie Morrison
and Creighton Hale are bachelors. The latter
was born in 1892 and Tom Foreman one year
later. Marguerite Clark is 28. Norma Talmadge
has made one picture for her own company,
"Panthea." Ralph Kellard is Pearl White's
leading man in "Pearl of the Army."
A. R., Denver, Colo. — Here are the several
birthplaces of your favorites ; Robert McKim,
San Jacinto, Cal., 1887; Marshall Neilan, also
California, 1891 ; James Morrison, Illinois, 1891 ;
Harry Morey, Michigan ; Harry Northrup, Paris,
France, 1877; Ann Pennington, Camden, Del.,
1895; Edna Purviance, Paradise Valley, Nev.,
1895; Clara Williams, Seattle, Wash.; Fay
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CONTENTS FOR APRIL, 1917
Cover Design — Ethel Clayton, a painting
Popular Photoplayers
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She had everything she wanted but — Mary Pickford pictures.
She Really Admits They're Hers . 37
Ethel Barrymore and her three kiddies.
A Jill of All Trades 38
Nell Shipman has done everything but rustle props.
Back to Babylon for New Fashions Lillian Howard 39
A new effedt of "Intolerance." Drawings by Eleanor Howard.
Of the "Younger Set" 41
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On Location: — Midland 44
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A Cheerful Anarchist Betty Shannon 49
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Fighting for Fame Kenneth McGaffey 51
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The Adventure of the Town Pond Submarine.
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Extra Girls Who Became Stars Grace Kingsley 67
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Venice, N. J. 71
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The Cover Lady 72
Some new photographs and just a few hnes about Ethel Clayton.
Skin Deep 74
A brief dissertation on beauty, illustrated by George Fawcett.
The Shadow Stage JuHan Johnson 75
What the screen has done for the drama of America.
A Boy Named Kelly Randolph Bartlett 83
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She Was the Bernhardt of the Klondike 85
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A Bear of a Baby! Allen Corliss 86
Little Mary Sunshine is that and more too.
Pencil-Shooting the Famous Players Grant T. Reynard 88
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Dorothy Dons Her Lucile Slicker 90
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Twenty Minutes Out Kilboum Gordon 91
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The Mash Note Conspiracy Irving Sayford 93
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He Hates His Successes George Craig 97
L. Rogers Lytton, however, is quite so;ne artist.
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The Flash-Back Harry L. Reichenbach 103
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Logical Continuity _ Capt. Leslie T. Peacocke 111
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S. Rankin of the Clan Drew Fred Schaefer 115
Scion of noted family doesn't need the family name.
Impressions: 1917 Julian Johnson 119
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A Busy Day in Mr. Bushman's Office 120
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Plays and Players Cal York 122
What the great and the near -great of the films are doing.
Rich Girl, Poor Girl Grace Kingsley 127
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Princess of the Dark (Short Story) Jerome Shorey 131
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Bill, a Violet 139
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Mother of Many 141
Jennie Lee, Fine Arts mother, had her own real romance.
Photoplay Actors Name Puzzle 142
Seen and Heard at the Movies 144
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CHAPLIN, CHARLES May, 1916
CHILDERS, NAOMI January, 1917
CLARK, MARGUERITE ...December, 1916
CLAYTON, ETHEL August, 1916
COHAN, GEORGE M March, 1917
CONKLIN, CHESTER June, 1916
CONNELLY, ROBERT February, 1917
COSTELLO, MAURICE January, 1917
CRISP, DONALD January, 1917
CUNARD, GRACE April, 1916
CURWOOD, JAMES OLIVER ... ^fn/, 1916
DANA, VIOLA February, 1917
DAWN, HAZEL October, 1916
DORO, MARIE December, 1916
DREW, MR. and MRS. SIDNEY. /w/y, 1916
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EMERSON, JOHN November, 1916
EYTON, BESSIE July, 1916
FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS July, 1916
FARRAR, GERALDINE
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FULLER, MARY November, 1916
GRANDIN, ETHEL January, 1917
GREY, OLGA February. 1917
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Portraits
of
LENORE ULRICH
has done her share to make Milwaukee famous in the few years she has been
at it. Her rise to stardom on the stage was meteoric as her name was almost
unknown when Oliver Morosco began to feature her in "The Bird of
Paradise." Miss Ulrich is a distinctive brunette and of medium stature.
She has appeared on the screen exclusively under Morosco auspices. Her
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DUSTIN FARNUM
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cause. He has played before Lasky, Ince and Morosco cameras and is now
with William Fox. Mr. Farnum is in his early forties, a native of New
England, a quarter inch over six feet and an outdoor enthusiast.
ORA CAREW
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in comedy. Miss Carew had much experience on the vaudeville stage before
entering the films via Griffith studio and for a time she was also with
Universal. She is a native of Salt Lake City, 22 years of age and two inches
over five feet high.
Photo by Hartsook
FRANK MAYO
is a New Yorker by birth but he began his screen career in London after a
dozen or so years on the stage. He was with Selig for a while but his most
noteworthy work was done for Balboa. "The Red Circle" gave him a big
following. He is 30 years old and the third Frank Mayo in the family, his
grandfather of the same name overseeing his first appearance on the stage at
the age of five. Joyce Moore is his wife.
Photo l.v White
EMMY WEHLEN
comes from Vienna whence came "The Merry Widow" in which she once
starred in London. She was a musical comedy luminary of bright luster
before heeding the call of the screen and she has had no difficulty in trans-
ferring her personality, minus vocal talent, to the silversheet. Her film work
has been confined to Metro's studio. Miss Wehlen is in her early twenties
and has light hair and brown eyes.
LEO WHITE
»s best known for his French Count characterization in the Chaplin comedies.
Like Chaplin, he is English-born, coming to this country in musical comedy.
For some time he was with Fritzi Scheff. His first film experience was with
the old Powers company. He accompanied Chaplin to Mutual from Essanay
but IS now back with the latter in Chicago. There is a Mrs. White, also a
talented player, and two little White boys.
Photo by Apeda
ALICE JOYCE
has had almost everything that is nice said about her and it's all true but for
the benefit of the newer generation of screen enthusiasts it may be stated that
she is one of the first of the film stars upon whom the speaking stage has
no claim. After a year of retirement because of the arrival of little Alice
Mary Joyce-Moore, Miss Joyce is again playing for the shadows, this time
with Vitagraph.
Photo by Ira L. Hill
GAIL KANE
was a footlight villainess of excellent repute before casting her lot with the
mercury-lighted stage ; and now she is rarely iniquitous. For a long time she
played in World photoplays but recently she contracted to appear for Mutual
during the coming year. Miss Kane is a native of Philadelphia, of dark
complexion and five feet, seven inches in height. She is an expert swimmer
and a devotee of all outdoor sports.
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April, 1917
Vol. XI, No. 5
The Poor Little Rich Girl
WHAT 15 A GOLDEN HOME AND A LIMOUSINE COM-
PARED TO A MAMMA TO KISS YOU, A PAPA TO
PLAY WITH YOU, AND A PLACE TO MAKE MUDPIES?
By Constance Severance
THERE she goes! Her folks a-grindin' us down so
that she kin have everything an' my Thehna an'
your Teresy can't have nothing ! Ain't it a
wonder we don't have revolutions in this country?"
Two women stood at the corner of Third Avenue '
and Sixtieth Street, in the city of New York. The
speaker, plump, comely, untidy and thirty, clasped
a chubby child by the hand. She and the woman a(
dressed followed a rapidly receding limousine with the
eyes. It had just descended the long Manhattan incline
of Queensborough Bridge, coming in from Long Island.
A footman and a coachman, in white leathers,
corduroys and shiny top-hats, sat in front.
Finely lettered on the limousine door was the
name of a man whose munitions of war were
always east-bound in a dozen vessels ; a
man whose unprosperous metal bed factory
in Bridgeport, turned to the manufac
ture of destruction, had made him ten
times a millionaire. He was playing
the market, now — successfully ; his
wife was playing society^unsuc-
cessfully.
The description has followed
what seem unimportant material
details. But really these were the
all-important details. The sweet-
faced little girl in the car, with
her sensitive, gentle mouth ; her
wondering eyes and her marked ex-
pression of loneliness, was quite un-
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important except in tlie eyes of such utter ment house. Right alongside was one of
outsiders as these two females. They gazed the finest of the blue-blood homes, and the
at her with hatred in their eyes, but could owners, scandalized at the hotelish invasion,
thev have known the truth they would not had leased their sacred dwelling to Gwen-
have exchanged her lot for the sordid con- dolyn's papa, and had moved to Tuxedo.
tent of little Thelma and wee Teresa. In this environment Gwendolyn's drearv
"Let's send the car on and walk. Miss little life ran ou day after day. She was
Royle !" glad to say that Miss Royle did not often
The governess bent a marble stare upon go riding with her. for Miss Royle was
her too-human charge. Turning, she exact as a cash-register, cold as ice and as
sighed and straightened an imaginary wrin- ornamental as a lath. Most often Jane,
kle in the child's white lace collar. (Gwendolyn's nurse, accompanied her on
"GAvendolyn. I am astonished." these semi-royal rolls through town, and
"There's such a lot of little girls. Miss Jane was at least exciting. Jane had some
Royle — " sentimental novels, and, the gossip of the
"Brats, you mean I" "THE POOR LITTLE RICH other servants seldom giv-
"I never have a n y GIRL" '"S ^^^^ leisure to read
fun !" Gwendolyn began >-pHIS narration has been made, ^'^^^ at home, she took
to cry. Miss Royle sighed 1 by permission, from the them in the machine,
again, a sigh of exasper- screen production by the Artcraft holding them low in her
ated resignation. Film Corporation ; this, in turn, |,, ^,^^ ^^^im the big
,„,,, ? , .,, . , was adapted from the stage plav ' ^ i i ■
" 1 he Lord will pumsh ^f j,,^ same name by Eleanor motor was t r u n d 1 1 n g
you if you say such things, Gates. The film version has the through the great proces-
vou ungrateful girl I Why, following- cast : sion on Fifth Avenue she
TOU have everything :" ' Gtiv,,|/,)/v;,. . . . . Mary Picktord read greedily. Theex-
- ,,^ , , , - ", . , Her Mother. . .Maaehne Traverse .. j. r ' r^ , ,
"I d(mt have anything! Her father Charles Wellesley citement tor Gwendolyn
Mamma doesn't even /a;if, the nurse. .Gladys Fairbanks came at the moments she
come in to kiss me good- The Plumber. ..: .Frank McGlynn interrupted Jane.
night, now. and papa TheOrganGrnlderEnu\cL■aCro^x "Keep still or I'll give
'=',', . , ^ ' Miss Koyle, the governess ^ ,^■ „> ^t
won t play with me, and _ _ Marcia Harris Y^ to a p liceman ! threat-
I never see any little girls. Thomas, footman, Charles Craig ened Jane, most often. Or
and thev whipped me just Pof^^r. the butler. Frank Andrews again: "Shut up or I'll
because' I wanted to make J^Y ^"'nTl r^'^'^^'l P"°'' pitcli ye out and ve'U get
.... Johnnx HlalxW George Gernon , , 'j , ^ 'j ^i i,.
mud-pies m the conserva- ' lost and starve to death !
torv — " So (iwendolyn interrupted her a great
"Spoiling a lace dress that must have deal, hoping that she would make good.
cost your poor, hard-working papa at least Gwendolyn thought being given to a police-
a hundred dollars !" man would be cpite a fine adventure, for
"I don't care — I never have any fun !" all the policemen she knew were great sol-
"Gwendolyn ! If you die do vou know dierly fellows Wlio smiled and tipped their
where you'll go?" caj)s when she waved her hands at them.
(Gwendolyn was silent a full minute. .Vnd, as for being lost and starving — the
"If there'd be anybody there for me to little girl thought up some perfectly won-
play with I wouldn't care where I went," derful adventures she could have before
.she whispered, brokenly. she gin'te star^■ed. Once, tiring of Jane's
"Oh !" exclaimed Miss Rovle, wordless timidity in fulfilling these horrifying prom-
at this infantile blasphemy. ises, G\\endolyn unlatched the limousine
The English motor stopped soundlessly door and volunteered as a lost starver, but
near one of the new apartment houses unfortunately Jane caught her arm, and,
which, rising like towers over Central Park, wrenching it cruelly, yanked her back in
are cursed by the genuine aristocracy and the machine. (Gwendolyn was careful about
are pointed out with gusto bv the vocifer- volunteering after that, because she remem-
ators of the rubber-neck wagons, who tell bered. always, that Jane had slapped her
their pop-eyed customers that you must mouth and cut her lip. so she couldn't eat
rent a whole floor or nothing, and that a any supper. Jane told her mother that the
floor will cost you twelve thousand a year. child bumped her face on the door itself.
No, Gwendolyn did not live in the apart- trying to run away, but Gwendolyn couldn't
The Poor Little Rich Girl
29
remember even touching the door, except
with her fingers. Thereafter Jane and Pot-
ter united forces to frighten Gwendolyn
into quietude whenever they went upon an
expedition.
The biggest event in Gwendolyn's life
took place on the dullest of spring after-
noons. She was alone, standing at the open
window of her nursery, when Audisio, au
aged organ grinder who had been a street-
musician in Italy, came over to the avenue
with his manual musical motor and its
mince-pie of Verdi and Irving Berlin. The
fact that the "Miserere" was slightly oft"
key and had asthma in three of its notes
did not worry Gwendolyn, who was sure
that she had never heard such delightful
Thereafter Jane and
Potter united Jorces to
frighten Gwendolyn
into Quietude when-
ever they went upon
an expedition.
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"That's just wonderful, sir!" she cried
from the window. "I'll bet if my papa
could hear you he'd give you a whole lot
of money."
Hospitality clutched her.
"Won't you come in " she whispered
ecstatically. "You an' me can have a
'musicale.' That's what mv mamma goes
to all the time. Nursie left me two tea-
cakes and you can have one and all my
milk for I just hate milk — come on ! I'll
open the door !"
Now Audisio. though he had not been
largelv entertained in F"ifth Avenue homes,
warmed to the smile of a child, and. seeing
her at the big front door, he bowed and
The Poor Little Rich Girl
31
Gwendolyn had climbed on the big marble wash-
bowl in her room to paint the brass light-fixture
with white tooth-paste. Down came bowl and girl,
on flew Miss Royle's raucous voice and Jane's heavy
hand — dear, dear, things were dreadful !
hobbled in stiffly with his discord- wringer
slung from his shoulder.
"Had you rather give your concert first,
or'd you rather have tea first " asked his
hostess, making one of her forty dolls stand
up that the great musician might sit 'down.
"Wella. ... I do nota want anyteeng,
Mees !" Audisio smiled and spread his
hands deprecatingly. Gwendolyn ap-
proached, looking very wise. She laid her
hands on his knees and gazed at him with
her head on one side, like a parrot.
"I bet I know wliose papa you are!"
she murmured witli an air of triumphant
finality.
"Papa? . . . No."
"Yes, you are! You're Mr. Caruso's
papa. • Mama took me once to hear him in
the afternoon at the Plaza !"
"Ah, Cams' ! Voce divino !" The old
man laughed silently, and kissed his fingers
to the ceiling Avith an air ever so delicate
and wonderful, Gwendolyn thought. Why
didn't her papa do that when he spoke
admiringly of Mr. Morgan
Now it happened that Gwendolyn had
been an exceedingly bad. little girl, and
had climbed on the big marble washbowl
in her room to paint the brass light fixture
with tooth-paste (the room was white, the
tooth-paste was white, and why did the
foolish people who made that bathroom put
a brass fixture in a white room?) much to
the washbowls detriment. It was an old
washbowl, and Gwen wasn't exactly a
feather, so down came bowl and girl, and on
flew Miss Royle's raucous voice and Jane's
heavy ready hand — dear, dear, things were
dreadful ! But at any rate, as we started
to say, there was a plumber there repairing
all this (jwendolian damage ; and as the
soiree musicale below was just finishing the
eating stage, down came the plumber with
a coil of lead pipe curled handsomely over
one shoulder. Gwendolyn espied him, go-
ing through the back hallway.
"(^h. there's my piper!" she cried, hop-
skipping toward the astonished trade union-
ist.
"You're -a<liat f" questioned the plumber.
"My piper! You must play that . .
that that, at my musicale!"
"Let the dago play," protested the
piper, dragged unwilling toward the artis-
tic arena. "I'll be aujience. How much
is it — a coupla pins to git in?"
So the party proceeded, presently with
the addition of Johnny Blake, a newsboy
who lived just around the corner on Madi-
son avenue, and who often waved at Gwen-
dolyn as he went down the avenue toward
his midtown stand.
As yet, mind you. there'd been no music.
The arrangements of impresari! are often
so tedious and difficult in consummation !
At length the grand affair was all set,
the plumber consented to hum something,
and at Johnny's suggestion, Gwendolyn
decided to be her own Ruth St. Denis.
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Away they went, Audisio grind-
ing- out the "Lucia" sextette,
Johnny clapping an accompani-
ment, and the i)lumber blowing an
oom-pah bass into his leaden coil.
(Gwendolyn essayed a terpsichorean
movement wliich we miglit call the
viirserx Intccluviah' . when —
The first strains of Audisio's
rheumatic melody reached the
kitchen, where Thomas, the foot-
man, and Potter the butler, were
having their fortunes told in cards
by Jane. Scarce believing their
sanctimonious ears, Thomas and
Potter rose in sucli liaste tliat they
almost upset the tal)le. in anotlter
moment they, and the outraged
Jane, were at the front of the
house. Potter pounced upon Audi-
sio. the plumljer lield onto the
Italian. Johnny clutched the
plumber, Crwendolyn — crying —
vowed not to lose Johnny, and
Jane^ formed the tail of this kite
of misfortune, as she savagely
tried to yank her charge from the
whole plel)eian entanglement. And
u])on the battle descended (iwen-
dolvn's mother.
"I'm sure I do everything to
please her. ma'am," murmured the
humble Jane, "and I just want her
to let me know what she wants !"
She curtseyed and smiled a sweet
carbolic smile.
"You mustn't do things to dis-
please Jane," murmured her moth-
er, stroking (Gwendolyn's hair.
"You know she loves you so
much !"
With the liestowal of a green-
back to Audisio, the soiree ended.
"Come, dearie," murmured Jane, dulcetly. "Let's go up
to the nursery and play with your own little things !" Once
out of mother's sight : "You pull another stunt like this on
me, you impident little minx, and I'll lock you up in your
closet for a whole dav !"
"Oh, Jane, not that !" cried Gwendolyn, terror-struck at
last. "I am afraid of the dark. You know I'm afraid of the
dark !"
"Then you behave yourself!" concluded Jane, grimly.
Bye and bye Gwendolyn's eleventh birthday came. There
were presents and presents, but Gwen liked best a little bird
in a golden cage. The cage was small, but it was wonderful,
and the bird sang sweetly within it. Gwendolyn found an
unconscious kinship with the little prisoned bird.
Potter pounced upon Audisio,
— vowed not to
the
lose
The Poor Little Rich Girl
33
plumber held onto the Italian, Johnny clutched the plumber, Gwendolyn ■
Johnny, and Jane formed the tail of this kite of misfortune.
■ crying
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In the evening her mother in\-ited in
many friends. Gwendolyn was never hap-
pier—she thought it all her party, until,
at 7, they sent her to bed. Then she was
heart-broken. She should have understood,
of course, that to a lady who would rise
in society, functions must have legitimate
excuses. Her manuna would rise, and took
the legitimate excuse of her little girl's
birthdav to invite in those wlio would give
tone to her establishment. Of course.
(.Gwendolyn herself didn't matter. So, and
also of course, she went to bed.
But she couldn't sleep.
Slie remembered the ragged little girl on
Third avenue, and she wished she could
change places with lier. She thought, too,
how lovely it would be to be kept in jail
by some nice, friendly policeman ; or how
exciting to be lost and starving to deatli.
.Suddenlv she saw jane ap])roaching the
jIl.
bed. a large table-spoon
in one hand, a bottle in
the other.
"But I'm not
sick, and I don't
w ant any cas-
tor-oil I" protested
Gwendolyn, in her
shrill, clear little
\'oice.
"I'iiis aint cas-
tor-oil. It's medi-
cine. You take it or I'll put you /// thr
closet all night:"
Gwendolyn gulped tlie lii|ui(l alterna-
tive to this horror very (juicklv.
It was jane's night on. but. with
Thomas, she wi.shed to attend a vaudeville
show not two blocks away. What harm?
Besides, Thomas himself had procured the
sleeping-potion from the drug-store; and,
to make .sure, she had given Gwendolyn
a doulile dose.
Downstairs tlie party went on. but
somehow there wasn't much life to a little
girl's birthday party without a little girl,
and the folks, pleading engagements of
various sorts, left early.
"Is Gwendolyn sleeping well?" called
ler mother, pausing at the door of her own
room. There was no answer. "Jane !"
she cried, in a vexed tone. Silence. She
turned quickly toward the nursery.
At the threshold the siglit that met her
eyes rebuffed her foreboding of disaster.
The rays of the moon, striking in bril-
liantly tlirough tlie diamond-paned win-
dow, fell across tlie bed, upon which the
child lay quietly, her head on one side, her
wee hands relaxed across lier breast. A mist
blurred the motlier's vision a moment.
How little she -had thouglit of her liaby !
^ After all. did these bauliles of fashion
Gwendolyn
found an
uncoyiscious
kinship with
the little
prisoned bird.
The Poor Little Rich Girl
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If ivas a real, winding horn that "Mr. Piper" had now. Given was glad to note; he and "Mr. Grinder"
looked ever so much younger and happier.
atone for the neglect of a child? She came
toward the bed, stepping carefully, so as
not to waken her. She bent down and
pressed her lips against the childish fore-
head.
I'hat forehead was cold as marble, and
all respiratory movement seemed stilled.
The sudden wild cry of a mother who
finds she has awakened too late rang
through the whole great house.
A S for Gwendolyn ... for the first
**'^ time since her little babyhood, she was
truly happy.
Awakening, as she thought, from too
heavy sleep, her head had ached just
dreadfully. Then the headache went
away, and, somehow — she didn't know how
— she found herself in front of her father's
great house. It was nig^ht and winter,
but it was not cold. And she wore what
she had longed and longed for — a gin-
gham apron ! And there were her friends,
Audisio, the old musician, and the merry
piper. It was a real, winding horn that
"Mr. Piper" had now, Gwen was glad to
note; and "Mr. Grinder" looked ever so
much younger and happier. Had he for-
gotten the music-box? Gwendolyn was
afraid — no, he had it, safe enough !
She was so overjoyed in meeting her two
friends again that she did not notice the
journey to tJw tcU-tale j or est, or even know
the way they came.
But they were there, anyway, and she
began to see things in their true light.
For instance, she had once heard her
papa call Potter, the butler, a silly ass.
She had wanted to ask papa what he meant
by that, because Potter didn't look in the
least like the pictures of an ass in her ani-
mal-book. But perhaps a silly ass was dif-
ferent from a regular ass. And Jane, once
upon a time, had remarked to Miss Royle
that Thomas was "all ears." Upon ask-
ing Thomas why Miss Royle called him
"all ears," he had cryptically replied that
Miss Royle was "a snake in the grass."
So Gwendolyn was more puzzled than ever.
And I^re they were, just as the others
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said they were! Potter, cavorting with
high flung lieels, resembled the noblest of
donkeys. Thomas had grown a pair of
ears big as his head. And, in a sinister
slide, came Miss Royle, a veritable serpent
in the undergrowth !
Gwendolyn had scarcely time to note
these wonderful natural curiosities, for the
insistent movement of their party. She
was fairly dizzy with the excitement of
it. Mr. Grinder was at the head, rolling
out the merriest of marches, with Mr.
Piper blowing a noble obligato behind him.
Though they were going, Gwendolyn
could scarcely see where they were going.
. . . it was all dark, outside their little
circle of light . . . anyway. Big Ears.
Silly Ass and Snake in the Grass kept
coming right along.
Presently there was brilliance everywliere
— above, below, on every side.
"Where — ?" queried (jweiidolyn. too
overwhelmed to ask more.
"This," said Mr. Grinder, is the loud of
lights"
"It's where the light comes every time
it goes out !" whispered Mr. Piper.
"Oh, is It?" echoed Gwendolyn. "I've
always wanted to find this place."
Suddenly— who ? Her father !
"Papa ! Papa !" called Gwendolyn,
ecstatically. He paid no attention, and
even in the midst of her new-found happi-
ness the child's lips curled in woe.
"He is too busy riding his hobby," wihis-
pered Mr. Grinder. And, sure enough, he
was. It was a crazy sort of thing, too.
Gwendolyn laughed, reflecting that, even
though she were just a little girl, she
wouldn't ride a silly old hobby like that
one. And how his suit clanked and rattled,
as though he were sheathed in ill-fitting
armor. Looking more closely, his daugh-
ter saAv that his garments were woven of
nothing but coins.
Terror came to the child's heart when
she saw her mother dash in, oblivious to
everything except the urge of the social bee
firmly fixed in her bonnet.
"Help mamma!" she cried. "That
naughty bee is just stinging her to pieces !"
"On the contrary," answered the piper,
smiling a little as he licked his blown-dry
lips, "she enjoys it. You'll observe that
even as she jumps around she's smiling."
"Won't she ever make it go 'way?" asked
the child, timidly.
"Some day." said the piptr. "she'll won-
der why she ever entertained it so long."
"On !" shouted Mr. Grinder at this junc-
ture. And they all began to move.
It was a fiercer, more dizzying move-
ment than they had yet made. Everything
seemed dark and blurry to Gwendolyn as
they sped along, and she felt just a little
sick and queer. Nevertheless, she had the
utmost confidence in Mr. Piper and she
realized tliat if they were rushing, it was
because they just had to get some place
immediately, if not sooner.
When they stopped, she couldn't see Mr.
(irinder, and she was quite disconcerted,
especially as there was a tumult about her,
and the most unpleasant people. Suddenly
Ills voice came in her ear.
"This." he said pleasantly enough, "is
Robin Hood's barn, and we are going
around it."
Robin Hood's barn wasn't altogether a
peaceful place, as Gwen's procession cir-
cled it. There were numberless beauti-
ful peacocks, but they were all fighting
angrily, or squawking fiercely at (iwen-
dolyn. And they had human faces ! Most
of them Gwen had seen ; they were women
who came to her house and smirked at
her, above their decollete gowns, as she
was being carried spitefully to bed.
And there were great crocodiles, too.
shedding numerous tears into the Lily
Pool which seemed to spring up in front
of Gwendolyn. It was just the sort of
pool they had in the conservatory at home,
and it looked like it, except that it was
much bigger. Gwendolyn wanted, oh so
much, to make mud pies in the tempting
black soil that bordered it — but there were
the .sorrowful crocodiles !
Backing away from this enchanted water,
she found herself in a street where bulls
and bears were rampaging at will. It was
a walled street, and the high barriers gave
her no opportunity to escape.
Gwendolyn was so frightened by the
great brutish creatures that she didn't no-
tice whether Silly Ass, or Big Ears, or
Snake in the Grass were now accompany-
ing her. She didn't even wait for the good
humor of Mr. Piper, or the wise counsel of
Mr. Grinder. She fled precipitately, for
there was a gate at the end of the street,
and it might be open.
Her papa was at the gate, and a great
{Continued on page 156)
She Really Admits They're Hers
Ethel Barrymore, like the legendary Roman mother, calls her children her jewels. Beginning with the charming child on
the left you see Ethel Barrymore Colt, four years old; John Drew Colt, three, and Samuel P. Colt, a grown man of seven.
Probably Mrs. Colt would tell even an answer man about them.
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A Jill of All Trades
SHE
VAMPS,
AND WRITES
AND
LECTURES .
TOO. AND
SOMETIMES
SHE'S AN
INGENUE
DOING five things — at
different times, of course
— is great fun when
you've got the ability coupled
with plenty of pep. That's what
Nell Shipman has done. She's
first of all a film actress and a
good one. Her last screen ap-
pearance was in "The Lone
Wolf" opposite Lou-Tellegen.
Her No. 2 pastime — though,
she may list it as an "occupa-
tion"— is writing. Oh, just a
few little things like novels,
and short stories and scenarios
an of them bought and
paid for.
Her No. 3 job is lec-
turing — she's been
stumping it for Vita-
graph.
Four is that of
legitimate actress
and No. 5 is being
manager of her own
theatrical company,
which she took
twice to Alaska.
Her pictures
here displayed
s h o w her
equally presentable as ingenue,
vamp, lead and authoress.
Miss Shijiman's entrance in
films was unpremeditated. She
went to the coast armed with
some scenarios for sale. They
sold and at good prices. Then
a director suggested she appear
in one of them and so Nell
blossomed out in "God's Coun-
try and the Woman." a Vita-
graph. She was so successful
in this that she decided to keep
up both writing and acting.
Babylonian embroidered bor-
derings and bandings and the
front hanging stole girdle of
Attarea's frocks as seen in a
new spring model.
Back to Babylon for
New Fashions
THE SCREEN'S A GENUINE STYLE -CREATOR,
FOR THE "PRINCESS BELOVED" IS INSPIRING
THE MODISTES OF FIFTH AVENUE
By Lillian Howard
Drawings by Eleanor Howard
AFTER a strenuous, eye-
fatiguing, and conse-
quently brain-fagging day
spent in viewing oiferings of the
choicest modes ateliers
of Fifth avenue, were a
present day Mrs. Abou
Ben Adam experiencing
her resurrection dream,
asked to sit in judgment
in a fashion contest of
the forthcoming femi-
nine resurrectionists, she
must needs name Atta-
rea, beloved of Belshaz-
zar, as the lady who led
all the rest. Which
means that since the
production of Griffith's pic-
ture "Intolerance," the Bab-
ylonian note is conspicu-
ously evident as the last
word in gowning.
Attarea herself, were she
to come to life in an opera
box garbed in her robe of
state of straight cut shim-
mering metal tissue with its
shoulder-hung court train of
velvet, cut to a deeply point-
ing decollete back-
line, would present a fashion-
ably up-to-the-minute pic-
ture. Her coiffure in the
original might furnish a
sensational paragraph or
so for society reporters. And
were she to be found lunching
at the Biltmore in one of her
heavily embroidered and
fringed morning frocks girdled
at the waist with a stole sash, no
one would consider it a twenty-
five hundred years old frock in
the light of present displays.
A modem Attarea at the opera
in a gown of silver tissue with
spangled bodice and low hung
girdle. Rose colored velvet
mantle train hung from the
shoulders and embroidered in
silver.
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Indeed, had Attarea not slain herself before the Persians,
but were she held in a state of hypnotism and brought to life
in some clothes emporium, she would undoubtedly have felt
sufficiently at home to withstand the transition shock.
When "Intolerance" brought us Babylonian modes, straight-
way the designers took notice. They had dabbled the past
season in medieval inspirations of slashed sleeves, pointed
bodices and moyen-age waist-lines with full,- gathered skirts.
but the real inspiration of the day came when they
gazed upon the filmed ladies of Belshazzar's court.
Paris for some time past has been seeking to introduce
needlework as a trimming in all its -possibilities, as a
means of aiding her women left as sole providers for
the families while the men are at the front. Here in the
Babylonian inspired modes, needlework comes into all
its glory.
The ancient Babylonians used five symbols in the em-
broideries which were a conspicuous feature of their
robes. These designs were embroidered on neck bands
and the deep borders which finished the hems of their
garments, also for that most distinctive feature of these
straight hung dresses, the broad, encircling hip-girdle
with its stole ends. Sometmes the girdle was twice
wound about, at the waistline and again below, to hang
down the front in stolff ends.
These girdles were heavily
embroidered in silks o r
jewels, as the status of the
lady's liege lord might be.
A fringed silken sash end,
extending well down to
One-piece street
frock, which is
nothing but an
Assyrian garment
slightly modified
for the
Filth Avenue
Girl of 1917.
Fifth \venue
evenmg frock of
mauve chiffon
banded in spangles
of a deeper tone —
a true Chaldean
inspiration.
the hem of the garment,
often replaced the nar-
rower stole ends.
Here enters our new
spring chemise frock in
straight-lined silhouette
with its embroideries,
fringed bottom and en-
girdling sash, tying not to
back or side as has been
the way heretofore of reg-
ulation sashes, but always
draping the front of the gown after the manner of
Babylonian girdling.
Fashion as well as anything else can be used to
demonstrate that there is really nothing new in ideas in
this world of ours. You who indulge in a spring frock
of the new up and down lines, with its heavy em-
broidered bandings and borders, and its sash tied low
in the front, think you not that here you have the
newest of the new. Just some such frock in gen-
eral contour hung in the wardrobe of one Miss
Attarea of Babylonia some several hundred B. C.
The brain-fagged modistes, having appropri-
ated everything wearable from Nijni-Novgorod
to Waikiki, welcomed Mr. Grffith's revelation.
Of the "Younger Set"
BUT ALMA REUBEN 15 UP
AMONG THE STARS TO STAY
JUST a little more than a year ago she
was a student in the convent of the
Sacred Heart, San Francisco.
Now, in her twentieth year, she is
one of the increasingly bright
luminaries of the "younger set"
in celluloid stellar circles.
She had her first venture in
a Vitagraph picture Ijut
first attained recogni-
tion in "The Half
Breed" with Douglas
Fairbanks. Ever since
then no cast has ever
contained her name
properly spelled.
The unsimplified way
is Alma Reuben,
although strenuous efforts have
been made to make it Rueben.
Reubens, Ruben or Ruebens.
Despite this bucolic cognomen.
its wearer has steadily pro-
gressed along "The Olory Road."
She shared honors with ^^^illiam '-j
Hart in "Truthful Tulliver" and won
encomiums — a word in high repute with
press agent.s — opposite Douglas Fairbank
in his Triangle swan song, "The Ameri
cano."
Miss Reuben's profile
is very reminiscent of
Marie Doro's side
view. She is a
"native daugh-
t e r" having
taken her
first slant
at life in the city by the (lolden Gate, way
back in 1897, so she is in
the pioneer class even
if not a 49'er,
and she can
even recall
the big
"■> shake.
/^^
A little gloom in
Paragonia. Miss
Reuben and Mr.
Fairbanks in
' ' The A mericano. "
An Essay on
w
AND IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT'S
ANNETTE, JUST READ THE STORY
ERE it not for the little picture at
the left, it is doubtful if many film
enthusiasts would recognize this as
a story about Annette Kellermann, upon
whom all of Mr. Webster's stock of adjec-
tives pertaining to feminine physical love-
liness have been utilized at some time or
other.
Clothes may make the man as some
cynics have observed, but a Kel-
- lermann with clothes is as far
from a "Daughter of the Gods"
as — well, make your own com-
parison. But it is clothes that
Clothes
makes this a very remark-
able pair of pages be-
cause it is the first time in
history that a story about
the divinely proportioned
Annette was unaccom-
panied by photographs
illustrating the aforemen-
tioned proportions uncon-
cealed by aught hut an
alleged bathing suit.
When not engaged in
her aquatic profession,
Miss Kellermann is at her
home on Little Neck Bay.
Here she mows the lawn
— anyhow somebody does
because there is a lawn-
mower in the picture —
and plays with "Chooie,"
her French bull, who is
co-starred in this feature,
so to speak, with the fair
Annette.
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On
Location : —
Midland
DON'T get the idea that the United States,
pictorially, is composed of two coasts and
a vacancy. While there are many more com-
panies at the edges of the Atlantic and Pacific
than there are in the great prairies of the
Middle West, at least three of the world's
biggest picture organizations are to be found in
Chicago, and many of their camera volleys
have been fired in or about that mighty market-
place.
As a matter of fact, Chicago's practicality
has received universal advertising at the ex-
pense of much of its pronounced loveliness.
Its great park system, its wonderful homes a
long the shore of Lake Michigan — a strand of
splendor graphically known as "The Gold
Coast" — the Lake itself, its northerly woods,
the wonderful "dune country" of Indiana
adjacent on the south, and its scores of boule-
vard miles are features usuallv buried in the
thick commercial sandwich of the Stock Yards
and the Board of Trade.
On Location: Midland
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Who was it called Chicago's Michigan
Avenue "The American Champs Elysees"?
Not that it matters, but we wanted to congratu-
'.fo H"" °" '^^'"^ * '^'^^*' P''^''^' °^ names.
"Boul Mich," as Chicagoans affectionately
nickname their magnificent thoroughfare, is a
street of the mighty in many ways. It is one-
sided, facing Grant Park. In its boulevard
width It extends for much more than a mile,
through the heart of the city's waterfront. On
Us west extension rises a sky-ripping phalanx of
Chicago's great office buildings and celebrated
hotels. On the East, grassy sward, monuments,
and the depressed tracks of the Illinois Central,
riow probably in its last years as a smoker.
")e only edifice on the east side of this part of
Michigan avenue is the Chicago Art Institute,
the nation's second largest repository of the
marbles and canvases of genius. It is the
leonme facade of this great museum which rises
ike a Corinthian temple at the left of these
lines. The Art Institute in its latest extension
goes quite across the sunken railway trunk lines,
and abuts upon the aviation field where numerous
American records have been made — and broken
again. And at the end of the aviation field is
America's biggest municipal pier.
Here is the famous
allegorical fountain of
"The Five Lakes," lo-
cated in Chicago's Grant
Pa rk. Do you see
Superior pouring her flood
of fresh water into the
basin of the next sister in
line — and so on until the
bright tide slips over a
little allegorical Niagara
into an allegorical On-
tario, and so on to an
allegorical sea?
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On Location: Midland
47
i
Above, a slope in Chicago's
Lincoln Park, and the pretty
viaduct shudderingly referred to
as "Suicide Bridge." Just
why, nobody seems to know.
At any rate, this stretch of water
is declared to be more like
the Thames than any other
piece of fluid in America, and
upon this bridge many a camera
has been set to inturn a Thames
regatta. At the right runs State
street, Chicago's most redoubt-
able retail thoroughfare. A
block beyond the tall white
building at the left is the
junction of State and .Madison
streets, which traffic experts
have just figured out is the
busiest comer in the world.
At the left is the loggia of
the great Northwestern Rail-
way Station in Chicago. This
has been used for concourses of
various screen sorts — at the
moment we remember, partic-
ularly, "A Black Sheep," the
Hoyt play which Selig pro-
duced. Also of interest is the
fact that up and down these
stairs tramp most of the world's
picture stars, going to or coming
from California. There are no
genuine transcontinental trains,
you know.
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Above, the great conservatory in Chicago's
Lincoln Park. The whole series of Selig-
Hoyt comedies blossomed here. At the left
is "Starved Rock, " one of the beauty spots
of Northern Illinois. Tradition hath it that
some unfeeling red men, in the days when
Indians had other jobs than standing in
front of cigar stores or appearmg in Buffalo
Bill's show, penned some white folks there,
and left them, until, having no caviare or
potage or pate or patisserie, they jusl up
and died. However — you've seen this in
"The Prince of Graustark, " and many
another piece. Below, the Field Colum-
bian Museum, in the old World's Fair
grounds, Chicago. This venerable pile of
staff comes in quite handy in many ways.
Did you observe it in the Pavlowa picture,
"The Dumb Girl of Portici"?
A Cheerful Anarchist
AND WHY SHOULDN'T
HE BE? HE HAS A
HIGH CASH VALUE
By
Betty
Shannon
GKORGE ARLISS, the "Disraeli" of
the English stage, once referred to
our subject as "that cheerful anarch-
ist and dear pal, Richard Bennett."'
And in that the esteemed Mr. Bennett
is very accurately described, as will be rec-
ognized by those accjuainted with his own
peculiar, personal art of stage and picture.
Mr. Bennett is a perambulating protago-
nist for liberty, the rights of men, free
speech and any number df other perfectly
plain Causes which so many of us recog-
nize on the street but never personally be-
friend.
A considerable ways back yonder Rich-
ard Bennett started out at Niblo's Garden
in New "'ork — in 1891 — as Tombstone
Jake in "Tne Limited Mail," thereby open-
ing up a highly picturesque career. Ben-
nett's rather sensational stage success in
"Damaged Goods." relatively recent in his
stage history, opened for him his motion
picture opportunity, when Samuel S.
Hutchinson induced the actor to translate
the production into pictures with the origi-
nal Broadway cast. "Damaged Goods" on
the stage is said to have netted Mr. Ben- ,
Well, who
hasn't wanted
to do something
undignified
in court?
iiett tlie interesting total of a c^uarter of a
million dollars and the picture version on
the first edition is credited with doing a
business in total admissions for the theatres
of approximately a million and a half dol-
lars. The distributors of the film "Dam-
aged Goods," have admitted gross rentals
from picture theatres of in excess of
$250,000 — and now the picture is about to
go out again in a new second edition.
All of which is interesting as to the cash
value of being "a cheerful anarchist."
There is something about Mr. Bennett's
cheerful anarchy that is reminiscent of the
assurance of a millionaire socialist.
Bennett being of the material of genius
has his whimsies aplenty. No less an
authority than Adrienne Morrison, who is
Mrs. Richard Bennett in private life, has
testified to the characteristic absent-mind-
edness of her gifted husband, and insists
that he has never been rivaled even by that
famous entomologist who chased a mid-
night moth from his own bedroom light
down a fire-escape and through the for-
bidden precincts of a female seminary,
wearing the while the major portion of
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some pink pajamas and an air of concen-
tration.
Much of Bennett's subtlety in "Philip
Holden, Waster," was spontaneous with
him. For instance, in the scene where he
is reproached by his brother-in-law for
scribbling at novels while he hasn't a cent
in the world, Eennett turns on him, pipe
in mouth, witli the whimsical declara-
tion that while he had supposed him-
self broke the bank insists he has
$1,200 on deposit.
"If they admit
it," says Ben-
nett, "it must
be so, what?"
Dick Ben-
nett at home
1 s really
Dick Bennett at his best. He is a whole-
]iearted lover of children, especially, of his
own children, and is the father of two little
girls who give "Daddy" no rest once he
gets home. There are five cats, eleven dogs,
a tame deer and innumerable birds in the
{Continued on page 154)
Mr. Bennett
and his two
daughters are
great pals.
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Some of dese comejens has a habit of when I am all wrapped
up in me art, to get behind a set and holler "Props!"
Fi^htin^ for Fame
PETE PROPS PULLS SOME REAL
BATTLE STUFF BUT HIS RIDING
CAN STAND SOME IMPROVEMENT
By Kenneth McGaffey
Illustrations by E. W. Gale, Jr
GOSH ! I gotta go down an get me
pitcher tooken. Here I might get
a mash note any minute an not a
pitcher of me in de house. I'm all upset
cause I don't know whether to get it took
in a spnort shirt, or wid a black necktie
wrapped seven or eight times aroun me
collar. I got de cigarette to hold in me
hand all right so dey M-ill know dat T am
a actor but I should wear one of de odders
so dat de public will know dat I am a gen-
uine because I wear funny clothes.
I'm gettin along fine as a actor. All de
time I am tinkin up new pieces of busi-
ness for meself to do. De odder day my
director — do you get dat "my director"
stuff? — well, de odder day my director tells
me to be mad at someting, to register anger,
so I lights a cigarette, takes one puff, an
trows it on de floor. He said it was great
an would help make de pitcher.
I gotta get a new leadin woman too. Dis
one I got keeps trying to hog all de scenes
an T have had to have my director speak
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She standin on de back of de horse wid one leg in de air an wavin
de Merican flag like a wire walker.
to her several times. An den dey don't give
me de right kind of support. I gotta have
a better cast. Dey can't expect me to carry
de whole fillum meself.
I am woikin on a pitcher now dat I ex-
pect will be a sensation if dey gives me
enough close-ups. It's called "De Battle
of Life," or "In at de Death." I'm a gay
young American what falls in love wid a
beautiful Mexican pianola who is de daugh-
ter of a wealty Don in disguise an only
pretends to be related to de peons she is
livin wid, to test me love. I get mixed
up wid a lotta international complexions an
finally by wavin de Mer-
ican flag an me trusty re-
volver for thirty feet, save
de whole country from
bein massaged an de goil
I love does a fall into me
waitin arms.
Dere is a couple of
swell fights in it an I get
a chanct to clean up some
of de hams aroun de
studio dat didn't know I
was a artist in disgust
when I was rompin wid
de props. Some of dese
lomejens has a habit of
when I am all wrapped
up in me art an probably
doing a lot of emotionin,
to get behind a set an yell
"Props!" just to make me
jump.
Dere is a bunch of
scenes where dese come-
jens all dolled up like
Greasers try to steal de
pianola. I am prancin
down de street an dey get
a close-up of me hearin
her yelp for assistance an
I come bustin into de
room an lick all dese guys,
an carry de goil back to
her home dat dey had kid-
naped her from.
Me director rehearses
dis fight stuff real gentle
like. I make a pass at one
of de guys an he is sup-
posed to drop dead wid
me fist a foot from his
beak. Den I muss up de
Right in dere I suggest a great
Dere is a lamp in de
odders.
piece of business,
room an' I suggest dat I pick it up an trow
it at one of dem. Say ! de director nearly
fell off de Christmas tree ! He said it was
a entirely new piece of business an walked
all around me wonderin how I thought
of it. He said it would be de hit of de
pitcher an in all de advertisin dey would
say — "See de Great Lamp Throwing Scene
in de Battle of Life" — a real lamp actually
trown at a live actor regardless of expense.
Yessir, — I created dat stunt all by meself.
Dey tell me dat somebody else has used it
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since but I am here to tell you dat I in-
vented it.
We spend several hours rehearsin dis
fight stuff an den de nut director puts two
cameras on it so dere won't be any need
for a retake an I sails in. I busts in de
door an dese hick actors starts for me all
accordin to de rehearsal. Den I started to
clean dem. Believe me, it was some con-
flict ! Dey gets sore an we sure do rough it.
Dey keep me so busy for a while dat I
nearly forgets to trow de lamp. Dere is
one comejen I had it in for particularly
so I don't do a ting but get him down an
den walk all over his map. You could of
heard him yell for a mile. I was so strong
on de scrap dat I forgets all about de
dame I am supposed to rescue, an she had
to do a leap at me so I could save her.
Den I walks into de close-up wid her in
me arms an heaves me chest like a real
hero.
Dere was no pitcliers took any more dat
day. One of de guys said I didn't give him
a good chanct, so I had to take him out
back of de prop room an lick him all over
again. De odders went in an yelled to de
boss an we had quite a argument until I
convinced him dat I was so wrapped up in
me art dat I forgot all about dat it wasn't
a real fight. But de manager says if I
mussed up any more of his talent I would
have to go back rustlin props.
Dis leadin woman of mine is a ex-circus
rider an I have a hard time wid her cause
she wants to finish ever scene wid one of
dese circus poses — kissin de hands to de
audience or doin de old ring bow stuff.
She keeps tellin de nut director dat de cir-
cus stuff would go great an in de scene
where I am supposed to dash in on horse-
back an save her from de mob, she wanted
to do it in her circus ballet skirt an tights
so she could be remembered by her tou-
sands of admirers, dat had seen her under
de canvas. She was a nice girl but I
Believe me, it was some conflict.
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couldn't see her crabbin me technique by
showin her shape.
She put sometin over on me in one scene
dough, dat I don't know wedder to let
her get away wid or not. I aint quite sure
wedder or not it's artistic. In de pitcher
after a lot of fightin an scrappin wid de
Greasers, dere is a scene where I dash into
de ragin throng — grab her up on de back
of me horse an dash away to safety. Dis
dame knows she is a better rider dan me,
seein dat she had been doin de bare-back
stuff .ever since P. T. Barnum was in kilts.
She's all de time puttin burrs under me
saddle so I will get bucked off on me head.
Of course it don't hurt me none, but dese
performers shouldn't be so fresh wid a reg-
lar actor. Den while I am rubbin me bean,
she will jump on her horse an pull a lot
of fancy stuff just to show me up.
We got a mob of about nine hundred
extras in dis scene an dey are shootin an
a'hollerin away, an bangin at de door of
de house wid a batterin ram, an de smoke
pots is shootin out of de windows. I have
just have had a desprit fight wid a flock of
dem an kill a couple of million before I
break troo an come dash in in on me trusty
horse — ridin like a Cossack wid de Bill
show — dey had me tied on so I wouldn't
fall off an waste a lot of fillum
I bust troo, bend down to reach de goil,
but she steps back out of reach — does a
runnin jvunp an lands standin right back
of me saddle, den she sticks one foot up in
de air an holds it next to her head wid
one hand an wid de odder grabs out a
Merican flag an we beat it out of de scene
wid me lookin like I am all shot to pieces
tied to me saddle an she standin on de
back of de horse wid one leg in de air an
wavin de Merican flag like a wire walker.
Now what me an me nut director can't
decide is if it is good stuff or not. I am
sorta fraid it takes de scene away from me,
an if it was shown, might hurt me wid me
public, an de nut director can't quite dope
it out wedder or not de stunt is in keepin
wid de tense dramatic spirit of de pitcher.
I got anudder nice scene. One of dese
bold bad bandits shoots me in de arm so de
brave hero-wine ties a nice white bandage
around it. She tears de bandage from her
skirt which was a idea of me own at that.
I am supposed to be knocked coo-coo an
when I come to, .say "Where am I?" De
director told me dat such original dialogue
was too good for de movies an dat I should
ought to write a drammer for de speakin
stage some Sunday when I aint busy. I
always go down an stand in front of some
pitcher theatre Sunday afternoons so if I
did it at all I would have to do it Sunday
mornin. I may dash off a little somethin
for dis guy Belasco some time when I aint
got too much of a hangover from playin
aroun de Alex bar on' Saturday nights.
I gotta go down dere an talk loud once
a week or oderwise I wouldn't be a regular
actor. I tell de barkeep how good I am
an get a lot of publicity. Den I can tell
him how punk some of dese other hams is
dat are paid for actin an den he knows I'm
good cause I can point out de holes in» dere
technique dat he would never notice. He
was a tellin me de odder night dat meetin
so many actors had sorta spoiled his taste
for pitchers, but he promised to go see me
in me next pitcher.
I gotta go now an read a scenario. De
odder night I forgot an took all of my
make-up off so dere was a lot of people on
de street car didn't know I was a perfes-
sional.
I tell you, in dis business you can't be
too careful.
Talking Only in Millions
TV/ HEN one seventh of the population
'" of the largest city in the world puts
on its hat and says: "C'mon, lets go to the
movies" at least once every day, then the
man and woman who scorns the films ought
at least tO' take a little notice.
It sounds like a big percentage but ac-
cording to Herbert F. Sherwood of the
National Board of Review, that's what
happens in New York City every day.
Some other staggering figures given by
Mr. Sherwood were that 360,000,000 feet,
or 68,000 miles of films were produced in
this country, including duplicates, during
1914. The cost of the films alone was
$37,000,000.
The paid admissions to the 20,000 photo-
play houses scattered around the U. S. A.
were $319,000,000 during the twelve
months of that year.
Selling a Submarine to an Inland Nation Seems an
Impossible Feat of Salesmanship — But Pe^gy Could
Have Sold Wooden Nutmegs in Connecticut
Peg^y Roche
Saleslady
THE ADVENTURE
OF THE
TOWN POND
SUBMARINE
This is the second of a series of amusing adventures of a
remarkable saleslady. The first " The Adventure of the Three
Georgjs," appeared in the March issue. The next, "The Tor-
pedo-Broker of Holland," will appear in May Photoplay.
Peggy waited. It was
two in the morning.
By Victor Rousseau
Illustration
by C h a r 1
e s
D
Mitchell
Y
ou
bested me on that horse-deal
m Palestine. Miss Peggy," ad-
mitted George Hagan, of Jersey-
City, as he sat beside Miss Peggy
Roche upon the porch of the Hotel Magni-
fique of Janina and mopped his bald head.
"And I confess it. And I don't bear no
malice. You're an Al saleslady, Miss
Peggy. Shake !"
Pegg}' extended her hand cordially. She
had come to like fat George Hagan, whom
she had seen at various times since the Pal-
estine episode. George traveled in war
goods for one of the biggest corporations
in the United States, while she represented
the six thousand dollar concern of her
sweetheart, the Byrne War Goods Supply
Company, of Stamford. Connecticut.
"Now I'll be frank with you, Miss
Peggy," continued Hagan, chewing off the
end of a Turkish cigar and lighting it.
"So long as it's to our interest to work to-
gether, we'll work together. When I give
you a tip, it won't be a fake tip. When I
don't say nothing, I'm out for myself."
"Same here," said Peggy.
"Then," said George, "if you'll tell me
what brought you to the Principality of
Janina, I'll tell you what brought me."
"I'll tell you," answered Peggy. "I
thought when I came to Europe that I
could sell anything that was salable. I
didn't know that the whole continent had
been combed about as fine by war drum-
mers as Harlem is by the book agents. I
didn't know it was easier to sell a sewing
machine or patent washer in the Bronx
than it is to sell war goods to any of the
warring powers just now. And then I read
in the papers that Janina, with her four
thousand population and independence dat-
ing back to the year one, was thirsting to
enter the fray. I guessed they wouldn't
have anything but flintlocks and muz/le-
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loaders, and I thought there might be a
chance to unload on them."
"Them's my views exactly," answered
George. "But I guess I've got the pull on
you this time. Miss Peggy." And he
nodded toward a van which had just drawn
up at the hotel door, out of which four
sturdy Greek porters were carrying a huge
packing-case.
"I've got the goods this time," continued
Hagan. "Rifles, ammunition, quick-firers,
blankets — everything except 42 centimetre
guns. And I'm to see the mayor this after-
noon and deliver them. By the way, Miss
Peggy, what's in them cases of yours I see
down to the stage depot?"
"One of our warships — just a sample,"
smiled Peggy.
Hagen threw his head back and emitted
a roar.
"That's rich !" he said. "Say, I wish I'd
have thought of Chat. I guess there ain't
a duck pond in Janina Principality big
enough to float a catboat. Honest, Miss
Peggy, what have you got in them cases?
Because, you see, since you ain't got a
chance of selling anything, I might take it
off your hands at a trifling profit to you.
I've got the right of way here."
"A sample warship," repeated Peggy.
Hagan looked aggrieved. "O, very well !"
he said stUHy, rising. "I guess you don't
have to tell me if you don't want to. Only
you'll find it would have paid to have been
frank, that's all. Come to me for the fare
back to Connecticut when you get busted,
and maybe I'll help you."
He rose with the air of a man whose
friendly advances have been repulsed, and
walked into the little wooden shanty's one
room which served for meals, smoking,
sleeping (when the six bedrooms were all
engaged) and, incidentally, for the monthly
meetings of the Janina Government.
Peggy felt no inclination to answer him.
George Hagan had beaten her to Janina
by one day, and, as he had boasted, he had
the goods with him that time. In fact, he
had staked a great deal upon this venture.
The little mountain principality, which had
an area of some two thousand acres and
had been independent since the beginnings
of European history, had allied herself with
Greece and declared war upon the Albani-
ans, chiefly because the recent smashing
defeat of those mountain tribes had ren-
dered it a safe thing to do. And George
had taken advantage of the extravagant
enthusiasm of Janina to unload upon her
every conceivable kind of war material.
And he was to meet the Mayor-Prince and
municipal council, alias legislative assem-
bly, in the hotel that afternoon.
Even while Peggy sat there she saw
packing-case after packing-case carried into
the hotel and stacked in the single room,
under the direction of Hagan, who occa-
sionally cast a triumphant glance not un-
mixed with malice toward her.
Peggy had told him the truth, because
she could not think of anything else to tell
him. She had brought a vessel of war
across the mountains — nothing less than a
small, new, patent, portable submarine of
Jim Byrne's invention. And she had
brought it to Janina under the hazy belief
that it lay somewhere near Lake Scutari, in-
stead of being miles distant, behind a range
of impassable peaks.
The maps were deceptive, and Peggy had
necessarily to work single-handed. There
was no place within twenty miles where the
submarine could work, unless she placed it
on the five-acre pond that served as the
source of the city's water supply. Peggy
was bested this time — utterly bested by
George Hagan. Everything that could be
sold Hagan would sell that afternoon ! She
might as well leave her packing-cases at
the stage coach depot and retire to the
coast.
She had got her submarine into Janina,
but she could never get it out again. The
coast was too closely watched for that. And
it meant the loss of half Jim Byrne's capi-
tal, ruin for the Byrne War Goods Supply
Company, the indefinite postponement of
certain private and personal dreams of a
bungalow on the Connecticut shore, with a
garage, a cook, and a colored parlormaid.
"Hey, there ! Why don't you get a move
on?" shouted' Hagan suddenly.
Peggy came back from her dream.
George, hot from his work, and dripping
with perspiration, was addressing the hotel
dragoman, an Albanian, like all such func-
tionaries in Europe south of the Balkans.
He was a magnificent creature. Six feet
four or five, and correspondingly broad, he
had been lounging all the morning at the
hotel entrance, twisting his long moustaches
and ogling the Greek girls who passed. He
wore a pair of silver spurs, two silver-
mounted pistols stuck conspicuously from
Peggy Roche: Saleslady
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"By my soul, no!" shrieked the dragoman suddenly. "By the beard of my father, no!
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his slashed leather belt, his fez was stuck
jauntily over one ear; to the unsophisti-
cated he might have passed for the beau
ideal of manhood ; to Peggy he looked as
if he had stepped straight out of a Broad-
way show.
"Hey!" repeated George. "You orna-
mental shrub, you ! Get a move on ! Get
busy !"
The dragoman, at first incredulous,
turned his head slowly without relaxing
from his lounging attitude. Then, real-
izing that George was really addressing
him, he scowled fiendishly and laid his
right hand upon the butt of one of his
silver-mounted pistols.
"Aw, can the melodrama ! You make me
tixed," muttered Hagan. "What're you
there for, anyway, you Queen of Sheba?
Put them tin toys away and give a hand
. where you're wanted !"
The dragoman looked thunderstruck. He
actually recoiled three steps before the
ferocious Jersey Cityite.
"I am," he said, in a choked, squeaky
voice, "I am Georgios Polybuteros."
"Well, I'm Georgios Haganoperos," re-
torted the other. "You ain't got nothing
on me. Are you going to work now, or
ain't you?"
"By my soul, no !" shrieked the drago-
man suddenly. "By the beard of my father,
no. I never work, sair — never ! I hotel
dragoman !"
"All right ! That's straight ! Don't you
eome round my back door asking for pie.
then," said George, turning back into the
room.
Peggy could hardly restrain her laughter
at the sight of the dragoman's face. He
seemed like a man who had received a mor-
tal insulfc which only his sense of duty to
the hotel prevented him from avenging
there and then. He strode in agitation up
and down the street in front of the hotel.
And Peggy, who had learned that the
hotel dragoman is the guide, friend, and
philosopher of travelers in trouble, had the
germ of an idea, so faint a one that she was
unconscious of its portent. She only knew
that an impulse prompted her to seek this
ally against George Hagan.
"Georgios Polybuteros !" she said in a
low voice, as the frowning man stamped
past the porch railing in the street.
Georgios looked up, and, seeing her,
brought his hand across his forehead with
the military salute. "Come here !" said
Peggy, casting a glance backward, which
assured her that George Hagan was likely
to be engaged for the next hour at least,
arranging his samples.
Georgios Polybuteros advanced upon the
hotel porch and lounged gracefully against
the railing. Peggy went up to him.
"I am a stranger in Janina and I need a
friend," she said, in ingratiating tones.
"I am the friend of all ladies who need
friends, especially American ladies," an-
swered the dragoman, laying his hand upon
his heart.
"I knew I could trust you," said Peggy.
"You look so fine a man, so different from
these Greeks about the hotel."
"By my soul," said the dragoman, twirl-
ing his moustaches, "I am an Arnaut from
the mountains. I could crush three of these
Greek dogs in either fist if I were minded
to. But alas, here am I, Georgios Poly-
buteros, condemned to toil for three drach-
mas daily, for a miserable hotel-keeper,
while my nation is at war."
"Why?" inquired Peggy.
"The accursed Greek moneylenders have
eaten up my country. My blood-brother
lies in prison for debt."
"And you are working to pay off his
debt? How noble of you!"
"Yes, sair ! My blood-brother's debt is
mine. He lies in the hands of a rascally
contractor from Saloniki. In vain I sell
my farm to pay his debt. I sell my wife
to Turkish harem, I sell my children to
slave-market. In vain ! Still more drach-
mas must I raise to pay mv blood-brother's
debt."
"And what will you do now that Janina
has declared war upon your people?" asked
Peggy.
The dragoman blew into the air, as if
dealing with unrealities. "The frogs are
brave when the stork is away traveling,"
he said. "When the stork returns the frogs
dive into the pool."
"Georgios, you don't think these people
have the stomach to make war?"
"By my father's beard, who ever saw a
Greek with any stomach for anything but
boasting and treachery? With twenty Ar-
nauts I could stampede the town, and
plunder it."
"Will you be my friend, Georgios?"
asked Peggy.
The hand came to the salute again.
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59
Georgios's gallantry was touched. "Until
the death," he answered.
"I may want your aid, Georgios. By
the way, how much still remains to be
raised on your blood-brother's debt?"
"Two hundred drachmas, Princess of
America. Sixty-six days of slavery, as the
money-changer calculates for me. But I
do not despair, for I have a mother's sis-
ter, of great age, but not beyond work. She
has been ill ; she is better now, and she
might bring me two hundred drachmas at
auction. Such sacrifices one must make for
one's blood-brother," said Georgios regret-
fully.
"Don't sell your mother's sister. I will
give you two hundred drachmas if you will
aid me," said Peggy.
The dragoman's incredulous look
changed to astonishment. He gaped at her
as if he were afraid the whole episode was
a dream.
"I want you to be here to-night after that
man has gone to bed," said Peggy. "George
Hagan, you know — the bald man with the
boxes."
"For two hundred drachmas I shall
cleave his skull to his shoulders, Princess."
"I don't want you to do that yet," an-
swered Peggy. "But I think there may
develop a way of getting even with him.
He has done me a wrong as well as you,
Georgios. Shake hands !"
The big Arnaut and the Connecticut girl
clasped hands on the hotel verandah.
I_JOW Peggy got her intuitions she could
*■ * never understand. Nobody had told
her that Janina's act in declaring war on Al-
bania was a piece of impressive bluff. Yet
she had sensed it ; and that afternoon,
seated on the verandah, listening to George
Hagan talking with the Mayor- Prince and
his Council inside the hotel, she was sure
of it.
"This here is a model 75-centimetre
quick-firer," said George. "I have twelve
more at the depot, carried on mules over
the mountains. With these your country
will be invincible."
"I take them all," answered the Mayor,
through the dragoman.
"This here is a sample of our improved
saddle," said George. "These are very
reasonable. You see, you can pack a week's
rations in the saddle-bags, and the horse'U
never feel it. These are twenty-five dollars.
I've got five hundred of them at the depot."
"I take them all," answered the Mayor
again.
"Now," said George, "I come to blan-
kets. It'll be cold in the mountains, where
you're going to chase them cowardly Ar-
nauts." Peggy saw the dragoman scowl
fearfully as he hesitatingly translated. "I
got a thousand, two for each of your valiant
army."
"I take them all — everything," said the
Mayor-Prince.
"And boots, Your Highness," said
George insinuatingly, opening a packing-
case. "These are the best boots that ever
come out of America. Warranted never to
split or crack, or open at the seams. Five
dollars. I got a thousand pairs."
"Give them to me as fast as you can,"
answered the other.
"And rubbers," George pursued. "Keep
the boots water-tight when you have to go
over wet land. A thousand pairs?"
"All you got," said the Mayor.
"Then there's bayonets and ammunition.
I can stock you up on them. Shells for
your quick-firers, and rifle fodder. That's
the big item, Mayor. I want to talk to you
about that. It's ninety thousand drachmas,
but it'll make your valiant army invincible."
"I take everything — everything."
"And when'U you pay?" demanded
George.
"Next week, when the annual taxes are
delivered into the treasury."
"That's good," said George. "How
much you got there now?"
"Twelve drachmas. But we've confis-
cated all the Albanians' lands and fined all
the rich men, and we'll have a million
drachmas in a week's time."
"That's better than ever," answered
George. "Spot cash for delivery. I guess
your war will have to wait for a week.
Mayor."
The Mayor looked crestfallen. He spoke
to the dragoman, who translated with scorn
that he made no effort to conceal.
"He says if Providence requires that his
army wait a week before its triumph, he
must bow to Providence. He says the tri-
umph has already begun to be accomplished.
He says a courier has left for Athens bear-
ing news of the approaching victories."
"All right," said George. "Just harp a
little on that spot cash proposition, will
you?"
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Without stopping, he rode full tilt through the Janina
^uiiny, whicli opened to make a passage for him.
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Outside the hotel a vociferous crowd had
collected. Their yells, which had become
continuous, drowned the latter part of the
discussion so far as Peggy's ears were con-
cerned. When the Mayor-Prince and his
counsellors emerged, ten minutes later, the
crowd let loose.
As if by preconcerted plan, the appear-
ance of Janina's ruler was the signal for
a remarkable demonstration. Along the
single street of Janina came a motley army
— the force of the Republic. Three hun-
dred strong, half mounted, half on foot,
some shouldering ancient guns and fowling
pieces, one or two with discarded Krags,
the ragged, yelling procession streamed
toward the hotel, without any particular
attempt at order, and surrounding the
Mayor, let loose their voices. At the same
time flags appeared at every window.
Drums beat, a brass band was mobilized
and squeaked the national anthem from
dented instruments: Janina was celebrating
its triumph over its hereditary enemies.
The Mayor- Prince had George Hagan
by the arm and was talking to him, by the
aid of Georgios, in an eager and anxious
manner. George Hagan was shaking his
head.
"It don't go. Mayor," Peggy heard him
say. "It ain't like America, where you can
send a collector the first of the month. I
got to see the money. I'm the spot cash
man — that's me."
They passed down the steps, and the
crowd surrounded them and bore them,
shoulder high, toward the Palace, a two-
story aflFair resembling strikingly the house
in which Peggy had boarded in the suburbs
of Stamford, Connecticut, when she first
went there to try her fortune.
Georgios lounged up to the girl.
"That Mayor and the American very well
matched," he said. "Both swindlers. By
the blood of my blood-brother, there will
never be more than a hundred thousand
drachmas in treasury. The Mayor, he got
all the money in Janina."
"How much is that?" asked Peggy.
"One hundred thousand drachmas.
Never more, never less. The Mayor, he
pay salaries every month. The town, he
spend Mayor's salary at the Mayor's shops.
All come back to the Mayor. Always just
one hundred thousand drachmas in Janina."
"How did it get here, Georgios?" asked
Peggy.
"The English Government pay him ran-
som for Lady Bing."
"Ransom, eh? Brigands?"
"O yes. Princess. Ten years ago, the
Mayor carry off Lady Bing who come here
to write a book. The Mayor he sell Lady
Bing back to English Government for one
hundred thousand drachmas. Before that,
no money at all in Janina. Since then, just
one hundred thousand drachmas. Never
more, never less. First of the month, one
hundred thousand drachmas in Mayor's bed-
room, under the floor, in town treasury.
Last of the month, twelve drachmas. First
of the month, everybody pay bills to the
Mayor."
"Well, that's a good way to go," said
Peggy. "The Mayor was lying, then, when
he spoke to Mr. Hagan?"
"Lying? He is a Greek," retorted Geor-
gios, spitting.
"All right, Georgios. To-night you and
I will unfold a plan whereby you shall
have your two hundred drachmas and eight
hundred more besides."
"Eight hundred !" shouted Georgios.
"Why, that will buy me a new wife and re-
deem my farm from that thief of a Greek
dog in Saloniki !"
"Your own wife, Georgios — " began
Peggy gently.
"Never!" shouted the dragoman. "The
past is past ! What I have lost, I suffer
cheerfully for my blood-brother. A new
wife and my farm again, and the curse of
Shaitan upon all Greeks !"
"Georgios," said Peggy, "since we are
here, I won't wait till this evening. We'll
begin now."
'T'HE disappearance of Georgios from the
hotel interested nobody except the land-
lord. The stalwart dragoman had simply
asked for his money and gone, apparently
to discharge the remainder of his blood-
brother's debt. The days that passed were
stirring ones. Janina, now at war with the
Arnauts of Albania, waited for the com-
pletion of mobilization only until the
Mayor's promised million drachmas was in
the treasury. George Hagan was alter-
nately hopeful and cynical. But he was
proof against all persuasion to deliver the
goods before payment.
The spot cash man received and rejected
deputations of notables, of citizens, of -the
Mayor-Prince and his council, joint and
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separate. His heart was adamant, and
none dared to lay forcible hands upon the
tempting display of war goods in the hotel
dining-room, or the massive packing-cases
at the coach station. For even in Janina
the American flag had achieved respect.
Peggy and Hagan were on fairly friendly
terms. Hagan had at least ousted Peggy,
even if he had failed to make a sale. But
on the second evening after the events re-
corded, while Janina was cheering itself
hoarse, as the Mayor made an impassioned
speech from hustings erected in the one
street, Hagan came to Peggy with bulging
eyes.
"What's this I hear about that submar-
ine of yours?" he demanded.
"Why, Mr. Hagan, if you can put across
your junk and get away with it, I guess I
can sell Janina a submarine," said Peggy.
"A submarine !" yelled Hagan. "What's
it going to sub in? Why, it couldn't turn
round in that old duck pond on the hill,
and there ain't no fish there to sub against.
And you're asking a hundred thousand
dollars. Have you gone crazy, girlie?"
"Now keep calm, George," said Peggy.
"If you can ask a million odd drachmas
for your old junk, I guess a hundred thou-
.sand isn't too much for mine."
"You've as much chance of putting that
bluff across as Janina has of whipping the
Arnauts," answered Hagan. "If the Aus-
trians hadn't smashed them up three months
ago, they'd be bartering with me in Janina
now, instead of Mayor Alexandrovskobolos,
or whatever his name is."
"Wait and see," said Peggy cryptically.
"By the way, you don't happen to know
where the treasury is, do you?"
"In the vaults of the Janina Bank," said
Hagan. "And it'll stay there till I carry
it away in my pockets day after to-morrow."
Nevertheless, Peggy's submarine created
a decided sensation when it was put to-
gether upon the town pond. There was
room to turn in, though not to manoeuvre
in. It fired one torpedo, it held eight men
— crowded ; it ran by gasoline, it sank, and,
most important, it would rise again. Tim
Byrne had been hampered by lack of funds,
but the Connecticut spirit had remained.
"One hundred thousand drachmas," said
Peggy to the Mayor.
The Mayor, who had just addressed the
army for the fourth time that day, answered
excitedly :
"Listen, then. Mademoiselle. For the
glory of Janina it is right that this warship
should be hers. Shall my brave troops,
marching daily from victory to victory, lack
a navy, when every other power possesses
one? I will pay you one hundred thousand
drachmas, giving notes for three, six, and
twelve months."
"I am the only origirtal spot cash store,"
answered Peggy, though it is doubtful if
the interpreter got home with that part of
the message. However, he conveyed the
effect of it.
"But in three months, when the olive
crop is in, the treasury will be overflowing,"
said the Mayor. "I will pay interest, too:
ten, fifteen, twenty per cent. All that you
will."
"I am the spot cash man," repeated
Peggy ; and the Mayor, who had learned
the meaning of the word "cash" from its
repetition, shrugged his shoulders with res-
ignation.
Peggy saw a look of amusement pass over
(jeorge Hagan's face. After all, he could
afiford to smile, even if he came down to
five hundred thousand, which would still
leave him a hundred per cent, clean-up.
He was amused at Peggy, but he could not
understand why the girl was wasting her
time in Janina.
IT was the last night before mobilizati(5n.
On the morrow George Hagan was to
receive, as he hoped not too fondly, his mil-
lion drachmas. Janina had cheered itself
hoarse once more and gone to bed. George
Hagan had gone to bed. But Peggy waited,
fully dressed, in her room, looking out
over the distant hills.
It was two in the morning. Would
Georgios prove a man of his word? Or
had he found another wife and forgotten
their compact in the honeymoon?
Suddenly a clatter of horsehoofs was
heard, and then a rider was seen, spurring
his steed at a hard gallop along the single
"street and up toward the Mayor-Prince's
palace.
Simultaneously came the sound of win-
dows being thrust open. Rows of heads
appeared across the street in the moonlight.
A little later a bugle sounded. Then
came the clump of feet on the cobbled
stones of the road. And suddenly there
arose the distant shout of a multitude of
voices.
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Tlie City Cotincil came bustling forward, with knees that wobbled curiously.
Peggy, smiling grimly, went down to the
hotel porch. Hagan joined her almost im-
mediately, in overcoat and pajamas.
"What is it?" he asked anxiously. "A
revolution?"
Peggy shook her head cryptically,
(ieorge Hagan looked at her without inter-
est ; then he looked more critically ; then
his eyes began to assume an expression of
curiosity at the look on Peggy's face.
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65
"Does anybody here speak English?" demanded Peggy.
Suddenly, with wild cries, the motley
army of Janina, roused from its sleep,
rushed into the market place before the
hotel, some mounted, and some afoot. At
its head rode the Mayor.
the
Assuming an attitude
of martial ardor, which
strikingly resembled the
pictures of Napoleon, the
Mayor addressed his fol-
lowers in stirring tones.
As he spoke he waved a
naked sword in his right
hand.
With responsive yells
the army clustered about
him. There was no mis-
taking the meaning of the
situation. Warning had
been given of the ap-
proach of an A r n a u t
force and the Mayor had
accepted the demand of
his army to be led forth
to instant victory. All the
street cheered madly and
heads bobbed from all the
windows.
Then, from afar off, the
distant notes of another
bugle sounded. And, fol-
lowing it, another rider
came clattering down the
street. He was bent dou-
ble over his horse's neck,
he spurred it unmerci-
fully, and without stop-
ping, he rode full tilt
through the Janina army,
which opened to make a
passage for him. And as
he rode, he yelled.
The Mayor, cut short,
let the sword arm fall. A
sort of whirling movement
made itself manifest
among his followers. The
cheering was cut off
abruptly.
Then from the porch
Peggy could see a little
band of a dozen horsemen
riding madly across the
bridge at the end of Ja-
nina town. As they rode
they shouted and waved
their swords, and the
shouts seemed to paralyze
sound of
Janina.
"The Arnauts !" shrieked a man at the
Mayor's side.
There was an instant of confusion, and
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then the Janina army turned tail and bolted
for safety. Upon their heels dashed the
marauding force of twelve, screeching in
the most blood-curdling way. It dashed
along the street and disappeared. The
yells grew fainter. Presently no sound was
to be heard. Every window along the street
was closed.
"What's it all mean?" cried Hagan, who
had been watching, thunderstruck, from the
hotel entrance.
Peggy slipped past him without answer-
ing and made her way to the back entrance.
Standing there beside a horse was Geor-
gios.
Peggy nodded and smiled at him, leaped
into the saddle and rode like the wind for
the Mayor's palace. She spurred the beast
through the deserted barracks in front of
it and hammered on the doors.
After a long time a trembling hand shot
back the bolt. A quavering voice was speak-
ing. Peggy caught the word "drachmas."
"Drachmas," repeated half a dozen other
voices from behind.
Peggy was looking at the Mayor. He
breathed a vast sigh of relief. Behind him
the council came bustling forward, with
knees that wobbled curiously as it moved.
"Does anybody here speak English?" de-
manded Peggy.
"Me spek English," answered a voice.
"Me live five years in London."
"Then tell the Mayor that the Arnauts
are at the other end of the town," said
Peggy. "Twenty thousand of them. That
was only an advance body you saw."
The faces blanched, even in the dfm oil
light of the hall. The council clustered
round the Mayor, who jabbered frantically.
"He will give all the money in the treas-
ury." expounded the linguist. "If his
valiant army had been ready he would have
led it to victory."
"How much is in the treasury?" asked
Peggy.
"Twelve thousand drachmiis. If his val-
iant army — "
"The Arnauts will not accept money.
They demand the lives of the Mayor' and
all the Council. Georgios, the hotel drago-
man, told me. I came to vi^arn you. They
demand your lives, or they will sack
Janina."
With a despairing yell the Mayor fell on
his knees and clutched at Peggy's hand,
slobbering over it.
'T will save you," said Peggy, "for a
hundred thousand drachmas."
"There is only twenty thousand — " be-
gan the interpreter.
"Very well," answered Peggy, turning
away. The Mayor let out a scream.
"He says there are a hundred thousand
drachmas," said the interpreter. "He says
he will give a note — "
"And I know where they are," said
Peggy, pushing upstairs.
She stamped her feet on the cheap carpet
in the Mayor's bedroom. One of the boards
was loose. She nodded to the Mayor, who
had followed her. He rolled the carpet
back, disclosing a bo.x beneath the floor.
Three minutes later, having transferred
the contents of the Janina treasury to her
own pockets in the form of good Bank of
Athens notes, Peggy faced the trembling
Mayor- Prince and Council.
"There is one means of safety," she said.
"Would you save your lives at the expense
of Janina?"
"Yes, yes !" yelled the Mayor, when the
interpreter had translated. "My life is
valuable. I must lead my valiant army — "
From the far distance underneath them
came the blood-curdling shouts of the in-
vaders. Everybody .shook with fear — ex-
cept Peggy.
"Come, then, and I will save you," she
said.
She led them from the Palace in the di-
rection of the town pond upon the hill.
They arrived in her wake, breathless. Peggy
was standing beside the anchored sub-
marine.
"Push off and float her," she said. "You
• understand how the boat works. In six
hours, when the air supply is exhausted you
may come up. The Arnauts will be gone.
Then, when you see signs of them return-
ing, go down again. And do this till your
valiant army has had time to mobilize for
another glorious victory. Good-bye."
But without waiting to bid her farewell
the Mayor and Council broke for the boat,
pulled up the anchor, and let her glide out
into the middle of the pond. Then came
the sound of water rushing into the tanks.
And slowly and majestically the submarine
disappeared. Not a ripple remained upon
the stagnant surface of Janina's water-
supply.
Peggy strolled back to the Palace and,
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Extra Girls Who Became Stars
THOUSANDS ANNUALLY STORM FORTUNE'S
CITADEL BUT FEW WIN A SNUG PLACE WITHIN
By Grace Kingsley
Choosing players for
minor parts from
the "extra list" at
Essanay, Nice job !
What ?
" — A ND one day Totty Two-Shoes, af-
/-\ ter tiring of picking oranges in
the morning and making snow-
balls on Mt. Baldy in the afternoon, de-
cided to go out to the movie studio and sec
how motion pictures are made. Director
Humpty Dumpty noticed her among the
bystanders, and halted his William S. Hart
drama or his Mack Swain comedy, in-
stantly. There was a brief conversation,
and next morning Little Totty went to
work for $200 a week."
That's the way you read about it in the
papers. But it doesn't happen that way
often in real life. Life — seething, red-
blooded life, such as pours itself into every
pioneer movement. — this is the real life of
the motion picture studios.
The raw, chill, bleak beginnings of pic-
tures furnish many a tale full of human
interest and thrill. Very democratic were
those old days when out of the ranks, all
in a day, might come forth a Fanny Daven-
port of the films, a shadow Sarah Bern-
hardt.
The modern theatrical miracle, — the
mobs of the moving picture world : whence
do thev come? And the stars who- rise
above the mob, what power or chance places
them there? Is an army wanted to storm
a mimic French bastile? Must a fear-mad-
dened throng hurl itself into the sea? Is a
horde of naked savages needed in a hand-
to-hand conflict with wild beasts? Presto!
The thing is done.
"Extra motion picture people seem to
spring up from the earth," David Griffith
once said to me, "willing to die by sword
or fire."
Some day a Bret Harte-ish person will
arise to epitomize the life of the studio.
Meantime the writer has gleaned a few of
the thousands of interesting tales — giving
just a glimpse of the other side of the pat-
tern which is woven on the screen.
The group of heroines of "Intolerance"
all have interesting stories.
Like a fairy fable is the story of Mae
Marsh. Miss Marsh was working as a tele-
phone girl in a hotel, helping to support
her mother and sisters. One day she visited
the Los Angeles Biograph studio where her
sister, "Lovie" Marsh, was working. She
wore a plain little frock, and her hair was
"slicked" back to form a knot at the nape
of her neck. And that head. Mr. Griffith
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noted, was a perfectly shaped one. He was
directing a picture, but during a lull came
over and spoke to the plainly dressed little
maid, and then it was he noted those won-
derfully luminous eyes of hers.
He asked her if she would like to do a
bit in a picture. She said yes, she would.
She was terribly frightened, she says. But
she played the bit next day, registering with
such clean-cut dramatic instinct that she
was at once engaged. She was featured at
first in comedy but made her first great hit
as "little sister" in "The Birth of a Nation."
One of the principal parts in "The Birth
of a Nation" is that of the girl who was to
represent throughout the whole story the
lost cause. She had not much to do ; she
must at times be in an obscure corner. She
must sit pale and silent. She must not move
nor gesticulate wildly, and yet she must
"get to" every one in the audience.
A great actress had been sent for to play
the part, but when Mr. Griffith spied a
quiet, sad-eyed little girl at the studio one
day, he decided to give her a chance. But
it was difficult for her to grasp the full sig-
nificance of her role.
One day Griffith spoke roughly to her, —
more roughly than he had ever spoken to
any one on the lot before. The girl looked
up quickly, hurt pride, fear, humiliation, all
expressed in her wonderful dark eyes. That
look was just what the big director wanted.
The black hair close around the head, the
great staring eyes, the little trembling
figure, and that look, wounded and broken.
Was not the South so wounded and so
broken? Too weak to fight back too. much
lieaten with the fight of the world to con-
test, all she could do was to look, but in
that look flamed out all the hurt that the
director wanted.
The rest of the story is short. The nego-
tiations for the famous actress were stopped.
The girl who only looked and flamed
through her eyes the hurt that was in her
soul, had acted the greatest there is, the
acting that makes you feel you have seen
reality. The girl's name was Miriam
Cooper.
Seena Owen, another "Intolerance" star,
a few years ago was a society girl. She re-
ceived her education abroad, and had set-
tled down to a life of pink teas and piffle
when her father suddenly lost his money,
died and left his family almost destitute.
Miss Owen at once turned to the stage, and
found work at the old Alcazar Theater in
San Francisco. She received $5 for her
first week's work and was grateful ! Then
she came south and went into pictures. She
did a bit in "The Birth of a Nation," regis-
tering so well that she was soon starring
in her own right.
Over at the Lasky Company, the other
day, one of the stars drove up to the gate
in her own white car, and there alighted
Anita King, famous for her solitary trip
across the continent via automobile, as well
as for her screen work. She, too, was an
extra girl.
"One morning, I remember, I was work-
ing in a mob scene. We were all wielding
clubs, and the director called out, 'Look
out there and don't hurt Miss King! She's
got to play a lead tomorrow !'
"My first real part was with Dustin Far-
num in 'The Virginian.' I went into the
office one day, and 'Dusty' was there talk-
ing to Mr. De Mille. He looked over at
me. I had met him only once, but he
turned to Mr. De Mille and said: 'Miss
King is the very type I want for Mrs. Og-
den in "The Virginian." '
"Mr. De Mille answered that the pan
already had been cast, but Mr. Farnum
persisted. Mr. De Mille refused to com-
mit himself, but I wanted that part badly,
and whenever I saw him, I'd say, 'You've
changed your mind about that part, haven't
you? You're going to give it to me, aren't
you?' I think he finally gave it to me to
get rid of me."
Miss King lately has been named as one
of the Los Angeles City Mothers, appointed
to look after the stray young girls who
drift into the city's maelstrom ! Miss
King's duties having to do with the young
girls who seek work in the pictures. She
tells many an interesting story of her ex-
periences and reveals the dark and sorry
side to the tale, — the story of failure.
From all over the country they come,
these girls, with their little hoards of sav-
ings. Two girls last summer walked all the
way from Seattle to try to find fame in the
pictures ! Neither had good looks nor tal-
ent nor anything except determination to
recommend them. A test was made, but
they were photographically impossible, and
the City Mothers took up a collection and
sent them home.
A little mother with a baby six weeks
old rode out from Montana a-horsebark
Extra Girls Who Became Stars
69
with her baby across the saddle. At home,
on a ranch, she had a husband and two
other children. It was pointed out to her
quite frankly that she had no good looks
and no talent besides her riding ability,
and that her baby stood in the way of her
chances. But she persisted. She would
not give up. She got down to her last
cent, they even put her in jail to try and
cure her, and finally the City Mothers had
to get funds and send her home, but her
last words as she said good-bye were that
she would never give up, and when her
baby was big enough to leave, she was com-
ing back.
A stenographer who had worked in the
capitol at ^Vashington came West, and got
work as an extra girl. She worked three
days as an extra with a big gang of Mexi-
cans, out on location, in the rain, — and
was glad to return home.
In the old Essanay days of 1912 there
was a little girl whom everybody jokingly
called "Ruth of the Ragged Heart." That
was Ruth Stonehouse, now a Universal
star.
The way of it was tliis.
Ruth, though almost a child
then, had to help in the .sup-
port of her mother and sis-
ter. She had done a little
in vaudeville, but wanted
to remain at home in
Chicago.
Thousands of
extra girls have
stood in this
doorway at
Universal City
and not a few
have emerged
as "featured
leads" and
stars.
"So one day I went over to the Essanay
studio, and asked for work. I got it, but
only bits. I didn't seem to get ahead, and
I began to feel that I was a failure. One
day I was standing watching a scene. I
was heartsick and discouraged, and really
on the brink of giving up. Suddenly the
girl playing the lead was taken ill, and
had to leave. The director looked frantic-
ally around. He saw me. It was the be-
ginning of the picture, and he was behind
in his work ; so he popped me into the
picture.
"It was one of these weej^y .stories, and
I guess the director thought I was the most
forlorn thing he had ever seen. I was sup-
posed to emote, and I did. I emoted
enough for seven Sarah Bernhardts. I
cried all over the place — and became the
official sob-sister of the studio. I died in
every way there was to die, I think, and
had more children dead and alive than any
woman that ever lived. Niobe was a dry-
eyed, marble-hearted dame compared to
me. So one day I wrote a comedy for my-
self. It was accepted, worked over a bit,
and that's
where I es-
c a j:) e d the
thrall of
tears."
Out at the
Fine Arts
studio in Holly-
wood, there is
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a sort of official chaperone. Her name is
Lucille Brown, and she's not one of your
hard-eyed policemen of the proprieties, but
a real human being with an ear for ever)'
woe, a competent and discriminating eye,
and an understanding heart. She employs
the extras, and does it with a fine compe-
tency which means much to the studio, and
many are tlie tales she can tell of the rise
of members of her extra flock.
"One day when we were hiring people
for "The Birth of a Nation," said Mrs.
Brown, "I noticed among the pushing
crowd the flower-like face of a lovely little
girl. It was toward evening, and tlie light
was almost gone. All day we had been
working on the task. I called over to the
girl, 'You'll do.' Her face lighted beauti-
fully. She didn't go away, but when the
crowd had dispersed, she came timidly over
to my desk.
" 'Maybe you didn't notice,' she said,
'that I have only one arm.' I hadn't.
'Well, dear,' I said .sadly, 'I'm afraid we
can't use you.' The tears came to her eyes.
Paul Powell chanced to be standing close
by. 'Never mind,' .said Powell, 'I think I
can use you. I'm putting on a mill picture,
and we'll pretend your arm was cut ofi in
the mill !' The child brightened up.
"She turned out to have wonderftil tal-
ent. We used her in several pictures after
that. One day Director Rogers of the Fox
studio sent for her to work in a mill scene,
find she is now in stock regularly with that
company. The little girl's name is Dorothy
^^'hiteman.
"Sometimes A-erv old ladies come to me.
have been working at the
They have had no experience, and are
really too old for the pictures. I had four
such in one week while Mr. Griffith was
producing 'Intolerance,' and I used them
all as chapcrones for the girls working on
location. They proved excellent in that
capacity, and
job ever since
"Not long ago a youngster came to us.
He was about ten. He was a ragged little
orphan, and they were about to put him
in an Orphans' Home, he said. Chet
Withey happened to need a kid about his
size. 'Can you swim?' he asked the boy.
'Sure.' answered the nervy youngster. 'I'm
a Boy Scout. Sure I can swim !'
"Next day they took him down to the
ocean and threw him in. The gritty young-
ster never made a whine either. But he
couldn't swim. All he could do was a little
duck-paddle, and they had to rescue him
from drowning. But he had shown so rnuch
nerve that they kept him right along. \\'hen
lie isn't acting he's selling papers, and he
leads an independent and self-respecting
life. His name is Joe Wright, and he's
one worth watching."
One day George Siegmann was directing
a picture out on location. He wanted a
man to dig post-holes, and there was no-
body to do it. The extra men all stood
back, considering themselves "actors," and
too good to do such work. One young
fellow stepped out of the crowd: "Well.
by George, I need a job, and I'll do it !" li<
offered. He did the bit of hard labor all
l)y himself. His talent for po.st-hole dig-
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Giving a "mob" the once over at the American studio, Santa Barbara.
''URNING Sparkill Creek at
Piermont, N. J., into a
Venice street — or do they
call them canals? — was a recent
expensive venture of the World
Film Corporation.
The Venice scenes were re-
quired for a film version of
•'Frou Frou" and Director Emile
Chautard saw to it that real
Venice, Italy "locations" were
accurately duplicated. Only the
facades, as shown in these illus-
trations, were constructed but
even at that, the bill was over
$20,000. The work was done at
the Fort Lee studio and the
Venetian buildings transported
in sections to Piermont, where
the inhabitants enjoyed the oc-
casion, one and all.
The gondolier nearly froze
while the scenes were being
"shot" as the weather declined
to enter into the Venetian spirit.
By this time the New
Jensey Venetian kids
probably
have r u n -
ners on the --==
gondola.
The Cover Lady
"VY/E should run at least two
^^ pages of the Lovely Thing
on our April lid," murmured the
art director. "Look at these
peachy pictures!"
"But." expostulated his
typewriter assistant, "what is
there to sav that's new?"
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"Beauty is sufficient unto it
self. Novelty is its least
rharm." Our Rem'brandt
thus rebuked us.
Well, we've explained
tliat Ethel Clayton is Joe
Kaufman's wife.
That she's happily
married and doesn't
rare who knows it.
That her home is in
New York City.
That her best work
was done in Philadel- •.
phia, at the Lubin
studio in a series of
domestic dramas under
her husband's direction.
That she is at present,
as she has been for some
time, with World.
That she is in her earlv
twenties.
That she's been in pictures since 1
Skin Deep
LOOKS — either
good or bad —
count for much
in the film world.
If you're a top-
notcher in beauty —
great ! But if you're
in George Fawcett's
class, maybe you'll
find it pays almost
as well.
Fawcett's feature
map never raised a
sigh from tlie most
ardent of our sweet
young things. Never
have feminine "ohs'"
and "ahs" followed
his appearance on
any screen. Jusc
shivers — except when
he is playing the
rough old miner with
the "heart of gold."
But those deep
lines - on Fawcett's
face help in painting
the villain and as a
villain — especially
the western type —
he stands high. For
in filmland Fawcett
ranks as one of our
worst citizens. Yet
homeliness, like
comeliness, is only
skin deep and
George is one of the
best liked players on
stage or .screen.
He was born in
Virginia and h i s
stage career has been
extensive botli in
England and Amer-
ica; One of his latest
film showings is in
"Panthea" and as
the Russian joolice
officer he's about as
ugly as anyone ever
dreamed a Muscovite
could be. He is now
a fixture with Selig.
Mrs. Fawcett is
Percy Haswell, of
the stage.
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To any fair-minded man or woman,
studying our varied dramatic arts from
the comparative standpoint, the ex-
traordinary wealth of screen subjects, as set
against the comparative poverty of recent
stage ideas, will be at once apparent.
Though the screen disgorges trash as
freely as the Great War disgorges death ;
though its greatest weakness is its tendency
to rush everything and to give opulent set-
ting to silly stories and worthless plots, it
can be easily showm that the sun stage has
done more for distinctly American theatri-
cals in the past year than has the electric
stage in a decade. We expect that the
champions of the speakies will give this
statement the gentle smile of pity, and won-
der that we are allowed to perambulate
without our keeper. Therefore we'll en-
deavor to clinch our statement with proof.
We will consider those plays of words or
pictures which concern our own country
and our own people. Obviously, if we are
to have a national literature or a national
drama, it must deal with our life and our
problems.
The whole substance of our theatre is
borrowed. Its material has come largely
from England ; its form has come from
I'Vance. We expect strong stories from
London ; from Paris, technique. For a
generation we have been moved or amused
by Pinero and Jones, by Barrie, Shaw or
Maugham. At tlie same time we have ac-
claimed the Frencli Sardou as the master
of melodrama for whom there seems no
successor, and the young French Jew,
Henri Bernstein, as the finest exponent of
form in the modern play.
There is at present no craftsman of the
theatre in America to replace Clyde Fitch.
Bronson Howard, or the early Augustus
Thomas.
We may reverse court procedure, and give
the defense the first inning.
Going back ten years, we come to that
evening in which William Vaughan
Moody's tremendous play, "The Great
Divide," first saw the incandescents: Here
is an almost epic document of .America,
written by a college professor, and pro-
duced by Henry Miller. The routine
theatre managers considered Miller mon-
keying with the highbrows. His triumph
soon made them wish they had monkeyed
in his place. Moody wanted to call his
piece "The Sabine Woman." The name it
bears — which I believe to be Miller's —
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probably tipped the scales
to popularity.
Other plays -true to
American life and de-
scriptive of it, in the past
decade, are "The College
Widow," the classic of
freshwater scholasticism,
by George Ade ; "The
New York Idea," a
glittering satire of
metropolitan society,
by Langdon Mitchell ;
"Too Many Cooks," an
idyll of ye complete sub-
urbanite, by Frank Cra-
ven ; "Kindling," a true
picture of the hopes and
the pathos of the sub-
merged tenth, by
Charles Kenyon ;
Joseph IMedill Patter-
son's newspaper play.
"The Fourth Estate ;"
Louis Anspacher's
"The Unchastened
Woman," a keen
X-ray of so-
ciety w o r t h V
Oscar Wilde :
"The Easiest
Way," Eugene
Walter's mas-
terpiece, and ^ the one really great
play of the upper-underworld; "A Man's
World," a tremendous feminist work by
Rachel Crothers ; "Potash and Perlmut-
ter," a light but factful transcript of our
important Jewish life, by Montague Glass ;
Mr. Cohan's dramatization of "Get-Rich-
Quick Wallingford ;" Augustus Thomas'
"As a Man Thinks," and "The Witching
Hour;" Edward Sheldon's "Romance" and
"Salvation Nell ;" and the Ditrichstein-
Hatton "Great Lover," a paraphrase of our
style of taking the arts.
The length of a thing is no argument in
its favor or disfavor. If that were so,
"Hiawatha" would pass Gray's "Elegy in
a Country Churchyard" as a piece of fine
art. Most of the photoplays I am going
to name occupied (probably) less time in
taking and preparation than any of the
stage dramas put down, above. Certainly
their presentation is a briefer matter.
Nevertheless, the substance is here. The
big American thought is here. The tran-
i
Irene Castle,
in "Patria. "
script of our life is here,
and when it comes to truth
e.xpressed, a brochure is as
potent as a two-volume
novel — more so, because
tlie big- book scares folks
away.
Here are American
photoplays of the past
year, or about the past
year:
First, "The Birth of a
Nation."
From the Fine Arts
studio came "The Lily
and the Rose," an un-
rivalled study of domestic
sweetness and outer lure ;
"The Penitentes," a vivid
document from the early
history of the Southwest ;
"Cross Currents ;" "Let
Katy Do It ;" the incom-
parable "Acquitted"- — than
which no truer American
play has been presented on
any stage; "Betty of Grey
stone," a genuine idyll .
"Susan Rocks the Boat;" "Fifty-Fifty," a
satire on skin-deep Bohemianism ; "The
Children Pay," a really remarkable study of
the consequences of divorce ; "The Micro-
scope Mystery," a show-up of our national
obeisance before the patent-medicine god :
"A House Built on Sand;" and "American
Aristocracy," a satire so genuine that it is
like a rollicking early work of Bronson
Howard's.
From Ince's shop came that fine study
of youth and its impulses, "The Coward ;"
"The Iron Strain;" "Matrimony," a beau
tifullv handled storv of domestic drifting ;
"Between Men;" "The Winged Idol;"
"The Green Swamp" — remember the clin-
ical terror of its tetanus? — "Hell's
Hinges;" "The Moral Fabric;" and
"Honor Thy Name."
From the Lasky- Famous camp we select
a few of numerous good plays. Mostly.
they have presented plays or told stories.
But such fine and distinctively American
plays as "The Cheat," "Ashes of Embers,"
"The Secret Sin," "The Blacklist," "The
Soul of Kuri San," "The Honorable
Friend," and "Witchcraft," lend tone and
distinction to any theatre anywhere. Lasky's
little group of Japanese-American subjects
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is, indeed, daring and faithful treatment
of a new material : the aggressive Oriental
in the United States.
Morosco contributed "The Parson of
Panamint," and "Pasquale," a genuine
study of a patriotic heart divided between
love for the motherland and love for the
dear ones in the adopted country.
Vitagraph's "Kennedy Square," was an
epoch-maker for that company.
Universal's "Where Are My Children,"
"Idle Wives," "Jewel," and "Saving the
Family Name" belong in any list of strong
contemporary tales.
"Dollars and the Woman," a matchless
story of a home and hearts, and the run-
ning of them, was told as a sort of fine
finale by the passing house of Lubin.
From Selig came those thoughtful, excel-
lently made and representative productions,
"The Crisis" and "The Ne'er-do-Well."
The man or woman who attempts to
argue the triviality of motion pictures com-
pared to what he or slie is pleased to con-
sider the intrhisic value of the stage knows
nothing about motion pictures at present,
lias no patience to dig into facts — or lies.
We admit the tawdry mass of punk plots
and hastily slapped-together scenarios, but
who so refuses to go deeper than surface
superficiality for truths worth while is as
foolish as a diamond-digger who would re-
frain from plucking his rough, dull-looking
gems because their primal encasement is
sticky clay.
In point of energy and worth-while pro-
ductiveness the American Photoplay is
beating the American Stage.
DANTHEA. Here is another screen
novel : directly told, staged with an eye
both to artistic lighting and dramatic effect,
true to life even in its most melodramatic
moments, tingling with suspense, saturate
with sympathy. All of which sounds as
though we considered it the best picture of
the month. We do. It is one of the best
photoplays in screen history, and if there
were more like it every interpretative art
would have to cinch its figurative belt and
prepare to fight for existence.
All of this notwithstanding a watery and
ineifective ending; where both author and
director seem to fatally hesitate between
marshmallows and catastrophe, and, having
a mind to neither, uncomfortal)lv straddle
a problem picket fence.
"Panthea" first served the serpentine
Petrova, when the Shuberts introduced her
as their tragedy white hope. At this time
it was an alleged transcript of turgid life,
and considerable sapolio might have been
A scene from Universal's
Grand Canyon photoplay,
"God's Crucible. "
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A scene from ' ' The Iced Bullet. " William Desmond is the profile figure.
used ill its sordid corners. Here, with the
exception of the wavering finale, it is all
quite antiseptic — there are deep thrusts and
wide wounds, but they are made witli clean
swords.
Panthea herself is a piano graduate of
the Moscow conservatory. At her keyboard
valedictory a number of impresarii attend,
among them a Baron. The Baron sizes up
Panthea's person rather than her perform-
ance, and connives with his friend, the Mos-
cow Chief of Police, to have Panthea
raided on a charge of Nihilism. Then he
• — the Baron — may demand and secure her
release, thus establishing himself forever in
her good graces. But it happens that Pan-
thea's brother — presented by his parents
with the not uncommon name, Ivan — is
really a Nihilist, and is holding vigorous
revival services of his own kind when the
fixed police arrive to arrest Panthea. The
sham turns into reality, Ivan flees, and a
soldier is killed. Now the Baron will have
to extend himself indeed — but Panthea.
helped out of a vanity prison by a common
soldier who had once been her schoolmate.
escapes to England. She
is pursued' by a secret
police agent, on the same
boat. There is a wreck
off the English coast, and
Panthea, unconscious, is
carried to the Mordaunt
estate. Gerald, the piano-
playing younger son, im-
mediately discovers a
soul-and-music afUnity,
and they trip off to Paris,
where they live in happy
married life for a year.
Clerald would be an
Anglo-Saxon Verdi, and
wilts daily because he
cannot get his opera pro-
duced. Panthea goes to
a French manager who is
about to turn her down
when a distinguished vis-
itor from Russia sees her
card. It is no great sur-
prise to learn that it is
our old friend the Baron.
Panthea is in the toils
again. She makes the
compact to save her hus-
band's life, while the
Baron, Scarpialike. ar-
ranges to have her pinched as soon as his
personal purpose is accomplished. But a
weak heart gets him in her parlor, and he
does not long outlive his culminary villainy.
The police agent is on hand, and starts back
to Russia with her. The final fadeout is
upon her and Gerald, camping in the Sibe-
rian snow, while he assures her that the
English diplomatic machinery must even
now be grinding the grist of their formal
release.
The direction is Allan Dwan's, and he
manifests that same leisurely, perfect pas-
sion for detail that he showed in "Betty of
Grey stone." The lieutenant who comes to
arrest Panthea in the early episodes is the
perfect picture of the "well, it's all in the
day's work" type of blase young militarist.
^^'onderful is the revealatory close-up when
tlie Baron attends Panthea's recital : all the
other old men, we infer, are watching her
hands, for there is a great keyboard close-
up ; but when it is the Baron's turn we get
a close-up of Panthea's shapely foot and
promising ankle, upon the pedal ! Equally
subtle is the first view of the Baron in the
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Parisian office ; he is in a deep chair, back
to us, and only his eager hand, reaching
for Panthea's card, is visible — but we know
that it is he.
The lighting of this play sets a new mark
in photodramatic illumination. The tone
in the main is deep, as it is with most of
Dwan's plays, but it is never gloomy.
Norma Talmadge plays Panthea with a
verve, abandon and surety which denomi-
nates her queen of our younger silver-sheet
emotionalists, lliere is no woman on the
depthless stage who can ilash from woe to,
laughter and back again with the certainty
of this particular Talmadge. She is 100
percent surefire. Rogers Lytton, as the
Baron, surpasses all his other efforts. Earle
Foxe plays Gerald in psychopathic correct-
ness, (ieorge Fawcett is totally disguised
as the sinister Chief of Police ; Murdock
MacQuarrie comes to the fore with all his
fine old melodramatic resource as the Secret
Agent, and the rest of the faultless cast
includes such players as ^^'illiam Abingdon
and Winifred Harris.
There are several points where tlie plot
wears perilously thin, but the
craft of the director and the
artifices of the players send
the beholder skating safely
across.
•"THE MYSTERIOUS
A MRS. M. Here is one of
the best pieces of suspense
eveV shot out of a projection-
booth. The story of this play
about a fake fortune-teller
was narrated in fiction form in
la.st month's Photoplay. As
the reader is never let into^
the plot of the young hypo-
chondriac's companions — ■ the
plot to frighten him into an
appreciation of life — the ful-
filment of her predictions, one
after another, and finally the
apparent end of her own life,
as prophesied, is a nerve-sliak
ing thrill.
Acting
merit seems to fall upon Frank Brownlee,
as the physician ; Willis Marks, as the faith-
ful .servant, and Evelyn Selby, as Mrs. Mus-
selwhite. The "leading" people, Miss
MacLaren and Harrison Ford, are scarcely
more than figureheads in the narration of
a complex plot woven by others. This is
especially true of Mr. Ford.
God's Crucible. A play about the Grand
Canon and in the Grand Caiion. In plot
it is a familiar panacea. Warren, son of
Lorenzo Todd, is a pretty wild boy, and his
father puts him out as a forest-ranger, or
something of the sort. He di.sappears ; be-
comes an outlaw. Meanwhile, pater goes
to the Caiion himself as a sightseer ; gets
lost, and a tide of flood water cuts off the
guide's camp, in the lower part of the
caiion, for days. The apoplectic Lorenzo,
his colorless servant, and the guide's merrv
little boy, have to make the best of things.
The party is joined by the missing Warren
— when will scenario writers quit permit-
ting fathers not to recognize their sons be-
cause they wear beards? — and in the quar-
tette scramble everybody is rejuvenated both
above and below the collar,
(ieorge Hernandez, as the
elder Todd, offers a genuine
characterization worth seeing.
Rut this plav will stand on ils
wonderful scenic shots. If
painters cannot do the great
gash justice, of course a cam-
era cannot express it fully ;
nevertheless, the best that a
camera has ever done for the
Gorge of God is beaten here.
Polly. Put the Kettle On.
Isn't that a (|uaint name?
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Myrtle Stedman
and HousePeters,
in "The
Happiness of
Three Women." y\^^. pj^cc is just a pictu-
rial account of a hard-
working little girl who sacrificed to rear
her brothers .and sisters — and ultimately
married the playwright she loved, and he
had been hardworking, too. Doesn't sound
great, and it isn't great, but it has some-
thing many great things lack: charm.
Douglas Gerrard produced it.
JIM BLUDSO. Peace hatli her heroes,
as well as her victories, and of these Jim
Bludso, a Mi.s.sissippi river engineer, who.
with his craft in flames, held her nozzle
agin the bank till the last galoot got ashore.
is in the front rank. Mr. Bludso was re-
nowned in the poetry of a generation or
two behind Edgar Lee Masters — probably
Mr. Masters would pour vinegar into the
milk of renown by proving that our hero
never sent money home to his folks, or
heaved firewood at his old man — and has
been warmed over in various dishes of art.
Now comes the thoroughly applaudable
Fine Arts vision, with our champion char-
acter-maker, Wilfred Lucas, as the engi-
neer. In the slightly shifted story Olga
Grey is the wife, George Stone is "Little
Breeches," and James O'Shea is Banty
Tim. The suspense is excellent, and the
burning of "The Prairie Belle" a scenic
spectacle. There are many fine touches of
detail in properties and people.
In The Little Yank, and Nina, the
Flower Girl, -we have two Fine Arts pro-
ductions which by no means approach Fine
Arts standard. Both of them seem to be
result of a day in which a release was
needed and the hypo of inspiration was not
to be found.
■yHE ICED BULLET. Here is a sce-
nario of a scenario, much as the stage
delights to give us, from time to time, a
play of a play. William Desmond, who is
not by nature comic, but who can get away
with comedy by reason of his physical
force, his sunny smile and great good na-
ture, is here cast as a determined rank out-
sider who would a photoplaywright be.
rhe locale is Culver City, the ne\v foundry
where Ince emotions are welded into endur-
ing shadows. Mr. Desmond, possessing the
threat resolve and his scenario, tries as many
ways to get in as Heinz has pickles, and
finally, overcoming a gang of painters to
escape a lawn-spray, reaches the roof and
an open ventilator. His progress to the
managerial office is swift, and once there
he has an amusing bit of business in which
he plucks framed photographs of the well-
known Ince stars from the walls to ideally
cast his master work. Having done so, he
discovers that he is locked in. Philosophic,
he morri.schairs himself to await the watch-
man, and falls asleep. His chosen favorites
appear in the dream, the technical .stage
directions are given quite without transla-
tion, and the scenario within the scenario
begins to be a play. Nor is it an unclever
notion : a murder committed by a criminal
who arranges to have a gun fired by tlie
expansion of freezing M'ater.
The Crab. Once more, the rejuvenation
of the dusty, crusty, musty old man by a
little child. When our ultimate descend-
ants are sorting the mail from Sirius, just
arrived by interstellar radium post, this
theme will doubtless retain much of its
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pristine freshness. In this Ince play the
finest moments are the last parting of an
old man and the wife of his youth, roles
played, respectively, by Frank Keenan and
(iertrude Claire. Never have I seen a
death-scene of such gentle, poignant
beauty ; so devoid of morbidness and so full
of the calm that conies with death's reality.
Miss Claire's performance and direction,
and the unassuageable grief of Keenan as
the old man. are bits of high art in pathos-
portraits. Thelma Salter, a plump child
with a wise little face, shows more intelli-
gence than most leading women.
Chicken Casey. The old-fashioned type
of stage author : a combination of simp,
boob, sucker and congenital idiot, is here
dragged out by his keepers, dusted off, and
made to perform. "Chicken Casey" is not
a relish, a newsboy or a bantamweight, but
a "prominent actress" who desires to con-
vince a "prominent writer" that she can,
and will, do his character-heroine. How
such a dumbhead as this author could ever
do anything is beyond us. Chicken Casey
proves that she has a cliicken head by going
to the nuptial clinch with him in the last
fifty feet. Dorothy Dalton frolics as
Chicken, and looks like
one, while Charles Gunn
and Howard Hickman
are chief support. Apart
from the foolish drama-
tist, the scenario is con-
ducted in an orderly
manner, and the other
processes are sane and
harmonious.
BETTY TO THE
RESCUE. In the
good plays in which that
rose of eternity, Fannie
Ward, has appeared.
Jack Dean has been the
worst feature. In this.
her worst photoplay, he
is the best feature.
"Betty to the Rescue"
is a souffle of gold and
oranges. Henry Sher-
win, dying, leaves his
daughter Betty to his
book-worm friend John
Theda Bara in
" The Darling of Paris. "
Kenwood. Sherwin also leaves Betty a mine,
but James Fleming, mineralogist and de-
signing fellow, calls the mine worthless, and
then tries to marry Betty just to get hold of
the property. A Southern California frost
makes Kenwood's orange crop one witli
Nineveh and Tyre, and Betty, after a vari-
ety of complications and counterplottings,
unmasks Fleming, and makes Kenwood ac-
cept her, thinking she is penniless. Thus
all end out of the bankruptcy court except
the wicked schemer. Jack Dean's Kenwood
is a real characterization. I think it \vould
be a characterization even without the horn
spectacles and the beard. Miss Ward in
an innocuous part has no more inspiring
moment than that in which, returning from
boarding school to an orchard in the full
flood of irrigating day, .she doffs her ox-
fords and bursons, lifts her lingerie a dis-
tracting trifle, and has one large wade.
A Mormon Maid. I doubt the propriety
of a play attacking an existing sect, even
for performances distinctly beyond the pale.
"The Latter-Day Saints," as the followers
of Joseph Smith call themselves, liave writ-
ten one of the strangest pages of American
history. In general practice at least polyg-
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amy seems to have disappeared in Utah,
and many of our staunch Western patriots
and good citizens believe firmly in the Angel
Moroni, the revelations on the golden
plates, and all that. "A Mormon Maid"
deals with the militant period of the Mor-
mon church, and the escape of a gentile
from the compulsion of sex-greedy Mor-
mon elders. There are "Avenging Angels,"
plotting, broken hearts and sudden death
in this well-told, convincingly written story
— which, as I have said, seems a morbidly
unnecessary rehash of a certain phase of
American history. Mae Murray is the
principal artiste.
The Evil Eye. Here, on the contrary,
is a play about a people, and a condition,
which is a justified indictment. The tale
in full was one of Photoplay's leading
stories last month, and will not be detailed
here except to say that the plot describes
the adventures, near-disaster and love-dis-
covery of a young girl physician in North-
ern Mexico. Her eye-mirror, to Hash light
down a sick child's throat, is mistaken by
the ignorant peons for a device of the devil.
The story is well told, the direction is good,
and Blanche Sweet in the leading role gives
a characteristic portrayal.
p REAT EXPECTATIONS. Gradu-
^^ ally the novel classics are turning un-
der the eye of the lens. This latest Dickens
story before the lamps is' bound in celluloid
by Famous. Its honors go to Frank Losee,
playing the convict. Abel Magwitch. In
t:he last three months Losee has gone the
limit of characterization, successfully, for
there is no greater gap than that separating
his study in "Ashes of Embers" and his
delineation of the slimy yet pathetic wrong-
doer here. Not all the honors of achieve-
ment are youth's. Losee and Rogers Lytton
— mentioned elsewhere in these reviews —
should enjoy the fruits of a screen triumph
genuine as any prima-donna's. Jack Pick-
ford is all that one might ask as "Pip," the
boy, and Louise Huif is a winsome Estella.
In direction and equipment there is a pretty
fair idea of the period iioth in material and
deportment.
A Girl Like That. A well-told, fairly
convincing story of crooks and, of course,
salvation. It is quite without originality,
but puts forth as chief attractions Irene
Fenwick and Owen Moore. Miss Fenwick
is one of the few silversheet women pos-
sessing genuine subtlety, and she gives a
definite value to almost anything in which
she appears. She gives definite value to
this play. Mr. Moore is in her shadow, as
an artist, but 4ie provides highly acceptable
support in a role which he characterizes
with real energy.
The Happiness of Three IVoineii. A
fine story of real life. In its original, it
is a quite familiar tale by Albert Payson
Terhune, and need not be retold here. It
is acted by House Peters and Myrtle Sted-
man with generally good support.
The Right Direction. Not right, but all
wrong. A preposterous Polyanna melo-
drama stirred up for Vivian Martin.
"T'HE BONDAGE OF FEAR. A, .story
of persistent pursuit, and a dead lover,
instead of a skeleton, in the family clo.set.
Vesta Wheatley, a Southern girl, marries
John Randolph, a Northerner, and comes
North to live. Dick Mortimer, one of her
back-Iiome spooners. follows, determined to
win what has already been won. His pur-
suit leads him to a hunting lodge where she
is alone. An itinerant thief, hopping here
and there to escape asphalt fly-copsj, hap-
pens in and makes it a three-some. Dick
is killed, and his body is done away with.
Thereafter Skinny, the thief, becomes
Vesta's blackmailer, and the pleasant finisli
arrives when he is finally polished oif in
Vesta's own home. The situations in this
play are false and forced, though some
parts of the story ring true. Perhaps this
is because World's most accomplished
woman. Ethel Clayton, plays Vesta. It
seemed to me that Rockcliffe Fellows, as
Randoljih, was altogether too actorish. I
should have preferred John Bowers, the
altogether natural mild villain, in this part.
As the thief. Arthur Ashley contributes a
coke-shaken wretch of conventional- type.
The Hungry Heart. "Frou-Frou," in its
day. was a grand old play, but we have
ceased to regard life through the spectacles
of a false and dewy sentimentality. That
is why the sorrows of Frou Frou herself do
not in the least affect us. However. Alice
Brady has much to do with this. Having
the materials for pleasing impersonations,
not too heavy in nature. Miss Brady has not
in months made any advances. Last year
she was well cm her way to high screen ai'-
complisirments : now, she does not progress.
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A Boy Named Kelly
WHO MAKES THIRTY THOUSAND A YEAR
AS A FREE LANCE SCENARIO WRITER—
A STORY OF YOUTHFUL TRIUMPH.
By Randolph Bartlett
Portraits by Wliite
He succeeded
because he
had the
' 'picture
instinct."
T
'HEY'" say that Anthony P. Kelly, who has now
almost reached the mature age of twenty-five
years, makes $60,000 a year writing scenarios,
asked him about it.
"I only wish it were true," he said with a laugh.
"Perhaps," I hinted, "sixteen thousand sounds
like sixty."
"That would be nearer the mark." he admitted.
^Mien he told me, later, that his output has been
about one hundred scenarios in four year.s —
twenty-five annually — I did a quick piece of menta!
arithmetic, and my guess is that his income is about
thirty thousand, as I happen to know of one instance
in which he refused to make a seven-reel adaptation
of a novel for $1,000. Think of it. ye dwellers in
Grub Street — refusing $1,000.
Be his salary what it may, it is true that this young
man is the most success-
ful free-lance writer
in the business today.
A list of his .works
would occupv almost
Young Kelly at
work with his
currency mill.
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the entire space allotted to this article
A few of them are adaptations of
"The Man of .the Hour." "The
Thief," "The Great Divide," "The
Witching Hour," "Today;" samples
of his original scripts are "The Soul
of a Woman." "The Light at Dusk."
"Somebody's Paradise," "Shadows in the
East." "The Crucible," "Parentage."
and so on — and so on.
So far as the public is con
cerned, his adaptations arc
most widely known, for the
film manufacturers are still
laboring under the delu-
sion that film audiences
are conversant with thi
literature of the moment,
and go to great expense
to make pictures from
stories that never were
intended for tiie screen.
And Mr. Kelly encour-
ages them. "When T adapt
a story or a play," he says,
"all I am selling is my tech
nique. When I write an
original photodrama, 1
am selling an idea,
which, once gone, de-
pletes my stock in trade
just that much." Yet his
original pictures are among the best
the camera has recorded, as a glance
at his formidable list proves.
Four years ago he was trying to ap-
l>ly the knowledge he had accumulated
at Loyola and De Pauw colleges to
new.spaper reporting in Chicago.
"As a reporter I was a joke,"
says Anthony. "I used to write the
most fantastic, flowery stories about
the most unimportant incidents. I
suppose I had too much imagina-
tion. One day I collected a few
fragments of this surjilus imagina-
tion, tied them in a bundle and
shipped them to the Vitagraph. A
check came back, and I found that
I had turned out a one-reel picture
story. That was all the encour-
agement I needed. I set to work
in earnest, and I must have had a
natural knack, for the checks kept
coming with a regularity that was.
for months, a constant
source of astonishment.
Since then I have sold scenarios to
practically every important pro-
ducing corporation in America."
We spoke, guardedly, of the
suspicion that lurks in the mind
of almost every tyro in the
scenario ."game" — that niany of
tli€ companies deliberately filch
the idea from the manuscript, and
return it "with tlianks."
"I believe this is absolutely
untrue, so far as all the estab-
lished companies are con-
cerned," said Mr. Kelly. "It
is necessary for a producer,
especially if he is turning
out a regular program, to
have staff writers who can
be relied upon to deliver
stories if the outside sup-
ply fail. I have always
felt that these writers
should not be required to
handle contributed manu-
_ scripts. Not that thev
\ ' would deliberately steal
ideas — though the temp-
/ tation to bolster their
standing with their em-
ployers at the expense of
unknown authors must be
very strong, when they run
short of ideas. But no
writer knows the source of
Ills ideas. Sometimes they
seem tcr come into your head
from nowhere, sometimes
from a brief newspaper
article, sometimes as an
absolute opposite of some
story in a magazine. When a
staff writer has read a .score or
more manuscripts, and then
sits down to write a story of his
own. it is quite natural that he
may unconsciously adopt as his
own, the germ of a plot in one of
the contributions he has read.
"But one of the most frequent
complaints from the tyros is that
after a manuscript has been re-
N- iected, the story has been
recognized on the
screen. Of course, if
it is the same, in detail.
it is a clear case of pil-
{Continued on page 152)
She Was the Bernhardt of the Klondike
IF you ever see this lady playing one of
those Alaskan dance-hall girls, so popu-
lar in our current gelatines of emotion,
observe closely : her business will be the
real thing ; she'll be giving you a drawing
from life.
Not that Marjorie Rambeau has been an
Alaskan dance-hall girl. Once upon a time
she was the Klondike Bernhardt, and the
dance-hall girls, and the sour-doughs, and
the Indians, and the Esquimaux, and the
gamblers, were her admiring applauders.
x^nd she was very young, too ; those were
her marymilesminter years.
No actress on stage or screen had such a
youth of travel and experience as Miss
Rambeau. Her mother, an actress, was
a young widow in California. With her
little girl .she traveled to Alaska,
started a stock company, and the
youngster, by 'lier graphic character-
izations of every sort, became the
wonder of the midnight sun. Mrs.
Rambeau returned to the .Southern
Coast, and after she'd had varied
stock experiences Oliver Morosco
found Marjorie in a stock
company in .San Diego.
He took her to Los
Angeles, where she
made a great sensa-
tion.
Presently Willard
Mack found her —
this was in Salt
Lake City — and she
became Mrs. Willard
Mack. They went
East together, and she was
"discovered" grandly by the New
York critics.
She was first featured in "So
Much for So Much," became a star
— again for
M o r o s c o
— in
"Sadie Love," and this year is one of
Broadway's great estal)lished luminaries in
the swift melodramatic comedy, "Cheating
Cheaters."
Marjorie Rambeau is still under thirty,
and is doing her first picture work under
Director Frank Powell. Miss Rambeau
was in stock in J^os Angeles when that city
received its first consignment of raw film
but by the time the stage was being ravished
of its stars, she had departed for the east
to woo fame in the
drama's capi-
♦"'*< ^ tal on Man-
hattan.
Photos by White
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A Bear of a Ba
By Allen Corliss
COME day she'll timidly tell the mar
*^ riage license clerk that the name's
"Helen Marie Osborn, if you please,
sir," but right now she jubilates
under the radiant title, "Little
Mary Sunshine."
Hardly a year ago Pathe re
leased a feature
"What are you
fishing for, my
pretty maid?"
"I'm fishing for
on audience, sir, ' '
she said.
We think one of
the cutest little
animals we ever
saw is Helen
Marie's own baby
camera, standing
up there on its
sturdy short legs
just like it was a
regular shooting
box.
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A Bear of a Baby!
87
that name, in which Helen Marie and the rest of
it appeared. It was her sc.een debut. And
she wasn't four years ohl. Balboa produced
ftkt i^^fe^ the picture, the Pathe folks scoffed when
■» Jli ^^^^ ^^^^y ^''^^'"d of it — and when they saw
it in their C'wn projection rooms they
put it under the best brand they
had.
"Little Mary Sunshine" as a
name outlived that picture's
course, for it was immediately
tacked onto our split-pint sou-
brette. the aforesaid Helen
Marie.
Helen Marie is a unic]ue speci-
men of intelligence, endurance
and variety. There may be other
children with physical and mental
resources capable of sustaining a
^ live-reel story like a Cooper-Hewitt
\eteran — but if there are, they haven't
appeared yet.
She and her director, Henry King, are very
f each other. Helen Marie is a little Balboa
does not come of a theatrical family,
the prop candy and cake and keep the prop
dollies? She does.
Above, impressionistic study of
a prominent actress at a lake
side. Our subtle detective in-
stinct leads us to believe that
it's a warm day. At the right,
the celebrated star is being
urged by her director to wear a
Louey Quince gown, while she
wishes to wear — nothing!
PENCIL-SHOOTING THE FAMOUS PLAYERS IN MANHATTAN,
Toto the Mastiff
^(left and right
looks like one of the
pom-pons on Fifi's
rhapeau. The two
"Ftfi. " gentlemen
are Mm. Sorelle
{above) and
/^^ Sainpolis. Small
) Margherita
]^!*^ has a couple of
* '' ' large chairs.
AND THE VARIED GAME THE AGILE GRAPHITE BAGGED
"M'gawd, the
detectives ! ''
Pauline Fredei ick
and Pedro de
Cordoba have
just been raided.
Artist
Reynard
writes:
"Miss Frederick
woreapinknightie
and a sad look. " Sorry, Grant, that
the pink didn't register. Anyway,
she and Senor De Cordoba are regis-
tering something just below.
Director Vignola talks Fiji's
fortunes with Cartouche
(Sorelle) and Fiji herself.
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DOROTHY DONS HER LUCILE 5 L ICKER
Twenty Minutes Out
A LITTLE STORY ABOUT A LITTLE RED
HOUSE AND SOMETHING OF ITS OWNER
By Kilbourn Gordon
DOWN at Bayside, Long Island, which
— if you are fortunate and catcli an
express — is just twenty minutes from
New York, is a little red house. It is a
house that eveh to the stranger passing by,
seems set apart, individual, artistic, atmos-
pheric. It is Nance O'Neil's little red
house.
About it is a high fence and a gate with
a formidable looking lock and a bell.
Through the foliage one caught a glimpse
of latticed windaws. always suggestive of
romance. Altogether it is reminiscent of
anything but a New York suburb.
Miss O'Neil herself greeted me. and as
passing the censorship of butlers and maids
is ever a thankless proceeding. I was grate-
ful.
"How," I asked, after we had settled
down in the study — a room redolent of that
indescribable charm which is elusive, yet
intimate — "did you ever find such a unique
hit of the old world in modern Bayside?"
"That," said Miss O'Neil, "is quite a
story. Mr. Hickman and I (in private life.
as you probably know. Miss O'Neil is Mrs.
Alfred Hickman), were driving by here
one day and this place caught our eye. At
that time I had no inclination whatever for
a home in the country. For several years
I had been living on Central Park West
and that, to me, seemed country enough.
However, the house did look different and
we determined to investigate.
"There M-as a 'for sale' sign whicli
whetted our curiosity. The gate was locked
but finally we roused from his digging in
the garden an elderly French gentleman
who assured us that the 'proprietaire' was
not about : that we must have a permit, and
that furthermore we could not get a permit
until the 'proprietaire' was assured that our
intentions were 'serieuse.' In fact, lie
seemed to cjuestion very much whether they
were.
"We finally got a permit through an
agent and w-ith it came the discovery that
the elderly gentleman who had assured us
that the 'proprietaire' was not to be seen
was himself that individual and was prob-
aljly putting into practice the American
slogan of 'safety first.' Evidently con-
vinced • that our intentions were 'serieuse'
the 'proprietaire' took us under his paternal
wing and admitted us to his house and
confidence.
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"The house he had built himself after his own ideas and, as — ,
you see, it is typically and thoroughly French. I was fasci-
nated by it the moment I got inside. The entire arrange-
ment, the latticed windows, the breakfast porch, the locks
and keys in every conceivable place positively thrilled me.
I felt as though I had walked into my own walled castle and
that I had but to pull up the drawbridge to shut out the
whole world. After that, it did not take long to come to
terms."
Knowing that Miss (_)' Neil's artistic activities had carried
her on several globe-girdling tours, and knowing also that (,
she had at various times resided abroad, 1 wondered how
this transplanted bit of the continent of which she is mis-
tress, compared with the various domiciles she had occupied
in the far places. I asked her.
She was silent for a moment.
"Home, to me," she said, "means a great deal. It means
a place of rest, of peace, and yet of work and accomplishment.
There should be between a home and its owner a sense of sympathy,
a bond of understanding, — the
Below in the circle is
the little red house.
The rest of the pic-
ture is composed of
Mr. and
Mrs.
Hickman
and the
pup.
one should be, in a way, a part
of the otlier. That is why," she
continued, "this place has come
to mean 'home' to me in the
true sense of the word. I
once had a home in
Cape Town,
South Africa,
another in Adelaide,
South Australia, an-
ilier in Melbourne, and
iir a time I even called
camp in the desert home."'
tm.
K sfsafi.'asss&J
The Mash -Note Conspiracy
HON. HAGA5AKI, VALET AND BABY-TENDER
TO HON. FILM HERO. ASSISTS HIS AUGUST
WIFE TO PLOT AND ACHIEVE HIS DOWNFALL
Data gathered from Hon. Hagasaki's personal reminiscences
By Irving Sayford
D
r a w 1 n
Q u i n
H
1 1
THIS job I are striving with were
what you call all made in America,
being nurseman to infant portion of
home of Moving Picture Star who have
wife and five kids
but persist to public
that he are bache-
lor, because have
conclude this tactic
should swell up
popularness with
skirt section in
theatres. Therefore
some scenes when
actor come home
unfrequently, my-
self being mixed up
in midst.
I are cross sea by
benevolence of au-
gust parent to-
achieve english lan-
guage and return
highly learned,
therefore conde-
scend with cheer-
fulness toward any
job that projects it-
self against me with
„• 1 .„ I are not possibly attaching
quickness. gidest of star's kids are
Excellent parent proclaim to me as are
going on board ship for America thusly :
"O Hagasaki, be busy remembering thy
honorable ancestors, which are of the
Samurai blood
down along genera-
tions. Bow thyself
at those time when
the West people
tumble laughs
against thee, not
forgetting to ob-
serve for Nippon
out of corners of
the eye."
Being arrived
upon job, I com-
mune to myself that
t li i s distinguished
advice of parent are
in large contradis- ■
tinction against fool
attitude of star boss
which are father of
five kids and state
to public in news-
paper also surrepti-
tious by letters that
he are not possessed
of that wife or kids.
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ear to keyhold account least
bawling in arms of self.
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Also one young woman person in not enough clothes to refute any
cold draught.
I propose privately to myself that this
Star are a simp.
Also am observing tliat he are not much
popular except with female m. p. public
and self, other portion of United States
race not being wild with friendliness. I
unearth that Wife of simp are observing
likewise, and not always slow about roast-
ing Star alongside swelled head. Star
promulgate back at Wife that house are
littered up with too much kids and quar-
rels lying around loose, and he propose he
shall beat it away- from those and settle
down in honorable hotel for few weeks.
Wife phonograph back with spiciness he
should do more better by stay at home and
settle up. Star flounce himself out of
house with hasty accumulated suitcase,
failing to leave hotel address behind.
Excellent wife considers whether it are
time to weep or laugh : decide it are suffi-
ciently wise to do not either but take ad-
vantage of immediate present for discover-
ing that hotel address.
"Hagasaki," she belligerate to me, "you
to go quickly out and follow that husband
person at distance, spot hotel place, return
swiftly and confess that information at
me." While absent on shadow job, Wife
cook up some meanness to pull, thank you.
Star are discovered by me registered at
Hotel Goldlight, which are enforcing hill-
top rates in exchange for surplus style of
exclusiveness. These finding out I hand
along to Wife when get back. She per-
petrate grim mouth and denounce thusly ;
"Hah ! Watch toward me, Hagasaki ; I
are presently fix that husband star whole
lots." I duck, assuring self that barbar-
ities of those kid in nursery are safer dan-
ger than being around too closely in vi-
cinity of Wife when temper storm breaks
out, which I deduce signs it are getting
ready shall do.
Come second day. no come Star. Wife
begin to shake out revenge stuff, thusly :
She are go upon telephone and talk low
six minute. Presentlv doorbell call out, I
The Mash-Note Conspiracy
95
button down white-stiff jacket, answer.
Young woman person require for Missus
Star, who are follow me to door and take
away this calling woman to some room,
shut door. Soonly they ascend up stairs.
Briefly return and come down, Husband's
wife supporting in both two hands sufii-
cient of female letter notes, I later demise,
to upblow once and a half times two thirds
of all homes in Los Angeles which are in-
habited by go-easy wifes or sportly look-
ing young fool girl daughters which pos-
sess maybe automobile from father.
"This letters," berate Star wife to caller
friend which she hooked in over telephone,
"are smash notes which I hand money to
props man at dam Star Husband's studio
to steal from devil Husband's dress-room.
You experience desirability to read them?"
This conspiriting wife and Friend de-
posit themselves on floor same as honorable
Japanese custom, read aloudly to each
other out of letters, which I listeningly as-
certain are having at bottom sig. of wives'
or daughters' only first names, not last ;
sometimes all initials.
Some of this sigs. Missus Star detect
identification of, and become highly pugna-
tionable. Specifically so when peruse one
smash note of excess softness which gush
delightful reply to one other smashing note
which are been sent these Mabel person by
Star alongside unspeakable love and solemn
confession that he are bachelor and heart
are made singing-happy at finding out
Mabel go at bed every night with his pho-
tograph reposing under tender pillow.
These smash words induce Star Hus-
band's wife to consider tearing out hair.
Calling Friend dissuade that were better
and not hurt so much pulling out consid-
erable proportion Husband's hair, which
are delectably prolific.
"You are knowing this Mabel Person?"
belligerent Wife demand toward Friend.
"I are having that dishonor," depose
her.
"Where are this butterscotch hussy re-
side?" contemplate Wife.
"She are society people on West Adams
Street," confer Friend. "What plan you
are murdering up in your mind to subdue
same ?"
"Thisly," acclaim outrageous Wife. "I
are proposing with myself that shall make
life his burden for that bald face Star
which are lying to public that he are
bachelor, and flirting and mixing up on
side with fool .smash note females when he
are owing distinction of husband to me
and father over my five children."
Then Wife and Friend caller boil up
together executively with door shut ; I are
not possibly attaching ear to- keyhold ac-
count least eldest of Star's kids are bawl-
ing in anns of self and so cannot approach
myself closely to door, I regret.
Eventually in at big showdown, how-
ever, thank you.
I are commanded by Wife that I shall
go along with caller Friend on errand and
escort back answer from her. I call out
taxi. Friend and self discommode ourselves
into, after while stop at too much expen-
sive hotel where Star husband are put up.
Wife's Friend go into council in private
manager's ofiice, where talk long time too
low for self to decode. Then I are sent
back to home of Star (walking thencely
without aid of excellent taxi, which Fripnd
capture for own use, thank you).
That get-in-bad plotting uncover itself
same evening. Thusly: Star's Wife's
Friend invite that wife and five kids, also
mvself as nurservman for least old brat, at
Also if those skes are pretty and he are not acquainted he
please himself with bowing and smiling anyway.
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'Where are this butterscotch hussy reside?" contemplate wife.
dinner in main dining
room of too -living -high -cost
hotel where Star are hiding out
from family. Table for these are set down
near middle of room, which are hugely
long and containing much number of
people. At table next those one where
Wife's Friend and \Mfe and five Star kids
are beseated, self posing straightly behind
chair, are one not much youthful person
with short white moustache that look
cross, and pinkly cheeks ; also one dame
woman holding up many diamonds on fin-
gers and snuggled in hair ; also one young
woman person in not enough clothes to
refute any cold draught.
After soon, when soup been demolished,
I are shake in shoes at beholding manager
person of hotel with Star which are hus-
band-denied of that Wife which boss me,
enter through doors and confiscate small
table which are made in reserve across
aisle from that White Moustache and Dia-
monds and cold Shoulders party. They
are sit down at small table, not seeing
Wife-Friend-Five-Kids Party across room.
I breathe in important devil-devil stuff
must soon to happen. There are some
casual big stir around through tables when
Star are recognize. He apparently know-
ing great many persons in skirts at those
tables ; also if those shes are pretty and he
are not acquainted, he please himself with
bowing and smiling anyway.
Manager and Star begin destruction of
foods, but Star encounter difficulty clear-
ing plates because are finding it necessary
tx^ send smash notes all over room with
his eyes.
Soonly Waiters Captain are seen
tliis way coming with large stack of
white envelopes on arm, which bus
boy confide toward me are invitation that
dinner guests shall preserve selves for hotel
dance after meal. 'Fhese envelope, I glance
out, are reposed on all tables, and guests
begin opening with eagerlyness.
I are sniffing some dramatic tragedy im-
pend, when that rustle of envelopes and
their insides suddenly cease itself and one
tombstone quiet wrap up those great room.
Nextly these silence are cracked with
one man throwing out laugh completely at
end of room. This are followed after by
lady bunch across carpet aisle put napkins
to face and make shriek-laughs, also rock-
ing around in chairs and uptumbling glass
of wine in too much foolish fun ecstasy.
I scout my eyes over dining room and
capture some pieces information, thusly :
Simp's Wife at table where I stiffly stand
are wearing milky face, also one mouth
straight like shut trap ; Friend are boring
Simp's table with lorgnette machine ; all
diners which are not giving way to napkin
laughs are unloading bayonet stare at
same, and he are rapidly accumulating ripe
tomato flush on face. "Star person are
experiencing self to be a Simp," I ratiosci-
nate. "What are the why of this?"
Manager call Waiter Captain to table
with excitedly waving hand ; Captain per-
son stoop down and do mutterings. Man-
ager bang table top with tumultuous fist,
signal orchestra to shut up, and pronounce
for silence. It are immediate.
"Regret to pronounce," declaim Mana-
{Continued on page 177)
He Hates His Successes
BUT MAYBE THAT'S BECAUSE HE'S
USUALLY CAST AS THE VILLAIN
For Mr. Lytton is a
kindly soul and would
much rather be an
adored hero.
By George Craig
HERE'S a human encyclopedia of experi-
ences. His name is L. Rogers Lytton.
To ^vhat page would you desire to tufn
for a brief reading-? You may choose from the
following list of topics :
An American boy's experiences in (jerman
schools.
Foreign travel.
Architecture.
^Fusic.
Ihe vocal stage.
Decorative arts.
Preparedness.
Being a "villyun" in the movies.
Mr. Lytton has come promi-
nently before the audiences of
the darkened theatre of late by
reason of a remarkable imper-
sonation of a Russian baron in
"Panthea," in which he pur-
sued Norma Talmadge all
over the map of Europe, and
got himself killed for his
pains, and his pleasures.
He was with Vitagraph for
five years before that; and
perhaps the most interest-
ing page from his remark-
able book of experiences is
the story of how he made
his first connection with the
Flatbush plant.
"I went to the Vitagraph
studio on appointment with
Mr. J. Stuart Blackton," says
Mr. Lytton. "I was told he
would see me 'presently.' I
waited three hours, and then
took my courage in my hands
and went into the inner office.
Mr. Blackton- was pointed out to
me. and as soon as he had finished a
conversation with another visitor I in-
troduced myself. We had quite a
chat, and then he said :
" 'What a pity you were not here
sooner. I have just cast an actor in
a part that would have fitted vou
admirablv.'
Plioto hy Wliite
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" 'But I have not just arrived,' I told
him. 'I have been waiting three hours.'
"That seemed to imjDress him, and sum-
moning a director he told him to take the
other actor out of the cast and put me in —
presumably actuated by a sense of justice.
From that time I was a regular member of
the Vitagraph company until I resigned
five years later. The moral of this is the
element of chance that enters into success."
Among his best pictures were "The Price
of Fame," "Phantom Fortunes" with Bar-
ney Bernard, and the role of the foreign
spy in "The Battle Cry of Peace." His
biggest successes have been in "heavies"
which, he says, he "loathes and despises."
The truth of the matter is that while Mr.
Lytton assumes something of a militant at-
titude toward life and art, there is a vast
infusion of the milk of human kindness in
He doesn 7 look wicked,
does he? But here he
is — the villain in
"Panthea. "
his system, and he has no patience with the
white goodness and black badness of the
conventional moving picture characters. He
likes the fine shadings, which bring out the
human side of character and show the indi-
vidual not as a type but as a living person.
His principal interest, for which he has
temporarily abandoned acting, is at present
the National Security League. He is cap-
tain of a company at Summit, N. J., whicii
drills regubrly, and fits volunteers for
service, either at home or at the front, in
time of war.
Mr. Lytton is a native of New Orleans.
He attended school • in (}ermany when a
boy. and returned to America for his col-
lege course. He is a graduate ofthe archi-
tectural school of Columbia University,
studied art and music in Paris for two
years, and finally centered upon dramatic
art for a career. He appeared
in supi)ort of such stars as
E. H. Sothern, Mrs. Patrick
Campbell, Wright Lorimer,
Raymond Hitchcock, and
Robert Mantell. before mak-
ing the trip to I'latbush. ;
If chance hadn't switched
Mr. Lytton into moving pic
tures it is probable he would
have taken up architecture or
music. He has a decided taste
for both and at one
time thought
of becoming
an architect.
CLOSE-UPS
EDITORIAL EXPRESSION AND T I M E LV COMMENT
The
New
Comparison.
UNTIL the Wilson administration American cities
voiced their more or less heated rivalries in terms of
erudition, good roads, wealth, high buildings, parks or
comparative smokelessness. In the new standard of
comparison Smith of Chicago and Jones of New York
are apt to fight it out in the terms of motion pictures.
Recently a St. Louis man paid a visit to his Manhattan friend, who
trotted him about and showed with special pride several of New York's
widely advertised photoplay theatres.
"Here," said the New Yorker, hurling his hand in a grand arc overhead,
"you see perfect projection with a throw of 145 feet. Got anything out
West to equal that?,"
"Never stopped to measure," answered the Missouri metropolite, steadily,
"but in our Odeon the projecting machine has to run three minutes before
the picture hits the screen."
"Who Loves
Oo, Little
Godmother?"
THE picture press-agent has found a new arena for his
Munchausening.
It's France.
Where is the star of such tiny magnitude today that
she hasn't a file of godsons in the trenches? Do not the
noble Belgian boys keep her picture in their dug-out?
They do. Do not the sons of Gaul write things in their note-books about
her, to be found tragically upon the field after the big drive? Of course.
Aren't the Tommy Atkinses imploring the old dears in the War Office to
send reels of her to the front, and jolly quick, too? So they say.
Perhaps Mary Fuller started this, with the tragic (and true) tale of her
English admirer. Perhaps it was Mary Pickford, who is really marraine to a
whole Belgian brigade.
1^
For an
All-America
Company.
FOR years sport writers have picked all-America base-
ball, football and track teams, and the dramatic critics
have picked all-America companies for the representa-
tion of plays on the stage. Latterly the moving picture
editors have conducted newspaper opinion contests on
the all-America photoplay company.
As no three people ever seem able to agree on the personnel of a repre-
sentative camera organization, we've chosen to have a little fun in picking
a new All-America cluster, diff^erers notwithstanding. We haven't picked
stars, as stars. We haven't singled out the splendid individual actors of
the country. We have endeavored to select a group of assorted and tried
talents who would successfully amalgamate in the screening of a realistic
story of modern life with thrills and serene moments, laughter and tears.
Such a story, on the screen, would have more characters than would be
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allotted it in the speaking drama, where the playwrights, for financial
reasons, sprinkle their supporting parts about very frugally; hence the
apparent surplus of character people.
If we had a great story of life as it is lived we might suggest these ladies:
Norma Talmadge, Ethel Clayton, Gladys Brockwell, Mabel Normand,
Josephine Crowell and Mary Maurice; and these gentlemen: Conway Tearle,
Harry Morey, Raymond Hatton, Charles Ray, Theodore Roberts and
James Neill.
'^
THE Kansas City Star planned to show "Snow White"
to the orphan children at Christmas time — altered its
plan to include other children — wound up by hiring the
town's biggest auditorium, and giving several day's free
show to every woman and child in the city!
It is estimated that practically every female in Kansas
City, of nine, ninety or nineteen months, took in the delicious fairy-tale on
the newspaper's invitation. This is our idea of entertainment service to a
Here's
Some
Service !
community.
-g
We Won't
Vouch For
This —
—BUT it's a good story just the same.
When the eminent French farceur, M. Linder, came
to this country, both he and Mr. Chaplin, the promi-
nent Anglo-American comique, passed words — to
friends.
Some of the words that Chaplin passed reached Linder
via underground.
Very secretly, Linder challenged Chaplin to a duel.
"As the challenged, I may choose the weapons?" queried Chaplin.
"Certainment!"
"Very well: I choose insect powder."
Now we ask you how can a Parisian gentleman fight a duel with insect
powder? The mortal debate seems off.
THE scavengers of the screen, availing themselves of
every fetid air which sweeps up from the sewers of
thought, have successfully sailed the sea of maudlin
popularity in the rotten bottoms of impossible adven-
ture, white slavery, morbid romance and nakedness for
its own sake. The present conveyance is birth control,
for and against, under a variety of tissue guises and prurient titles of the
"She Didn't Know It Was Loaded " order. Lois Weber, with her very fine and
sweet play, "Where Are My Children ?" opened the door to this filthy host of
nasty-minded imitators, who announce obscenities and present bromides.
Since we are on anatomical topics, PHOTOPLAY begs to suggest that
these sharpers and shabby merchants take up another bodily subject which
will lengthen life and the wind, diminish the landscape and reduce the
high cost of living:
Drop birth control and take up girth control.
Next
Needs In
Anatomy.
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DO you live in a small town?
If so, are you dissatisfied with the films you see? Yes?
It's largely your fault.
You, plus a few like you, can improve picture con-
ditions anywhere. Within the limits of reason, you
can have anything you want.
The trouble is, you won't treat your picture-shop proprietor as you treat
your grocer or your dry-goods merchant.
If your grocer doesn't carry the soap, the canned goods or the brand ot
flour you wish, you tell him about it. If he is a wise grocer he amends his
order list and you get your goods.
The motion picture exhibitor is only a merchant, but no merchant is
left so in the dark. He has to guess what you want. If he doesn't guess
right, you stay away. Instead of staying away, why don't you ask him to pro-
cure so-and-so? If enough of you desire a change of programme you'll get
that change of programme. If you ask and receive not, in due time, the
bells are probably unhinged in your manager's cupola.
If things are wrong in your town, if you want good things and are
getting trash, in spite of all you can do, let PHOTOPLAY take a hand in your
struggle.
Write the editor, but don't pen a mere complaint. Set down the facts.
How To
Beat the
Doctor.
HOW?
Keep well.
Not a new adage in bodily health, but it has received
a lot of thought on the part of photoplay manufacturers
this past month.
If the manufacturers will be careful about what they
put into pictures there will be practically nothing to censor out.
Doing away with the censor, eventually, will be a matter of sanitation,
not surgery.
Fighting
"Gray"
Pictures.
SCREENCRAFT invents its own phrases, even as fire-
fighting, policing and the circus business. "Gray" is the
exhibitor's snappy summary of photoplay morbidity in
all its annoying phases, just as "blue" is the vaudeville
managers's general name for any ofi^-color story.
The "gray" picture is a pecular new product of the
screen: a cross between straight tragedy and the conventional happy ending.
It is an attempt to escape the ceaseless routine of joy-finishes, without the
nerve to essay the smash of catastrophe.
The result is usually dullness, and the means of attaining the dullness
four thousand feet of self-pity, the self-pitier usually being a woman.
The exhibitor is fighting the "gray" picture, and he is right. It is not art.
It is not entertainment. It is bad writing, rotten acting, dishonest life.
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Actressess
Only?
IS the American photoplay industry making actresses
and neglecting actors?
This is a very serious question. In considering
"actors" and "actresses" we ignore the male ingenue
and the baby doll, however popular they may be in the
Mary Garden perfume set. An actor, or an actress, is
one who can characterize; not character with crepe hair or a funny frock,
but the character which proceeds from within; character with the record of
humanity — life, and its fires and furies — written large.
The actors of great [^owers in the pictures have, with few exceptions,
sauntered from stage to screen. Witness Theodore Roberts, Hobart
Bosworth, Herbert Standing, William Farnum, William S. Hart, Robert
Warwick-, Frank Keenan, George Fawcett, Charles Richman, C. Aubrey
Smith — even matinee idols like Francis Bushman and George LeGuere once
walked behind footlights.
Yet the feminine stars of the screen, women who can really act, are in
large part camera born and bred, as far as career is concerned. Of these
are Mary Pickford, Ethel Clayton, Blanche Sweet, Miriam Cooper, Kathlyn
Williams — even young Mary MacLaren. The fact that at various times
these women may have appeared in theatrical performances has nothing to
do with the case; they brought nothing from the theatre but their looks
and their talents, whereas most of the men were made there.
We
Wonder
Why.
JUST a little thing, but it's always wrong when worn
away from home: the New York police uniform.
Greater New York is not only America's metropolis,
but the greatest city in the world in population and
importance. Practically two-thirds of our photoplays
about cities, no matter where inturned, concern Man-
hattan or its neighbor-boroughs. Yet only those companies resident in New
York garb their mimic peace-officers in the smart and wholly distinctive
rrietropolitan police uniform, as different from the regalia of any other
American copper as the attire of opposing armies. For the rest, anything
seems to do.
We wonder why. Isn't a cop a prop liable to receive as many glances as
a period chair?
WE are perhaps not exactly inartistic in appropriating
a little false smoke to make picture war visible.
Real war, nowadays, is invisible.
Even the red heights of Verdun and No Man's Land
along the Somme are fields of peace.
In the vividest films from the battle-front only occa-
sional cotton-balls, floating lazily in the upper air, show where death is
flung on high.
There is more smoke in one camera skirmish than Rheims has seen.
But if we filmed a military engagement as it is, a sheep-shearing would
be far more exciting.
The Fields
of
Peace.
The Flash Back
By Harry L. Reichenbach
Author of "The Big Fade-Out."
A romance of the
Cooper- Hewitts
that narrowly
escapes having a
happy finale. If you
dislike tragedies
don't fail to read this
one.
Illustrated by May Wilson Preston
WE all make mistakes. That's why
they keep the stuff in show cases at
Tiffany's. If we was always right,
they wouldn't be no need of putting rub-
bers on lead pencils.
But how a strong gu}' like Achilles \\'.
Coombs ever let that frail wren hemstitcli
herself onto his sleeve, I can't figure, and
I've been all the way up to mixed fractions,
too.
Achilles was strong every way excepting
with women.
A plain every day skirt hanging on a
clothes line gave him a thrill, so imagine
the osteopatliic touch a swell looking dame
handed him.
I said Achilles was strong. He must of
been born strong to get that name, but I
guess the "^\ ." sort of alibis him. It must
stand for Weakfist.
Achilles was a director for the Omnipo-
tent Film Company. You'll nate I said
"was " He is noM- entirely ex~officio if that
means out of a job. By the way. how do
you like the name, "Omnipotent?" I made
that up out of my own head. It means thai
our pictures is everywhere, all the time.
Well, Achilles is with us no 7Tiore. But
he was a bear while he lasted. He made a
coupk of junk pictures, but svhen he did
make a good one. it was C>. K. to the last
fadeout.
To get to the narrative, as they say in the
Old Sleuths : — Achilles was getting readv
to put on "Her Blighted Career" and was
looking for a perfect thirty-six to double
for Louise Mazurka.
Louise was our principal permanent
prominent star. That is, .she was the only
one who ever knew she was going to work
the next week. Louise's fiance was our
finance — and Louise just run the Omnipo-
tent about like Cook runs his tours: Per-
sonal.
Louise had a couple of morals that stuck
out like a sore toe. Two of them was that
she w ould not appear in a bedroom scene
or play the part of a model. She was what
one might term a Salad Star — needed lots
of dressing. In "Her Blighted Career"
there was a scene where Louise would have
to peel down to just a few degrees above
the equator, and as Louise would not do
that — well, we wanted a double who had a
narrow waist and a broatl mind.
We made a mistake when we let Achilles
select tlie cast for "Her Blighted Career,"
but then, as he would have had too many
excuses if the picture flivved. we let him
have his way.
Achilles advertised in one of the moving
picture papers for a perfectly formed young-
lady, weight about 125, with or without
stage experience, to play an important part.
Applicants were to apply to the studio,
direct to Achilles.
There wasn't any.
Not a one.
There ain't a soul in the world who wants
to get into the movies. C)li, no !
The only thing that kept all the women
in the world from applying was the war in
Europe.
But Alatia arrived ahead of her time.
Alatia. be it known, was a newcomer at
Fort Leo.
She got into town at 9 :45, read the ad-
vertisement at 9 :48, and was at the studio
at 10:10.
Achilles was right in the middle of a
scene in silent drama, aided by carpenters'
hammers, .sliding scenery and considerable
conversation. I guess they call it silent
drama because the noise gives out before
the release.
Achilles was developing a situation.
Alatia was developing a desire — and when
she threw out a beacoii to Achilles, summer
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Louise was called in to look
Alalia over, and after taking
a peep at her coastline, she
O. K. 'd her.
turned right into the home stretch and flow-
ers bloomed on all sides.
Alatia came from a small town in Min-
nesota and was just about the tinest bit of
frailty the burg had ever turned out.
She had those question-department eyes
that make a man dissatisfied with his in-
come, and anything Houdini could do with
his hands would have been child's play for
Alatia's lamps.
Alatia walked around the doorman as if
he was Ramtard's remains, and, laying one
radiating finger on Achilles' pulsing wrist,
grabbed off the I'ob of substitute for Louise.
If Achilles had been a king he would have
handed her the crown jewels.
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Ula^tUi.Ut'H Va
Achilles did wonderful work that day
and when, hours later, he sat down to din-
ner with Alatia and ordered leg o' lamb, he
knew he was gone.
Any other time Achilles would have or-
dered the leg of a piano. He played the
"quantity" restaurants off the boards. His
off hand thumb was all chafed from push-
ing nickels in at the automat — yet Rector's
and Churchill's was too cheap for him
when Alatia was anchored alongside.
Louise was called in to look Alatia over
and after taking a peep at Alatia's coastline
and knowing she herself would get full
credit for any goods Alatia delivered, she
O K'd her, and the thing was set.
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Being press agent par excellence for the
Omnipotent, Achilles sent for me to come
to his office one day about a week after he
had named his favorite street after his
queen.
"Dave," he said, "I want you to watch
me put Alatia through some scenes. I been
bringing her out a little. She's got great
timber."
And when he said that he stroked her
hand.
1 got to hand it to Achilles, though. He
sure made that dame act a little. I ain't go-
ing to tell everything that went on because
Achilles had his own way of bringing her
out ; and being in love, sort of, why, well
— it wouldn't be fair — but that Alatia
would never create any novel methods of
burning up the universe, I was sure.
They did one scene from a picture Achil-
les had made a few months before, and Ala-
tia ate it up. But she had a couple of
words with Achilles about kissing.
"Do you have to kiss me, really, just to
make me act right?" she cracks.
Achilles felt hurt. He was as happy as
a guy with neuralgia, and he comes back :
"No, you don't ever have to ki.ss me,
Alatia, but don't blame it on me if you are
dead in your scenes."
But then, I won't tell any more — yet
— about the scenes.
I OUISE began nosing a rodent and
wanted to know from Achilles whether
this dame meant more to him than food and
drink.
Louise never looked ahead. That is, not
more than five minutes, when she looked at
all, and outside of knowing exactly how to
handle a rummy with a bundle of sugar,
her mind was always at perfect repose.
Achilles never looked anywhere except
over his shoulder, while Alatia could see
farther into the distance than any honest to
goodness clairvoyant ever born.
Alatia was always four jumps ahead.
She kept her lead, and when she looked
back at Louise and Achilles at all, she did
it with eyes closed for the day.
Well, the time came for the beginning
of "Her Blighted Career," and as it was
to be our masterpiece, we pulled off every-
thing at the studio so as to have all the
time we wanted to get the sets ready and
'•ehearse the troupe.
Achilles worked something like a flivver
motor. He went along all right until he
was actually needed ; then something gave
out.
He was normal, walked all right, carried
matches and everything, but seemed a little
brittle in the belfry.
VV/ HEN Alatia was talking to anyone
else at the studio, you could have
stolen Achilles' ideas and he wouldn't have
missed them.
He worked with one eye on his job and
the other one trailing Alatia.
He was so jealous he wouldn't even trust
himself with her.
Louise asked him one day whether he was
working or dreaming.
"Both," comes back Achilles. "I'm
dreaming of the day I can take Alatia and
make her one of the great figures of the
screen universe."
"Well," Louise cracks, "Just go on like
you are and the day is only a couple a weeks
away when you can devote all your time
to that idea."
But then, the significance of the remark
failed to penetrate Achilles' bean and he
went about his work as though he was doing
everything on credit ; not putting his heart
into it at all.
Alatia began superintending the picture
with the first shot.
According to her, the photoplay business
started a week late and she was personally
sent down by Providence to bring it up to
date.
Knowing as much about picture work as
she did about anything else, which was
thirty-love in favor of minus, she made sug-
gestions to Achilles, in the presence of the
whole outfit, which, if they had been car-
ried out, would have made "The Birth of
a Nation" look like a split reel comedy on
the old trust program.
She wanted to slam Louise into the dis-
tance so far she would blend with the back
drop, and when it came time to show her
bare and shimmering back, it required four
crews of construction experts to keep her
from peeking over her shoulder at the
camera.
Louise had a little talk with Achilles that
night and tagged him for no-man's land.
"You have the symptoms of a man, seek-
ing from office to office for an activity" she
told him, hoping to cure him of Alatiaitis —
but Achilles was always disappointing.
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He admitted that he had never yet ful-
filled anyone's expectations. Even when he
was a kid, he says, his mother treated him
for measles and he went ahead and devel-
oped hives !
Well, between Louise and Alatia,
Achilles rnust of felt something like the
middle of a rope in a tug-of-war.
If Louise turned to the right, Alatia
made a little sound like a squirrel cracking
a nut, which helped Louise wonderful —
nit.
If Achilles ordered Alatia to lean for-
ward so her bare back would show, she
would, but she managed to get her profile
into the shot from some angle.
So it went.
Everything moved along at the studio
like as if there was a couple of lost trenches
that had to be gotten back before sunset
every day.
Even the extra people fell to battling
among themselves.
Old Joe Hooker, who hadn't had two
consecutive days' work since Gus Daly made
his last coast to coast trip, got to acting
independent-like and wanted fifty cents a
day more.
Achilles couldn't be severe even with
him.
Joe was playing the part of a sneak in
the picture, and had been registered in a
set that was broken up, and we had to fall
for his demands. There was a guy who
had been rubbing a cook book over his
stomach for years, standing out for a four
bit raise. And Alatia was to blame.
She had come over the ferry with Joe
that morning and told him how to work it.
Joe just asked for a raise, told Achilles
that Alatia had suggested it — and he got it.
Louise phoned presently for her fiance.
He was a little fat guy named Finkelstein.
"Finke," as Louise called him, was puffing
like a tired hound when he came into the
studio. Louise grabbed him and in a few
minutes, Achilles was sent for. I happened
to be there on business and sort of strolled
into Louise's dressing room just as Finke
opened up.
"What's the big idea?" he spills. "Are
you making a picture for us, or making
Alatia for you?"
Achilles was taken back. On the level,
he was surprised !
To give the sucker his dues, I don't think
he ever thought he was doing wrong.
He was so mushy over Alatia that when
he committed an error, he forgave himself
in advance.
"Why, what's wrong?" he asks I'lnkel-
stein. "Is the stuiT punk, or what?"
"Punk, no," says "Finke," 'but whatinell
do you think I'm putting all this kale up
for, for you to make this wild woman from
Minnesota?"
Poor Achilles, it all came to him about
like a joke comes to an Englishman. He
grabbed it and let it sink in.
"I guess I know what you mean," he sort
of mumbles. "I guess I'm so much in
love with her I didn't think."
"Well, I'm in love, too," puffs Finkel-
stein, "but it aint got me all bruised up !"
Achilles was all busted to pieces.
"Finke" was sure riled.
Louise just sat nice and quiet like a
tarantula before he slips you the old front
tooth.
Achilles is shifting from one foot to an-
other, "Finke" is fingering a big watch
charm, Louise is waiting to rattle her but-
tons before .she bites, when who comes bust-
ing into the room but Alatia.
If Achilles was no bigger in size that he
felt right then, he would have had to take
a step ladder to kiss a kitten on the lower
lip.
DUT Alatia! That gal just about was
^ built to run strikes and things and urge
men to dynamite bridges and pull other
happy stunts.
"What's the idea?" she busts outj "of
keeping me sitting around like backto-
nature while you people hold services. I
ask, what's the idea?"
Louise slips the old poison dope right
into her stinger and cuts loose.
I said Louise never did much forward
gazing.
"Why you little pup, git out of this
room ! What the devil do you mean, tres-
passing on a lot of professionals?"
"Go on out and bare your brazen back —
and then when you've done that, go up and
tap the cashier on the shoulder for your
soup money !"
Louise, as I said, looked backward when
she looked.
If she had looked ahead just one minute,
she would have put armor plate on and
prepared for a charge.
When we picked Louise up off the floor.
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and "Finke's" coat was unhooked, Alalia
had Achilles by the hand and was pulling
him out into the studio.
Being no favorite at the bank and having
no assets outside my job. I stuck around,
brushed Louise off. and suggested killing
Alatia.
"Just you keep this out of the papers,"
cracks Louise, "I'll take care of her !"'
Turning to Finkelstein she said : "go on
out and pay them bums off and get 'em out
of here before I do something desperate.''
But' "Finke" was looser pursed than
jointed. It took an hour to do it. but it
was worth it. for Louise, entirely subdued,
camel out and went through the couple of
scenes.
Alatia continued to conduct things her
own way and when the picture was finished
in a couple of days, Achilles and Alatia
were told to leave the Omnipotent studio
and never to darken the doorway again.
A BOUT the picture? What's the use !
•** We took a slant at it in the projec-
tion room. If you could see a play where
George Cohan came on for a scene and
then Nat Goodwin played the part in the
next scene, you'd have some idea of the
consistency of it.
It was the nearest approach to a feature
with a succotash lead that's ever been made.
Alalia's face stuck out in every scene. If
shq was not on stage, she got her map in
just the same, even if it was only from the
edge of the camera line. Louise was just
about as important in the picture as Bryan
is to this noble land of the free.
When Louise was in a scene. Alalia's
shoulder or arm was just out far enough
over her face to cut off a couple of her
features.
Finkelstein hated to do it, but he had
to put the old negative in moth balls. It
was sure a dual personality affair and even
Achilles wouldn't have been able to tell
which was the leading woman when any
one was leading.
We put the picture on the shelf and sent
out a hurry call for another director.
DUT about the budding romance of
*-' Achilles and Alatia : The rumor spread
that we had a punk picture — which helped
Achilles not a little in staying idle. But
he was busy with his heart pangs.
Every night the two turtle doves (basing
the remark on Achilles' ostentatious be-
havior), would trail into one of the bizarre
coaling stations along Broadway, and while
Achilles daintily nibbled on the corner of
a three pound steak, Alatia would ply
him with questions.
She wanted to work. She wanted to
know when "Her Blighted Career" would
be shown, and if she was to be co-starred
or just featured.
Achilles was afflicted with various tor-
ments. His bank roll was becoming more
frank with him every day. He was not in
demand. He could not get admittance to
the big producers' offices and Alatia was
becoming impatient waiting for her second
chance.
I lost track of them for a couple of
weeks, but once in a while I got a tip that
they were railroading farther apart every
day.
Achilles was offered a couple of jobs but
when he sprang Alatia on them, he rolled
right out of the prospects.
About a month after we got astigmatism
from looking at "Her Blighted Career" I
met Achilles on Broadway. Every flag-
stone in the street knew his footsteps.
His feet were not under his own control
any more.
They simply carried him from one office
to another in search of work.
"t haven't eaten today!" was his first
crack, when I slip him the hello.
I fell, and we vamped into one of tliose
get-full -quick hasheries.
"Well," I pulls, "what you got in sight?"
"Nothing but the sky line," he comes
l)ack at me.
"Well," I wells again, "you got Alatia,
you must be very, very happy."
"Yes," he said, "happy. Ha ! just like
I had a cinder in my eye."
"What's the idea? Ain't you happy witli
her?"
"I'm not -a'ith her." he says ; "I'm atjainxf
her."
Then it comes out.
After Achilles has spent a month, a few
hundred dollars, and made more sacrifices
for her than the Israelites made crossing
the Syrian desert. Alatia took a choo-choo
and went da-da with a low browed tech-
nical guy.
But it was funny the way she slipped him
the bad news !
They was eating dinner one night at a
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sure-fire restaurant. That's one of those
places where the maximum is fifty megs.
You don't worry about the sorrowful paper
they slips you but know you can't get set
back more than a caser for two.
Alalia cracks something about having
something in minJ, and Achilles comes
back with the staring eyes and querying
voice, as to what it might be.
"I met Dean Rollins, technical director
of the Porterhouse Film Company today.
He's leaving for the coast and says if I was
out there, they'd play me like a country
club."
If there was anything in the world out-
side poison ivy that Achilles hated, it
was Dean Rollins.
"He rolls right off my knife," says
Achilles, "I couldn't make him, even mix-
ing him with mashed potatoes. He is nix."
"Maybe," Alatia responds, "but he cer-
tainly has grabbed himself a great piece of
activity with Griffith. He's going to work
steady like and he dropped a hint he could
fix you and I, if I would go out with him
and then shoot you a wire when to come."
Well, Achilles got all muscle bound in
the head-like. He said something about
not wanting the woman of his heart doing
a tour of the world with a weak-minded
carpenter, when Alatia takes exceptions and
asks him if he thought she wasn't straight.
"Of course you're straight!" Achilles
howls, but he didn't get away with any-
thing, for Alatia pushed her plate away,
which was unusual for her, and pulls the
old tear materia), sure fire stuff.
Achilles didn't suspect a thing, until a
day or two later, when he lamps into Alatia
in front of the Astor, talking to Rollins.
He pulls a W. J. Burns for a little while
and sees them slowly growing closer to-
gether. Then he walks around the block
in time to meet Alatia.
"I begin, thinking," said Achilles, "that
may be he was making her a lot of promises
and I asked her about it."
"Well," she says, "I don't want to violate
no confidences, but we were having a little
committee meeting on what's what at Los
Angeles, and I'm beginning to think that
California without me is like California
without oranges. Get me?"
'T'HAT was all Achilles ever sees of her.
•*■ She just eased herself out of his
young life like as though she was a spook
— and Achilles felt just like getting through
with things and matters human, entirely.
He took Bluebeard's point of view in toto.
Achilles comes back to the Omnipotent
in a couple of weeks.
He's taken the Klu Klux Klan oath
against females, and from now on, is going
to disburse his affections nonchalant.
A LATIA'S back in town. She made .such
**• a hit in Los Angeles they couldn't
stand her no more. But she's posing for
a Childs restaurant now. She's the sand-
wich model there, and maybe you don't
think they're cutting them thin these days,
with the war and everything !
The Story of a Filmless Orange
"VV7HAT the Sunday closing of moving
** picture theaters can do to a com-
munity's morals and pocketbook has a re-
markably concrete example in the experi-
ence of Orange, California, if newspaper
reports are correct. And what it did wasn't
at all what our movie "reformers" of Sab-
bath recreation thought would happen.
Several years ago blue laws compelled
an ultramarine Sunday in Orange so far as
amusements were concerned. Then along
came the films. Cinema houses sprang up
and flourished for a time in spite of their
Sunday handicap. And then business fell
off. Efforts to repeal the law were un-
availing. On January 1 of this year the
film managers gave up the fight and quit.
And in the short time which has expired
since their departure, according to pub-
lished accounts, this is what has happened :
Drunkenness has increased ; church attend-
ance has decreased ; Saturday night shop-
ping has fallen off.
Investigation disclosed that laws or no
law.s. Orange residents were going to go
movieing — and they did — in Santa Ana, a
neighboring town. But they did their shop-
ping there also.
So now the Orange business men are cir-
culating a petition asking that the question
of Sunday closing be put to a referendum
vote.
VISUAL EDUCATION A WONDERFUL THING!
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Logical Continuity
IT IS BY FAR THE MOST ESSENTIALLY IM-
PORTANT FACTOR IN PHOTOPLAY WRITING
By Capt. Leslie T. Peacocke
THERE are a num-
ber of "continuity
writers" in the scena-
rio departments of the
various studios drawing
salaries of $125 and $150
a week. And they earn
their money.
They are experienced
photoplay writers. They have to be. There
was a time when the mere skeleton of a
scenario was deemed sufficient to hand to
a producing director — a matter of perhaps
from 15 to 20 main scenes — allowing the
director to inject the "close-up" and "flash
backs" and "business" to suit himself. Very
few companies will allow this to be done
now. The managing heads of the best film
companies now want to see in black and
white all that is to be embodied in a pro-
duction befcre the thousands of dollars
necessary to make it are appropriated. The
"Pig in a Poke" days are over.
It has come to the point now — as I long
ago predicted it would — when no produc-
tion worthy of the name is undertaken be-
fore the photoplay scenario is carefully
worked out in logical continuity by an ex-
pert writer in that line. In a great many
studios the directors are no longer allowed
even to alter one single scene or inject
"business" of their own invention without
first consulting the .scenario editor, the con-
tinuity writer and the- general manager of
the company. This is as it should be ; sev-
eral heads are better than one.
It is not the director's good money that
is at stake. He is merely an employee. He
is made responsible for the making of the
production, it is true, but how often — hoAv
very often — have directors marred their
productions and caused untold thousands to
be lost to their employers by changing plots
of stories and injecting "business" of their
own creation, invariably resulting in illog-
ical and faulty continuity? The stock
books and bank books of some of the oldest
film producing companies will tell you tlie
vale.
'T'HIS is the third of a series
-*- of articles written especially
for Photoplay Magazine readers
who are interested in writing
moving picture plays. The next
one will be on the subject of
the scenario writer's relation to
the photoplay director.
And now we come to
the subject at issue. What
is logical continuity?
It is the placing of the
many scenes that go to
make up the photoplay in
a logical sequence, so that
the play may run perfectly
smoothly, without breaks
and jumps which otherwise would have to
be covered by wordy and explanatory sub-
titles.
Except in light comedies where comic
subtitles are often injected to enhance the
comedy, as in the case of the George Ade
fables and light comedy dramas of that na-
ture, no subtitles should be necessary at all ;
except, of course, in the bridging over of
time or place, when it is often absolutely
necessary to employ the printed words — but
a well-constructed scenario should as far as
possible be devoid of subtitles. A scenario
writer who has to use numerous subtitles to
get his photoplay over should be doing
something el.se. Action, not words, should
carry the story along. The public does not
want to sit and read printed words. Audi-
ences pay their money to see pictures, de-
scribed in action. Exhibitors know this
well, and how the exhibitors do hate a mass
of subtitles ! Many a five-reel feature that
would otherwise be classed as good has been
turned down by exhibitors because it was
replete with wordy subtitles.
In working out a scenario the writer
should aim for perfect continuity, while at
the same time the main plot of the story
should be continually borne in mind. It
is always well to jot down the main scenes
that will have to be employed to bring out
the action most vitally important to the play
before beginning to shape it into a working
script. This will entail a little extra
trouble, but will prove of invaluable assist-
ance as the work progresses, both as an aid
to memory and as a guide enabling one to
gauge the number of minor scenes that will
have to be employed to carry the photoplay
to its proper and logical length.
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In a dramatic story it is well to allow for
about 50 to 60 scenes, including "close-ups"
and "flash -backs," to a reel (which is 1,000
feet of film) and from 75 to 100 scenes in
a comedy or comedy-drama, in which the
action is always considerably more lively.
In slapstick comedies from 150 to 250
scenes may be employed, but there is no
need to worry about them, because they are
not much in vogue now and any tliat are
being made are evolved in the studios and
generally doped up by the directors and the
members of his comedy company as the play
progresses. There is seldom any plot to
them and they have to depend on boisterous
and vulgar "business" to get
the few 'horse-laughs they
aim for from the small class
of people that enjoys them.
Main scenes must not be
too long. If they threaten
to be so, they must be broken
up by close-ups or flash-
backs. Also, when employ-
ing dialogue between the dif-
ferent characters, it is al-
ways well to bring the
speaker to as near a close-up
as possible, so that her or
his facial expression may
register well while the words are being
.spoken. In dramatic action the characters
should be worked as close-up to the camera
as the action will permit. In fact, except
for the purpose of depicting some beautiful
scenic effect or expensive stage setting the
best directors are now aiming to work all
the scenes they logically can with the actors
fairly close-up to the? camera. Audiences
do not pay as much attention to settings and
scenery as might be supposed, being mainly
interested in the actions and facial expres-
sions of the actors and the evolving of the
plot. This the exhibitors have found out
and their requirements are speedily made
known to the producers, and in this way the
productions undergo various phases of
change from time to time. Except in big
scenic productions you will find that the
action of the play is being done much closer
to the camera than formerly.
Now, as an example of the working out
of logical continuity I shall give you one
main dramatic scene and show you how it
may be broken up so that the scene will not
drag, while at the same time seeing that
interest in the main issue mav not be lost.
T OGICAL continuity is
-*-' the placing of the
many scenes that go to
make up the photoplay
in a logical sequence, so
that the play may run
perfectly smoothly, with-
out breaks and jumps
which otherwise would
have to be covered by
wordy and
subtitles.
explanatory
The -Scene — Interior of a courthouse.
John, a wealthy traveling salesman, is on
trial for a murder which he did not commit.
The characters in the Scene are : John, in
the prisoner's dock ; the judge, on his
bench ; twelve jurymen in the jur}' box ; the
prosecuting attorney, who is addressing the
jury ; the attorney for the defendant ; court
reporters ; three police officers ; and a niun-
ber of spectators. John's pretty young wife,
Alice, is at a tennis party at home and site
does not know that Jolm is in any trouble,
as he is in a distant city and had given a
wrong jiame when he was arrested for the
crime he did not commit. His wife is, at
the moment, seated in the
garden with an admirer who
is making ardent love to her,
and she is flattered at his
attentions and undecided
whether she will yield to him
or not. These points were
brought out in former scenes
in the story, but the main
scene at present at issue is
the big dramatic scene in the
court room. We shall desig-
nate this Scene as number
200 in the photoplay, and
and now shall proceed on
from tliere, showing the "action" and the
continuity wliich carries the scenes along
until the main scene involved shall have
been done with.
Scene 200 — Interior of courtroom — full
view^ of room. Prosecuting attorney ad-
dressing the jury. All others tensely in-
terestecl.
Scene 201 — Close-up of prosecuting attor-
ney's face. He shouts, as follows: {In-
sert Dialogue) "The prisoner will not tell
where he comes from! Why? Because
he fears we should rake up his guilty
past!
Continue the close-up of prosecuting at-
torney finishing above sentence, then cut in.
as follows :
Scene 202 — Close-up of John's face, smil-
ing at the wrongful accusation. He casts
a glance towards the jury box.
Scene 203 — Fairly close-up of the members
of the jury looking fixedly in direction
of John. Cut back to the full scene.
Scene 204 — Court room — full scene. The
prosecuting attorney takes a big hunting
knife from the table beside him and dra-
matically holds it towards the jury bo.K,
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indicating with his finger the bloodstains
on the knife.
Scene 205 — Close-up of the knife in prose-
cuting attorney's hand, with a finger
pointing to stains on the knife. Cut back
to the scene.
Scene 206 — Court room — full scene. The
prosecuting attorney hands the knife to
the jury and they examine it, passing it
along from one to the other.
Scene 207 — Summer House, behind the ten-
nis court. Alice, John's wife, is seated
with Graves, the man who is trying to
win her from John. He seizes her hand
and pleads with her to elope with him.
Scene 208 — Close-up of
Graves pleading with
Alice. She is weighing
his words carefully and
seems on the point of
yielding to him.
Scene 209 — Close-up of
Alice's face, showing in-
decision. She is thinking
deeply. Then fade-in be-
side her face (double ex-
posure) the face of John.
He smiles tenderly at her.
Fade-out the vision and
show by Alice's face that
she cannot be false to John,
the full scene.
Scene 210 — Summer House, same as Scene
207. Alice withdraws her hand from
Graves' and tells him finally that she
cannot do as he asks. He tries to seize
and embrace her, but she repulses him
determinedly and rises. He attempts to
stop her, but she tells him not to follow
her and then walks firmly away, leaving
Graves gazing after her, scowling at his
defeat.
Scene 211 — Court room — full scene. Show
the judge taking his seat on the bench,
the jury filing into the jury box and John
being led into the prisoner's dock by an
officer. All in the court room are in-
tensely excited.
(Subtitle) "THE VERDICT."
Scene 212 — Fairly close-up of the jury.
The foreman of the jury leans forward
and earnestly announces the verdict of
"GUn^TY," the gravity of his expres-
sion telling what the verdict is, so that
there may be no need of announcing the
verdict by a subtitle. Cut back to the
full scene.
'T'HE day is not far dis-
-*- tant when subtitles
will practically be elim-
inated. The exhibitors
and the public don't want
reading matter — they want
"action" — and they can
get this only when the
scenario is worked out
in logical continuity by
the staff continuity
writer.
Cut-back to
Scene 213 — Court room — full scene. All
in the court room are profoundly affected
by the verdict. John hangs his head ;
all look at him, then he raises his head
proudly, and the judge issues some in-
structions from the bench. John is led
away by the officer and the crowd in the
court room starts to leave. As John is
being led out, fade-out the scene.
Now, here you have one main scene — the
court room — to which all the other minor
scenes are incidental. The scenes depicted
in the summer house were merely placed
there to show what was happening in John's
home in his absence and to predict that his
wife would probably come
to his rescue eventually — also
to break up the court room
scenes and prevent the trial
from being too prolonged
and monotonous. It was left
for granted that the case had
been argued out by the at-
torney for the 'defense and
that the judge's summing up
had taken place during the
time that the Summer House
scenes were being enacted.
I trust that I have ex-
plained clearly what I mean
to convey — namely, that a photoplay sce-
nario must not merely comprise the main
scenes that go to carry out the story; but
that every little bit of action that takes place
in those scenes must be clearly and logically
brought out in detail and proper continuity,
so that the producing director may know
exactly how to break up the main scenes and
to convey the action required, without the
aid of superfluous subtitles.
The day is not far distant when subtitles
will be practically eliminated. The best
scenario editors are employing continuity
writers who can construct photoplays al-
most without them, and any scenario writer
who cannot work out a photoplay except by
written and printed explanations should be
doing some other work for which she or he
is better fitted. The exhibitors and the pub-
lic will not stand for masses of subtitles
any longer. They don't want reading mat-
ter— they want "action," and they can get
this only from writers who devote thought
and care to developing logical continuity.
Of course it takes time and careful
thought to develop a photoplav as it should
be developed nowadays, but continuity
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writers are being well-paid for their work.
The directors soon get to know who are the
best writers in that line and their services are
eagerly requisitioned. Consequently they
can demand big pay and get it, some de-
manding and getting as much as $200 a
reel.
The main reason why some of our best
writers of fiction have failed signally in the
writing of photoplays is because they have
not sufficiently studied pictures on the
screen and have not grasped the fact that
it is the "close-ups" and "cut-backs" and
inserted "business" that go to make and
build up a photoplay. They have not seemed
to recognize the fact that
every time the camera is
shifted to a new position or
different angle it constitutes
a separate scene. They have
apparently considered that
photoplay writing is an ab-
surdly easy task that any fool
who has the slightest knowl-
edge of writing can make
more or less of a success of ;
that any fiction story, worked
into a certain number of
scenes, with the action that
is difficult to depict by mere
acting slurred over by a mass of bromidic
subtitles and the story strung together by
written "inserts," will pass muster for an
interesting photoplay ; but they have been
badly mistaken in a great number of cases.
They have lacked the assiduity and the ex-
perience of the trained continuity writer.
They have looked upon scenario writing as
something beneath their serious considera-
tion and they have hurt their reputations in
consequence.
And then, a number of prominent authors
of fiction have sold the film rights to their
bookstand plays to the producing companies
and have seen their wonderful stories abso-
lutely ruined by incompetent scenario
writers and even their plots changed beyond
recognition. Now, I certainly think it wise
for all prominent writers of fiction to find
out who is going to scenarioize their work
before the film rights are contracted for :
that is, if the author is not capable of doing
the work himself. Otherwise the produc-
tion may turn out to be a fliivver and the
author of the book or play will suffer badly
in reputation.
A great number of writers are claiming
IN working out a scena-
rio the writer should
aim for perfect conti-
nuity, while at the same
time the main plot of the
story should be contin-
ually borne in mind. It
is always well to jot down
the main scenes that will
have to be employed to
bring out the action most
vitally important to the
play before beginning to
shape it into a working
'script.
that tliere is a more ready market for film
stories if merely worked into synopsis form
and they submit tlieir efforts in that style,
but that is mainly because they are lazy and
do not care to take the trouble to work their
photoplays into logical continuity. Now,
take it from me, there is nothing that so
greatly delights a producing director's
heart as to come across a strong original
plot, told in a short, concise synopsis,
backed up by a working scenario evolved in
perfect and logical continuity — so that he
can take the 'script in hand and start to
produce it, with the safe knowledge that by
following the 'script implicitly he will be
making a production which
will do him credit.
Every scenario writer
should practice continuity
writing persistently and
should follow carefully the
continuity of productions he
sees upon the screen, and then
■he will readily pick the flaws
in other writers' work and see
where they themselves could
better it if given the oppor-
tunity. Continuity writing is
largely a matter of practice
and keen observation. A
great deal of attention is being paid to the
matter now, and staff writers who cannot
work their photoplays into pleasing contin-
uity or who have to employ an overabund-
ance of subtitles to carry their stories along,
do not last long in steady employment these
days. That is why trained continuity writers
are receiving good pay for their work.
The success or failure of a production de-
pends so largely upon logical continuity.
A free-lance writer will not have to go
begging very long for a steady, lucrative
position if she or he can demonstrate the
ability to work out a story into practical
photoplay form, with the little human
touches that all directors are eager to find
embodied in 'scripts, and with tlie action
so clearly outlined that they can readily
understand it and, above all, as free from
subtitles as possible.
In a near issue I shall designate a num-
ber of the best-known successful continuity
writers, and tell you how and why they have
achieved the success to wliich they are so
well entitled. Logical continuity requires
careful study, but the reward, nowadays, is
well worth while.
5. Rankin of the Clan Drew
YOUNG ACTOR-DIRECTOR HAS CARVED OUT A
NAME FOR HIMSELF ON THE SCREEN TABLETS
T
By Fred Schaefer
I ME: Last October. — Location: The
familiar old yard of Vitagraph.
Brooklyn. — Scene: A wine cellar,
low-vaulted and cask-filled, such as they
have commonly in Northern France and
in motion picture studios infrequently. —
Action: A lithe young American in a
Norfolk jacket and white duck trousers
frenziedly heaving casks into a barri-
cade against a door at which soldiers are
hammering; a fantastically clad peasant
hel])ing to heave casks, a beautiful French
girl resolutely lighting the task with a
candle : — Result : A 30-second scene for
"The Girl Philippa."
The young American actor comes out of
the scene shaking from his exertions, and
with fingernails torn and bleeding. He re-
solves himself into the young American direc-
tor, S. Rankin Drew. The French girl sets
down her candlestick to help dress his injuries
and resolves herself into Anita Stewart, still
beautiful Ijut not French. But the next moment Drew
is hopping about as busy as ever, emphasizing in-
structions with bandaged hands.
Probably the youngest director of features
for Vitagraph, it was a considerable distinc-
tion for Mr. Drew to be chosen to handle the
company's most popular star in the most
elaborate special release of the year, the
eight reel production of "The Girl Phil-
ippa." Its success is a particular triumph
for Mr. Drew. He had to "get over" the
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be overcome before the
could be completed.
Tivo strenuous flashes from "The Girl Philippa.
exceedingly romantic spirit of the
Robert W. Cliambers story, besides
handle a very strong cast of principals,
play the lead, direct hundreds of
supernumeraries, stand responsible
for interior sets and a huge out-
door set comprising a French vil-
lage faithfully adhering to the
foreign atmosphere, and to devise
extensive battle scenes for mak-
ing the story spectacular.
Several great difficulties had to
picture
The
French village set, vi^hen just
about ready, was blown down
by a high wind and needed to
be entirely rebuilt. Miss
Stewart too, after she had
done about half the scenes,
was ill and out of the cast
for eight weeks, the latter
_ part of the production being
delayed until she had com-
pletely recovered.
Mr. Drew is a native of
New York City and comes of
a distinguished theatrical
family. He is a son of Sid-
ney Drew, a nephew of John
S. Rankin of the Clan Drew
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Drew and a grandson of McKec
Rankin. His mother, who was a
daughter of McKee Rankin, has been
his main inspiration. She was a cele-
brated writer during her life and under
tlie name of (leorge Cameron wrote
many plays and magazine stories. ■
Young Drew was brought ui)
for the stage. After graduating
from the Cutler school he was three
years on the stage with his father in
vaudeville and in the legitimate
drama. Part of this time was in "The
Yellow Dragon" a sketch ^\Titten by
his mother. But, as he modestly states
of his own accord, he was never a light
on Broadway.
He went into motion pictures upon the
advice of Lionel Barrymore. Vitagraph
was the company to wliicli he turned,
where his father about that time began
his film career. Young Drew started
as an actor, playing many parts during
a period of about three years and learn-
ing the technique of the work. Most
of his work was as a "heavy" which
was due more to the choice of the man-
agement than his own, but he also
played juvenile leads. He had the
pleasure of seeing an adaptation of
General Drew and his chief of staff
direct the battle.
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his mother's story, "Agnes," put on the
screen as "A Million Bid," the multiple
reel production in which Anita Stewart
made her first conspicuous success. Time
came when he was permitted to direct.
Beginning as director ]^Ir. Drew put on
1 reel plays and then went to multiple reel
productions. His first star was Charles
Kent, and next Edith Storey. He then
directed "Virginia Pearson in four preten-
tious pictures. One of these was "Thou
Art the Man," a story that had been left
Mr. Drew by word of mouth by his mother.
Mr. Drew put it in shape for the screen and
played the male lead opposite Miss Pear.son.
"The reason I chose to be a motion pic-
ture director" says Mr. Drew, "is because
it is the most artistic end of the business.
It combines also knowledge of many of the
most valuable things to be known in the
production of pictures — ideas of composi-
tion and color values. I have always had
a great taste for such knowledge.
Although a young man Mr. Drew
frankly admits that he is influenced in his
work by the old dramatic school of stage
management. This he has so intelligently
and progressively applied that his results
are probably due as much to development as
to schooling based on the ethics of the
legitimate stage. This system relates to
the method of putting action into the
photoplay picture.
"The secret of directing as well as act-
ing," he says, "is in speaking directly to the
vision. I try first to talk to the eye, second
to the hearing, which of course is not to be
considered at all in motion pictures ; and
last to the brain. As my grandfather,
McKee Rankin, used to say, 'If you confuse
the eye, you confuse the brain.' Hence my
first thought is to make everything lucid
to the understanding through the vision.
"The employment of pause, however, is
a matter of artistic instinct. Where pause
is employed in an obvious manner, that be-
comes at once poor directing or poor
acting."
Another interesting observation by Mr.
Drew is upon the spoken line in motion
picture acting. "I believe absolutely in giv-
ing the players feasible dramatic lines to
speak," he says. "Because if they speak
something suited to what they are supposed
to feel — and especially if it is colloquial
enough to be spoken naturally — it is re-
flected in their faces and expression and
thereby helps the action. This belief, how-
ever, is not agreed with by all who have
made motion picture directing a study. My
results with it nevertheless confirm me
strongly in the belief."
There is of course a definite set of mo-
tion picture ethics employed generally by
all directors. Mr. Drew has applied most
of them in his own way. This has been
marked in his case with a certain inspira-
tion, and with a delicacy that is reflected
in his record of never having raised his
voice to a player while engaged at work
with a cast. The difference in the quality
of work noted in the productions of differ-
ent directors is a matter of difference of
personality and instinct. Mr. Drew's pro-
ductions have always been remarkable for
their artistic finish.
WATCH FOR THE OPENING INSTALMENT OF
THE YEAR'S MOST SENSATIONAL NOVEL
If you miss it you'll be begging for back
Numbers — and remember that Photoplay
has precious few of those on hand!
IMPRESSIONS: 1917
By Julian Johnson
NORMA TALMADGE :
Seeing Farrar's voice; a quick
kiss, stolen; Juliet, born in
Keokuk; Nazimova singing
syncopated hymns by Irving
Berlin.
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS:
Charlie Chaplin introducing
Henry Ford to the Kaiser: T.R.
giving a week-end party to
Villa; "I Hear You Calling
Me" by a jaz band.
MAE MURRAY: Sheher-
azade in the Claridge Lounge;
a hula danced to mandolin
music in Italian moonlight; the
fire of four lips; absinthe and
ice cream.
ETHEL CLAYTON:
Orchids against cream char-
meuse; Coty's jasmine; violets
in a limousme ; the dream of
Athanael in the Theban desert.
CHARLES RAY: Her
school-day lover; an aeroplane
hero from France; "The Amer-
ican Boy, " a pen-and-ink by
Gibson; Parsifal in Peoria.
ANNA PENNINGTON :
What they chant about that
beach at Waikiki; any sensible
dictionary's definition of "chick-
en;" why blindness is awful;
vanilla.
CONWAY TEARLE:
Every sod widow's first husband
and every grass widow's next ;
purple; the ideal co-respondent;
a sex best-seller.
GLADYS BROCKWELL:
Mary Magdalene in Montana ;
the "Lucia" sextette in ragtime,
on ukeleles; a female who in-
terests you without rice powder
or hired hair; Sixth Avenue.
HOBART BOSWORTH:
George Washington at a leak
inquiry; Jim Corbett educated
for the Church of England; a
Wagnerian tenor for the eyes;
a marble by Rodin.
/"^
L ^f^
WILLIAM S. HART: The
Caruso of horse opera; Billy
Sunday on the range; John
Drew, in the cattle business;
religion at the muzzle of a colt
45.
MIRIAM COOPER : The
Spirit of the Confederacy; a
deep red rose; a sad-eyed girl
on Broadway at midnight,
saying "Hello, kid! " with
painted, trembling lips.
TULLY MARSH ALL: The
ghost of the Grand Inquisitor of
Spain; the modern Mongolian;
Machiavelli in Chicago; opium;
yet he looks like George Ade!
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A Busy Daj
in Mr. Bushman's Business Office
GLANCE at the two top pictures,
right and left : on the other page
Director Christy Cabanne is show-
ing Edward Connelly, who stands be-
hind him, how to carry on a tense scene
with Miss Helen Dunbar. On this
page Mr. Connelly and Miss Dunbar
are rehearsing the scene, with slight
modifications, Mr. Cabanne observing
with approval at a distance of a few
feet.
Below you'll see Mr. Cabanne.
script in hand, standing beside the
cameraman while the actual "shooting"
of an episode is in progress. There are
five people in range of the camera-
Mr. Bushman, the central figure ; the
man in the chair ; the man and the
woman beside Francis Xavier, and the
elderly woman behind him. The meii
in the doorway are out of range.
At the left, below, is an impromptu jinks
of evidently hilarious nature. Miss Bayne.
in Chinese costume, is just in the picture at
the right. Mr. Bushman, in a mandarin
coat, a kaiserish moustache and an expres-
sion of unwonted deviltry, faces Cabanne,
who, arms folded, is smiling at the ,
extemporaneous comedy stunt.
Christy Cabanne is probably the most
successful director Mr. Bushman and Miss
Bayne have ever had. He has been getting
results, and has kept them extraordinarily
busy, first on five-reel features, and latterly
on the serial, "The Great Secret."
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FACTS AND NEAR-FACTS ABOUT THE.
GREAT AND NEAR-GREAT OF FILMLAND
I
A FAMINE of stage players has been
brought about by the film players. The
drama is "suffering disastrously from the
dearth of players to present it," in the words
of Augustus Thomas at a recent session of
the Society of American Dramatists. Further
raids on the legitimate stage for the wearers
of names usually spelled by electric lights have
brought the cry of "famine." With the begin-
ning of the new year, film producers, in their
frenzied scramble for stage stars, virtually
cleaned up the ranks of the "hold-outs." Those
who previously had
scorned the new art-
expression, placed
themselves on the
auction block and
went to the highest
bidder. I'ieturning to
Mr. Thomas's plaint,
we quote further
from his address :
"T h e scarcity of
competent players is
due to the inroads of
motion pictures. Hun-
dreds of our best
known players have
engaged in film work,
and the salaries are
so prodigious that the
remuneration possible
in the spoken drama
does not appeal to
them. The plays to
which I refer are
comedies which if
moderately successful
might draw from
seven to eight thou-
sand dollars a week.
On that basis the
plays should be pre-
sented with a salary
list of not more than
$2,500. It is not pos-
sible at this time to engage a company for
that sum. Therefore, the manuscripts remain
on the shelf."
THE legitimate stage, however, will not
suffer because of the most notable capture
of the month, that of Mary Garden, who was
signed up by the Goldwyn Pictures Corpora-
tion. Miss Garden will not allow her picture
work to conflict with her operatic endeavors.
Inasmuch as much ado was made of her
recent feat in getting her weight below the 120
mark, the suspicion is engendered that she is
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Here's the latest release in bridal
couples, Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Moore, nee Cunard. They were
wed in California.
to essay ingenue roles. Goldwyn also captured
Madge Kennedy, who played the lead in the
original "Fair and Warmer" company.
FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY continued
their quest for stage players by bagging
Elsie Ferguson, who, it is said, will receive an
aggregate of 240,000 quaint simoleons for two
years' screen work. Metro contributed to the
gaiety of the occasion by appropriating Robert
Hilliard. Meanwhile Margaret Illington has
begun work under the diffusers at Lasky's
Hollywood studio.
Her first photoplay
will be a film version
of Basil King's novel,
"The Inner Shrine,"
which once was con-
verted into a stage
play by Channing
Pollock, dramatist for
both sun and electric
stages.
SUBMITTED with-
o u t argument:
"Miss Bara firmly be-
lieves that she is the
reincarnation of the
ancient and historical
Egyptian enchantress,
Cleopatra, and that
her portrayals of the
modern Twentieth
Century vampire is
but a repetition of the
wiles practiced by
N e r o's heroine.
Honest to goodness,
this is the way it came
to us, grammar, his-
torical data and all, from
the eulogy department of
\\'illiam Fox. This takes
all prizes for the month.
MATT SNYDER, oldest of the active film
players of note, died a month ago in San
Francisco after a very brief illness. Mr. Sny-
der was the Colonel Carvel in "The Crisis"
and Count Anteoni in Selig's recently produced
"Garden of Allah." He was in excellent health
until a week before his death. Mr. Snyder
was 82 years old.
CREIGHTON HALE did not remain long
on the singing stage. He had the leading
male role in "Oh Boy !" a musical comedy, but
he left soon after it had emerged from the
Plays and Players
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rehearsal stage and by this time is perhaps
back before the camera.
PERHAPS the greatest matrimonial sensa-
tion that has come out of filmland for
several eons was the Moore-Cunard tie-up in
January. The contracting parties, as the
society editor used to say, were Grace Cunard,
noted screen partner of Francis Ford, and Joe
Moore, the youngest of the famous family of
Moore which includes Owen, Tom, Matt and
Mary. Joe has been working "in the pictures"
for several years and recently he was engaged
by the L-KO Comedy company, an offshoot
of Universal. While working on the same
"lot" he met Miss Cunard and two months
after their first meeting the wedding occurred.
It was in the nature of an elopement, the pair
going to Seal Bcacli, a resort suburb of Los
Angeles, where the
ceremony was per-
formed. P. S. If all
readers of Phoioplay
read this, it will save
the Answer Man
much future work
and worry, and per-
haps prevent h i m
from attempting fu-
ture poetic effusions.
ANOTHER well
known figure in
the land o' films, Niles
Welch, joined the
ranks of the married
ones the latter part of
January. The bride
was Miss Dell Boone,
leading lady of the
Technicolor Motion
Picture Company,
with which company
Mr. Welch is now
enrolled as leading
man. The affair oc-
curred at Jackson-
ville, Fla., and it was
quite some celebra-
tion. Tlie maid of
honor was Grace Darmond, Pathe heroine, and
the best man, W. B. Davidson, leading man
for Ethel Barrymore. Mr. Welch acquired a
considerable following through his playing
with Marguerite Clark in "Miss George Wash-
ington" and other well made productions.
IT is rumored that Geraldine Farrar will not
play for the screen this summer, the rumor
being accompanied by another to the effect
that the diva-film star is to go into retirement
in anticipation of a very important family
event.
BEATRICE MICHELENA is no longer
with the California Picture Company and
it is understood that she left the company
before her much advertised film version of
"Faust" was completed. George Middleton,
her husband-director, accompanied her east-
ward from the San Rafael, -Cal., studio, and
her leading man, William Pike, is also said
to have left. Truly, the way of the producer
is hard.
of
Of course you remember little Julie Cruze. Well, here she is
nearly grown up, with Mamma Marguerite Snow and
George M. Cohan, a well known film star.
TIME was when "Gaumont" was one
the biggest names in the film lexicon
abroad. But the house of Gaumont has quit
making films and instead is producing war
munitions in its Paris plant. Word from
across the Atlantic is to the effect that the
film producing business is almost wholly par-
alyzed in England and on the continent.
FRANK KEENAN, star character man in
numerous Ince photoplays, has turned
stage producer. His play is called "The Pawn"
and deals with the Japanese problem, but the
remarkable thing about it is the absence of
Mr. Keenan. He confines himself to bossing
the job.
LILLIAN WALK-
ER, whose name
has almost been syn-
onymous with Vita-
graph, is no longer
with that company.
The announcement
from the intelligence
bureau of Vitagraph
stated that Dorothy
Kelly would take
Miss Walker's place
on the stellar roll.
Miss Walker's future
affiliation will be
awaited with interest
lay many.
FORD STERLING,
for years one of
the mainstays of Key-
stone funnyplays, is
no longer frolicking
under the Sennett
flag. His contract ex-
pired last month and
he left the Coast for
the film fields of the
Eastern sector of the contineni. During the
last two years he has directed his own come-
dies. With Sterling and Roscoe Arbuckle and
Fred Mace gone, Keystone won't seem like the
same old place, although Charley Murray will
remain to xiphoid the traditions of the old crew.
Murray recently signed a contract for two
more Keystone years.
ANNA LITTLE, of whom little has been
heard (no pun intended) since she aban-
doned the little old Pacific slope to its fate,
is to be seen next in the second Robert War-
wick photoplay made under that player's own
banner.
M.^BEL NORMAND'S "Mickey," although
widely advertised, is still to be seen on
the screen. At this writing no release date
has been set for the multi-reeler of the noted
comedienne. It is intimated that it was put
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together at a total expenditure of $300,000.
Incidentally, it may be chronicled that the
cost of the last Chaplin two-reeler, "Easy
Street," was something like $150,000, a heavier
footage cost than incurred in
filming "Intolerance." This, of
course, included the salary of Sir
Charles.
BOBBY HARRON, Fine Arts
star, did a little traveling last
month. He and Lloyd Ingraham,
his director, and companj' toured
leisurely eastward via New Or-
leans, taking scenes en route for
his newest photoplay.
DERWENT HALL CAINE,
son of the Manx author of
almost as much name, and a lead-
ing actor for the Pathe company,
is reported as having "aviation
mania." This malady is not al-
ways permanent, as the victim
usually takes a tumble to himself.
Mr. Caine played the lead in a
picturization of "The Deemster,"
one of his father's novels.
Dwan, director of "Panthea," the first Tal-
madge vehicle, has gone to the Goldwyn com-
pany.
OEENA OWEN, the "Princess
Tom Moore is presented here-
with, the excuse for presentation
being liis recent joining the
Lastly group of Famous Players.
ONE of the cleverest funny men of
stage, Leon Errol, is to can some of
the
his
comedy for Metro in two-reel installments.
Mr. Errol was in numerous Follies and is now
the chief comedian and
general boss of "The Cen-
tury Girl," the Dilliiigham-
Ziegfeld super-Folly show.
CHARLEY RAY is to
remain a professional
resident of Culver City,
Cal. He celebrated the
expiration of his contract
by signing another with
Thomas H. Ince at what
is reported to be a heavy
advance in wages. Ray
came to the front in "The
Coward" and since has
become one of the best
screen attractions extant.
MARY FULLER, after
a long absence from
the two-dimension stage,
is back from the Cooper-
Hewitts. She has been
engaged by the Lasky peo-
ple to play opposite Lou-
Tellegen in "The Long
Trail." It is being directed
by Howell Hansell, an-
other new Laskj' acquisi-
tion, who first gained fame
as the director of "The
Million Dollar Mystery" for Thanhouser.
lULIUS STEGER is Norma Talmadge's new
J director and he has a co-director in Joseph
A. Golden. Mr. Steger may also play in
the forthcoming Talmadge photoplavs. Allen
quadruplay, is again gracing the
stages of the Fine Arts studio
after a temporary retirement.
Father and child are doing well.
By the way, Father is George
Walsh of the Western Fox stu-
dio.
ARNOLD DALY had a nar-
row escape from the big
adventure in January. He was
stricken with peritonitis and
rushed to a hospital, where he
was operated on, and although
he was reported once as dying,
he managed to squeeze through.
Mr. Daly is highly thought of in
the "provinces" for his Elaine
exploits with Pearl White. He
was starring in "The Master," his
his own plaj', when he was
stricken and the play was imme-
diately suspended.
\J
Giving "Mrs. Balfame" the once over. That's
the name of the play which Nance O'Neil (left)
is doing into celluloid, and with her is Gertrude
Athcrton, noted author, who wrote the novel.
OIS WEBER, hailed as the highest paid
director — man, woman or child — now has a
studio of her own and will produce her photo-
plays independent of Uni-
versal supervision, al-
though under Laemmle
auspices. Miss \W'ber is
said to receive $5,000
weekly — at least for pub-
lication. Anyhow, she has
her name on a long-term
contract that places her on
the ephemeral street called
"Easy."
HENRY BERGMAN,
one of the best known
character men on both
stages, died suddenly at
his home in New York
early in January. Mr.
Bergman was 58 years old
and leaves a wife and
daughter. He appeared in
a number of notable Metro
plays, including "The Kiss
of Hate" with Ethel Bar-
rymore, "In the Diplomatic
Service" with Francis X.
Bushman and "The House
of Tears" with Emily
Stevens. Riley Chamer-
lain, for five years a char-
acter actor with Than-
houser, also died during
was 62.
tlie month. He
VITAGRAPH'S chief heavy, Hughie Mack,
has just heard about Horace Greeley's
advice to
taken his
j'oung men. At any
company and hit the
rate, he has
sunset trail.
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Hereafter his comedies
Hollywood studio.
will be made at the
MUT.UAL'S star raiding continues merrily
on. One of the late acquisitions is Marie
Cahill, who will do two-reel comedies for that
organization.
RUMORS are rife as to the ensuing year's
activities of Charley Chaplin. The lead-
ing rumor is that he will listen to a million
dollar talk from Kessel & Baumann, chief
owners of Keystone, and return to the Sennett
fold. If he does it will be at a salary of
$1,000,000 for the year, according to "inside"
gossip. And yet, two short years ago, Essanay
won Chaplin from Keystone with a salary of
something over $i,ooo a week.
THE life insurance
business picked
up considerably dur-
ing the last month.
Messrs. Zukor, Lasky
and Friend, chief ex-
ecutives of the Fa-
mous Players-Lasky
combine, had their
lives insured for an
aggregate of a mil-
lion dollars with the
company named as
beneficiary in each in-
stance. Then Joseph
Schenck made an-
other agent happy by
buying a pair of pol-
icies for $50,000 each
for himself and his
wife. Norma Tal-
madge.
Joe Moore and brother-in-law of Grace
Cunard, will make his Lasky debut as leading
man with Mae Murray.
B'
iRONCHO BILLY ANDERSON appears
not to have had great success in his recent
musical comedy venture in New York. The
name of the production-to-be was "Some Girl"
and the DeHavens, Carter and Flora Parker,
were to have been featured players. Just
about the time rehearsals were getting good,
it was decided to call it all off and "Some Girl"
was shelved temporarily.
EDITH STERLING, who used to ride
bronchos in the old Bison thrillers back in
the days when she called herself Edythe, is a
new one at Kalem's Glendale, Cal., studio.
Miss Sterling was a member of the expedition
to Guatemala to film
ROSCOE ARBUC-
KLE has al^o
been amusing the doc-
tors. The adipose
comedian, who re-
cently severed his
Keystone affiliation,
injured his knee, it
became infected, and
he spent several weeks in a hospital in Los
Angeles. Fortunately for his future career,
however, he did not lose much weight — only
about 60 pounds. Mr. Arbuckle's indepen-
dently produced comedies are to have a place
on the Paramount program, beginning this
month.
NAT GOODWIN, who has been out on the
two-a-day stage for some months, is to
have a motion picture company of his own.
It is to operate on the actor's ranch a short
distance from Los Angeles. The company, of
which Mr. Goodwin is president, is composed
of Milwaukee capitalists.
TOM MOORE is to make his next screen
appearance as a Lasky player. The well
known husband of Alice Joyce, brother-in-law
of Mary Pickford, brother of Matt, Owen and
Here's a new face on the screen, Elaine Hamnierstein. grand-
daughter of the late Oscar H. She appears in " The Argyle
Case " with Robert Warwick.
"The Planter."
GERTRUDE
GLOVER, o f
Essanay, became the
bride of Robert Jeff-
ries Watt, a young
Chicago business man
in that city on Feb. 3.
Mrs. Watt was the
daughter of the late
Lyman B. Glover, a
well known dramatic
critic.
AFTER listening
to offers of
fabulous sums from
every point of the
cinematic co m-
pass, Douglas Fair-
banks is reported to
have smiled with fa-
vor on that emanat-
ing from Artcraf t,
the home of the
Mary Pickford and
George Cohan films.
As he was holding
out for a salary of
$15,000 a week, the
presumption is that he is getting something
like a Chaplinesque salary. Director John
Emerson and Anita Loos, the watch-charm
scenarioiste and humoriste, are understood to
be included in the bargain.
jVyiARY PICKFORD is to
do "Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm" and because of the
chilling March zephyrs characteristic of Man-
hattan which are fatal to summer exteriors,
California locations will be utilized. It is an-
nounced that one or two other photoplays will
be staged by Miss Pickford at Hollywood.
KATHLEEN CLIFFORD is a capture of
Balboa from the vocal stage. Miss Clif-
ford is renowned for her portrayal of boy
roles in vaudeville and musical comedy. She
is already engaged in her first filmplay at the
Long Beach studio of the Horkheimers.
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WILLIAM FOX, having experimented suc-
cessfully with the undraped drama and
the so-called "red-blooded" stuff, is now in-
dulging in a film fairy tale. It is "Jack and
the Beanstalk" and to play the Giant he has
acquired one James Grover Tarver who meas-
ures seven feet five inches from sole to pom-
padour, has a displacement of 40d pounds. He
was born in Texas and is circus-broke.
AFTER a brief engagement to replace a
player in Cyril Maude's "Grumpy" com-
pany, who had died, Montagu Love is back at
the World studio
Bradymading. He re-
c e n 1 1 y accompanied
Kitty Gordon to Cuba
for scenes which will
be shown in their next
photoplav "Forget-Me-
Not."
CZAR ZUKOR. of
Famous Players,
has determined to per-
petuate "Sappho" on
the screen. Something
in the nature of an
all star cast has been
doped out and Hugh
Ford is the director
selected. Pauline
Frederick will play the
name part, Pedro De-
Cordoba will be Pla-
uiant, Tom Meighan is
cast as Gaiissiii. Frank
Losee as Caoudal and
John S a n p o 1 i s as
Dejoie. Indications
would indicate, so to
say, that it will be a
reel best seller.
MAX UNDER is
enjoying a screen
revival since coming
to our so-called neu-
tral shores. That is,
Pathe is re-issuing a
number of Linder
comedies that used to
amuse the early gen-
eration of filmsee-ers. Meantime, the orig-
inal Max is laboring at Essanay's Chicago
studio on his made-in-America comedies, sur-
rounded on all sides by blondes, on 15-below-
zero days, wishing he was back in those dear
trenches.
A DELE BLOOD almost became a film
actor. She was to have played in "The
Easiest Way" with Clara Kimball Young, but
something happened and Miss Blood walked
out on the Selznick company before the photo-
play was begun.
CONSTANCE COLLIER L'ESTRANGE,
who uses the latter name only in private
and legal life, has brought suit against the
Success Film Compny for $3,500. Miss Collier,
Here is one of the new Goldwyn captures, Madge Kennedy,
who is regarded as one of the greatest of the new
comediennes of the legitimate stage.
or Mrs. L'Estrange, asseverates that she was
engaged to star in "The Eternal Magdalene" at
$700 weekly, and that the company failed to
begin operations.
NUISANCE NOTE: Sessue Hayakawa re-
turned from his filming trip to Honolulu
a convert to the ukulele.
VERNON STEELE is to be Mae Marsh's
leading man in her first Goldwyn photo-
play. Mr. Steele has attained a considerable
degree of ])oinilarity because of his work oppo-
site several of the best
known film stars. On
the stage, he was Billie
Burke's leading man
in "Love Watches."
Marguerite Mars li,
formerly "Lovie"
Marsh, is to have a
part in her sister's
production.
ALL of the Charles
Frohman plays
that have not been
translated to celluloid
will undergo that
operation at the hands
of the Empire All-Star
Corporation, a new
concern organized for
that purpose by inter-
ests affiliated with
Mutual which will
have the marketing of
the Frohman plays in
film form.
lULIA ARTHUR is
J dickering with, film
producers. Her acces-
sion to filmdom will
make it unanimous.
HARRY MOREY,
Vitagrapher ex-
traordinary, is to have
the leading male role
in the picturization of
"Within the Law," one
of the greatest stage
successes of a decade. It will be an eight-
reel film.
"■yY/HAT next?" people asked when "In-
W tolerance" was first flashed on the
screen. The answer recently was made by
D. W. Griffith in an announcement that he
was to go to the European battlefields, and
with real armies and real engagements, trans-
fer to lasting celluloid an immortal epic of
the world's greatest war. It is said that he
has already mapped out a great dramatic
spectacle and that he will sail soon.
COMES now the four-reel "feature." The
Balboa company has contracted with Gen-
eral Film to turn out an aggregate of 52 of
them — one a week for a vear.
Rich Girl, Poor Girl,
Be^^ar Girl — Thief !
GLADYS BROCKWELL WOULD
PLAY THEM ALL BUT VAMPS
ARE GIVEN THE FIRST CALL
By Grace Kingsley
This girl wants to go to jail. Oh, you
lucky prison!
R
ICH girl, poor girl, beggargirl,
thief — "
Can you imagine Mary Pickford
wanting to play Sardou's "Cleopatra," or Val-
eska Surratt in the role of Pollyanna? Well,
that to which Gladys Brockwell aspires seem>
nearly as funny to you when you meet that
youthful, vivacious little person. For (iladys
Brockwell, energetic Fox star, wants to
play character parts.
"But what's a person to do who has
a Nancy Sykes soul, a Lady Babbie
personality, and a director who in-
sists you play Leah-the- Forsaken
roles?" asks Miss Brockwell.
But as a matter of fact, why
should a beautiful young wom-
an,— Mis's Brockwell is only just
past twenty-two, — who can emote
in a truly Pauline Frederick man-
ner, and who can almost rival
Mary Pickford in the girlish-
laughter-and-curls stuff, — why
should such a young woman want
to play' character roles anyhow?
Character roles : conjuring up vi
sions of stringy hair, messy checked
apron.s, besooted chins and "trag-
edy" make-up.
Yet this is Miss Brockwell's am-
bition, confessed the other day in
the confidential atmosphere of
tea entirely surrounded by pinky-
white dressing room. And one
must admit she did her character
work very well indeed in "Sins
of Her Parent," in which she
played the double role of a
young girl and her dissolute
mother.
"Why do I want to play
character parts?" Miss Brock-
well settled herself into the
cushions of her chair, and
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prepared to "pour." "Because one can
get thought over in them, even on the
screen. It isn't the make-up at all ; it's
because one who plays a character role
must think it out ahead of time, else it
will have no flavor at all. In character
work, one works from the inside out, as
it were. In playing that mother in 'Sins
of the Parent,' I tried to imagine wha:
her original character was, and how life
reacted upon her, and how those reactions
would show both in her physical and men-
tal processes. It's rather a sad thing, isn't
it, that all parts on the screen and stage
aren't 'characters?' They should be made
so.
"I think our divisions into types very
silly and artificial. I have seen many a
gifted girl settle down satisfied in a role,
merely because she looked the part, and
thought she need go no further. This is
particularly so on the screen, and is in fact
a big rock in the way of development of
film art."
She leads a double life, too — though
one means this in an entirely high-brow
way. I met her frivoling the other night
at a ball. She danced very well, and flirted
even better, and she wore her clothes ex-
quisitely. And next time I saw her, she
was reading a volume of Spencer in her
dressing room.
Though it was one of those dull, dark,
afternoons, which naturally conduce to the
"once-upon-a-time" stufi^ in interviewing,
Miss Brockwell dived brightly (if one can
dive briglitly!) into the middle of our in-
terview.
"Do you know what I'm simply dying
to do? Please don't form any hasty
judgments about it, — I'll tell you why
afterward. / luarit to spend a term in
prison in order to study the women pris-
oners at first hand.
"By the way, I was arrested for speed-
ing, the other day, and they let me oif
with a reprimand. I mean to deliberately
get myself arrested for 'sassing' a traflSc
cop, some day. Then I shall be fined fifty
dollars or fifty days, and I shall take the
fifty days !
"I have a number of characters in mind
which I wish to play. One is the wife in
Rich Girl, Poor Girl, Beggar Girl— Thief !
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David Graham Phillips' 'Old Wives for
New.' Then there are some vv^onderful
character studies in the roles one would
find in playing Lizzie Hexam in Dickens'
'Our Mutual Friend,' Lily, in Edith Whar-
ton's 'House of Mirth,' and Maggie Tulli-
ver in George Elliot's 'Mill on the Floss.'
But you're forgetting your tea !"
So I had another cup, and we went on.
"Were you on the stage?"
"Oh, yes ! I think I was born in a dress-
ing room ! I was carried on the stage at
the age of three weeks. Mother was play-
ing in stock then, and I'm sure they wrote
baby characters into a lot of the plays so
mother could have me right there with her
all the time. I think many a gratuitous
scandal and complication in family affairs
in those remodelled plays must have been
the result of my innocent advent. I played
my first part when I was seven, and when
I was seventeen I was leading woman in
a stock company, and played everything
from 'Merely Mary Ann' to 'Cleopatra.'
"But going back to- characters. I'd
really like to do a fine line of vampires,
too, — the baby vampire and her baby
stare, — I understand Earl Carroll has just
written a song about her, — she's the sort
that gets away with murder ! And then
there's the intellectual vampire, who holds
men by the power of intellect and a sense
of humor as well as by physical appeal.
She's the only really dangerous vampire
after all.
Then Miss Brockwell told a little story
on herself, just to show that even if she is
an artist, she is also a human being.
"One of the hardest little things I do
in pictures is to weep. I don't mind a fight
with the villain, and they may if they wish
throw me over a cliff, but I'm not a natural
born sob-sister.
"Frank Lloyd, who directed 'Sins of Her
Parent,' had a good system. He would ab-
solutely ignore me when I was to emote, —
treat me like a post, and order me about
with a cold courtesy destined to damp the
highest spirits. You remember the last
scene in 'Sins of Her Parent,' where there
is so much unhappiness and weeping?
Mr. Lloyd called me into the set one after-
noon. I was feeling out of sorts and down-
hearted anyway. I told him I didn't feel
like work.
" 'I just can't act today,' I said. He
only looked at me with a sort of cool de-
tachment, almost scorn. 'We'll do the
scenes,' was all he said.
"I began to cry, — someway I couldn't
help it. Mr. Lloyd paid no attention. I
was hurt and mortified. Then I just cried
for spite, and I cried all through those
scenes, — couldn't stop by that time, — cried
all the afternoon.
"When you see the picture, don't you
believe it was art ; it wasn't ; it was just
silly pique. When we had finished Mr.
Lloyd came over and patted my arm. He
looked like the kindly human being he is,
then. 'You did wonderfully,' he said.
'We're all proud of you.'
"I stalked off to my dressing room, un-
mollified. but when I saw the picture, I
was glad I had 'suffered for my art' as
the temperamental people sav."
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Her Prince Stron^heart of the Dark vanished
with the coming of the New Prince of the Li^ht
Princess of the Dark
By Jerome Shorey
To James Herron, looking out upon the
little mining town and up at the grim
mountains, from his cabin which was
his prison, and soon would be his tomb, the
squalid little settlement, huddled in an
elbow of the hills as if ashamed of its own
appearance, was unspeakably ugly, and the
peaks above sullen and threatening. The
sight of the town from his window choked
him, and set him to coughing, so he would
turn away, and look at the towering peaks ;
but their vitality, their attitude of over-
bearing power and magnificent health only
emphasized his own waning strength. So
he would close his eyes and try to remem-
ber the verse from the Bible, "I will Jift up
mine eyes unto the hills, from whence
Cometh my help." But in neither man. nor
nature, nor his own prayers could he find
peace.
To "Crip" Halloran, crooked and bent,
because when he was a baby his mother had
not the time to watch him every minute,
and supposed anyhow that he was more
scared than hurt the time he fell off the
back stoop, the town was a hell full of
superior devils who looked upon him with
contempt because he would never be any
use in the world ; and the mountain range
was another hell of mocking crags and
inaccessible hiding places from his hell in
the valley, ^^"ith unutterable longing he
would gaze up at the tall, dark trees, where
one could lie all day long, and not be seen
by the big. bullnecked miners, whose pity
was driving the life out of him. If they
would only curse him, kick him out of the
wav, but their pity was murderous. And
hot tears would burn his cheeks, until
he realized that he was crying, and dash
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Herron fed
his daughter's
quick imagin-
ation with ro-
mances until
she made a
dream world
of her own.
them away, before someone should see, and
pity him the more.
Strange, then, that to Fay Herron, the
daughter of the sick man. the town was a
grand place, where dwelt the most wonder-
ful, kindest, most beautiful people in the
world. To her the rough miners were gruff,
beneficent giants, and the slovenly women
fit for places in the finest society. And the
mountains — just the thought of them alone
brought a catch to her breath, and a
glad little song to her lips ; for they were
like castles and palaces, with broad loattle-
ments and splendid arches. Strange, that
Fay should see all these things, hidden to,
her father and to Crip, for most people
would say that Fay was more unfortunate
than either of them. Yet she did see these
marvels — for Fay was blind. From birth
she had never known the difference between
light and darkness, but there was no dark
chamber in her mind. There, everything
was beautiful. And so she knew that all
the world was beautiful as well.
James Herron never let his daughter
guess otherwise. She was eighteen, and it
was twelve years since he had come to this
spot in the hope that the high altitude
would prolong his life, bringing his mother-
less child with him. The people of the
village had been kind, as the poor ever are
kind to the unfortunate. Fay learned to
make her way about the trails with the
curious .sure instinct of them who are born
blind. The villagers regarded her with a
note.
respect that amounted almost to super-
stitious awe. Unable to solve the
tragedy he knew must eventually come,
Herron devoted himself to the task of
making Fay's life as happy as possible ;
and as her greatest delight, from child-
hood, had been in hearing him read tales
of knights and ladies and courts and
tournaments, he fed her quick imagina-
tion from Malory and Froissart until
he made a world of her own in
which to live and dream.
Fay was not so entirely imprac-
tical as to believe her own
dreams. She knew that not
everything about the village
could be perfect, nor all the
mountain peaks magnificent.
But when her knowledge
conflicted with her
dreams, she closed her
ears to the discordant
In other words, she avoided the vil-
lage, as much as possible. She explored
the trails, and made friends with the wood-
land sounds. Thus it was that she discov-
ered, one day. a spot she loved so well for
its seclusion that she decided to make it her
throne. It was an abandoned tunnel, bored
years ago by an unsuccessful miner, lighted
from above by a shaft, up which an old
ladder still provided another means of exit.
Had anyone with seeing eyes searched
the entire mountainside, he would have been
unable to find a less lovely place. Yet to
Fay, in her happy ignorance, it was of noble
proportions and exquisite loveliness. Here
she held her lonely court, day by day, and
through her busy brain there passed a pro-
cession of princes and princesses, come to
pay her homage. There was only one thing
lacking — a hero. Him she was not satisfied
merely to imagine. In all the stories, the
prince came at last, tall and handsome- and
strong. So she waited for her prince.
One day he came.
Crip Halloran had stared and stared at
those hiding places in the mountains until
his very soul cried out for their shelter. He
could bear it no longer. Painfully and
with slow, faltering .steps, he climbed the
steep trail out of the village, pausing often
as he almost fainted from his tremendous
efforts, but toiling upward again. The
gloomy entrance to Fay's cavern attracted
him with its promise of shelter from all
eyes, and he crept in. Fay, seated upon
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133
her thrune, heard him stumbling amung the
loose rocks.
"i\Iv Prince!" she exclaimed gleefully.
"So you have come at last."
Crip was about to turn and hurry away.
Then he realized it must be the blind girl,
for no one else in the village spoke like that
of princes. Her selfmade fairyland was no
secret. And as all Crip desired was not to
be seen, he joined the Princess.
"Yes," he panted. "I have come. It is
a steep path."
"But now you are here. I have waited
long for you, my Prince. Come, sit by me,
and watch the tournament. You shall joust
with the winner, for my wreath of laurel."
Crip winced. How should Fay know
that he was different from
other men? At least he
would not tell her. So he
entered into the game, and
found it a pleasant one.
She did not know, and she
helped him forget. So
this day passed, the first
of many days, the happiest
either of them had ever
known. How Crip found
the strength to drag his
crooked form up the steep
hill he did not know, but no pain was too
great to make him forego the joy he found.
Sometimes the rough boulder was a tlirone ;
sometimes at the edge of a beautiful foun-
tain she visualized her prince and herself, a
happy princess. All these things made life
for Crip a little easier to bear among the
people who only pitied him.
PRINCESS OF
DARK
this
no
He
A T last James Herron could fight
**■ longer against his ruthless foe.
would not have cared, rather would he have
welcomed the end of his suffering, only for
the thought of Fay, left without even so
much as his slender protection against a
callous world. But still, he thought, at
least no one could be cruel to a blind girl,
and with a praver that this might be true,
he breathed his last.
IN part, the father's hope was fulfilled.
■*■ No one was exactly cruel to Fay, but on
the other hand, no one was actively kind,
except poor, helpless Crip. There was little
he could do, but that little he did. His
mother ran a boarding house, if the dingy,
reeking, ram.shackle place could be dignified
with the name, and Crip timidly suggested
that she take in Fay to help about the place
in payment for her keep. Fay was penni-
less, her father's pittance ceasing with his
death.
"An' what good would a blind girl be,
stumblin' around an' ])reakin' everything?"
Mrs. Halloran demanded.
"She .don't stumble around, mother,"
Crip protested. "You know how she goes
about, as if she could see like anybody else."
Mrs. Halloran was doubtful, but as the
experiment would cost nothing, she decided
to try it. Crip jubilantly carried the news
to Fay, and brought her home with him.
Until she had learned every nook and cor-
ner of the house, where to place every dish,
and all her duties as a
THE drudge. Crip was her eyes.
But she learned quickly,
and Mrs. Halloran's many
cries of warning became
fewer and fewer, and at
last died away into silent
disapproval, which was
her nearest approach to
approbation. As long as
.Walt Whitman she didiiot scold, she was
.J. Frank Burke well pleased, and with
this Crip and Fay were
both satisfied.
Because Fay was a drudge, it was not .so
easy for the Princess and her Prince to hold
court in their mountain retreat. But neither
was unhappy about it. Fay understood her
position of dependence, and often nearly
succeeded in breaking down Mrs. Hallor-
an's .sullen attitude toward the world in
general, by her expressions of appreciation.
She did her work cheerfully and well, and
did not permit herself to pine for her for-
mer freedom. As for Crip, he was satisfied
to sit in a corner and watch her move about
the house. In fact, he so seldom went out
when she was at home, that his constant
presence irritated his mother. His deform-
itv seemed an accusation, and she could not
bear to look at him. And as all little souls
seek refuge in anger when disturbed, she
turned on her son one day.
"^^'hat do ye be sittin' around the house
all day f'r? Sure I get tired lookin' at ye
wid yer — "
"Hush, mother, please," Crip inter-
rupted. Fay was in the next room.
"Don't ye 'hush' me," his mother re-
torted, in rising tones, trying to find in his
THE photoplay version of
. story by Lanier Bartlett, was
produced by Thomas H. Ince
with the following cast :
Fay Herron Enid Bennett
"Crip" Halloran ... .Jack Gilbert
John Kockzwll. .Alired Vosburg
James Herron .
Crip's Father. .
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Sometimes, at the edge of a beautiful fountain, she visualized
her prince and herself a happy princess.
words a justification
for her display of tem-
per. "Haven't I
enough on me mind,
without havin' to
look at y'r crook — "
"Stop!" Crip cried,
in an u n n a t u r a 1.
strained falsetto, look-
ing at his mother with
fury and terror mingled
in a frightful expression.
Mrs. Halloran stared at
him, open mouthed. Never
had she seen Crip like this.
"What's the matter?"
she gasped.
"Fay don't know I'm —
like this," he said, hanging
his head. "I think it would
Princess of the Dark
13:
hurt her to know." He paused, and added,
in a barelv audible whisper, "It would kill
me."
"So that's it," his mother commented,
nodding her head. With something definite
to think about, she was satisfied to sneer.
"I thought you was kind o' soft on lier.
Well, it can't do any harm, an' it can't do
any good. Ve'd be a pretty couple at the
church door, now wouldn't ye — a blind girl
and a — " but she paused of her own accord,
and looked into the other room.
Fay had heard part of the quarrel, but
quarrels were not so rare in that house as
to call for special attention. At least, it
it was soon obvious to Crip that she had not
understood its cause. For at the next
opportunity she called him her Prince, with
as much sincerity as ever in her voice.
And Crip again took heart.
I r was thus that Crip learned the truth
^ about his feeling for Fay, and it made
him both happier and unhappier, hot and
cold, in a breath. "I love her." He said
it aloud to himself, when no one could hear.
He could not marry her, it was true, but
then, there was no likelihood of anyone else
wanting to marry a poor, blind girl. So
they would just go on in that way, as Prince
and Princess. He would watch over her.
and be her eyes, and she would give him an
excuse to go on living. Until she had come
into his life, his excuses for living had often
been hard to find, and he knew that one day
he would exhaust them all — and when he
thought of this, he shuddered. But now,
hopeless as his devotion was, it lent motive
to life, even though it aroused no false
hopes.
The only stenographer the village
boasted was one of Mrs. Halloran's board-
ers. She came from "the city," being .satis-
'■fied to make a living in the squalid town
because she had not the ability to compete
with girls of better education. Nor was
she from a stratum of society which made
her surroundings unendurable. She had
graduated from dire poverty that made
Mrs. Halloran's house something like lux-
ury. But the slatternly women she saw
all about had a demoralizing effect upon
her, and in course of time she became cjuite
a typical member of the community. One
day she astonished everyone by hurrying
through her midday meal, dashing into her
room, and emerging a few minutes later,
suspiciously clean and beribboned, and with
a fishhook curl, that was au fait when she
left the city, pasted against each cheek.
"By all the saints, what's happened?"
Mrs. Halloran demanded.
The stenographer tossed her head and
hurried off to the office of the mining com-
pany where she was employed.
"Jim Halloran, did ye see that?" Mrs.
Hall'oran asked her husband.
Jim grinned, and gulped a mouthful of
food.
"Young John Rockwell came to town this
morning," he said, as if that would explain
everything.-
" Who's he?"
" 'Who's he?' Oh, nothin' much. He's
only the son of old man Rockwell that owns
the Big vSix mine, an' by the same token
owns the whole mountain, an' the village,
an' you an' me, and everyone else here-
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No one can know what sensations came to Fay in that first wonderful moment of restored vision.
abouts. We'll be seein' a good deal of him.
He's takin' over the management for his
dad."
"An' does that fool think she's goin' to
make a catch?" Mrs. Halloran sneered.
"I guess it ain't as bad as that," Jim
theorized. "But it's only natural th' kid
wants to look her best."
Crip and Fay heard all this with only
passing interest. No matter who might
come and go. what difference could it make
in their lives? They had something more
important to think about. The next day
was Sunday, with comparatively light
duties, a day set apart for the Princess and
her Prince to hold court in their retreat.
JOHN ROCKWELL was not a "kid
J glove" manager. He had come to the
mine to learn all about mining, storing up
knowledge against the day when he would
own the great property, a day which he
devoutly hoped was far distant. But as his
father, a sturdy old Presbyterian, had re-
fused "to accept dividends that came from
Sabbath breaking," as he called it, the
works were always shut down on Sundays.
And as the village offered nothing except
problems of reconstruction, John told him-
self with a smile that to consider his plans
for improving conditions was in the nature
of work, and so a breach of his father's
rule ; so he strolled off into the mountains.
Sauntering idly along a path, Rockwell
became conscious of voices, and looked
about him. One was a girl's voice, light
and rippling with laughter ; the other the
voice of a young man, tender and deferen-
tial. The sound seemed to come out of the
solid rock, and the listener paused to inves-
tigate. Then, turning a bend in the path,
he found himself in front of the mouth of
a deep cavern, and peering in, saw Fay and
Crip at the other end. where the light from
the. open shaft reached them.
"Hello I" he called, cheerily. "Having
a picnic?"
"O-o-oh !" Fay cried, clapping her hands.
"Another Prince."
Crip tried to whisper a plea, but Fay
would not listen. Apprehension clutched
his heart, and he shrank off to one side.
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137
"Enter, strange Prince, and proclaim
thy name and fame," Fay called.
John Rockwell already was making his
way through the tunnel, and at a glance he
noted the girl's blindness, .and with a sec-
ond saw the pleading, doglike look in the
face of the hunchback. He understood
the situation intuitively, and entered into
the game with zest.
"I had almost called myself Prince
Strongheart," he said, "but I see- that
would have been to call down upon my
head the royal disfavor, for he is already
here. Let me be Prince Fortuno, for I am
truly fortunate in finding you."
Even Crip was at his ease again, almost
immediately. He knew this was the young
millionaire, and Rockwell, with his fore-
finger on his lip, had cautioned him not to
tell. So there was a bond of .secrecy be-
tween them from the beginning.
"Prince Strongheart and Prince For-
tune) ! what a lucky Princess I am, to have
such a Splendid court !" Fay exclaimed.
So they told him all about their great
game of make-believe, and he was both
young enough and old enough to under-
stand what it meant to the two unfortu-
nates. And more than that, he was forced
to confess to himself that he really liked it.
Business had not yet claimed him- entirely
for its own, and he found deep enjoyment
in the discovery that he was still able to
play. As the days passed, he found himself
looking forward to this re-
lief from the routine of
work. He even interceded
with Mrs. Halloran, and
persuaded her to let Fay
go for walks with him in
week-days. Not that he
had to do much per
suading, for al-
ready the village
was beginning to
show the re-
sults of his
campaign of
renovation,
and the
miners were
taking a
new interest
in their sur-
roundings ;
and his
w i s h was
Do you mean it? " Fay asked excitedly.
the law ot the community. His walks with
Fay invariably led them to the cavern
throne, and there they would talk, or he
would read new stories from books he had
had sent from the city, or they would sit
quietly and dream. One day, as they were
dreaming, Rockwell looked at Fay, and
asked :
"Have your eyes ever been examined —
by a good specialist I mean?"
"Why, no," she replied, astonished at
the question. "I have always been blind."
"But that doesn't prove that you couldn't
be cured," he insisted.
"Do you mean it?" Fay asked, excitedly.
"But no. It can't be. Please don't make
me hope. I'm not unhappy, and if I began
to hope, and then were disappointed, it
would be so much worse."
"Then, suppose we don't hope, but just
find out the truth without hoping."
"(^h, wouldn't it be wonderful? Just
think, to see all this beautiful world."
"Don't think too much about this beau-
tiful world. There are many things in it
that are not beautiful. But there is enough
beauty to make up for all the ugliness."
"Yes, yes. I understand. But you are
beautiful, and I bnoxii Crip is beautiful.
I know this, because you're both so good."
"No, no — you mustn't .say that," Rock-
well interposed. "Sometimes the things
that are best, and the people who are kind-
est, are not the most beautiful to look at.
But you will let me send for the specialist,
won't you?"
"Yes. And
I promise not
to hope — too
much."
CO the spe-
c i a I i s t
came, and
asked inter-
minable ques-
tions. Most of
them, nobody
could answer.
S h e was
blind, she
always h a d
been blind,
her eyes never
p a i n e d —
that was all
there was to
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say. The doctor made a minute examinaT
tion, and finally told them there was every
reason to believe that a quite simple, though
delicate, operation would restore Fay's
sight.
"There is only about a ten per cent
chance that it will not be a success," he
said.
"Then I can indulge in ninety per cent
hope," Fay exclaimed. "How wonderful !"
The day of the operation brought varied
hopes to the three persons most deeply
interested. Fay was in an ecstasy of antici-
pation for at last she was to see her beau-
tiful world, for she knew it must be
beautiful, in spite of Rockwell's warnings.
Crip was divided between his happiness in
the thought that Fay would probably re-
gain her sight, and the terrible thought
that if she did she would know him as he
was — a shapeless and repulsive thing.
Rockwell at last began to understand that
his interest was something more than that
of a mere bystander, trying to help a poor
mountain girl. Her natural refinement im-
pressed him more and more, for living
apart from her sordid surroundings as she
had, she was free from the effects of the
dismal life in which she had been reared
but in which she had not lived. In brief,
she had become so dear to him, that Prince
Fortuno now desired to be Prince Charm-
ing.
The operation was concluded. The doc-
tor said it was successful, but it would be
several days before the full light could be
permitted to reach her eyes. Thick ban-
dages had to be used, and removed layer
by layer, until the nerves w^ere strong
enough to perform their function. Fay
was patient.
"I know I can see," she said, over and
over again. "I feel it — here." and she
pressed her hands to her heart.
At last the day arrived when the last
layer of the bandage was to be removed.
The doctor was there, and Rockwell, and
Crip. The doctor gently lifted the cloth,
and stepped back. Rockwell stood at one
side. Crip, his head bowed and dry sobs
shaking his poor little body, crouched at
her feet.
No one can know what sensations came
to Fay in that wonderful first moment of
restored vision. She had expected a beau-
tiful world, and with pathetic determina-
tion not to disappoint her, they all had
made the poor room as attractive as pos-
sible. Yet it could not have been what Fay
had dreamed. It was an awakening to the
realities of existence, and in a flash she
understood what Rockwell had meant by
his warning. Then she felt Crip, clutching
at her skirt, and looked down at him.
For this she had not been prepared, and
involuntarily she shrank back from him.
It was only an impulse of an instant, but
that was sufficient. Crip felt the knife-
thrust of her natural repulsion, and, look-
ing into her eyes saw there the thing that
had tortured him all his life — pity. With
a heartbroken cry he hurried from the room.
"Crip, please Crip, come back," Fay
called, but he was gone.
The others left Rockwell and Fay to-
gether, and in a few moments they, had
forgotten Crip's tragedy in their own joy.
"Take me to the cave," she pleaded at
last.
"It was beautiful, only because we made
it so," Rockwell warned her again.
"No matter how ugly it may be to oth-
ers, it will always be beautiful to me," she
replied.
As they made their way through the tun-
nel to the sunlit throne at the other end,
they saw a huddled form in the darkness.
Rockwell knelt to see what had happened —
then returned to Fay and gently led her
out of the tunnel.
"Strongheart has gone to find the land
where dreams are real," he explained.
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Bill, a Violet
MERELY A FIGURE OF SPEECH TO
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OF course he's modest. Most men
standing two inches over the much
wished for six feet and with many
pounds over the two century mark to his
credit and with a proficiency in boxing
which makes him fear nothing — well,
, they're usually modest and unassuming —
and convincing — in physical argument.
Anyway, William F. Russell, one of
American's stars, really is modest and not
only physically but mentally. His stage
and screen career has given him every op-
portunity to climb up on a pedestal and look
down on admirers but he doesn't. He's
natural, quiet, unassuming and dodges talk
about himself and his work. Of course,
boxing is play and he's always willing to
talk about that.
Russell's sparring ability was really self
earned. \\'hen he was five years old he won
the approbation of the neighborhood belles
by lambasting a juvenile Jack. Johnson
eight years old and several inches taller
than himself.
"Honestly, I never forgot how proud I
felt when one particularly pretty young
lady of at least four years old came up and
threw her arms round my neck and kissed
me. Right then and there I decided prize
fighting was the noblest profession in the
world."
Later Russell, who was born in New
York in 1886, practiced boxing under pro-
fessionals and became an expert. At one
time he gave a boxing exhibition in vaude-
ville.
His stage career began as program boy.
hat checker and other light occupations
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around Manhattan playhouses. In after
vears he appeared with Ethel Barrymore,
Ezra Kendall and others.
His screen work began under Griffith in
the Biograpli days. Then after two years
with Thanhouser he returned to Biograph.
Then came Famous Players roles and later
he appeared in "The Diamond from the
Sky." S. S. Hutchinson of American then
signed him for a series of star roles.
And when you try and talk with \\'illiam
about those star roles he just grins and
makes another remark on the advisability
of all youngsters learning to box.
Would he discuss his success as "Lone
Star," the Indian? He would not — "Box-
ing's great stuff for anybody — boy or girl."
How about the future of the films — "You
see it puts confidence into a guy when he
knows he can slam the daylights out of the
ordinary person and — '
Does he ever write
narios? — "Why I knew
once who never could
make good at school or
anything else and then his
father had him learn box
ing and when he found
he wasn't afraid of the
other kids, he found he
wasn't afraid of lessons — ,
and that youngster won a
Phi Beta Kappa and
turned out a good business
man to boot."
Oh, what's the use. If
ir ~ ^
his own sce-
a kid
can't get anything but fistic advice when
you want personal stuff, then ring the bell
and switcli on some facts.
He lives a liachelor's life in spite of his
good looks on a little ranch de luxe on tlie
outskirts of .Santa Barbara. And girls^
a Chinaman does the housekeeping !
He's fond of pets of all kinds ; and all
the animals on his ranch are included in
this class. Just listen to this directory :
Babe, the horse. Jocko, the goat, Gim-
mack, the turkey gobbler (and old Gim-
mie knows his moniker if you've something
good to eat in your hand) ; Judie, the col-
lie pup and Oscar, the Persian cat ; a
gorgeous green and gold parrot well
named Theodore — and when he isn't fight-
ing with Gimmack he's busy talking. He's
great friends with Judie, however, and
when let out of his cage will wobble u])
to the dog and rub his beak against »the
pup's nose.
There are a lot of others but why print
a zoo blue book — this is about Bill.
And, Jimminy crickets, we almost forgot
the most important event or fact or
feature or whatever it is in William's
voung life. Listen to this girls !
Earl Frazier,— aw, you know Earl,
he's "t/ir famous sculptor" — well,
he says Bill is the most
symetrically built
man he has ever
known.
He makes quite a nice looking Indian. The square
shows a film fight, a la Queensbury, and a good
time is being had by all, apparently.
I
Mother of Many
SUNSHINY California makes a comfortable,
happy last reel for most stage and circus celebri-
ties wlio long ago have ended their usefulness for
the hardships of road tours or the unrelenting de-
mands of physical topnotchness of the whirling rings
and trapeze.
And Jennie Lee, aged and crippled, is sunning her-
self in comparative ease and luxury at the Fine Arts
Studio. She has been "mother" to most of the
studio. She weighs 300 pounds, she carries a cane
and she admits that she sometimes has to work
fairly hard but —
"It's jnst loafing after years and years of
one nighters and circus work," she said.
And Jennie has a romance. When she
was apprenticed at the age of seven to a
circus of sixty years ago she was cham-
pioned and helped by a youngster
named "Billy" Cortright, in after
years famous as a minstrel star. Later
she lost sight of him. Twenty
years later she heard his name
mentioned by a theatrical
man in Chicago. And when
she heard that Billy was
not expected to live, she
took the first train to
South Dakota and
found Cortright in a
serious condition. She
nursed him back to
health and of course
became Mrs. Cort-
right.
Jennie Lee had
her best screen part
in "The Birth of
a Nation," that of
the old negro
Here's Jennie
ready for
the director s
commands.
mammy, who will
be remembered for her
prowess in her own battle with the colored soldiers.
The picture at the bottom of the page shows her
as the Apache mother in "A Child of the Paris
Streets," and the other circular picture, her most recent
characterization in "Nina, the Flower Girl."
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His Handicap
A LITTLE lad wlio could hardly reach up
to the window gravely showed the
ticket seller a dime and said, "One."
"How old are you, my little man?"
The youngster
paused, then said con-
fidently, "I am five.
I'd have been six, only
I was sick almost a
year.
Mary Ami Dick,
Waukesha, Wis.
A Double -Dyed Affair
LOOK at that lead-
ing man. Why,
he's cross-eyed."
"That's n o t h i n g.
Look at the leading
lady. She's peroxide."
Edwin A. McElhatlan,
Wheeliny, W. Va.
A Regular Daredevil
IT was a thrilling cir-
cus scene, with the
girl in the lion's den.
She was taking in
her mouth a lump of
sugar from the mouth
of a fierce-looking lion.
A young man in the audience elbowed his
neighbor and muttered : "Gee, I could do that."
"Oh, you could, could you ?" retorted his
neighbor.
"You bet I could," replied the young man,
"just as good as the lion."
George L. JJ'n</iier, Montreal. Canada.
Father's Revelation
TWO little boys were watching an automo-
bile race on the screen. Each machine
had a large number painted on it.
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Usher — "We don't allow any hissing, if
you don't like the picture go to the bo.v
office and get your money back."
Patron — "/ wasn't h-h-h-hissing, I w-w-
was s-s-s-simply s-s-s-saying to my friend
S-.^-.^-.'sam that this picture is s-s-s-si)nply
s-s-s-swell."
One boy exclaimed, "My paw saw that
picture Sattidy night. I betcha dollar."
"I betcha he didn't, 'cause it was only gonna
be here one night."
"Betcha he did now, 'cause I heard him hol-
lerin' in his sleep and he
said 'Come on seven !
Come on seven !' "
Leonard Danison,
New Le.vingfon, Ohio.
It Looked Wet, Too
IN a local theater
scenes of the beauti-
ful and historic sur-
roundings of New
Orleans were being
show n. Two girls
were quite enthusiastic
about the pictures of
City Park. Then on
the screen was flashed
the subtitle : "Artificial
Lake in City Park,"
and a picture of the
lake followed.
One of the girls
turned to the other
and said, "Gee, Jennie,
it looks like real water,
don't it?"
Esther Goldenberg,
Hartford, Conn.
A Discriminating Critic
THE picture was "Intolerance." Behind us
sat a chatty young person who was not
at all afraid that she would some time wear
out her voice. Presently she ran out of com-
ments or something, and then the person who
played the part of the Savior came on the
screen.
"Gee," said the talkative young person, in a
loud voice, "There's Jesus Christ ! Ain't He
N. C. Mitchell, Chicago. III.
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Extra Girls Who Became Stars
(Continued from page Jo)
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ging didn't at all interfere with his acting
ability, either, and today he's playing lead-
ing roles at the Fine Arts studio.
Then there was the Chicago girl who
came West to enter the motion-picture field
a little more than a year ago. She is pretty,
but met with very little success at first
when she appeared at Universal City look-
ing for work. The days when she found
employment were few and far between,
and she found it a hard row to hoe. She
went from director to director, asking for
a chance, but even when given a chance
did not somehow seem able to fit in.
But she was determined. One day she
waited outside, and when she met an extra
girl she knew, she began to talk. The
girl had a card to go to work next day.
But she said she felt ill, and wished she
didn't have to, "especially," she said, "as
she was invited out for an automobile ride."
Miss Chicago saw her chance. "Give me
the card," she said, "and I'll give you half
the pay. Does this director know you?
He doesn't know me." The girl answered
she had never met that director. She also
accepted the offer gladly, and the Illinois
girl came on the lot, worked in the picture,
made good, and soon began to be noticed.
It was not long before she arrived at lead-
ing parts.
Even at the Mack Sennett Keystone
studios, dedicated to the sacred business of
making the world laugh long and loud, if
you corner some lissome, bubbling comedy
queen, and can persuade her to go back to
the day she went after her first movie job.
you usually can uncover a bit of almost-
tragedy.
Take Louise Fazenda, for example, whose
fuzzy head appears in so many of the hila-
rious Charlie Murray comedies. "I started
as an extra girl, and you know what that
means. Three dollars a day and sometimes
only one day a week. The rest of the
time you simply hang around hoping this
director or that would be able to use you.
Fortunately after I had appeared in a dozen
or so mob scenes and merry-merrys, some-
body noticed that I photographed well. I
had become thoroughly discouraged by the
time I was placed on the regular pay-roll."
And at that Miss Fazenda wasn't so bad
off, for she lives at home. How different
is the case of pretty Mary Thurman, an-
other Keystone favorite.
"At my home in Salt Lake they im-
pressed on me how utterly useless I was,
until I could bear it no longer. So, like
the old darky song, T packed my grip and
took a trip,' coming to Los Angeles to do
or die. And I pretty nearly died. I dis-
tinctly remember the day I went out to
Echo Park, fully determined to take the
big plunge. But the water was awfully
muddy. If it had been clear I wouldn't
be here now. I stuck it out, and finally
got into some big scenes with De Wolf
Hopper and Douglas Fairbanks, — I re-
member the first day, I was actually
hungry, and so tickled when they put me
in a supper scene where I had to eat ! —
and next day I got a letter from Mack
.Sennett ! Happy ! I guess so. And here
I am!"
On a day last year down at Balboa, there
walked into the Horkheimer Brothers' pic-
turesque studio, a very pretty girl. Every-
body sat up and took notice. She didn't
ogle back, however, but kept her eyes
straight ahead. Her name was Gloria Pay-
ton. She was quiet and lady-like and only
her exceeding beauty and quick intelligence
gained her notice.
The directors gave her extra work at
once ; she was always on time, always com-
petent, also courteous. That gave them
an opportunity to make an estimate of her,
and her promotion came apace. Here then
is a case wliere a girl working without
camera experience, but very much in
earnest, went to the front within the short
space of six months, and her employers
predict for her a future in the head lines.
Lois Weber, now of the Universal, now
mistress of her own studio, who is the best
known woman director in the world, has
many film stars to her credit. Cleo
Ridgely, now a Lasky star, began with Miss
Weber. It was in the old Rex days in
New York. Miss Weber spied the young
girl, read the intelligence and earnestness
in her face, and put her to work. Later
Miss Ridgely made her solitary trip across
country a-horseback. thereby gaining some
fame which brought her to the attention of
the Lasky Company, in whose employ she
soon entered stardom.
The other day an extra girl came to Lois
Weber. She was shabby and even hungry.
She had no looks.
"I was so sorry for the girl, I made up
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my mind to use her if I could. I noted
she had a wonderful figure under the
shabby frock. I took her and combed her
hair back from her forehead, making the
most of her fine forehead and well-shaped
head. Then we clad her in an extremely
low-cut black velvet gown, revealing her
lovely shoulders. She is a striking figure
in my latest picture."
Norma Talmadge, one of the famous of
today's film stars, started with the old Bio-
graph, when Mabel Normand, Wallace
Reid, Mary Pickford and everybody got
$25 a week and thought it good wages.
"I was a high school girl," said Miss
Talmadge, "and I felt sure the picture di-
rectors would be very glad to have me,
because I was a big hit in high school
dramatic activities. I was only fourteen
the day I borrowed a long dress from
mother and went down to the studio. The
director came out to speak to me, and I
fell over the long dress. That gave me a
slight set-back in my own good opinion.
"The director really hired me, despite
my greenness. He offered me ten dollars a
week. I didn't know what I should do
with it all. I cultivated what I thought
was a graceful glide, until one of the di-
rectors called out to me one day: 'Hey,
there, why don't you walk like a human
being?' My idea of emoting was to turn
my back and heave my shoulders. I acted
all over the place, and thought the camera
would follow me. I made up my eyes
fearfully and wonderfully, but never
thought even to put a dull finish on my
nose.
"I was terrible, I guess, and when a
director looked at me I never knew whether
I was going to be cast or killed. Gradu-
ally, though. I worked out a method for
myself, with various directors' help."
A notable example of patience is that
furnished by the case of a young woman
who, not long ago, was toiling behind the
shirtwaist counter of a big department
store Like many another shop-girl, she
constantly was being reminded of the fact
that she was beautiful. "Why -don't you
go into the movies?" they asked her.
And finally she followed "their" advice.
She went out to the Ince studios, and after
several days of patient waiting, obtained
work. Three years elapsed before that girl
was given her chance. But in that time she
had absorbed sufficient of the requisite
knowledge of the motion picture art to
entitle her to it. And that knowledge,
aided and abetted by her inherent talents,
crowned her first performance with suc-
cess. The ensuing days held more oppor-
tunities in store for her, and today, while
she is not yet a star, she is on the fair road
to it, and her name appears frequently in
the cast of Ince productions.
Lois Wilson, now a U star, was one of
the prize beauties whom the U brought
west a year or two ago. She was from
Birmingham, Alabama, and had been a
society girl. "I should have given up in
fear at the awful things I had to do,"
said Miss Wilson, "only I was ashamed to
l)e beaten. I worked the first day as an
extra in the pouring rain, and caught a
fearful cold.
"Next day, I was pushed into the
ocean. — not only that, but my hands were
tied. 1 nearly died of fright. As I stood
there on the edge of the wharf looking into
the green depths, and then around at all
those people, I felt as if I hadn't a friend
in the world. You just can't imagine!
How I did wish I was back home ! But
I couldn't turn back. They hadn't even
told me what they were going to do with
me — just that I was to do some water stuff,
that's all ! Well, wasn't that some situa-
tion for a curled and pampered darling?
" 'It was all in the game,' one of the extra
girls whispered to me. But it was wonder-
ful discipline! Never since have I known
fear. And when I got my real chance —
the Universal pople have been so wonder-
ful to me, — I knew what poise I had
learned through my experience."
There is a girl at the Lasky studio who
was once an artist's model. Three months
ago, she was posing for Rob Wagner,
writer and painter. But an artist's model
in the west doesn't find much employment.
One day she fainted in Wagner's studio.
She had been engaged by him two days
before, but had saicl nothing about finan-
cial straits, and Wagner had taken the pay-
ing her when her posing for him was done
as a matter of course.
When the girl came to, she told him
she had had nothing to eat for two days
except a cup of coffee and a biscuit the
morning before. He advised her to go into
pictures, sent her with a letter to the Lasky
Company, and the girl was instantly seized
upon as a remarkable picture type.
QuESTi^^NS ^'Answers
'Y'OU do not have to be a subscnber to Photoplay Magazine
■^ to get questions answered in this Department. It is only
required that you avoid questions which would call for unduly
long answers such as synopses of plays, or casts of more than
one play.' There are hundreds of others **in line " with you
at the Questions and Answers window, so be considerate.
This will make it both practical and pleasant to serve you
promptly and often. Do not ask questions touching religion,
scenario wriling or studio employment. Studio addresses
will not be given in this Department, because a complete list
of them is printed elsewhere in the magazine each month.
Write on only one side of the paper. Sign your full name
and address; only initials will be published if requested. If
you desire a personal reply, enclose self-addressed stamped
envelope. Write to Questions and Answers, Photoplay
Magazine, Chicago.
Lee, Chatt.xnooga, Tenx. — Sorry, old fellow,
but this is not the matrimonial department.
Suppose, for instance, we did give your address
to some "western lassie" and she wrote to you
and you wrote to her and eventually you and
she became united in the bonds of wedlock, so to
speak ; why you'd blame us for it the rest of your
life and maybe she'd have us arrested or put
cyanide in our mince pie. No, Lee ; it cannot be
did. The cast for "Search Me" : Jail Bird,
Paddy McGuire ; District At-
torney, Arthur Moon ; Judge,
Russ Powell : His Wife, Mert
Sterling; Her Daughter, Pris-
cilla Dear; The Detective,
Jack Ganes.
House Peters will have his there again whenever
he provides us with a new photograph. Maybe
he'll see this and have hisself tooken, as Pete
Props would say.
H. H., Dixon, III. — How
do we classify Bill Hart in
the actorial category? Well,
how does "Shooting Star"
suit ? No trouble atall !
Cheerful, Grand Forks,
N. D. — The best way to find
out if Myrtle Lind is your
cousin is to write her care of
Keystone. Since our bathing
girl number, several others
ha\ e asked information about
Myrtle for the same reason.
TT is the aim of this depart-
■^ ment to answer the same
question but once in an issue.
If your initials do not appear
look for the answer to your
questions under the name of
another.
For studio addresses con-
sult the studio directory in
the advertising section.
A strict compliance with
the rules printed at the top of
this page will be insisted
upon.
Ruth, Biloxi, Miss. — One letter ought to sat-
isfy you. There is no reason why players should
become regular correspondents of those who ad-
mire their work. Earle Williams is about 37
and not burdened with a wife. The Fairbanks
twins are on the stage now.
Better have a few more letter
writing rehearsals before you
write any more stars.
Elsie, Lismore, N. S. W. —
William Collier, Jr., has ap-
peared in but one film play,
"The Bugle Call." He'll prob-
ably send you a photo if you
write him in New York and
send an international coupon
for a shilling to pay the mail-
ing charge. You know that
back numbers of Photoplay
may be had for fifteen cents
each, so you can catch up any
time you like. Helen Ware
was Eli::ahctlt Crane in "Cross
Currents" : Willard Mack was
David Harmon in ".Moha-Oe."
L 'V\'., Sparrows Pt., Md. — Your tribute to Mr.
Chaplin is merited by him but it isn't fair to
criticise the editor for not printing his photo-
graph more often when almost every issue con-
tains some sort of Chaplin picture. Think you
will like Mr. Walthall in "The Truant Soul."
Yvonne, Montreal, Canada. — We haven't very
much French, as it were, but we deduce from
your letter that you consider Edinimd Breese
the dernier cri, if not the entire table d'hote and
faux pas in motion pictures. Decoding further,
we sorta gather that you wanta know if he'll
accept a letter written in French. Off hand, we
should say. "Yes." Anyhow, you might try it
out on him. It didn't hurt us any. P. S. A'oii
chcrie, il n'est pas niaric!
Unsophisticated. Pittsburg, Pa. — At the time
it was written Norma Talmadge was unmarried.
Glad you've finally discovered us and many thanks
for the praise. Can't say about Marguerite but
you might try the two-bits. Nothing strange
about your letter except that it came clean from
Pittsburg (old stuff). But why do you ask?
R. W., Lebanon, Tenn. — Fannie Ward is a
member of the Lasky company, Hollwood, Cal.,
and a letter addressed there will reach her.
A. M., Cambridge, Mass. — We have no record
of "Enchantment," but that doesn't mean that
there is no such picture.
M. F., Sydney, N. S. W. — All those you men-
tion have had their photos in the art section.
Kit, Batesville, Ark. — Far be it from us to
hurt the feelings of any of Photoplay phamily,
but sometimes it does peeve us to get letters
from girls of 16 or more in which the commonest
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words are misspelled, which to our way of think-
ing IS far more reprehensiblf than the asking of
silly questions. Your questions are all of a con-
iroversial nature and cannot be answered here,
but it is likely that you will see some articles in
ihe magazine soon bearing on those subjects.
Kerrigan quit Universal because he considered
himself worth more salary than the company
thought he was worth — another controversial
matter. Your poem has been handed to the editor.
C. R., WiNFiELD, Kan. — Yes, Herbert Rawlin-
son smiles just thataway when the camera is not
aimed at him.
1
J. J., Bronx, N. Y. — Mildred Harris and Pauline
Starke are still with Fine Arts, Los Angeles. Ad-
dress them there. They will answer you, we think.
E. D., Cambridge, Mass. — Tom Forman is still
at Lasky's but is no longer playing with Blanche
Sweet as that young lady has left that company.
See your theater man-
ager about seeing Tom
more often.
Ann, St. l.ouis. — Don't think you are "all
wrong" about "Romeo and Juliet." Your opinion
matches ours exactly, but did you ever figure out
what some actors would be getting — or working at
— if we all thovight alike as to their qualifica-
tions?
D. S., Toronto, Can-
ada,— There is no mar-
ket in which a person can
sell the book of another
writer for filming pur-
poses.
Seventeen, Balti-
more, Md. — No, we could
never have guessed your
sex if you had not
signed your name. Yes,
we think Wallace Reid
is "just darling." Robert
Warwick is about 40
and, as you say, a very
goo^d actor. They must
have told you wrong
about Gail Kane. We
are sure that Mary Pick-
ford and Owen Moore
get along happily. If they
didn't, they would surely
write and tell us. How
much do they pay for
scenarios? Well, how
much do women pay for
dresses?
Peggy, Newport, R. I.
— Enjoyed your romance
very much and hope you
will always be as happy
as you are now. Fannie
Ward looks real chick-
eny in real life. The
Hayakawas have no chil-
dren. Sessue is about
28. Write for his pic-
ture. Glad to get the secret information you im
parted and will not violate your confidence al
though we do not think Miss Clark is engaged.
NOT COMPLAINING, BUT —
ALTHOUGH it has been constantly
stated that no advice can be given
in this department on photoplay writing,
there is a continual flood of letters re-
garding scenarios.
"Now have a homely teamster,"
Writes one, "In love with June
And have a dook in love with her
And baying at the moon.
She marries him — the ducal bird —
And goes to live in Jazz.
She hates him tho, in later years
In spite of all he has.
She runs away — back home again —
And finds old Jim in tears;
While janiting a lofty flat
He's waited all these years.
What cared our June for precious gems
And ducal castles dim
When she could have an honest man,
A janitor like Jim ?
They married, and a dozen kids
Made glad their home with talk.
The final scene shows Jim and June
A-cleaning off the walk."
Of course, we hate to discourage bud-
ding talent, but what's the use of having
rules if folks can't be made to observe
them. It's trying enough at times to cope
with some of our unique correspondents
without having to be pestered with nut
scenarios. We thank you.
J. S., Shelbvville,
Ind. — Address Edward
Earle, care Metro, New
York. He's probably
wondering why you
didn't answer his letter.
You might send in some
of those good interviews
you mention. Maybe the
editor will put you on
steady if they are ex-
ceptional.
R. T., Eagle Pass,
Tex. — The serials you
mention have not as yet
been published in book
form. They probably
will be.
M. B., New York. —
Pearl White's current
serial in "Pearl of the
Army." Creightou Hale's
last picture was "Snow
White," the picturized
fairy tale with Margue-
rite Clark. Yep, Pearl
is a "bear."
Bessie, San Antonio,
Tex. — Remember that
sizes are relative. In
fact everything is rela-
tive. Even our rela-
tions. Personally, we
consider four feet, ten
inches. Miss Clark's
height very small, but
you, being a great big
five foot two-er would
not. Get the idea?
M. Z., Los Angeles, Cal. — J. W. Johnston
played opposite Norma Talmadge in "Fifty-
Fifty." Marie Chambers ■ was probably the
woman you mean.
M. W., Denton, Mont. — Alfred Hickman is
the man's name. He was recently married to
Nance O'Neil. You are no more curious than
thousands of others.
C. J., New Bedford, Mass. — We have no rec-
ord of Olga Olonova since "The Crimson Stain."
We are rather curious also as she is quite an un-
usual sort of vamp, one of the wiggliest we ever
saw.
M. M., Havana, Cuba. — You certainly have
cause to be thankful for the movies. John Drew
is older than Sidney. All of the latter's recent
plays have been two-reel comedies. Pauline
Frederick was in your city for the filming of
some scenes in "The Slave Market." Practically
all of the big film companies are represented in
your city.
G. C, Pawtuckft, R. I.^The only way we
know of to obtain photographs is to write to the
players themselves. Miss MacLaren is with Uni-
versal.
A. S., Coronado, Cal. — Creighton Hale did not
appear in the "Mysteries of Myra." Howard Es-
tabrook was the hero. Jean Sothern is not with
Art Dramas. Charley Chaplin is not married.
Theda, Great Falls, Mont. — Rather than be
responsible for your untimely demise, we will
undertake to answer all the questions you are
"dying to ask." Vamp when you are ready,
Theda, as Dewey said at Vanilla.
L. W., Petersburg, Va. — It is against the rules
to advise you concerning scenario writing but
your case is such a singular one that we'll make
an exception. Don't waste any more time writ-
ing them.
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149
N. R., Harrison. Ark. — Gee, that'.s toiifih
luck ; having to go to school ! How'd you like
to trade places with some girl who has to work
twelve hours a day in a factory ? Francis Ford
has no brother Jack Ford. Pronounce it Yank-see
Dolly. That's as good a way as any.
R. C, Bayside, L. I. — Edith Storey hid her
natural tresses under a blonde wig in "Isle of
Regeneration." Antonio Moreno was John Char-
nock, Jr., and Bobby Connelly was the same
character as a boy.
H. S., Manchester, Mass. — "The Ragamuffin"
was never published as a short story in Photo-
play Magazine.
M. J., Minneapolis, Minn. — William Nigh
was Bradley in "Life's Shadows," Kathleen Al-
laire was Diilcie and Rodney Thorndyke was
played by Robert Elliott. Gladden Jaiiies was
Jimmie in "The Social Secretary." No, but we
expect to have a story soon about Mr. Keenan.
As long as we get letters like yours we do not
fear any fatal result.
A. R., Denver, Colo. — Can't figure out whether
you are trying to write a weekly review or
merely giving us the right steer on the current
plays. Constance Talmadge and Anita Stewart
were born in Brooklyn, Edith Storey in New
York City, Seena Owen, Spokane, Wash., Bill
Hart, Newburgh, N. Y., Enid Markey, Dillon,
Colo., Marguerite Clayton, Salt Lake City, Naomi
Childers, Philadelphia. Oh, let the rest go for
some other time.
Detroit Fan. Detroit. Mich. — Richard Trav-
ers and Lillian Drew played the leads in Ess-
anay's "Snowburner" ; Bryant Washburn and
Clerda Holmes in "Strength of the Weak."
F. W., Dorchester, Mass. — The following are
the names of the leading men whose names are
missing in your book : Gladden James in "Pay-
ing the Price," Richard Neill in "The Labyrinth,"
Eugene O'Brien in "The Scarlet Woman," Guy
Coombs in "My Madonna," Pierre LeMay in
"Playing with Fire," Richard Buhler in "Thief."
Entirely welcome.
Redun, Renfrew, Ontario, Can. — No, Mme.
Petrova was not widowed by the death of Arthur
Hoops. Thomas Meighan was the revenue officer
in "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" with Char-
lotte Walker.
Camille, Mississippi. — -Actresses' weights
vary. There would be much less worry in ac-
torial circles if they were stationary. We'll do
the best we can for you. Pearl White, Pathe, is
5 ft. 3 in., 125 pounds: Virginia Pearson, Fox,
5 ft. 7^/f in., 14S jiounds : Goraldine Farrar, 5 ft.
3 in., 135 pounds; Kitty Gordon, World, 5 ft.
6 in., 135 pounds. Find their addresses in the
studio directory.
D. F., Hamilton, Ontario. Can. — Sure we be-
lieve that story about Theda Bara's unique con-
tract. If we said we didn't, the poor man who
wrote the story would probably be dismissed.
Wheeler Oakman played the part you mention
in "The Rosary." William Courtleigh, Jr., is 25
years old. Lottie Pickford was married about
four years ago. His name is Rupp.
Lillian, New Orleans — Jack Holt is about
25 and unmarried. Write him at Universal
City. Creighton Hale is unmarried and was
born in 1892. Of course it is important or you
would not have written. You may write any
time.
Fkenchy, Kankakee, III. — Sometimes the
tears you see in the movies are genu-ine and
sometimes they're glycer-ine. Do you follow us,
or are we alone ? Billy Quirk and Constance
Talmadge were leads in "The Master of His
House." In another of the same name, a Kay-
Bee film, the leads were Richard Stanton and
Rhea Mitchell. Montagu Love has played in
"Hearts in Exile," "A Royal Family," "The
Devil's Toy," and other photoplays. Max Linder
spicks not ze Ingleese, but he's learning it rap-
idly.
Letmens, Philapelphia. — Niles Welch was
born in Hartford, Conn., in 1888. If he were an
actress this would make him 22, but being a man,
he must confess to 26 svunmers. He is a six-
footer, fair hair, blue eyes. William Hinckley
was born in 1894, educated in Chicago and is six
feet two inches in his shoeless feet. Niles is
married. All we know about Harrison Ford is
that he's no relative of Francis, Sterling, or
Henry and that he is with Universal.
G. B., Vancouver, B. C. — So Mary Pickford is
your favorite actress ? My, my, how strange.
John Bowers is not officially credited with a
wife, so the assumption is that he is single.
A. v., Houston, Tex. — Olga Petrova's hus-
band is not dead. Pauline Frederick is not mar-
ried at the present time. What do we think of
Mary Miles Minter's age? Just dandy! Bill
Hart was born in 1874 and Doug Fairbanks in
1883. Do your own figuring. Theda Bara's
latest picture is "The Darling of Paris."
Tempest, Aurora, Colo. — Our idea of an
ideal girl ? One who thinks us the ideal man.
Yes, 18 is a nice age. One of the best we ever
had. Charles Ray has brown eyes and dark
brown hair and is married. Harold Lockwood
played the lead in "The Secretary of Frivolous
Affairs." Kerrigan is now on the road. Photo-
play Magazine is issued on the first of each
month and in order to have a simultaneous dis-
tribution it is printed about two weeks prior to
that date. There is no record of any girl who
bites her fingernails becoming a star.
ToMMiE, Dothan, Ala. — Owen Moore played
with Mary Pickford in "Caprice," and Marshall
Neilan in "Rags."' Robert Vaughn with Miss
Clark in "Still Waters." Sorry to have kept
you waiting so long. It won't happen again.
Red, Circleville, O. — Eugene O'Brien is
now on the stage in New York. Mary MacLaren
and Jack Mulhall had the leads in "Wanted, A
Home." Address Charley Ray at Culver City.
L. M., Dallas, Tex. — Please don't start any
fad of writing the .\nswer Man for his photo-
graph, because it can't be started. Hope you'll
be home soon.
Georgette. Hickman, Ky. — The scenario con-
test closed the last day of December and, natur-
ally, it will take some time to read and pass
upon them. It will be several months, at least,
before the winners can be announced.
James, Dixon. III. — Maxine Elliott was the
third wife of Nat Goodwin, Edna Goodrich the
fourth and Marjorie Moreland is the present
wearer of the Goodwin name.
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150
Photoplay Magazine
■ -:,. ir, .. ■;,■: •• . (Continued
with a little cynical smile, got on her horse
and rode back to the hotel. Outside Geor-
gios Polybuteros, with his choseri band of
eleven blood-brothers, was making the
night vocal, while George Hagan, stupefied
into imperturbability, lolled back in an easy
chair, smoking, and watched them.
"Cut it out now !" said Peggy sharply.
"Georgios, I'll have something to give you
soon. Meanwhile, do you think any of you
sons of leisure could persuade himself to
help to pack my things? I'm leaving by
the stage coach in the morning."
from page 66)
"Not for the work, but to oblige the
American Princess," said Georgios with a
bow. "The Princess wishes to speak to me
now? Wives very dear this time of year
among us Arnauts."
George Hagan came up to interrupt the
conversation. "Say, what's the trouble?"
he asked. "Is it a revolution or just an-
other victory? What game have you been
pulling off, girlie?"
"O, nothing much," said Peggy. "I've
just made a sale of my submarine to the
Council — that's all."
Next comes Peggy's most exciting and most realistic adventure,
"THE TORPEDO-BROKER OF HOLLAND"
This is not only one of the best but certainly the most original story the
Great War has produced. Victor Rousseau sees humanity through a
laughing-glass, and here is a phase of the giant conflict in the fascinating
terms of red-blooded and merry adventure.
Fighting the Plague with Movies
Where the Indian fake medicine vendor once traveled about by wagon selling fake nostrums to the credu-
lous, is now the field of the health movies. The Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association uses this means
of preserving the health of the people in isolated districts.
Photoplay Magazine
151
(Continued from page 149)
C. _E., Blackfoot, Ida. — Marc McDermott is
still in pictures and has appeared in several
recent Vitagraph releases.
H. H., Alliance, O. — John Bowers is with
World Film now. One of his recent Famous
Players plays was "The Reward of Patience,"
with Louise Huff.
Prkttv Baby. Washington, D. C. — Are you?
Jack Pickford is nearing twenty-one. He likes
swimming and dancing and his "boy chum" is
Bobby Harron. In the absence of definite infor-
mation we will hazard the guess that his favo-
rite candy is fudge and his fa\orite flower,
gold leaf. His favorite song? "He's a Ten
O'clock Devil in a Nine O'Clock Town." You
forgot to ask if he is as good looking as his pic-
lures.
D. R.. Minneapolis — George Fisher was
Allan Shelby in "Home" with Bessie Barriscale.
He is now with American at Santa Barbara, Cal.
"Joan the Woman," in which Wallace Reid
plays an important part, has been released in
the large cities, but it is not on a regular pro-
gram.
Victor, Des Moines, Ia. — We have no prefer-
ence in vamps. All vamps vamp alike to us.
Pegie, Toronto, Canada — Never saw it
spelled with one "g" before but guess it's all
right. Constance Collier, at this writing, is
on the .speaking stage in New York City. Glad
you pass your Photoplay on to the convalescing
soldiers. It's a good hint for other readers.
Helen, Savannah, Ga. — Sarah Bernhardt is
over 70 but she's still there with both feet,
even if one is artificial. Her English is very
imperfect. Anna Held was Billie Burke's
predecessor as Florenz Ziegfeld's wife. Miss
Held has a daughter about 22 years old.
L. C, L.-^RMUiE, Wyo. — Marie Chambers was
the other woman with Pauline Frederick in "The
Woman in the Case." You never saw her on
the screen before for the very simple reason
that it was her first screen appearance.
Jane, Santa Paula, Cal. — You girls are sure
funny. You wail about the Francises and the
Wallaces being married and can't understand
whv Bill Hart isn't.
J. C, New York City — The name of the
actor who played The Christits in "Intolerance"
was probably omitted from the cast because of
its inconsistency. The player bears the some-
what flippant name of Howard Gaye.
M. E., Detroit, Mich. — Now don't make the
mistake of trying to get rough with us because
the caviest cave man that ever caved in any-
one's slats is a calf-eyed ingenue alongside of
us when it comes to rough stuff. And, besides,
we'll tell your husband on you if you do it
again. Joseph Schenck, Norma Talmadge's hus-
band, is in the movies, but not as an actor.
He's a financier. Regards to Henrv.
V. L., Fresno, Cal. — Teresa in "The Half
Breed" was Alma Reuben, who as you intimate,
is quite some actress. The last play we saw her
in was "Truthful Tulliver" with Bill Hart.
Write her at Culver City, Cal.
Grace, Ea.st .St. Lotus. III. — So far as we
are informed Eugene O'Brien, Eddie Lyons and
Harry Hilliard are wallowing in a state of
single blessedness, so take your pick.
Belle, San Diego, Cal. — The statement you
read in this department about Crane Wilbur
was the truth.
G. H., Brazil, Ind. — Is that the Brazil where
the movie nuts come from ? William Court-
leigh, Jr., is about 25. Maude Fealy is with
Lasky. William H. Thompson and Margery Wil-
son played the leading parts in "The Eye of the
Night."
Louise, Los Angeles, Cal. — We know noth-
ing of the practice of other publications but
neither companies nor players can purchase
"write ups" in Photoplay. This magazine is
published in the interest of the photoplay
patrons of the world and not for the benefit of
any one else. Theda Bara is not in Los Ange-
les ; probably because such an ultra-respectable
city could not tolerate the presence of too
many vamps. Douglas Fairbanks played "The
Cub" on the stage. Never heard of Mr. Dyer.
R. R., St. Louis, Mo. — Yes, yes; we know
where St. Louis lies, and how, and why. Since
learning we are a sadder Budweiser man. But
how could you expect us to know where your
school was if you didn't tell us? We're not a
directory of seminaries. Disappointed, too,
about the fudge. Will try to fill the Lockwood
order.
Bee. San Francisco, Cal. — Montagu Love
was born in Calcutta in 1887 which makes him
an Indian, though not a redskin. He was edu-
cated in England, has red hair, blue eyes, six
feet high, 195 pounds. Has made a consider-
able reputation on the speaking stage. He may
go to a California studio so you can defer your
trip East.
Shorty, Los Angeles, Cal. — Thanks for your
good wishes. But why worry about our identity
when there are so many movie stars to worry
about. Seventh and Grand would look awful
good on this snowy day.
Margaret, Calgary, Alta. — Charley Chaplin
was born in Paris, France, in 1889. Fannie
Ward is married to Jack Dean. Louise Lovely
is 21 and Mary MacLaren about 17. Write
Pauline Frederick care Famous Players. The
subscription in Canada is $1.85. No, G. C. is
not married to F. F. Her husband is Joe Moore.
C. G., Riverside, R. I. — Niles Welch is your
hero in "Miss George Washington." He's 29.
David Powell is all you think him and in addi-
tion, i2 years old. Gertrude Glover, of Essanay.
is the dai:ghter of the late Lyman Glover, well
known dramatic critic, and has been in the pic-
tures for about two years. Write again.
H. I., New York City — Telephone the Llni-
versal Co. and you will be told what theaters
in the Bronx are playing "The Purple Mask."
Get any back issue of Photoplay for the
Cunard-Ford question answers. However, it will
be answered again next month.
C. H., New York City — Dorothy Bernard is
in her early twenties and a native of South
Africa, having been born there while her parents
were touring that country with a theatrical,
company. She is married to A. H. Van Buren.i
You are ri.ght in sizing her up as a splendid'
actress. We never heard of Minna.
H. W., Decatur, III. — We had an interview
with Miss Ridgely not so long ago. Do you
want one of the magazines? Fifteen cents
please. Maybe another before long.
(Continued on page 158)
152
A Boy Named Kelly
[Continued from page 8^)
f ering. But this must be remembered :
The moving picture deals with funda-
mentals. Your story may have dealt with
the ungrateful child theme. There is
nothing original about that, but the varia-
tions are numerous. Yet when you see a
photoplay dealing with an ungrateful child,
you immediately recognize your story. The
tyro does not realize that everything de-
pends upon the treatment, not how similar
his story is to thousands of others."
"To what do you attribute your own
success?"
'Solely to the picture instinct. I'his is
as "different from the fiction, or novel in-
stinct, as the novel instinct is different from
the dramatic. The three viewpoints are
absolutely separate.
"The big future for the scenario writer
lies in the study and development of char-
acter. It is not sufficient that my subtitle
informs tlie audience that Mrs. Jones is a
society leader, and that the actress playing
the part wears expensive gowns. My story
must make Mrs. Jones' actions those of a
society leader, as different from those of a
shop-girl, as the shop-girl's would differ
from those of an immigrant woman, just
landed from Ellis Island. They may be
'sisters undef the skin,' but the motion pic-
ture camera cannot photograph behind the
cuticle. The great pictures are those which
make the sisterhood clear, at the same time
keeping the characters different and con-
sistent. The emotion of grief is universal.
but the manner in which grief is e.xpressed
is personal.
"The greatest opportunities in the mov-
ing picture world are awaiting the author
who makes a study of the requirements.
This does not mean merely going to picture
shows and writing things that are like the
ones already done. The author must
acquire the true picture instinct. At the
risk of being considered high-brow, I would
say that familiarity with musical form is
quite as valuable as literary ability. In
both the musical composition and the sce-
nario you first establish an attractive theme,
then you embellish it, and, increasing your
force and your tempo, work up to a big
climax. Tempo is a word that is just be-
ginning to be understood by moving picture
writers and directors. It means the increase
of speed as you approach the big scenes.
The scenario is developing into a distinct
art form. It is becau.se so few understand
this that plumbers, high school girls, bar-
bers, lawyers, novelists and others, are as-
tonished at rejections of manuscripts which
they believed to be absorbingly interesting
and original stories."
I can only add that Mr. Kelly is not a
high-brow, in the horriiic sense of the word.
He is just a young fellow with an engaging
smile and a quick brain, who dropped work
on a ten-reel adaptation of "God's Man"
for the Frohmans, to tell me these things
for the benefit of the readers of Photoplay
who are writing scenarios.
Why Is It?
1 VE read in lots of magaznies and books and papers, too.
About the sweet and brainy wife, named Betty, Belle or Sue.
Who when the cash is getting low and bills are hard to pay.
Picks up a pen or pencil and without the least delay
Writes out a thrilling movie plot and sends it on its way.
To hubby dear she says no word until, with .shining eyes,
She lets him see the note which says : "Your plot has won the prize,"
/\nd proudly shows the check they've sent for eighteen hundred bones,
Which pays up all their debts and bills and mortgages and loans.
Now though our cash has oft been low and bills quite hard to pay,
^'ve yet to find a movie man who'd treat my stuff that way ;
'Tis true I get a little note, but ne'er a check inside.
And so you see I'm forced to say: "I think somebody lied !"
Ethel Klein.
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A Cheerful Anarchist
[Continued from page jO)
establishment of the Bennetts.
Richard Bennett was born in Indiana in
1873 and educated, primarily, in Logans-
port and Kokomo. After his appearance
with "The Limited Mail," he appeared
under the Frohman management as the
co-star of "The White Feather." Then
followed his well-known stage successes.
In 1908 Charles Frohman .selected Mr.
Bennett as leading man for Maude vVdams.
He played John Shand in Barrie's play
written for Miss Adams' exploitation,
"What Every Woman Knows." And,
practically, he "stole" the show. From
that moment Richard Bennett was a na-
tional theatric celebrity.
Mrs. Bennett admits, laughingly, that
Bennett seldom wears his own hat, being
in the habit of grabbing any man's hat,
anywhere, on the assumption that a hat
is only a hat and that one hat is as good as
another. In fact, according to the actor's
intimates, he is just as likely to leave his
own sable-lined great coat hanging on a
nail and wriggle himself into some other
fellow's coat.
And Bennett is a radical — a strong be-
liever in government by the people carried
to the Nth degree. The actor is intolerant
of "precedent," declaiming frequently
against the absurdity and criminality of
attempting to administer justice in courts
of law upon the basis of legal precedent
often several centuries old.
It was this same feeling against the
moss-grown rules of legal procedure that
imjielled Bennett to write and produce tliat
striking motion picture drama "And the
Law Says," wherein he enacts the role of
the stern judge, governed by "rules of evi-
dence," who by his refusal to recognize
fact instead of precedent, condemns, un-
knowmgly, his own son to execution.
During the filming of this piece, Bennett
arose from the judicial throne one morn-
ing after rehearsal and calmly sprawled
himself on the bench between the sacred
water pitcher and the "Codified Laws,"
puffing a cigarette and remarking with a
comical grin, that he always wanted to do
something undignified in a law court and
here was his chance.
A Real "Kid" Play? Here It Is
Lule Warrenton, well known former Universal character actress, has recently been writing and directing
a series of children's plays at a studio she built on her own ranch about a dozen miles from Los Angeles.
She is shown here Mrsbelascoing her school-days stock company.
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
[Co)itiiiiied fi
word, "Success!" blazed above it in letters
of fire that burned one's eyes even to look
upon it.
"Papa! Papa! Help me — I'm so
'fraid !" she cried, clinging to him while
the bulls snorted and the bears grumbled
right at her feet.
But her father paid her not the least
attention ! Instead, he hammered the gate,
and strove to fight others who were trying
to open it, too.
"Oh, papa — please don't go 'way from
me !" she cried, trying to hold onto him.
She stumbled — he did go away from her —
the light above the gate went out.
It was all dark, but she felt a bull's hot
breath on her cheek, and a bear grunted
ferociously in her very ear !
In a paroxysm of ultimate terror, (Gwen-
dolyn shouted "Mamma! Mamma!" at
the top of lier strong little lungs.
In the pretty sleeping-room of the nurs-
ery silence still brooded. There was little
light, save where a green-shaded lamp
glowed softly and steadily upon a small
waxen face on the white pillow. A doctor
sat beside the still little figure, his eyes
never leaving her. Her father sat motion-
less on the other side of the bed, the lines
of weariness standing stark about his sor-
rowful eyes, his hands clenched, his jaw
now and then working convulsively. At
the window a woman, her hair awry, her
face old as the world, watched with un-
seeing eyes the roses of the coming dawn.
Behind the doctor a nurse stood — a quiet,
practical, reassuring figure, poised and
readv.
■oiii page 36)
Suddenly the physician bent closer.
"Madame!" he called, just a bit sharply.
"Your baby's lips are moving.
I hear nothing, but she seems to be saying
'mamma.' Slie is going to get well !"
In a moment the little girl's face was
drenched with the tears of that mother
her dream had told her was so far, far
away.
The father, swallowing hard, was just
behind, his arm about the unstrung, sob-
bing woman.
In the servants' hall, below, an indiffer-
ent young policeman, reading an early edi-
tion of a morning paper, raised his eyes
lo Thomas and Jane, who were whispering
furtively.
"Turn off that chatter," he muttered,
"unless you want me to wire you up to dif-
ferent sides of the room. No fixing up
the story, you coupla murderers!"
Bye and bye the sun came, and with it
Gwendolyn opened her eyes, and smiled
weakly.
"Why. here's papa and mamma!" she
murmured. "I've been such a long ways —
but I'd hurried back if I'd known you
were here waiting for me."
"We'll always be waiting for you, baby !"
whispered her mother, in a bright, wet
smile.
"You're not going away again — ever !"
said her father, huskily.
"Yes, she is!" contradicted the doctor,
crisply. "To the lily pond, and the park,
and the mud-pies, and the seashore — all in
a gingham dress !"
"Oh. mamma — can I, really?"
"Yes — if you'll let us go with you '"
Open Ohio to "Birth of a Nation" Twentieth Century Preaching
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^*' of a Nation" has won out and Ohioans
now may watch the Griffith photoplay
without having to slip over the state line
to get a peek. This was the result of the
action of Mrs. Maude Murray Mulle and
W. R. Wilson of the State Board of
Censors. The third member of the board,
C. -G. Williams, refused to act.
Court action of various sorts had been
tried by film interests but to no avail. This
step is a complete reversal of a former dic-
tum of the censor board.
TTHE Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, pastor
•*• of the Central Congregational church
at Topeka, Kan., who won international
attention to his book "In His Steps" sev-
eral years ago, has recently shown a photo-
play, "The Martyrdom of Phillip Strong,"
to his congregation. And according to the
Topeka papers they liked it. A special
presentation was arranged. Dean White-
ham and Professor Guidi of the School of
Fine Arts at Washburn College, Topeka,
had charge. The film is based on one of
Dr. Sheldon's books.
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H. S., PocATELLO, Idaho — Douglas Fairbanks
made no recent auto trip to Salt Lake City with
Mr. Griffith that we know of. Address him at
Longacre Bldg., New York City. His film work
has been exclusively with Fine Arts.
Andrew J., Little Falls, Minn. — It was re-
ported that the Lockwood-Allison combination
was to dissolve partnership, but at this writing
they are still playing before the same camera.
Mr. Lockwood usually answers his correspond-
ence and may be addressed at Hollywood, Cal.
Others in "Mr. 44" were : Eagle Eye. Lester
Cuneo ; Larry Livingston, Franklin Hall;
Estelle. Yonda Landowska. Sure, write often.
Your letters are easy on the eyes.
E. S., Boston, Mass.— Who did Theda Bara
marra ? Gracious ! We don't know. Never
heard about it a-tall. Harold Lockwood was
the lover in "Hearts Adrift" and Charley Ray's
wife is not an actress. Enid Markey is 20.
G. J., St. Johns, Nfld. — Sorry, but we can-
not print the notice you send, but will be glad
to assist you in some other way if you tell us
how.
C. C, Los Angeles, Cal. — We do not be-
lieve the Kinemacolor process is being employed
in film making at the present time. It is not
regarded as a perfect color process because
of the inability to produce in more than two
colors and the difficulty in obtaining a perfect
register for the double film used in the process.
L. C, Des Moines, Ia. — Do not think you
were the one mentioned.
Betty. Binohamton, N. Y. — Ralph Kellard
is Captain Payne in "Pearl of the Army." Will
try to do something for your friends. Yep,
Pearl is some thrill merchant.
M. H., Ogallala, jVeb. — Typewriter kinda
bucks on those injun names. Yes, we can vouch
for Bushman being 32. He's all of that. A
photograph of him and his family? Say, girl,
do you want the Bushman Club of Roanoke,
Va. and all the rest of the Bushman worshipers
to come to Chicago and put us outa business?
Well, then ; hush that noise. Never heard of
Kerrigan having a twin brother.
Forrestine, Chattanooga, Tenn. — The right
name of June Caprice is Betty Lawson, which
to our way of thinking is prettier than the
name she assumed, or that Mr. Fox wished on
her — however she acquired it. Marguerite
Clark was born in Cincinnati. Maury Steuart
(correct) was the kid in "The Awakening of
Helena Ritchie" with Ethel Barrymore. Your
letter was very refreshing. Write again.
M, B., MoBRiDGE, S. D. — Clara and Earle come
from different Williams tribes. Bryant Wash-
burn is. 27 and admits, upon direct examination,
that he is married and glad of it.
C. D., Chicago. — We only deal in information
concerning the film players and directors and
not those engaged in the business end of the
pictures.
A. S., Welland, Ontario. — Marguerite Clark
has brown hair and eyes to match, hazel ; Ella
Hall, blonde and blue ; Theda Bara, brown and
brown. Cleo Ridgely was born the year the
Columbian exposition was held in Chicago.
Lottie Pickford will be 22 in June. Olga
Petrova, red hair and green eyes. Send 25
cents.
P. A., Colfax, III. — "The Purple Mask" is
the new Ford-Cunard serial. Francis is 34,
black hair, brown eyes. Grace, light hair, blue
eyes. Don't you even want to know if they're
married ?
E. P., Remsen, Ia. — Constance Talmadge is
about 18 and has brown eyes. Address her care
Fine Arts. Helen Holmes is still enjoying her-
self on earth.
J. F. M., Hannibal, Mo. — Mr. Bushman usu-
ally answers all letters from his admirers, so be
patient. There are probably 1,643,229 ahead
of you and his secretary is only human.
M. L., Racine, Wis. — Address Ethel Gran-
din at 203 West 146th St., New York City. Look
for the pictures of your favorites in an early
issue of Photoplay.
Hazel, Decatur, III. — Mme. Alia Nazimova
in private life is Mrs. Charles Bryant. S.he was
born in Yalta, Crimea, Russia and is back on
the stage after doing one film play "War
Brides."
H. S., Ephrata, Pa. — Florence Lawrence is
taking life easy at her home in Westwood, N. J.
Lottie Briscoe is not playing either, at the pres-
ent time. Maurice Costello still plays occasion-
ally.
I. M., Wisner, Neb. — So you do not think it
is necessary for the actresses to show so much
of themselves in society plays? Well, in most
instances, we think it displays good form.
J. W., Marshfield, Wis. — Jackie Saunders
is not married. Lockwood and Allison in Holly-
wood, Cal., with Metro and Pearl White with
Pathe, New York. Write them there.
A. H., Portland, Ore. — Wallace Reid and
Dorothy Davenport usually send their pictures.
Write one or both.
M. W., Tampa, Fla. — The same to you and
many of them. L. C. Shumway was born in
Salt Lake City in 1884. Not hitched. Priscilla
Dean is 20. Harry Carey has been on the stage
and is a real cowbov also.
Miss Neverstop, Chico, Cal. — No, it's Peta-
luma where the chickens come from isn't it;
not Chico? Mary Maurice was born in 1844.
Lillian Reed is a child actress at Culver City.
Louise Huff has a hvtsband, name : Edgar Jones.
N. F., ToPEKA, Kan. — Jewel Carmen has been
with Fox for several months and Douglas Fair-
banks is now herding by himself, so your criti-
cism is futile.
F. C, Salina, Kan. — Mary Fuller is with
Lasky, according to the latest from the Eastern
front. So you think 'Dorothy Green was "a
little bold" in "The Devil at His Elbow?" Well,
a little boldness now and then is relished by
the best of men : and anyhow boldness is a
necessary attribute to a successful vamp.
H. B., VicKSBURG, Miss. — June Caprice is not
married and she is a member of the William
Fox company in New York.
G. W., Columbus, O. — Why should we pub-
lish a picture of Norma Talmadge's husband?
Not being a player, he does not belong to the
public. Look elsewhere in this issue for the
Kellermann pictures you ask about. Mental
telepathy. Yes?
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R. C, Alton, III. — Yes. the studio wardrobe
usuallj- supplies the extras with gowns when
elaborate costumes are required in scenes.
Awfully glad you like us.
Chick, Philippi, W. Va. — No doubt that
some day you will be a star. Not the slightest.
We can tell by your penmanship. All good
writers get to be movie stars. Jean Sothern is
now with Art Dramas and her latest film play
is "Whoso Taketh a Wife." Your Francis Ford-
Grace Cunard query is barred by the statute
of limitations. Grace has become Mrs. Joe
Moore since you wrote.
J. v., Plainfif.ld, N. J. — Earle Foxe is some-
where in your neighborhood. He was recently
seen in "Panthea" with Norma Talmadge. Many
players in the East are engaged by the picture
so it is at times difficult to tell just what com-
panies they are with. One may be with Fox
today and with Famous Players tomorrow.
Fkivolous, Wauuika, Okla. — Think you'll
find that's the correct way to spell your pen
name. Jack Pickford is with Famous Players.
Pearl White plays in other than serials but she
prefers them. Marguerite and Ethel Clayton
are entirely unrelated. Yep, we studied German
one day, but didn't like it.
Constant, Omro, Wis. — The colored films
you see are either tinted in a bath or colored
bv hand.
P. O., Kansas City, Mo. — Robert Leonard's
photograph was in Photoplay in November,
1915. He is married. Darwin Karr is now in
New York.
Hall. Rozelle, Sydney, Australia. — So you
want to know what "She's a Bear!" means?
Well, .sis, up here on top when a fellow pipes
a Jane who's a pippin, or a peach, or a hum-
dinger ; or, to be more explicit, if he lamps
some swell doll suddenly, or takes a slant at a
skirt who's very easy on the eyes, about the
first thing he utters <|uite subconsciously is :
"She's a Bear!" Do you get us, or are we at
large? Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran are still
with L^niversal. Glad you like our American
beauties. So do we.
Dawx Admirer, Philadelphia. — We have it
from Miss Hazel Dawn herself that her birthday
falls on March 23. Perhaps you were made the
victim of a press agent stunt.
Interested, St. Paul, Minn. — Shirley Mason
is credited with sixteen years, June Caprice with
seventeen and Kathlyn Williams is noncommittal.
Miss Mason is with McClure and Miss Williams
with Morosco.
Yvonne, Louisville, Ky. — Antonio Moreno
and Harry Morey are not related and Julia
Swayne Gordon is not Anita Stewart's mother.
Conway Tearle is married. His wife is not an
actress.
Movie Lover, Le.wenworth, Kan. — Alan For-
rest may be reached at Famous Players, New
York City. Charles Ray and Marshall Neilan
are around 26. Jack Pickford 20. Bill Desmond
is married. Jay Belasco is mum as to his age.
Frank Borzage is married to Rena Rogers. He
is 24.
M. L.. Admirer, Warren, Pa. — Marion Leon-
ard has not appeared in a picture for several
years, and it is doubtful if she will return to the
screen. Don't know her age.
A. D., Walton, N. Y. — Persons in search of
employment visually go to the studio.
W. B., West New York, N. J. — We have
told the editor about Glenn White and he prom-
ises to have something about him before long.
D. G., Gary, Ind. — Perhaps if you read Photo-
play more closely you would see the pictures
of your favorites. Miss Fisher's was in a recent
number. Miss Fisher, in private life, is Mrs.
Harry Pollard, the gentleman who bears that
name officiating as her director. Burke was
Billie's right name before she became Mrs.
Florenz Ziegfeld. She is in her early thirties,
we believe.
C. K., .Kansas City, Kan. — Get yourself to-
gether and write again. Some of your questions
are extremely vague. William Courtleigh, Jr.,
played opposite Ann Pennington in "The Rain-
bow Princess." Tom Forman is playing regu-
larly in Lasky photoplays. One of his recent
ones was "The Evil Eye."
Marie, Chicago, III. — We have no record of
any Robert T. Kane.
J. S., RoxBURY, Mass. — Louise Lovely cer-
tainly is, we agree. She has never appeared on
the cover but may some day. Lorraine Huling
is in her early twenties.
W., Sarachtouie Springs, N. Y. — What's the
matter with censorship? Oh, just about every-
thing. Can't discuss "The Girl from Frisco"
with you because we have never seen any of
her, but you won't be disappointed if you forget
to look for consistency in a serial. True Board-
man is back "Stingaree-ing."
J. H. L., Flemington, N. J. — Allan Murnane
was Arthur Varney in "The Mysteries of Myra"
and he's the same you saw in Jefi^erson Stock at
Portland, Me.
Anonymous. Evansville, Ind. — Lamar John-
son went to Guatemala with a company which
was to film "The Planter." If the film is com-
pleted you will see him in that next. Tom
Meighan's fir.st Eastern production was "The
Slave Market" with Pauline Frederick. His first
picture was "The Fighting Hope" done about
two years ago. He also played with Charlotte
Walker in "Kindling" but not with Mary Pick-
ford in "Little Pal." This is a service depart-
ment so just write any old time. What's purs
is yours.
Brown Eyes, Chicago. — Letters addressed to
Mr. Kerrigan at 1765 Gower St., Hollywood,
Cal., will be forwarded to him as he is now
traveling about the country. It is customary to
send 25 cents for photographs. If the person
honored does not accept a fee for mailing, the
money will be refunded.
H. B., Kent, Wash. — Don't know what has
become of your friend but he is not with Lubin
as there is no more Lubin company.
Sophomore, West Somerville, Mass. — Your
request has been turned over to the editor who
will surelv trv to get that picture of Miss Pick-
ford.
Louise, Dorchester, Mass. — It couldn't have
been Bessie Love in that Edison film as she has
only played with Fine Arts. Sorry you were dis-
illusioned about your Reid-Ridgely dream. Miss
Rideely was born in New York and has been in
California for about four years.
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D. I.. C, Chicago. — George Fisher is now with
American at Santa Barbara, Cal. He is not
married and we're sure he'd answer your letter.
He: has light hair and brown eyes and is about
25 .years old.
Envious, Salisbury, Md. — It isn't at all hard
to guess the question you refrain from asking.
Extend our congratulations to your father. He
certainly is a discriminating Xmas present pur-
chaser. Hope you enjoy reading it e\'ery month.
Elsie Janis is back on the stage. Marguerite
Clark was 29 on Washington's birthday.
Ruth, Philadelphia. — What size shoe does
Charley Chaplin wear? "Well, we don't know
whether you mean on the screen or off. If the
latter, we think something like a No. 4, or there-
abouts, as he has a very small. foot. We see no
reason to dispute the statement that Miss Minter
is 14. Your others are beyond us.
H. B. A., Toronto, Canada. — You must have
been misinformed. It seems rather absurd that
Mr. Bushman would have publicly denied that he
was married and that he was engaged to marry
Miss Bayne when it is so generally known that
he has a wife and family. We don't like to
discuss this matter because the Bushman Club
of Roanoke. Va. doesn't think it right that we
should continue to state that their hero is niar-
ri^dv and we like to please the club.
"V.', Leslil, Mich. — Marguerite Clark played
both roles in "The Prince and the Pauper," dou-
ble exposure having been used where necessary
to show both characters on the screen at the sanu
time.
Hazel, Haverhill, Mass.— Sorry if you have
been neglected. William Jefferson has never
been married to Vivian Martin, nor has anyone
else. Tom Moore is again on the Pacific Coast.
Edith Storey and Antonio Moreno are happily
single. Yes, Tony is a "perfect dream." Didst
see his features in last month's art section ?
Ruth, Montreal, Canada. — So, we're too
clever to be a man? Just excuse us a minute
till we dope that out. Your judgment on actors
is better than it is on us. Don't ask us to mur-
der Stuart Holmes because it's against the law
in New York state to kill men with moustaches.
Besides, there wouldn't be anybody to vamp the
in.arenues at the Fox studio.
M. B., New York City. — As both Mr. Hoops
and Mr. Ayres are dead, it is doubtful if you
could obtain the pictures you want.
Curious, Omaha, Neb. — -We are sure you mean
Pedro De Leon, a Universal actor and not Ponce
de Leon. The latter was a curious Spanish
gentleman who died searching for something that
was discovered several centuries later by Fannie
W^ard. Sure, write any time you feel the spirit
moving you.
J. A. C, Keokuk, Ia. — Gail Kane is now with
.American at Santa Barbara. She's not exactly
an ingenue in stature, measuring something like
five feet, se\ en inches from sidewalk to hatpin.
Helen, Louisville, Ky. — Margery Wilson is
a native of your state. How did you know she
has a twin sister? Well, she has but the sister
is not in the pictures.
Peggie, Long Beach, Cal. — Did you get
enough of Douglas Fairbanks in the March
Photoflav? Yes, he is very dear; something
like $15,000 a week.
Caligula, Auburn, N. S. W. — Yes, old top,
the girl who played the Naked Truth in "Hypo-
crites," Margaret Edwards, was all of that.
There were no tights. Lois Weber, a woman,
directed the picture. Miss Edwards is now a
dancer on the stage. Mae Marsh is with Gold-
wyn ; Edna Purviance, Lone Star ; Helen Holmes,
Signal ; Max Under, Essanay.
A. K., Waterbury, Conn. — Gladden James
played opposite Norma Talmadge in "The Social
Secretary." We can assure you that Valeska
Surrat is not a female impersonator but a sure-
enough female of the species.
Brown Mouse, Cleveland, O. — Call up the
Mutual office in your city and they will tell you
where you can see the sequel to "The Diamond
from the Sky." It was released late in December
in four episodes. Thanks for your sympathy,
but if everyone liked his or her work as well as
we do, discontent would be as rare as poaching
eggs in January.
A. W.. Washington, D. C— Ralph Kellard
is now appearing in "Pearl of the Army." H«
has played in "Her Mother's Secret," a Fox pno-
duction and "The Precious Packet," Pathe.
Write him for picture, care of Pathe, Jersey
City, N. J.
PiCKFORD Mae, Snyder, Tex.— Do not think
Mary Pickford played in ""The Good Little Devil"
in Chica.go. Hazel Dawn is back on the musical
stage. Fannie Ward's daughter is in her late
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or don't like, about Photoplay.
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tended discussion of the subjects you bring up,
but in the main, we quite agree with you. Can't
understand why Miss Stewart and Miss Bernard
did not send their pictures. Write them again.
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L. D., Coleman, Tex. — -Evelyn Page does not
appear anywhere on our books.
K. K., Devil's Lake, N. D.— Alfred Vos-
burgh's latest appearance "Princess of the Dark"
with Enid Bennett. He is 26 and we believe
he is married.
Xenophon, Toronto, Canada. — Glad you called
our attention to that contradiction. Crane Wil-
bur's wife died in November and so far as we
know, he has not married again. Ridgcly is the
way to spell it.
E. M., Chico, Cal. — John Bowers is silent on
the subject of matrimony so it is barely possible
that the poor fellow has no wife. He comes from
Indiana. Be sure and see Creighton Hale in
"Snow White," not so much to see Creighton,
hut to see the play.
Harriet, Washington, D. C. — No. Clara Kim-
ball Young Service does not mean that she is
married again. It merely refers to the film dis-
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band. Mr. Kimball is her father. Perhaps our
report that the Lockwood-Allison partnership was
on the verge of dissolution was premature. It
looks like it anyway. Even the best prophets
make a bum .guess once in a while.
Ted. Muskegon, Mich. — Charley Chaplin is
not a "natural born roller skater." He had to
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Chicago.
Incog, Passaic, N. J. — Every man in his
humor, of course, but We can't see why you
should choose to be offended at Miss Bayne's
interpretation of Juliet.
C. C. M., Cincinnati, O. — Joseph Singleton
is at the Fine Arts Studio in Los Angeles. Will
that be all today ?
Louise D., Centenary College, Cleveland,
Tenn. — May Allison, who is not married to
Harold Lockwood, claims the same alma mater
that you do, or will.
Flossie, Phoenix, Ala. — Ralph Kcllard has
brown eyes and he says he's not married. Her-
bert Rawlinson is with Universal.
J. L., CoATESViLLE, Pa. — F'rank Andrews is
the name of Pauline Frederick's ex-husband.
William Desmond's wife is not an actress. Your
requests for interviews, etc., have gone to the
editor.
Question Box, Redmond, Wash. — Hobart
Henly is .30 years old. Marshall Neilan has
played opposite both Pickford and Clark, but he
doesn't do that any more. He's doing directing
now. Harold Lockwood is 29. He and Francis
Ford have both tried ovit married life — and,
it is said, — found it wanting. Francis Bushman
and Grace Cimard have never playi;d opposite
each other in pictures. Mabel Normand has
her own film company in Hollywood. No, she
isn't married to Mack Sennett. Theda Bara was
born in Cincinnati in 1890. Write to Warren
K'errigan at 1765 Gower Street, Hollywood.
He'll answer you. Dorothy Dalton is unmac-
ried now. She is 23. Has Warren Kerrigan
ever been in Seattle ? Well, very likely, very
likely.
Brown Eyes. Richmond, Va. — Frances Nelson
has brown hair and blue eyes. J. Warren has
black hair and hazel eyes and is 27 years
old. Do we think he ever will be married?
G. D. & H. H., Toronto, Canada. — Hopelessly
infatuated with David Powell ! Well, well,
that's pretty bad. Especially .when you consider
that he has a wife. And it's just the same
way with John Bowers, we've heard, but maybe
that isn't true. David Powell is 33 years old
and lives at 22 E. 33rd St., New York City.
K. E. P., New Orleans, La. — We don't know
anything about Florence La Badie's efficiency
as a correspondent, so can't say how long it
takes her to answer letters. Suppose it depends
largely on whom they are from.
Mrs. R., Worcester, Mass. — Could we send
you a catalog of all the actors and actresses?
Well, no, not while the present paper famine
lasts.
Sweet Sixteen. Shediac, Canada. — Mary
Miles Minters sister has brown hair and eyes
and her address is 1515 Santa Barbara St., Santa
Barbara, Cal.
V. F., Toledo, Ohio. — Your long-lost relative,
J. J. Franz, may be addressed care of the E. & R.
Jungle Film Co., Los Angeles. Haven't heard
that he requests a quarter for his picture, but
he probably expects it, so don't disappoint him.
Georgia Peach, Cornelia, Ga. — Crane Wilbur
was born in 1889. The answers to your other
questions haven't been made public by the people
concerned.
E. B., Greenville, S. C. — Mae Marsh has no
husband, poor girl. Neither has Ruth Roland
nor Edna Mayo. Bobby Connelly's parents are
not screen actors. Alice Joyce's baby is a girl.
M. L., Montreal, Canada. — You've guessed it.
There is an Alice Joyce Moore (Tom Moore's
wife) and a Joyce Moore (Frank Mayo's wife).
A. B. G., Commerce, Tex. — You win. Mar-
guerite Clark isn't forty and she hasn't a grown
daughter, and Photoplay never made such a
statement. Miss Clark is in her thirtieth year
and is unmarried.
New Boston Girlie, New Boston, Ohio. —
Violet Mersereau is with Universal at Fort Lee,
N. J.
Hal Cooley Fan, Los Angeles, Cal. — He's
with Universal, is Hal, and his age is 29 years.
Yes, Louise Glaum is married to Harry Ed-
wards.
A. W. B., Amboy, N. J.— Besides "A Wall
Street Tragedy" and "Business is Business,"
Nat Goodwin has appeared in "The Marriage
Bond" on the screen. "Business is Business "
was Filmed at Universal City. George Beban
(Bee-han) is married.
L. K., Atlanta, Ga. — No, Clara Kimball Young
and Conway Tearle are not engaged, even if
they have played together in two pictures. Bill
Hart's address is Culver City, Cal. He'll send
you his picture for two-bits.
J. S., Atlantic City, N. J. — Mae Murray is
married and Alice Brady isn't. Bliss Milford
is the wife of Harry Beaumont. He is an
Essanay director.
M. F. W., Australia. — To be shure Creigh-
ton Hale was born in Cork, Ireland. He is
about twenty-five and up to date has escaped
an attack of matrimony. He has blue eyes
and light hair. No, he isn't a brother, cousin,
aunt, uncle or grandfather of Alan Hale. He
isn't playing with Pearl White in "Pearl of
the Army," Miss White's current serial.
H. T., Farmington, Maine. — We surely have
to hand it to you — you're the star questioner.
Here goes : Francis Ford is thirty-four years
old ; his address is Universal City and he an-
swers letters when he has the time. Grace
Cimard is married to Joe Moore. Yes, he is
a brother of Tom, Owen, Matt and Mary.
Frank Farrington was Brainc in "The Million
Dollar Mystery." E. J. Brady was Hernandes
in "Neal of the Navy." Eddie Polo is at L^ni-
versal City ; Earle Williams with Vitagraph in
Brooklyn. Earle isn't married — Tyrone Powers
is. Hobart Henly is at the Fort Lee studio
of Universal. Edward Sloman was Trine in
"Trey of Hearts." Alan Forrest is with Famous
Players. Harry Hilliard is signed up with Fox.
He is at Fort Lee, N. J. John Bowers is with
World. Bessie Barriscale, Culver City. James
Morrison is a member of the Ivan Company.
E. T., Roxbury, Mass. — Grace Darmond is
with Technicolor, Jacksonville, Fla. Fifteen epi-
sodes to "The Shielding Shadow."
G. P., Phil.v Pa. — Address Ben Wilson at
Universal City. There is a Mrs. Ben Wilson.
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No. 12436, OssiMNG, N. Y. — Can't say as we
think Bryant is "too nice" to play willuns. Wally
Rcid is 26. You have good taste in selecting
fihii favorites.
E. P., Boone. Ia. — Pauline Starke was the girl
in "The Rummy" with Wilfred Lucas. She is
only sixteen years old. Edmund Breese has been
known to the speaking stage for many years.
Your perfectly timely requests have been passed
to the editor with a recommendation that they
lie granted. You must have liked that Mae Marsh
interview last month, didn't you?
E. F. M., .\tlanta, Ga. — We must. advise you
to write to Famous Players for the lists you de-
sire. They yvould take up too much space here.
.\. R., .'^rPLE Creek, O. — Grace Cunard did not
play with Pavlowa. Here is "The Pretender"
cast : Robert Arnold, Robert Klein ; Phyllis, Liz-
i tte Thome; Stuart Kendall, Edward Coxen ;
Charleston I. one. George Field.
L. H., Wateuhuky Center, Vt. — Who was
Mrs. Francis X. Bushman before she married
him ? Why she was Mr. Bushman's fiancee. We
have been informed that Miss King actually made
that auto leap in "The Race." Naturally, Miss
Bara should know more about her birthplace than
us. However, we still stick to Cincinnati.
J. O., Sapula, Okla. — Miss Farrar and Lou-
Tellegcn have never appeared on the screen or
the stage together. All of their film work has
been done for one company, Lasky.
H. A. F., Chelsea, Mass. — So you are lone-
some and would like to correspond with some-
one. Come right along and tell Uncle Answer
Man all about it. That's what we're here for.
Will an application of Carlyle Blackwell's "dope"
give you any relief? Carlyle Blackwell was
born and brought up in Syracuse, New York,
served the usual apprenticeship on the stage and
then played successively with Vitagraph, Kalem,
his own company, Lasky and World, with which
latter company lie is still connected. In the past
he has written, produced and acted his own
stories. Feel any better now ?
L. S., New York City. — The McClure people
refer to the seventh of their Deadly Sins merely
as The Seventh Sin, so we don't know whether
it is claret lemonade or clocked hosiery. Mar-
guerite Clark is nine-and-twenty.
J. L. S., Chicago. — You call yourself a Tearle-
Young fan, but it strikes us that you're mostly
Tearle. Up to the time of our going to press,
he's still married. Mr. Tearle has played in
"Seven Sisters" and "Helene of the North" with
Marguerite Clark and in "Common Law" and
"The Foolish Virgin" with Clara Kimball
Young.
M. P., Herndon, Va. — Would it be convenient
for you to enter the moving pictures? No, we
don't think so. Little girls of nine are most
perfectly inconvenient things to have around the
studio. They don't tit into the atmosphere at all.
They're much more convenient in a schoolroom,
and 'if they stay there, they'll be better actresses
when they grow up.
T. T., Chicago. — Thanks for informing us that
Mary Miles Minter is "a well-known star." Al-
ways grateful for valuable tips like that. Now
let us reciprocate by telling you that she's with
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Clakie, Minneapolis, Minn. — No, Clarence,
in spite of the alluring picture you draw of your
"rather small nose and light hair, combed pom-
padour," we can't get you a job. However, if
you must do it, see our Studio Directory for
further information. If you're as good-looking
as you think you are, Bushman's star has set
before you get started and J. Warren Kerrigan
will soon be selling ribbon.
E. B., Vivian. La. — Charles Chaplin is with
Lone Star-Mutual, Wallace Reid with Lasky and
Dick Jones with the Mabel Normand Film Com-
pany. Are those the only questions you have
to ask us? Just fire away, as Nero remarked
as he twanged his uke.
G. C, Cleveland, Ohio. — We are not a dis-
tributing agency for Mr. Fairbanks' photographs.
You get 'em direct from him and you may send
your request to him at the Lambs Club, New
York City.
W. K., Rockford, 111.— E. Forrest Taylor is
now on the legitimate stage, we are told.
MiNTER Admirer, Battle Creek, Mich. — Your
favorite did the following pictures for Metro :
"Barbara Fritchie," "Emmy of Stork's Nest,"
"Lovely Mary," "Dimples" and "Always in the
Way."
H. MacM., Demopolis. Ala. — Anne Penning-
ton is with the Follies and Famous Players, and
Beverly Bayne with Metro. May Allison isn't
married. Mary Pickford is 23.
Vermont Girl. Old Bennington, Vt. — We'll
endeavor to straighten out these family rela-
tionships for you. The late Arthur Johnson and
J. W. Johnson were not brothers. Neither were
Page and House Peters. Page Peters was
drowned last summer. Dustin Farnum and
Winifred Kingston are not related, not even by
marriage. Mollie and Mae King are two differ-
ent persons and neither one is related to Anita
King. Vernon Castle is in the British Aviation
service.
Marguerite A., Davenport, Iowa. — How many
Marguerites are there in pictures? Well, let's
see — seven hundred and sixty-three would be
our wild guess, not including the Misses Clayton,
Clark, Snow, Courtot and Gibson. Creighton
and Allan Hale are not related. You didn't
detect a family resemblance, did you?
COL. LOOSEBELT. WELLINGTON, N. Z. Bobby
Connelly was born April 4, 1909, and he has
brown hair and eyes. Now, about his adopting
you as an vincle — we don't know how Bobby is
fixed for uncles just now, but you might write
him at his business address (care of Vitagraph )
and take the matter up with him.
H. H. T., Bronx, N. Y. — Has it occurred to
you to consult our Studio Directory, which
appears each month in Photoplay somewhere
ip the neighborhood of Questions and Answers?
n not, allow us to suggest it now.
H. D. R., Oakland, Cal. — So you intend to
learn the movie business from start to finish,
do you? Quite a contract. And in the mean
time you' want to know whether actresses per-
sonally attend to their mail ? Depends on the
actress' salary. Marguerite Clark is with Famous
Players in New York and Fanny Ward with
Lasky, Hollywood. Blanche Sweet is at present
without a studio address, as she recently severed
her connection with Lasky, but mail addressed
to her there will probably be forwarded to her.
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J. P., W. Phil.\.. p. — Stuart Holmes doesn't
say where or when he was born, and it is as-
sumed that he is enjoying a_ state of single
blessedness. His address is in care of Fox,
Fort Lee, N. J.
N. R., Los Angeles, Calif. — Wayland Trask
jumped from the legit into motion pictures about
a year and a half ago. If Trask sends us some
good photos we may be able to use them for
publication as you suggest.
J. A., New York City. — Boyd Marshall played
opposite Jeanne Eagles in "The World and the
\Voman." His other screen appearances have
Ijeen in "The Disciple of Nietzsche," "The Mill
on the Floss," "Marvelous Marathoner" and
"The Plugged Nickel." So you think he knows
how to wear his clothes? Classy, nifty, spaghetti
in other words, eh?
J. K., RoEBLiNG, N. J. — Mary Pickford is
married to Owen Moore. Their home is in
New York. 729 Seventh Ave. is Miss Pickford's
business address.
F. S., Clearfield, Pa. — Creighton Hale may
be addressed in care of the Screen Club, New
York City. He is on the stage at the present
time.
M. A., Erie, Pa. — Edward Kimball was in
"The Hidden Scar" and "The Common Law."
Address him at 807 E. 175th St., New York City,
care Selznick Enterprises.
L. M. S., Brookville, Ind. — Carolyn Birch is
the one you refer to in "On Her Wedding
Night." Antonio Moreno and Edith Storey were
featured in that picture.
M. W., Vancouver, B. C. — Theda Bara's hair
is honest-to-goodness hair. Robert Leonard has
been directing Lasky pictures for about six
months. Here is the cast of "The Thousand
Dollar Husband" : Sven Johnson, Theodore
Roberts; Olga Nelson, Blanche Sweet; Douglas
Gordon, Tom Forman ; Stephen Gordon, James
Neill ; Lawyer Judson, Horace B. Carpenter';
Mine. Bataz'ia, Lucile LaVarney ; Jack Hardy.
E. L. Delaney ; Maggie, Camille Astor.
Reader, Tucson, Ariz. — We will ask the
editor about the interviews you asked for. Very
good suggestions. Thanks for them.
A. Q.^ Vancouver, B. C. — We don't think Tom
Forman a pretty good actor. We know he is
a very good one. He has been appearing in
pictures for about three and one-half years
and during that time has been with Kalem,
Lubin, Universal and Lasky. "Young Ro-
mance," "The Thousand Dollar Husband" and
"Unprotected" are some of the pictures in which
he has been seen.
Photoplay Reader, Los Angeles, Cal. — Mary
Pickford is certainly very popular. She is in
your city now. Doug Fairbanks made his first
motion picture in 1915 for Triangle. He is- now
with Artcraft.
M. B., New York City. — The Scenario Con-
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so you will not have the chance to blossom forth
and become a second Dickens this time — but
we hope that you jump at the next opportunity
and make good. The Charles Ray interview to
which you refer is on page 106 of January,
1916, number. You can secure this issue by
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G. S., New London, Conn. — Here, lady, are'
the addresses you asked for. Florence LaBadie
in care of Thanhouser, New Rochelle, N. Y. ;
Vivian Martin in care of Morosco, Los Angeles,
and Marguerite Clark in care of Famous Players,
New York City.
W. H., Victoria, B. C. — Address Doug Fair-
banks in care of the Lambs Club, New York
City. Glad you like Photoplay and thanks for
your word of appreciation.
M. G., Spokane, Wash. — Bill Farnum has a
daughter. Dustin is also married but has no
chifdren.
K. V. R., Warrenton, N. Car. — Frank Mayo
is married to Joyce Moore. The marriage took
place in England a few years ago. Mr. and
Mrs. Mayo haven't any children. He doesn't
say what his salary is. Funny he shouldn't tell
us, isn't it ?
W. J. S., St. Joseph, Mo. — Charlie Chaplin
receives a salary of $10,000 a week, plus a bonus
of $150,000 for the year. Max Linder is with
Essanay. His comedy will not be like Mr. Chap-
lin's. It will be funnier, according to M.
Linder. Creighton Hale is not married. G. M.
Anderson's wife is a non-professional. "Civil-
ization " was made in California.
H. E. G., St. Johnsbury, Vt. — Betty Nansen
has gone back to Denmark and is appearing in
pictures for a Danish picture corporation. She
is married.
D. v., New York City. — Beverly Bayne is
not the wife of F. X. B. She isn't married to
anyone. Henry Walthall's wife is a retired
actress. Crane Wilbur's wife died the early part
of this winter. We are glad you find Photo-
play entertaining.
E. C. K., Bronx, N. Y. — Florence Turner was
with the 'Turner Films, Ltd., England, but is
now on this side.
H. K., Brooklyn, N. Y. — Ruth and Tom
Chatterton are not related to each other, as
Chatterton is not Tom's sure-enough name.
Peanuts, Los Angeles, Cal. — M. W. Rale
was cast as the High Master in "The Mysteries
of Myra." Why the nickname ?
E. W., Lewiston, Mont. — Billie Burke isn't
appearing in pictures now, that is why you don't
see her in any new photoplay.
Dot., Nashville, Tenn. — Marshall Neilans
address is in care of Lasky Feature Play Co.,
Hollywood, Cal. Wallace Reid the same. Mary
Fuller and Pauline Frederick with Famous
Players in New York. Bessie Eyton at the
Glendale, Cal., studio of Selig. Yes, Dot, we
agree with you — you have good taste in your
selection of stars.
K. M. H., St. Louis, Mo. — Charles Ray was
married to a non-professional in the late fall of
1915. Norma Talmadge was married to Joseph
Schenk late in 1916. H. B. Warner has left
Ince and at the present time is with the'McClure
Pictures Corporation. Dorothy Dalton played
opposite Mr. Warner in "The Raiders." Nona
Thomas with William Hart in "The Apostle of
Vengeance."
T. K., Bremerton, Wash. — Lillian Gish played
the part of Elsie Stoneman in "The Birth of a
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(Continued from page 82)
Why, we don't know. Not because her
father is World, and chooses to star her —
not at all ! Bill Brady is more rigorous
with his own family productions than he is
with any other shows he puts out. It seems
to be a matter of direction. Are these di-
rectors afraid to tell her things,, because
she's her father's daughter? If so, they are
doing her a cruel injustice. She is a
willing child, when she is shown how. Con-
sider, for instance, her voluptuous, low-
necked death in "The Hungry Heart;". it
contains not an item of conviction or reality.
Til lie Wakes Up. If some one will write
a scenario for Marie L)res.sler using just a
little bit of her capacity for pathos, and
her leaning to occasional serious moments,
he will create a female David Warfield.
Miss Dressler's present vehicle is what we
might describe as silently noisy and fast,
but it is not very funny. It is too obvious.
The Man of Mystery. It is to be hoped
that E. H. Sotherti does not say goodbye
to the sun stage, whatever adieux he may
hurl at the boards of evening expression.
After two pictures, the first of which was
intolerable and the second a remarkable
improvement, he has found himself before
the camera. His newest play, a diplomatic
intrigue of- European locale, is not re-
markable for its originality of plot or
novelty of motive, but in it Sothern pre-
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belong to an elegant day beyond our hurry-
ing time. Briefly, Mr. Sothern has at last
succeeded in translating much of the fire
and poetry of his living presence to the
shadows. For that reason, see this picture.
For that reason, we fervently hope for
more Sotherns.
Indiscretion. Here is proof that there
is much more to Lillian Walker's person-
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Don't miss the overture, for if you do,
you'll probably miss the scene in which
Miss Walker, in a one-piece bathing-suit
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press of vampires, back to Paris of the
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people are gone into in much motional
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The Primitive Call. A "Strongheart"
type yarn, starting out quite bravely and
ending a motion picture melo. Gladys
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June Caprice.
One Touch of Sin. A Western story of
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The .scenario far outshines the mediocre
acting which it brightly enfolds.
Kick In. A turgid melodrama of New
York's low life. Taken from Willard
Mack's play and forcefully acted by a cast
headed by William Courtenay.
. A Modern Monte Cristo. A nickel-
odeon liver- jerker of the 1910 period.
Her New York. Sweet, sticky story.
Quite untrue to life, but with a lot of
saccharine sentiment, some humor and the
pretty person of Gladys Hulette. Un-
doubtedly popular.
Easy Street. Mr. Chaplin again. He
has not only the floor, but a street, and
four floors on each side of the street. Here
he becomes a policeman, is assigned to a
terrible district named by the title of our
story, and is elected to abate Mr. Eric
Campbell, public nuisance but an un-
doubted Samson. Playing little David to
this Goliath Mr. Chaplin gets the Camp-
bellian head fast in the bones of a street-
lamp, and turns on the gas. Anon, he
drops a cook stove upon his enemy, from
the third story.
These diversions make for a merry eve-
ning, although the opening scene, bur-
lesquing a rescue mission, is not in high
taste. La Purviance is again the lily in
this bouquet of garlic, neither toiling nor
spinning, but .sufficient.
Patria. Following the unwritten serial
law this chaptered violence is packed with
mechanical desperation and explosive inci-
dent. Things happen as fast as they do in
a rarebit dream, and with almost as much
reason. It seems strange that no one 'puts
out a sensible serial of real life. Had
not the Mexican interlude sent Rupert
Hughes away from "Gloria's Romance"
just as that unlamented repeater was be-
ginning, I believe we would have had a
real-life story there. I think the continued
and ferocious Jap-baiting in "Patria" is
more than questionable.
Glory. Said to be the first Kolb & Dill
photoplay, made and put away while sev-
eral other pictures of theirs were manu-
factured and released. As it stands, it is
too long. Cut back to a five-reeler,
"Glory" would be one of the most enter-
taining pictures on the current programmes.
It has much very good comedy, which reg-
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The Mash Note Conspiracy
(^Continued from payc yd)
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WHOISTHIS^IRL7
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CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1917
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Popular Photoplayers
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The Easiest Way Jerome Shorey 23
The great adventure of a girl who cheated herself.
The World's Most Unappreciative Boy (Photograph) 33
In which George Washington scowls at Mary Pickford.
Fairbanks Was an Old Man in '96 34
Doug's school-day dramatics.
St. Paul's Half-Nelson on the Movies 35
Considerable of Frances and something about her.
Dorothy P. Nazimova 36
Dorothy Phillips, so christened by Henry W. Savage.
"A Dark Man Will Cross Your Path" (Photograph) 38
Fortune-telling for Anita Stewart.
"Size 14— Misses' Department" 39
The Clark-Pickfords are so classified. A fashion article.
Ragout of Rawlinson 41
Leading-man Herbert by various pens.
Can You Read Their Names in their Eyes? ( Photographs) 42
An optic masquerade, waiting your solution.
He's a Deadly Sinner, Girls! 46
A personal expose of George Le Guere.
Where Has Mary Been? 47
Miss Fuller tells you about her invisible year.
Mary Alden 48
Somehow, art for art's sake didn't appeal to her.
An Old Sweetheart of Ours (Photograph) 50
An entrancing new camera study of Mabel Normand.
The Sadness of Success Kenneth Mc Gaffey 51
Fame brings melancholy to Pete Props. Illustrations by E. W. Gale, Jr.
The Torpedo -Broker of Holland Victor Rousseau 55
Another astounding adventure of Peggy Roche's.
Illustratiom by Chas. D. Mitchell.
A Pessimist in The Theatre 65
Mutts and muttery make melancholy movies. Drawings by E. W. Gale, Jr.
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"At the Picture Show" Karl Wilson Baker 66
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A Brief Memorandum on Allan Dwan Julian Johnson 70
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She Wearied of the Juleps 73
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The cover girl and her spiritual dog.
Order in the Court! (Photograph) 76
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Fritz and His Hired Man 78
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The Wild Woman of Babylon Grace Kingsley 80
Constance Talmadge, who has her tame moments. Siagg photography.
The Shadow Stage Julian Johnson 83
A department of photoplay review.
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From Klondike to Sahara in California (Photographs) 92
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PORTRAITS OF
FRANCELIA BILLINGTON
flew from convent to films without stopping a minute for footlight contem-
plation. She proudly points to Dallas of the Lone Star state as her birth-
place— the year was 1896 — admits she's five feet seven inches and bumps the
scales up to 130. After learning all she could at Sacred Heart convent, Los
Angeles, she began a further course in education at the Majestic studios, then
went to Universal and now she's with William Russell at American. She has
next appeared in "Children of the Sea," "Naked Hearts'.' and "Strathmore."
MONROE SALISBURY
is best known as Alessandro in "Ramona." He also played the lead in "The
Eyes of the World." He was born in New York City in 1879 and his stage
life began in 1898. He has appeared with Mrs. Fiske, Richard Mansfield, John
Drew and many other well known stars. Lasky, Fine Arts, Clune and Fox
cameras have registered him in "The Goose Girl," "Rose of the Rancho,"
"The Man from Home" and "The Lamb."
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part was opposite George Beban in "The Pawn of Fate" and she has been a
leading lady ever since. Until recently she was with World but now she is
with Famous Players for whom she played the feminine lead in "The
Traveling Salesman." She is 18 and from Syracuse, N. Y.
HAMILTON REVELLE
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last footlight appearance was in "Fair and Warmer." Mr. Revelle revels in
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Plow Girl" are three popular productions she has starred in. She is in her
early twenties — her first appearance being made at Portsmouth. Va. She
stands three inches over five feet and is the "original Nell Brinkley girl"
of the Follies.
FRANKLYN FARNUM
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Devil's Pay Day" and "The Man Who Took a Chance"' are two of his best
known films.
LILLIAN WALKER
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to 119%. She's a Brooklynite, born, educated and payrolled. She has had
stock and vaudeville experience but her film work has been entirely with
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ANITA STEWART
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"The Girl Philippa" and many other film plays.
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PHOTOPLAY
MAGAZINE
May, 1917
Vol. XI, No. 6
The Easiest Way
The adventure of a girl who thought she could get,
without price, the most priceless thing in the world.
By Jerome Shorey
ALONE in the world.
The words kept running through
Laura Murdock'.s brain with all the
numbing in.-^istency of a drum playing a
dead march. She looked about the dingy
room of the one-night-stand hotel and
.shuddered. The
vista of the last
two years was a
constant p r o-
gression of such
rooms, tajiering
off into the past,
a turgid stream
of disco ni-
fort and ugli-
ness. ^\'hen Bill
told her that the
theatrical world
waited impa-
tiently for just
such an artist as
she could he. she
believed. When
he said that the
training to be
had with a one-night stand company was
invalualile, she still believed. But after
two years of it she was beginning to doubt,
not Bill alone, but her own ability. So
far there had been no sign from the great
managers that her genius had been noticed.
Xow she had not even Bill's assurances.
'You can quit me whenever yon like," Brockton said.
I'rue. these as.surances were usually most
voluble when Bill's intoxication had
reached advanced stages ; yet she leaned
upon them. Her first feeling, when he fell
down the rickety stairs of the hotel and
broke his neck, was one of relief. But now,
after the funeral,
her pathetically
f e w belongings
packed and
everything ready
for the next
move, she w^on-
dered h o w she
would be able to
endure the life
without h i m.
Another room
just like this one
loomed ahead,
and another af-
ter that, and so
on. How could
it end? How
long could she
endure it? When
she went on the stage she cherished visions
of luxury, silk next the skin, feasts at the
best restaurants, adulation of clever men
and envy of beautiful women. Now it had
come to this — this room and all it repre-
sented. And she was alone as well with
every prospect of remaining so.
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She had not even the consolation uf a her conversation with Elfie. but rather
home to turn to and Avhatever it was that pointedly showed that she wanted to be
her imagination might paint for the future alone. There was no mistaking Elfie's
slie could not escape it bv turning from her meaning, and all Laura's instincts rebelled
stage existence. At least she felt herself against the suggestion. Yet all that day-
committed to that ^^^^ ^^^^ alternatives — continued to jostle
A rap at the' door recalled l*r to the ^,^^^' other in her imagination, alternatives
realities diametrically opposed, to plod along as she
u-n j -,.> 11 , , • had been doing, and hope, or to take the
Keadv? called a cheerv voice. . ^ '
urM 't " t' 1 I'asiest wav.
()n. 1 .suppo.se so. J. aura answered
^^^^^^^■^^>'- A FEW davs later another blow fell.
The door opened and Klfie St. Clair, L\ -phe company closed in obedience to
nicknamed "the financial enigma." by Jim ^ *• telegraphic instructions from New
Weston, stage manager of the company; Ynrk. the owners of tUe show being dis-
stood looking in. ^^ satisfied with the business
"Don't be a gloom. "THE EASIEST WAY" jt was doing. Laura was
dearie." Elfie called. \T.A.RRATED from tlie ])hoto- not quite stranded, for
"You surely ain't going -^ 7 play version of Eugene Wal- ij^e most players the
to hang crepe all over Sz^nctSerJ^Lt'wilh tte fol! S-^test bugaboo in t h e
your life on account of lowing cast : world to her was being set
Bill Murdock." Laura Murdock adrift and unable to get
"It isn't Bill so much." • • • • • • • -Clara Kimball Young back to Broadway, and she
Laura replied. "It;s just ^LrI-lS:^kion::i^kS^ had saved enough to take
the whole thmg. This /o/i» il/a(/M-oH..Rockcliffe Fellows her back to the rialto. A
life will kill me, but I Annie Cleo Desmond few days more found her
can't see any way out." •^"« Weston George Stevens established in a boarding
"You can't?" Elfie ^'""^"^ (^ theatr^al maiiager) ]^ „ ^^^ ^^^ dwindling
,..,.,1 • Frank Kmgdon ,. , . ^,^
gave a little, curious Nellie DeV ere Mae Hopkins tunds .screaming the
laugh. "Guess you haven't Jerry Walter McEwan necessity for an imme-
done much practical diate engagement,
thinking about it, have you?" Then began the interminable round of
"What do you mean?" the managers' ofiices and theatrical agencies.
"Oh, have some sense, dearie. Look at The search for a tiieatrical engagement is a
me — am I suffering?" task only for the optimist. In the nature
Laura looked, and it was obvious tliat of things, there must be scores upon scores
the life was not killing Elfie. She was of disa])pointments to one word of en-
garbed in gay colors and delicate, if rather couragement. If Laura entertained any
gaudy, fripperies. Her eyes sparkled, and illusions they were soon dispelled. She
if there were hard lines beginning to show, had faith in her ability but was unable to
they suggested rather a fighting spirit than engender that faith in others. In despair
unhappiness. she tried the more extensive field of musical
"I have the best everywhere I go. and comedy, and at length, just as she was near
you can do the same," Elfie went on. "I the end of her resources, there came a gleam
didn't want to say anything while Bill was of hope. Burgess, a producer of musical
alive, but take it from me. dearie, vou've shows, liked her appearance and found her
been a little fool, married or not. What voice .sufficient for the reciuirements of a
you do now is your owm business, anyhow. small part. In fact he took quite a per-
. Don't be a dodo. You don't suppose I do sonal interest in her. At the first rehearsal
this on my salary, do you?" this became quite obvious, with unfortunate
Further confidences were interrupted by results for Laura.
Weston's voice: "Sav. old boy, who's this new chicken,"
"Say. are you girls coming Avith the Nellie DeVere. generally understood to be
troupe, or has Elfie hired a special train for his favorite in the company, demanded.
this jump?" leading Burgess to one side.
Laura grabbed her suit case and thev "Oh, just a girl I've hired for a little
hurried to the station. She did not resume part. Why?"
The Easiest Way
25
The
pros-
that,
"Well, just this — she goes, or I go,
Miss De Vere declared.
All Burgess' arguments failed,
queen would take no chances with a
pective rival. So Laura was told
after all, she did not fill the bill.
With leaden heart she went to
see Elfie St. Clair, and told her the
news.
"^Vell, it's your own fault,
dearie." that cheerful person as-
sured her. "You'll have to get a
friend, that's all. Come on down to
Rector's and have lunch with me. M
we'll think of something."
They liad just seated themselves in
restaurant wlien two men entered.
"Why, there's Jerry," Elfi
shrilled, and motioned an in-
vitation to the men- to join
them.
The other man was Wil-
lard Brockton, a broker.
While Jerry and Elfie were
deeply immersed in their
own affairs, Brockton got
Laura to tell of her expe-
rience with Burgess.
"I think I can fix that,"
Brockton told her. "I often
invest in theatrical produc-
tions and Burgess has
been after me to back
this new show. Give me
your address and I'll
liave a talk with Bui
gess this afternoon."
Laura grasped at the
straw of hope. Brockton
seemed sincere and really
friendly, and Laura, with
all her experience in the
theatrical world, did not
think to question his friend-
.ship, or speculate upon what
price he might place upon it.
The one thing in her mind was
her dire need and the possi-
bility that in this way it might
I)e met. It was Elfie who, as
soonastheywere alone, brought
this phase to her attention.
"Say dearie, you're in luck.
You've landed Brockton — you
lucky kid. I'd trade half a
dozen Jerrys for him," she
babbled.
"You don't mean — "
"Say, are you ever going to get any
sense? Do you suppose a man like Brock-
ton is goiing to pick up a girl at a luncheon
table and go to bat for her, and expect
Laura involun-
tarily shrank
from
Brockton's
offered gift, and
its import.
26
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nothing in return ? Sometimes,
dearie, you make me tired."
But at least, if this brought
troubled thoughts to Laura. Brock-
ton neither said nor did anything to
corroborate tliem. His influence was
Two things happened to Laura — one teas thai she fell in love with John
Madison, a newspaper' writer.
soon made apparent, for Burgess promptly
sent for Laura and gave her one of the
best roles in the production. Rehearsals
and the preparation of her wardrobe occu-
pied most of her time, but she frequently
saw Brockton and had lunch or dinner
with him. Laura's liking for him was
something she herself could not analyze.
.She was grateful, naturally, and wanted to
please him, and yet she always felt herself
drawing awaj^.
At length the great event arrived — the
premiere of Laura'.s first Broadway engage-
ment. Hers was one of those half-way
.successes which, while not setting the town
afire, are sufficient eause for general con-
gratulations. Brockton, of cour.se. was first
to shower her with praise, and at the close
of the opening performance came to her
dressing roorrk and offft-ed her a beautiful
bracelet as a memento of the occasion. The
bauble suggested Elfie and her ideas, im^
mediatelv. and Laura involuntarilv shrank
from the gift and its import. Brock-
ton lauglied good-naturedly at her
reluctance, but did not press the
matter. A few days later he
announced that he was giving
a big party at his house, and
asked Laura to come. She
hesitated, and ther» told
him frankly that she had
no" gowiT) suitable for such
au occasion. He smiled
and changed tha subject.
That evening Laura found
several bundles waiting for her
in her shabby little room.
I'here were several magnifi-
cent gowns and witli them
the bracelet which she had
declined. She looked at the
array, first with natural femi-
nine ecstasy and then with
dismay. She could not accept
them — and yet she could not
refuse to accept them. As she
]> o n d e r e d, the realization
dawned upon her that the
position in which she had
placed herself compelled
her to accept. After all,
slie had permitted Brock-
ton to do so much for her,
what did a little more
matter? And so she
attended the party, a
glorified, radiant woman, in Brockton's
finery.
Brockton was delighted. He introduced
Laura to his friends with an obvious air of
proprietorship, and what caused a little
twist at Laura's heart was that everyone
seemed to take this proi^rietorship as quite
a matter of course. Apparently, there had
been a good deal of gossip and Laura's
place in this curious stratum of society was
clearly defined, without her knowledge or
consent. Brockton asked her to stay after
the crowd had left. He said there was
something he wanted to tell her.
Brockton made his proposition tactfully.
Nor was Laura surprised. The evening
had been one of constant revelations. The
comments she. lieard about the relations of
various couples showed her that the con-
ventions of other phases of life simply did
not exist here. Everything was on a basis
of expediency, and morality was a vague,
i»hadn»\vv element, cropping out now and
The Easiest Way
27
then, but not permitted to interfere with the
pursuit of pleasure.
"You can quit me whenever you like,"
Brockton said, after a long silence. "Vou
won't be sorry."
Laura still bowed her head. She could
not bring herself to say the word which
would end Brockton's interest, nor the one
which would cement it. He made it easier.
■'My automobile is outside. If you wish,
you may go home in it," he said softly.
Laura neither moved nor .spoke. Brock-
ton summoned a servant.
"Tell Burke he may put up the car for'
the night," he said.
Laura bowed her head still low^r, and
smothered a sob.
:i: :;: *
When the New York theatrical season
came to a close, Laura received an offer
of an engagemeiit in a summer stock com-
pany in Denver. She accepted immediately.
with a sense of intinite relief. Brockton
had been kind to her and considerate in
every possible way. He had humored all
l»er whims and provided her with count-
less luxuries. All this ease and sensuous
pleasure had acted as a spiritual narcotic.
In occasional flashes of self revelation she
realized tliat she was drifting into full
membersliip in the circle she had first
encountered at Brockton's home. The
opportunity to leave New York for the sum-
mer she instantly grasped as a means of
escape, not so much from Brockton as from
what he represented. She felt herself dis-
integrating and wanted to be among new
scenes and new people. Brockton took the
engagement as a matter of course.
"See you in September," was his goodbye.
But two things happened before Sep-
tember. The first was that Laura, re-
juvenated and cleansed by the free
atmosphere of the west, had determined
Laura found several magnificent gowns waiting for her in her shabby little room, and looked at them
^rst with natural feminine ecstacy, then with dismay.
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she would not return to her mode of life
of the preceding winter. She was succeed-
ing, finding her place in the world, and
believed she would be able to get along in
future without influence. The second,
which could not have happened without
the first, was that she fell in love with a
newspaper writer who had praised her work
and interviewed her.
There could not have been a greater con-
trast than that between John Madison and
Willard Brockton. Madison was abrupt
and direct, Brockton was suave and pa-
tient ; Madison was typicallv western,
Brockton distinctly eastern. But, not least
important, Madison was poor, Brockton
wealthy. This did not worry Laura at first.
She was earning a large salary and financial
matters did not bother her until they forced
themselves upon her attention. She did not
realize that, with her extravagant tastes, her
savings would not tide over more than a few
weeks of idleness. But Madison realized
it, and as their devotion ripened, he under-
stood that in his present circumstances
Laura was far beyond his reach. His
salary, while large for a western newspaper
man, would scarcely buy Laura's shoes.
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29
Brockton dictated a letter to Madison, as he had
promised.
And while, naturally, she would go on
with her career, the idea of being married
to a woman whom he could not support was
unendurable.
Madison did not mention this, however,
and the happy days sped on. For weeks
Laura did not write to Brockton and the
summer season was near its close when she
received a telegram from him saying that
he was coming to Denver to take her back
to New York. She had mentioned him to
Madison only in a casual way. but now she
understood that she must tell him every-
thing. She anticipated a great ordeal,
but-, she had hardly broached the sulrject
wheii. Madison interrupted.
"You". don't need to tell me anything,"
h(* said. "I have heard some gossip and
refused* to listen to a lot more. What your
life was before -we met makes no difference.
It is only the present and the future that
count."
Laura's gratitude for this sympathetic
understanding increased her love for Mad-
ison a hundredfold. No longer did she
dread meeting Brockton, but rather looked
forward with keen anticipation to the
moment when she would be emanci-
pated. Before Brockton arrived, Mad-
ison made Laura understand that their
marriage would have to be post-
poned until he could add materially
to his financial resources. She de-
murred, but when she saw that
Madison's self respect demanded
this course, she consented. It
would mean going back to New
York alone, being in the same city
with Brockton and without the
moral .support of Madison's pres-
ence, but Laura was not afraid.
Brockton accepted his dismissal
with the same .suavity that marked
all his actions.
"I said you could cjuit me when-
ever you chose," he said. "I
meant it. But I think you'll come
back to .me," he added, with a
smile.
"What do you mean?" de-
manded Madison, who. at Laura's
request, had been present throngh-
out the interview.
"Just this," Brockton replied.
"You westerners are men's men —
vou don't know the first principles
of the life of women, especially of
New York life. Your pretty romance will
look altogether different from the Broad-
way perspective."
"And your trouble." Madison retorted.
"is that you eastern men don't recognize
truth and goodness and honor when you
meet it face to face."
"We won't argue," Brockton replied,
with his unfailing good nature. "I'll just
promise you this — that if she comes back
to me. she shall write and tell you. her-
self."
A few weeks later. Laura and Madison
bade each other a mournful but optimistic
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farewell. Madison immediately started
for the gold country with a crowd of
prospectors and Laura returned to the
capital of the world of wigs and masks.
;■; :': :|: •
Laura's first call after returning to
New York, was at Burgess' oifire.
She was told he was not in. She
called repeatedly, with the
same result. Finally she de-
cided to wait until lie ar- ,
rived and took a seat in the
outer office. In a few min-
utes she was astonished to
see Burgess come out of his
private office. He tried
to avoid her. but she
Imrried to intercept his
flisht.
you, /•
"It isn't true,"
Laura almost
screamed. "It isn't
true. ' '
"Nothing for
Miss Murdock," he said, ahruptlv. "Noth-
ing in sight this season."
Laura was amazed. She knew of sev-
eral productions he had in preparation in
which there were parts similar to the one
in which she had made her success the
previous season. But Burgess refused to
argue the matter. It was a serious dis-
appointment. Laura had regarded it as a
foregone conclusion that Burgess would
want her for one of his companies and
Iiad made no attempt to get an engagement
elsewhere. A strange premonition came
over her, as she started on the rounds. At
all the better class offices she met with the
same reception. The situation began to
assume a serious aspect. She had been liv-
ing at an expensive hotel and her monev
was dwindling. She moved to a cheap
boarding house and started exercising the
most rigid economies. The cheap food and
dingy surroundings almost nauseated her
and only the inspiration of Madison's
photograph enabled her to keep up the
fight. She had not heard from him for
weeks, but she kept telling herself that he
would succeed if she would only be
patient.
Finallv she received a word of en-
couragement from one of the cheap
agencies. The man in charge prac-
tically assured her of a position in
a company which, a few weeks ago.
she would have scorned, but
which now seemed a ^•ery haven
P\ of refuge. But before she re-
^ turned the next day to sign the
contract, the agent had a mys-
'-' terious caller, and when Laura
arrived the agent in-
formed her that the part
had been given to another
actress.
It was no longer pos-
sible to impute this to
coincidence. Obviously
slie had been black-
listed, and Laura, un-
derstanding the close
relations between cap-
italists and theatrical
jiroducers, knew that
Brockton was at the
bottom of the conspiracy.
.She knew that all she needed was
one word from him and she knew
also what that word would cost her.
But the time had arrived when she must
face bitter facts. The landlady of the
hoarding house, who had, through unfor-
tunate experiences, discovered that leniency
was too often unappreciated, threatened to
turn Laura into the street unless she paid
her rent at once. The (]uestion was no
longer merely that of enduring discom-
fort, but of facing actual starvation. And
still there was no word from Madison.
Laura wearilv dragged herself up the
stairs to her room, and flung herself on the
bed. She tried to think her way out of her
quandarv, but the only result was a
headache.
In the afternoon Elfie St. Clair called,
merrv and befrilled, the hard lines of her
face a little deeper. She sniffed as she
looked about the room.
"So this is where you've buried your-
self?" she babbled. "You've given me an
awful chase, dearie. And a certain dear
friend of yours is that anxious to see you.
Come now, don't be a little silly. You
know who I mean. He's waiting down-
stairs now. Let me send for him. Don't
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31
you think it would seem pretty good to get
into his limousine and drive over to Sherry's
for lunch?"
For lunch ! Laura looked at the milk
bottle and box of crackers on her table. If
Madison had only written. Elfie accejned
Laura's silence as consent, and going to
the window, she waved a signal to Brock-
ton. As he came in, she discreetly slipped
out. Laura looked at Brockton, and bowed
her head. He went to her and gently took
her in his arms. She neither resisted nor
responded.
If Laura had expected Brockton to make
a crude proposition, she little understood
how well he knew her. and how he could
force her even yet to make the decision.
"Don't misunderstand me," he said. "I
just want to show you that you need me —
that the other thing was only a pretty,
romantic incident in your life. I am going
to help you now — it is for you to say
whether you will come back to me or not.
But in any event vou cannot go on living
like this."'
It was even more cruel than if he had said
"So much for so much." It made Madison
a renegade, it made it impossible for her to
endure any longer her sufferings and priva-
tions ; and Brockton knew that she would
not accept his help without giving up her
dream of Madison. In a moment she
looked up into his face with a wan smile.
"I'm terribly hungry, Willard," she said.
"Please take me to lunch."
But before they left the room, Brockton
dictated a letter to Madison, and witli
many hesitations. Laura wrote as Brockton
had promised that she would. She prom-
ised to mail the letter, and thus the old life
was resumed again.
A month passed. Laura soon had an en-
gagement and Brockton installed her in
a luxurious apartment. All this she
accepted listlessly. She knew that she
had turned her back on the greatest
thing life would ever offer her.
One morninsc, when
Laura and Brockton had Just finished
breakfast, a telegram for Laura arrived
from Madison. It read:
"I'll be in New York before noon. I'm
coming to marrv vou, and I have a bank
roll."
Brockton insisted upon seeing the mes-
sage. Laura realized that resistance was
futile and handed it to him.
"Then you didn't mail the letter as you
promised?"
Laura shook her head. Brockton
frowned, paced the room a few moments
and then hurried away, without a word.
With cold fear clutching at her heart,
Laura waited for Madison. She knew .she
would have to lie to hold him, but it was
her last chance of happiness. She would
lose him if she told the truth, and she could
not do worse than lose him by falsehood.
She told herself that she would atone for
the lie bv a lifetime of devotion. So when
The dingy
surroundings
nauseated her;
only Madison's
photograph
inspired her to
keep up the fight.
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he came she had steeled herself to look into
his eyes without flinching.
"Oh, I'm so glad you've come," she ex-
claimed over and over again. "Take me
away from here — at once — today. I want
to go back with you — to get away from
this tinsel existence. "
Madison rushed away to get a marriage
license and in fcverisli haste Laura began
packing. If she could onlv get awav be-
fore Brockton returned. Her maid lodked
on, wide-eyed.
"It's all right, Annie," Laura assured
her. "I'll send for vou as soon as we get
settled."
At midday Madison returned. He took
her by the shoulders and looked into her
eyes, and she looked steadily back into his.
"I met some nevvspaiier men I know," he
.said. "They hinted at some gossip, but I
wouldn't listen. You haiw been on the
level witli me, haven't vou?"
"I have been on the level," she replied,
slowly and deliberately. "Now come,
let's go."
As she spoke. Brockton entered, without
knocking. Madison turned on him with an
oath, and drew a revolver from his pocket.
"So," he snarled. "You couldn't leave
her alone, even when you knew she be-
longed to me."
Laura sjirang between tlie two men and
Brockton's face
"Tell him tlie
seized Madison's hand,
was stern.
"Tell him," he said.
truth."
Without another word he turned and left
Laura and Madison together.
"It isn't true." Laura almost screamed,
"it isn't true."
"^^'hat isn't true?" Madison demanded.
For answer Laura flung herself at his
feet and hysterically pleaded forgiveness.
"I couldn't help it," she cried. "I was
starving — starving. I tell you. And he
came — and I couldn't bear to let you know.
I burned the letter he made me write. You
will forgive — "
"It's too late now." Madison answered,
his voice sad but firm. "To have the truth
forced from you like tliis — I never could
trust you again."
Laura crumpled in a heap on the floor.
\\'hen slie looked up again he was gone. In
her hand .slie noticed that she still held
Madison's revolver. She looked at it a
moment. Should she? An instant — and
then, what? At least no more of this
puzzle that men called life. But she could
not do it. Again she chose the easiest way.
Springing to her feet she opened the trunk.
"Annie," she called, in a shrill, high-
pitched voice, "doll me up. Annie — I'm
going to the Montmartre — to make a hit."
An Old Time Money Maker
I F one thinks that only th.e l)ig features of the last few vears have been the
only real money makers in the film land, listen to this. "The Great Train
Robbery", the first feature production ever made, the forerunner of all Western
thrillers and one that will be remembered by many of the pioneers in the film
industry, made approximatelv $400,000 for the Edison company !
It was the first story with a definite plot to be produced as well as the first
production to reach the length of one reel. Previous to that time only short
subjects, ranging in length from 25 to 300 feet, had been made. "The Great
Train Robbery" was approximately 750 feet in length, a stupendous production
for that time.
This old pioneer feature was recentlv run off at a testimonial banquet ten-
dered Thomas A. Edison in honor of his seventieth birthday at Orange. N. J..
by the employees of the Edison Affiliated Industries. The banquet to the
famous inventor was given by the various divisions of the vast Edison in-
dustries for the purpose of emphasizing the high regard in which Mr. Edison
is lield by those who are engaged in the production of the various devices that
owe their existence to liis genius.
THE WORLD'S MOST U N A P P R ECI A TI V E BOY
Would you holler and squinch away like this if Mary Pickford hugged you? No accounting for tastes, but perhaps
this little Pueblo Indian o{ Albuquerque, N. M., feels constrained to act the truth just because his name is George
Washington. He is a ward of the Santa Fe railway company.
Fairbanks Was an Old Man in '96
B
THAT'S twenty-one years ago. Know-
ing that he was aged then, we hardly
; •. believe that two decades have brought
back his youth. What does he do — ink his
hair, pull out his long white whiskers, and
revamp himself
every spring and fall
in Muldoon's school
of ■ pep? or some
similar institution?
Glance at the fifth
actorial name in the
cast of this tableau.
It is, indeed, D.
Fairbanks, and the
legend relates further
that Mr. Fairbanks
is,; playing "John
(Wilson, an old
in-iner ; Joe's uncle."
Joe is the hero. In
brief. Joe was the
Douglas Fairbanks
of- 1896, wliich was
iiijj the days before
the Spanish War. .
i ' As a further matter
of- record, this pro-
gram is in old man
F a i r b a n k s' own
handwriting.
! The city which
harbored this illustri-
oiis collection of
Thespians in t h e
Wild West drama
was Denver, and the
entertainment as well
as the programme
was home-made.
• . We should say
that the affair lacks
feminine interest, for
among these Thes-
pians there wasn't
even a Julian Eltinge
tojmpersonate lovely
womanhood,
although the clatter
of artillery and the
clash of personal
conflict must have
left very little room
in the piece for
tender moments.
The individual
who resurrects this
j^'-< .....dU- - -J3:/r„'^ ""^^^^
FTUr
AcrFJZr-lht-tv.^iv. OP The-
y ^ ^a Bin,
This is the programme of Douglas Fairbanks'
dramatic debut, printed by his own pen. The
price of admission was either a millioti pins
or a potato.
L)ill of the play is John H. Southard, now a
business man in Los Aiigeles. Mr. Southard
was a schoolmate of the present Artcraft
glitterer, and, finding this programme- in a
trunk recently, resolved to show up the first
American juvenile
for the venerable
years that are really
his.
In those ancient
and near- Roman
times Mr. Fairbanks
had no idea of be-
coming a leading
man, and such small
notions as he did
possess concerning!
possible notoriety in_
the theatre apper-
tained to character
roles exclusively.
Joe Comstock's
uncle was a grim and
grizzled fellow who
had led a hard life
and meant stern busi-
ness. There is no|
record that the old.
boy had ever kissed |
Alma Reuben, ever
palled around with
John Emerson, and
— fearful s e c r e t —
Anita Loos, the favo-
rite author of the'
renascent Fairbanks, |
wasn't even born !
Nor did Uncle John,
on discovering a
claim, jump over a
table and two or
three chairs to get at'
it. His favorite
means of locomotion
were his own two
feet.
A fierce discus-
sion is raging as to
whether Doug in
those days wore
"knee pants." There
are those who assert
that he was born
grinning, wearing a
Tuxedo, doubling
his fists and crouch-
ing for a high jump.
(n l«
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5t. Paul's Half-Nelson on
the .^^^ Movies
SHE LIKtS BASEBALL
AND CAN "CALL" AN
"UMP" HARD, TOO
THLS is l-'rances Nelson,
who, my dears, is as tal-
ented as she is shapely,
which is merely another .
way of saying that she is
one of the most promising
of the younger emotional
actresses.
She was born ii,i Si.
Paul, but her parents,
who leaned t(.nvard
culture. mi)\'ed sud- '
denh' to 15 o s t o n
without even A\arn
ing little l'"raiices.
\\'hen she discov-
ered what had
been done the '
girl did what
she could to
break the
nionotonv. She
w e n t on the
Picture of a pretty girl
staring at her own pre — look-
ing at her ankles.
a p ]i e a r i n g w ith
l•'iel(l^ in •■I'he Wife
Hunters."
liOoking at l-'raiices ime
would say that the luuit wnuld end
right there.
'>ut onward, .\fter lier first
stage experience she did stock'
in Philadelphia and Indian-
apolis, then, lured into the
flickering films, worked for
ISiograph in "The Chief-
tain's Sons." A year witli
Biograph. a vear witli
Universal and a vear
and three montlis \\-itli
"World where .she did
Iier best work, and
she became a fin-
. ished actress.
Now she is witli
Metro, which is
starring her in
"One of Manv."
Athletic? In-
^ \ deed 1 She rides
1^ • anything that is
saddle - broken.
Her hobby is baseball.
She can call everv
player by his iirst
name and the uni|)ires bv
names they never had.
And when an emotional ac-
tress gets all emoted vou can
imagine how the poor "ump"
would cringe.
As one views Miss Nelson — both
poses — he is struck with a new and
great admiration for St. Paul. Is
there any gentleman in the audi-
ence who will move that Roberts
reet be changed to Nelson Street?
The visitor with the bald head
and a chin like a pineapple. Thank
you. sir. Secoiids? So many? Car-
ried— and looking at the picture, we
should sav twonanimouslv.
The meeting will now unite in
wishing that some day it may see
Frances in the life. Do not
crowd as vou go out.
Dorothy P. Nazimova
AT LEAST, THAT'S
WHAT SAVAGE
ONCE CALLED
HER, AND SHE
SEEMS TO BE
MAKING THE
CALL GOOD
Miss Phillips
herald in the great
Pasadena "Ton ma
ment of Roses," held
New Year
year.
a 3^.
eat T
EICiHT years ago Henry W. Savage
took one look at Dorothy Phillips,
then playing a tiny part in a New
York show, and said : "There's a kid
Nazimova !"
Dorothy was fifteen at the time, but when
the producer said this she felt as though
slie were ten years older — and it tickled
her too. Always she had admired the
celebrated Russian actress and longed to
plav the part of Nora in "A
Doll's House." And
right now we come
to the great dra-
matic punch
of this story :
Doroth}' is playing it !
So you see. Savage was. in a
way. right.
After Miss Phillips made
her first brief essay on tlie
screen she made a distinct
hit in legitimate ingenue
roles, among them. Lucille
in "Mary Jane's Pa." l^e-
fore that she had done stock
in Baltimore.
She is now at Universal City,
and it is there she is enacting ".V
DoU's House." Did you see lier
in "Hell Morgan's Girl?"
It's the popular thing for all
v)f the children of the legiti-
mate to pass a sneer to the
animate celluloids at one
time or another, and Miss
Phillips w-as not dilatory in
this respect. It is also true
that once in the cinema the
children of the legitimate
regret such slurs.
"Now, I find the photo-
play the world's best ex
pression," Miss Phillips
says.
As to her picture on
the left, it takes no su-
perl^rain to see
that s h e is a
herald.
Dorothy Phillips at
home and abroad.
"A DARK MAN WILL CR055 YOUR PATH"
Actor folk, like society and ordinary people, are sometimes curious to learn what the future
has in store for them. Apparently Anita Stewart, Vitagraph's star-in-chief, is no exception
to the rule. Here we have Anita consulting the studio oracle, Mrs. Sanborn, as to the fate
of her current photoplay. The gallery consists of, readmg from left to right, Frank Crayne,
George Stevens and Loretta Cahill.
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"Size 14— Misses Department"
IN SPITE OF FASHION'S
RECENT EDICTS,
THAT'S A TECHNICAL
DESCRIPTION OF YE
IDEAL SCREEN QUEEN
By Lillian Howard
WHEN Lizzie Whoozi.
leans hard on the
counter, raps it with
her jjencil to summon the
floor walker, calling "Mr.
Steevuns I Mr. Steevuns !"
and then attempts
to describe the
appearance of
her favorite
movie queen
to her chum,
she doesn't ,^*»4
Trained evening gown of spangled chiffon and silk
net. Bodice trimmed with rhinestone passementerie.
go in for measurements or anything like that.
"She takes Size 14 — Misses' Department."
Lizzie explains and the whole thing is clear to
the other.
And so "Size 14— Misses' De-
parment" has become the phrase
for describing the ideal cinema
star. Think it over, girls, and
see if Size 14 doesn't fit Vivian
Martin. June Caprice, Margue-
rite Clark. Louise Huff, Violet
Mersereau, Mabel Normand and
a host of others who'd think that
Barrel skirt
model of navy
blue charmeuse—
Fullness at knees
twice that at
hem — Bodice
embroidered in
gold threads —
Facings of gold
colored
charmeuse.
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Palm Beach frock of white net and cliijfon, and trimmings of
imitation point venise lace — fitted ivaistline and over-drapery
of skirt especially adapted to tall figure.
The sliort skirts, — always
itk'al for the little girls —
are coming down to ankle
length to satisfy the discon-
solate t h i r t y-sixes. More
tlian that, the m o y e n-a g e
waistline is coming back ; and
again, there are to be long
tunics — prerogatives of the
big girls, assuredly.
\Vorse still, fashion has
gone and committed a bar-
rel skirt, once more conced-
ing something to the thirty-
sixes and the forty-twos, for,
Heaven
knows, no
lady the
size of
M a r g u e-
rite Clark
(Continued on
page 146)
they were camping out if they ever got into
a Size 16.
It's a behind-the-times store that doesn't
keep Misses' Size 14 stacked up higher than
the pyramids on its shelves, for with a score
of silversheet celebs wearing that size "Mr.
Steevuns" knows that there will be thou-
sands of their idolators storming ,in to buy
them.
This, in spite of the fact that spring
styles favor not the little ones — the thirty-
twos and the thirty-fours — but the big ones,
the thirty-sixes.
Chemise frock
of taupe
georgette and
charmcusc with
silk embroidery
— Long waist-
line and
straight
silhouette.
Ragout of Rawlinson
Cooked up According to the favorite
Recipes of Several Fame-Makers
HERBERT RAWLINSON— THE BOY
WHO SMILED HIS WAY TO FAME
By Grace Kingsley
1HAVE heard that over the telephone
booths in many metropolitan hotels there
is a sign which says "The Voice A\'ith the
Smile Wins." Herb Rawlinson has pro^•en
the smile alone wins.
The babies cry for him. the high school
girls sigh for him, the debutantes adore
him, the matrons worship him secretly and
the mothers point him out to their sons.
Which only proves the value of a smile.
He's married, girls !
Perpetrated by Kenneth MacGaffey
LJERBERT RAWLINSON is an actor.
'• •*• He admits it but does not boast of it.
He wears a sport shirt only under pressure
and when on location borrows the makings
from the assistant camera man, which
clearly demonstrates that he is either a
democrat or a diplomat.
Young Rawlinson, when I say young, it
is of course only comparatively sjieaking.
Jack Dean and Theodore Roberts are both
good friends of mine, therefore I will not
mention any names. But as I was saying.
young Rawlinson was born in Brighton,
not the place where old man Reisenweber
built his oasis, but Brighton, England,
which you have all read about in the first
"coke" story ever written in English. I
refer here to Sherlock
Holmes. Not to inti-
mate that Herb uses
Witzel Photo
■'The
Smile."
the needle, that is not his fault the pic-
tures look that way.
Glorified by Kenneth O'Hara
•W/HEN Thomas H. Ince first saw Herb
^^ Rawlinson step into the old studio
at Inceville, he said to himself "There is a
future Thomas H. Ince star."
That this assertion is true has been proven
in the recent announcement that Herbert
Rawlinson will play for Thomas H. Ince in
a forthcoming Triangle- Ince production by
C. Gardner Sullivan, Thomas H. Ince's
prolific scenario head, a youth whose earlv
life was that of a wastrel but who upon
coming in contact with the better things in
life, via Thomas H. Ince, rises to unex-
pected heights. And as Thomas H. Ince
predicted, in this Thomas H. Ince picture
Herbert Rawlinson
is a Thomas H. Ince
star.
Ennobled by
Bennie Zeldman
\T() hero of Pierre
Loti, no vision of
perfect manhood ever
imagined by Spinoza,
no dream of the Ves-
tal Virgins could
ever surpass the per-
fection that nature
has given to the
world in the person
of Herbert Rawlin-
son.
Yes, it's his car.
Can You Read Their Names
Why is it that at every masked ball people blanket their eyes and
little accidents of nature? Why don't they reverse the process, and
had the right notion when they put skirts on their Harem ladies*
these Turkish Trophies of ours can you call by name? After all,
shriek their ownership. Maybe they'll call louder if you cover over
answers to the eye puzzle editor. Each of the first correct twenty-
hundred -page volume of motion picture portraits and biographies.
These brows are blonde
or gray — which?
Some genuine intensity
here. What?
Beaded lashes, but no
belladonna, we swear.
No cold gray dawn was
ever cooler.
0^
Take two looks. Right!
You've got h — !
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In This Masquerade of Eyes?
leave their lower face exposed to food, cocktails, kisses, or other
gaze at a baffled world over a silken rampart? Maybe the Turks
noses, and let their eyes do their breathing. How many of
eyes are pretty flagrant tattle-tales, and some of these optics fairly
the others with blank paper while you're looking. Send in your
five will receive, free, a copy of "Stars of the Photoplay," an artistic
The names of all the successful contestants will be published.
Oh dear us, this one is
too easy!
Now really — you don't
mean you give up?
Pull this page off your
face; we know you!
Are these eyes a cash-
girl's, or a brakeman's?
10
Inscrutable, are they
laughing at or with us?
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You've looked into
these lamps scores of
times.
12
Rather Grecian, but the
owner's no Greek.
13
Primping Percival! An-
other complete give-
away.
14
Who's looking out of
the jungle? Two
guesses.
15
Of the danger in these
eyes, be especially
warned .
16
Straight at you again,
and hitting hard.
Can You Read Their Names in This Masquerade of Eyes? ^-^
17
Pretty baby or big
bruiser? Only a guess
and a half.
18
Some ferocious jungle
of eye-brim, isn't it?
19
Picturizing "that arch
look " Chambers writes
about.
20
This one is old Mr.
Murine's darling.gentles
all.
21
Presenting the smallest
but brightest eyes in
captivity.
22
.And finally, how shall
we address these soul
windows?
He's a Deadly Sinner, Girls
FURTHERMORE, HE'S SUCH A SOUTH-
ERNER THAT HE WENT AS FAR SOUTH
AS NEW ORLEANS JUST TO BE BORN
T
'HERE'S one comforting thought for
George Le Guere when he contem-
plates his appearance as Adam in
"The Seven Deadly Sins" from the Mc-
Clure studio — he'll never need worry about
what critics may sa\' concerning his quali-
fications for the role.
Up to date Mr. .\dam
and his internationallv
famous amusement gar-
den have received little
or no attention from
directors or theater man-
agers. So. all we
know about him
is what he
and what
wore.
And owing
to certain
1917 p r e j u-
ate
le
dices against women's skirts higher than
the knee it is understood that Eve will wear
her year 1 F. L. at a modest lengtli and
her husband may even don a pair of leafy
trousers.
Anyway George was born in a warm
clime — New ( >rleans.
He's 28 and just waded through all kinds
of college honors and later on did the
same on the stage.
Mr. Le Guere has had con-
siderable experience in film
land with Kleine. Famous
Players, Metro, Univer-
sal, Essanay and Pathe.
"Rut I've got no prec-
edent to worry me in
this Adam and Eve
on-
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IN RE THE FULLERS — WHERE HAS MARY BEEN?
Photo by Ployd
SHE'S just beginning work for the Lasky-Famous group, in a studio adjacent to New York, but what happened in
the big dark space, as astronomers say, following her Universal disappearance?
So we wrote Mary, and Mary wrote back right away, and said:
"As an outline of my vacation : Last summer and fall, 1 spent most of the time delightfully on a country estate in
the Virginia hills, riding, swimming, sailing, frolicking with the dogs, rambling in the woods, going nutting and reading
favorite authors. Please don't connect the nutting parties with the literary excursions, for these were treats long delayed.
I just went back to nature, with not a Cooper -Hewitt on the horizon, and no forwarded mail.
"1 wore old clothes and rusty boots, I had no cares or worries, it was early to bed and early to rise, and
1 think I found the real fountain of youth.
"1 leave you to fill in details and make it a good story (There's nothing the matter with Mary's story, is there?)
or if you want some personal remarks, send me a list of questions, which I'll answer.
"As for pictures — I'm sorry. I haven't any new ones. Not one as big as a postage stamp. I wanted to get
away from all cameras, for cameras to me just mean work, work, work."
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*' A r t For
Art's Sake
9 9
A new portrait
of Miss Alden.
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Didn't Appeal to Mary Alden
DOWN in New Orleans Mary Alden
used to go around with a brush dab-
bing canvasses and arousing the inter-
est of artistic friends. Great ambitions
were Mary's then, and finally she came up
to New York to study Art. At school thev
gave her a smock, an easel, some bristol
board and everything that goes with an
artistic education and told her to be a good
girl and work hard. This she did, so hard
thai sQme of her canvasses began to attract
attention.
Vet while it's true that Art is long, it is
also true that it isn't alwavs "the long
green." Mary found this out. Art wasn't
l)ringing in a million a day or anvthing
like that. So she flung down her pallette
and interviewed her friend. Rose Melville.
"Sis Hojjkins."
"Certainly, I'll help get you on the
stage," said "Sis" or Rose, whichever you
like, and shortly after Mary Alden became
a member of the Baldwin- Melville Stock
Company.
There she did well, so well that Mrs.
Minnie Maddern Fiske offered her a part
in (me of her plavs. After several months'
experience in the legitimate the girl chanced
to meet Phillip S^malley on Broadway and
accepted his invitation to come and watch
him work in a picture — which in those days
were rara aves, which freely translated from
the Icelandic, means "rare birds."
Mary went. More than that, she
viorked — as an extra. Since then her time
has been almost entirely spent in the world
of the cinema, her one return to the legiti-
mate being to play Agnes Lynch in
"\\'ithin the T>aw."
With Henry Walthall in
"Pillars of Society."
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AN OLD SWEETHEART OF OURS
riintol.V Sl.igg
One that we have danced attendance upon for many years — Mabel Normand. And could the late poet James Whitcomb
Riley have seen her thus he might have written another masterpiece of youth.
.SO
/ writ a swell story dat I am gain' to try and get dent to do next.
J i^":!
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The Sadness of Success
Pete Props finds that the berth of a leading man
is no bed of roses, and figures on quitting it all.
By Kenneth McGaffey
Drawings by E. W. Gale, Jr.
I GOT a doggone good notion to leave
my art flat an go back into trade. I
gotta do all de work wid me pitchers an
I don't get no money for it. Dey give me a
nut director an he goes an falls for de
leadin woman an gives her six an a half
more feet of close-ups dan I gets. I know
cause I watched de pitcher ten times and
held a watch on de scenes. When you get
a guy what does you dirt like dat you might
as well quit. Den I can't get no cast.
Everybody I hire dey say is a better actoiT'
dan I am. So it would hurt me professionT
ally if I let dem in my company. Den dese
scenario writers can't turn out no good
stories. De last one I had gave all de best
scenes to de woman and when I report it,
de nut director says dere ain't no story left.
Sure dere is a story left if I'm in it. I
tried to argue wid de guy but dere was
nuttin doin so when I catch dat boob
scenario writer I am goin to bust him in de
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(?R^£^-//
jaw. Dere is too many
guys gettin in dis game
widout no education so I
might just as well run
some of dem out an give
us reg'lar fellas a chanct.
I writ a swell story dat
I am goin to try an get
dem to do next. It will
make de biggest hit since
"Jawin de Woman." I'm
in every scene. It's one
of dese hair pants cowboy
stories but I don't have to
do nuttin on horseback
cause all de time I fall
olT. All I do is pose
aroun in de fur trousies
an -pack a couple of guns.
De idea is me own but a
guy wrote something like
it, almost, in a book called
"The Virginian," but o
course mine is much better
and de title "De Virgin-
ian" is a bum cause it has
nuttiij to do wid ^^irginia
atall. I am goin to call
mine "De New Mexiconian" an have a lot
of cactuses an Mexicans an tings in it.
De idea of de story is dis: I'm a gay
an handsome young cow hand workin on a
ranch chasin de festive kine over hill an
dale for thirty btfcks a mont. I don't drink
nor nutting — de only bad habit I have is
smoking cigarettes- made out of bum
tobacco. De boss of de ranch has a beau-
tiful daughter what has been educated in de
yeast. De dame is in love wid a duke an her
ole man makes her come back to de ranch
so dat she won't marry him and he cop
all his hard earned coin dat he got by sellin
cows for beef stews an de like. De duke,
scared of bein canned by de heiress, comes
trailin along. On de ranch she meets de
handsome cow hand, (which is me) — an
she don't pay much attention to him until
he saves her life a coupla times an den she
begins to notice dat he isn't a ordinary cow
hand but mu.st be a heir in disgust or has
got in dutch at home or sumpin like dat
wid romance in it.
De goil's fadder rewards him for savin
his daughter's life by givin him a cow for
his very own an de guy soon begins to make
a lot of money selling butter an eggs to de
neighbors.
If dis company wasn't try-
ing to hold me down and
not give me what I am
entitled to I would have
me name in electric signs
right now.
' J)OU(^C^^
De duke gets sore at de cow hand an
plans to steal his cow so he will lose all
his money. Dat's as far as I have gone but
I plam to have de duke shown up an de
goil mSrry de cow hand an find out he has
got a lot of cash in de bank back yeast an
is only cowhandin cause it keeps him out in
de open air.
. It's a awful hard story to write so dat
I can be in every scene but de pitcher won't
be a success unless I am. I tink I will
stick to dat Western stuff, cause while I
am some guy in a dress suit I sure am a
hit wid me collar unbuttoned. I got a lot
of good offers from some of de big com-
panies since I have made de hit but I tink
I will organize me own company. Why
give dese managers all de money when dey
don't have nuttin to do wid de success of
de pitcher? Dey get us cause we is artists
an not business men an den we make dem a
lot of money — an lots of times dey Avon't
even tank us for it.
I finished a pitcher last week dat is sure
goin to clean up a lot of money. Big pro-
duction at dat. Two reels — all exteriors,
except de scene where I finds de poipers.
I gave de nut director a lot of idears, but
I don't get no credit for dat. To hear him
The Sadness of Success
53
tell it you would link he did it all hisself.
Wait till you see it. Dere is one piece of
business dat I created dat will knock your
eye out.
You see it was dis way. I gets a sad
letter wid de news dat me wife has done
jumped de reservation an gone off wid a
gay city feller not even leavin me me be-
loved little daughter. I figure dat I might
as well blow me bean off so I goes over to
de desk, opens de drawer, an takes out de
p-A/R^ANK^
rewolver. Dere is were me foine wolk
came in. I suggested dat we take a close-
up of me hand reaching for de rewolver.
Say ! de nut director nearly went mad. He
tcld me right in front of de camera man an
everybody dat it was a great idear. You
see I figured it out dat de aujence might
tink I wasreachin for a penockle deck or
sumpin, but showing me hand grabbin for
de gat was real drammer. Dat's de kind of
idears dat I puts into me pitchers.
Oh, I'm always dopin out sumpin new !
Lots of times I'll go home all bruised up
from tinking. De director was telling me
de cder day not to tink so hard dat I am
liable to strain me mind an be a total loss,
but I guess I am dere wid de nut all right
an I can stan a lot of tinking yet widout
it a'hurtin me anyting noticeable. De only
tiu'T I have to be careful of is not to tink
so hard I get wrinkles in me forehead cause
dat would spoil me close-ups.
Us artists has got a lot of tings to re-
member. Now just de oder day I was out
wid a lot of people an I forgot to tell
dem how good I was an how de vulgar
money grabbers what are pavin me wages
curb me temperment. I let dem get clean
away an den had to chase dem nearly a
block to tell dem all about it. Course if
dis company wasn't trying to hold me down
an not give me what I am entitled to I
would have me name in electric signs right
now an be a star. But I am de wise guy.
I am savin all de letters I get from me
admirers an some day I am goin in an dump
dem on de president's desk an just show
him what he is missin by not playin me up
big. I got six letters an two post cards
all ready an I been on de screen less dan
six monts. It won't be long be-
fore I get a coupla more an den
I am goin to flash de pile.
Dere's a lot of tings I'm sore
at about dis here art, an if it
wasn't for leavin me public flat,
I would quit an mebbe go back to hustlin
props. Dere at least you don't, have to
argue wid no directors. If you do, you get
canned. Den dere is de expenses we artists
have to stan. No more can I step onto a
stool an inhale a plant of beans. Now I
got to go into Levy's an eat out loud an
drink red ink. I got to wear a white col-
lar, to an from woik, an if you are doin
society stuff, a dress shoit won't last more'n
a coupla weeks. De money I spent on me
last production was sumpin startlin. I am
a cow hand an I created de idea of rollin
a cigarette wid one hand like dey do in
story books. I am here to tell you dat I
used up two bits wort of tobacco before I
got it down fine enough to get over. An
do you tink de company would allow me de
two bits expense? Not on your life ! Dey
said if I wanted to put dem special features
in me productions I would have to stan
de expense meself. Dey was payin so mucli
a foot for dere dramas an dey couldn't
afford to go runnin up a lot of additional
bills.
I wanted to sniff a real flower for a
effect in a close-up an I has to go out an
pick it meself, as dey said a prop man's
time was too valuable.
Dat's just a line of de indignaties us
genuises has to stan for from dese low-
brows. Wait til I gets me wrist watch an
dey won't dare talk to me dat-a-way.
If I wasn't so darn gifted I would lam
some of em over de bean wid a stage brace,
but us actors ain't supposed to lift any
props or anything. Dey hire guys for dat.
Dere is a lot of dese actors dat ain't got
no real ability or education that is drawin
down big money just because dey had a
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Dey give me a nut director an he goes an falls
for de leading woman an gives her six aii a half
feet more of close-ups dan I gets.
good press agent to tell peo-
ple how good dey is. I don't
need any press agent hangin around to tell
people how good I am — I can do dat my-
self. Press agents don't do no work for
you anyhow. Dey go out an write a lot of
stuff about you an den get some paper to
print it an den de P. A. expects wages for
dat when de paper ought to be darn glad
to be able to have de chanct to print it,
cause everybody is interested in you an dey
will buy a lot of papers an do de editor a
favor.
I'm writin a lot of press stuff about me-
self which I am going to send aroun to de
magazines an tell dem dey can print it an I
won't charge dem a cent. As soon as I do
one more pitcher I am goin to write de
story of me life for some magazine.
I asked de press agent here at de stewjo
what mag, to send it to an he said "De
Bartenders' Guide." Some day dat guy is
goin to get too fresh an I am going to de
management an tell dem dat eider him or
me will have to leave — an I am here to tell
you dat I'll bet it is me dat
Jon'i travel.
If it wasn't for us ac-
tors—where would dese
press agents be anyway?
Probably robbin banks.
I know one, for in-
stance, dat lives offen his
past glory like one of dem
two million hams dat says
dey once played with
Booth and Barret O'Hara.
Dis P. A. sent a pretty
Jane across de continent
all by herself in a kero-
sene cart, for de proces-
sional pastels, and had de
nerve to take all de credit
for de stuff de papers
printed about her. Who
wouldn't print stuff about
de nerve of a young lady
dat goes solo from Mojave
to de Wasatch range, de-
fyin horned toads, movin
pitcher outfits, billboards,
railroad eatin houses,
actin cowboys, Buflobill Indians, real es-
tate agents and tenderfeet? Every news-
paper feller too lazy to dig up news if it
was buried in his back yard could hang any
horrible adventure on her and the horribler
the better.
In my own mind dis guy would of lost his
snap job long ago and notwi'thstanding had
it not of bin for his noble wife. Dere is
one of de grandest little women livin in
spite of not having no sense — I mean mar-
ryin him. When I tink of myself burnin
up whole years of life in de emotions of
some tremenjous scene — and dis fat four-
flusher caperin about de lot like a fish stew
in a orphan asylum on Friday — I often asks
myself: what's de use of art? But no.
Mebbe dis sucker's fine wife'll get wise to
him some day and make him go to work
hisself or starve to death.
Did I tell you I been elected Mary
Pickford's principal support in her next
pitcher? I hold her up in de flyin ballet.
Next month "Pete" bids you farewell.
In the July issue of PHOTOPLAY, on sale June I, you will find the first installment of a new,
humorous personality serial of the studios, as full of shrewd philosophy and as true to life and the
moment as any American creation of brush or pen.
$5,000 apiece would be a bagatelle to a torpedoless submarine commander.
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Peggy Roche
TORPEDO BROKER
Peggy and George Seifert tried to beat each other from Flushing
to Amsterdam to consummate a deal. George got the last place
on the boat, but he had never heard of Kluis, the torpedo-dodger,
who made a business of sporting with the elusive submarine.
By Victor Rousseau
Illustrations by Charles D. Mitchell
m
" ¥ F you want to sell war goods nowa
I days, you'll have to go to Holland,'
they told Peggy everywhere
Europe.
She had soon discovered that statement
to be true. Agents of American firms
swarming through the unblockaded coun-
tries had made war goods r,bout as superflu-
ous as snow in January. Blankets, saddlery,
munitions, rifles, all were contracted for.
There was no placing of war orders in any
of the belligerent countries except Russia
and Germany ; Russia could be reached
only through Archangel in the frozen north
and Germany depended on the Dutch.
"Try Holland," was the advice dinned
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into Peggy's ears by everybody, until at
last she took everybody's advice and left
the Mediterranean for the north. And she
had not been three davs in Flushing before
she found that the country was even more
overrun with agents of American firms than
the south of Europe had been. There
seemed to be no dearth of business, but there
Avas nothing doing in promises to supply
backed by samples. The goods had to be
on hand.
And the Entente powers had effected an
agreement with certain trading companies
which made further imports impossible.
Over in Stamford, Connecticut, Jim Byrne,
president of the six thousand dollar war
goods corporation, was .sending Peggy fran-
tic cables asking when she was coming
home, and hinting that the business already
done would suffice to lay the foundations
of the little eight-room bungalow of their
dreams.
But Peggy wouldn't give up, for •on the
fourth day she did at last get on the track
of something. Her principal reason, how-
ever, was that she happend to see (ieorge
Seifert, representing one of the big Chicago
firms, grinning at her from the porch of the
Hotel Beau Rivage.
"Hello, Miss Roche!" he exclaimed,
wrinkling his face into a network of can-
yons. "Who'd have thought to see you
here! Long way from Jerusalem, ain't it?"
He chuckled as he took Peggy's slim
hand in his.
"Neat little trick you scored on us out
there," he said. "But seeing it^s Hagan
who got let in principally, I don't mind.
'Horse-blanket Hagan,' he's called in the
trade now. Haw ! Haw ! But say. Miss
Peggy, honest, you don't expect to sell war
goods in Flushing, do you?"
"That's what I'm here for," answered
Peggy demurely, taking her seat at Sei-
fert's side.
"That's all right as far as it goes, kiddo,
said George. "But you've got to have the
goods and you've got to have them when
they're wanted, and you've got to have
enough. Nobody's looking for less than
half-million dollar contracts these days.
Now, Where's Jim Byrne going to get half
a million from?"
"O, well, things are looking up with
us," said Peggy.
"Now see here, kid," said George, lean-
ing forward confidentially. "That bluff
won't work unless there's substance at the
back of it. In the early days of the war
it was possible for any cheap-skate — by
which I don't refer to Jim, you understand
— to butt in and pull out a five-thousand
dollar contract from under the noses of
us big fellers. We weren't worrying about
that. But n'owadays it's got to be big or-
ders. Now I sold the Germans a million
dollars' worth of torpedoes last month and
maybe I'll sell them some more. But it's
got to be big consignments, even when you
come down to blankets — soldiers' blankets
this time, not hor.ses'. And I guess you
haven't heard of any order like that going
begging, have you?"
He was peering with shrewd, wrinkled
eyes into the girl's face. Suddenly he
ripped out an explosive oath and slapped
his hand on his knee.
"By Jings, you're wise to it !"he shouted.
Peggy let her eyelash drop for an in-
stant on her cheek.
"How did you hear?" demanded George.
"A little bird told me," said Peggy, "that
there's two hundred thousand army blankets
hid by — "
"Go on!"
"A certain ex-contractor in a supposedly
deserted storehouse in a suburb of — "
"Well, I'm staggered!" said George
Seifert. wiping his forehead. "See here,
little girl ! I'll giye you a cool thousand
to keep it dark from the rest of us vul-
tures."
"I'm keeping it dark for myself," an-
swered the girl.
George Seifert laughed confidently.
"You put a blanket deal all over us in
Palestine," he said. "But this here's dif-
ferent. Now tJ€ reasonable, girlie. Here's
this contractor, dead or fugitive, and his
heirs don't know nothing about them blan-
kets he bought and held before the agree-
ment was made that stopped blanket
imports. Only one man knows, besides our-
selves, and he gets ten percent from me to
keep his mouth shut."
"I've promised him ten too," said Peggy.
"Is that straight?" asked George. "You
haven't raised my ante? Say, we can't af-
ford to outbid each other and lose all the
profits."
"That's straight," said Peggy. "I don't
outbid business rivals in a game like this.
It's a fair race and no handicap."
"All right," said George. "I knew you
Peggy Roche
57
were square, though it wouldn't matter if
you offered him fifty, because you've lost.
The one of us that first gets to the German
border can sell those blankets, undelivered,
at a thundering good profit, eh?"
"That's right, George Seifert."
"And we can't get a wire through and
we daren't take the risk of writing and
having the mail censor open our letters
and get wise to the bonanza. And we can't
cross the German boundary by land. It
means a boat from Flushing to Copen-
hagen, and then by sea to Hamburg."
"Agreed," said Peggy.
"Then I've won," said George, smiling.
"Why?" asked the girl.
"Because there were only eight vacant
places on tomorrow's boat, and I've taken
them all."
Peggy smiled at him blankly, and it
needed all her courage to conceal the stun-
ning nature of the blow.
"That's why I offered you a thousand to
give up," said George Seifert. "It's just
hush money. It'll take you home, kid.
What's the verdict?"
"No," answered Peggy.
The desperate hope that some passenger,
getting off at Ammelen down the river,
might yield Peggy his place to Copenhagen
was speedily frustrated. At the Ammelen
booking office Peggy was told that passen-
gers were not allowed to embark there,
owing to the presence of submarines off the
winding channels of the Scheldt. Peggy,
rendered desperate by the news, went for a
walk along the beach of the little fishing
village.
She sat down in a sheltered corner and
looked dismally seaward. Thousands of
miles across the beating waves she fancied
Jim, toiling in his little war contracts office,
engaging in the great American game of
bluff, and engaging successfully. She had
put the little concern upon its legs ; already
she had done far more than she contracted
to do when she persuaded him to let her
represent him abroad. P.ut she did want
that contract from the German government
for the army blankets.
And, hopeless as the venture had always
seemed to her, it had become galvanized
into a living chance by her contact with
George Seifert at the Flushing Hotel.
She knew that only Seifert and she were
acquainted with the existence of the blan-
kets. It was a case of the first to reach
Hamburg getting the contract. The own-
ers, when they learned of them, would rush
to sell. And George had tricked her out of
the journey. Not for a week would another
steamer leave for the Baltic.
A gentle whirring sound which became
manifest above the beat of the waves at-
tracted the girl's attention. She looked up.
A little fishing sloop was beating in to the
beach. Further out at sea a vessel of curi-
ous design, which might have been a
merchantman or might not, was passing
leisurely northward. But as Peggy looked
she saw it put about suddenly ; and then
again she lieard the curious whir. And
once again the vessel changed its course,
and again came the whir, and a white streak
developed on the face of the waves.
Something like a huge fish was coming
leisurely ashore. Peggy went down to the
water's edge. The monster moved so
gently that it was almost stationary. It
reached the beach and rested peacefully
upon its face at Peggy's feet.
It was a torpedo.
Peggy had learned a good deal about
torpedoes since her journey to Europe be-
gan. She saw at once that it was of Ger-
man make and must have been fired from
a great distance at the vessel now tacking
and twisting alongshore in the distance.
So far away had the submarine been that
the missile had come to a standstill and now
rested, charged and ready for further use,
upon the shore.
Suddenly something else caught the girl's
attention. Ten feet away a second of the
monsters lay, likewise undischarged, its
ugly nose half buried in the sand. And ten
feet furtlier was a third.
The submarine had discharged all three
at the elusive vessel. Peggy knew instantly
by the make of the missiles that they came
from one of the old-fashioned submarines,
capable of containing only three torpedoes
in its torpedo compartment.
The beginnings of a scheme came into
her brain, but so fantastic that she shook
the idea from her impatiently. And while
she still fought to free her.self from it, the
little fishing sloop ran ashore and a typical
bronze-bearded salt stepped out.
He looked at Peggy inquiringly and then
caught sight of the torpedoes. He grunted
and spoke in Flemish.
"American," said Peggy briefly.
"You want a sail, miss?" he asked.
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"Why yes, I do," said Peggy.
But for the life of her she could not un-
derstand why she had said that.
The sailor laughed and bit a chew off 3.
plug of black tobacco. He leaned confi-
dentially against the gunwale.
"Last year, plenty Americans coom," he
said. "Plenty English. Mooch money I
The torpedo whizzed by so close that it
make, taking them on the water. Now — "
he spread out his hands — "nothing, miss.
Nothing. And no more fish."
"No fishing?"
"Too manv submarines. Submarines, dey
blow fishing sloops to pieces. See !" He
pointed to the torpedoes. "Often we find
them fellers along the beach. Sell — yes,
Peggy Roche
59
almost grazed the low side of the sloop.
for scrap metal. But dese no exploded.
Goot money in dem."
"Did you see the submarine fire at that
ship?" asked Peggy.
"Sure I see heem, miss. Domned sorrv
I be. For if that ship not had been there,
at me would he have fired. I am Jan
Kluis."
"I'm happy to meet you, Mr. Kluis," said
Peggy, extending her little hand, which the
sailor clasped, rather apologetically, in his
great caloused one.
"As for me." he said, chewing vigorously,
"I go catch feesh. Yes. miss. I am not
fear for submarines. It is easy. You keep
the eyes sharp, you see , domned torpedo
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coming, and maybe the periscope sticking
oop. Whoosh ! You put about. Torpedo
buz by you. No danger from torpedo. But
the others are feared of heem."
"You have been shot at, then?" asked
Peggy.
Jan Kluis laughed jovially.
"Every day for three weeks past they
shoot at me," he said. "Three torpedoes
one after anodder — whoosh ! whoosh !
whoosh ! Then I know no more can come,
because dey only carry three, and afraid to
use gun for fear coast batteries fire on
them because inside Hollandish waters. As
soon as three are fired, submarine goes oflE
to Oog, to get more torpedoes, and anodder
submarine takes his place. Oh yes, Captain
Krauss due this afternoon. I know heem
very well. Captain Kraus very fine gen-
tleman."
"You — know him?" gasped Peggy.
"I know them all, miss. You see as soon
as torpedo shot, I sail up to submarine. 'Ho
you do today, Captain?' I call. 'Not so
goot shot as Captain Mueller.' 'Some day
we get you, Kluis,' dey laugh. And once
Captain Krauss he give me dinner."
Peggy was too amazed for utterance.
Could the desperate game of war afford
such interludes as these? Or was Jan
Kluis romancing?
But suddenly the thought which had been
latent in her mind leaped into full con-
sciousness. Torpedoes were sold at about
fifteen hundred dollars apiece. But a sub-
marine which had shot its three away would
gladly pay more — anything. Five thou-
sand apiece would be a bagatelle to a tor-
pedoless submarine commander. She turned
to Kluis.
"What shall we do with these?" she
asked, indicating the missiles.
"Goot money in dem," he answered. "I
sell in Ammelen."
"Pardon me! I sell in Ammelen," said
Peggy.
For an instant their eyes met in chal-
lenge, while Dutch blood and the kindred
New England blood strove in mute rivalry.
Then Jan Kluis heaved a sigh.
"We both sell in Ammelen," he said re-
gretfully. "One hoondred guilder for you,
one hoondred guilder for me."
"You think that, do you?" said Peggy
scornfully. "What do you think of this :
two thousand five hundred guilder for you,
two thousand five hundred guilder for me?"
The Dutchman's imperturbability was
shaken. The quid hung in his cheek. He
gaped at Peggy.
"Who — who would give five thousand
guilder for a torpedo?" he muttered.
"Captain Krauss," answered Peggy.
"And we'll sell them back to him when he
comes around."
Captain Krauss' best work was done soon
after sunrise, when the light on the waves
m"ade detectitn difficult. His operations,
when on duty, were within the disputed
waters of the Scheldt estuary and his in-
structions were to torpedo anything that
attempted to leave the shore. In the course
of performing this he had had several in-
teresting encounters with Jan Kluis.
Kluis did not need to fish for a living.
He had run so manv cargoes of fish, contra-
band, tobacco and Holland gin to England
that he had amassed a comfortable little
competence. In fact his journeys upon the
sea had been confined of recent years to
taking parties of American tourists sailing.
No sooner, however, did the secret sub-
marine blockade of Scheldt begin than
Kluis felt something in his sluggish Flem-
ish blood warm to the challenge. He re-
sented the closed sea. He longed for a
free sea, although he did not know that he
was speculating in terms of international
law. So he put out with his nets, and had
his gear ripped by a torpedo.
That showed him what he was to expect.
He saw that the torpedo was a compara-
tively slow-moving object. With reason-
able care, granted that one kept one's eyes
open, anybody could escape a torpedo by
the simple process of putting the helm
about. In the days following this discovery
he enjoyed himself dodging the German
missiles.
The blockaders, at first furious, came to
be amused, and then to like the old man.
They hurled their torpedoes at him through
the water. Sometimes two submarines
would engage him simultaneously. But
Kluis developed a corresponding agility.
It was a simple matter of optics and mathe-
matics. Kluis always came off best.
One day after three torpedoes had been
hurled at him by one of the ships, he put
about and drew alongside. Captain Krauss,
perfectly helpless — for his orders not to fire
his gun were stringent — prepared to sub-
merire, fearing that some infernal weapon
lav hidden in Kluis' boat. -But at the old
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fellow's hail he changed his mind. He took
him aboard and gave him a meal, a tot of
rum and half a dozen cigars.
Thereafter the blockaders redoubled
their efforts to sink the sloop, but so far
they had not succeeded.
Krauss groaned when, on the follow-
ing morning,
soon after sunrise,
he perceived the in-
evitable Kluis with
his nets staked
around a shoal, less
than a half-mile dis-
tant. H i s instruc-
tions were to get rid
of Kluis, but he had
more important
work on hand. His
submarine was of
the old type that
carried only three
torpedoes, and he
would have given
anything he p o s-
sessed just then to
teave the Dutchrnan
alone. However, or-
d e r s had to be
obeyed.
"There's Kluis!"
he said to his lieu-
tenant. "Pretending
to fish as usual. This
time we get him for
stu^e, Hoffmeyer !"
H 0 f f m e y e r
nodded. They crept
along very cautious-
ly, with only the tip
of the p e r i-
scope appear-
ing above the
waters, which
were smooth
enough to fa- ^
cilitate this
m^anoeuvre.
They were
within five
hundred yards
of Kluis be-
fore the old
man, seeing nothing, but scenting danger,
lifted his head.
"There's a periscope !" exclaimed Peggy,
puddenlv.
As she spoke the white trail of the tor-
pedo was seen, the bubbles of the com-
pressed air which drove her leaving a little
surge on either side. Kluis jammed down
his helm.
That was his narrowest
squeak. The torpedo
"It is essential. Captain Krauss, "
said Peggy, "that I reach Hamburg
before the Gelderland. "
whizzed by so close that it almost grazed
the high side of the sloop. A touch — and
Kluis would have played his last stake for
a free and open sea.
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Krauss saw the near success cf his ma-
noeuvre. He reckoned that Kluis was
rattled. He sent his second torpedo in the
wake of the first.
This time Kluis was prepared. He had
run up his gaif tops and bobbed jauntily
past the second missile, without even turn-
ing bow on.
"A little to the port !" Krauss yelled down
his tube to the men in the torpedo room.
"Hold hard!" said HofFmeyer. "Look,
Captain ! There's a woman with him !"
As he spoke the submarine shuddered
from the release of the third torpedo. It
spun far in the wake of the little bobbing
sloop. Kluis .shouted with amusement and
the faint echoes of his laughter reached
Krauss' ears.
"We'll never get him, never," said HofiF-
meyer dismally.
"I'm going to run him down," answered
the captain. "Get ready, Hoffmeyer, to
jump in and pull out the girl."
"And Kluis?" queried the other.
"Sink him !" said Krauss vindictively.
A word down the engine room tube, and
Kluis was amazed to see the submarine,
awash among the waves, dash for his sloop.
He had not reckoned on that.
Yet, as he prepared to dodge, the old
fellow knew that a sturdy sloop, driven
hard, could ram a hole through the paper
sides of a submarine. He did not run —
could not, the wind being unfavorable — but
put about and prepared to meet the shock
bow to bow.
Krauss, on the bridge, saw the manoeuvre
and shirred away just in time. The sub-
marine and the fishing sloop actually grated
as they drew together.
"Morning, Captain Krauss," yelled
Kluis cheerfully as they passed.
Captain Krauss slowed down. He came
back shaking his head sorrowfully. He
would never get Kluis.
"A lady wanls to speak with you," cried
Kluis from his boat.
"What?" cried the other, incredulously.
"She wants to speak with you. She's got
something to sell — something you'll want,
Captain."
The submarme now lay awash in the
waves. Kluis hauled his sails down, seized
an oar and paddled alongside. Krauss
noticed three large cylindrical objects in
the sloop.
"Do you want three torpedoes?" inquired
Peggy. "Ready for use, German make and
guaranteed sound?"
Paralyzed at the sight, Krauss stood
stifHy at attention. Hoffmeyer leaped from-
the deck into the sloop.
"Tliey're ours. Captain !" he yelled back.
"They must have picked them up along-
shore."
"Then perhaps you'll hand them over to
us — and tliank you," said the submarine
commander stiffly.
Peggy sat down on one of the torpedoes.
"Under Dutch law findings along the
shore are keepings," she announced. "I'm
offering these at five thousand dollars
apiece."
Krauss glared at her. "What's to pre-
vent my taking them?" he inquired.
"You can't," said Peggy. "One roll of
the boat, and they'll go to the bottom.
"And take you with them?" sneered the
Captain.
"I only deal with gentlemen," said Peggy
caustically. "Mr. Kluis, put about, please."
"Stop!" said Krauss. "I'll take them
and give you —
"Fifteen thousand dollars in German
mark bills."
And, as he hesitated, Peggy leaned
heavily against the side of the boat. HofF-
meyer grabbed at her ; the boat inclined
over still more.
"You shall have it," said Krauss. "Bear
your weight on this side, HofFmeyer. After
all, " he added, "It's the German Govern-
ment' you're robbing, not me."
"There's one condition further," an-
swered Peggy.
"Name it."
"I want a free passage to Hamburg
aboard your submarine."
"With the greatest of pleasure. Made-
moiselle New York," said Krauss. "Step
aboard and we'll soon have our torpedoes
back again."
"You'd better bring the money here first,"
said Peggy. "Mr. Kluis and I are partners
in this venture."
"For a whole half-minute Krauss looked
at her speechless, while Peggy returned his
stare. Then he touched his cap in salu-
tation.
"After the war I'm going to America to
live," he said. "I've often thought I'd like
an American wife and now I know I
should."
"Thank you," said Peggy, "but I'm con-
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tracted for. However I've got a nice little
sister at boarding-school in the Bronx. Let
me know when you're coming and I'll in-
troduce you."
"It is essential, Captain Krauss," said
Peggy, half an hour later, "that I reach
Hamburg before the Gelderland. I've got
a business rival aboard her and I've got to
best him on a contract."
They were seated in the tiny cabin, which
was filled with the mingled fumes of oil,
compressed air, and cholorine gas. Cap-
tain Krauss had courteously placed the re-
sources of the ship's larder at Peggy's dis-
posal, but the girl's head ached badly and
she was unable to force herself to eat.
"Don't worry about that," replied the
Captain. "We shall reach there long be-
fore her — very long."
"How long will the voyage last?"
"Three days. But we shall run afloat
except if we should happen to meet any-
body we don't like, or don't want to meet.
It won't be bad after the smell has blown
away."
It was as bad as it could be. The little
boat, which was now almost out of sight of
the coast, rocked terribly and the machinery
throbbed incessantly in Peggy's ears. Yet
neatly tucked away in her pocket were
seven thousand five hundred dollars — Jim's
profits and hers ! Peggy found herself in-
voluntarily dreaming of a hilly .shore oppo-
site Connecticut, across the sound, an eight-
room bungalow and the garage that Jim
and she had always promised themselves.
"The Gelderland takes less than two days
(m the trip," said Peggy.
"The Gelderland will not make the full
trip this time," responded Krauss, smiling.
Something in his manner arrested the
girl's attention.
"What do you mean?" she asked sharply.
And suddenly she understood. "You mean
you are going to torpedo the Gelderland?"
she cried.
Krauss' eyebrows elevated themselves a
little, but he nodded briskly.
"You shan't!" said Peggy furiously.
"You shan't, I tell you. Why — why, there
are women and children on board. And
Americans."
"They have been warned. They have no
business to try to cross the zone of blockade.
I have my orders."
"But — but — " gasped Peggy, "I — I sold
you the torpedoes !"
"For which I thank you, Mademoiselle
America," replied the Captain, placing his
hand on his heart as he bowed.
She clutched his arm. "Captain Krauss !"
she cried. "That will make me a murderess.
You dare not do it !"
"I hardly dare, indeed," answered the
other. "Only, you see, I have my orders
and I have your receipt for the torpedoes,
for which I must account. Consequently I
must obey orders."
"I'll buy them back," said Peggy.
"Unfortunately that is impossible," re-
turned the other suavely. "There was a
witness to the transaction. Besides my or-
ders must be obeyed. That is all there is
to it."
Peggy was stunned. She tried to speak,
but instead, sank down and burst into tears.
Captain Krauss was touched. He paced
his little cabin impatiently. Several times
he began to address her, but each time the
spectacle of her helpless grief stopped him.
At last he went to her and placed his hand
in a kindly fashion upon her shoulder.
"I am sorry. I am so sorry," he said.
"But it is war, and — the responsibility tvill
not rest on you."
"Captain Krauss, you must not sink that
ship. I appeal to you as a man. Are you
going to commit murder? Can you not at
least warn her and save the passengers?"
"My orders are to sink the Gelderland."
"But if she stops? Your orders are not
to sink the passengers with the ship?"
"They shall, have twenty minutes, of
course. But if I am attacked, or if the
Gelderland attempts to fly, I sink her."
Peggy felt hope begin to stir in her heart
again. "You led me to believe that you
meant to sink the passengers without warn-
ing," she said.
"I was not thinking of the passengers,"
said Krauss.
Lieutenant Hoffmeyer knocked at the
door and put his head inside at his cap-
tain's uttered "herein !" "The Gelderland
is sighted," he announced.
The captain ran up on the deck. Peggy
followed him and saw the crew grouped
around their leader, anxiously watching a
coil of smoke against the distant horizon.
"You must go down," said Krauss, tak-
ing Peggy by the arm. "We are going to
submerge."
The hours that followed were a night-
mare to the girl, a long mental agony in
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which each episode stood out with unfor-
gettable clearness.
The dim green light that filtered beneath
the surface of the waves seemed like a sheer
curtain drawn against the porthole of the
little craft. The electric lights blazed, the
hum of the electric engines shook the ves-
sel and slowly the stifling stench of the
compressed air grew until each breath was
a choking gasp. At last Peggy could en-
dure the suspense no longer. She hurried
from the cabin and ran into the conning
tower. Captain Krauss was standing, his
eyes fixed upon the mirror before him.
Over his shoulder Peggy saw the great
bulk of the Gelderland, as she steamed gaily
upon her way. The Dutch flag flew from
her peak and was painted huge upon her
sides. She loomed up so large that she
seemed hardly a ship's length away.
At that moment the submarine tilted up-
ward. Daylight appeared. Krauss turned
to Peggy.
"She shall have her chance," he said, and
as he spoke, the gun boomed from the deck
beside them, almost throwing the girl from
her feet.
The suljmarine lay awash again. Outside
the conning tower Peggy saw the flag flying,
the gun aimed at the vitals of the big ves-
sel a hundred yards away. Krauss shouted
through a megaphone:
"TAventy minutes to get your passengers
off before I sink you !"
Yet it was half an hour before the last
of the packed boats left the Gelderland's
side. Peggy had spent that half hour in
anguish, for the appearance of a hostile
cruiser would have meant death to all those
aboard. However, the horizon remained
clear, and in the smooth sea the life boats
got away without difficulty. Crowded with
their human freight, they pulled suddenly
toward the submarine, which lay between
them and the faint hazy line of the horizon.
As soon as the last boat had left the
Gelderland's side the first of Peggy's tor-
pedoes was launched from the submarine's
bows. The girl watched the white trail
through the water. It neared the Gelder-
land, it touched it; and a hideous detona-
tion followed. Spars and planks flew into
the air. The Gelderland heeled over.
"One will be enough," said Krauss, at
Peggy's side, to his lieutenant. And he
turned to salute the captain of the dying
ship, who was approaching in the last boat
to leave her.
"A pleasant voyage to the shore," he re-
marked.
"Assassin !" shouted the man in the gold-
braided uniform, shaking his fist.
Krauss lauglied, and just then Peggy
uttered a scream. A cry from the boat an-
swered her. Seated beside the Captain was
George Seifert, wearing the same suit that
he had worn at the hotel, but wearing a
very different look upon his face from, that
which he had worn at the Beau Rivage.
The recognition was mutual and simul-
taneous.
"A friend of yours, Miss New York?"
asked Krauss blandly, raising his hand for
the boat to halt.
"It's the man who's trying to get to Ham-
burg before me," answered Peggy.
"Well, he won't," answered Krauss.
"But he'll reach the shore all right, so don't
you worry about him."
A moaning cry came from George Sei-
fert's lips. "W-w-what are you doing
there?" he groaned.
"O, I've just made a sale of torpedoes to
the German government," called Pegg3%
laughing in her relief. Until that moment
so oppressed had she been by the fear of a
tragedy that she had forgotten Seifert's ex-
istence. "And I'm on my way to talk
blankets with them," she continued. "Sol-
diers'— not horse blankets."
With a glare which combined the maxi-
mum of surprise and amazement with the
maximum of contempt, George Seifert
turned his back.
"A friend of yours?" asked Krauss. "I
can take him along to Hamburg with us, if
you would like me to."
"No," answered Peggj', frantically. "Let
them go on. captain, let them go on."
And, at the captain's signal, the lifeboat
resumed its course toward the shore.
You have
not
seen,
heard or
read
about
Pe
ggy
Roch
e before.
She
is not
in
any
screen
or stage
play.
i
A PESSIMIST AT THE PICTURE SHOW
By E. W. GALE, JR.
J 5EAT w?0 I^RD^SeIm "^ TmE\A/BVTHE 5'uB-TlTi.E5- PARSED BEFORE Hl5
^■^ THE S-HOW BEFORE.. RPtPTe«ZE..
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Here, in simple phraseology, is depicted the screen's subtlest power:
its ability to glorify commonplace lives, to bring adventure to the adven-
tureless, to warm in the glow of romance those whose days of romance
are dead. "At the Picture Show" is one of the few pieces of
genuine literature so far inspired by the camera. — Ed. PHOTOPLAY-
At the Picture Show
5 HE sits with eyes intent upon the They touch strange, buried, dispossessed
screen, old dreams.
A quiet woman with work-hardened And while her hand plays with the
hands. baby's curls
Beside her squirms an eager, shock-head Unthinking, once again she sees the face
■'' That swayed her youth as ocean tides are
Upon her lap a little rumpled girl swayed
With petalled cheek and bright, play- Until she broke her heart to save her
roughened hai ; soul . . .
While, bulwark of the little family group, And fled back to her native town . . .
Her husband looms, with one unconscious
arm In the gray canyons of the city streets
Lying along her chair-back. So they All the high hopes of youth. . . .
come
Often, etnd for a few cents, more or less.
Slip through the wicket-gate of wonder-
ment
That bounds the beaten paths of every-
day.
The Indians and the horses thrill the
boy
With dreams of great adventure; the big
man
Likes the great bridges, and the curious
lore
Of alien folk in other lands; the child
Laughs at the funny way the people die.
And she>
She has picked up
Her life since then, and made a goodly
thing
Out of the fragments; that is written plain
Upon the simple page for all to see.
I fancy that she hardly thinks of him
Through all her wholesome days; but
when, at night.
They go a-voyaging across the screen.
And suddenly a street-lamp throws a
gleam
On a wet pavement ... a man sits alone
On a park bench ... or else goes swing-
ing past
With that expression to his overcoat. . . .
The way the hero's overcoat
Sets to his shoulders; or a lock of hair
Tossed back impatiently; or else a smile,
A visible sigh, an eyebrow lifted, so, —
— KARL WILSON BAKER in the Yale Review,
She does not pick this player-man, or
that.
But all the heroes have some trick of
his. . . .
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"Who's Married to Who"
WE'\'K an idea that "Who's married
to i^-'ho'' isn't exactly grammatical,
but as Al Jolson has so sweetly
said: "What's grammar when you know
each other?" Besides, this is an easy, clear
little expression that explains our group of
husbands and wives on the lot and around
the studio. I'he camera calling pn-
motes domesticity because it provirle,-
a place of more or less permanent
residence and invites home
building. In pictures the
stage nomad is likely
to become the town's
pioneer resident.
A BRIEF PICTORIAL
GUIDE TO CUPID'S
FATALITIES IN CELLULOID
Hartsook
Photo
Witzel Photo
l-y Caijipbell Stiulu
(>7
Don't think Minam Cooper is
Mrs. Walter Long, just because
he beats her up on the screen.
The minister gave the real fight-
ing privilege to Raoul Walsh.
Didn't know there was a
Mrs. Bryant Washburn?
Yes indeed at your right —
stage name, Mabel Fonest.
The Hickmans,who appear
at the left, Howard and
Bessie Barriscale, are a fa-
mous stage and screen pair.
Photo by Matzene
Plioto by Witzel
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Photo by Witzel
Anna Nillson, at
right (some peach)
wears Guy Coombs
ball and chain.
Underwood &
Underwood
At your left, Marjorie
Rambeau and her husband,
Willard Mack. The other
pair are Famous Players'
ingenue, Louise Huff, and
her husband, Edgar Jones,
well-known director.
Photo by Witzel
Photo by Gilbert & Bacon
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1
A Brief
The portrait is a neiv one.
Just taken for Photoplay.
Thanks to our magical art
director, from Mr. Dwan 's
hands is seen issuing a
scene from his own past: a
glimpse at Triangle's east-
ern studio about the time
Dorothy Gish ivas being
sun-painted into "Betty oj
Grey stone."
Memorandum
PROFESSOR OF ELECTRIC-
ITY, DOCTOR OF ACTIVE
PHOTOGRAPHY AND
ENGINEER OF EMOTIONS
By Julian Johnson
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On Alan Dwan, P. E., D. A. P., E. M.
A COLLEGE prui'essor," says Allan
Dwan, "is a college graduate of
grim determination who resolves to
spend the rest of liis life in the same place
to find out what he went there for."
"Do you ihink he ever does find out?" I
asked.
"That depends on the man. not on the
college," concluded Dwan.
You see, this directorial gentleman was a
professor himself, not so many years ago.
We come to the consequential part of his
life when he entered Notre Dame Univer-
sity, Indiana, to study electricity. He be-
came an electrical engineer — a doctor or
master of it, or something — and then -he
remained in the college as a professor of
engineering.
Dr. Dwan became dissatisfied with ped-
agogy after Avearing the si|uare tasseled hat
only a little while. He did a number of
things, and a Jury might make him admit
that he tackled musical cometly. enlisting
as a private.
However —
He entered tlie motion picture field in
i 908, and at that moment electricity lost
a bright spark, and musical comedy one
its most commonplace personalities. Dwan
is essentially a creator, and essential crea-
tors are low-grade interpreters. And vice-
versa. Actors' plays and authors' acting —
two things of like dreadfulness.
liack to the plot : Dr. Dwan saluted tlie
camera at Essanav in Chicago. He was
writing scenarios then. Two years later he
joined the scenario department of the
.Vmerican P'ilm Company, also in Chicago.
Then he became a director, and as director
went to Santa Barbara. Though vou mav
not know or recall it. Dr. Dwan first gained
repute as the director of the famous old
"Flying A" quartette, whicli included Jack
Kerrigan, Pauline Bush, Louise Lester and
Jack Richardson.
Dr. Dwan's Famous
began in 1913. He
Foundling" and "The
for .Mar\' Pickford :
"'I'he Straight Road," with (lladys Hanson
and Bill Rnsseil, and "Wildflower," and
"The Pretty Sister of Jose," with Mar-
guerite Clark. His Fine Arts pic-
tures included "Betty of (ireystone."
and "Jordan is a Hard Road."
"The Habit of Happiness."
1 l)elieve that
Pla\x'rs connection
conjured uji "The
Cirl of Vesterdav.'
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"Manhattan Madness." "The Good-Bad
Man," and "The Half Breed" were Doug-
las Fairbanks plays to which lie vouchsafed
his highly individual tactics.
More recently, the great "Panthea."
Now in process of manufacture : tlie
(ioldwyn Maxine Elliott release.
Next: studio-generalship for Triangle
in the East, with headquarters at Yonkers,
N. Y.
"I don't intend to direct myself," .said
Dwan to me
over a din-
ner table in
-the Hotel
Algoncjuin,
Manhattan.
"I'm going to make, or try to make, both
authors and directors."
In a way, I think this regrettable. Dr.
Dwan is a mine of energy, a likeable fellow
and a wonderful explainer, but he can't
])ass (in the peculiar gifts that are Dwan's.
He can't teacli other people how to make
Panthcas and Half-Breeds. If he could,
he Avouldn't be a man ; he'd be a miracle.
Have you ever noticed that the artists of
todav don't measure up to an artist's freak
reputation of tra-
(b'tion?
For instance, Dr.
Dwan. Now, no
slave of Wall
/ street is more a
nere. total busi-
ness man than
he. Be tardy on
tlie worst morn-
ing in winter, and
Dr. Dwan and his
cameraman,
Rene Guissart
you've crabbed
yourself with him. Notwith-
standing the smile which is
'most always in evidence, and which the
halftone maker has distributed generally
over these leaves, they say that Dr. Dwan
drives like Hindenburg. I can believe it.
I've seen him talk to actors and make
engagements for authors and directors.
{Continued to page 177)
She
Wearied
of the
Juleps
— AND IF THAT
ISN'T SOUTHERN
TREASON, WE
WANT TO KNOW
A portrait, and iu
a recent photoplay.
PADUCAH. Kentucky,
is always doing some- /
thing of which to be
proud, and it didn't fall
down when it acted as the birth place
of Gladys Coburn. The manner in
which she bestrides her steed indicates
that she came from the blue grass coun-
try. One can't gaze forever 0*1 the wav
ing fields of mint julep, however, so Miss
Coburn heeded the call of the cinema. Her
biggest success was in "The Primitive
Call," produced by Fox. Since then Miss
Coburn, according to the press agent, has
committed an overt act — she has left Fox,
and her whereabouts on the high seas of the
cinema are unknown. _
T
mg
that
HE lowly interviewer made his way
along East 19th Street, his lips mov-
ing oddly. Poor fellow he was try-
in his feeble way to count the victims
liad been plunged deep into screen mis-
ery Ijy Theda Bara, the vampish vanquisher.
"Three thousand . . ." he murmured,
"three thousand and one, three thousand
and two, three thousand and three. . . ."
Suddenly he stopped, entered a doorwav,
ascended the stairs and found himself in
a studio ; a sombre studio with low rafters,
1)1(1 furniture, and walls decorated with
i|uaint tapestries. .\. beautiful woman, a
dark woman, met him at the door. It was
'I'heda Bara, and she said : "Come in."
"Where is Belva?" demanded the re-
|i<)rter. noting the absence of the famous
Russian wolf-hound.
"Belva?" said Miss Bara dolefully,
"Belva is dead."
"Dead I" tlic other exclaimed, "dreat
Scott, he can't be dead ! We've got a pic-
ture of him to run with tins storv.
"But he is not gone," she .said tearfullv.
"I can .see him in the crystal."
"There."' she .cried, ".see him!"
Tiie interviewer looked: "No," he said.
"All I see is tliat 1 need a new hat."
"He is tliere!" the vampire went on. "I
see him gamlwling in the Heaven of dogs.
Hark ! — did vou iicar that? — it was Belva's
bark."
I'iie reporter listened ; all he heard was
the .clatter of dishes in a one arm place
down the street.
"That was no bark," he said flatly.
"\\'ell. . if you didn't hear it you can't
write a story, can you? Now listen again."
"Great Scott !" he exclaimed, "I hear it now
—loud as a red tie with an evening suit."
And he hurried back to write this story.
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Ghostly
Belva
Barks at
Bara
A photograph
'^ ' showing Belva at
Miss Bara' s feet.
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Photo by Stagg
THE NEW DANCES MAY COME AND
GO -AS THEY DO — BUT WE HAVE
ALWAYS WITH US: THE TENNIS BALL
ORDER IN THE COURT!
HTHERE has to be — the Gishes are play-
ing tennis. Consider the charmer to
the left, the one who looks as if she saw a
U boat approaching on all fours across the
netted arena. This is Dorothy. Now cast
your eye upon the divinity at the right,
the one who appears to have sinister inten-
tions toward the ball she holds in hand.
This is the fair Lillian. When you see
how trimly they are dressed you wouldn't
think they had been playing a stiff game
for five hours, would you? Of course not.
They haven't, either. They were just
warming up for an eight-reeler. The set
looks to us like unmixed doubles. The
score at present is "Love — Both of Them."
What Keenan Did At High Noon
Frank Keenan in
"The Phantom."
1
HE THREW THE PLOW AWAY
AND BECAME AN EAST LYNNER
— OH. MANY YEARS AGO!
r was high noon un the Iowa prairies, not long
after rhe Civil War. It's always high noon in
a story like this. Anyhow the sun was beating-
down upon a simple yokel who was busy
plowing. The lad turned and looked back upon
the eighty acres he had already torn up. and sud-
denly with ah impatient gesture he seized the plow
and threw it, team and all, into the next township.
"Fm through with this forever!" lie said, hi^ clear
Iowa voice ringing out in the noon air. wliich was
.silent except for the song of the bobolinks, the crowing
of the tomato wormg and the hum of mos(|uitoes getting \.
ready for a hard night's work.
At that moment a tall man appeared suddenlv ujion the
scene. It was the boy's father.
"Where is the plow, son?" he demanded, "and Black Bessie and
Tan Tillie?" (Author's note : tliese were the horses.)
The boy looked abashed ; he was a liasliful boy.
"Father," he said, "I threw them into yonder township," and he
indicated the spire of the Methodist church five miles away. "I did
so. father, because I do not like farm work — I'm going to be an
actor."
Hurt, amazed, dumfounded, the elder man stood there. The
bov turned and walked away. The sun beat down ; it was high
noon.
This may not be the exact truth, but it expresses the attitude
of Frank Keenan's mind when he lived near El Kader, la.
At any rate Frank became an "East Lynner." The saddest
part of that incident was that he got only $9 a week and had
to listen to the manager of the troupe playing the organ
which constituted the three-piece orchestra — instrument,
stool and cover. But Frank was a strong lad and it took
more than organs to lay him out.
From that time on his rise wa=
rapid and in a few- years he be-
came known as a character
actor of power and versatil-
ity. His most notable suc-
cess was the sheriff, in
"The Girl of the Golden
West." In the past fifteen
months he has appeared
in a number of remarkable
Ince photoplays.
When he was famous, he
went back to El Kader, the
town of the heroic plow-throw-
ing. There he met the druggist.
(Continiicii on pa_i;e 146 )
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^Tritz" and His Hired
—YOU'VE FOLLOWED "FRITZ'S"
TWINKLING IRON HEELS
THROUGH MANY A REEL: HE'S
BILL HART'S SPLENDID HORSE
IF you want to chase Bill Hart's goat
out into the open, just ask him who
trained "Fritz." Now. in spite of indi-
cations to the contrary, as furnished by the
way he bites his words in two on the screen.
Bill isn't given to going up in a pink bal-
loon every time anyone drops an aggravat-
ing remark. But it's a safe bet that you'll
provoke him to make an ascension, if you
select the "Fritz" subject for your prodding
fork. "Fritz" is the pinto cow-pony Bill
rides in the Ince pictures — the dancing,
prancing animal that finds a place in virtu-
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Splitting the
page, Hart on
a ivhite
charger, one
day while
"Fritz" was
in luce's
office, holding
him up for
more salary.
"Fritz" and His Hired Man
ally all of the western 'scripts, and thereby
makes some fifty or sixty otiier Inceville
colts jealous.
The point of the story is that Bill maelc
a wonder-horse of "Fritz;" yet. an omnis-
cient puncher attempted to discredit the
achievement. .\nd that's wliat has made
Bill sore.
^^'hen Bill Hart went to Inceville in the
summer of 1914. to make screen shrapnel
under the Ince banner, "Fritz" was just an
ordinary horse. Endowed with a chocolate-
and-white coat, he quite naturally appealed
more strongly to the eye than did any of
the other corral-steeds. But he was merelv
an eipiine medicine-ball among
the cowbo\'s.
< )ne day. Hart picked
out "Fritz" for his mount in
a two-reel play. Under-
standing horses, the be-
loved Bill was attracted bv
the pinto's unusual displav
nf "liorse-sense." "Fritz"
lidn't do anything extraordinary
— he just re.s]ionded nobly to every
reasonable command given bv
Bill — vet Bill was seized witli
a "huncli" lliat "l-'ritz'\ one dav, would be
a trii'kster. .So. lie picked on "Fritz" at
every ()j)portunity. selecting him consist-
ently to work in the western plays.
By patience and kindly treatmeiu and
other methods that oiih" a horseman know--.
Bill gradually induced "Fritz" In do tilings
the average horse cannot do. lie tauglit
him to fall, to feign deatli, to pose, to
kneel.
Came "i'ruthful Tulliver" — and with it
the hardest job that has ever confronted
"Fritz." But. he did it ; with Hart astride
him he dashed madly into tlie saloon,
raced across the floor antl leajied through
a closed window to the ground below, the
while Hart's .suasive words flowed into his
ears and calloused hands stroked his mane.
So. don't ask Bill who trained "Fritz."
for until Hart came
to Inceville
"Fritz" h a
had "nobod\-
home at all."
The Wild Woman of Babylon
A MANICURED MADCAP,
THIS MOCKER OF BABY-
LON'S MIGHTIEST MEN
By Grace Kingsley
WHY, you'd know her for the
Mountain Maid anywhere!
Onlv her chariot has turned
into a Stutz and the. skins slic now
wears are fox furs.
All Constance Talmadge needed in
lier quest for fame was to be turned
loose in Babylon and told to be her-
self. Wherefore she burst upon us in
all her fresh vivacity, her astonishing
vividness. Why you feel you know
the very cave she dwells in, the \-ery
wild berry (and onion!) patch where
she eats her casual meal.
Up in her dressing room at the Fine
Arts Studio, in Los Angeles, one finds
her in a midst of a bewildering disar-
ray of gowns and makeup material.
She is making up for . some fresh
scenes to be added to the Babylonian
story in "Intolerance," — Mr. Griffith
lias added many scenes to that part of
the picture since its premiere. — and
she sighs comically as she searches her
dressing table for "No. 5."
:^\M
Oh, Yes! She Has Tame Moments
"< )h. dear, that maid has been trying to
jiut things away again. Why can't she
leave things where she finds them!
"Do you know, I believe I had an
ancestor who was a mountain girl I" siie
tells you in gay confidence.
And she loves the rags of the Mountain
(lirl. For after all despite the modish
\oung ])erson she is when you glimpse her in
I'afe or theater, she's merely a manicured
madcap, a barbarian in brocades; Diana
properly gloved and shod.
And if they had
waited until she
Photos by Stagrif
the move, is Constance, and possessed of an
illusive fascination that's cjuite irresistible.
She races her car like mad — only last week
she killed a Ford. — and she takes long
walks througli the Hollywood liills, swims
like a fish, sails a boat like an old salt,
(larces like a nymph, —
thing as an excuse
to be forever on the
m()\'e.
Did slie really
drive those gallop-
ing brutes of horses
that drag her swaying
lariot in "Intoler-
Indeed
^hc did.
" T w 0
Two "at homes" of
Miss Constance and
one as "The Moun-
tain Girl" in
"Intolerance. "
grew up, they would never have named her
Constance. It would be like calling one of
her wild horses "Algy." She should have
been Thelma or Barbara or Diana. A
saucy, inconsequent little baggage, ever on
women sat behind
me at the Auditorium,
the other night," said
Miss Talmadge, — the
Auditorium is the theater where the picture
was being shown in Los Angeles, — "they
said : 'Of course she never really drove
those horses herself. Somebody doubled
for her.' Know what I did? I turned
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around and told them: 'I wish I could
show you my knees, all black and blue even
yet froin being cracked up against the
dashboard of that chariot!'
"And I had had an awful fear of horses,
too, before that, — they were the only things
I ever was really afraid of, I think. My
two pet aversions were forced upon me in
'Intolerance.' I had to drive horses, — and
drive them like mad ; and I loathe onions —
and I had to eat them. As the scene wasn't
satisfactory — I guess I made an awful face
or something. — I had to eat them again.
And then as they wanted another pic-
ture of the scene anyhow, why I had
to eat them again.
"It wasn't an easy matter getting
used to the horses. First 1 fee
them Imnps of sugar to get on tlie
good side of them. Then I
drove them slowly around
the studio lot at-
tached to a light
wagon. Next they
were taken to San
Pedro, where there
is a big expanse of
country, and I drove
them fast, and then
fa.ster. Of course there
were sentinels posted about
the field to see that no hari
came to me. Sam is th
leading horse's name,
and I mean to buy
him, — he is also a
saddle horse, — and
learn to ride as soon I
can get time.
"I guess I drove over nearly
everybody who took part in
'Intolerance..' It was such fun
to see the crowd skurry when
I started for them !"
The Mountain M a i d has
large limpid brown eyes, which grow black
with 'anger or excitement, but which
soften and lighten in gentler moods.
Her liair, by the way, is long and thick,
and is of a liglit golden-brown color.
The black wig she wears in the pic-
ture is really much more becoming to her
olive skin than her own hair, and brings
out the color and lighting in her eyes more
effectively too.
"I'm going to have a chariot to go shop-
ping in," she goes on gaily, as she begins to
"Some coat, isn't it?" says
Constance to the photog-
rapher; "Norma sent it to
me from Neiv York. "
don the combination goat-skin and leather
which is her costume in the picture. "It
would be so much more exciting than a
regular car. P'ancy how mad I would make
the tratific cops by driving down Broadway
full-tilt in a chariot I
"By the way, I came out from New York
perfectly whole. Now my arms are still
sore from the scratches I got from wearing
that armor, I nearly broke my
foot one day in a Babylonian
battle scene, and I got powder
shots in my legs doing a later
picture.
"I had learned to shoot a
bow and arrow when I was a
kid, out on my grandmother's
farm in New York. — oh, yes,
I ha^'e a wounded cow or
two to my credit, back
there ; so the shooting
didn't come so hard. But
I didn't shoot very straight,
I'm afraid, for when I left
,_ the scene, two or three
glaring extras were pick-
ing arrows out of their
anatomies. 1 got hit on
the head with a couple of
rocks, during the battle
scenes, and was bowled
right over once. That's
where a nice little story
comes in. It was about
the nicest thing I ever
knew an actor to do.
was an extra man, who
was really registering well in
the picture, but when he saw
me go down, outside the
camera lines, lie rushed over
and carried me to a place of
safety. Some hero, eh? Will-
ing even to forego the
camera. And anybody that's
worked in pictures knows what that means.
"About milking the goat? Of course I
had to learn, and it was such fun I milked
old Nanny dry, and we had to wait a day
before the picture could be taken. How
did I happen to bite her ear in that scene?
Why Mr. Griffith called out to me just
then, 'do something funny !' I had been
dying all along to bite Nanny's ear, just
to see her jump. So I did that."
A very downright person is Constance
{Continued to page Ij4)
The Shadow
Sta^e
A Department of
Photoplay Review
By
Julian Johnson
IN the dazzling days of the Italian
Renaissance a mighty cathedral was
to be built in a city of Northern Italy.
In our phrase we would call the word
which went through the grand peninsula
an invitation for bids ; accordingly, archi-
tects whose renown is still bright though
they have slumbered many hundreds of
Years, contributed wonderful plans and
drawings. All save one especially prom-
inent builder. He submitted nothing,
where he was expected to contribute a
most interesting pencil-projection. The
learned doctors sent a messenger' to dis-
cover the reason. The architect expressed
some well-feigned surprise, and called for
a sheet of paper, or parchment, or what-
ever they used before the pulp days. Then,
taking a piece of black chalk, with a single
easy, free-hand movement, he drew a per-
fect circle.
"Take this to your masters." he said.
"and tell them that you saw me do it."
Do we need to conclude our parable?
Of course the wizard who could draw a
perfect circle built the cathedral !
A perfect reproduction of life, or any
phase of life, is so rare in the arts that
whatever the subject, it commands instant
attention.
I recommend to the phutodrama leagues.
and to the professors who are straining
their timid eyes to find a little art on the
screen, and to Vachel Lindsay, and to
lovers of red blood narrative or primitive
American humor, and to the sniffy dramatic
critics, and to directors east and west, the
Alax Linder
and Martha
Ehrlich, in Mr.
Linder's first
A merican
comedy, "Max
^, Comes Across."
fir>t i n s t a 1-
ment of J. P.
McG o w a n's
new serial,
"The Railroad
Raiders." It is
indeed a far
cry from Italian perspective to cylinder oil,
but tlie principal of comparison remains:
a railroad melodrama may be a small thing
against the bulk of American photoplays,
l)ut a perfectly lifelike railroad play against,
an avalanche of general mediocrity stands
out like the great architect's perfect circle
against reams of lacy edifices imperfectly
drawn. To do one thing as no one else
can do it is to be individual, and a success.
Mcdowan has stuck to the rails for years,
and no one can challenge him on his own
right-of-way.
A complaint is brought to the general
offices of the K. & W. railroad that steal-
ing is going on at Garden City. It's the
fourtli complaint inside a month. Really,
the thief is the station agent, Steve Arnold,
who does a thriving business in Indian
baskets, blankets and pottery bv tapping
cars of canned goods and swapping toma-
toes ft al for barbaric utensils. Confront-
ing a specific instance, we see the general
manager's private car bearing clown on
Garden City, while Arnold, resealing a
rolibecl car, lets it drift out of the "house
track" to the main line. The general man-
ager's special neatly demolishes the car's
projecting end. Then, in a perfectly logi-
cal way, irrefutable proof comes, and
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Steve is given into the custody of his old
friend, the town constable. But does he
remain in durance? Not he! Making a
getaway he Hips an outbound freight, and,
when discovered, is thrown off by a crew
who fears his tainted presence as a menace
to their own reputations. He lands almost
upon a trio of "jewelry" salesmen, lunch-
ing in a gully after bilking a village.
These worthies have enlivened the com-
munity by proclaiming "Only eight bucks
— a seventeen jeweled movement with a
twenty-year case !" And they are as ready
to rob Steve as the mountaineers. In fact,
they try it, but he threshes the outfit, and
becomes Sheik of the crime-caravan.
Then —
A complete recital of Mr. McGowan's
plot wouldn't be so very interesting. Sec
this picture, and you'll realize the amount
of genuine art that can be slipped into a
hard tale of the'iron trail. His illuminated
title, with its changing legends and its
slow-moving train filling the background,
is one of the happiest conceits since pic-
tured title pages became the vogue. In the
Pauline Frederick, in the title role of "Sappho."
sub-titles people say just the things thev
would say under similar circumstances. In
his adroit feeling for the essentials of
human nature, Mr. McGowan rivals Char-
ley Van Loan. Thus, the ancient con-
stable, coming to intern a man he has
always considered some power in the com-
munity, begins the punitive process by
shaking hands with him. Outwitted even
enroute to the bastile, his single-track hon-
esty makes him tramp back to report:
"That feller o' yourn give me the slip."
.\nd as the concluding touch to his inetiti-
ciency he turns to add: "If you want me
agin, telephone."
Mr. McCiowan keeps his wife — Helen
Holmes, well-known A'enus of the valves
— out of the first cliapter until its dramatic
finale. Vet it is a stellar vehicle for her !
Such admirable discretion in fitting star to
story, instead of story to star, may be
safelv copied. Mr. McGowan hasn't pat-
ented the process.
"DETSV'S BURGLAR" was the most
enjovable five-rceler I saw last month.
Again, a plain story of plain setting.
tla\i)red with the delicious salt oi
truth. The author. Frank K. Woods :
the director, Paul Powell.
This story has three pre-eminent
assets: it is funny without any "at-
tempt" at humor ; it has baffling sus-
pense, yet no "mystery," of the syn-
thetic sort ; it is true to life in every
detail.
Betsy, daughter of Mrs. Randall, a
boarding-house mistress, feasts on sen-
timental novels and longs for romance,
foseph and Mrs. Dunn, a puzzling old
couple, have not been long at the house
before Harry Brent, an even more
])uzzling young man, takes ejuar-
ters there also. To
Betsy the gullible he
confides a story of
early adoption and a
sidetracked inheritance
which we know is pure
bunk. Brent is iw
hero, except to this
kitchen hvacintli. and.
to the audience, his ac-
clamation of tlie old
couple as a pair of
plotters is even more
a b s u r d-. However.
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Betsy falls and
falls hard, and the gro-
cery boy who loved her,
and the soda clerk who
was true, speed into
oblivion. Upon this
gently satiric comedy the
murder of old Dunn falls
with crashing suddenness.
Instantly, we connect
lietsy's slick and prevari-
cating love r with "the
deed." He, and Betsy as
well, are jailed. In one
of the best-made finishes
e\-er set at the end of five
spools, the beholder
learns with chagrin that
Brent zoas telling the
truth : that old Dunn and
his wife tocrc an iniqui-
tous pair, and that their
mysterious tin box really
held Harry's foster-father's last will. To
gain possession of this a lawyer, a false
beneficiary, had hired a pair of thugs for
the theft, and in the theft the killing had
come about inadvertently.
It takes an expert in story-telling to han-
dle as many characters as Mr. Woods has
deployed, and handle them easily and effi-
ciently. Our grocery youth, a correspond-
ence school detective, is a vital factor from
the first reel to the last. He punctures
the most serious situations with laughter,
even as the soda pharmacist torpedoes his
successfulTival'scliocolate witliashotof salt.
Dunn and his wife, admirably played by
Joseph Singleton and Josephine Crowell ;
the boarding house proprietress, by Kate
Bruce ; and the inhabitants of this char-
acteristic caravanseray are perfect bits of
small city life.
Woods has never a moment 'of lost mo-
tion. His story is continually moving, but
he is injecting atmosphere into your eyes
by the gallon. Consider the domestic in-
teriors, of absolutely fidelity; consider the
parlor's prize ornament — our hostess' late
spouse, in his Uniform Rank, K. P., por-
trait ; or the scenes at the police station ;
or at the motion picture theater, where
Harry and Betsy enjoy Bill Hart ; or the
final plaint of the head-busted amateur
detective: "My book said at the sight of
mv badge criminals would quail — but these
didn't !''
«? Do rot. y Phillips, in
"Hell Morgan's
Girl. ■
Constance Talmadge is as vi\id and r^-al
as the story itself. Here is a remarkable
young woman. If she continues to have as
good direction as Powell supplies her, she
will develop into the screen's finest ingenue.
Kenneth Harlan, playing Brent, is a
splendid addition to the ranks of leading
lads who are at once handsome and real.
P SSANAY, which has not been noted for
'-^ superlative fun-making, brings home
an ice-box full of bacon in "Skinner's Dress
Suit," a condensed version of the delight-
ful stories by Henry Irving Dodge. The
philosophy of this farcelet -is that success
follows success ; that a man's fastest asset
is his tailor. Bryant Washburn is to be
seen as Skinner, the "cage man" for the
grinding and perfectly uninteresting firm
of McLaughlin. Skinner and Honev, his
wife, chafe under the heels of our saturnine
old enemy. High Cost of Living. Skinner
gets $40 a week, but to his wife he is the
most important individual in his business
house, and she fails to understand whv he
is not raised to at least three times that
amount. Finallv. he docs appear with an
extra ten tacked on his stipend, and the
joys of a ten in fact equal the dreams of a
hundred in mere anticipation. Skinner
forgets to tell Honey that he raised him-
self, subtracting the ten from his bank
account. Nevertheless, they buv gala at-
tire— as indicated bv the title^become
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Maude Fcaly and
Theodore Roberts
in "The Consul."
social liglits, and Skinner is sent on an
important mission to St. Paul, where he
leads a recalcitrant customer back into the
fold, principally through his display of
iinportance. He has proved himself to the
McLaughlin institution, and he does get
the pecuniary award. Hazel Daly is
charming as Honey, and in the support are
to be seen Harr\- Dunkinson and James C.
Carroll.
>\'hat Charlie is to a Cliaplinette, Teddy,
the wonderful Keystone dog, is to "The
Nick of Time Baby," a politely obstetric
farce which serves to l)ring back Mr. Sen-
nett's personal performances in direction.
Taking, as liis custom is. a melodramatic
plot, Mr. Sennett juggles with a legacy
providing that an estate go to one family
in case the other isn't blessed with a new
baby. The secret adoption of the bal)y is
handled clunisih' and with very little
humor, but the finish of llie picture, an-
other twist of the old "Bathtub Perils."
embodies tjuite a little excitement and
.some laughful moments. Cloria Swanson
is the prettiness, l)ut 'i'eddy, a big barker
so intelligent that only Shep, 'the dead
Thanh ouseran we never cease to mourn, is
a fit comparison — Teddy is the tempera-
ment and action of this play. So far,
Teddy has not organized his own comjaany,
nor paid himself a $10,000 salary, but we
presume these will be the next steps in the
annals of this young genitts.
A lenslaugh of much livelier sort is
"Her Cave ^Ian," one-third of a mile from
the regular mine run of
Keystone film. Here Al
St. John, the animate
jumping-j a c k, is found
enameled of Mary Thur-
man, than whom nothing
more dazzling ever ex-
i s t e d between a girl's
head and the ground.
Wayland Trask, made up
as a life guard, soon dis-
places the toothpicky Al
in Mary's affections, and
takes her to row. Mr. St.
John, (juivering in the
throes of an inspiration,
hurls a female dummy
from the pier, and, as the
professional hero Tra.sk
cliurns the water like a
stern-wheeler to save life,
Mr. St. John conducts Miss Thurman to
an island, there to lead the brow-and-other-
places-beaten life of a cave man's wife.
Slie is rescued by Mr. Trask. but Mr.
'I'rask is soon suimiarined by his own
spou.se, a diminutive i)ut potent torpedo,
and Mary returns to her less satisfactory
l)ut unfettered swain. The direction is
Ferris Hartman's.
Do you remember, not so many years
ago. ilie light, graceful spontaneity of Max
I-inder? His stunts seemed as unpremedi-
tated as Chaplin's, yet there was a (Gallic
suavity — an elegance, even — about all that
he did whicii no other screen comedian has
ever manifested. That peculiar, intangible
Linder quality is lacking in his first Amer-
ican jjhotoplay, "Max Comes Across."
Tliis is the vitalized portrait of a man
struggling to be funny : working desper-
ately to be funny ; creating laughs from
notliing, instead of letting laughs spring at
ease from laughable situaticms. I .saw
"Max Comes Across" in a great New York
tlieater containing nearly four thousand
people, and at many moments the picture
had the huge house in a I)abelish uproar.
Yet . . I.inder today seems to me an
affected, serious man who looks tremen-
dously old when he permits his countenance
a re])oseful moment. The solemnity of
.war has written something across his fea-
tures that all his smirks, and jumping, and
mugging, and cross-eyed strains can't
efface. "Max Comes Across" takes Max
from Paris to the Essanay studio, and.
The Shadow Stage
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while iuspirhtionlcss, is a very good carpen-
ter-shop comedy. Essanay has spared no
pains in production or equipment, and Mr.
Linder has grouped about him Miss Martha
Ehrlich and a number of other young
ladies who might have put a dent in the
vulcanized heart of Don Juan.
CCREENliSG a great play or dramatiz-
*^ ing a great book is one of the most-
ungrateful tasks of the light and shadow
theaters. If you succeed, who praises you?
Nobody. If you fail, who curses you?
Everybody.
Artcraft's silversheeting of "T-he Poor
Little Rich (lirl" is one of the most ex-
traordinarily I areful and generally success-
ful works of its kind made in two years.
The picture version does not bear the sin-
gular exaltation of Eleanor dates' play,
and Gwendolyn is changed from a shy.
sensitive child to a tomboy, but it is done
with rare care and finish, and it should
be one of the permanent Mary Pickford
records.
Of course, many scenes iiave been added
in explanation. Father is sliown really beset
by the bears of Wall street, and (jwendolyn
is depicted in all her ill-starred struggles
to have a regular kid's good time out of
life. Susie May
Scroggs, a new char-
^ acter, is introduced ;
M ^ Ciwen is shown fight-
•IkJ"' ing with b o y s, and
Earle Williams
(left) in
"Arsene Lupin."
engaging in a mud fight in tlie lily-pond
which, for a pasting with the baser ele-
ments, outdirts any culinary humiliation
ever suffered by Eddie Eoy in the Keystone
camp.
In the dream scenes it seems to me that
it would ha\e been possible to dramatize
the camera to a much greater extent.
There so many of our producers falter,
even at the gates of extraordinary accom-
plishment. The camera is dramatic, in-
tensely so ; its powers are almost miracu-
lous, and the camera, not Mary Pickford.
should have been the star of the last half
of this picture. Singularly, the very finest
touch is that poetic moment in which
Death, a beautiful, blackrobed woman,
gentlv offers the little girl rest in the forest
of eternal sleep, only to have her offer shyly
rel)uff"ed as (jwen beholds Life, in the per-
son of a beautiful and almost nude woman,
dancing gayly through a field of spring
flowers in glorious morning sunshine.
Here, for a moment new to play and story,
Mr. Tourneur. the director, achieved a
genuine i)()etic thrill.
The cast is generally excellent ; the set-
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tings, really regal, .showing the domestic
magnificence of just such .a careless, new-
rich magnate as Eleanor Gates described.
'X'HE best of Lasky's black-and-white for
•■• the month was "The Consul." In Abel
Manning we have a composite picture of
the all-American small town politician who
thunders in our courts, harangues from our
rostrums and too often sits in Congress to
put filibusters and other petty sticks in the
spokes of civilization. This particular
Abel Manning didn't sit in Congress, ho\\
ever. An inefficient ,
lawyer, he spent an
unkempt life in
dreams, and finall\-
winked his con-
science at .support by
a s c h 0 o 1-teaching
daughter. How he
is given an oppor-
tunity to make a
campaign address
of importance, how
daughter faithfully
rehearses him, how
he waits for months
for his ensuing
"country's c a 1 1,"
and what happens
when, through a
burlesquey combina-
tion of c i r c u m-
stances he gets it, it
is the business of
this interesting five-
reeler to tell. Heje
is one of our stock
phrases, all slugged
so that the composi-
tor merely has to dust it (jff each month :
"Another marvelous portrait l)y Theodore
Roberts, so full of the little details of life
that the actor seems to have spent his ma-
turity gathering data merelv for this par-
ticular character, is" — then we fill in the
current name. This month it is Abel Man-
ning. Maude Fealy is a splendid addition
to the file of leading Avomen of ingeime
type.
"The Winning of Sally Temple" is an-
other record-buster. Backwards. As far
as I have seen it is the prize citric of the
month, though my eyes ache from behold-
ing some .pretty l)ad ones. It is supposed
to be a swords and small-clothes romance
Helen Holmes, in her new serial,
"The Railroad Raiders, "
of the eighteenth century, prettily deploy-
ing Fanny Ward and Jack Dean. How-
ever, thanks for one good laugh : the
inconceivable moment in which Jack Dean
thrashes Walter Long.
"The Black Wolf" makes one think of
"Maria Rosa," which introduced Lou-
Tellegen to America as an English-speak-
ing actor, several years ago. and in which
he completely overwhelmed the reputed
star. In this photoplay Tellegen has an-
other dare-devil Latin — a bandit of the
Spanish mountains. Nell Shipman, one of
the few women who
are tall enough to
participate in the
emotiiinal wrestles
of this long 1 o V e-
m a k e r, genuinely
distinguishes h e r-
self. The play is in-
teresting but not
notable.
In "Each to His
Kind" the h a r d-
working Hayakawa
family, Tsuru and
Sessue, are again
ejnployed ciongen-
ially. The plot is
slim. l)ut the play is
L-njoyable.
Helen Eddy, a
finely gifted' young
actress in the Mor-
osco studios, comes
fortli as the .surpris-
ing because u n e x-
pected feature of
"The Wax Model."
This story, which
would have had a chance carefully staged.
is done in its leading roles by Vivian Mar-
tin, Thomas Hardy and George Fisher.
Unbelievably careless direction has done
much to spoil this transparent idyll of a
voung man who meets the young woman
wlio po.stxi for a wax shop model, finds her
as congenial as she finds him, and presently
marries her.
Lenore Ulrich, filmdom's favorite Miss
or Mrs. Indian, does very good work in
"Her Own People," a story of political
greed, agency wrongs, love, the bonds of
tradition, no corsets, an inheritance, co-
education, condemnation and justification.
So, running down the page of Famous-
The Shadow Stage
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Lasky completions, \vc come to "Sapho,"
the drama's hectic heritage from Olga
Nethersole. Vou can't name a bett^er
woman in the worhl for Fanny LeGrand
than Pauline Frederick, who plays the part
here. ^^ e follow Fanny tlirough her at
first ingenuous and at length decidedly
knowing course, to the sad but improving
finale in which she, a dark spectre of re-
morse, takes a farewell sight along a
clmrch pillar at Jean, now comfy forever
with his colorless kitten from the country.
In the novel, I believe Fanny went back
more or less happily to the man who forged
for her, thus proving that she believed in
being on the level with somebody. But
this would never do -for the censors, who
are born Calvinists in their stern adher-
ence to perdititm for all cuties who make
their prettiness practical. Miss Frederick
is beautiful always, and quite thrilling
when, as the model, tliere is more of her
visible than even the sea shore sees in sum-
mer. Frank Losee^as the elderly sculptor
who is her first patron and friend; John
Sainpolis as Dejoie, Pedro DeCordoba as
the forging clerk, and Thomas Meighan as
the virile Jean, are excellently cast. The
production is careful, the direction scholas-
tic. "Sapho" is perfect except that it has
no life. The spirit, the soul, are lacking.
"The Fortunes of Fifi" is another pretty
little conceit out of which Marguerite
Clark pops like a plum from a Christmas
pie. It is the tale of a little dancer, first
of a provincial theatrical troupe and later
of the great theaters of Paris under the
patronage of Napoleon 1 . There is much
atmosphere, and many touches of old-world
(|uaintness and eternal Immanitv.
/^Nl^ e)f the axioms of tlie old-line theat-
^■'^ rical managers gave the public credit
for a bit of brains in the discovery of talent.
In other words, if you find a genius you
will be much more enthusiastic about said
genius than if I find him. her or it — and
reiiuest you to be enthusiastic. Not infre-
quently, these old-line managers let the
public discover stars, and generallv sucli
Madame Sarah Bernhardt (second figure from the left) in the somewhat remarkable new uar picture
"Mothers of France, " made and distributed imdcr the auspices of the French government.
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discoveries were very real and lasting ones.
Reversing this situation, Miss Enid Ben-
nett, a very sweet but not extraordinary
young woman headlining at the Ince camp,
has been drifted completely undej a genu-
ine snow-storm of press agent praise. It
would take a Bernhardt to make good over
such a phalanx of advance notices.
Miss Bennet has had two Ince plays.
The first, "Princess of the Dark," was un-
fortunate in its resemblance to "Nina the
Flower Girl," Fine Arts release of a few
weeks previous. And it was a much better
play than "Nina." The second, "Little
Brother," is one of the whimsical stories
of a boy-girl who plays bov and is bov.
through various vicissitudes, until she
reaches the love-age, when, of course, she
flashes back to skirts and tripled charm.
This story will be swallowed easiest by the
unsophisticated. It is well handled and
well acted. As to whether Miss Bennett
is to have any more Ince plavs at present I
do not know. At any rate, she is a sweetlv
pleasant young woman who deserves con-
tinued opportunity and fewer cornet solos
by the herald.
"The Last of the Ingrahams" is a story
of a Puritan fight against liquor and tradi-
tion. It is interesting as a demonstration
of the real acting ability of \\'illiam Des-
mond. So far. this handsome and nicelv-
muscled young man has done the pretty
boys ; here he does a man whose very soul
sweats in torment. He plays the part well,
and the rather unoriginal story grips.
"Back of the Man" is one of the fiction
stories of this issue of Photoplay, and a
current Ince entertainment. It is a story
told swiftly and well on the screen, played
by a quartette of principals who knit their
talents in a me.sh of uncommon adroitness:'
Charles Ray, Margaret Thompson. Doro-
thy Dalton and J. Barney Sherry.
'"T'HE BAD BOY," a Fine Arts feature,
displays Robert Harron as a misun-
derstood American lad of weak Avill but
good intent. It is a sort of male version
of Anita Loos' famous "Little Liar." plus
a happy ending.
"Stagestruck," a light fabric wrapped
about slender Dorothy Gish : not much
play, but rather adroit burlesque. Strange
furnishings for a Fine Arts tableau, having
a rich woman's home more nearly resem-
bling the snappy apartments of Abe Potash.
IN "Hell Morgan's Girl" a favorite vein
* of plot is again struck and worked suc-
cessfully : a rich man's son, disowned by
his father because he refuses to forsake art
for business, fails to make art go, and be-
comes a multiple-reel drunkard. His re-
demption must needs be by a bad woman,
according to the formula, or at least by a
woman who has the externals of wicked-
ness. Such a woman is Hell Morgan's
girl Lola, daughter of a (4ive-keeper on
San Francisco's tenderloin of the seas, the
Barbary Coast. Keep your eye on Dorothy
Phillips, the temperamental eyefull who
plays Lola. She is coming up like a
Fourth-of-July rocket, and if her crude
talent is properly developed, she. will be a
supreme mistress of melodrama.
Violet Mcrsereau, like Enid Bennett, is
kid-cast in "The Boy (iirl." In the Uni-
versal play of this name she enacts the
"son" of a sportsman father, who has left
her to two maiden aunts. The critic of
the New York Telegraph, remarking her
walk tlirough "Washington Square to the
Hotel Brevoort. where she dined, ques-
tioned her undisputed passing of the traffic
coyj at Eightli street with a mop of in-
dubitable girl's hair flying under her cap —
and accounted for it by presuming that the
policeman considered her one of the
Scjuare's free verse poets enroute to break-
fast.
TTKNRV WALTHALL sliould lay olif
■*■ ■*• his morbid plays. Undoubtedly con-
sidering himself the screen's E. A. Poe,
Mr. Waltliall inurns his magnificent emo-
tional talents in such depressing vehicles
as "The Truant Soul." and "Burning the
Candle At Both Ends." both studies of
degeneration and despair. "The Truant
Soul" is a great play spoiled. In all its
fir.st part it is stern but constructive
tragedy, and at tlie last it canters wildly
to an inefi^ectual finish in tlie introduction
of a new and unneces.sary story.
The Walthall situation is really serious.
Is this fine- jeweled genius to be saved for
ro^ of the highest and most subtle type —
or is he. apparently through his own choice
of meaningless and gloomy plays, to dissi-
pate a great gift?
•yHANHOUSER kicks in Avith a play of
■*■ love-punch and mystery. It is "Her
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OH, ANITA! COME OVER AND TEACH U5!
If we were Billy Jacobs we'd take all day to learn, and we'd come back tomorrow, if teacher'd let us. We would be
stupid like a fox. Notice Miss King's stole of seal, and William's pajamas; is it summer or winter)
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Myrtle Gonzalez, of
Universal, "snow-stuf-
fing" at Truckee. She is
in A laskan costume. Note
the powdery, wonderfully
clean and crisp snow of
the mountain solitudes
beneath her thonged snow-
shoes. Back of her are the
Northern pines, and ni the
distance the nine-montlis'
snows of the high Sierras.
From Klondike to
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Sahara in California
HERE 15 A PICTORIAL RECORD TO
PROVE THAT THE CHAMPION SCREEN
STATE CAN FURNISH ANY CLIMATE
YOU ASK, FROM ARCTIC TO TROPIC
WHEN you consider Southern California's
outdoor locations, you think of four things:
sunshine, sea, tropical foliage, bungalows. Per-
haps you add mountains.
As a matter of fact. Southern California is a
miraculous camera province because it can furnish
pictorial similarity to anything else, the world
around. We have had California's city and
ocean beauty, her orange groves and her lovely
drives, but we don't think anyone has shown that
in California are embraced the poles and what's
in between.
No, we re not selling land in San Diego county,
or orange groves in Riverside. We're showang you
■why they make more pictures west of the Sierra
Nevadas than in any other one state, province
or principality in the world. Though many
companies go north, to Truckee, Tahoe or Shasta
for "snow stuff," the whole range of climatic
expression may be found by going from Mt.Wilson,
Los Angeles' big sentinel to the east, to the ports
of Los Angeles, a scant twenty miles to the west.
The illimitable sands oj
tlie Mojave utilized for a
genuine desert scene in
"The Carpet from Bag-
dad. " Here — and in Miss
Gonzalez' Esquimau
impersonation — afe the
equator and considerably
"north of 53." Below,
the temperate zone,
represented by exquisite
Santa Monica Canon.
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Ask Creek, along the line of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Trees and mountains,
sunshine and floivers, desert-dry rocks and crystal water, leaping and singing
over a quartz bed. remind you of a peep from a window into some kingdom
in a Marie Corelli country.
This IS a section of a rose hedge around an orange
14,000,000 blossoms at one time,
From Klondike to Sahara in California
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Port Los Angeles — in reality San Pedro harbor — is the big maritime shipping
point between the great bays of San Diego and San Francisco, and has been
filmed hundreds of times, in all sorts of ways, as a harbor, a port or mere
insular doct:age.
grove of twenty acres. It has been estimated to contain
embracing thirty-seven varieties of roses.
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Here is a little patch of the
Orient. If you want the
more or less prosaic truth,
this is the Ocean Park bath-
house, but its minarets and
Moslem towers, its Moorish
doors and Turkish facade
have played many a star-
and-crescent role.
Where now? To Latin
America, if you please.
Doesn't this fine facade re-
call the best things you ever
read of the Avenida Rio
Branco, or tvhatever they
call that Fijth Avenue under
the Southern Cross? The
plumes of a great fan palm
rise to the edge of the fiat
roof. It is the residence of
El Presidente. Off stage: a
rich man's home in Los
Angeles.
From Klondike to Sahara in California
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A valo n , the
supernal harbor
o)
Santa Catahna.
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CLOSE-UPS
EDITORIAL EXPRESSION AND TIMELY COMMENT
Making Plays
for
Censors.
WITH a dreary restirring of the censorship question,
which remains an odorous and stagnant pond, we
are not in the least concerned. With a baleful mani-
festation of the deadly effect of censorship, at last
apparent, we are vitally concerned.
The manufacturers are making plays for the censors,
consciously or unconsciously.
Plays made for the censors are not plays for the public, the critics, or the
hopeful connoisseurs of a new art.
Such plays are not plays at all, nor anything else save shapeless, mindless
pictorial invertebrates.
They have been stripped of vitality in order that their boneless carcasses
may be squeezed through this republic's twenty or more censorial sieves of
different mesh. They have been robbed of the glory of life to please the
prurient, of its power to pacify the peace-eaters, of its beauty to satiate the
hypocrites.
Fact makes the only real fiction. Only the fact of Shakespeare, Balzac,
Hugo, Tolstoy, Hawthorne, survived their entombment. Only the fiction
may remain in our photoplays; fact must be purged away.
The manufacturers — trying to make mioney, whether they do or not —
have decided to issue soothing serums which could not inflame the optics
of a man suffering from pink eye. They want to get their pictures by with-
out destruction. Therefore they have begun to make them so flaccid, soft
and nerveless that they cannot offend even in Pennsylvania and Ohio,
where lettuce blushes to see the salad dressing.
Therefore,
the Stage
Renaissance.
THIS has been the best theatrical year in more than
half a decade.
Superficial war-prosperity does not wholly account
for this. The material of photoplays is largely respon-
sible. While the number of good photoplays still
exceeds the number of good stage plays, the screen's lead
is threatened.
People go to the theatre to laugh, to see legs, or to get an extraordinary
expression.
The extraordinary expression is the drama, which is the foundation,
roof and walls of the theatre, prettiness and mirth being merely scenery.
Two years ago the traditional poverty of ideas in the theatre met the
first flood of ideas from the cameras, and the theatre was nearly over-
whelmed.
Then the censors built a concrete dam. The wall held. It is next
to impossible to tell a real story in pictures today. Relieved by this
counter-irritant, the anemic playhouse began a slow recovery. It is now
doing very well.
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Stage Not
Developing
Actors.
As long as the American people stand screen throttling by a thousand
bands of political appointees, so long must men who have something real to
say find another language. The drama has proved an unwieldly imple-
ment, but it is better than one which has been made impossible.
'^
ONE of the stars of hope glimmering through an overcast
sky is the constant need for real actors, and the stage's
lost ability to make them.
In the early-Frohman period redoubtable players
sprang like sown dragon's teeth. Though veterans, they
are still the pillars of our stage: such men as Henry
Miller, "William Faversham, Otis Skinner; such women as Margaret Anglin,
Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore. Young men like John Barrymore were
the downy juveniles of that epoch — and where are men like them today ?
Nowadays the managers are too busy borrowing, swapping or stealing
each other's stars to make greatness under their own roofs, as greatness was
patiently made in other years.
The inaudible play, however, has furnished a whole new race of fine
actors, and these have won a following the elocutionists never dreamed
possible; nor was it possible, for them.
In the making of picture princes and princesses, Griffith is first. In fact,
Griffith's subtlest and most insidious amusement seems the creation of stars
for others to expensively embrace — and thereupon tumble headlong.
Though first, Mr. Griffith is not alone. Not an established camp but
has its world-known celebrities.
IT happened in Los Angeles. It was mid-morning, and
the starette, a flapper whose screen face was her only
yet sufficient recommendation to the income of an
empress, was just arriving on a scene set for hours.
"Somebody kidnap your Big Ben?" asked her weary
director, yawning.
"No," returned the diamond darling "I just couldn't decide which
The
Retort
Golden.
limousine to use!"
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IT is a new one, after all a petty one, and like the jeal-
ousy of the big man who subconsciously dislikes the new
baby because it monopolizes its mother's every moment,
it won't be admitted.
Nevertheless, it is quite real; the jealousy of the printed
word as it regards the pictured word — the jealousy of
the newspaper, beholding the motion picture.
We do not believe that the photoplay has injured the newspaper busi-
ness. The news pictorial is the only direct competition it finds in the dime
temple
Nevertheless, the editor of one of America's greatest dailies said grimly
and recently: "Pictures and automobiles! Pictures and automobiles! They
expect everything, and they're ruining the country by monopolizing it. Cut
'em to the bone!"
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These
Managing
Directors.
J
ONE of the best proofs of the fluid state of picture-
making is the status of its super-directors.
When a man attains eminence as a picture-general he
seems to hear a call to higher things. He stops doing
the thing he can do better than anyone else, and
hastens to do the thing many can do better than he. In
other words, he becomes a big business man of the films.
By so doing he deprives his public of the original and interesting project
for which they returned him celebrity and money, and he deprives himself
of his own best expression. No one can tell us that making even a million
dollars in office manipulations can wholly satisfy the man who has driven
life and its thrills into two, five or ten thousand feet of celluloid.
Mr. DeMille sticks to location and high boots better than most of them.
Allan Dwan, after finishing the Maxine Elliott photoplay, will join the
administrative galaxy.
The masters of literature never despised the short story as the masters
of photoplay despise, or appear to despise the short picture.
With what intense interest audiences in every town in America would
hail a series of brief plays personally directed by Mr. Griffith, Mr. DeMille,
Mr. Brenon, Mr. Sennett or Mr. Ince! The impetus given the screen as an
art, by this means, and the recognition of it' as a supreme field of expres-
sion, would be immeasurable. Here is a prediction out of the blue: Great
screen short stories are coming, and you will find Mr. Griffith among the
first narrators to step forth and make them.
In the theatre, Mr. Belasco holds his own from decade to decade
because, no matter how widespread his interests, direction has been his
first and perpetual care.
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"I I'l AGAIN, the censors.
You never can tell how much iniquity an innocent-
looking little speech may contain. But as every poison
is reputed to have an antidote, so there are nets for
wicked verbal torpedoes, and the censors, providentially
enough, are these nets.
A particularly devilish example of captional wickedness was found in
Ohio a few weeks ago by these kinfolk of the saints.
It occurred in a Ham Sl Bud diversion.
Here it is: "Now you've chased the chicken away!"
It was expunged from all Ohio reels, instanter.
A screen producer who shall be nameless, to save him
from bricks and cats minus all their lives, was asked, at
a social gathering, what he considered the photoplay's
biggest handicap, at the moment.
He answered, without hesitation: "The motion pic-
ture 'critic' "
He continued, in explanation: "In a few American cities, such as New
York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco and Los Angeles, motion picture
discussion and review has been seriously regarded, and, on a majority of
newspapers, has been assigned to men or women of intelligence."
Sherlocks
for
Secret Sins.
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"Intelligence and a fair mind are the only things the photoplay producer
asks, in his press publicity. In too many places the cub who is so weak-
minded that he can't collect hotel registrations is considered amply bright
to run a little begrudged corner of film stuff. Anybody's views on pictures
are good enough to find an airing. It is a joke subject with the editor, and
the boob threshing about in the department, like a garter-snake in the cage
of a python, makes it a joke with all his readers. I had rather have one
adverse but constructive criticism, written seriously by an intelligent man or
woman, than the reams of nauseating gush put forth morning, afternoon
and night."
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Wise Words
from a
Comedy.
DURING February the New York state legislature sent a
committee to New York City to investigate the motion
picture business. A new and higher tax had been
imposed upon the gelatine guild, and the guildsmen
shrieked that it meant business death; that ultimate
returns to manufacturers were really dreadful, and that
the new levy was a golden knell.
Tons of testimony were unrolled upon the official stenographer's note-
books, and until Mr. Selznick adroitly got some perfectly grand advertising
out of the witness chair, the picture-makers generally regarded the query an
impertinent and know-nothing controversy. They told as little as they
could, and some approached vile durance for their lack of loquacity. When
Mr. Selznick made his statement — a bombshell to the trade — that it took
less brains to succeed in the manufacture of motion pictures than in any
other craft or calling, every man who had yet to testify went out behind
the barn and practised his oration, hoping to put over at least one strong
original point.
Whether Mr. Selznick was sincere, or whether, artful showman that he
is, he resolved to make the whole inquiry revolve angrily about his particu-
lar argument, is not the purpose of this recount. When it came Sam
Goldfish's turn to speak his piece — we refer to the president of the
Goldwyn corporation — he had profited by the big buzz on the Selznick
statement, and had a torpedo ready that shook the entire trade.
Mr. Selznick spoke professionally. One part of Mr. Goldfish's speech
sounded a warning for the entire country. He said: "The amateur inves-
tors of America should not put their money in motion picture stocks. The
picture business is one for specialists; for film men ready to devote their
own money and all their time to the development of pictures. Millions of
dollars have been taken from widows, from estates and from the deceived
and misinformed public without the slightest likelihood of its ever returning
either a profit or any substantial part of the principal. I agree with your
committee that an investigation of the film business is necessary, but not
for purposes of taxing it more than it is already taxed at this moment. It
needs an investigation to drive out the undesirables who should not be
permitted to prey upon the public. If this committee might send to the
press one report I wish that report could be, in the strongest possible
language: ' To the public, anywhere, every time: don't buy motionpicture stock!' "
OUT WEST THEY CALL THIS THE NEW YORK LEVY'S
Decoration by Grant T. Reynard
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The receiver slid out of Norene's nerveless grasp. And mercifully she
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not hear the rest.
["3.3-3-3"]
"3-3-3-3"
Side by side in all fire stations and in the homes of those who command the fire fighters,
stand a "joker" and a telephone. Over the "joker" goes a simple dot telegraph call
summoning by code numbers the desired individual or fire station to the telephone. But
there is one call vfhich brings everyone within hearing to listen anxiously at the receiver.
It is "3-3-3-3" and means "Department Attention!"
By Jack Lait
Illustrations by Grant T. Reynard
WHEN I was a little boy I wanted to
be a fireman; my little boys now
want to be movie actors.
When I was a little boy movies had
never been heard about ; now a fireman is
never heard about.
I suppose that my little boys' little boys
will want to be aviators — if flying hasn't
grown stale by then, or gutter evangelists,
if that graft is still fresh, or conductors on
the aerial jitney between Pickfordville (by
then most likely the capital of the U. S.),
and the Fox studio in Mars.
But, when I think of my own childhood,
I must think in and out of the big doorway
of the fire-station, where I stood pop-eyed
and worshipped and sighed and wondered
when I'd ever grow up so that I could wear
a blue shirt with pearl buttons the size of a
silver dollar, and chew tobacco off a plug.
The literature of that day fed my passion.
The fireman was the hero of the "library"
yellow, the melodrama and the front page.
I never lived to be a fireman. Biit I
have lived to the day when I might write
of one. And now I find that no one wants
to hear about him. But wait ! Even when
they wrote firemen, they always wrote them
from the outside in — the charging engine,
the red flare against the midnight black,
the dare-devil crawling on the precarious
icy ledge to save the blonde ; but no one
thought to write him from the inside out —
from his bunk in the dormitory, from his
home, from his bedroom, which is a fire
alarm station. He still lives, the same rich
fiction character he always was ; only the
writing style, attuned to the reading taste,
has passed him by. So, why not write that
inside tale? Why not after years of inti-
mate contact with real firemen, following
a boyhood of veneration of super-human
firemen, commit a literary reversion to type
— in type?
Not all the husky Irish lads who emigrate
to America become policemen. Some of
them become firemen.
And that was what Roger Tiernan be-
came, a stone's throw after his arrival at
the point of steerage embarkation. He had
promised his dear old mother that he would
be back in Kerry in a few years, rich and
grand, to keep her the rest of her days.
But he had never made the journey, for
within two years his two younger brothers
were wearing blue shirts in the same fire
house where he had become a hook-and-
ladder driver, and the mother was keeping
house for her three brawny boys in a flat
not far away.
Roger took, from the very first, to the
fascinating, terrible business of sending
challenges into the teeth of the flames, look-
ing falling walls out of countenance, swerv-
ing round street corners on two wheels with
a ten-ton truck that rocked and reeled and
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swung and skidded a hundred and fifty feet
behind him, and cultivating a hair-trigger
on his sleep that shot him out of his bunk
and up on his feet and down the brass pole
before most of the other gossoons had
rubbed their startled eyes a second time.
Thus he rose in his department. In time
he became a lieutenant, then captain of an
engine house, then battalion chief of a
division.
Somewhere between alarms he met Nellie
Shanahan, and sometime between trips and
cat-naps and battling blazes and fighting
fires and conquering conflagrations he
pulled her pretty Irish head on his splendid
shoulder and heard her say she would. Her
honeymoon was spent between waiting and
worrying, watching and wondering, palpi-
tating and praying. But in time she grew
accustomed to being a fireman's wife. And
when little Norene was born she became so
used to night alarms and sudden four-
elevens for paregoric and tumbling out of
bed at weird night hours, that she felt al-
most a fireman herself.
She didn't live long thereafter and Nor-
ene was an orphan at the age of three. Her
grandmother had died before that, too. So
Norene was the first lady of the household,
holding sway over old Katey Doyle, who
puddled about in rag slippers and kept
house for the three Tiernan brothers.
Keeping house for firemen is a miracle
of ease when it isn't a miracle of hardship.
They aren't home much, and that makes
the work light; but when they are, it's in
the middle of the night today and in the
middle of the day next time, and they can
eat corned beef and cabbage enough for a
whole ward, and they'll be wanting their
breakfast before the sun is up — if they
haven't been called out to a fire before that.
Norene, the baby of one father, two
bachelor uncles and one grumpy old slavey,
was indeed a queen. For a crown she wore,
mostly, the big, battered iron helmet that
her daddy used in action. And her toys
were the most wonderful that ever a tod-
dler cniild have craved — the big gong in
Ba' 1 Chief Tiernan's bedroom, which
she .'didn't reach but which she could
throw buttons at, and which she could
watch for hours waiting for the hammer
to hit it when an alarm "struck in." And
then there was the "joker." That was a
telegraph receiving instrument which stood
beside the brass alarm bell. It used to click
and clatter cryptic messages which her
father and her uncles understood in some
mysterious way, though it talked no Chris-
tian tongue, as Katey often mumbled when
its tidings -meant that the hot dinner was
gone to the dogs or the boys would have
no ham and eggs that morning. And beside
the -joker stood the departmental telephone,
one of the clumsy old kind, on the wall.
Now, all these gimcracks worked simul-
taneously with similar ones in the fire house
and in each engine station in Chief Tier-
nan's division. When a "box" was
"pulled," somewhere on the outside, it reg-
istered automatically by repeated whangs
on the gong in each place — "one, two, three
— one, two, three, four, five — one, two," for
"3-3-3-3"
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instance, counting out 352, whicli was the
number indicating the fire alarm box at
Halsted and Thirty-ninth Streets.
The joker was a pony telegraph service
radiating from an operator at battalion
headquarters. It sent messages of limited
but varied significance. It spoke not in
the Morse code, but in a special language
of simple etymology. There were no
dashes — only dots, little snappy clicks. It
counted by the same system as the bell-taps,
with time spaces between the numerals,
a succession of which made up a number
which corresponded in the code to an an-
nouncement. There was "2-2-3," for ex-
ample— that was the call for the Tiernan
home, and the message following was in-
tended for there only. On the other hand,
there was "3-3,'' which meant, "Attention
engine house," and "3-3-3-3," which meant,
"Attention Department," or that every one
on all the lines was to take cognizance of
what would follow.
Born a fireman's daughter, raised with
the fireman's dangergraphs as her play-
things, hungrily asking questions for hours
on her big daddy's proud stout knee about
these interesting implements, Norene grew
to know them — know them backward,
straight on, in the daytime, in her sleep.
And when she had grown to be a hazel-
eyed colleen of mature sense she began to
fathom not only what the signals said, but
somewhat of what some of them meant.
They had to do with death and with peril.
If not, why was it that each company al-
ways "reported in" when it had returned
from the response to an alarm? Her father
told her it was to give notice that tlie com-
pany was ready to go to another fire. But
Norene always felt that it was to assure her
that her daddy
and her uncles
had gotten safely
back. She would
have it no other
way. And it
g r e w to be a
thrilling, clutch-
ing pastime with
her, sitting under
the joker after
the gong had
struck, to wait its
message that the
company had
come home — the
message that
ended with "3-3-
4," her daddy's
signature."
Chief Tiernan
counselled her
not to sit up
nights at this
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For maybe half an hour she sat, her knees drawn up.
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game. Especially of late there had been
some nasty blazes in the stockyards, that
bugbear region of all the world for firemen,
and he was sleeping in Engine House 29
those nights because he wanted to give quick
service. Norene always bobbed up at the
first sound of the iron on the brass, just as
he did in the dormitory. And she huddled,
with her bare feet up on a chair — for hours
sometimes — and half dozed, waiting for the
"3-2-8," which said "Back at the engine
house, signed "3-3-4," which meant that
Chief Tiernan himself was sending the
bulletin.
It was Sunday morning. Norene's father
had been home for supper on Saturday, had
spent the early evening with her, had kissed
her as he put on his cap and coat to go to
the firehouse for the night and had prom-
ised to wake her early and go with her to
six o'clock mass. No strike disturbed the
tranquil .slumber of her youth until, like an
oath in a sanctuary, the fire bell burst out
with vibrant clamor at just about daylight.
Norene came up like a jacknife blade ;
"6-5-6-8" she heard the knocker wallop on
the responsive implement. That was a
stockyards call — all the 6's were from "the
yards." Norene glanced at her clock ; it
said 5:35. Pshaw. Now daddy wouldn't be
back in time for the mass they had planned
together. She rose, threw on a kimona,
steoped to her window, glanced out —
Flying by lika a rocket was her father,
seated in the low, red racing car of the
battalion chief, beside his chauffeur, Johnny
Nash, whose teeth were set and whose eyes
were squarely to the fore as he sped in the
van of the shiny engine and the hook-and-
ladder that would come plunging by in a
moment.
Norene smiled through her disappoint-
men*- — smiled Avith pride. For Johnny was
a driver as sure as certainty is sure, as fast
as gasoline could spark, as daring as became
the charioteer to the fleet, fearless chieftain
of the fire brigade, for whom speed laws
never were written, who had the right of
way, who clanged with his foot at every
twenty feet the brazen warning "Here 1
come!" — which none but he could dare to
sound.
It is a grand sight, the scarlet auto of the
fire chief burning up the paving, sending
the touring car of the wavfarer. the limou-
sine of the luxuriant and the rickety road-
ster of the plodding plebeian to the curb or
down alleys in frantic and respectful yield-
ing of the highway to the king of the road.
Full many a man who might have own :d
millions or directed armies has envied that
driver for the fire chief, who could "let 'er
out," who never even glanced at crossing
police, who banged a gong, whizzed on like
a carmine comet and left a streak of exhaust
and a flash of glory to tell that he had come
and gone between winks.
The man in the passenger seat was her
father — her hero, her adored, her pal, her
guardian angel and her earthly deity. The
boy beside him at the wheel was Johnny
Nash, the square-shouldered stripling with
the nutbrown curly hair and the Irish
smile, who had looked into her eyes and
A\iho had made her heart to thump as never
it had thumped before, — not even for her
father.
Norene bent over to see the scarlet car
with its precious jewels as long as it was in
sight. She saw it pivot around a corner.
Then she saw the gallant horses belting
after them with the spark-sprinkling en-
gine, and behind that the three-abreast
fullbreeds straining lightly on their collars
as they thundered on with the hook-and-
ladder.
Norene turned from the window. Slowly
she started, as was her habit, through the
long corridor toward her father's room.
And her thoughts went back to the "6-5-
6-8," the stockyards cry for help. She
didn't like that. The uncanny peace of the
Sabbath mornin-g, too, was a gray back-
ground against which came up in jumping
relief forebodings that she could not shut
out by closing her eves. Those packing-
house fires were troublesome always, and
dangerous usually.
For maybe half an hour she sat, her
knees drawn up, the hand that supported
her chin resting upon them. She was not
only listening for the joker — she was
v.atching it. Thus she saw the little arm
rise before she heard it fall and beein
to blab: "one, two, three — one, two — one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven, ^eight —
3-2-8." They were back. The company
had returned to the engine house. The
joker went on with its grim joking — "one,
two, three — one, two, three, four" — what
v.'as that? "one, two, three, four, five — 3-
4-5!" Whv, that was Captain Egan's sig-
nature. Why was he reporting the com-
pany in? Why wasn't her father, the bat-
"Afraid?" she said slowly. "Me afraid? Why, I'm a fireman's daughter."
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talion chief —
The ticker kept on: "one, two, three —
one, two, three — one, two, three — one, two,
three — '3-3-3-3' — Department, attention !"
Norene was all attention. She was up on
her feet, her eyes wild, her hands held out
as though to fight, to fall — or to pray.
The ticker ticked more :
"One', two — one, two — one, two, three —
223." That meant "Use telephone." It
was a call to the whole department to listen
in for a spoken message.
Norene sprang to the wall and picked up
her black receiver.
In the hook-and-ladder truckhouse her
uncle Jim picked up another.
In every engine house and fire station
and in the home of every oflScer of the de-
partment someone picked up a receiver.
And all heard, clear and clarion over the
wire, the voice of the operator at head-
quarters :
"Battalion Chief Tiernan fatally injured
when his car struck a loose manhole cover ;
taken to Mercy hospital. His driver, John
^Nash, slightly injured while — "
The receiver slid out of Norene's nerve-
less grasp. And mercifully she did not
hear the rest, the tragic paradox of a hero's
life of courage in the actuality of action :
" — while responding to a false alarm !"
For a moment she stood staring blankly
at the telephone. Then the blood gushed
back to her head, she whirled and ran, and
she was tearing on a skirt and calling on the
saints.
At the hospital the solemn sisters looked
more solemn as they led Norene to the
room.
She saw him on the bed, that mighty man
who had choked fires with his bare hands,
who had driven wide-eyed into the horrors,
who had felt and fought the heat of the
hinges of hell. She saw him lying there,
liis eyes closed, and on his scarred face
there was the perfect peace that comes with
the passing of jmin. He stirred. His
hand reached over. His eyes opened. He
half sat up.
"C'mon there," he cried. "C'mon with
that hose. Can't you lift the nozzle, you
blunderin' bunch o' tanglefoots ! C'mon
there, I say. Hey! What's this? What
are you doin' here, girl? What are you
doin' inside the firelines? Johnny! Hey —
Johnny Nash ! Take Norene outside the
lines — don't let 'er stand here where them
bricks is fallin'. Take 'er — "
The girl moved sidewise, up out of his
range of vision. j
"That's right — take my little girl past
the ropes. Now c'mon there. What's that?
You can't? Well — I can. Gimme that
hose. Gimme that nozzle. I'll go in there
my.self. I don't care how hot it is — gimme
that nozzle. Hand me that lantern. Get
away — I'm goin' in. I'm goin' — hey! the
light! the lantern — where is it? It's out,
It's — oh, God ! It's — it's dark — I can't see
—I can't — the light — it's — "
The grizzled gray head fell back. The
hand toppled across the closing eyes as
though to shut out a raving horror. A
tremor burned through the giant frame.
Then he lay still. His hand curled limply
and wobbled to the pillow.
And Norene sank to her knees, and her
head dropped on her arms upon the cover,
and her body shook with its soundless sobs.
Thus and there he found her — Johnny
Nash, the brilliant, dashing wheelsman to
the dead battalion chief.
His arm was in a sling. A crisscross of
plaster closed a gash on his cheek cut there
by glass when his head had gone through
the windshield.
He reached over his good hand and la-'d
it on the shoulder of Norene. Presently
she raised her head and looked up.
"I— I—"
She shook her head.
"Don't blame yourself, dear," she said.
"You couldn't help it."
"I'd a' died for him," he moaned.
"Yes, dear — I know," she said with chok-
ing voice.
He bent over and put his uninjured arm
about her and lifted her gently to her feet.
"Norene, girl," said he, '*'You — you
haven't anybody now — nobody but me. And
if you feel that I wasn't to blame — that I —
that I didn't—"
She shook her head again. And she
looked into his eyes.
"Then we can — you can — we can be
married. That is, if you're not afraid to
marry a fireman."
She closed her eyes and thought of her
bridal boudoir — with a "joker" at her
elbow.
"Afraid?" .she said, slowly. "Me afraid?
Why, I'm a fireman's daugliter. I'm the
daughter of Roger Tiernan, Battalion
Chief Tiernan."
The Scenario Writer and the Director
THE NEW SPIRIT OF CO-OPERATION
BETWEEN SCENARIO WRITER AND DIREC-
TOR, AS TOLD BY ONE OF THE FORMER
Captain Leslie T. Peacocke
TEAM
sure
line
endeavor
in-
work ! To
success in any
of mercantile
there must be
No
good team work,
human being can con-
sistently produce market-
able articles entirely on
his own individual re-
sponsibility. Any mer-
chant will tell you that,
and the financial heads of
film producing companies are merchants.
Now, for a long time — in fact, since the
time that stories were first put into photo-
play form for the screen — and up to but a
short time ago, there had existed a certain
feeling of resentment between the pro-
ducing directors of film productions and
the writers of photoplays. One could
hardly say that this was engendered by a
feeling of rivalry, because the conflict was
too unequal. The directors had it all their
own way, and although I regret to have to
make the accusation, they did not play
fair.
They did everything in their power to be-
little the writers. They resented hotly
any efforts that writers made to get credit
for the work of their brains. They did all
in their power to prevent the writers of
original photoplays from getting "name
credit" as the authors of the stories on
films and advertising matter. It was only
after much petitioning and fighting that
the companies, one by one, conceded this
courtesy to scenario writers. Incidentally,
it was Mr. Frank E. Woods, at that time
conducting the Motion Picture Depart-
ment of the Dramatic Mirror, later a
scenario editor and author of the famous
scenario for the production of "The Birth
of a Nation" and now general manager
of the Fine Arts studio, who first started
the' fight to have authors given "name
credit." Despite the opposition of the
directors, the real heads of the film industry
came to see that the writers were suffering
'T'HIS is the third of a series
of articles written especially
for Photoplay Magazine readers
who are interested in writing
moving picture plays. The next
article, in June PHOTOPL.4.Y, will
deal with the writer's personal
experiences in many ot the
studios of the country.
from a grievance and vic-
tory was accomplished.
The fight is over, and
now there has been estab-
lished between the better
class of directors and the
scenario writers an un-
derstanding which is
engendering in both of
them, as time paces on, a
greater respect for each
other.
Of course there are still some directors
who glory in seeing their names on the
screen as both director and author, but
their activities are being curbed daily. The
heads of the producing firms are finding
out that one man cannot do it all, no
matter how hard a worker he may be.
They have found that hurriedly doped up
scenarios with chopped and changed con-
tinuity, with primitive or far-fetched plots
interlarded with bromidic subtitles, do not
make either enjoyable or money-getting
productions. The exhibitors have been
clamoring for better stories, and they want
stories from writers with plots in their
brains, and not the rehashed, time-worn
shreds of plots of mildewed stage plays
and vaudeville sketches which directors —
who are, for the most part, ex-stage direc-
tors or actors — have been doping out under
the guise of original stories for years past.
The film industry is growing out of its
infancy. It has cut its milk teeth, but it
must be very carefully weaned in order to
survive the over-dose of plotless, director-
made stories to which it has been subjected
since its birth. But its nurse — the group
of financial magnates who have fostered it
along through its stormy infancy — has at
last grown wisdom teeth and is assisting it
to toddle to a safe and sane maturity. The
nurse has found that the best food for this
infant industry is a story from a competent
writer, logically worked out by a competent
continuity writer and thus made readv for
the cook — i. e., the director — who will select
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the necessary ingredients, in the form
of capable actors, and produce a delectable
and wholesome bowl of nourishment that
will do credit to all concerned. Team
work will keep the industry alive, but it
must be proper team work between the
directing financial heads, the producing
directors, the actQrs, the cameramen, the
artistic cutters of films and the scenario
writers.
Hitherto too little attention was paid to
the story — to the foundation on which the
production was based — and the scenario
writer was looked down upon and treated
as a weird crank and temperamental boob.
But not now. No, now
the scenario writer is re-
garded as something more
than a necessary evil.
The STORY is con-
sidered as essential as the
DIRECTION or the
STAR. And now in the
best studios the director
and the scenario writer
are brought into direct
contact and made to work
together.
In the studios of the
companies that are turn-
ing out the best produc-
tions, a scenario writer is
appointed for each director, to write exclu-
sively for him. They confer together
daily, the writer absorbs all the ideas and
bits of "business" which the director wishes
to have embodied in the scenario, each
scene is discussed and a perfect continuity
worked out by the writer. Therefore, when
the director is ready to go to work on the
production, everything is in proper shape
for him and he does not have to make
changes in the script during the course of
the production.
Staff writers have, of course, this im-
mense advantage over their free-lance
brethren : they have ample opportunity to
watch the work in the studios and to know
the sort of stories that will suit the direc-
tors and the actors in their companies.
But that need not discourage the free-lance
writers, because if the plots of their stories
are original and well worked out in logical
continuity, their photoplays will find a
ready market, the editors of scenario de-
partments will bring them to the notice of
the heads of the companies and arrange-
'T'HE director and the scenario
writer should be in close
contact and harmony. There
must be team work. It is usual
for a scenario writer to be
appointed for each director, to
write exclusively for him. This
continuity writer should be with
the director's company during
the production of a picture,
both in the studio and "on
location," so that the director
may confer with him from time
to time.
ments will be made for their production.
Of course, changes may have to be made to
suit the particular requirements of the com-
pany which purchases a story from a free-
lance writer, but the scenario editor can
easily have this done, and more often than
not, will make the changes himself, because
nowadays good, original stories are hard to
find, and they will be harder still to find as
time goes on.
The scenario writer who hopes to make
a success of his or her profession should
study the camera and learn all the "camera-
tricks." Staff writers should spend their
spare time in the studios watching the di-
rectors and camera men at
work. One should know
all about the camera — its
capabilities and its limita-
tions. There should be
nothing connected with
the production of moving
pictures that the scenario
writer should not know,
for knowledge is power.
It is difficult to predict
what the future of the
moving picture industry
is going to bring forth,
but there are strong indi-
cations that the directors
of the near future will
be augmented largely from the ranks of the
scenario writers. In fact, a number of the
most brilliant directors at present engaged
in making the best "features" were for-
merly scenario writers or playwrights, to
wit : George Lone Tucker, Alan Dwan,
Cecil B. DeMille, Herbert Brenon, Sher-
wood MacDonald, Henry King, Ruth
Anne Baldwin, George Terwilliger, George
Fitzmaurice, Lois Weber and Mrs. E.
Ingleton, who, besides being head of the
scenario department at Universal City, is
also directing special five-reel features. It
is a singular fact that nearly all scenario
writers who have been entrusted with the
direction of film productions have more
than made good, so I am not advising
scenario writers wrongly when I urge them
to study the camera and to watch closely,
whenever possible, producing directors at
work, and to learn all that there is to learn
about the production of moving pictures.
It is absolutely essential for a perfect
production that the scenario should be
worked out in full continuity and that the
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director be entirely satisfied with it before
he starts to produce a single scene. If the
director works in harmony with the scenario
writer this can be accomplished. If they
thrash things out carefully beforehand there
should be no need to change a single scene
during production. It is only a foolish
director who will want to make changes in
a scenario after he has started on the pro-
duction, because, nine times out of ten, he
will break the continuity and land himself
in trouble trying to make the story run
smoothly. The scene that has been changed
may have a direct bearing on some scene, or
scenes, that follow, and an ugly gap may
have to be explained by
1 subtitle and weaken the
story considerably.
That is why the direc-
tor and the scenario
writer should be in close
contact and harmony.
There must be team work,
and any director who
objects to working in con-
junction with the writer
of the story is only injur-
ing himself. And, on the
other hand, any scenario
writer who objects to
changing his scenario to
suit the ideas of the di-
rector without arguing the matter out
between them should be dubbed a stubborn
ass. He must look at things through the
director's eyes as well as his own. Director
and writer must both visualize every scene
and consider how each scene will affect the
scenes that follow. This will all take time,
but it is far better to devote a few hours to
the foundation of the production than to
have to patch and mar it later on.
Managing heads of companies should not
demand too hurried productions. Those
who know their business do not. Those
who are merely commercial men and who
know nothing of literature or stagecraft or
dramatic values or camera-work or scenario
writing or film cutting or the developing
of film should leave these matters to those
under their management who are experts in
their line. To quote a case in point — and
this is an actual fact:
The scenario editor of one of the most
prominent film producing companies was
commanded by the president of the com-
pany to consult with him on every story
CTAFF writers have an im-
•^ mense advantage over their
free-lance brethren, in that they
have ample opportunity to know
the sort of stories that will suit
the directors and the actors in
their companies. But that need
not discourage the free-lance
writers, because original stories
always find a ready market, the
editors of scenario departments
will bring them to the notice
of the heads of the companies
and arrangements will be made
for their production.
before it was selected for production. The
scenario editor, who revered Mark Twain
and his works, timidly approached the
sanctum sanctorum one day and knocked
for admittance. The president was in.
The editor advanced the suggestion that
"Pudd'nhead Wilson" would make a fine
five-reel feature.
"Who?" asked the film magnate, looking
up from a financial statement.
"Pudd'nhead Wilson," repeated the
editor. "I think it would make a fine five-
reeler. Everyone knows Pudd'nhead Wil-
son."
"Yes, I daresay," replied the financial
head, "but I don't want
to hear about it."
"But why not?" urged
the editor. "It's a fine
story and everybody in
the country knows it."
"I don't care," said the
film boss, hotly. "I
wouldn't consider it for
a moment."
"And why not?"
pleaded the editor.
"What's the objection to
Pudd'nhead Wilson?"
The head of the con-
cern banged his fist angri-
ly on his desk and loudly
replied: "Because I won't have anything
to do with anyone insulting the President !"
The editor recoiled dazed, and feebly
tottered from the room.
Now, Mark Twain's inimitable story was
a fine film subject, and if the matter of
selection of stories had been left to the
scenario editor, that film company would
have, no doubt, made an excellent and
lucrative production; but the president of
the company, although woefully ignorant
in many respects, wanted to make a show of
keeping his thumb on every branch of his
business with such dire results that the
company is now practically defunct.
Every day, however, things are improv-
ing. Some of the most intelligent brains
in the world are being employed to gain
results from the flicker of the camera.
Many of the film magnates are now edu-
cated college men — deep readers and
students, with good business acumen. They
are doing their best to surround themselves
with the best experts in every line con-
nected with the film industry. A far
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different and more intelligent class of
directors is springing up and . the best fic-
tion writers in the country are being urged
to essay scenario writing and are being
taught the technicalities of the art. Writers
with strong, virile ideas and plots are being
encouraged and comparatively good prices
are now being paid for photoplays of merit.
_ In the best conducted film plants every
encouragement is now being given to the
director and the scenario writer to work
together for the best results.
In some studios they are even going so
far as to insist that direc-
tors produce the scenarios
exactly as they are writ-
ten, scene by scene, but
that is, I think, going too
far in the opposite direc-
tion. Neither the editor
nor the scenario writer
can know what the direc-
tor may come up against
during the filming of a
production. The exterior
locations outlined in a
scenario may be impos-
sible to obtain, or things
may obtrude themselves at
times of which good ad-
vantage may be taken, and
director may hit upon some
devise some extra scenes which will mate-
rially improve the story, and his wings
should not be clipped to the extent that
he cannot take advantage of these accidents.
That is why it is always better that a
scenario writer should be attached to each
director, in order that they may confer
together at all times. The . continuity
writer, i. e., the scenario writer, should be
with the director's company during the
production of a picture, both in the studio
and when the company goes out on "loca-
tions." so that the director may confer with
him from time to time as to the advisability
'T'HERE are strong indications
■*- that the directors of the
near future will be augmented
largely from the ranks of the
scenario writers. It is a singu-
lar fact that nearly all scenario
writers who have been entrusted
with the direction of film pro-
ductions have more than made
good, so I am not advising sce-
nario writers wrongly when I
urge them to study the camera
and to watch, whenever possible,
producing directors at work.
very often a
"business" or
of making changes. If any are decided
upon, they should be made by the con-
tinuity writer, so that the logical continuity
of the scenes may be faultless. This will
save money for the company in the long
run, because it will help to hasten the pro-
duction and will ensure a perfect con-
tinuity that can be handled easily in the
cutting rooms.
I do not think that there is a single good
director at present producing photoplays
who will object to having the writer of his
scenario working hand in glove with him.
The director welcomes
gladly the co-oper-
ation of the writer,
because it saves him a deal
of work and worry. The
best directors realize now
that to ensure a successful
production there must be
TEAM WORK.
Directors should, when-
ever possible, be allowed
to select the writer with
whom they want to work.
It is a mistake to foist a
writer on a director unless
the director is satisfied
that the writer is thor-
oughly capable of evolving good logical
continuity. The director must have con-
fidence in every person who is working
with his company, from the "extra people"
to the camera man and the writer of his
story and scenario.
This necessarily entails the employment
of more staff writers than are engaged at
present, but the additional expense to the
companies will be more than minimized by
the results obtained and the time taken in
the productions considerably lessened ; so
that, in the long run, the company will save
considerable money. As I said before, and
again reiterate, to obtain the best results
there must be perfect team work.
Some Back-Fire
TULLY MARSHALL, who is noted for his quick wit and sarcasm, had
been doing his best to improve the work of a woman member of his company.
Finally her temper got the best of her and she flared :
"Don't think you're a screen actor because you were on the stage."
"And, my dear madam," rejoined Marshall, "please don't think you're an
actress just because you're superstitious and read Variety."
Pliolo liy N.ilit.-in
Mr. Losee as himself.
"Let Frank
Do It"
HIS JOB: OFFICIAL
TROUBLEMAKER FOR
CLARK, FREDERICK,
DORO AND PICKFORD
THE old familiar slo-
gan reads "Let
George do it," but,
working on the assump-
tion that there's really
nothing in a name, the
directors at the Famous
Players studio have sub-
stituted "Frank" for
"George." Whenever one
of these directors reads a
new script for the first
time and finds that it re-
quires an elderly hero, a
benevolent old father, or
grandfather, a wealthy
banker with philanthropic
tendencies, a kindly o 1 d
farmer, a conscienceless
philanderer, a d i s t i n -
guished-looking foreign
villain, a wealthy male-
factor, or a .scheming,
plotting wretch of a vil-
lain of any description,
the director turns to his
assistant and says :
"Find out what Frank
is doing."
Frank, \\\ this case, is
Frank Losee who has first
call on the studio roster
when it conies to playing
anv of the roles enumer-
ated above. He has
plaved them all on the
screen and the directors
know bv experience that
thev can count on Losee
to deliver a finished pro-
tector or wrecker of the
family, according to the
specifications required by
the scenario author.
He lias hung upon his
motion picture tepee the
scalps of a varied assort-
ment.
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"The Moment Before." "The Spider,"
"The Evil Thereof" and "Hulda from Hol-
land" gave Losee opportunities for exercis-
ing his criminal bent upon the screen. -"The
Old Homestead," "Diplomacy" and "Miss
(ieorge Washington" painted him in less
lurid colors and gave him a chance to re-
deem himself.
Mr. Losee has the distinction of having
caused more screen agony of mind to Mar-
guerite Clark, Pauline Frederick, Marie
boro and some of the other stars than any
other man.
And the amusing part of it is that this
deep-dved villain is, after all. a suburbanite
who is at the mercy of a soulless railroad,
whose autocratic dictates as to what time its
trains shall run. govern his breakfast hour.
Mr. Losee on his favorite mount (center) and proof
{above and below j that he isn't always a villain.
of villains, the line being punctuated at
long intervals by the type of character that
one would not mind being seen with in pub-
lic. These rare opportunities were offered
Mr. I/Osee with the idea of permitting him
to reestablish himself in his own estimation
after he had committed some particularly
fiendish photoplay crimes.
When Losee reaches a state of mind in
which lie automatically shrinks into dark
corners at the sight of a policeman, he goes
to the directors and asks that they save him
a respectable part in their next production.
After a long career of screen villainy.
Losee reached a climax in Prot'is. the
escaped convict in "Great Expectations."
This is perhaps the most celebrated villain
that Losee has thus far given the screen,
with the Boron in the adaptation of Hall
Came's "The Eternal City" as a close sec-
ond though their methods of presentation
were different as daylight from darkness.
Little Miss Lochinvar
OR SHOULD IT OUGHT
TO READ "MISS
LOCHINVAR LITTLE,"
SINCE LITTLE WAS
THE NAME SHE
BROUGHT FROM THE
PICTURE OCCIDENT ?
Miss Little and Robert
Warwick, in Mr.
Warivick 's neivest play.
By
Randolph
Bartlett
OFI. Miss
Lochinvar
is come out
of the 11 est. fro III
S a !!■ Bar' bra to
Incc'villc her steed
teas the best.
And so on.
Meaning that Anna Little arrived her-
self in New York, and iiiiiy pronto, as
we say in and about Los Angeles, galloped
away with one of the season's best catches,
landing one of the most important roles
in a Robert ^^'arwick production right
under the dainty but dilatory noses of the
Manhattan sisterhood of the film.
^^'ith our compass grasped firmlv in our
right hand, we steered our way by dead
reckoning through the wildernesses of the
Bronx, and in the fullness of time tied
u]) at tlie Selznick-Pictures dock on 175th
Street.
"We wish to see Miss Anna Little," v.-e
told the doorman.
"K e"e p
right on."
Cerberus
said, "un-
til y 0 u
see some
man holding
hand.
a pretty girFs
The girl will be Miss Little."
And it was so. Miss Little has won the
hearts of everyone from ^■\'arAvick to props.
No wonder she likes New York. You re-
member about Mary and the little lamb.
The teacher explained that the lamb's love
for Marv was explained by Mary's 'love for
the lamb. Miss Little is New York's latest
little lamb.
Miss Little makes a rather startling ex-
planation of this, her first trip to Gotham.
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"If you are a westerner." slie says, "and
stav with the western picture companies,
you are always looked upon as just a com-
monplace sort of person who liappened
along. Vou come east and do a picture or
two. and no matter whether or not your
work is as good as it was in the west, if you
go back your salary is just about double.
It is the stamp of eastern approval that
counts. But I don't think I shall ever want
to go back. I think of California now as
I do of Cuba or South America — a kind of
foreign place that would be nice to visit for
a holiday.
"Oh ye.s — here's a line I want you to use,
please. I thought it u]) when I heard you
were going to write an interview with me.
Say that I said 'Robert Warwick is my
ea.stern star.' Do you get it? Me, com-
ing from the west and getting into his com-
)any right away — guiding light and all
tliat, don't you know. Really, I feel that
I've been tremendously lucky."
.\n()tlier ])rominent ])ersonage at the Selz-
nick Studio, Director Charles Giblyn, was
among the first directors in her work for
Kay-Bee. In Santa ISIonica Canyon, at
Universal City and at Santa Barbara she
appeared in numerous successes, such as
"The Battle of (jcttysburg," '-'Immediate
Lee," "The Land of Lizards" and other
productions. In all of them her ability as
an equestrienne aided her to become a star.
Aliss Little cowgirling,
and — Miss Little.
A Brunette by Name and Nature
OUTSIDE of her
camera \v o r k
F r i t z i Brunette
likes best to fuss around
the house superintending
the redecorating of this
room or that, or cultivat-
ing her garden.
She made her initial
bow as a star in the old-
t i m e Victor Company
under Director Giles
\Varren. Later, she joined
the Selig Polyscope Com-
pany. '\\'ith her husband,
William Robert Daly, the
Selig star lives in a cozy
home in Los Angeles. Cal.
During her engagement
with the Selig Company,
Miss Brunette has ap-
peared as a star in "At
Piney Ridge." "Unto
Those AMio Sin" and in
many of the shorter length
subjects released by Selig
in General Film service.
Miss Brunette is con-
sidered a screen actress of
wide emotional powers.
In vampire roles she ex-
cells. Film reviewers were
enthusiastic in their praise
of her work as Bertha
Gibson in the "Lure" for
the "International Svn-
dicate."
Rolling to reduce — the lawn
Portrait by Hailsook
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IPlay^
s an
ayeTS
FACTS AND NEAR-FACTS ABOUT THE
GREAT AND NEAR-GREAT OF FILMLAND
^yeal2/orJc
SO much has been said, and written, and
printed abont the tremendous salaries paid
to film stars that people have overlooked the
fact that there is another side to the hish-cost-
of-stars problem which has been inciting lilm
magnates to verbal riots. The other side of tiie
argument stood out in the searchlight of pub-
licity when Mary AlacLaren, youthful Uni-
versal star, filed suit against that com])any for
annulment of her contract. It was di.-,closed
that Miss MacLaren's agreement with the com-
pany called for the munificent honorarium of
$50 a week, of which
$40 was available, the
remaining ten being
withheld on some con-
dition or other. It
was revealed that
Miss M a c L a r e n's
mother signed the
contract, the principal
being a minor, so in
the litigation insti-
tuted by the actress
her mother is a co-
defendant w i t h the
film company. Ac-
cording to published
reports Miss Mac-
Laren was to receive
the same amount for
a period of years, and
at the expiration of
her contract she was
not to be permitted to
retain the name of
MacLaren. The name
was to remain the
property of Universal.
Her right name is
MacDonald. An ofTer
of $300 a week is said
to have been the pri-
mary cause of the an-
nulment suit to which
the film company re-
plied with a suit for
damages against the
actress. Friends of
Miss MacLaren avowed that the salary ^he
received was too small to allow her to pur-
chase photographs to send to her admirers.
Universal retaliated with a suit for $10,000
damages. However, a decision sustaining Miss
MacLaren's contention and giving her permis-
sion to use the name Universal wished on her.
was rendered in the Superior Court on March
tliird. The film company says that an appeal
will he made to a higher court.
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A MOTHER shining example of a star out-
growing her salary is that of Baby Helen
Alarie Osborn, "Little Mary Sunshine." Balboa
was paying this five-year-old baby the sum of
$95 a week. It is doubtful if so young a per-
son has ever earned a salary of approximately
$5,000 a year. Yet offers were made her par-
ents that made this salary look like the weeklx
compensation of a ribbon clerk. Balboa finally
was asked to sign a contract that would result
in Baby Osborn getting each week the sum of
$750, or about $40,000 a year. It looked like
too much money, how-
ever, and Balboa re-
luctantly relinquished
its find to another con-
cern. Returns on
photoplays in which
the child was starred
are said to have justi-
fied the salary demand
made in her behalf.
EXCEPT for a few
is
Running just ahead of a $50,000 breach of con-
tract suit by Balboa, Ruth Roland arrived a little
breathless but on time at the Metro studio. She
was with Kalcm before her Horkhcimer service.
solated instance.^,
high water mark
seems to have been
reached in salaries, it
seems, although thi>
is still the da.v of the
actor. The player re-
mains supreme. A
well known star re-
cently demanded a
salary of $2,000 at the
expiration of her con-
tract. That figure was
about thrice t h e
amount of her pre-
vious salary and the
demand was rejected
After looking over
the situation, a reduc-
tion to $1,500 was
made, and when that
price was likewise-
turned down, she ex-
pressed a willingness
to have the agreement
receixed at the original terms.
TILL another
leading man, who has
case is that of the yoimg
a large following.
He signed a contract within the last month
at a much lower figure than was offered and
indignantly refused six months previously. If
the saturation point really has been reached it
will be a source of joy to the producers whose
millions have been so deeply cut into.
Plays and Players
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It is doubt-
ANOTHER good omen is the subsidence of
the "her-own-company" epidemic. It
seems to have been a winter disease, as the
coming of spring brought witii it a cessation
of corporation forming activities.
ful, however, if the disease can be
wholly eradicated so long as "it
takes less brains to make money in
moving pictures than in any
other business," the statement of
Lewis J. Selznick before the
New York legislative committee.
MARY PICKFORD without
curls ! Some will insist that
"it can't be done," but that is
exactly what is going to happen
in her next screen drama, as yet
unchristened. The story has
oozed out of the Lasky studio
that Adolph Zukor, Miss Pick-
ford's business partner, and Cecil
B. DeMille, who is directing his
first Pickfordian production, had
quite a debate on the question of
"curls or no curls." Mr. DeMille
is said to have taken the neg-
ative side, and when the dead-
lock came. Miss Pickford herself
cast the deciding vote with the
director. So in the new picture,
which has to do with the old
West, Mary will be curl-less throughout
Photo by Apeda
Death stepped in recently
and blocked the formation
of Fred Mace's own
comedy company. The
comedian died suddenly
of apoplexy in the Hotel
Astor, New York City.
whereupon the latter brought suit against the
actress for breach of contract. The modest
sum of $50,000 was asked of the actress as
damages. One of the allegations was that Miss
Roland was often late at the studio. The same
company brought suit against
Henry Walthall about two years
ago for a like amount, but Wal-
thall won.
MARSHALL F A R N U M,
joungest of the three Far-
num brothers, died at Prescott,
.-Arizona in February after a long
illness. It was at Prescott that he
directed for Selig, one of the first
companies to do western pictures
a half dozen or more years ago.
Mr. Farnum was better known
as a director than an actor,
although, like his brothers, Dus-
tin and William, he had a long
acquaintance with the legitimate
stage. The funeral occurred in
Los Angeles, where the body was
cremated. Marshall was four
years younger than William Far-
num.
D
RUTH ANN BALDWIN, one of the few
successful directors of the so-called gentle
sex, is a bride. She married Leo Pierson, an
actor whom she had bossed around in a num-
ber of the film plays she directed for Universal.
CUTTING back to the subject of Pickford, it
should be chronicled herein that the entire
family is now com-
fortably domiciled in
Southern California.
Mary has leased an
orange-tree-surround-
ed homestead not far
from the Lasky studio,
where she lives with
her mother. Sister
Lottie and the latter's
year - old daughter,
Mary Charlotte Pick-
ford Rupp. Jac'.:, the
remaining Pickford,
having reached man's
estate, now lives at
the Athletic Club.
RUTH ROLAND
is to appear under
the Metro banner, it
is said. Miss Roland,
who has been with
Balboa ever since she
quit Kalem, a period
of about three years,
recently severed her
connection with the
Horkheimer concern,
L'RING the month death also
took Fred Mace, one of the
best known comedians of the
screen. Mr. Mace died of apoplexy in a New
York hotel. He had gone to that city after
leaving the Keystone company to organize a
film concern of his own. He was 38 years old
and first earned screen fame by his single reel
"One Round O'Brien" comedies for Biograph:
TAMES CRUZE, equally famous as the reporter
J in the "Thousand Dollar Mystery" and as
the husband of Alarguerite Snow, is now a
Laskyite. Prior to
joining that company
he played in support
of Gladys Brockwell
in a Fox film play.
For Lasky he will
play only heavy roles.
CNID
1—1 and
// looks as though Adolph Zukor, — you can see one
ear — is shaking his fist at Al Cohn, western repre-
sentative of Photoplay Magazine. Mr. Cohn nestles
behind the tortoise shell windows. Looking right
into our camera is Kenneth McGaffey, "Pete
Props'" papa.
M A R K E Y
•Jack Stand-
ing, both former Ince-
ville citizens, are to
be the stars in an in-
dependently produced
photoplay being made
in Los Angeles, which
is to have the inter-
esting name of "The
Curse of Eve." Boards
of censors through-
out the country will
be interested in learn-
ing that a prologue
was filmed on a des-
ert island off the Cal-
ifornia coast, during
which the wardrobe
woman was given a
vacation.
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TiRONE POWER lias become a talking
actor again after much activity before
various cameras. He is playing Fra Juni-
pero Serra, the leading role in "The Missio.n
Play" which runs on and on at San Gabriel,
just outside Los Angeles. J\ir. Povyer's last
film work was with a company which jour-
neyed to Guatemala for exteriors.
THERE is a possibility that the screen career
of Cleo Ridgely has ended. Miss Ridgely,
who is one of the best known
leading women in film land,
has been ill for a number
of months and it is not likely
that she will return to the cam-
era stage, according to her
friends. Miss Ridgely has been
with Lasky ever since the early
days of that company.
PERH.^PS no studio change
of recent date has occasioned
more surprise than Edith Storey's
separation from V'itagraph. Miss
Storey has been so long iden-
tified with that concern that it
will be difficult for screen enthu-
siasts to associate her with an-
other company. Aliss Storey is
said to have received any num-
ber of offers to go elsewhere.
ANOTHER Vitagraph change
which will probably be hailed
with pleasure by a goodly section
of the film-going public will be
the reunion of Earle Williams
and Anita Stewart as co-stars.
It has been announced that such
disposition will be made of these
popular stars in future productions. Peggy
Hyland and Antonio Moreno will also be co-
starred by the same company.
TWO new faces are to be seen in coming
Lasky pictures ; that is, new to Lasky.
They are Olga Gray, the Magdalene of "Intol-
erance" and vampire of numerous Triangle
photoplays, and Jack Holt, former leading man
at Universal.
CR.\NE WILBUR was married early in
February, the ceremony taking place in
Los Angeles. The bride is not an actress. Her
name, prior to becoming Mrs. Wilbur, was
Mrs. Florence Williams and she was prom-
inent in Los Angeles society.
ANOTHER matrimonial venture of inter-
est to film followers Was that of Francis
Ford, of the serial firm of Ford & Cunard.
Mr. Ford remarried the wife from whom he
had been divorced, the ceremonj' occurring a
few weeks after Miss Cunard became the wife
of Joe Moore. The trouble about recording a
bit of news such as this is that the habitues of
the Question and Answer Department will re-
quire further confirmation. All of the Answer
Man's disciples may be assured, however, that
it is actually true. In tliese high-cost-of-liv-
Hartsook Photo
"Question and answer"
girls please note. Crane
Wilbur, the gentleman
with the striking profile,
has been captured — by a
widow. She's not an
actress.
ing days a postage stamp saved is two cents
earned. >
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS was also num-
bered among the spring litigants. That
ebullient comedian was made defendant in a
breach of contract suit by the Majestic Com-
pany, for which he made Triangle photoplays.
With his customary nonchalance Douglas
vaulted his contract, as mentioned in this de-
partment last month, and signed up with Art-
craft at a salary declared by un-
biased press agents to be $15,000
weekly. His salary with Alajestic
was something less than a fifth
of that amount. No self-respect-
ing actor can afford to labor for
a paltry 3.000 iron men a week
when i)otatoes are soaring around
$4 a bushel and onions are almost
ungettable. The Majestic wants
$230,000 damages from Douglas.
John Emerson, whose efforts in
the direction of Fairbanks films
have been requited with a stingy
$7.50 a week, has also been sued
by ^lajestic. Injunctions were
asked restraining actor and
director from employment by any
save the plaintiff corporation.
Majestic asked $roo,ooo damages
from Emerson. .
Finally the lawyers settled it all,
snugly and sweetly, out of court.
Fairbanks will work for Artcraft,
John Emerson directing him, in
stories written by Anita Loos.
Their first photoplaj', called "In
and Out," is already under way.
We believe it's going to be a
rip-roaring pacifist satire.
EMILY STEVENS has contributed to the
high cost of filming by signing a paper
drawn up by Metro lawyers which provides
that she is to "do" four photoplays for that
concern at an aggregate remuneration of $75,-
000. Meantime, Miss Stevens will not cease
her activities on the footlighted stage.
FROM musical director to film director is the
unusual course that has been taken by Vic-
tor Schcrtzinger, who was originally engaged
by Thomas H. Ince to comi)ose music for Ince
screen plays. Mr. Schertzinger wrote the music
for "Peggy," the vehicle for Billie Burke's f^lm
debut, and also for "Civilization." He has
been made director of the photoplaj-s in which
Charles Ray will be starred.
WILLIAiyi H. CLIFFORD, one of the
pioneer author-directors of the screen, is
now in charge of the Shorty Hamilton com-
edies which are outputted by Mutual. For the
benefit of those wdio are unfamiliar with the
policy of the Hamilton concern, it may be
stated that thev contain "no slapstick, but will
depend for their amusing qualities on a care-
ful arrangement of situation and climax." Fig-
ure it out for ^-ourself.
Plays and Players
123
EDGAR JONES, wlio owes liis members
in the OnlvTIieir Husbands' Club to Lou
Huff, Famous Players star, is now a director
for Balboa. He was for a long time on
Metro's directorial staff. Bertram Bracken,
builder of a number of Bara vehicles, is an-
other acfjuisition of the same concern. Four
companies are to be employed transferring
magazine stories to the screen for the Gen-
eral Film Company.
WILLIAM FOX'S film company considered
it of sufficient importance to issue an
illustrated communique when George Walsh,
protra3'er of virile stuff, submitted to a hair-
cut. The diagrams showed Walsh before and
after and were considered quite a novelty. So
much favorable comment was caused that Mr.
Walsh may continue to have his locks trimmed
at stated intervals.
JUST about every film magnate In the busi-
ness was in Los Angeles during the middle
of February and rumors were rife, as the polit-
ical reporters say, of mergers, amalgamations
and combinations. After all of the film com-
panies had been merged, on paper, the mag-
nates drifted on Eastward, leaving the film
colony flat, in a manner of speaking. It is
likely, however, that
a number of impor-
tant changes will re-
sult from the trip of
the film millionaires
westward to escape
the raw winds of the
East.
pVORIS PAWN is
JL/ back in the Fox
ranks after a long
['vacation. Miss Pawn
played in the first Fox
photoplays made in
the West, and she has
[just returned to play
loop o s i t e the erst-
While hirsute George
Walsh.
hip AV/IXNIFRED GREENWOOD has emerged
lise W from retirement to join Balboa as leading
lady in a number of four-reelers. Miss Green-
wood was a member of the American forces
for several years. \"ola Vale, formerly of Uni-
versal and Lask\', is also a new Balboa player.
r\W I N G to un-
wonted activities
in the ranks of the
■Oliver operators,
every film actor has
offered his services
in the event of war
and every actress has
started organizing a Red Cross outfit
ism is a wonderful thing.
KALEM is to concentrate its producing
activities in Los Angeles, according to
word from Jacksonville. The report states that
the company that is making Black Diamond
comedies for Paramount is to take over
Kalem's Florida studio about May i.
IRVING CUMMINGS is now enrolled as a
1 Fox player. Mr. Cummings made his first
appearance as a Foxite in "Susie Against Sis-
ter," opposite Virginia Pearson.
ESS.ANAY is i)roducing its first picture on
the West Coast since the Chaplin comedies
ceased to be made for that concern. It is said
to be a multi-reel Japaiu-se photoplay on the
order of "Aladame Butterfly" and the leads
will be played by Tsuru Aoki, wife of Sessue
Hayakawa, and F"rank Borzage. The latter is
also directing the production.
JAICHARD TRAVERS did not remain long
in the ranks of the
single - steppers. H e
became the husband
of Miss Lillian Cattell
in Chicago early in
February. The bride
was formerly on the
musical comedy stage,
where she was known
as May Franklin.
Travers recently sev-
ered his connection
with Essanay after a
long affiliation with
that company.
ALAN FORREST,
man for Universal.
former leading
Margaret lUington and William C. DeMille en-
joying the possibilities of "The Inner Shrine, " with
tvhich Lasky will introduce Miss Illington to the
film world.
Patriot-
Lubin and American,
has quit the screen
for the scenarioist's
den. He has written
a number of photo-
plaj's which have been
accepted by producers.
He will allow his
wife, Anna Little, to
do tlie family acting.
UNIVERSAL is defending a suit for $io,-
000 brought by the widow of Jacques
Futrelle, well known short storian who died
in the Titanic disaster. Mrs. Futrelle alleges
that the film company screened "The Haunted
Bell," one of the Futrelle stories that appeared
in the Saturday Post about ten years ago. The
company's defense is that it believed it had
acquired the rights to this story by purchasing
the film rights to a book which contained it.
IT was perfectly natural that some producer
should make a grab for "God's Man," the
novel by George Bronson Howard, publication
of which led to the filing of a damage suit
against the writer's publishers by a New York
magistrate. The jurist alleged that the book
lilielled him. The Frohman Amusement Com-
pany obtained film rights and H. B. Warner
is to be the star of the production. It may
be noted in passing that Mr. Warner is des-
ignated in the announcement as "the satellite
of the theatrical world and screen favorite."
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Photoplay Magazine
NANCE O'NEIL, who has been starring
in "The Wanderer" on the stage and for
Mutual fihns before the camera, is on the hos-
pital list for a long stay. She broke her ankle
while alighting from her automobile.
THOMAS J. CARRIGAN has been made su-
pervising director of the Arrow Film Cor-
poration. Mr. Carrigan is well known to
screen goers as a capable leading man and
not so well known to them as the hu.sband
of Mabel Taliaferro. He made his film debut
with Selig in 191 1, so may be ranked with the
pioneers.
M
ARY MILES MINTER'S contract with
American expires next month and the
little blonde star is said to have received offers
from many of the big companies.
is a new Than-
RICHARD R. NEILL
houser player,
having been acquired
to play opposite
Florence LaBadie.
He has played opi)o-
site Gail Kane, Ma-
bel Taliaferro and
other, stars.
IF the allies win,
Charlie Chaplin can
hand himself some of
the credit for helping
to finance his home
countrj'. On the last
day of subscriptions
for the "Win-the-
War" loan, Chaplin
cabled a subscription
of $150,000. Much
ado was made of the
comedian's action
throughout England.
TWO well known
Keystonians quit
Los Angeles last
month . They were
Roscoe Arbuckle and
Ford Sterling. The
corpulent one left to
make comedies under
his own flag for Par-
amount and Sterling
is said to have made
a deal to do funny ones for Metro. Arbuckle
barnstormed his way East in de luxe style,
making stops at all important cities en route
to New York. Al St. John, Arbnckle's skinny
nephew, who is as funny in a thin way as Fatty
is in a thick way, is to be the chief "feeder"
for the obese star.
MR. GRIFFITH whispered to a Chicago
newspaper woman recently that he ex-
pected to screen the suffrage cause. "The
women themselves don't know this and this is
the first . public statement I've made of my
plans" confided David Wark, who should now-
become immensely popular.
IT'S fortunate that Max Lipder isn't an
American citizen. Fifty prints of his first
C hicago-made film, "Ma.x Comes Across," went
down with the Laconia. If he had been a
Yankee probably the Essanay publicity depart-
ment would have complained to Woodrow.
LONDON will get a glimpse of "Intoler-
ance" early this month, U boats permit-
ting. The English premiere will be at Drury
Lane theater. Buenos Aires will see it next
month.
HERE are some film figures from a bank.
The foreign trade department of the Na-
tional City of New York says that 42,000
miles of motion pictures, valued at $10,000,000,
were exported from the United States during
1916. Of this 30,000 miles were "exposed"
films ready to be ex-
h i b i t e d, consisting
mostly of plays,
travel pictures and
news photographs.
The balance was un-
exposed film, to be
used in taking scenes
abroad. Great Brit-
ain was the chief pur-
chaser. "The United
States is by far the
world's largest manu-
facturer of motion
picture films" says
the statement. It es-
timates the entire.
domestic production
of 1,000,000,000 feet
at a value of approx-
imately $40,000,000.
W
n.uli.i..k Photo
Enid Markey who will star in an independent
production, entitled "The Curse of Eve."
for the purpose of
E'\'E had re-
ligious films
and pictures used bj-
church organizations
but this looks like a
n e w one. The
L'nique Film corpo-
ration of New York
City announces the
maiuifacture of a se-
ries of pictures of the
history and rituals of
the Catholic church
.spreading Christianity.
The scenario for the second production,
"Christianity." was written by the Right Rev.
Francis E. Kelley, president of the Catholic
Church Extension society of the United States,
with headquarters in Chicago. The others will
be written by Catholic prelates and will be
distributed through the Catholic dioceses.
THE National Association of the Motion
Picture Industry has announced with much
evident rejoicing that a bill legalizing Sunday
opening of film houses in the state of Indiana
has passed the Indiana state senate by a vote
of 29 to 19.
— AND BE SURE TO KEEP THELAWN MOWED"
Plioio by Stags
125
An Announcement of
Photoplay Magazine Screen Supplement
Do you get the idea? Photoplay AIaga-
ziXE on the screen! Little journeys to
Filmland!
For years Photoplay Magazixe has used
the printed and illustrated pages to inform
you about the interesting personalities of the
picture world.
Now Photoplay Magazine, with the co-
operation of the great producing companies,
is going to use the greatest medium of ex-
pression of all — the screen — to introduce 3'ou
to your picture friends at home, off the stage
and away from the studios. It will take you
with them out "on location" to the mountains,
the woods and the ocean.
It will take you right into the studios, right
onto the sets, into the technical, scenario and
other departments. It will open your e\-es to
a new understanding and realization of the
wonders of the new art-industry that has be-
come the world's greatest recreation. It will
throw open the doors of the private offices
of the business men you rarely ever hear of
but whose indomitable faith and courage are
responsible for pictures as they are today.
Photoplay Magazixe screen sui)plement
will be issued once a month like the publica-
tion itself and will be shown in thousands of
theatres throughout the land. It will be edited
with the same absolute independence and im-
partiality, with fear of none and good will
toward all, that has earned for the magazine
its place as the leader among moving picture
publications and won the confidence of a mil-
lion readers every month.
Without the utmost respect and trust of the
great producers and distributors this new ven-
ture would have been impossible. To them
Photoplay Magazixe extends its sincere ap-
preciation.
Ask Your Theatre Manager If He
MAGAZINE Screen Supplement.
126
Extraordinary Interest
Theda Bara never quits working at art. Here she is in her
studio in New York CitN . uhert- >he shifts her occupation
from a<-ting to drawing and sculpture.
You'll be surprised to see what a big 1h>\ th.it Uiid Cuy Hart
i- when the movie <-amera is asleep. No wonder the waves
laugh. It's catching.
- 1)1 iiiiijfBiMr
I itili llousthnik, that Bi>; Dung is ih,- best marble pla\er
on their -treit. "Old l)o<- t:i>r(ifiil' Fairbanks thinks
well of that b(>y in the middies too. Stranger"
If you were a baby and some one was going to adopt you
who would you ihooae/ This one ehosc Helen Holmes.
Some ehooser! Like to meet them'.''
Lights! Ready! Camera! Wait!
Awful! Again! Better! Stop! Wateh!
See? (Camera! (ireat! Cut!
No. the man 1^ not dead! But r.allx iho^e n.rv v aetors get
some awful bumps at times. Its pretty hard to fool the
eamera and the audience.
Has Booked THE PHOTOPLAY
Every Theatre Should Have It
127
The Second Mate
of
Villainy
BY choice ^^acey
Harlan, an ac-
tor a 1) o u t as
\vtll known as any
you'll find near lights
foot or Kliege, is a
specialist in the ad-
juncts of wicked-
ness. For years he's
been the second mate
of villainy. Head
villains don't interest
him. And as a mat-
ter of sober fact,
whom do they interest?
They're as transparent as
that very opa(]ue substance,
plate glass, and they exist
only to do their devilish bit.
Secondary evil-doers, on
the other hand, are apt to
be real, true-to-life charac-
ters. That means human
beings, among whom every
man plays his own hero and
his own villain, and for the
most of the time, his own
clown.
Behold the representa-
tions of Mr. Harlan which
the acids have etched for us
here : At the right, above.
Mr. Harlan and one of the
polka-dot ties he always
wears in his proper person ;
a portrait probably done
not far from The Lambs.
At the left, above, in "Kis-
met," with Otis Skinner.
In the turban : as the East
Indian spy of Germany, in
"Inside the Lines." With
the beard : as the Russian
secret agent, in "The Yel-
low Ticket." At the bot-
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tom : as the Frencli-Can-
adian Indian in "The Call
of the North."
Mr. Harlan was born in
New York City and he was
educated there. His stage
carrier has been mainly un-
der the management of
Charles Frohman, Klaw &
Erlanger. Harrison Grey
Fiske and similar pillars of
theatrical production.
Numerous as have been
his stage hits, his clever
parts on the screen equal
them. If these photoplays
unrolled before your eyes
you saw him in "The Habit
of Happiness." "Manhattan
Madness," "Bettv of Grev-
stone." "Bella ' Donna'."
"The Eternal Citv." "The
Perils of Divorce." "The
Witch." "The Romantic
A'dventure." and others.
Our iniquitous subject —
off stage the nicest, quietest
gentleman you could wish'
to know — is a painter by
pastime, and has done sev-
eral ^"erv fine things in oil.
H. O. Davis has done in the world's biggest motion picture camp exactly what the hero of
Khartoum did for the British Army; he has made it r tally efhcient; and he has made himself
at once hated and admired, praised and traduced.
Davis IS neither talker nor writer, but doer. It took PhoTOPL.'W three months to get the
story out of him — then he went at it as he goes at everything else, with an enthusiasm at once
cool and ferocious. This is not an office-written account, compiled haphazard from chance
conversations. Davis wrote every line of it, just as it appears here under his signature.
Those who don't like Davis describe him as a hog-raiser floundering among artists. He
doesn't deny that he was a hog-raiser — but he was probably the most singular and successful
hog-raiser California ever saw. He had always been an art-lover and an art-patron, though
never in an art business. His chance to put his theories of practical art to the test came with the
San Diego Exposition. He built it — a bazaar of the world, a vast acreage of architectural
lace -and conducted it on a paying basis! Such a thing had never been done. Cad Laemmie,
whose pictorial metropolis of forty companies was a veritable sieve of expense, made him king
of Univeral City. ,
Then the Big Hate began. Prima-donnas, male and female, sulked, shouted "Impossible! "
and quit -or departed on invitation. Pampered directors passed into his history shrouded in
rage and astonishment. Davis cut salaries — he maintained that a few were getting far too much,
others, not enough. He held that a director's work, after all, has a sort of standard value. He
made motion picture people feel for the first occasion on record their actual waste of time.
He abased the director — then elevated him by giving him perfect material co-operation. And so
on, and so on.
Those who don't like Davis still shout that he is time-clocking art. So far, he has proved
that negligent Mile. Art can stand a liltlr time-clocking. As for the future- ??
As they conclude the fiction synopses: iioiv f^o on icit/i thf story.
A Kitchener Amon^ Cameras
HOWEVER, THE AUTHOR DJDN'T KNOW
WE WERE CALLING HIM "KITCHENER"
By H. O. Davis
FIRST. 1 should like fo say a wnrd
about "efficiency'' and motion pictures.
When I first started in at LTniversal
City, everyone seemed
to take it for liranted
that efficiency meant red
tape, a horde of hook-
keepers and pictures l)\-
the yard, and it was
loudlv proclaimed thai
one could not systematize
art. riiat same idea
still --eems to |)revail out
side, hut not \\ithin the
organisation that w v
ha\"e succeeded in build
ing. .\s a matter of fact,
either in the m o t i o ii
])icture Inisiness. or in
any other business, c-ffi-
ciency tliat m e r e 1 \
weaves red tape around
the operators, instead of
clearing tlie wav of
annoyances and p e r -
mitting them to obtain
the maximum of results.
H. O. Davis — a new portrait.
without interference, is the "efficiency" that
has all but brought the word into dis-
repute.
\\'hen 1. first joined
Lniver.sal, I felt that
the accomplishment of
[irime importance and
the one thing that should
be our first . considera-
tion was (juality, but I
know of no way to ob-
tain ipiality unless all the
tools neces.sary for the
workman are placed at
his disposal, and what
we have tried to do dur-
ing the past year is to
install a S3-stem and
build an organization
that would supply a
director with those tools,
eliminate waste motion
and lea\'e him free to
oecu]i\- his mind with the
artistic side of his pro-
duction.
A\'e have systematized
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Photoplay Magazine
and organized almost everyone and every-
thing except the director. We have taken
from his shoulders a thousand and one
mechanical details that could do nothing
but interfere and interrupt him in his direc-
tion, and we have, and are attempting so
to perfect our organization in its numer-
ous departments, as to make everyone of
them a service department, as it were, to
the fiction in the current magazines as it
comes from the publishers: Every manu-
script is carefully read and an opinion,
together with a short synopsis, attached to
it. These opinions with the synopses go to
the editor of the scenario department who
separates the wheat from the chaff, the. first
separation u.sually resulting in the rejection
of at least ninety-five percent of the s'tories.
With O. J. Sellers, production manager, Mr. Davis watches the taking of a scene in "A Modern Mona
Lisa." ' ' •
supply the director with everything needed
in the production of his picture, leaving
him free, first to digest his story, and then,
having thoroughly digested it, to visualize it
on the screen.
His work is so arranged for him that he
can walk from one set to another, from one
location to another. His actors, once thev
start the story, can live their characters
without interruption until his picture is
completed, instead of having to stop be-
tween sets and wonder just which set thev
would shoot next.
The following is a typical biography of
a Universal picture : First, the selection of
the story. 'We have submitted to us ap-
proximately 5,000 manuscripts a month
from amateurs as well as more or less well-
known authors. In addition to these, we
liave readers who systematically read all
The remaining five percent are then sent to
other readers, the synopses and original
opinions being first detached.
After the second reading they are again
returned to the editor Avho, with the two
opinions attached, usually makes a further
selection, resulting perhaps in the saving
of half of them on which recommendations
for purchase are then made. The editor
sends the stories, with his recommenda-
tions for purchase, to the production mana-
ger, who has a reading staft" of his own,
trained to read manuscripts not only from
the story standpoint but from the produc-
tion .standpoint. This staff makes its
recommendations to the production mana-
ger, calling attention to the good points
of the story as well as the weak ones, sug-
gesting improvement, and in addition giving
some idea as to the cost of production.
A Kitchener Among Cameras
131
riie production mana-
ger then makes his nota-
tions, many of the stories
being necessarily thrown
out altogether because of
difficulties or cost of pro-
duction. Those that he
( ). K.'s for purchase are
purchased, and these
stories form our source of
supply, together with the
output of special writers
who' are writing scenarios
on particular subjects.
The production ot^ce has,
of course, a daily or
hourly record of all the
directors on the plant and
is selecting and preparing
stories in advance for all
the directors.
As an illustration :
Director Blank, who is
now working on a five-
reeler, is expected to finish
within two weeks. The
manager of production
sends a retjuest to the
UNIVERSAL FILM MANUFACTURING CO.
GENERAL MANAGERS PRODUCTION ORDER (PICR'RE) NO_2^05
GENERAL MANAGEIIS COPY
GENERAL MANAGER
Prffiy<i>«> Dtp.
"^THE^GHOST^ATPOINTOF ^ROCKS''
Win. Parker
co9t J27&.00 weekly.
Ei^hteep- days to malce.
Ovcrlwad
Automobile*
Loborotery
Negotivo
Renlola
Story
Lunches
I.oc6lloita
accujnulated costs.
t 1620.00
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GENERAL MANAGER
Mr. Davis and J. M. Nickolaus,
his laboratory superintendent,
in control of all photography.
scenario department for
.several stories of the
particular type that this
director is best fitted for.
They go over these stories
carefully to check up
their possibilities from
a production standpoint,
and having approved
them, they are submitted
to the director, giving him
the opportunity to express
his preference, for we do
not believe that any di-
rector should be asked
to put on a story unless
he is in sympathy with it.
The director having made
a selection, the story is
then assigned to a con-
tinuity writer in the
department.
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{Continued on page 147)
The
Career of Hero Hamilton
'HH halld^ome blond gentleman
regarding the departed rabbit
with compusure is the same
indi\idual w-ho pets a wagon wheel
as he gazes at Mme. Petrova, nattily
arrayed for walking, getting lunch, or
what have you? Together and singly
this young man constitutes Mahlon
Hamilton, a Metro hero who made his
debut under the Rowland insignia in
"Tlie Heart of a Painted Woman."
Here was Miss Petrova, too.
However, the stage knew Mr.
Hamilton as the original hero of
"Three Weeks," and he seems to have
sustained the burning affection of
l-Teanor Glyn's princess pretty well, for
his friends say he seems more robust
than ever.
Previous to being the jiastime of royalty, Mr.
Hamilton had the forethought to be born, and
after spending a considerable time opening bids
for the honor, he selected Baltimore as his
birthplace.
He went through the grammar and high
schools there, and completed his education at
tlie Maryland Agricultural College. Not that
he intended to be a farmer, but in these days,
when a necklace of potatoes would put to
shame a rope of jjearls, trades of the soil
are apt to come in handy.
'\fter a considerable mental struggle, our
hero kissed the corn and oats goodbye,
and — prophetic forecast of his present
employment ! — became a motion picture
actor. He was leading man for Mabel Van
Buren, in "Music by Proxy," and "The
Smuggler's Daughter," Kinemacolor pro-
ductions made in California.
After this, he went on the
M^
stage, appearing with Jessie Bonstelle,
Maxine Elliott. Constance Collier and
Blanche Ring and in vaudeville with
'\\'m. H. Thompson.
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!
BACK OF HIM STOOD THE WOMAN, IN ALL THE
DAYS WHILE HE PASSED FROM OBSCURITY TO
POWER; EVEN WHILE HE WENT FROM HER INTO
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF IGNOMINIOUS
DEATH— AND RETURNED BY THE FAITH OF LOVE
"The money I got, I got distinctly on the understanding that you were to be my wife. I can't pay
it back, and I tell you I'm in a bad way. 1 need forty-two thousand — then ive're square."
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Dy Geoffrey Lancaster
THERE was nothing formal or ex-
traordinary about the note Larry
Thomas held in his hand. Beneath
an embossed crest the writer had said : ""My
dear Larry, I wish you'd come in to din-
ner tomorrow evening. Muriel and I are
quite alone. We both want you." It was
signed "Alvin Brooks."
Yet this note served as the most remark-
able material milestone Larry would ever
have in his career. Nothing that might
happen to him henceforth could signalize
the bridging of so great a gap.
As he refolded the parchment-like paper
Larry thought of his arrival in the city, a
little less than a year before. With a let-
ter of recommendation from a country rep-
resentative, the boy had approached the
splendid offices of The Great Eastern Casu-
alty Company ; sensuous and luxurious
within, grim and forbidding without. It
seemed prophetic, too, that Brooks, presi-
dent of th« great corporation, should reach
his office at the same moment. Of course,
he did not see Larry, half hidden behind
a column : Ijut Larry saw him. and every
detail of his splendid equipage, his liveried
chauffeur, the regal raiment of the laugh-
ing girl beside —
The girl !
This girl, and another, and the city story
of Larry Thomas is told.
Chiefly, it was the other girl.
Brooks and the elder Thomas had been
boys together. Brooks came to the city,
Thomas dreamed a not-unpleasant life
away in the country. When the letter came
in recommending young Thomas for a
clerkship the writer touched respectfully
upon an alleged acquaintance between the
boy's father and the head of the mighty
firm. All his later life Brooks had been
doing things for "boyhood friends," as is
the way of success, but he was not averse
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They had no loveforeach other.
In other days Wilson had assid-
uously masked her, and had
been as fervently turned down.
^^^^
to showing
more than his
"•• usual courtesies
to Thomas' son.
There being no place,
Brooks made one by
giving an office favorite^ a branch office in
another city. Anger, of the sott8-voce sort,
'in the home office, and a resolve to "jinx"
the newcomer.
The fellows and girls had scarcely
counted on such easy game. Out went a
Wise, self-assured young worldling; in came
a tall, timid, gawky country lad ; a being
who cultivated a low collar for a giraffe
neck ; who wore high-water "pants" and
celluloid cuffs ; who dodged street-cars as
if they were shrapnel ; who thought a Ford
the acme of motor elegance ; who blushed
if one of the girls asked him for a ledger
rating.
Indeed, it had been a battle Larry might
have given up, but for Ellen Holton. Un-
questionably, Ellen was the beauty of the
office, but her reserve — the other girls said
she was stuck up — kept her apart from the
clock- watching cluster about her. She had
not uttered a half-dozen words to Larry
when, one noon, she met him alone in the
elevator. He walked behind her to the
street. Suddenly, she turned, as if summon-
ing all her courage.
"x\ren't you alone in town?" she asked.
"Oh. no sir — ma'am!" explained Larry.
"I have a card of introduction at the
V. M. C. A. from the secretary of our
Christian Endeavor, and I have been in-
vited to a Lonely Folks dance given bv
the Modern ^^'oodmen two weeks
from next .'Saturday night. I can't
(lance, but I'm going to sit and look
on."
"The gay life, indeed," mur-
mured .Miss Holton, biting
her lips. "Listen a mo-
ment— Pm busy this noon,
but at 5:10 tonight I want
you to meet me in front of
Fislier's Emporium. Will
you?"
".A.h-er — certainly, ma'am,
if T ran do anything to accommo-
date you."
"Do so, and say nothing to anyone."
Then Ellen darted away, full of un-
wonted agitation, and Larry took root in an
icy wind, feeling just like a Sabine woman.
At 5:10 o'clock Ellen Holton arrived at
Fisher's big clothing store. Larry, looking
scared but resigned, awaited her.
"Let's go inside." said the girl. "It's
so beastly cold here."
"Now listen." she began bravely, when
ihey were l)illeted behind a radiator. "I
brought you here to help you. They're guy-
ing you in the office, and it's dreadful.
Don't think I'm in love with you — I hate
men, but I adore fair play. I think you've
got the stuff in you. and I'm going to see
that you get fair play. First of all — your
clothes. You look like a vaudeville act.
Abraham Lincoln couldn't have gotten
across in your rig. Clothes may not be a
man's best asset, but they're his quickest.
I'm here because you don't know clothes —
now. You will. . It's pay day, you have
your money witli you, and I'm going to help
you select your things. Come on !"
At 6, when the store closed. Ellen and a
totally different being departed. Though he
still sported an Ebenezer haircut, Larry had
smart shoes on his really good-looking feet,
a neat shirt and scarf, and a suit, purchased
at $19.10, which, in his own enthusiastic
language, looked like a million dollars.
Really remaking a man by changing his
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duds exists only in books and plays : so that to climb in the matrimonial band-wagon
Ellen's tutelage proceeded, of necessity, with a success. Another dav of Larry the
from day to day. plugger. and she would assuredly have
But she had so apt a pupil that, four been in his arms, for she had given him
months later. Brooks .said suddenly to his permission to rail on her the following
treasurer : "Who's the fellow sending me night ; now. between them rose the glitter-
in these reports on the Dakotas. Minnesota ing barrier of triumph.
and Wisconsin? I've always had the bare So things ran on.
facts, but this chap adds reasons. I knew Then, one day. Muriel Brooks paid the
last year that our net profit in that terri- office a first visit since her rollicking days
tory was $33.000 — but this year it's $53,000 in short skirts. According to the calendar,
and I know just where the increase came that hadn't been many years, but as Muriel
from, and what to e.xpect next year. Trot lived her life, centuries had gone bv. From
him out !" a pretty, fair-haired child she had expanded
"Must be young Thomas," murmured into an extremely smart voung woman
the treasurer, scanning the "RArir m? tut? tv/tatvt" whose hard eves glittered
paper. . ^^CK OF THE MAN ^^,-^^ ^j^^ ^. ^^ ^^ ^^^^^
"The up-state bov I put 't' ?nW. /'"'"f *;i' ' knowledge than Eve could
' ■ ^ Ince pliotoplav of tlie same name, , . '^
m— written by Alonte M. Katterjohn, "a^'e discovered m a peck
"The same.'' and produced at Culver City with of her notorious apples.
Brooks did not Avait for the following cast : Her fingers were always
Thomas to be summoned, f"'" ^^f"" Dorothy Dalton cigarette stained: her
... , Larrv 1 nomas Charles Ray ° , ,
He went m to him, and, Muriel Brooks voice loud and strident;
before the office, congrat- Margaret Thompson her breath, an alcoholic
ulated him so warmly that Sid Wilson Jack Livingston advertisement.
Larry's victory was' com- P^^^'dent Brooks. . . . ..g ^ p ^ ,„ |
, • „ -, J. Barney Sherry , ," , ,
plete. From that moment shouted exultantly, so that
the clique which had smirked at his bump- only all whose doors were open heard :
kin ways and his business innocence strove "Eve got a new John — that long saint out
abjectly to follow in his train. there with the baby eyes and the girl's
Larry was principally glad for the sake mouth — ^that Larry fella !"
of Ellen. "That's the first good picking you ever
Perhaps we adore where we do not un- did around my works," noted her father,
derstand. At any rate, Larry adored Ellen. quietly. "Fm going to make that boy my
For Ellen to confess that she adored Larry private secretary."
— which she did — would have been to scrap Ellen's cup was very bitter during the
her entire avowed creed concerning him. next few weeks.
From the first she had maintained magnif- Larry, with his private-secretaryship and
icent disinterestedness in helping him. his inevitable succession to high office, was
The attitude of her fellow-workers was on his way to fame. He should be un-
in part responsible, for they, "sore" at trammeled. The pace was fierce. Great
what thev termed her unsociability, believed Eastern Casualty was being as.sailed both
that she scorned their late-hour parties, by rivals and the Interstate Commerce in-
their joy-rides and their sly cocktail-fests quiry. and Brooks, lapsing a bit under the
in orcler to be alone with Larry. Hence strain of age and worry, needed every ounce
it was seldom that he called on her ; not of this strong young iJoy's strength to bol-
more than twice had he taken her to the ster the mighty corporate fabric. Ellen
theatre ; only once had they dined alone, felt that Larry was in the crucial months
and then in a restaurant whose orchestra of his career — once out of this venomous
was so forte that a couple of calliopes bit of backwater, both Larry and the
could not have made love. company would be secure. Then he could
Larry's sudden acclamation by President talk of love, think of love, devote his time
Brooks made all the difference in the world. to love — and how Ellen hoped that he
Now. Ellen knew not what to do. A proud, would ! That was why she denied him her
sensitive, lonely girl, she believed fullv that love and her lips — yet above this mist of
all her friends, and perhaps Larry, would sacrifice and struggle hovered the wraith of
consider such late submission a mere desire Muriel, the serpentine !
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Wlien Larry urged his affection,
Ellen asked him only one thing: to
wait. He wanted to know why. She
would not tell him — she could not,
for she felt that Brooks' confidence
was, in a way, bound up with Larry's
attention to his worthless daughter.
Things were at such a pass that were
Muriel to shake her father's belief in
Larry — Ellen did not know what to
do. or what to say.
And so came the evening of the
invitation to dinner — an invitation
not formal or extraordinary in itself,
but a great milestone in the career of
Larry Thomas, for it cemented the
business and private life of Larry and
Alvin Brooks. He was henceforth
the financier's young confidante.
"When Muriel made plans for her-
self she totallv ch'sregarded the plans
and the feelings of others. That slie
had carried on a desperate flirtation
with one "Sid" Wilson, and had given
him every encouragement, was entirely
forgotten now. '\^'ils(m was thrown
over like potato-parings from a ship's
galley.
As the little family party sat down
to dinner the elder Brooks glowed
paternally at the pair he was pleased
to consider "my two children."
After the meal Muriel excused lier-
self. evidently by prearrangement,
and Brooks drew the boy to the li-
brary.
"Muriel has told me," said her
father, as he stooped over the tiny
library safe, "that you are very fond of each
other. I'm glad — very glad. Muriel is a
good girl, l)ut she has a great deal of vital-
ity, and she's headstrong. She needs a
steady-going husband."
So Muriel "had told" him — a lie !
Larry resolved that he must make a clean
breast of it to Ellen, and ask her advice.
For her sake he Avanted. to remain where
he was. For her, and their future, he
wanted to be as much, and to have as much,
as Brooks and his own legitimate labor
would permit. For the rest of the evening
he parried Muriel, not very deftly, or talked
business with her father.
While Larry was debating his words to
Ellen, in the forenoon that followed,
Brooks formally signed a half million in
bonds to him, and to Muriel. The news
a raid upon Charlie Wong's hop joint Captain Ham-
Directly in the foreground a handsomely
of the transfer got out of the executive
offices, and swept the outer departments like
a burning train of powder.
Of course it reached Ellen — and Wilson. |
They had no love for each other. In '
her early days with the Great Eastern Wil-
son had assiduously mashed her, and had i
been as fervently turned down. Hence her |
earliest repute as an exclusive snol). Now,
in his desperation. Wilson turned to Ellen, :
bringing the news.
"Muriel Brooks has stolen your man,"
he whispered, as she passed his desk. "Her ■
father has just made over a half million in I
securities — sort of escrow against their |
marriage. It's a damnable sell-out !"
"My man," laughed Ellen, .though her
heart was bleeding. "I have no man. '
You mean. Larrv has stolen xoiir -icoiimn.'"
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137
baugh had, with newspaper perspicacity, taken a flashlight to serve as evidence,
gowned woman writhed in the arms of a policeman. That woman was Muriel.
Muriel's telephone dragged her from
sleep at 10 the following forenoon.
"Want to see you — must see vou !" The
voice ^vas ^^'ilson's.
"But, Sid," whined Muriel, pettishly and
evasively, "I can't. I'm going riding, and
then—"'
"I must see you," repeated Wilson, with
menacing deliberation. "Ride — that's all
right. Afterward, meet me at Tay's for
lunch."
And they met.
"Here's the idea," explained Wilson, as
if he were selling a lot, "you make me love
you. and then throw me cold. Perhaps
that's your business. If it is, I'm a business
maru, and I'll talk from a business basis. I
need money — "
"Sid !" blazed Muriel. "How dare you—"
"Oh, don't act, jjlease. Besides, 'How
dare you' is out of date even for Laura
Jean Libbey. Let's be sensible. I do care
a great deal for you, Muriel, but like every
human being, I suppose I care more for my-
self. I am only a clerk, yet you made me
believe I was to marry you, and share your
fortune. In fact, you asked me to — "
"What a wretched lie !"
"You did, whether you've forgotten or
not. Therefore I plunged. I took a shoe
string to the stock market to keep up with
you. I lost it — perhaps you ought to say
'of course.' I — I — well, the other money I
got, I got distinctly on the understanding
that you were to be my wife. I can't pay
it back, and I tell you I'm in a bad way.
I iieed $42,000, and I expect you to give
it to me. Then we're square."
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"Your impjudence — your audacity — "
"Muriel, old dear, I see you're bound to
act, and act, and act. I hate to turn down
the screws, but you're making me. Remem-
ber Captaii? Hambaugh?"
Muriel's smile suddenly faded. Her
gloved fingers picked at the cloth, and there
came into her eyes something of the look
of the street-woman who scans every horizon
for an enemy policeman.
"I haven't the money, Sid," she said,
rather hopelessly. "And I couldn't get it."
"You've three times that in securities in
your own name in your father's safe. Meet
me in the office tonight — yes. I have the
coinbination."
And, without much more protesting, the
assignation was agreed to.
'l"he magically terrible "Captain Ham-
baugh" was commander of the Nineteenth
Precinct police .s'tation. At a raid upon
Charlie \\'ong's hop joint lie had. with
newspaper perspicacity, taken a flashlight in
the midst of the proceedings, to serve as
indisputable evidence. Directly in the fore-
ground a handsomely gowned woman pris-
oner writhed in the arms of a policeman.
That woman was Muriel. At Sid Wilson's
word that Muriel had merely been a mem-
ber of a slumming party, in at the wfong
moment, Hambaugh had released her un-
conditionally, and had suppres.sed the plate.
But the plate had not been destroyed, and
Muriel knew that, very well. Once she had
doubted it. and Sid had shown her a solio
proof, still damp.
Larry was in a wretched mental state.
That Ellen avoided him with distinct delib-
eration hurt his feelings ; that he did not
come to her and at least say something,
grieved Ellen terribly.
It was a proof of how sorely estranged
they were — and again, proof- of the new dif-
ference in their stations — that both could be
in the office, late at night, neither aware of
the other's presence. Ellen, her eyes swim-
ming in tears, had muddled her accounts
in the afternoon, and lingered far into the
night to right her wretched additions.
Larry, half distracted by Muriel's plottings
and Ellen's curt avoidance, had spent the
afternoon pacing the pavement. Now. ex-
cusing himself from a stag theatre party to
which Brooks had invited him, he returned
to the office to examine some mortgages
which he would have to return to the bank
in the morning.
And between them, in Brooks' private
office, counselled the plotters. Sid and
Muriel. None knew of the presence of the
others. Sid and Muriel had passed a pha-
lanx of scrub-women, and took the lights in
the outer office and Larry's sanctum for
illuminations by the cleaners.
Opening the small safe was an easy mat-
ter. The securities were not there ! In fact.
Brooks himself had merely followed the
dictates of business common-sense : he had
removed these golden documents to the full
protection of the great vault on the floor
below. Wilson, in his first moment of rage
— seeing lights all about and hearing vague
distant noise.s — suspected some other thief
than himself. ^
"I'll get the
dainned hound that
played this dirty
The elder
Brooks glowed
paternally at
the pair he
was pleased
to consider
"my two
children."
trick on your father !" he exclaimed, with
positively hilarious sanctimony. And he |
yanked a big blue gun from his hip. ;
Now in her terror and fear Muriel had !
not heard aright. She only knew Sid's :
anger at her, his desperate plight — and the |
empty safe, his last resort. With a little j
cry she leaped toward him, seizing the gun \
with two shaking hands.
"Look out !" cried Sid, warningly. But '
he followed instinct and tried to pull the
gun away, instead of relinquishing it to her :
trembling fingers. There was a report, not i
very loud, and Muriel crumpled up in front '
of him, and lay very still.
Discretion was for Sid Wilson the bigger '
part of remorse. Putting the gun softly on '■
the floor he stepped back a few feet to the
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swinging window opening upon the fire-
escape. He stepped out, closed the window,
and a moment later walked shaking, but
unobserved, out of an alley at the rear of
the great building.
The shot startled Larry, who was only a
few feet away. He ran into Brooks' office,
and saw a woman, face down upon the floor.
Not until he had turned her over did he so
much as suspect her identity. Then he
stood staring at her, the re-
volver— which he had absent-mindedly
picked up — in his hand.
Ellen ran in, and a moment later, the
head janitor and his assistant.
But Ellen had taken the revolver from
Larry's hand before the others came.
It was quite a clear case, the police said.
The janitor testified that he had rushed in
at the sound of the shot and saw Ellen and
Larry staring at each other, the dead woman
between them, the weapon on the floor be-
side her. The whole story of Ellen's attach-
ment came out, and grew fantastic elabora-
tions, according to the imaginations and
temperaments of different reporters. Jeal-
ousy, of course — a fight between the
women, Larry coolly sticking up for his
propertv rights, rifling the old man's strong
box — Muriel killed as she made the ulti-
mate and apparently unexpected protest.
To Larry, there was not a bit of pathos,
or dreadfulness, or even horror, in the death
of Muriel. She had lived a bad life and she
had gone out of it in a bad way — just how,
lie did not know, though he often speculated
with idle and bitter curiosity. Larry wished
that Brooks would curse him, and that
Ellen would renounce him. The dumb
pain and mournful, speechless love in El-
len's eyes ; and the wordless, broken grief
of the poor old father racked I-arry's soul
till he could neither sleep nor eat.
Denied bail, of course, on a capital
charge, Larry nevertheless won the pity of
ihe sheriff, and was made fairly comfort-
able in tile county jail. Shortly after he
had been bound over for trial Ellen ap-
peared at the jail, on her first and only
\isit. With her came a clergyman. Larry
felt, with an un-
pleasant thrill, as
though the minister
had come to give
him last rites en-
route to the scaffold.
"L a r r y," said
Ellen, with the same
directness that had
characterized her
first address, "I love
you. I think you
know I have always
loved you. I want
to marry you — now.
This is Dr. Burton.
He will read the
c e r e m o ny, and I
have the license."
"Ellen — this is impossible!" Larry
I'acked to his bars, aghast.
The girl pressed his hand, and from her
eyes came the same wordless, irresistible ap-
peal. "Vou must, Larry — dear," she said.
"Please."
And they were married.
The trial came, but the State seemed
strangely perturbed. The State's only wit-
ness was the accused man's wife ! The jan-
itor and the police had found them together,
and of course she must have been the cause
of the shooting.
She refused to take the stand, on the
basis of common law that a wife cannot be
compelled to testify against her husband.
Larry was acquitted.
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■ The following day she came to him,
simply gowned in black. She was quite
alone.
"Now, Larry," she said, "you can giv.e
me my divorce. I'll give you the grounds :
desertion. I'm going to the country. Make
it as quick and quiet as you can, please."
"But, Ellen," pleaded the boy. ' "I love
you. I need you more than I ever needed
any one or anything in my life. Don't
leave me now."
Ellen looked at him with a sad, wistful
little smile. Her lip trembled slightly, and
just the suspicion of a tear poised on tl^.e
edge of her eye.
"No, Larry, it can't be. But I want you
to know that I loved you, too."
She turned away. He stood uncertainly.
Then he turned to her in a wild outburst.
"Great God, Ellen ! You don't think
that / am the man wlio killed her? Vou
don't believe — "
"What else?" asked Ellen in
dumb pain, spreading out her
hands, helplessly, her
head drooping for-
ward. "Oh, Larry,
please don't let us
talk any more
— I loved vou.
Larry stood star-
ing, the revolver
— which he had
absent-mindedly
picked up — in his
hand.
1 want you to have success, to find peace,
to gain — "
"I'll never have happiness or peace or
success or anything, girl, until I find the
man who did kill Muriel Brooks, and come
back to you with clean hands !"
"Oh, Larry. I pray dear God you do find
him !" The girl's eyes closed, streaming,
and her little uplifted prayer Avas a cry.
Larry caught her and crushed his mouth
against hers. She pushed him away and
ran out the door.
Larry did not ap])ly for his divorce, but
he felt that he might well do so. Where
would he find the slayer of Muriel? The
trail was cold.
Sid Wilson had reported at the office at
the usual time, on the morning follownig
the murder.
His previous broken association with Mu-
riel was known, and that he should be badly
shaken by her taking-off was no more than
expected. He offered Brooks his time and
such talents as he possessed, in the effort to
convict her murder-
er, and he attend-
ed court every
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141
day. The elevator man could not remem-
ber who came in or went out of the build-
ing. There was not even a rumor of his
having been about the office that night.
Immediately after the trial, pleading
a nervous break-down, he resigned and
went East.
Two months later a series of annoying
forgeries came to Brooks' attention.
Larry had not resumed his place in
the firm, but he had protested his in-
nocence to Brooks, as well as liis
respect for Muriel, and. in a
broken-hearted way, the old
man was near believing him.
That is, lie wanted to believe
him, for in spite of everything,
he liked Larry.
And during one of his vis
its, by way of making con-
versation in a rather tense
situation, lie .showed the
forged documents.
"It's not the money."
protested Brooks, "it's the
cleverness of the scoundrel,
and his knowledge of my busi
ness."
"An inside job." responded
Larry, "or a job by a man who
knows us thoroughlv."
Having nothing else to
do, Larry devoted his thought
to the fraudulent paper. He
began to eliminate. Verv soon
he had eliminated — to A\'ilson !
To trace the paper to Wilson,
and after that, the murder itself,
were but successive steps in logical thought.
To Brooks he confided onlv his belief in
Wilson as the forger. Larry located him,
and detectives Avound the chain.
Wilson waived trial, and asked only to be
sentenced, ^'\'hy? Of what was he afraid
that he wished to escape human observation
for a period of years?
There were drug ravages on his face
when he returned, and in his shaking hands.
Plainly he was wooing forgetfulness of
opium or opium's children.
To the district attorney who had once
prosecuted him Larry confided all his new
suspicions — and a plan.
As Wilson, with pasty face and dull eves,
came in for the word that should send him.
defenseless, to bolts and bars, he faced a
peculiar, standing package upon the table
"She did it herself,
but I've wished it'd
been me instead — /
loved her, I tell you
before him. His attorney had attempted to
take it. but had been told that it was an
intimately personal matter for his client.
"What's this?" he asked, a queer look on
his face.
"What you're going away for," answered
the District Attorney, brusquely.
Wilson pulled nervously at the string
that confined the paper. It fell away, sud-
denly. He confronted a silver picture-
frame, from the dei)ths of which a head of
Muriel, almost life-size, smiled directly into
his eyes.
He turned blue, and with a hoarse cry
jumped to his feet, leaped the rail, and
started down the aisle. The court-room
was in a panic. Two bailiffs caught him at
the door.
(Continued on page ijy)
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WINNERS OF THE MARCH MOVING
First Prize. . $10.00— Lester C. Willard,
Yonkers, N. Y.
Second Prize.. 5.00 — Mrs. W. B. Ospley,
Glasgow, Ky.
Third Prize. . . 3.00— Mary E. Whitney,
Springfield, Mass.
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Joseph, Mo.
$1.00 Prizes to
f Rose A. Prunty, Balti-
more, Md.
I L. 0. Gale, Minneapo-
lis, Minn.
Alma F. Mann,
Spokane, Wash.
Jane Oliver, Chicago,
111.
Mrs. M. Reynolds,
Toronto, Ont.
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$1.00 Prizes to
( Continued)
f Mrs. Lue J. Lloyd,
I Madrid, N. M.
George Wheeler, Lom-
bard, 111.
J Miss May Dixon,
j Napa, Cal.
] William W. Thomas,
I Stamford, Conn.
I Jean F. MacDonald,
[ Detroit, Mich.
CORRECT ANSWERS FOR
MARCH
1. Marie Doro.
2. King Baggott.
3. Guy Standing.
4. Hazel Dawn.
5. Fred Burns.
6. Francis X. Bush-
man.
7. Roscoe Arbuckle.
8. Mary Pickford.
9. Paul T. Lawrence.
10. Evart Overton.
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Death. >^here is Thy Sting ?
TO every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late,
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods?"
The above extract from "Horatius at the
Bridge" was being recited in English class one
morning, when one young man aroused the
class by declaiming:
"And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And The Daughter of the Gods?'"
Gertrude Miicser, Elgin, III.
#
No Chance
AFTER talking continuously through a
seven-reel picture, a lady turned to her
companion with the remark, "Well, Mary, are
you better? Did you get over your bilious
attack?" To whicli her no less loquacious
companion replied. "Yes, but my tongue is still
coated."
The irate old gentleman sitting in front of
them could hold in no longer. "It can't be,
madam," he exploded. "You never heard of
grass growing on a race track."
G. Champagne, Ottawa, Canada.
The Pass\vord
IN Eiigland a sentinel on night duty was
walking up and down along the border when
he saw a figure in the dark and called out,
"Who goes there?"
The answer was, "Chaplain."
"All right, Charlie, go ahead."
Pearl Ouincy, New York City.
A
Perhaps the Punk Pictures Help
THANK; heavens, there are no mosquitos
here !"
"Of course not ; the screen keeps them out."
Lee F. Rodgers, Portsmouth, Va.
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- A Poor Excuse' —
HE had not taken much interest in the pic-
ture, and suddenly grabbing his hat, he
whispered to his wife:
"I thought I heard an alarm of fire. I'm
going to see where it is."
The Mrs., whose hearing is less acute, made
way for him in silence and he disappeared.
.About twenty minutes later he returned.
"It wasn't a fire after all," he said.
"Nor water either," she sniffed.
Arthur L. Kaser, South Bend, Ind.
Graphic
IT was in a movie show during the showing
of a war picture. A recruit in the audience
asked his friend, who had evidently been at
the front, about his experierice when the shell
struck him.
"Well, first you 'ears a 'ell of a noise, then
the nurse says, ' 'Ere, try an' drink a little o'
this.' "
Jack Taylor, Karnoc P. 0., Manitoba.
Extravagance
TWO little boys were attending a long se-
rial picture. Both watched the screen for
an hour or so, when the sandman finally got
the better of five-year-old Bennie and he went
to sleep. At the change of a reel, Walter, see-
ing Bennie sound asleep, grasped him by the
shoulder, shook him and in a loud whisper
exclaimed, "Wake up, Bennie, don't you know
you're just wasting money?"
/. A. Christiansen, IVh.itticr, Cal.
A Slight Anachronism
LITTLE Freddie accompanied his mother to
the presentation of "Joan the Woman."
The scene in which Joan is burned at the stake
brought to his mind reminiscences of former
days in the pictures, and in the silence of the
house his voice was clearly audible as he whis-
pered, "Will they do a war dance now,
mother?"
John B. Cullinane, East Boston, Mass.
Ihe Shadow Stage
145
(Continued fr
Beloved Enemy," the story of a girl who
loved a villain and crook just because she
couldn't help loving him. Sylvia Leigh, a
boarding-school rosebud, goes home to find
that her father, whom she adored, has been
ruined by the macliinations of a mysterious
stranger. Thenceforth Sylvia makes it her
business to find this man. She is going to
get him. So she does, but on a dilferent
plan. An extremely clever scene is the
man's burglarizing of a safe in an office
building, and his outwitting, in neat fash-
ion, of a night watchman and a policeman.
Leaving the scene of his depredation, he
meets the girl who thinks she hates him, in
her car. He asks her to take him safely
away. And she does. Why? Because she
loves him. He tells her so, and she admits
it. At the finale we are shown that the
man of mystery belongs to the United
States Secret Service, and that papa, de-
spite his love for daughter, was a pretty
naughty egg. Wayne Arey is delightful
as the big lover, and Doris (irey equally
appropriate as Sylvia.
Frederick Warde in "The Vicar of
^^'akefield," gives a sort of classic dignity
to the month's Pathe programme. This
piece is a worthy staging of an enduring
masterpiece.
1 liA\'E seen four of Mr. Fox's plays
^ this month. I should have seen more, I
sujjpose. but only these swam into my ken :
"Sister Again.st Sister."
"The Tiger Woman."
"A Child of the Wild."
"The Scarlet Letter."
The first is one of the demoniac doubles
they wrap about Virginia Pearson's
statuesque ivory shoulders. Two little
children, both played by Katherine Lee,
and very well, grown up to be Virginia,
Saint and Sataness. Virginia the Saint
loves and is lo\'ed l)y Irving Cummings. an
incipient governor. Walter Law, master
of Virginia the Sataness, compels ^"is crea-
ture's maladministrations, and the sprout-
ing statesman is pitched headlong over a
woman's feet to oblivion and worse. In
the end, he marries the saint, and the lady
satan dies a lunatic. Ciii bono?
In "The Scarlet Letter" we at least
have a sincere and dignified attempt to
photograph a great story. That the at-
tempt is not a huge success is not the fault
of the actors, but rather of a lack of im-
oni page go J
agination in adaptor and director. Stuart
Holmes is featured as Arthur Dimmesdale,
and Mary Martin is an acceptable Hester
Prynne.
"A Child of the Wild." June Caprice,
frolicking after her fashion for June Cap-
rice admirers.
"The Tiger Woman." A whaling big
vamp chance for Theda Bara, in a Russian
setting. It will be popular wherever
"vamp" is a household word and Chester-
ton, Shaw, Dreiser and such are never
heard of. So wide is notoriety and so nar-
row is fame.
In "The ^^'eb of Desire" you will find one
of the most carefully made and convinc-
ing World photoplays in many months.
The story is tlie lifelike one of two people
happy in poverty and obscurity, intensely
unhappy in wealth, minor celebrity and the
search for more wealth. Ethel Clayton,
Rockcliffe Fellows and Stuart Turner have
the chief roles, and the play is excellently
and carefully staged.
"The Dancer's Peril" is an unusually
strong Russian story, with no anarchist nor
attempts upon the life of the Czar. Alice
Brady plays a dual role, and in the spec-
tacular scenes Alexis Koslofi^ and a huge
and real Russian ballet appear, dancing_ the
Rimsky- Korsakoff^ "Sheherazade." So
much for fidelity to props and persons.
"A Girl's Folly," capitally acted by Rob-
ert ^^'arwick, Johnny Hines, Doris Kenyon
and Jean Adair, is the story of a country
maiden's disillusionment. The male occa-
sion, a motion picture actor somewhat con-
ceited, not above preying on innocence
when innocence makes furious demands —
vet, having a conscience. It's a human
part and it's a human story. This is a
good thing for a lot of girls to see ; per-
liaps it will lead a few of them toward
sane, discriminating and helpful admira-
tion, and away from the abomination of
idol worship.
"TTHE Courage of Silence." a Vitagraph
* vehicle for the talents of Alice Joyce,
is one of the liest plays to come from
Brooklvn in months. It is by Milton'
Nobles, directed by W. P. S. Earle, and it
approximates life. It contains neither
heroine nor hero, villain nor vamp. It is
magnificently acted by Miss Joyce, Harry
(Continued to page 154)
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Photoplay Magazine
"Size 14 — Misses' Department"
(Continued from page 40)
■would jeopardize her short loveliness with
a barrel skirt.
"The idear, Alame !" says Lizzie. "No;
them's for the big birds."
As for the long .skirted evening gown
which is also to be stylish, its grace cannot
be disputed by any girl — even by those who
take -Size 14 — Misses' Department. Even
the five-feet-twos must be dignified at
times and petite women have always loved
the dignity afforded by a train. One of the
tiniest and most winsome of the film hero-
ines recently ordered, on sight, a lovely
gown of white spangled chiffon with silk
net draperies flowing off into a slight train.
Save for the absence of sleeves, one might
have thought it an Easter wedding goAvn.
But then, there already happens to be a
stalwart six-footer of a husband owned out-
side of films bv this five-foot-two star.
What Keenan Did at Hi^h Noon
(Continued from page Jj)
That worthy looked Keenan over at
some length, gazing long and earnestly at
the well tailored clothes and the general
air of big town experience. Finally he
spat meditatively on the hot stove and
remarked :
"Frank, if you'd listened to me you'd a
been some druggist."
Keenan returned the appraising look,
let his eye rove around the dilapidated
counters with their cobwebbed stock, and
then replied: "Yes. sir; and if you'd of
come with me, as I urged, you'd of been
some actor."
An old man who sat smoking in the
corner looked up at this point, removed the
corncob from his mouth and remarked,
shaking his grizzled head. "The Lord
understands all. He sure was good to
both professions."
A Request to Our Readers!
HA\'E you been confused into buying any other moving picture
publication under the impression you were purchasing Photo-
ri AY Magazine?
The name has been imitated closely, and to such an extent that
we have been obliged to appeal to the United States courts to protect
rights to our own name.
We would appreciate it if you would report any experience of
this kind that has happened to you, or any cases that have come to
vour attention.
A Kitchener Amon^ Cameras
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( ( '(i/i/i/niii/ fr
the editor of the department, the director
and the manager of production, discusses
the story from the different viewpoints.
They decide upion the manner in which the
story is to be played and the continuity
writer, under the .supervision of the editor
of the department, makes his adaptation.
Having completed his work, he turns the
script over to the editor of the department,
who checks the work and O. K.'s it or sends
it back with corrections, as the case may be,
after which it is returned to liim and then
sent to the production ofiRce.
The production office checks the script
for possible faults from a producing stand-
point and then turns it over to the direc-
tor, ten days or .so in advance of the date
he is expected to start its production.
The director is given several days to read
the story, thoroughly digest it and make
his criticisms or suggestions. We insist,
however, that his criticisms be constructive.
Almost without exception, the director will
be able' to improve the story witli an idea
here and there. He makes his notations,
turns it back to the production de])artment,
which in turn, if the director can justify
his points, O. K.'s tliem and returns the
script to be rewritten, embodying the
changes. After the perfect .script is com-
pleted, it is again sent to the production
office where an estimator estimates the
cost of production. The estimate slieet
printed herewith gives some idea of just
how the script is picked to pieces. This is
done in conference with the director.
Next, the estimate is sent to the execu-
tive office witli a request for an appropria-
tion, which, unless there is some good
reason to the contrary, is granted, and the
production department is giA'en authority
to expend the amount of money apj^ro-
priated for this particular picture. It is
to be noted from the estimate sheet tha^
each department gets its certain allowance,
and is notiiied by a copy of this estimate
that that is a maximum allowance for this
particular picture. H any more is needed,
an additional appropriation from the pro-
duction department must be secured.
The director now takes his script to the
specification and set man in the production
office. Scene plots are made out for the
entire picture. In case of special sets,
artists make free hand drawings. If the
picture is in a foreign atmosphere or is of
a certain jieriod, the script goes to the re-
search library. The librarian .selects plates
and books accurately describing the archi-
tecture, customs and costumes of that par-
ticular period or locality and places them
at the disposal of the director, so that the
sets may be accurate.
After the scene plots are made out and
the drawings of the special sets completed,
the director (). K.'s each one of them and
the production office sends them to the
technical department with the date and
the hour on eacli plot, specifying when it is
wanted.
In the same manner, wardrobe and prop
plots are made out. These prop plots are
made out in minute detail for each set. even
down to tile last lead pencil, and sent to
the projierty man. who immediately cliecks
up his props, notes the date and hour
wanted and selects them from his stock,
l)lacing tiiem aside for this particular pic-
ture at the jiarticular time wanted.
The director then, in conference with
rhe head of the casting department and
the manatrer of production, casts his pic-
ture from our stock, (we carrv about 300
actors and actresses of various types on the
payroll and in stock at all times). The
actors are cast for the picture, without any
regard for alleged stars. If there is a maid
in the picture, we insist upon her being a
good maid. An actress who playS a maid
in one picture may play a lead in the
next and vice A-ersa.
From this point on, the director has but
one thing to do and that is to tell his
story. As an illustration : He has requested
Set No. 1 for nine o'clock on Monday
morning. AA'e now have a night construc-
tion crew at I'niversal City and Set No. 1.
and possibly No. 2, is erected Sunday night,
papered and painted. Ai seven-thirty
o'clock Monday morning the prop room
delivers on that set all the furniture and
hatid prop> that were called for in that
jiarticular set. Within half an hour the
dres.sing s(]uad. in charge of an interior
decorator, dresses the set. an expert draper
hangs the drapes, and a picture man hangs
the pictures if any are called for. At eight-
thirtv the director, with his people and
camera man. are usually on the set, and the
head of the laboratory, who is in supreme
command of all the camera men, O. K.'s the
(Continued on page i68)
The Wild Woman of Babylon
[Co)itinucd from page 82)
Talmadge, and very shocking to the con-
ventional mind are some of the things she
tells you about herself.
"Am I domestic? I am not. I can't
cook and don't want to, and I'm sure I
hayn't the slightest idea on which finger
you put your thimble when you sew. I
don't mean to marry for years and' years,
either, — I'm too happy as I am.
"At home we used to play show in the
cellar, and we made mother come as audi-
ence, and when she didn't like the show,
we used to lock her in so she'd have to
stay. " It was pretty damp and cold down
there, and mother caught rheumatism, but
Norma and I were the actresses, so she
stood it with fairly good grace. Sometimes
we had a circus. Once we locked, all the
neighborhood cats and dogs into the cellar
for the wild animals. We heard a terrible
tumult in the niglit, and in the morning
we found a dead kitten and two hadly
mauled dogs. We were awfullv sorry
about that, because we loved animals."
How did Constance Talmadge, almost
unknown, come to play the coveted part of
tlie Mountain Girl. There had always been
.1 suspicion in my mind that Mr. Griffith
saw Constance and "wrote her in," as a
final stroke of genius. But that's because I
didn't know history. It seems such a char-
acter existed in legend or history, and the
way Mr. Griffith happened to pick Con-
stance was as follows :
"I went to see Mr. Griffith in New York
one day with Norma. Right away he ex-
claimed, 'The Mountain Girl !' I was a
bit angry and V"uzzled. 'Mountain girl
.1
indeed !' I glanced down at my smart
new tailor suit, at my modish shoes and
gloves. Then I decided it must be my
hat, — that it probably wasn't on straight.
I was pretty mad, but of course I didn't
say anything. He kept looking at me, and
by and by he asked us to go for a ride in
his new car. We went, and he dashed
around corners and across streets at a
terrible rate. 1 sat with him and enjoyed
it hugely. And when I laughed with joy
when we dashed through the throngs, — two
policemen stopped us at difi^erent times. —
he again said, 'The mountain girl.' I guess
he was testing me out to see if I were really
as daring as I looked. I'm glad he found
out that I was."
.\s to Miss Talmadge's early career —
"I used to dress up in my best and go
over to the Vitagrapli studio in New York,
where Norma was working, hoping some-
body would see me and want me. I was lit-
tle and skinny, and I guess I got in every-
body's way. But 1 used to dress up in all
the different kind of rigs I could get hold
of, dreaming of the day when some di-
rector would point me out and .say : 'There's
the very type I've been looking for.' But
nobody did. Then one day I heard them
say they were looking for a homely, skinny
little girl to play a bit. My vanity was all
gone by that time. 'Will I do?' I asked.
The director pulled one of my tafiEy-colored
pig-tails and told me I was a bit too homely
and too skinny, but I might try !' Thus
were all my dreams dispelled, but thus did
I become a motion ])icture actress."
No matter how fast the alleged auto in front goes, the director and cameraman in the rear will be tight on deck. Here
they are filming some foolery of Kolb and Dill at Santa Barbara, Cat. Of course the "truck" behind is not seen on the screen
148
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Questions ^/Answers
voir do not have to be a subscriber to Photoplay Magazine
■*■ to gel questions answered in this Department. It is only
required tliat you avoid questions which would call for nudulv
long answers such as synopses of plays, or casts of more than
one play. There are hundreds of others '-in line " with vou
at the Questions and Answers window, so be considerate.
This will make it both practical and pleasant to serve you
promptly and often. Do not ask questions touching religion,
scenario writing or studio emplovment. Studio addresses
will not he given in this Department, because a complete list
of them is printed elsewhere in the magazine each month.
Write on only one side of the paper. Sign your full name
and address; only initials will be published if requested. If
you desire a personal replvv enclose self-addressed stamped
enveloj>e. \\ rite to Questions and Answers, Photoplay
Magazine, (Chicago.
Cleo, Keokuk, Ia. — Cannot understand yovir
complaint concerning the manner in which Wil-
liam S. Hart attires himself. We have always
been under the impression that he is usually
dressed up. As a matter of fact, in every pic-
ture we have seen him he has been dressed to kill.
with it and can keep the juice from S(|Liirting into
your eyes, yovi get to like it. Carlyle is pro-
nounced as it is spelled with the accent on the
auto — that is, the Car. You're supposed to
lawf here.
Flossie, Big Sandy, Mo.\t. — No, thanks, don't
care for any homesteads this morning. If you
don't mind, we'll kinda
hang on to our present situa-
tion. Address Marie Doro,
Famous Players studio. New
York.
Olive, San Francisco. —
So far as we know, Carlyle
Blackwell's wife has never
appeared in pictures, al-
though she was of the staKc
originally.
M. N., Cleveland, O.— The
reason you have not seen
Wheeler Oakman since "The
Ne'er-Do-Well" is because
he has not appeared on the
screen since. When he is
seen next it will be in the
Mabel Normand comedy
drama "Mickey," but no one
seems to know when it will be completed. Ed-
ward Arnold is with Essanay in Chicago. Viola
Dana and Mabel Taliaferro are married. Robert
Walker is married. He was born in 1888. Some
of the film plays Oakman has played in are
"The Spoilers," "The Rosary," "Shotgun Jones"
and "The Cycle of Fate."
IT is the aim of this depart-
ment to answer the same
question but once in an issue.
If your initials do not appear
look for the answer to your
questions under the name of
another.
For studio addresses con-
sult the studio directory in
the advertising section.
A strict compliance with
the rules printed at the top of
this page will be insisted
upon.
A. B. C, Sulphur Springs, Ark. — Only the
most important players are under contract — and
a number of those who were snared at an early
age at excursion rates. Theda
Bara is entirely unmarried.
"What is required of a person
to be an actor?" We'll have
to think this over until next
month, .Krchie.
P. J., Weston, O. — Jack
Sherill attains his majority
this year. We are in ignor-
ance as to his favorite amuse-
ment, but as a guess we
should venture, acting.
"Whom did he marry and
why ?" At first glance it
seems that this is a rather
personal query. His mar-
riage was recently annulled.
M. A., St. Catherine's,
Ontario. — Owen Moore was
born in Ireland but is an
American by adoption. He is still the husband
of Mary Pickford. We have no record of Paul
Capellani's matrimonial status. Conwav Tearle
is a half brother of Godfrey Tearle, the' English
actor. Valkyrien, in private life, is the Barones.s
DeWitz, a Dane, not an Austrian. Grace Dar
mond is not married. Her home is in Chicago.
Teddie, Larch MONT. N. Y. — Couldn't find your
stamp, which accounts for your appearance here.
Douglas Fairbanks has bvit one son. Edward
Earle was recently married. Blanche Sweet is
with the company which is to produce the Froh-
man stage plays. Marguerite Clark is four feet
ten inches small. Ethel Barrymore lives at
Mamaroneck, when she is not in the city.
Dorothy, Melbourne, Australia.- — From your
description, Dorothy, we should judge that the
fruit which you saw eaten for breakfast in the
photoplay was grapefruit. Don't j'ou ever see
any of it in Australia ? After you get acquainted
L. M. D., Pittsburg, Pa. — So you think the
"silent menace" in "Pearl of the Army" is Frank
Mayo? Well, it isn't, as Mr. Mayo is in Califor-
nia and "Pearl" is an Eastern production. Dor-
othy Gish is to celebrate her nineteenth birthday
this year. She is a big five-footer and her dis-
placement is around 1 10 pounds. The bathing
beauty in the "Broadway, Cal." story is Myrtle
I.ind, a Keystone nymph. Send the lilies.
Cecile, Dallas, Tex. — Mr. Lockwood has a
wife and child, but our information is that they
ire living apart. Address Petrova at Lasky's,
Niles Welch, Technicolor, Jacksonville, Fla.,
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Photoplay Magazine
David Powell, 22 East 33rd St., New York, Earle
Foxe at Selznick, Olga Olonova, Eugene Strong,
Maurice Costello and Ethel Grandin care Erbo-
graph, 203 West 146th St., New York, and
Geraldine Farrar, care Metropolitan Opera Co.,
New York.
M. S., New York. — We have no knowledge of
Helene Ziegfeld, but if she played with Tom
Terris, she is probably in England. At any rate,
we are fairly certain that she is no relative of
Billie Burke.
Smiling Lad, Minneapolis. — We agree that
your introduction to Photoplay was unique. It
isn't every 'bo who gets a chance to read such
good stuff while waiting for a hand-out. Frank
Keenan has been in vaudeville. Glad you like
the Props stories. So does the author.
C. G., ToRRiNGTON, CoNN. — Broncho Billy
wasn't dead the last time we saw him — just a
few weeks ago. His name is Gilbert M. Ander-
son. Sorry, but don't think we have time to look
over any poetry.
M. H., Boise, Idaho. — House Peters was born
in England and was on the legitimate stage for a
number of years before entering upon his highly
successful screen ca-
reer.
C. P., Colorado
Springs, Col. — Yes, it
was Mae Murray in
"Sweet Kitty Bellairs."
If Fannie Ward is 47.
it is news to us. We
were imder the im-
pression she was in
her early teens. The
cast for "Three of
Many" : Nina, Clara
Williams ; Emit, Charles
Gunn ; Paul, George
Fisher.
Clio, Cottesloe,
Western Australia. —
Most of the addresses
you want will be found
elsewhere in this issue.
Letters sent to players
in care of Photoplay
Magazine will be for-
warded to them. Her-
bert Rawlinson's wife is
Roberta Arnold, a
player on the legitimate
stage.
TO MY SCREEN FAVORITE
I am not maudlin ; cares have made me old.
I have not written you and never shall.
I've penned no sonnets to your hair of gold —
Perhaps, it is not really gold at all !
J. B., Dallas, Tex. — So you were disappointed
when you saw Kerrigan in person because he
had his face painted. Well, it's too bad that
some of our leading film players cannot be con-
tent away from the sound of clapping hands.
Wheeler Oakman was
the man opposite Kath-
lyn Williams in "The
Ne'er-Do-Well." Billie
Burke is scheduled to
return to the legitimate
stage. Write whenever
the spirit moves you.
I've mailed no quarter for your photograph;
My kiddies ask them for another cause.
I've never asked for work upon your staff.
Before your postered face I never pause.
No "Answer Man" I've questioned for your
life;
No touching gifts from me you've ever
had:
Old fogie-Iike, I really love my wife.
And Blue Bird Lassie and my Buster Lad.
Yet I'll be frank ! You've taught me more
of Life
Than priest or poet, prophet lips or peer ;
You've made me stronger for the common
strife :
In gratitude I'll ever hold you dear !
— Roscoe Gilmore Stott.
Jennie, Frankfort,
Ky. — We were just
about to tell you that
Crane Wilbur was
single when word came
that he has married
again. The current Mrs.
Wilbur is not an ac-
tress.
C. C, North Yakima,
Wash. — Bobby Harron
did not go with Mae
Marsh. He is still with
Fine Arts. Harry
Northrup played last in
"Panthea." Gladden
James, we think, is
with Metro. Enjoyed
your letter. Don't wait
for another invitation.
B. H., Jamaica Plains, Mass. — Can't under-
stand why you ask us for Miss Roland's address
when you have been corresponding with her.
Write to Wallace Reid and his wife, care of
Lasky studio, Los Angeles. Most of the players
prefer not to have their home addresses made
public.
A. B., Richardton, N. D. — Don't think Francis
Ford and Grace Cunard are engaged, as the
former recently remarried his former wife and
the latter recently married Joe Moore. Cleo
Madison is not with any company at present.
Tom Chatterton's photograph was printed in this
magazine not so long ago. Send fifteen cents
and get one. ,
A. L., Wichita, Kansas. — Not Harold Hol-
lingsworth, but Emmanuel Turner, was cast as
"Beauty" Smythe in "The Tarantula." Harry
Hollingsworth was in this picture, however. He
was Teddy Steele.
M. E. L., Denver, Colo. — Ethel Fleming is the
wife of William Courtleigh, Jr. Dustin Farnum
is now with Fox Film Corporation in Los
Angeles.
E. H., Ann Arbor, Mich. — You guessed wrong.
It's the elevator boy in our office building who
writes the poems. Mrs. Vernon Castle is now in
England. McClure Pictures are located in the
McCiure Building, New York City. Herbert Del-
more was the doctor in "Broken Chains." Niles
Welch will be 29 this year. Write early and
often.
S. B., Washington, D. C. — Earle Foxe has
been jumping about from company to company
since he left Lasky. His address is in care of
the Dramatic Mirror, New York City.
Harry, Chicago. — Edwin Mc-Kim was a direc-
tor for Lubin but his present address is unknown
to us.
Madeline, New York City. — Claire Whitney
and Stuart Holmes are not married. Harold
Lockwood and May Allison are with Metro in
Los Angeles. Edna Mayo and Teddy Sampson
are in your city, but at this writing are not
afifiliated with any companv.
M. L. N., Dallas, Tex. — ^The Fox pictures
which have featured Theda Bara are : "A Fool
There Was," "The Devil's Daughter," "Lady
Audley's Secret," "The Clemenceau Case,'
"Kreutzer Sonata," "The Serpent," "Gold and the
Woman," "The Galley Slave," "Carmen,"
"Destruction," "The Two Orphans," "Sin," "East
Lynn," "The Eternal Sappho," "Under Two
Flags," "Her Double Life," "Romeo and Juliet,"
"The Vixen," and "The Darling of Paris."
Nina, Worcester, Mass. — Sorry, but it's con-
trary to our constitution and by-laws to give out
information or advice as to employment.
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R. J. W., Chakleston, W. Va. — Annette Kel-
lerman is none other than Mrs. Sullivan in
private life. It is probable that she will be in
another picture. Winifred Kingston was born
in 1884.
J. C. M., New York City.— Hard luck, old top,
but all the people you ask about are married —
Charles Ray, William Desmond, Olga Petrova and
Mary Pickford. Sorry to disappoint you again,
but so far as wc know they are all well satisfied
with their respective selections. Olga Petrova
and Louise Glaum aren't telling us how far back
their birth year dates.
M. M. G., Portland, Ore. — Whoever told you
that Marguerite Clark is in New York most of
the time knows what he is talking about, for
she is with the Famous Players in New York
City. Most motion picture people are glad to
get words of praise and a majority of them
answer all the letters that they receive.
P. R. A., Buffalo. N. Y. — Here is the data you
want about Marguerite Clark. She isn't married,
is four feet ten inches tall, has hazel eyes and
brown hair and was 29 on Washington's birthday. "
Or was it thirty ?
B. A., Providence, R. I. — Pauline Frederick
was born in Boston. It is true that she has been
married. Sure, we think she will send you her
photo if you ask for it.
M. K. O., Atlantic, Iowa. — Anita Stewart is a
member of the eastern Vitagraph Company, lo-
cated at East Fifteenth and I.ocust Sts., Brook-
lyn. Any mail will reach her there. Thcda
Bara's address is in care of the Fox Film
Corporation, Fort Lee, N. J., Clara Kimball
Young with her own company and Marv Pick-
ford ditto.
T. A., Rensselaer, N. Y. — Jean Southern is
associated with Art Dramas. "Whoso Taketh a
Wife" is one of her recent picture \ehiclLS.
E. H., Dalton, Ga. — The Signal Film Com-
pany is a branch of the Mutual Film Corporation
and is located in Los Angeles, Cal. Theodosia
Goodman is the name by which Theda Bara was
formerly known.
- S. E. M., Passaic, N. J. — Blanche Payson is
no less than six feet three inches tall. There
are any number of tall brunettes on the screen :
Gail Kane, Theda Bara, Virginia Pearson and a
great many others. Marin Sais is still with
Kalem and is working in the California studio
of that company. Irene Castle measures five feet,
six inches. Glad you like so many things in
Photoplay and we hope the "Peggy Roche"
stories will interest you as much as "The Glorv
Road" did.
E. F. B., San Antonio. Texas. — You lose.
Niles Welsh did play with Mary Miles Minter
in "Emmy of Stork's Nest," a Metro picture made
something over a year ago. Violet de Biccari
is the little girl you refer to in "The Unwelcome
Mother." There has never been a Mary Miles
Minter cover on Photoplay, but we will do the
best we can about getting one for you. The
cast of "Always in the Way" follows : Dorothy
North, Mary Miles Minter ; Dorothy at the age
of four, Ethelmary Oakland ; Winiford North,
Lowell Sherman : Mrs. Helen Stilhvell, Edna
Holland ; May Stillzcell, Mabel Green ; Alan
Stillwell, Harold Meltzer ; Rev. Goodzvin, Arthur
Evers ; Mrs. Goodivin. Charlotte Shelby; John
Armstrong, Hal Clarendon.
V. B. C, Birmingham, Ala. — Richard Travers
was recently married for the second time. Ad-
dress Bill Desmond at Culver City, Cal. Give
you a list of all the handsome actors. Miss
V. B. C. ? My word, you don't expect much,
do you? Can you imagine what would happen
to us if we omitted one?
W. R., HAAtiLTO.x, Ontario. — Dustin Farnum
is with the Fox Film Corporation in Los Angeles.
His mail will reach him there. L'ntil recently
he was with Morosco. He, his director and his
leading lady. Miss Kingston, all moved over to
Camp Fox at the same time.
Cunard-Reid Admirer. Dalton, Ga. — Grace
(unard wrote and is playing a lead in "The
Purple Mask." a serial being made at L'niversal
City. Miss Cunard was born in 1891.
Peggy, Windsor, Ont. — Bertha Kalich was
born in Germany in 1877. Her husband, Kenneth
Hunter, is also with Fox. He has appeared in
"Ambition" and "Daredevil Kate." Don't kno.w
how old Annette Kellerman is — somewhere
around thirtv.
A. S., Philadelphia, Pa. — Your letter was one
of the most delightful that has ever been re-
ceived in this department. All of the "Beauty
and Brains" girls did not elect to become screen
actresses. Some of them returned home and
others are now connected with studios in New
York or Los Angeles.
H. L. C, Marion. Ohio. — Yes, "An
<iuite worthy of being seen twice.
Schwed was little Rosa in this picture
Nelson was the younger brother, Phil
Well, we won't tell Alice Brady what
about her, although it was not in the
complimentary. Actresses like to h
personalities admired as well as their
ions or their eyebrows. We know that
would be flattered to be called "a good
Alien" is
Blanche
and Tack
Griswold.
you said
least un-
ave their
complex-
Geraldine
scout."
B. W., Brooklyn, N. Y. — You who have "never
before written either to answer men or actor
men." welcome to our circle. Harrison Ford
has recently graduated from the legitimate stage
— that's why you haven't seen him in pictures
before. He is now playing at Universal City.
Little Cook, Clinton, Mo. — Your menu looks
great — on paper — and if it tastes as good as it
reads, you are some cook. Here are the married
couples featured in the "Who's Married to Who"
articles which ran in Photoplay in 1915: Gypsy
Abbott and Henry King ; Gerda Holmes and
Rapley Holmes; Marguerite Snow and James
Cruze : Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley; Mary
Pickford and Owen Moore; Alice Joyce and Tom
Moore: Mabel Trunelle and Herbert Prior;
Lolita Robertson and Max Figman ; Bliss Mil-
ford and Harry Beaumont ; Bessie Barriscale and
Howard Hickman ; Dorothy Davenport and Wal-
lace Reid : Margarita Fischer and Harry Pol-
lard ; Louise Huff and Edgar Jones ; Bryant
Washburn and Mabel Forrest ; Ethyl Cooke and
Harry Benham ; Hobart Bosworth and Adele
Farrington ; Mae Hotely and Arthur Hoteling;
Winifred Greenwood and George Field ; Mr. and
Mrs. William Betchel : Margaret Thompson and
Eugene Allen ; Stella Razetto and Edward J. Le
Saint; Edith Bostwick and J. Farrell MacDonald ;
Clara Lambert and James Daly ; Gene Gauntier
and Jack Clark. Edith Stroud Anderson and
Clarence Elmert are the married couple whose
pictures appear on page 94 of the .'^pril, 1915,
Photoplay. —
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The Shadow Sta^e
Morey and Anders Randolf. A successful
man of affairs in America, with a pretty
wife and two adorable children, is sent to
London to investigate his firm's foreign
trade, and there, at an evening party, meets
the wife of the Spanish Ambassador. Her
life is murky with the quintessence of
Latin suspicion, for her husband is jealous
and abusive. It is tjuite natural that she
should expand the first flash of physical
attraction between herself and the Ameri-
can to something l)roader and deeper. He
becomes her confidante and when he falls,
falls hard. She proposes an elojjement ; he
consents — having first returned to America,
only to fly back — and writes his wife that
he has discovered the ultimate happiness
outside his home. So with the Spanish
woman he crosses the English Channel.
Here comes the bit of anti.sepsis which put
the play by the censors : he opens his
watch, and in the case she sees the photo-
graph of his wife and children. She
refuses to consummate or continue their
unsanctioned alliance, for slie did not
"know that he was a married man. This bit
of smug unlikelihood may l)e pardoned for
the story's general exxellence. She be-
comes a sister of charity — he goes to
Africa. The wife and children, on the
advice of her father, follow him. with no
bitterness, as far as Marseilles. There the
children are taken ill, and it is of course
the Spanish sister who is sent to nurse
them. The little girl recovers ; the boy
pines for his father. The nurse sends for
him, and eventually is the instrument
mending the broken home. No woman on
the screen looks more like a Spanish lady
than Alice Joyce. Her suave, reposeful
beauty appears to grow more effective each
season. It is a joy to see such men as
Morey, who plays Bradley, the truant hus-
band ; and Anders Randolph, the 'Spanish
Ambassador.
(Coniiiiiicd from page 14^)
"The (jlory of Yolanda" starts well, but
finishes absurdly. When will authors and
directors realize that there may be human
beings even in Russia?
"Arsene Lupin" is a careful and gener-
ally .swift moving film replica of the
French play produced a number of years
ago. It has its monotonous moments, but
these are discounted by the piece as a
whole. andl)y the efiiciency of the leading
performer, Earle Williams.
"Kitty Mackay," an enduring vitaliza-
tion of a Scotch comedy by Catherine
Chi-sholm Cushing, a vogue a season or
two ago, features Lillian Walker.
"/^NE of Many," an interesting and
^-^ carefully made production, is marred
by an improbable story. Frances Nelson
and Niles ^Velch plav the principal parts.
C.\KAH HERNHARDT'S activities are
endurable as Gibraltar and dependable
as the procession of the seasons. The
Immortelle's ' latest enchaining of public
attention is a film entitled "Mothers of
France," issued with the sanction and said
to have been made under the supervision of
the French government. It is more like a
panorama of war from the home angle,
and while possessing little definite story,
really retains interest through a showing
of many interesting things connected with
the war behind the lines. Despite her lack
of a leg, Mme. Bernhardt is an untram-
meled lead, even appearing on battle fields
during — or so we are told by the awed
press agent — action. If you see this pic-
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move from place to place while she is
under your eyes. She may have to cross
the room, but she crosses it while the
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(Continued from page 152)
N. H. D., Montreal, Canada. — The scenario
contest closed Dec. 31, 1916, and it would be
manifestly unfair to accept any entries at this
time. Obviously, wc could do nothing with them.
Billy, Rochester, N. Y. — Should adxise you
to make application to some New York film com-
pany. We cannot aid you in obtaining a posi-
tion.
R. B., New York City. — The battle scenes in
"Civilization" were taken in the vicinity of Los
Angeles. The capital scene was constructed
especially for this picture at Inceville, near Santa
Monica, Cal. Helen Tracey was Lady Capnict
in the Fox version of "Romeo and Juliet." "In-
tolerance" is perhaps the lengthiest moving pic-
ture play.
I. T. A., Os.siNixG. N. Y. — What, you back
here again? Well, come as often as you like.
Carmel Myers is 17 years old and is now a full
fledged leading woman with Fine Arts. Mrs.
Douglas Fairbanks was Miss Betty Sully before
her marriage. Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber and
Mary MacLaren had the leading roles in 'Tdle
Wives."
E. H., Fort Worth, Tex. — If you haven't heard
it before, you will be glad to hear that .'\nita
Stewart and Earle Williams are to play together
again. That answers one of your (juestions,
doesn't it ? Conway Tearle, we understand, is
still married. Alma Reviben was the beautiful
Spanish girl in "The Half Breed." Why don't
you write Miss Glaum herself and tell her what's
the matter with the way she wears her hair ?
Sherrill Admirer, Apple Creek. O. — Enmia
Calve never played before the camera that we
know of. The "Then I'll Come Back to You" cast
follows: Barbara Allison, .\iice Brady : Sfc'^e
O'Mara, Jack Sherrill ; Caleb Hunter. Eric Blind;
Archie Wickershani, Leo Gordon ; Harrigan.
George Kline; Miriam, Marie Wells; Little
Steve, Ted Dean.
P. F. Admirer, Garden City, L. I. — No trouble
at all. Glad to have done it. Miss Frederick's
former husband's name was Andrews and he was
an architect.
H. A., Felicity. O. — Perhaps illness has pre-
vented Cleo Ridgely from answering your letter.
She has been very ill for several months and
may be compelled to retire from the screen.
S. D. Boosters. Philip. S. D. — You should
worry about blizzards as long as you get your
Photoplay on time ! That was a blonde wig
that Edith Storey wore in "The Island of Re-
generation." J. P. McGowan is the husband of
Helen Holmes and *that is his right name. It
was Lillian Gish in "The Birth of a Nation."
George Ovey was born in 1884. Producers claim
there is no demand for Western pictures at pres-
ent, but Bill Hart keeps inarching on. Wm.
Farnum starred in "The Nigger." Kathlyn Wil-
liams and Wheeler Oakman in "The Rosary."
Mary Pickford owns her own company so we
can't give you her salary, and wouldn't if we
could. Would keep it ourselves. Lillian Gish
is not married. Charles Richman is. Is that all?
D. F., Newport, Ark. — Sorry to have dis-
couraged you, but we'd do it again. Harold
Lockwood played with Mary Pickford in "Tess."
Marie Doro is 34 years old and Blanche Sweet is
22. Elliott Dexter is Miss Doro's husband. He
was the artist in "American Beauty." Betty
Nansen has gone back to Denmark to fight for
her country.
Bab, Williamsport, Pa. — What a wonderful
guesser. Yes, we are young and extremely good
looking. It was only yesterday that our young-
est grandchild, who is studying for the pulpit,
commented on our looks. Pronounce it Bah-rah
with the accent on the Bah. We have no record
of Mr. Robson. Thanks for your kind sympathy.
It makes our rocky pathway so much easier to
haxe people pity us.
Edith, St. Louis. — Darwin Karr does not claim
any relationship to Francis Bushman. He is no
longer with Essanay. Nell Craig has no sister
with that company. Address Carlyle Blackwell
at World, Ft. Lee, N. J. Outside scenes are taken
in California all the year round. It's not so cold
there as in St. Louis.
Eileen, Ford City. Ont., Canada. — You are
right about Mary Pickford in everything except
her eyes. They are blue. She has no children.
The doctor in "The Foolish Virgin" was Paul
Capellani. The only reason our own picture is
not printed in the magazine is our friendship for
the pictiire stars. They'd all die of envy, once
they saw it.
C. Mc, Tampa. Fla. — Yes, Wilfred Lucas and
Mabel Normand played together in the old Bio-
graph days. The last we saw of Clara Joel she
was playing with John Mason in "Common Clay."
Moore Fan, Chicago. — You were evidently
misinformed about the report of a divorce.
F. L., Chicago. — Pleased indeed to introduce^
you to Miss Barriscale. Bessie, meet Frank.
Frank, this is Bessie. Now that you have met
her, you may write her care of Thomas H.
Ince, Culver City, California.
M. D., Bkllevue, Tex. — Accept our assurance -
that Mr. Chaplin walks just like anyone else in •
good health and in possession of all 'ocombtion '''\
faculties. Theda Bara has no husband. Don't n,
understand your flashlight question. Shoot again.
Friday. Stevens Point. Wis.— You wouldn't
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was spelled M-a-h-1-o-n, would jou? A/oy-lon.
with the accent on the May. Olga Petrova would
probably write you if your letter were sufficiently
interesting. Nothing like trying it anyhow. Ad-
dress her care Lasky.
M. H., Jeanerette. La. — Try it again and
segregate your sure-enough questions from the
others. Meanwhile, you might grieve a bit over
Tom Moore, for he is married, .\lice Joyce is
Mrs. Tom Moore, Mary Pickford is Mrs. Owen
Moore, Matt Moore is unmarried and Joe Moore
is married to Grace Cunard. Crane Wilbur's
hair is not red.
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E. R., Grass Valley, Cal. — We have seen
handsomer men than Tom Mix, but he's the best
looking man of that name we have e\ er known.
Yes, he's married. Thomas Meighan was John
Hale in "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine."
George Probert was the Grand Duke in "The
King's Game." Pearl is still with Pathe. Thanks
for vour good wishes.
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Schoolgirl, Pittsburg, Kan. — There is no
legislation which provides that one must finish
high school before entering the movies, but it's
a pretty good idea to do just that. Baby Marie
Osborn is in her sixth year. Grace Cunard is
now playing in "The Purple Mask." She is 26.
C. S., Brooklyn. — Delighted to be of service,
but after reading over your letter very care-
fully, we fail to discern any questions. Dandy
letter though. We like to get • that kind. We
always send them in to the boss, so he'll know
we deserve the raise he is just about to give us
— maybe. Suppose you have learned that George
Walsh's long hair is no more.
E. T., Albert Lea, Minn. — The youngest act-
ress who is really entitled to that honor is Baby
Marie Osborn. though there are many children
who would dispute her claims. Harold Lock-
wood is thirty. Write him at LSi9 Gordon St.,
Hollywood, Cal., and get a photograph.
E. K., Los Angeles, Cal. — Theda Bara will
next celebrate her natal day on July 20. At this
writing, D. W. Griffith is in New York.
Rosemary, Alton, III. — John Emerson is the
right name of John Emerson. At least we never
knew him to bear another patronymic.
Lola, Beaumont. Tex. — You sort of swamp
us with your questions. Right oft the bat. how-
ever, we like magnolias ; also Theda. Kathleen
isn't telling. "Personality" and photographic
qualities are what count. The Fairbanks twins
are on the stage.
B. C. S., Philadelphia, Pa. — Miss Hackett
was the wife of the late Arthur Johnson. An-
tonio Moreno is not married. Try and see if
he wont send you one. You're the patient little
girl, Betty, and we're sorry we kept you waiting.
Moo-v Fan, Battle Creek, Mich. — Got it
twisted. It's a him and he's really and truly not
blind. His name is Frankie Carpenter.
R. C, Sault Ste.- Marie. Ont. — Oh, well,
we're too modest to admit it, but then it's nice
to be told we are. We'll tell the editor what you
said about Elliott Dexter. Barrymore is on the
stage. Um urn, you're wrong, that was Adda
Gleason in "The Voice in the Fog." Mae Mur-
ray's husband is not a movie actor. You know
some actresses — if they're young and pretty —
never get any older than 29. Some never reach 2 L
J. P., Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. — Another girl
from the Soo ! Maybe we did, June, anyway,
we'll print your complaint. Here's what Miss
Ontario says : "Tom Forman was the leading
man with Blanche Sweet in 'Public Opinion' —
the drug clerk was J. Parks Jones." Well, he
ought to have been one with that name. S'bliged
— if we were wrong.
E. T., Chicago, III. — Look on page 56 of
December Photoplay. J. Warren Kerrigan was
born in Louisville, Ky., in 1889. Married?
Nope. Brothers and sisters? Yep.
R. P., Chicago. III. — "The Heart of a Fool"
is not a Vitagraph.
M. S., Columbia, S. C. — Didn't know Mar-
guerite had a sister. Shirlev Mason is "about
18." Pearl White is 28. Grace Cunard admits
to 26. No bother. Billie Burke's maid in Peggy
was Nona Thomas. Mae Murrav swears she's
only 20. Yes, Blanche has. That's right, alwavs
read the best department first. Thanks.
R. M. S., Savannah, Ga. — Gertrude Robinson
is with American. Valli Valli is on the stage.
She's 35 and her last film was "The Turmoil."
Marshal Neilan is with Lasky. He was married.
R. M., Fort Rouge, Winnipeg, Can. — Harri-
son is so shy about his age. He just wont tell.
He's with Universal now. Address Universal
City, California. Yessir, Grace really did go and
marry Joe Moore.
B. D., St. Albans, Vt. — We apologize for that
mistake. We'll refer your suggestion to the big
chief. Here goes for that list : Jessie Lewis
played the role of Fifine in "The Dark Silence.'"
Paul Capellani was the doctor. Clifford Gray
was the heroine's brother in "The Heart of a
Hero." Don't know where the film was taken.
In "Anton the Terrible" Edythe Chapman was
the lady who croaked herself. Don't know about
Harrison F"ord's role. See studio directory for
that Boston question. Viola Dana is with Metro
and Tom Moore with Lasky. Have to pass No. 6
— the cast doesn't show whether Dick was a
dominie or not, nor who played the cripple.
Blanche Sweet at present is loafing. Eight—
we can nm] will some time. Mary Charleston is
with Essanay. Mary Mac Laren is with Uni-
versal, but not with the Smalleys. Never heard
of a little Castle. Mrs. Vernon has jvist signed
up with a new company. Yes, Cleo did. Jack
Pickford is with Famous. Fourteen — don't
know. 'Gene is on the stage. Edna Mayo is at
liberty. Whew ! Now will Beatrice be good ?
M. E. T., Toronto, Can. — Nope, we never had
one. Don't know why not. Maybe we shall some
day. Why don't you write Harry? We pass
on these why-don't-the-wedding-bells-ring-out
questions. You're as good a guesser as we are.
We shcuildn't mind giving June one good smack
too.
June, Chicago Heights. III. — Here y'are,
June: The Shine Girl. Gladys Hulette ; the
judge. Wayne Arev ; the «'//<'. Kathryn Adams;
the child. Ethel Mary Oakland; the old gentle-
man. G. H. Gilmore.
M. S., Grand Rapids, Mich. — John Bowers
and Tom Forman are still free. Don't know
their ages. Yep, usually a quarter, and usually
they'll answer.
B. B. AsHviLLE, N. C. — Louise Huff's next re-
lease will be with House Peters in "The Lone-
some Chap" on May 3. 'Gainst the rules to print
that query of yours about "Dixie."
A. G., Butte, Mont. — Cleo Madison is lead
in "Trey o' Hearts."
Benedickta, Mitchell, S. D. — Anita Loos is
with Artcraft. Richard hasn't appeared since.
He's bashful about his age.
Billie C. and Tommy T., Bath, N. Y.— Aw.
we'd have known you're girls without your tell-
ing. Yes, William Courtleigh, Jr.. is married,
and to Ethel Fleming. Lillian Lorraine is still
shy a husband. William Conrtleigh, Sr., is 48.
Richard Johnson played Joe Welcher in "Neal of
the Xavv." He's with Balboa now.
F. D.. Millerton, N. Y. — Try Keystone, Los
Angeles.
A. M. H., Haverford, Pa. — Conway Tearle is
married. The lady is Mrs. Menges Corwin-Hill.
J. N. C, Matanzas, Cuba. — No, we haven't it.
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Heimstein, Hampton, Va. — Herbert Rawlin-
son is with Universal. "Thinking" what Arnold
Daly is going to do, is wasting thoughts. He's
the only one who knows and he probably won't
ttll. True Boardnian is married.
G. G., Edmonton, Alta. — Barbara Tennant
was "The Marked Woman." Don't know where
it was taken.
■H. T., Sioux CiTV. Ia. — Ralph Kellard played
lead in "Pearl of the Army."
Sunshine Club, Cleveland, O. — You're right
— Antonio Moreno is engaged to Edith Storey.
He was born in M.idrid, in 1888. Educated in
Spain and New York City. Came to the little
U. S. A. when he was 14. Has played with Mrs.
Carter, Tyrone Power, Constance Collier, Wil-
ton Lackaye and William Hawtrey. Joined Vita-
graph in 1914. Has appe.ired in "Island of Re-
generation." "Dust of Egypt,' "Price for Folly,"
"Kennedy Square," "Night of the Wedding,"
"Old Flute Player," "The Supreme Temptation,"
"The Shop Girl. " and "The Tarantula." He likes
riding, yachting, tennis and golf. Arthur Ashley
is still on earth.
A. W.. Cincinnati, O. — Geraldine's father's
name was Farrar ; she was christened Geral-
dine and her husband's honest-to-goodness mon-
iker is Lou-Tellegen. Easy when you know how
to understand it. We have a hunch that Theda
is very much Yankee in spite of press agents'
talk about "foreign accent." She lives in New
York. Shsh ! Fannie Ward is 42. Don't know-
about Vi\ian. That last question is \ ery per-
sonal, but we'll tell you confidentially that we
are. Do you win?
Aye Were Shipper. Philadelphia, Pa. —
Quit your spoofing. We're taller than that and
about ten years younger. So you'd better quit
"conjuring." There are lots of 'em we wouldn't
put on our chif. if the.v mailed them free and
were autographed. Marguerite Clark answers
letters and don't think we wouldn't pay a quarter
for one of her pictures. We never experienced
any great difficulty in lamping Peggy Hyland.
William E. Shay can be reached at the Fox
studios. Fort Lee, N. J. How can we send it
to your friend when you don't give her name ?
Better ask Annette. We never heard of any.
We'll tell the editor what you said.
B. H., Detroit. — The last we heard of Earle
Foxe he was with Selznick. "Panthia " was his
last film.
B. B. I., Eugene, Oregon. — Ethel Fleming
didn't play with William Courtleigh, Jr., in
"Neal of the Navy."
1.. M. H., Grand Rapids, Mich. — Mrs. Henry
B. Walthall was at one time on the stage.
Doesn't appear in pictures. Anna May Walt-
hall is a sister. She has dark brown eyes anl
hair and has been three or four years in film-
land. We ha\e never seen her picture in a
magazine. Ellis Paul and Mary McAlister are
the two youngsters in "Little Shoes." Harold
Lockwood is married.
JoLiE, San Francisco, Calif. — 'Lo, Jolie.
How 'yare ? Raving never makes us sore.
We're used to it. But we can't speak Spanish
so w£ might get peeved if you used much more
of it. Marshall Neilan is directing. David
Powell is at liberty just now. Yes, you're a
wonder. Eighteen, pretty (sure you are) and
yet don't want to be a movie actress ! Don't
believe yuh.
"Caterpillar," New York City. — Lyllian
Leighton is with Lasky. Careless Caterpillar !
Send fifteen cents and get another. All right,
c'mon back.
Helena F., Schenectady, N. Y. — Wellington
Playter played both parts. Virginia Norden was
the mother in "The Combat." Tyrone Power
played opposite Edna Mayo in "Aristocracy."
Miss Mersereau's address is Universal, Fort Lee,
N. J. Yes, you asked plenty — you see, you're
only one in a big crowd who all want to be
answered right away, immediately, at once or
a little quicker than that if not sooner. See?
L. H. G., Brooklvn, X. Y. — Mary Fuller is
with Famous Players. Her home address used
to be Iroquois hotel. New York City. Might
try that. She's bashful about those age and
marriage (juestions. Norma Talmadge was born
in the skeeter state — New Jersey. Now with
Selznick. Valeska's birthday is a deep dark
secret.
A. D. L., Chicago. — We're genuinely sorry
not to be able to answer that one question es-
pecially when it's asked in such an interesting
;ind sincere way. But we haven't a line of in
formation on the gentleman with the uncanny
attraction.
Teddy, Long Island City, N. Y. — -Don't be
so bashful. They pay us an enormous salary
just to answer questions — at least the big boss
thinks it's tremendous. So do we — not. Elsie
Esmond played opposite Thurlaw Bergen in
"The City"; James Hall opposite Julia Dean in
"The Ransom" ; Nona Thomas opposite W. S.
Hart in "An Apostle of Vengeance" ; Eugene
Ormonde opposite Bertha Kalish in "Slander";
Wilnuith Merkyle opposite Virginia Pearson in
"Blazing Lo\e" ; Henri Bergman opposite Emily
Ste\ ens in "The House of Tears" ; Walter
Hitchcock opposite Emmy Wehlen in "Her
Reckoning" ; no one played opposite Mary Mc-
Laren in "Shoes"; John Bowers played opposite
Dorothy Donnelly in "Madame X."; and George
Larkin opposite Fritzie Brunette in "LInto Those
Who Sin." That's all !
B. B., Chattanooga, Tenn. — She's still a
single Pearl. Address is Pathe, Jersey City,
N. J.
B. C, Rochester, N. Y. — Weight before
beauty? Constance Talmadge is five feet and
a half tall and weighs 120 pounds. Dorothy
Dalton carries 127 pounds and is five feet
three — ain't she the chunky little kid ? Harry
Myers' address is Screen Club, New York.
Harry says it's 190 pounds. Don't know about
the others. Now, you and sister quit scrapping.
H. R., Des Moines, Ia. — We agree with you
about some of those you slam but then we
wouldn't dare say so right out loud. J. W. John-
ston's address is Screen Club, New York. That's
the best we can do. Harry Ham played with
Elsie Janis. Lorraine Frost is with Metro. Sure,
we'll say yes. Of course we don't like to con-
tradict Harold about what he ought to know
more about than we do, but we feel pretty sure
he's made a mi.stake when he says he isn't
married. We aren't bald and maybe if you write
to the companies that made those pictures, they'll
send you stills. We have no info, on Fayette
Perry. Come again.
F. S., Newark, N. J. — Good looking film folk
usually don't object to giving their pictures.
Write Miss Talmadge care Lewis Selznick, 126
West Forty-sixth street. New York, N. Y.
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Fannette, Brooklyn, N. Y. — Here are the
films W. S. Hart has appeared in : "The Bargain,"
"The Darkening Trail, " "Kcno Bates, Liar,"
"On the Xight Stage," "The Disciple," "The
Primal Lure," "Hell's Hinges," "Between Men,''
"The Aryan, " "The Apostle of Vengeance."
"The Captive God," "The Patriot," "The Return
of Draw Egan," and "Truthful Tulliver. "
E. R. B., Clarksville, Tenx. — Dorothy Dav-
enport gets her pay check from Llniversal.
A. G., Macon, Ga. — Yup, you're right. Edwin
August is with Amalgamated Photo Play Ser\ ice
and Irving Cunimings is with Fox.
F. A., Cambridge City, Ind. — Why don't you
write Mr. Sears and tell him you wish he'd do a
little more heroing and les.s vill;iining. Don't
forget to tell him you think he's so fine looking.
It always cheers the poor dears. He was born
in San Antonio, Tex;is, and has been on the
stage since 1909. He began filluining in 1914.
Dot, Lowell, Mass. — Howdy, Dot. Il will be
called the Warren Kerrigan Qjmpany. Will be-
gin this month, at Los Angeles. He's been in
vaudeville. Lockwood and Reid are in "The
Squaw Man's Son." Goo'by, Dot.
F. T., Kansas City, Mo. — Mariu Dressier is
still in pictures. With World.
Just Naomi, Rochester, N. Y. — We're pretty
fierce as a rule, but we'll try and not scare you —
seeing this is an introduction. Pleezedtomeetcha.
Thanks for the complitiient. "Ponies" are the
littlest chorus girls in musical shows and are
used 'as a foreground for the more stately show
girls. Bobby Harron has played opposite Dor
othy Gish. Some of the Beauties and Brains are
doing screen work. Adele De Garde is with
Vitagraph.
M. M. C, pREEl'ORT, L. I. — "Rebecca of Sun
nybrook Farm." Can't answer No. 2 for sure,
though Anita might. Mae Murray was born
May 9, 1896. Yes, Jack Pickford's ejes are
brown. Harold Hollachtr is the youngster's
name. Ever hear of a bird in a gilded cage?
Thanks for your greetings.
W. T., S-MITIITOWN Bkaincu, L. I. — Pat
O'Malley was king in "The King of the Wire."
Have no cast of the other film.
G. M. G., Lawrence, Mass. — Cast of "Youth's
Endearing Charm" is Mary Wade. Mary Miles
Minter; Harry Disbrozv. Wallace McDonald;
John Disbrozi'. Harry Von Meter ; Mrs. Disbroik\
Gertrude Le Brandt; Joe Jenkins, Alfred Fer-
guson; Mrs. Jenkins. Bessie Banks: George
Norton. Harry Clark; Maud Norton. Margaret
Nichols. Cast of "Dulcie's Adventure": Diilcie,
Mary Miles Minter; Aiiut Entinic. Bessie Banks;
Aunt Netta. Marie Van Tassell ; Jonas Spencer,
Harry Von Meter ; Narry. Alan Forrest. F. X.
B. and B. B. are NOT engaged. How could they
be ? Francis is married and has shown he
doesn't believe in race suicide. J. Kaufman is a
director with Artcraft. Mae Marsh is neither
engaged nor married.
C. S., Minneapolis, Minn. — Lucille Lee
Stewart is at liberty ; Miriam Cooper is with
Fox, Los Angeles ; Naomi Childers is with
Vilagrapli : Eddie I-yons and Christie Webster
with Essanav.
L. M., Tucson, Ariz. — Sorry, we have no in-
formation on those two questions. .\i-.d they
came way from Arizona too !
Louise, Newport, R. I. — William Courtleigh,
Jr., is the "handsome fellow" you name. The
pretty girl with the dark eyes you mention is not
Mabel Normand.
E. M., New York City. — Here's a secret. It
was never our ambition either. It was wished
on us when we weren't looking. Shirley Moore
and Anita Stewart are both with Vitagraph.
Mary Pickford is in her twenties. Maybe Fannie
is older than 40. Ladies usually don't exag-
gerate on that subject. Neither do we. But
don't ask us our age. That's one (luestion we
don't have to look up, but we aren't giving it
out. Being an .\nswer M.in adds years to one's
real age.
Farrau Fiend, Kerang. — Eddie Polo has ap-
I)eared in other L'niversal films than "The Broken
Coin." No record of jour second query. Our
l.ivender hero was with Essanay before honoring
.Metro.
E. E., Baltimore, Mn. — .\nita Stewart and
Lucille Lee Stewart are sisters. Glad we c.in
answer you when you thank us so nicely. We
won't quarrel over Anita.
M. H., WiNNET.VK. 111. — Write Metro for a
picture of Harold Lockwood. May .Mlisou is
not married.
M. G. S., Mitchell, S. D.— C;irlyle Black-
ell's address is World, Fort Lee, X. J.
"Rainbow," Savanna, III. — Florence Lawrence
is no longer on the screen. She's married. So
is Jack Mulhall. Yale Boss is 16 or 17. Glad
we're the only magazine you like. Of coiirsi',
we're too modest to s.iy why.
Mis.-f I.NQUisirnE, South Pasade.sa, Cal. —
We have no record of minor characters in
"Hearts Adrift." Marshall Xeilan's sweetheart
in ".Madame Butterfly " was Jane Hall. Address
FanuuLs I'layers. Ella Hall played lead in "Little
Eve Edgarton." Address Universal. Louella
Maxani was with Mack Swain in "His Bitter
Pill." Address Keystone. Mrs. Flo Ziegfeld
was Ethel Burke until she* decided "Billie"
sounded cuter.
F. K., Pueblo, Colo. — Ha\e no record of \\w.
Tom and Ruth Chatterton are not related. Tom's
address is American Film Company.
D.
K. S., New York City. — "Under Two
Dorothv and Adele are related.
S. M., Negaunee, Mich. — William Court-
leigh, Jr.'s, picture appeared in March, 1917.
Photoplay, Creighton Hale's in March, 1916;
Grace Darmond on page 8.? of "Stars of the
Photoplay." Jean Sothern played Myra in "The
Mysteries of Mvra." Howard Estabrook was
Dr. Aid en.
D. V. G., South Pasadena. Cal. — Address
Myrtle Gonzales at I'niversal City, Calif. Lois
Weber still is in pictures. We have no cast of
"F.\ angeline. "
M. P.. South Pasadena, Cal. — We have no
record of your query.
O. H. E., Indianapolis. Ind. — We ha\e no
record of your first question. Darwin Karr is
playin.g opposite Ethel Grandin, Kathlvn Wil-
liams is with Morosco. You probably can .get a
picture of Bill Farnum from Fox. Rocklifte
Fellows is with World.
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L. P. C, New York City. — Sorry, we don't give
home addresses when they are with film com-
panies. She's still Miss Bara. We think she
is too.
RosETT.\, Jf.usev City, N. J. — Gladden James
has never gladdened the pages of Photoplay
with his happy cotmtenance. Maybe he will
some day. Don^t lose hope.
U-13, BiN-GH.\M;ox, N. Y. — ■ H. B. Warner's
first name is Henry. We think he's a cracker-
jack. He's been in Photoplay. Look up your
back numbers.
J. S., Kansas City, Kas. — Those are two
posers to slam at us in your first letter. You
could guess nearer than a poor question besieged
man could. Write Marguerite for a "real pic-
ture." We don't give home addresses, so send
it to Famous Players, N. Y. She earns enough
to afford a secretary, but don't believe she has
one. Mary Pickford is with Artcraft, New York
City. We haven't the September, 1915, number,
but have March, 1916. Blanche Sweet is on the
cover of the April, 191. S, number. Same to
you, J.
F. M., India.napolis, Inu. — H. B. Walthall is
,1 southerner. He played two roles in "The
Truant Soul." It is done by dividing the film
;uid after taking the scenes down one half, the
same actor in the opposite role appears on the
other half. By careful calculation the action
appears on the finished film to have taken place
at the same time.
V. A., St. Paul, Minn.— Walthall and Bara
;tre both Americans. Yes, Wally is a blond —
the dear hoy. Mae and Marguerite Marsh are
sisters. Likewise Norma and Constance Tal-
madge. Don't know how you could reach your
namesake.
Triangle-Booster, Lawrence, Mass. — His
real name is Robert House Peters. Soon. Fair-
banks has quit Fine Arts. It's pleasant to get
such praise.
Poll\ Peppers, Boonville, Mo. — Rhea
Mitchell is with American. You got Billy Jacobs
under the wrong roof. Niles Welch played op-
posite Marguerite Clark in "Miss George Wash-
ington." You bet we're glad you used the type-
writer. We haven't had time to see "The Lass"
vet. Bve bve.
Danese-20, New Straitsville, O. — I read ex-
cerpts from your letter to our art director. You
know suggestions are always welcomed, even
though they may not lead to direct results. But
we did NOT read him what you said about us.
Instead, we hurried over to a mirror, lamped
our unbeautifiil countenance and decided that
even if our map never will be compared to that
of sweet Harold Lockwood, or lovely Francis X.,
it surely isn't "old and fat and 72" as you
suggest. Harrv Hilliard Smith was born on
Wednesday, October 24, 1886, at Cincinnati, O.
Educated at Miami Medical College. Is five
feet, eleven inches — 170 pounds — light brown
hair, brown eyes. On stage nine years. Not
married. Plaved with Universal and Fox.
L. C. DE G., Waynesboro, 'V'a. — Where do you
get that venerable stuff? And why so afraid of
us? No, yon aren't too tall to register, and
there's no age limit if you've got the ability.
You seem to have some pretty good ideas about
acting but it's a different proposition putting
them into effect. We'll have to read "Susan
Lenox."
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Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section
165"
H. B. T.. Greensboro, N. C. — "The Great
Secret" h;is been released. Millicent Fisher
isn't in the cast.
L. V\'. H., Watf.rbuuy Center, Vt. — You'll
find a picture of Ann Pennington in a bathinjj
suit in July, 1916, I'HOTOPr.AY. Here's the cast
of "Heart of a Hero" : Nathan Hale. Robert
Warwick ; Col. Kiiozvlton, Alec B. Francis ; Guy
fit.croy. Geor.i>e McQuarrie : Tom Adams. Clif-
ford Gray; Cunninijliam. Henry West; Thomas
Jejferson. Charles Jackson ; Alice Adams, Gail
Kane; l]'idow Chichester. Clara Whipple; Amy
liraiidoii. I\'Jildred Ha\ens. Don't know a thing
,ibout your fellow townsman.
M. F., New York Ctty. — Ethel Grandin is
married. Was born in 18'i6. lime Caprice is
18— five feet one inch t.ill. Ella Hall is 21.
D. W., Bronx, X. Y.— The only birthcbn s
irc llarrv llilli.ird, October J I ;
\pril _'8.
we can .^^ni-
Eou-Tellegen,
A CouNST.vr.K, Wellington, New Ze.xlanp. — •
Fetro\ a has no children. Don't know her birth-
day. We're shy on Harry Morey's matrimonial
data. Baby Jack Curtis is no relation to Pauline
Frederick. No information at hand on (|ues-
tions 5 and 6. Pauline is not married now.
William Courtleigh. Jr.. and Wheeler Oakmau
are not the same. Isn't it terrible to be able to
.see Petrova pictures only once in three months ?
Why don't you write to her producers? Why
the "cornstalk" when you've got such a pretty
name ?
Whimsical Dke.mier oe Dre.^ms, Green.s-
BURG, Pa. — The "sweet little Jap-American
chap" was not given in the cast. Master Harold
Hollacher was the "Hulda from Holland" young-
ster. Lucille Eee Stewart is iVnila's sister.
Here is your marriage directory : Henry Walt-
hall, yes; F^arl Williams, no; Crane Wilbur, yes;
Jack Pickford, no; J. Warren Kerrigan, no;
William S. H.-irt, no ; Carlyle Blackwell, yes ;
"Handsome Harold Lockwood," yes; Theda
Bara, no. \\'inifre(l (Ireeiiwood, Lottie Briscoe,
Florence Lawrence, Florence Hackett and Matt
Moore are at liberty at the time this is being
written. Ed Coxen is with Selig. Now for the
Pickford eye color directory : Jack, brown ;
Lottie, brown ; Mary, blue. We "know but we
wont tell.
"Noddy," Melbourne, Austr.\lia. — What
keeps our poor old head from aching is getting
interesting letters from the Ne\er-Ne\er land
(isn't that what they call it?). First, let's shake
hands over Bill Hart. We agree on the other
gentlemen, too. A Yankee (|uarter is practically
the same as an English shilling. Two dimes
and •one nickel make a (|uarter, so you see a
nickel is tuppenny-ha'penny and a dime is — well,
it's two nickels. "Poor Little Peppina'' was
filmed around New York City.' That was a pri-
vate residence. Your admiration for .Vmericans
is reciprocated and we get lots of our ad\anced
ideas from your continent. Come again.
Julia W.. Salem, W. >' \. — We have no record
of Bertha Philli]). Jack Kerrigan used to live
somewhere in Indiana. Marguerite is very mitch
Yankee. Florence La Badie is still with Than-
houser. Don't know Theda's age. Francis X.
Bushman is married, but not to a dancer.
J. M., Oakland, Calif. — Don't know whether
Mr. Love is married or single. He might write.
Why not try ? Florence La Badie is with
Thanhouser.
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House Peters and Mabel Van Buren were leads
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May Allison ; John Lenox, Harold Lockwood ;
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"A Bronx Girl," New York City. — Mar-
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Mary C. T., Ciiicaco. — Theda's birthday is
July 20. About two years. Always with Fox.
June Caprice is 18. Howard Hickman has been
on the stage since 1898. Constance Talmadge is
with Fine Arts and Norma Talmadge with Selz-
nick. Fanny Ward is with Lasky.
M. L. C, Alliance, O. — Here are the films
Mary Pickford has appeared in : "A Good Lit-
tle Devil," "In the Bishop's Carriage," "Hearts
Adrift," "Teas of the Storm Country," "The
Eagle's Mate," "Such a Little Queen," "Cin-
derella," "Fanchon the Cricket," "The Dawn
of a Tomorrow," "Esmeralda," "Little Pal,"
"Rags," "A Girl of Yesterday," "Madame Butter-
fly," "The Foundling," "Poor Little Peppina." "The
Eternal Grind." "Hulda from Holland," "Less
than the Dust," "The Pride of the Clan," "The
Poor Little Rich Girl," "Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm."
M. L, Bainbridge, O. — The best we could do
would be to make a guess. Oh, say about 196.
.Soimd about right?
M. B., Warsaw, N. Y. — Marguerite Clark is
with Famous Players ; Mary Fuller, Lasky ;
Francis Ford. Universal ; Earle Williams, Vita-
graph ; Anita Stewart, Vitagraph ; Edna Mayo,
at liberty : Frank Mayo, Balboa ; Geraldine
Farrar, Lasky.
K. W., Atlanta, Ga. — All right, here they are:
Ruth Roland is with no company at present,
address care of Balboa ; James Cruze is with
Lasky ; William Russell, American ; Jackie
Saunders, Balboa ; Yale Boss, at liberty ; Henry
King, Balboa : Bushman, Metro ; Valeska Suratt,
Fox ; Crane Wilbur, Horsley ; Blanche Walsh,
on stage; Marjorie Daw, Lasky; Cleo Ridgely, at
liberty ; Irving Cummings, Fox ; Beverly Bayne,
Metro ; William Garwood, Universal.
A. N. S., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.— W. S. Hart is
with Ince. He was born December 6, 1874.
Think he would.
J. B., Los Angeles, Calif. — Paul Willis is
with Metro, in your town. No, it's durned hard
work.
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The D. Sisteks, Bkooklv.n, N. Y. — Quit your
scrapping. Still, it's oxer a' good thing. As
you'll probably get this number first, you might
whisper to Frances (bet she's seven years
younger and that's why you boss her around)
that there is a Mrs. David Powell. Same to
you and lots of 'em.
R. McK., Covington, Kv. — We managed to
keep cool all through your letter. Mary I'ick-
ford has been on the stage since she was a kid.
You'll have to ask' her about Christmas. .'^he
never told ns.
G. P., Pa.s.saic, N. J. — We ha\e no record of
who played the role of Kaiser. Glad you called
down Mr. Johnson. These here elitors need it
once in a while. Vou see he ne\er reads what
we write, so it's safe to say that. And to think
that he would say such things about Crane
Wilbur or Pearl White, the de.irs I Isn't it just
too provoking?
M. C, League Citv, Te.x. — It's too bad, Iv.it
we haven't a word of information on "thi
cutest little girl in pictures."
Gerald,
the man.
Albany, N. Y. — ki
Basset t was
A. W., Oakland, Calif. — Wallace Reid will
probably not appear with Cleo Riilgely any more.
Well, we fooled you, here's the answer to that
other question : ' "The Prison Without Walls,"
with Wallace Reid and Myrtle Stedm.m, and
"The Si|uaw Man's Son," Reid and Stedman.
Outsiders are allowed to make suggestions ,incl
if accepted they are paid for them.
L. B., MoxTcoiiKKV, Ala. — We
formation on Colin Chase. Sorrv
ia\ en t anv i"-
J. L. S., Salida, Colo. — We don't know except
that thi'V don't make any more th.in the\ du.
Everybody seems to be very fond of hinu Glail
you enjoy Photoplay.
"Snipe," Berkeley, Calif. — Nice to have you
agree with us. Gladys Hulette is with Than-
houser. Marjorie Wilson was Brozi'ii Eyes in
"Intolerance." Her address is Ince, Culver Citv,
Cal.
R. G., Phila., Pa.— The cast of "The Daughter
of the Gods" is: Anilici. Annette Kellerman ;
Prince Omar. Wm. R. Shay; The Sultan. Hal
de Forest: Cleonc. Mile. Marcelle : Arab Sheik.
Edward Boring: Zarrah. Violet Horner; Zar-
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ter James: Moorish Merchant. Stuart Holmes:
Chief of Sultan's Guard. Walter McCullough ;
The IVitch of 'Badness. Ricca Allen; The Fairy
of Goodness. Henrietta Gilbert: \ydia. Kath-
erine Lee ; Little Prince Omar, Jane Lee : Slarc
Dealer, Mark Price ; His Wife. Louise Rial.
K. O., IxDEPExnENCE. Kan. — Gladys Smith is
Mary Pickford's real name, but she and her
whole family have taken the name of Pickford
for good and she never wants to be called by
any other name, unless perhaps "Mrs. Owen
Moore." Mary's hair is golden. The little
Japanese baby in "Hearts Adrift" has not lieen
adopted by Miss Pickford.
C. B. M.. WiNNEMi'cCA. Nev. — "Shortv" Ham-
ilton was born in Chicago. He has been in
pictures about four years. He is doing a series
of pictures for Mutual.
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light, and the director is off on his picture.
From this time on the production office
will keep two or three sets ahead of him
all the time, so as not to interrupt the con-
tinuity of his work. The assistant director
reports to the production office twice a
day the number of scenes "shot," so that
the office is kept in constant touch with the
work and progress of each director and can
keep sets and props ahead, avoiding delay.
The head of the laboratory and the elec-
trical engineer have copies of all scripts
and liave checked up all scenes in which
special lighting is required. When the
director reaches these scenes, he finds the
lights provided for him and the electricians
definitely instructed as to how to secure the
special liglU desired in the set. If there
are special tricks of photography called for
in the picture, the head of the laboratory
has worked them out before the director
reaches them, and if they are out of the
ordinary, he is u.sually on the job to assist
the camera man and instruct him just how
to ol)tain the desired results.
After the director has completed his
day's work, the film is turned over to the
laboratory, developed and printed and run
the next morning by a force that gives him
an O. K. on it. The laboratory may order
"retakes." which are done immediately.
If the film is O. K. the print is sent to
the film editorial department and is as-
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progresses, the film editor also having a
copy of the .script and a cutter assigned to
this particular story.
Upon the completion of the picture, all
of it has been assembled in rough continu-
ity, and the director, the cutter and the
head of the film editorial department run
the picture, the director explaining to the
cutter, in detail, his angle of the picture
and his viewpoint. The cutter then cuts
and assernbles the picture, carefully build-
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after he has completed his work, the di-
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with the editor and the cutter. A few
minor changes are usually made at that
time and the picture is O. K.'d by the
director and the editor of the department.
It is then sent to the film critic, who
has a private projection machine and room
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of his own. This man is not in any wav
familiar with the story, and views the pic-
lure from the standpoint of the audience,
writing a detailed criticism of the picture as
a w'hole, of the work of each character,
of the technical department's work, of the
sets, etc., making such suggestions and criti-
cisms as may occur to him.
He then sends the picture to the labora-
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stub of which is sent to the executive office,
together with several copies of his criti-
cisms on this particular picture. These
criticisms are read in this office, and if the
.suggestions made by tlie critic are deemed
of sufficient importance to hold the picture
and make the changes .suggested, sucli
changes are made, if not, the half of the
holding ticket which accompanied the criti-
cism is sent to the laboratory, which re-
leases the picture and gives permission to
ship it to New York.
The foregoing is a fairly accurate de-
scription of the i^ath traveled bv each pic-
ture leaving Universal City, and under this
efficiency system the cost of our pictures
has been jjractically cut in two and we
have improved the quality to a great degree.
Not the least important result of our
endeavors during the past year has been the
building of an organization, every mem-
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For the convouionco ol" our readers who may
desire the addresses of film companies we give
the principal ones below. The first is the business
otlice : (*) indicates proper office to send manu-
scripts; (s) indicates a studio; at times all three
may be at one address.
Amkhican Film Mfg. Co., 6227 Broadway, Chi-
cago; Santa Barbara. Cal. (*) (s).
AuTciwir I'icTUREs Coup. (Mary Pickford), 729
Seventh Ave., New York City.
Balboa. A.musbment Producing Co., Long
Beach, Cal. (») (s).
Califok.nia Motion Pictukb Co., San Rafael,
Cal. (*) (s).
CunisTiE Film Corp., Main-^and Washington,
Los Angeles, Cal.
Consolidated Film Co., 1482 Broadway, New
York City.
Edison, Thomas, Inc., 2826 Decatur Ave., New
York City. (*) (s).
EssANAY Film Mfg. Co., 1333 Argyle St., Chi-
cago. (*) (s).
Fa.mous I'i.aveks Film Co., 485 Fifth Ave.,
New York City ; 128 W. 06th St., New York City.
Fine Arts, 4500 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles,
Cal.
Fox Film Corp., 130 W. 46th St., New York
City (*) ; 1401 Western Ave., Los Angeles (*)
(s) ; Fort Lee, N. J. (s).
FuoH.MAN Amtsejient Corp., 140 Amity St.,
Flushing, L. 1. ; 18 E. 41st St., New York City.
Gaumont Co., 110 W. Fortieth St., New York
City; Flushing, N. Y. (s) ; .Jacksonville, Fla. (s).
GoLDWYN Film Corp., 16 E. 42nd St., New York
City; Ft. Lee, N. J. (s).
HoRsLEY Studio, Main and Washington, Los
Angeles, Cal.
Thos. II. IxcE (Kay-Bee Triangle), Culver City,
Cal
Kalem Co., 235 W. 23d St., New York City (*) ;
251 W. i;)th St. New York City (s) ; 1425 Flem-
ing St.. Hollywood, Cal. (s) ; Tallyrand Ave.,
.Jacksonville, Fla. (s) ; Glendale, Cal. (s).
Kevstonh Film Co., 1712 Allesandro St., Los
Angeles, Cal.
Kleixe, George, 166 N. State St., Chicago.
Lasky Feature I'lay Co., 485 Fifth Ave., New
York City ; 6284 Selma Ave., Hollywood, Cal.
Lone Star Film Corp. (Chaplin), 1025 Lillian
Way, Los Angeles, Cal.
Metro I'ictures Corp., 1470 Broadway, New
York (*> (all raannscri|its for the following
studios go to Metro's Broadway address.) : Kolte
l'hotoi)lay Co. and Columbia I'ictures Corp.. 3 W.
Cist St..' New York City (s) ; Popular I'lays and
Players, I<^ort Lee. N. .1. (s) ; Quality I'ictures
Corp., Metro office ; Yorke Film Co., Hollywood.
Cal. (s).
MoRosco Photoplay Co., 222 W. 42d St., New
York City (*) ; 201 Occidental Blvd., Los Angeles,
Cal. (s)!
Moss, B. S., 729 Seventh Ave., New York City.
Mutual Film Corp., Consumers Bldg., Chicago.
Mabel N'or.mand Film Corp., Hollywood, Cal.
Pallas Pictures. 220 W. 42d St., New York
City ; 205 N. Occidental Blvd., .Los Angeles, Cal.
I'ATHE Exchange. 25 W. 45th St., New York
City; Jersey City. N. J. (s).
Powell, Frank, Production Co., Times Bldg.,
New York City.
Selig I'olyscopb Co., Garland Bldg., Chicago
(*) ; Western and Irving Park -Blvd.. Chicago (s) ;
3800 Mission Road, Los Angeles, Cal. (s).
Lewis Selznick Enterprises (Clara Kimball
Young Film Corp.), (Norma Talmadge Film
(s) ; 126 W. 46th St., New York City
4560 Pasadena Ave., Los
Corp.),
(*).
Signal Film Corp.
Angeles, Cal. (*) (s).
Thanhouser Film Corp., New Rochelle, N. Y.
(*) (s) ; Jacksonville. Fla. (s).
Universal Film Mfg. Co., 1600 Broadway,
A'ew Y'ork City ; Universal City, Cal.
Vim Comedy Co., Providence, R. I.
ViTAGRAPH Company of America, E. 15th and
Locust Ave.. Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Hollywood, Cal.
VcKJUB Comedy Co.. Gower St. and Santa Mon-
ica Blvd., Hollywood, Cal.
Wharton Inc., Ithaca. N. Y.
World Film Corp., 130 W. 46th St., New York
City (*) ; Fort Lee, N. J. (s).
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(Continued from page 167)
A. G., Griffin, Ga. — Marguerite Snow's mail
may be sent to the Artcraft studio. Marguerite
Clark is still with Famous Players, but Douglas
Fairbanks has just signed a contract with Art-
craft. All of the "Pearl of the Army" episodes
have not been released yet. Maurice Costello
gets his mail at the Screen Club, New York City.
Juanita Hansen is with Keystone. When re-
questing photographs of screen celebrities, don't
forget to enclose the necessary bait of twenty-
five cents.
T. G., Brooklyn, N. Y. — Thomas Meighan,
the husband of Frances Ring, was born in Pitts-
burg, so he can't be your long lost relative who
was born in Hoboken.
Billy Boy, Fremont, Neb. — Sorry, but we
cannot agree with you that the photoplays in
which Pauline Frederick has appeared are not
descent. So you want to see the smiling face of
Bill Desmond on the cover? Well, we'll speak-
to the editor about it.
Odie, San Diego, Cal. — All of those you are
interested in usually send their photographs and
replies to letters of appreciation. Bill Desmond
is somewhere in his early thirties. The interviews
are coming up. .
Marie, Belleville, III. — John Bowers was
born in Indiana, but he isn't advertising the
date. Nor his present condition of servitude.
Anita, Albuquerque, N. M. — Should like to
oblige you, but a search of our files fails to reveal
any "cute" pictures of your favorites. Charles
Ray is a half inch over six feet. Crane Wilbur
is five, nine, and Kerrigan, six. one. So you
think Mr. Kerrigan is sensible because he's not
married ? And do we think he would wear a
crochet tie if you made him one? Undoubtedly.
Crane Wilbur may be addressed care the Horsely
studio, Los Angeles. Van Dyke Tarleton in "The
Devil's Double" was Robert McKim. You fortu-
nate girl, to be able to shake hands with J.
Warren Kerrigan himself ! Geewhilliker, how we
envy you ! Yes, he has a sister.
Dorothy, St. James, Minn. — George Arvine
is probably the same man who played in Phila-
delphia, as the name is an unusual one.
Jimmy, Dudley, England. — Peggy Hyland and
Anita Stewart are with Vitagraph, Brooklyn.
Imagine they will be glad indeed to send their
pictures to an admirer in England.
Movie Mad, Janesville, Wis. — You are an
excellent picker of pen names, judging from your
request. However, editors are queer people and
your request has been wished on the boss.
Two B's, Paterson, N. J. — Paul Willis was
the young soldier in "The Fall of a Nation."
Alan Forrest is not with any company at present.
A letter adressed to him at home will reach
him. It's 1332 Cook Av., Lakewood, Ohio.
K. v.. Canton, O. — Here are the addresses you
want : Hazel Dawn, Century Theater, New York ;
Mary Miles Minter, Santa Barbara, Cal. ; Violet
Mersereau, Universal, Fort Lee, N. J. ; William
Hart, Culver City, Cal. ; May Allison, Yorke Film
Co., Los Angeles.
N. F., Fremantle, Western Australia. — Pearl
White has no other name that we know of and
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Al Champion, Atlantic City, N. J. — Else-
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E. C. P., Sprixcfield, O. — Norma Phillips was
the Mutual Girl in the series of that name.
E. S. H., Toledo. O. — Just to show you we aim
to please, we shall try to find out .something
about Rockclifi'e Fellows and print it in the form
of ,111 interview.
Amelia, Philadelphia. — Amelia, we fear that
you have temperament. You know, if we were
all of the same opinion about the merits of
the players, many of them would be out of luck
and quite a crowd of them would be riding in
jitney busses instead of limousines. Even if the
Misses Young and Bara are your favorites, we
cannot devote all of our sp.ice to them. Hope
you like the cover this month, anyhow. And
please don't put any "d's" in "oblige" when you
write to us again. (Wouldn't have said anything
about that, if you hadn't been so pee\ish.)
Susie, Boyne City, Mich. — Who was the
Laiijihinci Mask in "The Iron Claw?" Good old
(|uestion ! Creighton Hale, Susie, and he is not
Pearl White's brother. ii^dward Coxen is mar-
ried, but we don't belie\e his wife is .'in actress.
J. B., TiEFiN O. — Would a man with gold
crowned teeth have any chance of getting into
motion pictures? Well, we never heard of any-
one being turned down on that account, but
usually other qualifications are required. If kept
in a state of high polish they might cause halation
and if allowed to tarnish they would photograph
black. Otherwise, we can see no reason why a
good actor should be barred because of his gilded
inol.'irs.
Twin City Fan, St. Paul. — Your guess about
Robert Warwick is correct. The name of his
parents is Bien and his birthplace was Sacra-
mento, Cal. No doubt as to his acting talents.
F. A. D., JER.SEY City, N. J. — Mr. Fellows was
born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1884, so we would
hazard ,-) guess that he is of the entente allies.
Have a little patience and perhaps there will be
a storv al)Out him in an early issue.
T. R., New York City. — Consult the studio
directory for the .iddresses of the film companies.
There are many other small ones, but no one has
e\ er been brave enough to attempt a complete
list.
R. W., Mt. Carmel, III. — If v;our theater man
declines to procure Alice Joyce pictures, we know
of no way in which he can be made to do so.
Marguerite Snow is with .\rtcraft and her hus-
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the picture of Alice in last month's issue. We
are with you in hoping that Miss Talmadge was
protid of that painting of her on the February
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Girlie, Carlisle, Ky. — Tom Forman is 27
years old and Marguerite Clark is still in New
York. Blanche Sweet, at this writing, is sojourn-
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married to Lois Wilson. As a matter of fact,
neither of them is married. Lottie Pickford will
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with Ivan, and if he is engaged to anyone, he has
selfishly kept us in the dark about it. If as you
say you are "crazy to be an actress," the only
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G. R. G., New Zealand. — Louise Lovely, who.
by the way, hails from the Antipodes, is married
and her right name is Welsh. Her age is 21.
The cast of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
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Gene, Augusta, Ga. — "God's Country and the
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all of the mountain and snow scenes having been
made in Bear Valley, a part of the San Bernar-
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die in Savannah, nor any where else. Theda*
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Elsie, St. Petersburg, Fla. — Yes, we have
heard of your friend but unfortunately we rather
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in our salary negotiations, to do something or
other. Besides, your demand should be made
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as he does not like peevish children. As you
have demanded a "published answer," we hope
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Carnivaler, St. Paul. — Charles Ray was born
in Jacksonville, 111., in 1890. Mary MacLaren is
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Kathlyn Williams did "The Spoilers" about four
years ago.
Billy, Oklahoma City, Okla, — The handsome
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Hazel Lewis. Francis Ford and Grace Cunard
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Steve, New York City. — Sorry, but we haven't
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plays from Hungarian into English. And any-
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It's contrarv to the statutes.
TopsY, Valley Falls, R. I. — Pretty sure that
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Vivian Martin is at the Morosco studio, Claire
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Elliott, Columbus, O. — Alma Reuben and
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H. L., Lynn, Mass. — There was no David in
the cast of "Gloria's Romance." Viola Dana's
real name was Flugrath but it is now Mrs. John
Collins. Miss Clark's latest play is "Fortunes
of Fifi." Ethel Teare is the girl in the Ham and
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Becky, Kalamazoo, Mich. — "My Mamie Rose,"
the novel from which "Regeneration" was
adapted, may be obtained from any book dealer.
"The Parson of Panamint," we think is in a book
of Mr. Kyne's stories. \\'e. haYe no information
as to the screen career of 'Norman Hackett, so
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generally regarded as the greatest character actor
of the screen. Beatrix Michelena has quit the
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which contain the other interviews you desire.
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E. M., Port Chester, N. Y. — Owen Moore is
in his latter twenties and Carlyle Blackwell in
his early thirties. Both have wives ; that is,
inch has one.
M. B., .Smith's Falls, Ontario. — So far as we
know Charles Chaplin has never been even
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Earle Williams is all you think him. True
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PicKFORn Mae, Snyder, Texas. — Robert Klein
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W. C. A., Alliance, Ohio. — Lamar Johnston
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A Brief Memorandum on
Alan Dwan
(Continued from page 72)
Though genial, his ^•oice was as warm as a
pitcher of ice-water.
A master of literary description tried to
describe Dwan directing, and exuded this :
"Football, sir! The Carlisle Indians in a
championship game — he drives 'em, abso-
lutely, but it's, the drive of enthusiasm, not
a prodding with an officer's sword. He
communicates his own thoughts. He in-
spires."
Which is about right. Dwan's direction
is a transference of two things : the
thought, and tremendous personal energy.
Besides leading him into directorship,
Santa Barbara and the Flying A put our
good doctor up to another grand old trick
which has influenced his whole life.
There he met Pauline Bush, as we've
noted, and a year ago, or a little more,
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Back of the Man
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VOL. XII
No. I
CONTENTS FOR JUNE, 1917
Cover Design — Pauline Frederick
Painted by Neysa Moran Mc Mein
Popular Photoplayers
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When Charlie ChapUn Earned $25 a Week 19
Rare Photographs of the World's Foremost Laugh -Maker.
A Teare of Joy (Photograph) 23
Ethel, the Delectable Keystone Statuette.
Pearls of Desire Henry C. Rowland 24
The Latest and Most Thrilling Love -Tale of a World -Renowned Author.
. Illustrated by Henry Raleigh
Stars of the Screen and Their Stars in the Sky Ellen Woods 35
Astrology, and Some Marvelous Marsh -Fairbanks Coincidences.
Oh, See the Pretty Birdie! Randolph Bartlett 36
Why Does the Photoplay Baby Laugh — or Cry? Here's the Answer.
"The Man Pulled a Lever" (Photographs) 40
Helen Holmes' Baby Practices Locomotive Engineering.
The Silent Master (Fiction) Jerome Shorey 41
An Enthralling Short Story of the Mysteries of Modern Paris.
Close -Ups By the Editor 51
Timely Comment and Editorial Observation.
Petrova, the Working -Girl 54
Sketches of the Emotional Olga in Her Jersey Studio.
Drawings by Raeburn Van Btiren
The Road to Biskra Victor Rousseau 56
Another Episode in the Fascinating Adventures of Peggy Roche, Saleslady.
Illustrated by Charles D. Mitchell.
The Progress of Pauline 67
A Remarkable Photographic Biography of the Girl on the Cover.
"Marse Connelly" 71
Referring to Edward J., Peerless Actor In and Out of Celluloid.
"In Reply to Yours" 72
Gladys Brockwell Demonstrates Her Skill as a Correspondent.
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CONTENTS FOR JUNE, 1917— Continued
Arline Pretty Was Bom That Way
And Still Is, By Name and Nature.
Who's Whose? (Photographs)
That is, Who's Married Around the Studios?
Powell, the Military Heart-Burglar
David, a Leading Man, Suffers an Interview.
Mary Anderson of the Films
The Petite Namesake of a Stage Celebrity.
The Follies of the Screen
A Keystone-Ziegfeld Analogy, with Interesting Illustrations.
The Shadow Stage Julian Johnson
A Department of Photoplay Review.
The Girl at Home (Fiction) Constance Severance
In Which It Is Shown That Violets Are Sometimes Better Than Orchids.
Plays and Players Cal York
All the News About Everybody and Everything in Motion Pictures.
The Last Straw Kenneth Mac Gaffey
"Pete Props," Dismal Humorist of the Lot, Says Good-Bye.
Illustrated by E. W. Gale, Jr.
Why Do They Do It?
An Announcement of Interest to You.
The Deader (Fiction) Cyrus Townsend Brady »
A Tense Love Story of a War-Torn Sea— a Tale of Today's Belligerency.
Illustrated by R. F. James.
Studio Conditions As I Know Them Capt. Leslie T. Peacocke
Facts, not Theories, for Scenario Writers; by a Master of the Craft.
In Re The Ince-Photoplay Scenario Contest
Here's the Answer to the Questions You' re Asking.
The Puzzle Contest
Continuing the Pictorial Riddle of Names and Places.
Seen and Heard at the Movies
Oddities Aural and Optic, Reported by our Readers.
Questions and Answers
The Wellspring of General Photoplay Information.
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MILDRED HARRIS
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Motion Picture companies when she was ten. She was born in Cheyenne,
Wyoming. Her Fine Arts work has been with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
in "Old Folks at Home" and with Robert Harron in "The Bad Boy."
E. K. LINCOLN
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Players. He is six feet tall and has had five years' stage experieme.
CARMEL MYERS
oto by hvans Studio
Without any previous experience, was given a trial as "extra" at the Fine
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of a Los Angeles rabbi and is only 16 years old.
Photo by Ince Studio
WILLIAM S. HART
spent over 18 years on the legitimate stage. As a depietor of western cbar-
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years of age and was born in Newburg. New York. He has just reiievveii
his fontraet for a term of years with Thomos H. Ince.
Photn by Hartsook
MAY ALLISON
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and until recently, Metro pictures. To the clicking; camera she brought
three years' stap- experience. Married;' No!
EARLE WILLIAMS
has spent his entire film career with Vitagraph. He was born in Sacra-
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experience that he discovered he liked the Cooper-Hewitts better than the
footlights. He has co-starred for several years with Anita Stewart.
w iHip Studio
BEVERLY BAYNE
made her first film appoarance with Essanay without previous sta-je e\i).--
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city, in Philadelphia and at Hyde Park High S.hool in Chieago. She has
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SHIRLEY MASON
is, next to Marguerite Clark, the tiniest star in filmland. She stands 59
inches in her bathing suit. She is 16, and until she joined McClure Pictures,
was with Edison, playing under her own name — Leonie Flugrath. Viola
Dana is her elder sister by just one vear.
Photo by Ira L. Hill
THE WORLD'S LEADING MOVING PICTURE PUBLICATION
PHOTOPLAY
MAGAZINE
June, 1917
Vol. XII, f^o. I
When Charlie Chaplin Earned
$25.00 ■ a Week
UPON finishing "Broad-
way Jones," his first
photoplay, George M.
Cohan, overlord of the Ameri-
can theater, made sure of its
success by writing the subtitles
in his own graphic, pungent
style ; a style whose figures of
speech are more potent than
By
John Ten Eyck
Mail from his English home,
in Spokane, Washington.
These Karnoits were Albert
Austin, Charles Chaplin and
Muriel Palmer.
other men's figures of speech be-
cause Cohan's similes are invariably
in everybody's language. He employs
the comparison that "gets" every man
and woman, regardless of age, race,
residence or education.
When Broadway Jones hired Sherry's
great New York ball room for a party, he
gave the caterer a check in payment. And
ly
Photoplay Magazine
the check came back.
Whereupon Broadway
protested to the restau-
rateur :
"Why, my balance in
that bank would make
Charlie Chaplin look
like a pauper !"
And the line is a big
and unfailing laugh. In
I
When Charlie Chaplin Earned $25.00 a Week
two years,
Charlie Chaplin has become
the artistic Croesus of the
world, the chief embodiment
of frenzied finance in the
movies, the golden clown of
the ages. With a salary of
considerably more than half
a million a year — why not?
Recently Mr. Chaplin un-
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earthed and sent to Photoplay a collection
of photographs taken just a few years ago,
when he was poor, comparatively unknown,
and no figure of speech for anybody save
the small time vaudeville manager and the
proprietor of the actor's boarding house.
.Shortly after 1900. Fred Karno, the
English creator of pantomime>. put on an
extremelv successful vaudeville act called
"A Night in an English Music Hall."
This act was soon transported to America,
with Billy Reeves playing the tipsy young
•;well who was the chief fun-maker. As the
vogue of Karno's piece continued, a second
company was sent out through the west. As
nearly as can be figured. Chaplin began.
playing the drunk about 1910. The exact
date is not important, but it was in those
years, and in his Karno associations, that
Chaplin finally got to Los Angeles. Here
Mack Sennett saw him — at Spring Street's
Empress Theater — and paralyzed him with
an oiTer of more money per week than
he had ever seen; a total of $175 !
This set of photographs, however, doesn't
concern the magnificent premier oifer of
Mr. Sennett, nor those affluent days in
which Mr. Chaplin reached the command-
ing salary of $50 a week from Karno.
It does concern the days when Chaplin
first came to America ; the days when he
was doing the hardest work of his life for
$25 a week ; the time in which he made his
limited" stage reputation as a fun-maker.
Chaplin played in several Karno pieces
in this country, among them "A Night in a '
London Club." All were echoes of the
popular "Night in a Music Hall," but as
is the way with imitations, none reached the
success of the original.
-Still. Chaplin avers that these were the
happiest days of his life. He was seeing
the world. He was enjoying human
nature,- and he was storing up in his mind
the little satirical observations which have
put his screen work, despite its buffoonery,
as far above the mere gymnastic comedv as
the present day photoplay is above the old
fashioned motion picture.
Probably you saw Chaplin in those days.
I know I did. Remember him? Rather
indistinctly? I think we all remember
Billy Reeves I)etter, for he was the first,
and Chaplin touched the popular-priced
time as a sort of follow-up. Chaplin was
"finding himself, so that it took nearly three
years of Karno playing to establish a real
reputation and make himself a riot. Toward
the end of this period a new vehicle called
"The Wow-Wows" was written for him,
but it wasn't exactly a sensation, and he
went back to the original. Wherever he
traveled, Charlie in those twenty-five-dol-
lar days played but one part — the dress-
suited drunk. Sometimes he wore the
moustache, but the famous shoes were an
addition of his camera years.
And, such was his attire, his circum-
stances or the snapshot camera that wrote
those sunlight records, that he looked a
lot older than he does today ! At any rate,
he was considerably heavier, as you may
-lee by a study of the Market Street snap-
shot with the rah-rah hat.
A Celebrity's Son
SHE is world-renowned, thanks to her flicker-duplicates that flash out nightly on the
white barriers from Coney Isle to Bom-Bom Bay. Her director, too, is quite cele-
brated, but of course he has not entered her blue-white arena of dazzling fame, and
never will.
He gave a tea for her. in his apartment in up-town New York, on a recent Sunday
afternoon.
It was her first visit. Her inevitable mother was there, and forty or fifty other per-
sonages who dropped in and out during the casa matinee.
Presently he found her standing in front of a black-and-white reproduction of an
old man's head, done centuries ago by a Dutch master. He wondered what thoughts
were rattling around in her charming little ivory head as she faced this simply-framed,
unsigned reflection of an aged burgher.
So he said : "Well ....?"
And she answered, glancing at him and then at the picture : "My ! How much you
resemble your father !"
A Tea re of Joy
ETHEL TEARE, strangely enough
for one bearing so damp a name,
comes from Arizona. She is a native
daughter of Prescott and also lived in
Phoenix during childhood. Then she went
to Los Angeles, and some time later she was
cavorting on the stage. A tuneful voice
and what they call "personality" were
responsible for a lengthy vaudeville career
and then came the inevitable : movies. Miss
Teare was the girl in the Ham and Bud
comedies for three years and later she was
starred in her own comedies by Kalem.
Now she is a journeyman comedienne at
the Keystone laugh foundry. In the
camera tapestry above. Miss Teare is the
slicker in the slicker, with the fishnet.
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/ recognized the spare sails from the Circe. Even at that distance
^9^
Pearls of
When the first venturesome Spanish caravel, deep-laden with Indian gold, fled before :
bright mist over the whole world. Having exploited the wonders of the Carribean,
sea-spell became a witchcraft destined to endure as long as the oceans themselves.'
the eternal romance of the South Seas. Mr. Roland's story is a pulsing narrative of
heroism and a wonderful love which knows neither bounds nor shame. If you fail
By Henry C. Rowland
CHAPTER I
TO my blurred senses, the palms sup-
posed to shelter the bungalow looked
like green parasols blown inside out
by a summer squall, while the distant boom
of the surf seemed the diapason of a great
many different sized bells, some oddlv
muffled. Large doses of whiskey and
quinine, -with an occasional calomel spree,
was my troul^le, for the sharp attack of
fever had intrenched itself around the
hepatic sector, so that when presently
Charley Dollar came running up to tell me
that Captain Billy Connor's Favorite had
just rounded the point and was beating up
to the lagoon, I- walked to the end of the
verandah and saw quite plainly two iden-
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tical close-reefed schooners, the more dis-
tinct being consideraI)ly to the right and
rather higher in the field of vision than her
twin, which phenomenon proves that I
stood not only in need of calomel, but also
the services of an oculist to correct an
error of refraction.
But a few minutes later, as the Favorite
stood across the entrance on the port tack
and I threw my strong binoculars against
her, the need of an eye doctor became even
more apparent. Captain Billy Connors at
the wheel was normal enough, and there
was only one of him, while the hands
clustered forward appeared all shipshape
and proper. But here in the waist were
three obvious optical illusions which had
no part in the scheme of things in this
/ could see that the canoes were laden with our effects.
Desire
the warm Trades toward the Azores, the tropic seas threw their enchanted scarf of
the Latin navigators drove their galleons into the vaster fields of the Pacific, and the
The fullness and variety of modern life, set against this mystery, have only enhanced
twentieth century ambitions and passions flung in a setting of buccaneer deviltry, epic
to read "Pearls of Desire," you miss the great literary adventure of the year.
Illustrations by Henry Raleigh
particular region of the Pacific. "Holy
Saint Kit . . . !" I gasped, and
gripped at the ant-eaten railing. "Is it
whiskey and calomel, or am I beginning to
see with my pineal gland?" For two of
these hallucinations were white women. I
had not seen such startlingly white ones
for many months — nor had I wanted to, for
excellent reasons of my own — while the
third optical error was a corpulent gentle-
man with a large, red face, smooth shaven
and partly eclipsed by a round pith helmet.
"Now what sort of unconsecrated cargo
is Billy Connors bringing here?" I asked
myself with heat, for a dose of fever al-
ways leaves me in an ugly disposition. It
was evident that this deck load of fragile
freight had been consigned to me by some
mysterious shipper, as there was no point
farther in the Favorite's itinerary where it
could have been landed with safety. Cap-
tain Billy was going on to different parts
of Melanesia where he would not have
risked such perishable goods ashore, while
too long a voyage aboard the schooner
might have seriously impaired their fresh-
ness. As the schooner tacked again and
hauled in on the beach, my powerful lenses
revealed to me that both ladies were of
charming symmetry, while their male com-
panion appeared to have been plucked at a
perihelion of ripe rotundity and .succulent
contents. "What a candidate for a cor-
roboree ... !" I thought. "It would
be as much as the Favorite is worth to let
old Matawomba or any of his confreres and
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fellow gourmets merely pipe his super-
structure above the rail !"
I was anything but pleased to see the
party and more than half tempted to get
me to my couch and give out that I was
grievous ill. But Island hospitality and
my regard for Captain Billy forbade, so I
shifted into clean whites and issued some
orders to my major dpmo, a capable Malay.
There was no lack of accommodation for
guests, as two years previously I had built
an extension to the bungalow in the antici-
pation of sharing it. and all else belonging
and appertaining to me. with a certain
maiden of San Francisco, also if it so
pleased them to honor me, her aged par-
ents and maiden aunt. However, a more
luxurious and centrally located establish-
ment being offered under similar terms, she
had seen lit to cancel her agreement with
me almost on the eve of her departure,
which breach of good faith had seriously
impaired the former sweetness of mv na-
ture, particularly in reference to her arbi-
trary sex.
My house was kept always in order, but
I was barking at the boys on general prin-
ciples when informed that Captain Billv
had put off for the beach alone in his gig.
Going down to greet him, I was struck by
his curious air of embarrassment. Captain
Billy feared nothing in heaven or earth or
the waters on top of the earth, but he was
well aware that I had turned misogynist,
and he now approached with his winter
apple face all puckered and his smooth-
shaven mouth askew in what was intended
for an apologetic expression. The old chap
looked as guilty as a sheep-killing dog.
"How are ye. Jack," he asked, with an
effort at heartiness, "but no need to ask, is
there now ? Another dose o' f ayver with a
touch o' jaundice. You stick too tight to
the island, lad. Y'are needing a change of
air."
"Oh, stow that, Billy," I answered.
"Who are your passengers?"
"Why then, they are none other than his
Riverence the Bishop Emiritus av Massa-
chussetts or New Hampshire or wan o' thim
states and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Stormsby,
who is a fascinatin' widdy, and her niece,
Miss Enid Weare. His Riverence has been
sent out to investigate the moral status av
the Polynesian aborigine and is compilin'
a book entitled 'The Regeneration av a
Race.' The ladies are his guests. Thev
are now on their way to Bougainville and
I consinted to give them a passage this far,
thinkin' you might soon be goin' there, or
if not, that you would not mind puttin'
them up until Miiller calls on his way
back, which should be next week."
I answered rather crossly that they might
stay there as long as they pleased, but that
I should be unable to officiate personally as
host, having planned to sail for Samoa in a
coui)le of days to bring back a schooner
which I had purchased. Incidentally, I
planned to visit en route a small desert
island cliarted under the name of Troca-
(lero Island, the pearling privileges of
which I had bought as a two-year conces-
sion from the German government.
"Trocadero, is it?" said Captain Billy.
"I know the place. Just an atoll and a bit
crater pokin' up out o' the sea. But there
is a spring o' good water at the head o' the
lagoon. But I doubt ye will find shell
there, lad, and from the formation it is
likely ye will be able only to skim the
edges, as the water must be very deep. I
mind I anchored in seven fathoms wit' the
old gurrul's nose-pole pokin' the man-
groves."
I told him carelessly that it was merely
an oft'-chance that hadn't cost me anything
to speak of, as the Germans had probably
done some prospecting on their own hook
before leasing the concession, but that I
had an idea there might be some loose shell
under the bar and meant to have a look.
Then I suggested that he should bring his
guests ashore, as I had ordered tiffin. I
knew that my general manager, young
Harris, who was just then at one of our
adjoining plantations some miles up the
coast, would be delighted at the arrange-
ment, he having recently wearied me with ' ■
his sighs for a pretty white face.
"VY/HILE I was giving the bungalow a
''^ few finishing touches. Captain Billy
returned with our guests and I went out
on the verandah to greet them. The bishop
proved to be a corpulent old chap of about
sixty with a ruddy, jovial face in which was
set a pair of keen, twinkling blue eyes.
Mrs. Stormsby, his late brother's widow,
was a tall, well-built woman who looked to
be not over thirty-three. She had a peculiar
expression of intensity about her widely-
spaced eyes and a broad mouth which
showed firmness despite its full red lips.
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At first glance, she impressed me as a
woman Avith a sense of grievance over
something. Her niece, Enid Weare, inter-
ested me in spite of myself. She had the
face of a priggish schoolboy, serious-
minded and Avith an intolerant expression ;
and the body of a very tolerant and any-
thing but serious-minded nymph. With
such steady, uncompromising grey eyes,
short nose, flat cheeks, almost sulky mouth
and combative chin, one would have ex-
pected to find the figure of a Spartan youth
instead of a Venus. It struck one also that
lier face was in constant rebellion at being
superimposed in relation to the voluptuous
rest of her and was in a chronic angry pro-
test at the association.
The genial bishop was all apologies for
the intrusion, deplored the force of cir-
cumstances which obliged them to throw
themselves thus informally upon my hos-
pitality (there had been some breach of
contract on the part of a chartered
schooner), besought me fervently to be
frank in so stating if their entertainment
for a few days would cause me the slightest
inconvenience. He kept interrupting mv
protests that I was most pleased and hon-
ored and that his action fell entirely within
the code of Island etiquette. I concluded
by stating that my only and great regret
was that an imperative business errand
made it necessary for me to sail for Samoa
in a couple of days. l:)Ut that my superin-
tendent, Mr. Harris, would be onlv too
delighted to do everything in his j^ower
which might render their sojourn as pleas-
ant and interesting as possible.
The two ladies left all of this perfunc-
I tory apology to the bishop, appearing them-
selves to find the situation quite fitting and
])roper. They had no doubt been taught
tliat their presence and entertainment could
only be considered as a boon to the com-
munity they happened to be in. At the
end of a short conversation. I could read-
ily picture the correct and gloomy mansions
they were wont to inhabit and could form
a good idea of their incomplete and arbi-
trary opinions on humanity in general.
The good old bishop was a Virginian, but
the ladies were Bostonians of the most
radical class and appeared to have spent
their lives in a sort of social cold storage.
And yet, I felt somehow that Mrs.
Stormsby contained calories capable of
melting large chunks of ice were they to
find their outlet. Enid, however, was
enigmatic.
"Well," said I to myself with an inward
sigh, "here is where I shall have to clothe
the nakedness of the lily with a heavy coat
of paint and de-odorize the suggestive per-
fume of the rose. I shall also give orders
to break out the top hamper of some
pajamas from the store and swathe the
brown torsos of the boys at work about the
premises. Also it is necessary for me to
consult the chart and take soundings, be-
fore embarking upon a cruise of casual
conversation." One gets lax on the equator
and I wondered how young Harris was
going to stand the strain.
Captain Billy had run some distance out
of his course to disembark these Olympians
on Kialu, so after many protestations of
unbounded obligation from the bishop and
the appreciation of his kindness limpidly
expressed by Mrs. Stormsby and her niece,
he betook himself to sea. I walked down
to the beach to see him off.
"Rale quality. Jack, now are they not?"
said he, a little nervously.
"Yes, you old swine," I growled. "Blue-
l)looded rectified to the n-th degree. The
l)ishop ai)pears to have some red corpuscles,
but the ladies. . . ."
He gave me a knowingly sinful, or sin-
fully knowing, look and winked. "Miss
Enid shud wear yashmac and feridje," said
he, "but of Mrs. Stormsby I am not so sure.
Have ye never seen an active volcano cov-
ered wit' a fall av snow? There is fire
benathe. or I am a Chinyman."
"Well," I answered, "I'm no Arctic
explorer ; wherefore Samoa for mine. The
moral strain is too great for a hardened
sinner like myself. Good-bye and be
damned to you."
"Good-bye. lad, and God bless you,"
Captain Billy heartily replied, "and mind
ye. Jack, look sharp workin' in on Troca-
dero. There's lashin's av reefs for miles
and miles to the southward. The bottom
must be wan big plateau
like a
dish av tripe. I have seen breakin' water
all - about bef ure ever sightin' the crater.
That is the reason why nobody ever goes
there."
V^OUNG Harris returned the following
day and enthusiastically undertook the
entertainment of the ladies. Both were
good horsewomen and fond of the exercise.
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Charley Dollar had the wheel, and as he turned, the horror was reflected in his drippir,
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id icr. The brim of the sea ivas actually beginning to topple.
SO that he was able to
serve them as drago-
man while yet attend--
ing to his duties. The
worthy bishop, whose
physical eliforts were
confined to calis-
thenics with knife
and fork, attached
himself to me, for
whom he ajjpeared to
have conceived strong
sympathy. I did not
ol)ject, because he
was such a cheerful,
happy soul, a fast
colored optimist for
whom everything ap-
proached the limits
of perfection. Had
this referred only to
his own possessions, 1
should have written
him down as a hope-
less paretic, but on
the contrary, it em-
braced all things con-
tainetl in his milieu.
Kialu was a garden
of paradise (oh,
never mind the can-
nibals and fever and
tilings), my cook
merited the cordoti
hlcii, no fish so deli-
cate as ours swam any
other seas and after
tasting a cociir dc
palmier a la iiiayon-
nai.se he could die
happy. As for the
host, he was a prince
of good fellows, a
king, (only his cloth
prevented my under-
going an apotheosis
from his lips) and he
lived only for the
h a p p y day when
Providence might
permit him to greet
me at his gates.
He puifed around
at my elbow in the
stewing heat, wet
patches forming over
the full contours of
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his pectoral muscles, through his white
serge coat, and his handkerchief a sponge
at the end of every hundred yards. I was
getting my old schooner Circe ready for
sea and had hauled her out for a bit of
caulking. She was an ancient yacht of
about 100 tons and had been a cup winner
in her day, but her construction was based
on faulty principles and I now distrusted
her staunchness. This was to be her last
voyage, under my flag at least, and on the
delivery of my new one, I meant to have
the Circe broken up. Considering her years
of faithful service, I hated to do so. but
she was a composite boat — wood planking
over iron frames and secured by copper
fasteners — and the contact of the iron and
copper had caused an electrolysis which
had eaten away both metals and left the
Circe very sick. I was inclined to doubt
that she would have ridden out a hard gale,
but felt no fear for the voyage to Samoa, as
at that season fair weather was practically
assured, while the prevailing winds were
favorable.
The Circe was back at her moorings and
the bishop and I returning from an inspec-
tion of her when, as we strolled up to the
bungalow for a cold drink, I discovered
that he had something on his mind. He
was perspiring more freely than usual (if
this were possible) and appeared to wear
an embarrassed air. Seated in a wicker
chair on the breezy verandah, with a
brimming John Collins at his elbow, he
burst out suddenly: —
"My dear Kavanagh. I wonder if you
would think us frightful spongers and
abusers of your delightful hospitalitv if I
were to ask you to take us with you to
Samoa on the Circe?" He drew a fourth
fresh handkerchief from his pocket and
proceeded to sc]ueegee his rotund face.
I told him of course not, adding un-
truthfully that nothing would give me
greater pleasure, but that I had understood
they wished to go to Bougainville.
"There is no hurry about that," said he.
"We can go there later by steamer. You
see, my dear chap. Captain Connors rather
intimated that, while Captain Miiller is a
splendid fellow and an excellent navigator,
his schooner, though staunch, is far from
being modern in its appointments and not
as clean as one might wish. I have been
rather in dread of the voyage on the
ladies' account. While able to rough it if
necessary, they are perhaps unduly fas-
tidious aliout certain details of daily life
. . . the little niceties, you under-
stand . . ." — he waved his plump
hands — "the bedding . . . the toilet
facilities, the minor features disregarded
by us men . . . but painfully trying
to those steeped in the reiinements of con-
ventionality . . ."• — he regarded me
with appeal.
I thought of M tiller's sloppy old tub and
its sloppy old skipper and nodded. The
Jungjrau was an untidy baggage at best,
whereas the cabin of the Circe could still
I)oast the glory of her former yachting
frills. Besides, old Miiller was no re-
specter of persons and quite capable of
sliuffling al)Out in grass slippers and
pajamas, the latter often short their due
complement of buttons, while his crew
maneuvered nonchalantlv as a band of
apes. It seemed well within the bounds of
probal)ility that the hyper-sensitive Mrs.
Stormsby and her prudish niece might get
served out to them more than a full ration
of local color on the Jiingfraii. and old
Miiller be quite oblivious to their squeam-
ishness. So, with an inward curse and an
outward smile, I assured the bishop that
it should be as he wished, whereat he boiled
over. with benedictions and reinforced his
liquid affinity.
I ATER, Mrs. Stormsliy buttressed these
'—' expressions of gratitude. This was
after dinner, as we were standing at the
end of the verandah in appreciation of the
moonlight on the lagoon. One slope of
this snow-covered volcano (to quote Cap-
tain Billy) had thawed in my direction on
her disco\"ery that I was the author of
what is flatteringly considered a standard
work on the ethnology of the Pacific, and
I was beginning to perceive that the forma-
tion beneath was less bleak than one might
have thought. Nor was there any fault to
be found in its contour, as I was grudgingly
forced to admit. She was really a very
beautiful woman in a strongly vital way
and the mellow moonlight seemed to soften
and enrich her charm, diluting the flame of
her abundant hair and edging her rather
Slavic features with a subtle-charm.
"You are very good to us nomads, Mr.
Kavanagh," said she. "I have been rather
dreading the voyage to Bougainville, less
on mv own account than for Enid. The
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poor child is so hypersensitive about some
things."
I answered bluntly that she would prob-
ably marry some day and get over this.
Mrs. Stormsby shook her head. She was
a little shocked, I think.
"P'nid is not the marrying sort," said
she. "The mere suggestion of such a thing
upsets her frightfully. Perhaps it is the
result of her peculiar bringing up by two
prim old maiden aunts and an ascetic uncle
who held peculiar views on ... eh
. . . social questions. She dislikes men
and has never been intimate with any
woman . . . that is, to the extent of
discussing personal things of a certain
character. Even the sight of the. half -clad
natives, which is unavoidable at times,
seems to arouse in her a sort of angry
shame."
"That is sheer prudery," I observed,
"and the sooner she gets over it the better
for her. What she needs is a course in
trained nursing— or else to take the veil
and be done with it."
Mrs. Stormsby shook her head and the
moonlight flashed from her ruddy hair.
"That would entail religion,"" said she,
"and the child is anything but religious.'
She is almost a pagan in some respects. I
actually believe that it would give her less
compunction to kill a man than to have him
see her, e-en accidentally, en i/hkabil/e.
I am telling you this so that you may
understand any little peculiarities which
might otherwise puzzle or offend you."
"Thank you," I answered rather dryly.
"I shall exercise infinite pains not to see
her en deshabille. My life, though un-
important, has still a certain value to me."
Mrs. Stormsby laughed, with a low, rich
inflection which rather surprised me. I had
not believed that she could laugh like that.
"Nonsense," said she. "You know what
I mean. So please don't be cross if her
manner seems peculiar at times. The
slightest hint of the unconventional dis-
turbs her more than one can realize, and
when in these moods she is not very
gracious."
"Very well," I answered. "We'll trv
our best not to shock her. Only please
warn Miss Weare against coming on deck
before eight bells, and I shall give orders
to the hands not to roll up their trouser legs
and to dry out wash clothes over the
bow."
CHAPTER 11
/yHREE days later we sailed, laying a
course for Trocadero Island where I
proposed to leave Charley Dollar, my
Kanaka foreman, with three divers and
their gear, to prospect over what bottom
they could until my return from Samoa
with my new schooner.
Trocadero Island, so named I imagine
from its resemblance at some miles to the
southward of the Paris Trocadero as seen
from the Champs de Mars, was merely the
crater rim of an extinct volcano, on the
lower lip of which a later upheaval had
occurred. These tumuli at the two ex-
tremities, with the lower ridge between,
gave the fancied reseml)lance to the Troca-
dero. The actual land area of the island
was probably not o\-er five hundred acres
and its topographical features contained a
large, irregularly shaped lagoon or atoll,
some precipitous cliffs deeply seamed and
eroded, and a little lake of sweet fresh
water in the crater of the small superim-
posed volcano, its level being perhaps a
hundred feet above that of the sea. Bar-
ring a meager fringe of palms and a belt
of scrubby brush back of the beach, there
was no vegetation to speak of, but in a
little bight at the head of the lagoon there
was a deep pool of clear, cold spring water.
This may have had its later source from
the crater, or it may have had the same
source from some underground or sub-
marine Avatercourse which found exit
through the core of the volcano, when its
depths were rent by eruptions.
I had once put into Trocadero for water
when that aboard had gone stale and the
place had impressed me as a possible though
limited pearling ground, but I had not
lingered to prospect, as the weather was un-
certain and I had no diving gear. The
approach to the island was also difficult
and dangerous for many miles seaward and
I had observed certain areas of broken
water before actually sighting the land.
As Captain Billy said, the bottom appeared
to be ridged like a dish of tripe, and for
this reason vessels rarely visited the spot.
Nor did I believe that natives ever 'went
there, Trocadero having nothing to offer
them. The only signs of animal life were
the vast quantities of sea-fowl which ap-
peared to have their rookeries in the ragged
cliffs about the crater lake. Once inside
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the lagoon, a vessel was protected against
any wind which blew and there was a sand
bar which ran nearly across the entrance.
It was behind this bar that I thought there
might be pearl oysters.
It was not my plan to enter the atoll, but
to drop Charley Dollar and his men some
miles off the entrance and let them work
in with the whaleboat. They could find
shelter in any of the numerous caves and
grottoes at the foot of the cliff's and I had
hopes that on my return trip they might
have something profitable to report. Char-
ley Dollar was a very intelligent mission-
educated Kanaka with a fair working
knowledge of navigation, and I had im-
ported him and others of his race as gang
bosses of the Melanesian labor on the plan-
tations, and in case of need, an efficient
police force. There was also aboard my
mate, a trustworthy half-caste Kanaka
named Samuel Smith, an excellent navi-
gator and as sound a seaman as I have ever
sailed with. The crew was composed of
chosen men. mostly Melanesians.
'^^^)THING eventful occurred during
the first eight days of our voyage.
The weather was fixed fair with a smooth
sea and a steady draught of trades which
enabled us to make a broad reach of it, the
old schooner's best point of sailing. I got
the most speed she had in her, being, to
tell the truth, rather bored and anxious to
arrive as soon as possible. The bishop's
genial platitudes became rather weari-
some, as did our constant sittings at bridge,
for I dislike card games of any sort. Mrs.
Stormsby improved on close acquaintance,
but Enid was a source of perpetual irrita-
tion to me. After ten years of the free and
easy life of the Pacific, it is rather vexing
to be continually on one's guard for fear
of offending the silly sensibility of a prud-
ish schoolgirl. The slightest casual refer-
ence to anything not of a strictly censored
conventionality was enough to tighten the
corners of her prim lips (which from their
contour certainly looked to be fashioned
for kisses rather than criticism) and to
draw a fine line down the middle of her
smooth, wide forehead. The second day
out, she had mistaken the time and came
on deck half an hour too early, to find me.
in pajamas, brushing my teeth, and from
her behavior for the next several hours one
might have thought that she had burst in-
advertently upon a saturnalia. I felt like
boxing her small, pink ears, with a good
shake to follow, and had much ado to be
polite.
Even that man of God, the fatuous
bishop, got on her bad books at times. He
held himself a bit of a dog and had a
repertoire of what he was pleased to con-
sider risque stories (save the mark), older
than the schooner and which might have
been told with discretion in any girls'
seminary. One which he narrated with
many sly chuckles when primed with port
had to do with the lady who "slipped on
something and came down" (Charley Dol-
lar's grandfather had probably heard the
tale) and at its conclusion Miss Enid must
needs rise in her wrath with a face like a
thunder squall, dark with lurid edges, and
slam into her stateroom with a vehemence
which threatened the door. When seated
on the breezy deck, let the spill of the main-
sail or any wanton eddy raise the hem of her
skirt to reveal an inch or two of ankle
(exquisite ankles, I must admit) and she
would spring to her feet with a sudden flusli
of anger on her boyish face and a quick
glance of intolerance at me, as though I
were responsible for this elemental disre-
spect. Wlien Charley Dollar passed her.
the neck of his blouse open to reveal a frag-
ment of the tattooing which covered his
great, bronzed chest, she would avert her
eyes with an involuntary contraction of her
features which seemed to increase the up-
ward rake of her slightly tilted nose.
"St. Christopher !" I exclaimed one
day to Mrs. Stormsby, "what would she do
if she were to slip on deck and break a leg
and I had to set it?"
She shook her head. "We should have
to chloroform her," she answered, seriously.
"Even as a little girl of ten she could not
be persuaded to go in wading when others
were about."
I asked her if she considered that to be
modesty, or a lack of mental equilibrium,
and she shrugged her shoulders. The
handsome widow, for all of her strict prin-
ciples, was not averse to a modest display
of her superb proportions or a little straight
talk of a certain breadth and I gathered
that there was plenty of strong, sound
sense behind her haughty features, but I
doubted that her niece possessed the allow-
ance of an ostrich in this respect. I often
wished that I had left her to the tender
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We sighted the twin towers against a burnt orange sky at three o'clock, and the concave facade between them
slammed itself in in challenging silhouette an hour later.
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mercies of old Miiller and his simian crew,
which latter could scarcely boast a whole
garment to the boiling.
We had it out one day, Miss Enid
Foolishness and I. There was a copy of
my "Ethnology of the Paciiic" in the book
locker, and as the schooner's literary scope
was short, I suggested that it might interest
her, not stopping to reflect that some of the
plates were of natives in their untrammelled
simplicity. Indeed, such a disqualification
would never have occurred to me, accus-
tomed as I was to the primitive. She was
in (for her) a gracious mood that day, and
seated on the low rail with the vessel slip-
ping smoothly through the water, we
started to look through the work together.
Then, as I turned a page, there came a
gasp, a sort of choke as though from
asphyxiating gas. There before her out-
raged eyes was the colored plate of a
pretty Polynesian girl, costumed for a
Nautch dance, smiling in her conscious
charm. Remembering with whom I was
dealing, I quickly turned the leaf, and as I
did so, Enid rose and stood for a moment
staring at me with hard grey eyes and a
rising flush. Had I pinched her above the
knee, she could not have looked more out-
raged. "Well, what's the matter?" I
snapped, irritably. "Surely you don't find
anything offensive in that plate?" She
pinched her full lower lip between her
teeth and her flush darkened, while her
grey eyes grew stonier. "Will you please
tell me, Mr. Kavanagh," said she, "whv a
man who pretends to be a savant should
wish to defile a scientific work by filling it
with obscene illustrations?"
I felt my own temper slip a cog or two.
"If you consider that illustration to be
obscene, Miss AVeare," said I, sternly, "then
you must consider your Creator to be
obscene. What you seem to object to is the
partial , nudity. Permit me to point out
that this illustration depicts a racial type
in a national costume. Your question is
not only absurd but insulting to me, because
it implies that I would show you an obscene
picture," and I closed the book with a slam.
She was a little frightened, I think. At
any rate, she grew a bit white. It is doubt-
ful if she had ever been spoken to quite as
sharply. She was my guest, of course, and
perhaps I should not have been quite so
brusque, but I was angry with the little
fool. She drew herself up and answered in
a haughty voice: "If you feel that way
about it, I beg to apologize, so please do
not let us discuss it any more ..." and
she walked to the companionway and went
Iselow.
I AM telling all this so that the peculiarity
of the situation ordained by immediate
future circumstances may be fully under-
stood. We were then drawing in on Tro-
cadero, which must have been not more
than thirty miles away. The schooner was
almost becalmed and the barometer and
weather conditions portended a short and
possibly vicious little squall, unseasonable
l)ut nothing to be apprehended. The sea
was smooth as a lake, but with a long,
rythmic ground swell so widely spaced as
to be imperceptable so far as any sense of
motion was concerned and only betraying
its existence by the slow rise and fall of
the rigging against the distant thunder-
heads on the horizon.
These presently darkening, while the
glass had taken a slight but sudden drop,
I got the schooner under shortened sail
and we stood hy to prove the approaching
squall. It spun down upon us naughtily
enough, in a mist of driving rain through
which one could not see the length of the
deck. The wind had headed us, and after
the first few gusty slashes, we be^an to
forge ahead, the weight of the superheated
air not being sufficient to make us heave to.
And this greed of gaining a few^miles to
windward was our bane, for we had made
but a short distance through the blinding
muck when we felt the deck heave violently
under our feet.
I looked astern and my diaphragm
seemed to drop like a dipsey lead. Our
long sleepy swell had awakened with hide-
ous suddenness and was gathering for a
spring to devour us. Charley Dollar had
the wheel, and as he turned, the horror was
reflected in his dripping face. The brim
of the sea was actually beginning to topple,
and at the same instant, there came from
the lookout forward an agonized yell and
we heard, above the rush of air through
the rigging, the crash of breaking water.
I sprang for the main-sheet, but before I
could cast it off the bitts, the welling
monster astern had swept us forward with
giddying speed and w^e found ourselves in a
maelstrom of foaming spume. It would
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Stars of the Screen and Their Stars in the Sky
By Ellen Woods
FROM the earliest times, "the heavens have told." The astral influence was believed in before
Babylon. The astrologers of Persia, the oracles of Greece and the soothsayers of Rome
took great stock in planetary augury, and star-readings have persisted in every century of the
Christian era.
Whether you believe in starry signs or not, the careers of successful men and women today
follow their set and unchangeable indications with the most amazing accuracy. The study is
more than interesting; it's positively fascinating.
Here, for instance, are the nativities of two of the screen's best known people. Between
what is foretold by the stars and what is already accomplished fact, is there not remarkable
coincidence?
Nativity of Douglas Fairbanks, Born May 23
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS has the nativity
of one who is always planning to do big
things, in which he will mostly succeed.
At his birth, the royal sign, Leo, the ruler
without affliction, was on the Eastern horizon.
The house of honor and fame holds lords of
five houses, including Mars, lord of fifth, the
house of theatres, in close aspect to Venus, in-
dicating the good actor. His ambition is to be
first and best in everything, and in this he
will be gratified, as Venus, the end of all, lady
of the fourth, is in the zenith, and being well
aspected without affliction, indicates that his
name will live long and will be spoken of with
love and reverence. Moon, located in the
fifth, foretells he will have a famous child.
A person with this nativity need never fear
bondage of any kind whatsoever ; indeed, on
the contrary, there are indications that he
should be successful in getting other people
out of durance (Jupiter in twelfth, well as-
pected). Is it not therefore significant that
in all his plays and pictures he is continually
rescuing somebody?
Nativity of Mae Marsh, Born November 9
MAE MARSH is a born actress. If she
had first seen the light of day in the
middle of the desert of Sahara, fate
would have led her in some way to the stage
or the picture studio. She has five planets in
the fifth house, the home of theatres and places
of amusement, with Mars, lord of fifth, in the
zenith.
Cancer was on the eastern horizon at birth,
with Moon, lady of ascendant, in midheaven,
indicating fame and publicity of her own mak-
ing. If Miss Alarsh had had Mars in her
ascendant, America might claim the distinc-
tion of possessing a Sarah Bernhardt ; but
those who have Cancer in the ascendant are
too timid to push themselves forward.
Miss Marsh has a v-ery strong personality,
marked by originality and a ready wit that
would put most after-dinner speakers to
shame.
She has many talents, such as painting,
drawing, music, and the knowledge of lan-
guages. Miss Marsh will be before the public,
on the stage or screen, during her entire life.
IF you are not a
thousand years
old, and your
memory is particu-
larly good, you may
remember that one
of the first real
events of your life
was the day your
mother dolled you
up with about seven-
teen yards of super-
fluous ribbon and
took you to a place
with windows all
over one side and on
top, where a man
hopped around a
big black box and
made you stop cry-
ing (they had
perched you on a
big, uncomfortable
chair with your fat
little legs sticking
straight out, and
basely deserted
you) by calling out
suddenly :
"Oh, see the pret-
ty birdie."
Then there was a
click, and the funny
man rubbed his
hands gleefully at
TO MAKE THE MOTK
OR CRY IN THE RIC
COMBINATION OF CLO*
By Randolj
the dirty trick he had played on you, took some
money away from your mother and said the proofs
would be ready in a week or so.
So when 3'ou see Charlie Spoiford, or Phyllis Post, or
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Pretty Birdie!"
Various views of Mr.
Charles Spofford, the
prominent tragedian,
before being wound up,
while being wound up
and— fully wound up.
the man at the
camera crank has
made use of the old
t i n - t y p e man's
trick.
Which shows
how little you know
about the modern
child.
The youngster
who goes in — or is
taken in — for a
movie career is too
wise for the old
gags. He may not
know enough yet
to demand that his
name I)e on the pro-
gram, and printed
at least half as
large as that of the
star on the bill-
boards, but he got
hep to the "prettie
birdie" stuff in his
first reel. The
child is frequentlv
the soul of the pic-
ture. If he cries
k picture baby laugh
places calls for a
qAnd day laborer
l|5artlett
Mary Jane Irving, or the Lee kidlets. or Harry
Hough, or Jack Lloyd, or any of the other hundred
or so babies that play important parts in picture plays,
you probably think — if you tliink about it at all — that
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when he should laugh, or laughs when he
should cry, or sulks when he should play, the
point is lost. J. Searle Dawley, a director for
Famous Players, is the author of this sugges-
tion to any person desirous of amassing millions
(juickly :
"The matter of making the child smile at the
critical moment is one of the greatest problems
which the motion picture director faces, and
any solution of the dii^iculty that could be
relied upon to work invariably, would bring
the inventor a fortune."
The first step, according to Mr. Dawley, is
to get the child "studio-broke." He must be
able to listen unmoved to the buzzing of the
Cooper-Hewitt lights; he must get used to
having strangers in queer make-up around
him; and above all, he must learn that his
mother has not abandoned him forever merely
because she does not stand by his side through-
out the scene. This entente cor dial e once estab-
lished, the child's natural desire for mimicry
will accomplish much.
"If you laugh at a baby, he will laugh back —
this is the law and the prophets," says Director
Dawley. "It is not given us to know whether
he laughs because he thinks you are an ass, or
because he is really amused. We must be satis-
fied with the fact. But he will not always cry
when you cry. Perhaps this is because he scents
Phyllis Post thinks
her director a joke,
so she laughs at htm.
"Oh, See the Pretty Birdie!"
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insincerity in your grief.
( )f ten he drives you to
tears, but you are lucky if
you can coax him -to that
same point."
Director Edward Morrissey, of
Fine Arts, has worked out a system
with Charlie Spofford which sel-
dom fails to produce a heart-
broken wail. Charlie is posted on
the spot wliere his grief . is to be
photographed and his apron-strings
tied to the chair or tree. Then
several other children start playing
a game v/here Charlie can see
them but where they are out of
range of the camera. After a
few vain efforts to join them.
Charlie expresses his feelings in
howls and tears, the crank turns
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Mr. Spofford can't get into
the game just beyond your
vision, and it makes him
sore. Then he loves the dog,
and registers gladness.
In
our
opinion,
most
engineers
would
rather
have
this
reward
than
the
eight-hour
day.
"THE MAN PULLED A LEVER"
IN the language of the mechanically ignorant
reporter when he has been put on a railway
accident, that's just what this man is doing.
The only thing the matter with that statement
is that this man's name is Dorothy.
You might also get the idea that this is
Helen Holmes' baby. Well, she isn't. This
is Engineer Holmes, the prominent new steam-
chauffeur of the Railroad Raiders. Maybe she
was Helen Holmes' adopted baby before she
went to work, but her idle days, like those of
her poor, unfortunate, overworked foster-mother,
are past now.
Engineer Holmes earns her berth on the right
side of the cab, too. Economy is the watch-
word of the day, and Engineer Holmes is right
there with the steam-saving. If. you know any-
thing about locomotives, you'll observe that
Engineer Holmes has her "hooked up" to the
last notch on the quadrant; that means an early
cut-off in the cylinders, and less fuel. Guess
she isn't already the old professor of Pacific-
Types — what?
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The
Silent Master
If you believe that somber
tragedy, dazzling adventure,
sweeping surprise and fasci-
nating romance have no place
in the modern world, read the
story of La Belle Jacqueline —
and change your opinion
By Jerome Shorey
LA BELLE JAQUELINE glanced
around the crowded cafe. Suddenly
her listfess manner changed and she
turned to me again across the champagne
glasses.
"Monsieur," she said, in low, tense tones,
"will you please press my hand — no, not
too quickly, not too obviously — just as if
it were quite a matter of course."
Her hand lay upon the linen cloth that
was scarcely whiter and I thought it was
trembling. I slid my own clumsy paw
across toward it, until our fingers touched,
and then looked into her eyes. They were
sparkling like the bubbles in the half-filled
glasses, and there was fever on her cheeks.
I knew all this was not for me, worse luck,
for she had frankly, if gently, rebuffed me
for weeks. It was some satisfaction to be
the object of tlie envy of Broadway as one
of the few favored friends of the famous
dancer, l)ut it was tantalizing to be, at last,
permitted to indulge in something akin to
a caress, and know it was not that to her.
She was talking too, chattering merest
commonplaces, but looking at me as if I
were the Great Buddha and she a humble
votary. It was all so unreal that I began
to grow dizzy.
Then a tall, impressive-looking man
crossed the room and approached our table.
Jaqueline noticed him, and with feigned
embarrassment, withdrew her hand and
looked up at him with a smile. She intro-
duced him as the Marquis de Sombreuil,
but called him Valentin. He asked us to
join his party, but Jaqueline again assumed
her mask of embarrassment and looked at
me, as if to say that we preferred to be
alone, together. The marquis chatted a
moment and then turned to go. He took
Jaqueline's hand, rather tenderly, T
thought, and yet with no suggestion of
sentimentality.
"Then goodbye, Jaqueline. I hear you
sail for Paris next week."
She merely nodded.
"Then bon voyage. And may you al-
ways be as happy as I see you now."
He went back to his own table and the
mood of the surprising Jaqueline changed.
"Mon Die It, monsieur, take me out of
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this place. Quickly. Let us drive some-
where— anywhere — like the very devil."
In a few minutes we were in my car,
and at Jaqueline's order speed laws were
forgotten as we shot through a ])lur of
racing lights into the country. Jaqueline,
huddled in her corner of the tonneau,
sobbed violently. I sat helpless, feeling
like a fool, an intruder at a private tragedy.
"Forgive
me, my friend,"
she said, weakly, touching my
arm. "It is something that had to happen
some time. It is over now — forever. So
completely is it ended that I can even tell
you about it, from the beginning. The story
is sufficiently unusual, perhaps, to repay
you, in some measure, for your kindness."
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43
A fat pig of a man was flogged for having ruined a poor little
seamstress.
And this is the story that Jaqueline told
as we glided along the Boston Post Road,
through huddled villages and past noisy
inns, more gently now because the torrent
of her grief was spent.
You think you know your Paris, mon-
sieur. Perhaps you know it rather better
than the common tourist. But there are
places that no tourists ever enter — places
where there is not enough glitter to make
the evil attractive. Even the police find
it difificult to gain admission, but Valentin,
Marquis de Sombreuil, was as much at
home there as he was in his splendid villa
in the suburbs. I was bom
to the life of the Apaches,
and when he found me I
had come to the point in my
life where one push, this way
or that, sends a girl to
heaven or to hell. I was
dancing one night, in a dis-
mal den, when he came in.
There was fire in my blood
that night — the fire of youth,
monsieur, and my soul was
crying for its mate — and he
stood back against the wall
and watched me, with those
steady eyes of his. To all
appearances, he was one
of us.
When I looked into his
eyes, I lost interest in the
dance and went into a cor-
ner so I could watch him.
Soon he came over to me.
"You are young for all
this, mignon," he said. My
heart beat so that I could say
nothing. He stood, looking
down at me.
"Your parents?" I could
only shake my head. "Hus-
band?" Again I shook my
head. "Sweetheart?" Again
the same. "Then come with
me."
He led me out as if I had
been a baby. Without a
word, we walked through the
crooked streets and came to
a big limousiner. The chauf-
feur jumped down and
opened the door. My
strange friend gave an order
and we raced away. I was half frightened,
yet not afraid. I clung to him and he
flung one arm around me — not the caress of
a lover, monsieur, but different from any-
thing I had known. It drove away all
thought of danger.
At length we reached his villa and he
took me to his housekeeper.
"I have decided we need a little joy in
our big house," he said. "Take care of
this little one. She is to stay with us —
if she likes us."
From that moment, monsieur, I belonged
to Valentin, Marquis de Sombreuil. I
would have given him my soul, but he did
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not even want my body. He was my very "Life has its secrets, ma petite." he said,
god, but I was to him only a daughter. "but death has its greater secrets. If men
Perhaps, if it had not been for Eugene — would but think more of death, they would
but no-^he never could have loved me. no longer fear it, and sometime they might
For what was I? Just a child he had guess its secret too."
rescued from the gutter, and he was a man Later I understood a little of what he
born to be a king. meant. The time came when Valentin
Soon I found that he was in truth a feared life more than he feared death, but
king, and ruled a certain domain more no matter what came, he never ran away
absolutely than any czar. It was his whim from the thing he feared,
to help those who suffered wrongs and op- Then, one night at I'Abbaye, we met
pressions that the law could not remedy. Eugene de Tresles. At least that was the
For his purpose he called himself Mon- name he used, but anyone could tell he was
sieur Simon, and with his great wealth an American. Not what we French usually
bought the loyalty of the most desperate think of as American — not strong and
characters among the Apaches. He paid manly, but blase, with a weak mouth and
well for their help, but eyes that dodged you. He
soon they came to love "THE SILENT MASTER" '^^'^ formed the habit of
him. His will was never sneering at evervthing. He
questioned. In a secret NJARKATED from the photo- amused Valentin at first.
place he had established ^^ play version of E. Phillips but soon aroused his pity
what he called the Court Oppenheim's novel, "The Court If Valentin had not hoped
of St. Simon. Did it be- of St. Simon," produced for Selz- that he might awaken Eu-
come known that a certain nick-Pictures with the following gene out of his lethargy, he
factory owner underpaid cast : would not have done what
his workers, or preyed Valentin Robert Warwick be did. You must know,
upon helpless women? Virginia Arlen Olive Tell monsieur, that it was al-
Then that man was Eugene Arlen (De Presles)... ways with Valentin the
marked. Some night he j^^f^;^^ °°"Anna^ Unle ^Pe^^ion of what he could
would be walkhig througli Robert Henri Valbel &^^'^- ^^ asked nothing
a dark street, and so sud- Mrs. Carlingford . .Valentine Petit from anyone. To me he
denly that he could make Juliette Juliette Moore always gave, and for noth-
no outcry, he would be ing but just his goodness
seized, bound, gagged and whisked away of heart. He was never so happy as when
to the Court. VVhatever money or val- he was helping someone who could not make,
uables he carried would be taken from the fight for himself.
him and he would be formally accused So he took Eugene with us that night
of his offenses. Then he was stripped to to the Court, to show him, he said, that
the waist, flogged unmercifully and warned he had not yet seen quite everything,
to mend his ways. In the morning he Eugene kept his pose of nonchalance, even
would be found, groaning and helpless, after we had taken him to a certain house
in an alley far from the Court, and and told him it was necessary that he should
his money given to some institution that dress after the fashion of the dens of Mont-
helped the poor. If he told his story to martre. He kept it still when we crept
the police, they would only shrug their cautiously through the streets,' turning no
shoulders. The police did not care to make corner until we knew the way was clear,
war upon the Apaches, in behalf of men He tried to keep it even in the Court itself,
whom they knew received no more than but when a fat pig of a man was flogged for
they deserved. But even if they cared, it haying ruined a poor little seamstress, and
would have been difficult for them to rec- l)egan to squeal, it was too much for our
ognize in the grave Marquis de Sombreuil fine friend's nerves. He went white and
the silent master of the Court of St. Simon. begged to be taken away. Then Valentin
That was his life, that and his books. He saw at last what stuff Eugene was made of.
was not talkative, and I have seen him sit He called Robert and told him to take our
for. hours staring at an old skull on his li- guest home. That was the mistake. If
brary table. I asked him about the skull, and Valentin had not trusted Eugene out of his
he looked at me with his slow, kind smile. sight, all would have been well. But it
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45
was his evil night, monsieur, and what fol-
lowed was Robert's work.
"Le Beau Robert" we called him at
Montmartre — it should have been "Le
Diable." But Valentin trusted him, and
Robert was faithful because Valentin paid
well. Eugene was safe in Robert's hands —
safe from violence, from robbery. With
Robert beside him, he could have been en-
crusted with diamonds, and not a dog in all
Montmartre would have so much as barked
at him. Oh no, Robert would not harm the
friend of Valentin, but he would, for a
price, consent to entertain him. When it
was all over, Robert told me how it hap-
pened. As soon as they had left the Court,
Eugene began swaggering again. He
sneered at the scene he had just left.
"Oh, that," Robert replied, in the same
tone. "Ves — it is only play-acting, my
friend. But perhaps you would care to
see a bit of real life, something with the
spice. Is it so?"
Eugene's morbid curiosity was aroused,
and he made the bargain. He would pay
Robert, not to see a fat man trussed up, but
for adventures in the street, for something
that had danger in it — perhaps death — so
long as his own safety was guaranteed.
Of course Valentin soon heard of these
excursions of Eugene's, but no harm was
done, and he gave the boy up as a hopeless
/ tried not to let him know how it stabbed me to let him go.
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degenerate who was not worth the saving.
He did warn Robert, though, and said he
would hold him responsible for Eugene.
Responsible ! Robert did not know the
meaning of the word. There were but two
rules in his life — his own desires, and
loyalty to the clan. There was no reason
why he should not profit by Eugene's de-
sire for excitement. So it went on, until
one night, in a mood of sheer deviltry.
Robert killed a gendarme. It was a brutal
■murder,- when flight was perfectly easy ;
and Robert never before had taken such
chances, for he left a clear trail. But still
he could have taken care of himself if it
had not been for Eugene. They all man-
aged to get away, but not before they had
been seen. Still, the evidence was not com-
plete. The police needed a few details.
This affair disgusted Valentin utterly
with Robert and the others he had been
employing for his Court. His first move
was to call on Eugene. He found him
cowering in his apartments, denying himself
to everyone and trying to fortify his shat-
tered nerves with narcotics. He whimpered
like a whipped puppy when Valentin
forced his way into his rooms.
"Look here, Eugene," Valentin said, "if
you act like this, you may as well give your-
self up to the police and be clone with it.
Nothing can save you, except to act like a
man. But if you can't do that, at least keep
your mouth shut. If the police get you, be
deaf and dumb — know nothing — answer no
questions. If you ever betray Robert, or
any of the others, you are a dead man. The
walls of a prison may save you from them
for a time, but they never forget. Your
release would be your death warrant. Try
to remember what I am telling you. It is
my last word. I am leaving Paris, probably
forever."
When he told me he was going, and that
I could not go with him, I thought I should
not want to live. He had taught me the
folly of tlijs life of my own kind and I was
not able to find a place in any other world
but his. And I loved him, monsieur — God,
how I loved him ! I tried not to let him
know how it stabbed me to let him go. Per-
haps, if he had understood — but no ; I was
not for him.
Valentin- sailed for New York a few days
later. He had a sister living there, Mrs.
Carlingford. He provided for me before he
left, arranged for everything. I could not
refuse to accept — it would have been fool-
ish, and would have wounded him, too.
I believe the police deliberately waited
until Valentin had gone before thev arrested
Eugene. They are not altogether blind, our
Paris police. Of course Eugene could not
stand up under tlieir merciless cjuestioning
and he told everything. Robert and two
others were arrested and sent to prison for
many years, but Eugene, because he had
confessed, was let off with only two. I was
so lonely when Valentin left that I some-
times used to go to see my old friends at
Montmartre, and there I found what fate
waited for Eugene when his freedom should
come. They were angry with Valentin too,
for, they said, he was responsible for the
traitor. But I wasted no pity on Eugene.
But for him, Valentin might not have gone
away.
Once or twice I heard from Valentin, and
then came a letter that made my world black
and empty. He said that he had found
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47
what he never hoped to find — love. And I
knew how great a thing it mus-t be witli a
man h'ke him. H.e .^aid her name was
"/ have come
to buy Eugene
from you, "
Valentin said.
Virginia Arlen, and they
were to be married at once.
liven while my heart bled, I was glad for
him. It was the end of all my hope. I
knew I must forget. It was then I decided
to go on the stage.
A year passed. I thought Valentin had
forgotten me in his new happiness. Tlien
one day he came to my apartment, breath-
less. I did not even know he was in Paris.
"Jaqueline!" he exclaimed, without fur-
tlier preamlile. 'A\'here does the gang hide?"
"W hat is it?" I asked.
"Eugene is free, and Roliert has escaped,
^'ou know what that means."
"But why, my friend?" I ol)jected. "You,
who are now so happy — wh\- risk your life
for -that luriiciil/t'/ Remember vour wife."
"That's just it. Ja(iueline. P'ugene is her
brother."
"His name is De Presles."
"Another of his freaks', Jaqueline. He
pretended to hold America in contempt."
I told him I did
not care who Eu-
gene was^I would
not permit him to
run the risks he
would have to run if
he tried to thwart
Robert's revenge.
"I see I shall
have to explain," he
said, "but minutes
are precious. When
I first loved Vir-
g i n i a, I did not
know she was Eu-
gene's sister. After
she had become so
dear that she was
more to me than life,
she told me one day
that she had a
brother, who called
iiimself Eugene de
Presles, and a.sked if
I had ever seen him
in Paris. I was
afraid. Jaqueline —
for the first time in
my life I was afraid
— afraid I might
lose her. So I lied.
Never mind that ; I
won't excuse myself.
Wt were married,
and she wanted to
come to Paris to find
Eugene. She was
worrying because she had not heard from
him. I persuaded her not to come. A few-
weeks ago she heard from him. He had
been told that his term was commuted and
he would soon be released. He begged her
to come to save him from Monsieur Simon,
whom he blamed for all his dissipations
and his crime.
"Virginia asked me who this man Simon
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was and again I lied. The fear of losing
her was with me day and night. I could
not tell the truth. Her bitterness when
she spoke of the man who had ruined her
brother made it impossible for me to
speak. She insisted upon leaving for
Paris at once. We arrived this
morning. ICugene was released at
daybreak.
"When I discovered this, I told
Virginia I must go alone and search
for her brother. But every-
where it was the same — my old
friends shrugged their shoul-
ders and turned away. They
did not know, or they would
not tell. I feared the worst
and, God forgive me, I
breathed freely for the first
time in months. If Eugene
were dead, Virginia never
would know I was Monsieur
Simon. I even told myself
it was only just, because 1
had been wrongly accused.
So I went back to
the hotel.
"As I opened
the door I saw a
figure of a man
spring from a couch
with a cry like a hunted
animal, and dive be-
hind a chaise longue, and I heard the words,
" 'It's Monsieur Simon — save me, save
me!'
"He had found his way to our hotel.
Virginia stood like a statue. I do not know
what I said — I pleaded with her to listen
and then told her nothing. At last she
screamed,
" 'Eugene !'
"We searched the room, but he had fled.
Perhaps he had convinced himself that I
was his enemy. Perhaps he really believed
that I had come to kill him. He could not
know that I was his sister's husband, and
he did not wait to see. So now, my Jaque-
line, I am responsible for him. You must
help me to find him."
What could I do, Monsieur? -Of course,
Valentin had done wrong. But I asked mv-
self, would I not have lied to hold him to
me, as he had lied to hold the woman he
loved? So I told him where he would find
the headquarters of the gang, but warned
him that he was no longer popular there.
Valentin pleaded with his wife to listen — and then told her nothing.
But Valentin was not afraid of that kind
of danger.
He went to that den of murderers, mon-
sieur, they told me afterward, like a. king
entering his palace. Robert told them to
admit him.
"He may like to see what we do to his
little friend," he snarled.
Eugene, bound and gagged, had been
tied to the wall, and only the rope kept him
from falling. Robert stood beside him.
knife in hand.
"A little different from the Court of
St. Simon," Robert sneered. "Not so fine,
perhaps, but justice will be done here all
the same. You have come a long way to
see."
"I have come to buy Eugene from you,"
Valentin answered.
Robert laughed fiendishly, and Eugene
screamed in terror through his gag.
"I want to speak with you, Robert —
alone," Valentin insisted.
Robert looked at him. still sneering.
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showing his teeth like a wolf. But Robert
was no coward, monsieur, with all his
faults. So he led the way to another room.
"Name your price," Valentin said,
tersely.
"The dog is not for sale," Robert replied,
stubbornly.
"A hundred thousand francs," Valentin
suggested, and Robert only laughed. "Two
hundred." Another laugh. "Five hun-
dred."
"It's no use, my friend. We have de-
cided," Robert answered, and started for
the door.
Like a flash Valentin flung him into a
corner and stood over him with drawn
revolver.
"Robert," he said, "here is my last word.
My life is not worth to me a centime. Re-
lease Eugene to me with your promise not
to harm him, and I will turn all my estates
into money and give it to you — the amount
perhaps two million fratics. I will help
you to get out of France, to South America
where you can live like an emperor. Refuse
— and I will shoot you there where you lie,
and take a chance on fighting my way out
and saving Eugene myself."
I have told you that Robert was no
coward. I think, even then, if it had not
been that he really loved Valentin — every-
body loved him, mon-
sieur— he would have
taken his chance in a
fight. He lay there and
looked up at Valentin a
moment, and then made
a gesture of submission.
"My friend," he said,
"It grieves me to see a
man like you do this
thing for a dog like Eu-
gene. But it shall be as
you say."
Valentin took Eugene
back to the hotel and
sent him to Virginia.
Himself, he went to an-
other hotel and wrote a
note, asking his wife to
reply within twenty-four
hours, as he would wait
that long to know
whether she would not
see him and let him ex-
plain. At the end of the
time he telephoned to the
hotel, and was told that Virginia and Eu-
gene had left Paris a few hours before. He
did not come to see me again and I knew
he wanted to be alone. Within a week he
had kept his promise to Robert, and left for
New York.
Of the three years that followed I know
little. He did not try again to see his wife,
but was satisfied to be on the same side of
the Atlantic with her. He was a broken
man and sought consolation in drink. He
sank lower and low^er. Forgive me, mon-
sieur, if I say no more of this.
One night he came home to his poor room
and found on his bed a beautiful little girl.
A note on the table told him it was his
daughter. His wife wrote that she thought
it was only fair he should share the respon-
sibility of her upbringing. Little Juliette
was her father's child. She slept there as
soundly in that dingy room as if she had
been at home. Valentin looked at himself
in the mirror for the first time in months,
he told me afterward, and staggered back
in horror when he realized that the creature
he had become was the father of the lovely
child on the bed. A new resolve came into
his heart at that moment. He stretched
himself on the floor beside the bed, and
with his baby's hand in his, slept calmly
and serenely.
He stretched himself beside the bed, and with his baby's hand in his,
slept calmly.
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It was the salvation of Valentin. He
had hoarded a few jewels against a day of
real necessity, and with the proceeds of
these, found better quarters. He knew now
that his wife had had him watched. He
could not understand why she had sent
Juliette to him, but was satisfied that she
had done so. They were very happy to-
gether, Valentin and the baby. He ob-
tained employment as a fencing master,
and every free hour he spent with the child.
One day as he returned home, he met
Virginia on the stairs. They were both too
proud to speak. But when he saw her,
beautiful and richly gowned, he knew he
had no right to keep Juliette from the ad-
vantages her mother could give her. Be-
sides, the child kept asking him why her
papa and mamma did not live together. So
he quickly packed his few belongings, kissed
Juliette good-bye and sent her home. He
decided to leave New York forever and
hide from his loved ones.
Fate decided that I should by then have
become quite the jameuse. As Valentin
was on his way to the station, he saw my
name in big letters in front of a theater.
He inquired where I was staying and came
to say good-bye.
When he told me his story, I could have
killed his wife with my hands. That any
woman could take the word of that creature
Eugene and condemn my Valentin unheard.
was maddening. And then came the thought
— she had lost him. Why could not I —
"Take me with you, Valentin," I cried.
"Let it be as it was before with us." 1
flung myself into his arms.
He pushed me back, ever so gently, and
shook his head.
"No, Jaqueline." he said, "for me it is
the lonely road. I am going to say good-
bye to our first home. It is empty now.
Virginia never went back there. I am go-
ing to bid a last adieu to that abode of
ecstasy — and then the world shall swallow
me up."
Another moment and he was gone. And
as I sat, with tears streaming down my
cheeks, a new thought came to me. His
wife could not be utterly unworthy, or he
would not have loved her so. Valentin
could not love a woman who did not deserve
it. She had" made a mistake, but so had
Valentin. And that she sent her baby to
him showed that she still had some faith
in him, even when he seemed utterly de-
graded. Quickly I learned where she lived
and hurried to tell her the truth about her
husband. It was as I suspected. Eugene,
even after Valentin had saved his life, had
lied, and lied and lied about him. He even
lied about Valentin and me — Valentin, who
was my father and mother and brother.
And with the return of prosperity, Eugene
had returned to his evil ways, to Virginia's
despair.
She broke down when I told her the
truth, as I have told you, monsieur, but
time was flying, and I dared not let her
waste time in weeping. So it happened that
when Valentin went to visit his old home,
he found the door slightly ajar, and out of
curiosity, entered. Juliette came running
down the stairs and led him into a room
where Virginia stood waiting with open
arms and open heart.
So you see. monsieur, I would not have
him think that I am unhappy.
****** J|C
La Belle Jaqueline, dancer, leaned back
in her corner of the tonneau, and looked
up at the stars. And so this was the woman
with whom I had been playing at making
love. For the second time that evening I
pressed her hand, and she returned the pres-
sure with a firm clasp. All I wanted was for
her to know that I understood, that I had
looked down into the unfathomable depths
of the heart of a woman who trulv loves.
"THE JUNGLE KNIGHTS"
is the title of Victor Rousseau's next Peggy Roche adventure, in the
July issue of Photoplay. Read it and see demure but irresistible Peggy,
armed with the trappings of medieval chivalry, enter the lists for a suc-
cessful commercial joust with the war commissioners of British East
Africa. Superbly illustrated.
CLOSE-UPS
EDITORIAL EXPRESSION AND TIMELY COMMENT
Passing the
Hat in
Cleveland.
IT would take more than the Ohio censors and the
mysterious Ohio legislature to stop Sunday movies in
Cleveland, Tennessee.
When the to-crank or not-to-crank on Sunday ques-
tion came up in Cleveland, the ultra-pious readily found
enactments which forbade secular entertainments for an
admission price, and opined, as well, that rival entertainments to the church
services would not be tolerated.
But there were a lot of people in Cleveland to whom Sunday was not
only a day of rest, but the only day for improving recreation.
Consequently, if you happen in Cleveland now, on the Sabbath, you
will find Sunday afternoon picture shows free of charge, in which they pass
the collection box. It is considered very unclublike to sneak before the
offertory. And the picture hours are arranged that they may not conflict
with the church hours.
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^
A Business
of
Youth?
IN the week ending March 24, fourteen persons over
fifty years of age made debuts as screen players in the
studios in and about New York. All of these were
professional people turning from the old-fashioned
stage to a new mode of expression. Nine were men.
So, is it altogether a "business for chickens and boys,"
as an actress of celebrity — and no photographic possibility — contempt-
uously averred in a recent interview?
The Photoplay
Serves in
War.
AS these lines are written, the United States peers over
the brink of ordinary times into the abyss of war.
If we fight — and the decision will be history before
you read this — there will be organized a bureau of
motion picture assistance to the government in New
York City.
The first duty of this bureau will be the preparation and taking of two
feature photoplays, which will be shown in every one of America's twenty
thousand motion picture theatres. The second of these plays plans to deal
with mobilization, and army and navy life and problems, in a large and in-
spiring way. It will not aim to show a well disillusioned populace such
sentimental foolishness as "the joys of soldiering," but will exhibit in some
measure the perils that encircle our country, how great a privilege it is to be
an American citizen, and how the country must be defended.
The first play will be a compilation of army, navy and coast defense
subjects from the libraries of every motion picture company.
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Yet for immediate action the motion picture bureau will not even wait
for the assemblage of photoplay No. 1. If we have war it will rush instantly
to every part of the country fourteen sets of slides, of informing nature
and patriotic appeal, the subject matter of which is already prepared, to be
used daily during the two weeks occupied in the preparation of the first
war feature.
— and it
Can Serve
for Peace.
WHILE this service is a speculative one, it is none the
less real.
Men fight because they do not understand each other.
The preliminary to understanding is acquaintance, and
the greatest acquainter yet discovered is the motion
picture film.
Figuratively, the Roumanian believes that the Frenchman wears horns
and has a cloven hoof.
The great world service of the motion picture is to show the patriotic
home-stayer that his brother in the far country has a heart and hopes,
realizations and disappointments even as his own, that the Colonel's lady
and Judy O'Grady are indeed sisters under the skin. Though we fight our
way to peace, the motion picture, spreading the gospel of the Great
Democracy, will help us to keep a peace nobly won.
The Grand
Prodigal's
Return.
DAVID WARK GRIFFITH'S entry into the short story
class of picture-makers, announced in the news columns
of this issue, should cause those of us who possess
trumpets to sound upon them our best festival notes.
Mr. Griffith is the Grand Prodigal of a celluloid
world. As a maker of photoplays in five- or six-reel
lengths, he laid the foundations of an entirely new art as no one man ever
laid artistic foundations before.
One of our dreams has been another series of Griffith five-reel photoplays.
No event of 1917 possesses more apparent significance than this impend-
ing volume of sunlit tales in convenient length.
The Grand Prodigal has returned.
Fewer
Picture
Theatres.
JUST that. The caption is not an appeal for fewer
theatres. It is a statement of fact. A year ago there
were hundreds of motion picture theatres in the United
States which do not exist today.
It is estimated by some that the motion picture thea-
tres of Greater New York have decreased forty per cent
in twelve months. In Chicago, where exact statistics are obtainable, the
seating capacity of photoplay houses decreased 29,000 in 1916.
Nor is this an alarming ackowledgment. The better-class picture house
has not failed. Its kind has increased. The dump, the store-show, ye com-
plete nickelodeon — these have been hard hit. They are building bigger
Close-Ups
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theatres, and what is more important, better theatres. The new theatre has
comfortable seats and a reasonable amount of cleanliness and ventilation.
The new theatre takes as many of the old-fashioned "picture show's" suf-
ferers as it can hold, and if it doubles the dive's capacity, it will put three or
four little fellows out of the running, for the man who perpetrates a joint
and calls it a playhouse is in no position to do battle with real enterprise.
HELP the long run, because it makes for better stories,
finer acting, more conscientious direction.
There is no reason why a photodrama should not be
as carefully mkde as the best play you ever saw, but
patience and diligence are not worth while when the
affair is flung into the projection booth at noon and
yanked out at midnight.
Good plays and their endurance on the screens are demolishing the
program's last strongholds in this country. Just now this is a matter of
annoyance to the picture makers and the picture actors, but no actor or
manufacturer of foresight regrets it, because it is an upheaval which ushers
in the firm establishment of an art-institution.
In the huge readjustment which is bound to come — a readjustment
which will jar everyone a bit and which will overthrow some — the pro-
gram will finally disappear, and the photoplay booking office, a gigantic
enlargement of the present booking system in vogue in vaudeville, will take
its place.
You, as the patron, are interested only in the quality of the play you see;
the mere mechanics of getting good plays, and better plays, and still better
plays, do not greatly concern you.
Well, for your main interest: just help the long run.
Enterprising
Mr.
Rickards.
WHATEVER part the motion picture may play in the
ultimate drive on Demon Rum, the role will be no
more picturesque than a recent double-crossing of
booze by the camera in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Hippodrome, the largest photoplay theatre there,
had been a losing proposition. It was acquired by J. E.
Rickards, an exhibitor who saw as a first prospect the confiscation of $20,000
worth of confiscated spirits. Mr. Rickards and his "Hip" proposed a parade
on the occasion of this liquor's destruction. The parade was taken on
and participated in by the whole town. Mr. Rickards and his camera man
beamed from the side lines. Mr. Rickards sent his negative to Pathe, and
one hundred feet of it was included in the Hearst-Pathe weekly, which the
"Hip" promptly booked.
Did the town turn out to see itself at the "Hip"? Can a duck's
daughter navigate?
And has the "Hip"-going habit, thus acquired, stuck fast to the
Phoenixians?
It sure has, admits Mr. Rickards.
Below, a study of Mme.
Petrova in the first release
under her new manage-
ment, "The Undying
Flame." It will be the
first costume play in which
she has appeared in many
months.
' 10 If
■^// /
M / / Van Buren says: "Petrova s
/ \| ' y classic face is the blessing
/JfJ^\ /of any artist who tries to
any
draw her. Her head be-
longs in a hall of statuary."'
V /
Petrova, th
PENCIL EXPOSURES
By RaebiJ
When the first lady enters, off come
the hats. This is an inflexible rule
of the Court of Olga, and is more
a matter of working discipline than
drawing room etiquette. Petrova
b unique in that she turns out more
film footage than any other woman
star, yet has the shortest working
hours. No sunrise stuff for her —
she doesn't appear at the studio
until I I o'clock. Once on the
job, however, her arena resemble*
a battleship in action.
Petrova is more than an inter-
preter. She's a business-
woman-creator. She has had
five photoplays produced in the
past year. She writes a good
deal between scenes.
*^orkin^-Girl
lER FORT LEE STUDIO
^an Buren
'i \
Peggy watched with excitement that became breathless as the two parties merged together.
— " The Road to Biskra."
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PEGGY ROCHE is at once all that is lovely and all that is hustling from America. When
the great conflict fell redly on the worried world, Peggy and her sweetheart, Jim Byrne, of
Stamford, Connecticut, were about to commit matrimony. Even as they squabbled like turtle
doves over the engagement ring, the unbelievable profits of the munitions makers commenced to
glitter before their eyes. Jim, disconsolate, mourned the lack of capital; Peggy, optimistic and
inventive, disregarded the lack of capital and hailed the opportunity. It was easy enough to fill
orders, in her opinion, provided there were orders to fill! Jim would fill them, basing his trans-
actions on the margin afforded by their thrifty though slender savings; she would get them, going
to Europe to drum up business. And despite Jim's fears for the pretty girl he loves, alone on
the hate-ravaged continent, she does turn the tricks of trade as they've never been turned before.
If Peggy is now your admirable companion, you've been with her in her Balzacian horse-blanket
deal with the Arabians of Syria, you've seen her sell a submarine to an inland principality, and
you've held your breath as she chased recreant torpedoes in Dutch waters — only to sell them
again to the U-boat captains, if Peggy is still a stranger to you, you'll find her pristine charm
and her complete personality in "The Road to Biskra," the fourth individual story of this
series — which is not a serial.
The Road to Biskra
THE FOURTH AUDACIOUS
ADVENTURE OF PEGGY ROCHE
Although it was tempered by two proposals of matrimony, and
punctuated with exciting experiences, Peggy came to the conclu-
sion that the lot of the Sahara saleslady is not a happy one
By Victor Rousseau
Illustrations by Charles D. Mitchell
PALAESTRINA, on Mudros Island,
of the Greek Archipelago, was
Peggy's temporary domicile, and she
was heartily sick of it. The town would
have been called a hamlet in New Eng-
land. It had one street, with five general
stores, each exactly like its neighbors. Also.
it had a hotel of two stories, capable of
housing five guests. Peggy, in the spare
bedroom, had engaged one of five beds,
all in a row, the other four being unoccu-
pied. As the landlord only rented rooms
once a year, when tlie currant-pickers came
in to sell their produce, he regarded Peggy's
monopolization of his premises with equa-
nimity.
Peggy was on Mudros Island for a
very definitely outlined purpose. Jim
Byrne, her sweetheart, had written her at
Naples a month before.
"There isn't any more business," his let-
ter ran. "AH the war goods that are
wanted are now being made in Europe.
Come home and see the eight-room bun-
galow I have in my mind's eye. There's
a garage at the back, and a vegetable gar-
den, and just as soon as you say the word
I'll get out of the war goods business and
take to farming on Long Island."
Peggy had smiled at this, and much
more in the letter. However, she had not
gone home. She had netted a comfortable
hundred thousand for Jim. whose colossal
nerve in starting in to supply war goods
on a capital of six thousand dollars, bor-
rowed money, had been ably backed by her
initiative in Europe. But one thing was
on her mind.
It related to a certain armored auto and
and armored truck, with couplings, filled
with gasoline cans. Peggy had these left
over from an order given, and duly deliv-
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They were met by a swarming multitude that lined
the streets hurling curses at the girl and stretch-
ing out their arms in denunciation of the infidel!
ered, months earlier. For some reason days of the war was decidedly — well,
they had not come up to specifications ; crude. !
probably because Jim's output in the early In those days one could sell anything. |
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59
But nowadays nobody was going to buy an splendid for race-track work, if trucks ever
armored auto with the ends of the steel engage in that competition, but could not
plates unriveted, and a truck that was be depended upon to climb a hill of reason-
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able grade without toppling backward. It
was only a matter of twelve thousand dol-
lars, but Peggy wouldn't go home witliout
it.
After devious communications, such as
all sellers of war goods know, Peggy had
closed a deal. Twelve thousand was to be
hers if she could ship the auto and truck
and gasoline to (ihaza, Tripoli, for the
use of the Turkish forces. As it was
humanly impossible to run the blockade of
the north African coast, the order seemed
unlikely ever to be filled.
However, Peggy had taken her property
to the nearest neutral point, which was
Palaestrina, and was awaiting develop-
ments there. And she was sitting, in the
five-bedded room, thinking out her plans,
when a card bearing the name of Cap-
tain Fanshawe was brought to her.
She went down and encountered a
slightly built, agreeable British army officer
in civilian clothes, who bowed and re-
marked courteously :
"You'll never get that auto and truck
across to Ghaza, Miss Roche."
Peggy was naturally flabbergasted. No-
body but the go-between was supposed to
have any knowledge of her plans ; the very
fact that this Captain Fanshawe knew of
them rendered them' abortive.
"I am the intelligence officer for the
Ghaza district," he added smilingly. Then
he shook his finger as if at a naughty child.
"Miss Roche, aren't you ashamed of your-
self, selling to the Turks — or rather, trying
to sell to them?"
"Why? I am an American," answered
Peggy. •
"But your mother was English," said
Captain Fanshawe. "And in any case, you
should not try to sell war supplies to our
enemies. What would your teacher. Miss
Leighton, of Public School 6, Brooklyn,
have thought of you?"
"One — one minute !" gasped Peggy.
"What was the color of mv first beau's
hair?" •
"Red," answered Captain Fanshawe, and
this time Peggy was scared almost out of
her senses.
"Don't be alarmed," said the Captain.
■"I only guessed that. Our first — er —
beaux, generally have red hair. And the
rest is a simple matter. You have acquired
something of a reputation in the Orient,
Miss Roche, by your methods of salesman-
ship, and it is my business to be in pos-
session of your dossier. All the same," he
continued, becomiing serious, "you can't
get that auto and truck acro.ss to the coast
of Africa without an uncommon stroke of
luck, and if you do, you'll have the time of
your life getting away. Fll give you five
thousand for the stuff and pitch it over
that cliff."
"Captain Fanshawe," said Peggy, "my
mother may have been English, but my
first landlady was Irish, and my answer is
no."
Captain Fanshawe smiled at her. "I'll
get it anyhow," he said.
"No," repeated Peggy firmly.
"All right," said the Captain with a sigh.
"I suppose that means I'll have to get after
\ou."
"You can't do anything to me on Mud-
ros, though."
"No, but I don't want to. I wish I
could keep you here. I'm sailing for Alex-
andria to-morrow morning. Don't be
afraid of me till you start contraband run-
ning."
"I'm not afraid of you, anyway," said
Peggy. "Vou look quite harmless."
On the following morning, Peggy, who
had not believed a word of the Captain's
statement, was astounded to see him actu-
ally board the boat for Egypt. She did not
take her eyes ofT him till the vessel was
clearing the harbor. Then she knew that,
whatever scheme h« had in mind, he was
at least bound for Alexandria ; he could
not come back until the next vessel landed.
So, calmly and methodically she went to
work to procure a ship that was making
the run to Tripoli.
By a miracle of luck slie made the port
of Ghaza. The little Greek cargo vessel
sailed riglit through the rather extended
line of the British fleet and anchored under
the shore batteries. An hour later Peggy
was receiving the profuse thanks of the
governor, Nazri Pasha.
"His P^xcellency can never thank you
enough." said the interpreter. "His Ex-
cellency sends this check to you." And he
placed it in Peggy's hand. It was drawn
on the Turkish Imperial Bank at Constan-
tinople.
"That's all right," said Peggy. "But
can't I cash it here?"
"You can at a sacrifice," said the in-
terpreter. "But it will cost you five
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61
thousand dollars. Turkish money is at a
discount at, present," he said, smiling.
"How do you suppose I am going to get
to Constantinople, then?" demanded
Peggy.
"You can cash it at any money-changer's,
mademoiselle. The discount is the same
all over the world. After the war Turkish
finances will doubtless improve, when our
indemnities have been paid."
Peggy realized that she had once again
fallen into the fine mill of the financier.
She felt a fury against the Turks almost
equal to that against Captain Fanshawe.
f^specially, however, she wished to be able
to meet him again, to triumph over the
man who had been looking up her record
in the United States.
She had planned to return on the Greek
vessel the next day, but on going to the
wharf she found the captain in a high state
of excitement. An allied submarine had
appeared off Ghaza and apparently in-
tended to stay there. Peggy was likely to
remain in Ghaza until the war ended.
It was at this juncture that the little
secretary encountered her.
"I have been looking for you every-
where, mademoiselle," he said. "The gov-
ernor asks you to help him. There is
nobody in town who can run either the
automobile or the motor truck."
"Well, you don't expect me to lead your
armies to battle, do you?" asked Peggy.
"No, mademoiselle. But if you would
take it to the holy city of Biskra, there is
a Mohammedan chauffeur there who under-
stands automobiles. He used to be chauf-
feur to the Khedive."
"How far is it?" asked Peggy.
"Only eighty miles, and two hundred
from the Egyptian border. You will not
be in danger there, mademoiselle."
"I'll go," said Peggy.
A visit to the governor confirmed her in
her intention. Bland and suave, Nazri
Pasha vowed his eternal gratitude, and, as
a token, handed her real money — English
notes — amounting to a thousand pounds,
more than the deficit on the exchange of
her Turkish money. Peggy was to attach
the truck to the auto and take them out to
Biskra, with a camel escort, on the follow-
ing morning. The journey would occupy
four days.
Peggy started at dawn, before the heat
of the day, accompanied by a guard of a
dozen men, who regarded her with awe
and terror. At night a tent was pitched
for her under the stars. The desert, stony
and hard, lay level as a billiard table,
affording excellent running. On the fourth
afternoon the towers and minarets of
Biskra came into view through the distant
haze.
Suddenly a crowd of horsemen was seen
in the heart of a sand cloud. The escort,
leaving Peggy, rode forward to announce
themselves. Peggy watched with excite-
ment that became breathless as the two
parties merged together.
Then came the sound of firing, and to
Peggy's astonishment, her Turkish guards
came riding back like the wind, hotly pur-
sued by the white-clad Arabs, who fired
over their horses' necks as they rode. In a
moment she understood what had hap-
pened. In the Arab way, Biskra had re-
volted and turned upon its masters.
Peggy attempted to turn the automobile,
but the wheels had become lodged in the
sand. Before she could crank up, the Turks
had fled past her, still pursued, while the
Arabs, with wild shouts, surrounded her
and her machine.
She was pulled out and set upon a camel.
The leader of the band, a dark-faced man
with a hawk's eye, seemed the only force
that restrained her from being torn to
pieces. There was a brief delay while the
Aral)s examined the machines. They tried
to attach horses to them, and at last made
signs to Peggy that she was to drive them
into Biskra ; but their leader, indicating
that the machines were to be left where
they were, rode back with Peggy into the
town.
They were met by a swarming multi-
tude that lined the streets, hurling curses
at the girl and stretching out their arms in
denunciation of the infidel. So fierce was
the jam that the party was obliged to halt.
At a word from the leader, they moved up
a side street, fronted by an enormous
mosque, before which was a sepulchre with
a dome. Arriving there, Peggy was pulled
from her camel and thrust bodily inside.
The door closed on her. She found her-
self in a large room, dimly illuminated by
an oil lamp that burned in the roof. Over
her she fancied was the dome, but the ceil-
ing of the room intervened. Peggy's
prison was sparsely furnished with a Turk-
ish bed and floor rugs of bizarre design.
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It was a long time afterward
that a negro appeared with a
pitcher of water and a loaf of
bread. He set them down upon
the rug and withdrew. And
hours passed, until at last Peggy
slept, worn out by the fatigue
and terrors of the day.
She started up, to find that it
was morning. The broad light
of day came through the open
door, m which was standing the
hawk-eyed leader of the band
that had captured her. With him
were a soldier armed with rifle
and bayonet, and a little levan-
tine, who came forward suavely,
motioning her to remain seated
upon the sofa.
"You are in a very serious posi-
tion, miss," he said, with a
hardly discernible accent. "I
have been a government clerk in
Cairo, and I know how serious
your position is. No infidel is
permitted to visit the holy city of
Biskra."
Somehow, in such moments,
Peggy always felt her gorge rise
at being in the power of mean
little men such as this fawning
go-between, similar in type to all
those employed by army leaders.
"Well, I'm here now. What
are you going to do about it?"
she asked.
"You are willing to become
Mohammedan ?" asked the little
man, cocking his head on one side
with superb self-assurance.
"No, I am not !" snapped
Peggy.
"You are willing to become
bride of Mohammedan?"
"Well, what do you take me
for?" she cried, and through her
mind there passed a vision of Jim, toiling
in Stamford, and of the little eight-room
bungalow of their dreams. And more and
more she felt that the whole thing was an
imposture, a phantasy, a dream.
"Sheikh Osman Ben Ali has taken a
fancy to you," remarked the little man, in-
dicating his companion, who, poised like a
statue, never took his eyes off the girl. "He
is willing to make you his wife and save
your life. He has only one other wife, and
"Sheikh Osman Ben Ali has taken a fancy U
she is old. If you refuse you must go be-
fore the cadi."
"Tell him he's dreaming." answered
Peggy briskly, "And tell him I'm an Amer-
ican citizen, and he'll have to answer for
any harm done to me. And say ! Tell him
I want a camel escort to take me across the
desert to the nearest British post."
The little go-between gasped with horror
at her words.
"Miss, miss, you do not know what you
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63
ou," remarked the little man, indicating his companion.
are saying !" he cried. "The cadi is a judge
from Mecca, merciful, but stern. The law
must be fulfilled. If you will not accept
the faith or marry a Mohammedan, you
must die. The death is with the noose.
What shall I tell Sheikh Osman Ben Ali?"
"Tell him just what I told you !" cried
Peggy, starting forward with flaming
cheeks.
The little man shrugged liis shoulders,
and turning toward the sheikh began to
address him in Ara-
bic. Peggy saw the
sheikh's eyes smoul-
der with anger as he
listened.
He answered rap-
idly and the go-be-
tween turned to
Peggy again.
"He says you are
beauteous as the
swan," he said. "He
says he is willing to
divorce his old wife
and take no other so
long as he has not
tired of you."
Peggy clinched her
fists and stepped up
to the little man,
"W hat is your
name?" she cried.
"My name is Ab-
dur Rahman, Miss.
Civil servant in
Cairo, but now secre-
tary to Sheikh Os-
man Ben Ali."
"Very well, Mr.
Abdur. If I hear
another word about
marrying this black
man from you I'll —
I'll thrash you," said
Peggy.
The sheikh could
not have understood,
but it was evident
that he gathered the
meaning of her ges-
tures perfectly, for
the ghost of a smile
flashed across his im-
passive face. Peggy,
glancing at him, de-
cided that he was not
bad-looking. His features were distinctly
Caucasian, there was no negro blood in him,
as in so many of the Arabs, and if he had
not been almost of negro complexion, he
would have been distinguished. As she
looked, he threw the hood of his burnouse
over his head and signed to the soldier,
who came up.
"You will go quietly, miss?" solicited
the little secretary. "The cadi's judgment
hall is in the mosque beyond ; thus it will
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not be necessary to go through the mobs in
the street. But you will repent at the last
moment, miss."
"I am not going to make a scene. I
recognize that I am helpless," said Peggy
defiantly.
But she could hardly keep the tears from
her eyes at the thought of Jim in Stam-
ford, Jim whom she was destined never to
see again. Quietly she accompanied the
soldier and the secretary through the
opened doorway. They passed across a
paved court, set with little barred windows
in the walls, from which she fancied the
eyes of captive women were looking down
upon her. Overhead was the bright sky
and the sunlight, cut short as they entered
the gloomy cloister of a huge building,
topped by a tower with a slender shaft,
and with the muezzin's platform, from
which he called for prayers, near the
summit.
A door was opened and Peggy found
herself within a rather small hall, contain-
ing low Arab stools, on which were seated
a number of dignitaries, motionless in their
white burnouses. In the center, upon a
raised platform, sat a strikingly handsome
man, the cadi. He was about forty years
of age, full-bearded, with piercing dark
eyes and white hands with fingers delicate
as a woman's, with which he turned and
turned the pages of a book before him.
As Peggy entered, every head was craned
toward her, but there was neither speech
nor other movement. The soldier took up
his station beside her, the secretary and the
sheikh bowed low ; Peggy alone stood de-
fiant and unbending.
She knew nothing of what was transpir-
ing, but she imagined that the story of her
refusal of the alternative was being told
to the cadi. From time to time he spoke a
word and the heads beside him nodded in
acquiescence.
Presently the little secretary turned to
Peggy again.
"The cadi does not ask you to become a
Mohammedan," he said. "He realizes how
strongly rooted is the delusion of the in-
fidels. He wishes you to learn the truth
from the lips of your husband. He will
marry you now to Sheikh Osman Ben Ali."
Peggy shook her head. All the anger
had gone out of her now, and through her
clouded eyelashes she saw only Jim, and
the little bungalow of their dreams.
"Tell the cadi I refuse," she said simply.
The cadi's bright eyes were fixed upon
hers piercingly. He spoke.
"Again he says consider," said the little
man. "You may take days — a week, per-
haps. And you shall see Sheikh Osman Ben
Ali every day, that you may overcome your
repugnance to him."
Peggy only shook her head again. Then
the sheUch, leaning forward, addressed her
personally in Arabic, the secretary repeat-
ing word for word.
"No," said Peggy finally. "It is no use
your waiting. I will never marry that
man."
The cadi drew a deep breath, as if of
amazement. And all through the hall the
sigh of astonishment, perhaps of admira-
tion, sounded.
The little secretary turned to Peggy.
"You must die by the noose at dawn," he
said.
Peggy was led back into her room.
The only thing that made her glad at that
moment was that she had been spared the
shouts and taunts of the mob.
Twelve of the four and twenty hours
had passed when the door of the room
opened. Again the secretary stood before
the girl and with him was a tall man,
who, throwing back the hood of his bur-
nouse, revealed himself to Peggy's aston-
ished eyes as the cadi himself.
For a moment the wild thought flashed
through her mind that he had come to save
her. But the secretary, speaking in grave
tones, dispelled the hope almost as quickly
as it had arisen.
"The cadi has seen you in the court to-
day," he said. "He cannot sleep, to think
that one so beautiful must die the death
reserved for the Nazarene."
"Well?" asked Peggy.
"He says that he will give out that you
have died and will secretly take you into
his harem. He has only two other wives
and has grown tired of both. He will
divorce them if you will become his bride.
You need never leave the harem, and no-
body will ever know you are there. Your
life shall be untroubled."
"Oh, isn't it enough," cried Peggy, "that
I should be condemned to death, without
having my last hours tortured by such in-
famous proposals?"
The secretary translated to the cadi, who
listened gravely. Presently he spoke again :
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65
"The cadi says that until you have
learned to love him you shall only be his
guest," he said. "His other wives shall
wait on you. They shall be your slaves.
He loves you and cannot let you die."
"No!' cried Peggy hysterically. "No!"
The man I love is in America, and I would
rather die than marry another. And I
would never marry a Mohammedan any-
way. Make him understand that and go
away !"
The cadi listened and bowed his head
as if at the decision of fate. Gravely and
with dignity he left the room.
No sooner had he gone than the face of
the little secretary underwent an extraor-
dinary change.
"Listen, now, miss, and understand me
well," he said. "There is a plan to save
you. And Sheikh Osman Ben Ali will do
so."
"Will you not leave me?" begged the
girl, trying hard not to become hysterical.
"But you do not understand. It is not
necessary that you marry the sheikh.
He will save you because he loves you. He
will take you to the nearest English outpost
and leave you there. You shall never see
him again."
Peggy clutched at her heart in the vio-
lence of her emotion. Life was sweet — yes,
and her thoughts were of Jim, Jim whom
she never knew how deeply she loved until
she had given up hope of ever seeing him
again.
"It is all planned," continued the secre-
tary. "The guards have been bribed. You
will dress as an Arab woman and accom-
pany the sheikh and myself to where your
automobile lies. You will enter and drive
to the outpost, only sixty-five miles distant.
The English are advancing and I well
know that our cause is lost, as does the
sheikh. We go there to join them. And
we take the truck, filled with the gasoline,
which the English sorely need. Miss, you
will not refuse that?"
Peggy clutched at his arm. "Is it true?"
she cried. "Are you speaking the truth?"
"The very truth. But, miss, it will be
necessary that you pay the sheikh a ransom.
You have much money from the Turkish
governor at Ghaza, as we know from our
spies. The sheikh does not give his help
for nothing."
"I thought it was love," said Peggy,
with scorn which she could not conceal.
The secretary smiled. " 'If one cannot
gain the sun, shall he despise the moon?' "
he quoted.
Peggy tore the purse containing the
English bills and the check from her
bosom. She thrust it into the man's hand.
"There, take it !" she cried.
"Then we shall start immediately," he
answered, "or the cadi may suspect and
watch for us, or change his mind and come
back."
He disappeared, returning in a few mo-
ments with a long, shapeless cloak, such
as the Arab women wear. He held it out
to the girl, who flung it about her. She
raised the hood over her head and adjusted
about the lower part of her face the veil
which hung from it.
"Now we must go hastily," said the sec-
retary. "There will be few stirring in Bis-
kra. Nevertheless, we must not awaken
the suspicions of the sentries."
He led her to the door and thence
through a little passage which Peggy had
not seen before — certainly she had not
entered by it. The guard at the door stood
perfectly silent and motionless as they
passed him. They crossed a courtyard and
suddenly found themselves in a little side
street of Biskra.
The town was almost deserted, save for
an occasional donkey driver belaboring his
animal as he returned to his home from the
trip which he had taken somewhere with
his produce. The houses, looming up on
either side of them, with barred win-
dows, seemed to oppress the girl with all
their dreadful secrets. She longed for the
open air of the desert. But presently they
reached the end of the passage and the
wide market place of Biskra appeared, with
its closed stalls. Overhead the stars were
shining brightly. Peggy felt the hope ham-
mering at her heart.
They went on until, at the further cor-
ner of the market, a second figure joined
them. It was the sheikh. The secretary
stopped for a moment. A few words
passed between the men.
"The sheikh wishes me to say that once
more he asks you to become his wife," he
said. "Being now a friend of the English,
he is able to become the most powerful
leader in Tripoli. He says that he will be-
come an Englishman and that you shall
walk the streets unveiled. He says you are
his graceful heron, and that he loves you."
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"0, it is useless," cried Peggy, a pang
at her heart as she thought of the man's
evident devotion. She felt sure now that
the money had gone to grease the palms
of the little secretary, and that Osman
was ignorant of it. However, there was
nothing to be done — and, indeed, she
thought little enough of the money now.
The sheikh said nothing when the sec-
retary had translated. For one moment
Peggy was conscious of a stunning fear
that he would change his decision. And
the thought of the consequence rose like
a black fog between herself and Jim. But
after an instant's hesitation they continued
their journey. Now they were approach-
ing the open country and the desert wind
beat on their faces. Then came the last
danger. The figure of a sentry rose before
their eyes, he shouted sharply and raised
his bayonet. But the sheikh answered the
challenge with the countersign and the
man stood at attention silently.
They were past him ; the town, with its
oases and canals, lay in the distance be-
hind them. They trod the desert stone,
with its cover of shifting sand. In the
east dipped the Bear, as if it guarded the
English camp far away. Peggy was afraid
that sentries would be posted about the
machines. But whether or not the towns-
people had examined them that day, they
had scurried back before the curfew hour,
and the automobiles remained uninjured
where they had been abandoned. The
truck was still full of the gasoline cans.
Peggy felt faint with the reaction from
her experiences.
"I shall never forget— tell the sheikli that
I shall never forget," she said to the little
secretary. "And tell him that — that I'm
sorry I called him a — a black man."
.The secretary translated and again
Peggy thought she saw a flicker of humor
upon the sheikh's face. Peggy got into the
automobile and they followed her, taking
their seats on her left side.
The gasoline tank had been filled half
an hour before the hostile raid from Biskra.
The machine began to move. It shot for-
ward, the heavy auto truck lumbering
after it. Now they were clear of Biskra
and all its dangers. Now^ Jim, who had
been no more than a wild hope, even after
Peggy left the prison, rose clearly into her
mind again. What was he doing that very'
night in far away Stamford, she wondered?
She could let her thoughts dwell upon
him now as the machine reeled off mile
after mile, her hands automatically steer-
ing it toward the bend of the Bear, which
the secretary had indicated to her as their
destination. She felt the free wind on her
face, she breathed more and more deeply,
as if she were expelling the terrors of
the past twenty-four hours and even now
tasted the sweet airs of her own country,
laden with salt from Long Island Sound.
The hours flew away like minutes. Peggy
might have gone on till morning, but the
secretary suddenly clutched her by the arm
and pointed.
Far away, under the moonlight, she saw
a black blur upon the face of the desert.
"There is England," he said.
And never had the word sounded so
sweet. Peggy turned the machine. The
blur grew larger. Suddenly a sentry
leaped up from the desert.
"Halt! Who goes there?" he challenged.
"Newmarket!" called the little secre-
tary.
"Pass Newmarket, and all's well!"
They had left the outpost behind. They
saw the long line of white tents before
them. A .sentry sprang forward from the
guard-tent. Peggy drew up. The coun-
tersign was given and taken and the three
waited.
Presently a tall man in uniform strolled
out of a tent, came up to them, stared into
the sheikh's face, .and held out his hand.
"Fanshawe!" he cried, pumping the
sheikh's hand vigorously. "Where the devil
tlo you come from?"
"Hush !" said the other mockingly. "I
didn't mean to break the news so sud-
denly. I've just brought back Miss Peggy
Roche, the blockade runner, with that
armored auto and the truckful of gasoline
I spoke about."
And that time Peggy really lost her tem-
per.
"They were all English spies?" she
asked incredulously, when, on the next day,
having accepted the inevitable, she sat
down to mess with Fanshawe, the secre-
tary and the rest of the oflicers.
"Not exactly spies," answered Fan-
shawe. "That little secretary to the Turk-
ish governor at Ghaza arranged your
route to Biskra for us, but Mazri Pasha
was a loyal Turk ; he didn't know it had
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The Progress of Pauline
A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE
GIRL WHO GRACES THE COVER
THE words accompanying this
optic music really ought to
be a hymn of praise for Loretta
E. Frederick, the very remarkable
mother of a remarkable daughter
whose visage, in the pastels of
Miss McMein, lured you within
these leaves of laughter and
learning. Mrs. Frederick is not
only an adroit and suave business
manager for her actress child, but
she has preserved a complete
photographic record of her child's
distinguished career. No matter
what fame a celebrity achieves, his
or her folks usually gasp with
self-satisfaction when a single kid
daguerreotype is unearthed after
weeks of searching. Frequently
'there is no visual remembrance of
the growing child ; no arresting
forever, upon film or plate, the
fleeting features of adolescence.
Is Boston proudest of its tea-
party, or that it served as the
birthplace of Pauline Frederick?
However — she was born there,
grew up there, went to school
there.
She is unique among photoplay
celebrities in that she does not
hop about from company to com-
pany, seeking a change of air or
greenbacks every few weeks. Her
entire picture service has been
with Famous Players.
The picture at the left is one of
her favorite portraits. It shows
her in her role in Henri Bern-
stein's play, "Samson," which
served William Gillette as a
stellar vehicle at New York's
Criterion theater. Miss Fred-
erick, Miss Constance Collier, Mr.
Gillette and Arthur Byron were a
never-to-be-forgotten quartette in
this emotional study of a dock-
hand who grew to a kingship in
French business.
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Down in the left corner is Miss \
Pauline Frederick at the age of l
fourteen montlis. Also on this j
base-line we find her at the ripe
age of four and one- half years. \
boston child that she is, we should |
say that this picture declares plenty \
of beans and not too much erudi- j
tion. In the circle at the top of i
the page her girlishness is bloom-
ing into thesojt contours of youth: i
she is fourteen years old. Now for I
a leap from home to profession: |
the large photograph in the even-
ing gown, at the left, shows her as
she appeared with Lew Fields, in
"It Happened in Nordland, " while '■
the large head, \
below, is a study
made during
one of her early j
Frohman en- \
gagements. \
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69
Here she is, in her very first big
hat! And she's six years old.
In the large oval is a photograph
made at the age of seventeen, at
the time of her first appearance on
the legitimate stage. In the small
circle, below, is a singular picture
from her musical comedy days.
The large head glimpses her as
a chorus girl in "Rogers Brothers
in Harvard. " The corner embrace
ivas excised from Patterson's news-
paper play, " The Fourth Estate. "
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The large picture shows
Miss Frederick as she ap-
peared in the Frohman
revival oj " The Paper
Chase." Below, her con-
cluding stage role, in Broad-
hurst's play, "Innocent. "
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by Wliile
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J Marse Connelly
To any man or woman who has seen his
unforgettable depiction of the decayed
Southern gentleman in "Marse Covington,"
Edward J. Connelly will always be "Marse."
The finest brief drama George Ade ever wrote
had the additional advantage of an extraordi-
nary character actor, and between author
and interpreter "Marse Covington"
made history.
Connelly has a knack for mezzotint.
A role in his hands is a thing to be
examined miscroscopicatly from every
angle, and finally, in realization, to
be supplied with lights and shadow-s
from the lamp of reality in such
measure that the character is fre-
quently more human than a living
man would be in the same circum-
stances.
Mr. Connelly's motion picture
enterprises to date include "A
Good Little Devil." "Shore Acres,"
"Marse Covington." Thomas H.
Ince's production of
Devil." and
ber of pro-
leases.
Mr. Connelly in
"The Great Secret, ' '
"The
a num
gram re-
now appear
i n g in the
Metro serial,
"The Great Secret
To list
tlie Con-
Mr. Connelly as
Marse Covington; at
the left, with Rhea
Mitchell in
"The Devil."
nelly performances in the theater
would require a chaptered story, as he
is one of the playhou-se's most distinguished
servants.
WHENEVER Gladys Brockwell has
nothing else to do, she unlocks her
typewriter garage, leads forth her
trained Underwood, or Oliver, or Rem-
ington, or whatever make it is, speaks a
few kind words to it and begins operations.
The result is usually a letter of some sort.
Miss Brockwell's friends know who her let-
ters are from before they open the envelope,
owing to her original technique ; and we
have it on good authority that
epistles bearing the Brockwell brand are
in such demand that the fair actress-author
is "breaking in" her mother, so that she
can "double" her in the "in reply to yours"
stunt.
Which l)rings us to the subject of the
Brockwell parent who is co-starred in this
brief ceremony. An unusual feature of the
Brockwell familv annals is the slight <hf
f erence i n
the ages of mother and
daughter. In this respect they are unique
in stage and screen personalities.
There is only thirteen years difference
between Miss Brockwell and her mother.
"Billie" Brockwell. as she was known in
her days on the stage. Mother "Billie"
was married at the rather early age of
twelve and Gladys hove into view soon after
she had celebrated her thirteenth birthday.
Ever since that time,
from which they date their
friendship, Billie and Gladys have been
pals. No one not in the secret would as-
sume that they were other than sisters,
although those who know them declare
facetiously that they are more like friends.
Mrs. Brockwell is first aid to her tal-
ented daughter in the dressing room as well
as in the study, and the latter relies on her
mother's judgment in business transactions.
Arline Pretty Was Born That Way
By Gary Dowling
YES, all you wise ones, who wonder
what are the real names of Blanche
Sweet, and Bessie Love, and June
Caprice — Arline Pretty has always l)een
Arline Pretty, ever since September 5. 1893,
Washington. D. C. The name was not
adopted by lier. nor was it wished upon her
for motion
picture ad-
V e r 1 1 s 1 n g
purposes b y
an admiring em-
ployer. Pretty she was, and pretty she is,
and now she's almost sorry she didn't take
some other name.
"You see," she complains, "hardly any-
body believes it's my own parental name,
brought over from England — no, not on
the Mayflower, I think it was a Cunarder
— but that was before my time. They think I
picked it for myself, and while it is a perfectly
good name, and well behaved ever since I first
became acquainted with it, still for one to select
it for one's self sounds like an overdose of that
vanity that the preacher said his 'thus saith'
about."
\\'e mildly called attention to the fact that
truth is unhurt by criticism, but were waved
aside in the very positive manner that is JMiss
Pretty's most charming characteristic.
"Prettiness," she said, in a way that promised
an epigram and caiised us to reach for our
pencil, "prettiness is such a handicap to intel-
ligence.
"Come again,'" we pleaded, in our low-
brow way.
Arline was patient with us.
"If you are pretty," she explained, "the
clever men you would like to talk to, only
want to flirt with you. and the clever women
are jealous of you. If you have any intel-
ligence, you are mentally marooned."
"Are vou'mentallv marooned?" we
"Ah, but I'm not intelligent,"
ountered.
P"ar be it from us to contradict
a lady, but if Arline Pretty is not
intelligent, she's clever enough to
conceal the fact.
After leaving,
school. Miss
Pretty ob-
tained an en-
gagement with
a stock com-
pany, not with-
out c e r-
tain par-
ental pro-
tests.
And now
Douglas
F a i r -
banks is
usin<T her
to embel-
lish his
produc-
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Who's Whose
WHEN THE LAMPS ARE
FOCUS5ED ON THE
DINNER-TABLES. IN-
STEAD OF ON THE SETS
H
ERE is a pictorial record
of a few photoplay ro-
mances that didn't end
when the camera man ceased
cranking. The license clerk and
the preacher did a little scenario
work here. These couples solved
the independence of the sexes,
economically, before marriage,
and their hearths are little altars
to prove that a woman doesn't
always marry for a home, and
tliat a man doesn't alzvays wed
to get a cook, house-keeper andsock-darner. Eacli
was an independent factor in the workaday
world of the arts, and the work of eaclipair has
been in some measure allied siiK c the weddinirdav.
At the right, the
famous Orientals,
Sessue and Mrs.
Tsuru Aoki-
Hayakawa.
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Gerda and
Rapley Holmes
Who's Whose
There's a Mrs. Ford
Sterling: right here—
see — Teddy Sampson
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Ann Little and her
husband,
Alan Forrest.
EVERY time I see Dave Powell on the
screen, I think of the British Army.
At that, I don't know that he's ever
been in the British Army. I don't
believe he's had time. He has
spent too many years on the
stage to allow for any military
service in his not over-long
career, yet he is
pre-eminently the officer
type you'll find today in
the Somme trenches, or
mentioned for conspicu-
ous bravery and an order
in the IVestininster Gazette
or — none too rarely — pic-
tured briefly on the regular
page of fallen heroes in the
Graphic. He has the same in
nate gentility, the same lithe
leanness and smart carriage, the
same sensitive mouth, mobile
face and inflexible .eyes that
mark the fine young British
aristocrat as he crosses the Chan-
nel these days to glory, fire and
death.
Which rhapsody may be concluded
by saying that Powell is an English-
man, just as he appears to be.
What is more to the point is that
he is a faultless photoplay leading
man and an adorable villain, and in
the last two years has caused as mucli
palpitation of the heart in the dark
show-shops as any celluloid gentle-
man you might summon to the bar.
Answering the overwhelmingly impor-
tant question first: No, Genevive, Myrtil,
Justine, Chrysjobel, Denise, Charmion,
Helene, Rhoda, Phrynne, Ahnetah, Mar-
got, Clo-Clo, Jou-Jou and Sara, Mr. Powell
is 71 ot married. Probably because he never
saw you.
However, you are spared a lot of pain
because you cannot hear him speak. He
has a voice like music out of a steel 'cello.
If I were a girl, I could go perfectly mad
over his voice. Pray always just to see his
shadow ; then you'll continue to sleep
nights.
Mr. Powell is a bachelor in a New York
bachelor apartment, leading as honest a
life as any wholesale heart-burglar may.
"I have five perfectly tame hobbies," said
he, when told that the queen of Cleveland
and the countess of Kansas had resolved not
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With Billie Burke,
in "Gloria's
Romance. "
to breathe again ^
until the news was 1
l)rought them. "These: Photography, gar-
dening (when I get tiie chance), golf, plan-
ning the bungalow I'm always expecting to
build in the mountains, and collecting
books."
Mr. Powell has been on the stage about
ten years, and came to America seven years
ago with Ellen Terry, who was presenting
a poor but rather interesting play, "The
Good Hope." For three seasons Powell
played the artist with Forbes-Robertson, in
POWELL,
The Military
Heart-Burglar
By Julian Johnson
With Mary Pickford, in "Less Than the Dust.
"The Passing of the Third Floor Back."
Then he made a great success in the one-act
plays of New York's Princess Theatre, and
enacted IVu Hii Git, the Chinese lover of
"The Yellow Jacket."
His debut before the camera was made a
couple of seasons ago with Famous Plavers.
Here he appeared in "The Fatal Card,"
with Tohn Mason and Hazel Dawn, and in
A portrait
Dawn of A Tomorrow," with
■^ickford.
nsuing parts and plays in
which you may remember him
. were "Fine Feathers,"
1 with Janet Beecher ; the
hero of "Less Than the
^ Dust," with Mary
Pickford ; the too-en-
gaging villain of
"(iloria's Romance,"
with Billie Burke, and
the leading part of
"The Price She Paid," with Clara Kimball
Young.
At the moment Mr. Powell is at work in
"Outcast," supporting Ann Murdock.
He will appear in a number of other
plays in this series, which is made up from
the list of the late Charles Frohman's pro-
ductions during his latter years and which
have not as yet been photographed.
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Mary Anderson of the
MARY ANDERSON ! She catapulted
right at you out of her shacky look-
ing background, that brilliant
California-Hollywood day, even while you
were trying to make up your mind whether
that classic name, bestowed on a fluif'y
pink-and-white ingenue, was an asset or a
liability.
Of course you knew the shacky looking
background was the Vitagraph dressing
rooms, but that didn't spoil it at all
The fact remained that Maw
Anderson ran toward you.
all raggedy and with the
light through her
hair, just as she
has run
NAMESAKE OF FAMOUS
STAGE ACTRESS IS NOT AMBI-
TIOUS TO PLAY VAMPIRES
AND HUSH! SHE'S MARRIED
By
Grace
Kingsley
This musical
instrument is
the son of a
banjo and a
ukelele.
toward you a
dozen times on the
screen, but colorful
and radiant, with tiny
freckles peppered over
nose and cheek and
bosom.
If you know Mary Pick-
ford, you find that Mary
Anderson off the screen look
and behaves more as Mary
Pickford looks and behaves on
the screen, than Mary Pickford
herself looks and behaves off the
screen — get me?
And her life — is exactly like the
charming little ingenue's in the first
reel, before the villain and other dread- W
ful things begin to happen to her. She's ^j^
awfully happy, oh, my,'»yes, acting and ^^
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I
Films
swimming and
driving her car
and every-
thing.
Philosophy?
Sunny variety.
She has ex-
actly w hat
she wants in
every way.
Not, "I want
what I want
when I want
it," is Mary's
motto, but —
"I want what
I want when
I get it!"
Doesn't
look as if she
owned a Japa-
nese maid,
either, but she
does. At least
she's as Japa-
nese as Mary
will let her
Miss Anderson has just become Antonio
Moreno's leading ivoman — did you know
that? — and she's proudly pointing him out
to the beloved Airedale.
be. Inwardly of course she's all
oriental, but this doesn't trouble Miss
Anderson. It's the decorative phase that
interests Mary.
"I let her remain Japanese as to san-
dals and hair-do ; otherwise she's high-
heeled, capped and Frenchy. She
N doesn't seem to mind, except of
course the corsets. And now I
■ simply have to have a house to put
\ her in — a flat makes her look too
pinched. Saw a lovely house in
tlie mission style the other da}^
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have been madness to pay off then, so we
held on everything and drove ahead. As
we sank in the trough, there came a grind-
ing jar, a horrid shudder through every
nerve and fiber of the schooner which
seemed to communicate itself to our own
quivering tissues. Then we rose again and
shot through the boiling brine and the next
moment found ourselves in comparatively
quiet, streaky water, while the force of the
wind seemed suddenly to abate.
It was sufficiently apparent that we had
touched ; not struck precisely, but rubbed
along the reef, and knowing the fragile
condition of the schooner. I feared the
worst. So slight had been the contact that
a staunch and solid vessel would have suf-
fered no more than the stripping of some
copper, but the old Cin-r was in no shape
for such rough handling. I slipped below,
wrenched up the pantry hatch to the cabin
hoi a where our stores were kept and
listened. Splashing sounds from all about
confirmed my fears. The water was pour-
ing into her through a multitude of open
seams. The rotten fasteners had not stood
the strain and now we had opened up and
our remaining afloat was probably a ques-
tion of minutes.
Fortunately, the squall had driven past
and the wind was rapidly lightening. I
sprang on deck, ordered four hands to the
pumps and the others to get the boats over,
two whaleboats and a big, roomy cutter.
The cook and steward I set to work getting
up stores from below. The rain had
stopped and my three guests were standing
in the waist, a little pale but quiet and
expectant.
"We've got to leave her," said I. "She's
rubbed across a sunken reef and started all
her seams. There is no danger, as we are
only about twenty-five miles from Tro-
cadero, and the worst that can happen to
us is our being marooned for a few weeks
until the boats can fetch Kialu and send a
vessel to us. So look sharp, please, and
get your things up as quickly#as possible."
""THE old Circe went to her ocean grave
in leisurely fashion. Long before she
was dangerously deep we had the boats
deep-laden with all that I could imagine
we might possibly need. There were stores
and tools and weapons and clothing and
fish-lines and even a seine net. No casta-
ways were ever possibly better equipped
than we. Even the galley range was in-
cluded in our impedimenta, as well as the
spring cots from the staterooms. My plan
was to land as much stuff as we could carrv
and then, keeping the hands ashore onh
long enough to construct our camp, to
despatch them in the two boats for Kialu,
where trading schoooners called every other
month or so. The voyage would be safe
enough at that season and I did not see the
necessity for keeping any of the crew upon
the island, as we should be quite well able
to do for ourselves and the fewer mouths
to feed the better. It seemed to me also
much l)etter to have my guests remain com-
fortably sitting on Trocadero than to
subject them to the discomforts of a pos-
sible fortnight's voyage in an open boat.
In fact, I could not picture Enid living and
moving and having her being under such
conditions and it would have been cruelty to
subject her to them.
Of course, I might at least have kept
the cook to do for us, but I reasoned that
the most trying ordeal we should have to
face would be the monotony and that the
necessity of providing for ourselves must
needs furnish healthy occupation. So I
decided to ship off the cook with the others,
on the plea that the date of our relief was
indefinite and that we might have use for
all of our stores and even more by the
time that a vessel could be sent to take
us oft". Besides the Circe, our own fleet
at Kialu consisted of two thirty-ton yawls
and a forty-ton ketch, all three working
boats with little boxes of cabins, smelly and
carrying a full complement of cockroaches ;
thus in no sense available for the transpor-
tation of shipwrecked ladies requiring at
least one hundred cubic yards of sterilized
privacy per capita. Wherefore, it might
prove necessary for us to wait as much as
a couple of months on Trocadero.
All of this I explained to my guests
after we had embarked in the cutter, the
Circe being by that time heavy with her
impending doom. They quietly approved
the decision with no particular comment.
Even the garrulous bishop seemed subdued,
not from dread of the future but because of
a certain solemnitv attached to the passing
of a fine, almost living fabric wrought of
human brain and hand. We were com-
pelled to assist at these last funeral rites of
the Circe because the boats were so heaping
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83
full of miscellaneous duffle that we could
not row, but were dependent on our sails.
Of course, if the weather had turned nasty,
we should have jettisoned the bulk of this
dunnage, but as it was, the passing squall
which had killed the Circe had also killed
the breeze, so that we drifted idly about
with slack canvas, waiting for it to return
to us and watching with few words the
dignified departure from our midst of the
suffocating vessel.
This overtook her proudly erect with a
faint air aloft caressing burgee and pen-
nant, while the ensign which I had felt it
was her due to carry to the depths kissed
the peak of the mainsail as if in farewell.
The Circe settled upon an even keel and
two or three little ripples even tripped
comfortingly across her decks, as if to as-
sure them that it was not so very bad
on the bright corral bottom below. Then
straight down she went with no gesture of
despair from high-flung bow or stern, and
the smooth line of the sea ran swiftly and
mercifully up her high sails and thence
to maintopmast truck with its brave flirker-
ing pennant, as the Pacific took her.
A FTFIR the brief silence of respect
^"^ which is due such moments, I said to
Alice Stormsby (for I might as well com-
mence here, to call her thus) : "There goes
the innocent victim of two human errors in
the juxtaposition of alien bodies ; that of
her builder in bringing copper in contact
with steel, and that of her owner in bring-
ing a keel in contact with a coral reef."
"It was not your fault," she answered.
"Nobody could see anything in that blind-
ing sc]uall and we appeared to be miles and
miles from the land. Was she insured?"
"No," I answered, "but it does not
matter. I i)ought her for a song and she
has paid her shot five times over. Requi-
escat in pace."
The bishop appeared to rouse himself
from his abstraction with a galvanic jerk,
something like a scalded .'possum. He
blinked at me benignantly.
"I must say, you take it like a sportsman,
my dear Jack," said he. (He found the
situation such as to warrant this familiarity
of address.) If it were not for your loss,
I should regard this in the nature of a rare
and valuable experience. We came out here
for the sake of knowing the Pacific inti-
mately and, by George, we appear to be
succeeding. There, now ..." his face
fell and he looked at me, reproachfully,
"why didn't some of you remind me to get
some snapshots?"
"Your niece has not neglected the oppor-
tunity," I said, and got from Enid one of
her odd, antagonistic looks. As we were
all busy in the work of abandoning ship,
I had observed her recording our manoeu-
vres in her little camera and wondered why
she seemed to be so furtive about it, as
though expecting arrest and confiscation of
the box. Her stealth had roused in me a
sort of irritation, as it seemed to imply that
I might resent the sacrilege of photograph-
ing the death agonies of an old and faithful
servitor. Did the little fool think me that
sort of sentimental idiot? What did I care
about the nail-sick old Circe beyond the
slight matter of her intrinsic value? And
it was all the more vexing to be forced to
admit to myself that I had a lump in my
throat when the brine enveloped her.
CHAPTER III
'T'HE breeze came presently, ahead at
'• first, but soon hauling fair, and we
stood away for Trocadero, our less heavily
laden cutter in the lead and the whaleboats,
their gunnels nearly awash, trailing along
in our wake. The smarter sailer of the
pair was towing a spinnaker boom (we
clung to yatching tricks abroad the decrepit
Circe) which I thought might be useful
in the construction of a solidly stayed and
well-built bungalow, for I meant that my
guests should have, during their sojourn on
Trocadero, the comfortable boredom which
was their due. Otherwise, after the man-
ner of tourists, they might have felt them-
selves justified in filing a complaint against
the Pacific as an untrustworthy arc of the
world's circumference and myself as a
negligent custodian of my part of it.
The interment (only it was water) of
the Circe had occurred at eleven a. m. and
we had quit her at midday. About four
hours later, the trade picked up its care-
lessly dropped stitch and tried to compen-
sate for its lapse of regularity by jamming
us on Trocadero as fast as safety would
permit, and a little more. We sighted the
almost twin towers against a burnt orange
sky at three o'clock and the concave facade
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A good-looking girl can tell a
poor joke and get a big laugh; a
good joke told by a good-looking
girl creates an uproar — ergo, a
good joke told by a lot of good-
looking girls should start a riot-
>
The "Follies"
By Alfred
ONCE upon a time a psycholog-
ical explorer discovered the
tired business man and doped
out a cure for his pernicious malady.
The tired business man was restored
to his normal wakefulness and the in-
ventor of the process was made rich
in worldly goods. The cure is spoken
of as The Follies, conducted by Dr.
J-'. Ziegfeld.
Wliile the curative powers of this
wonderful panacea were marvelous,
their scope was restricted to the ca-
pacity of one theater. They didn't
cover enough territory, as it were, and
consequently there were tired business
men in cities other than New York
who did not have access to this mar-
Let's use, to illustrate our argu-
ment, two of the best tonics in
Pr. Ziegfeld's patent medicine
rabinet: iiith the tricolor of our
new ally. Miss Kay Laurell im-
personates "La Patrie," with a
chair, and nature.
Miss Lucille Cav-
anaugh imperson-
ates Miss Lucille
Cavanaugh.
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Photo by White
84
of the Screen
A. Cohn
vlIous pep restorer. And besides, there
were tired teamsters and wearied agri-
culturists and exhausted chauifeurs and
worn out weavers and hosts of other
sul)normal beings to whom this form of
optical treatment was inaccessible.
To these classes and masses have come
the Screen Follies. To the moving pic-
ture, the aforementioned hordes owe
their salvation.
Keystone has become the silent
Follies, a gradual evolution from slap-
stick histrionism and pastry drama into
something inlinitelv more eve-lillin
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The "Follies" of the Screen
^ L^
attiring himself in other than
ordinary garb to take his opti-
cal treatment of the Screen Fol-
lies in his own little cinema. So
much for a few necessary com-
parisons. More anon.
Here briefly is the big idea be-
hind the Screen Follies :
A good looking girl can tell a
poor joke and get
a big laugh : a
Above, catcher
Juanita Hansen
touches Miss
Thurynan out, in a
seaside game. Right, the
Key st one queen ivho^e
throne never totters :
Mabel Normand.
good joke told by a
good looking girl creates
an uproar. Ergo, a lot of
good looking girls telling it
ought to start a riot.
Like the development of other great
ideas, the process of evolution was slow.
For a long time pie was supreme. In those
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OUR SURVEYOR'S OFFICIAL RE-
THE FOREMOST PHOTO-
Xeck 13 in.
Bust 36 in.
Waist 26 in.
Hips 36 in.
Thigh 20 in.
Except for wrist and
inents.MissThurman's
classical
'I
(lays a corps of com-
ical cops did most of
the parading in these
pastry pastimes. In the be-
ginning one pretty girl had to
compete with the pie as the chief
eye-filler. Nowadays a bevy of
beautiful maidens has u.surped
the chief functions of the pseudo-
policemen,. who are merelv
incidental. The
labor consumed
ing soft pies ha
turned to
making one-
piece bath-
ing suits
and half-
portion ^
gymnasium suits and mere
veiled suggestions for nature
(lances. The thrill of the
wild chase and the ter-
rific tumble has given
way to the more subtle
exhilaration that is
evoked by youth and
beauty and physical
loveliness. Of
course there is a plot
so tiiat there is
Miss Vera Maxwell, of the present-in-
person "Follies," is asking you how
you like the costume Raphael Kirchner
designed for her on a dizzy day when
he didn't know whether it
was September or May.
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89
PORT ON MARY THURMAN,
PLAY SHOW-GIRL
Calf 13 in.
Ankle 9 in.
Wrist 6 in.
Forearm .... 8 in.
Upper Arm. . 9 in.
ankle measure-
lines approximate
perfection.
s o m e t h i n g
press
about, and some funny
situations so that it can
still be properly desig
nated as a "comedy."
But any sort of analy-
sis will show an assay
of 99 per cent girl.
And here's where
we come to tlie sort of
girl she is, this till
Miss Louise Fazenda,
of the celluloid chorus,
cavorts as a somewhat
ballerina. On both
pages you will observe a
background of Mary
Thurman, heartily
engaged in the gym-
nasium exercises at
which she is more
proficient than
most male athletes
of the Film Follies. (In deference to the tired tiller, it ma\-
be stated that fillc is French, or, something, for daughter,
and not slang for chicken.)
Of necessity she must be young and pretty. Younger,
possibly, than her sister of the stage Follies and flawless of
skin, for old man camera is merciless. (Urease paint and
other esoteric appurtenances expertly ap-
plied will make a beauty out of just an
ordinary "looker" behind the foot-
lights. When she goes to the photog-
rapher lie finishes the job of making
her a "beauty" by snipping some of
the pug off her nose, eliminating
the squint in lier left eye and iron-
ing out the crow's feet.
It is a well authenticated fact
that, if motion picture films were re-
touched, the production of photo-
plays would be reduced 82% per
cent. That being out of the
question, there can be no s}m-
tlietic beauty applied to film
art. It has to be the real
thing. Many a famed
beauty has "got by"
with the public until
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the fifteen or twenty times enlargment shot
out of the projection machine onto the
screen makes her forehead look like the
Grand Canon of the Colorado and her
cheek like a relief map of the Verdun front.
And the candidates for the Screen Fol-
lies— once they are admitted into full
membership because of their youth and
beauty and grace — must "keep fit;" other-
wise they lose the only assets which con-
tribute to screen success. Rouge and a
lipstick, aided by tricks with electricity.
might convince a stage audience that she
had enough sleep the night before, but
they wouldn't fool the camera. Youth
retires in confusion before the advance of
General Dissipation and tiever "comes
back."
Most of the Screen Follies girls are
athletes of some persuasion or other, but
nearly every one of them is an expert
swimmer. One of them, Mary Thurman.
whose pictures may be seen nearby with
the aid of a microscope, is an all-
around track and field athlete as well as
expert in all aquatic sports. Aileen Allen,
another, holds most of the fancy diving
championships on the Pacific Coast and in
Hawaii.
But while athletics are indulged in gen-
erally as an aid to physical beauty and
perfection, no gymnastic prescription has
ever been provided that has proved any-
thing like infallible. And of course, every
girl will ask :
How do they keep in condition?
Well, according to Mary Thurman. there
is only one program of physical treatment
that is effective as a general rule — just
bending, tensing and stretching exercises.
As for dieting, this queen of the Screen
Follies doesn't think must of any digestive
program.
However, for the benefit of those who
think they might find improvement by fol-
lowing her example, she is willing to
divulge her secret ; viz :
Eat a very light breakfast.
Eat a very light luncheon — just a sand-
wich.
Eat no dinner when tired.
There you are ! Many a poor shopgirl
has followed the same program with no
idea of improving her beauty.
Oh, yes, there's another rule she follows
and it's the most important one too :
Never stay up later than nine o'clock
(night) more than once a week.
Isn't that just perfectly wonderful,
girls? Of course the old folks will perhaps
suc'cuml) to the shock when you announce
vour nine o'clock "retirement program, but
it won't be fatal.
In search of atmosphere, or something,
for this more-or-less story, the writer made
a little journey through the home of the
Screen Follies — the Keystone studio in
Los Angeles. There was a big squarely-
l)uilt fellow with an air of authority about
In'm conversing with a subordinate.
Suddenly the big fellow — it was Mack
Sennett — paused and looked at a sport-
suited youthful figure coming into the
angle of his vision.
"Gee!" he declared, with a humorous
assumption of enthusiasm, "there's a good-
looking girl ! How did she get into this
place?" '
It was a bit of kidding sarcasm intended
for the engaging director, but to the
casual observer threading his way through
masses of one-piece-bathing-suited water
sprites and more-abbreviated-gymnasium-
garbed gazelles, all young, it seemed like
poignantly unjust criticism.
Yet it indicates only slightly the genuine
demand for youth and beauty in this par-
ticular branch of moviedom.
"Really pretty girls, who photograph are
very hard to find," says Sennett. "Some-
times an extra girl comes in the gate and
we think we have discovered a wondrous
lieauty, only to learn from the screen that .
she is a pictorial impossibility. And there
is no way of making* her look like a beauty.
Many times, we have destroyed an entire
comedy because a girl upon whom we had
banked did not 'picture'."
Sennett declares that he is not a rival of
Mr. Ziegfeld. He admits, though, that
his object in life is much the same : fur-
nishing the champagne for the feast of
existence ; bringing surcease alike to the
tired highbrow and wearied lowbrow ;
making them forget for the time the more
sordid things of life, such' as birth control
films — both pro and con — wars and
politics, and the latest in the screen season's
white slave effects. Some day his press
agent will have him say :
"I care not who writes the nation's laws,
so long as I can screen their Follies."
The Shadow Sta^e
A Department of
Photoplay Review
By
Julian
Johnson
The last hour of
Sydney Carton.
NO mimic representation of life,
whether it be a laying-on of pig-
iwents or a carving of shadows, de-
serves to be called an art-work unless it
arouses thoughts beyond itself. Does it
slip the leash upon that dusky hound of
mystery, Imagination? In the degree in
which it appeals to Imagination, it is Art.
In the measure in which it suggests a
larger field of life than that its frame
encompasses, it is a triumph for its creator.
For these reasons "A Tale of Two
Cities," a Fox production directed by
Frank Lloyd, starring William Farnum, is
thr silversheet achievement of the month
concerning whose visual fictions I write.
As big plays most often do, it came sur-
prisingly as a shot from a dark doorway.
Lloyd was assuredly of no special emi-
nence ; William Farnum has achieved
celebrity and a fortune not as an actor of
characters but as a purveyor of William
Farnum ; Fox is an industrious wholesaler
of teary melodramas and vampires.
Lloyd permits Charles Dickens to re-
tain a bit of credit, and keeps his title.
Which was more than Henry Miller did,
in his play upon the same subject, for
Miller called his adaptation "The Only
Way."
Without renarrating in weaker and more
desultory language a famous stary, let us
say, for clarity, that it concerns the gigantic
comedy and tragedy of the French Revolu-
tion ; the love of Charles Darnay, even-
William Farnum in
'A Tale of Two Cities. '
tually heir of the hated Marquis St.
Evremonde, and the heroic self-sacrifice of
his physical double, Sydney Carton, an
Englishman.
Many as are the scenes of embattled
Paris, our spiritual vision strays beyond
the page. This is not merely a more-or-
less convincing prop replica of the Bastile,
shown by Mr. Lloyd : here are wider ave-
nues than the shaded medieval streets ;
these gaunt and fantastic people, yapping
at the heels of the Bourbon soldiery, are
more than a crowd of energetically-driven
supers. Almost as in the pages of Carlyle,
we feel ourselves swept on the crest of the
greatest awakening since Christianity.
Nor is this our genial friend William
Farnum. The curly-headed, large-armed
Bill disappears, and we are confronted by
two distinct personalities ; Darnay, the
suave and silent aristocrat, direct and ele-
gant as an arrow of silver in his discourse
and his lovemaking ; Carton, the rum-
wrecked genius, abased to a gutter hell by
his sloth and his appetite, fired with the
passion of heaven . bv the eyes of Lucie
Manette. Theoretically, Mr. Farnum is
bv no means the type for either Darnay
or Carton. In fact, he is a tremendous
realizer of both.
I wish the program gave us the name
of that fair victim of "Citizen" wrath who.
enroute in a tumbril with Carton to the
guillotine, looks into his eyes with the sun-
rise of eternity in her own, and asks only
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that he hold her hand to the foot of the
scaffold. In his treatment of this exquisite
un-named character, as in the thrilling
death-exit of the Royalists, who march
their ladies to the red cart with high-arched
hands and in the stately steps of a minuet,
Lloyd has approached the grandeur of true
classic tragedy. The stage, this year, has
nothing to offer which approaches the
splendor of humanity in these scenes ; and
indeed, in his ability to hurl his observers
head-foremost into an epoch, Lloyd re-
minds us of the gigantic power of Mr.
Grif^th, whose necromancy called back an
utterly forgotten civilization.
What an exquisite thing Jewel Carmen
is, in her flowerlike impersonation of Lucie !
She is her own first name. Charles Clary,
as the elder St. Evremonde, sums up his
Hohenzollern philosophy as he' watches
the death-struggles of a girl destroyed by
one of his kind: "What life these com-
mon bodies have !" Clary in his insolent
elegance and autocratic inhumanity could
not be bettered. Joseph Swickard is very
fine, too, as Dr. Alanette ; his is an imper-
sonation at moments of flashing contrasts,
and again, of pastel tint. A liit of tremen-
dous symbolism is supplied by Rosita
Morisini as Mme. Defarge. "the woman
who knits death." Great supporting val-
ues appear in the pictorial descriptions by
Ralph Lewis. Herschell Mayall. William
Clifford, Marc Robbins and Willard Louis.
Having created a marvellous mob. Lloyd
lapses strangely by letting them, assembled,
continually shake their hands or imple-
ments above their heads in no human wav.
Not even the members of a mob
do the same things ; their end
and larger movement may be
the same, but the physical
expression of each man is indi-
vidual. In his re-
markable court-room
scene, in which the
drunken "Citizen"
judge woos order with
a dinner bell. I think
Lloyd has permit
ted bits of gro-
t e s q u e r i e
which, while
not in t h e
least over-
drawn, are
viewed bv un-
Florence Reed, as Lncretia
thinking beholders as common attempts at
cheap comedy.
IN pictorially perpetuating George M.
Cohan, but one thing was necessary to
success : a transformation from sound to
motion of Cohan himself. Could the dryly
emotional drawl be photographed? Could
the camera catch the nervous Cohan force?
Could the transient stage energies of the
Yankee Doodle comedian be changed into
permanent picture energies? (In the whole,
would a George Cohan photoplay be a vol-
ley of Cohan, as is every Cohan footlight
venture ; or would it be an indifferent
motion picture, with the image but not the
presence of Cohan wandering in spectral
weariness through its scenes? Among the
people worried by this question. I feel that
the foremost was Mr. Cohan himself.
"Broadway Jones," his initial strip of
transparency, should make him as happy as
it is making thousands of his admirers.
George Cohan, not an acting illustration,
gets across the long-shot lamp to his be-
holders. It seems to me that at least a
pair of credits is due here ; one to Josef
Kaufman, who shows himself a director
not only forceful but thouglitful ; and one
to Mr. Cohan, who approached the camera
as he has approached every other venture
he has considered worth M-hile : with all
his energies, resources and enthusiasms,
and a determination to add a new province
to his empire of expression.
Do you remember the story of "Broad-
way Jones?" Old Andrew Jones, a wealthy
manufacturer of chewing-gum, in Ohio,
has a nephew and presumable heir so
thoroughly devoted to the New York
lie has never seen that he nicknames
himself "Broadway." Andrew the
ancient believes in let-
^^^^'?> ting everything that is
JlnL well enough alone, in-
' ' ''/ rluding a no-advertising
policy. On this rock he
and Broadway finally split,
and Broadwav, chaperoned
by a kindly advertiser
named Wallace, turns
toward the white
lights. He
spends what
he has, and
then, as the
Borgia in "The Eternal Sin. " immemorial
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prodigal, goes back to
the Buckeyes and picks
up the business where
his uncle, dying, laid
it down. He also adds
Josie Richards, the
sweet confidante and
secretary of his uncle,
to his list of life's
assets and liabilities.
But they spend their
honeymoon in New
Vork !
A detailed account
of Mr. Colian's origi-
nalities in any piece is
fully as enjoyable as
seeing a Cohan play
with Cohan's under-
study. Therefore, let
us advise a personal
glimpse, and refrain
from word-pictures.
Marguerite Snow, as
the gentle Josie. is, in
my opinion, playing
the best part of her
life. Ida Darling is
certainly doing this, as
Mrs. Gerard, the
widow who would en-
snare the grandoldflag boy of Broadway.
The subtitles are inimitable: written by
the thorough-going Cohan, they are as
descriptive as the best scenes. An astonish-
ing amount of real interior location is used.
"Broadway Jones" sags alarmingly in
reel IV, but speeds up at the finish.
A great man of the theatre, probal)ly
the greatest young man the theatre has,
has come to the screen with all his gifts
and all his enthusiasms, and he is going
to do as much for the screen as the screen
is doing for him. ^\'elcome, George M.
Cohan !
NT ( ) program photoplay produced last
•^ ^ month is more lightly, naturally
amusing than "The Dummy." Few equal
it. Here Jack Pickford proves that his
last name is not an implement necessary
to success. As Barney Cook, the dreamy
messenger boy who gets fired to live the
things he dreams about, he does not merelv
play a part : he gives a complete and con-
vincing characterization. "Pickford"" han-
dicapped Jack badly in the notices on this
George Cohan, as Broadway Jones, tries to convince his conservative
uncle of the value of advertising.
play, for if the end of his nomenclatory
handle had been Billings, or Brown, or
Baldwin, he would doubtless have been
hailed as a rarely gifted juvenile. But
what can any Pickford do to astonish us?
A super-excellent cast concurs in his efforts.
FMwin Stanley and Helen Greene play the
separating pair whose baby is stolen.
Allan Forrest is splendid as the young kid-
napper, and Ruby Hoffman swift and
adroit as the female captain of evil, while
the admirable Frank Losee is perfectly
cast as Babbings, the boss detective who is
Barney's idol. There has been a deal of
natural direction on the part of Francis
Grandon, and the nonchalant messenger's
assumption of dumbness as an aid to detec-
tion is convincing.
In "The Spirit of Romance" Vivian
Martin has been given a story which is
whimsical and fantastic without becoming
silly — an apparently impossible thing in
motion picture plots. In a sentence, it is
this : the determination of an eccentric
millionaire to feign departure from this life,
and yet witness his fortune being dispensed
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by a kindly little
girl who has com-
forted his gouty
years. Miss Martin
and Herbert Stand-
ing are the princi-
pal performers in a
smooth -running tale,
lifelike though de-
void of punch.
Would that there
were more photo-
plays of imagina-
tion such as "The
Bottle Imp !" Re-
member Stevenson's
fairy tale — how Lo-
paka, the poor fish-
erman desirous of
possessing Kokua as
a wife, is assisted
by an aged priest of
magic? The priest's
gift is a bottle con-
taining his own bewitched l)rother. This
brother can grant any wish, but he who
possesses the bottle at death will land in
hell ; and it cannot be given away, and
must always be sold, for a less amount.
Here is the basis of as fine a piece of
fantasy as the camera has given- us in
many months, and the story is magnificently
acted by Sessue Hayakawa — as Lopaka —
with Lehua Waipahu. a beautiful Hawaiian,
making a thrilling debut as Kokua. Mar-
shall Neilan directed. "The Bottle Imp"
is a ranking achievement photographically
and mechanically.
"Out of the Wreck" compels Kathlyn
Williams to swim through as heavy a tide
of melodrama as we have seen, even in
Foxy evenings. Our verdict on this piece
is that it is a well done thing not worth
doing at all.
"The Prison ^^'ithout Walls" is a varia-
tion of the Tom Brown theme made real
by Thomas Mott Osborne, and made fiction
by half the country's imagineers ever since.
Wallace Reid, Myrtle Stedman. William
Conklin and Billy Elmer participate.
Reid is indifferent. Miss Stedman and
Elmer are fairly real, and Conklin aston-
ishingly bad in make-up. It is distinctly
an underripe ofi^ering for the Laskv
orchard.
On the other hand — "As Men Love," an
offering in which Miss Stedman also ap-
Ediih Storey and
Antonio Moreno
in "Aladdin From
Broadway."
pears. Here is a
concise, logical,
carefully - written
play, fairly true to
the humanities, and
with a thoroughly
satisfactory ending.
Endings are the
weakest point for
attack in motion
picture construction,
for the average
author, having stuck
his head in a noose,
knows no way to ex-
tricate h i m self
except by illogically
cutting the rope.
This story of domes-
ticity and the fine
friendship between
two men, which the
wife of one of them
almost destroyed, is
well acted by a cast including Miss Sted-
man, House Peters, J. W. Johnston and
Helen Eddy. Lois Zellner is the author.
George Beban, forever in the pleasant
by-Avays of Latin character, wrote an en-
tertaining tale in "The Bond Between." It
is a story of novel art-thieves, the war, and
life in a French boarding house. But just
why Mr. Beban .should be so confoundedly
uncertain about the opening events of the
Oreat War, when these events are firmly
fixed in the mind of every little schoolboy
from San Diego to Saskatoon, we're at a
loss to know. Mr. Beban provides himself
a new study in Papa Duval, a lovable old
Frenchman. Donald Crisp directed.
1 THINK William S. Hart is Ince's best
bet this month, and the piece is "The
Square Deal Man." It is a fine type of
the simple, direct Western story : full of
red blood and swift action, rushing straight
to its dramatic point, and with a fair
amount of characterization. Mary Mclvor
is the lustre upon Bill's shield of sinew.
Isn't "Sweetheart of the Doomed" a
magnificent title? Sounds as if there were
a Rider Haggard story behind it. Yet
in this instance, the sweetheart is
a Parisienne of lively past, who, having
wrought a little red ruin in the French
army, is sentenced to comfort the final
hours of the Republic's soldiery by taking
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the place of wife, sweetheart or mother, as
the last suppliance may be. Not a bad idea,
but it is poorly worked out, with a Middle
■ West idea of France and things French.
and an absolutely insipid ending. The
mechanical detail — behind the lines with
Teuton and Gaul— is excellent; so is the
photography. Miss Glaum performs the
vampire of ultimate benevolence.
"The Dark Road" : a murky melodrama,
with Dorothy Dalton. The story falters
and falls, despite superb locations, mag-
nificent settings and the splendid photog-
raphy that Ince customarily lavishes on his
subjects.
"Blood Will Tell" : the chorus girl. Wall
street, and ticker stulT. If tickers were
high-angle mortars, this office could lay a
curtain of fire about Long Island. Wil-
liam Desmond and Enid Markey perform
in this distressingly commonplace sonata.
"LJKR Official Fathers," emanating from
Fine Arts studio during the last davs
of its independent existence, is the weak
gesture of a dying giant. It features
Dorothy Gish, in a play about a bank board
to whose members are left the custody and
upbringing of the daughter of a distin-
guished dead financier. The "busine,ss"
might be a bank or a peanut stand to judge
by its technique. The Taj-mahalish front
of one Qf tlie glittering Los Angeles sav-
ings banks is used, after which we see the
director's room, pre.sumably in the same
bank— a couple of flats, a cheap table and
a set of kitchen chairs. There is little
excuse for this sort of thing.
rjROPPING the junk problems of mod-
ern existence, Harold Lockwood and
May Allison, in Chambers' "The Hidden
Children," have been plunged into a sheer
romance for the like of which we must
turn to some of the popular stories by
Irving Bachellor. Laid in the middle
eastern country in Revolutionary times,
this account describes the varying fortunes
and delectable adventures of two children
deserted liy their mothers during an Indian
attack. No one ever accused Mr. Lock-
wood and Miss Allison of being realists,
hence the psychology of Loskiel and Lois,
in this sun-play, does not much concern us :
Harold Lockwood and May Allison
(in buckskin) in "The Hidden
Children."
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nevertheless, here is an
ideal narrative for
youthful enchantment
■ — one that we vi'ish, for
the sake of screen
health, might often be
paralleled — in whicli
the girl will find the
thrill of a particularly
impeded romance, wliile
the boy will live again
in the ruddy fresh air
days of our republic's
birth. After thousands
of feet of alleged male
brutes and mopey
"heroines," "The Hid-
den Children" is like a
cold' shower on a hot
day.
Olga Petrova is not
honored by her two
Metro vehicles this
month : "The Secret
of Eve," and "The Waiting Soul." The
first is the rambling annal of a synthetic
saint who finally chooses a life of sacrifice,
discovering her peace in helping others —
and she immediately pairs otf to make
a happy ending ! "The Waiting Soul"
might be entitled "Should a Woman
Tell?" It is just a piece of insincere
hypocrisy, built wide and loose for the
mentally corpulent. Our advice is for the
woman to keep still, because Avhat she
does tell is always very dreary and unin-
teresting.
Mabel Taliaferro, in "The Barricade."
No.
JWIEN and women do not always ask
logic in their entertainments. More
often, they demand in serious pieces' a rel-
ishable kick to the emotions, while, in such
laugh-fests as Chaplin's, does anyone stop
to think of common-sense? Under the first
class comes real melodrama of the old
order, with a three-sheeting of every com-
mon sentiment. So we approach "The
Whip," a crystallization of the spectacular
English play produced at New York's
Manhattan Operahouse late in 1912. It
is a story of the British race tracks, with
a heavy plot to keep a certain horse from
winning by any hazard, with every soul
deep black or pure white, and as a cul-
minating mechanical drive a great train-
..0^'
Louise Glaum
and Charles
Gun>t in
Siveetheart of the
Doomed. "
his people, but I
released bv him.
fused
//; re
wreck. "The Whip"
has every asset of speed,
variety, swift change
and barbed-wire com-
l)lication which made
for the success of the
early motion picture
spectacles. But it was
directed by Maurice
Tourneur, it was made
recently in a great stu-
dio, and over its rough-
and-ready "movie" so-
lidity has been poured
much of the pol-
ish and skillful
photographic ef-
fect of the genu-
i n e photoplay.
I'm a bit con-
as to who's who.
"The Whip." I
believe Brady did it.
for it contains many of
do not think it is being-
Concerned in this dem-
onstration are Irving Cummings, Warren
Cook, Dion Titheradge, Alma Hanlon and
June Elvidge.
"The Social Leper," "Forget-Me-Not,"
and "As Man Made Her." Isn't that a
trio of backstairs titles? Of these pieces
the last is the best. It features (iail Kane,
and while it is of the sordid sort relished
by tlie smirking pious, it contains certain
humanities which I suspect are more than
half due to the very excellent acting of
Frank Mills — truly a sterling player —
Edward Langford and Miss Kane ; though
as a purveyor of sincerity Miss Kane is
scarcely equal to the two men.
"Man's Woman," another World piece,
languishes for want of a reasonable plot.
In Miss Clayton and the company sur-
rounding her, Mr. Brady has an organiza-
tion of high potential in the modern things.
They should have real stuff, by all means.
p LADYS BROCKWELL lands many a
^-^ morl)id storv which would not pass
muster purveyed by women of less voltage.
Such a thing — which she jolts across merely
by sheer personality — is "The Price of Her
Soul." a gnawing treatise on the drug evil.
This play has been energetically produced
by Fox, with, a stout cast including Jack
Standing. Monroe Salisburv. and B. Keller.
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Theda Bara has had some pretty bad
plays, but without any doubt "Her Great-
est Love" is her worstest drama. The
piece is as saturated with real humanity as
Death Valley is saturated with water. Sup-
posed to be the hectic adventure of an
innocent in Russia, the play is as Russian
as a Russian costume at an amateur
masquerade. Miss Bara evinces a dreadful
desire to be funny — among other deterrents
which this collection of odd shots holds.
AY/HY must Anita Stewart, one of the
** greatest young emotional actresses
in the world, be wasted upon such a weak-
tea banality as "The More Excellent
Way?" As Chrissy Desselden, Miss Stewart
is attracted to Robert Neyland, a youngster
whose worst vice is hard liquor. Enter
then John Warliurton, her perfectly pure
and good guardian, of such chemical
sanctity that I hated him the minute he
stuck his face past the frame. P'ventually
(why not now?) Mr. Warburton com-
pletely vanquishes Mr. Neyland, who has
proved himself a dirty devil, manipulating
the Equitable building and juggling Wall
street just as they al-
ways do in pictures, to
overcome his stainless
foe. Neyland bumps
himself off. the middle-
aged guardian gathers
the glowing young pe-
tunia in his arms, and
we are quite sure that
such a set of fools can
really be happy ever
after. Charles Rich-
man does as well with
Warburton as any man
could ; and the excel-
lent cast includes
Charles A. Stevenson,
a great recruit frpm the
talkies. Rudolph
Cameron plays Ney-
land. The unforgive-
able part is that this
untruthful play was
written by a smart man
who knows better : Cy-
rus Townsend Bradv.
tagraph's preparedness film, is that it
has not one new idea, and is bound to-
gether, not in a great emotional band, but
as a loosely-tied collection of irrelated
melodramatic incidents which are at best
not very convincing. When the tremen-
dous plays and pictures of this war are
finally staged, it is probable . that the
tensest scenes will be far from the double
beat of the giant guns ; bloody action is,
in a way, its own anaesthetic ; real tragedy
and emotion's mighty convictions arise
where the peace of nature ironically accen-
tuates the wrack and storm of the human
heart. "Womanhood" is simply a whole-
sale melodrama in none of whose phases
has there been much ingenuity ; and in
some things, too little care. To it are given
such sterling players as Alice Joyce,
Harry Morey, Joseph Kilgour, Peggy
Hyland, James Morrison, Naomi Childers,
Mary Maurice and Templar Saxe. I am
not saying that "Womanliood" won't en-
tertain ; perhaps it will give you the
Spring's thrilling evening, but don't look
for another "Intolerance." In any event,
here is a pictorial "Wake up America!"
TTHE trouble wit h
•*■ "Womanhood, The
Glory of a Nation," Vi-
Jack Pickford and Ethel Mary Oakland in "The Dummy.
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DUT the best thing the Blacktonians
'-^ have done in a long, long time is a
real visualization of three of the inimitable
stories of O. Henry. Our first advice is
for a private showing of these photoplays,
every day for a week, to the regular Vita
graph scenariosmiths. Do you remember
O. Henry's "Past One at Rooney's," in
which the cheap crook and the public lad\'
meet, and, with souls glorified by love, try
to rise aiiove their pasts by lying to eacli
other? And then the moment in which
the policeman, recognizing the stick-up
man, starts to run him in — and is prevented
by the street-girl, who. desperately trying
to save her man, reveals herself for what
she is wlien she threatens to scjueal on the
bull for his graft? So simple is the plot
of a great human story. The other two
stories are the droll "Friends in Rosario."
so sly and incisive and pungent that it
might be a Balzac translation, and "The
Third Ingredient" — which same is a
humble onion, needed as the high explosive
in a beef stew. Mildred Manning is the
leading woman in this delightful trio.
Plays of reality, like these, are needed by
the screen as starving Belgium needs food.
The junk that clutters our silversheets can
never be swept away by goldplated actors
or lavish expenditure. Forever, the play's
the thing.
jV/JUTUAL'S new MacOowan series.
■*-"The Railroad Raiders," doesn't quite
live up to the en
chanted promise
of that incom-
parable first
chapter. Never-
theless, it is far
in advance of
other serial or
series pictures
M a c G 0 w a n
should keep
out of doors.
Chapter?
two and
three are
too much under a roof, and beneath
shingles MacGowan is as much at home as
an elephant at a five o'clock tea.
J
photoplay, "Sunny Jane," is a Sishop-
kinsish affair, diverting and pleasant,
though no deeper than a piece of tissue
paper. The one serious motif, Jane's
imaginative faculties, is directly reminiscent
of .\nita I.oos' "The T.ittle Liar."
"LlKiH Play" is the strong, brief
name of ^\'illiam Russell's current
and conventional melodrama, in which
Francelia Billington plays tlie feminiii'-
lead. It has l)een written with the .Russell
worshippers in mind, and i)eyond any
doulit is a pleasing optic meal for their
devoted consumption.
"lyioTHERHOOn." a Frank Powell
* production, will miss fire badly, now.
And. indeed, it should, for it is a smug.
diabetic preachment of .'Xmerica's insular
security, and it has a true Pharisaic windup
in which we thank God that we are not as
other lands are. All I can say of this is
that it will be a mournful sugar-plum for
the pacificists in hiding.
'■'"PHE Eternal Sin" is a glittering sepul-
chre. The play is Her-
)ert Brenon's visual
version of the storv of
T.ucretia Borgia, and
Brenon — or so it ap-
pears to me — makes
the cardinal mistake
of seeking to justifv
this monster of the
Middle Ages, instead
of using her as the
mere diabolic back-
ground for a
sweeter story
{Continued on
page 147)
Norma Talmadge and Chester Barnett in "The Law of Compensation.'
JIMMY FOUND THAT SCARLET WAS
NOT A GOOD COLOR FOR DOMESTIC
TRIMMINGS; THAT ONLY THE DELICATE
SHADES HELD ENDURING CHARM
The Girl at Home
By Constance Severance
about colleges?"
asked Squire Padgate. Then,
without waiting for the an-
swer he had not expected to
receive, he answered himself :
" 'Colleges,' says Ingersoll,
in a piece he wrote a 1) o u t
Abraham Lincoln, 'is places
where pebbles is polished
and diamonds is
dimmed.' "
"He said no such
thing!" returned Mary
Dexter, in flat denial.
"I can show it to ye."
"No, you can't show me in
the book. R. G. Ingersoll,
godless atheist that he was,
didn't use no such language,
just because he had been to
college. Maybe he said 'col-
leges are,' but I'm sure he
didn't say 'colleges is.' "
"Have it y o u r o w n
way," concluded Padgate,
in grumbling resignation.
"Out of your o w n
mouth" — Mrs. Dexter
pressed her flanking vic-
tory— "is the best argu-
ment I've heard yet for an
education for Jimmy.
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Jimmy's pa would have been a lawyer fa- for himself," as the Squire resolutely said,
mous all over the state if he'd had educa- He would have done either thing his
tion. As he was, he was never more'n mother asked, and his mother, facing their
justice of the peace." skimpy resources — not nearly so ample as
"I'm a justice of the peace. Do you she had led John Padgate to believe —
mean to say — " would have given in to this pressure had it
"I mean to say that Jimmy's going to not been for Jean,
college." "He must go to college, mother-Mary!"
"Have it your own way, Mary; but I whispered Jean, ecstatically. "We want
don't think you've got the means. You him to be the most wonderful man in the
can't figure down to the last cent on any world, don't we?"
proposition. There's always the extrys. "He is the most wonderful man in the
Now if any one o' you was to git sick — " world," contended his mother.
"We're a healthy lot, John Padgate — "I meant." interposed Jean, "we want to
and principally l)ecause we don't have none keep him so."
of those 'e.xtrys' in our lives." The romantic farewell of Jimmy and
In the small town in Jean took place, of course,
which they lived, the bash- the night before his early-
ful, hangfire romance of THE GIRL AT HOME" morning departure. But
John Padgate and Mary x JARRATED from the Lasky ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ °^^ "^^^^'
Dexter, fifteen y e a r s a 1\| photoplay of the same name for their town never had
widow, was as much a fix- hy George Middleton, which was an old mill ; nor in the
ture as any family. Pad- produced with the following cast : church-yard, for their
gate, gray and middle- Jimmy Dexter Jack Pickford church had no yard ; nor
aged, was expected to Jean Hilton Vivian Martin was it in the garden, for
"spark" Mrs. Dexter Diana Parrish Olga Gray the gardens thereabouts
through life ; the real sur- Afarv £i(?.ricr. . .Edythe Chapman contained no forget-me-
prise would have been the Squire Padgate James Neil! nots, but onions and pota-
license and the ring. toes and tomatoes, and he
There was no question would be a reckless Romeo
of Mrs. Dexter's affection. Her New Eng- indeed who ventured to plough up a fine
land stubbornness and pride postponed the hill of potatoes with amorously nervous feet,
nuptials. With the rent of a small farm. Yet, in the deepening twilight, under the
and the interest of a tiny sum well invested red glow from sunset clouds, Mrs. Dexter's
by the. town banker, she proposed to rear back porch was very beautiful, and mother
her boy to man's estate in complete inde- had discreetly retired to the front part of
pendence. When Jimmy was just disap- the house.
pearing into long trousers, the Hiltons, inti- "Jimmy," said Jean, not without some
mates of the Squire, died within three signs of jealousy, "will you ever think of
months of each other, leaving no relative me, with all tho.se city girls?"
save their sunny-haired daughter Jean. Be- "The real beauties of our musical come-
ing a Spartan bachelor, the dignified village dies and city avenues," returned Jimmy,
official — the Hiltons' executor — could not oratorically repeating a little thing he had
shelter Jean in his own chimney-corner, but read in the Sunday supplement the day be-
there was Mary Dexter's chimney-corner, fore, "are the girls from town and field —
and Jean's "keep" was a most welcome of which — of what you are whom- — one, I
asset in the running of the Dexter house- mean."
hold. "Yes, I read that too," murmured Jean,
Brothers and sisters most often dislike demurely,
each other, especially in the constant con- Despite Jimmy's dampened spirits at par-
flicts of selfish early youth ; but Jimmy was ticipated quotations, it was a very gentle
sixteen when Jean came to their house and and tender little hour, and before they went
Jean was sixteen too. and before long their in because of the chill and the dew, Jean's
love, though very secret and shy, was very eyes had bedewed Jimmy's neck a bit, and
real. Jimmy's lips had trembled chastely against
Now Jimmy, nearly nineteen, was ready hers in a promising kiss,
to enter college or to "be a man and shift But Jimmy had sparcely started his col-
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101
iegiate career when Squire Padgate's warn-
ing about 'figuring down to the last cent'
came home to Mrs. Dexter. Her principal
mortgage, because of high prices and hard
times, did not yield its return. All the rest
of her money was going to Jimmy. Now,
how was she to live?
Two years had passed since sixteen-year-
old Jean had come to Mrs. Dexter's house
and now, at eighteen, she had the disposi-
tion of her own small estate, which yielded
a little income. Jimmy's mother could not
be persuaded to take a cent of the girl's
money for herself. After much urging,
however, she did permit Jean to "loan a
bit of it to Jimmy," and of course this
was carried on without Jimmy's knowledge,
for he had been hardly prevailed upon to
take what he l)elieved was a casli surplus in
his mother's safe-deposit box.
Was there ever a boy who, among
spenders, didn't think it a family duty to
uphold a spender's reputation? Jimmy's
chosen institution of learning was a fresh-
water college of national insignificance,
but of grand pretensions. There were two
or three country bankers' sons, and a mine
owner's son, and, the son of the president
"Jimmy" said Jean, "tvill you ever think of me- with all those city girls?'
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of a small railway — boys who would not
have made a ripple on Michigan Boulevard,
or Fifth Avenue, or Broad Street — who in
the overgrown college village blazed with
the glitter of Coal Oil Johnny in tliat
almost unremembered kerosene king's torch-
ing-up of Broadway.
At home, Jean and Jimmy's mother dis-
pensed with the woman who "came twice a
week," even as they had long before dis-
pensed with a maid. Now, they did every-
thing, and Jean beheld her small fingers,
red and nail-broken, sometimes with tears,
oftener with glad smiles as she thought
of the purpose of the sacrifice.
Poker games were the order of
the evening at college, and fortu-
nately for Jean's wee roll, Jimmy
developed a deftness that made
him "play the crowns right off
the kings," as his fellow-
gamesters complained.
But breaking even on'
poker did not mean breaking
even in the town's one cab-
aret, an institution of very
mild iniquity frowned down
upon by the righteous, and
tlierefore hilariously patron-
ized by the youth of alma
mater, who thought them-
selves dreadfully wicked.
On his second visit
Jimmy, entering late,
crashed fairly into the
star attraction, also ar-
riving late, and entering,
as became a privileged and
snobbish entertainer, by the
front door. This young person
Diana Parrish, had not much figure to
mention, but she was tall and graceful, and
sire had a movie vampire's face, and a
couple of pre-Raphaelite eyes that tore
through young masculinity like high-veloc-
ity shells. Diana apologized; Jimmy apol-
ogized. Then she disappeared. But
Jimmy, even mid the derision of his com-
rades as he ordered a bottle of pop, enjoyed
the elevation that comes to a young man
only after having attracted the violent
attention of an actress.
"Who," Diana asked the head-waiter, as
she lingered behind the gaudy plush cur-
tains for the first clanking chords of her
number, "is the young bull-frog over there
in the Centennial tuxedo? He- torpedoed
Breaking even in
poker did not
mean breaking
even on the
town's one
cabaret.
me with both feet when he came in — mine
hurt yet!"
"Dunno." answered the head-waiter,
wearily. "Just one o' them millionaire's
sons."
A long, hard winter threatened, and, fig-
uratively speaking, Diana had no coal in!
So, almost immediately, Jimmy found him-
self cultivated, of course for himself alone.
Diana was not s.ure that Jimmy was of
the millionaire class until she saw the
mother's monthly check, a week or two
later. This check was for $200 and repre-
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103
sented Mary Dexter's extreme allowance.
From that, for thirty-one days, Jimmy must
support himself, pay tuition, buy books and
clothes.
"Pretty little thing," murmured Uiana,
fingering the check, playfull)'. "How often
does he visit your house?"
"Once a week — why?" lied Jimmy,
glibly. ,
Once a week ! A two-hundred-dollar
allowance every week to a college boy !
Surely, reflected Diana, Providence has sent
him to me !
While Diana was counting
the unhatched chickens in her
apparently golden eggs, very
much simpler and sincerer
happiness hovered
over the Dexter
home. 'Ihanksgiv-
ing Da) ap-
proach ed.
Squire P a d-
gate, the endur-
ance champion among lovers, con-
tributed the turkey and all the fixings.
Mrs. Dexter assumed charge of the turkey's
cooking and the heavier preparations,
while Jean, who owed all her knowledge
of cookery to Jimmy's mother, was chosen
to make the sauces and the mince pie, and
as an extra indulgence, a freezer of ice-
cream.
And Jimmy, too, was eager to go home.
Though Diana charmed him much as an
Indian fakir probably charms his cobra,
there were moments when he wearied of
her reinforced beauty, synthetic sentiment
and chemical perfume. His resolution held
good to the very night of departure, but
fate seemed against him. His watch ran
down and he missed the last train. Though
his home town was less thaiir three hours
away, by rail, there was but one train on
tiie following day — the holiday — and that
would not get him there until long after
time for any self-respecting Thanksgiving
dinner.
He stayed in town, so shamefaced about
the whole proceeding that he did not even
telegraph an explanation.
Mrs. Dexter was wildly anxious.
She knew tliat Jimmy was suddenly,
desperately, ill or hurt. Padgate
fussily tried to compose her. Jean
tried, too, but somehow Jean felt
that Jimmy was well and didn't
want to come home. Perhaps — but
she would not even permit the
thought of a woman.
Nevertheless, to ajjpease
the worry of Mrs.
Dexter, Padgate
took the before-day-
light train on Fri-
day, a n d tumbled
the sleepy Jimmy
out of becl in his
r'a t h e r startlingly
decorated quarters.
J immy had not been
drinking pop the preced-
ing evening..
After telling the story of
the untouched Thanksgiving
feast and the mother's woe,
Padgate concluded: "Now,
don't think / don't k n o w
what you been up to ; / (/i>."
The kiss that Diana had given
V him a few hours before burned Jimmy's
cheek like a coal. He already saw the
stern and unrelenting Padgate telling the
story of his illicit affection to Jean — he
put up his hands, as though to stop such
profanation. But Padgate thundered
along, regardless.
"You l)een out gamblin' with these low-
down sneaks that infests every college town
— givin' bums and suckers yer mother's
hard earned money. Now, ain't ye?"
And Jimmy gladly confessed to a little
sin he had not committed, rather than re-
veal to his family the big one on which,
fortunately, old Padgate had not blundered.
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"Now don't think I don't know
what you've been up to; I do."
But Padgate was not a
hard-hearted man, and find-
ing a really repentant sinner,
he spoke more gently and gave the boy
some kindly advice. As a matter of fact,
Diana was only baiting her gilt trap, and
Jimmy had not spent very much money.
His December check, just arrived, was still
intact, so, before he left, Padgate accom-
panied him to the town's best bank, where
he was known, and Mr. Dexter emerged
therefrom presently, minus his check, but
plus a checkbook and a feeling of large
financial importance.
At home, Padgate minimized the offense,
and even told a gray lie or two ; or so he
thought, for he took no stock in Jimmy's
story of the watch that paused.
Cold weather came long before Christ-
mas, and with it deep and heavy snow.
Jean, who had been working so much in-
doors that she was actually acquiring a
stoop to her shoulders, welcomed the snap-
ping change in the weather, and was
secretly glad that her boy was not there to
shovel the paths and the long walk to the
chicken pens. It gave Jean just the tin-
gling outdoor exercise she needed, and the
blood rushed glowing through her blond
skin, while her teeth and eyes gave the sun
as good flashes as it sent.
Diana's experience with men young and
old was not exactly limited, and she knew
that ultra-generosity usually meant a clerk,
spending some one else's money, and pre-
sumably headed for a place where they
have bolts and bars to keep things from
oming in and annoying one at night.
The really rich "gave down" but lit-
tle; and when Jimmy, honestly en-
deavoring to keep within his income,
tried to content her with a modest
supper or two, and a pair of
automobile rides, she
stamped him as the true son.
not of a millionaire, but of
a multi-millionaire. Jimmy
would have to be loosened
lasting.
Accordingly, s h e pur-
chased a perfectly lovely
set of kolinsky, price three
hundred and fifty, and had
it sent up C. O. D. Then
she went to Mr. Dexter
with the ancient but ever-
honorable hard luck story.
"So you see," she finished
a drear voice, kicking
Jimmy's little fireplace with
the toe of her smart boot, "I'm going to
lose the only really decent set of furs I
ever nearly owned. Oh, I don't begrudge
the money" — business of biting her lip, and
putting on the pressure for a possible
glycerine tear — "for I love my mother.
But for her to fall ill now, when it takes
every cent that I've struggled and struggled
and struggled to save — well. . . ."
She rose, flung her arms out slowly in a
futile gesture of despair and walked to the
window, where she watched Jimmy with
the extra set of eyes that Satan puts in the
back of every artful woman's head.
"I wish I could help you," murmured
Jimmy, sincerely and deeply moved.
"Hm!" laughed Diana, with a little lilt
of melancholy derision. "You ii<ish." Then,
turning: "Oh, Jimmy — I'm not asking
you for the money outright — loan it to me
just till I can repay you, won't you
darling?"
"Yes . . . dear — if I had it I
would." Though inefficient, Jimmy fin-
ished with spirit. "It's just simply that I
haven't it !"
"Oh, Jimmy!" stammered Diana, in sor-
rowful and lovely reproach, through her
hot-house tears.
"Well, here : I'll do the best I can."
And Jimmy got his check book.
Diana gave him a warm and artful em-
brace, not for the check in its natural size,
but because, as she saw, the check had
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105
possibilities. As a matter of fact,
Mr. Dexter had split his hanlc bal-
ance evenly with Miss Parrish. He
had seventy dollars ; he had writ-
ten her a check, for thirty-five. Mr.
Dexter had no check punch, and
he wrote his checks as ii
business man ever writes
them, but with the hasty
nonchalance of a screen
DT stage financier. Diana
had used a little black-
figured device known
as an "inky racer" be-
fore, and long before
night had fallen "thirty-
five" had become "three
fifty," the kolinsky caresse
Miss Parrish's throat, an
Mr. Dexter's large draft
was soon to pass his small bal
ance on a single track.
Of course it went promptly
back to the shop with the N. S. F.
ticket pinned thereto. The shop-keeper,
who was the bank's largest mercantile de-
positor, called up the cashier in a friendly
way. "Man named James Dexter makes
out check to woman named Parrish — be-
lieve it's that actress. Comes back to me
'not sufficient funds.' Check's not much —
only three-fifty. Isn't he good for it?
Who is he?"
As we said, the bank and the merchant
were extremely confidential. The cashier,
after a minute's investigation of the "D"
ledger, answered : "Something funny
there. Believe he's a college boy introduced
by somebody down state. .Biggest balance
he ever had was two hundred, and he only
had that a few davs. Want this looked
into?"
"Guess you'd better," answered the shop-
keeper. And both phones slammed down.
In that wav Detective Hagan, the one
police officer of metropolitan faculties the
town possessed, got the case. Holding the
check in his hand but a moment, he walked
to the window, and putting the paper under
direct sunshine, drew a small glass from
his pocket.
"It's not the boy." he announced, finallv.
"The dame lifted it on him, and I wonder
you people didn't see it. You ought to
examine things more closely — why, she
even Imilt up 'thirty-five' to 'three hundred
fifty' in a slightly different shade of ink!"
This is your check, you say?" he asked,
speculatively.
None of these processes had escaped
Diana's imagination. She, who had once
been the confidante of a counterfeiter,
knew that her processes of forgery would
attract the notice of even a country bank.
All that she had hoped for had come to
pass — the check had gone by the shop; it
had become a legal matter. Now, there
was no doubt in the world that Jimmy, or
Jimmy's people, would give three hundred
and fifty, or three thousand and fifty, to
keep the unsullied name of Dexter from
newspaper and home-town derision.
Hagan's first call, just as Diana had
onticipated, was upon Diana. She had
reckoned upon a police officer of the con-
stable class — not upon a sleek, rather
pleasant plain-clothes man like Hagan. He
did not accuse her of raising the check
at all.
"Think Dexter's old folks'll come
through, all right?" he asked quite sud-
denly, after they had chatted disconcert-
ingly for ten minutes about horses, the
weather, and Irving Berlin's latest songs.
"What do you mean?" She jumped in
spite of her poise.
"That was as sincere as an old maid's
'Please don't !' " laughed the officer. "Come
on, now — let's get down to brass tacks."
But Diana would not get down to brass
tacks. She cried, and wailed, and protested
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hard luck and innocence, until Hagan, with
a small and dreary oath, stalked to the door.
Hagan next went to. Jimmy, who had
just received a letter from his mother, tell-
ing him that she was coming to see him the
following morning. Jimmy, with a calf
spirit of chivalry, decided to defend Diana
after all. His mother would furnish the
money; and we must not consider Jimmy
wholly selfish, either, for Mrs. De.xter had
foolishly hesitated to enlighten him as to
her financial condition. Jimmy was "too
young to be bothered." So, although he
knew their funds were limited, he planned
some of the economies that are always so
easy to plan, and prepared to ask for a
deposit to meet Diana's fraudulent paper.
Hagan was sore. Sore at Jimmy, sore at
Diana, sore at himself; at Jimmy, for his
cheap pup heroism ; at himself, for mixing
in too confident- Iv w i t h the
grandest and ^^^^ ' g 1 a d d e s t
bunk in the ^^^^^^ world — the
bunking of an inexperienced boy by a wise
woman ; at Diana for putting it over so
successfully.
So, the detective resolved to put the
screws on Jimmy to get the woman. He
walked in upon Jimmy the following morn-
ing just as he was rising.
"This is your check, you say?" he asked,
s])eculativelv.
"My check, sir. And I'll make it good
— I told you that, didn't I?" Young Mr.
Dexter, what with his conscience and his
uncertainty, iiad liis temperament with him.
"Unfortunately," answered Hagan, drily,
"the wheels of justice <lon't turn on a
promissory axle. I'm not a probation
court. I'm an officer. That check was de-
liljerately written out of all reason, con-
sidering your deposit. No jury Avould
believe you when you said you made
a 'mistake' in issuing a check for
nearly twice as much as you
ever liad. It's a matter of
"Forgive me . . . . I didn't know," burbled Diana in her
best tremolo.
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107
business this morning. You'll have to
straighten this up now ... or go
with me."
The shot hit below water-line. Jimmy's
poor little sham life clattered about his
shivering bare feet like a rattly house of
cards. He saw himself doing twenty years
• • • or thirty . . . breaking stone.
. . . Diana laughing at him, and Jean
married to somebody else. . .
"Lemme dress — wait out there— I'll fix
it. Just give me time !"
Hagan satisfied himself that no trellis
led from Jimmy's window to the ground,
and opined that he did not look suicidal,
before he made his exit.
"The poor little luit!" he muttered,
Inughing to himself half sympathetically.
But Hagan was mistaken about en-
trances and exits. There was an in-
side fire escape back of Jimmy's
clothes-press. Often the merry
gamblers had used it at'mid-
night in sneaking to the
_^ other "dorms" — now,
»■/ the all -wise Diana
utilized its rickety steps
in a wild appeal for
help.
"Save me !"
she voiced, in
stereo-
typed plea. ■
"My own
m o n e y
all gone
to moth-
e r —
and you
know
there's
no other
man in
the world
I could
ask, ex-
cept you !
Jimmy. .
love
)• 0 u . "
Her arms w e n t
about his neck,
y and there the lad
stood, happy as a wading
boy whose little toe has just
been embraced by a persistent cray-fish.
It was upon this scene of compulsory
aflection that, ten seconds later, the
Padgate-Dexter-Hilton trio erupted itself.
Mrs. Dexter, seeing Hagan sternly before
the door, mistook him for a doctor and
rushed in prepared to see her beautiful boy
die. Jean, for a moment, thought she
would rather see him die.
"What does this mean, sir?" roared
Padgate.
"Forgive me I didn't know,"
burbled Diana in her best tremolo. Then,
dabbing her eyes, she evaporated — into the
arms of Hagan, who was so confused by
the whole procedure that he let her go.
"You — you.'" continued Padgate, in the
same high tone. "So it ain't gamblin' !
It's vicious women. I've just found out,
sir, that little Jean's money is sending you
here — "
"Uncle!" The exasperated, useless
protest was Jean's.
" — Jean's money, for you to waste on a
bad character. There's no hope for you —
young man — no hope !"
"Lfncle," interposed Jean, more elTec-
tively this time, "what f did I did to help
Mrs. Dexter, whom I dearly love. I'm
very sure Jimmy is free to marry his— his
friend. I release him absolutely."
"Marry her— hah!" The scorn and the
words were Padgate's. "She don't wanta
marry him !"
"\N'ait a minute — all of you!" cried
Jimmy. "I've got just one thing to say.
I thought I was spending money I had a
right to — and that there was plenty of it*.
I swear to God I didn't know Jean had a
cent in mother's account — "
"That's true!" sobbed his mother.
"I've been rotten," continued Jimmy,
"and I know it. I love Jean, and she
doesn't believe it, and I don't blame her.
I'm most old enough to vote, and you've
kept me wearing long yellow curls and
little velvet pants, so to speak— I'm
through now, and I'm going out to be a
man, and you won't ever hear of me again
until you're ready to treat me as though
I were a man — good-bye, and good luck !"
^^■hen Jimmy had whirled away in a
cyclone of anger and pain. Jean advanced
to the table and absentmindedly picked
up Jimmy's check book. There, on the
stub, was "35," and Hagan. only a few
feet away, saw it, too.
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'Plays and Play eTs
FACTS AND NEAR-FACTS ABOUT THE
GREAT AND NEAR-GREAT OF FILMLAND
WHO would ever have thought that Charley
Chaplin would be working for nothing a
year after he had signed a contract that netted
him $6/0,000? But that's just what the noted
screen comic has been doing. Don't believe it?
Well, it's true. You see it was this way :
Charley's $670,000 contract expired on March
20. He had furnished the Mutual with ten
comedies during the year which ended on that
day and his contract called for twelve. So
Charley called up the bank and found that his
balance would permit him to eat for a month
or so without drawing any ten thousand dollar
checks weekly; then he rolled up his sleeves
and went to work for nothing. Meanwliile. a
special guard employed by the young English-
man at his studio has succeeded in keeping
off the premises a
horde of millionaire
magnates, promoters
and go-betweens who
have been trying to
interest him in mil-
lion dollar a year
propositions. O h ,
it's great to be
funny !
B'
ULL HART has
finally gun fought,
his way up among
the goldlined screen
stars. He recently
sjgned a contract
with Triangle which
will cause him to
make out a deposit
slip every Monday
for $5,000. This is
quite some advance
over the $300 a week
which Hart c o n -
tracted for about
three years ago when
he first invaded the
movies with his
checkered gingham
shirt and his pinto pony
May Allison, feminine half of the Lockwood- Allison
team, just dissolved after a long and resultful artistic
partnership.
In Hart's case, the
salary is said to be quite within the bounds of
reason, considering the large returns from his
work in the past. For a long time he has
been the "best seller" on the Triangle pro-
gram and Triangle couldn't afiford to let him
go. Famous Players-Lasky were angling for
Bill with golden flies when he decided to
remain at Inceville.
D5EP regret, even among rival concerns,
marked the passing of Fine Arts. True,
the name survives, but the original GriflFith
108
organization, formerly known as the Reliance-
Alajestic, has scattered to the four winds —
chief, subordinates, writers, directors, stars
and minor performers. The end came late
in March with the official elimination of D. W.
Griffith as a "side" of Triangle. With his
announcement came a general retirement.
Those who did not resign were handed the
much dreaded "blue envelope" and the end
of the month saw but one company working
at the famous old studio at the confluence of
Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards, Los Ange-
les. A number uf the Griffith players were
retained by Triangle for employment under
Ince supervision, these including Bessie Love,
Alma Reuben and perhaps Seena Owen, a
trio which rose from obscurity to fame under
(iriftithian guidance.
The others scattered
over the cinemic land-
scape, some obtain-
ing remunerative en-
gagements with other
companies and others,
not so fortunate, se-
curing only tempor-
ary' employment.
MUCH mystery at-
tached to the de-
parture from New
\'ork for London of
D. W. Griffith at
about the time of
Fine Arts' disruption.
He sailed for London
at a time when most
people who did not
have urgent busi-
ness abroad were
content to remain on
this side. It was re-
ported that he was to
direct some tremen-
dous epic of the
European war, using
real soldiers and real
locations, but it develop d later that his jour-
ney through the submarine zone was merely
for the purpose of launching "Intolerance"
in the English capital, and to pay a friendly
visit, through the courtesy of the British war
ofifice, to the Somme front. It was stated that
Mr. GriflSth had concluded an arrangement with
Artcraft to produce a number of photoplays,
presumably of "convenient" length, during the
coming year. He is to begin work upon his
return from abroad early in May. It was
understood that he was to have Robert Har-
ron as one of his stars.
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109
THE Lockwood-Allison dissolution of part-
nership, forecast in another department
of this magazine some months ago, has finally
occurred. Lockwood's latest photoplay, "The
Hidden Spring," was done with Billie West
opposite the blonde screen idol, while Miss
Allison was looking over proffers: of employ-
ment from several other companies. In film
circles it was current gossip that the sever-
ance of cinematic relations between this noted
pair of co-stars was due to Lockwood's in-
sistence that his blonde "opposite" be sub-
ordinated to him in all their film endeavors.
Miss Allison will now be given an opportunity
to shine without fear of eclipse.
BABY MARIE OSBORN, better known as
"Little Mary Sunshine," is now starring
under direct Pathe auspices. Formerly this
six-year-old marvel was a Balboa chattel,
although Pathe marketed the pictures in which
she appeared. When the child's parents de-
cided that she was worth more money than
Balboa offered, Pathe, rather than lose her,
gave her a company of her own, employing
her at a salary of $500 a week. Photoplays
in which Baby Marie
was the main ingre-
dient are said to have
been the most sought
after of all Pathe
productions last year.
Henry King, the di-
rector who is cred-
ited with "making"
Baby Marie, remains
at Balboa.
RO M A I N E
FIELDING, one
of the early favorites
of the film fans, is
undertaking a "come
back." He has been
engaged by World to
direct Carlyle Black-
well. Mr. Fielding's
last directorial work
was with L u b i n.
Then he tried vaude-
ville.
LOIS W^ILSON,
one of the prize
beauties of the Uni--
versal's contest of
two years ago, is now
a star with the Cali-
fornia Pictures Cor-
poration, for which
her first release will be a picturization of
"Hari Kari," Julian Johnson's stage play. The
adaptation was made by Capt. Leslie T. Pea-
cocke. Miss Wilson played opposite J. War-
ren Kerrigan in a number of Universal
features.
studio in Los Angeles several weeks ago while
attempting to train a polar bear. The big ani-
mal became enraged at the trainer and in-
flicted fatal wounds before a traffic policeman
could gei close enough to shoot the bear.
Bonavita was 50 years old and one of the
best known wild animal trainers in the busi-
ness. He lost an arm several years ago when
attacked by a lion at Coney Island. His right
name was Center.
HOUSE PETERS is no longer a Morosco-
vian. He and the Paramount unit parted
company, it is said, because of a disagreement
over a scenario which hadi been selected for
the actor. It was announced that Peters
would form a company of his own in the near
future. He is said to be one of the few actors
who is financially equipped to star himself.
ALAN FORREST is back in the California
colony after an investigation of Eastern
studio conditions. He has been playing juve-
nile roles in William Farnum's company at
the Fo.x plant.
Photoplayers Studio Photo
Lois Wilson, who becomes a star of the California
Motion Picture Corporation in the screen adapta-
tion of a stage play by the Editor of Photoplay
Magazine.
CAPTAIN JACK BONAVITA,
animal trainer who was known
sands of screen-goers because of
famous
to thou-
his film
work with animals, was killed at the Horsley
I OU-TELLEGEN,
JLi the handsome
husband; of Geraldine
Farrar, i.s now a di-
rector at the Lasky
studio. And it is not
new work for that
distinguished player.
He recently confided
to friends — who
promptly betrayed
his confidence — that
he used to direct pic-
tures over in France
during the early days
when it was custom-
ary to nail the camera
to the floor and have
all the action about
forty feet away. The
objects of his first
directorial supervi-
sion in America are
Jack Pickford and
Vivian Martin.
OGDEN, Utah, has
made a bid for a
place on the cinema
map by being the
home of a company
which is advertised
to have engaged Lil-
lian Walker at a sal-
ary reputed to be $j,ooo a week. The former
Vitagrapher is now in the Utah city hard at
work trying to earn the salary vi'hich she is
said to be receiving. The announcement of
Miss Walker's engagement with the Ogden
Picture Corporation referred to her as
"Queen of Dimples" and concludes as follows:
"Miss Walker's popularity is not only due to
her wonderful smile, which made her the idol
of all people from pole to pole, but to her
readiness in aiding any worthy cause by ap-
no
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Photo by Dr. B. S. Takafi
pearing in person." Dr. Cook will undoubt-
edly verify the pole statement.
CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG and Marie
Dressier were arrivals in Los Angeles
with the coming of spring and both were
objects of the usual curtain fire of rumor.
Both said they were on pleasure trips and
everybody believed them, so that was all there
was to it. Miss Dress-
ler's last trip to Los An-
geles was to participate in
"Tillie's Punctured Ro-
mance," in which Cliarley
Chaplin supported her and
which brought about a
suit against Keystone and
a vow of "never again"
from Miss Dressier, but
she changed her mind
later, as was her privilege.
A BALL game rival-
ling in interest only
that historic battle which
destroyed the mighty
Casey took place in Los
Angeles' Washington
Park on Saturdaj^ after-
noon, March 31. The
screen Tragics were up
against the screen Com-
ics. The Comics' lineup
was as follows : Charles
Chaplin, p. ; Eric Camp-
Baby Helen Marie
tinder direct
Wally Reid, swinging the stick
in tlie big Red Cross Ball
Game between the Tragics
and Comics in Washington
Park, Los Angeles.
bell, c ; Charles Murray,
lb; Slim Summerville, 2b;
Bobby Dunn, ss ; Hank
Mann, 3b ; Lonesome Luke,
If; Ben Turpin, rf ; Ches-
ter Conklin, cf. Li the
same order of position, the
Tragics were : Wallace
Reid, William Desmond,
George Walsh, 'Gene Pal-
lette, Antonio Moreno,
Franklyn Farnum, Jack
Pick ford, George Beban
and Hobart Bosworth.
Umpire and referee: Bar-
ney Oldfield and James J.
Jeffries. The carnage was
terrible. In the blood, dust
and grand confusion the
game broke up after two
imiings, and the Lord
knows who won. The one
really' dreadful holocaust
was the fanning of Wallie
Reid — just as at least a
thousand chickens had
risen in the bleachers to
give him the Chautauqua
salute. George Walsh, a
former pro, slammed the
ball clear out of sight for
a real home run. Chaplin pushed the sphere
into the bleachers, and beat it straight across
the diamond to second and back. Barney
Oldfield properly called it a foul, whereat
Barney was rolled in the dirt by fifty Key-
stone cops ; after which, rising, he admitted
that, owing to a superiority of numbers, he was
forced to change his decision.
ESSANAY suffered an
unusual seismic dis-
turbance during the past
month, which, they say,
means a complete change
of policy in the Chicago
institution. From now on,
five-reel features are to
be practically the exclu-
sive output, with no more
of the short material
which Essanay has issued
ever since it has been a
manufacturing concern.
NO less than fifty-three
people have been re-
leased from Essanay. A
number of these were
well-known technical and
mechanical people, but
among the players the de-
partures include Nell
Craig, Richard Travers,
Thomas Commerford,
Frank Dayton, Leo White,
Osborne, now starring
Pathe auspices.
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111
Charles Chaplin, winding up
on the mound to fan Wally
Re id, which he did. The
Comics' battery in this mighty
slaughter consisted of Chaplin
and Eric Campbell.
Edwin Arnold, Lillian
Drew, Harry Dunkinson,
Florence Oberle, Alice Mc-
Chesney, Aliss Benedict
and Rene Clemons. Two
directors who have gone
are Richard Baker and
Larry Windom. Miss
Craig, it is said, has al-
ready allied herself with
Metro, while Dick Trav-
ers, who went to New
York for a few days, has
returned to Chicago to di-
rect a series of comedies
for Rothacker, commer-
cial manufacturer who
thus signifies his invasion
of the playmaking field.
Carlson, maker of ani-
■mated cartoons, has also
ceased to be identified with
•Essanay.
TAMES YOUNG, who
J has just finished "On
.Trial" for Essanay, has
.gone to California, in the in-
terests of the same concern,
-for a filming of "Haw-
thorne of the U. S. A."
BILLIE BURKE has a new Famous Play-
ers' contract, covering several years. She
will devote her summers to celluloid work and
her winters to the stage. She is first to appear
in a series, called "The Mysterious Miss
Terry." Marguerite Clark's erstwhile general,
J. Searle Dawley, will be her director.
MAX LINDER is now
a Californian. After
"doing" two comedies for
Essanay in Chicago, the
diminutive French come-
dian started for the wild
and woolly west and he is
now engaged in cavorting
Jjefore a camera just a
stone's throw from the
Ince studios. Linder's first
act upon reaching Los An-
geles was to pay an official
call at the Chaplin stu-
dio. It is presumed that
there _ was no discussion
of Linder's public state-
ment that Chaplin was
"only a clown," as there
was no violence of any
sort. Linder was accom-
panied west by a retinue
of countrymen and his
leading lady, Martha Er-
lich, late of the Winter
Garden, N. Y.
I'holo liy T.irr
Lillian Walker, heading her own com-
pany in Ogden, Utah.
Photo by Dr. B. S. Taka^i
ARTHUR SHIRLEY has been acquired
by Balboa to play opposite Jackie Saun-
ders in a series of photoplays which are to be
released by Mutual. He takes the place
vacated by the departure of Frank Alayo for
other fields. Mr. .Shirley played the lead in
"The Fall of a Nation." He is one of the
Australian contributions to actorial ranks.
THE Franklin Brothers
— C. M. and S. A.—
the young pair of direc-
tors who made the Fine
Arts kiddies famous and
then went to the Fox
company, have been sep-
arated. Each has been
given his own company at
the Fox studio and each
will continue with "kid
stuff'." They recently
completed in conjunction
a picturization of "Jack
the Giant Killer."
MIRACLE note: "Da-
vid Powell got his
early histrionic training
on the stage." .Anyhow,
that's the way it appeared
in a paper recently — which
only goes to show" that the
stage has turned out quite
a few good actors.
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FANNIE WARD has just resumed work
at the Lasky studio after a three \veeks'
suspension of operations due to injuries
received during a' domestic imbroglio with
her husband, Jack Dean. No, this is not a
bit of scandal. The scrap occurred durmg
the filming of a scene in Miss Ward's newest
photoplay. It was said to be sonic battle
and the actress emerged with a sprained
back and dislocated shoulder. We mu.st have
reelism !
CREIGHTON HALE, concerning whom
devotees of the query bureau ask many
questions, has returned to his first love,
Pathe. During his absence he has tried
vaudeville, musical comedy and the cameras
of other studios.
MARY GARDEN
is to perpetuate
"Thais" as her first
film venture for the
G o 1 d w y n concern.
About a year ago
Herbert Brenon per-
suaded the well
known operatic star
to pose for him in a
picturization of that
opera, but the deal
fell through.
ALICE LAKE,
who was dis-
covered by Roscoe
A r b u c k 1 e during
his first trip East,
brought back to Los
Angeles and made
into a Keystone star,
has deserted to
Universal. She is
to play opposite Her-
bert R a w 1 i n s o n,
under the guidance
of Director Jack
Conway.
OLGA PETROVA
is engaged in
her first photoplay
for Famous Players-
Lasky. It is being
directed at the Fort
Lee Studio of the
company by Maurice
Tourneur. Mme. Petrova will remain in New
York throughout the summer.
BLANCHE SWEET'S engagement with
the company which is to picturize the
Charles Frohman successes apparently has
fallen through. For the first time in her film
career, which dates back to early Biograph
days. Miss Sweet is "at liberty."
CARMEL MYERS,_ one of the last of the
Griffith "finds," is now a full-fledged
leading lady. She played opposite Wilfred
Lucas in his last California-made Fine Arts
Mae Marsh and Bobby
Harron temporarily re-
united as leads in Mae
Marsh 's secondGoldwyn
photoplay. When this
picture is finished,
Harron will probably be-
come a member oj Griffith
production and is to be co-starred with Elmo
Lincoln, the "man of valor" in "Intolerance,"
in a comedy drama directed by Eddie Dillon.
It was their last work for the disrupted
Griffith studio.
THOSE whose devotion to( the films is of
but recent date will be given an oppor-
tunity in the near future to see two of the
early Thomas H. Ince "personally-directed"
film" plays. They are "The Battle of Gettys-
burg," the first big spectacle produced in
America, and "The Wrath of the Gods,"
in which Sessue Hayakawa made his first
big hit. They are to be released to state
rights buyers.
ILDRED HARRIS, the si.\teen-year-old
star of Fine Arts, has followed other
members of that or-
ganization to the
Ince studio at Culver
City. Director Paul
Powell also changed
his affiliation sim-
ilarly and will offi-
ciate as the perma-
nent director of
Bessie Love at the
big Culver City film
emporium.
NOT being a Chi-
cagoan, the name
Marshall Field means
nothing in Nazimo-
va's life. Therefore;
when Mrs. Marshall
Field recently gave a
box party at the
Belasco theater in
Washington to see
" 'Ception Shoals" and
then made comments
which were wafted to
tlie ears of the Rus-
sian actress, the lat-
ter promptly resented
this overt act and
things happened. She
turned toward the
box and said dis-^
tinctly "curtain" and;
the scene was cut
short. Then she or-
dered all the lights in
the house, except
;i
Copvrijjht by H.irtsook
's Artcraft organization.
those in the box, turned out. The party in the.t
illuminated area promptly fled. The inter-'
ruption took place at the close of the scene
where— in the play— the young mother of a ^
five-weeks-old baby was giving helpful advice ^
concerning married life to a girl of her own r
age who had been isolated from all women.
MISS CORINNE GRIFFITH, who will be
remembered particularly for her work
with William Duncan and George Holt in
"Through the Wall" and in "The Last Man,
is now playing opposite Earle Williams in
\'itagraph's eastern studio.
Pearls of Desire
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between them slammed itself in challenging
silhouette an hour later. The trade still
hustling us a good deal, as a zealous and
well-meaning railroad official herds tourists
for whom he feels responsible, we foamed
past the end of the sandpit ejected across
the entrance and into the still waters of the
lagoon before nightfall, and the whaleboats
arriving presently, we" bivouacked on the
beach, the ladies sheltered by a tent rigged
from a spare forestaysail.
After the first throes of shedding our
carapace, it proved to be a very cheerful
shipwreck, and the following day we pro-
ceeded to install ourselves as though a rich
relative had left us the island in his will.
My boys, under the skilled supervision of
Charley Dollar, erected two most comfort-
able bungalows, a large one for. the ladies
and a bachelors' annex for the bishop and
myself. All of our stores were stowed in
a cool grotto at a little distance from the
camp. Then, in consideration of their
prospective mileage of open sea, I had the
two whaleboats half-decked and equipped
with cabin-hoods which w'ould give a sun
shelter and keep out flying water in the
event of a squall. Such whaleboats as
ours, thus equipped -and with men like
Samuel Smith and Charley Dollar in com-
mand, were proof against anything but
those rare cyclonic phenomena which drive
straws into brick walls and pluck out head-
sunk nails without powdering the putty
over them.
All of this work of preparation took four
days, but time loses its intrinsic value be-
tween the tropic zones, where I thijik it is
more necessary to be thorough than in the
higher latitudes. There was certainly no
lack in the thoroughness of our prepara-
tions for what might prove to be a long
period of captivity. The ladies' bungalow-
was in the nature of a wattle house, neatly
thatched of roof and sides, w'ith large
windows and basketwork shutters which
opened upwards. Inside it was composed
of two large rooms and a sort of drawing
room which opened on the verandah,
which was also roofed. The cabin which
the bishop and I shared was of similar con-
struction, but smaller, and both were
protected by the palms, and shielded from
the late afternoon sun. by the steep slope of
jthe lava cliffs behind. Not fifty yards
away was the spring, a verital)le Diana's
pool of clear, cold water. The dozen lay-
ing hens which I had brought had also a
shelter, but were given their liberty. We
had also a small storehouse for- tools and
other gear, but the stores themselves w-e left
in the cool grotto, bringing out what we
needed each day as one would go a-market-
ing.
Their work' finished (and ten skilled
Polynesians can accomplish a lot in four
days) , my men got aw-ay to sea as cheerfully
as though they were off for a short vachting
cruise, instead of a thousand miles of open
sea in half-decked whaleboats. But with
the prevailing winds and their oars in case
of calm, I figured that they ought to make
it in a fortnight at the most, and possibly
ten days, as both boats were good sailers
and not heavy laden. So, wishing them
godspeed, we sat down to the contemplation
of our exile. The uncomplaining resigna-
tion of my guests surprised and rather
touched me. Folk of more common clay
would have been apalled at the desolation
of our surroundings — just the small patch
of ragged terra firma encircled by vast
leagues of ocean — but even if they felt any
misgivings, their pride of race prevented
the expression of them, while the good
bishop, true to his natural optimism, af-
fected to find much to pleasure him the
position. "It is an e:"perience such as
comes to few, my dears," he said. "Some-
thing to look back upon for the rest of our
lives. We are in no danger of suffering
privation and we can bathe and fish and sail
about and climb the rocks. ... I ought
to take off twenty pounds. Jack must
teach us boat handling . . . and in the
evenings we have our bridge."
"Who knows," said I. "you may own
Kialu before we. are relieved."
"No danger, my dear fellow," he an-
swered, heartily. "Your game is improving.
Then I might get to w-ork on my book.
Why not collaborate? With my facility of
the pen and your own sound knowledge and
experience, we ought to contribute some-
thing of real value to contemporary litera-
ture.
I SAID that I thought the time would pass
quickly, once we settled down to our
daily routine and overcame the first
strangeness, and proposed that we begin by
an exploration of the island. The others
agreeing to this, for lioth ladies w-ere of
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athletic tastes, we spent the first three days
in examining our domain. First there was
the lagoon, irregularly round and a little
over a mile in diameter, with a broad beach
of fine white coral sand on three-fourths
of its circumference and, directly opposite
our camp, a patch of mangrove swamp.
Except close to the shore, the water was
very deep. A little above high water mark
there was a fringe of cocoa palms, rather
scanty except about the spring, and back
of this, a belt of arid bush from which the
lava cliffs rose precipitately in some places
and in others with a more gradual slope of
fantastically eroded fcymation. Opposite
the sandbar at the entrance was its highest
altitude, the later crater in which was the
lake and the homes of circling, screaming
wildfowl. Here the cliffs were very steep,
but not difficult of ascent, because of the
many ledges and fissures. At one spot
a stream of water trickled down the face of
the rock, and on climbing up to ascertain
its source, I found, about eighty feet from
the base, a large, rambling cavern, the floor
of which contained a pool of sweet water,
which was no doubt an overflow from the
lake and found its way through the porous
rock. I did not attempt to explore the
cavern, but as there seemed to be a current
of air through it, I decided that possibly it
might penetrate to the other side of the
crater's lip. There appeared to be a great
many similar caves and the formation rather
suggested that of molten lead thrown into
water.
Very few of these promenades sufficed
the bishop, who preferred to occupy himself
with the compiling of his book in the shade
of the verandah. Enid seemed rather to
avoid my society and, while suflliciently
agreeable, rather held herself aloof. Alice
Stormsby, on the contrary, asked nothing
better than a rough scramble over the rocks
or a tiring trudge around the stretch of sea-
beach which marked the hard set limits of
our reservation. It did not seem to matter
much to her whether the sun were high or
low, nor did her creamy skin sufi:er from the
assault of solar rays. It showed the supple
resistance of a baby's cuticle and neither
burned nor freckled, nor did it tan. I
observed this phenomenon with much secret
astonishment, because her type was that of
a Scandinavian blonde and it seemed as if
that equatorial blaze must do something to
her cutaneous envelope. But its infantile
dewy softness seemed impervious to actinic
and other rays, while I grew swarthy as a
Moor, having a dark-skinned Irish ancestry
and thus subject to the slurring remarks of
those who do not like us and try to insinuate
slanderous reference to the gale-flung Span-
ish Armada and its relation to the somatic
type of Irish.
Another thing which soon became evi-
dent to me was that Alice Stormsby not
only defied physical fatigue but courted it.
She seemed trying her best to get dog-tired
and failing, so far as her vigorous body was
concerned, though at times she gave symp-
toms of nervous fatigue. Something was
evidently driving her .along, and as our
comradeship became more established, I
began to wonder what it was ; what she had
on her mind. At first I could scarcely keep
up with her, being convalescent from a bad
dose of fever, and occasionally she would
realize this and become unnecessarily
solicitous.
lit the course of our rambles Ave discov-
ered the crater lake to be fairly teeming
with small white fish bearing some resemb-
lance to herring, but more delicate of flavor.
No doubt the spawn had been brought there
originally in the maws and feet and plum-
age of sea-birds and the species, whatever
it was, had conformed to local conditions.
This fish bit readily at any sort of mollusk
bait offered them and they became our stock
breakfast food. Sometimes, also, we raided
the rookeries ; went bird-nesting for eggs
and squab, both rather strong of taste but
palatable (to us, at least, after a hard
climb) .
What the bishop may have thought of
these excursions I do not know, because on
our return he merely raised his eyebrows,
surveyed us over his spectacles and
chuckled. I am inclined to believe that he
secretly hoped for the worst. But it was
evident enough that Miss Enid coldly dis-
approved the companionship. I was mean
enough to be glad, having developed a
growing dislike for her since the reproof
which I had administered on her silly
criticism of the illustrations in my book.
Of course I took good care that this senti-
ment was not evidenced in any way, but she
undoubtedly was quite well aware of it.
We never spoke except on routine matters,
and when occasionally I saw fit to compli-
ment her on her cuisine, the ever ready
{Continued on page 1^8)
He does dis Wild West stuff like I do, but dey all tell me mine is lots wilder dan his.
The Last Straw
PETE PROPS' PATIENCE PETERS
OUT AT LAST AND HE VOWS TO
CEASE WORKING FOR OTHERS
By Kenneth McGafifey
Drawings by E. W. Gale, Jr.
I'M goin' to desert dis outfit just as soon
as I can get away. Dere is no class no
more in woikin' for a company. I jus'
been readin' in de trade papers dat to be a
real classy star you've got to have a com-
pany of your own. Mary Pickford has
one, dis guy Fairbanks has one, some dame
named Young has got her own troupe, an'
dey tell me Bill Hart was goin' to have one
'til he signed up again with Inche. What
license has he got to have a show of his
own? He does dis wild west stuff like I
do, but dey all tell me mine is lots wilder
dan his. I can't let dese imitators get away
wid my stuff or dey will begin to t'ink dey
amount to somet'ing.
I'm goin' to have a company of me own
or walk right off de screen. You won't see
me lettin' none of dese nut directors tell me
what to do when I gets me own gang. If
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dey starts to give any back talks, I'll give
de "Hey, Rube" to me crowd an' we will
run him ragged. An' if I catch any of dese
fresh leading women stickin' dere beezers
into my close-ups, I can give dem de gate
widout no argument. Dese dames hogs too
much of de canvas, I'm here to tell you. I
got to dope up a love scene fadeout so I
will be de only one in de pitcher. It's darn
hard to do, at dat.
I had one of dese fresh guys take a lot
of credit away from me de oder day, an' if
I could of swam, I would have swam out
an' busted him in de jaw in front of about
ten t'ousand people. An' after me givin'
him de job, 'cause he was a old pal o' mine
when I was wid de Mighty Haig Shows.
But it jus' goes to show you dat you can
put no confidence in no acrobat. Dey is as
unreliable as onjewnews. I wouldn't
trust no acrobat no
more any f urder
dan I would trust a
press agent — de big bums ! Dis one done
me dirt, an' if I ever get back wid de big
tops, I will sure put wax in his resin box.
An' him comin' to me all stewed up an'
wantin' de price of a ride back to Chi.
You can tell de wide woild dat it was a
bum trick an' dat's why I am goin' to start
me own company — so none of dese hams
can get away wid anyt'ing. It will eider
be give me de bows or take de open air.
It's in dis big special production of two
reels I am a doin'. De name of de t'ing
is "Chased to de Grave," or "De Livin'
Death." It is a expensive production, I'm
here to tell you. Dere was de interior of
a tent dat had to be specially built, an' we
used a couple of more interiors to boot.
De story is, I'm a gay an' handsom' cow-
hand an' am actin' as a
scout for some soldiers,
to help dem find de
Injuns to ])uy
\ dem a drink
?
Ed steps back a little way, does a run.
toins a double somersault, lands in de
water and goes out of sight. Gee!
The Last Straw
H7
or somet'in'. De colo-
nel's daughter at de
army post is in love wid
me an' me wid her. I
got a fine job, 'cause I
don't do nuttin' but
hang aroun' de army an'
take her for rides. Once
a guy starts to get fresh
wid her as she goes
prancin' up de street an'
I come up, an' aldough
I am packin' about five
guns, I knock him down
wid me fist. Dis makes
a hit wid her, aldough
de nut director picks a
ex-prize fighter for me
to wallop, an' me not
knowin' dis until after I
hits him, I have to live
in me dressin' room for
t'ree nights until he gets
tired hangin' aroun' de
outside of de lot waitin'
for me, an goes home.
Us artists can't mingle
wid a lot of low brows
nohow.
I does a lot of desprit
actin', stickin' up dance
halls to save de goil,
runnin' out of a boinin'
Ijuildin' wid de child in
me arms, an' a lot of brave stuff like
dat. Finally de last of de pitcher comes
along. Dis is when de head of de army
decides to go out an' buy de Injuns a
drink, an' as dey is supposed to be all
peaceful an' friendly like, he takes his
daughter along so she can buy some
blankets an' t'ings, an' I go on to show
dem de way 'cause I am supposed to know
dat neck of de woods backwards. We goes
ramblin' along troo a lot of fine exteriors,
but while we is ramblin' de Injuns gets
sore at us about sumpin' — hold a big wake,
or whatever dey calls it — an' den go out
gunnin' for us. De first we know dat we
is in dutch is when de red devils comes
over de top of de hill an' heaves a few
arrors at us.
De goil's ole man, who is boss of de
army, sees dere is no chanct for us all to
'scape, so he tells me to take de goil an'
slide for home, an' he an' his mob will
stall off de Injuns, 'till we can get away.
/ have to live in me dressin room for t'ree nights until he gets tired
hangin aroun de outside of de lot waitin for me.
Me an' she dashes off on our horses, but
a flock of Soos takes after us. Dey runs
us ragged an' finally nails her horse. Den
I hists her up behind me an' we scamper
along. Finally de goin' gets too strong
for ole Katy, an' one of us must drop off
to leave de odder 'scape. It would of
killed de pitcher right in de middle of de
second reel if I didn't 'scape to have de
clinch in de end, so de nut scenarior frames
it up dat we are to come to de bank of a
river an' I am to jump in an' swim across,
while de dame raml)les up along de bank
an' loses herself from de Injuns.
Now dis is where dat dirty acrobat what
said he was a pal o' mine does me dirt.
Dis was in de summer time aroun' Los
Angeles, an' all de river dat was wet you
could have tooken home on a blotter, so de
nut director frames to have it did in de
lake in de park. De poor boob picks de
day de ex-citizens of loway is givin' a pic-
nic, an' dere is about a millvun of dem
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sittin' aroun' eatin' basket lunches an' brag-
gin' about de cookin' in de cafeterias.
De first time I notices Ed (dat was de
tramp's name) is when he is bounced out
of de place where de speechmakin' is goin'
on. It seems dat he went in dere wid his
nose all damp, an' after list'nin' to de
speakers tellin' what a great place loway
was for a coupla hours, gets sore an' asks
one of de speakers why, if loway was
such a great state, didn't some of de ten
millyun of dem dat was in California make
a great hit wid de native sons an' go back
dere. Wid dat dey gives him de bum's
rush an' he comes spinnin' towards me.
He makes me an' gives me de glad mit, an'
does I remember de old days when we bot'
used to swing on a quarter pole stake.
Dere was nobody aroun', so I notices
him. He gives me a hard luck song an'
dance, an' just den de nut director tells me
dat de guy what was to douI)le me in swim-
min' for me ain't showed up, so, as Ed is
about my build, I asks him if he can swim
an' he says yes, so he gets de job. Like a
boob I tells him if he makes a hit he can
get on steddy, maybe.
He's got a lot of lines to lern, 'cause
dere is a spoken title comes in where I
leaves her, so me an' de nut director tells
him what to do. Ride up to de edge of de
lake on de horse wid me goil — slide off —
shake hands — say "Farewell, Nell, better
I lose me life dan dat aught of harm come
to your golden head" — jump into de lake
an' swim across. Dat's all he's got to do.
By dis time de lowayns hear dere is a
chanct to see de movies taken widout
spendin' a quarter, an' dey leave de speak-
ers flat an' come peltin' over. Dere was
many a paper napkin t'rown away regard-
less dat day. De deck ban's shoo dem
back an' de Injuns stan' back of de camera
all ready to rush in an' shoot at de poor
lad as he swims across.
Ed, he climbs up on de nag wid de goil,
an' after he falls off a coupla times onto
his bean, he is sober enuff to make de trick.
We tells him all over again about de
story an' about how de Injuns are chasin'
him, an' all he has got to do is to ride up
to de river bank, say goodbye to de skirt,
dive in an' swim across, an' den de Injuns
run in an' shoot at him. He's got about a
six-foot dive off de bank into de water, but
he says dat don't worry him none. By dis
time, all de people in Los Angeles is out
pipin' us off^
We is all ready — de nut director hollers
"Camera." Ed an' de dame comes bustin'
in up to de bank, he says "Farewell,
Nell — ," she toins de horse an' dashes for
de side lines. Ed steps back a little ways,
does a run, toins a double somersault, lands
in de water an' goes out of sight. Gee !
All of loway goes mad, applauds an' cheers
like it was a circus. Ed comes up, an in-
stead of swimmin' like he was told, he
hears de applause, toins aroun', treads
water an' begins to bow an' blow kisses at
de aujence. De Injuns rush in an' begin
to shoot at him, but he keeps on bowin'.
Right here is where it took six men to keep
me from goin' out an beanin' him wid a
oar. De nut director said dat de double
somersault shouldn't ought to have been
done, but dat was a mere detail. Tink of
de noive of de guy — takin' de applause
just because he was a-doublin' for me.
What he should have done was to have
come ashore an' led me out by de han' to
take de bows — de big stiff.
Just for dat raw deal — I'm goin' to have
me own company as soon as convenient.
Why Do They Do It??
T
HE heroine, to indicate grief, flops about like a chicken that has just become fatally acquainted with a
hatchet.
The hero emerges from a twenty-minute wrestling match with spotless collar and hair whose part would
stand a surveyor's telescope.
The old man comes back from twenty years in the Klondike with the same shoes, same shirt, same
necktie, same haircut.
To express a simple emotion the caption-writer lugs in half of Mr. Webster's twin-six words.
These and many other things — why do they do it?
In July Photoplay we're going to establish a "Why-Do-They-Do-It ? " department. Jump right in
with your contribution. What have you seen, in the past month, which was stupid, unlifelike, ridiculous or
merely incongruous ?
Your identity will be protected. Your observation will be listed among the indictments of carelessness
on the part of the actor, author or director.
'But I am engaged to Captain Brotherton," concluded the girl softly.
The Deader
A MARITIME ECHO OF THE GREAT WAR
A steel waif of the sea, the "deader" brought from eternity a key
to unlock a heart which fate had bolted forever against love.
By Cyrus Townsend Brady
Illustrations by R. F. James
THIS is the story of three men, two
women and a "deader." It is always
the odd man — when it isn't the odd
woman — who makes the story. Without
him and the "deader" — and of course the
great newspaper — there would be nothing
to write except another account of a great
disaster.
"Deader" has a grim and mortuary
sound which utterly belies the thing it is.
John Carbrey, the head of the great Pic-
torial News Association, had this particular
"deader" in his hands. Nor did he have
a handful at that, for the "deader" was
approximately the size of a small thermos
bottle, and save for the rounding of the cap
of that useful article, a decided resem-
blance could be detected between the two.
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He looked long and earnestly at the
little cylinder of metal, tarnished, stained,
battered, just as it had come to him from
the vast deep. It had been brought to the
office of the United States consul at Bilbao,
Spain, a month before by the fisherman
who had picked it up. Etched deeply into
its side was this legend :
Finder please return unopened to
The New York Neivs,
New York, U. S. A.,
And receive liberal reward.
The American representative at that Bay
of Biscay port had been in the newspaper
business before he essayed diplomacy — ex-
cellent preparation, by the way — and he
recognized the "deader" as soon as he saw
it. By the first steamer he forwarded it to
his friend Carbrey, who had charge of the
illustrations of the News in connection with
the superintendence of the pictorial news
organization. It had come to Carbrey like
a voice from the dead. Many such
"deaders" had been jettisoned from sinking
ships in all the seven seas, but this was the
first one which had ever come back home.
It contained a message, undoubtedly,
from some hero on his staflp. As he opened
the containing box and took it out, having
previously read the consul's letter which
apprised him of its existence, he had a
queer feeling as if the "deader" were alive.
It was cold to his touch ; yet in spite of the
chill it seemed to radiate life. So unusual
and so important was the incident that he
had gone into the dark room himself to open
it and to develop the film that it contained.
Before it was dry he passed the roll before
his eyes. No prints had yet been made of
it, but as he sat there with the empty
cylinder in his hand, he could see again all
the pictures, and one in particular.
What was burned upon the retina of his
soul was the picture of a man and a woman.
They happened to be in the foreground of
the most important of all the pictures of
the disaster. In his excitement young Ayl-
ward, poising on the rail, working his
camera frantically, had perhaps overlooked
the near figures in his vision of the further
view, but there they were.
Aylward was the third man, Carbrey was
the second, or was "he the first? At any
rate, whatever the ultimate order, the man
in the foreground of the picture completed
the trio. Carbrey should have hated him,
but somehow he could not, although Broth-
erton — that was the name of the other
man — had taken from Carbrey what he
valued most in life.
How vividly the whole situation came
back to him ! He well remembered that
eventful day on which the huge leviathan
backed away from her pier and, prodded
and pulled and pushed by offensive tugs,
finally pointed her nose down the river. He
could see her again as, amid the cheers of
thousands, she took her departure on that
voyage which was to be her last, and the
last for the great majority of those who
stood on her decks smiling or weeping,
staring with eyes shining or tear-dimmed at
the swiftly receding shore.
And the woman he loved stood by his
side on the pier that day. Her eyes were
misted, her face pale when she finally
turned to him.
"Mr. Carbrey," she said, "My car is at
the end of the pier, if you are going up
town."
"I shall be very glad to avail myself of
your offer," said Carbrey. "Are you going
home?"
"Directly."
"Then with your permission I'll go with
you. I have something very important to
say to you."
"I shall be delighted," returned Elaine
Maywood. She got into the car and mo-
tioned Carbrey to follow, and as the car
crept slowly away amid the crowd of other
automobiles, it occurred to him that he
might just as well lose no time.
"W^e're just as private here. Miss May-
wood," he began after a moment of
thought, "so I might as well say what I
have to say now as later."
He was a very direct young American
who believed in going straight to the point.
He had come to New York a few years
before with no capital but his heart and his
head, his brains and his courage. He had
gone so straight to the point that now
he filled this unusual position despite his
youth, and he was in line for further
preferment.
"Mr. Carbrey," burst out the girl impul-
sively, "just a moment. What do you
think of those warnings?"
"Perhaps I can best answer that in this
way. Miss Maywood. I had five of my men
booked for passage on the steamer. When
the warnings came from the Embassy, I
withdrew them all. The gain from having
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And the woman he loved stood by his side on the pier that day.
them aboard didn't seem worth the risk. I
don't really think anything will happen to
the ship, but something might and I de-
cided not to take any chances."
"And did any one object?"
"Young Aylward begged me to let him
go. Said he didn't believe there was the
least danger, but if there were, it might be
well to have a camera man on the spot, that
his passage had been booked, he hated to
back out, that no one had ever frightened
him out of any job by vague threats and
he wanted to go."
"What did you say?"
"I told him that I wouldn't order him
on the duty, but that if he volunteered I
shouldn't enter any objections."
"And so he is aboard her?" she asked.
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"Yes, with his camera, a supply of films,
some 'deaders' and whatever other per-
sonal things he wartts."
"What are 'deaders'?"
"Small metal* cylinders with a hermetic-
ally sealed air chamber and with a remov-
able and water-tight cap."
"And what are they for?"
"When a man has snapped a roll of
film, he takes it out of his camera, wraps
and seals it, sticks it in the 'deader,' closes
it, and in case he is about to drown, he
trusts it to the waves in the hope that s'ome-
body will pick it up and send it back
to me."
"I hope Mr. Aylward won't have to use
one."
"I hope not, too," said Carbrey. "I
don't think he will. I think it's all a bluff.
I don't believe they'd dare do anything
to a passenger ship."
"That's what Captain Brotherton said."
"Oh, Captain Brotherton."
"Yes. As he has fully recovered from
his wound, he cabled to the British war
office and they told him to come back on
the first steamer and they would send him
back to the trenches again. Isn't it
horrible?"
"Awful. But I don't want to talk about
Captain Brotherton, or Aylward, or the
ship, but about you."
"About me?"
"Yes, I think every woman knows when
a man's in love with her. We don't seem
to be able to keep it from her and — "
"Oh, please don't."
"I must. You know it, of course. I
certainly cannot approach your father
financially, but I have already amassed a
reasonable competence and I have acquired
a certain confidence in my ability to get
myself anything I want — "
The girl flashed a look at «him which he
caught, of course.
"Except you, Miss Maywood. I'm as
diffident there, I might almost say as hope-
less, as I would be if I were a boy who
followed you from afar, but I really have a
fine position. It affords me magnificent
opportunities, but I do not care to dilate
on those things. I love you as I never
thought to love any human being. If you
could care for me just a little, perhaps I
could win you."
"I'm very sorry, Mr. Carbrey. Ever
since you helped me so much in the railroad
accident when you were reporting for the
News several years ago, I have liked you.
I have followed your progress with a cer-
tain sort of pride — "
"You have every right to take pride in
it, because since that day I have had you
to stimulate my ambition."
"But I am engaged to Captain Broth-
erton," concluded the girl softly.
There was a long silence between them.
She put out her hand at last and rested it
on his arm with a little impulsive tender-
ness of gesture as if to soften the rejection.
One of the first things a newspaper man
has to learn is self-control. Carbrey had
been educated in the hard school of experi-
ence and he had learned it. Savagely
checking a passionate desire to clutch the
little hand that lay so lightly on his sleeve
and a greater desire to sweep the woman
to his breast, Carbrey spoke at last. He
spoke clearly, but there was a break in his
voice which the woman recognized and at
which, for all her engagement, she thrilled.
"Of course, I might have known it,"
said the young American. "A soldier, a
'V. C with all the glamour of heroic ex-
ploit and all the appeal of wounds — what
chance had a newspaper man?"
"Newspaper men are soldiers of peace,"
said the woman. "You must not talk of
yourself that way. Look at Mr. Aylward."
"Yes," said Carbrey, "I suppose so. One
question."
He turned and fixed a clear penetrating
gaze upon the girl and she bravely sustained
his look, albeit her color flamed and her
heart throbbed.
"I'm very unconventional. I want you
to tell me just one thing and then I shall
trouble you no more."
"What is that?"
"Do you love Captain Brotherton?"
The red deepened in her cheeks and then
the color slowly ebbed and left her pale.
It was a question Carbrey had no right to
ask, which no afi^ection he might have enter-
tained for her warranted him in putting to
her. Following her first impulse, she
might indignantly have refused to answer,
but there was something compelling in the
look of the man. She was stirred to the
very depths of her being by the suppressed
passion that was in his voice, that, some-
how, had got into her heart, the evidence
of a great love. Somehow or other, the
truth was wrested from her unwilling lips.
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"I like him very much," she faltered.
"He is a soldier and a gentleman, a hero,
and he is very devoted to me. It pleases
my father and mother and everybody —
I — you have no right to question me in
this way."
"And if I had
spoken sooner,"
went on the man,
relentlessly, "I
might have — "
"Stop," said
the girl, "I can't
hear any more.
It's — it's disloyal.
He has gone away
to fight for his
country, with my
promise to him,
with trust in me,
that—"
"I understand,"
said C a r b r e y
grimly. "I shall
not interfere.
Forgive my blun-
dering. I haven't
known many
w o m e n — none
like you. If any-
thing ever hap-
pens, you'll re-
member I'm still
yours. You un-
derstand?"
"Yes, of course,
but nothing — "
"Allow me," he
said.
He called to
the chauffeur to
stop the car at the
nearest crossing.
He shook Miss
Maywood's hand,
bowed to her and
turned away. As
the car moved on,
the girl burst into
a passion of weep-
ing. Into Carbrey's riotous mind flashed a
diabolic wish that the ship might be blown
up, but because he was a clean-souled gen-
tleman, he put that out of his brain the
minute it came in. He was ashamed to
the core even for the transitory and natural
impulse. In the revulsion from his own
feeling, he prayed voicelessly that the God
of the great deep might watch over the
great ship.
That momentary impulse came back to
him poignantly when the first news of her
™ . ,, torpedoing f i 1 -
Ihe man in the ^ . ,, 1,1
foreground was ^ered through the
Captain P. V. St. air. The news-
George Brother- papers, his own
ton. leading, were soon
filled with the ac-
counts of the sur-
vivors. They had
a brave tale to tell
of young Pete
Aylward's devo-
tion to duty, how
he had stripped
himself of his
own life belt, how
he had worked
his camera to the
very last minute
and how he had
gone down with
the rest. His
body was washed
ashore some days
later. Attached to
it was his empty
camera and there
was one roll of
film and one
"deader" missing
from the comple-
ment in the case
strapped to his
belt.
A year had
passed, and it was
tiiat "deader"
w h i c h Carbrey
now held in his
hand. The man
in the foreground
of the most strik-
ing picture was
Captain P. V. St.
George Brother-
ton. He had his
arm around the waist of a woman whose
head was buried in his breast. His own
head was bent forward, his lips were
touching her hair. Aylward's camera had
been of the best. The bright sunlight
had streamed full on the pair. The pic-
ture was beautifully clear and distinct.
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There was no mistaking the look in Broth-
erton's eyes.
That was the problem which Carbrey had
to face. The year had brought him no
hope. After allowing a decent interval to
elapse, he had gone again to see Elaine
Maywood and she had received him gladly.
It did not augur well for his suit that she
herself made public the fact of her engage-
ment as soon as the death of Captain Broth-
erton had been established. But neverthe-
less he had gone. To his practical mind,
a live love was better than a dead memory.
The black she wore might have warned him
that she did not hold the same view. He
went directly to the point.
"I'm very sorry for you," said he. "My
heart has ached for you, but Brotherton is
gone — "
"Mr. Carbrey, don't speak. It's useless."
"I must. No man has a right to accept
defeat until he has made his last try. I
don't think you loved him as I would have
the woman I make my wife love me," he
went on, "and so I have come to see if you
won't let me hope. Perhaps I should have
waited longer, but I couldn't."
"I didn't love him as he loved me,"
admitted the girl, "but since his death,
somehow or other, it seems to me that my
honor is involved, that if he knows of my
lack of faith now I must show him by my
devotion, that — oh, don't you understand?"
"I see your point of view, but it's not
mine. Don't you care for me a little bit?"
"A great deal."
"And if I had been first and he had not
been—"
"Yes, I might, but it's cruel of you to
ask me. It's horrible of me to admit it.
And I can give you no other answer. He
loved me so, he was so devoted to me, he
was so proud of me, he built so many
plans. I see him and I hear him. As you
are strong and merciful, don't ask me any
more."
And Carbrey had gone away uncon-
vinced, dissatisfied. He had not lost hope.
They were both young. It was Elaine's
first season. He could wait. Meanwhile
Elaine Maywood in her secret heart loved
him and sometimes, indeed with growing
frequency, regretted that honor as she con-
ceived it, and fidelity as she expressed it,
kept them apart. Now fortune had played
into his hands. In the last moment before
he died Brotherton was not thinking of
Elaine Maywood. It was quite evident
that Aylward had just time enough to take
out the film and slip it into the "deader"
before the ship went down. In the photo-
graph the water was frightfully near the
deck level. The last boat apparently was
just about to pull away. There could not
have been more than a minute between
Brotherton and death and in that minute he
had another woman in his arms ! He was
kissing her hair, he was pressing her face
against his breast as if to shut from her
eyes the horrible sight.
Was Brotherton a traitor to Elaine?
Somehow or other Carbrey could not think
so. In spite of himself, he liked and
admired the laughing, gallant, dashing
young Englishman. Yet that damning
evidence !
The newspapers had been filled with the
story of Brotherton's helpfulness, how he
had encouraged the passengers, how he
had provided for women and children, how
he had died apparently worthy of the V. C.
he had received on the bullet-swept field,
evidencing another and perhaps higher
quality of valor. To show this picture
would be like hitting a man when his back
was turned, when he was down, when he
was dead even, and he could not destroy
Miss Maywood's trust in her lover. He
could not win her in that way.
That picture was the most vital of the
whole series. Nor could the two figures in
the foreground be cut out without ruining
the whole. He had either to print it as it
was or to destroy it. He owed a duty to
his paper and to the public. He had no
right to destroy that picture. He owed a
duty to that dauntless young camera man
too. The picture must go in the paper.
Of course he could have blurred the face
of Brotherton, but again he shrank from
that. If there hadn't been so many per-
sonal things involved, he would have wel-
comed the picture. It gave the human
touch of romance, of sympathy, of love,
of passion, to the tragedy. Others had
seen it — the man who assisted him in de-
veloping it.
He decided. Calling a ta.xi he was
driven to the office of Philip Maywood.
He had met Mr. Maywood, and he secured
ready admittance to his private office.
"Mr. Maywood," he began, "you know
I am devoted to your daughter. But she is
loyal to the memorv of Captain Brotherton."
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"You aren't exactly the husband I should
have picked out for her, Carbrey," said
Maywood, frankly, "but if you can wean
her away from her obsession and get her
to take a cheerful view of life again, I'll
be glad. It's horrible. She nurses her
grief. It preys upon her. I am afraid
it will kill her. She wants to go to Europe
and offer herself for service."
"Mr. Maywood," said Carbrey, "look
at that."
"I see," said Maywood quietly. "It's
Brotherton, and with another woman. This
ought to settle things."
"I can't use it."
"But I can."
"I can't let you. I couldn't win her that
way."
"Where did you get the photograph?"
Rapidly Carbrey narrated the incident.
"What are you going to do— suppress
it?"
"I can't do that either. I have a duty to
Aylward— to the newspaper and to the
public."
"But she will certainly see it. She reads
your paper regularly, sometimes I think
because it is yours."
"You must take her away tonight. I'll
see that you are provided with an edition
from which that picture is omitted."
"Where shall I take her?"
"To Boston, or any place you like. If
you can keep her away for a few days, it
will all have blown over by the time she
returns."
"I'll do what you ask, but I think she is
bound to see it sooner or later."
"That is a risk we must take. I am
only doing the best I can."
"We'll start at once," concluded May-
wood. "I'll telephone that I want her to
go with me to Boston. She has friends
there and she has been intending to vi.sit
them for some time."
"Don't let her buy a paper. What train
will you take?"
Maywood looked at his watch.
"We ought to be able to get the Knick-
erbocker Limited."
"The papers will be there. I'll bring
them myself."
Carbrey was at the train when May-
wood, his wife and daughter came down
the platform.
"Knowing your interest," began Carbrev,
directly they were in the compartment Mr.
Maywood had reserved, "I brought you the
first edition." He handed her the story
of the "deader" and its contents.
The girl studied the sheet through a
half minute of tense silence.
"Is there no picture of — "
"I'm sorry to say, no," said Carbrey.
"You will find them all here. If anything
else comes up, I'll let you know through
your father's oflice in Boston."
"I shall return to New York within the
week," answered the girl. "If you can
come up to see me then, I shall'be very
glad."
"I'll come," he answered.
Mr. Maywood followed Carbrey to the
door.
"I'll let you know if she finds out any-
thing," he whispered.
No word came. Carbrey told the society
editor to let him know when the Maywoods
got back. He had been fighting down
hopes and prayers that she might learn the
truth in- spite of all the efforts he had made
to prevent her, fighting them down with
that same feeling of shame which he had
before experienced.
Five days later the society editor told
him that the Maywoods had returned the
night before. She had scarcely left his
private office when the telephone rang. He
recognized Elaine's voice.
"I'm back, Mr. Carbrey," she began.
"Have you heard any more?"
"Nothing."
"You're coming to see me soon, aren't
you?"
"This afternoon."
"I shall expect you. By the way, do
you know a Mi.ss Betty Walton?"
"I've never even heard the name."
"W«hat time will you be here?"
"About two o'clock."
Yes, the Maywoods had returned the
night before and the daughter of the house
had found several cards bearing the unfa-
miliar name of Miss Walton on her desk.
Inquiry from the servants revealed the fact
that a young lady in deep mourning had
called a number of times and had said
that she would call again. Miss Maywood
dismissed the matter as of no consequence,
yet she felt a certain curiosity when the
same card was put in her hand the next
morning. She received Miss Walton in the
drawing room.
"Miss Maywood," began the young
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woman, "for your sake I have remained
silent, but since the publication of this, I
realized that further concealment was
unnecessary."
"This" was a copy of the News, on the
front page of which was the great picture
of the wreck. In the foreground stood
Captain P. V. St. George Brotherton,
clasping in his arms a woman. Miss May-
wood stared at it in astonishment. Her
first feeling of resentment was followed
by a wave of relief.
"It's Captain Brotherton!" she said
inanely, at last.
"Yes."
"And the woman in his arms is — "
"It is I."
"I don't understand."
"Let me explain. I knew that he was
engaged to you. He told me so. But after
he met me he loved me only. Don't think
him a traitor. He was ashamed. He
fought against it. He would never have
told me. I should never have known had
it not been for the disaster. Don't you
know that love is born at a meeting, by a
look, a word, a gesture? Well, it was that
way with us, and when we stood together
on the deck before he put me in the last
boat, he had not spoken of his love for me,
although we had been together every min-
ute of the voyage. Honor bound him, but
now that he was about to die, he could not
refrain from telling me. I don't think I
should tell 3'ou any more."
"No," said the other woman, "I don't
wish to hear any more."
"I should have kept silent for his sake
and yours after — but when this picture
came out there was no longer any reason
for concealment, so I have come to vou to
ask you if you have a picture of him that
you will give me. If you loved him as I did,
you would understand and there shouldn't
be any jealousy now because he couldn't
help it and he's — gone." Miss Walton
broke down. She buried her face in her
hands and sobbed. "You must hate me,"
she murmured. "You must think — "
"Hate you?" asked Miss May wood. "I'm
the happiest girl living. 1 respected Cap-
tain Brotherton and 1 honored him. He
was surrounded by a halo of romance. He
made such delightful love to me! You
sliall have pictures — anything that you
like."
When Carbrey was sliown into the draw-
ing room that afternoon he found a
stranger there. A woman stood by the win-
dow, with bowed head. There was some-
thing in her appearance that was vaguely
familiar. Not in vain had he spent hours
staring at that picture of the lovers on the
deck of the sinking ship ! Presently she
turned, as Elaine entered. Carbrey per-
ceived that Elaine had taken off her
mourning.
"John," she said, extending a hand that
trembled, "this is* Miss Walton. She is the
lady who was in Captain Brotherton's arms
in the picture you didn't let me see !"
Carbrey stared. Love is a great illumi-
nant. Miss Walton looked from one to the
other.
"This," she said at last, "is the man j'ou
spoke about?"
"Yes," answered Miss Maywood.
"Your man?" asked Miss Walton slowly.
"Mine!" cried Elaine, nodding and
smiling as her cheeks flamed.
Miss Walton- turned. In a second the
door closed behind her retreating figure.
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Studio Conditions as I Know Them
WANTON WASTE AND IGNORANT EFFICIENCY.
THE BESETTING EVILS OF STUDIO MANAGEMENT
Captain Leslie T. Peacocke
ANYONE can wield a hammer, but it
ill becomes one to rap too heavily on
the crust of the pie in which one is
dipping one's own lingers !
Besides, any new industry, like a new
country, must go through a leveling process
until it is established on a sound and sane
basis.
Studio conditions have changed and are
changing every day. In the studios of some
film companies in which wanton waste and
extravagance were rampant, so-called "effi-
ciency" systems have been established, and
are tending to cheapen and destroy an in-
dustry which can only be kept alive by an
adequate expenditure of money on pro-
ductions.
No one should, or can, conscientiously,
advocate wanton waste or extravagance.
That only spells ultimate ruination, and a
number of film companies have gone to the
wall because there was no one to stop the
management in its glorious financial joy-
rides. Some companies have taken warn-
ing ; but the question is, are they not
going too far in the other extreme?
Are they not cheapening their productions
to such an extent as to disgust the paying
public, and driving the glorious industry
in which we have all taken such pride and
interest to the inglorious fate of roller
skating and willow plumes? One can re-
member— it was not so long ago — when
every woman who aimed to be well dressed
sported a willow plume, until the avari-
cious manufacturers started to make them
of ramee grass, and now it is doubtful
whether any woman, rich or poor, would
accept a genuine willow plume as a gift !
Once the public is sickened of anything,
no film-doctor can revive its first interest.
The film industry is relying on an admiring,
willing and patient public, but we don't
want the public to become a patient.
Now, to come down to studio conditions
and actual facts. There is no object to
be gained by mentioning the names of stu-
dios or by engaging in personalities, inter-
esting though they may be, and, anyhow,
I have never had any use for a hammer, or
for those who wield one. I shall merely
cite instances of wanton waste stupidly per-
mitted in the difl^erent departments of
various film producing companies.
In the production department of one
company the directors were given carte
blanche to engage the actors and arrange
their salaries, to engage the cameramen, to
take their companies anywhere they pleased
to film the exterior scenes and to hire as
many automobiles as they wanted and to use
as much film as they liked. The directors'
main object appeared to me to be to burn
up as much of the company's money as
they could, and to boast to their friends
that they were not "cheap skates."
In the scenario department conditions
were ludicrous. The editor was a capable
man, but his position was made negligible
by his being employed to review the re-
leases and to report on them. The result
was that if he did not praise the work of
every director, he was abused by them and
blamed for having passed judgment on the
stories before they were produced, when
as a matter of fact, nearly all the directors
were either writing their own stories and
getting paid for them, or having them writ-
ten by their friends and lady-loves. There
were several staff writers employed in the
scenario department who were supposed to
turn out three one-reel original photoplays
a week, but few of them were produced
because the directors and their friends were
writing the stories they wanted, and those
written by the staff writers were buried
in what was facetiously called the
"morgue" — where hundreds of them still
lie buried. Some of the directors would
occasionally dip into the "morgue," with
the object of gaining sdme ideas for the
"original" stories which they claimed were
formulated in their own brilliant craniums,
and for which they themselves were paid
at the rate of twenty-five dollars a reel,
when they started to produce the stories.
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One little episode tickled me immensely,
because it hit me personally. On going
through the studio one day I came across
a scenario on which one of the directors
was working and recognized it as one which
I had written about a month previously.
The front sheet of the manuscript had been
torn off and replaced by another, on which
the title of the story had been changed and
the director's name inserted as the author
of the story. Well, the company paid for
that story twice.- They paid me as a staff
writer, and the director got
fifty dollars, as it was a two-
reel story and he claimed
the authorship. I don't be-
lieve that director knows
that I knew what he had
done, because I have often
met him since and he greets
me cordially without a
blush.
One day a tremendous
packing case arrived in the
scenario department. It was filled with old
weeklies and monthlies, periodicals that
were green with age, and replete with
serial stories, mostly dealing with wicked
lords and trusting servant maids or shop
girls — you know the sort — the servants of
our great-grandmothers reveled in them —
and it was understood that a prominent
employee of the company had secured this
bunch of mildewed truck for the modest
sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, with
full permission to work all the stories over
into photoplays. A number of "readers"
were immediately hired to read the hun-
dreds of stories and make synopses of them,
which were to be turned over to the staff
writers as bases for photoplays. There
were six "readers" employed for six months
on this job at the modest stipend of twenty-
five dollars a week, and after the six months
only one story was found from which a
photoplay could possibly be made.
Now, the joke of the matter was this.
None of the stories was copyrighted, and
it was obvious to anyone but an idiot that
the bunch of old periodicals had been
secured from some old junk shop, and if
the junk dealer received more than five
dollars for that pile of trash, he must have
been a brilliant salesman ! And that is
how things went in the scenario department.
In the main offices of the company all
were so busy playing "politics" that they
W/^ ANTON waste spells
ruination, and many
a film company has gone
to the wall because there
was no one to stop the
management in its glori-
ous financial joy-rides.
didn't seem to care whether school kept
or not, and of course the money kept pour-
ing in, because, one may say what one likes,
but the moving picture business is one of
the biggest money-making businesses in the
world.
The president of that company is now
rated as many times a millionaire, so I
don't suppose he is worrying over past ex-
travagances. However, the film business
is now striking the open market and things
are different. Wanton waste won't make
millions, as formerly.
In another company one
of the managing directors
controlled the rights to a
number of old stage plays
and secured the film rights
to a number of books, and
all he worried about was
unloading them on the com-
pany at a big profit to him-
self. I expect he made a
pile of money, but it was
hard work for the poor devils of scenario
writers to make five-reel photoplays out
of that old, time-worn, plotless bunch of
rubbish.
An appalling amount of money was
wasted in other ways, too. I have seen
several hundreds of "extra people" engaged
at from three to five dollars a day, told to
report for work and to "make up" (after
which they had to be paid) but that was
all that they were required to do, because
no director had need of them. I subse-
quently learned that the person who
engaged the "extras" was working hand in
glove with an employment agent and that
they were splitting the commissions which
the "extras" had to pay the agent. That
company must have spent several thousands
of dollars a week for "extra people" who
were never required to face the camera.
In another company things went as gaily
as a picnic. The directors there, too, were
given full sway to do as they liked. One
festive director was handed a bunch of
money and sent off with the actors and
cameramen of his own choosing, on an
old ship that was chartered by the com-
pany, to the sunny shores of the South
Atlantic coast. And from all accounts
they had a great time ! They did not make
many film productions, but I learned that
they made a host of friends and that the
ship soon qualified as one of the merriest
Studio Conditions as I Know Them
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houseboats that ever hugged a hospitable
shore. In the midst of a splendid orgy the
ship was put to sea and the director and
the skipper of the vessel indulged in a bat-
tle royal for possession of the helm. The
director won, the ship went to the bottom
about a mile from shore and the company
had to return to the far distant studio
ignominiously by rail. That little picnic
cost the company, I believe, about twenty-
five thousand dollars.
This all shows what needless and sense-
less expenditure of good
money there has been. Now
let us take a clear jump over
the sane, art-loving produc-
ers of moving pictures and
land in the camp of the other
extreme, the would-be mur-
derers of the industry.
In several of the plants
there have been installed
systems which have been
sadly misnamed "efficiency,"
installed for the most part by ignorant in-
efficients — that is, by men who are ignorant
of everything pertaining to moving pictures.
In one big producing plant a gentle-
man was installed as general manager who
openly admitted that he had never even
seen a producing company at work, that
he had seen very few pictures on the
screen, and that he neither liked them nor
understood them. He claimed to be an
"efficiency expert" — whatever that may
be — and that he would be able to reduce
the cost of productions to a minimum and
would show all the other film producing
companies that the whole moving picture
business could, and should, be run on the
sweatshop factory plan.
Well, this is what he did.
To begin with, he installed a scenario
editor who had never written a scenario
and told him to clean up the scenario de-
partment. This editor dived into the
"morgue" and drew forth all the photo-
plays that had been written by the staff
writers, who had all been previously dis-
missed from the. department, and sent the
scripts back to the authors, with rejection
slips enclosed, stating that the company
did not want them, as they were not avail-
able for the company's requirements. These
scripts, mind you, were the actual property
of the company, having been written by
the staff writers on its payroll. One of the
TN some studios, so-called
"efficiency" systems
have been installed by
ignorant inefficients —
that is, by men who are
ignorant of everything
pertaining to moving pic-
tures.
staff writers that I know placed his re-
jected scripts in the hands of a literary
agent, and the brilliant general manager,
the "efficiency expert," purchased ten of
those rejected scripts from the agent at the
modest rate of fifty dollars a reel. They
were all one-reel photoplays, and the happy
staff writer was paid five hundred dollars,
minus the agent's ten per cent commission,
for scripts for which he had already re-
ceived payment as a salaried employee of
the company.
I understand that the gen-
eral manager bought many
thousands of dollars' worth
of photoplays, books and
stage plays at fancy prices
from all sorts of sources and
that he was looked upon by
the literary agents in New
York as the best and softest
thing that had ever blown
down the Great White
Way.
Then he dismissed nearly all the high-
salaried directors and appointed in their
places men who had never directed any-
thing or anybody before, with direful re-
sults, some of which a shuddering public
has seen on the screen, and some of which
will, happily, never be seen, because fully
thirty-five per cent of the productions under
the brilliant "efficiency" management have
turned out so badly that the company can
never release them.
The "expert" said that the directors
were wasting their time in cutting and
assembling their own pictures and in-
stalled a nimiber of boys as "film cutters,"
many of whom had never even seen a piece
of film before. One of them, I know,
had been a bellboy in a hotel where the
general manager had formerly lodged, and
because the boy was hard up and in need
of employment, he pitchforked him into
one of the most important positions in the
studio, to cut the daylight out of produc-
tions and insert illiterate subtitles of his
own choosing.
I could write a great deal more about
this "efficiency expert," but what's the use?
The public that does not know the ridicu-
lous conditions existing in some studios
would hardly believe that I was stating
actual facts. But this situation is well
known to all in the film business, and the
exhibitors know — they know it to their cost !
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In another studio where a so-called
"efficiency expert" ^Has employed to revolu-
tionize matters, all was soon in such a state
of chaos that one big production alone was
hanky-pankyed with until its cost was about
thirty-five thousand dollars, and then it
was only half completed. The leading
players left in disgust, and the unfinished
production will have to be consigned to
the junk pile. The "expert" and his crew
are now looking for another film company
to take them in and allow them to demon-
strate how to run a moving
picture plant on an im-
up-to-date "effi-
basis. Oh, the pity
proved,
ciency"
of it!
Now, let us come to the
happy gap between wanton
waste and efficient ignorance
— to those studios in which
really artistic film produc-
tions are made and in which
sane and worth-while sys-
tems of efficiency have been established.
In one company now famous for its
artistic productions and for the big finan-
cial success it is achieving, the staff writers
are encouraged to collaborate in adapting
the plays and books into five-reel photo-
plays, and the general manager of produc-
tions, himself a brilliant playwright and
scenario writer, goes carefully over every
script. Then the director is called into
consultation and any changes that mav be
agreed upon are made before the produc-
tion is commenced. After that the director
it not allowed to make any changes.
The best film cutters procurable are
employed and work with the directors
in cutting and assembling the produc-
tions, and the most famous feminine
stage and film stars are engaged at top-
notch salaries and are being properly
exploited. Big salaries are paid by this
company to the persons who deserve them,
in every department of the studio, but there
is no wanton waste anywhere. The head
of each department is an expert in his or
her line. This firm is making money and
will continue to do so. The heads of the
organization are all artistic showmen and
know their business, and the exhibitors and
the public have confidence in their pro-
ductions. They are stamped with the
hall-mark of true efficiency.
In the studios of another company which
TN the July number of
this magazine. Captain
Peacocke will discuss a
question which is perti-
nent to all aspiring sce-
nario writers — " Original
Photoplays Versus Adap-
tation."
is making rapid strides to prominence, a
most excellent system has been installed.
An "efficiency club" has been organized,
composed of the heads of every department,
and all in the employ of the company are
subject to the rulings of this tribunal. If
an employee is adjudged "inefficient" by
the "club," he or she is called before the
tribunal and warned, and if marked im-
provement is not shown within a stated
time, the person is discharged.
The proprietors of this company, who
are college-bred men with a
thorough knowledge of every
branch of the film produc-
tion business, from the writ-
ing of the scenario to the cut-
ting and assembling of the
film, do not interfere with the
rulings of the heads of the
departments. They trust
their employees to do the
right thing. They have an
excellent young business
manager who watches every point and there
is no wanton waste anywhere. This com-
pany has four separate outlets for its pro-
ductions and is being forced to enlarge
its plant, threatening, before very long, to
become one of the largest producing studios
in the world — all of which is the result of
careful, sane efficiency.
In another gigantic studio, where comedy
holds sway, there is, necessarily, a deal of
what looks, at first view, like extraordinary
waste. But the comedy productions turned
out by this company call for much destruc-
tion of property. And in spite of this
apparently ruthless destruction, care and
method are always employed. The comedies
of this company are world famous and the
enormous financial returns seem to war-
rant the expenditure.
The directors do not use a scenario that
is worked out in continuity, but a detailed
synopsis, and the scenario editor, who is
also the manager of productions, and his
big staff of writers, all assist in giving
comedy ideas to the directors, and aid in
subtitling the productions. The result of
this system is" that every bit of "business"
and every subtitle is made to score a com-
edy point. The head of this organization
is the foremost comedy director in the
world and knows what the exhibitors and
the public want, and he sees that they get
it. He has brought "efficiency" to science.
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The Road to Biskra
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(Coiitiiiiicd
fallen into our hands. This little secre-
tary"— he clapped him on the back — "is
Captain Drew, the right-hand man of the
intelligence service. The cadi is a cele-
brated Indian judge, loyal to the core, and
brought by us to Biskra because he's a
staunch Mohammedan, though he was not
above pretending that the law required
your death unless you apostatized or
changed your state for that of a Moslem's
bride. Ali Singh is a bachelor, and a cap-
ital fellow, and dearly loves his joke, and
I think he really was taken with you."
"Joke!" exclaimed Peggy tragically,
thinking of all that she had gone through.
"And you call that a joke?"
"But I assure you that you really were
in considerable danger at the hands of that
fanatical mob, and it required a good deal
of enterprise to save you," answered Fan-
shawe seriously. "We couldn't have spared
you much, although we might have less-
ened that part about the execution. But
honestly, we were sure vou'd give in at the
end."
"Then I forgive you," said Peggy mag-
nanimously, "because you said you'd give
me the time of mv life, and I must admit
from page 66)
that you gave it to me with a vengeance."
And she laughed, roguishly.
"And I said I'd get your auto and truck
too," grinned Fanshawe. "And the money
— I can't give that back either. The goods
are contraband, you know."
Peggy was very serious for a while.
"I suppose I undertook a foolish errand,"
she said at last, "and I still feel I owe
my life to you. And I feel better pleased
with myself when I remember how I re-
jected you."
"I'm a married man with six children,
and longing to see them all again," said
Fanshawe triumphantly. "Now if you had
accepted Ali. . . . No, I fancy you don't
score at all, Miss Roche."
"There's just one thing I want to ask
you," said Peggy presently. "You say it
isn't Moslem law that an infidel woman
must become a Mohammedan or marry one.
What was it, then, that Ali said about
me to those wiseacres that made them all
nod their heads?"
Fanshawe exploded. "He was asking
them whether a bald-headed judge was a
living proof of patriarchal wisdom or of a
bad-tempered wife," lie answered finally.
About the Ince-Photoplay Scenario Contest
AN ITEM FOR THE ATTENTION OF THE
THOUSANDS WHO ENTERED THIS
GREAT AUTHORSHIP COMPETITION
PHOTOPLAY has had a lot of impatient inquiries, during the past month, about
the decisions in the big scenario contest instituted many months ago by this maga-
zine and Thomas H. Ince.
Just about the time of this contest's closing The Triangle Film Corporation, of
which Mr. Ince is now the biggest individual manufacturer, underwent a complete
reorganization. Mr. Ince became Triangle's general manager of production for the
West. In addition to assuming these new responsibilities he was compelled to con-
tinue production, as usual, in his own establishments at Culver City and Inceville.
Since January first he has been working nearly eighteen hours out of every twenty-
four, and the heads of Triangle have been blaming Providence because he wasn't
born triplets. •
Yet, if you'll remember, we promised you, and Mr, Ince promised you, that the
manuscripts would have his personal attention, and the selection of the winners would
be his personal affair — no one else's. That's why we believed this contest distinctly
worth while, and because everyone concerned is bound to keep it worth while, final
decisions have been delayed until Mr. Ince, personally, can examine the meritorious
manuscripts with the same scrupulous and impartial care that he gives the most
important details of his great business.
These manuscripts are now in his hands.
His decisions will be made in a very short time, and are to be speedily announced
in this magazine.
Patience !
PHOTOPLAY ACTORS
Find the Film Players'
THE PRIZES
1st Prize $10.00 3rd Prize $3.00
2nd Prize 5.00 4th Prize 2.00
Ten Prizes, Each $1.00
Tliese awards (all in cash, without any string to
tliem) are for tiie correct, or nearest correct, sets of
answers to the ten pictures here shown.
As the names of most of these movie people have
appeared many, many times before the public, we feel
sure you must know tliem.
Tliis novel contest is a special feature department
of I'hotopiay Jlagazine for the interest and benefit of
its readers, at absolutely no cost to them the Photo-
play Magazine way.
The awards are all for this month's contest.
TRY IT
All answers to this set must be mailed before Ju
1. 1917.
WINNERS OF THE APRIL PHOTO
First Prize.. . .$10.00— Miss Vanna Olson, Os-
wego, N. Y.
Second Prize.. 5.00— Miss Dora Howe,
Charleston, S. C.
Third Prize. . . 3.00— J. H. McMtUlen, Coun-
cil Bluffs, la.
Fourth Prize.
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2.00— Mrs. Frank Forshee,
Flint, Mich.
f Mrs. P. Jacobs, Chi-
I cago. 111.
I Miss Lois J. Burr, Un-
I ionville, Conn.
$1.00 Prizes to | ^iss Ruth E Phillips,
Pocatello, Idaho.
I Mrs. M. C. Champagne,
I Memphis, Tenn.
I Miss Dolly Grieb, Mil-
[ waukee. Wis.
NAME PUZZLE
Names in These Pictures
DIRECTIONS
Each picture reiucsents the name of a photophiy
actor or actress. The actor's name is really a descrip-
tion of the picture tliat goes with it ; for examjile
"Rose intone" miglit be represented by a rose and a
rocli or stone, while a jjawky appearing individual look-
ing at a spider web could be "Web .lay."
For your convenience and avoidance of mistakes, we
have left space under eacli picture on which you may
write your answers. Remember to write your full name
.ind address on tlie margin at tlie bottom of both pages.
Cut (jut these pages and mail in. or you may send in
your answers on a separate sheet of paper, but be sure
they are numbered to correspond with the number of
each picture, '["here are 1 O answers.
Address to Puzzle Editor, Photoplay JIagazine, 3 50
Xortli Clark Street, Chicago.
We have eliminated from this contest all red tape
and expense to you, so please do not ask us iiuestions.
Only one set of answers allowed each contestant.
Awards for answers to this set will be publislied in
Plintoplay Magazine. Look for this contest each month.
PLAY ACTORS NAME PUZZLE
$1.00 Prizes to
[Continued)
Miss Edwyna Silacci,
Pt. Reyes Station,
Cal.
Oliver Stockman, An-
derson, Ind.
Mrs. Cora Van Gorder,
Scranton, Pa.
Miss Martha C. Damon,
Lowell, Mass.
Mr. Glen H. Gordon,
Kansas City, Mo.
1— Edith Sterling
2— Mary Fuller
3 — Jane Grey
4— Pearl White
5 — Seena Owen
CORRECT ANSWERS FOR
APRIL
6— Earl Metcalf
7 — Mable Van Buren
8 — Charley Chaplin
9 — Bryant W a s h -
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10— Frank Mayo
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Next Friday Evening
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Comparatively Speaking
THEY were showing pictures of American
animals in an Edinburgh picture palace.
On the screen was a photograph of a moose,
browsing.
"What's yon animal ?" asked a Scot.
"Yon's a moose," replied the usher.
"A moose ! God a'michty, if a moose is
yon size, what the de'il size '11 a rat be, ower
j-onder?"
Charles Murphy, Montreal, Quebec
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Encouragement
IT was a serious melodrama. Through the
machinations of the villain, the Apollo-like
hero, after a frantic sprint, was left behind
by the boat which was to have borne him to the
bedside of his dying mother. As his despair-
ing face was shown in a close-up, a hoarse,
strained voice came from the gallery:
"Go on! You can make it in two jumps!"
■ R. P. Conway, Philadelphia, Pa.
Skeptical
SHE has seen just eighteen summers," he
said, referring to the particular ingenue
whose film exploits were then engaging their
attention.
"Gee, how long was she blind?" inquired his
feminine companion.
M. Anson, Worcester, Mass.
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Ham and —
MY little six-year-old neighbor's chief dififi-
culty in learning his Sunday school lesson
seemed to be in committing to memory the
names of Noah's sons. He repeated each one
after me several times and then I asked him
to tell me the story of Noah. He did very
well until he came to naming the sons again,
but started out bravely with "Shem."
"Ham," I prompted.
"Oh, now I know," he shouted. "Shem,
Ham and Bud !"
Esther Krefcman. Fort Wayne, Ind.
Branded
THE young hero and heroine of the comedy
were pictured before the marriage license
window in the courthouse.
"Which one will wear the tag?" eargerly
inquired a small boy who had recently become
the proud possessor of a dog.
Elsie Stevenson, Beloit, Wis.
Reg'lar Fellers
"r^O you know where little boys go who
M-J don't put their money on the Sunday
collection plate ?"
"Sure ! To the movies."
L. M. Qninn, Phoeni.\-ville, Pa.
Calling His Bluff
AS a young movie man. who had just been
promoted to the management of a small
house, was seated in his office, he heard foot-
steps on the stairs. \\Mshing to make a good
impression, he took the telephone and, hold-
ing down the lever, seemed to be talking to
a big companj- about films, stars and high-
priced engagements.
"No, I can't give more than a thousand
dollars for those reels. Good-bye."
Then facing the caller in the most approved
business manner: "Who are you, sir?"
Answered the visitor meekly, "I just dropped
in to connect up j'our phone, sir."
/. W. Parker, Notre Dame, Indiana.
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Farnum Nut, Brooklyn, N. Y. — You are
evidently mistaken about the answers you say
you read in Photoplay. Probably got them
mixed with others elsewhere. It is our aim to
give our readers only authentic information, and
in most instances where mistakes have been made,
they have been due to misinformation provided
by the principals themselves. Thomas Meighan
played opposite Marie Doro in "Common
Ground." Franklyn Farnmn is not related to
Bill or Dusty. Earle Williams is back in harness
again.
Eleanor, Councii Bluff.';, Ia. — That ques-
tion has been asked almost as often as "What is
a lady?" A number of years ago London Truth
offered a prize for the best definition of a
gentleman and it was awarded to the following
definition selected from thousands of answers ;
"A gentleman is one who is as gentle as a
woman and as manly as a man." Henry La-
bouchere, then editor of Truth, gave this defini-
tion : "One who never intentionally gives
offense." Hope this solves all your troubles.
F. M., Sorel, Canada. — Our Swedish office boy,
alter wrestling with your letter, informs us that
you desire to ascertain whether Marie Walcamp
is the wife of Eddie Polo. She isn't.
J. B., Portsmouth, Va. — Mae Murray was born
in your city, but she left when she became con-
vinced that it would never be as large as Nor-
folk. Chester Conklin's native burg is Oskaloosa,
Iowa, so his nationality is lowan. Mable Nor-
mand's new photoplay will be released independ-
ently of any program. Marguerite Clark's newest
picture is "The Valentine Girl."
M. P. Admirer, Grand Forks, B. C. — We
cannot tell our readers why certain players do not
answer their letters. Perhaps you forgot an im-
portant formality when you wrote, viz. : signing
your name. That's what you did in writing us.
Peggy, Newport, R. I. — Should just love to
advise you, but we never took a course in domes-
tic relations. Beatrice Fairfax need never fear
for her job on our account. Page Peters, who
was drowned last year, was no relative of House
Peters'. We appreciate the confidence you have
placed in us.
Ray, Boston, Mass.- — Olga Grey was Mine.
Le Claire in "Double Trouble." There was no
Jane in "He Fell in Love with His Wife." For-
rest Stanley was James and Florence Rockwell
was the girl. Thanks for your good wishes.
P. G., Sidney, O. — Ella Hall is still playing
with Universal. Recently she has been appear-
ing in Bluebird photoplays made by that
company.
F. B., Ansonia, Conn. — Irving Cummlngs was
in a number of stock companies, but we are not
sure about his having been in New Haven.
Which "Count of Monte Cristo" do you mean?
Several companies have filmed this classic. Mr.
Bushman's eyes are blue. Miss Clark's hair
brown. It's her real name. Same for Blanche
Sweet. Miss Dawn is still with "The Century
Girl." Lucille Lee Stewart is the wife of Ralph
Ince.
Shorty, Crookston, Minn. — Norma Talmadge
was born in 1895 and Dorothy Dalton in 1893.
Miss Dalton formerly had a husband. Lew Cody,
also a film player. We have been told that
Douglas Fairbanks" salary is something like
$12,500 a week, with a percentage of the profits
made on his pictures, which are to be released
bv .\rtcraft.
Spizzerinktum Girl, Snyder, Tex. — So far as
we know, there never was a player named Ed-
mund Rosamund in any of the Gail Kane films,
or anywhere else. Can you visualize a goo'k who
would pick such a name? Yes, we think Grace
Cunard is a trifle older than her husband, but
love laughs at calendars, as Shakespeare, or some-
body, said. Ffear not, little one, your secret is
safe.
J. \. Y.. New York City. — Marjorie Rambeau
at this writing is the wife of Willard Mack —
in private life Charles M. McLaughlin — also a
well known player on stage and screen. Recently
she filed suit for divorce. "The Greater Woman"
marked Miss Rambeau's entry to the camera
stage. Dorothv Davenoort played opposite Lou-
Tellegen in "The E.xplorer," if she is the one
you mean. Certainly we are handsome. How in
the world could we answer these questions
otherwise?
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Paul. Detroit, Mich. — Surprised that you
should ask such a question. Jeff, the Blacksmith
in "The Birth of a Nation" is none other than
our old college chum, Wallace Reid.
S. M., Lebanox. Pa. — Thomas Holding is now
with Wharton at Ithaca, New York. Robert War-
wick is married, but his wife, we believe, is not a
player. Walter Stull is now with Vim.
Ruth, San Bernardino, Cal. — Camille Astor
appeared last, we believe, in Selig's "The Garden
of Allah." She has brown hair. You certainly
have a beautiful school.
J. J., KoKOMO, Ind. — Mary Pickford was 24
on the 8th day of April, 1917; she has no
children and her latest photoplay
"Jennie, the Unexpected,"
a story of the early west.
is entitled
E. G. A.. Leauville. Colo.- — Paul Willis is now
with the Yorke-Metro company in Los Angeles.
Billie Burke has an adopted daughter who
answers to the description in your letter. Your
sketch of the "Up-To-Date Girl" is so good that
we ha\ e handed it o\ er to the editor with a
recommendation that it be printed.
A. H., Newark, O. —
Lillian and Dorothy Gish
both weigh in the vicinity
of 110 pounds. Dorothy
was 19 in March a«d Lil-
lian will be 21 in October.
The latter is the taller by
an inch.
O. M., East New York.
N. Y. — George Walsh was
2S years old on March 16.
He has dark brown hair
and ditto eyes. We should
hardly describe him as
lovely, but there's no law
against so doing. Perhaps
you will find something
about him elsewhere in
this magazine.
Jennie, Fairbanks.
Alaska. — Some actresses
are prettier off the screen
than on, owing to the
vagaries of the photo-
graphic camera. In most
instances they are blondes
with exceptional color, both
as to hair and complexion,
which the camera does not
"get." Wait till we get
real color photography
arid there'll be some new
stars in the film firma-
ment.
Girlie, Bloomington,
III. — Yes, we've heard of
it ; even been there, but
why bring up those sorrowful subjects? Wallace
Reid is surely married to Dorothy Davenport
and Marguerite Clark has a secretary to answer
her letters, also a sister who lends valuable
assistance, but she answers many letters herself.
A MODEST REQUEST
Dear Answer Man of Photoplay,
Please listen to my woes :
They say I am a "find" out here.
But goodness only knows.
How I should look upon the screen,
Yet act I must, you see ;
The flame of genius burns anew,
And hence my earnest plea.
Perhaps I am a horrid "vamp,"
How can I know, forsooth,
L'ntil some rash director-man
Tells me the awful truth?
Or, I might be a sweet young thing
Aglow with girlhood's charms.
Just waiting for the hero grand
To fold me in his arms.
I might be cast for funny stunts —
How dreadful that would be
To have the custard pies and things
Flung swift and sure at me.
You're such a kind, obliging man,
I thought perhaps that you
Might take an interest in me, sir,
And tell me what to do.
To be a star and shed my light
Upon life's troubled sea —
Oh, can it be that joy like this
May come to little me?
I live out in the mountains wild
Quite near the Lonesome Pine,
So come and get me. Answer Man,
For I was born to shine.
— Lotta Nerve, East Orange, N. J.
CoPLAZA. Boston, Mass.
— Hope the Constance
Talmadge story in the
May issue satisfied your
craving. Will have some
new pictures of Jack soon.
Warren Kerrigan has been
touring the country prior
to embarking into busi-
ness on his own hook.
Don't know what's be-
come of Lillian.
Margaret. Philadel-
phia.— You seem to know
more about Maurice than
we do. We haven't seen
Mr. Costello for so long
that we had almost for-
gotten him. It doesn't
take long for a film star
to disappear from the
horizon of public favor
by absence from the
screen. We have no rec-
ord of the plays you men-
lion.
M. Z„ Easton, Pa. —
Tom Forman is with the
Lasky company and is not
married. He has light
brown hair and grey eyes
and is 24 years old. He'll
send you the photograph
without the two-bits.
Ottilie, New York City. — Robert Warwick
IS with the .Selznick corporation and Harry Hil-
liard with Fox. Can't tell you why the maga-
zines don't give Gale Henry credit for her com-
edy .work, unless it's because they never see her.
Marie, Chicago. — Sorry we can't print your
review of "The Argyle Case" in this department.
But we handed it to the Shadow Stage editor,
who might do something with.it. We can't say
what. James in "The Social Secretary" was
Gladden James. Charles Ray is at Culver City,
California.
Al. K. Hall, London,
O. — Ann Pennington will
probably return to the
movies this summer. She
■"" has appeared for Famous
in "Susie Snowflake" and
"The Rainbow Princess." Bert Williams made a
number of short comedies for the Biograph com-
pany.
Farmer, Moroni. L'tah. — Octavia Handworth
was last with Pathe. She is 2~ , five feet, six
inches tall, weighs 140 pounds, has light hair
and gray eyes. Is married. Louise Lovely is
five feet two, 127 pounds, 21 years, blue-gray eyes,
blonde and married. Bessie Love, born' 1898,
five and a half feet, 100 pounds light hair, brown
eyes ; unmarried. Violet Mersereau in her early
twenties; five feet four. 115 pounds, blonde hair,
dark blue eyes; unmarried, we believe.
S. M., San Francisco. — Pauline Frederick was
born in 1884. Can't say if she will ever visit
your city, but the chances are that she will do
so some day. Address her at Famous Players.
K., Plantsville, Conn. — -What possible good
can it do you to learn any more intimate facts
concerning Mr. Bushman than you know now?
Of course, if you are sure that he isn't married,
you probably have information not in our pos-
session. Vivian Martin was the girl in "The
Stronger Love." Hazel Dawn will probably be
back in our midst before long. Alan Hale was
in_ "A Woman in the Case" with Pauline Fred-
erick and with Marguerite Courtot in "Rolling
Stones."
{Continued on page 156)
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(Continued from page 114)
angry flush and stony, grey-eyed glare was
not lacking. She was really an excellent
cook; the spinster aunts who had occupied
themselves with her upbringing had
achieved that much to their credit, and by
some tacit understanding, I found myself
the food purveyor, Enid the cook and Alice
Stormsby the housekeeper. The bishop
was the distinguished guest, for the enter-
tainment of whom we united our efforts.
His sincere appreciation was our reward.
TTHUS passed the first ten days of our
* exile on Trocadero. Then Alice (for
the growing intimacy of our lives had dis-
carded the more conventional form of
address between us) turned her ankle in
climbing down the cliffs and suffered a
really bad sprain. Having had some ex-
perience in makeshift surgery, I treated it
to the best of my ability, enveloped the
while in Enid's llaming disapproval, and
recommended at least four days" repose.
The result of this slight accident was less
walking up and down on Trocadero for me,
and the ill-concealed impatience of my
companion at the .suppression of these
jaunts and a loss of interest on my part
in taking them alone. So, aside from going
at dawn to catch fish in the crater lake, a
daily routine, I did little but hang around
the bungalow and talk to Alice Stormsby,
while the bishop dozed and scribbled at
intervals and Enid, going and coming about
her household duties, would not deign to
look at us, while it seemed to me that the
upward rake of chin and nose was even
more accentuated. Her air was in fact so
coldly superior that it got upon my nerves
and moved me to complain to her aunt.
"That niece of yours gets more unap-
proachable every day," I said. "One would
think that, considering the limited social
life of Trocadero, she might unbend a
little. It's ridiculous for so young and
lovely a girl to glide about like an oft'ended
goddess, but no doubt she's disgusted with
me for having got her into such a mess.
She might reflect, though, that it was none
of my proposing."
"It's not that," Alice answered. "I
think on the whole she's rather enjoying
herself. She has never cared for the society
of men, or even women for that matter.
Her unfortunate manner has always seemed
to repel people and her life has reallv been
very. lonely. The truth of the matter is
that she is exceedingly shy and she tries to
hide her feelings under a cold exterior.
But I happen to know that she does not
suffer from any lack of temperament. You
ought to see her in one of her fits of anger."
"God forbid," 1 answered, fervently.
"It is a pity, though, because she is such
a perfect creature physically. I wish some
man would marry her and teach her some
sense."
Alice gave me a slanting look from her
tawny eyes. Sometimes she reminded me
of a sleek, supple lioness, especially when
climbing the rocks with her clinging, feline
step and the lithe swing of her strong and
beautifully rounded body. There was a
sort of caged restlessness about her, too.
"Why don't you try it, yourself?" she
asked. "Vou couldn't have a better oppor-
tunity and you really ought to marry. With
your masterful personality, it shouldn't be
so difficult to tame her."
"Don't be silly," I answered. "She
avoids me as if I had the pest. Doesn't
even deign so much as a passing glance."
"She does when your back is turned,"
Baid Alice. "It's my opinion that you
father fascinate her and that she resents
it. Nothing like propinquity, my dear
man. Some day Enid is going to give her
friends a surprise. Such natures usually
do. She has not yet waked up , . . is in
the latent stage, as one might say. But,
once roused, she will take some managing.
You'd find her interesting enough, and she
is apt to inherit a nice little fortune at
almost any time. Her uncle, the old pro-
fessor, is very rich and very feeble. I wish
my own prospects were as bright ..."
she sighed. "Except for what Geoffrey
(the bishop) allows me, I haven't a sou."
"You might marry yourself," I sug-
gested. "That would not be difficult."
"I am contemplating it," she answered,
evenly. "There is a very rich manufac-
turer who has been urging me for the last
three years to share his many city lots. In
fact, I have promised to give him an answer
on my return. He is no longer young and
looks rather like a wild boar, but that is
better than a tame one and he is really
very nice."
This information gave me a decidedly
unpleasant emotion. Though a fancied
misogynist. I could not deny the growing
attraction of Alice Stormsby's splendid.
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vital Avomanhood and clear, steady mind.
Yet there was about her a certain hint of
hardness that one was vaguely conscious of
sometimes. She did not impress me as an
individual who could possibly be carried
off her balance by any strong and sudden
impulse. Otherwise I might have trod
more warily, recent burns still smarting at
times.
"You would better marry your piggy
man, I think," was my rather sulky reply
to her confidence. "After thirty-five a
bank account is a prime asset."
She shrugged. "I am not yet thirty-
five," she retorted, "but it is already a major
consideration. I could not possibly marry
a man who was not rich."
To this frank statement, I ventured to
ask if she could possibly manage to love
such an undesiral)le, to which she answered
shortly that she did not know, never having
permitted herself the interest of such a
dangerous experiment. The topic appeared
to disturb her, for I noticed that her breath
was coming deeply and there was a peculiar
light in her amber-colored eyes. As if to
change the conversation from one profitless
subject to another, she asked suddenly why
I had never married and I told her of my
sentimental fiasco. She appeared to be
rather amused.
"You are to be congratulated," said she.
"A woman who would do a thing like that
would not have made you happy very long.
Now, while I cannot see Enid as a married
woman, yet I would stake my life on her
constancy, once having taken the step.
That girl's most fundamental tiuality is her
fixity of purpose. And there is plenty of
affection in her, too, though difficult of
access. I doubt that she actually feels
much for Geoffrey or myself, but she
adored her aunts and once or twice I have
surprised her in the act of lavishing real
passion on her pony and her dogs. She is
really a good deal of an enigma."
"But why do you think that I would
make her a desirable husband?" I asked,
curiously, "because if you did not think so
you would never have made the suggestion."
She gave me a peculiar smile. "I judge
you to^be a bit that way, yourself," said she.
"Your treatment of your people and their
devotion to you. You are not a very gentle
person. Jack Kavanagh, and no doubt there
would be ructions and you would want your
own way. But I think that it would be a
good way and one that would appeal to
the woman. Also you appear to be fairly
well endowed with this world's goods, and
that always helps, despite the sophistries
of folk who are too lazy to be bothered
with the responsibilities of wealth."
I told her that I was sufficiently well off
and would no doubt continue to be, so long
as I stuck to business, but that marrying
would entail a Pacific life for some years
to come for the hapless victim who yielded
to my pleadings. "Fancy your niece in
such a setting !" I exclaimed. "She would
want Kialu conventionally fumigated and
sterilized the first of every month and de-
mand the dismissal of any servant shy a
collar button. And as for her hus-
band . . . nii'iri, madamc!"
I HAVE since wondered if Enid might not
possibly have overheard this conversation,
for we were sitting on the verandah and I
had seen her go down to tlie spring, appar-
ently to fill the bishop's "water-monkey." A
water-monkey (as people who have visited
the tropics know) is a porous earthen
pitcher which, when filled and suspended
by its beckets in a draught of air, cools the
contents by evaporation of the fluid which
it perspires. The bishop achieved his
literary efforts with the aid of his water-
monkey and a little gin. I had not
observed Enid's return, but a few moments
after airing my remarks, she came round
from the rear of the bungalow bearing a
platter of the fish w^hich I had caught that
morning all nicely prepared for the stove.
It was my job to scale and clean these deli-
cious little fish, and whether because of my
having carelessly postponed my duties or
because of certain fragments of our conver-
sation wafted through the wattle, Enid's
fresh complexion was very high of color
and there was an almost truculent swing to
her shoulders as she swept past us.
Alice raised her straight eyebrows and
shrugged, but before- anything was said the
bishop came waddling up and claimed my
comments on his morning efforts. He was
very pleased with me, was the worthy
bishop, because I had insisted upon his
standing sole sponsor "for his exhaustive
treatise on Polynesia while yet giving him
the full value of my own first-hand knowl-
edge of the subject. He was generous
about sharing the kudos of his work with
me, but eagerly admitted that a Ijrief intro-
HKsy;
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duction over my name would be of equal
value to its succes d'estime while in no way
detracting or dividing the merit of his own
observations, painstakingly compiled from
three months of conscientious examination
of local conditions. 1 felt that I owed the
reverend genleman that much for having
exiled him on Trocadero.
CHAPIKR IV
IWIV talk with Alice had given me much
•'•'•'■ food for reflection, especially as re-
garded our social relations. For some
reason, I found it extremely distasteful to
think of her as a big, ruddy pearl cast to the
repacity of the person whom 1 thought of
as "the piggy man." No doubt he might
be a sufficiently amiable and docile swine,
but a swine he remained in my esteem, and
1 was indignant at his cheek (or jowl, as
I pictured it) in having the ambition to
take unto himself this free-limbed lioness
lady with whom I had been clambering over
neolithic scarp and for w'hom I was begin-
ning to feel the delicate sentiments of a
troglodyte for the female of his kind.
This may sound brutally crude, but so
would any elemental truth about man and
woman relations if candidly expressed, even
though the conditions happened to be far
less primitive than ours. It seemed to me
that Alice, if not precisely too good for
this piggy-man, was much too fine for his
merits or appreciation and that she needed
to be rescued from his champing snout.
With such ideas milling in my head I got
up the following morning in the pearly
dawn, and with basket and fishing tackle,
set out for the crater lake. I was clad only
in pajamas, sandals and a hat, and my fish
basket contained a cake of soap, as I pur-
posed to bathe and wash my pajamas before
proceeding to angle and then to return
discreetly while the ladies were still sleep-
ing in their comfortable cots. It was their
habit to rise rather late, take their dip in
the little bight of the lagoon where the
spring flowed into it and appear to our
appreciative eyes at about eight o'clock. I
had cautioned them against swimming out
over their depth for danger of sharks.
Arrived at the lake, I proceeded with my
ablutions, which must have aroused the
resentment of the fish or taken away their
appetites, as they responded but sluggishly
to my eflorts and it took me nearly three
hours to catch a proper mess. This did
not matter particularly, as I had brought
with me a bite to eat and time was of
negative value on Trocadero.
The sun was getting high when I laid
aside my gear and, according to usual daily
custom, started to climb to the crest of the
crater to look for a possible sail. I had
decided not to rig a signal of distress, as
passing vessels almost never stood in near
enough to the island to sight it and there
was always the chance of its attracting
undesirable visitors in the shape of cruising
natives. The Melanesians of the adjacent
islands were not commonly regarded as
dangerous, like the (Gilbert and Marshall
Islanders, but they were a predatory crew
and there was no telling what they might
see fit to attempt in the case of well-
equipped castaw-ays. While a visit from
such seemed to me extremely unlikely, I
had nevertheless taken the precaution to
remove a good part of our stores to the
cavern in the side of the cliff which I have
previously mentioned ; a place which, with
our shot-gun and pair of rifles, we could
have held against any number of assailants.
Up I swarmed to the summit and was
about to search the bright horizon, when
my eye was caught by a flash through the
palm fronds at the head of the lagoon where
was located our camp. I said to myself
that the ladies must be amusing themselves
with the cutter, for the bishop was a late
riser, and I was about to start down when I
saw a sight which all but knocked the
knees from under me to send me rolling
down the steep cliffs like a sliot rabbit.
^^UT from under the screen of palms
^'^ glided first one big, long black canoe
and then another, with a boat in tow whicli
I recognized instantly as our cutter. The
lagoon was like a mirror and the sun
flashed from the dozen or so paddles in
each canoe as they crept like huge centi-
pedes along the dazzling flat surface of
the water. Even at that distance, I could
see that the canoes w-ere laden with our
effects, amongst which I recognized th?
spare sails which we had salved from the
Circe and upon which were flung the red-
striped mattresses. Also I caught the glint
of our tin cooking utensils — pans, buckets
and the like.
That awful moment was the very worst
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of my whole adventurous life. I realized
that the mauraders must have put into the
lagoon, probably in quest of water, with
the earlv dawn, just about the time of my
setting out. and come upon my helpless
guests while they were still asleep. Of
what had then occurred I had no idea, but
thought it possible that, finding them de-
fenseless, they had fallen on them like
l)lack sea wolves, slaughtering them merci-
lesslv with spear and knob-stick, then loot-
ing the premises and putting off to sea. A
prowling band of pirates, no doubt from
some distant island to the northward,
cruising in search of slaves and booty. I
sank down on the rocks, covered my face
with my hands and groaned in anguish of
soul.
Just how long I crouched there I cannot
say. There seemed no strength in me to
clamber to my feet and stagger back to
camp to contemplate the horrid tragedy.
Possibly there might be nothing to see but
blood stains on the sandy floor. The bodies
might have been carried away to serve
some ghastly orgy. I strained my eyes at
the craft below, but could see no signs of
the three. The natives thereabouts were
not considered to be cannibals like their
near neighbors, but who could tell ? I
cursed myself, cursed Trocadero and cursed
the builders of the Circe, then, getting no
relief from that, I hauled myself to my
feet and lurcheci down the declivity, little
caring whether or not I missed my footing
and fell mangled on the rocks below.
When I struck the beach the marauders
were well out in the middle of the lagoon
and making swiftly for the entrance. I
roared blasphemies after them and waved
my arms. They must have seen me plainly
enough, but paid utterly no heed. I
wanted them to put back to finish their
work, when I should have made for the
cavern where we had left the guns and
ammunition and then come down and taken
my toll of them. But my ravings brought
no response. They did not even pause in
their paddling and seemed hurrying to quit
the. place, to judge from the rapidity of
their strokes.
I have been in many lands and I have
seen many things, but all my store of thrill,
disaster, surprise and astonishment gave me
no inkling of what I was to find, what I
was to .see, in a few moments.
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The Shadow Stage
(Continued from page (j8)
than any passage from her own
life could afford. It may be taken for
f,'ranted that the average audience knows
less of Lucretia Borgia than it does of Dr.
Price, the baking-powder man, and cannot
become essentially sympathetic with a
wholesale murderess, no matter how white
her soul is painted. However, these faults
have nothing to do with the magnificent
equipment of this play, its perfectly gor-
geous lighting and flawless photography,
and its generally dramatic and intelligent
direction. If some one will ecjuip Brenon
with stories, he can make masterpieces, for
he has the directoral stuiT. But the past
\ear has shown that he must have the
stories, or his efforts are' null and void.
One subcaption, especially, is so anticli-
mactic that, in the two representations I
saw, it provoked unrestrained hilarity. The
Borgia has unwittingly poisoned her secret
son, Gennaro ; for hundreds of feet you
have been informed of the certain doom
in her potations and, in the manner of a
good tragedy, you have seen the play lead-
ing toward the destruction of Gennaro. He
drinks. Inevitability has had its way. And
then the caption "Quick — the antidote!"
— which his mother promptly and con-
veniently produces. In three words the
whole superstructure of the drama is swept
oft" the decks. Florence Reed, as Lucretia
Borgia, gave an impersonation which par-
took in no small degree of her own origi-
nality and peculiar power.
"The Price She Paid," Charles Giblyn's
conduct of Clara Kimball Young through
the David Graham Phillips story of the
same name, is too long. If it were cut back
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its long suit. Alan Hale and David Powell
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burlesque.
When Norma Talmadge's new husband.
Joseph Schenck, took his talented wife
from the Rodinesque hands of Allan Dwan
and placed her in the directoral charge of
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Oh, See the Pretty Birdie!"
(Continued fi
busily, and in a minute it is all over.
Charlie is released, joins the game, and the
play goes on. So much for the theory often
stated by well-meaning know-nothings, who
assure you that various forms of unnamed
torture are employed to make babies cry
in the movies.
Frequently the action of the play itself
produces the necessary reaction in the baby.
If the picture parents of the child are
having a violent quarrel, the youngster will
cry without prompting ; if they are playing
a home-and-lireside scene, he will crow and'
kick his heels. Always provided, lirst of
all, that he is "studio-broke."
But the great reward awaiting the
director who succeeds in getting the child
to do what he wants, according to Director
Morrissey, lies in the fact that the acting
of a child is pure, unsullied naturalness.
There is no method about it, no visible
"technicjue." The child follows his nat-
ural impulses, and that is why scenes in
which babies are featured are invariably
popular with audiences. This is true even
when the child does something which seems
like an intricate piece of business. For ex-
ample, Director Morrissey tells the follow-
ing story of the cherubic Charlie Spofford :
"In 'Jim Bludso', Charlie's father (Wil-
fred Lucas) and mother (Olga Grey) en-
gage in a violent quarrel because the wife
does not want Jim to enlist in the Civil War.
Their maneuverings bring them to Char-
lie's cradle and they exchange hard w'ords
and almost come to blows across his tiny
form. Though less than two years old,
Charlie is too completely "studio-broke" to
cry under such circumstances. At the
height of the altercation, the audiences
felt a clutch at their heart-strings as
Charlie clasped one of his mother's fingers
and beamed up at her with a smile which
swept away the storm of the .domestic
tragedy. What the audiences did not see
was that Miss Grey held, concealed by her
finger, a bright object for which Charlie
has a weakness, and for the possession of
which he was offering an especially beau-
tiful smile.
"There was a similar instance in 'A
House Built Upon Sand.' Jack Brammell,
as a weak-willed workman, came home in-
toxicated, and Lillian Gish_ as his wife,
grief-stricken at his bullying, buried her
face in her arms on the table. At this
tense moment, the reliable Charlie reached
■om from jp)
over from his high chair and patted his
mother on the head. Thousands of women
have sobbed aloud at this picture of a baby
consoling his mother. Nor, I am confident,
will the sobs be fewer when these sympa-
thetic women know that wliat Charlie w^as
really doing was reaching for a gaudily
jeweled comb fastened in Miss Gish's hair
on the side away from the camera. There
is no doubt in my mind as to Charlie's
career — he is going to be a jeweler."
The children best known to moving pic-
ture audiences are the Lees, Jane and
Katherine. They are past the babyhood
stage now and are real veterans, under-
standing thoroughly the instructions of
directors and responding promptly. But
when it comes to producing emotions, they
need stimulation. A visitor at the Fox
studio in Ft. Lee one day was informed
that Baby Jane, the younger, could cry to
order. Doubt being expressed, Mrs. Lee
and the children w-ere summoned, and Mrs.
Lee asked to demonstrate.
"Katherine," the mother said to the
elder, "make Jane cry."
Thereupon Katherine poured into the
shell-like ears of fat, and apparently happy
Baby Jane, such a tale of woe as never was
on land or sea. It had to do with their aban-
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The demonstration was perfect. But the
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strange place, and finally was found by a
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first, but finally "fell for it" and the cam-
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Between him and the girl a quick under-
standing sprang up and he reassured her,
even by saying things that he did not
believe, about Jimmy's real relations with
the college vampire. Then he pocketed
the check book.
When Diana came to the bizarre spot
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the kolinsky, and back we all are, just as
we were."
She smiled sourly — and produced the
kolinsky.
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Mrs. Dexter, vowing that Padgate had
lost her her boy. probably forever, warned
him away from the house. He was miserable
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woman and bigger at heart than either of
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the others, suffered and yearned in silence.
Christmas approached — the dreariest
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Perhaps you've noticed Hagan as the
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was a final blessing, for, believing he saw
a familiar face under the cap of the boy
who was sweeping out an all-night lunch
counter, he investigated — and looked into
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but Tsura wouldn't look, well in it
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to take the house with the Japanese tea-
garden. And here's my poor Airedale
pup needing a ranch terribly!"
f Pets, of course. Besides her ukelele,
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Julius Steger, he made a grave mistake.
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only saving grace, and in which the mis-
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star.
'TTHE Heart of Te.xas Ryan." Until
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CAM MERWIN'S stories, "The Truf-
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liersonalities. To me, "The Trufflers" did
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"|\/[ARY LAWSON'S Secret." Lugging
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its contents, seems to me a bald, crude way
of suggesting death, or any dramatic
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than any man who ever told a camera
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"May Blossom." Pearl White in a five-
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merry little story, quite inip6.ssil)le, imt
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"Told at Twilight." The title fails to
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which her former director and artistic
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••yHE Black Stork." Jack Lait, stand
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T OIS WEBER, with her love of allegory
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J. F., Dorchester, Mass, — Dan Crimmins, the
vaudeville actor, has written and produced several
comedy films for Kleine.
Florence M., New Orlf.ans. — All Europe has
about one-third as many picture houses at present
as the United States, although actual figures are
not attainable. Each studio has its own rules.
.\t some the stars only appear when they are
engaged in actual work and at others they must
show up every day. Business efficiency has se-
cured such a hold in the motion picture industry
that at some studios the players check in and out
just as do the girls in a cannery.
Pat, Orion, Mich. — Theda Bara celebrates
her natal day on July 20. Miss Bara would cer-
tainly get anything you sent her and she is in the
habit of answering all her correspondence.
Canadian Girl, Winnipeg, Can. — Charlie
Chaplin may be reached by mail at Hollywood,
California. You show great discrimination in
. picking your fa\ orites.
K. M., Proctorville, O. — Charles Ray and
Louise Glaum are at Culver City, California.
House Peters at Hollywood, California, and
Theda Bara at Fort Lee, New Jersey,
J. H. T., New York City.— Ella Hall is not
married. So is Theda Bara. The Fairbanks
twins are somewhere around sweet sixteen and
are now in "The Century Girl."
J. Z., Ogden, L'tah. — What do we think about
Kssanay's "Is Marriage Sacred?" We've always
been taught to beliex e so.
Marie.
star in '
Most of
Tipton, Cal. — Marie Walcamp was the
Liberty." Francis Ford is about 34.
"Hulda from Holland" was filmed on
Long Island.
S. A., Columbus, O. — Blanche Payson is the
tallest movie actress. She reaches up about six
feet, four inches. Marie Doro is about five feet,
one inch. Some exhibitors have raised the price
for the Pickford films because of the increased
cost to them. Wish we could induce you to for-
get your dream of being a movie star. So far as
we know-, there isn't one who is five feet, eight
inches, your height, and those who approach that
stature must of necessity be very talented in order
to be successful.
F. S., CuDAHV, Wis. — Mary Miles Minter is a
blonde and entirely unmarried, inasmuch as she
is only IS years old. Of course she'd write to
you. Her address is Santa Barbara, California.
V. A. Manistee, Mich. — Just address Charlie
Chaplin in California. He'll get it, but if you
want to be more particular, send the letter to
Hollywood or Los Angeles.
Fickle Fiend, Kansas City, Kan. — What did
W^allie Reid's mother call him when he was, a
baby? Well, that's one question that has the
merit of originality. After an exhaustive investi-
gation, we learn that she called him "Baby."
Henry King had the role opposite Lillian Lor-
raine in "Should a ^^'ife Forgive. "_ There is
nothing to indicate that Gene Gauntier plans to
re-enter the camera fold.
Gertrude H., Gadsden, Ala. — How could the
answer man be a woman? Montagu Love played
the leading male part in "Bought and Paid For."
Geraldine Farrar has no children. Haven't seen
Robert Cain in a picture for a long time. Think
he is single.
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Dorothy, Waco, Tex. — William Russell is an
American, but not an Indian. Warren Kerri-
gan does not plan to begin his first picture for
his new company until late in the summer. We
have been told confidentially that he is not in
love with Louise Lovely. He hasn't selected a
leading lady as yet, so write early. Francis
Bushman's hair is not red and Anita Stewari is
to play again with Earle Williams. Henry
Walthall is playing regularly in Essanay films.
Benjamin Christie played the lead in "Blind
Justice" and Katherine Saunders was the wife.
The doctor is not given in the cast. Don't
think Mr. Bushman was hurt in that film fight.
Stars are usually immune from injury in those
affairs.
B. L., Poplar Bluff, Mo. — Thanks so much
for the poetical tribute. No greater proof of
undying friendship than this. As for a descrip-
tion of the place you mention, we can only say
that our idea of Hades is a place where nobody
would ask any questions about movie stars.
L G., Meriden, Conn. — The scenario contest
closed December 31 last, and the judges are now
trying to decide who wrote the best ones.
A. C. E., Los Angeles, Cal. — Reine Davis is
Mrs. George Lederer in private life and is not
in the films, as she prefers vaudeville. Write
June Caprice care Fox, Fort Lee, New Jersey.
No need for apology, as your spelling is fully
as good as your orthography.
Carolyn, Brooklyn, N. Y. — Mary Miles Min-
ter was fifteen on the first day of April, accord-
ing to her official biographer, and if you know
she is eighteen, you have it on us. Lillian and
Dorothy Gish are now in New York and you may
address Clara Kimball Young, care Louis J. Selz-
nick. New York.
Billy Blue Gum, Sydney, Australia. — You
are quite a discriminating critic and a good
judge of heroes. Also glad to learn that we are
so popular in Australia. Write Tyrone Powers,
care The Mission Play, San Gabriel, California ;
Howard Estabrook, care Morosco, Los Angeles.
Betty Nansen is in Denmark.
Pete, Little Rock, Ark. — Sometimes we have
the same hunch you have, that the Shadow Stage
expert omits criticising certain photoplays be-
cause of a charitable impulse. Nance O'Neil
has been playing in Mutual photodramas, but
it is said that she quit recently because of a dis-
pute over her husband's participation in the
aforementioned photodramas. Mildred Harris
has been playing in Fine Arts pictures for about
a year. Marion Leonard has retired from the
films.
A. Cornstalk, Wellington, New 'Zealand. —
Wheeler Oakman, Paul Capellani and Tom For-
man are unmarried, we believe. Not acquainted
with any Nellie Brookes. Tom Holding is mar-
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known as Jane Morrow. .Al and Charley Ray
are not related. Robert Leonard is directing for
Lasky. Mahlon Hamilton and James O'Neil are
two separate and distinct persons.
R. F., Minneapolis. — Frank Bennett was op-
posite Lillian Gish in "Sold for Marriage,"
Thomas Carrigan with Mary Miles Minter in
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T. R., W.^.N'GAXUM, New Zealand. — Mahlon
Hamilton was Paid in "Three Weeks." "The
Web" is indefinite, as there are so many of them.
Give us the full name of the play you want to
know about.
Gertrude, St. Louis, Mo. — So you are going
to test our cleverness? Well, well! There are
fifteen episodes in the "Patria" serial. The film-
ing required about six months. Miss Young's
"The Foolish \'irgin" has been on exhibition tor
several months. The exteriors for "The Slave
Market" were taken in Havana, Cuba. Yep,
we're awful clever.
Lily. Grand Forks, N. D. — You may acquire
valuable information regarding scenario writing
by reading "Hints on Photoplay Writing" by
Captain Peacocke, published by us and on sale
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Mavo Admirer, Bronx, New York. — Edna
Mayo has blue eyes and light hair ; her favorite
sports are tennis, shooting (doesn't state whatj,
swimming, horseback riding. A letter addressed
to her at Essanay, Chicago, will undoubtedly be
forwarded to Miss Mayo.
M, E.. Warren, .\rk. — Creighton Hale will
be 25 if he lives until May 24. He measures five
feet ten inches perpendicularly and is a pro-
nounced blond.
R. J., St. Paul, Mixn. — Write Miss Minter
at Santa Barbara, California. She answers let-
ters and sends pictures to her friends.
Kathleen, Toronto, Canada. — Robert Edeson
is a very good actor, as you say. He is over
forty, is married and has a child not yet of school
age. His wife is not a professional.
Pickford Mae, Snyder, Texas. — Think we
have heard from you before. However, Edgar
Jones is now a director for Balboa, Justina Huff
was last with Lubin and Bessie Learn did her
last film work for Edison. "A Welsh Singer"
was filmed by Florence Turner in England.
B. L. T.. Detroit, Mich. — True Boardman was
the man in "The Girl from Frisco" and Marin
Sais the girl. We have only the initials of Mr.
Lawrence.
Virginia. Lincoln, III. — Yes, Jack Holt was
the villain in "Saving the Family Name." Harold
Lock-woods birthday fell on April 12. He was
twenty-nine.
W. D., New Britain, Conn. — We suppose that
Mr. Bushman would give you advice about going
into the movies if you wrote him. Nearly any-
one would. Just the answers to the puzzles
suffice.
Sunny Jim, Chelsea, Mass. — We cannot see
how in the world an actor cheapens himself by
giving away his photographs. Thanhouser films
are manufactured by that company and released
through the Pathe exchange. Miss Tincher has
not answered you probably because she has been
ill.
P. S., Nevada, Mo. — Just as a guess, we should
say that the pictures you want identified are
those of Ann Murdock and Shirley Mason. Miss
Murdock is 26, a native of New York City atid
the possessor of red hair and a stage career in
Frohman productions before adopting a camera
career. She has appeared in Essanay, Edison and
McClure pictures. .,
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Louise, Springfield, Mass. — Harry Milliard's
birthday is October 24. Write again.
S. G., East St. Louis, III. — Copyrighting a
script is a wise precaution, but not always
effective in preventing theft, although some of
our scenario experts insist that there is no such
animal as a scenario thief.
Swift, Baltimore, Md. — If May Allison is to
be a June bride, she has succeeded in keeping it
a deep secret from us. We have no record of Al
Foote.
Desmond Admirers, Mahanov City, Pa. — To
the best of our information, Mr. Desmond is a
married man, but we haven't the slightest doubt
that Bill would alter his matrimonial status if he
had any idea that three beautiful Pennsylvania
maidens would sustain broken hearts because of
the aforementioned status. Jack Sherrill was not
divorced. The suit was to annul his marriage
because he is under age. No, we do not believe
in divorces but in capital punishment.
A. E., Melbourne, Australia. — Thomas Meig-
han was on the stage before entering the film
field a little more than two years ago. He was
born in Pittsburg, has blue eyes and a wife who
is known on the stage as Frances Ring.
S. G. D., Pittsburgh, Pa. — There is only one
photoplay entitled "The Common Law" and in it
Clara Kimball Young plays the part of an artist's
model. There is no district attorney.
Maggie, Western Australia. — Back numbers
containing photos of Pearl White and Creighton
Hale will be provided you upon request. Proli
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L. D., Napa, Cal. — Address Marguerite Clark
care Famous Players, New York City.
H. A. R., Cazenovia, N. Y.— Gee, where have
you been all these years? Francis Ford and
Grace Cunard are married, but not to each other.
Margaret Shelby is a sister of Mary Miles Min
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D. F. W., Sa.n' Francisco, — Here is the cabt
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Hope, New York City. — Alfred Rabock played
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Blanche, Brockton, Mass. — If you mean the
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office; (*» indicates proper office to send manu-
scripts; (s) indicates a studio; at times all three
may be at one address.
Amekica.v Kii.m Mfo. Co., <i227 Broadway, Chi-
cago; Santa Harhara, Cal. (*» (s).
Artcuaft I'iCTLRK.s Coiti'. (Mary Pickford), 729
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K.\LBOA A.MISBMENT PRODUCING CO., Long
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C.vi.iKoR.NiA AlOTioN PiCTUKB Co., Sau Rafael,
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CiiKi.sTiE Film Cori'., Main and Washington,
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Co.NSOi.iDATKU FiL.M Co., 1482 Broadway, New
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Hdison, Tiro.MAS, Inc., 2826 Decatur Ave., New
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B.ssA.vAv Film Mi'g. Co., 1333 Argyle St., Chi-
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Famims Players Film Co., 485 Fifth Ave.,
New York City; 128 W. .56th St.. New York City.
1'Mnb Arts, 4.500 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles,
Cal.
Fox Filji Cori-.. 1;50 W. 4Cth St., New York
City (*) ; 1401 Western Ave., Los Angeles (*>
(si ; Fort Lee. N. .1. (s).
Frijh.man AMrsE.MKXT CoKi'., 140 Amity St.,
Flushing. L. I.; 18 K. 41st St.. New Y'ork City.
(lAi.MiiNT Co., 110 W. Fortieth St.. New York
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(loLnwvN Film Cohi'., 10 E. 42nd St., New York
City; Ft. Lee, N. .1. (s).
. lloR.si.Ly Studio, Main and Washington, Los
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Thos. 11. INCE (Kay-Bee Triangle), Culver Citj',
Cal.
Kalem Co.. 2.'?5 W. 23d St., New York City {*) ;
251 W. 10th St.. New York City (si ; 1425 Flem-
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IvEYSTO-Ni; FiL.M Co., 1712 Allesandro St., Los
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Kleixe, (Jkorge. 166 N. State St.. Chicago.
Lasky Feature Play Co., 485 Fifth Ave., New
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Lo.ni) Star Film Cour. ( Chaplin j, 1025 Lillian
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Metro Pictires Curt.. 147fi Broadway. New
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MoRosco I'hotoi'Lay Co., 222 W. 42d St., New
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Moss, B. S., 720 Seventh Ave.. New York City.
Mr TUAL FiL.M Corp.. Consumers Bldg., Chicago.
Mabel N'or.mand Film Corp., Hollywood, Cal.
I'ALLAs Pictures. 220 W. 42d St.. New York
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Pathh Exchange, 25 W. 45th St., New York
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I'owELL. Frank, Production Co., Times Bldg.,
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Selig Poly.scopb Co.. Garland Bldg., Chicago
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3800 Mission Road. Los Angeles. Cal. (s).
Lewis Selznick Enteri'risb.s (Clara Kimball
Young Film Corp.). (Norma Talmadge Film
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Signal Film Corp., 4560 Pasadena Ave., Los
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W. K., PuYALLUP, Wash. — Edna Mayo is in
her early twenties and is not married. As you
say, she "acts cute."
R. L., Brockton, N. Y. — Mr. Griffith has about
a dozen "Intok-rancc" companies on the road and
in the large cities. It will probably reach Ithaca
in due time. Mrs. Castle is no longer in that
city with Wharton.
L., Montreal, Canada. — You misjudge us woe-
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of causing her to go without proper food in order
to keep up a correspondence that probably never
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There is so much sunshine in life that people
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R. P., Fredericksburg, Tex. — We haven't
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O. M., Melbourne, Australia. — Thomas
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Immigrant." Here is "The Law Decides" cast :
John Wharton, Donald Hall ; Florence Wharton,
Dorothy Kelly; John Lorena, Harry Morey ;
Bobby Wharton, Bobby Connelly ; Mrs. Wharton.
Louise Blaudet ; Beatrice, her cfaughter, Adele
Kelly ; Maid, Bonnie Taylor.
June and Polly, Pleasant Hill, III. — En-
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you didn't pick up all that slang in geometry
class ! Neva Gerber was ^the girl in "Green
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Mabel Normand played in a number of the
Chaplin films made at Keystone. Lorraine Huling
was the girl in "Getting the Gardener's Goat."
Lois Alexander was the little girl in "An Artistic
Interference." Margaret and Helen Gibson are
not related. Jane Cowl and Gerda Holmes are
two separate and distinct personages. Margue-
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Universal. Hasn't the cost of white paper in-
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Thelma, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. — It's all the
same to us whether you want to believe that
Mr. Walthall is married, or not. You pays your
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"knowledgeable." Claire Whitney was Venetia
grown up in "Under Two Flags."
E. B., Brooklyn. — Norma Talmadge is with
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Patt, Los Angeles, Cal. — Many thanks for
the information you sent us. Not being sure of
our facts, we always give the defendant the
benefit of the doubt. The photos of your favo-
rites will appear in an early issue of Photoplay.
H. T., Melbourne, Australia. — Your- letter
was of great interest, especially what you had to
say about the prices of admission to local the-
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tures for less money than we in the States.
Your exhibitors can get all of the scenics they
want by applying to their exchanges.
Tumble in, Croton, N. Y. — Who do we think
the best looking actor and actress? Roscoe
Arbuckle for his size and Baby Marie Osborn
for her size.
Movie Mad, Tenino, Wash.- — So you are going
to run away and be a movie actress? Well, the
juvenile home in Los Angeles is just full of
girls who had the same idea, but perhaps they'd
make room for another. Just Ijecause of that
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your questions. Wish you were near enough to
be spanked.
Marion, Xew York City. — Welcome to our
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learn that he had such a staunch admirer.
Blanche Sweet is no longer a Laskyite. Write
again.
BicKiE, Kansas 'City, Mo. — Just what do
you mean by taking a "fatherly " interest? There
was a story about Creighton Hale recently and
there will be one about Ralph Kellard in a future
issue of Photoplay.
M. H.. Sax Francisco. — Billie Burke was mar-
ried about four years ago. Her adopted daughter
is a young lady now and her name is Cherry.
The baby was born on October 2i last.
Erin, Los Angeles. Cal. — Jack . Pickford is
about 21 and he is unmarried. Louise Huff is in
her early twenties and is a five-footer. Marie
Doro is about 35 years old. Charlie Chaplin five
feet, four inches tall. The Pickford family name
was Smith.
G. B., East Hartford, Conn. — Many talented
actors are kept in the background for various
reasons. The successful player is the one who
has both talent and the ability to "sell" himself.
Salesmanship is a big factor in the film game and
players who lack that quality usually engage
someone to "sell " them. We have no data on
the player you inquire about.
L. W., S.;\N Quentin, Cal. — Digby Bell hasn't
done anything since "Father and the Boys" for
the films, we believe. Glad to hear you are
improving.
Jeannette, Chicago. — Dorothy Phillips is
about 25 and is married. Violet Mersereau is
not.
Lillian, Reading, Pa. — Mail addressed to
Miss Sweet, care Lasky's, will be forwarded.
G. K., Buffalo, N. Y. — You must have been
mistaken. So far as we know, this magazine has
never said that Madame Petrova had a company
of her own. Address her care Laskvs.
A. W., Schenectady, N. Y.^Miss Minter will
write you even if you don't send her the paper
and stamps. So you are crazy to be a movie
actor. Well, that's the right word.
Beth, Houston, Te.x. — Yes, Beth, they do
write and really ask those questions. "Has
Charles Ray that poor abused come-and-pet-me
look in his face or is it all just acting?" Just
acting.
Agnes. Washington, D. C. — Enjoyed your
poem \ery much. Write Maurice Costello at
Screen Club, Xew York City, and William Des-
mond at Culver Citv, California.
Margery, Pensacola, Fla. — Florence Marten
was the girl you wanted to know about in "Miss
George Washington." Henry Walthall is still
with Essanay and Owen Moore with Famous
Players. . Hope you will always think so well
of us.
V. S., Danville, Va. — Never heard of the
man you describe. What has he played in ?
Marjorie, Dover, N. H. — Forrest Stanley has
been married, but is not at present. He is now
on the stage, whence he came. Florence Reed
hasn't departed this \ ale of tears. Bruce McRae
played opposite Bessie Barriscale in "The Green
Swamp" and Xiles Welch was the man in "Miss
George Washington."
Tommy, Cambridge, Mass.- — It is our impres-
sion that "Ivanhoe" was filmed by one of the
pioneer film producers, but we have no record
of the cast. Creighton Hale will send you a
photo.
College Maids, Salt Lake City.- — Pauline
Frederick was married to an architect named
Frank Andrews. The Blue Book gives Fannie
Ward's age as 42. Conway Tearle has played in
"Helena of the North," ".Seven Sisters," "The
Common Law," "The Foolish Virgin."
W. S., JoPLiN, Mo. — In the advertising section
of each issue of this magazine is a directory of
film producers. Chaplin's address is 1025 Lillian
Way, Los Angeles, California.
H. R., Harrisburg, III. — Anna Mae Walthall
is a sister of H. B. Carlyle Blackwell is with
World Film. Only Lillian Gish played in "The
Birth of a Nation." Alice Howell has been play-
ing opposite Billie Ritchie.
Janice, Mankato, Minn. — The right name of
Little Marv Sunshine is Helen Marie Osborn.
We liked "Poor Little Rich Girl" better than
anything Mary Pickford has done for a long
time, but our opinion isn't worth any more than
vours.
I. O. N., Montclair, N. J. — Creighton Hale
is 25 and wifeless, so you are both wrong. He
is again with Pathe.
K. H.. Greensboro, N. C. — "Snow White" was
filmed the latter part of 1916 and the story had
ne\ er been picturized before. Miss Clark played
it on the stage, however, several years ago. All
of the photoplays you mention were filmed in X'ew
York and vicinity. Pronounce it Na-tsilt-iiio-i'ah.
R. S., Silverton, Colo. — Gowns and dress
suits which are subjected to onslaughts of soup
and custard pies, etc., are usually provided by
the studio wardrobe. Likewise all period cos-
tumes.
Indiana, Rochester, Ind. — You will have to
write to the Selznick company. New York, for
any of the Young posters. Grace, not Maud,
George is the wife of William A. Brady. You're
alwavs welcome at the old fireside.
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"Purple Mask" Admirer, Toronto, Canada. —
Grace Cunard is married to Joe Moore, brother
of Owen, Matt and Tom and brother-in-law of
Mary. Jack Pickford is twenty-one, Antnnio
Moreno twenty-nine and Francis Bushman thirty-
two. Oh, there are lots of producing companies
releasing through Universal, such as Bluebird,
Red Feather, etc. Billie Rhodes is with Christie.
Ever hear of International Coupons? They're a
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return envelope to a foreign country. Just let us
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L. B., Lowell, Mass. — George Larkin is
twentj--seven years old and I daresay he'd send
you his photograph if you'd send him a quarter.
Buster, Brooklyn. X'. Y. — Arthur Ashley has
played in "The Crucible of Fate," "An Officer and
a Gentleman," "The Prince of Vanity," "The
Speed King," "The Million Bid," "The Jugger-
n;iut," "\\"hen a Woman Loves," "Sealed Lips,"
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of Carlyle Blackwell's screen vehicles.
B. C, Chicago. — Ralph Kellard, who was born
in 1887, is with Pathe, Leon Barry with Astra-
Pathe and Grace Darmond with Technicolor.
Can't seem to recall whether or not they're mar-
ried. They're not very explicit on that point
themselves.
E. T., Kenxewick, Wash. — Cast of "Grau-
stark" : Grenfall Lorry. Francis X. Bushman ;
Princess Yetivc. Beverly Bayne ; Countess Dag-
mar, Edna Mayo : Uncle Caspar. Thomas Com-
merford ; Aunt Vz-onne. Helen Dunbar; Harry
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Cuneo ; Prince Loren::. Bryant Washburn; Prince
Balaroc, Ernest Maupain. Yes, Thelma Salter
played in "An Alien" ; she was Dorothy Gris-
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Elsie, Dallas, Tex. — The leading parts in
"The Goddess," which was released about two
years ago, were taken by Earle Williams and
Anita Stewart. Billie Burke has made no pic-
tures since completing "Gloria's Romance" and
is now back on the stage. "The E\il Eye,"
"Those Without Sin " and "The Tides of Barne-
gat" were the last pictures made by Blanche
Sweet before the termination of her contract
with Laskv,
Helen, '18, Yoxkers, X. Y. — Xo, John Cos-
tello, who is not related to Maurice, didn't play- in
"The Price of Fame." Marc MacDermott as-
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ford has "Less Than the Dust," "The Lass of
Killean," "The Poor Little Rich Girl" and "Re-
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organizing her own company.
Earle, Haverstraw, X'. Y. — We never heard of
"The Silent Darkness," Earle, but with our
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Young's "Dark Silence. ' in which Edward T.
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Ray's college friend in "Honor Thy Xame." H. B.
Warner was born in London on the 26th of Oc-
tober. 1876, and educated at the Bedford Gram-
mar School. Mr. Warner went on the stage in
1883, appearing in Xew York in 1896. He first
appeared on the screen luider Ince direction and
is now with the Frohman Amusement Company.
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G. E. G., Detroit, Mich. — Mme. Nazimova is
a Russian, at least she was born in the Crimea.
C. F., Port Clinton, Ohio. — Rockclifle Fel-
lows, was born in Ottawa, Canada, thirty-three
years ago. He has been on the stage with
Ethel Barrymore and with Cyril Scott in "Within
the Law" and "Under Cover." On the screen,
he has done "Regeneration" and "Where Love
Leads." Oh, a mere trifle ; don't mention it.
M., D., A. A.ND R., Minneapolis. Minn. — The
Young Ladies' Tiiesday E\ening Bible Study Class
will please come to order. The expression, "the
writing on the wall," from which the title of Vita-
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Daniel, somewhere in the fifth chapter.
Jolly Eva, Fremont. Ohio. — No, no reason on
earth why you shouldn't be a movie actress — if
you can get a job. .'\nd that, as Cereberus — or
was it Eurystheus — told Hercules, is dead easy.
If you will persist in ignoring our oft-repeated ad-
\ ice, why go to it and good luck, but we can't be
responsible. Chester Harnett is with Lasky and
Tom Moore with Lasky.
D. M., Niagara Falls, N. Y. — Constance Col-
lier, Forrest Stanley, Herbert Standing, Lamar
Johnstone, Elizabeth Burbridge and Helen Eddy
played in "Tongues of Men. " Charles Ray has no
children, but he has a small niece of whom he is
verv fond.
P. G., Oakland, Cal. — Patricia, we'll try to do
something for George Le Guere very soon, and
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J. M., Montreal, Canada. — No, no, Josephine,
that wasn't a picture of Mary Pickford at all.
You amaze us.
Sweetness, Evansville, Ind. — Frances Ring is
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Tom Forman is twenty-four years old. Sure, we
think he's grand. Cast of "The Awakening of
Helena Ritchie": Helena. Ethel Barryniore ;
Lloyd Pryor, Robert Cummings; Benjamin
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R. K. K., Min.neapolis, Minn. — Address Doris
Kenyon care of Wharton's, Jersey City, New Jer-
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last picture of hers on record. She has been
obliged to retire from the screen — temporarily, at
least — on account of ill health.
G. A. R., Chicago. — Richard Travers was born
on Hudson Bay and his real name is Richard
Tibbs, but we haven't the date of his birth.
Peggy 17, Pasadena, Cal. — At the time you
read it, Mary Pickford was in the east, as she
reached Los Angeles on February 13, the day
before you wrote your letter. David Powell is
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and not Earle Foxe who is playing with Pearl
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The Girls, W'iggixs, Tex. — Girls, girls, can't
you see why we must keep ourselves shrouded
in mystery, as it were? Supposing we told you
the truth about our having a wooden leg and
toeing in and wearing bow ties and being fond ot
pickled herring — how would that look in print ':
Alan Forrest is with Fox, on the coast. Mary
Miles Minter is with American.
J. S., ToRO.XTO, Canad.v. — Clara Kimball
Young acquired the last of that trio of names
by marrying James Young, her maiden name ha\ -
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Sixteen, Alton, III. — There is no law pro-
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P. A., Wi.xNiPEG, Canada. — Write to Helen
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Louise, Milwaukee, Wis. — Douglas Fair-
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and out of the films and so does Jimmie Cruze.
The latter just left Fox for Lasky.
D. H., Bisbee, Ariz. — Lillian Walker, General
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H. D., Bangor, Me. — Mrs. Castle's maiden
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G. B., Chicago. — Marie Doro's address at
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E. B., Kansas City, Mo. — Anna Held hasn't
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L. W. H., Waterbury Center. Vt. — Virginia
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fact that she was twice married to Owen Moore.
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by a church wedding in California. You must
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CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1917
Cover Design — Emmv Wehlen
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The Girl Outside Elizabeth Peltret
A Factful Summary of Her Studio Chances. Decorations by R. F. James.
Baby's First Lesson in Make-Up (Photograph) 23
His Teacher and Aunt : Miriam Cooper.
The Wandering House 2.4
Some T>pe and Pictorial Discussion of House Peter?.
An Interview in Great Danish Harry C. Carr 26
Teddy, the Keystone Dog, Graciously Grants Audience.
The Soubrette of Satire Julian Johnson 27
The Philosophy of Anita Loos, Queen of Captions.
Elevating Star Instead of Stage (Photographs) 29
The Process of Getting Mary Pickford on Horseback.
The Empire Theatre of the Screen Alfred A. Cohn 30
The Great Story of the Fine Arts Studio.
Belshazzar Griffith's Babylon — Today (Photograph) 34
Ruins of "Intolerance's" Master-Scenery.
Busting the Hair Trust Kenneth ]\IacGaffey 35
How Theodore Roberts Grows His Own Facial Foliage.
The Call of Her People (Fiction) Janet Priest 37
The Circular Romance of Egypt, the Gypsy.
The Lady of the Names K. Owen 46
Who ? Louise Lovely.
Tellegen, Telling 'Em (Photograph ) 48
Farrar's Husband Is Now a Director.
Chaplin Lines Up a Scene for Himself (Photograph) 49
Comedian-Director in Serious Toil.
Pearls of Desire (Fiction) Henry C. Rowland 51
Continuing the Year's Greatest Romance. Illustrations by Henry Raleigh.
Close-Ups By the Editor 63
Timely Comment and Editorial Observation.
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CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1917 —Continued
When the Huns Meet American "Curtain" Fire E. W. Gale, Jr. 66
Movie Actors in the First Line Trenches.
Walter the Wicked 67
The Career of Mr. Long, Arch-Villain.
Stars of the Screen and Their Stars in the Sky Ellen Woods 69
The Horoscopes of a Pair of Popular Players.
The 1917-Model Bathing Girl 70
A Camera Panorama of Startling Loveliness.
Only in Los Angeles Could This Happen 78
Sebastian, Ex-Mayor, Turns Picture-Actor.
"Who's Married to Who" ^ 79
An Interesting and Informing Department.
Why Don't You Take the Orange? (Photograph) 82
— Especially When Lottie Pickford's Baby Offers It.
The Shadow Stage Julian Johnson 83
A Department of Photoplay Review.
A Director with a Conscience E. V. Durling 91
Frank Lloyd Has Something to Say.
Roland Reed's Daughter Florence 93
She Does Not Look Like an Eternal Sin.
"Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum!" (Photograph) 94
The Fox Studio Enlists a Genuine Giant.
Montagu Encounters a Capulet Randolph Bartlett 95
Mr. Love, of World Film.
The Fan's Prayer 96
A Plea for Deliverance.
The Devil's Little Daughter Betty Shannon 97
Billie Rhodes Answers That Dreadful Implication.
Joe Knight Trains a Substitute (Photograph; 98
The Substitute Gun-Man being Thelma Salter.
Sato Finds the Way (Fiction) Clarie Marchand 99
Proving that the Samurai Devotion Is Not Dead.
A Queen of Blondes 108
None Other than Jewel Carmen.
Plays and Players Cal York 110
News of the Entire Screen World.
The Jungle Knights Victor Rousseau 115
Another Peggy Roche Adventure. Illustrations by C. D. Mitchell.
Studio Recollections at Fort Lee Raeburn Van Buren 124
Sketches Perpetrated at the End of a Practically Peerless Day.
Why Do They Do It? By the Readers 126
Inaugurating a Department of Unreasonable Things.
Original Photoplays versus Adaptations Leslie T. Peacocke • 127
Concluding Capt. Peacocke's Present Series.
Seen and Heard at the Movies 131
Odd Sights and Sounds in the Picture Shops.
Are You a Lip-Reader? 132
Then Whose Are the Lips You'll Find Here ?
The Name Puzzle (Drawings) Percy Reeves 138
A Study in Mental Alertness and Photoplay Familiarity.
Questions and Answers 143
A Department of General Information.
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One live manager (name on request) checked on his
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in 1916. He says that anything which brings in
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OLLIE KIRKBY
hails from staid Philadelphia. When Ollie went to Bryn Mawr, they little
realized that a future screen star was in their midst. Most of Miss Kirkhy's
screen experience has been gained with Kalem. She has been in their "Girl
Detective," "Social Pirates," "Stingaree" and "Grant, Police Reporter" series.
Witzel photo
HARRY MOREY
has been a consistent Vitagrapher since 1909. He drifted to the screen the
year previous, after twelve seasons in the "legit." History shows that Morey
supported Anna Held, Weber and Fields, and Montgomery and Stone. Love
lyrics in the spotlight came easy to Harry in those days.
Photoplayers Studio photo
DOROTHY PHILLIPS
was a Baltimore belle when George Fawcett's stock company won her. Her
stage career after that included Modesty in "Every woman" and the title role
in the New York production of "Pilate's Daughter." She became an Essanay
player next and signed up with Universal in May, 1914.
Witzel photo
ELMER CLIFTON
says he isn't married and — what's more — that his favorite recreation is love-
making. The hne forms at the left, girls. The Triangle juvenile was bom
in Toronto in 1892, he has gray brown eyes, hazel brown hair, weighs 150
pounds and had a bright stage career before coming to D. W. Griffith.
DUKUnil KELLY
despite her Philadelphia Quaker antecedents, started out to be an artist.
But the well-known High Cost of Living came along and "Dot" decided to
be a film star. She selected the Vitagraph company — and got the job. Now
Miss Kelly has several motor cars, which proves she had the right idea.
Campbell Studio
JACK MULHALL
was born and raised in New York. When his parents threatened to move
to Brooklyn, Jack went on the stage. After six years behind the footlights,
he joined the old Biograph company. That was in 1913. In April, 1916,
he joined Universal and he is still playing romantic leads on the "U" lot.
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MADGE KENNEDY
photo by Campbell Studio
comes to Goldwyn fresh from the baby-blue-ribbon type of boudoir farce.
Last in "Fair and Warmer." Miss Kennedy is a girl of the Golden West
and she got her chance in amateur theatricals at a house party given by
Digby Bell at Cape Cod. She played the Queen Mother in "Hamlet." Honest!
Photo by White.
JUNE ELVIDGE
used to walk along the runway at the Winter Garden. That's before she
thought of Fort Lee and Art. She made her debut with World and has
steadily advanced to leads. June is a regular athlete, with scores of golf
cups, sailing trophies and medals for horsemanship. St. Paul is proud of June.
THE WORLD'S LEADING MOVING PICTURE 1- U B L I C A T I O N
PHOTOPLAY
MAGAZINE
July, 1917
Vol. XII, No. 2
The Girl Outside
Can the Pretty Girl Without In-
fluence Break Into the Movies?
Most of the Experts Say "No!"
By Elizabeth Peltret
Drawings by R. F. James
WHAT chance has the girl on the out-
side to "break into the movies?"
It has become the question; life's
chief interrogation point with hundreds of
thousands of girls throughout the coun-
try — and everywhere
else the shadow drama
is thrown upon a
screen.
There is only one
answer : "No chance
in the world" for tlie
girl not on the scene
— the girl in Iowa, or
Alabama or Canada,
far away from the
places where most of the movies are made.
For the girl who is right on the ground,
there is a diversity of opinion. Some ex-
perts say emphatically that the girl without
experience hasn't the slightest chance.
Others who profess to
know conditions, are
equally positive that
the girl without influ-
ence cannot get by the
gate to screen success.
But both classes of
experts will caution
you not to say too
mucli in discourage-
ment of the ambitious
A beautiful young southern girl ran away from home, leaving a letter which said she would return only
when she became a star and had an automobile of her own.
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unknowns. They do not want to discour-
age those who have real ability and photo-
graphic possibilities, who may, by some
chance or other, get that hoped-for chance.
The stage cannot always provide stars for
the increasing needs of the screen and our
stars of today will not always be youthful
and beautiful.
In the early days of the motion picture
play, there was a dearth of material. The
few directors were on the lookout con-
stantly for anyone who possessed good
looks and an attractive personality. The
doors to the studio were wide open. The
demand for players so far exceeded the
supply that, if a pretty girl just photo-
graphed well, she had a good chance of be-
coming a star. Many of these who attained
some degree of fame in the early days
were rapidly eclipsed when beauty, backed
by ability, entered the field.
There is a story told by the pioneers
about a young woman who was so beautiful
that several directors were bidding for her
services. She was so beautiful that her
success seemed assured from the start.
There was only one thing against her — she
couldn't act.
This girl had been at the studio about
three weeks w^hen her director, who, fol-
lowing the custom of
the day, improvised
his story as he went
along, got her into a
situation where it be-
c a m e necessary for
her to emote. He
wanted a close-up of
her putting wrinkles
in her face and other-
wise showing deep
f^"'^^
''y<mv:
■m
emotion. Close-ups were scarce, having
just been discovered, but one was necessary
for the play.
The director tried in every conceivable
way to get what tliey call now an "emo-
tional response," but there was nothing
doing. She could not spill any emotion.
The director shot his vocabulary — and
many feet of film — at her in frantic efforts
to make her hysterical. It was all in vain.
She remained as calm as the rock on which
she sat. Then a bright idea came to the
distracted director. He went to New York
City a few m'iles away, and offered a well-
khown actress a large sum of money, if she
would go to his studio and double his lead-
ing lady. He a])proached her with master-
ly dii)lomacy, making it very clear that,
should she consent, no one would ever
know she had so far demeaned herself as
to appear in the pictures. At last, he won
her consent. After appearing in that one
scene, she went back to New York and the
regular leading lady finished the picture.
How different is the condition today.
Jnstead of jobs seeking people, there is a
multitude seeking every job.
Thousands of girls have come to Los
Angeles from all over the country think-
ing that it is only necessary for them to
be seen by a director
hat w o r k-
Iliini/P/, f /,:;;;; V'.,/7 tliough they do not
Y)Q seen
lilfE' ^.li
rM
think of it as work —
will follow. They
are like the tender-
f o 0 t who, in the
"days of old, the days
of gold, the days of
'49," expected to find
scattered over
She made enough to live on, but as time went on, her pretty clothes began to wear out.
The Girl Outside
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the streets of San
Francisco. He was a
very disappointed
man when he found
that he had to dig for
all the gold he was
likely to get.
Once in a while a
girl of this type stum-
bles over a "pocket."
but, as every one
knows, surface gold
soon pans out.
In future years,
people will speak of
the movie rush to
California just as to-
day we speak of the
gold rush. There is
the same lure of gold
and adventure, intensified by an-
other greater lure that is a mirage—
the lure of "easy won" success and
fame.
Whenever a new business proves it
self to be a big money-maker, a large
number of parasites attach themselves to it.
The moving pictures have been a prolific
source of income for these men who live on
the earnings of others. It is part of their
business cam.paign to
spread the belief that
the movies are in
need of people.
Countless numbers
have been made the
victims of fake
schools of motion pic-
ture acting (students
"guaranteed" p o s i-
tions in stock com-
mas in consultation
Love rapped at the
minutes later she
the pay roll.
panics) and of fraud-
ulent advertisements.
One of the worst
frauds of its kind was
an ad which appeared
in a number of pa-
pers throughout the
country. It read
very much as follows :
"Wanted — Girls to
appear in motion pic-
tures. Directors need
new faces. Experi-
e n c e unnecessary."
The address given
was in a suburb of
Los Angeles.
Hundreds of girls
answered this ad.
They came from
everywhere. Many of them arrived in Los
Angeles with only enough money to pay
their expenses for a week or two, so roseate
were their dreams.
When they arrived at the "studio," they
were met by a young man who told each
of them that she was just the type most
needed by the directors. He explained
that it would be necessary for her to have
a' "test" and a little piece of film of her-
self to show at the
studios. For this lit-
tle piece of film he
charged from twenty-
five to fifty dollars —
whatever he thought
the girl could pay.
"Some of the direc-
tors may ofTer you as
little as fifty dollars
a week to start," he
She was more beautiful than any star now on the screen.
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told his victims. "If they do, you take it.
Then you can demand more when you have
had experience."
He could have had their money without
this final touch of knavery ; it served
merely to increase the heartaches and
misery which marked his trail.
These girls, each with her little bit of
. film, besieged the studios. The busy pro-
ducers could not spare the time nor money
necessary to project this film. It was
worthless.
One of this man's dupes was a very
pretty girl of her type, but photographic-
ally impossible. She sat on the benches,
which the applicants frequent, ai'id waited
all day long, day after day, for five months
and was never given work in a picture nor
even allowed inside the lot.
"I told them all at home I was coming
here to go in the movies," she said.
"In every letter I get, someone wants to
know what picture I'm going to be in first,
and how pictures are made. I know that
extras seldom know anything about the
pictures they work in. That makes one
good excuse. I can't write the truth.
"I tell them about the different stars —
as if I knew — and I always say that I am
going to win out and get a good part soon.
"It must come out
all right; I tell you,
it must. I can't go
home — I'd rather kill
myself than go home
now."
This girl was one
of many who were re-
turned to their homes
by force.
Another victim
was a beautiful young southern girl who
liad been cared for and protected all her
life. She, too, had- always wanted to go
in the movies. Her parents had objected,
which only made it the more romantic.
She had saved some money, and when she
saw this ad it must have seemed that her
great chance had come at last. She ran
away from home, leaving a letter which
said that slie would return only when she
became a star and had an automobile of
her own.
She was just a romantic schoolgirl. The
months of disillusionment and disappoint-
ment that followed can only be imagined.
Everything in her training unfitted her for
the long period of waiting around in front
of the studios that breaking into the movies
necessarily means. One day, a neighbor,
su.spicious of her long silence, broke into
her room and found her dead. She left
a letter requesting that her body be buried
at sea. Romantic to the last, she ended
her letter by quoting :
" 'Let Fate do her worst, there are relics of
joy,
Bright dreams of the past, wliich she
cannot destroy ;
Which come in the night-time of sorrow
and care.
the
joy
And bring back
features that
used to wear.
Long, long be my
heart with such
memories filled !
Like the vase, in
which roses have
once been
tilled—
(Continued on
140)
"I told them all I was coming here to go into the movies I'd rather kill myself than go home now. '
Baby's First Lesson in Making Up
No, it is not Miriam Cooper's — just lier brother Gordon Cooper's five months' old daughter Margaret.
When the press agent expressed the fear that readers of Photoplay might think this was Miss Cooper's
baby, the Fox star retorted that she hoped so.
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The Wandering
PETERS 15 THE REST OF
THE NAME, AS YOU
PROBABLY IMAGINED
By
Allen
Corliss
I
HAVE shelled more peas than any
other actor in the world."
It was House Peters talking and he
was engaged in the unromantic occupation
of changing his shirt in one of the star
dressing rooms at the Morosco studio. He
was romping with a defective collar button,
and between times assuring the assistant
director that he would be ready in just a
moment.
"This happened," he continued, "one
time when I had come out of the bush in
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Australia flat broke. I got a job on a ves-
sel sailing from Freemantle for Sydney.
I sat in a little alley back of the cook's gal-
ley for twelve days and did nothing but
shell peas.
"I suppose if a person took his nation-
ality from the country in which he was born,
I should be Chinese, because I was born in
Hong-Kong. My father was there in the
British civil service with Sir Robert Hart.
We moved to Australia and the first job I
had was at a sheep station. Then I wan-
House
House Peters and
Daisy Robinson
in "The
Happiness of
Three Women. "
dered all over China, India and Central
Africa and was in New Zealand when the
Boer War broke out. I was in the field
about eighteen months when I was promoted
to a lieutenancy. In the battle of Spion
Kop, I was shot through the leg and clouted
over the head with the rear end of a gun.
When it was discovered that I should be
laid up for a few months, they stopped the
war. I suppose if it had not been for that
I should still be in the army.
"When I recovered, I returned to Austra-
lia. I joined a company playing the larger
towns there, and my first appearance on the
stage was in "Robbery Under Arms."
"What do I do when I am not working?
When I am not working, I am getting ready
to work again. I fool around the house with
the chickens — feathered ones, I mean —
wash the dog and do all the other chores
of a man who has been married two and a
half years and is completely acclimated.
Mrs. Peters, who is a nonprofessional, does
not care to wander very far from home."
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Elevating Star Instead of Stage
VARIETY is not only the nutmeg on the ice cream soda
of life, but the pep of the show business. Even so
prominent a public benefactor and laborious cultivator of
negligee as Cecil DeMille, field marshal in charge of the
big push at Lasky's, herewith drops his consistent and per-
sistent elevation of the shadow stage to hoist the shadow
stage's head lady star, Alary Curls Pickford. Miss Pick-
■ ford is all but hidden in one of those temples of tarlatan
which, we suspect, effectively concealed not a few marj-
thurmans in '49. Though her conveyance is no loftier
than a burro's back, her voluminous skirts and compla-
cently folded shawl forbid any personal gymnastic;.
Where a modern damsel would swing her le — limb over
like a cavalryman, and be half a mile away before you
might ask permission to assist, the maiden of the gold
rush held up the whole procession.
■-isc.-i,'.
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The Soubrette of Satire
EXPOSING THE HARSH
PHILOSOPHY OF A LITTLE
HUMAN SUB-CAPTION
Fholos l,y I,. E. Murdo. k
By Julian Johnson
5ATIRE, according to the old-style philosophers, was
the one reflection of human life which women could
never see ; therefore it is cjuite fitting that the captain-
satirist of the movies, a craft which has reversed all the
rules, should be a woman.
I said a woman. Physically, I meant a split-pint
soubrette ; mentally. I meant fifty or forty large stern
men, crouching down behind a little silk gown and a
little soprano voice and a little pleading look.
Who is she? Summcm the cornetist, the setter of ban-
ner type, the process-server and Douglas Fairbanks'
presto agent that she may be ])roclaimed :
Anita I>oos.
Neither a long name nor a long girl nor a long life,
but already she has fought her way to a fortune and
nearly as much fame as that grand woman, Lydia
Pinkham. You need no prompting from me. Jacque-
line, to whisper right out that she is the builder of
Douglas Fairbanks' plays, but perhaps you ought
to be reminded of her year or two of clever play-
writing in Fine Arts studio before that time ; of
her work on the captions of "Intolerance," and
of various other activities of this remarkable
China doll.
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It has been our custom, when writing
personality stories for this Koran of Kul-
ture, to shoot the skyrockets first and wind
up with the practical and ever-demanded
biography. But as the little Loos is as
like any other subject as a battle-cruiser
is like an excursion steamer, we simply
must tell who she is before we rack our
cerebellum for side remarks.
Her father was a leader of French let-
ters in San Francisco. He ran a paper
there, and was altogether an editorial and
critical figure of great importance on the
Pacific Coast. But she is not all French.
The family is a mixture of French, Scotch
and English. I am not sure whether Anita
was born in San Francisco or San Diego,
but at any rate, it happened a little less
than twenty-two years ago, and the most
of her life was spent in and about San
Diego. Coronado, the magic peninsula
which makes San Diego's matchless bay,
is her almost-isle of dreams, for which .she
always longs. (I think she's there right
now. )
As a child she wanted to go on
the stage, and she did. She wa
both dancer and actress. Her
last engagement of importance
was as Mary Jane, in a
tour of "Mary Jane's
Pa." /■ .
She wrote her first story for the New
York Telegraph, and they took it. She
wrote a first scenario, and that was ac-
cepted. She wrote a vaudeville sketch,
and that went over. She has had the most
amazing luck with "firsts." The first
scenario she wrote was acted by Mary Pick-
ford in her Biograph davs. It was "The
New York Hat."
She came to Los Angeles at the request
of D. W. Griffith, who had been purchasing
her goods and corresponding with her, in
brusque fashion as if she were a spectacled
antiquity. The sight of this milk-fed
chicken, and his astonishment at finding
such an author, is said to have spoiled a
perfectly good day for the sunshine com-
mander.
If the Cinderella thing were pulled off
now. the tiny Loos would make C'indereUa
a selling-])later. She wears so small a shoe
that it can^t be bought ; it has to be made.
She has an enormous cascade of jet-black
hair which she can only control by winding
it around and around her head, like an
Indian turban. She has one of those ohboy
mouths, and the complexion of an ivory
fan.
With these perfectly unintelligent
hindrances to a literary career,
(Continued on page 148)
It's terrible to have to spend an
evening with a creature who
talks like the brightest
real man you know, at
the same time looking
like a combination of
Elsie Ferguson and
Anna Penn ington,
flavored tvith
vanilla. There
ought to be a law
against such
things.
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An Intervi
in
Great Danis
By Harry C, Carr
' ' Who 'syour friend, Teddy?
"Woof, ivaff, wuffl"
( Translation) "Gloria
Swanson. "
MOTION picture animals fill a sad destiny: most
of them are the support of a lot of lazy
hums,
leddy, the Keystone dog, is the only one I ever saw
who wasn't a poor, cowering, spiritless, terrorized imi-
tation of an animal.
Teddy always makes me think of a Scandinavian ;
you know how cool and detached most of them are , and
how carefully polite.
I interviewed Teddy, biographicallv. and he re-
sponded in Great Danish. Translated, his remarks
were as follows: "I am two years old, and I am from
a distinguished family of noble antecedents, although
I have a hazy idea that my father and mother were
divorced, as I never remember seeing the old man.
They began training me when I was a few weeks old.
The first thing they taught me was to
lie down : the second, to keep out of
fights. I was given the latter lesson
by ha^•ing an ammonia gun shot oft"
under mv nose while engaged in a
rough-and-tumble scrap. Since then
they have taught me about every-
thing a dog can learn to do."
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Discussing the last scene in "Madam Bo-Peep," an O. Henry adaptation which was the final Fine Arts
play. Left to right: Cameraman Abel, Director Withey, Frank E. Woods, Seena Owen.
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Photo by Stage
The Empire Theatre of the Screen
FINE ARTS STUDIO, AN ARTISTIC TEMPLE
CLASSIC THOUGH YOUNG, WHICH
HAS JUST PASSED INTO HISTORY
By Alfred A. Cohn
FOR nearly a generation,
Charles Frohman, through
his Empire Theatre, was
the great dominating influence
on the American stage. It was
here that American plays be-
came more than a promise. It
was here that the theatre got
most of its greatest players of
today. It was here ,that the
star system — a prolific source
of contention — was born.
What the Empire did for the
stage. Fine Arts studio did for
the screen.
Perhaps one is incurring the
displeasure of that rapidlv
dwindling coterie which looks
upon the photoplay as the ex-
pression of a pseudo art, in
making such a comparison ; per-
haps also, certain film persons may criticise
it. But there should be no deep resentment
on their part at this time, for it is custo-
mary to speak well of the dead, whether
or not the words are a deserved tribute to
D. W. Griffith,
the man behind.
that has le
ture studio
And the
that these
brief perio
the decedent. And Fine Arts
has definitely passed into film
history, with its fonner name
Reliance-Majestic and the great
Orilfith organization that made
it a landmark in screen annals.
It was at this studio, now de-
serted save for a lonely watch-
man, that the photoplay reached
what may be called its initial
perfection as an art expression.
Here were educated a host of
those who stand today among
the most finished directors of
film plays. From this collection
of frame shacks emerged many
of today's great screen stars.
But most important of all, here
was developed not only an indi-
viduality in film story telling,
i)ut also a mechanical technique
ft its mark in every motion pic-
remarkable feature of it all was
things happened within such a
d. The late Charles Frohman
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J
ruled in his Empire Theatre for more than
two decades, giving to the stage such stars
as John Drew and Henry Miller, Maude
Adams and Margaret Anglin and Billie
Burke, with many, many lesser luminaries
in between. In less than half a decade,
there emerged from Fine Arts such stars
as Henry Walthall, Mae Marsh, Blanche
Sweet, Wallace Reid, Norma Talmadge,
the Gish sisters, Lillian and Dorothy, Bes-
sie Love, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper,
George Walsh, and a long list of others.
It was here that Sir Herbert Beerbohm
Tree and DeWolf Hopper made their ini-
tial bows as film players and Douglas Fair-
banks received his first lessons in camera
acting.
The old Reliance-Majestic studio was
the star-factory of the films just as the
Empire was the star-factory of the stage.
And it was the college of film technique
just as the old Empire stock companies
developed a new American dramatic tech-
nique. From it graduated a long list of
players and directors who have carried
away for use elsewhere the ideas which
they had gained in their association with
Griffith and his "faculty."
Among the successful
directors of today who re-
ceived their education on the
old "lot" at Sunset and
Hollywood Boulevards may
be mentioned Christy Cab-
anne, now with Metro;
The huge open-air
stage whereon was
staged the ball-room
scene of "Intoler-
ance, "and others of
ttsgreat interiors. In
the circle, a portrait
of Frank E. Woods.
The Empire Theatre of the Screen
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Photo hy Slagg
fEpping Avenue," the courtyard of Fine Arts; Seena Owen enters her dressing room. In the rectangle,
Constance Talmadge, Mary H. O'Connor and Paul Powell discuss a play.
John Emerson, director for Douglas
Fairbanks ; Raoul Walsh, John Aclolphi.
Paul Powell and the Franklin brothers,
Chester and Sydney, with William Fox :
Donald Crisp, of Morosco ; Jack Conway,
Blue Bird : and Jack O'Brien and Francis
drandon, who went to Famous Players.
This list would not be complete without
the names of Allan Dwan and James Kirk-
wood, who were successful directors before
joining the Griffith organization.
Then there was Eddie Dillon, tipon
whose shoulders fell the comedy burden.
He will be remembered for the comedies
featuring Fay Tincher and for his direc-
tion later of DeWolf Hopper. Dillon
directed the first film play made at the
Reliance-Majestic, a short comedy, and
Chester Withey, who received his direc-
toral degree a year or so ago, directed the
last feature made at Fine Arts, a picturiza-
tion of O. Henry's story, "Madam Bo-
Peep." In the list of early Reliance-
Majestic directors may also be found the
names of "Sheriff" Arthur Mackley,
Courtenay Foote and George Seigmann,
who later became Griffith's chief lieutenant
(Continued on page ij6)
BEL5HAZZAR GRIFFITH'S BABYLON-TODAY
They say the Lion and the Lizard keep
The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and
deep. . .
drank
The Palace that to Heaven his pillars threw
And Kings the forehead on his threshold drew —
I saw the solitary Ringdove there
And "Coo, coo, coo," she cried; and "Coo, coo, coo."
[The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: XIX, XX.]
Photofr,iphcil on the "Intol-
erance" "lot" at l!ollv%vood
Ijv StagB estlusively for
Photoplay Magazine.
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Busting the
Hair Trust
THEODORE ROBERTS
GROWS HIS OWN FOLI-
AGE, AND HAS NEVER
BEEN BALD OUT
FOR A POOR CROP
Copyright photo by Hartsook
By Kenneth McGaffey
POOH-POOH!" exclaimed Theodore Rob-
erts— just like that — snapping his fingers
in front of the beazer of the representative
of the Crepe Hair Trust. "I should get wrinkles
in my alabaster brow worrying over the high cost
of make-up. I have a little crepe hair farm of
my own, so I ca-re not for your boost in the price
of false facial facades."
And he has.
The Roberts hair farm is located at the ex-
treme north and extreme south of the well
known and ever popular Roberts face. What
method of intensive farming Roberts uses to
grow his make-up is a deep-dyed mystery to his
fellow players at the La'sky studio. Raymond
Hatton, Horace B. Carpenter and the other
character artists have tried every known device
to discover the trick, but without success.
They have followed him- around days and
watched him at slumber nights, but
the secret still remains locked in the
Roberts bosom or sprouting from the
Roberts chin — as you choose to look at it.
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The first of the week, director-general
Cecil de Mille will say : "Theodore, in
this next picture you wear a full beard,
and we start to work on Saturday."
On Saturday the wonderful Theo-
dore will appear in a full beard that
defies all the jerks and pulls of the
suspicious. Vandykes, sideburns and
moustaches are mere bags-of-shells
that can be grown practically
over night.
In "The Trail of the
Lonesome Pine," Roberts
wore a short stubble
which grew as the pic-
ture advanced. Along
toward the last, it was
discovered that one of
the earlier scenes with
the shorter beard
would have to be re-
taken. Finding he
would not be needed for
two days, Roberts shaved
smooth and, by the time
the scene was ready ti
be done over, there wa-
the original stubble. In
"The Dream (lirl." In
Some noble recent examples of Mr.
Roberts' responsive follicles. However,
we refuse to believe the splendid por-
tieres at the left, representing Mr.
Roberts as an interesting though in-
sanitary Boer in "The Plow Girl."
Nature does not often contrive such
luxuriance, and when she does, she
takes years and years.
had a full beard, but in his latest picture,
"The Cost of Hatred," he switched to a
Vandyke.
Color is nothing in Roberts' life,
ther. He can grow any color hair
ilesired. His favorite color, however,
is brick red. In prowling around
the edifice which houses the man who
paints the scenery, Roberts came
across the mixture of paints
that particularly attracted
his artistic eye. Upon in-
vestigation, he found that
it photographed a particu-
larly soft black, in spite
of its hectic hue. Now,
when dark hair is neces-
sary, the star disappears
into the paint room, to
pop forth resembling one
of the justly famous and
frequently described Califor-
nia sunsets.
However, the members of
the Lasky Company are plan-
ning a joke on Mr. Roberts
that will be perpetrated be-
fore this is printed. They are
going to induce Mr. de Mille
to tell the actor that he has to
appear as one of the Seven
Sutherland Sisters and they
feel confident that, when his
crepe hair farm hears this, it will
give up the ghost without a strug-
gle.
The Call of Her People
HER HUSBAND, HER CHILDREN, AND THE
OPEN ROAD — THESE CONSTITUTED
HER HEAVEN, AND THESE WERE HERS
By Janet Priest
DEEP in the heart of the forest, the Southern
moss drooped from the ancient oaks, touch-
ing the shoulders of the old gyps)- crone, as
she imparted the secrets of Romany lore to Egypt,
the tribe's pride and darling.
"Now your lover will remain true to you,"
said Mother Komello. "Though seas divide,
though mountains separate you, he will find a
way to reach you. For the charm cannot
fail."
But no charm was needed to bind the
love of Egypt and Young Faro, son of the
gypsy chief. Greater than the love of the
open road, greater than a gypsy's love
for his tribe or his scorn of the
"Gorgios" alien to his tribe, was the
passionate devotion of these two chil
dren of the Romany race. But
Faro Black had other plans for
his son, and it seemed as though,
in spite of Mother Komello's
prophecy, their love could never
be consummated by marriage.
For the first time in many
years, the gypsies were en-
camped on the outskirts of the
little Georgia town where
Gordon Lindsay, the million- '
She was bound by a cross which
Faro had traced upon her forehead
in his own blood. »
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aire, lived in lonely magnificence. The "What does this mean?" he stormed,
members of the clan thought the return "It means that Egypt is my bride," an-
only one of the accidents of the road, but swered his son.
Faro Black had come with cunning pur- "Well for you that the ceremony is not
pose. Lindsay had married a gypsy girl, completed," said his father, coldly, "for
the light of the Romany chief's life, and your bride is leaving the tribe." He
had taken her away to his gloomy home, turned to the gypsy crone. "Take her and
After the birth of her child, the young prepare her for a journey. I know how to
bride, unable to bear the stifling ways deal with mutiny in my own household."
of civilization, had crept back to the He motioned to some of the gypsy men
tribe to die, and the child had died soon to seize and hold Young Faro, and the
after. The gvpsy chief nursed black youth was dragged into the forest and
hate in his heart, and over lashed to a tree. The
the body of his lost love THE CALL OF HER PEOPLE g^.p^^. (,|^j^.£ grasped his
he had sworn revenge. jSJARRATED from the photo- great whip, and made
, . . 1> play of the same name, ° , ^ / ., ,, ^
Now the time was ripe ,,.hich, in turn, was adapted from ready to s t r i k e. But
and he would not suffer Edward Sheldon's play, "Egypt." Mother Komello had fol-
even the love of a Romany "The Call of Her People" was lowed.
chal for a Romany chi to Produced by Metro Pictures Cor- ..^^ y^^^ Black," she
.... ^ poration with the following cast: , j u t r
Stand m his way. £gypt Ethel Barrymore commanded. If you
While Faro Black Y-o'ung Faro Robert Whittier draw the blood of your
stood glowering at the Nicholas Van Klcct son with this lash, the
mansion of Lindsay, back r ' ' ' ' hV ' V^' ^^'^"^ ?,' ^^^'^^o" blood of vour children's
,, - ^ taro Black .. .vrAnV. Montgomery , .,, ; ,,
m the gypsy encampment Gordon Lindsay Wni. Mandeville children shall curse you
hurried preparations for a Mother Komello. Mrs. A. Walker until the last Romany fol-
■wedding were going for- Mary Van A7rrf. . .Helen Arnold lows the pattern left by
ward. "Oh, his anger will ■^^^'''^ Hugh Jeffrey i^^is kinsmen to guide his
.'be heavy upon us," wailed ok! Mother path. I, the oldest woman of your tribe,
Komello, even while she brought the girdle forbid you." And Faro Black, with the
of the bride, which was to be burned in Romany's deep-rooted respect for old age,
the ceremonial fire, and the white wreath dropped his whip to the ground,
typifying the bride's purity. "Keep him prisoner," he said to the men
"Let my father's anger lie where it who held his son. And until the day when
chooses," said Young Faro. "It is time for death closed Faro Black's eyes, the chief's
me to claim my bride." son never again enjoyed his freedom.
Egypt herself said nothing, in response Egypt was taken to Gordon Lindsay's
to the aged crone's warnings, but looked great house, given over to the rich man in
with eyes of love and longing at her exchange for $1,000, paid in hand, for her
chosen mate. living since a child in the gypsy camp.
The sacred ceremony was begun in the For Faro Black represented to Lindsay
sight of the whole clan, uniting gypsy man that this was his daughter, the child his
with gypsy maid. All the ancient rites, bride had brought back to the carnp of her
more binding than a so-called civilized own people, before she died. He planned
ceremony, were complied with, and finally that a gypsy should dwell in the great
the mystic mark that made the twain one house, and when the old man died, inherit
1 was placed upon Egypt's forehead. Pierc^ all his lands. And Young Faro should
ing his own breast. Young Faro traced marry as he dictated,
upon the brow of his bride a cross in his Locked in her room in the stately man-
; own blood. "Now she is bound to him," sion, Egypt spent a wakeful night wonder-
said Mother Komello, wailing and rocking ing at this strange trick of fate that the
herself from side to side. "For weal or old woman, with all her "dukkerin" at the
for woe, she is his— but oh ! the way is dark." cards, had never foretold. She knew that.
Before the final words of the ceremony with the first streaks of dawn, the gypsy
could be spoken there was a frightened caravan would be up and away, for Faro
movement on the edge of the group, and Black would not run the risk of her escap-
the chief. Faro Black, strode into their ing and returning. The sun rose. With
midst, a threatening scowl on his face. streaming eyes, Egypt watched the men of
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the tribe riding away on horseback, with
Faro Black at their head ; then the wagons
containing the women and children, the
tents and the simple cooking utensils.
Egypt stretched out her arms in mute
appeal and, as the last wagon jogged
stolidly out of sight, she threw herself on
the floor and gave way to a flood of tears.
She was sure that Young I'aro would
come to rescue her, but as the hours wore
into days, and the days into weeks, and she
was still virtually a prisoner in the lonely
house, despair took the place of hope, and
love itself almost turned to hate. " 'The
roads of the earth shall lead us together'."
She quoted Faro's words in the bridal cere-
mony. "But the roads of the earth have
led us apart," she said sadly, "and I do not
see how they can meet again."
It was then young Nicholas Van Kleet,
Lindsay's friend, who had been fascinated
by her wild beauty from the first, saw and
pressed his advantage. There were times
when Van Kleet seemed the only friend
she had in the world. He never troubled
her to learn all those unnecessary, foolish
ways of the Gorgios, what to wear and
when to wear it, when to call on those
tiresome society women and when to leave
those silly bits of paper with her new name
printed on them. There were times when
her desire for the life of the open road
became as a burning flame to Egypt, and
then she would break out in some mad
prank that would bring shame and sorrow
to the old aristocrat who called himself her
father.
Heretofore Egypt had always gathered
flowers wherever she had seen them — from
beside the highroad, from woodland fields,
or from the gardens of the Gorgios as the
caravan passed by. Roses, she supposed,
were like the sunshine, free to anybody.
She saw roses, great heavy-headed ones, the
prize flowers of a neighboring connoisseur,
gleaming through a greenhouse window.
She could not find the door by which to
reach them, and she knew the flowers were
lonely; imprisoned, like herself. So, tak-
ing a stone, she shattered a great window
into bits and, stepping inside, filled her
arms with the gorgeous blossoms. She
called upon Lindsay to admire her booty,
and without a word he went to offer the
humblest of apologies and try to pay with
money for the damage done.
At such times as these it was Van Kleet
alone who understood her or tried to com-
fort her, and soon she began to acknowledge
him as her friend, and as the weary months
passed without Young Faro's returning,
she did not even discourage him as her lover.
"Marry me, Egypt," pleaded Van Kleet.
"I'll do my best to make you happy. Marry
me and you shall have all the freedom I
can give you." Lindsay added his en-
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the tribe."
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treaties to those of his young friend, and
Egypt promised. Now Faro should see
that she need not go through life unloved,
even though he did not hasten to her
rescue.
"Take off your love-charm," implored
Van Kleet. "Take off that great tourma-
line your gypsy sweetheart gave you." But
Egypt grasped it firmly. "No, I was sealed
to my gypsy bridegroom by the charm and
the cross on my forehead. I will not take
it off until I am actually your wife."
The Lindsay mansion
buzzed with activity in prep-
aration for the wedding.
Egypt fought against wear-
ing a white bridal gown,
already having worn the
white wreath in lier wood-
land bridal ceremony, but
on this point Lindsay was
Qbdurate. His daughter
should be married as became
her station and wealth, re-
gardless of the pack of raga-
muffins among whom she h.ad
spent her childhood. So all
the elaborate preparations
continued, up to the very eve
of the wedding.
'■ But Egypt was troubled.
The yearning came upon her,
even at the risk of incurring
Lindsay's displeasure, to
peer into the future for her-
self, as she had so often done
for others. The meaning of
the cards was clear — great
suffering and black clouds
all around her, and the com-
ing of the King of Hearts.
Egypt waited in fear and
trembling, as the day for her
wedding with Van Kleet
drew nearer.
Faro Black had died and
Young Faro, son of the
gypsy chief, now ruled in
his stead. The first act of
his reign had been to turn
the caravan back toward the
little Georgia town, and he
had -been traveling steadily
ever since. Once more on
the outskirts of the village,
so full of tender memoriesof
the past for the new ruler of the tribe, he
went at nightfall and placed a certain sign
on the doorposts of the Lindsay mansion.
"Egypt will see and know," he said,
"and she will come."
But Egypt did not come. Resenting
Young Faro's tardy arrival and believing
that his love had grown cold, she made
up her mind that she would not be at his
beck and call.
"Bring her here," Faro commanded old
Mother Komello. "It may be they are
holding her prisoner and preventing her."
'I've come to tell your fortunes, sweet ladies, "
The Call of Her People
41
Egypt was giving a tea for lier brides-
maids when the aged crone's face appeared
at the window. The girl dropped thq
dainty cuj) she was holding and Mother
Komello entered unbidden.
"I've come to tell your fortunes, sweet
ladies," she said. "Just cross my palm
with silver and you'll all have handsome
husbands. But this lady's fortune I must
tell alone."
When they had gone, "Why are ye de-
layin'?" asked Mother Komello. "Why
don't you come to your promised husband?"
"Faro has no rights over me," stormed
Egypt, her* eyes flashing. "He has taken
his own good time in coming. I suppose
some gypsy girl has won his fickle heart.
Besides, I'm only half gypsy. I have a
Gorgio father. He wants me to marry a
handsome Gorgio husband, and my wed-
ding day is set. Tell Voung Faro that !"
"Think shame to ye, girl," said Mother
Komello. "Young Faro was tied hand and
foot. He couldn't come to ye till the old
chief died. He has made the cross on
your forehead, and he is your rightful hus-
said Mother Komello, "but this lady's fortune I must tell alone.
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band. It is death to' both of^ you if you
break your vows."
"Tell him to come for me himself, if he
wants me so much," said the impetuous
beauty. "But tell him it will be useless,
because I am going to be married tomor-
row." The old woman was obliged to go
with her mission unfulfilled.
Flowers from Van Kleet greeted Egypt
when she opened her eyes on her wedding
day ; exquisite raiment was laid out before
her, but the girl's soul was in shadow. She
could not shake off the gloom that
enveloped her like a cloud.
Over in the village, Young Faro was in
dire straits. Hearing some discussion
among the townspeople about the approach-
ing wedding, he had listened intently.
When one of the loungers in the group
referred slightingly to Egypt as a half-
breed gypsy girl who would injure Van
Kleet's social position, he leaped upon him
and bore him to the ground. The by-
standers sprang to the man's assistance.
In the melee knives were drawn and, before
he knew it, Faro had stabbed his antag-
onist to the heart. In a second he was up
and away. His one thought was to reach
Egypt and take her with him before
these slow-limbed villagers could overtake
them.
Egypt was in the Lindsay stables bidding
goodbye to her beloved horse when Faro
dashed in. "C-ome, Egypt, come at once,"
he panted. "The sheriff and his men will
be following me. For your sake. I've had
to fight."
"You need not fight for me," said Egypt,
proudly, "since you did not come to claim
me until my wedding day was set. And
you may go alone. I will not run away
like a thief in the night."
He pleaded until they heard the sheriff's
men approaching. "I shall return for you,
Egypt," said Faro. "This is my token,
which I give you with all my love." He
thrust a richly embroidered handkerchief
into her hand and vanished.
The men entered, with Lindsay at their
head. "Where is the gypsy?" he asked
Egypt, sternly.
The girl stood proudly, with head held
high. "I have seen no gypsy," was her
answer.
"Oh, come now, miss," the sheriff ex-
postulated. "He had to come this way.
He was seen here coming into the stables!"
"Search, if you like," said Egypt, con-
temptuously, and started to turn away.
But Lindsay noticed in her hand the
handkerchief, which she had not had time
to hide. He snatched it from her.
"Here is a clue," he .said. "My daugh-
ter is too soft-hearted to wish to injure
even a gypsy, but this will help."
"Tom, get the hounds," said the sheriff
to his deputy.
Egypt shuddered. They were going to
have the bloodhounds track Yotmg Faro.
She almost fainted as she thought of what
that might mean.
"We are wasting time here," said Lind-
.say. "My daughter, you must dress for
your wedding." And with Faro's fate
hanging in the balance, the girl was
obliged to go to her room, where ministering
liands arrayed her dark loveliness in the
shimmering robes and the long white veil
of her bridal costume.
Outside a storm was gathering. Egypt
stood at the window and watched the light-
ning flashes throw the broad lawn alter-
nately into brightness and shadow. A
figure was moving below behind the hedge
and now came clambering up the vines to
Egypt's balcony. It was Faro. The hounds
were baying in the distance, and were com-
ing closer as he vaulted over the railing
and entered by the window.
"How dare you?" breathed Egypt.
"I told you I would come for you," he
said, quietly. "When they have called their
dogs off, we will escape."
"There is no escape for me," said Egypt.
"I shall not go."
A gentle tapping was heard at the door
and Van Kleet entered. "Forgive me for
this intrusion, my dear, but the sheriff is
below and says the gypsy is in the house."
"He is not here,." said Egypt, white-
faced and trembling. But Van Kleet saw
a movement behind the curtains, where
Faro was hiding, and, striding over to him,
drew the draperies aside.
"Yes, I am here," said Faro, stepping
forward. "I have come to claim my prom-
ised bride."
"Your promised bride, as you call her,"
said Van Kleet, "will be my lawfully
wedded wife in a few minutes."
"That shall never be," answered Faro.
"Here and now, she must choose between
us!"
Egypt spoke quietly. "I have already
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43
given my answer. I shall marry Nicholas
Van Kleet."
Van Kleet turned to Faro. "I trust you
are satisfied. Now be off with, you."
"You forget those pet lapdogs waiting
below," sneered Faro.
"They shall be tied up until you can get
away. I shall report that I have found no
one here." He went out, leaving the two
together.
"Egypt !" pleaded the gypsy. "Have you
forgotten our betrothal ceremony in the
forest? Have you forgotten the sign by
which I sealed you mine and the love-charm
I gave you? No, by Heaven! for you are
wearing that charm now, even on your
wedding dress !" He pointed to the great
tourmaline, which Egypt had refused to
remove until the actual moment of the
ceremony.
"1 love you. Faro," said Egypt, sadly.
"I have always loved you. But my father
is a Gorgio, and I must take a Gorgio
husband."
"But he is not your father ! Faro Black
lied ! He confessed it on his deathbed.
You are not the Gorgio's daughter. She
died with her mother, who could not stand
the stifling life of the people who live in
houses. You are the child of the old
chief's sister, and a gypsy born and bred.
You can never be happy away from us. A
Romany cannot mate with a Gorgio."
At such times as these it was Van Kleet alone who
understood her, or tried to comfort her, and she
did not even discourage him as her lover.
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Egypt heard his statement in amaze-
ment.
"Then my very presence here has been a
lie," she said, slowly. "I have no right to
all these fine clothes."
"You have no right to
be penned up in a
house," flashed Faro.
"You belong a m o n g
your own people."
"Go," said Egypt. "I
will follow you." Faro
looked at her question-
ingly, but she reassured
him. "You have my
word. You are right —
I belong to my own
people. Go, my love."
And pausing only long
enough to kiss the hem
of her gown, Faro
stepped outside to the
balcony, and went the
way he had come, while
Egypt waited to write a
note of explanation and
regret for all the trouble
she had unwittingly
caused in the house of
the rich Gorgio.
But Faro's departure
from the house had been
noted and, regardless of
the wedding ceremony
for which the guests
were anxiously waiting,
the dogs were again let
loose and sent in pursuit
of their prey. They
soon closed in upon him.
A group of the villagers
saved him from their
fangs, for they did not
want the dogs to cheat
them out of this re-
venge upon their ma-
rauder. Egypt, when
she heard the alarm and
knew that Faro was in
danger, ran to the
stables, dressed in her wedding gown as she
was, and leaped upon her horse.
"We won't part yet, my beauty." she
cried, lashing the animal into a furious gal-
lop. She arrived before the sheriiT's men
could reach the spot on foot, and called
to the angry mob to release the prisoner.
"Stop !" she cried. "You have the wrong
man ! This is not the gypsy you are look-
ing for. I know them, the whole pack of
them. Your man has gone that way !"
Her wild manner and her gestures, more
"How dare you?" breathed Egypt. "I told you I would come for you,
than her words, swept them off their feet,
and before they knew it they were running
in the direction toward which she pointed.
"Quick ! Behind me !" said Egj'pt, and
Young Faro vaulted lightly upon the
horse. The two sped away and were soon
lost to sight in the slowly gathering gloom.
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45
Years after, Nicholas Van Kleet, on a
jaunt in his touring-car, encountered some
mechanical difficulty and sat beside the
road while his chauffeur repaired the dam-
age. A gypsy caravan came jogging along.
(/ Faro, quietly. "When they have called their dogs off, we will escape."
Young Faro rode at its head and the first
of the wagons contained Egypt and some
gypsy children. One tugged at her skirts
and another lay in her arms. She ordered
the driver to stop the wagon, scenting
an opportunity for the "dukkerin."
"I'll tell your fortune, my fine gentle-
man," she said. "Just cross my palm with
silver." Then, as he came nearer, "Nicho-
las !" she cried.
"Egypt ! Are you well, and happy?"
"I am well, as you can see," she an-
swered. "And as for be-
ing happy, there is my
man, and here are my
children. What more
could I ask?"
And truly, in the eyes
of this Romany woman
there glowed a deep and
abiding joy. Her hus-
band, her children, and
the open road — these con-
stituted her heaven, and
these were hers. Egypt
had wisely heeded the call
of her people.
When she had gone her
way, Nicholas fell to won-
dering, and his reverie was
at first regretful. How
much of color seemed
to have gone out of his
life with the departure of
this Romany woman !
How much of life itself
had been bound up in her
dark, vivacious beauty, in
the electric circle of per-
sonality which encom-
passed her ! Truly, his
life since had been bound
in shallows, without great
joys and without great
sorrows, for one emotion
does not come without the
other as its fellow.
Had he married her?
Nicholas' heart gave a
great leap — her vivid
days might always have
been vivid days for him ;
those sturdy children
might have called him
father ; they might have
left a hybrid heir whose
gypsy blood and Amer-
could have done mighty
ican solidity
things for his people.
On the other hand —
Had she become his bride, she would
have pined away like a creature in a cage.
Nicholas, by force of circumstances, had
wisely heeded the call of his people.
The Lady of
the Names
BUT LOUISE LOVELY FI-
NALLY FOUND ONE THAT
NO ONE COULD CRITI-
CISE AND IT REMAINED
By K. Owen
IF there weren't anything in a name — a subject discussed
with more or less acumen by the late Mr. Shakespeare
— there would be no Louise Lovely. That is, there
would be a Louise, but she wouldn't be Lovely. No, not
ust that, either. She'd be lovely just the same, but she
wouldn't l)e Lovely. Now, that fixes it, the idea being
to indicate that Miss Lovely owes her pulchritudinous
cognomen to other than an accident of birth. Perhaps
it was the inspiration of a publicity w-riter — or the hunch,
of an astute producer with a psychological tendency.
At any rate, she who was once known otherwise now an-
swers when messengers at Universal City page "Miss Lovely."
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It is doubtful whether any actress of
screen note has had more names than
this same Miss Lovely. Three of them
in the course of a year is quite some
record.
^^'"hen this curly blonde came from
the Antipodes — a sort of pet name for
Australia— she bore the somewhat
stagey name of Louise Carbasse. It
was a good enough name and had the
additional merit of being her correct,
christened name, but her first director
was a German and he couldn't pro-
nounce it. He suggested that some
more simple surname be adopted and,
willing to accommodate, Miss Car-
basse adopted the
Celtic name of
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\ This name
also had a
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heroine was entitled by law. You see, she
had married a man named Welch, so she
was really and truly Mrs. Welch.
At about this time there was a name-
changing epidemic at Universal City. Welch
didn't sound classy enough to somebody or
other, and as a result, the subject of this
verbal close-up became Louise Lovely.
The most important fact in connection
with Miss Carbasse-Welch-Lovely's life
history is that it began in Sydney, Austra-
lia. It was here that she went on the
stage at the age of nine years. She is of
French-Australian parentage and was born
on February 28, 1895. This makes her 22.
Miss Lovely made her screen debut in
Australia with the Australian Biograph
company. She was with that company for
more than two years and then came east —
or west, whichever way they figure there
— and landed on the shores of Universal
City, of which she has been a citizeness
ever since.
Of course no story is complete without
something about the favorite recreation of
the story's subject, and Miss Lovely says
that hers is snow-shoeing, which she learned
in Switzerland, where she received her edu-
cation.
Miss Lovely has appeared in a number
of Blue-Bird photoplays, which are the best
product of Universal, her favorite among
them being "Bettina Loved a Soldier." One
of her more recent plays is "The Gift
Girl." If Louise enlisted, an official once-
over would show that she was two inches
over five feet tall, weighs 125 pounds
and has Civil War-ish eyes — blue-grey.
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Not satisfied ivith being Alcalde of the Only-Their-Husbands Club, and an actor of international
celebrity as well. Lou-Tellegen, the same that led Geraldine Farrar to a marriage license, is now a
Lasky director. He is seen here in a "lot" conference with studio-manager Milton Hoffman {at
his left) and art-director Wilfred Buckland.
CHAPLIN LINES UP A SCENE FOR HIMSELF
Photo by Stagg
A recent study of the director-comedian in his Los Angeles studio, preparing for the beginning of
a new picture.
4<)
COME with Henry C. Rowland on his charming
journey through the green glistening isles of the Pacific
where romance flourishes as unhampered as the warm
trades that continually blow over their coral shores.
Listen to him while he spins this extraordinary yarn,
"Pearls of Desire, " an epic romance of the South Seas to
which all men yearn to go.
Jack Kavanagh's longing then was not unusual. He
had tired of the States and their humdrum existence and
the unrest that was his took him down to Kailu in the
South Pacific, there to take charge
of a pearl concession with Harris
as superintendent.
Life on Kailu for Kavanagh
and Harris was life primitive
except for the few reminders of
back home civilization that they
kept with them. They ate when
hungry and they drank when dry
and their manners and clothes
they let go to the devil — almost
easy existence, but unbrightened by the company of
women.
And then one day Captain Bill Connor's old schooner
Favorite dropped her mud hook in the lagoon, and life
on Kailu picked up — Captain Billy's passengers were a
Massachusetts bishop, his sister, Mrs. Alice Stormsby,
and last and most proper, her niece Enid Weare, as
beautiful as she was prudish, and not, so her aunt said,
"the marrying sort", in fact rather a man hater.
The visitors accepted Kavanagh's hospitality and after
a few days the bishop surprised him with a request that he
and the two women be allowed to accompany him in
his expedition down to Trocadero island to look over a
new pearl concession — and
PRECEDING CHAPTERS
OF
Pearls of Desire
Altogether it was an
Kavanagh gave permission.
Almost anyone would with
Mrs. Stormsby 's warm eyes
upon him and the lovely
proportions of Enid con-
stantly before his eyes.
The expedition set out
in Kavanagh's ancient
schooner Circe, which he
intended replacing with
a new one purchased
in Samoa as soon as he
could reach the latter group.
On board, besides the visi-
tors, were Charley Dollar,
a Kanaka overseer, and the
pearling crew; and one and
all they agreed that Enid
Weare was the "prissiest"
girl they had ever encoun-
tered. The first days on
Kailu had indicated that;
even the sight of the half-
clad natives aroused her to
a sort of shame, and she
flew into a sudden anger if
anyone looked at her
ankles, which were dis-
tinctly worth looking at.
After ten years of the
free and easy life of the
Pacific, it is rather vexing
to be continually on one's guard for fear of offending
the silly sensibility of a prudish schoolgirl. The slight-
est casual reference to anything not of a strictly censored
conventionality was enough to tighten the corners of
her prim lips (which from their contour certainly looked
to be fashioned for kisses rather than criticism) and to draw
a fine line down the middle of her smooth, wide forehead.
The second day out, she had mistaken the time and come
on deck hall an hour too early, to find Kavanagh in pa-
jamas, brushing his teeth, and from her behavior for the
next several hours, one might have thought that she had
burst inadvertently upon a saturnalia. He felt like box-
ing her small, pink ears, with a good shake to follow, and
had much ado to be polite.
Even that man of God, the
fatuous bishop, got on her bad
books at times. He held himself
a bit of a dog and had a reper-
toire of what he was pleased to
consider risque stories (save the
mark) older than the schooner
and which might have been told
with discretion in any girl's sem-
inary. One which he narrated with many sly chuckles when
primed with port had to do with the lady who "slipped
on something and came down" (Charley Dollar's grand-
father had probably heard the tale) and at its conclusion
Miss Enid must needs rise in her wrath with a face like a
thunder squall, dark with lurid edges, and slam into her
stateroom with a vehemence which threatened the door.
When seated on the breezy deck, let the spill of the
mainsail or any wanton eddy raise the hem of her skirt to
reveal an inch or two of ankle and she would spring to
her feet with a sudden flush of anger on her boyish face
and a quick glance of intolerance at whatever man was
nearest, as though he were responsible for this elemental
disrespect. When Charley Dollar passed her, the neck
of his blouse open to reveal
a fragment of the tattooing
which covered his great,
bronzed chest, she would
avert her eyes with an in-
voluntary contraction of her
features which seemed to
increase the upward rake
of her slighty tilted nose.
Twenty-five miles from
Trocadero, a howling
So uth Sea squall
spanked the Circe on the
quarter, twisted and bent
her and finally drove her
on a reef. In the chaos
that followed Kavanagh
and Enid necessarily were
thrown closer together than
before — and she became
more of an enigma.
All hands turned to
load the boats with equip-
ment and stores and set out
for Trocadero, where they
arrived safely. Here was
a desert isle, here was the
primitive and here two men
and two women, and one
of them "too nice for
words," must live until the
boat crew which had been
dispatched for help could
return with another vessel — possibly ten days.
In the midst of this predicament hard luck took a hand;
pirate hordes from a neighboring group raided the island.
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Pearls of Desire
A Twentieth-Century Romance of the South
Seas —the most remarkable story of the year.
By Henry C. Rowland
Illustrations by Henry Raleigh
CHAPTER V
ALONG the beach I went, half mad,
mumbling and biting at my knuckles
in the impotence of grief and rage.
I rounded the little rock promontory be-
hind which was the small bight where
lay our camp and then as the bungalows
came in view I fetched up with a sort of
incoherent whimper and both hands flew
up to shield my eyes. There was the flash
of a moving_ object in the doorway of the
ladies' bungalow; a pale-blue object, and
as the cry of relief was wrenched out of
me the bishop bareheaded and in his silk
pajamas appeared against the black inte-
rior and stood for an instant staring in
my direction. Then, with a cry he started
towards me on a run ; a- ridiculous bob-
bing run as his short, corpulent figure
was put into this unaccustomed motion.
He had almost reached me when another
figure' draped in shimmering white ap-
peared for a moment framed in the door-
way of the bungalow, then vanished. I
burst into a sob of relief.
But there was no emotion of thankful-
ness and prayer expressed on the bishop's
crimson face as he pulled up in front of
me and .stood panting, too winded to
speak. Ann then, catching his breath
there poured out of his reverend mouth
such a torrent of profane objurgation as
would have got him unfrocked in the first
two words could they have been heard by
a sytiod of his fellow ecclesiastics. Not
to give evidence injurious to a guest in
holy orders I shall exercise a censorship
on his immediate remarks. In his heat
and wrath, with his bulbous figure ill-con-
cealed ben'^ath his diaphanous sleeping
garments, he looked like an enraged Gam-
brinus.
"Curse those black devils !" he
roared. "They've gone and stripped us
clean. ' They haven't left us a shoe-
string beyond what you see. Where were
you, sir? 1 say, where were you? Do
you call this a way to protect your de-
fenseless guests? Why were you not here?
I expected every moment to hear the crack
of your rifle from the cliffs and see one
of their damned crew sent to Hades !
They sneaked upon us in our sleep. There
was not so much as a chance to grab up
a stick or stone. I have never felt such
a fool in all my life !"
I could only stand and goggle at him.
The revulsion of feeling swept away all
power of speech or action.' I had ex-
pected to come upon almost anything hor-
rible or ghastly and here was the bishop
pivoting and gesticulating, swaying on his
short pedicles like a captive balloon in a
gust of wind. His face was purple ; the
perspiration had glued his thin pajamas
to his rotund form like wet tissue paper
and his spherical paunch shook convuls-
ively like that of Santa Claus in "The
Night Before Christmas," though not from
merriment. And then, as the reaction en-
veloped me I became the silly victim of
irrepressible mirth. An hysterical bleat
that was half a sob wrenched loose from
me ; my legs buckled and let me down
on the sand in a fit of insane and riot-
ious laughter. This so incensed the bishop
as to deprive him utterly of speech and
then, being a good old soul at heart, the
humor of the situation suddenly thrust
back his flood of wrath and he broke into
an asthmatic cackle.
"And the ladies?" I gasped presently,
wiping my eyes.
"They are even worse off than our-
selves," he sputtered. Dammit sir, they
haven't a stitch but their silk nighties
which are about as much protection as
mosquito netting. The only wonder is that
the black bandits left them those. They
have stripped us clean of every blessed
thing but what we have on. The first I
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knew of their presence was a poke in the
brisket and I awoke to see a horrible black
mushroom-eared devil prodding at me
with the butt of a spear. Then came some
screams from the ladies' bungalow and we
were hauled out and flung down in the
midst of a nightmarish rabble that mowed
and gibbered at us like a band of demons
from the pit. Two of them stood guard
over us with their spears while the others
looted the premises. They took our
clothes, our bedding, curtains, the sails
with all of our household goods and chat-
tels, even to the cooking utensils. They
would have taken the stove if it had not
been so heavy. That I believe is the only
article they left, and one can't wear the
stove. What the devil can we wear?"
I stared at him aghast, then asked feebly
how the ladies had stood the ordeal.
^ "Like Spartan women. They were more
furious than afraid — especially Enid. I
was afraid that they would get themselves
knocked in the head or speared. An
emaciated old horror tugged at Enid's
gown to rip it off and she fetched him
a rap that keeled him over. The others
seemed to take it as a joke and grimaced
and chattered like a band of apes. Yet
they seemed rather awed at the ladies and
did not offer any further violence, appear-
ing to consider that they had made a good
enough haul. It is a lucky thing for us
that you stowed the guns and those stores
in the cave for they took every bit of
food about the place and left us a tub
of filthy stinking dried fish in exchange.
But what are we going to do for clothes?
There is not a stitch of textile in the whole
damn place. I suppose it scarcely becomes
my cloth to express myself in this way,
but as I have no cursed cloth beside what
you see I don't care a damn if it doesn't!
What is there as a makeshift? We have
got to find some blasted thing to cover
-us, and quick, as Enid is having a regular
fit. She is like a crazy girl, what with
her outraged modesty and the prospect
of nothing to put on."
I pondered the problem. Our stores
contained no cloth of any kind nor were
they themselves any too abundant as for
convenience we had placed much of the
canned goods and flour and beans and other
staples in the bungalow. But the question
of clothing was most pressing, for com-
fort's as well as modesty's sake. The nights
can be chilly even on the equator. So the
situation, wh.ile ridiculous in a way, had
its very serious aspect, and for the life
of me I could see no immediate solution
to the problem. The vegetable growth
of the island was dry, brittle and impos-
sible to weave. Thinking of bodily cov-
ering naturally suggested animal integu-
ments and that in turn proposed the
possibility of birdskins as a medium for
our protection against changes of temper-
ature, but that entailed the shooting and
skinning of a good many wild-fowls, to
say nothing of tanning and stitching to-
gether. I was considering the feasibility
of this when the bishop said: "Here comes
Alice. Perhaps she may be able to sug-
gest something. She's got a good head,
has Alice."
r^ LANCING at Alice as she approached
^■^ us I agreed with him, and a little
more. "Merely her walk proclaimed her
a goddess," I translated in my mind, and
felt suddenly abashed and unworthy. I
was convinced that I could have prevented
all of this mess if I had only been on
the spot at the time instead of washing
my clothes and catching little fish. I
could have prevented it not by potting
these aborigines from the cliffs, which
would probably have led to immediate re-
taliation and the massacre of my guests,
but by talking to the raiders and manag-
ing to convince them that it would be
well worth their while not only to leave
us in peace but to serve us to the best
of their considerable ability in advertis-
ing our predicament throughout adjacent
islands where traders occasionally called
on the off chance of a little business.
I was by that" time fairly well-known
throughout that wide-flung area of sea and
scattered islands, not only in trade circles
but as a sort of self-instituted police offi-
cial who had undertaken the suppression
of certain forms of lawlessness, not only
as regarded aborigines, but their abusers,
notably one Captain Drake, a well-bred
scoundrel whom I had twice jacked up be-
fore a Pacific tribunal only to have him
escape througH lack of courageous wit-
nesses of his misdeeds.
Returning to Alice Stormsby and
clothes (or the lack of them), I felt curi-
ously embarrassed at her approach and
repressed with some difiiculty a strong
Here was Enid . . her dark wavy hair tumbled over her bare shoulders, making little gasping sobs.
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desire to decamp. But this passed im-
mediately upon my glancing at her calm,
but worried face, and finding there not
the slightest hint of self-consciousness.
She walked straight to where we were
standing and she might have been clad
in the latest tailor-made model so far as
concerned any perceptible shrinking in her
maimer.
"This is a nice mess, Jack," said she.
"Has your ingenuity anything to sug-
gest?"
I tried to tell her how much I deplored
the catastrophe, but she cut me short.
"You are not to blame," said she, "and,
anyhow, that is not the point. Enid is
having the most awful tantrum and abso-
lutely refuses to be reasonable. She says
that she will not stir from the bungalow
unless you and Geoffrey move your quar-
ters to the other side of the beach and
agree not to come within sight of this
place."
"But that is absurd," the bishop ex-
postulated. "We can't leave you here to
shift for yourselves, and think how dreary
it would be."
I asked irritably if the girl took us for
a couple of satyrs and added that she
would have to be sensible and make the
best of it until I could manage to get
some bird skins, when it would be pos-
sible to construct some sort of garment.
The bishop endorsed my remarks. "After
all," said he, "there is nothing to be
ashamed of. It is God that made us and
not we ourselves and perhaps this expe-
rience may be intended as a lesson to us
not to dwell too greatly on the importance
of vain things nor to shrink at the inno-
cent exposure of our earthly tenements.
Where there is no ' lewd suggestion there
can be no disgrace. Go tell her to come
out and get it over with and not play the
silly little prude. The situation is diffi-
cult enough without any further complica-
tions."
To these sensible words Mrs. Stormsby
shook her head. Enid was utterly impos-
sible, she said, and furiously declined to
listen to any argument on the subject. The
mere suggestion that we should mingle
thus lightly clad seemed to arouse her al-
most to the point of hysteria. And there
we were.
_ Turning the situation in my mind I de-
cided to take a drastic step and put an
end to this foolishness. It might be days
before we should be able to fabricate bird-
skin garments and in the meantime we
could not think of isolating the ladies,
nor could Enid be permitted to stick to
the sanctuary of the bungalow. Such a
measure would be bad for her nerves and
might endanger her health. I pointed this
out to the others and finished by stating
that in my opinion it would be merely the
first exposure which would upset her and
that thereafter she would quickly accustom
herself to the situation. An artist's model
no doubt finds the first denouement very
trying and subsequently becomes indiffer-
ent to the business. What I therefore
proposed was that we utterly ignore Enid's
insistence on seclusion, treating it as the
caprice of a petulant child and obliging
her to make the best of it and accept what
she could not help.
At this practically brutal suggestion the
bishop looked rather scared while Alice
Stormsby appeared dubious. "She would
loathe you for the rest of her life, Jack,"
was her cheerful assurance, "and I am
not .sure but that the shock to her feelings
would produce a nervous crisis or some-
thing of the sort. Might it not be better
to give her a little time to adapt herself to
the situation by degrees?"
"No," I answered. "That would simply
mean letting her mope in the cabin and
brood over what she would fancy our dis-
regard for her feelings. Let's go in there
right now and tell her that she has just
got to forget her false modesty and con-
tinue to do her share in our daily routine.
It is going to be hard enough for the four
of us without any superfluous annoyances
such as catering to the whim of a spoiled
child. We have lost the bulk of our stores
and we shall have to help out our larder
by fishing and fowling and some truck
gardening. To-morrow I shall clear a
patch and plant some corn and potatoes
on the off chance of there being any hitch
in our rescue. Now let us go in and talk
to the young lady."
But the craven bishop hung back. He
had once or twice seen his niece in one
of her fits of anger and held her person-
ality in a considerable amount of awe.
Alice Stormsby also offered some feeble
demur, muttering something about being
afraid that Enid would never speak to
her again were she to assist in forcing her
/ had shortened her lead and though scarcely able to see for the blood and pain in my eyes, managed to
scramble up and nearly overtake her.
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hand, so with a shrug of impatience I
turned and started for the bungalow.
TNID was surely taking the whole thing
^-^ pretty badly because on drawing near
I heard her low, choking sobs. Perhaps
that should have given me pause, but
on the contrary, I felt more than ever
convinced that this sort of thing should
not be allowed to continue, for danger of
the girl's working herself into a shockingly
nervous state. After all, a fit of anger is
more salutary than brooding over out-
raged sensibilities, so I slipped inside pre-
cisely as I would have done under ordinary
circumstances.
A peculiar tableau presented itself.
Here was Enid sitting with her elbows
on the dining table, her face in her hands
and her dark, wavy hair tumbled over her
bare shoulders, making little gasping sobs,
and at the same time instinctively protect
ing her ear from the inquisitive and sym-
pathetic pecks of a diminutive bantam
cock who had apparently installed him-
self as her knight errant. I had taken this
little warrior aboard on our sailing from
Kialu because Enid and he had developed
a friendship and I thought he might
amuse her en voyage. Our poultry was
Shanghai stock and there was a gangly
cockerel of this breed in the selected stock
aboard. Little Dicky (the bantam), whose
head came about even with the big Shang-
hai's spur had lost no time in establish-
ing his moral supremacy, and bullied that
big rooster to the point where he thought
twice before starting to crow !
Enid, by some peculiar grace of hers,
had made Dicky accept himself seriously
as her devoted champion. He did not
like me because I sometimes teased him,
scuffling a foot in his direction at the
risk of a jab in the leg from his long,
curved, needle-pointed spurs. So now, as
the doorway framed me he cocked his head
in my direction, filled his small chest, and
gave vent to a challenging crow.
Enid roused herself a little, pushed the
hair back from her shoulders, and think-
ing, apparently, that it was Alice Storms-
by who had entered, asked in a stifled voice
and without looking up : "Well, have you
sent them awav?"
"See here, Enid," I answered, "this won't
do. We are all in the same boat and you'll
have to turn to and lend a hand."
And then the magazine exploded. I
doubt that she had heard what I said,
because at the first sound of my voice
she seemed to become galvanized. She
sprang up, capsizing the stool on which
she was sitting and turned to me a face
which was white to the lips.
"You — !" she cried, chokingly, and
grabbed at the neck of her robe de nuit.
"How dare you! Get out of here
!"
"Don't be silly," I answered. "This
is no time for such performances. We
have been stripped of all our gear and
we've got to keep our heads and study
ways and means if we don't want to suffer
real privation. . . ."
I might as well have talked to the ig-
nited fuse of a stick of dynamite, request-
ing it not to blow up. My words said
nothing to her. She surged against the
table . . . and Dicky telfetered on its
rim like a performing fowl. No profaned
modesty was now evident in Enid. She
was in a white rage which took no heed
of anything beyond the shame of my pres-
ence there.
"Will you go?" she gasped, and then as
I did not move she whipped suddenly
about in her tracks and swinging down
gripped the stool by one leg. I saw her
amiable intention, and having no wish to
receive that piece of furniture in the face,
took a stride forward and gripped her
wrists.
"Stop it," I said. "Haven't you any
sense? Behave yourself and be reasonable.
Here we are stripped clean. Most of our
stores are gone. I want you to help me
set the seine. Your aunt is laid up with
her ankle and the bishop and I can't man-
age it alone. . . ."
She tore herself out of my grasp with
a strength which was amazing for so ex-
quisitely formed a girl. Then, seeing that
she was launched on some attempt of vio-
lence, whether to herself or me, I seized
her by the shoulders. She fought like a
fury and while I was trying to control her
there came a flutter of feathers in my face
and I felt a piercing, agonizing pain just
under my left eye. Enid was panting and
snarling like a trapped lynx, I trying to
restrain her for the good of us both, and
in the scrimmage here came Dicky again
and planted his wicked little spur so that
I felt it grit against my cheekbone. Then
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he fell off the table, but quite undaunted,
stabbed me in the patellar ligament, just
above the knee-cap.
Is it possible to imagine anything more
shamefully ridiculous? Here was I
struggling to hold this furious girl in her
flimsy silk nightgown, and to do so with-
out imdue violence, while an absurd little
bantam was punching my hide full of
holes. In fact, I was sure that he had
got one eye to his score for it became
immediately suffused with blood and hurt
intolerably. The pain of it and the curi-
osity to discover whether it was still in
working order led me to shift my hold on
Enid's shoulders, and the next instant she
had wrenched herself free and darted
through the door. Then, as I plunged
gropingly after her I collided with the
table and here was that little feathered
fury in my face again, after the other eye,
and nearly getting it, too, for he gashed
the brow so that it hung down over the
lid. Dicky's fighting methods were those
of a jiu-jitsu wrestler whom I once saw
in a bout with a German twice his size
and weight. He went after that Teuton's
joints and ligaments in their order of
importance and with conscientious thor-
oughness, managing to sprain them in suc-
cession until his big antagonist lay
crippled and helpless.
So it was with Dicky, who no doubt
reasoned that while his spur might not
be deep enough to reach a vital point,
yet it would serve to bliiid me and thus
render me innocuous. Pie nearly managed
it, too. I caught him in one hand as 1
staggered through the door and have al-
ways been proud of the fact that I did
not squeeze his little body to a pulp as I
felt like doing, but merely tossed him be-
hind me. His triumphant crow followed
me as I started in pursuit of Enid, who
had already a good start, and was run-
ning swiftly down the beach toward the
rocky promontory about two hundred
yards away, her transparent nightdress
fluttering in the breeze.
The bishop, his eyes like blue china
saucers, shouted something after me and
Alice gave a little scream at sight of my
face. She thought that Enid had been
doing a tidv bit of gouging. And so this
absurd and shocking chase became a hue
and cry, for Alice fell in after me and the
bishop puffed along in her wake at a
discreet distance. It makes me blush to
recall the beastly business and even as I
lumped along, half-seeing, I was curs-
ing myself for an infatuated idiot ever to
have imagined that I had any of the
requisite qualities for the taming of a
shrew.
It seems incredible that a healthy girl
of sound mind should prefer drowning
herself than to live and move and have
her being in a pink silk nightgown before
the eyes of a recent male acquaintance,
who was yet a man of honor, withal, and
she duly chaperoned by a fat bishop and
a widowed aunt in similar tenue. But
at that particular moment she was not of
sound mind, having just passed through
an ordeal which was enough to destroy
the mental equilibrium of any woman,
iirst in awakening to find herself in the
hands of naked savages, and then in hav-
ing her privacy so crudely invaded by a
rough-spoken person in pajamas and of
the hated sex. She was outraged, furious
and frenzied and for the moment pre-
ferred death to further indignity, and this
choice became immediately obvious to me,
for she sprang lightly up on the whale-
backed rock which jutted out into the
lagoon and started to run to its extrem-
ity. But I had shortened her lead and
though scarcely able to see for the blood
and pain in my eyes managed to scramble
up and nearly overtake her when she flung
herself into the deep, green water. It was
a sharky-looking place under the ledge,
but there was no help for it. so I took
a running dive and gralihed her about a
fathom down and dragged her to the sur-
face.
Then for a moment 1 had my hands
full, for she was strong and more athletic
than one would have imagined from her
full, rounded figure. If there were any
sharks about they must have started their
engines, put their helms down and stood
out to sea with all possible despatch, for
we made more rumpus than a stern-
wheeled steamboat, lashing about in the
water like a turbine. But the agony of
the bitter brine in my eyes gave me an
unnatural strength, and presently she went
limp in my clutch and I drew her to the
ledge and delivered her into the trembling
hands of her relatives. It was all that I
could do to crawl out mvself and what
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Her robe de nuit was torn away from her shoulders, on the round softness of which I caugh
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sight of the livid prints left by my fingers.
with the effort and the shock of recent
events and the unendurable pain of my
eyes, everything turned black and I lost
consciousness. It must be remembered that
I was but recently convalescent from such
an attack of fever as might easily have
done for one less tough of fiber and had
not yet regained a third of my normal
force. The last thing I remember was
the bishop's tremulous voice as he gasped
in horror: "My God . . . what's
happened to his eyes?"
CHAPTER VI
THE very intensity of the pain which
had caused me to faint may have had
some effect in restoring my senses, for
presently I opened my lids only to shut
them again with a groan. But in that
brief second I discovered that I was not
totally blind, as yet, at least, and also
that Enid had apparently got suddenly
sane. My glimpse revealed her sitting at
my elbow, leaning over me and staring at
my face with an expression of terrified
dismay. It was evident that she had dis-
missed all thought of herself, for her robe
de nuit was torn away from her shoul-
ders, on the soft roundness of which I
caught sight of the livid prints left by my
fingers.
Alice was supporting my head. She
asked me gently how I felt.
"Like a fool," I answered. "However,
that is quite natural and serves me right.
I imagine that Enid need have no more
fear of my gazing on her scant attire."
"What do you mean?" Enid asked in a
trembling voice. "Can't you see?"
"Not very well," I said, "besides, it
hurts too much to try. I rather imagine
I'm destined to share the fate of the peep
ing Tom who spied on Lady Godiva. Have
I any eyes left?" And I tried to open
them.
"The left one is rather badly torn,"
said Alice, "but the damage to the right
does not appear to have injured the eye-
ball so far as one can see." Her rather
low-pitched voice vibrated with anger.
"How could you have done such a thing,
Enid?"
"But I tell you I didn't !" she protested.
"I have no idea- how it happened."
"Enid is not to blame," I said. "It was
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that infernal little Dicky. He flew into
my face and spurred me."
"Well, upon my word !" gasped the
bishop. "That silly little rooster gouge
you up like that? As if we had not our
share of misfortune already. And those
horrible black brutes have not left us as
much as a pinch of tobacco or a drop of
stimulant. What would we better do for
you, my dear Jack?"
I told him as good a treatment as any
which I could think of would be to rip
off the sleeve of my pajamas, wring it
out in sea water and put a compress over
my eyes. The brine stung bitterly, but
I had an idea that it might prove cleans-
ing. This was accordingly done and we
sought the shelter of the camp, Alice and
Enid, the latter strangely docile, guiding
my steps. In the cool darkness of the
bungalow we held a council of war. As
the first prime necessity seemed to be that
of bodily covering I suggested getting the
shotgun and ammunition from the cave
in the cliffs and proceeding to slaughter
sea-birds with all possible despatch.
There would be no difficulty about this as
the wild-fowl scarcely took the trouble to
get out of one's way and it would not re-
quire many of the big gull-albatross that
thronged on Trocadero to make a proper
garment. I could skin these birds blind-
folded as well as with the use of my eyes
and after being roughly tanned they could
be stitched together with strands of fish-
line. The surgical kit was with our other
supplies in the cavern and contained some
curved Haggedorn needles which would
prove just the trick for this sort of dress-
making. So the bishop departed to carry
out my advice, albeit with many misgiv-
ings as to scaling the cliff.
prOR the next five or six days the women
must have suffered considerably, though
with never an audible complaint. They col-
lected dried seaweed for beds and went
up to the lake to fish in the early hours
of the morning. The bishop also suc-
ceeded excellently well in his fowling and
never lost his cheerful optimism, though
at first the climbing and other physical
effort must have hit him pretty hard. For
my part, I was obliged to remain in the
bungalow with bandaged eyes, as the
slightest degree of light- was insupport-
able. However, I was able to prepare the
bird-skins and do sundry little jobs through
t)he sense of touch. Thanks to clean tis-
sues, my eyes mended speedily and at the
end of five days I was able to, dispense
with the bandages in the shade.
Oddly enough, or perhaps naturally
enough, Enid, having once been brought
to her senses and the responsibilities of the
situation, shed all her silly scruples and
accepted the necessities of the case with
uncomplaining philosophy. There may
have been some truth in my theories about
getting used to things, because even after
the removal of my bandages she seemed
utterly indifferent to the scantiness of her
attire, even in my presence. After all, a
return to nature is far less difficult than
one might imagine. The principles of
nature are basic ones and not to be ham-
pered by artificial conventions — especially
when the latter are out of reach.
In fact, we all became amazingly ac-
customed to our condition and soon lost
sight of its outrageous aspects, becoming
reconciled to mere physical comfort apart
from all idea of luxury. The feature
which undoubtedly helped us the most
was that of necessary occupation, . often
fatiguing, and the fact that we began to
feel so fit. Nature was surely and swiftly
effacing the effects of self-indulgence in
each of us. We ate less, but with raven-
ous appetites, slept less, but more refresh-
ingly and worked hard to make our posi-
tion as comfortable as possible against the
change of season which we might presently
expect. The result of this regime
soon became apparent in our physical
economies. The bishop from resembling
a Bacchus or Gambrinus began to assume
the proportions of a Vulcan. The out-
lines of his heavy muscles became evident
through their waning superficial layer of
adipose -tissue ; his complexion cleared
and tanned and his full jowls contracted
to show the strong, firm bony structures
beneath. His eyes cleared from a rheumy
blue to a bright alertness and the very
workings of his mind showed the regenera-
tion of latent mental faculties.
Similar changes were also apparent in
Alice and Enid. The latter particularly
lost much of her plump roundness and
showed bone and muscle, while not becom-
ing actually thin. Her step and carriage
and physical exertions suggested a dancer
in the pink of condition. Alice, always
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svelte and supple, became more than ever
like a lioness or tigress, and seemed utterly
tireless. Neither woman seemed to burn
nor tan, despite the exposure to the sun,
but their skins acquired a rich, ivory tone
and texture.
As for myself, I put on weight instead
of taking it off, probably because my for-
mer routine had entailed very little mus-
cular effort and my tissues may have suf-
fered from lack of work and its ensuing
tonicity of fiber. My eyes were not long
in healing, the damage being mostly to the
conjuctivae, more from Dicky's talons
than his spurs, and not involving the cor-
nea. In fact, the stab over the knee
proved to be more serious, as being a punc-
tured wound from the little devil's spur
it got infected and required incision, lam-
ing me for nearly three weeks. However,
that too, eventually healed.
17 VEN before we were able to avail our-
•*— * selves of the feathered tunics we had
ceased to feel any particular need of
clothes, morally as well as physically. We
moved about with the calm dignity of
Olympians, and we felt an Olympian life
and vigor and the rush of clean, strong
blood in our veins. It seemed almost as
though we were absorbing Nature's vital
elixirs through our nearly naked skins,
breathing with them as it were, inhaling
strong etheric principles and exhaling
those waste products which serve to clog
and hamper free metabolism. Also we
became indifferent to thermic changes.
The sudden alterations of heat and cold
which had at first distressed us now be-
came refreshing and stimulating with no
sense of disagreeable shock. The hot
scorch of the sun was pleasant when not
too extreme, and so was the fresh draught
of the trades which had at first contained
a chill. Our skin surfaces were being put
through a course of calesthenics which
trained them to react immediately and to
maintain an equilibriimi of temperature.
During this period of change Enid
proved an interesting human study to me.
The combination of things appeared to
have done something to her nature, de-
veloping it along different lines. It al-
most seemed as if 'the shock to her pro-
prieties had left them paralyzed to a great
extent while at the same time liberating
a certain recklessness of manner which
sometimes swung, I thought, to the other
extreme. She reminded me of a shy, re-
served and oversensitive boy, who, from
being tied to his mother's apron-strings,
is sent off to a big boarding school and
comes home after his first term with a bit
of a swagger and a package of cigarettes
concealed about his person. This self-
contained and prudish maiden, now that
the props of polite society had been
knocked from under her, seemed to be
relapsing to the pure and simple pagan.
It was as though she had been bereft of
her conventional ideas with the loss of
their proper setting, and did not regret
them.
For my part I liked her better in this
new phase. She was gayer and more com-
panionable, though .sometimes with a cer-
tain contemptuous cut to her careless com-
ments on topics which formerly she could
not have been brought to discuss ; matters
pertaining to sentiment and romance and
friendship and even love. For all these
abstract qualities she professed a mock-
ing disregard and her profession of this
was not always polite. I observed also
a certain change in her manner to us
others ; not precisely a lessened respect,
but something approaching it. She joked
the -bishop on his increasing symmetry of
form, assuring him that a few more months
of island life might make him quite a
decent figure of a man and a possible
candidate for athletic honors. From the
day of our encounter she called me
"Jack" and, the danger to my eyes a thing
of the past, she sometimes poked fun at
me for having been put hors de combat by
a bantam rooster. As to her state of
deshabille, from the time of her outburst
she appeared to give it never a thought,
but this condition was soon remedied ; it
did not take us long to make very service-
able and picturesque tunics from our bird-
skin material, and when my bandage was
discarded I found both her and Alice clad
in feathery tunics reaching a little below
the knee and held at the waist by withes
of bark. Arms and ankles were bare, and
developing some skill as a cobbler. I soon
shod them with bark sandals. We also
plaited conical hats from split palm leaves,
and thus costumed, the women presented
very curious but charming figures. The
bishop and I fashioned ourselves kilts from
the same integuments, though ours were
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devoid of plumage and tanned into a hide
resembling fine kid. There was no lack
of this supply nor was it necessary to ex-
haut our ammunition in procuring it, as the
fowl could be taken easily at night with
the aid of a stick and a lantern.
I think that Alice and the bishop were
rather worried at this peculiar volte face
of Enid, and I sometimes caught the eyes
of the former resting on her niece with
an expression of curious anxiety. For my
part it was as I have said — a thoroughly
welcome change, and one which seemed
not unnatural and justifying my theories.
Four people of normal intelligence cast
away upon a desert island, then stripped
of their goods and forced to the exercise
of their ingenuity, could hardly be ex-
pected to observe their former habits of
mind in regard to social intercourse.
Enid's position was not dissimilar to that
of a nurse in time of war, who, after her
first shock at the brutal stripping of super-
ficialities, reorganizes her peace-time
ethics, rolls up her sleeves and turns to
with the determination to do her bit.
P\AYS passed ; weeks passed, and still
'-^ no sign of a sail on the horizon. I
began to feel a certain anxiety about the
boats, though I could not see how any
ill might have befallen them, for they
were ably manned, staunch and sound,
amply provisioned and the weather had
remained fixed fair. It seemed to me
most probable that they had arrived at
their destinations, but that no vessel was
immediately available for our relief.
Nevertheless the stores were running low
in spite of the strictest economy, and I
was getting worried. I had set the seine
in the riffle behind the bar, hauling it
every morning so that we had an abundance
of sea food, but one cannot live indefinitely
on fish.
Things were getting to this pass when
one late afternoon Alice and I climbed
to the top of Trocadero's higher tower
to search the horizon for a sail. This
time we found it at the very first glance
over the brim of the cliflf ; a rosy little
speck against the streaming color behind.
Here was no question of doubt. This
schooner was coming to our relief. There
was nothing else to bring a vessel to Troca-
dero.
"Your period of exile is over," I said
to Alice, and then, as she did not answer,
I asked her: "Aren't you glad?"
She shrugged. "Oh, yes, I suppose so.
Let's go back, if you don't mind."
"What is the hurry?" I asked. "We have
plenty of time to pack. That schooner
is flat becalmed about fifteen miles away
and can't possibly get here before noon
to-morrow. You don't need to start prun-
ing your feathers for another twelve
hours."
She passed her fingers through the plum-
age which covered her breast and looked
at me with a peculiar smile.
"I rather like my feathers. Jack," she
said.
"They become you," I answered. "This
whole place is a perfect setting for you,"
and I spoke the truth. She was splen-
did as she strode along the summit of the
wild and desolate island. Her thick, ruddy
hair was twisted snugly about her regal
head, which was beautifully poised with
a vigorous sweep of neck and throat,
and the full, proud bosom beneath. Her
long, round arms were bare to the shoul-
der, ivory-tanned with dimpled elbows,
and they swung freely as she walked.
The breeze rippled a tunic of downy sea-
bird plumage, snow-white running into a
delicate pearl gray, gathered at the waist
by a belt and spreading almost jauntily
over the hips to descend a little below her
round knees. She wore bark sandals, the
withes which held them crossing over the
leg and fastened just about the calf. She
carried a light spear which I had manu-
factured for spearing the larger fish some-
times taken in our net.
Feeling my eyes upon her she turned
her head and looked at me questioningly
for an instant, when the color crept into
her face.
"DE good. Jack," said she. "You have
been such a dear all this time."
"You have been under my care," I an-
swered, "but now that we are about to
be rescued my responsibility is over."
She laughed. "Is that a threat? I'm
not afraid. You are such a lofty-prin- ■
cipled, chivalrous, pedantic old dear. I ■
don't believe you ever kissed a woman
in your life."
"I have, though," I retorted, rather
nettled at her charge of pedantry, which
(Continued on page 167)
Brady, the
Imperturbable.
SENATOR HARVEY HINMAN, while arguing for the
New York State tax on picture manufacturers — the
"Wheeler bill — was interrupted by William A. Brady,
who asked, in his steel-file voice: "Why don't you
tax the theatres and all forms of amusement?"
"Excellent idea!" returned Senator Hinman, lacon-
ically. He continued.
"Why don't you tax some of the high-salaried stars?" cut in Brady
again, not thinking of anyone in the World corporation. Hinman was
forewarned, now, and as a certain revolver ad asserts: "Forewarned is
forearmed." Without changing the pitch of his voice, he said:
"I am told that Mr. Brady's daughter Alice receives such a large salary
that her father takes away half of it and banks it for her."
"Good father!" shouted the undismayed Mr. Brady.
'^
DURING the last thirty days New York film manu-
facturers have done more westwardhoing than in the
whole previous history of the industry. The fact that you
may not have heard the new cry is partly explained by the
noisy avalanche of war; partly by the fact that all things
save holocausts have ceased to be matters of general
news in the kaleidoscopic moving picture business.
Vitagraph, it is said, is arranging an early and complete departure to
Los Angeles. Other companies are planning to do likewise.
For one thing, Eastern light is hopelessly Independable. Once in a
while, crystalline skies and arc-like sunshine, a la Hollywood; depend on it,
and you get a gray drizzle. The agitation of the Wheeler tax bill has also
been a prying lever for dislodgment.
Only a year ago there were suave statements that Los Angeles' high tide
was subsiding; that in a pair of years at most the greatest filmeries of the
world would line the Hudson and make Long Island transparent.
The New
Trek to
California.
A Lowden
Come to
Judgment.
THE complacent legislature of Illinois reviewed a bill
introduced by a colored member and designed to make
all pictures such as "The Birth of a Nation" impossible
in the future. Pretending to stop exhibitions tending
to class or race hatred, it was really a political lever
which might be used to stop anything. They passed
the bill.
But Governor Lowden, the punchful gentleman-farmer, vetoed it with
such decision that he set both houses by the ears.
There is hope in high places for freedom of expression.
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Fine Arts —
Salve Atque
Vale—.
HAIL and farewell, Fine Arts! If Biograph was the
cradle, you have been the kindergarten of the movies.
Nor is this said in disrespect to the discerning directors
and the excellent actors and the brilliant stories which
have been beyond your walls. You have held quality,
and have been exceptional in quantity. You have
poured forth simple, throbbing tales of human life. You have taken boys
and girls and made them world-renowned. You have conquered the
supremely necessary art of the subtitle as no one else has conquered it.
You have held to sincerity, naturalness, fidelity, always. You have made
fewer melodramas than most, but you have thrust deeper at our hearts and
intellects. You will always be a chief foundation-stone in the great temple
of sun-limned art just rising. We do not mourn your end, for your renown
is durable as a diamond, and your splendid people, your inspirations, your
beliefs, have gone into every corner of the reflection world.
A SALESMAN for a well-known but expensive brand
of motion picture projector, in St. Louis, was endeav-
oring to dispose of his machine to a somewhat unso-
phisticated exhibitor from Arkansas. The exhibitor,
who had yet to sling his first thousand feet over the
heads of his audience, was sure of just two things: that
he was being charged too much, and that for his deep converted store he
needed a luminary vehicle of long-distance powers.
As a clincher the salesman confessed: "Say, if you turned this machine
o' mine loose it'd throw the picture so far they wouldn't be no use walkin'
after it to gather it up; it'd be a lot cheaper to make
Persuasive
Preparedness.
a new one!
Open
Booking
at Last.
PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE is not a trade journal
and does not concern itself with topics peculiarly
pertinent to exhibitors and no others. But here is an
exhibitor's topic which is also of chief interest to every
man and woman who patronizes photoplays: the
triumph of the Open Market.
Just what is the "Open Market?" The motion picture industry was
originally organized, and has always been conducted, on what is known as
the program basis. In other words, the exhibitor signed up for a regular
allotment of a concern's product — or as much of it as he could handle.
He had Big Six Photoplays — let us assume — not only on January 14th, but
he had them on the 10th of May, the 9th of August and all the rest of the
year. Latterly, the great distributors, one distributor perhaps releasing for
a large group of commonly-controlled studios, handled the exchanges. At
first the exhibitor had no right of refusal at all. After awhile he won this,
much as the English won Magna Charta, but still he had to stick within
his program — or lose everything. He might change to another program,
but he was still program-bound. And your common sense tells you
that when a firm has contracted, in advance, for the profitable display of
fifty or a hundred photoplays a year, through various channels, not every
one of those fifty will be a work of inspiration. Scarcely one in the fifty!
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The "Open Market" is a recognition of the exhibitor's right to attend
pre-release showings and pick his material, regardless of program, as he
finds the demand of his people. "Whether Mr. Selznick was the first manu-
facturer openly to sponsor this system we do not know, but at any rate he
made the first avowal.
The thing that made the open market eventual and sure everywhere
was Paramount's signification of its willingness to do the same thing, last
month. Paramount includes Famous, Lasky, Artcraft and Morosco.
But Lewis
is Still at it.
EVIDENTLY unwilling to have the thunder of innova-
tion pilfered from him like that, Mr. Selznick fires back
that on his future productions he will abandon that —
until now — indispensable fixture, the "release date."
Picture plays are like magazines — "published" on a
certain fixed day in all parts of the country. Mr.
Selznick proposes, when his artisans assert that prints from a new negative
are in commercial condition, at once to tell the trade that so-and-so is
ready. The exhibitor will pick the picture when he wills; the Louisville
man may show it to you next Monday; the Pittsburgh man, with a big line
of screen drama ahead, may reach it next month.
This plan does not have the very apparent phase of direct public benefit
that the open market system has. It is an affair of exhibitor's interest.
Next,
Triangle's
Bit.
TRIANGLE'S bit in this gallery of quick-change per-
formance is the abandonment of the "exhibitor deposit"
system. Here is a thing which indirectly reacts upon
those who go to the photoplays. The exhibitor depos-
its were, in the beginning, taken not without reason.
They were an exaction, in advance, of film rental for a
month or some similar period. This was to hold the exhibitor — who in the
early days was too often a scatterbrained individual liable to fold his tent
like the Arab and even more silently steal away. But as the business grew,
and as reputable men became exhibitors, and as these advance, non-
returnable deposits — contracts were cancelled by their forfeiture — increased
in amount, the totals became prodigious and unbelievable. One eminent
film manufacturer of brief name is alleged to have conducted his entire
screen operations on loans made by banks wherein he had deposited a total
of $600,000 in exhibitors' money! Triangle's abandonment of the deposit
system is really a tribute to its audiences, for it gives its exhibitors a freer
hand by releasing a vast quantity of cash.
The Ultimate
Intoxication.
WE agree with the editorial writer of the New York
Sun, who says: "The most pickled person we ever saw
was waiting outside a movie show to take the film
star to supper."
WHEN THE HUNS MEET AMERICAN "CURTAIIN" FIRE
Or, Heaven help invaders if they ever reach the first trench of the Hopping Picture Division!
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Walter the Wicked
HE EXPIATES HIS SCREEN CRIMES BY
TAKING UP ARMS FOR THE U. S. A.
I5RHAPS no actor in screendom has been asked to play
more despicable roles than those allotted to Walter
Long. He is worse than a mere "heavy." Many
screen villains would rise in revolt if called upon to
play some of the parts assigned by the casting
director to Walter.
Long was the Gus
of "The Birth of a
Nation," one of the
worst roles ever
screened. In the next
Griflfith masterpiece,
"I n tolerance," he
played the Musketeer
Directly above, Mr. Long in real life, right
now, a second lieutenant in a battery of
Pacific Coast Artillery. The middle figure
is his unforgettable portrait of Gus, the
monster in "Th". Birth of a Nation. " The
Villa villain adjoining is from a recent
Lasky release; and below, as the executioner
in 'Joan," he is about to give Geraldine
Farrar a hot time.
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As the Musketeer of the
Slums, in "Intolerance. "
Probably cursing out his
half-world business pro-
perty, Miriam Cooper.
In the cumbersome togs
of the eighteenth century
he played a comedy vil-
lain in "The Winning
of Sally Temple, " in
which the world was
astounded to see him
knocked down
by fack Dean.
of the Slums, a role al
most as loathsome
Gus.
Walter also villained
in scores of other Grif-
fith photoplays and then
Cecil DeMille corralled
him to play the execu-
tioner in "Joan the Woman." Since then
he has played other roles that would have
been turned down by almost any self-
respecting villain.
But all his celluloid crimes have been
expiated, for Walter has joined the colors.
He is a second lieutenant in the coast
artillery company which is composed
largely of moving picture actors, and is
already \mdergoing the training which
precedes active service.
Nor is Long one of the charming patriots
who swagger in a uniform when the enemy
is afar ; and, when he approaches, develop
mysterious complaints, absences or duties
elsewhere. Walter Long's one hope is that
lie gets a chance to see actual service behind
the firing line in France. He says he has
joined the artillery because it appeals to his
imagination as the one service, excepting air
duty, in Avhich there is no limit to the
things a man may learn, or the effi-
ciency he may attain. For many
weeks he has been spending his
nights poring over triangulations,
conic sections, and other abstruse and
pensively scholastic mathematics.
Desiring to get himself
up as a villain who
would outvil any he ever
simulated, Mr. Long
went into a period of
fasting and meditation,
for guidance — and
emerged as a Prussian
officer.
Copyright photo by Hartsook
Tnce Studio photo
Stars of the Screen and Their Stars in the Sky
By Ellen Woods
FROM the earliest times, "the heaven? have told," The astral influence was believed in before
Babylon. The astrologers of Persia, the oracles of Greece and the soothsayers of Rome
took great stock in planetary augury, and star-readings have persisted in every century of the
Christian era.
Whether you believe in starry signs or not, the careers of successful men and women today
follow their set and unchangeable indications with the most amazing accuracy. The study is
more than interesting; it's positively fascinating.
Nativity of Blanche Sweet, Born June 18 Nativity of William 5. Hart, Born December 6
A I-THOUGH this horiscope gives unusually
"^ stron.tf indications of histrionic ability — Mars
in aspect to Venus — Scorpio, on the eastern hori-
zon with Mars, lord thereof, in conjunction with
the degree ju§t rising, in strong aspect with
Saturn, gives testimony that Miss Sweet would
have been a great surgeon, as she has the
most powerful and steady nerves of any nativity
I have cast.
The Sun in good aspect to Uranus renders her
attractive to both sexes. Jupiter, the divine, in
the lower mind house, indicates a sweet, gentle
disposition, unless strongly provoked. The war-
rior Mars in the ascendant tends to hasten the
temper to quick action, but, although she is quick
to anger, she is just as quick to cool down again.
Mercury, the mental planet, in strong aspect to
Jupiter gives her good judgment, while Mercury
and Neptime in conjiuiction give her imagination,
inspiration and ability to impersonate.
There are indications in Miss Sweet's nativity
of imexpected good fortime imder strange and
peculiar circumstances, but I would advise her
never to look for this in a foreign country and
to avoid overwork and worry. However, because
Jupiter and the Sun are so w-ell placed and con-
figurated, she will never want for money and her
name will always be prominent.
'T'HE millions who have seen and loved William
* S. Hart on the screen will scarcely believe
that he is by nature reserved — almost bashful — •
and yet this is so, judging from his natixity.
At his birth, Aquarius was rising with Saturn
in conjtmction, with ascending degree. This po-
sition of Saturn gives him a cautious, timid and
bashful tendency, but the extremely fortunate
aspects of the Sun, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury.
Moon, and Uranus to Saturn, combined, give
him those important qualities which make for
lasting success.
Mr. Hart would have been a man of distinction
in any walk of life, if his nativity had not espe-
cially influenced him to take up his present career.
He is wonderfullj- magnetic and would have been
a great legislator. I predict that, some time, he
will hold public office and win .great popularity.
Those born with the Sun in Sa.gittarius are fond
of outdoor life, especially horses; they are also
wonderfid shots : all of which gives us the key
to Mr. Hart's choice of picture stories. His na-
ti\ ity indicates one of the purest minds it has
ever been m.y good fortune to study. He reveres
women, is charitable to all and is truthful to an
extreme.
Though generally so fortunate, yet I would
advise him to avoid long journeys on water.
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The 1917-Model Bathing Girl
IF what we saw in our grandma's Godcy's
Lady's Book is dependable information,
American young ladies began to invade
the beach breakers about 1864.
Oh shades of carronades and wooden
ships and yard-arm fighting, against tor-
pedoes, floating flat-irons and shooting over
the horizon ! Look at some of the pictures
of the Kellermanns of that period, if you
can find any.
We saw six, and in one of them, we are
ready to swear in any language save pro-
fanity, we discerned positive traces of a
woman. Not that you could actually see
the woman, but there were suspicious cir-
cumstances pointing to her presence.
They didn't wear bathing-suits, in those
days. They went in as armored tanks to
scare the fishes. We endeavored to take an
inventory of the most risque costume that
Godcy's dared make a woodcut of, and as
far as our list of materials goes it in-
cluded : fifty-six yards flannel ; seven yards
bombazine ; fourteen square feet crinoline ;
nine pounds structural steel for hoops ; two
pounds rubber elastic to keep the pa- — -
bloomers pulled down as far as the heel ;
two and one-quarter miles ornamental rib-
bon ; one-half gross various buttons ; ten
square feet sheet roofing for hat ; one pair
brogans for feet ; four dozen, nine pounds,
eighteen pair assorted knick-knacks, notion.^
and what-nots.
Yes indeed, the chickens of the Recon-
struction period must have .led the gay life
at their over-dressed Ostends.
Let us consider the precise moment in
which the nowadays /'Oi</f/^{? makes up her
mind to hit the Big Brine.
She commences to prepare by shedding
her organdie, or charmeuse, or whatever.
Being patriotic, she hums the "Star-
."^pangled Banner."
When she gets to " — twilight's last
A dog, an ocean, and their proprietor: Mary MacLaren.
siaiit riioto
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The 1917-Model Bathing Girl
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gleaming" the only dif-
ference between her and
I.ady Godiva is one silk
stocking.
Yet, when she reaches "the
home of the brave" — snap,
click : she is completely
garbed for the salt suds ;
and though you see a lot
more of her than anyone
ever saw of her giandinerc,
she is just as modest and
infinitely more beautiful.
The motion picture girls
are all swimmers, and we
fancy that if anyone had im-
posed the armor of '64 on one of them she
would have walked miles and miles to desola-
tion, and then would have taken it all off !
This lobster's name is John. Observe how expert
Juanita Hansen is in the handling of lobsters. In
fact the John Lobsters know no month on her cal-
endar which hasn't an "r" in it.
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Bessie Love, plus the
cute bathing suit,
draws a little free
transportation.
Clara Williams, reclining, and a great game of crack-the-whip on the Inceville beach.
The 1917-Model Bathing Girl
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Bill, the horseman, becomes a horse for Olive Thomas.
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Mofh-l^ by I^ichten«cin
Studies o( Miss Wthlen jioscd
exclusively for PHOTOPLAY
Magazine liy the Camplicll
studio. New York.
WHAT YOU
SEE ON THE GIRL
By Lillian Howard
ON THE COVER
V.
WHEN Emmy Wehlen graciously consented to leave her large daily emotional tasks at the Metro studio
and accompany me first to those shops along Fifth Avenue where fashion resorts and to v^rhich the
dames and damsels of the far provinces make pilgrimages, 1 resolved that I would improve my rare opportunity
of a perfect model and a perfectly obliging celebrity at the same time by posing her only in swqm-suits applica-
ble and accessible to any young woman in any American community.
Miss Wehlen is showing you the accepted water-frocks of 1917.
They are all correct — even to the chic and daring little one-piece suit at the bottom of the opposite page.
Some cities — notably Chicago — legalized the one-piece suit for women last summer, and every husky swimming
girl agrees that skirts are a dreadful nuisance when she's kicking the aqua behind her at steamboat speed.
However, you may not be a swimmer, and besides you may not believe in being so philanthropic with your
charms. Very well; here are surf draperies much more ample, and still chic and comfortable.
You should be able to procure such models as these in your own town, or through mail order systems now
accessible everywhere. But if you are not, write me, care PHOTOPLAY, enclosing a stamped and addressed
envelope, and I shall be glad to tell you just where you can buy these things, and how much they will cost you.
Miss Wehlen's swimming togs:
No. 1. A 1917 Jersey cloth model in gray, with rose taffeta pipings.
No. 2. Suit of navy blue mohair; bloomers on the riding breeches model, piped on the outer side with
white cording; skirt ornamented with white hand-embroidered rose; navy blue cape lined with white mohair. .
No. 3. An interesting variation of the current style, showing the extreme to which the "coat form" may
be carried. The short embroidered knickerbockers are of a material lighter in color.
No. 4. A costume of brown taffeta, with crash trimming, embroidered pockets and the new "stole" sash.
No. 5. Black Jersey swimming-suit with Roman-striped borders.
The one-piece creation came in with a bound last season and Annette Kellermans and all who fancied
themselves so apportioned, brought in the vogue of the modern sea nymph. The prowess of the film actresses
in the long-distance swim provoked a host of sisters to follow suit and made diving apparel comme il faut.
For those who prefer to seek the waves bedecked in full feminine accoutrement, the designers have launched
skirted costumes slashed waist-high in apron-effect, or divided front and back in riding skirt style, thus doing
away with the shackling of the old, unbroken hem.
The 1917-Model Bathing Girl
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The 1917-Model Bathing Girl
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Bessie Love, and the cutest swim-suit
in captivity.
When Marie Prevost wishes to do a little driving she
puts a bit in the old surf-board's mouth.
Only in Los Angeles
Could This Happen
HOW THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
OF SCREENLAND'5 CAPITAL
BECAME A FILM ACTOR
A YEAR ago Charles E. Sebastian was
the chief executive of Los Angeles,
one of the ten biggest cities in the
United States and the largest in area and
population in the West.
Now in the same city he may be seen
daily with make-up on his face and his
hair reddened to give it the proper shade
on the screen.
Whether he will remain in the movies
will depend largely on the reception ac-
corded his first actorial effort, which is
tlcscribed as a picturized history of his
public career as policeman, chief of police
and mayor.
The film is entitled "The Downfall of a
Mayor" and it is qualified with such sub-
captions as "Exposing Chemically Pure
Los Angeles" and "The Invisible Govern-
ment." Sebastian was really ousted as
mayor a few months ago, although his
resignation was ascribed to ill health.
According to the advance notices, Hero
Sebastian has plenty of opportunities to
cro in the seven or eight reels comprising
the film. He saves beautiful maidens from
Chinese dens and white slave rings and
other well-known birds of prey, who finally
get together and put the intrepid- cop out
of business after he has matriculated to
the mayor's chair.
Charles E. Sebastian, recent Mayor of Los Angeles.
Below, Sebastian in two scenes from his first picture play.
Who's Married to Who
THE pranks of Cupid in the art-world are perennially fascinating. Why is it
that the matinee-girl — and perhaps all her family — first dreads the day when
the heroine or the hero goes into partnership ; and then, finding that the step has
been taken, simply cracks with curiosity until she finds out who the partner is ? But
it's safe to say that no charmer's husband ever pleased the boys who secretly wor-
ship her picture, while, if Venus were the leading man's wife, she would of course
be considered perfectly impossible by his vast chicken congregation.
Francis X. Bushman and Mrs. Bushman, automobiling. Where? We don't know — perhaps in
Maryland, ivhere Mr. Bushman's home is located. This is possibly the only photograph of Mrs.
Bushman with Mr. Bushman in existence.
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Apeda Photo
Betty Scott, now Mrs. Earle Foxe, was among the Genevieve Hamper, ivho married Robert Mantell,
most beautiful of the New York Winter Garden's was a few years ago ingenue in his Shakesperean
actresses. company.
H. B. Warner and his wife, Rita Stanwood. Miss Phillips Smalley and his talented wife, Lois Weber,
Stanwood was a distinguished actress of the stage. whose directoral fame has eclipsed his.
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WELL, WHY DON'T YOU TAKE THE ORANGE?
It's Lottie
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Pukjoid's liHsky daughter that's offering it to you, and her mother's backing
Only her name isn't all Pickford; it's Mary Pickford Riipp.
rh"t" I'v stage
her up, too.
The Shadow Sta^e
A
Department
of
Photoplay
Review
Julian
Johnson
Douglas Fairbanks and Arline Pretty, in Mr. Fairbanks' Jirst Artcraft photoplay, "In Again — Out
Again. "
WHEN General Selznick's staff began
turning Eugene Walter's "Easiest
Way" from script to celluloid, they
were confronted by one of the great stra-
tegic opportunities of the film business.
"The Easiest Way" is a transcript of real
life. Would thev continue this transcript
of life and its genuine people, thereby
weavingan enduring itapestry for the library
of transparencies, or would they heroize
and villainize and heroinate Mr. Walter's
remarkable trio — thereby turning a great
play into an old-fashioned moving picture?
They did the latter. "The Easiest Way"
is a "fillum" full of glycerin tears and
caramel virtues and coal-tar wickedness.
Were it merely a matter of chronicling
this disappointment over such a reduction
of a once-great play, we should scarcely
devote this space to it. Here's the prob-
lem : Were the Selznick people compelled
to do this in order to get the play across
at all? Could they have escaped the cen-
, sors had they 'shown Eugene Walter!s play
instead of the smug conversion? We doubt
it. And in a day wherein the whole world
lias gone to war for democracy and free-
dom, this is damnable.
Now, no less of the trappings of vice,
no fewer ' gibes at virtue, no more swift
shots at transgression could be included
in a real version than in the screening
that exists. There are not, and would not
be, subtitles in "The Easiest Way" even ap-
proaching one or two startlers in "The
Price She Paid."
The real ^'Easiest Way" is impossible
because it knocks into a cocked hat the
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primary, all-essential moving picture
notion about woman: that she is, under
every circumstance, not a human being, but
an angel, and never sins except under cruel
pressure from a male villain. If a second
reason were needed, it is because the play
shows a thoroughly on-the-level relation
existing between Laura Murdock's keeper
and the man who wants to be her husband ;
tricking both of them, Laura loses them
both. And if a third reason is demanded,
Laura of the play does not die, but enters
the supremest of grim tragedies, a life of
hope flung away, existence self -poisoned.
The drama as Eugene Walter had it
stands as perhaps the best American play
yet written, for it is a telescopic vision of
hectic twentieth-century life. Its plot
Fannie Ward
and Jack
Dean, in
" The School
for
Husbands. "
possesses the merit of extreme brevity and
simplicity. Laura Murdock, a rather ineffi-
cient stock actress, is the "friend" of VVil-
lard Brockton, and goes to Denver to play
a summer season. While there she falls
in love with John Madison, a reporter sent
to interview her. As she and Madison are
making their turtle-dove plans, Brockton
arrives from New York to take his bright
bird back to her gilded cage, which she
has gladly occupied. But a new light has
come into her soul — purity, real love,
domesticity. She tells all this to Brock-
ton, and Brockton, a pretty big guy at
heart, wishes her happy days. But he
warns Madison, who is meanwhile aching
to knock him down, that it is going to
be a long fight and a dangerous one to
overcome Laura's innate love
of ease and luxury. Laura has
signified her intention of go-
ing back to begin alone, while
Madison makes the stake he
promises. Brockton, still lov-
ing her, will
stand off
Iw h i 1 e she
wants to bat-
tle on for
Madison and
their home,
but if she
flashes him a
distress sig-
nal — he
warns Mad-
ison — he is
going to be
there with
the limousine
and the key
to the big
front door.
Meanwhile,
Laura agrees
to play fair
with both
men. She
says, openly,
it's Madison,
Ja n d Brock-
ton agrees to
stay off ; but
if. back iri
New York,
she decides
to resume the
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Brockton affair, she must write Madison,
and break clean. She does neither. She
fights awhile, gives up, doesn't tell either
man the truth, and Brockton is presently
outraged by Madison's arrival — completely
uninformed. Both of them pass from the
scene, and Laura, cursing fate instead of
herself, as is the eternal way with weak-
lings, prepares to start a rapid career
through the half-world.
But in the picture there is little of this
honesty, this pitiless
revelation of the
minds of men and
of women's souls.
Brockton becomes a
persecuting pest. He
lies, he cheats, he
traps, he tricks —
he's d i s gu s t ing.
Laura slides to
Tophet wearing the
look of a Madonna,
and at length -dies a
glucose death in her
proper lover's pure
arms.
As far as the
direction of this dis-
tortion- is concerned,
I have only praise.
Capellani's job has
been marvelous in
its adroitness and
surety. The settings
are as 'lavish as the
star's costuming,
and that is the last
word. Thr) best ol
the cast, despite his
thrice - murdered
part, is Joseph Kil-
gour as Brockton, a role of which he was
the incomparable creator. Clara Kimball
Young is gocfd as Laura, the angel wlio
has mud on her wings, and Rockcliffe
Fellowes, ordinary but acceptable as Mad-
ison.
I T is one thing to sit down with a type-
writer and tell how Ihe truths of life
ought to be' represented in the silences ;
quite another thing to get those truths
over, and not only over, but madly en-
joyed. The hypnotists actually doing this
today are that Artcraf t trio : Loos, Fair-
banks and Emerson. I think Miss Loos'
Pavhne Frederick and
cent release, '
adroit characterizations are the cleverest,
slyest bits of humanity in pictures. Doug
is perforce her hero, but has he any of
the usual hero attributes? Not one. Are
her heroines of the classic type? Or her
villains? Loos is the Barnum of scenario-
ists ; she is hocus-pocusing her public into
laughing at itself, and while O. Henry
was able to do this in his books, we have
60 far had no O. Henry for the screen —
unless Miss Loos proves an O. Henrietta.
Mr. Fairbanks is
sprung into Artcraf t
by a timely device
called "In Again —
Out Again." The
subject of the satire
is pacifism, and we
iris in on a baby-
food factory can-
ning shrapnel, a
wheat shreddery
loading high explo-
sive, and — oh jov —
a pill foundry mak-
ing mine s. Mr.
Fairbanks, as Teddy
Rutherford, is re-
fused by his pacifist
fiancee because of
his belief in pre-
paredness. Hence
his adventures, in-
cluding a perfectly
lovely jail made
into a cozy corner
by the jailer's
daughter. His
pathetic endeavors
to break into this
jail a^ain and
again, give the story
its title. When sentenced for thirty day.s,
he leaps upon the bench and kisses the
judge, and it is the rival in his new love
•who not only has him pardoned, but evicted
from durance by force. The head pacifist
is uncovered as the maker of munitions
explosions, and in a series of characteristic
Fairbanks stunts smothered in tumult, the
slick little farcelet caroms to a close.
"In Again — Out Again" is two flashing
reels for the intelligent, and it is among
the month's best entertainments, but it does
not quite rank with one or two of the com-
■bination's previous diversions. The penalty
of speed is that you have to maintain it.
John Sain polls, in the re-
'Sleeping Fires."
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FRANK LLOYD brings proof that he
has more than one arrow for his bow.
Arrow No. 2 is "American Methods," the
somewhat square-cornered but very descrip-
tive title Mr. Lloyd has given his own free
adaptation of Georges Ohnet's novel, "The
Ironmaster." Mr. Lloyd is not only the
Fox public's good-for-
tune, but William Far-
num's as well. Since he
left Colin Campbell, Far-
num has been in search
of a man who could
properly deploy his
peculiar and varied tal-
ents ; he has found him
in Lloyd. In "American
Methods," Mr. Farnum
plays William Armstrong,
American of French
ancestry, who returns to
the Gallic village of his
forefathers, and there re-
establishes not only the
decaying town, but wins
an aristocratic bride. Lloyd shows the real
director's gift in making his types wonder-
fully true. Bertram Grassby is perfect as
the Due de Bligny, a bit of outworn, aris-
tocracy; Alan Forrest delightful as de
Beaulieu, a young French gentleman ;
Mortimer Jaffe, a great bit of comedy inter-
polation as an American chauffeur ; and
Willard Louis, despite certain excesses of
manner, really very entertaining as the
bourgeois, Moulinet. But it is to Jewel
Carmen, as Claire de Beaulieu, that Lloyd
seems to have given the full sweep of his
rugged emotional force. In this photo-
play. Jewel Carmen depicts a voluptuous
though bitterly repressed young woman
whose power and passion, loosed at last,
ravage like a flood. The screen does not
often reflect such a dynamic performance,
at once burning with sex and almost virgin-
ally chaste. Florence Vidor, the girl of
the wonderful bit in the death-cart with
Farnum in "A Tale of Two Cities," im-
proves all her opportunities in a SAveet little
part. Farnum is his modern frank self.
"The Derelict" is a serious attempt to
give Stuart Holmes a strong, sensible story
of the seamy side of, life. In its extract,
the plot is good. Brant, a good -fellow at
all bars, drifts down and completely out,
and his wife marries the better man, who,
in the fashion of such stories, has been
Earle Williams
and Ethel Grey
Terry, in
"Apartment
29."
always waiting for her. Brant becomes a
.suit-case carrier and depot "grifter" ; and,
unwittingly, marches his own daughter
toward ruin — then gives his life to save
her. The story is rather tawdry and at
moments dull in its working out, but
Holmes is legitimate and sincere, and a
girl named Wanda Petit is delightful.
Those who like Valeska Suratt and still
dip into Rider Haggard will find intense
delight in the Fox version of "She," a very
well filmed imaginative thriller.
"Her Temptation:" a true-to-form melo-
drama which glued us to our divan because
it contained Gladys Brockwell. But per-
haps Gladys is one of our weaknesses.
D ESSIE LOVE is growing up. The
'-^ child of innocent, plaintive eyes, last
year, has given place to the young woman
of the present, with roguish, merry eyes
that find it hard to wink back all their
laughter. "-Cheerful Givers." an adroit
comedy of plain folks and dull lives, could
not have been interpreted by the Bessie
Love of a year ago. Now it is perfectly
done by a Fine Arts cast which Miss Love
heads. Bessie plays Deborah, oldest daugh-
ter of the Rev. John Deady, a gently im-
provident country minister, who, when the
funds of the orphan asylum fail, takes
seven of the children into his own slender
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commissary. The
plot of the drama
concerns Bessie's as-
sault upon Harriet
G ray, the miserly
ruler of many des-
tinies, including her
father's. The excel-
lence of the satire
consists in the im-
mediate collapse of
the girl's plot — her
scheme to imperson-
ate a boy — in Harriet
Gray's house. Ac-
cording to the usual
motion picture tenet,
this is being gotten
away with in at least
half the homes along
your street, but it
only promotes laugh-
ter in the house of
Harriet Gray. The
only jarring note in
this perfectly lifelike
sketch is the long-
distance crusade of
the seven kids — a
quite unlikely prog-
ress. ]\I i s s Love,
Kenneth Harlan,
Josephine Crowell,
Spottiswoode Aitken,
Pauline Starke, Wini-
fred Westover, I,ov-
ola O'Connor a n d
Bessie Buskirk help
the author perfect this simple little story
of real existence.
"An Old-Fashioned Young Man" is a
typical Frank E. Woods story, cleverly
told, acted and produced, featuring Robert
Harron.
"Hands Up." The only excuse for this
unbelievable melodrama is the always-in-
telligent acting of Wilfred Lucas, and the
presentation of Colleen l\Ioor§, who, in her
naive ingenuousness, comes nearer to being
a genuine child than any other screeness
in her 'teens. When, as the naughty and
frightened little eloper, she is locked in the
bandits' attic, and, in a paroxysm of baby-
i.sh terror, beats upon the barred door, wail-
ing "Daddy! Daddy!" the simulation of a
dhild in trouble is so sincere that it's
painful. Watch this pretty little girl.
npFlE fortunes of war
limited route amony
Bessie Love and Josephine Crowell, in
"Cheerful Givers."
and a
picture
shops this month have
permitted me to see
but one of the new,
or comparatively new,
Keystones. This
speedy pastime was
"Villa of the
Movies." in w h i c h
Senor Sennett has a
most marvelous rep-
lica of the gentleman
who is the Big Hate
in Columbus, New
Mexico. Miss Marie
Prevost, the decora-
tion, proves as charm-
ing a flower as any
in the Edendale gar-
den. The Sennetters
have the faculty,
some way, of giving
a tinge of credibility
to anything they
burlesque, so their
burlesque on war, and
the manana spirit of
the Grand Army of
Mexico, is a grand
little comicality. A
fast-moving study of
the ludicrous, plus
the usual touch of
Keystone girliness,
recommended espe-
cially to gentlemen
reversed in fortune.
I DIDN'T see Chaplin in "The Cure"
last month in time to put my rubber
stamp on it for this ledger of excellencies,
but, like the soul of John Brown, "The
Cure" has been marching on, regardless.
Now, any rehash of the incidents in this
farcelet would be as newsy as an announce-
ment that Joffre has visited America. As
long as Chaplin continues to make photo-
plays as close to human nature as "The
. Cure," which is full of the international
humor that every man laughs at, whatever
his language, so long will Chaplin's place
as First Clown of the World be undisputed.
'"yHE PINCH HITTER" is a great big
'■ two-fisted story of youthful awkward-
ness and honesty. It was bottled by Ince,
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the receipt was written by C. Gardner
Sullivan, it was prepared by Victor Schert-
zinger, and the chief ingredient is Charles
Ray. Mr. Ray, as he has done before,
plays a bashful gawk in a freshwater col-
lege. As there is much more snobbery in
any Middle West "seminary" than there is
at Yale or Harvard, poor Joel Parker
(Ray) suffers ' accordingly. Not even his
father believes in him. He sent him to
college because of a promise to mother, and
mother is dead. Joel is renowned as a
boob, and accepts himself as one. The
college baseball team take him on, but he
doesn't know why ; in reality, the manager
"figgered" that such a complete gawk
should be a grand mascot, and he is an-
nexed as the big leaguers have been known
to annex goats, half-portion Ethiopians
and mangy dogs. But the young lady
proprietor of the ice-cream parlor feels
sorry for the lonely unfortunate, takes him
up, and what she pities at first she at
length embraces. Then, on a day so full
of fate that it spills over the edges, there
is a series of grand flukes on the team, and
the comical mascot is actually called to
bat. He lines out a home run,
and wins. But the best thing
about his victory was that it
gave him nerve enough to pro-
pose.
A scene from "A Magdalene cf the
Hills," starring Mabel Taliaferro.
"The Desert Man," though as like Wil-
liam S. Hart's other Western plays as one
bullet is like another, is distinguished for
at least one or two exceedingly dramatic
moments, and some of the most marvelous
photography ever pickled in celluloid.
Genuine thrill stuff is Hart's entrance into
the road-house at One-Mile, the redlight
district of Believinville. How to get the
drop on at least fifty gun-men : that's the
problem. He does it by rolling a keg
down an incline and sending it crashing
through a side window. As every shooting
iron wliirls involuntarily toward the start-
ling noise. Hart kicks in the front door —
and he has the drop ! Marjorie Wilson is
the chief feminine interest.
In "The Snarl" we have such double
photography that it is arresting even in
these days of astounding double-photog-
raphy tricks, wasted on a vapid, impossible,
silly story. It is a Bessie Barriscale
vehicle.
"Paddy O'Hara." Stories of the Bal-
kans, having been started a generation ago,
can't be killed even by monster romances
of Western war. Tliis one has a newspaper
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tinge, and features William Desmond.
Charles T. Dazey, who turned from
many years of stage authorship to write
agreeable and refreshing stories for the
movies, provided \V'illiam S. Hart with a
good vehicle of love and sacrifice, hate and
expiation, put up in the accepted manner,
in "Wolf Lowry."
IT is doubtful if any performer in the
*■ transparencies has experienced greater
changes of artistic calibre than Marguerite
William Russell
in his liv/'ly new
melocomedy,
"The Frame-
up."
Clark, in the year past. These shifts in
professional value have been accompanied
by an almost right-about-face for Miss
Clark's photoplay attitude. In truth,
probably the new sincerity which has come
over her, her growing conviction that the
screen is an opportunity to be proclaimed,
instead of a financial expedient to be ex-
cused, is responsible for the warmth, sym-
pathy and sweetness which a once cold and
snippy little girl first brought to us in
startling degree in "Snow White." Miss
Clark's work has always possessed dainti-
ness and charm, but where that charm was
once the lure of a wax flower under glass,
it is now the fragrance of a big rose-bush
blowing in a June wind. "The Valentine
Girl," her latest expression,
has not only tenderness and
a bit of romance, but sur-
prising depths of feeling.
As Marian Morgan, Miss
Clark depicts a lonesome
child, somehow
misplaced
though wel-
come in a home
of wealth, and
reaching matu-
rity and beauty
together be-
neath a sense
of impending
disaster. Frank
Losee does
magnificent
work as her
chief support,
and the direc-
tion is by J-
Searle Dawley.
Hugh Ford's
most energetic
recent direc-
tion is "Sleep-
ing Fires," in
which Pauline
Frederick is
the principal
glowing ember.
In its m a i n
idea, this play,
by George
Middleton, is
not unlike a
celebrated
Spanish drama,
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popular here a few years ago, in
which the wife is virtually driven
to the arms of the man wrongly
accused of being her lover. In
this instance Miss Frederick is
the unappreciated wife of Ed-
ward Bryce, played by John
Sainpolis. Bryce is enamored of
his stenographer, as men often
are in fiction and seldom are in
real life. In defending a girl
worker arrested during a strike
of her husband's employees, Mrs.
Bryce meets lawyer David Gray
(Thomas Meighan) and this
acquaintance is used as a basi^
for Bryce's future framing.
Forced from her home, Mrs.
Bryce. steals her boy, and he is
in turn stolen from
her by a private de-
tective. Bryce is
shot, and through
the gentleness of
the detective's sister,
to whom the little
prisoner was given
for safe - keeping,
and through the
break-down of the
detective's carefully-
planned perjury on
the stand, the trial
of his alienated wife
for mui-der ends in
a mighty "Not
Guilty!" Rather
human and appealing throughout, and ex-
cellently played by all its principals.
I ASKY'S month has not been notable,
at the time I v.-rite.
The best of the pictures I have seen, at
least, is "The Tides of Barnegat," a very
faithful and beautiful solar transcription
of the story by F. Hopkinson Smith. With
the true perspective of a man who thought
in terms of a brush or a drawing pen,
Smith's stories were never swayed by any
great emotional theme, but were always
saturated with atmosphere, color and dis-
tinctive beauty. Here, if you will remem-
ber, Jane Cogden flies with her sister to
Paris, and in a moment of self-sacrifice
assumes that sister's maternal responsibil-
ity, although the trouble that ensues from
this well-intentioned lie threatens to need
Wilfred Lucas, in "Hands Up.
eight reels in the
straightening, in-
stead of five.
Blanche Sweet, as
Jane, gives one of
the best perform-
ances of her recent
months ; Norma
Nichols plays Lucy,
maternity's truant ;
Elliott Dexter is the
lover of Jane, and
Tom Forman and
Harrison Ford are
the first and second
m a t e s of Lucy's
craft of love. The
])lay is well done,
tliroughoul.
"The Silent Part-
ner." A revision of
the o 1 d story in
which the loving
and faithful office
girl saves her em-
ployer, downs h i s
d u b i o u ? partner,
and wins love and
riches. Featuring
Blanche Sweet and
Thomas Meighan.
Fannie Ward and
Jack Dean, in "A
School for Hus-
bands," come back
to the excellencies
which were noted
about Miss Ward a year ago, and which
her late crop of plays has sorely missed.
This is a brilliant modern comedy, with
Fannie Ward, perhaps one of the subtlest,
surest and most gra.ceful comediennes who
ever slipped into the shadows, at her best.
The scenario is an excellent and resultful
adaptation of Stanislaus Stange's drama.
"Those Without Sin." Who let this
ridiculous cat out of the La.sky bag? An
absurd story of the Civil War, evidently
made for a vSouthern "somev>-here" so
utterly unreconstructed that thev still have
slave-sales. The Northerners are villains,
the- Southerners, all Bayard-ish heroes. In
a time when the brave men of Alabama are
going to France side by side with their
comrades from Maine, this insufferable
clap-trap will be resented in Birmingham
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A Director with
a Conscience
LLOYD, WHO TOLD A TALE
OF TWO TOWNS, WILLING TO
LET DICKENS SHARE CREDIT
FOR HIS FIRST BIG EFFORT
By E. V. Durling
FRANK LLOYD has never made tlie
mistake of taking himself too seriously,
and the man who can pass through the
various stages of advancement from an
ijrdinary actor to a director assigned to
make one of the biggest motion pictures of
the day with one of the really brilliant
American actors, and still remain un-
changed in this respect, deserves to be
enrolled among the truly big fellows.
Upon first glimpse it would' seem
that Frank Lloyd never took anything
seriously. The day I visited him at the
Fox Studio, I saw him stop the action of
the picture three or four times to tell
William Farnum something that must have
been very, very funny, to judge from the
resulting laughter. But this care-free
manner is merely a mark of the really effi-
cient executive, providing, of course, it is
Mr. Lloyd registers
a scenario seance.
varied with properly-timed serious mo-
ments. As a matter of fact, there are few
directors who have given their profession
the serious consideration Frank Lloyd has.
In congratulating him upon the unanim-
ity of the critics' praise of his produc-
tion, "A Tale of Two Cities," I ventured to
say that they all seemed to agree he had
accomplished the impossible for a motion
picture director ; that is, he had subordi-
nated himself to the author.
"Yes," replied the director, "and it was
very hard for me to do it. When I was
assigned to make 'A Tale of Two Cities'
with William Farnum as my star, I felt
that at last my opportunity had come. I
was face to face with the realization of
every motion picture director's dream ; a
chance to make a 'big picture.' I began to
imagine all sorts of wonderful scenes, the
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interpolation of pet ideas fostered all dur-
ing my career, and in fact, I hardly gave
the story itself or the author consideration
at all in the beginning."
"What made you change your mind?"
"Well, I think this originated in a
chance remark made by a friend. I was
over at the public library one evening look-
ing up some data on the period of 'A Tale
of Two Cities.' I met there a neighbor
of ours, a school teacher. I told him of
my assignment to make the Dickens pic-
ture. He was very much impressed."
" 'What a marvelous opportunity !' " he
said. " T think it a privilege to bring the
works of Dickens before sixty people and
here you have the chance to bring them
before sixty million.' "•
"I thought of this latter phrase, I think,
all during the makiiiig of the picture. I de-
cided it would be more discreet to bring
the work of Charles Dickens before — pos-
sibly— many million people, than the work
of Lloyd. For that reason I followed as
closely as possible the story of the book.
Every historical detail was absolutely
correct, all the settings were the result of
careful, patient research and the character-
izations and theme of the story were trans-
ferred to the screen in such a manner as to
accurately follow the author's ideas.
In \\'illiam Farnum's opinion, Frank
Lloyd is the best director in the whole
world. Speaking of his direction of "A
Tale of Two Cities," the actor said, "I
know of no other man who could have ac-
complished the same results with the story
as Frank did. He placed himself abso-
lutely in the background. He grasped the
various points of the story with a mar-
velous appreciation of their dramatic and
educational value. Time and time again
he withstood the temptation to be spec-
tacular in order to be correct and keep
within the spirit of the story."
Frank Lloyd is a Scotchman. He was
born in Glasgow and has been connected
with the stage in one way or the other all
his life. His first motion picture experi-
ence was with Universal, acting the deep-
dyed villain parts, and then directing one-
and two-reel pictures. He was then engaged
by the Morosco- Pallas company to direct
Dustin Farnum. Booth Tarkington's
"Gentleman from Indiana," "Davy Crock-
ett" and "David Garrick" were some of the
results of this combination. Leavmg the
Morosco Company, he joined the Fox or-
ganization and has now been assigned to
direct all the William Farnum pictures.
At present he is at work on photoplays
adapted from the stories of Zane Grey.
Lloyd and Billy Foster, his camera-man, go over their double exposures.
Roland Reed's
Florence
Daughter
FLORENCE REED and her mother
came to New York in 1904. Through
the fact that the manager of the Fifth
Avenue Theatre had been an intimate friend
of her father, the late Roland Reed, the
comedian, she was given a trial in stock, in
spite of her sixteen years.
"Imagine, we did a new play each week,
and we gave twelve performances every
week," exclaimed Miss Reed.
E. H. Sothern found Florence Reed play-
ing in Providence, as leading woman of a
very fine stock company managed by Mal-
colm Williams. Fie offered her the leading
role in his forthcoming revival of "If I Were
King," and in this she made her real New
York debut in 1909. Following this engage-
ment she appeared in "The Typhoon." "The
Yellow Ticket." "A Celebrated Case." "The
Painted ^^'oman," "The Master of the
House," and she originated the leading femi-
nine role in "Under Cover."
Then Daniel Frohman of the Famous
Players engaged her as the star of "The
Dancing Ciirl." Other pictures which she
has done in the past three or four years are
"At Bay," "New York," "The Cowardly
Way" and "The W^oman's Law."
The early part of last winter was spent in
Florida with the Selznick forces, taking the
Herbert Brenon picture. "The Eternal Sin."
Off-stage she is Mrs. Malcolm Williams.
Photo by
White
Florence Reed as Tisha, the Theda Bara
of ancient Jerusalem, in "The Wanderer,"
a great spectacle now under way at New
York's Manhattan Opera House.
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FEE FI FO FUM" — YOU'RE RIGHT! FINISH IT!
Yes, this is the giant whose goat was completely gotten by Jack, the Httle white hope of fairy days. However, removing
the unplucked calf-skin and the cypress curtains, and the pirate boots, and the Peter Pan buckle, and the Franklin ooys,
we find J. G. Tarver, the Arizona obelisk who is doing "Jack and the Beanstalk" in Los Angeles for William Fox,
under Franklinian direction.
" A LAS !" she cried, "it is my fate. I might have expected it. All my life things
ii. have gone wrong with me. Luck has always been against me. I must have
been born under an evil star."
"My dear," her friend asked, "what has happened? Why are you so depressed.''"
"I have practiced eighteen months to become able to shed tears at will, and now
that I've got it, I can't get a job in the movies." — Judge.
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Montagu Encounters a Capulet
By Randolph Bartlett
IT is not easy to believe this story of what
happened a few weeks ago to the some-
thing more than six feet of manhood
(other dimensions in perfect proportion)
that is known to the world and the screen
as Montagu Love. But when this was
written, there- was positive proof in
the form of Montagu's left arm,
bound in splints.
At the World-Peerless studio, they
were making a picture called "The
Brand of Satan," with Mr. Love
as the star. Playing opposite him
was Allan Hart, who suddenly
and unintentionally adopted the
role of Capulet to our Mon-
t a g u. The two men were
called upon to stage an alter-
cation at the top of a stair-
case, the debate ending bv
Hart's smiting Montagu a
hearty jab and knocking him
down stairs. The scene was
played twice. Hart being care-
ful to aim his blow so that it
would hit Montagu below the
back of the jaw, where it would
do no harm to a man of our hero's
is ^ -^
architecture. The director decided to take
the .scene a third time, to be sure he had a
perfect reproduction. The third time,
Capulet's aim veered slightly and his fist
came in contact with that portion of the
Montagu jaw where the sleep nerve is
located. Montagu promptly did a
Keystone the full length of the stair-
case.
"Cireat I" shouted the director.
"Immense I"
Montagu still lay at the foot
of the stairs. He was "ab-
sent" for ten minutes, and
when he returned it was dis-
covered that his left wrist was
fractured.
"Later in the picture," he
mused grimly, as he told the story,
"the scenario contains a .scene in
which it says 'They engage in a
terrific fight.' "
If we were Allan Hart, we should
try to find an understudy before
tlie left arm gf Montagu is healed.
Love is the one actor whom I
should like to see as D'Artagnan.
The hearty bigness of the man, the
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way he tells a story, the sincerity of his
unfailing smile betokening the best of rela-
tions with himself and the world at large,
his frank friendliness, toward food and
drink, but most of all, his status among
men — these traits are the same which
Dumas must have had in mind when he
created his epic soldier.
Love has been a soldier too. He was
born in Calcutta in 1877 and educated in
England. When the Boer War broke out,
he enlisted and fought through the cam-
paign which culminated at Johannesburg.
Being a clever artist with pen, pencil and
brush, he acted as war correspondent for a
London illustrated paper. And because
South Africa fascinates him more than any
other part of the world — and he has seen
most of it — he went back as an actor.
His stage career has been extensive and
successful, under such managements as
Belasco, Brooks, the Shuberts, Brady and
Cyril Maude. He drifted into pictures
through visiting a projection room where a
friend's "test film" was being shown to a
director. The friend nearly lost the en-
gagement when the director saw Love, who
immediately appealcKl to him as screen ma-
terial and was taken into the World Film
camp for as long a term as he would stay.
He has played in such pictures as "Hearts
in Exile," "The Face in the Moonlight,"
"Husband and Wife," "The Devil's Toy,"
"The Greater Will," and many others.
The Fan's Prayer
From Bushman's amethyst ring and from Theda Bara's comedy; from the
studied nonchalance of the DeMille Bros. ; from Rolfe subtitles and from
Pacifists ; from Christy Cabanne's hopeless moustache ; from Anita Stewart in a
bathing suit and from Mary Thurman in garb of any other kind ; from Petrova's
icicle emotions; from Frank Powell problem plays; from J. P. McGowan's
interiors ; from World plots ; from the professional sorrows of Alice Brady ; from
Marguerite Clark in long skirts; from all fat boys except Roscoe ; from "En-
lighten Thy Daughter," and from "The Black Stork ;" from Henry Walthall's
drammers and from "The Eternal Sin ;" from most two-reelers ; from the ruina-
tions i)f Virginia Pearson ; from press-agents who bleed the dictionary to inter-
view a pretty baby ; from sissy chats with lovely men ; from Crane Wilbur's
photographs ; from "Patria," and from the acting of Irene Castle ; from "The
Secret Kingdom," and from "The Great Secret ;" from the plays of June
Caprice ; from advice by actresses ; from reminiscences ; from Universal society ;
from all censors ; from mush finishes and from saints ; from time-fuse repent-
ances ; from the gun-in-the-drawer and from proper-moment deaths ; from church
weddings ; from the rewards of virtue and from the wages of sin ; from village
streets; from Russia in Fort Lee and from Broadway in Santa Barbara; from
"Poor Butterfly" in the orchestra and from smooth dimes at the window ; from
foreign photography ; from these solemn interviews with Mack Sennett ;
from clubs and from college boys; from all men servants, and from all maids
except the cuties ; from close-ups of Carl Laemmle ; from Douglas Fairbanks
being wilfully funny ; from movie ministers ; from the opinions of stars and from
most re-issues, and from Mr. Arbuckle's brown derby — from all these evils, kind
Providence, deliver us !
The DeviTs Little Daughter
By BETTY SHANNON
BILL IE RHODES
will "do anything
once." Dainty and
little, she is game from
fluffs of her hair to the s
of her tiny feet. H(
roguish eyes fairly danc
at the mere suggestion o
a lark. She is the .sort
of girl who would much
rather have the motor
stall on an automobile
trip than have it run
smoothly ; an d s h e
would sooner have
ants crawl into the pic-
nic lunch than have
the picnic go off just
as it was planned.
Her director doesn't
to think up devilish things for
Billie Rhodes to do in the
Strand comedies she is producing "^
for Mutual (Adv.). She thinks
up more than enough to keep him busy.
And she doesn't stage them all before the camera. She
is strictly not a practical joker, but she possesses a very
happy faculty of making a joke out of it when things di
go all wrong.
cessful before the camera. She is just five
feet tall and weighs 106 pounds. She is
fond of swimming and motoring and
plays tennis and golf and loves to go
tramps through the
s. Picnic parties are
the delight of her
life — wit h or
without ants.
Whose dog are you, Fido?
Betty Shannon doesn't seem to
know. Neither do we.
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JOE KNIGHT TRAINS A SUBSTITUTE
Thelma Salter is the determined young idea who wishes to learn how to shoot before the best of the
Ince gunmen— like Joe— are called to the great roundup on the Somme. -
Sato was not only the executor of her father's estate, without bonds, but the guardian of
Mildred. Together they had to spend much time in the great house.
Sato Finds the Way
IT 15 THE ULTIMATE LOVE WHICH
SACRIFICES; SOMETIMES IT IS ONLY
THE SELFISH LOVE WHICH CLAIMS
By Clarie Marchand
A'
ND so, father, I've often wondered
why Sato has ne\'er made love to
me. . . ."
It was -sunset on the northern shore of
San Francisco Bay. The yellow light made
the eternal Gate golden indeed, and the
stacks and masts of the innumerable ves-
sels dotting the vast harbor seemed flaming
pencils drawing on a molten surface. James
Thornton sat in a deep wicker chair on the
terrace facing his great house. Mildred,
his daughter, sat on the arm of the chair.
"Do you think Sato should make love to
you?" asked the man, somewhat sharply.
"Why, no — but when men are so kind —
well, you know, father, it's not all kind-
ness."
"Nonsense ! Sato is my best friend. Be-
sides, he has too much sense to make love to
you. Sato feels very keenly the unthinking
attitude toward Japanese in this country,
and he would not put himself in an un-
wanted position, even if I were out of the
way."
Mildred did not answer.
"Tell me. Are you in love with Sato?"
"Wh}', of course not, papa !" came the
somewhat indignant response. "It just
seemed funny to me — he's always so sweet,
so -gentle, so thoughtful, yet he's never so
much as held my hand."
"Sato was brought up in a country where
boys are not called kids — a country where
being courteous and being fresh aren't
exactly synonymous."
And so the subject changed, and as it
happened, the heart of Sato was never dis-
cussed again bv this father and daughter.
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Thornton was perhaps the wealthiest h)vable, well-meaning boy of Harry Max-
importer of Japanese porcelains, lacquers, well's type — gives little heed to the obliga-
silics and ivories in California. He "bought tions of affection, to the duties as well as
on the inside," complained his bitter and the pleasures of love. Harry Maxwell was
lagging competitors. They spoke truly. probably as mucli in love with Mildred as
He unlocked Nippon with a Nipponesque she with him, yet he had never stopped to
key, and that key was Sato of Kobe : Berke- think about it ! When it occurred to him,
ley graduate, son of a Baron in the Tokyo driving home of a moonlight night, he
House of Lords, and commercially taught hugged and kissed her ardently — and, be-
in the biggest Japanese bank in San Fran- cause she was what is known in our clumsy
Cisco. • parlance as a "good" girl, he only thought
Though he had years of successful busi- of her at other times as someone he might
ness experience behind ^^ possibly marry some day ;
him, Sato was only twen- SATO FINDS THE never as a sensitive crea-
ty-six years old. He was WAY " tuj-g whose soul he had
Thornton's partner, and VT-ARRATED from the photo- awakened, and who
the onlv associate Thorn- V- >'''''-'' '■F"o''bidden Paths," needed his thoughts, his
, ; ^ , J wliicli was produced Iw the Lasky , , . ^ '
ton had ever trusted. Feature Play Company with the tenderness, his remem-
Woman's intuition, un- following cast: l)rances and little acts of
failing, prompted that Mildred Thornton. \i\ian Martin devotion.
question of Mildred's. ■^"'''•■•;-r ,^*'^'"4. Hayakawa j,^ -y^f tl^is ,^,a (,^^^.,2
A ^ 111 1 Harrv Ala.vzvell ... .Tom Forman ^, ■ . i • i i
Sato did love her, very y„„,^;, Thornton James Neill the parting which almost
deeply, and she felt it, Bcnita Rawircc. .Carmen Phillips broke Mildred's heart.
and could not understand Loui.t Valdcc Paul Weigel F'or a long time he had
why he did not at least '^'^"' -?""''''>'"' Ambass^dor^. .. been seeking a position in
ask her to be his wife. the American Embassy in
No woman is ever displeased at any man's Mexico City. AV'hen it came it was a
declaration of affection ; hers is the choice : clerkship, and with the appointment was a
his mere expression is a compliment more peremptory order for immediate departure
or less due her. from San Francisco. Harry gave himself
But Sato had made up his mind never to but half an hour with Mildred. He arrived
ask Mildred. He felt the pride of race at the house while they were at dinner, and
and of ancestry with true aristocratic keen- though the distraught girl wirelessed fran-
ness. He had chosen, that lie might be- tically for him to lead the way from the
come a millionaire, to live in a state where dining-room, he sat like a country war-set-
jingo race hatred was ever bitter. The tier on a cracker-box, telling her father,
American wife of a Japanese in California over and over again, what he proposed to
is an outcast. Sato elected just to stay do to any anti-American conspirators he
near Mildred, and protect her, if need be, might find. Suddenly he looked at his
against any evil that might come. watch — he hadn't a moment more !
While Mildred felt hurt and neglected. He dashed through the drawing-room,
in that Sato had never so much as written Mildred after him in a series of despairing
her a tender note, she was ardently and little gasps. She caught him on the ter-
girlishly in love with an American boy, and race. Turning, he gave her the most per-
one feeling did not in the slightest interfere functory little peck on the chin,
with the luxuriant growth of the other. "Goo-bye — write you from San Diego,
Harry Maxwell was not only. typically a where we put in^write me care Emba.ssy
youth ; he was typically American. Wlien — luck girlie-j-s'long !"
we say that the American has been the Then it was four weeks before she got
apostle of nnpreparedness we do not say so much as a postcard,
just what we mean. If we used the word Dark eyes flashing in Harry's had totally
thoughtlessness we should come much eclipsed the gray eyes of Mildred,
nearer the truth. The mature American, Benita Ramirez came to Mexico City
until now, has devoted scarcely a thought from Chihuahua in the first days of Car-
to the security of country. The family ranza's ascendency. As a matter of fact,
man too often thinks not at all of his life Benita left no particular reputation in
insurance. The young man — the happy, Chihauhua. She was a camp-follower of
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101
fortune, and fortune seemed camping in
the capital. Passing herself . for Cas-
tilian Spanish, she had no Spanish blood
at all. She was Portuguese and Indian,
and both races showed in her face. She
was adroit and scheming, and though
she could feign the most torrid hours,
her heart was polar.
The nearest she ever came to love was
lier fancy for the American boy. She
analyzed her sentiments quite clearly,
and was greatly pleased to discover that
she still cared for him, disassociated
from the money he spent upon her, and
the rather rosy prestige his favor re-
flected. Really, she did not love him ;
he was young and he was decent, and
into the hearts of the worst women in
the world there comes eventually a great
longing for young companionship, for
the touch of ideals that are not shat-
tered, for a cloak of respectability to
wrap about their chilling naked shoul-
ders.
It happened in the Cafe Benito
Juarez : the night was warm, such mon^
as had been yanked from the starving
peons by bloody bandits was being spent
by the bandits themselves; and from
chinking mandolins not too distant "La
Golondrina" and other founts of na-
tional ear-inspiration were pouring
forth. Harry, under a panama and in
white duck and yellow wine, was being
played by Benita as beautifully as rich
old gentlemen play the agile tuna of?
Catalina. Benita affected to drink as
Harry noisily quaffed his champagne.
"Tell me, dear — where vou came
from. You never told me !" Very re-
proachfully.
"Why, beloved, I thought I had
there's so little to tell
and it's not pleasant."
"Now you gotta tell me."
"Very well, dear. I have been . . .
married. My husband and I had lived
but a month on our rancho in Sonora,
when the Yaquis . . ." Benita was
too overcome to continue for fullv half
a minute . . . "the Yaquis killed
our cattle, burned our house, destroyed
our grain, cut down our fruit trees — and
they killed him — murdered him ! I came
here. I had just a little money, and I
have done sewing and tutored little chil-
dren. Now — I don't know what to do !"
Benita was experienced enough to hold any points
she made, and even to advance a little. So, within
a fortnight, she and Harry were married. . . . She
analyzed her sentiments quite clearly and was pleased
to discover that she cared for him apart from the
prestige his favor reflected.
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"Aren't yoit glad to see me?" she pun led, after his rather nervous
and formal greeting.
The poor girl looked away. Her struggle
to hide her woe was vain.
"Poor li'l girl!" sighed Mr. Maxwell.
"Poor li'l girl !" He petted her arm, and
as he stared into space, the volunteer pity
of the inebriate sprang wetly to his eyes.
Benita was experienced enough to hold
any points she made, and even to advance
a little. So, within a fortnight, she and
Harry were married.
In the meantime, all had not been mere
waiting in San Francisco. One of the sud-
den illnesses which young men throw off
in a day, but which kill old men in but
little more time, seized James Thornton,
and eternity gathered him in.
Mildred was so stunned by the furious
suddenness of her father's death that the
catastrophe itself was anaesthetized for her.
Her nerves began to wake to an excruciat-
ing ache, in her ensuing, intolerable days
of loneliness.
Sato, upon the reading of Thornton's
will, discovered himself
not only the sole executor
of the estate, without
bonds, but the guardian
of Mildred. I'ogether
they had to spend much
J^ time in the great house.
Ai^^ and in the grounds, and
'^ as they wandered about
the girl thrust her little
black-clad arm through
the sinewy crooked elbow
so close — once Sato ran
out of a purple twilight
with seven devils clutch-
ing at his mind and
soul. They had stood in
the garden, and as Sato
spoke of her father's
favorite flowers she had
started to cry. Her little
wet face looked up into
his, her yellow head in-
clined toward his breast.
It was mere instinct
wliirh made him put out
his arms and gatlier her
in ; and she clung to him.
her face in his coat, while
his lips rested in her hair.
No words had been
spoken between them —
none needed to be. Pres-
ently Sato led her to the
house, strangely comforted, and as he
left her, smiling, he went home and knelt
with his face toward the tombs of his an-
cestors, asking them not to permit him to
wreck the life of this American girl.
By a sort of satanic coincidence, this
happened the very day that Harry married
Benita. The wedding had an epilogue
which neither party had anticipated.
The American Ambassador, who had
called the boy there out of regard for his
father more than for any other reason, felt
almos! a parent's responsibility concerning
him. Like other alert men who had been a
long time in Mexico City, he knew some-
thing of its half-world life ; and he knew
of Benita. because she had been the special
vampire of an American military attache
the year before. The Ambassador's servant,
a tall, mulatto-colored peon, told his
superior of the marriage.
As fast as a motor car. his feet and an
act]uaintance with indolent traffic officials
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103
permitted, the Ambassador made for the
cathedral. He reached it as Benita, the
unrepentant Magdalene, was emerging —
Mrs. Ma.xwell.
"Permit me to present my wife, Mr. — "
Harrv got no further.
"Maxwell! Do you know what you've
done? You've given your father's honest
name to a public woman whO' — "
"Silence! This lady is my wife and I'll
spend a life in an'y jail you name rather
than permit her to be — "
"Rot ! Ask her why Pablo Valdez, the
coffee merchant, killed himself last De-
cember? Ask her why I myself sent Lieut.
Pericord back to Washington? Ask her
what she did with the money she pilfered
from your friend Talamantes?"
"Benita mia — tell this fellow he lies."
Instead, Benita pulled woman's one un-
varying piece of bad strategy : she began
to whimper instead of bluffing it out. Men
admire a fighter of either sex, but the cow-
ard they run from.
"I was alone, and helpless — starving,
almost!" sobbed the new Mrs. Maxwell.
"What was I to do? I thought those men
were only my friends, but if they chose to
love me and make fools of themselves be-
cause I could not love them — oh, Harry !"
"You . . . you really knew these
men, then? My friend speaks the truth?"
"But. Harry—"
"But nothing ! Why did you
" That is the way with you painted
lillies!" she almost shouted. "Go
out into the world as I di'd, cheap
little doll — perhaps you'll learn
some very necessary lessons!"
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"How much does this man mean to you?" asked Sato. "The whole
world," answered Mildred.
tell me vou were just in from Sonora?
Why did you conceal all these things?
Why have you lied, and lied?"
"I was afraid you wouldn't love me."
"Now I'm sure I don't love you. I gave
you everything I had — my family, my
name, and I was going to give you my life.
You gave trie — rotten falsehoods !"
Benita's eyes narrowed ominously.
"We had a proper license, and we were
married by a priest of the Catholic Church.
I assure you I haven't committed bigamy.
You'll find that marriage holds."
And as he looked at her, Harry believed
in a personal hell. His horrible marriage
was hell, and his wife was its chief demon.
Harry went to stay at the Ambassador's
house, while Benita moved her things to
the Hotel Nationale, and registered as
"Mrs. Harry Maxwell" — and that there
might be no mistaking her for any other
Maxwell: "U. S. Embassy."
In a feAv days, through the Ambassador.
Harry tendered her a formal offer of
$50,000 to annul the marriage. She re-
fused, but her manner lost its harshness.
She cultivated everywhere the symptoms of
a broken heart, and wrote her unrelenting
husband, each day, tender, pleading letters.
Thinking that he might
liavc a freer hand witli
Harry away, the Ambas-
sador.sent him to San
Francisco. Failing in
offers and open negotia-
tions, he had resolved
not to be above strategy
or a gas attack.
Principally through
governmental i n fl u e n c e,
this mesalliance had never
been telegraphed out of
the country by the corre-
spondents. The newspa-
per boys stood with the
American representative
in the Embassy on most
things, and when he asked
for the seal of silence on
this, lie got it.
So Mildred, and Sato,
were quite uninformed of
the thing they would have
read the msming follow-
ing its happening, had it
not been for the hard
heel of Uncle Sam.
Harry might have been described by the
authors of detective stories as weighed
down by terrible guilt. As a matter of
fact, his mercurial disposition permitted
him to be weighed down by nothing ; the
thing was over, as far as he was ■ ip
cerned — past.
gone, never
to return. It,
had g i \- e n ]
him a bad ten
days, and he'
had lest flesh
and color. Mil-
dred attributed
these losses to
some fearful
danger, coupled
w i t h tremen-
dous exertion.
Sato grimly
believed that
for the first
time in his life
Harry might
have done
some real work.
B u t of the
three, H a r r v
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105
was in the most troubled situation. He
was not really bad. He was thoughtless-
ness and carelessness raised to the «th
power, but he had a heart, and underneatli
his superficial surface, he had great sin-
cerity. It was his heart which spoke, tell-
ing him that he loved Mildred as he could
not possibly love the half-caste wanton
across the border. And it was the truth in
him that made him feel his duplicity in
leading Mildred on; it was very plain that
she lo\-ed him.
Harry's first movement in th.p continued
campaign for freedom was the sending of
a rather desperate wire to the Ambassador,
acquainting him with all the facts. And the
Ambassador went promptly to work to find
Benita in the cheaper and
more obscure quarters to
which she moved after
the Hotel Nationale un-
derstood that she alone
was responsible for her
bills. He found her —
but he overplayed his
hand. She was bit-
ter and desperately in need of money, and
had he merely repeated the fifty-thousand
offer, with a "take it or leave it" shrug, she
would have taken it. But when he raised
this oft'er to $75,000, Benita, who was ap-
praising the whole afl^air commercially
now, divined the reason. There was
another woman, and freedom would, be
worth half the Maxwell fortune. She
made an appointment to see the Ambassa-
dor on Tuesday, and arranged to sail for
San Diego on Monday.
Meanwhile, Harry had kept away from
Mildred. She did not understand this,
and, with the familiarity of school-days,
went to see him. She found him, alone of
a bright afternoon, in a little summer-
house on the grounds of his father's home.
"Aren't you glad to see me?" she
outed, after his rather nervous and
formal greeting.
"Then why don't you tell me so?" she
protested. "I'm
gladder to see
you than any-
b 0 d y else in
the world. I
thought when
Sato's first notion of a way to save
Mildred was robbing Benita, the
robber, of her heart.
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you came home . . . Harry, I'm so
lonely now."
Her bright little face, lifted to him, was
full of trouble. Her wee hands implored
him, and her eyes were full of tears.
Without a word, Harry gathered her in,
comforting her with little meaningless pet-
ting words, stroking her bright hair, and
holding her closer and closer. Presently
her arms stole about his neck, and she
kissed him as innocently and ardently as a
little child.
Then, though the heavens had fallen, he
must tell her that he loved her.
"I knew it," she cooed. "We don't need
to bother even to ask each other. I was
always yours — and Harry, I know you've
always been mine ; just mine, and nobody
else's."
And the sweetness of the hour was
fanged by the memory of Benita, the
snake in his Eden. The sun grew red and
low. Suddenly Mildred, with her hair
tumbled and her face flushed, darted
away.
"Aren't we terrible !" she giggled, guilt-
ily. "Come to dinner with me, Harry !"
She rushed back for his hand.
"I can't tonight," he answered. And he
pleaded the old excuse of another engage-
ment. He wanted to be alone with his
damning conscience — rather, he was afraid
to take it to a party.
But Mildred found Sato waiting her.
He had brought some papers requiring her
signature across the bay. He must be the
dinner guest. He was told to tarry and
hear the great secret.
"... and I guess we'll be married
next month !" she finished, merrily.
It had come ! Like the sun of execution
morning, the condemned man was perhaps
gladder to see it than otherwise. It was
good to have an end to hopes that could
not be. Sato was at least glad that Mil-
dred's property was in his hands until she
was of age ; he would conserve it for her.
Then Harry, too, would be past the silly
age.- So Sato congratulated her with
Samurai gravity, and lingered in polite tor-
ture until ten.
This evening was Thursday's. Harry
really went to San Jose, to avoid meeting
his innocently bigamous fiancee — and
turned directly homeward to confess. Why
not fight his folly in the open? Mildred
must know all about it some day, anyway.
And as he dragged himself to her house,
on Saturday afternoon, Benita rang the
bell of his own home.
Fortune favored her, in a way. No one
was there save Harry's Japanese servant,
and to him she coniided the imperious mes-
sage : "Tell him his ivije has arrived, and
must see him at once !"
The servant, being human, rolled this
delectable morsel of scandal under a tongue
that found small opportunity to chatter,
and proceeded on his way to the Thornton
estate. .And he found the chance to un-
burden himself in meeting Sato. He told
the story between smirks and obsequious
bows.
From the flame of rage against Maxwell
that leaped in Sato's soul there emerged
piercing wild hope — this fool had damned
himself ; where should she turn now but to
Sato, who had always loved her? In a
moment this feeling gave way to a calmer
one. Mildred must be protected. He told
Harry's servant to go any place but to the
Thornton home ; meanwhile, he walked
rapidly back to the casa Maxwell, where
he was told Benita was waiting.
Could the Japanese have known the
great hit he made with Benita lie would not
have been flattered, but he would have felt
surer of the end of his game. He in-
formed her, politely, that he had inter-
cepted her message, but that Mr. Maxwell
was out of town for the afternoon, and
would not return until evening. He very
seldom spent the night at his home, pre-
ferring his club on Ellis street, in town.
Sato would arrange for an apartment for
Mrs. Maxwell at the St. Francis? Any-
thing, he felt, to get her across the bay
from Mildred ! She poisoned the very air.
In the presence of his hypnotism Bonita
consented to everything Sato suggested.
^\'hen he had seen her on the ferry, and
had telephoned for rooms, Sato hastened
to Thornton house. He must stand as a
bulwark between Mildred and the terrible
revelation.
Maxwell was in the drawing-room. And
Sato noticed the terribly funereal air that
overcast the whole home. He advanced
slowly, his eyes fixed balefully on Harry,
who returned his look understandingly, yet
without rancor.
"Harry has just told me," said Mildred
simply.
She was facing the situation bravely.
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Harry and Sato were spared the neces-
sity of further speech. Harry bowed, took
his hat, went silently away. Mildred, silent
and dry-eyed, walked to a window, from
which she stared with eyes that did not see.
"How 'much does this man mean to
you " asked Sato thickly, behind her.
"The whole world," answered Mildred.
A long time passed, and the girl turned
suddenly, half in fear lest she might be
alone. Sato was seated on a big divan,
his chin in the palm of his hands, intently
studying the carpet.
"What, shall I do?" Mildred was the
appealing child again, and stretched
toward him a child's hands.
"Wait," answered Sato, simply. "/ will
find the ivay."
Sato's first notion of a way was robbing
Benita, the robber, of her heart. He had
only to see her twice to realize that* be
fascinated her, and that he might use this
fascination to save the woman he really
loved.
Benita, however, was once more thor-
oughly commercial. In her heart of hearts
she p r o -
posed t w o "Harry," she faltered, '
things: first,
to intimi-
date and
blackmail
the c o m -
bined houses
of Thornton
and M a X -
well to the
ultimate
penny ; sec-
ond, to play
Sato as her
reserve line.
She was
conceited
enough to
believe him
desperately
smitten with
her. And
she found
him not un-
attractive
and as she
heard more
and more of
his standing
among men,
and his business prowess, she thought he
would be a very grand companion to de-
part with, or even to linger with, after
the conclusion of her mining operations.
But no hint of her real thought ever went
out to Harry, or even to Sato. She told
Sato, as she told Harry and everyone else
who asked, that she was madly in love with
her husband.
Harry, in despair, determined to leave
not only San Francisco, but America. He
would fling himself into the far tropics —
he would go to war — he would go to
Alaska. He bade Mildred au revoir, in-
tending it for an adieu.
Benita, who spent as much time as pos-
sible at the Maxwell house, was watching
the windows of the Thornton home. She
had seen him enter, and as minute after
minute went by, her anger, which she mis-
took for jealousy, grew. At length he
emerged, dejected. Benita resolved to
face the white doll of whom she had heard
so exasperatingly much. Perhaps it would
bring things to a climax, and the climax
was dragging dreadfully, thought Benita.
"You are
Sato has found the way."
Harry's
wife?" mur-
mured Mil-
dred, softly,
a few min-
u t e s later,
appraising
the hectic in-
truder as she
might have
glimpsed
a kiln in
which some
strange pot-
tery were
burning.
"I am his
wife," af-
firmed Ben-
i t a, "and I
have come
to ask you
how much
longer this
disgraceful
ailair must
continue?"
"I think
the disgrace
began and
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A Queen of Blondes
JEWEL CARMEN. THE GIRL
WHO "PHOTOGRAPHS
LIKE A MILLION DOLLARS"
By Cal York
SH E first flashed on the CLlluloid horizon as some-
thing more than a bit of atmosphere when Douglas
Fairbanks discovered lier playing minor nameless
parts at Fine Arts studio.
Then she blossomed out as a radiant screen person-
ality, a dazzling queen of blondes with
a ravishing pair of eyes and —
^ "Jewel Carmen?" ex-
claimed one of her early
directors. " W h y,
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that girl photographs like a million
dollars!"
Miss Carmen came to Fine Arts as an
extra girl with experience at Pathe and
Keystone. She had, like many other Los
Angeles schoolgirls, been getting her pin
money at the studios with no serious
thought of ever reaching stardom. .
Then, as before related, came the P^air-
banks comedies, and the screen wiseacres
began asking each other, "Who is Jewel
Carmen?" If you saw her in "American
Aristocracy" or "Flirting with Fate," or a
couple of other pictures in ■which she
played opposite the ebullient Douglas, you
may remember something of the sensation.
Miss Carmen, however, did not get her
great chance until she was chosen to play
opposite William Farnum in "A Tale of
Two Cities." This melodrama of history
stamped her a finished actress.
Jewel Carmen is a native of Kentucky.
She was born in the town of Danville
nearly twenty years ago, and her parents
brought her to Los Angeles just after she
had completed grammar school. In that
city she attended a convent and was study-
ing there when induced to apply for a posi-
tion in a moving picture stu-
dio about four years ago.
The slightly interested
gentleman reclining in the
chair is the Fox studio door-
keeper, who has conversed
familiarly with such pippins
as Marie Antoinette, and
all her court.
FACTS AND NEAR-FACTS ABOUT THE
GREAT AND NEAR-GREAT OF FILMLAND
ONCE upon a time, actors of repute on the
legitimate stage ran away from movie
men bearing gifts in the shape of offers as
though from a pestilence. It's different now.
They fight to get into the "pictures," figura-
tively, of course. As an illustration, take the
case of George Arliss, of stage fame. He
recently brought suit against Herbert Brenon
for a large sum of money because the pro-
ducer, he alleges, failed to put
him in the movies according to
an agreement between them.
AT this writing there is
doubt as to whethe^ Max
Linder, the famous French
cinema comedian, will ever
play again before the camera.
After two comedies in Chi-
cago, Essanay sent Linder to
Los Angeles for the remainder
of his pictures under his first
American contract, in the hoi)e
that the milder climate of the
Coast would restore his failing
health. One comedy was com-
pleted in Los Angeles, and an-
other just begun, when Linder
was compelled to cease work.
Two years on the firing line
with the French army had
done its work. A shrapnel
wound in the lungs, added to
the exposure which he imdcr-
went, undermined his health,
never very robust. According
to his physicians, both lungs
are affected, but it is hoped by
them that the actor may re-
cover, in a measure at least,- by
a long stay in Arizona.
MELBOURNE McDOW-
E L L, whose name is
familiar to the playgoers of
two generations, is getting his
initial camera experience at
the Culver City studio of
Thomas H. Ince. McDowell
was, in his day, one of the
forernost exponents of the ro-
mantic drama.
WILLIAM FARNUM is
again a denizen of the
effete East, as the Westerners
love to call it. After nearly
two years of continuous cam-
era_ work in the interests of
William Fox in and about
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Eileen Percy. This delectable
portrait of Douglas Fairbanks'
new leading rvoman is a photo-
graphic representation of a
mural painting of her, by
Raphael Kirchner.
Hollywood, Mr. Farnum has returned to the
Fort Lee studio, where he will make some
more photoi)lays under the direction of Frank
Lloyd. Brother Dustin will remain to guard
the Farnum possessions on the Pacific from
the encroachment of alien, and other, enemies.
William thinks very well of California. He
declares that nearly anything will grow out
there and cites his salary as a fair instance.
When he left New York he
was laboring for a meager sti-
])end of $50,000 a year. In
little less than a year, it bad
grown to something like $100,-
000 without irrigation, fertili-
zation or crop rotation.
FANNY WARD has decided
to remain with Paramount.
When her contract expired re-
cently, she attached her Jane
Hancock, so to say, to another
one prepared by Jesse Lasky,
so she'll continue to be a citi-
zen of Hollywood. Mae Mur-
ray, another Laskyite, also
signed a new contract for a
period of two years.
OLIVE THOMAS is the
third "Follies" star to quit
the so-called vocal stage for
the reflections. This famous
Ziegfeld beauty, following the
lead of Ann Pennington and
Mae Murray, has become a
film star and her cinemic en-
deavors will be presented tm-
der the auspices of Mr. Incc
of Triangle.
PARADOX NOTE: "Ed
Laurie," relates the A-Iutual
press bureaucrat, "the rotund
f unmaker of Mutual - Vogue
Company, has dei^erted the
chicken business to go on the
stage in musical comedy."
CHARLOTTE BURTON,
well-known to the film-
seers as an American heroine
and heavy, recentlj' filed suit
against Essanay for $28,200.
Miss Burton alleges that the
Chicago concern took her from
her happy home in Santa
Barbara, Califilmia, brought
her to Chicago and then failed
to live up to its contract.
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DIRECTOR GENERAL
CUPID has been quite
busy in the Western fihTi col-
ony. One of the first of the
spring weddings was that of
Doris Pawn, Fox leading-
woman, and Rex Ingram,
Universal director. It was an
elopement, staged just prior to
Mr. Ingram's departure for
New York to become director
for Violet Mersereau. The
couple motored to Santa Ana,
the Gretna Green of Los
Angeles, where the mythical
knot was tied. You may pro-
vide your own pun on the
names of the principals.
THEN there was the inter-
national romance in which
Betty Schade, late of Berlin
and now a Universal star,
threw in her lot with that of
Ernie Shields, a well-known
screen idol. They were mar-
ried on Easter Sunday at the
Church of the Angels in Los
Angeles, and a week or so later
Ernie was called out with the
coast artillery in which he is a
sergeant. The folk at Univer-
sal City presented Betty with
a big silver loving cup the day
after the wedding.
NEXT in order came the
wedding of Florence Dag-
mar, who will be remembered
as a Laskyite. Her
last picture for that
company was "The
Clown," opposite Vic-
tor Moore. Miss
Dagmar married Roy
Somers, auditor of a
picture company,
whom she first met
when he was at the
window of a Holly-
wood bank. It was a
double wedding, the
groom's b r o -t h e r
rnarrying at the same
time.
SUBTITLE —
"While across the
continent" — • Jean
Sothern, erstwhile
star of International
and Art Drama
photoplays, was being
vvfooed and won' by
another "non-profes-
sional," as the Answer
Man says. Jean will
be remembered best
as J\lyra in "The Mys-
teries of Myra" and
for her earlier work
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Jane Lee, doing her bit as a
recruiting office patrol.
in Fox plays, notably "The
Two Orphans." Oh, the other
party? Well, his name is
Beverly S. Chew and he is a
reserve officer in the army.
The couple spent their honey-
moon at Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas, where the reserve offi-
cers were in training. Mrs.
Chew will quit the screen, it is
said.
OFFSET note:
A r b u c k 1 e,
Andrew
brother of
Maclyn and no relative of
Roscoe, was recently cast as
a Los Angeles divorce court
defendant. Althougl: Arbuckle
is a character comedian, his
wife alleged that he was a
heavy in his home life.
WHENEVER news is
scarce around the
studios, the press agents tell
about the culinary ability of
their leading actresses. Vivian
Martin was featured recently
in a story by one of those
writing mercenaries who de-
clared that she fried an egg
on the wrong side. And no
one was able to figure out
whether the scrivener was
guilty of ignorance or wit.
P:ANK "FATTY" VOSS,
L-Ko comedian, died sud-
denly in Los Angeles recently.
He was twenty-eight
years old and had
just been married a
few months. His
home was in Chicago.
1 1!
RONE POWER
in a big stage revival
o f "Shenandoah,"
which is to be pro-
duced in Los Angeles
by W. H. Clune, film
producer and theatre
owner of that city.
Mr. Power played the
chief role in "The
Mission Play" until
that historic produc-
tion closed recently.
He played before the
camera during the
same period in a pic-
turization of "The
P 1 a n t e r," a well-
known novel.
This picture is printed merely to prove that not all
pies in California are used for throwing. Some
are eaten — this pie, for instance, is having the time
of its death in being eaten by Harold Lockwood.
R
UTH ROLAND
a Pathe star, 'although
under a new produc-
ing company. She is
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to have the chief role in a serial to be made
at the Horsley studio in Los Angeles.
FRITZI BRUNETTE is no longer a Seligite.
She has been engaged by the Lasky com-
pany to play opposite Sessue Haj'akawa in the
next feature of the Japanese star. However,
Sessue will not be a Japanese in this photo-
play, but a Mexican villain of the Villa type.
THESE are parlous days for the peace plays.
"Civilization" was the first to get the
censorial axe in Pennsylvania and others ex-
pected to come under the ban were "War
Brides," "The Battle Cry of Peace," "Woman-
hood" and "Patria." A Pittsburgh theatre
owner was arrested on a charge of high mis-
demeanor while passing handbills advertising
"The Battle Cry of Peace." He was running
a gauntlet of enraged citizenry and was the
center of an excited mob when "rescued" by
the police, who held liim on the complaint
that he was endeavoring to stop enlistments.
MEANTIME,
numerous pro-
ducers are jumping
into the war band-
wagon, as it were,
with film plays de-
signed to arouse
patriotic fervor and
induce the young men
of the nation to rally
'round the fl a g.
Thomas H. Ince re-
cently turned out a
two-reeler depicting
actual life in the navy
which will be used
throughout the coun-
try in the task of
meeting the require-
ments of that branch
of the service.
ANOTHER con-
cern in Los
Angeles "just com-
pleted a so - c a 1 1 e d
patriotic film at a
considerable expense,
in which Revolution-
ary days are recalled.
It has a weakness,
however, in a technical way, according to
those who have seen it, in that the minute men
charge with breech loading rifles over* asphalt
streets after British troops who dodge behind
telegraph poles as they scurry across railroad
tracks. Yet, what are a few technical inac-
curacies between friends.?
ANTONIO MORENO is back among the
alleged white lights after cam.ping out in
California throughout the winter. At least, it
was Senor Moreno's impression that he would
have to camp out if he went to Hollywood,
but he developed into a regular "Million-
Population-for-Los Angeles -in -1920" booster
before he got ready to quit the seraphic city
Witzcl Photo
The Next Griffith Wonder-Child?? Her name is
Colleen Moore, and she made her debut m "Hands
Up. " She IS seventeen, was educated in a convent
in Tampa, and practiced weeping going to and from
school until she could iveep at will. Then Mr.
Griffith found her, and sent her to Fine Arts to
await the beginning of his own Artcraft pictures,
in which he proposes to utilize her extensively.
for the more sophisticated center of art and
letters. Before leaving, Mr. Moreno again
took occasion to . deny that he was married,
or engaged to be married to Edith Storey.
PHILANTHROPIC item : Crane Wilbur, we
are informed by his erudite eulogist, sends
autographed photographs to any and all who
apply, without expense to the applicant.
MRS. VERNON CASTLE is not to quit
the screen. Pathe has obtained her name
to a long term contract and she will be starred
in both features and serials.
A MODERN JOAN OF ARC is to end
the present war. It's as good as ended,
because Tbeda Bara, relates her press person,
has had a dream in which this result occurs.
"She is convinced that her dream is prophetic,"
we read, "and believes implicitly that a woman
will -be the one to stop the slaughter in
Europe." Wc learn also that the sufferings
of the French have
so affected Miss Bara
"that at times she has
appeared to lose her
personality and to be
swayed bj- an inex-
|)licable influence" and
also that "h.er Orien-
tal nature has been
greatly disturbed by
the war." Verily, war
is all that General
Sherman said of it.
TWO former
Famous Players
directors are now
producing film plays
for the Mutual. They
are Del Henderson,
who is Ann . Mur-
dock's studio boss,
and John B. O'Brien,
who will direct the
camera activities of
Edna Goodrich.
RENA
whose
ROGERS,
blonde-
ncss lighted up many
a brief comedy of a
year or two ago, has
come back to the "game," which she decided
to give up when she married Frank Borzage.
She is playing opposite Paddy McGuire, in
Vogue funnies.
AFTER an absence of two years from the
legitimate stage, Mabel Taliaferro is
back among the footlights in a dramatization
of Hall Caine's novel, "The W^oman Thou
Gavest Me." Miss Taliaferro is not neglect-
ing her screen work, however, as she puts in
all of her spare time before Metro cameras.
Her last previous appearance on the stage
was in the all-star production of "The New
Henrietta," with William H. Crane, Amelia
Bingham,. Thomas Ross and Maclyn Arbuckle.
Plays and Players
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So successful was the first
McClure producing ven-
ture, "The Seven Deadly Sins,"
that another series of photo-
plays is to be made with Shir-
ley Mason occupying one of
the stellar roles. Frederick L.
Collins, president of the com-
pany, recently paid a visit to
Los Angeles, wlierc he obtained
a studio to house the McClure
film workers.
BARRETT O'H A R A,
former lieutenant-governor
of Illinois, is now a full-fledged
motion picture magnate. He
was largelv responsible for
"The Little' Girl Next Door,"
and the success of that bit of
underworld pictorial animation
inspired him to do another pic-
ture along the same lines. This
was recently completed by
George Siegmann, formerly a
Griffith lieutenant, who has
begun work on a third. All
of the O'Hara ventures are
based on the celebrated report
of the Illinois Vice Commis-
sion, which has proved to be a
veritable mine of thrills. Both
the Siegmann-directed pictures
get their respective themes from
recommendations of the Vice
Jack Ptckford and his chow
dog; a recent portrait in
(California.
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The leading part is taken by Norbert Myles. near future.
A NEW use for the
"extra," or
"mob" artist has been
found in New York.
When Broadway
managers wish to
create the impression
of prosperity and the
air of success, the
"mob" is called to
form a line at the box
office. At least, one
company is reported
to have inaugurated
this scheme of baiting
the prowling theatre-
goer, paying the
pseudo-goers $i each
to stand in line for a
while in the evening.
WILFRED LU-
CAS, i)ioneer
player of the Griffith
plant, said his fare-
well to Fine Arts
when the big shakeup
occurred, packed his
household effects and
departed for New
York. He will appear
in the Triangle plioto-
plays which are to be
directedbyAllanDwan.
GERALDINE FARRAR
has become a permanent
resident of Hollywood, where
Mr. Far — we mean, Mr. Lou-
Tellegen, is now employed as
a director for the Lasky com-
pany. The Lou-Tellegens are
building a home in the film
suburb of Los Angeles where
they expect to spend most of
their time. Miss Farrar is to
take part in anotlier spectacular
film production, work on which
is to begin the middle of the
summer.
MYRTLE STEDMAN is no
longer a member of the
Morosco company. Miss Sted-
man's contract expired in April
and she did not renew it. She
had been with the company
ever since its beginning as
Bosworth, Inc., and her last
photoplay with the Paramount
concern was "The World
Apart," in whicli she is co-
starred with Wallace Reid.
ESSANAY has re-opened its
Niles, California, studio,
which has been closed ever
since the "Broncho Billy" films
went out of circulation. West-
will be produced there in the
with Jack Gardner as the star.
HE. WARNER—
• by the way, his
middle name is Byron
— has signed up with
Colonel Selig, for a
series of photoplays,
the first of which is
"The Danger Trail"
by James Oliver Cur-
wood. Violet Hem-
ing plays opposite.
Most of the' scenes of
"The Danger Trail"
were filmed in Chi-
cago and Eastern
locations.
RALPH AND
JOHN INCE,
brothers of Thomas
H. Ince, have em-
barked into a part-
nership and their
photoplays are to be
advertised as "Ince
Productions."
Copyright 1917, World Film Corporation
Regina Badet, perhaps the foremost of the French
motion picture players William A. Brady will
present to Ametica through World Film.
TO D A Y," t h e
Broadhurst
play, was recently
transferred to the cel-
luloid strips, with
Florence Reed and
Frank Mills in the
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leading roles. Other players in "Today" are
Leonore Harris, Alice Gale, Gus Weinburg
and Kate Lester.
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS is now "at home"
on the Lasky lot in Hollywood, which is
also the scene of present Pickfordian activi-
ties, as well as those of numerous other Lasky-
Famous Players-Paramount stars. Upon the
arrival of Fairbanks, Studio Manager Milton
Hoffman ordered new supports for all fences
on the lot, owing to the epidemic of vaulting
which ensued. Fven the sedate Theodore
Roberts was caught practicing at a six-foot
fence the day after Fairbanks and his rctmue
arrived, and the venerable Tully Marshall had
to apply for treatment for two badly skinned
shins.
VITAGRAPH is to picturize the famous
Wolfville stories from the pen of the late
.'Mfred Henry Lewis. They will be made in
varying lengths, according to the requirements
of each individual story in the series.
1 NA CLAIRE,
1 "Follies" star, isn't
exactly a screen
queen, but the film
folk can lay some
claim to her because
of her camera work
two years ago when
she played with Car-
lyle Blackwell in "The
Puppet Crown" for
Lasky. All of which
is preliminary to the
announcement that
Miss Claire is to
marry Lieutenant
Lawrence Townsend,
Jr., United States
Navy, now attached
to the battleship Mis-
souri. Lieut. Town-
send's father was
minister to Belgium
and later minister to
Portugal.
JUST before sailing for Europe, D. W. Grif-
fith wired his chief camera man, G. W.
Bitzer, requesting that he accompany him to
Europe, but suggesting that he change his
name first, for certain reasons which may
appear obvious. "Billy" had a good look into
a mirror before answering the message. Then
he wired : "Willing to change my name, but
how about my face?" He might as well have
taken the chance, however, as the state depart-
ment declined to permit Griffith to take a
camera man with him.
EARLE FOXE is supporting Pearl White
in her new Pathe serial, and Warner
Oland, the portrayer of Baron Huroki in
"Patria" has the heavy part.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN is now a millionaire,
according to those who are in a position
to know, including the little English comedian
himself. Not that such an announcement will
be received with bated breath, but he was only
twenty-eiglit on his last birthday.
WINIFRED AL-
LEN is to be
made a Triangle Star.
Miss Allen will be re-
membered favorably
liy those who had the
pleasure of witness-
ing Famous Players'
"Seventeen," in which
Jack Pickford and
Louise Hufl were
starred. Winifred was
the little girl who
finally won Jack. Her
first Triangle photo-
play will be "The
-M an Who Made
Goo d."
H'
LEO WHITE, for-
merly the French
Count in the Chaplin
comedies, is now a
member of the Flor-
ida film colony at Jacksonville. He has
joined the King Bee company headed by
Billy West.
FILM people in New York danced for the
Red Cross at a "Movie Charity Ball" early
in April, which was attended by about five
thousand people. The grand march was led
by Roscoe Arbuckle with Virginia Pearson
and Earl Williams with Leah Baird.
AFTER "doing" two pictures for Lasky,
Margaret Illington has returned to New
York, satisfied with the experiment, it is
said.
Max Linder, outside the sanitarium in Hollywood,
to ivhich he was driven by a renewed attack of the
lung trouble originally caused by a shell-wound.
■ENRY HALL-
AM, well-known
to the light opera
stage, is Viola Dana's
new leading man and
will appear in a mun-
ber of forthcoming
Metro releases.
jV/IARGUERITE
CLAYTON, we
learn from the usual
sources, recently went away for a rest to some
"unknown watering place, where she could be
free from the interruptions of her director
and the publicity man," following the conclu-
sion of her series, "Is Marriage Sacred?" at
the Essanay studios. If there's one thing that
actresses — and actors, too — just abhor, it is
the efforts of the publicity man to get them
into print.
EDOUARD LUMIERE, said to be the first
man to exhibit a film in Europe, was killed
in an aeroplane accident in France recently. He
was one of the brothers of that name who
were pioneers of cinema invention.
Peggy had the impressionable Drew under her thumb, and had Fanshawe not been a married man
The Jungle Knights
This is the fifth adventure of Peggy Roche, of Stamford, Conn., in
the colossal theatre of war. Intrepid Peggy — you see — has a sweet-
heart, one Jim Byrne, who manufactures war supplies while she hits
the red trail of conflict to sell them; all to the end that the dawn
of peace may be accompanied by an eight-room bungalow, with
garage, on Long Island. Of course, even Peggy's good looks are
not going to avail if she tries to outflank the Morgan crowd in its
own fields on Jim's shoestring; to do business, she must hit the spots
the munitions kings forgot, in ways they never dreamed of.
By Victor Rousseau
Illustrations by Charles D. Mitchell
MAJOR ALFRED FANSHAWE,
formerly of the Egyptian Intelli-
gence Department, but now at-
tached to a native regiment operating in
East Africa against the German forces,
sat on a camp stool outside his tent, which
was pitched in a cleared space at the edge
of a tropical jungle. He was reading a
letter which had just arrived by runner
from the coast. As he read, his face
wrinkled with amusement. Finally he put
it down and laughed outright.
"Drew ! Oh,^Drew !" he called.
Captain Drew, his first aide, came out
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of the tent, his face half covered with
lather, a razor in his hand.
"Drew, do you remember that little
American girl, Miss Roche, whom we res-
cued from Biskra?" he asked, still laugh-
ing.
"I'll never forget her, never," answered
Drew. "The sight of her face when we
took away her contraband auto and truck,
and the cash the Turks had paid her,
haunts me in my dreams."
"Well, she's turned up again," said Ma-
jor Fanshawe. Here's a letter from her,
written in Zanzibar. She's still trying to
sell war supplies. Odd how these Ameri-
cans search ovit every nook and corner of
the world, isn't it? What do you think
she wants to sell?"
"Armored pianos? Bullet-proof black-
ing-brushes?"
"Be serious. Drew. You know, I feel
somewhat friendly toward her, apart from
our adventures together, because of her
pluck. She's representing a little firm in
a place called Connecticut. Ever hear
of it?"
Drew checked off the American names
he knew upon his fingers. "New York,
San Francisco, Washington, Florida,
Philadelphia," he murmured. "You're
sure it isn't Niagara, Fanshawe?"
"No, it's Connecticut. Probably a
manufacturing suburb of New York.
Anyway, it seems that the big firms have
combined to oust the Jim Byrne firm, and
she has to live on the gleanings, like Ruth.
Well, she wants to sell suits of armor."
"Good Lord!" said Drew.
"Harveyized steel, three-eighths of an
inch thick, warranted to turn bullets or
shrapnel," read Fanshawe from the let-
ter. "They turned her down in London,
but she pestered the Cairo people until
they gave her a letter to me. It says I
have authority to buy them if I want
them. Of course, if I did such a mad
thing, I'd get raked over the coals. How-
ever, she came on to Zanzibar, and she has
six dozen suits, complete, and she's bring-
ing up two by porters, for samples, and
she wants five hundred pounds apiece for
them. How shall we get rid of her?"
"Get her kidnaped and condemned to
death unless she marries one of the na-
tive chiefs," suggested Drew.
"That's a good idea," answered Major
Fanshawe, thoughtfully. "Only we did
that before, you know, and it didn't work."
"Seriously," said Drew, "I've had this
armor bee for quite a while. I feel sure
we shall revert to it some day. Now, take
our case. Here we are, with two thousand
well-drilled natives, and held up by Major
Schwartz and his eight hundred natives
across the river. Why? Because they
have ma.xims and shrapnel. You can't stop
a determined infantry attack with common
shell, simply because it isn't possible to
fire enough of it from any number of
guns. But with shrapnel and machine
guns you can stop twenty times your num-
ber. Now, suppose we did have six dozen
men in armor, each carrying a Lewis auto-
matic rifie, firing three hundred rounds
a minute. Send them to the attack. Sup-
pose a dozen are blown away with shell,
which is a liberal estimate, if they keep
open order. The shrapnel and rifle bullets
are turned by the armor. Very well ! Those
men are invincible. Why, they can walk
through any army, win the battle and fin-
ish the war."
Fanshawe looked at Drew quizzically.
"That's just what she says," he replied.
"Drew, I hope you aren't going to back
her in this crazy enterprise?"
"We'd better see the armor first," an-
swered the other.
The native orderly came running toward
them and saluted. "Sahib," he gasped,
"scouts report enemy moving down from
Lake Tanganyika."
"Eh?" inquired Fanshawe; and at
that moment the sound of scattering rifle
fire broke out.
DEGGY ROCHE had reached Zanzi-
bar bent on selling Jim's suits of
armor. She had tried practically all allied
Europe, only to meet rebuffs from every
nation at war. Sometimes an official from
the War Office consented to look at a
sample suit. His inspection generally
threw him into hysterics. Peggy's armor
became an international joke.
For Jim Bryne had been thorough in
his undertaking. The inventive genius of
the Yankee seemed to have found its prop-
er field. Since the market for the sale of
war supplies was practically monopolized.
Jim had of necessity been compelled to
put his wits to work. The armor was the
result.
The great feature of Jim's invention
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was that it was a single piece. Possibly
Jim had been influenced by seeing the
pictorial advertisements of a certain brand
of gents' undergarments. At any rate,
he made a strong feature of this.
You put on the knee pieces, which con-
nected with the thigh pieces by patent
fasteners. You put on the arm pieces
which connected, by patent fasteners, with
the breast and back pieces. Thus attired,
you resembled a disjointed lobster. But
you reached round to your back and turned
a little screw. The joints began to tighten
up. You screwed until — but that is giv-
ing Jim's process away. Suffice it to say
that nobody wanted the armor anywhere
in Europe.
Then Peggy remembered Captain Fan-
shawe, of the Egyptian Intelligence De-
partment. Fanshawe had saved her life
at Biskra, but he had also relieved her of
a contraband auto and motor truck and
a good supply of gasoline, and a Turkish
check, practically valueless. What galled
her most was his confiscation of a thou-
sand pounds in good Bank of England
notes. However, he had been very kind
and Peggy clung to the final hope that
she could get her armor tried in Egypt.
When she arrived, however, she learned
that Captain Fanshawe, now Major, was
commanding a mobile column in East
Africa, on the shores of Tanganyika.
This explained Peggy's presence there.
Preceded by a dozen porters, who had car-
ried the armor up from the coast, through
a lion country, she burst upon the British
camp just in time to see the unique spec-
tacle of a battle.
The Germans held a blockhouse on the
lake. Barbed wire surrounded it, and
guns were belching forth destruction upon
the force of natives that attacked it under
the leadership of Fanshawe and Drew.
From the hill on which Peggy was stand-
ing, the British guns were answering. The
gunners did not fire at each other, but at
the infantry of their opponents, out in the
open. To Peggy's mind, they were hav-
ing the loveliest time of anybody.
Peggy saw the British lines advance to-
ward the barbed wire about the blockhouse.
The crackling of the rifles was continuous.
Away on her right a maxim was sputter-
ing. The attacking force began to break
into sections. A few men emerged out
of the long grass, walking back toward
the camp. The battle was over. The
British had been repulsed.
The Red Cross ambulance appeared,
moving cautiously through the grass. The
natives came slowly back, some with
wounds, .supported by comrades, some
walking alone in dogged silence. At the
tail of them appeared Fanshawe, shep-
herding the stragglers, and Drew with a
blood-stained handkerchief about his
wrist. He drew an empty revolver from
his holster and flung it on the ground.
"Fanshawe, that's the fourth time," he
said, angrily. "We'll never take those
lines unless we import a 42-centimeter
howitzer."
"That's where you're wrong," said
Peggy, stepping briskly forward.
Fanshawe looked up. "Good Lord,
Drew !" he exclaimed. "Here's that infer-
nal woman !"
"It's all very well in theory. Miss
Roche," said Fanshawe that evening,
when he had recovered his spirits under
the influence of a good dinner, "but it
won't work out in practice. If it would,
don't you suppose the war offices of Europe
would have jumped at it? Don't you sup-
pose they've had the same invention thrust
under their blooming noses all the time?"
"Why not in practice?"
"I don't know. You have to practice
before you can find out. But I should
say the chief fault is that it robs a man of
mobility. How much do you say it
weighs? Fifty-four pounds? Well, there
you are. A soldier with several pounds
of overcoats, blankets, mess dishes and
ammunition clanking about his body, and
a heavy rifle to boot, can't stand for fifty-
four pounds of armor casing. Suppose
he could break the enemy's lines? He'd
drop in his tracks exhausted. He couldn't
follow up, and meanwhile the enemy
would bring up reinforcements and take
him prisoner, armor and all. That's about
as I see it."
"Well, there may be something in that_,
so far as European warfare is concerned,"
admitted Peggy, "but that doesn't apply
to a condition like this, where it is simply
a case of capturing a single fort, and the
enemy has no reinforcements to bring up.
Fifty men in armor would simply walk
through that barbed wire. They wouldn't
need to cut it. They'd just charge it,
and down it would go. Can't you see?"
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Through her glasses Peggy saw Drew and
Fanshawe leading the charge. She saw
the whole line halt for an instant as it
reached the line of barbed wire, and then
surge forward, carry-
ing the wire away. _
"By Jove, Fanshawe, I believe there is
something in the idea," said Drew.
"You do, do you?" said Major Fan-
shawe. "I must say. Drew, I don't think
much of your interfering just when I've
nerved myself to the point of sending Miss
Roche away."
"Let's see the thing, anyway," said
Drew. "There's nothing like trying."
Peggy did not need a second invitation.
She hurried to her tent and soon had her
porters carrying the pieces to headquarters.
They laid them on the ground and Peggy
began dexterouslv to fasten them together.
"You mean to say they fasten with
string?" cried Fanshawe. "Why, no won-
der the War Office rejected it."
"Manila hemp," said Peggy. "Once the
pieces are screwed up, they fit together, and
nothing short of an electric drill could
make any impression on- them.
"We'll try it on the Sergeant- Major."
said Fanshawe. "Here, Hassan!"
A stalwart Soudanese came forward
on the run, drew himself up in front of
his officers and saluted them.
"Hassan, we're going to put you into
armor," said Major Fanshawe, laughingly.
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Hassan eyed the pieces and grinned
broadly. Peggy, without a word, began
fitting them. She put on the leg pieces
and the arm pieces, then the breastplate
and backplate, and finally the helmet.
Hassan presented an incongruous appear-
ance, most of his body appearing between
the various sections.
"Suppose a bullet hits him here," said
Fanshawe, indicating an exposed part of
the body of the great negro.
Peggy pointed to the little screw in the
back. "Reach around, Hassan, and turn it
to the right," she said.
Hassan's long fingers groped for and
found the screw. As he turned it, the
pieces began to come together.
And while Fanshawe and Drew watched
in stupefaction, there was a click and Has-
san stood before them, complete in armor-
plate.
"It's wonderful !" exclaimed Drew, en-
thusiastically. "May I fire a bullet into
it at twenty feet?"
"A dozen," answered Peggy.
She unfastened Hassan and laid the
breastplate against a tree. Drew took a
rifle and fired. The bullet pinged against
the armor and slid off into the grass.
"What do you think about it, Fan-
shawe?" asked Drew.
"Top-hole," said Fanshawe. "I'd like to
take the lot. Drew, we could go through
that fort like a knife through cheese."
"The War Office?" queried Drew.
"Would never sanction it," said Fan-
shawe. "You see. Miss Roche, I daren't
make such an investment without permis-
sion. Six dozen suits at — five hundred, I
think you said ? That's thirty-six thousand
pounds. I'd get hauled over the coals for
it."
"Not if you took the fort."
"You don't know our War Office. But I
tell you what I'll do," continued Fan-
shawe. "I'll send a wire to Zanzibar and
requisition it, leaving our government to
compensate you as it pleases."
"Not on your life !" cried Peggy,
savagely.
"I hate doing it. But it's war," said
Fanshawe. "And your government will
back your claim. You'll get paid some
time."
"But I have to be paid now !" exclaimed
Peggy, almost breaking down. "Jim —
that's the maker— has sunk all his capital
in those suits, and it's six months since I
was in London with them, and Jim's mort-
gage has to be paid next April."
"Too bad," said Fanshawe, sympathet-
ically. "What in the world possessed you
to bring them here, though? This is war,
and we're out to win. Aren't we, Drew?"
"You're going to confiscate my armor?"
demanded Peggy, her eyes blazing.
"I'm going to take it. I don't know
anything about confiscating. I leave that
to the legal sharks. Zanzibar, I think you
said? Hassan, bring me a telegraph form."
It was Jim Byrne's way to plunge, stake
all his winnings upon a single coup, and
plunge again. Time and again Peggy had
pulled the chestnuts out of a very hot fire,
saved Jim from bankruptcy and enabled
him to risk his earnings in another line.
But now she saw no hope.
Some day, when the war was ended, the
British government might feel in a suffi-
ciently good humor to pay up, and she and
Jim could retire to a certain eight-room
bungalow, with a garage, on Long Island.
But the seizure of the suits of armor meant
the end of the war goods company. It was
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all Jim's capital ; he had sunk two hundred
thousand dollars in all, and Peggy had
been hawking them round the European
capitals for half a year.
She saw at once that to go back to Zan-
zibar meant to ruin her chances beyond
hope of recovery. And there was one
chance. Fanshawe had admitted that he
had the authority to make the purchase.
There might be a way of overcoming his
reluctance ; in fact, the more Peggy
thought about it, the higher grew her
hopes. Therefore, it was with a smiling
face that she asked permission that night
to remain in camp until the suits arrived.
Fanshawe, who felt rather mean about
his act, which, however, he justified under
the name of military necessity, accorded
her the leave she sought.
"It isn't according to the regulations.
Miss Roche," he said. "But there won't be
any objection, and we'll enjoy your com-
pany. Besides, you must help the men to
put on the suits."
"I will," said Peggy, earnestly.
Fanshawe had selected a half-company
of sixty men, or, rather, fifty-eight, to-
gether with himself and Drew, to lead the
next assault.
piGHT weeks later the armor arrived by
*"• a long train of bearers. Jim's mort-
gage would be due in less than a month
now, but there would still be time to cable
the money from Zanzibar. And Peggy's
hopes were high. She 'had the impression-
able Drew under her thumb and she sus-
pected that, if Fanshawe had not been a
married man, he would have attempted the
same flirtations that Drew practiced.
Peggy wrote penitent letters to Jim and
laid them away, intending to send the
whole when the hand was played.
Even Jim's armor was not guaranteed to
fit everybody, and it was a comical sight
when the selected fifty-eight tried on their
suits. Some could not bring the pieces to-
gether, in spite of Peggy's pressure upon
the screw ; others rattled within their mail
like dried peas in a pod. At length, how-
ever, the fits were made, and fifty-eight
stalwart Nubians stood up, like armored
knights, for inspection upon parade.
"Splendid !" cried Fanshawe. "Drew, I
am becoming as much of an enthusiast as
yourself."
The suits were laid aside and a council
of war was held. It was decided to make
a fifth attempt to take the fort at dawn the
following day. Peggy obtained permission
to be a spectator from the hill.
"You'll have a triumph which will ring
around the world," said Fanshawe. "And
the government will undoubtedly give you
a large order for the troops in Flanders."
"Thanks ! I hope they'll pay cash," said
Peggy, drily.
"You harp too much on that money,"
said Fanshawe, irritably. "Think of the
reputation you'll gain ! Why, your fac-
tory will overflow with orders."
"I don't care if it makes us millionaires,"
said Peggy. "I want the money for those
suits. Major Fanshawe. Are you going to
pay me?"
"I thought that was settled," said Fan-
shawe. "No ! And if you persist in dun-
ning me, I'll throw the blessed things back
on your hands."
"You will?" cried Peggy.
"After to-morrow."
Peggy smiled confidently and Fanshawe
was still more nettled. He went back into
his tent.
The booming of the big guns at dawn
announced the opening of hostilities.
Peggy, standing on top of tiie hill, watched
through Drew's binoculars. Perhaps never
had such a scene been witnessed before.
The rising sun shone on the fantastically
arrayed sixty, drawn up in open order upon
the plain. Fanshawe and Drew, at their
head, marshalled the eager blacks, among
whom the shells from the hostile ranks were
already beginning to fall. The shrapnel
scattered its deadly .spray over them, bul-
lets at long range began to buzz past. The
troops moved off.
Peggy turned to her head porter. "We
start for Zanzibar today," she said. "There
will be only my personal baggage to carry.
You may leave with the boys now and wait,
for me at the first station."
And, having seen her negroes start upon
their journey, she turned to watch the
battle.
The din of the big guns was furious, the
German shells breaking freely through the
valley. Among the unarmored followers,
who were working round to cut off the
enemy's retreat, several casualties had al-
ready occurred. But the solid sixty
marched steadily upon their way. Peggy lost
sight of them among the trees and brush.
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The drumming of the maxims took up
the song of the battle. The rifles sputtered
along the front. The sixty appeared in
the open, three hundred yards in front of
the German trenches.
Through her glasses Peggy saw Drew
and Fanshawe leading the charge. She
saw the whole line halt for an instant, as it
reached the line of barbed wire, and then
surge forward, carrying the wire away.
With yells that came faintly to the
watchers' ears, the sixty charged point-
blank upon the guns.
There was a melee. Bayonets glinted in
the sunlight. Peggy could see nothing but
those flashes of light. But she heard the
German guns die down, as the English
had died down when the infantry charged.
Then she saw the flag above the fort
flutter earthward. And as the fugitives
streamed out from the rear, toward the
lake, she saw the intercepting column bar
their way, and heard the dull rattle of the
maxims again.
The half-hour battle was over. Peggy
hugged herself upon her hill.
"Jim!" she cried. "Jim! If only you
could have seen!"
Then the thought of the dead sobered
her. She sat down on the grass and stared
thoughtfully through the trees for the first
sign of the returning column. The joy of
Jim's success had suddenly faded ; for the
first time she realized the meaning of war.
She saw it in the crawling Red Cross
wagon, in the wounded men who had as-
cended the hill to witness their comrades'
triumph, in the black specks that floated
high in the air, scenting their prey, the
vultures of Africa.
Peggy sat there until she saw, afar off,
the victorious column begin to debouch
from among the trees. She went down the
hill with the camp guard, who uttered ex-
ultant cries and brandished their rifles
wildly as they cheered.
Fanshawe and Drew were leading back
their men. They moved as if on parade,
but at about a mile and a half an hour.
The hot noontide sun of Africa streamed
down on them, and the sweat poured from
their faces.
Peggy went to her tent and saddled her
donkey — the only beast of burden that
can pass through the fly belt of Africa. It
was the only one left in Zanzibar, and she
had paid an exorbitant price for it. She
had purposely kept it inactive in camp. It
was almost as skittish as a stall-fed horse
when she mounted it.
"Whoa, Fanshawe !" said Peggy. "You
have a hard journey before you."
She rode leisurely toward the advancing
colmnn, reining in as she reached it.
"Hurrah, Miss Roche!" said Fanshawe,
exultantly. "We've won, and not one of
our men scratched. Lord, I'll be glad to
get this armor off. [ understand now how
the knights used to feel, and the Bible
fellows."
"I guess you will," said Peggy. "I con-
gratulate you on your victory. Be kind to
your prisoners. I'm ofT for Zanzibar."
Fanshawe saluted her, his hand creeping
up very slowly to his helmet. Peggy
spurred the donkey, who kicked out
viciously, and rode away.
The first camping place was ten miles
distant. Peggy, after a hot ride through
the sun, arrived there, to find the porters
taking things at their ease. Dinner was
cooking. Peggy unsaddled, haltered the
donkey and turned him to graze.
"Mambo !" she called to her chief man.
"Missee?"
"Take the men on to the next point im-
mediately after you have had your meal. I
shall wait here. Pitch a camp and look
for me at sundown."
Mambo obeyed. Grumbling, the porters
took up their loads and started on their
way through the jungle.
There was a little eminence beside the
river. After she had watched her fol-
lowers depart, Peggy mounted it and sat
looking along the road which she had
taken.
An hour passed. She fell to dreaming
of Jim again. That little bungalow — on
the events of the next hour or two every-
thing depended: Jim's future and hers,
the life of ease that they had pictured, the
automobile in which their wildest trips
would be through the Long Island villages.
She was still dreaming when she saw, far
away, a mail-clad column of men, headed
by Drew and Fanshawe, picking its weary
path along the trail. Peggy's heart leaped
wathin her. And she did not know whether
to laugh or cry.
The column sighted her as it came round
the bend in the trail. It tried to run, but
its only achievement was a pathetic shuffle.
It was still a long, weary half-mile distant.
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Peggy slipped down from the hil-
lock, caught her donkey and saddled
him. Then, mounting, she waited until
the column came into sight again. Fan-
shawe's voice hailed her, and it was
like a ghost's voice issuing from some
cavern.
"Wait a moment ! Wait !" he cried,
staggering toward her. "Miss Roche,
we — we can't get this damned armor
off!"
"Dear me!" said Peggy, looking at
him from the height of her saddle.
"What are you going to do about it?"
"Miss Roche, what is the matter?"
"The matter? Why. the armor
locks. Didn't I tell you? It makes it
impossible for a foeman to strip a sol-
dier of his armor if he gets him down.
It was Jim's idea. He's patented it — "
"Damn Jim liyrne ! Get us out of
this !" cried Fanshawe.
Peggy looked from his face to
Drew's, to the faces of th« weary
blacks. They sweated no longer, but
they were drawn and pale and ,
strangely haggard.
"I'm sorry you don't like Jim," said
Peggy. "He patented it. You see, you
can either snap the key or not. It acts
like one of those door fasteners in flats.
The first time one of your men put it
on, I hadn't snapped the key. ' This
time I did."
"Where is the key?" moaned Fan-
shawe.
"My head man has it. He's on the march
to Zanzibar. I'll have to be going — "
"Miss Roche, you don't mean to leave us
here to perish? We'll never wake that ten
miles back. We managed to make this be-
cause we were sure you would be camping
here. Miss Roche — "
He made a spring toward her, if the
word may be applied to a feeble jump,
two inches in the air. Peggy spurred her
donkey, which darted forward.
"Fanshawe is skittish," she called, rein-
ing in again further awav.
"^^T'm what?"
"My donkey," explained Peggy. "He
kicks. It's a pity you didn't confiscate the
key as well as the suits of armor. Major."
"Miss Roche, we've got to have the key
to get out of our cans !" wailed the ^lajor.
Ride on like a good girl and get it from
your man. Haven't I always been nice to
you? Didn't I save your life at Biskra?"
"You did," admitted Peggy. "Also you
relieved me of an auto, a truck, a quantity
of gasoline, a worthless Turkish check, and
a thousand pounds in good English bank
notes."
"I didn't take them. It was my govern-
ment."
"That's all right. You're the govern-
ment now. And you must have thought
me an easy mark — whoa, Fanshawe I — for
you decided to try it again with the armor
suits. I told you my first landlady was
Irish, and you've got my Irish up now."
Fan.shawe recoiled in terror. "You
mean. Miss Roche, that you did this on pur-
pose? And you're going to make us walk
to the next camp? We can't. We'll die in
our tracks."
Peggy looked at the exhausted blacks,
lying prostrate. Her heart softened.
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"We've got to have the key to get
out of our cans!" wailed the Major.
"Haven't I always been nice to you?
Didn't I save your life at Biskra?"
"You did," admitted Peggy, "also
you relieved me of an auto, a truck, a
quantity of gasoline and a thousand
pounds in good English bank-notes. "
"It isn't so bad as that," she said. "I
have a duplicate key. How much?"
"Ten pounds," said Fanshawe.
"Now, don't be impudent," said Peggy,
reprovingly. "A thousand pounds that you
confiscated in Egypt — I'll set off the
amount of that check against your saving
my life. And thirty-six thousand for the
armor."
"Miss Roche, you're mad."
"Yes, but there's method in it," said
Peggy, grimly. "Thirty-seven thousand,
please. You'd better pay now, because my
price may go up at the next stopping-
place."
She touched the donkey again, and Fan-
shawe stumbled forward, feebly protesting.
"Miss Roche, be sensible. You know
there aren't any pockets in this suit. Be-
sides, really, you don't suppose I take my
checkbook into action with me."
"Now you're talking sense," said Peggy.
"Thirty-seven thousand?"
"Yes. Anything. Give me that key."
"You'll send me a check tonight by
bearer to Zanzibar? Word of honor? An
officer's word?"
"Yes. Word of honor. Drew, I'll never
let you hear the last of it for inviting this
confounded woman here."
"Take off your helmet," said Peggy,
sweetly. "There's a key in each one —
under the knob."
Some Recollections at the End
One baby refused
to laugh, cry or
perform any stunt
whatsoever un-
less this instru-
ment of tor-
ture was <et
roaring for , ^ s
him. \\ I
^
-'%
Broadway and the
French Revolution
meet at lunch.
Artist Van Buren studies a director's various
physical expressions.
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of a Practically Peerless Day
Ever-present: mother and her
1917 model hlliangish.
L Extras wonder-
ing how the star
gets away with it.
The College of Cardinals
puts out the Messenger Boys,
rtir ice
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Why Do They Do It?
This is YOUR Department
Jump right in with your contribution. What have you seen, in the past month,
which was stupid, unlifelike, ridiculous or merely incongruous? Your identity
will be protected. Your observation will be listed among the indictments of care-
lessness on the part of the actor, author or director.
New York, N. Y.
DEAR Photoplay:
Glad to note your "Why-Do-They-Do-
It?" Department. I'm a "tired business man"
(New York brand) and I like to drop into a
film palace for a stray hour to see Doug Fair-
banks or a few other stars. My kick is this —
why do they have such long shows?
Suppose I drop in at two o'clock. The
orchestra is vibrating through Liszt's Lcs Pre-
ludes or Rimsky Korsakow's Capriccio
Espagnol, while the stage setting undergoes
atmospheric phenomena, such as a sunrise and
a parade of clouds followed by a thunder
storm and another sunrise. After that, fifteen
minutes of processions, close-ups of wrecked
freight cars in Kankakee and silly cartoons.
Then a dash of the classic dance in subdued
lights. After that a one-reel visit to the
Blinky Blink Islands with chatter by one of
the explorers who found the place. Then a
lofty soprano in something or other by Bach-
Gounod or somebody else, followed by a fear-
ful one-reel comedy. Next a violin solo by a
gentleman just arrived from Petrograd via
the Loew time. And last of all — it's now 4:30
o'clock — the feature I've been waiting to see.
I've just time to glance at the title, grab my
hat and make for the subway before the
five o'clock rush. A whole afternoon gone and
I haven't seen the feature, either.
T. B. M.
Possibly this isn't a why-do-they-do-it ? It's
more a why-don't-they-do-it? And why don't
they? Old Timer.
Binghamton, N. Y.
I DON'T think I'm alone in voicing an ap-
peal, from the fan's viewpoint, for the
shorter film. I know Photoplay has ex-
pressed similar opinions.
Well do I remember the old days when a
one-reel Biograph was a classic. Do you
recall "The Mender of Nets," "The Battle"
and all the rest? What a wallop lay in their
condensed force ! Other folks did pretty good
one-reelers, too. Vitagraph, Edison, Lubin
with Arthur Jo'/nsonj and those old Kalems
with Alice Joyre and Gene Gauntier.
These new short adaptations of the
O. Henry sto' ies are a step toward the brief
photoplay. ' low much better is this than
the long-dr ,wn-out drivel of the five-reel
"feature." And deliver me from the all-
evening p'cture! There's but one "Birth
of a Nat on," "Intolerance" and "Joan the
Woman" to dozens of tedious — But why
name th .m ?
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Washington, D. C.
YOU'VE started something with your "why-
do-they-do-its."
If the anvil avalanche doesn't crowd me out,
let me have one good swing at the clinch
finish. I'm so darned tired of seeing the hero-
ine melt into the hero's arms just as a timely
sunset happens along.
I'm not utterly unsentimental. Not by a
long shot. But the saccharine climax is over-
done. I feel like climbing up into the opera-
tor's booth and bribing him to cut off the last
twenty-five feet just for the sake of novelty.
What say you ? K. D.
Dallas, Texas.
WE — that is, we girls of the Dallas Doug-
las Fairbanks Club — are so glad that you
are taking up the cudgels against the faults of
the movies.
In fact, we girls have voted to ask you to
do something about the way leading men wear
their hair. That is, we mean, how long they
wear it. We all think it perfectly awful the
way George Walsh wears his and why doesn't
Henry B. Walthall do something about his?
We watch the screen magazines carefully and
can't understand why someone hasn't pro-
tested about this. Anyway, we hope you have
the nerve to say something, or else we'll have
to organize a society for the prevention of
cruelty to barbers, and organize it right away.
Grace T
Chicago, 111.
PERHAPS it's because even O'Sullivan's
can't keep me from requiring a cane these
spring days. Perhaps my viewpoint has grey
hair — where it has any — and wears spectacles.
Anyway, I'm sick unto death of the ingenue
screen drama. Is life just one darned pair of
cupid's-bow lips after another? Or one maze
of blond curls after another? Isn't there any
way of giving the semblance of real life to the
photodrama? Is there anything like the screen
soubrette in reality?
I believe it was Griffith, master of the movie
mob, who first injected the ingenue into the
film play. Everyone has followed, so that life,
if we may judge it by the films, is an eternal
sweet sixteen. W. H. J.
Original Photoplays — versus Adaptations
DID YOU EVER THINK OF SCENARIOIZING YOUR
FAVORITE AUTHOR? OF COURSE YOU HAVE, IF
YOU'VE THOUGHT OF SCREEN WRITING AT ALL!
. . . READ THIS CHAPTER; IT WAS WRITTEN FOR YOU
By Captain Leslie T. Peacocke
AN original photoplay is
one that is conceived
entirely within the
brain of the author. Film
stories based directly on his-
torical or Biblical events or
on topical events, or on any
published fiction work or
stage play, cannot be classed
as original photoplays, and
writers only waste time in attempting
them. All work of this sort is done by
staff writers in salaried positions, when-
ever a film company decides to make any
such production.
The film producers have, for the past
two or three years, devoted a vast deal of
their money and energy to the production
of "adaptations," and in these past two or
three years they have lost millions of
dollars.
Millions were made formerly, before the
era of "adaptations" set in, and I do not
think anyone will contest my claim that it
was the original photoplays, especially
written for the screen, which served to put
the moving picture industry on its feet.
Now, I am morally certain that there
are, at this very moment, hundreds of
good original photoplays lying buried in
trunks and bureau drawers that will event-
ually be dug out and polished up, and
which are destined to bring fat checks to
authors who have grown discouraged at
the scant recognition accorded them. The
producers, the exhibitors and the public
are crying aloud for original stories. This
is not the baseless assertion of one who
is vitally interested in scenario writing ; it
is actual fact.
Scenario editors and stalf writers are
generally being employed in making adap-
tations or in working the original stories
of free-lance writers into continuity to
meet the requirements of the various
studios. In the old days — not so very long
ago— the efforts of free-lance writers were
CTARS like Mary Pick-
ford and Douglas
Fairbanks have endeared
themselves to us because
they have been exploited
in original photoplays of
which their own person-
alities form the nucleus.
jobs,
enough
ruthlessly cast aside in most
scenario departments, be-
cause the salaried writers
realized that, if many stories
were purchased from out-
siders, their own positions
would be jeopardized.
One cannot altogether
blame the staff writers for
jealously guarding their
They have had to work hard
in all conscience, to maintain
them, and their brains are sorely taxed to
keep up the pace. Writers are, I think,
every bit as jealous as actors!
This state of rivalry, however, does not
exist to any such extent now as formerly.
The staff writers are not required to turn
out so many original stories per week. It
was asking too much of them. Companies
realize that a good scenario writer, who
can work a story into pleasing continuity
for the screen, giving it the little hmnan
touches that grip the heart strings, is well
worth all that they can afford to pay him,
and he is not expected to perform miracles.
Not even the most prolific writer of fiction
can consistently evolve several absolutely
new stories every week, year in and year
out, because the success of a photoplay
depends mainly upon the originality of its
plot. A novel or short story, on the other
hand, can be negligible in plot but sustain
interest by pleasing descriptive matter and
clever dialogue. That is why there will
shortly be an enormous demand for the
efforts of free-lance writers. New and
original ideas are wanted badly, and such
can be had only by accepting the services
of the free-lances.
This kind of article is interesting, I
imagine, only to those who are aiming to
find a market for their photoplays, and it
is to such that I appeal carefully to esti-
mate the story value of the original photo-
play as against that of adaptation* from
novel or stage play. Which has con-
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sistently made tlie better photoplay? Is
there any comparison? I do not think
there is. I think that the better class of
original story, especially written for the
screen, has surpassed the adaptation nearly
every time.
Hark back to the big successes which
have netted enormous sums to the pro-
ducers: Hector TurnbuU's "The Cheat";
has any book or stage play made a film
production to compare with it for excel-
lence? No. Then consider D. W. Grif-
fith's "Intolerance" ; Herbert Brenon's
"Absinthe" ; Thos. H. Ince's "Civiliza-
tion" ; Lois Weber's "Shoes" ; Walter Mac-
N a m a r a ' s "Trailic in
Souls"; Cecil B. De Mille's
"Joan the Woman" ; and
scores of others, including
"H ypocrites" and
"Cabiria" ; all huge money
makers and delightful
stories. Besides these, the
big serials have all been
based on plots written espe-
cially for the screen.
And how many of the
adaptations have proved veritable fizzles !
Some, of course, have made good, paying
productions ; but how many plays and
books, from which so much was expected,
have turned out to be rank failures and
heavy losers to their producers !
Now, this has often not been due to the
plots embodied in the books or plays. The
original authors of these works have not
been to blame. They have mostly been
made to suffer — and suffer badly. Few of
the plays have been adapted in accordance
with the ideas of their original authors.
There have been several reasons for this.
Firstly, the senseless boards of censors,
who are aiming to ruin the film industry.
The majority of the works of fiction that
warrant film production contain situations
that the hypocritical goody-goodies con-
sider unhealthy for the public — after they
have seen and doubtless enjoyed the pic-
tures themselves. So, what is the poor
adapter to do? He is handicapped from
the start. Secondly, the star does not want
any character to stand out too prominently
in a production, and so, many characters
have to be eliminated altogether. Thirdly,
the director wiH decide that the plot is too
weak and will insist upon injecting some
wonderful ideas of his own. Fourthly, tlie
T^HE fact that original
photoplays have made
the film business what it
is today ought to speak
more strongly in favor of
the free-lance writer than
any other that can be
advanced.
adapter may consider that he should have
some say in the matter and will insert
some original touches of his own, which
will very likely wreck the whole show ;
and when it sees the light of the screen the
poor original author, nine times out of ten,
will not recognize the child of his brain.
This should not be. It is not fair to
authors and playwrights. To my mind,
there has been, in many instances, good
cause for legal redress and heavy damages.
The reputations of several prominent au-
thors and playwrights have been badly hurt
by film adaptations of their most famous
works. Their stories and plays have been
twisted beyond recognition,
and if they brought their
cases to court, I don't be-
lieve there is a jury in the
country but woiild award
them a substantial solace for
their wounded feelings.
Of course authors have
themselves to blame, more or
less, for not i n q u i r i n g
closely, when selling their
works for film production,
what writer will make the adaptation ; and
they should insist upon supervising it to
some extent themselves. If possible, an
author should make his own film adapta-
tion. Rex Beach is doing so now, and I
am certain that he does not regret having
undertaken the task. The result obtained
from his story, "The Barrier," is a fair ex-
ample of what a worth-while author can
accomplish with his own books.
The producers have had to experiment
all along the line. They have thought it
expedient to give every form of literature
a trial. In this they have been urged
usually by play-brokers and literary agents,
and some of the producers are finding out
that they have been badly gulled into buy-
ing a mass of material that is absolutely
worthless for film production.
Take a book, for instance, that has had
a sale of half a million copies. The liter-
ary agent will advise the producer that the
filming of this book will be a noteworthy
event, and that all who have read the book
will be keen to see a film production of it.
That may sound logical, but is it? Are
movie fans generally readers of fiction?
We know that they are not. What attracts
them to the moving picture houses? Nine
times- out of ten, it is the star. Then a
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crisp, alluiing title will have a big drawing
power ; and the posters do more to lure the
transient crowd than most people supptise.
An attractive poster will draw patrons to
a picture theatre in far greater multitudes
than will the announcement that the "fea-
ture" is an adaptation from a book, a
magazine story or a mildewed stage play.
Any exhibitor will tell you so.
We all know that' the star is the chief
drawing card ; but a popular star will soon
lose popularity if exploited in productions
in which the story is weak. The mere fact
that a certain photoplay is an adaptation
from a well-known book or stage play does
not apologize for the weak-
ness of the production ; in
fact, it only serves to hurt
the star and the producing
firm.
Those who have read the
original story will have pre-
conceived ideas of the main
characters, and are generally
disappointed upon seeing
their picturization on the '*
screen. Stars have been
pitchforked into roles that have not suited
them at all. Middle-aged men and women
have been asked to depict characters in
fiction and in plays that we have learned
to idealize as in their teens and early twen-
ties, and the results have been terrible.
You cannot fool the camera.
On the other hand, those of the most
popular stars who have been exploited
mainly in original photoplays have en-
deared themselves to us in vehicles suited
in every way to their particular character-
istics. I think I am safe in saying that
the following stars have registered their
finest film successes in original photoplays,
of which their own personalities formed
the nucleus : Mary Pickf ord, Fanny
Ward, Annette Kellermann, Mabel Nor^
mand, Blanche Sweet, Lillian Gish, Mae
Marsh, Mary MacLaren, Edith Storey,
Theda Bara. Valeska Suratt, Jackie Saun-
ders, Lillian Walker, Dorothy Phillips,
Myrtle Gonzales. Grace Cunard, Helen
Holmes, Alice Joyce, Louise Glaum, Pearl
White, Anita Stewart, Irene Castle, Lois
Weber, Ethel Grandin, Rosemarv Thebv,
Fritzie Brunette. Ella Hall, William S.
Hart, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chap-
lin, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew. J. Warren
Kerrigan, Henry Walthall, House Peters,
■PkON'T throw money
away on the literary
sharks who have no power
to give the assistance
which they advertise.
Spend it at the theatres.
Learn how by direct study
of the screen.
Owen Moore, Wallace Reid, Eddie Polo
and Maurice Costello.
Now, any of these stars is a sure draw-
ing card. They do not need the additional
advertising accruing from a book or stage
play to give them weight. All that any of
them needs is a suitable vehicle which will
bring out vividly his or her individual
talents and personality. Naturally, such
can be more nearly found in an original
photoplay written especially- to suit the
star. They have all proved it, so why pro-
long the issue?
It may appear on the surface that I am
holding a brief for the free-lance writer.
So I am. But I am also
dealing in actual facts. The
history of the photoplay in-
dustry will bear me out.
How have the producing
firms fared that have relied
mainly on the exploitation
of adaptations? I think
that a glance at their stocks
listed on the curb will tell
the tale more clearly than I
dare to do. Do moving pic-
ture patrons care a picayune whether a
production is evolved from a book or stage
play? Does that fact carry any weight
with the majority of the public? I say,
no. The public doesn't care a rap from
what source a story comes, provided it be
a good story. For example, "The Cheat,"
and now, later, "Hell Morgan's Girl," a
production made from an original scenario
and which is packing the houses all over
the country.
Some producing firms have paid enor-
mous sums, ranging from $500 to $10,000,
for the film rights to published fiction, the
majority of which, when screened, has re-
sulted in financial loss, and these same
firms have begrudged paying $100 a reel
for original photoplays, admirably worked
out in continuity by excellent scenario
writers, and which undeniably have made
fortunes for other companies. Original
stories have made the film business what
it is today and adaptations have, in the
majority of cases, caused heavy financial
losses. That fact ought to speak more
strongly in favor of the free-lance writer
and the staff writer than any other that
can be advanced.
It has been a mystery to me why a great
number of the stage plays and stories have
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been purchased for film production at all.
In my own capacity as scenario editor, I
have been forced to make adaptations from
works in which the plots were so negligible
that most scenario writers would be
ashamed to submit them in synopsis form.
In a great many cases, film rights have
been purchased before the books or plays
in question were read by competent au-
thorities. They were merely handed over
for scenario editors and staff writers to do
the best they could with them. About as
hopeless a proposition as handing a codfish
to a chef and commanding him to make an
Irish stew !
I know of one instance in which a prom-
inent author was paid the healthy sum of
$40,000 for the film rights to all his
works ; and these works were undeniably
worthy as regards descriptive matter and
snappy dialogue, but woefully lacking in
plot construction. And from the whole
bunch of delightful reading material only
one story was found that was in any way
suitable for photoplay adaptation, and
even this production proved an absolute
failure. I learned later that the person
who had made the unhappy purchase (a
gentleman who held a very responsible
position in the offices of the film company)
split a fat commission fifty-fifty with the
literary agent who was acting for the au-
thor. Needless to say, if these works had
first been submitted to the scenario editor
or the staff writers, the purchase would
never have been made.
Of course, it is senseless to argue that
there are not a number of works of fiction
and stage plays with splendid plots suit-
able for film adaptation, because there are,
and many of them have made wonderfully
successful productions. But the question
is, is any film firm justified in paying thou-
sands of dollars for the film rights to such
works, when, in addition, competent sce-
nario writers must be paid for adapting
them and whipping them into continuity?
In these days of the "open market," I
doubt it very much.
In fact, from now on I expect that great
care will be exercised in the purchasing of
photoplay material and that more conserva-
tive salaries will be paid all along the line.
It really will be better for all concerned,
because, otherwise, a number of producing
companies are bound to find themselves
going to the wall and all those at present
dependent on them will be in the position
of passengers on sinking ships.
So, once again I urge free-lance writers
not to grow discouraged. The film pro-
ducing companies need you, and as time
goes on, they will need you more and more.
1 do not advise any free-lance writer to
submit a mere synopsis. It is not worth
while. The sums paid for mere synopses
are not sufficient to warrant writers in part-
ing with original plots. Writers will re-
ceive at least $25 a reel for photoplays
worked into good continuity, and from that
up to $100 a reel, or even much higher, if
their work is at all well-known, and they
will get all the screen credit for their own
work.
It is not possible here to attempt to give
information as to the requirements of the
various film companies, or to tell which, if
any, of them are in the market for stories.
Their requirements change so rapidly these
days that, by the time this article will have
reached its readers, much will have hap-
pened in the different scenario departments,
and any information that I might give now
would be misleading, and so give unneces-
sary work to the scenario editors and their
staffs.
Writers must study the productions of
the various companies and figure out for
themselves those to whom their photoplays
are most likely to appeal. All writers who
have reached any sort of success have had
to go through the mill. You must rely on
yourself. No one can help you; so-called
"scenario schools" and "photoplay agents"
least of all. Submit your 'scripts directly
to the scenario departments ; that is, if
your plots are original. I know of too
many cases where writers have been robbed
of their ideas by entrusting them to a third
party. Do not rise to the bait laid for the
suckers in the writing game. If you have
money to spare, do not throw it away on
literary sharks who have no power to give
the assistance which they advertise, but
spend it at the picture theatres and view on
the screen all the productions that you
possibly can. That will prove the biggest
assistance in the world. And above all,
do not become discouraged. The day of
the free-lance writer is coming.
Next month, the concluding article of Captain Peacocke's present series:
"HOW TO SELL A PHOTOPLAY SCENARIO."
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"There's More Than One 'Way — "
A HUMANE society had secured a down-
town picture house to show a picture of
wild animals in their native haunts.
Along came this caption :
"We were skinned to provide a woman with
fashionable furs."
From a little spectacled husband in the rear
came a plaintive squeak:
"So was I."
Ruth Helen Kohn, 10207 Parkgate Ave.,
Cleveland, O.
Maybe She Meant Sampson
TWO talkative women were watching Wally
Reid clean up the darkies in his search
for Gus in "The Birth of a Nation."
"My," said one of them, "isn't he a regular
Amazon ?"
Edna Vaughan, Aurora, III.
An Up-To-Date Youngster
MOTHER (watching the animal pictures) —
"Frederick, see the rhinocerous and his
thick armored hide."
Little Frederick — "Oh, Alamma, what's that
one?"
M. — "That, my child, is a giraffe."
L. F. — "Yes, and look at that periscope he's
got."
Louis Miller, 32 Morningside Ave.,
New York City.
Bad Environment
LITTLE WnXIE had just returned from
the movies, where he had seen Bushman
and Bayne in "Romeo and Juliet," and began to
quote some of the captions taken direct from
Shakespeare's work.
"Willie," said his father in a reproving voice,
"I wish you would quit that silly talk."
"Why, pa," replied the erudite Willie, "that's
the way Shakespeare always talks."
"Well, you've gotta stop going aroimd with
that boy. He's not a fit companion if he talks
that way."
M. Mara, 1645 Byron St., Chicago.
"Teaching the Young Idea — "
VISITING MINISTER— Well, my little
man, what did you learn in school
today?
Little Man — Aw, not so much. We hadda
couple of two-reelers in history, a travelog in
geography, and a split-reeler nature study.
Teacher said she was going to put on the first
reel of a serial on deportment next week.
/. C. IVhitcscarvcr, Box 724, Miami, Okla.
Maybe the Grapes V^^ere Sour
I SAT behind two literary looking chaps at
the Rialto in New York recently. This is
what I heard :
First Literary Looking Chap: It's a, wonder
those bonehead scenario editors never hit on a
good story even by accident.
Second L. L. C. — Why, do they send all yours
back too?
Cora North, Franklin Depot, New York.
Problem in Algebra
A SMALL schoolboy became very much in-
terested in the E.xit signs in the theater.
Finally his mother said, "Johnnie, did you
come to see the pictures or to look around?"
"Yes. ma, but how much does E times IT
make?"
D. Norman, Lazvrence, Mass.
Keep the Change
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BILLY saw a ticket in
the paper for the show which read : "This
ticket is worth a dime ! When presented with
15c will admit you to the show, otherwise the
admission will be 25c."
Billy cut out three coupons and started to
the show. He handed them to the ticket taker
and started to walk right in.
"Here, little boy, where's your 15c?" called
the ticket taker.
"Well," said Billy innocently, "the ticket's
worth a dime and I brought three, but you can
keep the extra nickel."
Louise Caillot, 2704 Ave F., Ensley, Ala.
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Are You A Photoplay Lip-Reader?
Mouths indicate general traits of character even more completely than do the eyes, for the
lips are mobile; as the mouth, so is the face, and as the face, so is the person's individuality
or lack of it.
No. 5
No. 10
Winners of the
Miss Fay Tracey, Miss W. J. Sinderman, Dorothy Whitelaw, Mrs. 0. P. Lauderback,
Argenta, Arkansas. Pueblo, Colorado. Chi" igo, Illinois, Evansville, Indiana.
Miss Inea Ingram, Miss Nano Parizeau, Miss Bernice Gray, Miss Frances Knickerbocher,
Monterey, California. Ottawa, Canada. Dixon, Illinois. Oelwein, Iowa.
Miss Marjorie Garney, Miss Madeline Addison.Mrs. E. C. Sharpe, Miss J. Mellen,
Los Angeles, Calif ornia. Atlanta, Georgia. Evanston, Illinois. New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Very Well; Whose Lips Are These?
Write the names of the owners of these lips, as you believe them to be, according to number,
and send the numbered names to the Puzzle Editor. The winners will be published in
August Photoplay.
No. 15
No. 20
May Eye Contest
Miss Florence Albright,
Spokane, Washington.
Miss Lillian M. Ross,
Vinal Haven, Maine.
Mr. Harry Buckner,
Baltimore, Maryland.
G. S. Wheeler,
Roxbury, Mass.
Miss Melba Henry,
Detroit, Michigan.
Miss Ruth Comet,
St. Louis, Missouri,
Miss Marzie White,
Albany, New York.
Miss Bessie A. Goldberg,
New York City.
Mrs. J. C. Davis,
Miss Charlotte Singer, Lexington, N. Carolina.
Rutherford, New Jersey. Miss Edna Amrein,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Miss Lillian Jackson, Mr. Rajrmond Pepin,
Rutherford, New Jersey. East Toledo, Ohio.
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as hotly as in Bangor. Where was the
spiritual finesse of overseer DeMille, that
he permitted such grotesquerie to escape
from his studio?
Mae Murray appears in "The Primrose
Ring," a sweet little story of a children's
hospital. It has some humor, a good deal
of tenderness and pathos, and very much
of the quaintness of Miss Murray. Tom
Moore is the leadmg man ; Bob Leonard
directed.
DOSCOE ARBUCKLE'S first explo-
comedy of personal manufacture, in
the East, is "The Butcher Boy." In this
procession of assaults and disasters, we fol-
low Mr. Arbuckle from the Arctic suit in
which he invades his shop refrigerator to
a young ladies' seminary, which he enters,
and very fetchingly. too, in a short frock
and curls. T gained the impression of
enormous and almost painful labor in this
play. Mr. Arbuckle and his fellow-demons
each appear in danger of apoplexy from
overwork. Pies give way to a higher ex-
plosive : devastating paper bags of flour.
Even Luke, the able and willing Arbuckle
bull-dog, nearly runs his legs and teeth oft".
This piece needs more repose and less
violence to make it really funny. Mr.
Arbuckle's fellow poilus include Al St.
John. Buster Keaton and Josephine Stevens.
/^NE is rather up in the air about "The
^^^ Hawk," Vitagraphed recently with
Earle Williams and Ethel Grey Terry in
the chief roles. A year or two ago "The
Hawk," translated from the French of
Francois de Cresset, admirably served
William Faversham as a starring vehicle.
The Vitagraph company has given us an
amazingly close transcription of the stage
play — probably the most complete parallel,
scene by scene and situation by situation,
that a stage play ever had. As a result,
the screen version acquires a monotony, a
sameness, which seems to indicate a lack
of dramatic values. As a matter of fact,
it has no such lack, but it does show
conclusively, that we have become accus-
tomed to many and rapidly changing pic-
torial values — no matter how strong the
play, our picture sense, the charm of loca-
tion, the rapid flashing of scene after scene,
has acquired and retains a great cumulative
force in putting a photoplay story across.
If we must choose between praise and con-
demnation for Vitagraph on this score, by
all means make it praise. There is too
much boneheaded "free adaptation," every-
where. It is rather admirable than other-
wise, this tight sticking to the de Crosset
manuscript, and shows a very intelligent
and praiseworthy desire on the part of
director Paul Scardon, and adaptor Gar-
field Thompson, to make a strong play
comparable in dramatic values with the
original. "The Hawk" tells the story of a
brilliant, crooked Hungarian gambler in
French society ; of his wife's weak re-
monstrance ; of her fascination for a
man of .society ; of "The Hawk's" dis-
covery of this, and of his disappearance ;
of his return, of their mutual repentance
and reunion, and his new start in life under
the patronage of an American. A truly
magnificent cast is assembled under Mr.
Scardon's direction, including, beside Mr.
Williams and Miss Terry, Julia Swayne
Gordon, Mario Majeroni and Denton Vane.
"TJie Hawk" is a play which makes for the
upbuilding of photodramatic art.
"Aladdin from Broadway." A nice lit-
tle cup of Turkish coffee featuring Edith
Storey and Antonio Moreno.
"Apartment 29." Would be a clever play
if it were not so obviously mechanical. In
it Ethel Grey Terry and numerous assist-
ants frame a fake murder for the disillu-
sionizing of a dramatic critic who has
proclaimed a drama of similar plot totally
impossible. Well acted, and thoroughly
diverting until the creak of the machinery
grows too loud to be muffled.
""THE FRAME-UP" is the best play
Bill Russell ever had. Three like
this would rush him toward the Doug Fair-
banks style of popularity so fast that both
he and his managerial proprietor would be
dizzy. The piece is merely another argu-
ment for authors instead of carpenters —
and at that the arrival of Julius Grinnell
Furthmann at Santa Barbara was probably
accidental. Santa Barbara has never shown
any special wisdom in its selection of
authors. Mr. Furthmann writes his merry
melodrama so easily, and in such natural
surroundings, that one wonders his material
has remained so long untouched : Viz., the
taxicab business of a big town. The taxi-
cab trade has its own argot, its peculiar
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heroes and novel villains, its mysteries and
its dramatic situations. Russell is seen as
the son of a rich man ; a son not disinclined
to work, but desirous of a "job with a kick
in it." So he disappears, and, through a
more or less romantic accident, annexes
himself to the establishment of "Mother"
Moir, a one-time underworld queen who
turned to the right for her daughter's sake.
"Mother" owns a taxicab line, and is mak-
ing straight money for the first time in her
life. But her old associates buzz around
like hornets, and occasionally sting her ;
chiefly through intimidation. Pressure of
that sort comes again, and she must harbor
a trio of Canadian bank robbers. Young
Claiborne (Russell) enters into plans for
her deliverance from these annoyances with
all the enthusiasm of a Canadian regiment
strafing a Boche trench, and there are fast
counterplots and battles which might have
lifted the toupee even of Nicolievitch Car-
ter. Furthmann shows his masterly grip
on his drama by never letting his main
actor become a main fighting interest, phy-
sical demon though he is. Claiborne is the
alert and mirthful man behind ; other men
start the battles — he finishes them. In
suspense and speed "The Frame-Up" is
unflagging. The direction is unusually in-
telligent and shot full of humor. The
captions are uniformly good, Russell is
immense, and a great performance of
Mother Moir is given by Lucille Ward.
Francelia Billington, as the quaint Jane-
Anne, is a pretty bit of romance.
"Hedda Gabler" will not, in all proba-
bility, be a vastly popular program
offering, but it has been done with immense
care and discernment by Nance O'Neill
and the Frank Powell company ; and those
who are Ibsen devotees will do well not to
miss it, even if only to see how much
better it is than the Reliance-Majestic burst
into Ibsen of a year or two ago, featuring
Mary Alden and Henry Walthall. Miss
O'Neill plays a Hedda overcast with
brooding satire ; there is an astounding
portrait of the ivory-headed Tesman by
Aubrey Beattie ; Einar Linden is splendid
as Eilert Lovborg ; Alfred Hickman (who
made the scenario) is a complete Judge
Brack, and the minor assignments are
adroitly matched up. There is so much
of the spirit of Ibsen here that it seems
as if Miss O'Neill, for many years an
Ibsen student, had participated in more
than the mere acting of her own part.
"Whose Wife?" A very creditable play
of triangle theme, featuring Gail Kane.
"The Wild Cat." A lively but quite
familiar concoction of rough-house girl,
civilization and a bit of love. Jackie Saun-
ders is the little party.
No Bernard Shaw or Henry James has
ever reaped the pecuniary reward attach-
ing to that standard mush: the adoption
of the poor little girl by the rich old lady,
the old lady's ensuing departure to del,
the leaving of the fabulous riches to the
waif, and the truly romantic wifing of the
waif in the last chapter — or reel, or what
have you. This is just "Cinderella," in
one form or other. So is "Annie- For-
Spite," Mary Miles Minter's newest expres-
sion to her devotees. It is sweet, and
charming, and innocent, and Mary herself
really comes nearer acting than in any min-
terdrama I've ever seen. There is a very
wonderful old-lady characterization by
Gertrude Le Brandt.
"The Debt" reminds us, in the first place,
of a story we once received in our editorial
capacity in which the author expressed her
notion of New York City by saying, "She
hurried down to the depot so as to be there
when No. 20 went through." Clara Ber-
anger, who concocted "The Debt," has
just that much idea of counts and things
in Yurrup. This is the most goshwallop-
ing awful Yurrupian annal we ever experi-
enced ; but to the quality of the yarn must
be added hideous lighting, comic misdirec-
tion, a stock opera chorus for a mob, a
sideshow village street and a Pete Props
palace. And yet there are buried in this
heap of dramaturgic offal a fine actress and
a fine actor: Marjorie Rambeau and Paul
Everton.
lyiAX LINDER is very ill, we're told,
^^^ so in consideration let's call his latest
comedy, "Max in a Taxi," a sick man's
attempt at expression. For that's about
all it amounts to. It is heavy and laborious.
That ingratiating young Skinner couple,
Bryant Washburn Skinner and Hazel Daly
Skinner, are still with us. In "Skinner's
Dress Suit," you saw the rise of Skinner to
importance merely by the psychological
effect of claw-hammer ownership. Here,
Skinner moves to the city, and in the
"Bubble" you behold the disasters, not the
advantages, of grandeur.
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The Empire Theatre of the Screen
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on the field of action in the direction of
"The Birth of a Nation" and "Intoler-
ance." So much for the graduates of the
little green schoolhouse at the convergence
of Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards, Los
Angeles.
More important in the organization, since
its inception, though a stranger to the pub-
lic, was Frank E. Woods, general manager
of the studio and Griffith's righ'.-hand man
in film production. When Griffith became
a "supervising director," the burden of
actual production fell upon the shoulders
of this pioneer in the film industry.
"Whatever good has come out of Fine
Arts originated with Mr. Griffith," said
this modest gentleman to the writer re-
cently. "Whenever Fine Arts has fallen
below the standard, it has usually been
because the Griffith teachings were not
followed." Which exhibits a trait char-
acteristic of Griffith loyalty, although the
producer himself was always quick to share
credit with his helpers. And to the genius
of Woods he has delivered many a sincere
tribute. But more of him later.
A number of critics, essayists and
scenario experts have written entertainingly
and with more or less display of wisdom,
for public consumption, of the (iriffith
technique. They have used up most of our
best-known sesquipedalian words in so do-
ing— and worse than that, they have coined
a lot of new words that may have to go into
the dictionaries. But one word, to the
writer at least, is symbolic of the photo-
plays which have come out of Fine Arts —
intimate.
A majority of them have been the stories
of every day life, with the soft pedal on
sex and only a trace of vanipirism ; nearly
all of them have had an element of humor,
and have been minus those qualities which
bring joy to the heart of the professional
censor.
The Griffith technique may perhaps be
best described as the narrative school of
picture expression, as distinguished from
the dramatic, or stage style of production.
It is not the purpose of the writer to enter
into details of a controversial nature or to
attempt a learned dissertation on screen
technique, but to gue the reader a bare
outline of the varying methods of pro-
duction.
The best example, perhaps, of "dra-
matic" or "stage" production is Cecil De-
Mille's "Joan the Woman," and the Lasky
company over which he presides is re-
garded as the foremost exponent of the
rival technique. Told in simple words,
the one takes a story and tells it on the
screen ; the other takes a play and acts it.
To show the growth of the Griffith tech-
nique, a brief cutback to an earlier era of
film production is ventured.
It was in the fall of 1913 that Mr.
Griffith left Biograph and formed his first
independent association, going into the
Mutual organization as producing head of
the Reliance and Majestic companies. The
Hollpvood studio, later named Fine Arts,
is still the physical property of the Reli-
ance company, while Majestic was the pro-
ducing corporation. One- and two-reel
pictures bearing both names were the initial
product.
The first pictures jivere made in New
York, and of these, one deserves especial
mention. It was the first feature of a
series of four directed personally bv
Griffith. It was originally called "The
Single Standard" and the origin of the
idea came from a brief synopsis written
by Dr-. D. C. Goodman. It was only the
theme of the story, however, that was. used,
as the plot was changed so that a daughter
was substituted for a son, the melodramatic
action reduced and the title clianged to
"The Battle of the Sexes." The picture
was a five-reeler and it was produced in
seven days. There wasn't a single ex-
terior.
Not only was it an instant hit. but it was
the firV^t motion -picture to attract the atten-
tion of scholars and critics as well as jour-
nalists. It was discussed in pulpits and
by the press at great length.
The cast comprised Donald Crisp as the
father, Mary Alden as the mother. Fay
Tincher as the siren woman. Owen Moore
as her confederate and Lillian Gish and
Robert Harron as the children.
While this picture was being produced,
two others were in course of construction
under Griffith supervision. One, called
"The Great Leap," was directed by Christy
Cabanne, ' with Mae Marsh and Robert
Harron ; the other, called "The Gang-
sters," was directed by Jarnes Kirkwood,
with Henry Walthall.
Then followed "The Escape," with
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137
Blanche Sweet, Donald Crisp, Owen
Moore, Robert Harron and Mae Marsh in
the cast. Miss Sweet was taken sick be-
fore the picture was completed and it was
not finished until the company had moved
to California and taken up its home in the
Hollywood studio. "The Escape" was a
picturization of the Armstrong plav, but
was elaborated by Grilifith to illustrate the
eugenic theory.
Several years previously the paths of
Griffith and Frank E. Woods had con-
verged, and the latter was installed as head
of the scenario department when Griffith
br.oke away from Biograph. As the lat-
ter's chief assistant, Mr. Woods naturally
soon became the production manager of
the studio. The first man engaged when
Griffith went into business for himself.
Woods was the last to leave. If for only
these reasons, that gentleman is entitled
to a goodly portion of this narration.
Mr. Woods came to the film business
from journalism. While Griffith was mak-
ing his first production at the old Biograph,
Woods was trying to establish on the
Dramatic Mirror a motion picture depart-
ment. His criticisms, written under the
name of "Spectator," were first a cause of
much merriment, but very soon they ob-
tained a strong influence.
Griffith was thinking along the same
line with a vision even more magnified and
the two men, being in harmony, quickly
formed a friendship that has never ended.
There was never a contract between them
in their long association.
From reviewing pictures, it was but a
step to authorship. Woods wrote two
•stories that were rejected by Biograph.
Then he wrote three more, the acceptance
of which by Griffith led to their first
meeting.
One of these stories was the first picture
drama ever produced with an attempt at
natural, repressed acting, as distinguished
from the gesticulatory melodrama of that
period. When Griffith produced it, he was
himself only on trial at Biograph and it is
said that his job depended on the success
of the picture. It went over successfully.
Another of the trio of early Woods works
was the first of the "Jones" series of farce
comedies, in which the late John Thompson
and Florence Lawrence played the leads.
Woods wrote thirty stories for Biograph
during that year, and at the same time
made such a hit with his reviews in the
Mirror that the trade and other dramatic
papers promptly installed similar depart-
ments. He also started in the same publi-
cation what he called "Spectator's Com-
ments," in which he discussed the theory
of the motion picture art, advancing many
ideas which have since become established
principles in motion picture production.
Incidentally, he was the first writer to at-
tack censorship. In 1912 he left the Mir-
ror, of which he had become the editor, and
started directing pictures for the now de-
funct Kinemacolor company. Later, the
scene of his directoral operations, strangely
enough, became the Reliance-Majestic
studio. He was a director for seven
months. Then he went back to New York
as scenario editor for Biograph, which he
left to establish the scenario department for
Mutual. From that time his hand was at
the production helm of what was conceded,
even by its rivals, to be the greatest of all
motion picture plants in its day.
Perhaps in no respect has the influence
of Fine Arts on the film industry been
felt more palpably than in the matter of
subtitles ; that is, of course, aside from the
Griffith technique, mechanically as well as
directorally.
The first Majestic picture in which ex-
traordinary attention was given the subtitles
was a four-reel Mutual "Masterpicture"
named "Her Shattered Idol." The story
had been written by Mrs. Ellen Woods,
the wife of the production manager, and
was produced by Jack O'Brien, with Mae
Marsh and Robert Harron in the leading
roles. The story had a novel and interest-
ing theme, but was not particularly strong
as to plot. When it was run on the screen
without titles, the author was very much
disappointed because some of her pet ideas
were omitted.
There was a conference, a sort of family
affair, and Mr.' Woods decided that the
production could be elevated to the Griffith
standard by the interpolation of elaborate
subtitles. He set two writers to work on
the titles and, not finding them satisfactory,
rewrote them himself, later taking his staff
into consultation, with the result that "Her
Shattered Idol" attracted wide attention as
the first successful" attempt at humorous
subtitles in a feature picture.
Mr. Woods frankly states that he first
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The Girl Outside
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You may break, you may shattt^r the vase,
if you will,
But the scent of the roses will cling round
it still.' "
No matter how impossible a girl is, the
engaging directors will never tell her so.
"Why should we volunteer such infor-
mation?" said one. "Very few of these
girls would believe us if we did. Of
course, there is always the chance that we
may be mistaken. On several occasions I
have thought a girl impossible only to have
another company take her up and find her
to be a very good type. Anyway, the im-
possible ones get tired of coming after a
while."
Hiring extras is a business proposition.
Imagine a young girl going to a very busy
man and saying :
"A friend has just told me that you need
a stenographer. Of course, there are
plenty of girls out of work who understand
shorthand and can use the typewriter. I
don't know anything about either one, but
I am a natural-born stenographer. I think
you ought to employ me."
Here is a typical conversation between
an engaging director and a green girl who
has just asked for an important part in
the picture he is casting :
"Why do you think you are fitted for
this part?" the director asks. "Ever done
any work in the pictures?"
"Well, I — no, sir."
"Any stage experience?"
"No sir. But everyone says I look like
Mae Marsh and I know I am a natural-
born actress."
Another girl thought she should be given
work because, as she said, "I can ride
horseback, and I know I could learn how
to act."
An engaging director for a well-known
company tells a story of a present-day girl
very different from the one illustrative of
the early days.
"I saw this girl, a few months ago, in
the extras' waiting room," he said. "She
was more beautiful than any star now on
the screen. I knew that her golden hair,
oval face and large, dark blue eyes woukl
photograph "exquisitely ; so. I put her in
the next picture. The director tried every
trick he could think of to make her show
some emotion. Her face remained as
blank as that of a china doll. She was so
beautiful that I wished her on every
director on the lot, with the same result.
W^e have a time limit on every picture. It
will be impossible for us to do a thing
with her."
This girl tried to break into the movies
about ten years too late.
A well-known director tells of a girl
who was exactly the type he needed for a
part. Her inexperience did not worry him.
He uses very few extras and all he re-
quires of them is implicit obedience.
Knowing that this girl's red hair would
photograph a beautiful black, he engaged
her at once. Unfortunately, she could not
deliver the "implicit obedience." She
meant well, but her lack of training made
it impossible for her to put over his
directions. She was beautiful, but the
director could not waste time showing her
how to do every little thing.
However, he had raised her hopes, so he
felt obliged to "let her down ea.sy."
He called her to him.
"iMiss Blank," he said, "I selected you
for this part because of your red hair.
Now, my camera man tells me that your
hair will photograph black; so, you see,
I can't use you."
Very often, a girl fails through no fault
of her own. One girl failed because her
clothes wore out. Many of the girls who
make the rounds of the studios ape some
star. This girl first attracted attention
because she was different. She had a
number of pretty clothes that exactly
suited her personality and she knew how
to wear them. From the first, she showed
ability and was given more work than is
usual to a new-comer. She made enough
to live on, but not enough to keep her
wardrobe replenished. As time went on,
her pretty clothes began to wear out. A
director tells of how they tried to dress her
in gowns from the company's wardrobe.
"Nothing suited her," he said. "She
looked ridiculous — 'all dressed up and no
place to go.' I think that is the saddest
case I have ever known."
Possessing, as she does, an unusual
amount of intelligence and persistence, this
girl will probably win out in the end.
A great many girls fail because they do
not give their own individuality a chance
to express itself. In any extras' waiting
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141
room or on the benches outside, there are
always at least five pretty girls, of entirely
different types, trying to look exactly like
Mary Pickford.
The extras make from a dollar and a
half to five dollars a day. The work is
very irregular. An estimate made for an
insurance company gives the average earn-
ings of these girls and women as seven
dollars and a half a week. It is impossible
for a girl to live and keep herself up in
Los Angeles, if this is all she has to depend
upon. The girls are buoyed up, like 'the
mining prospectors, by the hope of a
lucky strike.
Ask any extra girl what is needed to
break into the movies — provided one has
talent — and she will answer :
"Luck, just luck."
One of them explained it in this way :
"In a mob of three thousand, there'll
probably be about five hundred who can
act. Well, say one girl out of that five
hundred happens to get in front of the
camera and registers a good expression.
The director is likely to remember her face
and use her the next time he has some-
thing good."
Chance, or fate, or perhaps it really is
luck, is often a tremendous factor.
Take, as an instance, the case of little
Bessie Love. In three studios the em-
ployment office turned her down flatly —
wouldn't even give her a job as "atmos-
phere." Then she crossed the orbit of
D. W. Griffith's vision and became a star.
Here is the true story of the "discovery"
of Miss Love, who bv the way, adopted
"Love" as a screen name. Her right
name is Bessie Horton.
She was just seventeen and had finished
high school. A neighbor, who insisted
that Bessie was a good movie type, offered
to take her around the studios. Bessie's
mother consented and the tour was begun.
For several weeks they made the rounds,
but there was nothing but a string of dis-
appointments.
Finally, at the Grifiith studio one day,
Bessie and her "chaperon" got a peep at
the great one — D. W. — entering the re-
hearsal room, a little frame .shack adjacent
to the Fine Arts studio offices. They de-
cided to beard the "lion" in his den and
when the watchman wasn't looking, they
edged up to the door and rapped.
Mr. Griffith was in consultation with
Frank Woods, his manager of production,
when Bessie rapped at the door. Mr.
Woods opened it to hear the timid request
for an audience with Mr. Griffith. He
told the girl that Mr. Griffith was very
busy that day and started to tell her to
come back some other day, when Griffith
looked up and saw the girl's face framed
in the doorway. It was x)n-ly open about
four inches and he said afterward that all
he saw were Bessie's eyes.
"Tell her maybe we can give her a mo-
ment," said Griffith to his lieutenant, and
about two minutes later Bessie Love was
on the Fine Arts payroll. She was a star
almost from the start.
Here was a case of luck to begin with —
luck in coming to the attention of a big
producer under propitious conditions. But
if Bessie could Hot have made good, she
would not have climbed to fame as she
has. She took advantage of her oppor-
tunity and employed a* well-balanced brain
to augment the possibilities of a face of
excellent photographic potentialities.
Some of the producers, who are not sub-
scribers to the belief that only those of
stage experience are any good to the screen,
are constantly on the watch for "finds."
There are other instances of discoveries
such as the Bessie Love case in which the
discovery turned out to be "fool's gold."
It had 3.11 the glitter of the real thing,
but the acid test showed it up as base
metal. Not all pretty girls have brains.
For purely atmospheric purposes, the
not beautiful girl who can wear clothes
has as good a chance of steady employ-
ment as the good-looking one. In some
cases, she has a better chance. There is
a studio in California which employs for
leading parts only actors and actresses of
stage renown. Several of these stars are
not at all good-looking and when there
are ball room or reception scenes, the cast-
ing director sees to it that no girls of
decided beauty are in the picture to dim
the luster of the star's radiance. There
can be no contrast w^hich gives the star
anvthing like a shade the worst of it.
Then there is the case of the girl who
can't stand prosperity. Each studio has its
roster of the girls who have been plucked
out of "mobs" or "atmosphere" as mate-
rial for real roles and who have slipped
on the banana peel of self-sufficiency —
victims of what is generally known as
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swellheadedness. Of course, if these girls
had a lick of sense, they probably would
have remained, and risen in the screen pro-
fession.
For some reason or other, a certain class
of girl just cannot abide her less fortu-
nate sister when she has risen a few steps
above her former colleagues. Give her a
role, or only a "bit," and she at once begins
to speak of the "extra girl" with contempt
and derision.
The road to the hades of failure is
dotted with the forms of those who, in
their brief moment of success, looked down
upon their sisters "on the benches" as the
lowest things on earth.
But these instances are becoming more
isolated daily. The really successful screen
actresses who have risen from the ranks,
as a rule, are not like this.
Some misdirected girls try to "break in"
by the so-called "easiest way." A great
many have been encouraged to try this
route by the gossip about success gained
through the ultimate sacrifice and the pub-
lished stories about moral conditions in
the studios. Time was when unscrupulous
directors preyed on the ignorant and inno-
cent, but in nearly every case which ended
in the juvenile court, it was disclosed that
the offender was an assistant director — in
those days the assistants did the hiring —
or an extra man posing to his victim as a
director. In all the big studios, all appli-
cants for places or extra work must go to
one person and, in most studios, all hiring
of girls and women is done by a woman
engaging director.
But the stories circulated widely in the
early days are still bearing fruit and many
a girl who could withstand the ordinary
temptations of life has offered herself as a
voluntary sacrifice, in the belief that it was
the only way to assured success. She is
willing to pay any price in order to gain
fame. With not a single bad instinct, she
literally hurls herself at whoever, to her,
is symbolic of fame.
The question of studio immorality has
been the one big problem of the producers
in the past. It is doubtful if conditions
are any worse in the average studio than
in any commercial institution and, in some
of the high-class places, it would be diffi-
cult for the most carping critic to find
anything to criticise.
There is no "easiest way." That which
is so regarded by so many of our girls
leads up a blind alley. The girl who tries
it is certain to be thrown into the discard
if she has no talent. But she will find it
increasingly difficult to find a sponsor
through this means of approach.
In order to make a permanent hit with
the public, the ambitious girl who finally
breaks in must have screen personality and
back it up by the hardest kind of work.
"There is an extra girl here," said a
prominent director the other day, "who has
everything to go on. Brains, temperament,
good looks — everything. I noticed it the
first minute I laid eyes on her. So did
two other directors. We are all watching
her. She has been a long time getting the
training she needs. However, when the
time comes, she will get her chance. That
is, if she doesn't get discouraged in the
meantime."
This girl was "discovered" several
months ago, but she will not know any-
thing about it until she proves herself
worthy.
To read the lives of famous people, one
would imagine the road to success "long
and dark and chilly" all the way to the
summit. Long it often is; but dark and
chilly only to the first turning point, where
the traveler begins to work "just for the
joy of the working." Then, the road is
illuminated by the warm glow of enthu-
siasm.
"More than for anything else on earth,
I am thankful for the hard knocks I have
had," said Jeanie Macpherson, the young
author-director who began as an extra girl
and wrote, directed and acted in her own
pictures at an age when most girls are still
at school.
"If there were such a thing as easily
won success," this happy little apostle of
hard work went on, "it wouldn't be worth
having.
"Every girl who wishes to be really suc-
cessful should ask herself these questions:
" 'How much discouragement can you
stand ?
" 'How long can you hang on in the
face of obstacles?
" 'Have you the grit to try to do what
others have failed to do?
" 'Have you the persistence to keep on
trying after repeated failures?
" 'Can you go up against skepticism,
(Continued on page i6^)
QUESTir^^S S^ANSWERSi
Y'OU do uol ha\e to b< a subsrrilx r to Photo|.la\ Maf^aziue
•^ to get questions ana%v«_red in this Department. It la only
reqxured that von avoid questions which would call for unduly
long answers, each as synopses of plays, or casts of more than
one play. There are hundreds of others "in line " with you
at the Questions and Answers window, so be considerate.
This will make it both practical and pleasant to serve you
promptly and often. Do not ask questions touching religion,
scenario writing or studio employment. Studio addresses
will not be given in this Department, because a complete list
of them is printed elsewhere in the magazine each month.
Write on only one side of the paper. Sign your full name
and address; only initials will be published if requested. If
you desire a personal reply, enclose self-addressed, stamped
envelope. Write to Questions and Answers, Photoplay
Magazine, Chicago.
CiLE, Oklahoma City, Okla. — "Is Henry
Walthall never, never going to have any more
decent plays?" Sorry, to disappoint you but we
can't even tell you when the war is going to
end or when Bill Hart is going to get married.
Blanche Sweet's last Lasky release is "The Si-
lent Partner." Frank Bennett was the "per-
fectly adorable" gentleman who played opposite
Dorothy Gish in "Stage Struck." The Lasky
company is producing "Freckles " at this writ-
ing with Jack Pickford. "Rebecca of Sunny-
brook Farm," with Mary Pickford as Rebecca is
another future treat for the Pickfordites.
E. C, Toronto, Can. — William Sorelle was
the soldier of fortune in "The Prince and the
Pauper" with Marguerite Clark. Your kind
wishes are appreciated.
G. V. C, New York City. — We have heard
that Jack Pickford was engaged to marry Olive
Thomas who was taken by Producer Ince from
Ziegfeld's Follies to be converted into a pic-
ture star, but we have no authentic word on
the subject. It is not always necessary to send
money for photographs of stars. Here is the
cast of "The Confession of Madam Barastoff:"
General Barastoff, John Costello ; Constance, his
wife, Edna Holland ; Lieut. Kanvar. Gladden
James ; Capt. Peter Kanvar, Claude James ;
Gen. Scarpazva, James Lewis; Ivan, Roland Os-
borne.
L. C, Indianapolis, Ind. — "Little Shoes"
came before "Burning the Candle." Elmer
Clifton ought to engage you as his publicity
agent. We'll tell the editor about Elmer, any-
how.
Harry, New Haven, Conn. — Never mind the
sympathy, old top ; we feel that it is a pleasure
and a privilege, rather than a hardship, to con-
duct this department. Inasmuch as you have
pictured us "surrounded by hundreds of silly
letters, etc." — well, if we wanted to be mean,
we'd say that the number of letters was in-
creased or something like that, but it's Kind-
ness to Animals Week, so we refrain. Of
course, you are entitled to your opinion about
the actors, but why in the world do you go
to see them if they are what you say they
are ? Now don't get the idea that you have
our goat because in these high cost of living
days we keep that animal chained to the piano.
J. C. P., Philadelphia."
using his real name.
-George Walsh is
Lanky Liz, Chico, Cal. — Better can that "Old
Answer Dad" stuff. It's bad enough to be old
without being subjected to derision and disre-
spect from the Chico-ns. Just for that we take
great pleasure in assuring you that David Powell
is married and happy. Marguerite Clark never
played "Thelma."
J. L., Cedar Rapids, Ia. — Sorry, but your de-
scription is too meager and the right name of
the lady is no help to us. She has probably
assumed a screen name and her black hair may
now be a glorious titian. If you have a picture
of the young lady, we shall be glad to look her
up.
L. M. S., Easton, Pa. — Too bad that you can't
see Crane on the screen as often as you would
like to. You have our deepest sympathy. It is
a base slander that Francis Bushman has auburn
hair. It never was.
J. O., Rochester, N. Y. — Mabel Taliaferro
has light hair and has just had a birthday. She
was thirty on May 21. Edith Storey has no
other name. Vola Vale is now with Balboa.
She was with Lasky before that and also with
American and LIniversal, having been known
formerly as Vola Smith. She is married, her
husband being a brother of Bill Russell of
American.
Florian, Cudahy, Wis. — Mary MacLaren is
about five feet, two inches in height and she
answers her letters. Write her.
F. R., Vancouver, B. C. — Evart Overton has
appeared in many Vitagraph productions. Paul
T. Lawrence has played with Ethel Barrymore
in Metro pictures and for other companies.
Sorry you didn't win a prize.
Mary, Port Clinton, O. — Miss Bara will be
twenty-seven years old July 20. Her picture
was in the art section February, 1-916, and
there were several photographs in the issue of
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May, this year. Her eyes are brown. As we
get it, both Cincinnati, your state, and Egypt
claim her birthplace. She sends her photo-
graphs to admirers.
Envious, Salisbury, Md. — Yes, we missed
you terribly. You must write oftener. Peggy
Hyland is English, hazel eyes, brown hair and
came to this country about a year ago. Helen
and Gerda Holmes are not related. Now hop
back to your aino, amas, aiiuit.
1 M. H., Jersey City, N. J. — The date of Mary
Miles Minter's birth, as attested by herself and
family, is April 1, 1902. Address Madame Pc-
trova at Famous Players, New York. Betty Nan-
sen is in Denmark. E. Forrest Taylor is not on
the screen at present.
E. M., MiAMiSBURG, O. — Elizabeth Burbridge
played opposite Henry Walthall in "Blind Jus-
tice." Dorothy Dalton's hair is brown. Here's
your "Quo Vadis" cast : Vinitius, M. Antony ;
Petronins, G. Serena ; Tigellinus, C. Moltini ;
Lyyia, Leah Giunchi ; Eunice. Mrs. Cattaneo ;
Nero. C. Cattaneo; Chilo. A. Mastripietri ; Ursus.
B. Castellani ; Peter, J. Gizzi, Poppaea, Mrs.
Brandini. Know any of 'em?
A. L., Peoria, III. — Enjoyed your delightful
letter, but unable to tell you anything about that
photoplay. Are you sure about the name ? You
guessed right. This is lots of fun. You'll see
the photos of your favorites soon.
H. H., Newburgh, N. Y. — The fact that Bill
Hart comes from your town makes your commu
nication doubly interesting. But Bill didn't get
famous by staying there, did he ? And you knew
Crane Wilbur when he lived there? My, how
lucky some people are ! We saw him once^hc
sat on the next stool in our favorite cafe — so you
haven't got much on us. Sure, write often.
S. T., Carlisle, Wash. — If the town in Colo-
rado you refer to was Dillon, you were probably
a schoolmate of Enid Markey's, as she attended
school in that place. She is with the Corona
Cinema Company and recently played the lead
in "The Curse of Eve." Miss Markey was born
in 1896.
S. G., jERSEi- City, N. J. — The "Q" in Anna
Q. Nilsson stands for Qucrentia, we are informed
by a rather reliable authority. We previously
thought it stood for Cute.
E. E., Rochester, N. Y. — Herbert Heyes
Bertie Cecil in "Under Two Flags." Go a
and flatter us ; can't make us mad.
was
head
L., Savannah, Ga. — We have no record of the
young lady you are so solicitous about. Perhaps
she changed her name. We stand corrected on
David in "Gloria's Romance." In the cast we
saw William Roselle was omitted.
Dora, Minneapolis — It wasn't n'ecessary for
you to take si-ch precautions as we would not
have looked you up. It was Arthur Hoops, the
same who played with Petrova, who died. It
is not true that pictures are not shown of an
artist after death. Rather liked that letter.
D. W., San Jose, Cal. — Mabel Normand was
in Los Angeles on St. Patrick's Day, we think.
Jane Lee was the one in "A Modern Cinderella."
Constance Talmadge played in several Fine Arts
productions after "Intolerance." The last one
was "The Girl of the Timber Claims." Yep, we
know about Louise.
Glory. Minneapolis. — William Russell was 31
on the twelfth day in April ; he is two inches
over six feet in height and is unmarried. Bill
Farnum is still with Fox. You should see him in
"A Tale of Two Cities." You are right abovit
Chaplin. There's something wrong with people
who can't see anything funny in hini. At least,
that's what both of us think, isn't it? Write
often.
Peggy, Newark, N. J. — Robert Elliott was born
in Ireland. He played with Margaret Illrngton in
"The Lie" and with Mansfield in "Juluis Caesar."
Mr. Langford has neglected to furnish us with
his vital statistics.
Henry, Amboy, III. — The name of the instru-
ment which you describe is pronounced yon kuh
lay lee. One who plays it is pronounced incur-
able. Mary MacLaren is no longer with Uni-
versal.
G. M. G., Augusta, Ga. — Yes, the count in
"Civilization" was Howard Hickman. The rest
of the cast : King of Wredpryd, Herschel Mayall ;
Queen Eugenie, Lola May: Katheryn Halderman.
Enid Markey ; The Christus. George Fisher :
I.uther Rolfe. the peace ad-'ocnte, J. Frank Burke ;
Prinie Minister, Chas. K. French ; the black-
smith, J. Barney Sherry; his son, Jerome Storm;
his daughter, Ethel Ullman ; the baby, Lillian
Reed.
VioLETTE, Melbourne, Australia — Lester
Bernard was Abe in "Prince in a Pawnshop."
Pearl White is with Pathe. Helen Holmes' hus-
band is J. P. McGowan, who hails from your
own little island. Clara Whipple is apparently
unmarried. The Y. W. C. A. usually looks out
for friendless girls in most of the large Ameri-
can cities.
A. N., Perth Amboy, N. J. — If you saw Mary
Pickford in a two-reeler it was filmed more than
three years ago. Mary Fuller recently appeared
with Lou-Tellegen in a Lasky photoplay. Anna
Luther appeared with George Walsh only in "The
Beast." Ask your book store about "The Broken
Coin."
Genevieve, New York City — Our latest in-
formation had Guy Coombs back on the legiti-
mate stage.
C. S., Cincinnati, O.— Ralph Kellard was in
stock for several years. So were some of the
best players on our .stage and screen today. Mr.
Kellard played opposite Pearl White in "Pearl
of the Army." Thank vou for vour good wishes.
Lillian, Altooxa, Pa. — Robert Mantell has
made several film plays, among them being "The
Blindness of Devotion," "The L^nfaithful Wife,"
and "The Green Eyed Monster," all produced
under Fox auspices.
Adele. North Adams, Mass. — Here's your old
"Battle of Life" cast: Mary Poland. Gladys
Coburn ; Dave Karns, Art Acord ; Jack Ellis.
William Sheer ; Tom Poland, Frank Evans ;
O'Leary. Richard Neill : Wentworth, Alex Shan-
non ; Mary (at 12), "Violet de Biccari.
A. L. R., Washington, D. C. — Your complaint
does not seem to be well founded. We can name
you quite a bunch of "tall, willowy girls" on the
screen.
Contimicd on page ijo
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Sato Finds the Way
(Continued from page lOJ)
ended when he married you," replied Mil-
dred, softly. In the last weeks her father's
mantle of poise had fallen on her slender
shoulders.
This soft, cool reply was a match to
Benita's ever ready powder-magazine.
"That is the way with you painted
lilies!" she almost shouted. "To be a real
woman is a disgrare, eh? You steal men's
hearts and give them nothing in return.
What do you know of life? I am what you
call bad, but I have lived. I know how to
live as I know how to love. I tell you
that you cannot hold or win this man until
you win him as I won him. Love is sacri-
fice— what do you know of sacriiice?
You're a doll in a room full of toys.
Senorita, Harry Maxwell is not my first
lover, but I am apt to be his last, for I
have made men my business, and I can
handle them as a desert driver handles an
eight-horse team."
Benita laughed, a little rippling laugh,
like a knife.
"Go out into the world as I did, cheap
little doll — perhaps you'll learn some very
necessary lessons !"
Mildred, helpless and swaying before
this purple onslaught, was startled as she
saw a convulsive clutch on the portieres
at the back of the room.
Sato !
Instantly her poise returned, and, like a
queen, she bowed the triumphant Benita
away.
But it was a different Mildred who con-
fronted Sato — it was a Mildred swept by
a typhoon of sobs and a hurricane of anger.
"I will not give Harry up ! I will not
give him up !" she stormed. "I am going
to run away with him ! Ours is a marriage
of hearts in the sight of God — this brazen
woman and her piece of paper, like an
awful 'deed, or a bill of sale, or a judg-
ment— oh, it's dreadful !"
"Will you give me one more chance to
right this thing?" asked Sato, gravely.
"Yes," she assented, as unreasoningly
but as trustingly as always.
Then he did something he had never
ventured. Taking her face in his hands,
he drew her toward him, and kissed her
solemnly on the forehead. That kiss
thrilled Mildred strangely. It was like a
holy seal of farewell.
I'hough she had promised Sato to wait
for his ultimate attempt, Mildred pinned
very little faith to his efforts. What could
he do?
So. as Harry was making plans for that
departure to the sonicru/iere away from
both women, Mildred telephoned him.
And, partially because he had rigorously
promised himself never to see her again, he
hurried over. She told him what she had
told Sato. She wanted to run away. But
Harry, mad for Mildred and mad for the
happiness of both, had resolved to be a
small-time adventurer no longer. He re-
fused to compromise Mildred by an illicit,
bigamous elopement. But he did agree to
stay and fight, and fight, and fight.
As for Sato and Benita, they began what
promised to be a delightful row in the
outer bay. Still, it seemed to Benita that
in their small boat Sato was rowing straight
to sea with more purpose than he had
revealed.
"Turn around !" she complained. "We're j
not going anywhere." |
"But we are going somewhere," corrected
Sato, quickly.
"Shall I like it?" she asked, coquet-
tishly.
"Senorita," he answered, "a great many
people have gone where you and I are
going — a great many people go there
every day. and not a word of complaint is
ever heard from them."
At six Sato's servant brought Mildred a
note. She read it to Harry.
"When you read -this" — it was very
brief — "vou will not have loved in vain.
. , . 'Sato."
A curious shudder, akin to a thrill, ran
over the girl.
"Harry," she faltered, "Sato has found
the way !" She began to cry. He took
her in his arms.
A fishing schooner picked up hats that
were identified as Sato's and Benita's.
His boat came ashore, many miles down
the coast, days afterward. Both plugs had
been removed from the bottom.
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The Soubrette of Satire
(Continued from page 28 )
it must seem funny to you that men don't
make love to her.
No secret : they do. Next to Mary Pick-
ford, Edna Purviance and Neysa McMein's
cuties, Anita Loos ranks right along as a
leading cause of heart disease. You know
it's terrible to have to spend an evening with
a creature who talks like the brightest real
man you know, at the same time looking like
a combination of Elsie Ferguson and Anna
Pennington, flavored with vanilla. There
ought to be a law against such things.
But all this blood is shed to no purpose,
for the Loos heart is still tight.
In fact, she regards her even pulse
ominously. Says that her inability to feel
great emotions will bar her, she knows,
from being a great writer. That she sees
only a laugh, or a smile, in every phase
of human effort, while the big thrills, on
simple tones, playing which geniuses be-
come immortal, are not for her.
Which is an absurd thing to say, for is
she not the author of "The Little Liar"?
Here was a really profound tragedy of
primitive power, all based on a poor little
girl's dwarfed, down-thrust imagination.
Having proved her a little liar, lei us shoot
the next set.
The most important service that Anita
Loos has so far rendered the screen is the
elevation of the subcaption, first to sanity,
then to dignity and brilliance combined.
■ We who have seen her plays, month after
month, have credited their superiority to
the thought in the plot and the sanity in
the direction. But have we considered
that the subcaptions have been to these
photoplays what voice is to an orator?
They have illuminated everything. Usually,
they have swept us along on a whirlwind
of laughter, and in our amusement we have
forgotten their adroit necessity.
Only a really great dramatist, say the
theatre wiseacres, can deceive his audience
in safety. Only a genius among caption-
writers, we should add, can tap the million
and one outlouders on the mouth with a
meaningless and unpronounceable jumble
of letters as a proper name, then adding in
pure deviltry : "To those of you who read
titles aloud: You can't pronounce the
Count's name. You can only thhxk it."
Remember the distiller's wife, in "Amer-
ican Aristocracy," who Avas quite above
converse with the brewer's wife — because
her husband purveyed a lower form of
.spirits? Here was a true satire, rivalling
Fitch at his best. Remember the frantic
confession Miss Loos put in the mouth of
a heart-sick swain: "I love you so much I
feel rotten !"
Some of the Loos plays have been writ-
ten and acted in deadly seriousness, as
dramas, and have been turned into double-
vou-up farces merely by the kidding sub-
titles.
Anita Loos is the most omnivorous
reader among women. Having devoured
every English book in the home library,
she taught herself French and German
that she might march through those liter-
atures. And it was one of her translations
from Voltaire, used as a subcaption for
"Intolerance." which ran afoul of the
censors.
"You might say that I know life only
as it's found in books," she interposes,
"but if you did I should interpose that I
have always chosen only those books which
show life as it is. So I haven't seen a dis-
torted picture of life. My own existence
has been restricted, in a way — yet I have
really seen the whole panorama of exist-
ence through a window !"
Miss Loos' philosophy of life is the one
thing proving her sex. It's illogical and
incompatible with her accomplishments.
She believes that man is the little Kaiser
of creation, and, despising suffrage, avers
that domesticity is the only plane of female
existence ; that a woman's first duty is to
be loveable, her second to be loved, and
that when she has made herself unlovely
and unloveable she should be dead.
Anita Loos is earning nearly a hundred
thousand a year now — but she says she is
going to hold this pace but a short time.
She promises to "ease out," and be fem-
inine and forgotten.
Once upon a time D. W. Griffith and I
were carrying on a rapid-fire conversation.
Miss Loos' name crept into the talk. As
he heard it he paused. Then he said :
"The most brilliant young Avoman in
the world."
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F. B., Los Angeles, Cal. — Why pick on us
because you didn't agree with Mr. Johnson's
critique of "Her New York ? " Haven't we
enough troubles of our own ? Your letter has
been referred to the distinguished author of "The
Shadow Stage. "
E. T., 'Warrenton, Va. — Marguerite Clark ad-
mits that she was thirty years old on Washing-
ton's Birthday. And of course you know that
people who are born on that day have a terrific
weakness for the truth. Creifjhton Hale was
born in Cork, Ireland, and his hair is light,
naturally. Hope this doesn't go over your head.
We think it's real clever. Mary Pickford has
been married about six or seven years.
Cecile, New York City. — .Address Miss Clay-
ton, care the World Film Corporation, Fort Lee,
New Jersey. She will send you a photograph.
H. D., Jeffersonville, L\d. — Boys of your
age are not in any preat demand for the moving
pictures, so it would be futile perhaps, to go to
any trouble in your efforts to "break in." We do
not sell or give away photographs. Write to
your favorites.
Elsie, Dothan, Ala. — Conway Tearlc is about
37 and he has been playing in the movies about
two years. He is a native of New. York City.
Glad you liked the Mary MacLaren cover.
Everyone did. Shall sec if we can gut the pic-
tures you want to see in the magazine.
Tri.xie, Halifax, N. S. — So you were disap-
pointed because Mary Pickford has golden hair
instead of dark brown hair? Well, we'll see if
we can get Mary to change it. She's such an
accommodating little thing. Harrison Ford can
be reached at Universal City and we are sure
he will send you a photograph.
Doodle, Richmo.vd Hill, L. L — Teddy Samp-
son is now in New York with her husband. Ford
Sterling, but at this writing neither is engaged.
Jean Sothern was not in "Carmen. ' So far as
we know, Ty Cobb is doing his only movieing on
the ball field. Thanks for the compliments.
L. C., Indianapolis, I.\d. — Henry Walthall,
Lillian Gish and Mae Marsh in "Home Sweet
Home." Miriam Cooper played the leading
feminine role in "The Honor System." Glad to
get the correction on the Gish birthdays.
D. F., Pasadena, Cal. — Charles Ray played
Colin — the role that you describe — in "Peggy.''
R. H. P., New Zealand. — Glad to have heard
from you again and we appreciate your appre-
ciation of Photoplay. Distance adds warmth
to friendship, not the contrary. At 15,000 miles
off, your friends can't borrow money from you,
thus jeopardizing friendship. Ever think of that?
Your request about the cover has been passed
on to the editor, but your other request is some-
what irregular. Sorry, but it's against the rules.
Mary, New York City. — Your thoughtfulness
in using a typewriter is very touching. How-
ever, it is not required. You are perfectly right
about this being the best department in the
magazine. (We hope that the editor sees this,
too. My, but he'll be jealous.) Don't hesitate
about writing Wallie Reid for a photograph.
He'd be delighted to send one to such a warm
admirer.
Babe, Tacoma, Wash. — Viola Dana is not a
character actress. She's an ingenue, if that is
what you mean.
Isabel, Chicago. — Your favorite, Mr. Moreno,
may be reached at present at the Los Angeles
Athletic Club, that city. Both he and Miss Storey
deny that they are married and surely they ought
to know. Falling in love with an actor you don't
know is not indicative of "backwardness," so you
must have diagnosed your case incorrectly.
Dot, Los .Angeles, Cal. — Many, many thanks.
We hope your belief in our pulchritudinous
supremacy will never be shattered by any photo-
graphic revelation.
Mrs. C, Salt Lake City, Utah. — Your
chances of seeing Willard Mack and Marjorio
Rambeau on the screen together do not seem
very bright. Frank Borzage is his right name
and he hails from your city. Don't know who
the cowboy is in that old picture we printed.
Warren Kerrigan's brother does not act — that
is, in the movies. Think "The Picture of Dorian
Grey" has been filmed, but our library has no
record of any such photoplay.
Dolly, Denver, Col. — The clipping is wrong
with respect to Miss Clark. She is not married.
Miss Sweet, also, is still enjoying single blessed-
ness. Nothing in that divorce rumor.
Variety, South Australia. — The only way
for you to obtain autographed photographs of
your favorites is to write to them directly. Some
are accustomed to sending them without a mail-
ing fee and others not. Usually the fee is a
shilling, your money, and you must use an inter-
national coupon. VVilliam Russell and Miss Bur-
ton are not married. Los Angeles is something
over 3,000 miles from New York. Hollywood is
within the corporate limits of Los Angeles, but
has a separate postoffice.
Anna R., Syracuse, N. Y. — The only Robert
Ellis on record in our files is connected with the
Kalem company, but we have no biographical
<lata concerning him.
M. C, Peoria, III. — Miriam Cooper was not
the Wild Girl of "Intolerance." She was The
Friendless One. Constance Talmadge was the
untamed one. Sorry, but we cannot provide you
with the name and address of the correspondent
you mention. Against the constitution and by-
laws of this organization.
Riene, .St. Louis. — You've got us pegged
wrong if you think for a minute we'd intention-
ally hurt anyone's feelings ; not even folks who
write us roasts, or roast us right. That's their
prerogative, you know. (We just love to use
that word.) Enjoyed your poetic interrogation
immensely, but you didn't expect it to be an-
swered, did you ? Write again.
Maud, Canton, III. — We knew something
awful would happen if we went away and left
the office boy in charge. Of course Warren and
Wallace Kerrigan are twin brothers and Jackie
Saunders is the wife of E. D. Horkheimer but
Vi\ian Martin is not the wife of L. V. Jefferson.
William Jefferson is her husband. Yes, Francis
Ford is again married to Mrs. Ford. Just watch
us and let us know when we stray from the path
of veracity and rectitude.
C. B., Sydney, Australia. — As a rule, actors
and actresses are not consulted about the person-
nel of their respective companies and quite often
players who are not at all friendly have appeared
together. Usually prominent players are given
an opportunity to pass upon those engaged to
take part in their productions. Write Creighton
Hale, care Pathe.
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ALDEN, MARY May, 1917
ANDERSON, MARY June, 1917
ARBUCKLE, ROSCOE August, 1916
BARA, THEDA May. 1917
BAYNE, BEVERLY March, 1917
BENNETT, RICHARD April. 1917
BERNARD, DOROTHY August, 1916
BRADY, ALICE September, 1916
BROCKWELL, GLADYS
April, 1917, and June, 1917
BRUNETTE, FRITZI May. 1917
BURTON, CHARLOTTE ...December, 1916
BUSHMAN, FRANCIS X April, 1917
CAPELLANI, ALBERT January, 1917
CHAPLIN, CHARLES June, 1917
CHILDERS, NAOMI January, 1917
CLARK, MARGUERITE ...December, 1916
CLAYTON, ETHEL
August, 1916, and April, 1917
COBURN, GLADYS May, 1917
COHAN, GEORGE M March, 1917
CONNELLY, EDWARD June, 1917
CONNELLY, ROBERT February, 1917
COSTELLO, MAURICE Jatiuary, 1917
CRISP, DONALD January, 1917
DANA, VIOLA February, 1917
DAWN, HAZEL October, 1916
DORO, MARIE December, 1916
DREW, S. RANKIN April. 1917
Dl'RFEE, MINTA August, 1916
DWAN, ALLAN May, 1917
EMERSON, JOHN November, 1916
FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS
May, 1917, and June, 1917
FARRAR, GERALDINE
May, 1916, and January, 1917
FAWCETT, GEORGE April 1917
FISCHER, MARGARITA ...February, 1917
FOXE, EARLE December, \<)\e
FREDERICK, PAULINE June 1917
FULLER, MARY .Nov., 1916,andikfay, 1917
GISH, DOROTHY and LILLIAN .Afav. 1917
GRANDIN, ETHEL January 1917
GREY, OLGA February, 1917
GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK
August, 1916, to November. 1916, inclusive
HALE, CREIGHTON November, 1916
HAM AND BUD August, 1916
HAMILTON, MAHLON Max 1917
HARLAN, MACEY ilfav' 1917
HART, WILLIAM May 1917
HATTON, RAYMOND ....November, 1916
HAYES, FRANK Jamiary, 1917
HOLMES, GERDA March, 1917
HOLMES, HELEN March, 1917
HOLMES, STUART December. 1916
HULETTE, GLADYS November, 1916
KEENAN, FRANK May 1917
KELLERMANN, ANNETTE April 1917
KELLY. ANTHONY April 1917
KELLY, DOROTHY November.
KEN YON, DORIS October
KING, ANITA August.
LA BADIE, FLORENCE December.
LAWRENCE, PAUL November.
LEE, JENNIE April
LEGUERE, GEORGE May
LINDER, MAX February
LITTLE, ANN May
LOSEE, FRANK May
LOVE, BESSIE August.
LYTTON, ROGER April
MARSH, MAE. .March, 1917, and June
MASON, SHIRLEY March
MINTER, MARY MILES .January
MIX, TOM September
MORAN, POLLY September
MURRAY, MAE
October. 1916, and March
McGOWAN, DOROTHY June
McGOWAN, J. P October
MacLAREN, MARY February
MacPHERSON, JEANIE October,
NELSON, FRANCES May,
O'NEIL, NANCE April
OSBORNE, HELEN April.
PALEY, "DADDY" March
PENNINGTON. ANN October
PETERS, HOUSE August
PETROVA, OLGA
October, 1916, and June
PHILLIP, DOROTHY May
PICKFORD, MARY March
POWELL, DAVID June
PRETTY, ARLINE June
PURVIANCE, EDNA September,
READ, LILLIAN November.
REED, VIVIAN February
REUBEN. ALMA April
RICH, VIVIAN . December.
SAIS. MARIN March
SANTSCHI. TOM August
SMITH. C. AUBREY February
SNYDER, MATT December
STANDING, HERBERT ...November,
TALMADGE, CONSTANCE ....May
TALMADGE. NORMA Febniary
TEARE, ETHEL June
THEBY. ROSEMARY December.
TURNBULL, HECTOR December,
VALKYRIEN September,
WALCAMP. MARIE November
WARDE, FREDERICK January
WARWICK, ROBERT March
WHITNEY, CLAIRE December
WILSON. MARGERY October
WORTMANN, FRANK HUCK
February
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M. S., Denver, Gold. — My, but you must have
been a proud young person to have been given
the opportunity of shaking hands with Douglas
Fairbanks ! The last time we shook hands with
Doug, we couldn't write for a week. James
Cruze is with Lasky now. No record of the
others you ask about.
Ruby, St. Paul, Mixn. — Mary Miles Minter's
sure-enough name is Juliet Shelby. Margaret
Shelby, her sister, is two years older than Mary
and, knowing Mary's age, you can easily figure
out that of Margaret. Mary Pickford has just
reached her twentv-fourth birthday.
Rose, Hamilton, Can. — Of course that's the
truth about the Bushman Club in Roanoke, Vir-
ginia. D'ye think wed bunk our readers? But
why blush with shame? The best people we
know write to this department regularly and
you should be proud of the company into which
you have butted.
Ruth, Sioux Falls, S. D. — "The Pride of the
Clan" was filmed on the Massachusetts coast
and not in Scotland. Anita Stewart was "The
Girl Philippa." Earle Williams is about i7 .
His wife is not an actress. He has no wife.
Strange that you should have an ambition to be
a movie actress, but you have company.
Roy, Hickory, N. C. — Just write Mabel Nor-
mand, care Mabel Normand Film Company, Los
Angeles, California.
Lonely, Denver, Col. — 'Write to Mr. Lock-
wood, care Yorke Film Company, Hollywood,
and he'll send you a photograph of your movie
hero.
Maxine, Los Angeles, Cal. — Write Earle Fox
care Dramatic Mirror, New York City, and
Herbert Heyes, care Willat Studios, F'ort Lee,
New Jersey.
M., Potomac, III. — Constance Talmadge was
eighteen years old on April 19. Her hair is
light brown. Florence LaBadie was born in 1894.
James Cruze was Jim Norton in "The Million
Dollar Mystery."
A. W., DeWitt. N. Y.— "The Black Fear"
is the only film play among our records in which
Grace Elliston played. We have no data con-
cerning her.
K. M.. Mt. Sterling, Ky. — Evart Overton is
with Vitagraph and we agree with you that he
is a capable player. We have asked the editor
to print something about him.
Fannie, Philadelphia. — So you think Bill
Hart "too good a player to tie hisself to a pair of
apron strings?" Well, we're neutral. No, you
needn't use a typewriter if you have to borrow
one. Takes worse writing than yours to bluff
us. Come as often as you like.
S. G., East St. Louis, III. — Anthony P.
Kelly may be reached at the Screen Club, New
York City.
Jeanette, Washington, D. C. — Comparisons
and distinctions are made only in our review
department, "The Shadow Stage." We endeavor
to show no favoritism in this department and
any effort to get yours truly involved in a dis-
cussion as to the relative merits of Marguerite
Clark and Mary Pickford will prove futile. Isn't
it remarkable that, although Miss Clark is older
than Miss Pickford, the latter is the taller of
the two ?
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Midget, Norfolk, Va. — Jane Grey was born
in Middlebury, Vermont, in 1883, and she has
appeared in the following photoplays : "Little
Grey Lady," "Let Katy Do It," "Man and His
Angel" and others.
J. v., Amarillo, Tex. — So far as we know,
there is no way in the wide world that you can
take a correspondence course in movie acting
that will do you any good. And even if we
knew of any concern that promised to teach
acting by mail, we wouldn't send the address
to you. Gee, ain't we got a mean disposition ?
H. B., Anso.n'ia, Conn. — Donald Brian is a
native of St. Johns, Newfoundland. Carlyle
Blackwell is married. Mary Anderson ditto.
Frederick Warde played the name part in "Silas
Marner." Antonio Moreno was born in 1888
in Spain. Anita Stewart's hair is quite naturally
curly. Olga Petrova's is auburn. Broncho Billy
Anderson is in New York Citv.
Ernestine, Kansas Citv, Mo. — No, dearie.
Marguerite Clark is still with us.
Wag, Huntingsdurg, L\d. — .A.re you sure about
"Rupert of Hentzau?" We haven't the cast you
want.
B. L. S., Columbus, O. — Sorry you didn't
like the criticism of Mr. Fellows, but that's not
in our department. We have already asked the
editor to treat the readers of Photoplay to a
story about Mr. Fellows and he has agreed to do
so in the near future.
E. K., Atlanta, Ga. — -After reading over your
poem very carefully, we have arrived at the
solemn conclusion that you should stick to
stenography. However, we have forwarded the
poem to Mr. Hart, who will undoubtedly appre-
ciate it very much. Mr. Hart was born in 1S74.
Fannie Ward is married. Also Clara Kimljall
Young and Norma Talniadge. You guessed
right ; we are madly in love with all three, but
what's the use — they'd pinch us in a minute for
pulling any Bill Hart stuff in the way of extermi-
nating a trio of husbands. Pretty tough old life,
isn't it?
G. P., Flemington, N. J. — We have no record
of Florence Allen. Sorry we can't take advan-
tage of your invitation to visit Flemington. Must
be some burg.
L. G., Gainesville, Tex. — Walter Long played
Giis in "The Birth of a Nation" and The Muske-
teer in "Intolerance," as you surmised. He is
now with Lasky. He played the governor of
Burgundy in "Joan the Woman" with Geraldine
Farrar.
E. S., Toronto, Can. — 'Victor Sutherland was
born at Paducah, Kentucky, in 1889, and has
appeared in Universal. Lubin and Fox plays, his
last for the latter having been "Dare Devil Kate."
He is now back on the stage.
H. W., Baird, Texas. — Charlie Chaplin is 28
this year. He weighs about 120 pounds. Theda
Bara played last in "Heart and Soul."
Seena, W. K., Chicago. — Charles Ray was
born in 1891 and is a half inch over six feet
in height. He has no children but owns a red
automobile.
M. B., Kansas City, Mo. — 'Vivian Rich last
appeared in "Beware of Strangers." Address her
care Selig's, Los Angeles. She hasn't told us
anything about her age.
L. B., Elberton, Ga. — Marguerite Clark was
born in Cincinnati on February 22, 1887, which
would make her thirty years old. Cleo Ridgely
has been married. You spelled her name incor-
rectly. If Harold Lockwood and May Allison
are engaged, it will be news to lots of people,
but they're not.
Edna, Tulsa, Okla. — Terrible relief to get
your letter. Thought for a while you had for-
gotten us. Ruth Stonehouse has an adopted
child. Her husband is a writer of photoplays
and his name is Joseph Roach. No, we don't eat
onions any more. Cost too much.
A. E., Perth, Western Australia. — Gladys
Hulette is with Thanhouser at New Rochelle,
New York. She usually answers letters. James
Cruze, Flo LaBadie, Marguerite Snow and Sidney
Bracey h.ad the leading parts in "The Million
Dollar Mystery." Earle Foxe is married to Betty
Scott. You have company, as we received ten
letters from Australia in the same mail.
Ima Nutt. Bound Brook, N. J. — Hobart Bos-
worth had the leading part in "The Sea Wolf."
Did it just reach your town? Yes, water makes
some people fat and others clean. Yes, we are
for suffrage or .anything else they want. Are
we married or single? Yes.
Leonore, Melbourne, Australia.- — Delighted
with your very sensible letter. You are surely a
pioneer film fan, e\en if you do live way down
under. We are sure that Mr. Hart will send his
photograph to you. You have our deepest sympa-
thy in your loss at the front.
K. K., Sydney, N. S. W., Australia. — Write
Norma Talniadge, care Selznick Studios, New
York City. We're sure she'll send you a photo.
Mabel Normand is soon to appear in her first
comedy drama feature picture, as she has for-
saken Keystone comedies for good.
T. M., Baton Rouge, La. — Most of the im-
portant companies prefer to have stories sub-
mitted to them as stories and not in scenario
form, as they like to have their own continuity
writers whip them into shape for production.
Winnie, Brockton, Mass. — Mae Murray's
"opposite" was Harry Bro'wne in "The Big Sis-
ter," Thomas Holding was opposite Marie Doro
in "The White Pearl" and Jack Clark was Val-
entine Grant's brother in "The Innocent Lie."
Mary Anderson's inarried name is Goodfriend
and Sullivan is Annette Kellermann's.
Dorothy, Emporia, Kan. — Yes, you spelled
it right, but curiosity is pretty much the same
no matter how it's spelled. Write Irving Cum-
mings, care of Fox, Fort Lee. New Jersey. He'.'^
married and is a brunette. Blanche Sweet isn't
married. You deserve a great deal of credit for
such a nice letter— not a misspelled word in it.
D. R., Watertown, S. D. — Frank Keenan is
a native of Dubuque, Iowa, and is something
over fifty — old enough to be a grandfather, at
any rate. He has two children and one grand-
child and has been on the stage for 36 years.
At present he is devoting his efforts to the vocal
stage.
M. F. Lonsdale, R. I. — We cannot provide a
list of the plays in which Edward Arnold has
appeared. Quite a bunch, though. Colin Chase
was Kirk Dritiniunnd with Vivian Martin in "The
Right Direction." Always glad to renew old
acquaintances.
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For the convenience of our readers who may
de.sire the addresses of film companies we give
the principal ones below. The first is the business
office; (*) indicates proper office to send manu-
scripts; (s) indicates a studio; at times all three
may be at one address.
A.MERicA.v Film Mfg. Co., G227 Broadway, Chi-
cago; Santa Barbara, Cal. (*) (s).
AuTCUAKT I'icTUREs CoKP. (Mafy Pickford), 729
Seventh Ave., New York City.
Balboa Amisbment 1'roducing Co., Long
Beach, Cal. (*! (s).
Califou.nia Motion Picture Co., San Rafael,
Cal. (*) (s>.
Chki.stib Film Corp., Main and Washington,
Los Angeles, Cal.
Hothackkr Film Mfg. Co., i;;.39 Diversey Park-
way, Chicago, 111.
iODi.sox, Thomas. Inc., 2826 Decatur Ave., New
York City. (•) (s).
Kssanav Film Mfg. Co., 1333 Argyle St., Chi-
cago. (•) (s).
Famous I'layeb.s Film Co., 485 Fifth Ave.,
New York City ; 128 W. .'iCth St.. New York City.
Fine Arts, 4500 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles,
Cal.
Fox Film Corp., 130 W. 46th St., New York
City (*); 1401 Western Ave., Los Angeles (•)
(s) ; Fort Lee, N. J. (s).
Frohman Amusement Corp., 140 Amity St.,
Flushing, L. I. ; 18 E. 41st St., New York City.
Gaumont Co., 110 W. Fortieth St., New York
City; Flushing, N. Y. (s) ; .Tacksonville, Fla. (s).
GoLDWYN Film Corp., 16 E. 42nd St., New York
City; Ft. Lee, N. J. (s).
lioRSLEv Studio, Main and Washington, Los
Angeles, Cal.
Thos. H. Ince (Kay-Bee Triangle), Culver City,
Cal.
Kalem Co., 2.35 W. 23d St., New York City (•) ;
251 W. 19th St., New York City (s) ; 1425 Flem-
ing St., Hollywood, Cal. (s) ; Tallyrand Ave.,
Jacksonville, Fla. (s) ; Glendale. Cal. (s).
Keystone Film Co., 1712 Allesandro St., Los
Angeles, Cal.
Kleine, George, 166 N. State St., Chicago.
Lasky Feature Play Co., 485 Fifth Ave., New
York City ; 6284 Selma Ave., Hollywood, Cal.
Lone Star F'ilm Corp. (Chaplin), 1025 Lillian
Way, Los Angeles, Cal.
Metro I'ictures Corp., 1476 Broadway, New
Y'ork (*) (all manuscripts for the following
studios go to Metro's Broadway address.) : Rolfe
Photoplay Co. and Columbia I'ictures Corp., 3 W.
61st St., New York City (s) ; I'opular Plays and
Players, Fort Lee, N. J. (s) ; Quality Pictures
Corp., Metro office; Yorke Film Co., Hollywood,
Cal. (s).
MOROSCO Photoplay Co., 222 W. 42d St., New
York City (*) ; 201 Occidental Blvd., Los Angeles,
Cal. (s).
Moss, B. S., 729 Seventh Ave., New York City.
Mutual Film Corp.. Consumers Bldg., Chicago.
Mabel N'obmand Film Corp., Hollywood, Cal.
Pallas Pictures, 220 W. 42d St.. New Y'ork
City ; 205 N. Occidental Blvd., Los Angeles. Cal.
Pathb Exchange, 25 W. 45th St., New York
City; Jersey City, N. J. (s).
Powell, Frank, Production Co., Times Bldg.,
New Y'ork City.
Selig Polyscope Co., Garland Bldg., Chicago
(*) ; Western and Irving Park Blvd., Chicago (s) ;
.3800 Mission Road, Los Angeles, Cal. (s).
Lewis Selznick Enterprises (Clara Kimball
Young Film Corp.), (Norma Talmadge Film
Corp.), (s) ; 126 W. 46th St., New York City
Signal Film Corp., 4560 Pasadena Ave., Los
Angeles, Cal. (*) (s).
Thanhouser Film Corp., New Rochelle, N. Y.
(*) (s) ; Jacksonville, Fla. (s).
Universal Film Mfo. Co., 1600 Broadway,
New York City ; Universal City, Cal.
Vim Comedy Co., Providence, R. I.
Vitagraph Company of America, E. 15tb and
Locust Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Hollywood, Cal.
Vogue Comedy Co., Gower St. and Santa Mon-
ica Blvd., Hollywood. Cal.
Wharton Inc., Ithaca, N. Y.
World Film Corp., 130 W. 46th St., New York
City (*) ; Fort Lee, N. J. (s).
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L. R., New York City. — "Helene of the
North," we think, was filmed in the Adirondacks.
Conway Tearle was Captain Ralph Conley.
Rose of the West, Colorado Springs, Col. —
Some motion picture plays we have seen were
very hard on the eyes while others were easy
to look at. Myrtle Stedman uses her married
name. Her birth year is given as 1891. Harold
Lockwood was born in Brooklyn, Dorothy Daven-
port in Boston and Wallie Reid in St. Louis.
Yes, we are very fond of the players, but of some
we are fonder than others.
E. K. J., Pomona, Cal. — You are mistaken
in your assumption. We did not state that Mr.
Lockwood was single as a downright fact, but
that he was not married, as wc had his word
for it, or words to that effect. Even when we
have authentic advice to the contrary, we are
bound to take a gentleman's word for it when
he says that he is not enjoying wedded bliss or
single blessedness. But that's all controversial
and nothing can be gained by entering into a dis-
pute over such a trivial matter.
John, Lawrence, Mass. — Alma Reuben is a
newcomer among stellar actresses, but she is all
you say she is. You will see her next in an
Ince play. Don't know in what sort of play you
will see House Peters next, as he recently had a
disagreement with the Paramount people.
Babbette, Chicago. — Yes, yes, you are quite
a learned person in the lore of the movies. We
stand corrected except with reference to the
Youngs. They are not divorced. Even the best
of us make mistakes sometimes. Wouldn't it be
a gruesome world if everyone was always right
about everything ?
G. H., Guthrie, Okla. — Broncho Billy is alive
but not acting. He is a manager now. Max
Linder talks very little English as yet, but is
learning rapidly.
Mariorie, Columbus, O. — Miss Young's busi-
ness address will have to suffice, as it is not custo-
mary to make public the private addresses of the
players. Write her care Selznick Studios and
you will receive a reply.
Betty, Dover, N. J. — Edward Earle, not
George Fisher, played with Viola Dana in "The
Innocence of Ruth." Henry Walthall's wife was
formerly Isabel Fenton, a stage actress at one
time. Think Miss Young will answer your letter.
S. W., Negaunee, Mich. — Lots of magazines
with Pearl White's picture. Copies will be mailed
! you upon receipt of 15 cents each.
M. a. T., St. Louis, Mo.— Mary Pickford's
sure-^enough name was originally Gladys Smith.
Muriel Ostriche can be reached through World,
Kathlyn Williams, Morosco, and Pauline Fred-
erick, Famous Players.
Karl, New York City. — A glance at the rules
governing this department will indicate that the
advice you ask about marketing your scripts can-
not be given. You will have to write the com-
fMnies and find out for yourself their needs, as
conditions are changing continually.
M. L., Racine, Wis. — Write Earle Williams,
care Vitagraph at Brooklyn. None of those you
mentioned has appeared on Photoplay covers
and it is impossible for us to tell you who will
be there in the future. You'll just have to curb
your impatience and wait.
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Grace, Boston. — Mr. Reid probably mislaid
your letter and the money yon enclosed for the
photographs. Write him again and we are sure
that he will kick in. We oughtn't to have put
it that way, as there is a lady in Portland, Ore-
gon, who thinks we are frightfully slangy.
L. C. .AND E. v., BiNGH.\M, Utah. — Lottie
Pickford is Mrs. Rupp in private life and she
has a baby daughter just a little more than a
year old who answers to the name of Mary
Charlotte Pickford Rupp. But she's a husky kid
and won't have any trouble packing that name
around. Harold I.ockwood has been an actor
for about seven years.
Princess Zim-Zam, Chicago. — Tom Forman
was 24 years old on Washington's birthday.
Edith Taliaferro played with him in "Young Ro-
mance" and Edith Wynne Mathison was the
woman in "The Governor's Lady."
D. R., Ft. Monroe, Va. — Address Billie
Burke, care of Flo Ziegfeld, Century Theater,
New York City.
E. K., St. Louis. — Better consult an oculist
if you haven't seen any pictures of Pearl White
in Photopl.w in two years. But there'll be
more later.
A. A., Lethbridge, Alta., Can. — Warren Ker-
rigan is not married and John Bowers is non-
committal on the subject.
E. R., San Francisco, Cal. — Without enter-
ing into the merits of the case you mention, per-
haps it would be well to explain that a certain
class of actors believe that widespread knowl-
edge of their marriage would seriously impair
their popularity. Of course sensible people like
you and us don't see things that way, but un-
doubtedly there are people who like to cherish tlie
belief that their favorites are still attainable.
Funny old thing, human nature, isn't it ?
A. B. G., Commerce, Tex. — Fannie Ward has
a daughter, as you surmise, "in her teens."
You have our assurance that Miss Ward really
is more than 23. Earle Foxe is with Pathe.
Thanks for your good wishes.
v., Helena, Mont. — Modesty alone precludes
publication of your poetic eulogy. You see, if
we printed it a lotta folks would think we wrote
it ourself and were just trying to hurl a few
corsages at us. But we sure did enjoy it and
that zippy letter too. Another like that and
we'd almost be persuaded to tell you our middle
name.
P. M., Snyder, Texas. — Something familiar
about the name of that town. Margaret Nichols
is the wife of Hal Roach, of Lonesome Luke
fame.
R. B., Sturgis, Mich. — Ricliard Stanton has
not appeared on the screen for a long time as he
is now a director. At present he is directing
Dustin Farnum for Fox. Rose Tapley was the
real wife of Lennox in "My Official Wife."
Slats, Brock wavville, Pa. — Sure, quite a cute
name. Pearl White is a mixture of Irish and
Italian. Ruth Roland is not married. Grace
Cunard married Joe Moore ; Francis Ford mar-
ried Mrs. Francis Ford. Blanche Sweet is a
blonde. Her right name is Blanche Alexander.
Creighton Hale didn't quit the movies. He is
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J. H., Providence, R. I. — So far as we know
Wally Reid was never in Providence. He was
born in St. Louis, dances well and is generally
regarded as quite some lad. As we recall it, his
machine is one of those Hibernian makes, Mc-
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You'll probably sec him if you go to California.
D. E. H., Sandu.skv, O. — Florence Rockwell
was the wife in "He Fell in Love with His Wife."
Owen Moore was in "The Escape" with Blanche
Sweet. Edward Jose played opposite Theda in
".\ Fool There Was." Clifford Bruce officiated
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Davidson with Rtfiel Barrymore in "The White
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Jr., Lionel Barrymore; Joan Madison, Marguerite
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Alec. James Malaidy ; Myles McCool, Howard
Truesdcll ; Jernmc Hendricks, George Stevens;
Frank Wagner, Frank Lyons; Liza Poke, Myra
Brooks.
E. M.. Hector, Minn. — Write to the National
Board of Review in New York City for the litera-
ture on children and the motion pictvires. The
lioard has a department devoted to that phase of
the industrv.
Ai.MAucoxMA, PHii.AnELPHiA — Alma Reuben is
now with Ince, playing opposite William Hart.
.She sends her photographs. The man you ad-
mire in "The Girl Philippa" is probably Frank
Morgan. Constance Talmadge is no longer with
Triangle.
Wali.y's Always, Medford, Mass. — .Another
Wally-nut apparently. Well, Dorothy Davenport
and May Allison are each 5-5 in height. Frank
Beamish is .T^ and married. Paul Willis just
had his se\ enteenth birthday. He made his first
hit in "The Fall of a X'ation." Alice Brady
played a dual role in "The Dancer's Peril." She
is about five feet, four inches in height. Wallace
Reid has no children — at this writting. Not
acquainted with Helen Lorraine, just Lillian.
Yes, all actresses have naturally curly hair and
many of them are prettier off the screen than on.
E. S., Rochester, X. Y. — Edith Storey is no
longer with Vitagraph. She has brown hair and
hazel eyes and is almost five and a half feet high.
She has never appeared on the cover of this
magazine.
E. M., Philadelphi.\ — Can't tell you anything
definite about another Ford-Cunard story. Here's
the "Purple Mask" cast : Patricia Montec, Grace
Cunard : Phil Kelly, Francis Ford ; Eleanor Van
Xiiys. Jean Hathaway ; Pete Bartlett, Pete Ger-
ald ; Bull Sanderson, Jerry Ash ; Silk Donahue,
John Duffy; Stephen Diipont, John Featherstone ;
Jacques, Mario Biaunche.
Kentucky Belle, Louisville, Ky. — Most of
your questions cannot be answered as we need
all of our space to reply to tjueries concerning
the people of the movies. Bill Hart does not
speak with "a slight drawl" so go ahead and
show your disappointment by throwing the cat
outa the window. Warren Kerrigan ■was born in
Louisville before moving to New Albany, Indiana.
T. M., Franklin, Tenn. — We have no record
of Kate Barker. The National Film Company
is not actively producing at present, we believe.
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Wally Worshiper, Pasadena, Cal. — Glad
you liked the Jack Lait story in the May issue.
So did we. Seena Owen played opposite Doug.
Fairbanks in "The Lamb" and Jewel Carmen in
"Flirting with Fate." Flora Zabelle played oppo-
site John Barryniore in "The Red Widow." Cast
of "The Girl Philippa" ; Plii/ifpa, Anita Stewart;
Warner, S. Rankin Drew ; Halkett, Frank Mor-
gan ; Sister Eila, Miss Curley ; the Coinitess, Billie
Billings; Gen. DeLisIe, Capt. Eyerman ; Gray,
Ned Hay; Scliuiidt, Stanley Dunne; Hoffman,
Alfred Rabock ; Asticot, Jules Cowles : IVildresse,
Anders Randolf; Esser, L. S. Johnson; Madame
Arlone, Betty Young.
C. S. W., Toronto, Canada — Fanny Ward, we
regret to state, is no longer in her teens. In
fact, documents connected with the theater indi-
cate that she is somewhere around 42. Mar-
guerite Clark has had her thirtieth birthday.
Holbrook Blinn's latest screen work was with
McClure Pictures.
L. B., Crawfordsville, Ind. — "Do you have to
do anything before you become a star ?" Yes,
girlie ; a lotta things, but if we printed them
here there would be such a crop of stars that
the government would have to adopt some means
of eliminating the overproduction — drowning, or
something like that.
S. A. M., San Francisco — The June issue an-
swered your Pauline Frederick; query — satis-
factorily, we hope. She is Zi years old and has
no present intention of visiting your city. Ex-
teriors for "The Slave Market" were taken in
Havana, Cuba. She usually answers her letters.
Ditto Anita Stewart, who is still with Vitagraph.
Little Miss Fixit, Boston — Crossed wires
somewhere. Wm. S. Hart is not married and
never has been. Why just the other day he told
us — but that would be a betrayal of confidence.
Anyhow, accept our assurance that Bill is en-
tirely unincumbered. Someone must have been
kidding your local paper oracle. We concur in
your opinion of Mary Pickford. She's a wonder-
ful child ! Your message duly delivered to Cal
York. Would like to hear from you again.
Jack, Pawtucket, R. L — William Hart is an
inch over six feet and his hair is dark brown.
He was born in 1874.
L. S., Portland, Ore. — Mary Pickford's latest
picture was first named "Jennie, the Unexpected"
and changed before release to "A Romance of
the Redwoods." Her next one is a modern story
with scenes laid in America and wartime Bel-
gium. Douglas Fairbanks, at this writing, is
working on his second .'\rtcraft picture, which is
to bear the name of "A Regular Guy." The
scenes in "Twenty Thousand Leagues," which
are purported to have been taken under water,
were really taken on the ocean floor in the West
Indies.
Tootsie Quizzie, Lowell, Mass. — Richard
Travers' wife's maiden name was Lillian Cattfll.
Creighton Hale has no wife. William Courtleigh,
Jr., was "Neal of the Navy." George Larkin is
about 27 years old.
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Battle of Shiloh. If you don't write again soon
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J. R., KoKOMo, IxD. — David Powell was the
leading man in "Less Than the Dust," and Jack
Dean played opposite his wife, Fanny Ward, in
"Each Pearl a Tear."
Jacqueline, New York City — So we never
say anything about your favorite ? Well, Antonio
Moreno is one of the nicest chaps we ever met, a
good actor and a gentleman. There !
Clutching Hand, St. Johns, Newfoundland
— Winifred Kingston was Sally in "The Call of
the Cumberlands." Grace in "One Million Dol-
lars" was Ch.'irlottc DcFclice. William Clifford
plaved opposite Margaret Gibson in "The Hidden
Law." Kate Bruce was last with Fine Arts.
Cast of "The Clarion": Harrington Surtain.
Carlyle Blackwell : Dr. Surtaine. Howard Hall ;
Esme Elliott, Marion Dentler ; Dr. Mark Elliott.
Chas. Mason ; Norman Hate, George Soule Spen-
cer ; Mili\ Beat, Rosemary Dean; Ma.v Veltinan.
Philip Hahn.
H. A., San Antonio, Tex. — We have the ad-
dress of no Correspondence Club.
J. D., HoRNELL, N. Y. — Nicholas Dunaew is
the name of the Russian actor who played with
Dorothy Kelly in "My Lost One." He is now
in Los Angeles. He is also a writer and poet
and has been in this country about three years.
Mary Alden is still in the movies. Chaplin is
still making pictures for Mutual although his con-
tract has expired. Dorothy West played with
Fairbanks in "The Habit of Happiness. ' Owen
Moore is with Famous, Moreno with Vitagrapli
and Fairbanks with Artcraft.
George, Transcona, Man., Canada. — Charlie
Chaplin went into the movies from the vaudeville
stage. His father was a well known English
comedian, also Charles Chaplin. Billie Ritchie
is with the Fo.x Company in Los Angeles. Fran-
cis Ford and Grace Cunard were never married.
Visitors are allowed daily at the Universal studio.
Universal City, California.
E. M., Davton, Ky. — Send your scenario to
any of the companies in the studio directory.
You're just as liable to sell it one place as an-
other.
Betty, Providence, R. L — Couldn't say for
sure who is Pauline Frederick's, but pretty sure
she is a dressmaker in New York. Clara and
Earl Williams are not even acquainted, to say
nothing of being related.
Reader, Murray, Vt. — Your red cheeks would
photograph black so you aren't so well qualified
for a screen career as you thought. Tom Chat-
terton's right name is Thomas Chatterton Schell.
Write Miss Minter at Santa Barbara, California.
D. M., Marylands, West Australi.\ — Dorothy
Kelly has no children. Aubrey Smith played the
same part in "Daddy Long Legs" in London.
Harry Mestayer, Grace Darmond and Effingham
Pinto played the chief parts in "The House
of a Thousand Candles."
Interested, Grants Pass, Ore. — Wallace
Reid's hair is light brown. How would you like
to see him with a moustache ? Well just be patient.
Forrest Stanley is back on the stage. We have
no record of any "Sapho" except that recently
transferred to the celluloid by Pauline Fred-
erick. Anita Stewart is single.
Mary, Racine, Wis. — Paul Willis was M^y
Allison's brother in "The Promise."
Alma, St. John, N. B. — We haven't solved
the identity of the Silent Menace in "Pearl of
the Army," but shall drop you a line as soon as
we do. Write Theda Bara at Ft. Lee, N. J.
Evadne, West Perth, W. Austalia — Jean
Sothern is now married and living at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas. Write Vivian Martin, care
Lasky, Los Angeles. Ethel Clayton will send
you a photo. She has been with World for
nearly two years.
Charlotte, New York City — Viola Dana's
birthday, June 28; Anita Stewart's, February 17.
Write X'iola, care of Metro ; Gish sisters, Los
Angeles.
\'ioLET, Wellingto.\, New Zealand — Stuart
Holmes did not take the name of Robert Cain
in "The Eternal Grind" because Robert Cain
is an entirely different person than Stuart.
George Fisher was the young German in "Some-
where in France." Edna Flugrath is a sister of
V'iola Dana and Shirley Mason. Shirley, we are
informed, is 16 years old, and \'iola two j'ears her
senior.
J. J., Oakland, Cal. — Blanche Sweet once lived
in Berkeley — when she was in her early teens.
.She played in "Oil and Water." Don't think
Martha Hedman ever played for the screen in
anything except "The Cub."
Mary, Racine, W'is. — "The Whirl of Life" was
not founded on the life of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
Castle.
Leo, Toronto, Canad.\ — What would be a suit-
able present for a motion picture actress? Oh,
any little thing like a touring car or a diamond
necklace would be regarded by the recipient as
an acceptable gift. Rut it all depends on the
size of your pile and the taste of the girl.
LiZETTE, Sedalia, Mo. — Vour query concerning
the matrimonial status of Mr. Bushman has been
answered in e^ery one of the last fifteen issues
of Photoplay. Send $2.25 and each and every
one will be sent to vour address.
G. W., KoKOMo. IxD. — Pearl White's hair is
kinda red. Charlotte Walker was last with Mc-
Clure's.
G. W. B., Detroit, Mich. — Conway Tearle's
wife is not an actress. He is on the stage at
present. Frank ."Xndrews, an architect, was Paul-
ine Frederick's husband. Max Linder is with
Essanay but is not working now owing to bad
health.
Marjorie, Toronto, Canad.\ — "Snow White,"
printed in the February issue of Photopl.^y, was
taken from the film story in which Marguerite
Clark starred. You seem to have selected a
group of players not known to us. Here's "God's
Country and the Woman": Philip IVcyinan. Wil-
liam Duncan ; Josephine Adare, Nell Shipman ;
Arnold Lang, George Holt; John Adare, William
Bainbridge; Miriam Adare. Nell Clark; Jean
Croisset, Edgar Kellar ; Thoreau, George Kunkel.
Clara, Akron, O. — So you thought you'd write
to us because it was raining and there was noth-
ing else to do ? Well, Clara, we feel deeply
honored. Ethel Clayton has no children. Yes,
she is a very charming young person. Julia
Swayne Gordon is with Vitagraph. Weren't you
mistaken about seeing Fatty Arbuckle at Miami.
Florida, last winter ? W^e're sure he was in Los
Angeles all that time.
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H. W., Decatur, III. — Arnold Daly is not a
brother of Hazel Daly of Essanay.
Zaza, Pasadena, Gal. — Frank Mills has been
with a number of companies during the last year
and is now with Fox.
Photoplay Admirer, Newport News, Va. —
Dorothy Gish's birthday is March 11, and Lil-
lian's October 14. This is official.
Stenographer, Indianapolis — Delighted to
meet you. It never was called to our attention
before but Mme. Petrova perhaps wears a wrist
watch with evening dress so she'll be sure and
not miss dinner. Thomas Chattt-rton informs us
that he is not married. We have no record of
Mr. Arvine's whereabouts at the present moment
of time, as Philo Gubb would say. Glad to hear
from you often.
T. B., Eugene, Ore. — The only way to get
autographed photos of your favorites is to write
them direct in care of the company by which
they arc employed. The 25 cents is supposed to
cover the mailing expenses. Don't write a
jilayer that she is your favorite unless she really
is. Most of the players want the truth.
J. E.. Vallejo, Cal. — Comedy ideas are difficult
to sell at long range. Write Chaplin and Sennett,
Los Angeles; Arbuckle, care Paramount, New
York.
Recina, Erie, Pa. — Herbert Rawlinson's wife
is Roberta Arnold of the legitimate stage. Olga
Petrova was born in Warsaw, Poland, and Camille
Astor in Hungary.
George. Buffalo, N. Y. — Yes, college dramatic
experience would be of value in the movii-s.
Ought to help you dodge a few custard pies.
Gwendolyn got married and quit the screen.
Norma Talmadge is now with Selznick.
Mary A., Grand Rapids, Mich. — Henry Wal-
thall has no children. Anna May Walthall, his
sister, is with Essanay in Chicago. Harry Hil-
liard is with Fox.
G. W., Columbus, O. — Your letter has been
turned over to the Bushman Club of Roanoke, so
you'd better beat it quick ! Vivian Martin's hus-
l)and is William, not Joseph, Jefferson, who is
with the Roscoe Arbuckle company.
Bess, Bon Air, Va. — Are Harold Lockwood
and Francis Bushman married, respectively, to
May Allison and Beverly Bayne? Good gracious,
where hast been all these years, or has Bon Air
been cut off from magazinic communication ?
Dana, Norfolk, Va. — Who do we think is the
most popular, Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Reid
or House Peters? Most assuredly we do. We
have always thought so. Yes, Mr. Reid employs
his correct cognomen. Bessie Barriscale has a
young son, not a grown daughter.
Florence, Albion, Cal. — Your wish has been
granted as Earle and Anita are already playing
together again. We aim to please our patrons,
Blanche Sweet, being unemployed, has no leading
man or director, at this time. Marguerite Clark
is not engaged — except by Famous Players.
Write Valeska Suratt, care Fox ; Thomas Meig-
ham, Famous Players ; Charles Ray, Culver City,
California.
EsTELLE, San Antonio, Tex. — We have no_ in-
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The Empire Theatre of
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(Continued from page i^j)
realized the possibilities which lie in sub-
titles after seeing the single-reel picturiza-
tions of George Ade's fables by Essanay.
The experiment proved so successful that
Mr. Griffith suggested that the staff con-
centrate on captions for the Triangle pro-
ductions, which at about that time were
given the name of Fine Arts pictures.
The first of these, "The Lamb," with
Douglas Fairbanks making his screen debut,
carried out the new idea in subtitles and
they proved a sensation. Mr. Woods then
called in Miss Anita Loos to assist in con-
ference with this work and from that time
this brilliant little woman participated in
the subtitling of nearly all the Fine Arts
pictures. Miss Loos also wrote a number
of the Fairbanks film plays and, when that
popular player went out "on his own," he
took Miss Loos along as his scenario and
subtitle writer.
In the preparation of stories for produc-
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followed. Miss Mary H. O'Connor, for
two years scenario editor and herself author
of many successful photoplays, sat at the
right of Mr. Woods, as she did also in the
subtitle conferences. The director also as-
sisted in both conferences and Mr. Woods
frequently attended the rehearsals prior to
each production. It was the Griffith scenario
staff, also, that was first systematically to
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The Girl Outside
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devoted my life to reading and study in
leisure hours, and living much alone i1
had no doubt colored my forms of expres-
sion. "I have kissed several, and if you
take my good behavior too much foi
granted their number may be increased."
She looked at me speculatively for 2
moment, then flushed.
"Such talk is strictly taboo," said she.
"Aren't you ashamed to get flirtatious at
the eleventh hour?"
"I'm not flirtatious," I answered, and
then yielding to a sudden impulse which
had long tempted me. but which my duty
as protector had forbade. I dropped my
hands upon her bare upper arms and held
her in front of me. "Look here, Alice,"
I asked, "will you marry me when we get
back?"
The pupils of her amber eyes dilated
but they looked steadily into mine and
she did not attempt to free herself. Her
face grew rather pale under its soft, ivory
tropic tan. The downy plumage over her
breast rose and fell like the breast of a
captive bird.
"No, mv dear."
"Why not?" I asked.
"For a nmiiber of reasons. It wouldn't
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senior. I lied a little about my age. Be-
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She tilted back her head, looked into my
face and laughed. She was very alluring
when she laughed, with her wide, red-
lipped mouth, short but delicate nose, and
tawny eyes, half-closed and gleaming
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"Not possibly, my dear. If we were
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"Do you think all those things matter
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mv hands. A little ripple ran through
her.
"They do to me," she answered. "You
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don't say that we mightn't get along with-
out for a while, but in time we should
want them again. No, Jack dear, it's not
to be thought of."
"How can I help it?" I muttered.
Looking back I do not believe that even
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thought of her belonging to her piggy
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the ripple ran through her and she seemed
to sway toward me as though drawn by
some invisible force.
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dear?" I asked.
She nodded.
"And do you think that I really love
you?" I asked.
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well, the man and woman of it .
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"What if I were to make a big killing?
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then?"
"Gladly. But that's a big 'if and we
are getting on."
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I asked, "before closing your contract with
the piggy man?"
She appeared to reflect. "Yes," she
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gain. I drew her closer but she put her
hand upon my chest and resisted slightly.
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any risk which might ruin you," she pro-
tested.
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"You have only to keep your compact if
I succeed and declare it null and void if
I fail. In the latter event you needn't be
afraid of my coming around to cry-baby
and declare myself an abandoned bankrupt
for love of you and making things gener-
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let's go back and report the sail."
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prospective deliverance, the news of which
was received with less joyful noise than
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cheery bishop protested that he could easily
have done with another month to complete
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and chuckled.
Enid was less expansive. She seemed
to resume her early inscrutable reserve
and was strangely silent on learning that
our deliverance was at hand. But I noticed
a curious intensity in the expression of her
eyes as they examined Alice and myself.
(To be continued)
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CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1917
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Fairbanks — Pickford — Chaplin.
When Star Meets Star in Los Angeles (Photograph) 22
Mr. Tellegen Greets Mrs. Farrar-Tellegen at the Station.
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Following Mr. Skinner, of Dress-Suit Fame.
She Quit at the Altar 26
Louise Fazenda Got No Nearer Marriage.
Six Years Old, and in the 'Phone Book 27
Such is the Distinction of Wee Kittens Reichert.
She Was the Girl Outside; Noiv She's Inside. 28
Florence Vidor, Who Reached Fame Unnamed.
Galloping Thirty-Seven Miles to See Mary. 30
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The Brilliant Mrs. Fiske's Brilliant Niece. 31
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Ham, Bud and Ethel Teare Don Their War-Ochre.
In a World Gone Mad Randolph Bartlett 32
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Alma Reuben and Some Genuine Kids.
The Mysterious Miss Terry (Fiction) Jameson Fife 35
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The O'Brien of Movieland 45
Eugene, the Leading Man.
Castile, Leon and Tony Julian Johnson 46
And A. Moreno Is Not the Least of These Three.
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But Mr. Reid's Pair of Belles Are Not Dumb, by Any Means.
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The Gas Girl (Fiction) Francis William Sullivan 52
A Brilliant Short Story by the Author of "Glory Road."
Illustrations by Charles D. Mitchell.
Close-Ups By the Editor 61
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Snow Stuff (Photograph) 64
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The Chap the Camera Chased Johnstone Craig 67
Tom Meighan, Whom Destiny Had to Kick into Pictures.
Who's Married to Who 70
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The Man Who Put Fame in Famous Julian Johnson 73
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Some Palaces the Fans Built ( Photographs) 75
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Stars of the Screen and Their Stars in the Sky Ellen Woods 81
A Pair of Interesting Planetary Readings.
Desmond of Dublin Kenneth O'Hara 82
Now, Desmond of Culver City.
The Shadow Stage Julian Johnson 83
A Department of Photoplay Review.
The Girl on the Cover Allen Corliss 92
Jackie Saunders, at Home.
They Can't be Kept Apart (Photograph) 94
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It Should Have Been Different Kenneth MacGaffey 95
A Story about Vivian Martin's Middle Initial.
Heavy Artillery of Church and Stage (Photograph) 98
An Interesting Exposition of Lighting Big Scenes.
A Man of Many Mothers 99
Billie Jacobs, and His Multiple Parentage — in Pictures.
Aladdin's Other Lamp ( Fiction ) Janet Priest 100
The Magic Wrought in a Lovable Girl's Imagination.
The Ince of Ethiopia (Photograph) 107
Dark Clouds in Shadowgraphy.
Plays and Players Cal York 108
Coast-to-Coast News of Actors and Productions.
Paul Is Quite Some Actor 113
Meaning Paul Willis, a Boy Hero of the Screen.
Pearls of Desire Henry C. Rowland 115
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How to Sell a Scenario Leslie T. Peacocke 127
Another Valuable Chapter in an Expert's Advice-Series.
The Long-Lost Lionel 131
The Finding of Lionel Barrymore, a Strayed Star.
The Triangles Doing Their Bit • Vt2
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She's a Rough Gal! 133
Bnt Alice Howell's Is a Nice Sort of Roughness, after all.
Agate Bessie, the Marble Gambolier John Ten Eyck 134
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Making War Forever (Photographs) 136
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.'M-DEN. MARY Mav. 1917
ANDERSON, MARY June, 1917
BARA. THEDA May. 1917
BAYNE, BEVERLY March, 1917
BENNETT, RICHARD April. 1917
BROCKWELL, GLADYS
April, 1917, and June, 1917
BRUNETTE, FRITZI May. 1917
BURTON, CHARLOTTE ...December, 1916
BUSHMAN, FRANCIS X April, 1917
CAPELLANI. ALBERT January, 1917
CARMEN, JEWEL July. 1917
CHAPLIN, CHARLES June, 1917
CHILDERS, NAOMI January, 1917
CLARK, M.\RGUERITE ...December, 1916
CLAYTON, ETHEL April. 1917
COBURN, GLADYS May. 1917
COHAN. GEORGE M March, 1917
CONNELLY, EDWARD June, 1917
CONNELLY, ROBERT February, 1917
COOPER, MIRIAM Julv. 1917
COSTELLO, MAL'RICE January, 1917
CRISP, DONALD January, 1917
DANA, VIOLA February, 1917
DORO, MARIE December, 1916
DREW. S. RANKIN April. 1917
DWAN, ALLAN May. 1917
EMERSON, JOHN November, 1916
FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS
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FAWCETT, GEORGE April. 1917
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GREY, OLGA February, 1917
GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK
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KEENAN, FRANK Mav. 1917
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ANTHONY April,
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LA B.ADIE, FLORENCE December,
LAWRENCE, PAUL November,
LEE, JENNIE April,
LEGUERE. GEORGE May,
LINDER, MAX February,
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LLOYD, FRANK July.
LONG, WALTER July,
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LOSEE, FRANK May,
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POWELL, DAVID June,
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REED, FLORENCE July,
REED, VIVIAN February,
REIIBEN, ALMA April.
RHODES, BILLIE July.
RICH, VIVIAN .December.
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SALS, MARIN March,
SEB.ASTIAN, CHARLES July,
SMITH, C. -A.L'BREY February,
SNYDER, MATT December,
STANDING, HERBERT ...November,
SWEET, BLANCHE July,
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TALMADGE, NORMA February,
TEARE, ETHEL June,
TELLEGEN, LOU Julv,
THEBY, ROSEMARY December,
TURNBULL, HECTOR December,
WALCAMP, MARIE November,
WARDE. FREDERICK January,
WARWICK, ROBERT March,
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CORINNE GRIFFITH
decided early in life to be a Southern girl, and as much Southern as she
could; so she chose New Orleans as her birthplace. Her first photoplay
acting was done for Vitagraph, Western, and from the Los Angeles organ-
ization she came East to play leads for Earle Williams.
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HARRY MILLIARD
emerges serene and uudismayed from monthly eneounlers with the world's
head vampire, and in several instances has made her almost human. Thoufih
hest known as Theda Bara's leading man. he has had <juite a eareer on the
stafie. He was horn in Cineinnali thirty years afjo and is unmarried.
Phot., l.y Caiiiphell Studio
JULIA SANDERSON
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GEORGE WEBB
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MRS. VERNON CASTLE
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ality. and the wife of a celebrated aviator wlio resigned the <laiu'iug crown
of the world to go to war. She is an American girl, and so far is chiefly
known in screenland hv her work in the serial, '"Patria."
I l.v r.,ii,|,l,e|l Sln.li.
WILLIAI^I DAVIDSON
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"EmLy of Stork's Nest." He is a New Yorker, twenty-eight years old.
SYLVIA BKEMKK
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over five feet in height, and she is a regular Aniiette for swimming. Yon
will rcmeniher her with Charlie Bay. in "Tin- T'in<li Hitter."' and in anotlnr
prodiK'lion with \^ illiam S. Ilarl. She i>. a m<'iiil>fr of iho line ('one-.
MARY PICKFORD
— and what else is there to say? Yet. there may be a benighted individual
or two in the world who doesn't know that she was horn in Canada, in
the year 1893, and that she commenced life wearing "Gladys Smith" as a
name, and today she is Mrs. Owen Moore.
THE WORLD'S LEADING MOVING PICTURE PUBLICATION
PHOTOPLAY
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August, 1917
Vol. XII, No. 3
Colonel Kathleen; Some Boy
THEY USED TO CALL HER THE
BEST DRESSED MAN ON THE
AMERICAN STAGE, AND SHE WAS
By K. Owen
SHE'-S a tiny little thing, an inch or so less
than five feet perpendicularly and if she
ever got to weigh a hundred pounds,
she'd start reducing. But for all this,
rather, despite this apparent deficiency, Kath-
leen Clifford is regarded as one of the clev-
erest personalities on the stage. And now
she's made it unanimous by
"going into the
pictures."
Colonel Clifford in
uniform makes one
wonder if after all,
Sherman ivas right.
Stag^ photo
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And she really is en-
titled to thar "Colonel"
title because she is the
honorary colonel of the
180th Royal Canadian
which has been shooting up ^
things and getting shot up
over in Flanders. Miss Clif-
ford is perliaps the only person
not of the nobility who has
ever been so honored.
The little actress sjient
ten weeks as close to tlie
front in Belgium as Rcc
Cross nurses are allowed
to remain, during whicli
period she gave aid to
the woundetl of tlie
Allies. She brought
back many trophies but
she regards with greatest
value a long scar on the
forefinger of her left hand.
It came from a gash made
by a piece of shrapnel
for which she was prob- ^ •
ing with her digit, in .,"*' /
the wounded shoulder /^ '
of a Canadian fighter.
Y'es, Katlileen is (]uite
some nervy little
body.
M i s s Clifford,
w h o s e vaudeville
fame nearly equals
her prominence in the
legitimate stage, is a na
tive of Virginia ; Char-
lottesville, to be explicit
and she got her start on
the stage as the result
of a conversation with
the late Charles
Frohman. She was
fifteen then and had
the good fortune to
be at a dinner given Mr
Frohman. To him she con-
fided her ambition to go on
the stage.
"What can you
asked Mr. Frohman.
"Nothing" was
nonchalant reply.
"But surely yo'u can do
something — sing, dance or
play the piano — whatever
do;
tht
Stagg pholo
Kathleen may be the last word in
correct male attire, but we believe
she wears the /rills and furbelows
of femininity with equal grace.
it is, confide in me."
"Al)solutely nothing," said
Kathleen.
"Well then," re-
marked Mr. I'roh-
man, "you surel\'
ought to try for
t h e stage ;
\' o u have
nothing to
unlearn."
Being pretty,
petite and piquant.
Miss Clifford was engaged
then and tiierc to make her
first appearance in "Top O' the
\\'orld," a Frohman musical
production then in prepara-
tion. When the "part" was
sent to her, Miss Clifford
thought it a catalogue
and destroyed it.
.\nother was sup-
)]ied and she learned
the lines, but could
never speak them in
answer to the "cues."
So it was decided to
let lier romp through
the show at her own
sweet will and when
the opening came, hers
was the biggest name
at tlie top of the list.
And ever since that
time, Mi.ss Clifford's
career lias been one
triumph after another.
Slie was starred in
"Little Dorrit" with
nigby Bell, when the
newspapers of New York
hailed her as an actress
with a future. Then she went
into vaudeville. In this con-
nection, she first ])Ut on
trousers.
Miss Clift'ord writes all her
own stuff, composes
ler songs and does
the words as well.
Her film debut was
\'ery recently made in a
serial " T h e Twisted
Thread" which comes out
regularly under P a t h e
sponsorship.
The Gold
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You could not assemble anywhere else in the world three such youthful persons who are them^elvf^
earrang these enormous incomes. No art, no trade, no invention has produced teir^IncMUke.
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WHEN STAR MEETS STAR IN LOS ANGELES
■ , , ■ Stagg pholn
Mr. Tellcgen, already in California, where he is directing, is an enthusiastic reception committee when
his wife, Geraldine Farrar, arrives to begin her summer work at the Lasky studios.
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On the Job With
Bryant Washburn
By F. 5. Jacobs
JUST how far into his private life Mr. Bryant
Washburn may carry his habits of punctuality,
I do not know, but during those hours of the day
when he is working at the business of being a moving
picture star, he arrives and departs — appears or disap-
pears— makes love or throttles villains with all the
promptness and regularity of a R. R. time card — in fact
the "Twentieth Century Limited" runs Bryant a poor
second. ■
I know this because I followed him through a morn-
ing at the Essanay studios whicli began by my
camping in front of a dressing room door from which
Mr. Washburn was due to emerge at 9.59 to appear
in a scene which was to be "shot" at 10 o'clock.
Promptly on the second Mr. Washburn emerged and rushed
toward the "set" which awaited him.
When I arrived on the floor in the wake of my quarry,
Director Harry Beaumont was diagraming the firi^t shot to
Cameraman Smith. It was to be a full
scene of a beautiful Louis XIV room, the
camera shooting from a point perhaps fif-
teen feet back. Little Hazel Daly, Mr.
Washburn's leading woman, attired girl-
ishly in a dove-colored house gown, was
hurrying across the huge studio to the
scene, tucking in a last stray lock of her
abundant raven-black hair.
Above, a new por-
trait of Mr.
Washburn and,
below, a snapshot
of the Washburn
family outside the
Essanay studio.
Leuis-Sinith
Bryant IV getting
his first training as
a "stunt" actor.
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With his camera stationed just so, his
principals at hand and the myriad of mer-
cury and arc lights showering their daz-
zling brilliance upon the set. Director
Beaumont lost no time in "shooting" the
scene. Perched on top of a short step-lad-
■ der beside the camera, he directed Miss
Daly to the center, ui)stage. Mr. Wash-
burn, attired in cutaway, pearl gray striped
trousers and silk hat, was to enter from
tlie left. He had just inherited $2,000,000
and a Turkish harem you see, according
to the scenario, and brouglit his treas-
ures back to Paris from Constantinople.
Bryant Washburn in action in "Filling His Own Shoes. " Director Beaumont, assistant director
On the Job With Bryant Washburn
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"It is your greeting with Ruth," the director
shouted to the star, "upon your return. Ready:
shoot!" and Mr. Washburn, his famous smile
lighting up his classic features, flung open the
door and rushed into the scene.
"Ruth," he cried — sure, they talk in the
"movies" just as they do on the stage — and
Mr. Washburn
in the title role
of "Skinner's
Dress Suit "
Bainbridge and cameraman Sn.ith can be seen at the right.
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clutched the girl in his arms. I envied
him, for little Miss Daly is one of the most
"clutchable" girls I have ever seen.
It lasted but a second or two — six feet,
as they time such scenes in studio parlance.
With a wa\-e of his megaphone before the
camera's lens, the director halted the
action.
"A close-up now of JMr. Washburn,"
he said, and placed his foot on the position
for the camera, directly in front of his star.
Both Mr. Washburn and Miss Daly held
their positions, and in the single shot^of the
face of the star, his leading woman enacted
her part with as much realism as though
she, too, was before the camera. Then
came a close-up of Ruth, who registered
a return of the affection, and back to the
full scene again.
Rapidly the picture progressed. There
were but few rehearsals of scenes, as each
was "shot" in turn, and never a "retake,"
or second trial. During the brief time I
watched the work, more tlian 200 feet of
film was ground out of its dusty yellow hue
into nei^ative of beauty and action.
"It is the result of study," Mr. Wash-
burn explained, as he gathered up his coat-
tails and seated himself on an upturned
nail keg beside me. No over-zealous stu-
dent, cramming for a ijuiz, does more real
study than do I.
"I was informed by a director from one
of the Coast studios with whom I formerly
was associated for a brief time that I
studied my 'scripts more closely than any
actor he knew.
"Not only does it give me better oppor-
tunity to comprehend my role and prepare
myself for its correct dramatization, but
also it saves time in i^roduction. It make^
rehearsals and retakes unnecessary. Timj
means money in the pictures more, perhaps,
than in any other industry."
"I'^ver since I have been in motion pic-
tures," he told me later, "I have main-
tained a record for never having kept a
studio set waiting on my appearance. I
received my training in punctuality from
the stage, 1 suppose. Vou know the conse-
quences when an actor's belated appearance
(Continued on page 141)
She Quit at the Altar
D ECENTLY
■* ^ Louise Fazen-
da. Keystone come-
dienne, eloped and
v>-as nearly married.
Following is the
way the incident
was related by E.
V. Durling in the
New York Tele-
graph :
Louise Fazenda
is a Keystone come-
dienne, therefore it
is needless to say
that she is brave. She has been married
84 times, that is, before the camera. But
these 84 marriages have not been the usual
beautiful cinema affairs.
No, they have been Keystone weddings.
Instead of old shoes, they have assaulted
the bride and groom with custard pies, the
wedding march has laeen played by the
Keystone band, the honeymoon machine
has dashed into a muddy creek, the floor
above the honeymoon flat has weakened
and a woman weighing 400 pounds has
Witzel Photo
Louise Fazenda.
alighted on the honeymoon breakfast table,
the bridegroom has been a man eight feet
in height and six inclies wide, or a man
six inches in height and eight feet wide.
At the last moment his wife has come and
torn the golden locks of the bride asunder.
Such have been the 84 weddings of Louise
Fazenda.
Therefore is it any wonder that when she
finallv stepped before the altar for her
regular, honest-to-goodness wedding with
Noel Mason Smith, director, that she
weakened at the last moment and left the
groom "waiting at the church?"
There were no pies, tliere was no hose,
there were no Keystone cops. Louise be-
came panickv. she didn't know what to do.
She was afraid anv moment she would do
a Keystone fall, she was afraid Charlie
Murrav. the best man. would suddenly hit
the minister over the head with a gavel,
.she kept turning expectantly to see the
Keystone cops enter the place and drag
her husband-to-be away. So without fur-
ther ado Louise started for the door and
never stopped until she reached home and
mother.
Jt
Six Years
'P ho n e
Old
and in the
Book
In the circle:
Miss Kittens
Reichert — the
dignified star.
Below: Kittens
and a member
of her vast fam-
ily of dolls.
KITTENS Reichert,
the juvenile star
of the William
Fox f(jrces, was born
in Vonkers. Not so
long ago an Enj^lish-
man, on liearing of tlie
place, innocently asked,
"What are \'onkers?"
But that insinuation
worries Kittens not in
the least.
To get back to facts.
Kittens is little Miss
Reichert's really truly, honest-to-
goodness, name and Kittens revels
in it. She was born on March 3,
191], and right now is the only six-
year-old in the United States who has
her own name \n the tele-
phone directory. Kittens says
she likes the movies pretty
well, although there are sev-
eral things she rates higher.
Among these are comic sup-
plements, paper dolls, rag
dolls, sawdust dolls, indeecl,
'most any kind of doll, — and
gum drops. Kittens herself
rather thinks the gum drops
should go first.
Little Miss Reichert made her
film debut with \\'illiam Far-
num, the Fox star, when Bill
was with another company. She
has been prominent in a dozen
or so of the most successful Fox
photodramas.
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One "Bit" in
one picture won
her a place in
the sun.
Stagg Photo
She was
the
"Girl Outside"
now
She's "Inside"
V. Durling
A GENTLEMAN of phil-
osophic tendencies and
poetical inclinations has
•aid something about the
rtowers that waste their sweet-
ness on the desert air, and
tl^.e gems of purest ray
serene the dark unfath-
)med caves of occan'bear.
But that was written in
a graveyard over a hun-
dred years ago. In these
days, when a
live one and a
motion picture
Her name wasn't flashed
on the screen. So a million
people wanted to know it. Hence
this article about Miss Florence Vidor.
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No
director
discover-
ed her.
General
Public
smv her
fust.
"WON'T YOU HOLD MY HAND?"
The scene in "A Tale of Two Cities" that made
Miss Vidor famous.
are born every minute, it is mighty hard for
a flower or gem to remain undiscovered.
D. W. (iriffith discovered Mary Pick-
ford. Mae Marsh. Blanche Sweet, Henry
Walthall and innumerable other screen
celebrities; Mack Sennett first saw possi-
bilities in Charles Chaplin, and Thos. H.
Ince was more or less responsible for bring-
ing W. S. Hart to the front. But if the
little girl who walked to a cinema death
with William Farnum in "A Tale of Two
Cities," with the touchingly simple appeal
on her lips "Won't You Hold My Hand,"
becomes in the future a famous star the
credit of discovery must go to our old
friend General Public.
So unimportant did the producer think
Did you read Elizabeth Peltret's re-
markable article, " The Girl Outside," in
the July PHOTOPLAY? If not. get it
now. Miss Vidor is a splendid example
of the writer's theories on the chances of
breaking into pictures.
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the scene and its feminine portrayer that
he neglected to have the girl's name flashed
on the screen. Yet so effective was her
work, and her personality so magnetic, that
following the initial presentation of "A
Tale of Two Cities," everyone was asking
"Who was the girl in the guillotine cart
with Farnum?"
Her name is Florence Vidor, and she is a
Texas girl born in Houston in 1895. She
has been playing in pictures in a spasmodic
way for nearly two years but never has
taken the work seriously. It seems she
didn't have the pet ambition of .so many
girls — that is to become a motion picture
star. Her first experience was the result of
a little lark. Several girl friends shared
with her the common and natural desire
to see how they appeared to other people,
and in order to find this out they olTcred
their services as "atmosphere" in a ball-
room scene which Rolin .Sturgeon was doing
at the Vitagraph Western Studios.
Miss Vidor evidently attracted some at-
tention at this time, for following this first
experience she was selected for several parts
in Vitagraph plays. She later went to the
Morosco studio and it was at this latter
place she first came under the notice of
Frank Lloyd, who subsequently directed
"A Tale of Two Cities." From the Morosco
studio she went to the Fox Company where
she was in stock when selected by William
Farnum and Mr. Lloyd for the part in
which she .scored her first success.
"No one," says Miss Vidor, "seemed to
see the possibilities in this little part except
Mr. Farnum, and even he did not imagine
it would stand out as it did in a picture of
such length and magnitude. I suppose I
might say I realized its value and saw in it
my great and longed for oi)portunity, but
I didn't. I merely went through tliis scene
as I have many others and I can assure you
I was greatly surprised the day after the
first showing when I received so many
congratulations."
Following her success in "A Tale of Two
Cities," Miss Vidor was given a much
longer part in tlie next William Farnum
picture "American Methexls," and she more
than justified this selection.
This girls' career will undoubtedly be
followed by her discoverer General Public
with mucli interest, and she starts out with
those most necessary assets, a face which
photographs in a remarkable manner and
an appealing screen personality.
Galloping 37 Miles to See Mary
"VV/HEN you hurry around the corner of an evening to visit the neighborhood movie
** house, you think you're an enthusiastic film fan. But what about the Nebraska
folk who saddle a horse — or a trusty Ford — and gallop twenty-five miles or more to see
Charlie Chaplin? Mullen, Neb., is a place of lOS.inhabi-
Bj^^^^l tants in a sparsely settled district but it draws an average
^^^^^ attendance of 120, patrons coming as far as 37 miles.
Manager John J. Motl. village druggist and theater man-
ager, boasts that Mullen is "the smallest town in the
United States to show Mary Pickford produc-
tions." Indeed, Mr. Motl's most valued
keepsake is a little letter from Mary her-
self.
How many miles do you go to see
pictures? This interesting photo-
graph was a voluntary contribu-
tion; let's have yours.
The Brilliant Mrs.
Emily Stevens:
a portrait by
White; in the
circle. Miss
Stevens in "The
Wheel of the
Law. "
F i 5 k e s
Brilliant
Niece
FEW short
years ago
Emily Stevens
was known as a niece
of Mrs. Minnie Mad-
dern Fiske. She was
looked upon as promis-
ing— and so on. She
the Fiske mannerisms,
they said, the brittle staccato
enunciation, the nervous
movements, the sensitive eyes,
the twitcliings of the Fiske
mouth. If she could forget her
relationship, they said, well,
perhaps —
Miss Stevens reached genuine star-
dom two years ago in "The Un-
ciiastened 'Woman."
In the past year Miss
Stevens did a number of
-Metro photoplay.s. among
tliem "Destiny,"
"Cora" a n d
' T h e
A\'auer."
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"Grease Paint
Row"
(Apologies to Charles E. Van Loan-
Check Follows)
"Ham."
" A LL ready," shouts the director, "wliere in thunder are Ham and Bud?"
/^ But Ham is donning his fierce mustache. Bud is trying to make a bruise over one
eye look as though it isn't, and pretty Ethel Teare is donning a tomato-proof gown.
Ham is a movie alias for Lloyd Vernon Hamilton who, before acquiring a subtle comedy
In a World Gone Mad
By Randolph Bartlett
I SA^\' a new magazine on tlie news-stand. I was weary of stories of war,
blood and revolution. The magazine had a clieerful, yellow cover and I
bought it, even though it cost thirty-five cents, because its cover looked like
a spring flower. But opening it at random the first sentence I saw was,
"There was a salty pester of fever in the air." And I threw the magazine into
the next rubbish can. I was looking for a little joy.
A man took the seat next to me on the top of the bus. The May sun was
shining, and the man was round, and well-fed. and comfortable looking. I
drew his attention to a wonderful bed of crimson tulips in the front yard of a
beautiful home. He said the whole yard ought to be ploughed up and planted
in potatoes, because we were going to have a famine pretty soon. I moved to
another seat. I was looking for a little joy.
A friend invited me to dine with him at his dub. The last time I went
\Yith him we had a pheasant and vintage wine. When we sat down at the
table he told me that the members had decided it was wrong to sj)end money
on expensive foods at such a time, and so they had simplified the l)ill of fare.
I asked him if the members gave all they saved in this way to the Belgian
Babies. He said he hadn't asked, and ordered a pot roast. I said I guessed I
wasn't hungry, and left him to eat his pot roast. I was looking for a little joy.
I wandered out and half 'aimlessly strolled into a movie show. It wasn't
a very good show, and the story of the picture was as old as the hills. But
there was nothing in it about war, or famine, or revolution, and when it was
ended everyone lived happily ever after. Even if it was as old as the hills, it
was also as old as the laughter of children and lovers.
At last I had found a little joy.
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Ethel Teare.
■•Bud.-
^npfnf 7 ^ "'"''■.^'^^■'"'^.P'^. "^'"^"P' "^^'^ '° 1^'^^y '" "Monsieur Beaucaire," "The Pris-
soner of Zenda and kindred of the rougher dramas. And Albert Edward Duncan fBud^
went to Berkeley M.htary School in New York in order to be a soldTer But just at thai
tune he reached four feet eleven and stopped growing. ^"luier. uut just at that
"Eye-Dropping"— The New Pastime
"QH, mamma, that man with the red
hair has just asked that girl with the
freckles to marry him !"
The attention of everyone was divided
l)etween a little l)()y and a startled young
couple at the other end of the car.
"Hush. Algernon!" remonstrated the
child's mother.
"I seen her say slie'd do it when he gets
raised to twenty-five per," continued the
precocious Algernon, a student of the
movies and lip reading.
"Eye dropping" has become a popular
pastime. It started when movie fans begaji
to get a thrill at observing their idols
mouth the word.s, "Stop." "Don't," "Help,"
and so on. In the old days the players
faked any sort of repartee.
Those good old days have passed. Real
lines are spoken in most of the studios these
days. Indeed, scenarios now provide the
neces.sary lines for the actors. Nothing is
left to chance. At the same time, continual
attendance at the movies has given the
fans a remarkable .skill at lip reading. They
can decipher almost anything a player re-
marks within range of the camera. The
"eye dropper" has come to utilize his skill
in public, particularly in the subway,
elevated and street cars, where the speakers,
in pitching their voices to be heard above
the noise, mouth their words carefully.
Ask anyone. Shopgirls say it's a first
aid against mashers. A giddy
young
rounder tries to attract the attention of two
pretty girls. He flashes his near diamond
ring, adjusts his necktie and smiles
pleasantly. About this time Alazie turns to
Tessie and says:
"Dearie, where did you get that blue silk?
It's a wonderful match. Who is that poor
prune over there trying to S. O. S. us? See
him? As I was saying, that's a wonderful
match."
And Tessie replies. "Isn't it, dearie. I
get him. If he doesn't beat a retreat, I'll
have the cop on the next corner interne
him. Oh, I was to a grand dance with
Tim last night — "
The (i. Y. R., being an "eye dropper."
blushes and gets off the street car at the
next corner.
The attention to realism in studio
dialogue these days is, in many instances,
amazing. "Bad Man" William S. Hart
says tliat every bit of dialogue in his plays
is carefully rehearsed before the camera
begins grinding. "I insist that the spoken
lines are the real thing, indeed, that they
are as real as every detail of the setting.
"Personally, I couldn't get any feeling
into my work otherwi.se. I could never
work up to a dramatic climax if I talked
to my leading woman about the weather.
I don't see how an actor can ad lib anything
at all in a scene and get away with it. The
voice is a vital part of human expression — -
even in the movies."
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WOULD YOU CALL THIS A SHEEPISH LOOK?
But perhaps Alma Rueben isn't cuddling sheep. Perhaps she has been out getting goats. If so, Khose
goats are they?
34
Here's a fascinating story about a theft that
was, and a theft that might have been; of burg-
ling for plunder, and burgling for a purpose.
The Mysterious
Miss
Terry
"It was done so easily,'
said Miss Terry, noncha
lantly starting her break
fast.
By Jameson Fife
O'
^FFICER TIMOTHY O'REGAN,
on post at 7— d Street and River-
side Drive, gazed dreamilv at the
night haze of lights along the Hudson.
Spring was in the air and even a policeman
feels its eifects.
Perhaps that is why he failed to note
the passing of a dilapidated cab. As the
battered vehicle, 1895 model, passed a
street lamp, its single occupant started and
drew back into its shadows.
But the flash of light caught the profile
of a young woman. A piquant profile it
was, one that Officer O'Regan would have
deeply regretted missing — had he known.
But who would look for romance in a
broken down cab in 1917 A. D.? Charm-
ing femininity travels in a Rolls-Royce
these days.
Witliin the cab, the young woman
intently watched the oblivious police officer.
She hurriedly pulled a veil down over her
face as the cab drew up to the curb and
stepped out. "Wait here," she instructed
the cabby, and walked rapidly through the
gate of the high fence surrounding a fash-
ionable residence.
From the house came the sound of voices.
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The young woman stepped back into the case. She stepped to a wall safe, skillfully
shadow of the hedge and half crouched to opened it and took out a jewel case and a
avoid being seen. A basement door opened, roll of money. As she stood counting, a
the light from within almost reaching along door slammed heavily downstairs. The
the path to the feet of the mysterious girl started and hastily pulled down her
visitor. Two maids emerged, laughing and veil. She slammed the suit case shut, hesi-
talking. A young man, who had been tated for the fraction of a second and then
standing smoking a cigarette close beside ran into an adjoining bathroom. She
the entrance, joined them. They started closed the door quickly, crossed the floor
down the walk, as the butler opened the and, opening a door on the opposite side,
front door above. He came part way down disappeared into another room,
the steps and called to the giggling maids. Up the stairs hurried the breathless but-
"Remember, girls," he admonished. "No ler. Turning into the street a moment
more .staying out till morning, even though before, he had noticed the flash of light in
the folks are away." the upstairs bedroom. Astonished, he had
The girls laughingly jtromised and Inirried back. Now upon reaching the
passed the figure lurking in the shadows ujjper hall, he pau.sed and braced himself.
of the hedge. The butler ..t^ttt^ Ti/ivc''T-T7DT/-»TTc n/rroc 'lien he entered with as-
, , J ^ ,° , L 1 THE MYSTERIOUS MISS , , , ,
looked at his watch, slow- TERRY" sumed boldness.
ly climbed the steps and k jarraTED, bv permirsion. '^'^^ ^0°™' ^^^^^ lighted,
entered the house. The IN from Tlu- ' Famous Players' ^^as empty, of course,
mysterious voung woman i)Iiotodrama of the same name. The butler's horrified eye
stepped from the shadows. whicli has been produced with the noted the gowns tossed
But only for a second. following cast: ^1^^^ j ^.-j^ ^, ^jj-essing
„, -' , Miss Mavis 1 crr\ . Billie Burke ,, , , ,, r
1 he upper door opened a Gorrfo;; '/Vhc. . .Thomas Meighan table and the wall safe
second time and the in- Freddie BoUen Walter Hiers still open. "Bli' me!
truder had just time to -[ohn QmiV/. .... .Gerald O. Smith Thieves," exclaimed the
dodge back into the shad- •^^''- '^^""-^'^""^q q^',; ' '^^ 'iy •■.w butler, looking considera-
ows as the butler, now Clara "PeiinVqukk^%ti%\t LeTrn bly shaken,
wearing his hat, descend- He started a cautious
ed the steps. The girl leaned breathlessly search of tlie room. But he searched too
against the hedge as he passed by. slowly. A trim figure, carrying- a suit case.
Finally she gave a little sigh of relief. glided rapidly along the hall, down the
stepped once more from her hiding place stairs and out the front door, taking good
and ran up the steps. Producing a latchkey. care to close it softlv.
she quickly opened the door and entered A moment later she reached the cab and
the hall. She gazed about the entrance for dropped the suit case inside. She climbed
a moment, listened intently and then as- in and the ramshackle vehicle passed
cended the steps. Officer O' Regan for the second time. And
Reaching the second floor, the young for a second time he allowed romance-
woman felt her Avay along the wall and and possibly ])romotion for astuteness in
entered a bedroom. There was no hesita- criminal detection — to pass him by.
tion in her movements. She flashed on an Back in the silent residence, the agitated
electric light, gazed about the room for a butler was trying to get police headquar-
second and, turning to a wardrobe, secured ters. "Let me 'ave the police, miss," he
a suit case. She tossed this on the bed, was shouting, his usual poise melted into
selected three gowns from hangers, and thin air. "The police! We've been
then picked out a number of things from robbed — "
the dressing table. * * -'•-' * * * *
The young woman pushed back her veil Another street corner. Once again the
as she worked. Her face was quite un- cab. Once again the occupant alighted,
burglar-esque. A retrousse nose, charming She paid the cabman and started along the
lips, willful strands of reddish golden hair sidewalk with her suit case.
— these were not the indications of the As the cabby di.sappeared, the girl re-
usual crook. traced her steps and turned a corner. A
A smile flashed across her lips as she few steps brought her to a brownstone
tossed a monogrammed mirror into the suit front, one house of a long row boasting a
The Mysterious Miss Terry
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highly ornamental sign bearing this magic
word, "Boarding." The girl ran up the
steps and entered.
Just inside the door she met Mrs. Han-
nah Jenkins, the worthy landlady of the
establishment, who had been glancing over
the mail on a small vestibule table. The
young woman spoke to her pleasantly and
started upstairs.
"I hate to mention this to you," said
Mrs. Jenkins, "but you know your board
is a day overdue, Miss Terry."
"Oh, yes," smiled the mysterious Miss
Terry. "I received my remittance today,
so I'll settle this evening."
The landlady's frigidness melted. Miss
Terry turned and ascended the steps with
her suit case.' As she turned on the upper
landing, she caught a glimpse of Mrs.
Jenkins gazing after her, puzzled and not a
little doubtful. Miss Terry smiled as she
entered her small bedroom.
The dining room of the Maison Jenkins
■was considerably agitated next morning in
discussing the daring and spectacular rob-
bery of the fashionable Went worth resi-
dence, just off Riverside Drive.
"Some robbery," the heftv Freddie
Bollen, salesman at the Pennyquick Hard-
ware Store, was remarking.
"Vou said it," replied Jack Quig, des-
tined to preside half an hour later at
the silk counter of the Wanacooper depart-
ment store.
But the thoughts of Messrs. Bollen and
Quig were not centered in the theft. They
revolved about a vacant place at the foot
of the table. Nor were these two gentle-
men the only persons absorbed in the
empty chair. Gordon True, a handsome
young writer interested in socialism, started
expectantly every time a person entered the
room.
At last his vigil was rewarded. Miss
Terry appeared. She was a charming
figure in smart shirt waist and a piquantly
.short skirt. Quig and True jumped to
their feet to welcome the truant, but the
fat Bollen caught her attention first.
Bollen leaned over impressively close to
Miss Terry's refractory golden hair. "I've
got that position for you as cashier at the
store," he whispered, "and you're to start
this morning."
The young woman thanked him grate-
fully and then slipped into her place at
■the table. Bollen dropped into his chair.
disdaining the glares of True and Quig.
Further down the table the elderly
Henry Smith turned to his wife and re-
marked, "A right smart young girl that
Miss Terry." I'hen he ventured the query,
"Did you notice her trim little boots, my
dear?"
Mr. Smith's better half looked at Miss
Terry with a frigid expression. ' "Don't
let me hear you making any such fool re-
marks again, Henry, unless you want us to
move away from here after eight years of
quietness."
"Yes, my dear," hurriedly vouchsafed .
Mr. Smith. But a few seconds later, when
Mrs. Smith was talking to the waitress, he
ventured a smile to Miss Terry.
"Another house on the Drive robbed last
.night," said True to the young woman.
Miss Terry looked interested at once and
True showed her his newspaper. Miss
Terry glanced over the article and smiled.
"What do you s'je humorous in a rob-
bery?" asked True in surprise.
"It was done so easily." said the young
woman, nonchalantly starting her breakfast.
After breakfast, Bollen waited to escort
Miss Terry to his place of employment,
much to the discomfiture of Quig and
True. Once at the store it required but
a moment or two of introduction and cjues-
tioning before the young woman was in-
stalled within the cashier's wire enclosure.
Once there she glanced about the store.
Then she noticed, for the first time, a
young woman clerk. Her womanly intui-
tion told her in a second that this girl
was in love with the fat young Bollen. But
Bollen, it was clear, was not responding to
her love. "Thanks, Clara," was the reward
he gave the girl when she put a little pansy
in his buttonhole. "Poor Clara," sighed
Miss Terry, opening her cash entrv books.
The mysterious Miss Terry would have
added "Poor Gordon True" had she been
able to see the young writer's bedroom back
at Mrs. Jenkins' boarding house.
True was sitting at a table littered with
papers and socialistic books. The young
chap seemed preoccupied. He gazed into
space and at intervals unconsciously scrib-
bled on a pad, "Mavis Terry." The sum-
mer breeze from an open window blew a
sheet or two of his novel, "The Idle Rich,"
from the table now and then, but he hardly
noticed it. Suddenly, however, he started
to his feet and gathered up the bits of
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Mavis Terry seemed to
find it difficult to sup-
press a smile, but she
wrapped a small iron
into an amazingly awk-
ward bundle and handed
it to True.
manuscript as if a
happy thought had
occurred to him.
"What do they have
at a hardware store
that could be used as
■ a paperweight?" he asked himself.
A moment later he had seized his hat and
was leaping down the Jenkins stairway,
three steps at a time.
Reaching the Pennyquick Hardware
Store, Mr. True entered boldly, although
he made a mental note that his heart was
beating with considerably expectancy.
Once within he came face to face with
Bollen. Nodding coldly, he passed bv and
hurried to the cashier's desk.
Mavis Terry looked a bit surprised but
she spoke pleasantly. "Have you — a — any
— a flat iron?" asked True. The pretty
cashier slipped from her stool and stepped
to another counter.
"May I ask for what kind of iron-
ing it is to be used?" she inquired.
"For — a — er — paper weight. I — ah —
always use one for a paper weight."
Mavis Terry gave him a quick glance,
and seemed to find it just a little difficult
The Mysterious Miss Terry.
39
to suppress a smile. But she wrapped up
a small iron into an amazingly awkward
bundle and handed it to True. As the
young writer was drawing his wallet from
a pocket, he started at seeing Quig enter
the store. The department store clerk, it
may be told, had obtained special permis-
sion to go out for a few moments to buy
a new pair of scissors. His own had mys-
teriously disappeared.
Quig breezed up to True, nodded and
turned pleasantly to Mavis. "I'd like a
pair of scissors — lost mine this morning,"
he said.
True walked coldly away. From a
nearby counter, Bollen glared witheringly
at the would-be-purchaser of a pair of
scissors.
Mavis smiled. She reached across the
counter and removed a pair of scissors at
that moment protruding just a bit from
Quig's vest pocket — the alleged missing
pair.
She quickly wrapped up Quig's own
scissors and lianded them back. "I'm sure'
this pair is just the one you want," she
laughed.
Quig looked sheepish. As he was trying
to think of something to say, Bollen walked
up to the counter. "If you are ready to
go, Miss Terry, I'll show you where that
little lunchroom is," he said with an in-
timacy assumed for the moment to dazzle
the discomfited Quig.
"In a moment, Mr. Bollen," said Mavis.
"Goodbye, Mr. Quig." And she hurried
into the back of the store to get her hat.
"Can I do anything for you, Quig," said
Bollen unpleasantly. Quig hastily replied
in the negative and disappeared.
On leaving the store. Mavis and Bollen
passed Clara. Mavis noticed the look of
silent pain in the young clerk's eyes. "I'll
have to be first aid to Cupid," she remarked
to herself.
^^'eeks passed. True, Bollen, Quig and
the charming Mavis became good pals.
They occasionally celebrated on a summer
night with an ice cream party. The re-
freshments were always smuggled into the
Ijoarding house to avoid the watchful
Jenkins eye. Mrs. Jenkins did not permit
such "goings on."
One particularly warm June night was
selected for an ice cream soiree. The four
revelers gathered in True's room. As
•usual, the only difficulties of the evening
arose over who would venture into Mrs.
Jenkins pantry to appropriate the dishes.
Not that the revelers wholly feared the
landlady's anger. No one wanted to leave
a rival with the fascinating Mavis.
This time, however, it fell to Quig and
Bollen to form the dish expedition, which,
of course, left True to aid Mavis.
They cleared the table silently. Mavis
picked up True's little flatiron paper weight
with a smile. Then their eyes met. Had
Quig and Bollen caught that glance their
feelings would have dropped to zero. It
was quite plain that love was entering the
heart of the mysterious Miss Terry
True seized Mavis's hand. "You have
helped me so much with my book," he said
fervently. I can never thank you enough."
Suddenly a terrific crash came from
down stairs. Ill had befallen the Quig-
Bollen expedition. Then the shrill voice
of Mrs. Jenkins was heard. Quig burst
breathessly upon the startled -True and
Mavis.
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"She's laying out poor l^oUen for fair."
he whispered.
A door slammed below and Bollen, car-
rying the remains of a teacup, appeared,
])allid and shaky. They cheered up the
unhappy Bollen, made the best of the single
cup and talked of many things.
True read from his manuscript. "Do
you know," said Mavis, "no one tiling,
such as wealth, any certain occupation, or
achievement, can make
anyone happy."
"Oh, I don't know," interrupted Quig.
"I'd be perfectly happy if I could go into
swell society just to see the people."
The fat Bollen spoke up. "If I could
be a cowboy," he sighed, "I'd never care
what else ha])pcned."
True looked into Mavis's blue eyes. "If
my book was published perhaps I'd never
a.sk for another thing."
But Mavis shook her head at them all.
"Yes, you've got me right, I
guess, " she replied, holding out
her wrists for the handcuffs.
The Mysterious Miss Terry
41
A few days later, on a Sunday afternoon,
* Quig and Bollen took Mavis for a bus ride.
True was absent, but Mavis was happier
than if he had gone. Snuggled within the
pink ribbons of her waist was a note which
read:
"My Dear Mavis:
"Have decided to stay in and write this
afternoon. You know how I'd love Jo
spend the time with you, but I have such
a .great motive urging me on. I just must
succeed. Will see you at dinner.
"Ever yours.
"Gordon True."
Up on the Fifth Avenue bus, Bollen oc-
cupied a seat all by himself. Mavis and
Quig sat directly behind. Needless to say,
Bollen observed little of the passing avenue.
"Anyone that writes like True is all the-
ory," he was confiding to Mavis. "No
good in an emergency. True wouldn't do
a thing in a scrap."
But Mavis quickfy came to the writer's
defense. "You misjudge Mr. True," she
replied. "Let's put it to the test. I'll have
him over to the store with me Thursday
night — and you two break in and try to
rob the safe. I'll fix it so that you can
get in."
Both Quig and Bollen fell in enthusi-
astically with the hoax. They longed to
play the hero for Mavis and possibly knock
True from his pedestal. As they talked
and laughed they did not notice the occu-
pant of the seat just behind.
Seemingly this gentleman, who wore his
derby at a rakish tilt, overheard nothing.
But "Bat" O'Brien, for that was his name
in polite police circles, was listening care-
fully and thinking rapidly. "Bat" usually
traveled by bus. It saved him from the
annoyance of being questioned by inquisi-
tive coppers and plain clothes men. The
guardians of the law confined their atten-
tions almost entirely to subway, elevated
and surface cars.
When Mavis and her admirers descended
from the bus, "Bat" dropped oft" behind
them. Later on he entered Flannagan's
Third Avenue Cafe. He singled out a
pal among the loungers who hailed him.
The two lolled nonchalantly against the
bar. "Got anything on for Thursday
night?" questioned "Bat" genially.
The other shook his bullet shaped head.
"Meet me here at 8 o'clock ; we're going
to clean up good," confided the crook.
"It's a shame to take the money."
Thursday evening came quickly. Mavis
had asked True to accompany her to the
hardware store while she worked on her
accounts. In the deserted store the young
woman took her place at the cashier's desk,
not, however, until ^he had, unknown to
True, unlocked a rear window to facilitate
the make-believe holdup. True stood be-
side Mavis, quite satisfied with the pleasant
task of watching her even if he must remain
silent.
"Remember that I must work on the
books," she had admonished when he tried
to take her hand.
Back at the Jenkins boarding house
Quig and Bollen were making ready for
their part in the hoax. Now and then the
fat Bollen rehearsed "Hands up!" in his
fiercest manner, while (,)uig would almost
collapse with laughter. Finally they pre-
pared their old clothes and masks satis-
factorily, wrapped the crook attire in a
package and started out.
But already two gentlemen, attired in
far more realistic old clothing and masks,
were standing in the dark alley just back
of the hardware establishment. No ama-
teur crooks, indeed, for one of them ex-
amined his revolver with a calculating eye.
Then they slipped the window open noise-
lessly and "Bat" O'Brien stepped inside.
Engrossed in watching the movements
of Mavis's lips as she counted column after
column of figures, True did not at first
hear the movements in the back of the
store. But suddenly he motioned Mavis
to keep still and tiptoed toward the rear
of the place.
Mavis laughed quietly and called to
True that she had heard no noise. True
returned to her side half doubtfully just
as a masked man burst into the room. The
burglar attempted to seize the surprised
writer, but quickly found he had his
liands full.
Mavis leaned against the cashier's desk
laughing heartily in the belief that Quig
and Bollen were destined to get the worst
of their hoax. True fought strenuously
and managed to get a strong hold upon the
intruder.
The other burglar pointed his revolver
and fired. True staggered and fell.
Mavis for tlie first time realized that some-
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thing was; wrong. She leaped towards the
gunman and tore the mask from his face.
The man, no other than "Bat" O'Brien,
cursed and tried to hit her with his gun.
Mavis screamed. "Bat" paused for a
second and, fearing the noise had attracted
the attention of the police, ran towards the
back of the store, followed by his pal. The
two crooks leaped through the window and
disappeared in the darkness of the alley.
Back in the store Mavis felt that she
must faint. Only, the sight of True, lying
upon the floor, a spot of crimson upon his
shirt, kept her from falling. She dropped
to her knees by his side and lifted his head.
Then with her little lace handkerchief she
tried to stop the flow of blood.
Crashes reverberated through the de-
serted store. Tile street lights revealed
two patrolmen with drawn revolvers ham-
mering at the front door. Mavis ran to
the door and opened it. Incoherently and
almost hysterically she tried to tell the
officers of the hoax and its results.
At that moment a crash came from the
back of the store. Quig and BoUen,
niuflled, masked and brandishing revolvers,
hurst into the room and paused in amaze-
ment. Within a second, the patrolmen had
made them prisoners. One of the officers
jerked the masks from their faces.
"Here are the two birds, miss," said the
patrolman. "They're new at the game all
right."
"Miss Terry," begged the fat Bollen,
"tell them all about it." Then seeing the
half-unconscious True for the first time he
exclaimed, "Great Scott ! What's hap-
pened?"
"Poor stuff — poor stuff," commented the
policeman, giving Bollen an emphatic
shake.
"Have a heart," pleaded Quig. "Give
me a chance to tell you, if I get thrown
in jail I'll lose my job at Wanacooper's."
"These boys didn't do it," explained
Mavis. "Honestly, two real burglars came
from somewhere, I don't know how."
It took some time to explain things to
the officers. Later a search of the alley
revealed the mask Mavis had torn from
"Bat's" face.
True was removed in a taxi to the
Jenkins boarding house after a doctor had
examined him. The wound was painful
but not serious. In her own room once more,
Mavis opened the jewel case she had taken
from the Wadsworth residence. She held
up the diamonds and pearls and considered
the play of the electric light upon the
stones. Then she exclaimed, "I'll do it!"
Next morning she crept down into the
lower hall and telephoned, rapidly and im-
periously. Then she hurried upstairs to
True's bedroom, quietly secured the manu-
script of his novel and hurriedly left the
boarding house. Two blocks away she ap-
proached an expensive limousine which was
drawn up to the curb. A liveried footman
hastily stepped to the walk at her approach
and held the door open while she stepped
inside.
"Drive to 16 ^^'all Street," were her
instructions.
Reaching the downtown destination,
Mavis emerged from the car. She was
wearing a ditferent hat and expensive furs.
The footman touched his hat but looked
puzzled. As she disappeared in the office
building, he glanced up to the driver.
"Damned queer, that,'' he said under his
breath.
Mavis was (juickly ushered into .the
private office of D. F. Howland, president
of a big corporation and a financial mag-
nate of importance on the street. Mr. How-
land had started with surprise on receiving
her card and the look of amazement was
still on his face when she entered.
Springing to his feet, he exclaimed.
"Well. Miss Went worth, this is a surprise.
1 understood you were cruising in the Gulf
of Mexico with the MacFarlands."
Mavis smiled and shook her head.
"No," she answered, "I've been robbing
safes, having men shot, and the New York
police are now hunting me for robbing my
own house."
"What!" e.xclaimed Mr. Howland, as h,.'
dropped into a chair dumfounded.
In a few words Mavis \\'entworth — alias
Terry — outlined her adventures. "You
see, society bored me to death, so 1 decided
to see the other side of life. But auntie
mustn't know yet. At the boarding house I
am known as Miss Terry."
"You have a most interesting way of
spending your millions," chuckled Mr.
Howland, "board and room at seven dol-
lars a week and working in a hardware
store."
"That's just what I wanted to talk to
you about," laughed Mavis. "To prove to
these three boys that money does not make
The Mysterious Miss Terry
43
happiness, I wish you to be a dead friend
of Mr. Quig's father, who has left him a
thousand dollars; a publisher who is wild
over Mr. True's unfinished book; and a
business man whose wife has lost her
jewels, for which you will give Mr. Bollen
eight hundred dollars on his finding them."
Mr. Howland finally consented to be the
fairy godfather of the Jenkins boarding
house. "Outside of being dead, losing
jewels I never had, and buying books that
aren't written, I'm a
very happy man."
"By the wav,"
continued M a v i s,
"When you go to
your private estate
you will need Mr.
True for your sec-
retary at a large
.salary."
M r. Howlan
looked at tlie
young woman \\ith
a considering eve.
"Oh, I will? Thi
fellow 'i'rue seems
quite a fortunate — "
"He's wou'ler-
ful," broke in
Mavis. "He Ikis
brown hair and
eyes that thrill
you."
Later the same day Bollen, while clear-
ing oft" his counter at the Pennyquick hard-
ware store, discovered a jewel case, care-
fully slipped under a pile of goods by
.Mavis. Ne.xt day he found an advertise-
ment in a newspaper offering $800.00, no
iiuestions asked, for the return of the lost
jewels. .\t the address. 16 Wall street, one
Howland gladly paid eight cri.sp hundred
dollar bills for the return of his wife's lost
jewels.
.\t practically the same moment Quig
opened a letter and was dumfounded to
qualifications for a private secretary."
laughed Howland. "However I'll carry
out your instructions to the letter."
Mavis returned in the limousine to a
street near the boarding house. When
she emerged from the car she was dressi-d
as when she fir.st entered it. The footman
touched his liat and the car was driven
away.
^iavis hastened to True's room. "Look.
behold! A thou.sand dollar advance on
your book — the publisher thinks it is w<m-
derful," she exclaimed, waving a check.
'"S-j "It was brave of
you, dear, "she whis-
pered, "and — I love
you for it. "
tind an imposing looking legal paper and
a check within. Leaping up the stairs, two
at a time, Quig broke in upon True and
-Mavis.
"I've got it," he exclaimed breathles.sly.
"A dead friend of father's has left me 'a
thousand dollars."
"Now, Mr. Quig," said Mavis, "vou
can luiy fine clothes and go into society."'
_ "I'd be the happiest man in the world
•i I could only meet a real society lady like
—like — Mavis Wentworth, the rage of ]a.st
season."
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"Maybe you have met her and didn't
know," laughed Mavis.
"Oh, no," replied Quig. "You always
know real society folk when you meet them
— they're so different from us."
"I'm glad you're not a society girl," said
True to Mavis, "just one of the real women
of the earth." Quig had hardly departed
when Bollen burst into the room.
"The strangest thing has happened," he
exclaimed. "She — she said yes — I'm going
to be married."
"You're not going to be a cowboy?"
asked Mavis.
"No, why do you know Clara loved me
all the time. I'm not going West," said
Bollen. "My happiness was right there in
that store all the time and I didn't know it.
And, say, do you know that I got eight hun-
dred dollars reward for finding a woman's
jewels. Someday! Someday.' I'm going
to iind out how to buy a house with those
eight hundred bones." And away dashed
Bollen.
True moved restlessly in his chair. He
tossed the thousand dollar check over upon
his writing table. "I'm going to start right
in upon my story now," he told Mavis.
The young woman paused in the door-
way. "Money isn't everything after all,"
she said, half to herself.
Several weeks later Mavis went to visit
True, now a secretary at Howland's country
house. He took her througli the estate.
"It must be wonderful to be idle and
rich," sighed Mavis, feigning wcnder at
the things she saw.
"Idle — rich — Mr. Howland does more
work in twenty-four hours than a day
laborer does in 124." At which Mavis
laughed strangely.
"If we work hard and save," she whis-
pered, "Some day we might have a little
home in the country." True smiled and
tenderly kissed her hand.
Mavis returned to the city. A business
errand brought True on a later train.
Meanwhile the police, still working on the
robbery of the Wentworth home, had traced
their clue to the Jenkins boarding house. A
search of Mavis' room had revealed the sup-
posedly stolen things.
Mavis was arrested as she entered the
boarding house. Realizing that the mas-
querade had reached an end, she assumed
an air of guilt. "\'es, you've got me right,
I guess," she replied, holding out her hands
for the detectives' handcuffs.
"We'll take her over to the Wentworth
house and have these things she's wearing
identified before locking her up," said one
of the sleuths.
So Mavis was forcibly taken home.
"We've got the burglar," the chief de-
tective told Mrs. Avery, Miss Wentworth's
aunt.
"I'd like to see this terrible creature,"
she remarked. The detectives led Mavis
before her.
Mrs. Avery started. "Why, she's my
niece. Mavis Wentworth!" she exclaimed.
"Remove tlio.se liandcuffs at once."
True meanwhile liad stopped at the
boarding house. The i)lace was in a whirl
of excitement over the arrest. Mrs. Jen-
kins told the young writer that Mavis had
been taken to the Wentworth home in
order that the stolen property might be
identified
"It isn't true, they sha'n't take her,"
True fairly shouted. Jumping into a taxi,
he raced to the Wentworth residence.
There he dashed past the startled butler
and burst into the room.
The astonished detectives were at the
moment listening to Mavis Wentworth's
story of her escapade. True pushed the
detectives aside.
"She didn't steal them," he announced.
"I'm — I'm the thief! Don't believe her,
she's trying to shield me."
Everyone turned in amazement and then
a shout of laughter rang out. True fell
into a chair, his face in his hands. But
Mavis dropped upon her knees beside him
and put her arms about his shoulders.
"It was brave of you, dear," she whis-
pered, "and — and — I love you for it."
No Added Film Tax
Congress failed to pass the proposed
clause taxing motion picture films that was
a part of the war revenue bill. Producers
declared that passage of the tax would
have meant the closing of hundreds of
motion picture theaters.
The Prize Small Tootsies
The smallest feet in the films are said
to belong to two of the David Horsley
stars. Claire Alexander, the comedienne
seen with George Ovev, wears a No. 13
child's size shoe, and Jean Crosby, Crane
Wilbur's leading lady, wears a No. 1.
The O'Brien of
Movieland
WOULD you rather be a doctor in a
Rocky Mountain mining town or
an actor playing opposite Norma
Talmadge? Don't all answer at once.
What? We rather thought you'd say that.
Eugene O'Brien was born in Colorado
and studied medicine. But Gene soon
decided to throw his prescription pad
away and scL^k the white way. His
stage debut was made in a
vaudeville sketch and later
le appeared with
Irene
Eugene O'Brien with Norma Talmadge in scenes
from "Poppy. "
Bentley. Then Elsie Janis, still in her
early 'teens, discovered him and offered
a role in "The Little Duchess." And
following this his rise on the legitimate
stage was rapid. He first appeared in
pictures with the World Film in "The
Moonstone." Pmgagements with Clara
Kimball Young, Olga Petrova and Edna
Mavo followed, and then a brief return
to the stage. Recently Mr. O'Brien came
back to screenland to play opposite Norma
Talmadge in "Poppy."
If you ask Eugene what he thinks of
pictures, he responds, "The mistake I made
was in not entering years ago."
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Castile,
Leon and
Tony
THERE are three historic tradi-
tions that can't be killed:
The glory of Greece ;
The grandeur of Rome;
The glitter of Spain.
True, Castile and Leon are mighty
names in history, but what care the
debutantes for history? And it is
the debutante who, in her supreme
insouciance, rules what part of tlie
world isn't fighting today.
"We make magazines for
Plioto by
Hartsook
Above: a recent portrait of
Mr. Moreno—at the left in
the character which he por-
trayed in "Dust of Egypt"
and in the center he is
shown in his racing car.
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her, and shoot advertise-
ments at her, and love her,
and hate her, and build
homes for her, and wreck
homes over her, and can't
forget her whicliever way
we go or whatever we do.
So Destiny — which, as
we have indicated, i- the
providence caring for
children, fools, drunken
men and the traditions gI
Greece, Rome and Spain
— saw that Castile and
Leon, glorious as they
were, were not enough
. . . and added Ton}'.
If you must have the
complete name • Senor
Antonio Garrido Monte-
guado Moreno.
Having done this,
Destiny knew full v/ell
that no damsel need know
any more of history than
a chorus girl knows of
Herbert Spencer to form
a perfectly overwhelming
attachment for S[iain.
I've seen a good many
Spaniards iu my time —
brought up with 'em, iu
fact — but I beheld no
cavaliers until I met Tony.
The Spaniards I've seen :
sallow, fat or cadaverous,
listless or ugly, were more
like livery stable nobil-
itv tlian wortliy desi-cn-
dants of Philip and
Isabella.
Some one once wrote
of Caruso that his voice
was a magic looking-
glass : that through it
were marching the legions
of Caesar and the volup-
tuous glories of Antony ;
the' defeat of Hannibal
and the grandeur of the
Augustan age.
Emma Calve said of
herself: "I am the bloom
of the century-plant. .\,
hundred years my jieasant
forefathers have struggled
and sacrificed and died in
obscurity that I might be
wonderful."
After which crashing
As a dare-devil hero Tony not only acts but looks the part.
Castile; Leon and Tony
49
overture I find it difficult to say just what
I want to say about Tony Moreno. You
probably think I'm speaking a piece or
presiding as a toastmaster at Tony's
seventy-sixth birthday or something.
As a matter of simple, comparative state-
ment, Antonio Moreno is a perfect embodi-
ment of every external attribute that was
Spain's in its most eiTulgent day. Born of
gentle parents he reflects gentility un-
consciously. Lithe, active, of medium
height, statuesque in figure, of that perfect
olive complexion which is a Spanish tradi-
tion and is so seldom seen on the faces of
Spaniards, crisp and clean of speech, finely
educated, he is a more traditional Spanish
nobleman than any Hapsburg that lives. In
fact, he would be very nifty 'in a king's job
of opening things, and making dedications,
and pinning little ribbons on the soldiers,
but nature cut him out for a brgger task : he
has the inconceivably onerous duty of keep-
ing the American debutante interested in'
Spain — she who thinks that Castile is a
soap, and Leon a dog !
A. G. M. Moreno was born in Madrid,
twenty-nine years ago come next fall.
"And of Madrid," he says, "I don't
remember very much, because we went to
live near Gibraltar. The English soldiers
were there, and although I was only a little
boy, I became intensely interested in the
English language, and tried to learn it,
although I didn't make very much progress.
But there I began to love the sea. We had
very little rain, and all day the sun shone
down dazzingly on the blue water of the
Mediterranean, v/hile beyond the straits lay
a mysterious yellow continent ; .\frica.
"My principal interest in coming to
America was a study of the English lan-
guage. I landed in New York in the latter
part of 1902. First I attended a school
conducted by Catholic Sisters, and then I
spent a year in the New York public
schools."
Then, for young Mr. Moreno, followed
several years in Williston Seminary at
Northampton. Mass. He didn't know what
he was going to be. His mother devoutly
desired him to be a priest. He had thought
of everything from diplomacy to finance—
and had thousrht not at all, or if at all, in
no serious fashion, of the thing he was going
to do : act.
There came a summer stock companv to
Northampton, and owing to a piece calling
for an overwhelming cast, the limited roster
of organization was exhausted, and still the
leading man's role was unfilled. Moreno,
who had acted in some college productions,'
got the chance to fill it, just as a lark.
But in the audience which saw him play
was an official of the Shubert theatrical
company of New York, on vacation. This
man carried the news of a find back to the
metropolis, and presently Moreno was in
Mrs. Leslie Carter's company, playing a
part in "Du Barry." J f y 6
He then played in "Thais," with
Constance Collier and Tyrone Power.
Wilton Lackaye's production, "The
Right to Happiness," gave him further
opportunity.
He played in vaudeville with Beatrice
Ingraham.
■rwo productions by that sterling actor,
^^iJ'iam Hawtrey, gave him poise, experi-
ence, invaluable training.
He hung the scalp of one musical comedy
upon his belt : '"The Man From Cook's."
He himself was a stock star, with "The
Manhattan Players."
He created a role in the New York pro-
duction of Chapin's farce, "C. O. D.," in
the late autumn of 1912. Another role in
that play was brought into being by Charlie
Murray.
It is generally supposed that his picture
service has been confined to Vitagraph. As
a matter of fact, Vitagraph made him a
picture celebrity; so much so that almost
everyone has forgotten that he was a star
of the old Rex company. In his first
photoplay he supported Marion Leonard,
and the title of the piece was : "The Voice
of Millions."
He went to the Vitagraph stock company
in 1914, and played conspicuous leading
roles in pieces like "The Island of Regen-
eration," "Dust of Egypt," "A Price for
Folly," "Kennedy Square," and "Aladdin
From Broadway."
Now, he has signed with Pathe, and will
be Mrs. Castles' leading man in her new
plays.
We were sitting at a heavy brown table
in the merry though monastic grill of The
Lamb.s, the New York club of actors and
writers which is probably the most illus-
trious association of its kind in the world.
"Ever been in love?" I asked.
Tony's smile faded a bit, and he nodded,
gravely.
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"Ever been married?"
"Not on your life !"
"Were you hard hit?"
"No !" And he laughed in a way that
told me the waters of forgetfulness had
washed any burning memory away.
"Well, are you going to be married?"
"I don't want to say 'y^^/ ^^'^ ^ don't
want to say 'no.' Probably I shall be. I
think I ought to marry. I think anyone
ought to marr\', eventually. To me there
is only one thing more wretched then an old
maid: an old man who has done nothing
for the world's future and nothing for its
present, except to pamper himself and look
after his own comfort. .An old person who
has lived always for himself or herself must
have a lot of very cold memories, seems to
me. I haven't married, because I want to
bring a wife into an established career. I
think a wife should be the crown of a
career, and not put precarious! v on
a career's beginning. I know many a man
says he 'owes all his success to his wife,'
and all that. But not me. I'm going to
make my place, and then — well. I haven't
picked her out yet, so if you've any can-
didates ... !"
"How about you and Edith Storey?"
"Wasn't that singular !" Moreno's inter-
est was racing at fever heat. "By jingo, I
think I would have married her if we had
stayed together any longer ! Everybody
dinned this thing into our ears, week in and
week out, after hours and in hours. We
got hypnotised by it. It had no foundation
other than we were a pair of real pals, and
that she was the best fellow to work with
I ever saw among women. God, how I
liked that girl ! And she liked me, I think !
At least I hope she did. You know the
rarest thing in the world is a real friendship
between a man and woman, and that was
the situation of Edith Storey and me. You
couUhi't call it love at any stage. She was
my pal — and at that, I think the associa-
tion would have made us man and wife !
Now, she's going her way, and I'm going
mine . . . no."
Antonio (iarrido M(mteguado Moreno
was very definite on that point.
He has a si)lendid new Stutz.
It's summer-time.
And there are wonderful roads through
Long Island.
A Cynic's Glossary
Star : A heavenly body.
Producer: Any man who can be induced
to produce money.
Extra People: Any crowd, the mdividual
members of which are nothing extra.
Film : A transparent material ; in view of
the fact that it may be burned readily,
and in so many cases should be, it is
surprising how seldom it is.
Plot : More transparent material.
Character Actor: A man who can make
himself look unlike a human being but is
not ashamed of it.
Comedy : A picture in which all the actors
laugh.
Tragedy : A picture in which the audience
wishes all the actors had died before they
began.
Scenario: A story told in sentences so
short that they can be understood by a
director.
you
See
Director: .\ man with two remarks: "It
was a bum story, but look what I did
with it." and "Well, what could
expect with a bum story like that?"
also Czar.
Camera: Final proof that machinery
will never rebel under abuse.
Organ : Recently a practically obsolete
musical instrument ; revived for use in
movie theatres because it is capable of
producing the greatest volume of sound
with the least pain to the audience and
the least cost to the proprietor.
Orchestra : A body of men working on
the theorv that if the violin is off key the
audience may not notice how bad the
picture is.
Censors : Old women of both sexes who
are convinced that anything they cannot
understand must be immoral. Hence the
great number of eliminations they order.
WALLY EXERCISES WITH
BELL(E)5
r\r ,1 Photo by St.igg
Of course they re not the ''dumb" kind, but all hands will concede that they are some belles On
the right of the smiling Mr Reid is Eileen Percy, D. Fairbanks' leading lady; and on his left arm
Miss Anita Loos, Mr. Fairbanks' high-salaried authoress.
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A hundred and fifty dollars
for that trip and we hadn't
even got the car! I told Daff
to forget the whole idea.
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her mind to do so.ething-Fate an'd mankind S'j u^L^'el? stZ/rslL^aTdTet ^ '?o 7.
By Francis William Sullivan
Illustrations by Charles D. Mitchell
THE morning the old bean sprouted
■the idea, I recognized my meal
ticket. At first the hunch looked
like inspiration, but I soon found that it
was perspiration ; and there are two people
who will bear me out in this. Daphne Gail,
the director's delight, and little Rollo, the
press agent's pest. I am the press agent.
Well, about this idea. Mandel was
really at the bottom of it. xMandel is the
Big Chief of the National Films, the lad
who has a stateroom on the De Luxe con-
stantly running empty between Los Angeles
and Chicago for fear he may want to use it.
Well, Mandel said to me:
"Lew, you signed up here as a press
agent with ideas. When do vou begin to
deliver?" Just like that. You see, this
was the point. Here we were with a per-
fectly good film plant near Los Angeles,
and a half dozen female stars whose dailv
mail was breaking down the carrier before
his time. And yet, as far as enjoying any
wide or arresting publicity was concerned,
they were cold in death — all of them. And
I was expected to make them household
words.
Well, the morning after Mandel's deli-
cate work, when I braked my tin lizzie at
the studio, who should come driving up
but Daphne Gail bringing our principal
female attraction to work.
Right there something happened — the
idea sprouted.
A couple of hours later I sent for her to
come to my office, a palatial six by eight
apartment in dressing-room row. one of
those rooms where if you get swell-headed
you wreck the building.
"Well, how's the old health?" I asked
her.
"Grand, Lew ! How soon do you begin
working for a living?"
She looked all she said she felt. She's
not^ a howling beauty, Daff isn't, but
she s good neck exercise. Her eyes are gray
and level, and her face is fresh and smooth
enough to take a close-up if these vest
makers would ever give her one. The top
of her brown head comes about to my shoul-
der— and I'm no Prussian guard— and she
runs to slim curves.
"Feel like a little bus ride?" I asked her.
"Where to and why?" she asked cau-
tiously.
"To New York and alone — the whole
route.
_"For the everlasting glory of them that
hire you, your own and mine." She didn't
sag or buckle, but stood right up to it.
"It's the chance of your lifetime, oppor-
tunity knocking at your door. With this
whole studio to choose from I've picked on
you — "
"You sure have, Lew."
"And if you go through with it, it means
a big name and a raise. If not interested
kindly close the door gently as vou o-q
out/' ^ "
\\'ell, in the end she fell for it, and I
wandered up to tell Mandel all that I was
going to do for his company.
"Boob," he said when I had finished.
"We're not interested in comedies."
"AVell cut this one then," I told him and
began again at the beginning.
The anteroom was full of movie mag-
nates, two cloak-makers, an old clo' man,
and the Junk King but they had to wait.
Finally, to get a chance at the day's work,
the Chief yelled :
"All right, then, do your stunt ! But I'm
not for it. You can have a hundred and
fifty dollars toward expenses and no more.
Now get out !"
A hundred and fifty dollars for that trip
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and we hadn't even got the car ! I told
Daff to forget the whole idea.
"Not on your static !" she said, and regis-
tered undying determination. "Lew, you
committed this thing, and the boss has
o. k.'d it, so now it's root hog or die. Vou
get out and rustle."
His master's voice ! But then, just as I
was getting some action blah.' in comes little
Rollo and pokes liis walking stick right
among the tlclicate working
parts.
Roland Howe, I'll give
him his name for once, was
one of the reasons why
anarchists make bombs in
their spare time. He had
nothing in particular to do,
he was so rich it bothered
him like flannels in May,
and he was nuts over Daff.
And when he heard about
this little jaunt of hers he
came into my office like the
January rains.
"Look here," he said,
"are you trying to commit
murder? You're crazy to
send Daff on a trip like
that. I won't permit it."
"Where do you get that
stuff?" I asked' him.
"I put it up to Daft", and
she said go, so we're going.
The National Nectarine
leaves here to girdle the
continent two weeks from
next Friday."
Rollo has .shiney blond
hair cut so he could comb it \
from his alleged brow right
down his neck in one lick.
He had pink cheeks and
blue eyes, and if it hadn't
been him, he might have
been good looking, because
he had a square and jutting
chin. Now he risked his life by sticking
this at me over my typewriter.
"All right," he said, kind of gritty.
"We'll see about this. If I can't make
vou listen to reason. I'll make Miss
Gail."
"If you were what I don't think you are,"
I told him, kind of gritty myself, "you'd
get behind this thing instead of sagging on
it. It'll make Daff."
"I don't want to make her, I want to
marry her," he said.
"Well, you go sleep that off," I told him.
The poor nut !
Daft" looked pretty I)lue the next two or
tliree days, and I knew he was putting on
ihc screws, but I didn't say anything. I
was too busy, hypnotizing the , California
automobile industry. In eight days I had
everything donated from the car to the
Daff unlimbered her gat and pointed it straight
chain of service stations across the conti-
nent. And then introduced Daff to her
l)cnzine bronc where it stood all bright and
shining in the salesroom.
"Oh, Lew !" she cried, all excited, and
her eyes were .shining. "I'll go. I will! I
don't care what anybody saw."
"Is that the real lay?" I asked her, "or
can Rollo wreck it?"
"Till death do us part," she said, placing
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55
her hand on the right front tire of the
shiney bus, and I felt as if I'd married her
to trouble and ought to turn mv collar
around till it buttoned in tlie back.'
Well after that things went along fine
till the day before the start. Maybe you
don't know it, but Los Angeles will cele-
brate anything. Sport Shirt week or Loquat
day, or anything — So I didn't have much
trouble fixing things for a parade and a
the place where Rollo ivas hungriest.
baud and a general municipal uproar. And
that morning I called Daff into my office
and put the fear of God in her.
"Vou go through ^\ ith this thing or never
come back," I said. "If you succeed we're
both made ; if you don't we might as well
jump into the iirst large body o'f water we
come to. No excuses, no wails, no welch-
ing. Drive your teakettle into the Atlantic
01 disappear."
"All right. If I flivver you will know
where to look for me." That remark
nad two edges, for I knew darn well she
would marry Rollo any minute, and that he
always offered a way out. I let well enou-rh
alone. °
At eight o'clock next morning, with me
lu the seat beside her, Uaff backed her
rear tires into the ocean at Long Beach and
started.
You'd hardly have known
her today. She was radiant
and cool and nifty-looking as
a peach on a tree. She was
dressed in khaki; Norfolk
jacket and knickers, puttees,
and boots but no skirt, but
young Howe wasn't there to
see her off, and I could tell
she felt it.
"Did Rollo tell you good-
bye?" I asked her.
"No, I haven't seen him
since the day I said I was
going."
"I'm glad he knew enough
to stay away and not gum up
an otherwise festive occasion."
"Yes, but I don't under-
stand it. There must be some-
thing behind his acting this
way." And then quickly,
"Good-bye, Lew, they're
ready."
They were; there was a pis-
tol shot, the snarl of her
motor, and she was diminish-
ing down the perspective amid
what tlie papers termed hearty
cheers. She was gone, and for
a minute I felt pretty raw.
Suppose something did happen
to her : Then I made myself
think of something pleasant,
such a^. for instance, Rollo's
grouch. If I'd only known
then what he was up to !
'I'hat night a telegram came from Daff.
"Arrived Needles, Cal. Everything O. K.
302 Miles."
I was proud of her. She was driving-
the .southern route and had gone througii
Sail Bernardino, the Cajon Pass, Barstow
and to the Rio Grande. And she had
sampled the desert already. Of course, all
our service stations were looking for her,
and stood ready to do anything, but just
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the same, was that travelling for a celluloid
sister, or wasn't it?
The next night came a wire from \\'ins-
low :
"Cracked both front rims. Mended by
blacksmith. Going ou. Have new ones
waiting for me at Albucjueniue."
I wired the necessary instructions and
then waited.
Meanwhile, we were beginning to net a
little newspaper footage due to columns of
harrowing adventures I wrote based on
Daff's ten word wires. It went big, awful
big, especially when the Associated Press
began to pick up the stuff and syndicate it.
And of course every mention of her neces-
sarily dragged in the name of the National
Films, which annoyed me very, very much.
"Is this the fruit of the hop, or is it
real?" I asked Mandel, flapping down a
hale of clippings on his desk.
"Well," he had to admit it a minute.
"You're there or thereabouts, Lew. But
have a good time while you can, she'll
never go through with it !"
The poor carp !
And then I lost Daflf. . . .
She should have been in Albuquerque to
get her new rims the fourth day. but noth-
ing came from her. I paged her by wire all
over central New Mexico but I couldn't
raise a whisper. And I told myself that the
desert had got her. I knew something
about that country. The road is a track
through sand and dobe clay and sage brush,
and while you're fighting a duel with a
cactus on one side, a large juicy yucca
comes up and stabs you in the back. On
all sides are flat- topped mesas, or jagged
mountain ranges in a couple of dozen col-
ors, and it's just loose with sunlight and
heat and dust. Oh, I know the layout ; I
chased galloping rib roasts there for eight
months once on the Bar J.
Well, that's where Daff was, and sending
no word for two days ; while I entertained
the newspaper death-w-atch in my office.
'Then the morning of the third day came a
night letter dated from Gallup.
"Lost road and into ciuicksand. Tried
* thirty-six hours to dig out. Fainted. Res-
cued by prospector going on from here to
Albuquerque. Make Mandel let you go
ahead of me. I need you. Daff."
I've been glad in my time, but never as
at that moment. I bowed in the death-
watch, handed out photographs and cigars.
and then showed them the telegram. Daff's
desert adventure crowded the Kaiser's lick-
ing off the first page for twenty-four hours.
Then I went to see Mandel, and that even-
ing 1 turned my work over to my assistant,
a disillusioned scenario writer with a self-
starting imagination, and after wiring Daft"
to expect me at Albuquerque, hopped on
the train. Tlie next evening I blew in there
and on the way to the hotel desk passed the
dining room door. There sat Daft" and
Rollo at (liimer together! You see there
was a piece of the chapter missing tliat I
didn't get hep to till later. But I'll tell
\ou now what had happened.
\\'hen Daff got into Gallup after her
desert adventure she went straight to the
telegraph office and wired me. Then she
headed for the hotel, and in tlie door-way
ran straight into Rollo who looked as if he
had lost about fifteen pounds and most of
his tail feathers.
"Well, Daff!" he gasped, and stared like
a noodle.
"What on earth are you doing here?" she
asked him, and 1 guess she didn't sound all
flattered and honored and glad like he
ihouglit slie would.
"Well I heard the company wouldn't
give you an advance agent so I decided I'd
be your advance agent myself. I've been
following you in my roadster since you
started but lost you, so I came here on
the hope of hearing something. Now
haven't you had enough of this? The whole
thing is insane, the work of a publicity-mad
lunatic who's hypnotized you. I did every-
thing I could to make you give up this
trip, but you wouldn't listen, and now look
at you — half dead. W^ell, you're going to
listen now. You know I love you Daff, and
you don't have to do this. Give it up !"
After all she'd been through Daff was
feeling kind of weak and sorry for herself,
I guess, and this big bum certainly did look
good to lean on. But give it up ! Even I
didn't know what fighting words those were
to her.
"You're mv advance agent?" she said.
"Yes if vou insist on this idiocv, but
Daff—"
"Then where are my new riins?"
"What new rims?"
"The ones I wired for." She omitted to
mention that they were probably waiting at
Albuquerque. "I start at dawn tomorrow
and I want 'em on the car then."
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"But .1 don't know about any rims."
''Then get some. That's why you're here,
isn't it? — not as a social treat. And lay
otif Lew Brent; he didn't make me do this,
I did it myself."
Daff says RoUo's jaw stuck out like the
front of a ferry boat.
"All right," he growled, "but you'll get
enough of this nonsense after awhile, and
when you do, you'll always hnd me waiting
for you."
"Not if my rims and things aren't ready,"
she told him. "I'll send you home and get
another advance man." And then she
walked up to the desk and got a room.
He trailed her to Albuquerque, and that's
how I found them there when I blew in.
You'd better believe Daff looked good to
me, but Rollo was about as welcome as
snake-bite, and I guess I showed it.
"After wiring you I met Mr. Howe,"
Daff told me politely, and gave me a synop-
sis of events. The real happenings 1 got
later. "Roland has oft'ered to be my ad-
vance agent," she wound up. smiling on
both of us. He was all lit up in a tux, be-
cause his man followed him around on
trains with baggage, while I looked like
something the cat had dragged in.
"That's very nice," I said, "but I don't
think you will need two advance agents,
Daff." For a minute he sat motionless with
half closed eyes, kind of stupid-looking like
a bull dozing under a tree. Then he said :
"I'm glad Brant's come Daff, I didn't
come out here to be your advance agent in
the first place. I came to make vou quit
this nonsense, and if you wouldn't do that,
to look after you, and I'm going to do it."
Daff beamed on us both like a little
round sun.
"With you two to take care of me, noth-
ing can happen now," she said. It was the
most neutral piece of work since the Presi-
dent's Proclamation. But it didn't sell me
anything. Where Rollo is concerned I'm
about as neutral as the English.
"If you bother us or monkev with this
trip," I told him outside. "I'll 'just natur-
ally bust you open and then print vou in
the papers, so you watch your step."
All the same when Daff started from
Albuquerque his baggage was all strapped
and four men were putting the final touches
on the large, red, road pimple of his. And
we hadn't been in Trinidad, Colorado, one
hour when up he rolled. From then on he
made it his life work to look after Daff
and protect her from my cruelties and out-
rages. I began to feel kind of brotherlv
towards Simon Legree, and Catherine the
(ireat, and the Kaiser, and ordered all mv
meat red.
II
That was the lay from Trinidad on — the
mfernal triangle. But little Rollo didn't
cost me much sleep ; I had too much else to
tlunk about. If the class will open their
large geographies they will find that we are
going north and east. Our route now lay
through Kansas by way of Dodge City and
Emporia to Kansas City, and it was far
from easy sailing for Daft".
Time and again she was lost. Once she
spent the night in a hay stack, and once in
a farmhouse. She didn't get regular sleep
or meals, and sometimes she had to work
for hours over that ready rattler of hers.
And all this showed. ' Her gray eyes be-
■ gan to get bigger and bigger, and she
shucked around in her clothes. But did she
wail? Not once. But Rollo did. He
• keened steadily from Trinidad on. He
bought her things she didn't need, and had
doctors see her, and begged her to marry
Ihm and annoyed her generally.
And when she refused he began to get
sulky. You see he'd always had everything
his own way, and he couldn't stand not get-
ting it now.
But after Daff left Kansas City and
headed for St. Louis, conditions got even
worse. If .Missouri hasn't done anvthing else
for the nation, it has succeeded in making
walking a pleasure, and it was here, under
such conditions, and with me on ahead, that
things played into Rollo's hands.
Daff had left Sedalia about noon and
was trying to make her ne.xt service station
that night. It was boiling hot after two or
three davs of rain, so crops was good, by
heck, ^^•ell. Daff's old teakettle had its
tongue out about sundown and was all gone
in the lungs. It coughed along till she was
about thirty-eight miles from anywhere,
and then called it a day. It was a glorious
sunset on the plains. The mellow golden
light rested gently on the fields of standing
grain that extended in every direction to
the horizon, and all the rest of that junk.
And Daft" rested gently in the middle of
all that loose beauty and couldn't budcje.
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/ grabbed her up out oj her scat and carried her
She was hungry and stiff and banged all two hours enjoying the sunset, when she
over, and there was nothing in sight but heard a long toot and along came Rollo
evening. Well, she got out her kit and be- bounding from furrow to furrow down the
gan to tinker. She had been there about road. This was his idea of takmg care of
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ashore high and dry amid a murderous fire.
Daff Avhile she traveled— chasing her. He
pulled up along side and she told him what
had happened.
"Poor kid,' he said. "This is a fine life
for you ! Forget it now. tonight. Hop in
with me and I'll take you to the next town
where we can send back for the skiff."
Well it looked awful good to her, I guess.
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It was the worst place she'd been in since
that desert stuff, and she could hardly lift
a finger. But Daff could see farther ahead
than her. radiator cap — much.
"No," she said, "1 can't do that."
"Well, then let me tow you in."
"I can't do that either."
"In heaven's name, why not? If some
hick came along here with a team you'd
let him tow you in, wouldn't you?"
"No. I've got to drive every inch of the
way, and I'm going to do it. But 1
wouldn't let you help me anyhow, because
you're following me just for that purpose."
Rollo bit his cigar in two and looked over
the engine.
"Scrap!" he said. "Now look here, Daff,
this isn't being game, it's just being
foolish."
"All right," she said "then I'll be foolish.
And now please go away and leave me. I'll
go to some farm house to sleep."
"I wont leave you."
■ "You've got to. This trip alone is bad
enough for a girl without you hanging
around after sundown."
"Then you've got to come to the next
town with me. I mean this !" he said.
"You don't know what you may get into if
you go to some strange farm out here. Once
of that was enough. And besides, it's so
dark you couldn't find a house now witliout
a dividing rod."
"I won't go!" she cried, flaring up at
last. "And if you say anything more or
stay here any longer, I'll never speak to
you again. I hate you !"
For a minute Rollo didn't say anything.
Then came close to her.
"All right, we'll see about this." he
growled. "I've stood all this idiotic non-
sense I'm going to, and I'll end it right
here. Now, young lady, I'm going back to
the next town and get a constable and have
you arrested on any charge I can think up.
A\'ill vou come with me or wont vou?"
"NO."
"Very well." He got into his car.
turned it around, and began chamoising
back to the next village.
Daff sat down on the beautiful prairie
and howled. Then after a little she remem-
bered what was going to happen. The vil-
lage was only about five miles back and
she knew it wouldn't take Rollo long. She
looked at her old chariot and all her anger
came up in one rush.
"Damn you!" she yelled, and heaved the
wrench she had in her hand square in the
middle of the works.
Then in hopeless despair she got in and
stepped on the starter. Rattle-ty-bang !
Over she went, and in a minute Daft" was
oft". You see, chosen words at the right
time will do anything.
I often like to think of tlie hours Rollo
spent explaining to the constable.
Ill
Well, wlien I heard how Daff had stood
by me that time, I figured that Rollo's
goose was grilled to a glossy black cinder.
But no. He joined on again, and we made
the safari like before ; myself advance
guard. Daft" main body, and Rollo shirt
tail. But I tried to express my apprecia-
tion to Daft", and bought her the biggest
brooch I could safely crowd into the ex-
])ense account. After St. Louis the roads
were a little better to IndianaiJolis, and
Daft" was able to keep pretty well to the
schedule I iiad arranged.
But, as you can imagine, all this didn't
make any hit with Rollo. As a matter of
fact, the farther Daft" went, the madder he
got. It was plain as a pikestaff now, that
this racket of his wasn't just concern for
Daff's welfare any more ; it had settled it-
self into a test between him and me. Any-
how, that's the way I felt after fighting
along that route for about six weeks. If 1
pulled Daff through to New York he was
done for. If she failed Rollo won. And
without saying anything to each other Rollo
and I grew to have a kind of tacit agree-
ment to that effect.
Then one evening when things were nip
and tuck every way from the ace. circum-
stances gave Rollo another great big chance.
We had been working along at a pretty
good pace through Ohio, heading towards
Pittsburg through Columbus and Wheeling.
And all the way in a riot of press stuff be-
cause tliere was hardlv a day when some-
thing didn't happen to Daff. Once her car
caught on fire and she put it out with dirt,
and another time she missed wrecking the
Pennsylvania Limited by four inches. Oh,
her life was just one debauch of sinful idle-
ness and ennui. Well, this evening I speak
of. Daff had crossed into Pennsylvania and
was trying to reach Washington to lay over.
(Continued on page l6^)
CLOSE-UPS
EDITORIAL EXPRESSION AND TIMELY COMMENT
The
Beautiful
Slackers.
IN the Denver Times of May 11, J. Warren Kerrigan is
quoted as follows: "I am not going to war until I have
to. I will go, of course, if my country needs me, but I
think that first they should take the great mass of men
who aren't good for anything else, or are good only for the
lower grades of work. Actors, musicians, great writers
artists of every kind-isn't it a pity when people are sacrificed who are
capable of such things— of adding to the beauty of the world?"
We hope that Mr. Kerrigan has been misquoted.
The war in Europe has been made glorious by the exploits of such men
as Lord Dunsany, Maurice Renaud, Alan Seeger, Guy Standing, Vernon
Castle, and our less-known tango bird, " Wally" McCutcheon, who went to
war from Chicago; a professional dancer enlisting as a private, today a
Major in the British Army, wearing decorations pinned on him by the
heads of two nations.
The villains and the character men are in the ofiicers' training camps
right now, and we fear that our slackly beautiful heroes are to be quite
lonely.
Stars Wanted
in Comedy.
DEVELOPMENTS of the winter and spring have proved
distinctly that the star's the thing in comedy, as in
feature drama.
Star comics like Roscoe Arbuckle— excluding the
world-beating Chaplin from this list as a matter of
fairness— have taken practically all the comedy receipts.
It IS perhaps not justice to put Arbuckle in a class head, either, for he too
stands alone.
It is predicted that this tendency will give stellar comedians an absolute
monopoly of shadow laughter in six months' time.
Sunshine and
Lamp.
MOTION picture photography has resolved itself into
two great schools of lighting.
One school believes that sunlight is supreme, and
that the rays of the king of the heavens surpass every
contrivance for lighting effect, either of interior or exte-
rior nature, that can be devised. The other school
insists that electricity is sunshine in a handy package, and charms its sensi-
tive plates with lamps instead of morning. The electric folk call the day-
light devotees archaic, while the sun-worshippers dub the lamp workers
artificial.
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While perhaps neither has thought himself the captain of any particular
vogue of illumination, D. W. Griffith may be called lord of the sun cult,
while Cecil DeMille is the grand master of Klieges and mercury vapor.
Both these men have developed their systems to points of technical
perfection almost unbelievable. Griffith never wrote a truer word than
that terming "Intolerance" a "sun-play," since to make it he harnessed Los
Angeles sunshine as the dynamo engineers harnessed Niagara Falls. On the
other hand, DeMille is said to have developed at the Lasky studio units of
artificial illumination of a potency and pliability undreamed of elsewhere —
and accordingly policed away from all prying eyes.
-8?
Applauding
Our
Battlers.
IF you are not ashamed to applaud the shadows of the
paid actors to whom you give sustenance, do not be
afraid to applaud the shadows of the heroes who are
dying for your liberty and mine every day in North
France.
We cheer the flag lustily and continually; we hop to
our feet whatever and however at the opening bars of "The Star Spangled
Banner;" we make approving noises at any big stunt that flashes past. The
bodies of the men in France are obstacles under the wheels of autocracy;
they may lie in nameless graves; your applause may be their only recogni-
tion. If you do applaud, give them a hand. ,
"Actor's
Autocracy"
Is Passing.
A FEW years ago a number of pioneer picture players
thought they had a glimpse into the future. They had
the vision all right but they saw it with astigmatic sight.
They thought the director was to be the big man of
"the game" as they love to call it. Instead this has
been the day, or period of the player. With a few
exceptions the director has been submerged over his prophetic periscope.
In more than one instance he has resumed acting in the hope of catching
up with the golden procession.
So many players have been signing vouchers attached to $1,000 checks
each week that anything less seemed like small time salaries, yet when a
director has been signed at $1,000 a week, it has been the occasion for a
column article in the trade papers. There has been more than a single
instance of a director of brains, vision and creative ability "putting over" a
star drawing into the thousands each week, while his own pay check was
down in the early hundreds. As for the writer, he has been almost a
negligible quantity.
More and more the producer is beginning to appreciate the value of the
director of ability and the writer of meritorious photoplays. The magnates
are beginning to feel the pinch of story famine and the box office is begin-
ning to reflect the real value of overpaid stars and bad direction. Photo-
play enthusiasts are tiring of the deadly sameness of their favorite recreation.
They want a change of diet. So the producer is peering into a future which
seems to hold much promise for the brainy director and the clever writer.
Close-Ups
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AL LICHTENSTEIN, perhaps the veteran salesman of
the films, indulges a whimsical reminiscence of the days
when exhibitors were not recognized by the dramatic
managers, and knew an automobile only as tangible
evidence of unlawful wealth.
Lichtenstein's first cross-country tour was taken to
dispose of rights to the Bernhardt photoplay, "Queen Elizabeth."
In Columbus, Ohio, he found general skepticism until he visited the
last man in town. This individual listened with an inviting smile that
warmed the salesman's cold heart, and he enlarged upon his subject-
' Think of it— the greatest actress in the world, and the greatest queen of
history. Isn't it a wonderful combination?
"It sure is," echoed the exhibitor. "Is it a Western picture?"
Again Lichtenstein tried his luck on the road, now selling James K
Hackett, in "The Prisoner of Zenda."
"I have to offer," he began, in a town nearer the Mississippi, "America's
foremost leading man of the stage— the screen's greatest conquest — only
fifty dollars a day."
"Fifty dollars a day!" howled the exhibitor. "Last week for five dollars
I had here the greatest actor you ever saw — 'The Life of Petrosino.'"
Comparative
Scenario
Prices.
THAT the author,— even in this day considered the
neglected one in the eternal triangle of writer, director
and actor — that the author is really coming into his
own is indisputably proved by his comparative prices.
Not so very many months ago "Madame Butterfly,"
unquestionably Puccini's most popular opera amorig
American audiences, was sold, as libretto and play, to the screen for $1 000
Last month, rights to "La Tosca" were purchased by an advance payment
of $15,000, regular royalties to follow. As a matter of contemporary popu-
larity, "Tosca" is not in the "Butterfly" class.
Mary Pickford's most celebrated success, "Tess of the Storm Country "
brought the author $250. For production rights to "The Poor Little Rich
Girl" Miss Pickford's managers paid $10,000, with the customary royalties
to follow.
C. Gardner Sullivan, whose income as a photo-dramatist now exceeds
that of most Wall Street brokers, has never written a more remarkable
play than his Cup of Life." For this, two years ago, he received $75.
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Business Not
Gratitude.
ENGLAND'S gratitude for our entrance into the war on
the side of the Allies has not had any appreciable effect
on the fight against American films in that country,
although the Cinema, a paper devoted to the interests
of the screen advocates a cessation of hostilities.
That publication points out that were it not for the
Made-in-America film, nine-tenths of the picture theaters in Great Britain
would have been closed long since.
HELPFUL HINTS: HOW TO SPEND JULY FOURTH
Keep cool. Climb that little hill back of the barn until you come to a scene like this. You have no
hill? Get into a poker game and plead a sudden engagement ivhen the chips begin to come; you ivill
achieve the atmospheric effect without the elevation.
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Why-D o -Tjhey-Do-It
'TpHIS IS YOUR Department. Jump right in with your contribution. What have
X you seen, in the past month, which was stupid, unlifelike, ridiculous or merely
incongruous? Do not generalize; confine your remarks to specific instances of im-
possibility in pictures you have seen. Your observation will be listed among the
indictments of carelessness on the part of the actor, author or director.
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Four Film Faux Pas.
WHY do they always indicate death by
dragging a sheet over the face of the
expiring one, immediately the last gasp is
given ? It would seem that they are both eager
and anxious to cover it up and forget it.
In "A Child of the Wild," featuring June
Caprice, this happened twice.
In "Sowers and Reapers," with Emmy
Wehlen, the hero is kidnapped and dragged,
dripping wet, aboard a yacht, with nothing
to wear but the clothes on his back. Next
day, however, although the yacht has not made
any port, he appears in creased trousers, a
manicure and other fastidious accessories.
MHiy don't the people who write sub-titles
learn to spell? In "The Millionaire's Double,"
featuring Lionel Barrymore, part of a sub-
title read, "We have called you here to indcn-
fify the prisoner." Seems to me that a dic-
tionary, or even a copy of Swinton's JVord
Book, would be a helpful thing to have around
the studio.
Why do politicians always roll a large cigar
from one side of the mouth to the other, and
why are they never without it? Why don't
they learn to smoke gracefully?
George D. Anderson, Chicago.
it must have been cut out by the
Stung !
WHY on earth did they give the name
"Infidelity" to that recent Erbograph
picture, misusing Anna Nilsson as the star?
If there was anything in that picture to justify
the title,
censors.
I think that the company ought to be ar-
rested for obtaining money under false pre-
tenses. I paid ten cents to see some infidelity
and all I saw was a third-rate picture.
Mi:lville Hart, Chicago.
The Movie Newspaper.
IT is one of the curiosities of the film indus-
try, to which are now devoted thousands
of intelligent minds, that sub-captions are
usually bad, and excerpts from the public
prints invariably so.
In the past week, the writer has seen four
plays of extremely high order, and in each
there was a necessity for flashing a printed
excerpt upon the screen. In the first, the
Neiv York Times gave front-page, top-column
space to a wedding announcement, couched
in terms of coarse ribaldry; in the second, the
New York Journal carried a "banner head"
which would call for the editor's arrest on a
charge of criminal libel; in a third, an un-
named New York daily couched a news story
in the editorial plural said to have been in
vogue in the 'so's, but doubtful at any time;
in the fourth. New York's Tozvn Topics, which
possesses the most viciously pungent style of
any weekly in America, rolled a morsel of
scandal under its linotype tongue in a sugared,
wandering way altogether too saccharine for
a household fashion paper.
What are the hundreds of newspaper men,
editorially enrolled in pictures, doing that
they do not correct these absurdities ? J. L. N.
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Who Had the Gillette?
HAROLD LOCKWOOD, as a lumberjack,
in "The Promise," is seriously injured
during a wild ride down a stream on logs.
He is rescued by an Indian girl and nursed
back to health in her wigwam, without grow-
ing a beard during his time of confinement.
In "The Primrose Ring," Mae Murray plays
the part of a trained nurse who has had
charge of a hospital ward ; yet, when she
hunts for work, she gives her age as seven-
teen.
Bentox C. Rkssler, Brooklyn, N. Y.
"And Sheridan Forty Miles Away."
I WISH the villain would get the heroine.
I shouldn't much care what happened to
her, just so the hero was prevented from pull-
ing the timely rescue stuff.
The sight of the Vigilance Committee or
the Royal Hussars or the U. S. Cavalry racing
in the wake of the swashbuckling young hero,
while a flash-back shows the heroine in a
state of collapse as the villain folds her in
an ante-diluvian embrace, no longer causes my
temperature to ascend. Instead, my jaded
sensibilities give me a hunch that the hand-to-
hand scrap without which no orthodox movie is
complete will "follow immediately." And
there's no use in hoping that said scrap will
end in any but the usual way, either.
No matter whether it's a story of Daniel
Boone, Queen Guinevere, Reginald Astorbilt,
Prince Charming, Mrs. Pankhurst, the Sultan
of Sulu or just plain Mary Brown and John
Smith, film precedent seems to demand this
trite situation. H. M.
Theda's Endearing Young Charms.
JUST survived a performance of "Her Great-
est Love." That director must have had
a grudge against Theda Bara. A few more
pictures like that one and Miss Bara (who
is really a great artist) will be a has-been.
For two interminable reels, she was obliged
to cavort before the camera as a cute twelve-
year-old. The illusion was far from complete.
Emerald J. Hausfr, Anaconda, Mont.
Southern Stuff.
SINCE you so kindly invite your subscribers
to mention any inconsistencies, etc., which
they have noticed in recent screen plays,
I beg leave to utter a protest against the way
in which the South is so often and so unjustly
laid open to ridicule.
I saw Dorothy Gish in "The Little School-
ma'am" and was amazed at the author's evi-
dent misinformation concerning the diction
used by educated Virginians. His hero, a
novelist, asks the heroine, "Are you-all in
trouble, ma'am ?" And, after assuring the
startled girl that he is a gentleman from Nor-
folk, he proceeds to comfort her and she
exclaims, "Are you-all from Vahgiiiia? Well,
Ah'm from Vahginia, too." He shakes hands
with her, exclaiming, "I sho' am glad to see
somebody from God's country." These ex-
pressions belong to the negro and to those
whom the negro designates as "po' white
trash," not to the "first families" of old Vir-
ginia.
The author's plot was fine — a splendid story
— but surely he must be ignorant of conditions
among cultivated people of the South. I often
wonder why Yankees and Westerners imagine
the South to be so back-woodsy when many
of our most brilliant men of art and letters
hail from there.
Mrs. L. M. Saving, Portsmouth, Va.
Hard Times Note.
THERE is a scene in "The Crisis" in which
Tom Santschi, as Stephen Brice, promises
Virginia Carvel (Bessie Eyton) to attend the
Carvel masque ball attired in his grandfather's
Revolutionary uniform. He does. He arrives
at the Carvel home astride a splendid charger
— but what's wrong? With Tom, not the
charger. It's the powdered wig. That wig
was about four sizes too small for Tom's
massive head, and, in view of the ponderous
dignity with which he portrayed his character,
it was awfully funny to see Tom's curly
brown locks protruding from under that under-
sized peruke.
Lester C. Willard, Yonkers, N. Y.
Unprofessional Mr. Connelly.
I SAW Mr. Connelly, as a noted surgeon in
"The Great Secret,' don his operating cap,
gloves and coat — all of which are supposed
to be sterilized for hours before being used —
and proceed to rest his hands on the wash-
stand while he peered in tlie glass to admire
himself, and then open two doors to reach
the operating room. The habits of years
cannot be so carelessly forgotten, even when
one is contemplating murder.
F. M. Woodyer.
Scandal!
FANNY WARD has just resumed work
at the Lasky studio after a three weeks'
suspension of operations due to injuries re-
ceived during a domestic imbroglio with her
husband, Jack Dean. No, this is not a bit of
scandal. The scrap occurred during the film-
ing of a scene in Miss Ward's newest photo-
play. It was said to be some battle, and the
actress emerged with a sprained back and dis-
located shoulder. W^e must have reelism!" —
News item in Photoplay.
But it is scandal. It is we, the fans, who
are scandalous. We have no right to ask
such sacrifices of artists. Not that the souls
of artists are any more immortal than the
souls of artisans. No doubt Miss Ward, like
all other athletes, is proud of her strength
and takes pride is displaying it; and insofar
as she sets us all an example of clean living —
which all artists of the screen have to do in
order to stay in the game — she is doing a
noble work. But we are going beyond ath-
letics and are tlirowing poets to the lions to
make a Roman holiday. We ought to be
ashamed. It takes a mighty uplifting story
to redeem such useless carnage.
Horace Blake Newton, Santa Rosa, Cal. ^
The Chap the Camera
Chased
BUT TOM MEIGHAN WAS SO
PICTORIALLY COY THAT HE
HAD TO BE KNOCKED DOWN
AND TIED BEFORE HE GAVE IN
By Johnstone Crai^
WHEN Fate comes to total the columns at the
foot of her ledger it is probable that her most
conspicuous item will be the account of
Thomas Meighan, for she worked harder to make
Meighan a photoplayer than she did to hhunt
Napoleon to St. Helena, keep Emma Goldman
out of jail or land Mr. Stone of Missouri in
the- Senate. ^f
From his paleozoic age Tom has been
pursued by a camera.
He made fun of it, he threw rocks at it,
he struck it when it approached him, he
derided it in print and defied its masters — ■
yet it got him.
Now, he's sorry he didn't bow the neck
sooner.
Meighan is married and unashamed. What
is even more wonderful, he is happy.
His first motion picture opportunity crawled
quiveringly toward him years ago. He was in a
haughty theatrical company in California ; his
wife was in the same company, and some low
Apeda Photo
Mr. Meighan, and
below, reading from
lejt to right, Mr.
Meighan, his wife
Frances Ring, and
his sister Margaret
Meighan.
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fellows (since canonized by Brad-
street's) made them a joint proposi-
tion to jump down into the movies.
One of the unique things about
Meighan is that he can some-
times use money, so he accepted,
tentatively.
But it was well that his accept
ance had a piece of twine on
it. The very next day he
saw some of these lens
vermin performing their
dreary rites in the street :
shamelessly, before the
eyes of the world and
eleven little kids.
"Say !" he demanded,
white (or whatever tint
they usually wear) with
anger; "Has my wife
got to act out on the
sidewalk— like this?"
"Sure," responded the
barbarians.
"Then to the devil with
your contract ! My wife
is not going to make her-
self ridculous for any-
body or any money."
Thus Meighan passed
the open door of the
magic lantern for the
first time.
The next time it came
to him in London ; and
again in London ; and in
New York the door began to
slam back and forth so clam-
orously that he couldn't sleep
for its racket.
Samuel Goldfish was at
that time an executive in the
Lasky corporation, and was
so much of a Meighan enthu-
siast that in fishing for him
he used everything except a
bent pin and a worm.
One day Meighan entered
an office in the Longacre
theatre building, New
York City, to see about
an engagement in
Chicago, and Gold
fish lured him into
his cell and almost
overcame his scruples.
Seductive Samuel threw down a
"My name is not
'Mee-gun, ' nor
'My-gan.' It's 'Mee-an.
contract that looked like a bag of
pirate's gold, and put a pen in the
actor's yielding hand.
"Wliat time do I have to get up
in tlie morning?" asked Meighan,
suspiciously.
Why no later than anyone
else in the business," purred
Mr. (^.oldfish. "6:30
. . . 7 . . . may-
be 7 :30."
"If I'm lucky,"
howled Meighan, "I
don't have to get uj)
till 7 :30 ! And I went
on the stage because
it was the only job in
the world that would
let me .sleep through
the forenoons ! Until
you change your hours
I don't change mv
business !"
So that was cold.
Yet in reality, Thomas
Meighan, arch-hater of
the camera, was getting
very warm.
For it was from Chi-
cago that he went to
pictures.
And he went into
pictures, at Goldfish's
behest, via the Lask)
corporation.
"And why I didn't do
it before I don't know,"
Meighan ruminates, now.
"I had been to California
repeatedly ; I had been in
contact with picture men
in England and picture
men in New York, and,
like long-eared Maud, I
lad been obstinately re-
fusing to begin until Mrs.
Silas started for the
wheelbarrow. I might
have been a photo-
play pioneer ; as it
was, I didn't get
into the procession
until it was going
past the Postoffice
on Main street."
I don't believe
much in pastr^
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word pictures, but let me tell you a little
something about the personality of one of
the most regular guys that ever honored
the movies.
Although Tom Meighan himself was
born in Pittsburgh, a town made famous
for the ancients by a Minticsingcr named
Al Jolson, his ancestors came from across
the sea. From a part of the United King-
dom whose name I've forgotten, though it's
the island that furnishes the world seventy-
five per cent of its policemen and ninety
per cent of its politicians, if that will help
you any.
He is a whale of a man, physically,
standing more than six feet in height,
muscled as Jim Corbett was in the golden
'90s, and possessing a face of great mobility
and adaptability to varying expression.
Simple and direct in his' friendships as a
school-boy ; soft-spoken ; the best of com-
panions, and full of the health of out-doors,
Meighan off stage and away from the
lights is as completely unactorish as he is
wholly in the character and impersonation
before the camera.
Back to Pittsburgh : Meighan's parents
thought he should be a doctor, but all that
he could enthuse about, at the start, was
football. And he became a football star.
Afterwards he kicked a few goals in
anatomy and materia medica. but as soon
as he had grabbed his diploma the theatre
grabbed the diploma-holder.
Henrietta Grossman, playing "Mistress
Nell," was in Pittsburgh at this time, and
young Meighan secured an engagement
with her company. A season with (irace
George and two years in stock in Pittsburgh
established him as one of the country's
leading juveniles.
Following engagements were with Elsie
DeWolfe, John Mason, and finally with'
\\'illie Collier, in "The Dictator,"
Meighan was selected as leading man in
the London engagement of "The College
Widow," and it was liere that he played
for a long time opposite his wife. Miss
Frances Ring, the sister of Blanche.
He returned to America to play for sev-
eral seasons with David Warfield in "The
Return of Peter Grimm." He went back
to London to triumphantly present George
Cohan's play, "Broadway Jones." Again
in America, he was the lawyer for the de-
fense in "On Trial," and from this engage-
ment he went to the Lasky studio.
His first photoplay was "The Fighting
Hope," supporting Laura Hope Crews.
His second was "Kindling," in which he
was leading man for Charlotte Walker.
After that, he supported Blanche Sweet
and Marie Doro.
More recently he has been seen exclu-
sively with Pauline Frederick, but Billie
Burke's re-entry to the screen, "The Mys-
terious Miss Terry," finds him her
champion.
When he is in New York — and he is in
New York most of the time — he lives at
the Hotel Algonquin. He loves sailing
and motoring and fighting (not domestic)
and he has just one request :
"Tell them that my name is pronounced
as if it were spelled 'Mee-an,^ with the
accent on the first syllable. To those who
don't call me 'Mee-gun' I'm usually 'My-
gan.' They get it every way but right."
What They Were Made For
Guns: for table draAvers.
The ocean: for the Keystone girls.
Bayne: for Biislimairs kive-making.
Snow: for snow-stuff.
Paris: for Bhiebirrt plots.
Mothers: for inoenucs.
Hugs: for tlie fifth reels.
Country estates: for actors.
Homes: for mere millionaires.
Long ears: for censors.
Montana and Wyoming: for Bill Hart.
Shots that rang out: for the midnight
air.
The Great 'War: for the news-pictorials.
Crepe hair: for screen doctors.
Railroads: for Helen Holmes.
Monsters: for Pa the serials.
Puttees: for DeMille.
Sunshine: for Griffith.
Money: for Mary, Charlie and Doug.
The mails: for mash notes.
Adjectives: for press agents.
Pie: one guess.
'Wine: for plying.
Derbies: for Charlie.
Fourteen years: for M. M. Mintcr.
Old men: for juries.
Picture dogs: to make somebody a living.
Sissies: for movie ministers.
Nihilists: for World pictures.
Copyrighted by Hartsook
Beneath this coy stoishade you see grouped the Elliott Dexters. Mr. Dexter performs in the trans-
parencies under his own name, end save where the Hottentot dispenses with his fig-leaf, or the
Esquimaux plugs the polar bear ivith a tvhalebone arroiv, Mrs. Dexter is known as Marie Dora.
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"Who's Married to Who"
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Behold the fledglings, the
debutantes, the novitiates
of matrimony : Grace
Ciinard and her merry
young spouse, Joe Moore!
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Another renowned domestic duet; Wallace Reid and Dorothy Davenport Reid. Mrs. Reid is a right
lively performer on the ivories, but it is a safe bet that her husband doesn't draw quite as well on
the strings as he does in the box-office. Nevertheless, he is an ardent bowman.
The Man Who Put Fame in Famous
THE VISION OF ADOLF ZUKOR, WHO WENT FROM
FURS TO A PENNY ARCADE, AND BECAME A
MANUFACTURER TO REALIZE HIS OWN DREAMS
By Julian Johnson
BECAUSE of the whim of Isabella
America got itself discovered ; be-
cause of the kick of Mother
O'Leary's cow Chicago got itself burned ;
and because of a young Jewish boy's ambi-
tion to run a peep-show, the unborn motion
picture business gave a ghostly call to one
of its present world-rulers.
This happened somewhere back of 1904.-
The voung business man borrowed some
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money from his young cousin, who was in
the fur business, and established some pen-
ny-arcades in down-town New York. Vou
remember the dynasty of those twirl-boxes,
don't you? "Mutcscopes," they called
them. You put in a penny, glued your eyes
to the steroscopic lenses, and got some
jerky flashes of a prize-lighter, or a railroad
train, or an exciting dancer, as a series of
wired-up photographs snapped by you.
Presently the young impresario got all
tangled up in his affairs, and had to ask
his quieter, gentler, soft-spoken cousin to
come away from the seal and the mink long
enough to pull him out. The cousin saw
possibilities in these arcades, and soon had
a chain of them extending profitably up
Broadway to Forty-Second street.
j In 1904 a new thing became the rage in
New York. It was called "Hale's Touring
Car." It had the similitude of a train's
observation platform, and, on a screen, a
brief piece of scenery flashed by in crude
motion pictures. The cousin and the ex-
furrier established a lot of these "Touring
Cars."
And they failed. Because they could not
i get pictorial material to keep the public
interest up.
So, on his own, the little furrier con-
' verted his penny arcades, and threw out
his "touring cars," and made motion picture
theatres from both sets of places. Thus
was born what came to be humorously
known as "the store show," for these arcades
and "touring cars" had filled sjtorerooms.
This was the real beginning of the big-
gest material enterprise in point of size in
all motion picturedom today, for the little
furrier was Adolf Zukor, president of the
Famous-Players-Lasky corporation, and
controller of Artcraft and Paramoimt.
Few theatrical managers had ever heard
his name, and certainly he was on the call-
ing-list of no actor.
Now, his annual expenditure on behalf
of motion pictures is $16,000,000. Only
one of those salaries which have dazzled
the world and enraged the theatre is not
being paid by him, (Chaplin's). And to
a galaxy of planets headed by Mary Pick-
ford and Douglas Fairbanks he has just
added the name of D. W. GriflHth.
The rise of Mr. Zukor, and a large part
of the advance of the photoplay itself, is
due to Mr Zukor's earnest faith in the screen
as an art-medium, and his pugnacious
determination to raise the standard of pic-
tures every year, if he had to fight and
break with every man in the business
Which is just what happened.
Remember, Mr. Zukor was only an
exhibitor.
The quality of pictures, issued sometimes
in an extreme length of a thousand feet,
grew no better. The chase, the silly com-
edy, the cowboy and the railroad train were
the only subjects. There were no Grifiiths
in those days — or ratlier, Griffith, begin-
ning, had not yet appeared on the surface
of picture affairs.
The Famous Players was organized in
the sprnig of 1912 as a direct and desperate
answer to the hidebound manufacturers.
"But," interposes Mr. Zukor, "they were
right from their standpoint, for they be-
lieved pictures a novelty like stamp photo-
graphs or buttons with mottoes. I believed
active photography a possible art — and thc\
laughed at me."
Comic misfortune attended The Famous
Players at the start.
After Herculean labor and the chivalrous
assistance of Daniel Frohman, James
O'Neill was persuaded to act "Monte
Cristo" as an initial offering — and Selig,
the sly dog, beat them to it, with his ex-
perience and superior facilities, and got a
"Monte Cristo" on the market before they
were through "shooting."
Production, shelved. And Zukor was
stumped — until he heard that in France
Sarah Bernhardt was making a version of
"Queen Elizabeth." Could it be secured?
It could! They sent their money, and as
Mr. Zukor says, they walked up and down
before the box containing the negative and
one print, trembling. It was a case of pur-
chase sight unseen. If their money had
been thrown away a second time .
curtains for The Famous Players.
But it was not thrown away, for the pic-
ture was a success, although not as big a
success as Famous' first American-made
photoplay, which followed immediately
thereafter : "The Prisoner of Zenda," with
James K. Hackett.
The rest of the history of F"amous Play-
ers has been a matter of multiplication
within and addition from without.
Here are two of Mr. Zukor's working
mottoes, which I think are so pertinent and
vital that they apply universally :
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Some Palaces the Fans
Built
We don't mean that
the fans personally
carpentered these lux-
urious dwellings. Day
by day, the millions
of photoplay devotees
have poured before
their idols a golden
tribute such as no other
artists ever won.
Such are the exigen-
cies of sunshine and
location that most of
thesehomes havebeen
reared in California —
though the "net pro-
ceeds of homage"
have built not a fev*f
fine places along Long
Island Sound, and in
Connecticut.
THIS spacious mansion in
Southern style is the
Hollywood home of the Dex-
ters: Elliot and Marie Doro.
You can see Mrs. Doro-Dex-
ter at the fountain in her front
yard. The house, which con-
tains as many rooms, as the
famous Arlington mansion of
General Lee, is situated at a
convenient distance from the
Lasky studio, and has, in the
past year, been the scene of
many a brilliant artistic-social
assemblage.
At the left, behold Ruth
Stonehouse domestically em-
ployed at her fireless fireside.
Though one of the most
recent additions to the Los
Angeles motion picture
colony. Miss Stonehouse
is already as comfortably
established as any Native
Daughter from Iowa the
Golden State ever saw.
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Some Palaces the Fans Built
77
In front of the fair white Holly-
wood chateau at the top of this
page is its owner, astride his newest
runabout. You probably won't
need a magnifying glass to identify
Douglas Fairbanks. Below, right,
stands the head vamp of the Pa-
cific, Louise Glaum. Her domestic
spider web, very strangely re-
sembles an innocent little bungalow
grown over with dainty and un-
wicked vines. Such are the lairs
of the terrible ! At the left, on the
other page, Kathlyn Williams dis-
mounts from her Winton in front
of the home in western Los Angeles
which she herself designed.
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Above, the house in
Hollywood which
Fanar leased aunng her
first season, but which
has passed to Mary
Picktord, and is
the Pickford
home today.
Left, the Los Angeles
home of Margaret
Thompson and her
husband, E. H. Allen,
who is Mr. Ince's gen-
eral manager.
Francis X. Bushman's home, "Bushmanor," Rider-
wood, Maryland, is a genuine country estate, with
forest, field and stream and the ample mansion of a
country gentleman. At the right you see one of Mr.
Bushman's riding parties, gathered before the house
for the start. At the extreme right, Mr. Bushman, and
just in front of him, on a black horse, Mrs. Bushman.
On the lower step are four of Mr. Bushman's chil-
dren, while on the white horse is another — five in all.
Some Palaces the Fans Built
79
The Los Ange-
les home of
Howard and
Bessie Barns-
cale Hickman.
Center.the Tom
Ince casa — a
luxurious
Ho 1 1 y w ood
bungalow of
Spanish atmo-
sphere.
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At the right, Tsuru Aoki bids au
reZ'oir to her husband, Sessue
Hayakawa, as he starts from his
Los Angeles home for his day's
make-believe at the Lasky studio.
In the center the Hollywood resi-
dence o{ Jack Dean and his wife,
Fannie Ward, needs no other
press-agent than a photographer.
This home was purchased by the
Deans last year.
Among the substantial old set-
tlers of Hollywood IS Wallace
Reid. This is the venerable
fellow's home, and the fact
that he earned enough to buy
two or three like it by being a
celluloid lover to Geraldine
Farrar, and other bits of loveli-
ness, is enough to cause a strike
among the dock hands — if the
dock hands ever stop to think
it over.
Coil), riflit phclo by Ujulerwouil & UndenvoocI
Stars of the Screen and Their Stars in the Sky
By Ellen Woods
F^T?nhvlnn^ '"'^Th"' 'l""?' """" '"=?y<'"!' ''=!?£ told." The astral influence wa. believed in before
Nativity of Robert Harron, Born April 12th. Nativity of Geraldine Farrar, Born Feb. 28th.
AT THE hour of his birth, the twenty-
eighth degree of the Zodiacal sign Scor-
l)io was on the Eastern horizon with the
benevolent sign Sagittarius intercepted, which
all means that our beloved "Bobbie" is ruled
by both Jupiter, the priest, and Mars, the war
god. We find at his birth Mars placed in the
intellectual sign Gemini, in conjunction with
the psychic planet Neptune, both receiving
good rays from the cold, shy Saturn, exalted
m Libra.
Mr. Harron was born very fortunate in
many ways. One of these indications is, that
he will never want. No matter how dark his
prospects may appear at times, some good turn
will come at the right moment.
His fame will be tremendously increased
m the future, because the configuration of his
progressed planets continue to improve in har-
mony. Another strong indication of his good
luck is that he is a born actor. Almost always
we find him taking parts in plavs where he is
unjustly imprisoned, or in great danger of the
death penalty, being rescued just at the last
moment. Now, if he had not been an actor,
the malign influence of Uranus in his twelfth
house, the house of bondage, might have in-
fluenced his actual life, which would have
been disastrous.
THIS lady has a most wonderful nativity.
The position of the planets and their con-
hguration at the hour of her birth give her
a stronger personality than the majority of
women. She is tender hearted, loves peace,
IS generous to a fault, and is endowed with
the power of magnetic attraction. She is de-
termined to be foremost in everything, and
can, if she wishes, command the friendship of
tho.se of the highest degree. In fact, she
excites the admiration of all with whom she
comes in contact.
_ This lady will always be successful in mak-
ing money, but not so much so in saving it.
Someone skilled in finance should attend to
her investments. Slie has indications of chil-
dren with wonderful intellects, but inclined to
disobedience. There is strong probability of
losing the eldest in some strange manner.
Miss Farra - has a liking for odd and daring
pleasures or places of amusement. Her great-
est attainments will culminate in the year 1920
(if the hour of birth was given correctly) and
will continue for many years.
A curious example of her character, as
shown in her horoscope, is found in her choice
of such a part as Joan, the Woman, in which
her great reverence for divine power is dis-
played.
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Desmond of Dublin
By Kenneth O'Hara
EVER since Bill Desmond — born in
Dublin — "meenistered" his way
through "Peggy," with Billie Burke,
another pedestal in the corridor tor cellu-
loid idols has been occupied.
Desmond first became attached to the
theatre in New York, when, as a young-
ster, he used to sit up among the peanut-
eaters and whistle shrilly every time one
of Carter's heroes bumped the villain olT.
Later in life, lie took part in an amateur
performance held under the auspices of tiie
Ladies' Auxiliary, or something, and im-
mediately became obsessed with a desire to
draw a salary out of the footlights. So he
joined a "Quo Vadis" road company and
made good.
Years of stock experience qualified him
to handle the role of leading man with the
old (}rand Opera House stock company in
Los Angeles, which association was fol-
lowed by six years under the Burbank ban-
ner. Oliver Morosco sent him east as star
in "The Judge and the Jury." and at the
termination of this run, he placed himself
under the management of Morosco,
Belasco, Frohman and the Shuberts, in
succession. Next, he spent two years in
Australia, and returning to America, went
on tour in "Tlie Bird of Paradise."
He never flirted with the camera until
Thomas H. Ince approached him, in 1915,
and tossed a fat contract into his lap. Bill
signed it and then put on the cloth and the
inverted collar to shy at Billie Burke.
Desmond; Desmond and dogs;
Desmond and Clara Williams
m a recent Ince play.
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The
Shadow 5ta^e
A Department of
Photoplay Review-
By Julian Johnson
THE month of which I write, resound-
ing with the alarms and filled with
the enthusiasms of our youn^ war. has
seen no radical departures, has been
marked by no especial strides in photoplay
presentation. Many screen dramas have
been offered, and perhaps thev have re-
reived an even more generous share of
patronage than usual ; but the country is
in a mood for entertainment and removal
Irom its heavy momentary cares; not for
"artistic experiments or for high-calibred
shocks to its emotions, which are coming
naturally enough in the course of every-day
events.
The best photoplay I have seen this
month is "The Barrier."
Here is a splendid example of author
plus director. Mr. Beach, the literary
caveman of the North, needs no introduc-
tion ; Edgar Lewis, a camera padrone who
carries a Bessemer fist in a plush mitten,
M-ill need none when "The Barrier" has
been generally circulated. The narrative
substance of Mr. Beach's story may or may
not be familiar to you. It is enough, here,
to say that the story is laid in its teller's
preferential haunt, Alaska ; that its pri-
mary concern is the love of a high-bred
soldier for a girl he thinks a half-breed—
theryfcre //;,■ barrier: while its secondary
motif is the darker and more sinister tale
of a love outraged, of murder, of unjust
accusation and outlawry. Not since Mr.
(Jriiifith exploded a whole rocket of unsus-
pected stars in the Dixon cinema has a cast^
so completely unknown scored such signal
triumph. The days of easy star-making
are past, and I do not l)Ldieve that director
Lewis's prodigies will planetize them-
selves— yet Mitchell Lewis, who comes out
of obscurity to play 'Poleon Doret, the
lovable 'breed, gives one of the most mag-
nificent performances tlie silversheet has
ever reflected. It is possibly the high mark
in individual interpretations this year,
although I would not care to make
that statement without careful reflection.
And another favorite leading woman
assuredly springs full-armed hi Mabel
Julienne Scott, whose performances of
Merridy and Necia are passionate, sincere,
vital, flawless. Equal honors, too, are
Russell Simpson's, for his alternately ten-
der and ferocious delineation of Gaylord
and (iale. the two personalities of the
hunted man. In fact, a list of excellencies
would include the cast entire, for such
great small parts as the Bennett of Howard
Hall, the Runnion of Edward Roseman,
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and W. J. Gross's de-
lectable portrait of
"No-Creek" Lee do not
deserve oblivion ■ in
any account. Director
Lewis wins the thanks
of every being witli
an artistic soul for
refusing to fade out
on a hug. Instead,
it is upon the final
departure of 'Poleon,
fantastic and blithely
Scssue Hayakawa, in "The Jaguar's
Claws. "
tragic,
expires.
that the ligl
tli(
"pOPPY" is
■*• best vehicle
Norma Talmadge's
talents have ridden in
since "Panthea ;"
and in many ways
it is a marker i
screen play, for,
like the Cynthia
Stokely novel from
which it was
adapted, it has an unwonted freedom from
the conventional manner of narration, and
a remarkably effortless play upon and de-
velopment of human character, both in its
men and its women, rather than the fruit-
less stalking of the usual bad puppets and
good puppets and mediocre puppets who
are at once the furniture and cogs of con
temporary screen drama. This author
starts with the assumption that all her
mimic people are more or less wicked, and
that it's up to the years, experience, chas-
tening sorrows and perhaps some love to
make them a bit better, if not really good.
Which is about like real life — isn't it? The
action passes mainly in South Africa.
Poppy Destin, bound out to a Scotchwoman
who is a sort of super-Boer, vamps away
to the swamps and freedom. Luce Abinger,
a gentleman of slightly predatory instinct,
finds her at the gate of his compound ;
takes her in, educates her, and, upon the
verge of a departure for England, marries
her with a French ceremony vvhich she
believes is legal adoption. The author now
steps heavily upon the accelerator of proba-
bility when she asks us to believe that a
young man wandering in the delirium of
fever can be a genuine Don Juan ; but after
this shoal the tale flows in smooth lifelike-
no.ss to its conclusion.
Poppy sails to London,
struggles for literary
success, and beholds
her beloved little name-
less boy die in a fall
from a window on the
very day that triumph
came. Eventually, back
to Africa, where she
divorces Abinger, and,
after enduring a btir-
ragc of moral stone-
throwing by a lady who
lives in a large glass,
house, she weds Sir
Evelyn Carson, her
rare knight who
could unite a tem-
perature with tem-
l)erament.
Tlie easy, hu-
man performances
of most of t h e
people in this play
as,sure us that screen
naturalness not only
endures, but flourishes. Miss Talmadge
passes perfectly from short-frocked, bar
barous childhood to slightly satiric, elegant
maturity. There is not another camera
woman who could so contrive this char-
acter's long range and unexpurgated cata-
logue of every female emotion. Eugene
O'Brien is so fine as Carson that we wonder
why we don't see more of his work before
the camera. Frederick Perry brings all the
assets of his acting maturity to Abinger,
and there is a wonderful colored woman
the cast doesn't name. Edward Jose is
stamped by tliis picture a genuinely big-
time director.
"A
ROMANCE of the Redwoods" is
not much on originality, but it is an
innovation in lighting, and in the finish of
its small details is perfection itself. In it
Mary Pickford represents a Nevv- England
virgin of the past mid-century, come the
long, long way to California, and to a
scalawag who keeps his head out of a hal-
ter by falsely impersonating her uncle,
deceased via some arrows. The best part
of the story is the first half, in which you
wonder whether Jenny (Mary) will be
sacked like .Alexandria, or will make a real
hero out of Black Brown, the hold-up
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gentleman. Jenny's journey to her uncle,
and the bandit's donning of her uncle's per-
sonality, as the wolf donned the comfort-
ables of Little Red Riding Hood's grand-
ma, make a real situation. The last half
of the play is a combination of "Salomy
Jane" and "The (iirl of the Golden West,"
without apologies. I wonder if Mary with-
out her curls felt as Lady dodiva did
charging down that ancient Fifth avenu.>
minus her frock and all the and-so-forths?
At any rate, she, Raymond Hatton, Elliott
De.xter, Tully Marshall and Walter Long
do some genuine acting. In illuminative
novelty this piece is remarkable, and as
an entertainment it is much more than pass-
;ibl\- good.
'T'ilE Lasky ministry puts forth a unique
but excellent combination of players
in "'llie Jaguar's Claws," a Mexican story
of the usual sort. Sessue Hayakawa plays
Kl Jaguar, a sort o| sub- Villa, while Fritzi
Brunette, formerly a Selig player, Tom
Moore. Marjorie Daw, Tom Forman and
Mabel Van Buren complete the cast.
Direction by Marshall Neilan, and it is di-
rection of the sort by which Neilan is
making himself more notable each month.
If Olga Petrova liad put her corsets back
in the trunk, and liad. for a few minutes,
stood close enough to a stove to thaw out.
"The Undying Flame" would have been a
very artistic, intelligent photodrama. It
might not have been a world-beater in
popularity, as its story is a bit archeolog-
ical, but it had a thought, at any rate. The
story is not one story, but two ; the parallel
between happenings in Egypt under the
dynasty of the Shepherd kings, and under
the British vice-regency. Mme. Petrova
plays a Princess of the Aida period, and
Grace Leslie, of the modern da v. Her
stays, under an Egyptian robe, are as apro-
pos as ankle-length bloomers in the Follies.
And she is eternal ice. Mahlon Hamilton
is especially successful in his realization of
an Egyptian shepherd.
Once more, Marshall Neilan: this time,
thanks are due him for his delightfully
human touches in screening 'Gene Stratton
Porter's novel. "Freckles." Jack Pickford,
Louise Huff and Hobart Bo'sworth are the
principals of this pleasing play.
"Heart's Desire," featuring Marie Doro,
is a story of the unworldly life on the
island of St. Anne's, off the French coast.
In it Miss Doro has the support of Mario
A scene from "A
Romance of the Red-
ivoods, " with Mary
Pickford.
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Majeroni and other capable players. 'X'HERE is no excuse for a play as silly
Unfortunately, Margaret Illington can- ■■• as "Her Better Self," the preposterous
not do any really effective work in the contraption put forth as a stellar carriage
films as long as she photographs with such for Pauline Frederick. "Society" and the
complete ir.effective-
ness as in "Sacri-
fice," her first-re-
leased Lasky play.
A story of war and
personal evils, it
needed no great im-
petus of originality
to place it in Rus-
sia. Miss Illington
has a pair of parts :
a young woman of
considerable sophis-
tication, a n d a
young girl of con-
siderable innocence.
As the girl she
has moments of
great charm in ap-
p e a r a n c e — mo-
ments ; but as the
woman of the world
it is hard to under-
stand how any civi-
lized camera could
have been so cruel.
"Unconquered" is
a better dramatic
implement than
Fannie Ward has
had thrust into her
small hands in
months. It is a
story of modern so-
ciety ; of an impos-
sible husband, and
of course the third
a n g 1 e — the other
man. Yet, withal,
it is rather a human
story ; believable ;
well acted ; intelli-
gently directed ;
lavish in equipment,
and ornamented
with a number of
extremely logical
episodes. Miss
A lofty moment in "Periwinkle,'
Minterplay.
Ward, Jack Dean and Hobart Bosworth
have the triangular assignments, while
Tully Marshall has an extraordinarily
good bit as Jake, a voodoo Ethiop. This
photoplay had good direction and scenery.
"underworld," a
monkeyish "count"
and a natural
.American nobleman
flicker against each
otiicr in sweet old-
stutT relief. This is
a real moving pic-
ture, of the flubdub
type believed popu-
lar in "the slums" —
if there are any such
places. It makes its
author ridiculous, it
cheapens actors of
the standing of
Pauline Frederick
and Thomas Meig-
han, and it is an ab-
solute arraignment
of the production
department of Fam-
ous Players. Vig-
nola, the director,
did not better the
contemptible s c e -
nario that came to
his liands.
pEORGE BE-
^^ BAN is badly
in need of good
scenarios. He is
limited in his inter-
pretative gifts, but
it is better to be
narrow and perfect
than scatteringly
mediocre. In "The
Marcellini M i 1 -
lions" he limns an
Italian truck-driver
who comes into sud-
den wealth. To put
poor Guido Bartelli
across, Beban works
with absolute feroc-
ity, but at best, his
beholders seem no more than casually
interested in the misadventures of this
olive-skinned brother to the horses. They
have seen it all before. Beban's Italian is
an old story, for his writers have given him
a new
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nothing new. Helen Jerome Kdcly, as
Antonietta, is reall)- the high spot of the
picture.
"The World Apart" is the meaningless
title of a pretty
good Western play
featuring Wallace
Reid and Myrtle
Stedman, and en-
hanced, as well, by
the unfeatured work
of John \\ . Burton
and Eugene Pal-
lette.
House Peters and
Kathlyn \\'illiams
have proven an ex-
cellent combination.
"The Highway of
Ho])e" has a real
story : the account
of an unvarnished
chivalry and the
grimly humorous
desolation that
comes to a man of
refinement who, in
a moment of alco-
holic heroics, has
married a slatternly
ignoramus. Wlien
the man skids the
woman begins to go
up. and the poor
thing he saved
proves his own
eventual saK'ation.
Both Miss Williams
and Mr. Peters
bring all of their
varied abilities to
these roles.
pINE ARTS had
a sunnv finish.
The good-bye work
is O. H e n r y ' s
"Madame Bo-Peep
of the Ranches,"
sawed ofif in title to
''Madame Bo-
Peep." Scenes that
sparkle with humanity race after each
other in rapid succession, and the cast in-
cludes Seena Owen, A. D. Sear.s, Sam De-
Grasse, Pauline Starke, Kate Bruce and
Jennie Lee. Director, "Chet" Withev.
alas,
suc-
Action, sjjeed, punch and humor
"Bo-Peep" will have too few
sessors !
"Souls Triumphant" sounds more like
a hymn by the
late Fanny Crosby
tlian the title of a
i-'ine Arts jjhoto-
play. And it should
have been. Nothing
but one good fire
scene to excuse its
existence, and for
the rest, a f]ueer
waste of such tal-
ents as Lillian
Crish, Wilfred Lu-
■as and Spottis-
uoode Aitken.
TNCE
^ l)it
Emmy Wehlen, in " The Duchess of Doubt.
plays are a
lightweight
tliis month. In fact,
for several months
Tom Ince's output
has lacked that pe-
I uliarly individual
force, that rugged
human, power which
made this paper
Duce call him "the
Rodin of shadows."
Apparently this is
due to nothing more
than Mr. Ince's
artistic absence and
overwhelming busi-
ness presence ; Tri-
angle seems con-
tinually reorganiz-
ing itself, and T.
H. I., little as he
may like it, is the
leading chip in that
managerial swirl. I
regret these things
because the Ince
niche is a distinctly
individual one that
no one else can fill.
His once-unswcr\--
ing output of big-
gauge stories has become a flood of froth
and futility, and they will continue to be
froth and futility until Mr. Ince is less
at the board meetings and more on the lot.
"Bawbs o' the Blue Ridge" is a trifling
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more divinely and really
do less we should like to
see the party. Miss Ben-
nett is fast, graceful, ath-
letic, smileful or tearful,
not unamusing, and dra-
matically as shallow as a
piece of tissue paper.
Possibly the plays in
wliicli she has been cast
account for tliis. Her
recent play, called "Hap-
piness" is, on the face of
it, ridiculous. "The Girl,
Glory," is not so bad,
save that 'it treats the
"licker evil" not as a
physiologic misdemeanor
and economic folly, but
in the manner of a no-
rum agitation up Maine
wav sixtv vears ago.
A=
An early episode of "Poppy;" Norma Talmadge and
Eugene O'Brien.
and very mussy story of the Eastern moun-
tains, deploying Bessie Barriscale in a
sooty and bare-legged role.
"Wild Winship's Widow" is a better
play than Dorothy Dalton has had in some
time, although it leans a bit heavily on mo-
tion picture society and its ball-and-chain
traditions. In it Miss Dalton portrays a
comely relict determined to remain true to
the memory of one whom it takes five reels
to discover wasn't true to her.
The trouble with "The Millionaire Vag-
rant," Charlie Ray's latest contribution, is
that it hovers uncertainly between placard-
ing itself as comedy or drama, and the
conclusion is apparent early in the second
reel. Without suspense one merely endures.
Enid Bennett is, pictorially, perfect.
And dramatically, meaningless. If there is
anyone in pictures who can photograph
ND right here, a
word for Mr. luce's
greatest star, William S.
Hart. There's nothing
new by Hart since
"Wolf Lowry,'" but his
prestige grows ai)ace
throughout the country,
and deservedly. Hart
is furnishing something
■ more than Western mo-
tion pictures. Along
with the best and most
conscientious ^^riters of
he is making a transcript of the
His plays have not only
but humanity. They
reflect not only time and place, but the
men and women of those times and places.
A piece like "Wolf Lowry" is optic
literature.
our time
West that was.
external reality,
V
''I OLA DANA is today the orchid on
Metro's breast. She has had a few
very good plays, a repertoire of acceptable
ones, and one or two which were awful —
but she has gone on steadily, under the
direction of her husband, John Collins, and
now she can boast one of the biggest fol-
lowings on the screens of this or any
country. Of late she has been an Oriental.
Her newest plays are "God's Law and
Man's," adapted from Paul Trent's novel,
"A Wife Bv Purchase;" and "Lady Bar-
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nacle," taken from a short story by Edgar
Franklin. In the first, behold her as the
quaint and determined Eurasian girl,
Amela ; in the second, as Lakshima, daugh-
ter of a Maharajah. I am sorry that space
forbids a more detailed description of
these incensy tales, which in the main are
worth while, are well acted, well staged,
and exploit the talents of a genuine young
artist.
Another Metro climber is Emmy Wehlen,
the Austro-English light opera comedienne
who has been a very serious picture worker
for more than a year. Miss Wehlen's re-
cent vehicles, "Sowers and Reapers," and
"The Duchess of Doubt," show a remark-
able increase in talents which have been
carefully maturing. Of the two plays
"The Duchess of Doubt" is by far the
more logical and believable. "Sowers and
Reapers" is, in its main plot, pretty much
the movie of other days.
Francis P. Elliott's fantastic story of a
garment bewitched by an ancient Chinese
empress, "The Haunted Pajamas," does
good service applied to the two valiant legs
of Harold Lockwood. These magic bifur-
cations fly about from person to person, and
the string of complications moves faster
and faster until, at the finale, the haunted
pajamas are destroyed. Here is enter-
tainment not only for the Lockwooc
lovers, but as well for that great portion
of the public which never tires of legends
of enchantment.
"The Call of Her People,"
adapted from Edward Sheldon's
"Egypt," finds Ethel Barry-
more in much the sort of role
that Mabel Julienne Scott
plays in "The Barrier," but
compared to Miss Scott Miss
Barrymore is heavy and
sloM'. Nevertheless, "Th
Call of Her People" is a
well-staged and care-
fully-made photoplay.
"T h e Millionai"re's
Double" is a swift, sus-
tained yarn of adventure
featuring that corking charac-
ter-maker, Lionel Barrymore.
Here is a piece with a punch,
distinctly worth while. Let's
hope that "Peter Ibbetson"
will not chain the Barrymore
brothers to the speaking stage.
YV7'C)RLr) should do well, in a programme
*" way, with its French importations.
The difference between pictures made in
France and pictures made in America by
French directors of the average sort is that
the first are directed normally, for their
foreign atmosphere and surroundings, while
the second have Gallic gestures, Gallic
traditions and Gallic beliefs grafted onto
distinctly American situations. Result, a
whole as harmonious as a Gothic jail in
Iowa.
"Atonement," the first of the new Brady
French pictures to be released, features
Regina Padet, a sensuously beautiful act-
ress, in a melodrama of that school whose
primitive power and direct human passions
produced "I Pagliacci" and "Cavalleria
Rusticana." But the best thing about
"Atonement" is the acting presence of that
truly great screen player, Albert Signer,
whom you may remember as the school-
master, in "Mothers of France." If this
undemorjstrative, forceful man comes to
America, as has been promised, he will,
under proper direction, give every American
character actor the fastest workout he ever
had.
"The Crimson Dove," despite its sissy
name, is a rattling good play of the modern
frontier — this time a lumber camp —
Gail Kane,
in " The
Upper
Crust. "
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featuring Carlyle Black-
well and June Elvidge.
"A Naked Soul" is the
second of the World
French photoplays. While
a tragedy perhaps too
somber for the majority i>l
audiences in tlie present
anxious times, it is never-
theless finely done, and will
commend itself to the dis-
cerning. You will like
Susan Grandaise, who is
beautiful, simple and
girlish.
"Yankee Pluck," a
trite, cheap story by
Willard Mack, has
been well produced,
and especially well
acted by a cast including
Etliel Clayton, Montagu
Love, Charles Bowser
and Johnny Hines.
Magazine editors liave
one supreme contempt :
it is reserved for the man
who has to "pull a fire"
to end his story. Sliannon
Fife starts not badly, in
his play of serious pur-
pose, "Maternity," but he ~
gets so tangled up in fire and disaster that
the finish is not worth staying for. Alice
Brady, a young wife who fears motherhood,
is the central figure of this sociologic
photoplay.
"Moral Courage," or the flip girl's cheat-
ing revenge on father-in-law, vouchsafes
Muriel Ostriche in very pleasing person-
ality, if in a scarcely possible play. It is
interesting to note that Romaine Fielding
directed — and a pretty good job he made
of it, too.
LJ RIDER HAGGARD'S "Jess" has
• been worked over into a scenario
called "Heart and Soul," for Theda Bara.
One of Miss Bara's peculiarities seems to
be that goodne-^s kills her. She thrives in
the vitriol of villainy, buf when frozen in
virtue — as Cigarette, or Jess, or any of the
well-meaning girls in whose personalities
she has expired — you may be sure that she
has but five scant reels to live. Harry
Hilliard is here, pleasantly enough ; Claire
Whitney is chemically pure, and Walter
A n episode from ' ' The Squaw Man 's
Son." In the foreground: Anita
King and Wallace Rcid.
Law is the most perfecth
awful man. There is a lot
i>f excitement in this
cinema.
(jeorge Walsh is evi-
dently pursuing Doug
Fairl)anks' hurdle records
with "The Book Agent."
;\ rushing comedy drama
of unusually lively sort,
directed by Otis 'Furner.
Stewart Holmes is
in line for con-
graulations, for
he is not content
to rest upon the
laurels of a
jteculiarly original
kind of villainy,
nstead. he is going
fter character stuff,
nd going after it
a r d. Witness, his
ewest vehicle, "A
{roadway Sport."
IS KENYON.
'homas Holding
md Paul (jordon are
h e luminaries o f
^^^^^^^^^____ 'The (Ireat White
Trail," an Alaskan melo-
drama made by tlie Whartons and put forth
by Pathe. The piece is not a novelty, nor
is it especially keen in its character descrip-
tions, but it is swift, direct melodrama; for
the regular picture-patron it will prove real
entertainment.
Despite a shockingly trite and common-
place story, the acting of Edwin Arden,
Gertrude Berkely, Forrest Winant, Helena
Chadwirk and Leonore Harris make "'Hk-
Iron Heart" worth while.
George P'itzmaurice directed "The Iron
Heart," and he also directed, and probably
saved, "Blind Man's Luck," which deploy-
the talents of Mollie King. What couldn'i
Mollie King do in a real story!
Lois Weber has
purposes, but in
rROM time to time
essayed plays with
"Tl\e /Hand thai Rocks the Cradle" she-
strikes pure propaganda. And the propa
ganda, which is birth control, will probably
hit various snags in its course through the
country, although it voids more smoke tlian
fire, and no declarations more revolutionary
The Shadow Stage
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than the reiterated argument that Uirge
families are often a curse to poor people.
The best performance in the piece is given
by Evelyn Selby, as the wife of a laboring
man, most adequately represented by Harry
de More. We follow Sarah from lier
awkwardly coy wedding day to those
drearier days when her oifspring have as-
sumed the proportions of a herd, and she
has grown old and frantic with care. Miss
Selby's is really a remarkable performance.
Miss Weber lierself plays a good part,
Phillips Smalley is at his very Ipest as a
physician, and the production as a wliole
is marked by that air of finished realism
which is the Weber trademark. 1 wouldn't
call this an attempt to capitalize tlie
Margaret Sanger notoriety, for 1 tlnnk Lois
Weber is a bit bigger than that — neverthe-
less, a photoplay of this sort is a waste of
time.
Among other Universal offerings —
"Bringing Home Father." A town
politics satire, in which Franklyn Farnuni
smiles so persistently and irritatinglv that
Just one little tear would be as welcome
relief as a rain m Death Valley.
"Southern Justice." A genuine story oL
the Cumberlands, featuring Myrtle Gon-
zalez and George Hernandez. A gootl
scenario, good acting, good photography.
"The Dolls' House." Ibsen is going
around the camera field as he swept the
women's clubs, twenty years ago. This
production, a very careful, thoughtful one,
was made by Joseph DeGrasse, and it is
evident that Mr. DeGrasse approached his
task not only with enthusiasm, but with
reverence. Dorothy Phillips, as Nora, and
Lon Chaney, as Nils Krogstad, are the
most successful members of the cast.
"Treason." A poor story, uncertainly
directed by Allen Holubar, who also per-
forms one of the principal persons.
"Like Wildfire." Here Herbert Rawlin-
son and Neva Gerber act out a tableaux
based upon the romance of a five-and-ten-
cent store. Obvious, but where I saw it
they liked it.
(Continued on page J 43)
Bessie Barriscale as a teller of tales in " Bawbs o' Blue Ridge.'
Jackie is an ardent Golfer in her spare moments.
SHE was christened "Jacque-
line" some 24 years ago in
the City of Brotherly Love,
but no one but her Sunday
School teacher ever called her that.
To every one else she has been
Jackie and not even a secure place
in the film firmament together
with a big house overlooking the
broad and gentle Pacific Ocean
have brought about any desire for a
more sonorous or dignified front
name.
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You think this is a
snap? You're right—
it's a ginger-snap!
Miss Saunders began her career as an art model and
is now regarded as one of the best culinary experts in
the actorial profession. She can cook or bake anything
that was ever thought of by tlie most deft of cuisine
dabblers and this constitutes her favorite sport.
What has art modelling got to do with cooking?
Nothing at all.
It just goes to show that there is art in anything that
is well done.
Getting back to those early days however, Jackie posed
for such noted masters of the brush as Howard C.
Christy, Harrison Fisher and Clarence Underwood.
Jackie boasts an aviary full of
brilliant-feathered pets.
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Before that time however, Miss Saunders
had been a child dancer before the foot-
lights. She made her debut in Atlantic
City with a troupe of ''dancing dolls" and
was such a success that she turned to the
stage for her life work.
"l" made uj) my mind that 1 wouldn't
start at the bottom." said Miss Saunders
in recounting her early adventures, "so
when r applied for an engagement and was
asked if I had had camera exj^erience, I
said 'yes.' I was cast for a leading part
and my first scene was in front of Grace
Church in New York. I had to rush up
and kill, with a dagger, a girl going in to
be married. ^\"e did the thing without
rehearsing. I was so frightened that 1
didn't know what I was about. A big
crowd was lookmg on. But the picture
came out fine, so I made good from the
start."
Then, as all stars of the motion pictures
began to trek westward, Miss Saunders fol-
lowed suit. After working in various
studios, she joined the Balboa forces at
Long Beach, and has been there three years.
The first big picture that brought this
young star to the favorable notice of
screen followers was "The Will U' the
Wisp." It gave her ebullient personality
free rein to disport itself. Then came
"The Rose of the Allej'," which was Miss
Saunders' own story. She developed it into
a lour-rcel scenario herself. Other striking
pieces in which she has been featured are
"Reaping the \\'hirlwind," "111 Starred
Babbie," "A Bolt from the Sky," "The
."^hrine of Happiness," "The Grip of Evil,"'
a Balboa serial, "Sunny Jane," "The Wild-
cat," and others, these latter being on the
Mutual program.
"Do I like pictures?" echoed Miss Saun-
ders in reply to a ijuestion. "\Miy shouUln't
I ? All the prominence I have ever achieved
has been before the camera. It has been a
glorious adventure. I like the life and the
activity of the cinema world. But some
day I hope to have a chance before the
public. I think there will be opportunities
for players to alternate between the stage
and the screen, in the future. But right
now, I am satisfied where I am."
THEY CAN'T BE KEPT APART
Mae Marsh and Robert Harron, re-united at the Goldwyn studio. They are the central figures. At the
left, director Jack Noble; at the right, cameraman George Hill.
It Should Have Been Different
THAT 15, VIVIAN MARTIN'S MIDDLE
INITIAL SHOULD HAVE BEEN
AN "I" INSTEAD OF AN "L"
By Kenneth MacGaffey
WHEN Vivian Martin's
little pink eyelids fluttered
for the first time she
gazed cut upon the great city of
Sparta, Mich.
With that magnificent decision
which has characterized every mo-
mentous epoch of her illustrious
career, she decided that Sparta was no
place to begin a stage career — and she
moved.
Before her departure, however,
at the age of two months, she
attended to a small detail con-
nected with her future convenience,
and to save friends from embarrass-
ment. You know there is nothing
more ainioying than a
popular society girl who
has no name, whatever
or however. So our
baby heroine, again
Her breakfast:
coffee and
"Photoplay."
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"Vim" is the slang for
"pep." and it is the only
word in the frequently
broken English language
which really describes
Miss Martin.
Alas ! How little names
and initials usually mean,
considering our haphazard
system of nomenclature.
Many a Percy is driving
a truck, and in the past of
many an aesthetic dancer
lurks a Mike. One of tlie
sweetest chorus boys I
ever knew gave himself a
f a n c y monaker t h a t
sounded like a Belgian
church, whereas the parish
])riest had christened him
Luke O'Brien. And
"Julian Eltinge" votes as
plain Bill Dalton.
Be these things as they
may and must — •
O u r grammar - grade
histories tell us that at
four years, after review-
ing all trades, professions,
arts and jobs, little Vivian
selected the stage as tlie
fortunate medium for tlie
To her fast little car she is
not only racing driver, but
mechanic. Below, you see her
in a scene from "The Wishing
Ring. "
evidencing that decision and forethought, had her
self christened. After a considerable discussion
the conference committee having this in charge
decided that little It should be called Vivian
Louise Martin.
Napoleon, it is said, lost Waterloo and
the world because it rained on the June
night before the great battle. Vivian
Louise Martin probably didn't lose any-
thing, present or future, because her middle
name commenced wdth an "L," but a great
opportunity passed by without even putting
on the brakes.
If Vivian's parents had gazed into the
future tliey would have made that "L" an "I,
at any cost, so that now, on the Morosco star's
gray roadster the initials reading "V L M," which
mean nothing, would instead read "V I M."
It Should Have Been Different
97
Holbrook Blinn and
the wee star
exjiression of h e r
abundant talents, and
permitted the late
Richard Mansfield to
give her a part in
"Cyrano d e B e r-
gerac."
Then society de-
manded its toll, and
the youthful artist
was taken from tlie
stage and sent to
school. When she
decided that the
teachers had nothing
on her, as far as
general knowledge
was concerned, the footlights began wink-
mg at her again.
About this time the late Charles Froh-
man, deciding that Maude Adams was
making so tremendous a success in "Peter
Pan" that the country could stand a
duplicate, sat at his desk one gay morning,
going over the list of eligibles, much in
manner and quantity as your Uncle Sam
reviews the draft registration. And in
walked, practically unannounced, an elfish,
piquant little body who wanted to know
what Mr. Frohman had for her.
While Mr. Frohman was peeking under
the table, trying to find the breath that
this audacity had knocked out of him. the
visitor spoke.
"I'm iust the Peter Pan vou're lookhi"
t5
Crane,
scored
666,"
and
Miss Martin, in one of for," she announced
s first photoplays. .^i^h such sweet as-
surance that she got
the job. And she
Petered for more than
t w o years without
being panned once.
Then Mr. Frohman
put her in "Father
and the Bovs," with
William H.
and later slie
i n "Officer
"Stop Thief,'
"The Only Son."
Then came the in-
evitable camera call.
Three photoplays in the East, and Oliver
Morosco grabbed her with a contract, and
sent her to California.
Miss Martin has been playing with
Louise Huff and Jack Pickford at the
Morosco studios, lately.
Louise is her particular chum and ac-
complice in crimes, the most glaring of
which were the hiding of Hobart Bos-
worth's moustache, and the kidnaping and
concealment of Lottie Pickford's tiny
daughter, for more than an hour. She has
even been known to pick on poor, defense-
less little ^\'allie Reid, just because Wallie
IS learning to play the sa.xophone.
For recreation Miss Martin drives her car
into inaccessible spots, or worries a tennis
ball.
For the Puzzle Fans
ANSWERS TO THE EYE PUZZLE
I AST month the answers to the Eye
Puzzle in the May issue were acci-
dentally omitted. Here they are :
1 Blanche Sweet
2 Henry Walthall
3 Mary Pickford
4 Francis Bushman
5 Bessie Barriscale
6 Anita Stewart
7 Charles Chaplin
8 Clara Kimball
Young
9 William Hart
10 Geraldine Farrar
12 Crane Wilbur
13 Norma Talmadge
14 Douglas Fairbanks
15 Theda Bara
16 House Peters
17 Mary Miles Minter
18 William Farnum
19 Mae Marsh
20 Mabel Normand
21 Charles Ray
• ANSWERS TO THE LIP PUZZLE
|_|ERE are the answers to the Lip Puzzle,
which appeared in the June issue of
this magazine.
II Marguerite Clark 22 Ethel Clayton
1 Anita Stewart
2 Wallace Reid
3 Mabel Normand
4 Charles Chaplin
5 Blanche Sweet
6 Francis Bushman
7 Helen Holmes
8 Roscoe Arbuckle
9 Clara K. Young
10 Harold Lockwood
11 Douglas Fairbanks
12 Grace Cunard
IT, Charles Ray
14 Mary Pickford
15 William Hart
16 Kathiyn Williams
17 Earle Williams
18 Pearl White
19 William Desmond
20 Ethel Clayton
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HEAVY ARTILLERY OF CHURCH AND STAGE
How often you see the interior of a church, or the interior of an old-fashioned theatre—so simple in
its appointments, and so naturally lighted that Klieqe lamps and Cooper- Hetvitts seem a thousand
miles removed. Yet here's the reality: a veritable furnace of light above, behind and at each side.
Back of it all the director, like a general in a battle, and his howitzer of a camera.
" A Lotta Bunk, Mary "
MARY THURMAN, the beautiful titian of Keystonia, whose athletic prowess has
not been hidden under a bushel bv the Sennett intelligence bureau, was the heroine
of a recent tale regarding some of the athletic records she made while a student at
yassar. Most beautiful actresses of screenland are graduates of that feminine institu-
tion of learning, if all press agents are to be believed. But that's another story.
_ A Keystone director was reading one of these stories recently and upon completing
It, cast It aside with a disgusted grimace. "A lotta bunk, Mary,"" he declaimed with the
air of one who could not be fooled. "I'll bet tliat not even any of the fellows at Vassar
could make such records."
A Man of Many
Mothers
Fannie Ward
takes Billy to
lunch — and
Billy takes the
litncli to him-
self.
^ J »^.
HOW would you like to be mothered by Fannie Ward,
Marie Doro and Blanche Sweet or big sistered by Mae
Murray? Little Billy Jacobs, the five-year-old Lasky
player, says it's all very well in its way but he'd much rather
be a chauffeur.
Billy had been planning to be a police- ^ .*,
man when he grew up. But he now owns ,
an automobile, purchased by his parents
from his savings, and he has decided to
be a chauffeur with goggles and every-
thing when his legs get long enougli to
reach the accelerator. Blonde maternal
caresses and the attentions of petite silk-
stockinged nurse maids now pall upon him.
But we wonder if Bill is ever going to
remember those scorned attentions with
regret.
Billy, by the way, can point to a greater
collection of celebrated parents than any
other child in the universe. Every week
finds him enjoying the motherlv caresses of
a celebrated film star — and being paid for
it. Billy is equally cluttered up in the
matter of fathers. A score or more of big
names have paid him paternal attention.
But little Billy is patiently waiting the
day when he can stand beside a fashion-
able limousine and say, "Where to, sir?"
just like that.
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So the grizzled one-legged "salt" retold in glowing worek
A LITTLE girl
with shining
eyes sat hud-
dled in a corner of
the fire-place at "The
Fisherman's Rest."
"Tell me that story,
all over again, Cap-
tain Barnaby. It was
beautiful."
So the grizzled one-
legged salt retold in
glowing words the
old, old story of
Aladdin and his won-
derful 1 a m p, and
Patsy Smith, the lit-
tle household drudge
at Mrs. Duff's sailors'
boarding house, drank
it in and believed
every word of it.
"What became of
the lamp. Captain
Barnaby?"
But the retired sea-
captain was getting
sleepy. "Oh, the
lamp's knocking
around town some-
where," he said care-
lessly.
"You don't mean
to say in this vil-
lage?"
"Yes, some sailor
brought it home with
h i m from a long
c r u i s e." The cap-
tain's head Avas nod-
ding.
"What did he look
like?"
But Captain Bar-
naby was fast asleep
in his chair.
Out of the house ran Patsy, first chang-
ing her night-garb for her gingham frock,
just in time to escape the watchful Mrs.
Duff, who could always find something
else to be done after everything was as
spick and span as soap and water could
make it.
"Patsy, come back here," cried the
dragon.
But already Patsy was half-way to the
brow of the cliff, to meet Harrv Hardv,
Aladdin's
When the genie of materia
ever, came the greatest mir
By Jane
100
[the old, old story of Aladdin and his wonderful lamp.
Other Lamp
racles had disappeared for-
e of all: a mother's love.
aest
the grocer's boy. For
Harry was not an
ordinary grocer's boy.
No, indeed '. He was
a fine, high-minded
\-outh. and he was
studying to be a
lawyer. Ever before
his eyes was the image
of Abraham Lincoln,
the ideal after whom
he was moulding his
life. Patsy had in-
tended to tell him at
once all about Alad-
din and the lamp, but
Harry was scowling'
at a paper he held in
his hand, and the cur-
rent of her thoughts
was changed.
"Look at this," he
commanded.
Patsy obligingly
read it. " 'Vote for
Stephen Burley for
Mayor.' Why, you
can't, Harry, you're
not old enough."
'"I don't want to
V o t e for h i m. I
wouldn't vote for him
if I could. But that's
fame. Patsy ! Some
da\- my name is go-
ing to be on the hand-
bills, running for
Mayor."
Patsy's blue eyes
opened wide. "You
don't say !"
"I do say! And
that's only the begin-
ning! Then I'm go-
ing to be Congress-
man, and then Fm
going to be Governor, and then, — maybe
I'll be President. Abraham Lincoln
was !"
"Harry!"
"And you'll be there too, Patsy. You'll
have servants, and beautiful dresses, and
do your hair up high on your head — even
if you are only a drudge now in Mrs. Duff's
boarding house."
Patsy's eyes flashed fire. "Well, I
haven't alwavs been Mrs. Duff's drudge.
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I can just remember, we used to have serv-
ants too. Only father was always scold-
ing mother, and then she took me to live at
my uncle's, and then father came one day
and took me away on a lK)at. Then father
died, and Captain Barnaby brouglit me to
Mrs. Duff's. But I'm sure my dear beau-
tiful mother is living, and I'm sure she's
a wonderful lady — wonderful enough to
belong to any President's family, so
there !"
She gasped for breatli. She had never
talked so much at once in all her life, for
Patsy was one of those rare and lovable
persons, a dreamer of dreams. Harry made
haste to comfort his little sweetheart. "I'm
sure she's wonderful,
Patsy. And we'll have
her in the White House
with us. But now you
must go home. You
mustn't catch cold and
get sick again."
Alone once more, and
in her quaint bed attire,
back looking at the dying
re-place at Augustus Phillips
Caj'tain Barnaby . .Henry Hallam
Mrs. Duff Ricca Allen
J. like Stinisoii Edward Elkus
Mrs. Helen Smithfield
Nellie Grant
Judye Lawrence. . .Loius B. Foley
embers in the
"The Fisherman's Rest,
Patsy's thoughts returned
to that surprising person,
Aladdin, and his wonder-
ful lamp, which was now
in this very village. If
she could only find it she could rub it and
wish for her beautiful mother to appear.
Where could it be? She stared into the
glowing coals until sour-faced Mrs. Duff
came and sent her upstairs to bed. "Be
off with you, now. We've got to get up
early, in the morning to clean out all that
old rubbish in the attic to sell to the junk-
peddler. It's been cluttering up the place
long enough."
"Oh, Mrs. Duff, not my trunk too. I've
never even seen the inside of it."
"Of course. How else am I going to
get paid for your care and the doctor's
bill when you were sick? Here, come back !
You can't go until you've said your
prayers."
Strange things were in the old trunk,
curios brought from the far corners of the
earth, — an old stone tablet with a strange
inscription, a mummy, and an old lamp, of
peculiar Oriental design, dull and battered.
"A mess of rubbish," said Mrs. Duff to
herself as she clo.sed the trunk. "That won't
"ALADDIN'S OTHER LAMP"
NARRATED, 1) y permission
from Willard Mack's photo-
play of the same name, which has
been produced hy Metro Pictures
Corporation witli the following
cast :
Patricia Smith, known as
Patsy Viola Dana
Harry Hardy Robert Walker
Genie Jehaunarara
bring much." And it didn't, for Mr. Stim-
son, the junk -dealer, was a shrewd business
man.
Next morning Patsy hurried with her
work as never before, an.xious to start out
on her (juest. She tried the crockery-store
first.
"Do you happen to have Aladdin's
lamp?" she asked Mr. Brown, the pro-
prietor. Mr. Brown was a kindly man.
He did not know what the little girl was
up to, but thought he would humor her.
"Oh, you've made a mistake. Patsy.
You'd never find a valuable lamp like that
in a crockery and glassware store. It would
break, you know. It ought to be made of
metal. Try Mr. Stimson's.
He has a lot of things
that are all out of style.
1 have to keep up-to-date,
you know."
As she didn't find the
lamp anywhere else, and
tlie people she asked only
laughed at her, she went
to Mr. Stimson's.
"Why, yes, I have such
a lamp," he admitted.
Her heart beat high
with hope. "Oh, did a
sailor bring it to vou?"
"I think he d'id," lied
Mr. Stimson cheerfully.
"What did lie look like?"
"Why, I think he was a one-eyed man, —
yes, and he limped, too."
"It sounds likely," said Patsy. "How
— how much- is the lamp?"
"Five dollars."
"Keep it for me. Please keep it for me,
Mr. Stimson," implored Patsy, and she was
off like the wind to open her bank and
give up all her worldly wealth in exchange
for a battered old metal lamp. Her hoard
amounted to $4.90 — and a beer-check that
some sailor had given her in fun. Mr.
Stimson balked at the $4.90 — but relented
when he saw the beer-check. The wonder-
ful lamp was Patsy's.
The rest of the day she could think of
nothing but her treasure. She did not dare
to touch it until she was alone for the
night in her own little room under the
eaves, where the rain sometimes made such
a lovely soft patter that she couldn't help
going to sleep. It was raining now. Patsy
said goodnight to the cross Mrs. Duff,
Aladdin's Other Lamp
103
Sour.faced Mrs. Duff came and sent Her to^ W. ^Be^ojf^mtk you. no.. We've ,ot to ,et up early
put on her little nightclothes, and when
she was all ready for bed, with the rain
making its soothing patter, — rubbed the
lamp.
There was a flash, and then utter dark-
ness. Was it lightning? But no! there
before her appeared out of the very atmos-
phere a wonderful figure, fierce and mag-
nificent, his robes somewhat tattered after
his two thousand years' imprisonment — the
genie of Aladdin's lamp! Patsy could
scarcely believe her eyes.
"Who — who are you?" she gasped.
The vision bowed low. "The Genie
Jehaunarara, at your service."
"I can't say it," said Patsy. "Until I
get a better education, I'll just have to
call you Jennie." A shudder passed
through the regal figure at having to
answer to a name so undignified and fem-
inine, but he was the slave of the lamp.
He must obey.
"Two claps of the liands make me ap-
pear," said the Genie. "Three claps of
the hands make me disappear. But beware
how you clap four times, — for then I
should disappear forever. What are your
commands, fair lady?"
There were so many things Patsy wanted
that she scarcely knew what to command
first. The bare walls and ugly furniture
met her view^ "Jennie, I command you,
change this room," she said haughtily, with
her first use of her new-found authority.
Slowly, magically, the ugly room was
transformed. The hideous, broken-down
furniture gradually lost its outlines, and
seemed to melt into more graceful lines.
Magically it covered itself with rich and
glowing tapestries, all in rose-color, — Patsy
loved rose-color. In pure happiness she
clapped her hands three times. The Genie
disappeared. In a hurry, remembering the
Genie's instructions, she clapped her hands
twice, and he reappeared gasping for
breath.
"Be careful. Patsy," he admonished.
"Don't do that again."
"Oh, I'm sorry," said Patsy. "I will be
more careful."
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"What is your next command?" asked
"Jennie," bowing low.
A flood of memories poured itself into
the girl's mind — years filled with Mrs.
Duff's scoldings, coldness, and petty
cruelties, years in which no love or kind-
ness from her had warmed Patsy's mis-
understood little heart.
"Change Mrs. Duff into a rag doll !"
slie commanded.
"It is done!" said the Genie. "Let's
go and .see. I'm from Missouri," said
Patsy. So grabbing the digniiied Cjenie
by the hand she ran with him downstairs
to Mrs. Duff's room, forgetting that if
she had wished it they might have simply
melted through the ceiling. Sure enough,
there was Mrs. Duff, lying on the bed,
shrunk to the size of a rag doll. "She
doesn't fit in the bed, does she?" said Patsy.
So she took her up and pinned her to the
window curtain. "There! she makes a
nice ornament, which she never did in
life."
Captain Barnaby, hearing unusual noises
of mirth, had come to find out the mean-
ing of it. "Oh, Jennie, make the Cap-
tain's other leg grow good again." In-
stantly it was done, and Captain Barnaby
joined Patsy in a glorious game of tossing
the rag doll, Mrs. Duff, around the room.
Then Patsy, discovering that her other
wishes had been granted, dared to ask the
(jenie Jehaunarara for her heart's desire.
"Jennie," she pleaded, "take me to my
mother."
He shook his head sadly. "Love, the
greatest thing in the world," he said, "is
the one thing I cannot give you. All other
things are only substitutes for it. Those
I can give you in abundance, but that is
not within my magic power."
Patsy just had to cry — she couldn't help
it. But a new hope dawned. Harry was
so clever. He would be able to help the
Genie find her mother. In a moment they
had wished themselves into Harry's room,
the Genie, the Captain and Patsy. But
Harry was not there.
"Harry has gone to a masquerade ball,"
said the Genie.
"Let's go," said Patsy. "Let's go in an
automobile."
"What kind?" asked the Genie.
Patsy asked for the only kind she knew.
"A Ford ! a Ford limousine !"
So in a specially constructed machine
they went to the ball, which was at Norma
Dallas' hou.se. Norma Dallas was the
richest girl in the village, and Patsy was
dreadfully jealous of her. "Give me a
beautiful costume," Patsy commanded
Jennie, — "much prettier than Norma's."
Then she .smiled at Harry, and he couldn't
help admiring her more than he did Norma,
and she danced nearly every dance with
him.
After the grand march prizes were
awarded for the best costumes, and the
Genie got first prize. His disgust was
complete when they fastened on him a
wrist-watch. "What is time to a man who
lias to spend tliousands of years cooped up
in a lamp?" lie grumbled under his breath.
But aloud he said, "Thank you," very
graciously. Then everybody applauded,
and Patsy applauded with them.
She had clajjped four times before she
knew what she was doing, and the Genie,
with one last reproachful look at Patsy,
<lisappeared in a cloud of smoke — gone
forever. There was Patsy, standing in
the midst ©f the gorgeously appareled com-
pany in the little night-drawers in whicli
she had gone to bed ! Everybody laughed,
and Patsy, covered with shame and morti-
fication, rushed from the house into the
garden and cried as if her heart would
break. A beautiful woman, the only one
who had not laughed, came out to comfort
her ! It was her mother ! Patsy held out
her arms to her — and woke up ! Mother,
Genie, and rag doll — all were dreams and
dream-fancies !
Patsy took that old lamp she had bought
from Mr. Stimson and threw it just as
hard as she could, right out of the open
window. It came near hitting Harry
Hardy, the grocer's boy, who was passing
in the early morning on his way to work.
Instead, it glanced past him, hitting the
pavement, the top coming off as it re-
bounded, spilling papers and trinkets all
around. Looking up to find out where it
come from, Harry saw Patsy's frightened
face at the window. He picked up the
scattered bits, and she ran downstairs to
join him. Together the two sat on the
door step in the early dawn and read the
letters that had been hidden so long in
the old trunk in the attic. One was from '
Patsy's mother, pleading with her husband
to bring back her little girl. It was signed
"Helen Smithfield."
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105
"Then Smithfield must be my real name,"
said Patsy. "Mrs. Duff has always called
me just Patsy Smith. Do you suppose my
mother could be still living at the address
given here?"
"Let's write and find out," suggested
Harry.
"Oh, no, a letter isn't quick enough.
Let's send a telegram." But Patsy had
spent every cent she had in the world for
the lamp, so Harry went downtown and
sent the telegram for her.
Miracles do happen sometimes in this
wonderful old world. Mrs. Smithfield did
live at the same address, in the old family
home with Patsy's uncle. Judge Lawrence.
A wire saying simply, "Coming. Mother,"
was sent to Miss Patricia Smithfield, and
then bags were hastily packed for the jour-
ney.
Never did a train move so slowly.
"Wasn't it possible to get a faster train?"
Mrs. Smithfield asked her brother. "This
The rest of the day she could think of nothing but her treasure.
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is an express, Helen," he answered, with
a smile of sympathy for lier anxious mother
heart, "we couldn't go any faster except
by aeroplane."
In the dingy parlor of "The Fisher-
man's Rest" Patsy, Captain Harnaby and
Harry awaited their arrival. They came
in a wonderful motor car — not a dream
one. The meeting between the mother and
lier poor little neglected girl was too
sacred, too touching for otlier eyes to wit-
ness. The men cleared their throats, and
went outside on the doorstep to get
accjuainted. Tlien. throwing herself on her
mother's bosom, Patsy sobbed out the lone-
liness and acccumu-
lated heartaches of
lier vears under Mrs.
Duff's roof. But
liai)piness gleamed
like a rainbow
through her tears.
Never again would
sorrow come near
her. Here was a
mother more beauti-
ful than any she
had imagined. The
realization was bet-
ter than any dream,
and the old lamp,
so long lost sight of
in the attic, had
brought her more
joy than Aladdin's lamp had ever known.
The men came in from the ricketty old
porch of "The Fisherman's Rest." "This
young man wants to be a lawyer," said
the Judge, placing his hand on Harry's
shoulder, "so he's coming along with me.
I've persuaded him to give up the grocery
business for a while, and read law in my
office."
Into this earthly heaven intruded Mrs.
Duff, who wanted to know the meaning
of the scene. "It means I am leaving your
services," said Patsy with quaint dignity.
"You will have to get another girl."
Mrs. Duff raised a corner of her apron
and wiped her eyes. Could it be that she
was really fond of Patsy after all? Or
were they only crocodile tears? Who but
Mrs. Duff could say? AnyAvay, Patsy de-
cided to be magnanimous, and bestowed
a forgiving smile on Mrs. Duff as she left
her house forever.
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What happiness there was in that new
home ! What amazing things to see, and
what difficult things to learn ! With all
the seriousness and sincerity of her lov-
ing little heart Patsy set about this new
task of learning to be a lady, to make
herself worthy of this beautiful mother,
rhe madcap Patsy had vanished. In her
place was a demure, dainty maiden named
Patricia. But Patricia, like Patsy, was
true-hearted. Her thoughts were still of
Harry, the grocer's boy, although now he
was young Mr. Hardy, Judge Lawrence's
assistant.
Patsy saw very little of Harry now. She
knew he devoted most of his time to study,
for she had heard
her Uncle remark,
"Mr. Hardy is
making great prog-
ress ; a most ambi-
tious young man,"
and Patsy wondered
if ambition had
crowded love out of
his heart.
He called to see
lier one afternoon,
his arms full of law
books he intended
to study that eve-
ning. The image
of Abraham Lin-
coln still loomed
large in his mind,
and Patsy was a living incentive, always
urging him on to greater effort. Patsy very
charming in a little white frock ran to
greet him. .\nd what a happy little visit
they had ! They talked of Patsy's good
fortune and Harry's future, which most
certainly included Patsy.
And the battered old lamp that had
brought about so much happiness and made
possible the realization of their dreams,
now occupied the place of honor in a very
handsome cabinet. Harry gazed at the
lamp and smiled. "It has brought us a lot
already. Patsy — I mean Patricia." he said
apologetically. "If it isn't Aladdin's origi-
nal lamp at least it's his other lamp. And
I believe it is going to bring us the rest."
"The rest?" asked Patricia, with smiling
eyes.
"You know !" he said, bashfully taking
her hand "You^and I — and your beautiful
mother — in the White House."
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Palestine Among the Peons
When a little old town down in the land
of cactus, sand and sagebrush, where the
inhabitants are supposed to strut about with
flaming bandannas draped around their
necks and a bevy of bullet propellers dec-
orating their waist lines, comes at you with
the serious assertion that they are going
to produce Bible motion pictures in those
parts, // kind o' makes you take quick
breaths and forthwith begin to visualize
a certain member of the Old Timers' Club
named Annanias, doesn't it ?
And yet that is exactly what the New
Mexico city of Las Vegas has up and
announced. They have discovered, after
a thorough investigation in other localities,
that their topography is as near Palestine
as any other spot in North America. A
Bibleland expert shewed them in their
hills exact reproductions of the Horn of
Hatton where occurred the Sermon on the
Mount, Mount Hermon — the scene of the
Transiiguration, the Garden of Gethsemane
and many other holy land-like places. As
a result the Bible Film Company will be-
gin immediately the production of Bible
motion pictures. Every foot of film will
be censored by a board of inter-denomina-
tional nationally known clergymen. This
procedure will not only insure the proper
sacred treatment, historical and chronolog-
ical correctness of the new company's out-
put but will also practically guarantee its
entree into churches, Y. M. C. A.'s and
"■imilar institutions.
The Bible Film Company's studio and
plant is located at the famous Montezuma
Hot Springs, six miles north of Las Vegas.
THE
INCE
O F
ETHIOPIA
Photo by StagkT
This is a very remarkable camera. Its brunette operator assures us that he shoots in any light, and
that a picture taken with it in the dead of night would be just as good as one exposed in California's
dazzling moon.
IP [ays ancfT'layeTS
FACT5 AND NEAR-FACTS ABOUT THE
GREAT AND NEAR-GREAT OF FILMLAND
WHO will they take? has been the big
question of the month with reference
to the conscription law and the male stars of
the shadow stage. A majority of them are
within the limits prescribed as to age and it
is more than likely that the film world will be
robbed, temporarily at least, of many of its
luminaries when the draft is made. Those
who have passed the age maximum of the
initial draft are not without their worries
however, especially those who are in the big
money class. The increased income tax has
made some of them wish they had muzzled the
press agent concerning their new contracts.
THE picture people have done their part in
stimulating recruiting and the purchase of
war bonds. The screen has been a big factor
in the happenings of
the last few months
and those associated
with the film industry
have not been back-
ward in showing their
patriotism in a ma-
terial way. In all of
the big studios every
effort was made to co-
operate with the
government in doing
their "bit." A n d
sometimes it was a
pretty good sized
"bit."
RUTH ROLAND
quit California a
few months ago for
the so-called eflfete
East. Except for a
few letters telling of
her extreme lone-
someness, her Los
Angeles friends heard
little of her. Then
one day came word
that Ruth had wed.
It was a big sensation
in Los Angeles,
Hollywood and Long
Beach to say nothing
of Gasoline Row; the
latter because the
newest addition to the
"Only Their Hus-
bands Club" is a well
known auto salesman
of Los Angeles. The
ceremony was per-
formed at Patchogue, N. Y. For the benefit
of those who are interested in the identity of
the husbands of the stars, it may be added that
the name of the husband is Lionel E. Kent.
CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG and Louis J.
Selznick have come to the parting of the
ways, as they say. At least thi;. is inferred
because of the suit recently brought by Miss
Young for an accounting of the fiscal affairs
of the Clara Kimball Young Corporation. The
complaint of the actress alleges that the profits
on her i)icturcs amounted to something like
$600,000 while all she received was a beg-
garly thousand plunks a week. The reply of
lier manager is that the break came because
he refused to pay a "personal manager" of
her own selection an absurd salary. Coupled
with reports that the
Mabel Normand Fea-
ture Film Corporation
had likewise suc-
cumbed after the
completion of
"Mickey," the solitary
photoplay of that con-
cern the Young inci-
dent caused quite a
flurrj' in the "stars in
their own corpora-
tions" movement.
H
the
has
E R B E R T
STANDING,
veteran player,
broken into the
court records with a
lawsuit against the
William Fox Com-
pany. He alleges that
he was engaged to
play in a photoplay
ancl that the contract
was broken before its
filming was begun.
He asks $900 dam-
ages.
MARY
LAREN
This cuddling departure was Bill Hart's. At the
moment the photographer stepped on his bulb a
dozen or more young ivomen, gathered at La Grande
Station, Los Angeles, on the eve of Mr. Hart's
recent tour to New York and other provinces, were
wondering if the Caruso of horse opera would kiss
them good-bye. (Editor's Note: We think he did. )
M A C-
h a s
taken the offensive in
her war with Uni-
versal. Following her
legal victory in the
Los Angeles courts
over the right to
break her contract
and to use her stage
name elsewhere. Miss
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MacLaren's attorneys filed an injunction suit
asking that the film company be restrained
from interferitig in any manner with the ex-
hibition of Miss MacLaren's films made by her
own company which recently began work. The
new pictures are being made at the Horsley
studio in Los Angeles.
KALEM seems to be another of the pioneer
film companies to feel the keen competi-
tion in the filin market. Soon after the closing
of the Jacksonville studio, business was almost
completely suspended at the Glendale, Cal.,
studio of the company. Helen Gibson, suc-
cessor to Helen Holmes in the "Hazards"
series, went to L'niversal, the company headed
by Marin Sais was turned out to pasture and
the Ham and Bud partnership alone remained
to keep the plant open.
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS had a birthday
party at his Hollywood home in May.
-Ml the members of his company from .Vuthor
Anita Loos down to the press agent were
present. Bull Montana made the felicitation
address and Spike Robinson poured. It was
a very "suspicious occasion," as Signor ^Ion-
tana said in his remarks.
THE same week also saw a birthday party
at Dustin Farnum's domicile a' few blocks
away. It was a surprise affair and was at-
tended by the elite of the film colony, includ-
ing the colleagues of Mr. Farnum at the Fo.x
studio. Incidentally it marked the expiration
of that player's contract with Fo.x.
CAPTAIN LESLIE T. PEACOCKE. well
known scenario writer and filmplay expert
whose articles in
Photoplay Maga-
zine have been
widely read, is once
more an actor. He
will be seen next
with Jackie Saun-
ders in "Betty Be
Good." Various
reasons were a s -
signed for the cap-
tain's lapse, the
most credible one
being that he had
amassed a total of
42 fancy waistcoats
of which he was
eager to give the
public the benefit.
AAI A N ' S
Man," the
Peter B. Kyne serial
will be the celluloid
vehicle for J. War-
ren Kerrigan's re-
turn to the screen
after a year's see-
ing America first.
It is being filmed at
the Paralta studio
Charlie Ray tvas once a
German comedian, so ar-
dently demanded by the
populace that he couldn't
afford a store wig. This
picture was taken in those
awful times.
in Los Angeles
under the direction
of Oscar Apfel.
BESSIE BAR-
RISCALE, an-
other widely known
star taken over by
Paralta is making
her debut with that
company under the
supervision of
James Young. The
photoplay is an
adaptation of "The
Rose of Paradise."
Robert Brunton,
formerly art direc-
tor of the I n c e
studios, is director
general of Paralta.
HENRY WAL-
THALL is no
longer an Essanayist. His contract expired
early in May and he quit Chicago for New
York to look over a few volumes of proposed
contracts. At this writing he had neither
signed with another company nor started one
of his own.
FRANK ELLIOTT has returned to the
speaking stage and is now in Australia.
Cyril Maude, playing "Grump}^" visited Los
-Angeles and ran across Elliott who had been
on the screen so long that he had almost for-
gotten how to say "Curses." Elliott listened
to the tempter and sailed for the Antipodes.
WHILE impersonating a Red Cross nurse
on a Belgian battlefield near Fort Lee,
New Jersey, Miss Kitty Gordon, World star,
narrowly escaped serious injury by the ex-
plosion of a bomb. Quick action by a camera-
man saved Miss Gordon but Aliss Pinna Nes-
bitt, a member of her company, was pain-
fullv burned.
T
AVLOR HOLMES who created the title
Yes, a duck and a chicken will sometimes
fraternize. Behold Gloria Joy, Balboa's
tiny leading lady, and what tags after her.
Wilson's great story "Bunker Bean," has gone
into 'em. He is now a member of the Es-
sanay staff of stars and will perform in come-
dies upon which that company is now con-
centrating.
EVEN people in the film "game" gave pause,
so to say, when they read a little news
item recently to the effect
that Col. William Selig had
observed the twenty-first anni-
versary of his association with
motion pictures. In an in-
dustry which counts five years
a generation, 21 years is a cen-
tury. It was Colonel Selig
who discovered California in
1909 when he sent the first
motion picture company to Los
Angeles.
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HENRV King, who acquired directorial
fame for his photoplays with Bal)y Marie
Osborne, the Little Mary Sunshine of the
films, has forsaken kids tor grownups. He is
now in Santa Barbara, Cal., looking after the
cincmic welfare of Gail Kane.
GEORGE LARKIN, one of the pioneer
stunt daredevils of the screen, is to be
seen next in a drama with Marguerite Courtot
done by the France Fihn Company. Larkin
was last with Kalem in serials.
PAULINE FREDERICK gave a display of
her patriotism recently by paying $500 for
a silken American flag at the Actors' Fund
Fair and dedicating it to the first regiment
going abroad. It was consecrated at the Fair
with the singing of the National anthem by
Mme. Louise Homer, the operatic star.
MAE MURRAY is no
longer a Famous
Player-Lasky star. Just
wliat happened has not been
divulged but soon after tlie
diminutive e.x-Follics star
had signed a new two year
contract, something o c -
curred to sever her relations
with her film sponsors.
Robert Leonard, Miss Mur-
ray's director, also resigned.
THERE are all sorts of
rumors going the
rounds about Charley Chap-
lin's plans for the coming
year. It is a well authenti-
cated fact that the comedian
has rejected several offers
of what is commonly re-
ferred to as a cool million
for a series of twelve two-
reel comedies. He asked Lillian Gish's " passport picture," taken
that meager stipend for '« New York early in May and attached "J ii e Little American."
eight of them, a rather stag- to the passport permitting her to go to Mary Pickford embarke<l
gering amount, and there England. on her picturization of "Re-
were no takers. This, however, did not worry becca of Sunnybrook Farm." Marshall Neilan
Charles, it is said, as he prefers to make is directing it and Eugene O'Brien, who played
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR., will prob-
ably grow up to be a humorist unless his
father takes steps to curb his funniness. The
other day young Douglas who is just half-past-
seyen, was swapping stories with some of the
neighborhood kids. "Say" said one of them,
"wily does everybody call your fatiier
'Doug.' " "Oh," responded the son of the
screen star, "I guess it's because his name is
Herman."
S RANKIN DREW is the first of the well
known film stars to enter actual service
abroad. He joined the American .Ambulance
Corps as a driver after completing his con-
tract with Aletro. Mr. Drew is a son of
Sidney Drew and was with X'itagraph for a
number of years. His biggest job with that
company was "The (.irl Philippa" which he
directed as well as playing the male lead oppo-
site .Anita Stewart. His
last Metro was "The Belle
of the Season" with Emmy
Wehlen.
MERGER note: William
Russell, star of .*\mer-
ican-Mutuals and leading
citizen of Santa Barbara,
Cal., and Charlotte Burton,
eeiually well known screener,
were married in Los .An-
geles several weeks ago.
They had a motor honey-
moon and then took up their
housekeei)ing duties at the
Russell ranch on the out-
skirts of Santa Barbara.
Miss Burton was with
American for several years,
both as ingenue, heavy and
vamp.
FOLLOWING the com-
pletion of her war play
pictures on his own hook and sell them him-
self. In these days of aviating grub, one must
do the best one can for one self. The avowed
ambition of Chaplin is to do at least one big
dramatic feature, in order to show the world
that he is something more than a clown. To
this end he has purchased the rights to Hall
Caine's "The Prodigal Son" and will film it
with himself in the title role. His brother
Syd Chaplin is also to have a part in it. Of
course if Charley is drafted it will have some
effect on his future plans.
PAUL POWELL is the latest directorial ac-
quisition at the Fox. Hollywood studio.
He has forsaken Bessie Love at Culver City
to become the mentor of George Walsh, re-
ferred to by Fox scriveners as "gingery," "full
of pep," etc. Powell was formerly a news-
paper reporter and is a graduate of the Griffith
school of direction.
opposite Miss Pickford in "Poor Little Pep-
pina" is officiating in like manner in the newest
Artcraft picture.
ANN.A LITTLE has forsaken the bright
lights of New York for her own beloved
West, as it were. She will be seen next in her
old familiar cowgirl role opposite Harold
Lockwood in a "Western." All of the ex-
teriors were made on the Hooker ranch, 40
miles from Prescott, Arizona.
VOGUE Films have passed out of vogue,
so to speak. Ben Turpin. the eccentric
portrayer of slapstick, hit the Keystone trail
and Paddy McGuire went to the comedy de-
partment at the Fox studio.
JULIETTE D.AY and Julia Sanderson have
listened to "the old, old story" and signed
contracts with Mutual. Miss Day is getting
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111
her film education under the direction of Rol-
Im Sturgeon at the American Santa Barbara
studio and the star of "Sibyl" is getting wise
to the camera in New York'
ART item: Everett Shinn, the famous
illustrator, has taken up motion picture
directmg. He is doing it for Goldwyn pic-
tures.
ALTHOUGH mystery enshrouds the Fair-
banks cantonment with respect to the
successor to "Wild and Woolly," information
has seeped out that the new vehicle of the irre-
pressible Douglas will be a sort of back-to-
nature afifair with the head of the Fairbanks
family installed as the kaiser of a desert
island.
BEN WILSON, Universality has joined the
touring stars. That is, he is traveling
about the country and showing up at theaters
which are running his "Voice on the Wire"
serials and giving the fans a treat. Bill Hart,
the prcsidente of Inceville, spent a month
trouping, and has just returned to the quiet
life of the film plains after Pullmaning over
the continent.
EUGENE MOORE who directed many of
the Gladys Hulette photoplays for Than-
houser is now installed as a director at Uni-
versal City. He went west to look after the
filming of Baby Marie Osborne and made sev-
eral pictures in which the baby star slione.
BILLY BITZER, chief cameraman for D.
W. Griffith, has followed his boss to the
This "compound hound" is one of the interesting
freak dogs of the Lasky studio. He has a head like
a wire terrier and the body of a Newfoundland.
Mary Fairbanks and Doug Pickford seem to be
friends of his.
Alma Reuben, an Ince
acquirement from
Fine Arts and soon to
be starred in an im-
portant new series oj
Ince plays.
western front.
When Griffith first
wanted Bitzer to ac-
company him to
Europe, the camera-
man objected be-
cause of his Teu-
tonic name and
physiognomy, so it
i s presumed that
Griffith squared
things for his lieu-
tenant after reach-
ing the center of
European gravity.
In addition to films
taken for the Allied
governments. Grif-
fitli also secured
thousands of feet of
actual battle scenes
which are to be
shown in this coun-
try.
■yHERE was an exodus from the Lasky
X studio in Hollywood late in May. Those
departing from DeMilleville were Jack Pick-
ford, Louise Huff and Vivian Martin and the
place to which they moved was the Morosco
studio, three miles awav. Of course it's all
Paramount; merely a change of sectors on
the filrn front and being bossed by General
Eyton instead of General DeMille.
HARRY FISHER, well known for his work
f?, a, J>'enile at the Fine Arts studio,
was killed in an automobile accident in Los
Angeles several weeks ago. He was 26 years
old. He was a son of the Harry Fisher so
long the team-mate of George Monroe in
musical comedy. '
JACK GARDNER, recruited from the musi-
cal comedy stage, is upholding the tradi-
tions of Essanay on the West Coast. He is
being starred in a series of western stories at
the Culver City studio of the Chicago concern.
Opposite him is Ruth King, wife of Tom For-
man, the Laskyite.
LOS ANGELES recently had a stage re-
vival. Tyrone Power, Monroe Salisbury,
David Hartford, Winifred Greenwood and
other film folk participated in a production
of "Shenandoah" under the auspices of Wil-
liam Chine, the film producer and exhibitor.
Then along came Kolb and Dill, the German
comedians, with a new musical comedy en-
titled "The High Cost of Loving."
ARNOLD NOBELLO is a new acquisition
of the Rolin Film Company in Los An-
geles. For the benefit of those who never
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heard of Arnold, it may be stated that he is
Toto, the famous Hippodrome clown. He is
to be featured in comedies.
c
ARMEL MYERS is now a Universal
induced by President Carl Laemmle to sign a
two year contract and she will be starred in
Bluebird productions. Miss Myers is only iS
years old and is a discovery of D. W. Griffith
who made her ac(iuaintance while seeking in-
formation from her father, a Jewish rabbi
and authority on Chaldean affairs, during the
filming of "Intolerance."
MARY GARDEN h.as arrived in New York
from Paris to begin the filming of
"Thais" for the Goldwyn
companj-. During her stay
abroad Miss Garden pur-
chased a cinema theater in
Paris.
FI^ANCIS FORD is
back at Universal City
after a year's al)sence. He
is merely directing at pres-
ent, his star being Mae
Gaston, formerly opposite
to Crane \N'iIbur.
"T^ID you ever hear
that
Charlie Ray and
Chester Conklin once did
a "\Vebcr & Fields" act in
small time vandcvilic? It
was before they became
motion picture actors.
W h e n their respective
shows closed for the sum-
mer they formed the part-
nership to get enough
money to tide them over
the lean summer months.
Charlie says he had
spent all his money on his
wardrobe for "the regular
show, and could not afford
to buy a good wig for the
act. So he sat up for two
nights and made one out
of a skull cap and some
crepe hair.
And now he gets three
suits a month from the
most expensive tailor in Los Angeles.
IS D. W. Griffith making a photoplay in
Europe? This is what his acquaintances
furtively asked themselves the first of June,
when some of his reliables began to slip to
England, one after the other, with the secrecy
of a French war mission dodging a fleet of
waiting submarines. Mr. Griffith keeps his
plans pretty much of a solo, consequently when
he did not appear in May, as per schedule,
the usual speculations were trotted out and
put in motion. While he hovered between
London and the Somme Mrs. Gish and her
daughter Dorothy took passage for England.
This young woman, Susan Grandaise,
tvas only a few years ago the foremost
French screen comedienne, making many
of her best appearances in parts that
were a bit risque. She has not only
turned to serious acting, but has become
a tragedienne of great power and appeal,
and is a stellar luminary in the new
series of French screen plays being pre-
sented by World.
On another line Lillian Gish had already
sailed. Tiien a passport was issued for camera-
man Bitzcr, and he too went warward. Finally,
Bobbie Harron turned his back on America.
What's doing, anyway?
ALL publicity is not golden, as William
S. Hart, who has just returned to Cali-
fornia from a soul-trying mess of "i)ublic
appearances" across tiiirty states, can tell you.
Especially aggravating was his experience at
an Indianapolis theatre on the uth day of
Ma}-. At this house, one of the leading photo-
play theatres in the Indiana metropolis, the
proi)rietor insisted upon two appearances by
the time-pressed Hart. \\'hen it was exjilained
that this w'as impossible he churlishly an-
nounced that he would keep a reel of film
belonging to Hart per-
sonally, and which he had
at that moment in his pos-
session. This bluff being
called lie rushed into the
street, tlirew open his
doors, and announced to
tlie crowds attracted b\- his
clamor that "William S.
Hart" is here to shake
hands with my cus-
tomers !" Poor Hart's na-
tion-wide popularity did
the rest ; the place was
molibed, and it was an
hour and twenty minutes
before he reached his ma-
chine. On the following
daj' this exhibitor at-
tempted to cancel his Tri-
angle contract "because of
Hart's ungcntlemanly and
imbusinesslike actions."
\\'hcn exhibitors like this
puppy can be kicked out of
the trade, photoplay-show-
ing will be a great busi-
ness.
ANTONIO MORENO
has just signed a
Pathe contract, and will be
leading man for Mrs. Ver-
non Castle, in her new
series of five-reelers.
A LBERT SIGNER, the
great French photo-
play actor who played the schoolmaster in
"Mothers of France," will come to this country
to follow his profession.
HERE'S an interesting sidelight on all this
gossip of Chaplin changes. It seems that
in every new contract proposed by Chaplin
there is one clause which is managerially
dreadful: he wants no dates of release fixed
on his pictures. Chaplin is now working for
Muttial under a release-date clause which is
usually not lived up to by a matter of weeks;
but at least the clause is there, and he does
get his new productions out in some sort of
sequence.
Paul Is Quite Some Actor
BUT IT TOOK A NATION'S
FALL TO MAKE HIM FAMOUS
Ir took "The Fall of a Nation" to bring Paul Willis
to the notice of the picture going public. Since
then he has been gradually acquiring for himself
a place in the sun of film fame.
Paul hails from Chicago. He had poor health there
so his folks took him out to sunny California,
where he got well in a hurry so he could get
into the movies.
Vitagraph, then operating at Santa Monica,
first gave Paul a chance to see himself in the
celluloid. He was featured in short photo-
plays, two notable appearances having been
"Little Kentuck" and "The Poor Folks'
Boy." Majestic then gave him a lift in "Tlie
Little Lumberjack."
Thomas E. Dixon, the author, engaged
Paul for his big spectacle "The Fall of a
Nation" and he worked in the making of
that film as little Billy Holland for nearly
a year.
Then Paul graduated out of the infant
clas.s, assumed long trousers and started to
work with Harold Lockwood at the Yorke-
Metro studio in Los Angeles. He has appeared
in "The Promise" and "The Haunted Pajamas"
with Lockwood.
Paul has just celebrated his seventeenth birth-
day and if he keeps going along, he has a good
chance of be-
ing a reg'lar
star.
Here's Paul's last
picture before
donning long
trousers.
Below: A scene
from "The Fall
of a Nation. "
rwv^ I
mill •«.
WHILE Jack Kavanaugh, gentleman adventurer, con-
firmed misogynist and recognized overlord of certain
enchanted islands m the South Pacific, with his superin-
tendent, young Harris, was occupying himself with a pearl
concession on Kailu, and altogether regarding life in much
the same fashion as Adam must have done before the
advent of the mininery-and-lmgerie division of the human
race, society back in the States seemed stifling and unreal.
And then one day this careless idling was interrupted by
the arrival of Captain Billy Connor's I avorite, which
dropped anchor in the lagoon
and discharged three passengers —
a Massachusetts bishop, his sisler,
Mrs. Alice Stormsby; and their
pretty niece, Enid Weare, the
product of generations of strait-
laced old New England culture.
The visitors accepted Kavan-
augh s hospitality and after a few
days the bishop surprised him
with a request that he and the two women be allowed to
accompany him on his expedition down to Trocadero
Island to look over a new pearl concession — and Kavan-
augh gave permission. Almost anyone would, with Mrs.
Stormsby 's warm eyes upon him and the lovely propor-
tions of Enid constantly before his eyes.
The expedition set out in Kavanaugh's ancient schooner
Circf, which he intended replacing with a new one
purchased in Samoa, as soon as he could reach the latter
proup. On board, besides the visitors, were Charley
Dollar, a Kanake overseer, and the pearling crew.
After ten years of the free and easy life of the Pacific,
it is rather vexing to be continually on one's guard for fear
of offending the silly sensibility of a prudish schoolgirl,
who flew into a sudden
anger if the spill of the
mainsail or any wanton
eddy raised the hem of her
skirt to reveal an inch or
two of ankle.
The second day out,
Enid had mistaken the time
and come on deck half
on hour too early, to find
Kavanaugh in pajamas,
brushing his teeth, and from
her behavior for several
hours, one might have
thought that she had burst
inadvertently upon a satur-
naha. He felt like boxing
her small, pink ears, with a
good shake to follow, and
had much ado to be polite.
Twenty-five miles from
Trocadero, a howling South
Sea squall drove the Circe
on a reef. In the chaos
that followed, Kavanaugh
and Enid necessarily were
thrown closer together than
before — and she became
more of an enigma.
All hands turned to load
the boats with equipment
and stores and set out for
Trocadero, where they ar-
rived safely. Here was a desert isle, here was the primi-
tive, and here two men and two women must live until
the boat crew, which had been dispatched for help.
PRECEDING CHAPTERS
OF
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could return with another vessel — possibly ten days.
In the midst of this predicament, pirate hordes from a
neighboring group raided the island one morning before
dawn, making away with every piece of moveable pro-
perty save the silk pajamas and " nighties " in which the
victims happened to be garbed. Alice Stormsby accepted
this delicate situation sensibly, but Enid hysterically shut
herself up in the bungalow. Obviously, some drastic
action must be taken to bring her to reason, and when her
frightened relatives declined to interfere. Jack Kavanaugh
rashly entered and attempted to
convince her that, as they were
all in the same boat, she must
turn to and lend a hand. No pro-
faned modesty was now evident
in Enid. She was in a white
rage which took no heed of any-
thing save the shame of his pre-
sence there, and she whipped
suddenly around and gripped a
stool by one leg. A struggle ensued. Dicky, the dimin-
utive bantam cock, championed Enid and planted his
wicked spurs in Kavanaugh's eyes. Enid wrenched her-
self loose and ran swiftly toward the rocky promontory
some distance down the beach, with Jack in pursuit. It
seems incredible that a healthy girl of sound mind should
prefer to drown herself than to live and move and have
her being in a pink crepe de chine nightgown before the
eyes of a recent male acquaintance, who was yet a man
of honor, withal, and she was duly chaperoned by a fat
bishop and a widowed aunt. Though scarcely able to
see for the blood and pain inl his eyes, Kavanaugh flung
himself after her into the deep, green, sharky-looking water
and somehow managed to bring her ashore.
When he recovered con-
sciousness, Alice was sup-
porting his head and Enid,
gone suddenly sane, was
leaning over him and staring
at his face with an expres-
sion of terrified dismay.
She had shed all her silly
scruples and seemed utterly
indifferent to the scantiness
of her attire, even after the
removal of the salt-water
compresses which had been
put over Kavanaugh's eyes,
and she became a much
more companionable per-
son. The women and the
bishop collected dried sea-
weed for beds and, with
the aid of a club and a
lantern, killed some of the
wild fowl of the island and
made tunics from their
plumage. The castaways
became accustomed to
primitive conditions and
moved about with the calm
dignity of Olympians, and
felt an Olympian life and
vigor and the rush of clean,
strong blood in their veins.
Weeks passed and then
— a sail on the horizon !
Propinquity had done its work and, prompted by a feeling
of regret that their cameraderie was so soon to be a thing
of the past, Kavanaugh asked Alice to become his wife.
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1 re
A Twentieth-Century Romance of the South
Seas— the most remarkable story of the year.
By Henry C. Rowland
Illustrations by Henry Raleigh
CHAPTER \TI
The next mornin- at daybreak I slipped
out to discover what vessel it might be
which had come to our relief. As soon as
there was light enough I sighted her in the
offing nearly becalmed but working in for
the entrance with a faint head wind. The
first glimpse of her tall spars and low
freeboard revealed her as the schooner of
one Channuig Drake, a well born ruffian
whom I particularly detested and held to
be about that time the very worst black-
guard in the whole Pacific.
There was no question about the schoon-
er's being Drake's Madcap and identifying
her as such my first decision was to tell
Drake to up-stick and get on about his
busmess. It seemed to me preferable to
wait indefinitely on Trocadero rather than
have the persons for whom I was respon-
sible become the guests aboard that vessel
of ill-fame. To complicate the situation
further Drake and I were personal enemies
as I had recently done my best to have the
Madcap libelled for her' misdeeds and to
land Drake and his filthy crew behind the
bars. This sincere effort on mv part had
fallen through because two of my most
important witnesses had lost their nerve
at the last moment and had their testimony
thrown out of court. Through the bluff
of his threats backed by a certain force
of personality Drake had got our part of
the Pacific rather cowed. Besides, there
were still a good many who had a sneak-
ing fondness for the old regime of lawless-
ness and secretly applauded it. Also,
Drake when on his good behavior was such
a plausible scoundrel, well connected and
able to create the impression of a man
unduly blamed and the victim of conspir-
acies to make of him a scapegoat for the
wrongs of others. He was of English
birth, a university man with no lack of
polish and despite his brutal individuality
not without a very considerable amount of
personal magnetism.
However, under the existing circum-
stances there seemed no help for it. Out
supplies were almost exhausted and the
fact of the Madcap having been sent to
take us off (which I thought must be her
errand there) would have delayed our res-
cue indefinitely. So I went back and
roused the bishop and told the state of
affairs.
"This is a tough crowd that has been
sent to our relief, sir," I said, not seeing
the good of mincing matters. "This
schooner belongs to one Channing Drake
who sails her all around the globe on any
sort of dirty business that promises to
prove profitable. His crew is a filthy mob
of pirates and beacjicombers and no self
respecting Kanaka would be shipmates
aboard her at any price. How he has man-
aged to keep running so long I'm sure I
don't know ... or rather I do know,
and it speaks mighty poor for the policing
of Polynesia."
The bishop did not seem particularly
disturbed. "Indeed?" he answered cheer-
tully. "'I'hat is most unfortunate. But
surely no man however unscrupulous or
depraved would exercise any personal
animosity in the case of folk situated as
we are. Besides, he might welcome the op-
portunity to gain the credit of rendering
such a service. You say he is well born?"
"So I have been told," I answered, "and
no doubt it is the truth. These well-born
Ijeggars are always the worst because of
superior intelligence. This particular
blackguard once stole the young wife of a
native missionary in the Marquesas and by
the time they'd laid him by the heels he had
got her under his inflrence so that she testi-
fied to having gone with him of her own
accord. A fortnight later he left her on
the beacli from which he had abducted
lier."
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The bishop looked a little startled but
merely observed that perhaps there might
have been mitigating circumstances. Then
he got up, made a brief toilet and we
walked down to the beach to watch the
Madcap come in. She was making slow
work of it against the tide and while we
were loitering there Alice and Enid joined
us. Observing them in their freshness and
beauty I liked the situation even less. Of
course Drake would not have dared become
offensive or offer them any indignity, and no
doubt he was only too pleased, as the
bishop said, to have an opportunity to re-
deem himself in some way, especially as
he was in very wrong with the Governor,
to whom my guests had letters and by whom
they had been already entertained at Gov-
Alice had waded out to lend me a hand and we soo
fish was stt
ernmeiit House. 15ut all the same 1 J'clt
very uneasy. Nobody could ever tell whicli
way Drake might happen to jump as he was
not only a person of criminal tendencies but
a violent alcoholic and when under the in-
fluence of drink entirely irresponsible. So,
when finally the schooner had got up into '
the lagoon I suggested to Alice that she
and Enid retire to the bungalow leaving the
bishop and myself to receive Drake. I did
not like the idea of the brute's seeing them
in their plumes, and snid as much.
"Quite so," Alice agreed. "I am sure
we have no desire to appear in public look-
ing like new-fledged chicks or pantomine
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117
discovered from the tugging vibrations that our big
in the net.
fowls. Perhaps your friend may be able to
, supply us with some cloth. It would be
really exciting to wear real clothes again,
though I wouldn't take a thousand dollars
for the ones I've got on."
I told her that no doubt Drake would be
able to supply them with calico gowns
of the Empire (or Mother Hubbard)
period, with some high-heeled squeakv M.
I. G. shoes from his trade-room ; really
stylish shoes with genuine cardboard i\Io-
rocco tops and soles that would announce
triumphantly to the praying congregation
of a church that you were coming in and
wearing new shoes.
"Don't mention shoes, my dear Jack,"
protested the bishop. "I wish that I never
had to wear them again . . . nor real
clothes, as Alice says. It will be with an
emotion of profound regret that I trammel
my free members with the garbage of polite
society. I used to suffer at times from shoes
too full of feet and uric acid rashes and
prickly heat and fish ptomaines. I now
consider anything in the way of fish pto-
maine as a clelicacy and as for uric acid and
prickly heat I find that these distressing
complaints are soon eliminated from the
system under a regime of sea food and
spring water with a costume consisting of
a birdskin apron and a cartridge belt. I
say. Jack. I wonder if this dear friend of
vours misrht not have a camera aboard?
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Those black devils made off with mine and
I would like a picture of the bungalow and
the rest of you plaiting grass hats."
Alice cut in to tell him that he was the
main guy for a snapsliot and that he ought
to relish such a record of physical litness
as the camera might prove. She told him
that once back to his prime ribs of beef with
Yorkshire pudding and a great deal of
gravy he would be getting fat again. It
was interesting to witness the conflict of his
desires ; whether to fatten on these succu-
lent foods or to keep in strict training and
preserve his naturally tremendous physique.
Hut he shook his head at the idea of posing
for his photograph. "Inconceivable . . .
preposterous for one of his clotli even
though this latter might consist for the
moment of ragged pajamas and a kilt of
bird leather. What if "Tlie Country (Gen-
tleman" or some other publication were
to get hold of it? The Right Reverend
Geofifrey Stormsby, Bishop Emiritus of
Maryland taking his morning constitutional
accompanied by his sister-in-law, his niece
and a young friend who was not the Hia-
watha that lie looked but of entirely white
blood and conduct . . . ho-ho-ho
." laughed the bishop and the sound
of his mirth must have reached the Madcap
and make Drake wonder if we had gone
crazy from the heat.
The Madcap edged up into the lagoon
and let go her anchor not more than a
couple of hundred yards from where we
stood. Drake in the sternsheets took off his
lielmet with a bit of a flourish and almost
immediately a boat splashed over and came
foaming in. Alice and Enid had gone up
to the bungalow not caring to display their
bare ivory tanned extremities to strangers.
Knowing Drake's reputation and the fact
that we were acknowledged enemies made
me dislike the situation, though not on my
own account. But I hated the thought of
the great burly brute with hiis soft voice
and tragic black eyes fawning around my
pretty protegees like a tame gorilla. I was
afraid that it might lead to ructions.
The bi.shop on the contrary was in a gav
and facetious mood, despite what I had
told him about our rescuer. Throughout
his pleasant and peaceful life it is probable
that the good bishop had always cherished
a secret desire for real adventure, and now
he rightly felt that this had been fulfilled
and would furnish him with lively retro-
spect for the rest of his days. Without
question he had prohted tremendously by
the physical hygiene imposed of our condi-
tions and perliaps also (though far be it
from me to suggest the necessity) in a
moral way as well, for the black fellows
had lugged off all of our alcoholic stores
with the others, fortunately having post-
poned regaling themselves until under way.
This deprivation had been an excellent
thing for his Reverence, who was in danger
of becoming in the lack of more pressing
business, too fond of the combination of
high shade and a high glass.
The boat came gliding in to the beach
and I stared at her crew with some astonisii-
ment for they were rigged out as if for an
amateur presentation of "Pinafore" ; muster
uniforms, old fashioned but fetching; spot-
less white ducks with a small scjuare collar
faced with blue between the shoulders, blue
trimmed cufTs, round bc-ribboned straw
hats with curly brims and black necker-
chiefs with the reef knot held in the "\"'
of the knife-lanyard which was a pretty
sennit with a carved ivory nut to replace
the turk's head.
< )ne"s eyes passed from the.se pretty cos-
tumes, perfectly an\azing in tho.se waters,
to the faces of their wearers with a certain
sense of shock ; especially if one had made
a study of sematic types, which I had, and
tlie erudite bishop had not. Ratty, bestial,
brutal faces such as one might gather in
Hogarth's sketches of stew and kennel
v.ere hung over sloping shoulders to exam-
ine us as the boat grounded and Drake
clambered out, a little awkwardly and not
bothering himself about whether he stepped
on one of his dolled-up convicts or not.
It was entirely evident that he was the big
boss brute of the boiling and circulated at
his own convenience with no reference to
the rest of the pack. They approved his
manoeuvres and eased him along, and on
glancing into his prominent eyes I could
see that he moved in a certain need of
these tender attentions for the central sys-
tem of the man was quite intoxicated.
The reason for it nil became immediately
apparent to me. Drake knew that he was
swinging on a short scope and that here
was a Heaven sent opportunity to render a
graceful service which might prove his
good intentions, while at the same time
spiking mv guns and putting me under an
obligation. He was well advised as to the
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119
personages with whom he had affair
(friends and guests of the governor who
had been already entertained at Govern-
ment House) and who required their due
salvo of cannon. So that Drake had seized
the opportunity to accomplish our rescue
in style and had no doubt welcomed the
opportunity brought him by my serious
minded mate, Samuel Smith, of whom I
have already spoken.
But there was no help for it and here
was* Drake and his miscreants tricked out
like the captain and crew of a stylish yacht
instead of the gang of sea thieves and
blackbirders I knew them for and who
would not hesitate anything for profit if
assured they could get, away with it. Yet
nothing would have convinced the bishop
that they were not fine hearty fellows, clean
and sober and Godfearing. Drake, in the
sternsheets was resplendent in white serge.
a pongee silk shirt with a flowing scarf and
a^ panama hat with a puggaree of soie-de-
Chine. He was a heavily built man, very
square and muscular with a huge chest
and shoulders, rather dark of complexion
and with thick, black hair which curled over
his ears.
He was staring at us in goggle-eved as-
tonishment as the boat grounded but could
scarcely be blamed for this. He had been
informed that our camping party lacked for
none of the necessities of life, so to be con-
fronted by a pair of troglodytes brawny
and bearded and breeched in bird-skins
must have been something of a shock. The
bishop particularly was rather hirsute of
epidermis with thick bushy eyebrows and
having been deprived of our razors with
the rest of our household goods his grizzled
beard stuck out straight as a scrubbing
brush and gave him a peculiarlv wild and
disconcerting aspect. One rather expected
him to brandish a bludgeon and howl.
However Drake appeared reassured at his
beaming expression of benevolence.
"Hullo. Kavanagh." said he in his rich,
well modulated voice which was .soft and
deep with a sort of purr and a rather ex-
aggerated Picadillv accent. "What the
deuce has happened you?"
"A gang of about twenty black thieves
put in here and looted us of all we had
barring some few stores hid in a cave," I
answered, and introduced him to the bishop,
then suggesting that the first service he
might be good enough to render us would
be in tlie matter of clothes. To this he
answered that he could rig out the bishop
and myself readily enough but that he had
aboard no ready made ladies' garments.
'I'here was however in the trade' room a
supply of calico prints and flannels and
also a hand sewing-machine, and he oftered
to go out and get these articles immediately
and invited us to go with him. The bishop
was pleased to accept but I declined, not
wishing for any more of Drake's society
than could be helped and also because I
wanted to haul and dry my net, a very good
one for which I had paid a round sum.
Passing by the bungalow I told the ladies
that Drake had gone off aboard to fetch
them some materials.
"He appears to be something of a swell,"
said Alice. "From your description I hatl
expected to see a gory pirate with a half-
naked earringed crew. His men look like
man-of-warsmen."
"He's out to make character," I
answered, "(lot everything nicely staged
for eft'ect. The chances are he's heard
that you are friends of the Governor and he
probably figures of this service being of
benefit to him ; sort of a recommendation of
his outfit. Drake is a plausible swine
enough and no fool, but I know all about
the brute and can't stand the sight of hin\.
Now I'm oft' to get in the net. The bishop
can do the honors."
"I'll lend you a hand," said Alice, and
we strolled off together, Enid being occu-
pied in getting luncheon.
The tide was at the last of the ebb and
under ordinary conditions I could have
waded out to the end of the sandspit and
secured the drawline of the purse. But to
my disgust I discovered that this had
parted, no doubt as the result of some shark
or otiier big fish getting fouled in the net
so I was obliged to swim out a little dis-
tance to secure the free end. There was no
danger of sharks at that tide as they sculled
out with the ebb. Alice had waded out to
lend me a hand and we soon discovered
from the tugging vibrations that our big
fish was still in the net but he presently
escaped for the struggling ceased and
splashing back to the beach we proceeded to
haul in. Such fish as had been pocketed
had also decamped when the purse string
fetched away and I was about to remark
that for the first time we were to draw a
blank when I discovered several oysters
Suddenly there came a crunching in
the sand behind us, and spinning
quickly about I discovered the beam-
ing bishop and that avatar of pirates.
Captain Channing Drake.
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which had been dragged into the lower
biglit apparently as the big lish worked
along bottom and were held there by
their incrustations. I carried the bivalves
up to where Alice was standing in her shim-
mering costmne.
"Pearl oysters," I said, and big ones. "I
have always had an idea there might be
shell here but would never have looked for
it so close under the bar. Nice shell, and
there must be t]uite a lot of it down there."
'Jliis seemed a reasonable premise because
unless the bed was pietty rich a big fish
trying to nose its way out from under the
net could not have scooped up oysters so
easily, even though they happened to be
loosely attached to rotten sprigs of lava-
coral formatign. So I took my knife and
started to open the oysters while Alice
looked on curiously but without much inter
est in the operations until I came to open
the last mollusk, a big black one.
"This looks like a layer," I said. "What's
the bidding for its contents?"
"A good slap," Alice answered.
"Against what?" I asked. "The same
thing?"
She nodded.
"That goes," I agreed. "Now watch.
1 flicked off the lips with the back of the
knife and slipped tlic edge through the
big contractor muscles. That black oyster
was bloated ; dropsical and diseased. . . .
and the result of my rough autojisy was to
reveal the cause of his complaint. This
was in the shape of a great black pearl
. a record black pearl I thought
as it rolled out into my hand, for it was
ripe to the point of falling from the nacre.
It was a wonder ; a beauty, the biggest
black pearl which I had ever seen and 1
gauged its carats as it rolled into my palm.
Being fresh taken from its host it held an
exquisite translucency and glowed through
the dark pigmentation as though from deep
sea fires in its heart. It was flawless, per-
fect in form and texture and I assayed it as
valuing a prince's ransom then and there.
Intrinsically it was impossible to place a
money value on.
Alice, leaning over my shoulder with her
hair against my cheek and the salt crystals
glistening on her arm examined it curiously.
I dropped it into her hand. She stared at
it for an instant, then asked: — "Is it a
real one, Jack?"
"Better ask the oyster," I answered, "only
he is unfortunately dead. It may have been
made in Germany and shipped out here.
Vou never can tell, these days. All the
.same I'd take a chance on it for being the
real thing."
She then desircxi to know what I thought
its money value might be, to which I
answered that such a question was in bad
form as 1 purposed to give it her as a
souvenir of her sojourn on Trocadero. I
added that she might accept it in the form
of an engagement present or, on my failing
to collect more from the same source as a
wedding present when she married the
piggy-man. "If this pearl is the only one
there," I said, "then you win the bet and I
get my slap. But as the case now stands
you owe me a slap, to pay for your pearl."
"I would ratlier give you a kiss," she
answered, still studying the pearl. "Do you
really think there are a lot more of them
down there. Jack?"
"That is my opinion," I answered, "and
I am going to do a little prospecting right
now."
"But how can you?" she asked. "You've
got no diving apparatus or anything."
I told her that I had my arms and legs
and a pretty good reservoir of compressed
air between my ribs and my shoulder blades,
and that I would manage to have a look at
that bottom in four fathoms water or burst.
It might have been a little less, but I was
(|uite sure of my ability to fetch it being a
good enough diver and at that moment in
the very pink of physical condition. So I
waded out to the edge of the bar and went
down just as I was, to come up a minute
later with a big oyster in either hand. The
bottom was fairly strewn with them. I
flung the pair up onto the beach and swam
back to the edge of the bar for another try.
In three more dives I collected another
couple and then feeling a bit breathless I
sat down to open them, Alice by this time
really excited.
There were no more pearls in these
oysters but the matrix of two of them
showed sincere effort in this direction and
from the abundance of shell I judged we
had fallen onto a perfect sanitarium for dis-
eased oysters. All such beds contain cer-
tain of the bivalves which produce pearls
of greater or less size and quality, but it
sometimes happens that owing to the local
condition and surroundings of the mollusks
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Enid, sitting cross-legged on a couch stitched industriously, without offering any comment and ivith
curious air of indifference.
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poor old Charlie Oyster finds it impossible
to keep his house swept and garnished and
particles of grit sift in to make him build a
pearl in his own self defense. My own theory
was tliat this is most apt to happen where
a ground current carries a particular sort of
silex sand and that these tiny grains work
•their way into Charlie's shell matrix and
defy his broom. Unable to expell them
he is obliged to do ihe next best thing and
encyst them. This forms the pearl ; layer
after layer of nacre like the skins of an
onion until the mass becomes pedunculated,
when the stem of the apple, so to speak,
grows thinner and thinner, finally to break.
By that time the pearls have been milled
until quite round and then fetch away and
are spewed out. Such beds probably have
strewn the bottom with such pearls. It is
only when you have the luck to catch an
oyster with, a formed pearl which it has not
yet been able to expel that you reap your
reward. I considered this little patch to
be full of such, and told Alice so. She
grew very thoughtful as I advanced my
theories and declared that in my opinion it
was the spill of the tide over the bar and
the quality of the sand which made the bot-
tom there so rich in pearls.
"Once I turn to on the job, my dear
lady," I said, "you will soon have to haul
down your colors and treat for terms of sur-
render. Unless I am all off my reckonings
there is a greater treasure on the bottom of
this little patch out here in front of us than
even you would need for your innocent pas-
times. So all we've got to do it to get back
to Kialu, take my new schooner and the
two smaller boats, load 'em up with gear
and divers and come here and clean up the
place. My concession which is for the ex-
clusive pearling rights has another two
years to run and by that time we shall have
stripped the bottom clean. But once we're
sure of what we've got I think we might
discount the future and turn on the wedding
bells a bit, don't you?"
Alice's reply to this suggestion was all
that I had any right to wish and made me
rather sorry for the piggy-man. Then she
fell to examining the big pearl in various
lights while I, stretched out on the sand at
her side proceeded to give her a brief biog-
raphy of the intimate life and habits of
the pearl oyster, his joys and sorrows. The
beautiful lady, her snowy plumage drving
in the sun, appeared to take an absorbing
interest in this discourse, especially as re-
garded in relation to its commercial possi-
bilities. 1 could not impeach her with
avarice for this. She had been born to a
most exclusive social set and until she mar-
ried John Stormsby her life had been a con-
stant struggle to live according to her
station and connections, for there was a
great deal of pride and no money to .speak
of in her immediate family. Stormsby had
been a big Wall Str'^et operator and in the
four years of tlieir married life had made
a large fortune only to lose it all in a finan-
cial crash and died a few months later ol"
j)neumonia leaving his widow practically
penniless. She had been given a taste for
wealtli and power only to be suddenly de-
prived of it and for the past five years had
been dependent on tlie generosity of rela-
tives. One of her position, temperament
and personal charms might easily have
married another fortune had she set herself
deliberately about it, but Alice Stormsby
was very far from being cold-blooded, and
money alone would not have been enough.
\\'ith it she desired a mate who would not
be repugnant to her; more than that one
who would give her the fulness of life.
Possibly the piggy-man had other and
more attractive qualities than she had seen
fit to describe.
I did not flatter myself that Alice was
any more madly in love with me than 1
with her, but we seemed thoroughly well
fitted to each oth:;r while propinquity and
tile peculiarity of our positions for the last
few Weeks had produced a most natural
result. No doubt I appealed to her a
good deal as she did to me and now that
vast w-ealth seemed lo have been strewn at
our feet she was quite ready to give her
emotions full scope. One can scarcely
blame a woman for a passion inspired of
riches. In this day and age money stands
for power, just as did physical prowess and
valor and domination in the middle ages.
A certain type of woman requires this sense
of power in her mate, especially when she
has already tasted it.
So I proceeded to satisfy this demand
in prospect and her tawny eyes were begin-
ning to glow and her breath come more
quickly when suddenly there came a crunch-
ing in the sand behind us and spinning
quickly about I discovered at our shoulders
the beaming bishop and that avatar of
pirates, Captain Channing Drake.
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The lirst glance nt Drake's eager face
showed nie tliat he Iiad sized up the situa-
tion and I cursed myself inwardly for a
fatuous fool in having lain there maunder-
ing about pearls in their relation to connu-
bial bliss when my first act should have
been to throw the shell back into the lagoon
and put the big pearl safely out of sight.
Drake had unquestionably seen it for his
bulging eyes were fastened on Alice's hand
which she had instinctively closed upon tiie
jewel, at the same time springing to her
feet and smoothing down her feathered
tunic.
The bishop, handsomely arrayed in bor-
rowed plumes, introduced Drake and I ob-
served that the pair of them had been in-
dulging in a friendly glass or two. Drake
was I knew a hard steady drinker, but so
tremendous was liis vitality that he had
not come to show it yet, while few people
sjjoke of liim as an alcoholic. Personally
I believed that many of his ill deeds were
a fairly direct result of his ruthless intem-
perance for I held him at heart to be some-
thing of a bluff and a bully and far from
the type of reckless, fearless adventurer
which the brazen boldness of some of his
behavior seemed to indicate. As I have
.said he possessed no lack of intelligence
when occasion demanded and more than his
share of greed, and now observing that he
took slight heed of the striking and beauti-
ful figure of Alice Stormsby but was avidly
scrutinizing the net :,nd scattered shell I
had a very disagreeable premonition of
trouble ahead.
The fool of a bishop observing the hot
glow in the face of his sister-in-law began
to muml)le some sort of vapid apology for
the intrusion. "Didn't think you'd mind.
■ Alice," said he, rubbing his hands. "Cap-
tain Drake wants to be off as soon as pos-
sible and suggests that you and Enid under-
take your dressmaking aboard the schooner
• . . eh what?"
She answered rather shortly that if Cap-
tain Drake would consent to spare them a
few hours she would rather stitch something
together before appearing in public. To
this Drake answered in his purring voice
but rather absently that a few hours were
really of no importance. He then picked
lip one of the shells and turned it criticallv
in his powerful hands, examining the matrix
for nascent pearls. He looked at the riftle
across the bar, then at tlie still water of the
little bight and raised his black eyebrows.
"Shouldn't wonder but wliat you've
pitched onto something pretty good, Kava-
nagh," .said he.
"Perhaps," I answered. "You never can
tell. I put in here to take water about
eigliteen months ago and it struck me that
there might be possibilities in the place so I
took a chance and leased the pearl fishing
conce.ssion for three years. Nobody would
ever look for anything so close under the
bar but some fish got into the net and
scooped up this stuff. Good looking shell,
isn't it?"
"Jolly good," he answered, "but as you
say you never can tell. Might liave got
washed in by the tide, or something. Don't
happen to feel like letting me in, do you?
I've got a full set of diving gear' out
aboard."
"We might talk about that later." said 1.
"Meantime I think that Mrs. Stormsbx
would like to go back to camp. It's getting
hot."
There seeming to be nothing much to be
said to this .suggestion we .started back, the
bishop and Drake in the lead. As socm as
they were out of earshot, Alice asked : —
"What are vou going to do about it.
Jack?"
"Send you three back to Kialu with
Drake," I answered. "He can't very well
refuse since he came here for that purpose.
1 intend to stick on to protect my interests."
"But you don't mean to say that you are
going to stay here alone !" she cried'
"It can't be helped," I said. "Drake
knows perfectly well what we Iiave
stumbled on. He saw the shell and the
chances are tliat he saw that black pearl in
your hand. If I were to go back with the
rest of you it might cost us the whole busi-
ness. Before I could get a new set of gear
Drake would have hustled back here and
skimmed the cream off the whole fug. In
my opinicm that bed is very rich but very
small ; just a little patch full of pearls."
"But he would never dare," .she protested.
"He knows that you own the conces.sion and
it would be poaching . . . thievin',^
"That's his long suit," I an.swered. "Be-
sides, how could I prove my legal rights?
My papers were in my luggage and there is
no gamekeeper here to swear out a case
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against Drake. He could skin the place
and get away before i showed up. But as
long as I am liere 1 can put up some sort of
a bluff. I'd no sooner think of leaving
Trocadero at this moment than 1 would
of leaving a fat pullet in the care of a
coyote."
Alice turned this in her head and having
a practical mind asked me what 1 could
do to protect my property if Drake were to
return to Trocadero a fortnight or so
before my own outfit. It was a sensbile
question and one which 1 had already con-
sidered. The answer was simply that I
would- bfi there on the spot to take such
measures as seemed necessary. This did
not reassure her greatly, for she had pretty
well taken Drake's measure and was more
inclined to accept my statements in regard
to his possibilities ot mischief where great
gain was immediately concerned.
We had no time to discuss the situation
to greater length before arriving at the
camp. Drake, seeing that the ladies were
not yet prepared to entertain or be enter-
tained had gone out aboard and sent >n
some fresh supplies with a few bolts of
cloth and the sewing machine. No doubt
but that he felt himself to have the game all
in his own hands, not only as regarded his
quality of rescuer but in the driving of a
hard bargain with me about the pearling
possibilities of the island. He must have
felt that the big boss Tiapolo who took
such good care of him had delivered his
enemv into his hand, not only to be de-
spoiled but humiliated into the forming of
a partnership.
It would never have occurred to Drake
that I might possibly see fit to remain sit-
ting on Trocadero to protect my rights by
force of arms until one of my late guests
could send a schooner there. That one
man should attempt to stand off himself
and his band of larrikins would have been
food for mirth, also satisfaction. Self pro-
tection and the settling of an old score, to
say nothing of a free hand with the pearls.
Nevertheless this course was preciselv the
one on which I had decided, and although
such a measure had its discomforts and its
risks it did not seem to me impossible. I
have already described the cavern where
we had stored supplies and weapons against
the possible attack of natives. The mouth
of this, invisible from below because of a
little ledge just under it, was in the face of
the cliffs about eighty or ninety feet above
the beach, and directly opposite the pearling
ground at a range of about three hundred
yards, it could only be reached from below
by a steep but nut unduly diifirult climb and
above it the rocks slightly overhung. Inside
it was spacious with winding passages and
contained a spring of sweet water. It
seemed to me perfectly feasible for one man
to hold the place as long as his food ami
ammunition held out, as nobody would dare
attempt to swarm up and get him, while
lie might shoot through a crevice in the
rocks or construct some sort of loophole.
The best of the business was that from the
cavern one could effectually hold up any
pearling operations beneath. So that in
examining the situation from every point I
finally decided to entrust the bishoj) with a
letter to young Harris instructing him to
come to my relief as soon as he could pos-
sibly manage witli all necessary diving gear
and a crew of at least a dozen picked men
including our trained Kanaka policemen of
whom Charley Dollar was the chief. 'I'hey
could certainly get to Trocadero, 1 thought,
not more tiian a fortnight after Drake and
during that time I would have to guard the
premises as best I might.
As soon as Drake had gone we showed
the pearl to Knid and the bishop and I told
them of my decision to remain on the island
and protect the bed until they could send
my outfit. 'I'he bishop held up his iiands
in disinay.
"But my dear Jack," he protested, "you
can't stop on here all alone ! You'd go mad
from solitude."
"I'll keep Dicky for company," I
answered.
Enid stared at me with a peculiar expres-
sion in her grev eyes. She had seemed
rather silent and abstracted for the last
number of days and at times I thought that
she had tried to avoid me, and I wondered
why. Now, she asked in her cool, abrupt
manner wliat would happen if I were to get
ill or meet with an accident, to which I
answered that this was a chance I should
have to take, but that I considered the stake
to be well worth it.
"What stake?" she demanded. "The
pearls?"
"Yes," I answered, " and what goes with
them." I looked at Alice with a smile.
Enid stared for a moment at her aunt.
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How to Sell a Photoplay Scenario
THIS ISN'T VAGUE, GENERAL ADVICE BUT
INSIDE INFORMATION ON THE RULES OF THE
GAME, BY ONE WHO HAS PLAYED IT TO WIN
Captain Leslie T. Peacocke
MANY argue that it is
mere waste of time
to work out a pho-
toplay scenario if there is
little or no chance of sell-
ing it. I thoroughly agree
with them.
To most people of com-
mon sense, the wasting of time and energy
is abhorrent, and the majority of people
who take up literary work of any descrip-
tion do so seriously, with the hope of
making it a means of livelihood. Few care
to indulge in photoplay scenario writing as
a hobby. It is too laborious a task to be
classed as a pastime.
Now, to begin with, every writer who
expects to make money through his literary
efforts must constitute himself a merchant.
To be a merchant, you must have something
to sell and that something must, necessarily^
have its market value. If your article of
merchandise is a photoplav scenario, you
will have primarily to establish its value.
On what are you going to base the value
of the child of your brain? On your repu-
tation in world affairs, or society; on your
successful achievements in other lines of
literary endeavor, such as books or plays
or magazine stories; or on the excellence
and originality of your photoplay scenario?
On tlie latter, I trust, because the screen
has been made the victim of exploitation
of eft'orts that have landed through the
other methods far, far too often. Anvhow,
I take it for granted that those to whom
such an article as this is more likelv to
appeal are the ambitious ones who know
they have good original plots for photoplay
scenarios, and have, probably, had little
success in getting them accepted for pro-
duction. It is to these people that I am
endea\-ormg to impart such honest advice
as I can, gained through personal expe-
rience and the experiences of others who
have taken up photoplav writing as a seri-
ous business.
Let us suppose, then, that I am address-
TTOW to break in: Interest
ttie star, or his director,
in your work. Or apply at
some studio for a position as
"reader," with the view of
being taken on later as staff
w-riter.
ing "Jim Snooks," who is
unknown in any line of
literary endeavor, but who
thinks he has a good plot
for a photoplay and is
anxious to work it out and
sell it for what he considers
it is worth. Here is what I
advise him to do :
Make a very short synopsis, if possible
not over three hundred words, outlining
the bare plot in a clear, concise manner, and
in this short synopsis mention only the char-
acters vital to the story. If you can con-
gest this brief synopsis to one sheet of
paper, all the better. It will stand a better
chance of gaining a sympathetic reading
by scenario editors and directors than a
longer one.
Then write a more detailed synopsis of
your story, mentioning all the main events
that will occur in your photoplay in natural
sequence, and make this synopsis as in-
teresting and as gripping as possible, so
that those who read it will not lose interest.
The reason I so strongly advocate making
two synopses is because a scenario editor
or director always likes to be able to grasp
quickly the main plot of a story, and if the
short synopsis should strike him as contain-
ing an original idea and one worth while
considering, the detailed synopsis will be
read eagerly, and then if that also should
come up to expectations, the matter of the
worked-out photoplay scenario will be
looked into and an offer made for its pur-
chase.
Now, if you wish, you may submit your
story in synopsis form, without working it
into continuity, but this I strongly advise
against. It is the lazy writer's game and
will not land you anywhere. In the first
place, you will not be offered nearly as
much as you would receive if your photo-
play were properly worked oiit, nor will
you ever receive credit as a scenario writer.
.Some scenario editors and staff" writers ad-
vise free-lance writers to submit only syn-
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opses of their stories, but it is very obvious
that there is a reason for their doing this.
Thev are an.xious to make the working
photoplays themselves, so that they will be
given part credit — sometimes all the credit
— on the screen, which of course helps
them to hold down their own jobs.
If too many good, properly worked-out
photoplay scenarios were purchased from
the hosts of virile writers throughout the
countrv. who have really original stories
which they find it difficult to market on ac-
count of prevailing conditions, a great
number of staff writers, and some scenario
editors, would have to go back to free-
lancing. When this hap-
pens, as it inevitably will,
they will have only them-
selves to blame. Many
writers in staff positions
have done all in their
power to discourage free-
lances, and for purely sell-
ish reasons. H o \v e v e r,
those conditions always take care of them-
selves. Those who ignore the "(Jolden
Rule" invariably get it where the broiler
hooks her pendant.
All the best companies are now employ-
ing "readers." who read the scripts sub-
mitted and who are not called upon to write
themselves, but whose duties consist only in
reading and passing on to the scenario
editors any stories that appear to be orig-
inal and suitable to the studio requirements.
In nearly all the best studios, the staff
writers are being employed as construc-
tionists, to work faulty photoplays into
good, logical continuity ; or to adapt into
photoplay form plays and works of fiction,
the rights to which have been purchased.
The prospects for the free-lance writer are
growing brighter every day. I think you
will find that every film company will in-
augurate this system before long, because
those that delay doing so will soon acquire
the reputation of releasing weak stories and
will drift to oblivion, as several producing
firms have already done, without realizing
the exact cause. Companies will do well
to pay some serious consideration to the
free-lance writers before it is too late! If
the real heads of film producing firms
would devote more of their time and care
to reading and to the subject matter of the
photoplay than they do to office and studio
details, I think they would make a great
TACKLE the scenario t-ditor
with a Ijrief, .siii}ile-|)a{;o
synopsis. Then follow this
with the cast of characters
and the "scene plot," a de-
tailed synopsis and the work-
ing scenario.
deal more money. Some producers do give
the scenario question special attention, and
they are reaping their reward.
Now, "Jim Snooks." let us suppose that
you have your two synopses completed ;
then'you must work your 'script into con-
tinuity of scenes, and work the whole story
to its logical conclusion, without con-
sidering wiiether it devolves itself into a
scenario of one reel or two reels or any
other recognized length. Write the scenario
as strongly as you can, giving it all the
little human touches so eagerly looked for
in all photoplays, without any unnecessary
padding. If your story is strong enough
to carry into five reels
without padding, all the
better; it will be worth so
much more.
The conqjany tiiat pur-
ciuises your photoplay will
decide as to the number of
reels it will run into, and,
nowadays, most directors
are speeding up their work and employing
from forty-five to a Imndred scenes to a
reel in dramatic productions; and from
seventy-five to two hundred scenes to a
reel in comedies ; so you cannot accurately
gauge for yourself the number of reels to
which your scenario will run. That mat-
ter will liave to rest with the producing
director.
Then, when you have worked your story
into logical continuity, you must give the
cast of all the characters you have men-
tioned in the working 'script; and then you
must make your "scene plot," giving all
the "interior sets" and all the "exterior
locations." together with the number of
every scene that is to be enacted in each
stated place.
Now, your photoplay scenario is com-
plete. Typewritten, of course, because
otherwise it will have practically no chance
of being read by anyone ; and a page should
be placed in front giving the title of the
story, with 3'our name and address in the
upper left-hand corner, and a blank page
at the back, to keep your manuscript clean.
To whom are you going to sell this eft'ort
of your brain? That is the main question.
Ves, "Jim Snooks," it is the question th.at
puzzles all the free-lance writers. I have
l)attled with that question myself and have
often found it a mighty hard problem.
However, I shall endeavor to make it a--
How to Sell a Photoplay Scenario
129
easy for you as I conscientiously ran.
Vou have, I take it, made a study of
recent film productions and have noted the
leading actors and actresses who are being
exploited by the various companies; be-
cause this is very essential. Every mer-
chant must have a good knowledge of everv
possible market for his goods. Vou know,
or should know, the type of story that is
Iieing employed to exploit each film star.
Having this knowledge, you .should be able
to decide which company is the proper one
to approach with your scenario. Suppose,
for instance, that you have evolved a story
that you think will prove a suitable vehicle
for 'William S. Hart. You
know his w(jrk and you
shiiuld be able to guess
what will suit liim. Well,
if your story is of that
order, there is your logical
market. Send it to" the
studio where his i)roduc-
tions are being made.
Don't send it to Charlie Chaplin; he
jjrobably wouUl not appreciate it.
You must make a close study of the cur-
rent releases and go and see all the pro-
ductions that you can. It is the only way
. to keep in touch with the market. You
:should also glance over every montli the
"Questions and Answers" department oT
Photoplay Magazine, in which you will
find much vital information concerning the
film stars, and the particular studios in
which they are working. You can th-n
address some of the stars personally and
let them know tliat you have a photo])lay
that you think would suit them. You
might send a copy of your short synojjsis
in order to get the player interested in
your story. I know of many photoplays
that have been sold through this method ;
in fact, I have done it on more than one
occasion myself. Then. I should approach
the scenario editors of the various com-
l>anies and find out whether they are in
need of the class of story you ha\-e out-
lined. I should also address' mvself to tlie
director who is directing the star vou have
in mind and send him also a copy of the
short synopsis; and if it appeals to him. he
will probably write and ask vou to submit
your full scenario. I assure you that both
he and his star are anxious to secure suit-
able stories, and if yours should prove to
be what they require, you will soon be ap-
\/^OU know the type of
-•- .story that is being used
to exploit each film star, so
<lon"t send a story written for
Bill Hart to Charlie Chaplin;
he probably wouldn't appre-
ciate it.
Jirised of the fact. A stamped, ,self-
addressed envelope nmst be enclosed with
every request you make.
If you should happen to be in the
vicinity of any studio, make a per.sonal
visit and, if possible, secure an appointment
with the scenario editor; or endeavor to
meet the general manager of the company
and ask for a position with the company
as a "reader," with the view of being taken
in later as a staff writer. Many staff writers
have secured their positions in this way.
Or, if you have had some success in placing
your photoplays and feel that you are
properly qualified to fill the position, write
to the general managers of
the various companies, stat-
ing your qualifications and
mentioning what you have
accomplished in the line of
photoplay writing, and tell
them that you are anxious
to be associated with a
company as a "reader" or
"staff writer," and you may secure an open-
ing that way. Nothing ventured, nothing
gained !
In applying to a scenario editor for a
position on his staff, one of the first things
he will ask for is a sample of your work;
so it is essential that you have' a copy of
one of your photoplays fully worked out.
as it is only reasonable that he should have
a good idea as to your ability to do the
work he would require of you. You must
be fully equipped to meet any emergency
that may arise. Once you have gained a
fair reputation, things, of course, will be
easier for you. The film business is in
urgent need of new writers and the field is
open to you. If you have had some rebuffs
in the past, you must not let them discour-
age you. Rememl)er, you are a merchant,
and every merchant must be patient and
hard-working. If a merchant opens a
store, does he not expect to have to wait
months before it will begin to pay? Well,
wliat do you expect. "Jim Snooks"? With
\-our stock in trade consisting of a few
completed photoplays and a certain number
of others hidden within your brains, you
cannot seriously expect to be established on
a sound basis and drawing an assured in-
come ! No, that will have to come in time ;
but come it will, if you will stick to it
and have the material within vou to make
good. Others have, so why not you?
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Keep on writing and submitting your
efforts in the manner I have outlined, and
every time there is a change in a scenario
department, you sliould note the fact, and
endeavor to learn from the scenario editor
if he is now in the market for new stories.
Changes occur freciuently in all the com-
jjanies. and by closely studying this maga-
zine and the various "trade journals" de-
voted to film productions and dramatic
affairs, you can readily learn about what
is going on and act accordingly. You will
have to help yourself to a large extent, and
keep well abreast of the times.
Do not place your photoplays in the
hands of any so-called "agent" or of any
of the people who advertise that they can
criticize and market photoplays. Their
criticism is not worth a peanut shell, neither
can any of them sell one of your plays. I
di) not know of a single authentic case of
any one of these so-called agents, or
bureaus or syndicates or other names they
call themselves, having been tiie means of
seining a photoplay to any film company,
because, in the first place, no scenario de-
partment will have any dealings with any
of these gentry, and in the second place,
only fools fall for their advertisements,
and .scenario editors scorn even to read the
efforts of fools and suckers !
There has recently been a change of
management at Universal City, a big de-
mand for good stories being one result of
the change, and the Universal company has
always been a good market for free-lance
writers. A close study of their recent pro-
ductions will help you in determining what
is likely to appeal to that company. The
American company is also a live market
for good, strong stories ; their studios are
at Santa Barbara, California. The David
Horsley studios in Los Angeles are looking
for suitable five-reelers in which to star
little Baby Marie Osborne, and also for
one-reel polite comedies, absolutely free
from slapstick. The Al E. Christie Com-
edy Company, situated at Hollywood, is
also in the market for high-class comedies,
free from slapstick ; and Mr. Al Christie
reads scenarios himself and is a good judge
of comedy, as his productions show. The
Balboa company will be glad to consider
five-reel stories suitable for their new
baby star, little Glory Joy, and will pay
'Tood prices for them. Their studios are at
Long Beach, California.
Now, my friend "Jim Snooks," I must
tell you another reason why I am optimistic
as to the outlook for you and other free-
lance writers. It is the strongest reason
possible, too. The "open market" which
has struck the film business is making for
keen competition, and the producers have
to make their productions within certain
limits of expense in order to make a margin
of profit at all.
'i'hey can no longer afford to pay for j
"names" and "reputations." They have '
all been stung badly by placing fictitious
values on authors' "names" alone. To cite
a case in point : (^uite recently, one of the
foremost companies was about to produce
a five-reel photoplay, featuring one of their
stars, utilizing a scenario which had been |
especially written by a free-lance writer as i
a vehicle for this particular star. The
story was an excellent one in every respect
and would, undoubtedly, have made a
splendid production. The free-lance writer
had agreed to take a hundred and fifty
dollars for the scenario, to be paid him as
soon as the production was started.
Then, a couple of days before the work
was to be started, the director who was to
make the production met at a social gather-
ing a playwright with a fair reputation
gained in writing stage plays, and in the
course of conversation, the playwright out-
lined to the director a plot for a film pro-
duction. The director was so impressed
with the importance of the playwright that
he asked him to make a written synopsis
of the plot, and with this in hand, the di-
rector went to the heads of the company
and prevailed upon them to discard the
free-lance writer's scenario and purchase
the one outlined by the playwright with
the reputation. The playwright demanded
a thousand dollars for his story and an
additional hundred dollars a reel to work
it into continuity. This was agreed upon
and the poor free-lance writer had his
scenario returned, with the information that
it did not quite suit the star ; and that was
the end of him, so far as that production
was concerned.
The playwright, who had never essayed
a photoplay before, then started to work
his story into continuity — and you should
have seen it ! There was a long subtitle
between nearly every scene, outlining the
action that was to follow. It was full of
(Continued on page i^s)
In a scene from
"The Yellow Streak.'
ss-id*
The Lon^ Lost
Lionel
IN WHICH THE DISAPPEARANCE
OF MR. BARRYMORE FROM HIS
STAGE HAUNTS IS EXPLAINED
^
THE long lost Lionel" commented '^
the New York theatrical critics
when the scion of the famous
Barrymore-Drew family returned to the
stage a few months ago in "Peter Ihbet-
son." Lionel had been "somewhere in
movieland" for many years.
Lionel Barrymore's finished performance in
the John Raphael dramatization of Du
Maurier's novel this year served to recall his
stage hits in "Barrie's Pantaloon," in "The
Other Girl," with his uncle, John Drew, in
"The Mummy and the Humming Bird" and
"The Second in Command" and in other plays.
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Photoplay Magazine
Lionel, a son of the late
Maurice Barrymore and
Cieorgie Drew and a brother
of Ethel and Jack, made his
first appearance on the stage
in 1893 in "The Rivals"
with his illustrious grand-
mother, Mrs. John Drew,
Sr.
Lionel came to the screen
back in the early days, play-
ing small parts in the old
Biograph comjianv w i t h
David W. (Griffith.' At that
time the Biograph company
\\as adverse to players'
publicity and the various
actors worked unknown.
Lionel was willing to sacri-
fice his stage reputation, for
he saw the future of the
photoplay. Indeed, he was
Lionel Barrymore in "The
Quitter.
practically the first recog-
nized stage player to enter
pictures.
His sterling theatrical
training has served him well.
Lionel (juickly came to play
leading roles with the Bio-
graph. Then came "The
I'].\ploits of Elaine" serial.
Lionel has been with Metro
for some time.
Just as the metropolitan
dramatic reviewers were
sjieaking of "the long lost
Lionel" much as France
talks of Alsace Lorraine,
that player announced his
return to screenland. Lionel
is going to devote his future
activities to the direction of
his sister, Ethel, in the films.
This, of course, for Metro.
THE TRIANGLES DOING THEIR BIT
A nurses' class has been formed at the Ince studio in Culver City by Dr. R. S. Moore, ex-army surgeon.
A perfectly-equipped hospital ivard has been fitted out and classes are held each day. Chief among the
pupils are Enid Bennett, Sylvia Bremer and Olive Thomas, ivho are here shown (in the order named
from left to right) looking on while Dr. Moore and two nurses demonstrate. They are being trained in
every branch of Red Cross work, and have offered their services to the United States, wherever needed.
She'
s a Rou^h Gal
ALICE HOWELL SAYS SHE'LL
TRY ANY KIND OF FALL ONCE
THEY don't call it "slavey" plays in cinema circles.
They^have a more inelegant name, viz.: "Slob
Stuff." It doesn't sound particularly classy to
the finely trained ear, but it tells the story.
Alice Howell is probably the most consistent player
of these roles, which constitute a sort of feminine
C haplin characterization.
She got her first "rough toss" at Keystone. Then
he went to the L-Ko, where they made her a star
and now she's being starred at the same studio in
comedies bearing the trade name of Century Com-
edies. With Jack BIystone, her director. Miss
Howell "dopes out" all her comedies and the
stunts she does in them. All of them have dis-
tinctive names, such as "From Beanery to Bil-
lions," "Balloonatics," and "Automaniacs."
Miss Howell has never played anything but
slavey characters since leaving Keystone, and
she is regarded as the foremost exponent of
"slob stuff" on the screen. Her makeup is cer-
tainly the most grotesque of all the "slob-stuff"
comediennes.
Alice Howell as herself and, at left, as a Keystone
"slavey."
VVitzel Dhotos
133
"Agate
The Marble
By John
HE sweetest, demurest,
tenderest, most plain-
tive little thing on the
screen is Bessie Love.
Bessie lives in Holly-
wood, where she Vised to do
sweet little star-eyed
ingenues for Fine Arts.
She's still doing ihe sweet,
etc., ingenues, but now
she's doing them at Culver
City, under the distant
supervision of Lieut. -Gen.
I nee, the new commander-
in-chief of Triangle in
California.
Not even the
]>ossession of
a regular auto-
mobile,
This illustration, pupils, is put before
you to show the extreme range of activ-
ities possible to members of the human
race. The leaping frog and cycle speed-
ster are identical ivith the little bride of
Cana of Galilee, ivhom you may remem-
ber in "Intolerance." Seems as though
Leap instead of Love should be her name.
134
Bessie"
Gambolier
Ten Eyck
that has wheels and everything,
including a chauffeur to order
"Home. James, and don't sj^are
the gas!" has made any differ-
ence in Bessie Love's tomboyish
home life.
^V'hen August, the engineer,
has chauffed her home from the
Ince stages, Bessie seeks the
greater excitement of a ride in a
home-made go-devil, or in a
bicycle race.
In roller-skating she holds the
standing-start record for all
classes, Hollywood to "Los,"
and local stops.
But the snap to this story is in
its tail. Also, hence the title:
As Cameo Kirby, the "gambo-
lier" of the old Mississippi,
played at chances for his minia-
ture carvings, so Bessie, the
combination tomboy-angel, is the
marble "gambolier" oi Holly-
wood. She shoots the agates and
the glassies for keeps, and she is
feared and revered by half the
kid population in northern Los
Angeles county,
secret, because ye old fron
tier gamester is supposed
to have passed with
Belasco's heroes — and he
did : he passed his abil-
ities and his
slickness to
this little
suffragette.
Above, portrait of a young
lady; Below, " Sideivalk
Oldfield," the champion
promenade pest and pur-
suer of old men and baby
buggies in Hollyivood.
1.^
Making
War
Forever!
That's what these fellows
are going to do, because
the films have eternalized
their part of the Big
Fight. These pictures are
transcripts from a Living
History — British official
War Pictures.
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Above, a French "Seventy-Five"
speaks from its venomous nest.
At the left. Tommy Atkins makes
merry ivith a hansom-cab which
appears cs much out of place as a
baby-carriage at a birth control
meeting.
^37
The last of
this series
PHOTOPLAY ACTORS
Find the Film Players'
THE PRIZES
1st Prize $10.00 3rd Prize $3.00
2nd Prize 5.00 4th Prize 2.00
Ten Prizes, Each $ 1 .00
These awards (all in cash, witliout any string to
them) are for the correct, or nearest correct, sets of
answers to tlie ten pictures here shown.
As tlie iianie.s of most of these movie people have
appeared many, many times before the public, we feel
sure .vou must know them.
Tliis novel contest is a special feature department
of Photoplay Magazine for the Interest and benellt of
its readers, at absolutely no cost to them the I'lioto-
play Magazine way.
The awards ari.' all for this month's contest.
TRY IT
All answers to this set must he mailed before Aug.
1. 1917.
WINNERS OF THE JUNE PHOTO
First Prize.. . $10.00 — Misa Josephine Gault,
St. Louis, Mo.
Second Prize.. 5.00— Mrs. R. P. Marts,
Salina, Kan.
Third Prize. . . 3.00 — Mrs. J- Rubin, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Fourth Prize.. 2,00 — Miss Lulu Danforth,
Chicago, 111.
$1.00 Prizes to
f Mrs. J. R. Gauson,
I Long Beach, Cal.
I Mrs. Lillie L. Hev/itt,
I Madison, Ind.
I Mr. Joseph Simnson,
J Toronto, Canada.
I Mrs. Gertrude E.
I Thompson, Leo-
I minster, Mass.
I Miss Margaret Inger-
[ soil, Spokane, Wash.
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NAME PUZZLE
Names in These Pictures
DIRECTIONS
Each picture represents the name of a photophiy
actor or actress. The actor's name is really a descrip-
tion of the picture that goes with it ; for example
"Kose Stone" might be represented by a rose and a
rock or stone, while a gawky api)earing individual look-
ing at a spider web could be "VVeb .lay."
For your convenience and avoidance of mistakes, we
have left space under each picture on which you may
write your answers. Remember to write your full name
and address on the margin at the bottom of both pages.
Cut out these pages and mail in, or you may send in
your answers on a separate sheet of paper, but be sure
they are numbered to correspond with the number of
each picture, 'i'liere are 10 answei's.
Address to Puzzle Editor, Photoplay Magazine, 3 50
North Clark Street, Chicago.
We have eliminated from this contest all red tape
and expense to you, so please do not ask us questions.
Only one set of answers allowed each contestant.
Awards for answers to this set will be published in
Photoplay Magazine. Look fop this contest each month.
New Puzzle Announced
Next Month
^-
\
PLAY ACTORS NAME PUZZLE
Mrs. Virginia Merri-
man, Sicux City,
Iowa.
Mrs. F. E. Under-
I wood, Omaha Neb.
$1.00 Prizes to \ Miss Lillian LaMoore,
(Continued) | Paducah, Ky.
I Mr. B. C. Wright,
I Milwaukee, Wis.
I Mr. Ralph Davenport,
[ Cambridge, Ohio.
CORRECT ANSWERS FOR
JUNE ISSUE
1. Fannie Ward
2. Wallace Reid
3. Max Linder
4. Robert Warwick
5. AUce Brady-
6. Muriel Ostrich
7. Wilton Lackaye
8. Carlyle Blackwell
9. Jewel Carmen
10. Charles West
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Photoplay Magazine
The Man Who Put Fame in
Famous
(Continued from page 74)
"1 believe in the best pictures for picture
theatres. In the past we have said by in-
ference if not in words: 'If you want to
see a really fine photoplay you must go to
a dramatic theatre, and pay two dollars.'
In the future my companies will make noth-
ing which is not intended for motion pic-
ture audiences in motion picture theatres,
directly. There is no other way to raise the
taste of the people than by giving all the
people the best you can, all the time.
"The man who lets his achievements in
1916 be his mark in 1917 must fail. Sculp-
ture, music and painting are fixed arts, and
the workers in them can fix standards. It
is impossible to fix any standard in active
photography for the thing itself is expand-
ing a dozen times a year. The only thing
I can do is go as far as I can now — and
next year endeavor to go much farther !"
How Dwan Shot Society
YV/lULl'; Allan Dwan was directing
'' Maxine Elliott's first photoplay —
■which has just been finished — it became
necessary to use a fine residential doorway
as a means of exit for Miss Elliott. Dwan
selected a handsome apartment house on
New York City's Riverside Drive, and as
he and Miss Elliott waited in the car, sent
his assistant to inquire if the celebrated
Maxine could merely walk out of the place.
He got a somewhat testy reply that the
owner "didn't think much of motion pic-
tures," and didn't care to have any traffic
.v'ith a director and an actress. Dwan was
peeved, but not Miss Elliott.
"I'm really delighted !" she exclaimed.
"Let's drive over to Fifth Avenue, and
I'm sure that the first of my friends we
find at home will be only too glad to help
us out."
Thereupon, to Dwan's amazement, she
enumerated half the social register, pro-
nouncing the names, not of apartment
dwellers or owners, but of the celebrities
whose names are a part of the structure of
New York City itself, as well as being the
pillars of ultra Fifth Avenue.
Had disaster overtaken them at an
apartment, what excessive sub-zero prob-
ably waited for them on the east side of
Central Park? Nevertheless, to humor the
ex- Mrs. (joodwin, Dwan rolled toward the
sacred asphalt acreage from which all
locators are barred.
At the first and grandest of the man-
sions, Dwan noticed that the folks were not
only at home, but were giving an afternoon
party.
"How delightful this is going to be!"
chortled the star.
"It certainly a.'" muttered Dwan, with
the grimness of one who lias just heard the
cry "\V()men and children first!"
"Tell them," Miss Elliott instructed
Mr. Dwan's man, "that I want to walk out
of their house for a scene in my new pic-
ture."
".She didn't even ask!" whispered the
scandalized chauffeur.
A moment after the message was deliv-
ered Dwan beheld, to his amazement, the
human symbols of a billion or two dollars
trooping out like children from a play-
house. They swamied about the machine
like kids attacking an ice-cream cart.
Could she use the palatial location? Oh,
certainly — but that would take only a mo-
ment ; tlien, wouldn't she and her director
join the party? So they did, and while the
scene was shot, it was watched breathlessly
by half the grand duchesses of America ;
after which, star and director became the
day's honor-guests within.
The moral of which is that genuine soci-
ety is a lot more thick-skinned than the
spurious article.
The "Penny Matinee" Arrives
Here's another deft exhibitor, meeting
various oppositions, including the heaviest-
handed of them all : High Cost of Living.
His name is W. W. Cole, and he manages
the Rohlff theatre, in Omaha. Recently
the imperialism of the potato and the
noiiveait-riche cabbage began to cut the
intake of even the biggest and cheapest of
amusements. Cole promptly met it by
establishing a penny matinee price for
children under ten years of age. This price
is effective only between 3 and 6 P. M.
Cole found that the penny matinee in-
creased the juvenile attendance from 200
to 300 on week-days, and at least 500 on
Sunday.
And it pulled up the night receipts,
because the voungsters invariably enthused
to papa and mamma at dinner over what
thev liad seen in the afternoon.
On the Job With Bryant Washb
urn
141
Taking a "close-up" of Bryant Washburn and
Hazel Daly in a scene for '■Filling His Own
Shoes. "
(Continued from page 36)
holds the curtain. It is a habit, I am ghid
to say. I have ne^•er abandoned. For there
is no waste in overhead expenses in tlie
production of my pictures ; no unnecessary
studio waits, so far as I am concerned.
And my company follows mv example."
"I understand." I remarked, "that re-
cently you declhied with thanks what was
reported to have been a very h.andsome
offer to return to the stage."
"Such offers are not infrequently made
to screen people," Mr. Washburn replied ;
"but they do not tempt me. I expect to
live out my acting career in motion pictures.
"From a viewpoint of actual work, the
stage is not as exacting by half as the
screen. ^\'hen you learn your part and get
your costumes fitted in a' stage production
you are practically finished with creative
work. All you have to do then is to repeat
,your lines night after night so long as the
play's run lasts. That mav be for months.
"In pictures, however, it is entirely dif-
ferent. For each new production, one must
not only master a distinctly separate char-
acterization, but he must further be fitted
to an entirely new set of costumes. This
atter requirement may seem trivial, but it
eats up more invaluable time than you
might suppose — time that the actor niust
donate, largely, from what little leisure may
be his lot. Consider, then, the work he
must accomplish in getting out at least one
picture a month, and sometimes two, twelve
months in the year.
"Yet it is the monotony of stage work
which I abhor; which strengthens my loy-
alty to the screen. Think of remaining in
one characterization, repeating over and
over the same words, and wearing nightly
for weeks and months the same costumes.
In pictures the newness of each production,
despite its exactions, gives me fresh energy
and enthusiasm. Incidentally, it provides
me with a boundless field for widening the
scope of my acting talent— an opportunity
for which every actor always is looking."
"Mr. Wa-a-s-sh-sh-bun : ' Mr. Wa-a-s-sh-
sh-Bun:" a voice burst in on our little
■conversation.
I'Awl-I ri-i-ght. Mike," the star drawled.
"The Red Cross costume next," the call
"boy" reminded him. and Mr. Washburn,
with a hurried apology, vanished.
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How to Write a Photoplay Scenario
(Continued from page i^o)
beautiful dialogue, too. Every time one
of the characters appeared in a scene, he or
she gave vent to speech, all inserted in the
working 'script, and all the characters were
continually receiving letters and telegrams
and writing same every now and then, all
of which had to be Hashed on tlie screen.
It was a real masterpiece, and worthy of
being preserved to demonstrate how a
photoplay should not be written.
The pl'aywright had seen to it that he
was paid for his work in full before he
started to undertake it, so he was safe;
but the director had to spend the best part
of a week, during which his star and sup-
porting company were idle, in working the
story into continuity, with the aid of a staff
writer; and then they discovered that the
story was almost identical with one that
had been produced by a rival concern some
months before. Of course, the playwright
was unaware of this, because the story was
an old theme anyhow, and if submitted by
an unknown free-lance writer, would never
have received serious consideration. So the
director, with the aid of the full scenario
staff had to change the story completely,
in order to avoid complications with the
rival firm, and the production w^as made.
And I suppose the playwright is growling
because none of his beautiful subtitles or
.speeches was inserted, and probably thinks
that he should have asked more than fifteen
hundred dollars for allowing his name to
be associated with a production which was
not absolutely made as he had conceived
it. However, it is safe to say that that par-
ticular company will not purchase any story
that relies for its strength solely on the
fictitious reputation of the author.
Now, otiier producing firms have suf-
fered similar experiences, and they are all
coming down to the hard fact that "the
story is the thing," no matter from what
source it comes. If an author with a big
reputation produces a fine film story, we
all gladly take off our hats to him, the
same as we do to "Jim Snooks," the great
unknown, if he docs likewise ; but if a
prominent author should produce a photo-
play unworthy of his reputation, is he not
to be discouraged and made to see that he
is not alone spoiling his own good reputa-
tion, but also injuring the film business?
I say, yes, and all the heads of producing
firms arc beginning to find out that the
market on which they relied originally for
their stories — viz, the brains of the world
is the one to which they will have to look
in the future; that is, if they want to
keep the public interested in movmg
pictures.
Distribution Waste
THERE are those who believe that, some
day, this industry will have one great,
efficient concern to distribute its films.
In the territory which Minneapolis serves
there are less than 4,000 picture theaters,
says the editor of the Motion Picture Nen's.
There are forty exchanges serving these
theaters, or one to about each one hundred
theaters.
These exchanges employ 1,200 persons.
Of these one hundred are traveling sales-
men, or one salesman to each forty the-
aters. This sales force exceeds that of
any of the leading businesses and industries
of this section.
These exchanges occupy a combined floor
space of 63,000 square feet ; more than
that occupied by the leading wholesalers
of groceries ; more than that of the several
largest milling concerns furnishing flour
for the world ; more than that of a large
interstate railroad serving the freight and
passenger demands of this same territory
of the Northw-est.
Here's a pretty situation.
One million dollars a year won't cover
the distribution cost of Minneapolis.
Why not a centralized market place for
the exhibitor?
Usher— ''\Nt don't allow any hissing, if
you don't like the picture go to the box
office and get your money back."
Patron — "I wasn't h-h-h-hissing, I
w-w-was s-s-s-simply s-s-s-saying to my
friend S-S-S-Sam that this picture is s-s-
s-simply s-s-s-swell."
Pearls of Desire
(Continued from page 126)
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"Are you two engaged?" she asked
abruptly.
"Yes, provisionally," I replied. "Alice
has agreed to marry nje if I can make a pot
of money within the next six months. This
seems to be the best chance."
"Well, well," sighed the bishop, "I sup-
puse we ought to congratulate you, but I
must say it seems a terrible thing for you
to remain here all alone, my dear boy. I'm
almost tempted to stop on with you."
"That's very good of you but not to be
thought of," I said. "For one thing we are
nearly out of supplies and it's not possible
that Drake would consent to provision us.
It would be too apparent that I was stop-
ping on to keep him from plundering the
beds and he would naturally resent it.
There's no love lost between us. Besides,
you would feel the loneliness too keenly
without the ladies. But most of all, I do
not think that they should be entrusted to
Drake's tender mercies without you aboard
to protect them. The man is an unprin-
cipled ruffian for all of his swell appearance
and when he has got a few drinks boiling
about in his system, which is very often, he
is absolutely irresponsible. There's no tell-
ing what he might do."
Alice objected, but rather feebly I
thought, that it would be too terrible for me
there alone on Trocadero and asked if it
might not be better to try to make a bar-
gain with Drake. To this I replied that I
was used to solitude and would manage
well enough, going on to say that Drake
would certainly consider nothing less than
half, possibly more, as I was convinced that
he meant to return ns quickly as he could
and gut the beds. We argued for awhile
along these lines without much difficulty
on my part in overruling Alice's objections.
Enid, sitting crosslegged on a couch
stitched industriously at a garment which
she had cut out of a piece of blue flannel,
without offering any comment and with a
curious air of indifference to the discussion.
Then, when we had finished speaking she
looked up, biting off her thread and asked
in her characteristically disconcerting
wav : —
"What if there should not be any more
pearls to speak of, after all? Would you
be married just the same?"
Alice looked annoyed and I remarked
that that was not the bargain, but that I
had no fears of not finding the pearls.
Enid looked at her aunt. "Have you,
Alice?" she asked.
"No," Alice answered. "After seeing
this big one and from what Jack has told me
I am confident that the pearls are there.
The problem is to get them."
"Well then," said Enid, threading her
needle and speaking in a casual, unemo-
tional voice as though suggesting a stroll,
or something of the sort, "If you are sure
that the pearls are there and it only needs
Jack's staying here on the island to get
them, why don't you let Uncle Geoffrey
marry you and stop here with him ?"
Alice, in answering this silly question of
a very young girl had a sharpness in her
voice which surprised me. 1 Jiad never
heard her speak that way before and it
sounded as if she did not like Enid. She
desired to know whether Enid had gone
crazy or was merely trying to give the rest
of us that impression. The bishop found
the altercation which ensued to be very
amusing (he was full of Drake's gin) but I
did not. It seemed to me to be a rather
unfortunate termination to our exile on
Trocadero. F:nid showed not the slightest
sign of vexation but her voice had a con-
temptuous little cut which stung. I was
astonished at her impertinence, for she said
almost in so many words that she thought
her aunt showed herself a poor sport in let-
ting her fiance remain alone on a desert
island to protect a treasure by which she
hoped to profit. "What if Drake should
come back and put a bullet through Jack?"
she asked. Alice wanted to know how she
would be able to help that, to which Enid
answered that Drake would scarcely go so
far as to murder her ' also and that he
would be afraid of her testimony. I could
see that Alice was getting very angry, so
not wishing to witness a scene I went out
and strolled down to the beach. Drake ap-
parently saw me there for a moment later
he came ashore in his gig. As it did not
seem worth while to avoid him I waited to
hear what he had to say.
"Well, Kavanagh," 'he began briskly,
"have you thought over my proposition?"
"Yes," I answered. "I've decided to
play the hand alone."
He looked astonished. "The deuce you
have," said he. "What are you going to
play it with, if you don't mind my asking."
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"With an outfit of my own," I answered.
"There's really no great hurry."
He frowned and puckered out his lips.
Drake looked rather like a handsome gorilla
and he had certain simian traits, also. His
eyes were quick and shifty and he had a ner-
vous way of picking at things with his fin-
gers as he talked. When irritated or excited
he dilated his nostrils and was apt to show a
very strong set of big, even teeth. But
while ruthless in his acts and excitable of
disposition I had never heard of his having
been mixed up in personal fights and he
had kept his temper perfectly under my
scathing cross examination when 1 once
haled him to court on a charge of black-
birding and mistreatment of natives.
"I think that you are making a mistake,
old top," said he. "There are plenty of
pearls for two down there and if you wait
too long somebody might get ahead of
you."
There was no mistaking the veiled threat
and he saw from my contemptuous shrug
that I undel-stood.
"I'll take my chance on that," I
answered. "The bishop will be sending me
an outfit as soon as he lands and meantime
I'll stick on here and do a sentry-go. Be-
sides, there is a patrol boat due to look in
here any day to see how I'm getting on and
as I've bought the concession I shall ask
for protection until I get to work."
Drake crinkled his low forehead precisely
like a great ape, then smiled.
"That's a good bluff, Kavanagh," said
he, "but it doesn't go. In the first place
I don't believe you've got any concession
and you know as well as I do that the
chance of a patrol boat putting into this
rotten little hole is about one in a thousand.
A lot of things might happen before those
little tubs of yours at Kialu could fit out
and get here and it's not probable that any-
body who felt like having a go at the pearls
would let himself be hindered much by one
man with no papers or anything to prove
his claim."
"In other words," 1 retorted, "you think
it would be quite possible for you to land
your passengers and get back here in time to
lick the cream of the jug before my crowd
turned up, and you think tliat my being here
wouldn't matter particularly."
He grinned. "Well, if you choose to put
it that way such a thing could happen,
couldn't it? Besides, I'm not obliged to
take these people to Kialu. It's way out
of my course."
"If you fail to show up at Kialu pretty
soon young Harris v.ill be coming here to
find out what has happened," I answered.
"Set tliem ashore wherever you damn please
and come back here as soon as you like.
But 1 warn you, Drake, that you are not
going to steal my pearls without a scrap and
that if you do for me it will be a hanging
job for you."
He scowled at me for a moment, his thick
nmstache cauglit in his under lip, then
said : —
"Oh. come now, wliat's the use of trying
to bluff. You've got nothing to prove your
claim nor could you prove that I ever
scraped up a single shell. And do you
flatter yourself that you could stand off the
lot of us? If you got nasty about it we'd
have to defend ourselves, of course, and
who could blame us? Come now, be reason-
able. Many a man has missed his chance
by trying to pig the whole thing. I'm will-
ing to go in with vdu on half shares and
these people won't mind sticking on here
for a couple of weeks. Come now, what
d'vc sav?"
'l shook my head. "No," I answered,
"you might as w^ell save your wind for
your main topsail. It's not entirely a mat-
ter of greed. I'm nt)t going to be held up
for half my pile for fear of my hide. Try
it on if you like and see what happens.
That's all . . ■" and I turned on my
heel and walked l)ark to the bungalow leav-
ing him there growling and chewing at the
rim of his mustache.
(To he continued)
Don't Miss Next Month's Instalment of
Pearls of Desire"
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The hate of Drake and Kavanagh bursts into the
red fire of battle — and to temper this flame there is
a thrilling turn to the island's romance.
Qu
estj,:!;ns ^Answers
CopvrmlU 1916
^
l<> bt J ^ub^iriljLr lo Pliolujjia) Mjgaiuu
to get questions answered in this Department. It is onlv
required that vou avoid questions which would call for unduly
long answers, each as synopses of plays, or casts of more than
one play. There are hundreds of others "in line " with you
at the Questions and Answers window, so be considerate.
This will make it both practical and pleasant lo serve you
promptly and often. Do not ask questions touching religion,
scenario writing or studio employment. Studio addresses
will not be given in this Department, because a complete list
of them is printed elsewhere in the magazine each month.
Write on only one side of the paper. Sign your full name
and address; only initials will be published if requested. If
you desire a personal reply, enclose self-addressed, stamped
envelope. Write to Questions and Answers, Photoplay
Magazine, Chicago.
J. K. L., Helena, Mont. — Your former fellow
citizen, Kathlyn Williams, left the Selig com-
pany about a year ago to play in Morosco films,
but we understand she is about to retire from
the screen.
there's a noir in it. Write again,
nawful smart girl for your age.
You're a
Subscriber, Petalltma. Cal, — The most com-
mon reason for changing the name of a novel
after its conversion into a film play is in order
to have the film copyrighted. This was the
reason, we are told, for naming the last Farrar
photoplay, "Joan the Woman" instead of the
obvious title, 'Joan of Arc." Another frequent
reason for changing a name,
however, is due to the pro-
ducer's fear that the original
title would not prove a suffi-
cient box office lure.
Peeved, Pasadena, Cal. — James Cruze is now
an inmate of Lasky's. Rita Jolivet's last appear-
ance was in an Ivan film. She's the Baroness
Cippico now. Yes, the "Hari Kari" filmed by the
California company is the same "Hari Kari" that
Julian Johnson committed originally. Lois Wil-
son played the lead. She is to be J. Warren
Kerrigan's leading woman in his new company.
Agnes, Wilmington, Del. —
Now don't cry little girl :
maybe Mr. Chaplin needed that
two-bits you sent him for a
photo to buy some gasoline.
You must realize that times are
hard and that every little bit
helps.
L. C, Albuquerque, N. M. —
We can assure you personally
that Douglas Fairbanks really
does those stunts himself bc-
catise we've actually, with our
own eyes, sawn him do them.
He is one of the few great
screen players who does not
employ a "double" in performing hazardous
stunts.
T^H!IS department
•*■ will be glad to for-
ward to the proper des-
tinations all letters
addressed in care of
PHOTOPLAY MAG-
AZINE, to any of the
screen players. This is
a service department
and is conducted solely
for the convenience and
pleasure of its readers.
Funny, Philadelphia. — Arline Pretty was the
girlin "In Again; Out Again,"
but we would say that it was
"Bull" Montana, portrayer of
Oncntin Auburn, the burglar,
who played opposite Fairbanks.
Didst notice those ears?
W. W., Brockton, Mass. —
No, sonny, we aren't no retired
actor. They ain't no sich ani-
mule. Once an actor, always
an actor. Mary Miles Minter
was born in Shreveport. La.,
on April 1, 1902, and she has
been on the stage since she was
a wee cheeild. Her right name
is Juliet Shelby. Her latest pic-
ture is "Annie-for-Spite "
X. Y. Z., Indianapolis. Ind.
— You were a good guesser.
However, we didn't answer
your questions, not because
there are so many of them, but because you
neglected to attach your real name and address.
H. R., Des Moines, Ia. — You're a nawful smart
girl for your age. Mercutio was Fritz Lieber
and Paris was John Davidson in Metro's "Romeo
and Juliet." The "Willis boy" is with Lockwood
in "The Haunted Pajamas." We quite agree with
your ladyship as to Mary Pickford. She still
leads the parade. A long time ago we read over
the Federal Constitution and finding nothing to
preclude such a decision, decided to refrain from
witnessing serials whenever humanly possible to
avert them. So we can't argue with you about
vour bete noir — or is it cafe noir? Anyhow
G. C, Little Rock, Ark. — It was the same
Walter Long as The Musketeer of the Slums in
"Intolerance" and as the executioner in "Joan."
He left Griffith soon after "Intolerance" was com-
pleted and is still with Lasky's unless he has
joined his regiment.
M., National City, C.-^l. — Sessue Hayakawa's
first photoplay was "The Typhoon" ; his last
three, "Each to His Kind," "The Bottle Imp" and
"The Jaguar's Claws." The English girl in
"Each to His Kind" was Vola Vale, and her
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lover was Eugene Pallette. Hayakawa is 5 feet
iy2 inches tall; Dorothy Dalton 5 feet 3; Ethel
Clayton 5 feet SJ^l, and Bryant Washburn 6 feet.
Katy, Omaha, Neb. — Quite a few actors have
signified their intention of going to the front, and
quite a few others, if we haven't the wrong
hunch, will be eager to admit that they are on
the shady side of 31 and that they have families
dependent upon them. Ves, Katy, wc have volun-
teered— as a letter censor — and handwriting ex-
pert. Enid Markcy has just finished playing in
"The Curse of Eve," which sounds bad enough
to be a good job for the censors.
H. M., Long Island City, N. Y. — The only
favorite you mention who hasn't a wife is Charley
Chaplin, and he's liable to have one any time.
Please don't send us any more love epistles. It
makes our stenographers jealous.
Rita, I.aGrande, Ohe. — Jack Mulhall is with
Universal, and his eyes are blue, not gray. Sev-
eral of the Bowers stories have been filmed. VVe
have always made it a practice to answer all
c|uestions to the best of our ability and do not
bar (jucstions as to the matrimonial incumbrances
of the players. Can't prove that heart-beat stuff
by us.
Kidder. Sacramento, Cal. — No, our middle
name isn't Ursus. And also, they don't play "The
Toreador" when we do our work. Outside of
that you are a remarkably fine guesser. Uon't
worry about the draft; if they send you to the
front you won't have to wear a steel helmet
anyhow.
G. D., Providence, R. I. —
House Peters is not a South-
erner. William Desmond is —
South of Ireland. Mrs. Peters
was Miss Mae King before her
marriage.
L. £., San Diego, Cal.— All
of your suggestions have been
submitted to the editor with a
recommendation that all be
adopted. Just a word from us,
you see, and the editor does as
he likes. Pauline Frederick
and Anita Stewart answer let-
ters and so do the sisters Gish.
The latter are now in New
York. For a three-year-old
American you write a mighty
good English letter.
A LL letters sent
to this depart-
ment which do not
contain the full name
and address of the
sender, will be disre-
garded. Please do
not violate this rule.
Admirer, Freeport, L. 1. — Lottie Pickford was
21 on June 9 and Jack Pickford will be 21 on
Aug. 18. Daisy Robinson was the betrothed of
House Peters in "The Happi-
ness of Three Women. " Lottie
Pickford is in Hollywood at
present. So glad you're happy
and you have every right to be.
E. R., Rochester, N. Y. —
Hal Ford played opposite Pearl
White in "May Blossoms" and
I'arle Foxe is officiating in like
c.ip.icity in "New York Xighls.'
y\rnol(i Daly is on the legiti-
mate stage. Write Pearl for
her pictures.
M. M., Quebec, Canada. —
The Clune company can be
reached by merely addressing
the letter to Los Angeles.
Write Jane Novak, care Conti-
nental Film Co., Los Angeles.
R. C, New York City. —
Frank Morgan was Halkett in "The Girl I'hil-
ippa." It was all filmed in the vicinity of New
York, except the scenes for which the company
went abroad — to New Jersey. Glad you like the
covers. So do we.
H. H., Santa Rosa, Cal. — .Arthur .'\shky is
with World Film and we assume that he will be
glad to give you any information you may desire.
X. Y. Z., Greensburg, Pa. —
So far as we know no actress ever cut off her
hair in order to adapt her appearance to the
demands of some role, although it was said that
Geraldine Farrar did so in order to play Joan.
If she did. Miss Farrar broke all existing records
for hair raising immediately thereafter. Ann
Pennington, Famous Players; Louise Huff,
Lasky ; Mrs. Castle, Pathe; Billie Burke, Artcraft.
M. C, Shreveport, La. — Geraldine Farrar pro-
nounces her name with the accent on the last
syllable. "Patria" may be pronounced several
ways, and each correctly.
S. A. W., Columbus, O. — Why bring Joe
Tinker, into the controversy? He isn't a actor.
Fine Arts produced "Her Father's Keeper."
Ince's new arrangement with Triangle is largely
a private matter, we think. However, he has
charge of all Triangle production in California.
Bessie Barriscale is to make another photoplay
for Triangle before going to work for herself.
■We have no grudge against Cincinnati or any
other city. Where do you get that stuff?
J. F., Meridian. Mis.s. — "Cleopatra" was Theda
Bara's latest film play. There are a number of
books dealing with photoplay writing. One of
them is Captain Peacocke's "Hints on Photoplay
Writing," which may be had at this office for
fifty cents.
Winsome, Notre Dame, Ind. — Jane Bernoudy
was born in Colorado. Florence Lawrence and
King Baggot are still away from the screen.
Miss Bernoudy was last with Universal.
R. L., Brookton, N. Y. — We have no record of
a Margaret Fuller.
Uno. Los Angeles, Cal. — Yes, we acted in a
movie once. The usher put us out. Mary Alden
was born in New Orleans but we never knew her
well enough to ask about the year. You did
wrong in flirt~hig with that actor. It will only
encourage him to do it again.
L. T., Easton, Pa. — "The Little .American" is
the second Mary Pickford photoplay directed by
Cecil B. DeMille at the Lasky studio. "A Ro-
mance of the Redwoods" was the first. The
latter originally bore the title, "Jennie, the Unex-
pected." There are fifteen episodes in "Patria."
L. J. P., Indiana, Pa. — Just out of the maga-
zines you want. - Awfully sorry, too.
E. T., Hanton, N. J. — Having been born on
April 12, 1888, Mr. Lockwood's age would neces-
sarily be 29. For the small sum of fifteen cen-
tavos, Americano, we will be glad to shoot you
the December 1915 issue containinir a very nice
story about that gentleman. We don't believe we
ever said it before, but right now we want to
tell you that Mr. Bushman and Miss Bayne are
not married to each other. Billie West played
opposite Mr. Lockwood in "The Hidden Spring."
(Continued on page 150)
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The Shadow Sta^e
{Coiitiniicd ]r
PERIWINKLE" is the name given a
baby girl vhom a lifeguard finds in a
wreck, and as Periwinkle grows up. she
radiates such sunsliine that she is finally
able to redeem a \ery blase young man, and
make him a useful citizen. In these words
you have a synopsis of the btest story
which Mary Miles M inter charmingly
enacts, and for which she lias been given
human and material surroundings of
fidelity, and believable conduct through her
scenes by James Kirk wood. George Fisher
plays the young man whom Periwiiikk-
redeems.
William Russell's valiant author. Julius
Crinnell Furthmann. does not produce, in
"Shackles of Truth."' so overwhelmingly
and exuberant a vehicle as he gave the big
fellow in "The Frame-Up." It is a much
more serious storv of political and jjcrsonal
corruption, and Russell's punch and smile
are things too good to lose. However,
"Shackles of Truth" is by no means bad
programme entertainment.
"The Serpent's Tooth," as a name, might
mean a lot of things that are not to be
found in Gail Kane's recent celludrama.
If any element of surprise attached to this
perfunctory affair it must have been the
author's on disposing of his manuscript.
IN "The Sixteenth Wife," a Vitagraph
•* comedy featuring Peggy Hyland, you
may see a perfectly laughless melodrama
made into a roarer by its titles. Such, we
have often contended, is the biggest secret
in Keystone merriment, for exaggerated
seriousness is funnier than any deliberate
attempt at comedy that might be made.
This farcelet gains its title from the ambi-
tion of a Turkish Kadir, who. beholding
Peggy as a fair dancer, would augment his
harem of fifteen by another addition.
'That there are other ■\\'estern stories than
those of the boys who ride herd is well
proved by "The Captain of the Gray Hors.-
Troop," a really fine tale of the border
Indians, the evils practised upon them by
unscrupulous whites, and their retaliations.
There is much of frontier history in this
play. Antonio Moreno and Edith Storey
head an excellent cast. The author, Ham-
lin Garland ;. the director, William Wolbert.
A piece worth while.
Anita Stewart's vivid personality gleams
brilliantly through the flickering scenes of
oiii page gj)
"Clover's Rebellion," one of the most
uneven screen plays put forth in a long
time. The author is James Oliver Cur-
wood, and at moments the drama moves
with zest, speed and a sense of novelty ;
and at other moments it is trite and banal.
The substance of the plot is a difference in
father's and mother's marrying designs, and
a stubborn determination on the part of the
adopted daughter to wed neither of their
choices. "Rudy" Cameron has developed
into A-1 leading-man timber, and the sup-
porting cast includes the ever-beautiful
Julia Swayne Gordon, Charles A. Steven-
son, and Eulalie Jensen.
"Within the Law," with Alice Joyce in
the part Jane Cowl created on the stage,
lacks the great stream of human humor
which swept tlie spoken play like a torrent
— which made it great. "Within the Law"
is simply a melodrama, one of many.
"The Soul Master." An uninspired
photoplay, featuring Earle Williams in a
heavy and apparently uncongenial role.
'•■yHE SILENT MASTER," a pre-
•*■ tentious pliotoplay featuring Robert
Warwick and offering .Anna Little in the
best part she ever played, also brings to
projection the shadow of Olive Tell, a
supremely beautiful young woman of the
speaking stage. "The Silent Master" is a
big and pretentious melodrama narrating
the follv of a mature man who introduces
a young boy to a phase of life — merely as a
w-arning exhibition — which he cannot
resist. But it is entirely too European in
its sequences, its treatment of each incident,
and in its titles, to be wholeheartedly
accepted here. It may be rememl)ered that
while Europe has developed a standard of
music, painting and spoken drama which
Ave would do well to copy, America leads
the world not only in photoplay photo-
graphy, but in photoplay technique. Not-
withstanding a flood of productive medioc-
rity, the best things that we have done have
not even been approaclied across the water.
We are within our rights in measuring
active photography by U. S. A. Standards.
•DEDEMPTION." A somewhat mawk-
■^ *■ ish melodrama, produced by Julius
Steger, featuring Evelyn Thaw and her
little boy, Russell. In it Mrs. Thaw acts
more believably than usual
Photoplay Magazine— Advertising Section
149
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SnowflakEj Brocton, Mass. — Just got down
to that drawing, the penalty for which should be
a deep silence with reference to those questions
you propound. Nearly e\ery magazine appears
during the month preceiling the date on its cover.
Photoi'lav just happens to be earlier than most
of them. Sarah Bernhardt's right name was
Bernard. Billie Burke comes from a theatrical
family. Write Famous Players about those Pau-
line Frederick plays. They provide them for her.
Do write again.
F. B., Oakdale, La. — Write the Orpheum
theatre at New Orleans. They'll tell you if Mrs.
Castle ever danced there.
Yankee Girl, San Fkancisco — Miss Payson
is with Keystone in Los Angeles. Write her
there. She was a policewoman at the Exposi-
tion in your city and you should have seen her
there. She has appeared only in comedies.
E. C, Boston, Mass. — Afraid we're a little late
with your answers. The Gish sisters are now in
New York, not permanently employed. We un-
derstand also that Bobby Harron and Dorothy
Gish are engaged. We have no information con-
cerning Lillian Burns. Constance Talmadge has
her own company.
YvETTE, Quebec. Canad.a — Don't apologize,
muh deah ; your English is much better than that
contained in lots of the letters we get from girls
educated only in that language. John Bowers
will send you a photograph. We (juite agree as
to your survey of John.
M. J. W., San Francisco — .\nita Loos is 21
years old and we believe she has lived in San
Francisco. Sh^ is now writing exclusively for
Douglas Fairbanks.
Maizie. New Rochelle, X. Y. — As a rule, we
don't commit ourselves on topics with which we
are unfamiliar. W'hen we say that Mr. So-and-
So says that he is not married, you can put down
a bet that lie is, and win nine times out of ten.
Earle \\"illianis is still single. Harold Lockwood
was born April 12, 1888.
H. L. S., Medicine Hat Canada — Gee. that's
where all the cold waves come from, isn't it?
Mary MacLaren is about five feet, three inches
and Miriam Cooper about two inches taller.
Sure, call on us when you come to Chicago, but
don't be surprised if they tell you that the
Answer Man has just left for California.
M. J., Greensburg, Pa. — "War Brides" was
Nazimova's only screen venture. Dustin and
William Farnum are brothers.
Herbert, New York — Miriam Cooper is 23
and a native of Baltimore. Address her at Fox
Studio. Hollywood, California. The scenes for
"Patria" were taken in New York and vicinity
and Los Angeles and vicinity. So "Patria"
means fatherland in Spanish ? Well, well !
Moulder, Erie, Pa. — Louise Huflf is in her
early twenties and played in "The Girl at the
Locks" for Lubin. Ask your theatre owners
when they are going to show "Daughter of the
Gods" and "Joan the AVoman."
B. H., Shelbyville, Ind. — Olga Petrova was
born in AVarsaw, Poland, but she is an American
by adoption ; or perhaps, it would be more cor-
rect to say, by marriage. You see when a
woman, not an American, marries one, she takes
his citizenship, and vice versa.
BiLLiE, Newport. R. L — Jane Lee is nearly
eight years old, but we can't tell you what her
salary is. "Her Father's Son" was filmed in Los
Angeles and "The Gilded Cage" in the east.
Edward Langford was the man opposite C. K.
Young in "The Dark Silence." "The cast of
"Love and Hate"; Helen Sterliity. Bertha Kalich ;
Georyc Ho-vard. Stu.irt Holmes: Robert Sterlitiij,
Kenneth Hunter: Rita Ltiusoii, Madeline l.e-
Nard ; IVillie and Myrtle, Jane and Katherine
Lee.
M. M., Lihue. Hawaii — It is only in recent
years that Jack Kerrigan has forsaken cowboy
roles. It's up to Lasky to decide if Wallace Reid
and Mae Murray are to play together again.
John Bowers has brown hair. Crane Wilbur has
brown hair and gray eyes and is — pardon us, you
didn't ask that. Blanche Sweet is not married.
Yes, we too think she is very pretty.
Dora, Sheldon. Ia. — Ethel Barrvmore was
born in 1879 and Henry Walthall in 1878. Hassan
Mussalli played the part of Samuel Wright in
"The Awakening of Helena Ritchie." William
S. Hart is not a woman-hater in any sense of the
phrase. He just hasn't found the right one.
Yes, his eyesight is very good, as he has never
worn spectacles.
E. C, Crystal Springs, Miss. — Billie Burke's
first husband is Flo Ziegfeld, Jr. William Des-
mond played opposite her in "Pecgy." Olga
Petrova's hair is red. Herbert Rawlinson is not
(he husband of .Anna Little, be^ use Alan Forrest
is. W.illace Reid was Don Jose to Farrar's
"Carmen. " You probably mean World's "A
Woman Alone. ' .Alice Bradv, Edward Langford
and .Arthur Ashley had the leading parts.
I. W., Burlington. N. D. — We have no in'
formation concerning the party you intjuire about.
M. M., Quebec, Canada — "The Eves of the
World" is being distributed under the state rights
system and not through any program. Letters
addressed to Miss Novak and Frank Newburg,
care of Clune, Los .Angeles, would reach them.
Grace Darniond and Beverly Bayne are still
single.
Tina Hampton, Va. — Constance Talmadge,
siticc "Intolerance," has niayed in "The Matri-
maniac," "Betsey's Burglar" and "The Girl of
the Timberclaims." She was nineteen on April
19. Owen Moore has brown hair and blue eyes.
Marguerite Courtot was last with .Arrow, a
Pathe company. Norma Nichols was Chiquita
in "The Ne'er- Do-Well." Hazel Dawn's latest
motion picture is "The Lone Wolf."
L. T., Easton, Pa. — Lottie Pickford is a sister
of Mary and Jack. She expects to return to the
screen soon.
M. C., Trenton, N. J. — Harrison Ford was the
man in "The Mysterious Mrs. M." Guess he'll
send you an autographed photo if you write him
a nice letter. Douglas F.-u'rbanks has one young
son. Mary Pickford was 24 in .April.
Ragtime Higgins. Tex. — Bv the time this is
printed and in your hands, the songs that are
hits now will be "old stuff." The most popular
song we know right now is "The Star Spangled
Banner."
Peg. Duluth, Minn. — You'll have to be sat-
isfied with Mr. Hayakawa's business address:
Lasky's, Hollywood. His wife is Tsuru .Aoki
and she is 24 years old.
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Charity, Bradford, Pa. — Yes, it was Charles
Richman in "The Battle Crj'" and it was Mahlon
Hamilton opposite Olga Petrova in "Extra\a-
gance." He has pla\ed opposite Mthcl Barry-
more. Montagu Lo\e i)layed opposite Alice
Brady in "Bought and Paid For." Leo Delanex
still earns his ham and eggs by working in the
movies. Sorry to take issue with the World
Almanac, but wc still stick to Cincinnati.
Chatterbox, Wvxnefiei.o. Pa. — Frank Elliott
was the Englishman you liked so much in ".\lr.
Grex of Monte Carlo." He is a real Englishman
and is now with Selig in Los Angeles. May
Allison is not married, despite the wedding ring.
Messrs. Foxe, Reid and 1-ockwood are all bigger
than us, so we refrain from expressing any opin-
ion as to their respecti\ e degrees of pulchritude.
Don't see why your family should dislike Mr.
Bushman so much. That's not at all clubby.
(Yes, dearie, a royal flush beats four of a kind.
That's kinda out of our line, but we asked a man
who knew.)
A. T., Toronto, Canada — Dorothy Davenport
was born in 1895. Your others .ire answered
elsewhere.
G. A. M., Ottawa, Canada — We have no record
of that Minter story. Perhaps you have the
name wrong. Write again ; we liked your letter.
E. W., Danbury, Coxn. — Ko. Harold I.ock-
wood is not married to Julie Ring.
NoRAH, Hamilton, New Zealand — We'd be
delighted to send you a personal reply but un-
fortunately your New Zealand stamp isn't in
right with our postal department. Nlary Pick-
ford has no children and has been in the movies
about eight years.
M. C. Fan, Havelock, Xeb. — Mina Cunard is
a sister of Grace and her age is 22. She is still
with Universal.
Helen, San Diego, Cal. — Edwin Bolden was
last with Famous Players. Can't tell you what
picture houses are to show McClure's "Seven
Deadly Sins." Ask your theater man.
E. B. C, Shelton, Coxx. — Wilton Lackavc
was the gentlemanly hypnotist, yclept Svengali,
who put the Indian sign on Clara Kimball Young,
so to say, in "Trilby."
J. J., Miami, Fla. — We have no record of
Phyllis Gordon though the name is a familiar
one. Jack Ford is a brother of Francis.
G. K., Malden, Mass. — You are almo.st a
good guesser. Accept our most sincere thanks
for your laudatory letter. If there's one thing
we just dote on it is having people write us and
tell us how clever we are. Seriously however,
we did like yours better than most of 'em.
Betty, Denver, Colo. — Dustin Farnum is
with Fox in Los Angeles. Tom Forman is with
Lasky. Both are married. Tom is .?4. Norma
Talmadge is with Selznick.
L. D., Hartford, Conn. — Your letter was de-
cidedly welcome and you are hereby permitted
to write again and often. Dorothy Dalton may
be addressed at Culver City, Cal.
M. R., Millixgtox, Mass.— Cleo Madison
hasn't confided her age to us, but we have inside
information that she voted at the last presiden-
tial election.
E. M., Rockwall, Tex. — Louise Fazcnda is
still with Keystone and her comedies are re-
leased regularly. Write her care of that com-
pany for a photograph. Yes, we kinda like
Louise loo. Nice kid.
Peewe, Bradford, Mass. — Do w'e think Theda
a dear? Well, decidedly so — the sweetest little
thing we know. Just go ahead and write to her.-
She'll be delighted to answer.
Blanche, Louisville, Ky. — Milton Sills has
been on the screen about two years and m.iin-
tains a discreect silence as to his age and m.itri-
monial status.
Phyllis, Quebec, Canada — .•\nita Stewart,
Ruth Roland and Seena Owen are about the
same height, five and a half feet.
B. F., Philadeli'hia — Mahlon Hamilton was
the man in "The Heart of a Painted Woman"
and Edward Langford in "A Woman Alone."
Robert Cununings in "The Awakening of H.
Ritchie." Mr. Hamilton is with Lasky and
Bryant Washluirn with Essanay.
Whakapauka, Wellington, New Zealand—
filad you told us how to nronoimce it but what
in heck does it me.m ? It w-as Wm. Courtlcigh.
Jr., in "Out of the Drifts." Wilmuth Merkyl
wjth Petrova in "The Soul Market." Your rc-
(|uest was anticipated in the last issue. Did you
like the Beverly Bayne picture in the art section?
S. J., Richev, Moxt. — Your description is too
meager as more is rc(|uired than brown curls and
grey eyes. Anyhow vou're too young to break
away from the old homestead. Yes, we like
your selection of stars. Now run to school or
teacher'll scold you.
H. D., Osceola, Ia. — Annette Kellerman and
Geraldine Farrar are about the same age. Adda
Gleason and Monroe Salisbury had the leading
roles in "Ramona."
Claire, Chicago — Write Tom Santschi, care
Selig, Los Angeles, and Harry Morey, care Vita-
graph, New York. Of course we are deeply
appreciative of the honor you are about to confer
upon us by making us the hero of a scenario.
But really we don't deserve it. All we ask is an
epitaph when that time comes, labeled : "He
answered his goldarnest."
Molly. Sprixg Hill. Ala. — Earle Williams was
born in Sacramento, Feb. 28, 18S0, and is not
married, professionalfy or otherwise. Don't re-
member any \\s\X. to Mobile. William Conklin
was born in Brooklyn on Christmas Dav, 1877.
Jack Meredith played Inglis in "Sloth."
M. G., Chicago — We share your opinion con-
cerning Mr. Walthall's talent and ability but
Photoplay reserves the right to criticise his
plays favorably or ad\ erscly as it sees fit. The
same applies to other plays and players and be-
cause your opinion does not coincide with ours
there is no reason for wasting a two cent st.imp
to tell us we're a knocker. Cheer up though,
spuds are getting cheaper and a man with a
moderate income may now eat onions once a
month without jeopardizing his bank roll.
■ M. L., Richmond, Va. — Yes, we were quite
surprised to hear from yoiL You were about the
last person we thought would write us. As .i
rule we do not open letters sent to actresses in
care of the magazine unless they are hea\ \
enough to indicate that there is money in 'em.
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M. K., Bko.sx, X. Y. — We have it on fairly re-
liable authority that the "S" in Willi.ini S. Hart
stands for "Shooter." Donald Hall is with Ivan
Films.
E.MMY, West Hoboki .\. X. J. — Gale Henry is
still with Universal. What particular "Skinny"
do you mean ? The plays you mention are en-
tirely unfamiliar to us. Who made them ?
PuBLicus, ETC., CiNciNXATi — Sydney Ayrcs
is dead. Cincinnati, not Sahara.
Bii.i., Abingdo.v, III. — Do you think your de-
scription of yourself is fair to Hill F.irnuin and
vour description of us ditto to Mr. Bryan?
Stuart Holmes was the he-vamp opposite Theda
in dear old "East Lynne." Vivian Martin is
about 22 and her address is 201 X. Occidental
Blvd., Los Angeles.
A. C, RocKFORD, III. — Pearl White gets her
lail in care of Pathe, New York.
Clutching Hand, St. Tohns, N. F. — Well
Clutch, old boy, back again, eh ? All of Arthur
B. Reeve's stories, we believe, have been
printed in the Cosmopolitan Magazine. Cast of
"The Closing Xet" included Howard Estabrook,
Kathryn Browne-Decker, Bliss Milford, Madeline
Traverse and Arthur Albro.
Fatty, Griffin, Ga. — W'illiam Courtleigh, Jr..
appeared last with Ann Pennington. Margery
Daw, having passed the "awkward age" is back
in the movies. You'll see her next in a L.isky
film and you'll be awfully surprised to see how-
big she is now.
.■\i ko, LisBORNE, New Zealand — Very many
of the film -stars do not ask that thev be reim-
bursed for photographs mailed to their admirers.
The only way to send the money from there is
by International^ Coupon. Olga Petrova is with
I.asky in New York.
O. S., Sedalia, Mo. — If we were to give over
our pages to all of the minor players indis-
criminately, the well known ones wouldn't get
much of a chance.
A., Clifton, N. J. — If your friends have all
told vou that you would make a wonderful movie
actress, there is nothing to do but hike right out
and get bids from the producers. Of course,
that's only kidding, but seriously, no kind of
looks counts except the kind that screens prop-
erly. Some very famous beauties have failed to
pass the test and on the other hand, some girls
you wouldn't look at twice on the street are film
beauties. We would prefer not recommending a
studio at which you can apply for a position,
thereby risking your deepest displeasure.
G. and v., 'Visalia, Cal. — Just exactly what
do vou mean when you say that Chester Barnett
looks like vour husband — and two of you sign-
ing the letter? Oh, we get yuh. On second
reading, we note that the letter is subdivided,
as it were. And you want to build Bill Hart a
new shirt. Well, for the lovva Mike don^t make
it outa checked gingham. He was born in 1374
and hasn't a wife to his name.
Loida. Vineland. N. J. — So you thought we
were paid to answer "anyone's questions?" My,
what a peeve our angel child has this beautiful
morning! Lewis Stone was la.st with Essniav
and is not picture acting now. Billie Burke lives
in a little burg called New York. She has just
resumed playing for the screen. Now smile !
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Amour Melbourne, Australia— Just what
did your friend write on that letter? Our curi-
osity IS rampant. Shirley Mason gets peevish if
anyone says she is more than sixteen, so we are
sure she is no more. Dorothy Phillins was born
in l^altimore, a city in Maryland that is highly
^oken of by its residents, and her husband is
Allan Ho ubar. Don't know Minnie. Your let-
ter was charming. Let us hear from you often
S. C, Hallowell, Me.— Fannie Ward has
been married before and has a daughter only
Don t_ get us wrong. We want all our friends
to write whenever they feel like it.
Marie, Madrid, Spain— The Frieder Film Com-
pany, Lancaster, Cal., and the William Fox Com-
pany, Los Angeles, Cal., are specializing in
children s plays. You might correspond with
them.
M. W., Oakland, Cal.— So far as we know,
Harold Lockwood is his right name, but we de-
cline to venture an opinion as to whether he and
May would "make an ideal match in real life "
If you mean boxing match we would say "no " as
May is^ much too light.. Frances Nelson was
Ke/)«a in Human Driftwood" opposite Robert
Warwick.
• ^r^;' o^^.^'^ Lake City. Utah— At this writ-
ing A ell Shipman IS sin the West Indies, Vivian
Kich with Sehg, Winifred Kingston with Fox in
Los Angeles and Mrs. Vernon Castle with Pathe
New York.
. Movie Fan LaGrange, Ga.— Grace Darmond
IS now with Techni-color Company. Can't find
any Jealousy m the cast of "Love's Law." Cast
for Umversals "Jewel": Jezcel, Ella Hall; Mr
hvringham, Rupert Julian ; Laivrence Evringham,
I'rank Llliott ; Eloise. Miss Brownell ; Julia,
Dixie Carr; Nat Bomieil, Tack Holt; Dr. Bal-
lard, T. W. Gowland; Mrs. Forbes, Lule War-
renton.
Margaret, Phoenixville, Pa.— Tom Chatterton
played last in American's serial, "The Secret of
tne bubmanne.
.u \S-' ?a,cramento, Cal.— Madge Evans was
the little girl in "The Web of Desire" with Ethel
Clayton. The latter has no children. Rockliffe
l-ellowes was the husband.
A Reader, Eagle Pass, Tex.— Hate to dis-
appoint you but Beverly Bayne was not born in
^Philadelphia. She was born in 1895
^' fii'; ^^°ll^ y^STA, Colo.— Barbara Gildroy
IS Sibil in "TVi(^ Vi^r-lr Q;ia„„^ " ■'
was Sibil in "The Dark Silence.
B. T., Manitowoc, Wis.— J. Warren Kerrigan
was born in old Kentucky, Louisville to be speci-
fic, on July 25 1889. His present address is
Paralta Film Corp., Los Angeles. Florence
LaBadie is still with Thanhouser, New Rochelle
r T^,' ^shton Dearholt plaved in "The Sheriff
of Plumas and "Sandy Powell, Reformer," for
American.
. F. X. B., Carrollton, Mo. — Margery Daw has
just turned 16. Her right name is House. Mrs
^u^^T '^ •^;, G^raldine Farrar's last was "Toan
tne Woman. Some people pronounce it Tollifer
and others just as it is spelled Taliaferro with
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I'M THE
National
J7B7
of the
MOVIES
Every time you see me, go
to the movies.
Every time you go to the
moTjies think of me.
My business is to make folks glad. I want every
Movie Fan in the country to be my friend. So
I'm going to give them something to remember
me by.
Go to your nearest theatre and ask for Cico
Toodles cards. There are 30 different cards— you
can make a nice collection of them. Each card
has one of Mother Goose's verses on it, written
in a way you never saw before, and
a picture to illustrate the verse.
You just can't help being glad when
you look at Cico Toodles Cards
Ask your movie man for them. If
he hasn't got them he can get them
for you.
Cc€/) O^ootA/^,
.\xxr., Jacksok, Tenn. — Helen Holmes and
Helen Gibson iire not at all the same. The
former was the first '"Railroad Helen" and when
she f|uit Kaleni. Helen Gibson took her place.
Our personal opinion, not for publication, is that
"The Crimson St.iin Mystery" is rather im-
probable and that Ol^a Olonova is the wisglediest
vamp we ever witnessed. Dorothy Davenport
has retired temporarily from the screen.
W. F., W'oRCESTEK. Mas.s. — We have read over
your letter a half dozen times and can't just
tiKure out what ymi .ire trying to put over. Try
it ag.iin.
A. I.., RuiiMOND Hii.i., I.. I. — Photoplay
.Ma(;azi.\e does not sell its editorial space, and
no charge is made for any articles concerning the
players. Only our .idvertising columns are for
sale.
.•\. K., Oi.xEV, Pa. — Tunc Caprice was born in
Boston and has Uuht h.iir and blue eyes. She
mails her photographs to her admirers without
charge.
George, Lincoln, Xcn. — William Farnum's
wife was an actress and her professional name
was Olive White. Their child was adopted about
two years a^o. Mr. I-'.irnum and his family are
now in Xew York.
P. S., Santa Rita, .\.
:ci;ain acting for the screen
M.— Biliie Burke is
and her first picture
will be "The Mysterious Miss Terry." for Para-
mount. Creigliton Hale is not the husband of
Pearl White.'
Maiuan, Minn NEAi'Oi.i.s — Glad you think tliis
dep.irtment is swell. Forrest Stanley is acting
on the stage, in "The Bird of Paradise." He is
m.irried.
.\. V. Z., S.Miiiis Falls, 0\t., Canad.v — Xone
of the Wiliiamses you mention are rel.ited.
Charles Ray and J. Barney Sherry were the boy
and man, respectively, in the picture to which
you refer. C.innot answer your scenario ques-
tion.
.\. B. H.. Mkridex. Conn. — Jewel Carmen is
with William Fox. Her last two pictures, "A
Tale of Two Cities" and '•.American Methods,"
are both with William Farnuin.
Mildred, Los .Xncfles. Cal. — Beatrice \'an
was Baby Marie Osborn's mother in "Told at
Twilight." Teddy Sampson is in Los .\ngeles
now. She's not playing, howe\ er. Keystone
hasn't featured anyone of the name you mention.
Zena Keefe is with Iv.in Films. Write Edna
Payne, care Dramatic Mirror, New 'S'ork. Write
Margarita Fischer, care Pollard Pictures, San
Diego. C.ilifornia ; Hazel Dawn, care Selznick
Enterprises, New York City.
F. S., CiiicAco — Dorothy Phillips' real
before she married .Allen Holubar was
Strible. She is now at L'niversal City.
Vivian. Birmingham, Ala. — "New
Nights" will 1)1- the next serial in which
White will appear. Her eyes are brown.
name
Mary
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Pi.irl
Theresa. San Francisco — We have no record
of anv .\nita Murrv.
Kate, Chicago — Wheeler Oakman was Kirk
in "The Xeer-Do-Well." which was filmed early
in 19IS. He is now with Mabel Normand's
company.
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IW
E. R., Grass Valley, Cal. — Sorry to disap-
point you, but we never had any pictures taken.
We can assure you, however, that the Answer
Man is not a movie actor. Charles Bryant, who
in private life is the husband of Nazimova, wa.s
Frans in "War Brides." Charles Hutchinson was
George, Nila Mac the sister and Gertrude Berke-
ley the mother. Yes, Henry King is also mar-
ried, William Russell ditto. Address him at
Santa Barbara, your state.
T. G., Oregon City, Ore. — It was Louise
Glaum and not Theda Bara in "The Wolf
VVoman" and she wasn't killed. No Goldwyu
pictures have been released thus far. Howard
Hickman was the count and Enid Markey his
promised bride in "Civilization."
M. H., White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. —
Bessie Barriscale was the lead in "The Green
Swamp." Extra girls get all the way from $1.50
to $10 a day, but the average is about $3.
Frederick Admirer, Garden City, L. I. — It
was in "The Moment Before" that Pauline Fred-
erick played the part of a widow with white
hair. There was a story about her in the last
issue of Photoplay and lots of pictures.
Kathryn, Dallas, Tex. — Yes, Marguerite
Clark's name really is ditto. Niles Welch is
married and is now with the Technicolor com-
pany. We have no record of the girl you men-
tion. Movie stars do not make it a practice to
receive calls from their admirers at home.
Iwannano, Fall River, Mass. — The girl who
played opposite Sessue Hayakawa in "The Bot-
tle Imp" wore a Hawaiian name on the cast, but
in reality her name is Margaret Loomis, a Los
Angeles girl. Mary Pickford is with Artcraft,
which has been absorbed by Famous Players-
Lasky Company, which also owns control of Para-
mount. So far as we know, Jack Pickford was
not married recently, although there was much
talk concerning such an affair. Here's "The
Piper's Price" cast: Amy Had ley, Dorothy Phil-
lips ; Jessica Hadley, Maud George ; Ralph Had-
ley, William Stowell ; Billy Kilmartin, Lon
Chancy ; Maid, Claire Du Brey.
E. M., Chico, Cal. — We have made exhaustive
inquiries and have been unable to learn whether
or not Wallace Reid uses bandoline on his hair.-
We know, however, that he is an expert with
the mandolin and ukulele, if that will help you
any. Marguerite Clark's face was on the cover
of Photoplay in March, 1916. Stuart Holmes
will send you his picture. How can Marguerite
stay unmarried ? Easy ; just dodge every time
she sees a marriage license. Yes, Jack Dean is
really Fannie Ward's husband. Didst think she
was too young to have one ?
Ruth, Breckenridge, Minn. — Wallace Mac-
Donald played opposite Miss Minter in "Youth's
Endearing Charm." Grace Cunard is five feet,
four and a half inches tall, her hair is red and
her eyes grey.
L. P., Lawrence, Mass. — Cleo Ridgely's par-
ents were of German descent, but it is not
recorded that they ever lived in Lawrence.
Ethelmary Oakland was the child in "The
Dummy," if that's what you mean by "opposite
Jack Pickford." Lou-Tellegen's first name is
Lou but he has a lot of intermediate names that
we have sorta lost track of. He ditched the rest
of them when he became a naturalized American.
Write to the players themselves for their photo-
graphs, not to the companies.
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159
R. H., Bathurst, N. S. W., Australia — L.
Rogers Lytton was the one who played Phillip
Ralston in "Salvation Joan." He can be
reached through Metro. Your stanips are no
bueno on this side.
A. B., Highlands, N. J. — Dorothy Davenport
is not with any film company at the present time.
Blanche Sweet does not make a practice of send-
ing her pictures, we believe.
M. E., Maplewood, Mass. — "The Diamond
from the Sky" was the serial in which Irving
Cummings played. He now has a company of his
own. Lottie I'ickford played opposite him in the
serial.
M. S., KiRKWooD, Mo. — Mae Marsh is with
Goldwyn but as yet none of her films has been
released. Yes, Charley Ray is securely tied up.
C. S., Cuyahoga Falls, O. — We do not em-
ploy cameramen. You have th ; wrong number.
Esther, Parkside. South Australia — Mary
Pickford, 24 years, Artcraft Company ; Marguer-
ite Clark, 30, Famous Players ; Hazel Dawn, 26,
same. Just go ahead and write them.
Rup, St. Boniface, Man., Canada — Don't
think we can accommodate you. We are sadly
deficient when it comes to judging masculine
pulchritude although we admit we're a bear
when it comes to feminine charms.
Griff, Philadelphia — Just keep it up and
you'll be a regular poet some day ; long hair,
starving in attic and everything. But we surely
enjoyed those lines to us, even if the pome was a
bunch of undeserved praise.
N. S., Richmond, Ind.^A. D. Sears was born
in San Antonio, Texas, and went on the stage
about eight years ago. He has played in many
of the best Fine Arts productions and is opposite
Seena Owen in the last picture made at that
studio, "Madame Bo-Peep."
R. M., Middleton, Conn. — Ralph Kellard is
not married to Grace Darmond. We are always
glad to accommodate our friends but we can't
put_ Mr. Kellard's picture on our cover without
asking the editor about it first.
R. D., Kansas City, Mo. — Matt Moore has no
wife. Can't stake you to the identity of The
Silent Menace though we can assure you that
it is not Colonel Roosevelt or William J. Bryan,
i Pearl White doesn't wear a blonde wig because
her hair is red.
Cabbages, etc., Kamloops, B. C, Canada —
You have the advantage, as we have not given
ourselves the pleasure of reading Mr. Kerrigan's
life, so we cannot pass on his use of "village
curate." However, we have never heard of its
use in this country. Your opinion as to the
s taste of another film idol with respect to his
posterity, as it were, is shared by us in toto,
as we used to say when we were on the bench.
Thomas Holding played opposite Miss Frederick
in "The Eternal City" and all those Roman
scenes were actually filmed in Rome. Always
glad to hear from you.
C. J., St. Joseph, Mo. — You must be more
specific. Ask us again and give us a little better
clue to the story.
H. R., Brooklyn — Lillian Gish is not at pres-
ent employed. She is visiting in New York City.
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161
_. E. K., Portland, Ore. — So you want to know
if John D. Rockefeller played opposite Pearl
White? Well, Eddie — assuming that's your name
— he never did and we can't give you Lillian
Walker's address because she probably couldn't
read it if you wrote her a letter.
L. C, New York City — In filming the big
screen spectacles, players are often injured, but
no one was seriously hurt in the "shooting" of
"Joan the Woman." The Y. W. C. A. is in
charge of the Studio Club in Hollywood. Theda
Bara was born in Cincinnati.
C. C, St. Louis — Were we a movie person,
we'd be just plum tickled to tell you all about
the color of our hair, shoes, necktie, etc. ; whether
we were married or happy ; or any such little
bits of information concerning ourself. But
we're not. You lose, but you have our undying
gratitude.
A. S., Omaha, Neb. — Pearl White is about 30 ;
Jean Sothern 19, and Francis Bushman gives his
age as 32, but we suspect that there was some-
thing off for cash in the case of the fast named.
Marie Wayne is Bertha in "Pearl of the Army."
Mr. Bushman was never with L'niversal. His
oldest son is in high school.
L. E., Farmington, III. — Clara Kimball
Young's last picture was "The Easiest Way."
Owen Moore has three brothers. Matt, Tom and
Joe. Edna Mayo is not married. Marin Sais
pronovmces her name Mali' rin Sa' iss (long a in
the surname).
B. B., New York City — The "L" in L. C.
Shumway stands for Leonard. His hair is light,
his eyes are blue and he stands six feet without
a shoe. How's that for potterv? He was with
Lubin, but we haven't the cast of the play you
mention.
D. C, Johnson City, N. Y. — So you would
see more of Clara Kimball Young? Yet, after
"The Common Law" — oh, yes, you mean more
photoplays. Pardon. We share your admiration
for Miss Young and also should like to see her
more. Fortunately for you serial fans, the high
cost of living has not affected your favorite film
fodder. Your letter enjoyed very much.
C. S., Laramie, Wyo. — So you just heard that
Francis Bushman had five children ? Yet they
say bad news travels fast ; assuming, of covirse,
that it seemed that way to you. Don't quite
understand that ten-beauties paragraph in your
letter. Elucidate, which is French for come
through with more dope.
D. T., Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Canada — Niles
Welch played opposite Marguerite Clark in "Miss
George Washington," with Mary Minter in
"Emmy of Stork's Nest," in "The Kiss of Hate"
with Ethel Barrymore, and in "The Yellow
Streak." Vincent Sorelle opposite Miss Clark
in "The Fortunes of Fifi."
Barbara, West Perth. .Australia — Flo La-
Badie is 22, her hair is light brown and she is
five feet five inches tall. Such a warm admirer
as you are should write her personally. Georgie
Stone was the boy who did the shooting in "Let
Katy Do It."
L. K., Milwaukee, Wis. — Leon Bary was the
"Shielding Shadow" in the serial of that name.
Ralph Keilard is 30. "Pearl of the Army" has not
been published in book form. It was filmed in
and around New York City.
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DoROTiiv. .Mavi.a.m).s. \V. Australia— Phillip
Tonge in "Still Waters" was the same one you
knew in luigland. We have no record of any
other pictures in which he has appeared. Pearl
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f>f Klaine." "May Hlossom," "Pearl of the Army,"
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"(iloria" were the onlv two screen appearances
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C. M., Xicw 'S'ouK CiTV- — Tack Holt is to play
opposite Mary Pickford in her newest photoplay.
Marie W.ilcainp is not married. She is now in
vour own little citv.
\'. R., XoKFOi.K, \'a. — Your re(|uest anent Ken-
neth Casey has been wished on the editor.
MARGAittT, Sa.v Fka.vcisco — Tell you all we
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there isn't room 'enough. Here are a few f.icts
though: He is .!.! years old. married and has one
son ; raised in Denver, likes cowpunching. boxing
and wrestling and fence vaulting.
Bkttv, Leavenworth, Kax. — Belle Bruce was
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.Ser\ ice." What do yuh mean by "demon ?"
She h.is played in a bunch of Vitagraph films
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ihe bridges come from.
H. Y. M., Los AxGELKS, Cai.. — So f.ir as we
know, the picture of the person you name has
ne\er appeared in Piiotoplav. Never even heard
of him in this department.
S. R., El.mira, N. Y. — That dancer in "Patria"
is nameless in the published cast.
A. S., YoNKEK.s, N. Y. — Beverly Bayne is not
married, which ought to be a little consolation
to you, and neither is Anita Stewart.
E. C, Barnes City, Ia. — The Laughing Mask
in "The Iron Claw" was Creighton Hale. Ad-
dress Blanche Sweet at I.asky's, Hollywood, and
it will be forwarded to her.
A. B. C, M'aterbi'rv, Conx. — Frank Keenan
li\es at I.aurelton. Long Island. June Caprice is
18. "The Bride of Hate" was filmed at Culver
City, California.
J. R., Laxsford, Pa. — All tlie players you men-
tion are American citizens. Their ancestry or
reli.gion is not discussed here. What's the use,
so long as they deliver the goods?
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N. B. H., Nebraska City. Nfb. — What are you
trying to tell us — that lohn Bowers is a male
Theda Bara ? Never affected us that way. He'll
surely answer you.
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The Gas Girl
(Continued from page 60)
Pennsylvania is a grand little Common-
wealth except that life there is just one
eighty per cent grade after another ; so that
when your bus is suffering with sextuple
pneumonia and St. Vitas dance, this gets
to be considerable in your young life.
Well, Daff had just strangled up a
couple of miles of landscape, and had
stopped to read a signpost by the last of
the daylight, when three bums popped out
of the bushes by the side of the road, and
one of them covered her with a gun and
told her to get out.
Daff had her own gun in her holster
around her waist, but it might as well have
been at home for all the chance she had to
use it. She had left her engine running and
now when the man with the gun backed her
up against the sign post, the other two
jumped into the car. The one at the wheel
yelled to the third, and he climbed up be-
hind Daff's duffle and off they went, he
covering her until they were out of sight
around a curve.
Blooie ! There she was amid another
beautiful evening glow and with her whole
trip gone up in smoke in two minutes ! She
just sat down on a log by the road side and
wept upon that rolling. vista. It was pretty
tough, with New York, as you might say,
almost in sight.
For awhile she didn't know what to do.
It was the Missouri thing over again only
worse. She was hungry and tired, and she
couldn't see a house from where she was.
She knew it was miles back to the nearest
burg, and after ten hours of massage in
that vibrator of hers she wasn't any George
Payson Weston. But there was nothing else
to do, so she started back.
And sure enough, she hadn't gone two
miles when along came little Rollo in his
cerise boneshaker. He pulled up squealing,
and when he found out what had happened
he was all broken up.
Sure, like the Germans at the Irish rebel-
lion. Here she was flat-footed at last,
and he'd won his point.
"Well, I'm awful sorry for your sake,
dear," he said, getting out of the machine
and going to where she stood in the road.
"This foolishness is over at last, and I'm
here waiting for you just as I said I'd be."
He was real gentle, and she began to cry
again. I guess he looked pretty good to her
then, big and faithful and with a large
acreage of dusty coat front to burrow into.
"You've done your best for that slave
driver Brant, and now I want to take care
of you," he went on.
"Jiut I don't want to be taken care of,"
she sobbed, "I w-want my car!"
"Yes, but I haven't a chance in a million
to find it now. It's dark already, and be-
sides I'm not going off to leave you again
like I did in Missouri. One scare like tluu
is enough. And for God's sake, don't cr\,
Daff I I can't stand it!"
She didn't say anything, couldn't 1 guess,
and he went on.
"This trip's done now darling, thank
God! and I want you to listen to me. I've
done everything I could to spare you, I've
been faithful, and patient and reasonable.
You've served your time and so have I, and
now let's forget it and get married and be
happy. Even Brant couldn't roar after
what's happened tonight."
"Here, where are you going?"
Daff unlimbered her gat for the first
time on that trip, and pointed it straight for
the place where Rollo was hungriest.
"I'm taking your car. Do you think 1
am going to be beaten now? I'm going to
get to New York if I have to commit mur-
der to do it. You stand where you are auvl
don't move or I'll .shoot."
Rollo told me afterwards that he didn't
take any chances at all after one look at
her eyes.
"I'll get you for larceny, Daff, in the
next town," he said, thinking of the first
thing he could.
"You do, and it's the last time you'll
ever see me."
She was in the car now and the engine
was going, but .she kept him covered. Rollo
caved in, anger, disappointment, everything
washed out in his admiration for her brainy
gameness.
"Daff you're wonderful, you're perfect !
I'm mad about you. Nobody ever beat me
before, but you've done it, and you can beat
me for the rest of my life, if you'll only
marrv me! Will you marry me Daff?"
"Of course not ! Don't i)e silly !
The machine was headed down grade,
and Daff started it with a jump into second
speed, watching Rollo to see he didn't try
to flip on behind. He didn't. He was
wrecked, ruined, done.
Life held nothing more for him. After
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awhile he started back to the next town for
something to eat, a meal which, I after-
wards learned, took the shape of a large
bun.
I happened to be waiting in \\'ashington
for Daft', and inside an hour after she ar-
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all parts of the state. As a result we got
her car back inside of forty-eight hours, for
it was lettered all over with Daff's records,
and was in such bad shape that it couldn't
be disguised. The tliree 'boes had aban-
doned it on an open road.
V'ou better believe I found out what had
liappened up in those mountains. Daff had
to explain how she came to be riding Rollo's
J'"ord Killer, and the parts she wouldn't
tell, I guessed. And when I was wised up
1 felt about as sore as an extra kid watch-
ing her first big picture. Things had broken
my way at last, and I figured Rollo was
done for. I was right, too, for though we
left his car with his man in Washington, he
never followed us.
I guess lie knew when he was licked.
But the funny part of it was that from then
on we had practically no trouble of any
kind.
"Was that blond prune a jonah, or was
he not?" I asked Daff, and she hadn't any-
thing to say.
Well, we reached New York. Daff
handed our Mayor's letter to Mitchell's
secretary on the City Hall steps, and ail
hands posed while the cameras clicked. The
next day came the real finish. I got in
beside Daff and, leaving the City Hall, we
headed across Brooklyn Bridge for Coney
Island. Things held together, and finally
Daff drove her front wheels smack into a
big Atlantic comber, and I grabbed her
up out of her seat and carried her ashore
high and dry amid a murderous fire.
And that was the end, all except for one
thing which came off while we were at din-
ner together that night. I had the old soup
and fish on myself this time, and when I
kidded the girl at the cigar counter she
kidded right back, so you can judge of the
illumination.
"Daff," I said, and tossed her a telegram
kind of careless, "read that !"
She opened it.
"You get a hundred meg a week from
now on," it said, and was signed "Mandel."
She registered unrestrained gladness, and
gave me one of her tough little hands.
"Gee," I said, "I've worked for that. But
it wasn't for myself; it was for both of us.
You know I love you Daff. I've got the
bungalow all picked out, and all I ask is
a rag time wedding march. Will you take
me on fur a finis!) go at catch-weights, dar-
ling?"
She looked at me kind of funny. Then
she produced a telegram of her own from
somewhere, and I read : —
"Come back single and star for us at a
liundred and fifty a week. That stunt in
Pennsylvania was immense. Mandel."
I sat still for a little with a long curse
forming in my system against that foxy old
devil. Still I had to hand it to him know-
ing human nature. Then I gave the firing
stpad tile signal.
"Well?"
"You've been wonderful to me, Lew,"
she said, and I knew she meant it, "but
tiiink of my career. A woman can't marry
and still be a great artist."
"All right, Daff, you go ahead and be a
great artist. I want to see you .succeed, and
I'll help you all I can."
She didn't say anything either for a min-
ute. Then she looked up at me in the
shyest way.
"But what great artist ever succeeded
without a manager to look after her all the
time?" she asked.
"Daff!" I yelled so loudly that every-
body within twenty feet looked around at
me. "Yes," she said in a soft, sweet way
that told me everything. There was consid-
erable time thereabouts I lost track of.
"But what about Mandel's offer?" I
managed after a little.
"Oh, he'll come around," she said
serenely. "If it's a future star he wants
he'll take me married or single."
And he did.
When we got back to the studio after
our honeymoon it wasn't long till little
Rollo blew in, and I must say he took his
dose like a man.
"I was afraid this would happen," he
said when he got a little resigned.
"Why?" I asked him.
"Because I knew I was blown into the
bouillon that night Daff took my car away
from me. You see I'd hired those three
bums to hold her up and set her adrift, and
when she didn't fall for my heart and home,
I figured I was due for a quick fade-out,
and I was right."
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Carranza. Miss B.ira, we are told, favors the
Cincinnati Theda and the Egyptian Bara.
M. T., Nashville, Tenn. — Hope the June issue
satisfied your cra\ ing for Pauline photographs.
Miss Frederick should be proud to have such
loyal adherents.
Dale, San Axtonio, Tex. — Why do all the
movie rich always eat grape fruit or cantaloupes
and why are all the movie poor always equipped
with dirty faces and ill-kept surroundings? Well,
we give up. That's one of life's little mysteries.
Roy Stewart hails from San Diego, California,
and that's his right name, we are told.
S. T., Bangor, Me. — You overwilhelm us with
your praise. Surely, we are not so great as all
that! (Confidentially, we cjuite agree with you.)
You're a awful flatterer, we fear. Picture of
Ralph Kellard pretty soon.
Miss, Kansas City, Mo. — Vivian Martin's ole
home town is Grand Rapids, Michigan, where all
the sideboards and bureaus and rocking chairs
grow. Her husband is William Jefferson. Norma
Talmadge's is Joseph Schenck.
F. Z., Paterson, N. J. — Never heard of Lulu
Glaser playing before the cameras.
Eddie, Detroit, Mich. — Edna Hunter gets her
mail at 225 West End Avenue, New York City.
Try your luck. Gee, but you must have seen a
lot to have traveled as far as Southwest Missouri.
Travel sure broadens one, as Roscoe Arbuckle
said when he got oft the train at the Grand
Central depot.
E. E., Pittsfield, Mass. — Robert Vaughn was
the doctor in "Still Waters" with Marguerite
Clark. George Webb was the boy in "Sins of
the Parent," with Gladys Brockwell.
Jennie, Pasadena, Cal. — Yes, every once in a
while we are caught napping, but it's usually the
other fellow's fault. There are only a half dozen
or so infallible people in the picture business and
they're all at the htad of various film companies.
Tom Forman was married to Ruth King, who
was a motion picture actress.
Little Nell, St. Johns, Newfoundland —
Gladden James was last with Pathe. Your Vos-
burgh request has been passed on to the editor.
Write whenever you feel like it. We always like
to hear from our allies.
Mabel, St. Louis, Mo. — Marv Mclvor was Vir-
ginia Ransomc in "The Square Deal Man" with
Bill Hart. Walter McGrail was Jimmy and Kath-
erine Lewis his sister in "Indiscretion." Frank-
lyn Farnum is no relative of the other Farnums
of the screen. Sure, we'll tell you our favorite
star — the next time we meet personally.
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ScoTTY, Edmonton, Alta.. Canada — There is
no place where "cuttings" of films may be pur-
chased.
E. L., Lebanon, Ky. — You are correct. David
Stafford in "Gloria's Romance" was William
Roselle.
Mrs. O., Independence, Kan. — Wellington
Playter is still with Famous Players, we think.
Rose, Newark, N. J. — So you had to write
twice? Too bad! Alice Brady took both parts
in "A Dancer's Peril." Your other questions
hardly call for an answer.
Viola, Clinton, Ia. — We didn't see the article
to which you refer as bavins; been published in
some other magazine, and besides, it wouldn't
do to enter into any controversy o\er the merits
of the film players. Cheer up. however ; Franci,',
X. is still going strong and there won't be anv
danger of his being called out, as he will be in
the exempted class.
PoMME, St. Louis, Mo.— William Hincklev was
Blair in "The Secret of E\e," with Alme.
Petrova. Ann Murdock is an American.
Ex-.AxixMo, Yonkers, X. Y. — Congratulations
on your turrble cleverness iij winning the first
prize in the puzzle contest. James Morrison has
not returned to Vitagraph. Fred Church is witli
Unixersal. G. M. Anderson is producing musi-
cal comedies. Florence Turner has not quit the
screen — just England — and Florence Lawrence
is still in retirement.
JoLiE, San Fuaxcisco — Quite agree with you
as to the utter impossibility of Rocklifte Fel-
lowes' name. His face is scheduled to .ippcar in
Photoplay before long. Yep, Doug. Fairbanks
is "just grand." No more Triangle pictures by
him. William B. Davidson was opposite Ethel
Barrymore in "The White Raven." Chester
Barnett is still this side of the Stv.x. "Law of
Compensation" his latest.
R. M., Garrett, Ind. — Dolores Cassinelli was
last with the Emerald Company. We have been
told that Beulah Poynter is the wife of John
Bowers. Gertrude Selby is nearly 21. She
stands about an inch over five feet and weighs
110. You guessed right. Large furniture,
scenes and props were used in ".^ Poor Little
Rich Girl" to accentuate the smallness of Mary.
Harry, Vaxport, Pa. — Write ALiry Pickford,
care Lasky, Hollywood ; Douglas Fairbanks the
same; William S. Hart and Alma Reuben, care
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Rainbow, Savanna, III.— Those comedy ef-
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explained them. Glad you have decided not to
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Anthony. Chic.vgo — Francelia Billington is
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Texas. William Russell is still with the same
company. Pretty strong for the old timers, so
you are, Anthony. Write again.
Alma, Ralls, Tex,— Pathe hasn't divulged the
identity of The Silent Menace. Helen Holmes
is the wife of J. P. McGowan, her director.
R. v., Yuma, Ariz. — Edwin Carewe is still
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CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1917
Cover Design — Mae Marsh
Painted by Neysa Moran McMein
Popular Photoplayers
Marjorie Rambeau, Vernon Steele, Olga Petrova, J. Barney Sherry, Louise Glaum,
Robert Harron, June Caprice, Ann Pennington.
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Chaplin— And How He Does It Terry Ramsay 19
Revealing the Methods Employed to Make a Chaplin Comedy.
Drawings by Herbert M. Stoops.
They Wouldn't Take a Dare Photograph 24
Vivian and Wally Play a Duet
Speaking of Pearls: John Ten Eyck 25
Generally, and of One in Particular— Namely Pearl White.
Seeking the Germ Frederick James Smith 27
An Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew.
Brenon's Corner on Royalty 31
lliador, the "Mad Monk" Becomes an Actor.
An Announcement 32
At the Front with General DeMille Photograph 34
Shooting a Battle Scene on the Lasky Lot.
An Ingenue Who Won't Ingenue James S. Frederick 35
Mildred Manning Expresses a Preference for Character Roles.
Pearls of Desire Henry C. Rowland 39
The Greatest Novel of the Year. Illustrations by Henry Raleigh.
I Am Humanity Julian Johnson 50
The Appeal of the Moving Picture.
Close-Ups (Editorial) 51
Timely Comment on the Art and the Industry.
Polly of the Circus Jameson Fife 55
A Romance of the Saw-dust Ring.
The Boy Magnate Julian Johnson 63
The Remarkable Career of President "Dick" Rowland of Metro.
Stars of the Screen and Their Stars in the Sky Ellen Woods 66
Planetary Reading of Screen Celebrities.
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Director "Mickey"
Alfred A. Cohn
The Famous Director of a Famous Actress.
Hats— New and Smart for Midseason Wear
71
With Gail Kane in the Role of Model.
The Story of Edith Storey Frederick James Smith
72
And Interesting Pictures Taken on Her Estate.
"Don't be Afraid of Breaking It- It's Only Rented" Photograph
76
Director James Young Rehearses a Scene.
Who's Married to Who
71
A Photographic Matrimonial Record.
"My, Aint She Grand?"
Photograph
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Julian Eltinge at the Lasky Studio.
What Bill Hart Told in the Maid's Room
Hilary Vosges
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Hart Discusses the "Rope" and the "Gun."
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\ The Studio Club
Elizabeth McGaffey
An Interesting Article About a Democratic Institution.
When Charlie Dropped In for a Visit
88
And a Little Recreation at Lasky's.
Big Timber
Mrs. Ray Long
90
An Absorbing Story of the Timber Lands.
Alan of all Trades
97
A Biographical Sketch of Alan Hale.
The Shadow Stage
Julian Johnson
99
A Department of Photoplay Review.
Your Name Please?
Photograph
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Mary Pickford Mails a Few Pictures.
Some Film Folks Not Seen on the Screen
108
A Number of Notables in the Business End of the Game.
Plays and Players
Cal. York
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Coast-to-Coast News of Actors and Productions.
"Writing" Slapstick
Alfred A. Cohn
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The Difficult Art of the Slapstick Dramatist. Dra
wings by R. Wetteran.
The Slacker
Janet Priest
119
A Romance of the Present War.
Why Do They Do It?
127
Pertinent Observations by Our Readers.
Coincidence or Fate?
Elizabeth Peltret
130
Concerning the Tragic Death of Leslie Reid.
A Pioneer Without Whiskers
Randolph Bartlett
131
An Interview with Director Giblyn.
"Dusty" Collects Dust for the Red Cross
134
Scenes from the Hollywood Benefit.
Yup! They're Engaged!
135
Confirming the Reported Engagement of Olive Thomas and Jack Pickford.
A Gentlemen of France
K. Owen
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None Other than Mr. Charles Clary.
Ruth and Her House
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An Interview with Ruth Stonehouse.
Puzzle Contest
144
Continuing the Pictorial Riddle of Actors' Names.
Questions and Answers
146
The Wellspring of General Photoplay Information
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ROBERT HARRON
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September, 1917
Vol. XII . No. 4
Chaplin —
And How He Does It
By Terry Ramsay
BEFORE agreeing to give
this ' article with its
priceless information to
the eager waiting world, the
writer weighed most carefully
his duty to literature and the
public against the selfish ad-
vantages to be gained by hold-
ing the secrets and starting a
school of Chaplinism.
It's a big opportunity. Imagine a line
of get-the-money ads —
WANTED — a million young men to
take our course in Charlie Chaplining.
Highest paid profession in^ the world.
PLxperts in this line fix their own salaries.
Jobs are waiting. Why be satisfied? Get
ahead, feet first. Easy course of ten les-
sons. , Big, diploma. Start today. Mail
the coupon now. ■
The temptation was a great one, but a
certain sense of duty prevailed and with-
Illustrated by
Herbert M. Stoops
out further delay and eva-
sion you are to be taken into
confidence. Every fact about
the method of making a
Charlie Chaplin comedy is
about to be made yours in
fee simple. After reading
this article any school child
can do it.
Firstly — Chaplin comedies
are not made. They occur.
They occur occasionally. Eleven of
them have occurred in sixteen months. No
one knows when the next one will occur.
It may be day after tomorrow, next month
or yesterday.
Mr. Chaplin himself does not know
when the next one will happen.
If he knew how to make one he
would quit waiting and do it. Chaplin
comedies are like the rare jewels of
earth, they are to be found but not made.
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Chaplin spaces his laughs far enough
apart that you may get your breath
and be all set for the next one.
\\ hen Mr. Chaitlin was meruly a slap-
stick comedian at the Keystone studios
back in the roaring days of 1914 he used
to kick out a thousand feet of film comedy
a week witliout heating or motor trouble.
Now that he has become an artist, a
world institution, a cult and a philosophy,
with a reputation quoted at a million a
year F.O.B. Los Angeles, C.O.D. New
York, he can barely finish his two thousand
foot comedies on release dates almost two
months apart.
When Charlie did not have any reputa-
tion he had a lot of speed and very little
control. Now, responsible to a vast fame,
he is all control and no speed.
In the Keystone Age Mr. Chaplin's
comedy was largely a matter of foot work.
Improvhig taste on the part of the public,
and the artist too, has made Chaplin come-
dies work for both head and feet.
Naturally there is a certain amount of
difficulty about making both ends meet,
and operating both ends of his ver-
satile anatomy simultaneously and
synchronously.
Commercial progress has made Mr.
Chaplin's artistry so valuable that he can
hardly afford to use it.
In those Keystone days the Chaplin
comedy plot — if one may be permitted this
euphemistic term with reference to the
comedies of that period —
was usually made over
niglit.
Now Mr. Chaplin in-
dulges in a couple of
scenario writers and a reti-
nue of sundry secretaries,
both salaried and free
lance, ^^'aking and sleep-
ing Mr. Chaplin and his
staff are forever in pursuit
of "the next story."
At the Chaplin studio
"the next story" is con-
ceived, subjected to gesta-
tion, labor and birth, all
of tliese vital functions
being attended by the
severest mental suffering
on the part of the father.
When Mr. Chaplin
signed his now historic
$670,000 contract with
John R. I'reuler in the
spring of 1916 the come-
dian was then wondering what "the next
story" was to be about. As this article is
written Mr. Chaplin is in the third week
of the making of his twelfth comedy under
that contract and he is not yet certain what
it will be about.
It is safe to assume and predict that it
will be about two thousand feet, probably
all very funny feet, but furtlier the insidest
insider can forecast notiiing — neither can
Mr. Chaplin. He does not have to, either.
Meanwhile he is wondering what "the next
story" after that will be about.
How Chaplin encompasses a comedy plot
is well illustrated in his construction of
"The Floorwalker." This was to be the
first of his efforts under his record making
contract and with the eyes of the world
upon him he was determined to deliver
something extraordinary.
The comedian had only three weeks in
which to decide upon the plot which would
enable him to kick somebody in the ad-
denda to the satisfaction of the expectant
millions waiting, dime in hand, at the box
ofiice.
Two weeks and six days Mr. Chaplin
wandered about New York between break-
fast at the Plaza and dinner all over town.
He had that pale wan look.
He was accused of being in love or other-
wise dissipated, while the girl reporters
Chaplin— And How He Does It
21
An unfortunate pedestrian slipped and skidded down the escalator. Everybody laughed
but Chaplin.
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To trap the inspirations that come to him in the night, Chaplin has a phonographic dictating machine
by his bedside.
wrote pieces for the papers about his
soulful eyes and delicate health.
As a matter of truth, his heart was in-
tact, his respiration normal and his habits
excellent as usual. His only trouble was
the chronic and incurable one "the next
story."
One day when time was desperately
short he Avas walking up Sixth avenue at
Thirty-third street w'hen an unfortunate
pedestrian slipped and skidded down the
escalator serving the adjacent elevated sta-
tion. Everybody but Chaplin laughed.
But Mr. Chaplin's eyes lit up. Also he lit
out — for the studio in Los Angeles.
Thus was "The Floorwalker" born.
Mr. Chaplin did not care a whoop alwut
the floorwalker person as a type — what he
sought were the wonderful possibilities of
the escalator as a vehicle upon which to
have a lot of most amusing troubles. "The
Floorwalker" was built about the escalator
not the floorwalker.
The history of "The Floorwalker" is in
a diagnostic sense typical of the building
of a Chaplin comedy. Everyone of them
is built aroxtnd something.
Mr. Chaplin, despite his afore-mentioned
staff or staffs or staves of scenarioists, sec-
retaries, et al., is his own author. He
surrounds himjiclf with these interesting
and gifted persons, not to have them do
his work for him, but to supply gravel for
his mental gizzard. They are liable to
have ideas which when introduced to his
svstem set up reactions which result in
something that appeals to his fancy.
Tlie j)rocess is not unlike that by w^hich
oriental pearls are made, in which the
clever Japanese push a grain of sand into
the oyster to be covered with purest pearl.
The only difference is that the oyster is not
looking for the sand and Chaplin is.
Mr. Chaplin is essentially a one-idea
man. He has what some practical psy-
chologists call a single track mind. When
he gets two trains of thought in operation
one of them is cither put on a siding or
derailed — frequently with complete loss of
all on board. Once in a while there is a
collision followed by a spectacular shower
of sparks and a long lingering blue haze of
what is described as temperament in all
persons drawing in excess of one hundred
and fifty dollars a week.
Repeatedly w;hole armies of "extras"
have been employed to appear at the Chap-
lin studios, there to sit out the day while
Chaplin — And How He Does It
23
Charles-The-Expensive sat iu his dressing
room study in a catch-as-catch-can cam-
paign among liis wits trying to elect one of
his nominated ideas.
Other distressing manifestations some-
times betoken the battle of the ideas. Tart
words, dark frowns, and the ordering of
friends and counsellors "oif the set"
sometimes accompany the desperate work
of deciding what is the most joyous and
funny thing to do.
A long motor drive or a half a day in
the carpenter shop in the sole company of
a violin sometimes suffice to adjust the
matter.
Then back on "the. set" with a lot of
pep.
"It goes like this — you come in here — "
And they are olf. May be tifty feet of
film, may be for a mile.
It is this peculiar quality of mind, this
oneness of conception which gives Chaplin
comedies their special accuracy of appeal.
They present one idea at a time, clear,
crystalline, complete and basic.
And basic is a good word in Chaplin
comedy discussion. Anatomically speak-
ing, the ancients discovered the heart as
the seat of affection but it remained for
Chaplin to discover the seat of fun. It is
also basic.
The oneness of the Chaplin comedy idea
as executed, its completeness of expression
and lucidity gives it success. It is anything
you want. If you are subtle you will find
Chaplin comedies, subtle too, also abstruse,
allegorical, symbolical.
If you are a regular everyday, mine-run
proletarian, a commonplace guy, a gink,
goof or boob, you will find Chaplin going
just your speed. This is because he has
worked out the great common denominator
of fun.
When Mr. Chaplin and his Idea-of-the-
Moment get into the presence of the mo-
tion picture camera with the stage all set
there is no telling where they are going
or whether they are going to travel to-
gether or not.
About the middle period of the present
Chaplin era Mr. Chaplin became the parent
of a notion about the use of a very big
and pretentious street scene in the course
of the comedy then torturing its way into
being. Almost overnight at a vast labor
and expense the street was builded of brick,
stone, iron and concrete. Lamp posts were
set up and a pavement laid. Mr. Chaplin
walked admiringly down his new street the
next day — and was then and there in that
spot maliciously, feloniously and with in-
( Continued on page ij8)
FILMING A MIMIC MOTOR ACCIDENT
Mae Murray is supposed to have collided with the gentleman reclining on the mud guard in "At First
Sight." We don't know the injured gentleman's name bu,t he's lucky to get into Mae's car — even via
the mud guard.
THEY WOULDN'T TAKE
A DARE
When Vivian Martin adopted a
ukulele to raise as her very own,
there were mutterings of dissatis-
faction around the Lasky lot, but
no thought of violence. Then
\\'allie Reid, who had tamed every-
thing from a near-Cremona to a
Honolulu groaner, took unto him-
self a saxaphone. It would have
been all to the good if he had left
it home but the neighbors were
getting uneasy. The accompany-
ing Staggograph was taken just
before the mob, led by Tully
Marshall, cornettist of the Holly-
wood Silver Cornet Band, and
Lou-Tellegen, closed in on thern
and smothered the duet.
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Speaking of
Pearls:
A LITTLE ESSAY ON THE
ONLY JEWEL THAT AUG-
MENTS ITS OWN VALUE,
WHETHER IT'S A TIFFANY
PEARL OR PEARL WHITE
By John Ten Eyck
A PEARL, the precious-stone men will
tell you, is the only eternal jewel.
Sapphires and rubies and emeralds may
bring different prices according to location, or
cuts old-fashioned or cabuchon ; diamonds blue and
white may go up and down in the market ; but a pearl,
in any metropolis not war-struck, is always worth a little
more than last year, and next year it will be more
valuable than this. The reason is that the supply of
pearls is slowly diminishing, and the demand con-
stantly increasing.
As in the shops, so it is in the studios.
The most interesting proof of our contention
that a pearl is a pearl, whether you meet it in
Paris, Peoria or Pathe's, is that white pearl of
the pictures. Pearl White.
Now, as the crammed, jammed years of film
history go. Pearl White is more than a forty
niner ; she is a thirty-sixer, and perfect at
that. If life ages fled like picture ages
Pearl White would be leaning on a cane,
using an ear-trumpet instead of a lor-
gnette, and depositing her teeth in a glass
of water each night.
Plioto hy White
Pearl, and her
inexpensive
little motor
car. It only
cost her
$14,000.00.
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Yet, like the pearls at
Tiffany's, she increases
in value each year.
She is an international
gem, for she is Irish-
Italian, born in the
show-me State that
thinks St. Louis has it
all over Chicago. She
began to uplift the stage
as little Eva ; progressed
to tlie Kremer thrillers,
glorified the circus busi-
ness, ennobled a stock
company, starred in
melo, and finally en-
riched a doctor by mak-
ing his regular job an
endeavor to spljce her
busted voice.
All this was more than
four years ago. A
woman who can't talk
has reached the inferno
already, and la White,
sizzling on her peneten-
tial grill, writhed as far East as Jersey City,
where, for local surcease at least, she joined
up with the unworded drama being spooled
by the Pathe boys.
And to her the. sign of the rooster be-
came the insignia of enduring fame. You'll
notice how seldom that word creeps into
this magazine, yet here it goes. Many are
heard of, some are popular, a few are
notorious, but Pearl White is famous. In
France French soldiers on furlough idolize
her in "Les Mysteres de New York" — the
"Exploits of Elaine." In Porto Rico she
crowds the theatres. In Bombay she figures
frequently in the newspapers. A Scottish
newspaper runs her life on its front pages.
Five Australian managers make fortunes
presenting her pictures. In South Africa
they name babies after her, and in Tokio
thev give her name to theatres.
''The Perils of Pauline," the "Elaine"
serials, "The Iron Claw" and "Pearl of the
Army" are . her heroic enterprises, but
around these exalted monuments are glit-
tering fields of comedies, two-reelers, five-
reelers, and new stunts of inconceivable
physical daring.
Remember Broadway Jones' coming-out
party at Murray's, in "Broadway Jones?"
That location was as real as the party:
the exotic ball-room of an exotic Broadway
Pearl leads the simple life in a three
room flat above 'Murray's, " a gay New
York restaurant.
restaurant. Well, one
floor above is the quiet
little country cottage of
Pearl White, the twenty-
four-year-old grandma
of the picture business.
Miss White, in Vassar
English, refers tu it as
"My trick flat."
But it is not a trick
flat. It is really a se-
cluded, high-ceiiinged,
rather sombre domicile
of three big rooms, al-
most at a corner of the
fair field of Longacre.
In it lurks its occupant,
the steadiest-toiling fe-
male in pictures. A gay
life, hers : to bed over the
riot and rumpus — whose
fanfare penetrates her
cell only in faint echoes
— at 9 :30 each niglit,
and out with the milk-
men at 7 o'clock. On
Sundays she doesn't often have to greet the
sunrise in T'ort Lee, so she permits herself
a theatre-party or a dinner on Saturday
evenings.
On a recent Saturday it devolved upon
the writer to trundle tlie Pearl of the Pic-
tures to a certain Somewhere.
He brought around the best taxicab in
New York, which was made in 1907, and
appeared to have survived three attacks of
anthrax. The Pearl came out of her Little
Egypt of a home.
"You can dismiss your limousine," she
said. "I've got a queer little flivver right
around the corner — if you're not ashamed
to ride in it."
Who would be ashamed to ride in a
Henry with Pearl White, even in tlie streets
of Gotham?
"This is the flivver," said the deceiver,
confronting her Rolls-Royce, a piece of
motor royalty hand-wrought in England,
upon which the United States charges an
import duty of $5,000. But Pearl should
worry about a little matter of five thousand
dollars. Good things come high, and noth-
ing but the best for Pearl. And she can
well afford to indulge her extravagant
tastes. "But." she explained modestly, "I
got mine at a bargain ; it only cost me four-
teen thousand."
The Drew workshop where many hours are spent in search of "the germ.
Seeking the Germ
AN INTERVIEW WITH
THE SIDNEY DREWS
By Frederick James Smith
D
ing manuscripts for the germ," said
AY after day \vc look tlirough incom-
ing manuscri]
Sidney Drew.
"The germ?" I repeated puzzled.
"The germ of an idea," laughed the
comedian. "In our two years of producing
one reel comedies we have never been able
to buy a scenario complete as we produce
it. We take them for the ideas they pos-
sess. The scripts are practically recon-
structed by Mrs. Drew. I say practically,
because occasionally I — ah — offer a sug-
gestion or two."
Drew entered the inter-
view. "It is impossible to secure a complete
script ready for the studio," she began.
"In the first place, no author can fit our
peculiar methods. It is impossible for him
Right here Mrs.
to mould his idea exactly the way we feel
it. In our two years of producing we have
only done si.x comedies by one author. The
rest were in ones and twos from different
writers. These scripts came from all over
the country."
I asked Mr. Drew to outline the essen-
tials of his comedies.
"First," responded the comedian,
"cleanliness in idea and thought. Second,
humanness. They must deal with some-
thing that really occurs and not a figment
of the imagination. That is, the thing must
be generally known to occur and not be
just -an odd experience. For instance, in
'The Pest,' the action revolves around the
younger brother of my wife. The lad had
a penchant for borrowing everything he
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wanted, from neckties to silk shirts. 1
always go to the theater and, when 'The
Pest' was shown at the Rialto, I sat behind
a theater party. They did not recognize
me. So I listened to their comments with
a lot of interest. When 'The Pest' had
concluded, one of the women turned to her
friend and said, 'There's one of those in
every family.' I felt satisfied. That's what
we term the human note. Again we did
'Nothing to Wear,' dealing with a wife
who, no matter how many clothes she
bought, always fancied that she lacked the
right thing for every occasion. Only the
other day we were asked to a Red Cross
benefit and Mrs. Drew exclaimed, 'It's
splendid — but I've nothing to wear I' We
laughed, because our own comedy had hit
that very phrase."
I was reminded of a remark Willard
Mack once made to me. "I never attempt
to write anything that has not suggested
itself from something in real life," he said.
"I must know it has existed."
"Thirdly," continued Mr. Drew, "we pre-
fer characters for Mrs. Drew and myself
Mrs. Sidney Drew i Lucille McVey) and her
tulip bed.
The beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs.
that represent us as man and wife. It per-
mits of a nicer familiarity of action."
"I should hardly say that, dear," inter-
rupted the comedian's wife. "Hardly that —
l)Ut it lends towards humanness. For in-
stance, even though a story represents Mr.
Drew as a lover and myself as his sweet-
heart, our audience would not be able to
forget that we were man and wife. But,
by playing Mr. and Mrs. John Brown, we
fit into their mental conception of us. This
tends away from the theatrical — what we
call tlie movie element."
Mrs. Drew is definite in her ideas about
the screen comedy. Just between ourselves,
I give Mrs. Drew 75 per cent of the
credit for the conception of the Drew come-
dies. That is, she is the team member who
selects an idea and builds it. Mr. Drew
has the actor's discernment to understand
her mental process and to present it on the
screen. To him goes the credit for putting
the idea over.
"Give me," says Mrs. Drew, "characteri-
zation, first of all. I don't want just
just people in my comedies. I want folks
with fancies, foibles, even obsessions — of
course, nothing harmful or unpleasant. I
want something, as tliey say, to hang my
hat on.
"Another essential, never let anyone but
the audience in on another's frailties. For
instance, in a certain comedy, I did not
talk to iny mother about my husband before
his face. But, I did as soon as he had left
Seeking the Germ
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'!mz9Bk!»t-'~^
/'; w at Sea Gate, Long Island.
I he room. The audience appreciates being
Ml on the intimacies.
"A few other essentials? Well, a small
number of characters are best. Many
I'eople do not lend humor. They are in
ilie way in the rapid telling of a thousand
i oot story. They are particularly in the
A\ ay, because we use lots of subtitles."
"I am a great believer in the subtitle,"
-aid Mr. Drew. "I—"
"Yes, dear," said his wife. "We believe
ilie success of our comedies is largely due
Id the direct and human subtitles," con-
tinued the comedian's wife. "They get the
-tory started with a swing and put the con-
tinuity over cjuickly and speedily. More-
over, they make the story mental rather
than physical. They make it possible for
the audience to think just what's in your
mind. Plenty of subtitles, few people and
quick interest are vital things.
"It may sound egotistical but I sincerely
think the subtitles give our comedies a dis-
tinct style of their own. I think you might
term it a whimsical style. It is essentially
our own, since we cannot even objtain
scenarios to fit it. It has developed from
a study of our own work and a belief that
the intelligence should not be insulted and
that the story must be real and not a thing
of the imagination.
"We have never accepted a script from
a so-called 'real' author. They build their
stories and plays from their imagination.
These may be adroit, of vigorous action
!■
and even powerful but they are theatrical.
"I believe in comedy by inference," re-
marked Mr. Drew. "Yes," continued Mrs.
Drew, "we believe in giving credit to the
intelligence of an audience. And, in
attending the theaters to. watch the recep-
tion of our comedies, we have found that
some of our biggest laughs came by
inference."
The Drews have the field of domestic
screen comedy almost to themselves. "We
see no indication of e.xhausting the field,"
said Mrs. Drew. "Others are concerned
■with the lover, the sweetheart and the vil-
lain. Surely that is but half — or less— of
life. Married life presents a thousand
tliemes. Only a proportion lend themselves
to humorous treatment, of course. But that
proportion should keep us occupied for a
long time to come."
Sidney Drew is a brother of John Drew.
The old phrase in the theatrical world used
to be "John Drew but Sidney didn't."
But, now, with the gradual waning of the
stage's illustrious John, Sidney bids fair
to become the screen's foremost legitimate
comedian." Thus do the movies work
revolutions.
Artistic in detail and beautifully arranged, is the
library.
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Down at Sea
G ate, the Drews
have built an elab-
orate bungalow.
"I've always longed
to have things ex-
actly the way I
wanted them — and
here we have them
just as we wish," re-
marked Mrs. Drew.
She looks upon the
Drew bedroom as
her masterpiece. It
is a thing of bizarre
stripes and r i c li
color tones — a twin
bedroom fit to please
Mr. Bakst, Esq.
One room down-
stairs is set aside
for work on sce-
narios. Here Mrs.
Drew works at her
typewriter before a
liuge window over-
looking the ocean.
Piles of 'scripts lay
waiting a decision.
"You can see it's an
to get the elusive germ
indicating the stack o
An interesting picture 0/ Mrs. Drew, taken in
the dining room.
amazingly hard task
," said the comedian
f scenarios. "Most
of tliem are hope-
less. The authors
don't seem to know
wliat l)pe of work
we are doing. Only
the other day a
'script came with a
little note saying the
writer had been
studying our work
for two years. I
o[)ened the manu-
script with a pleas-
ant feeling of antici-
pation. Hut the first
few lines settled it.
'John Brown,' said
the '.script in de-
scribing the charac-
ter intended for me,
'is a man whose wife
fears tliat having a
child will cause her
to lose her beautiful
form.' I threw tlie
manuscri])t back on
the table."
"But I. being a
w o m a n," laughed
Mrs. Drew, "picked up that 'script and
read it right through to the last scene.
Believe me, Sid, you missed something."
Slavery — Two Viewpoints
1— As the Actor Sees It.
The Movie Manufacturer sits upon a
gold chair studded with black diamonds,
smoking a cigar of super-tobacco.
"Trot 'em out," he yells, and his ring-
master cracks a long whip.
Proudly the leading horse enters the
rings, full' of the fire of life, stepping high.
"Too heavy ; looks like a truck-horse.
Cut down his feed and work him harder.
A peppery little filly followed, mincing
and playing at being bad-tempered.
"That's what comes from giving 'em
oats," the Movie Manufacturer mused.
"Cut out the white lights, Lizzie, or it's
back to the old farm wagon for yours."
So through the whole string. ' No one
was right. Any excuse was good enough
for a cut down in rations. It was outright
slavery.
1 1 — As the Manufacturer Sees It.
Night and day, week after week, with-
out rest, the Hard Worker toiled and
toiled, accumulating a little wealtli here
and there, and then spending it again.
Then the pirates descended upon him.
Both se.ves were rejiresented. Thcv bound
and gagged him, and held a council.
"Shall we kill him or only rob him?"
asked the leading pirate.
"Mercy, don't kill liim ; if we did we
couldn't rob him next year," shrilled a
vampirate.
So they took all the Hard Worker's
wealth, calling it "salary," and left him
to begin all over again.
The Hard Worker cogitated, whether or
not to go out of business.
"Oh well, once a slave, alwavs a slave."
he mused, and returned to his toil.
Brenon s Corner on Royalty
KAISER WILHELM and
-Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas
Romanoff are prominent
characters in Herbert Brenoii's
"The Fall of the Romanoffs," just
completed on the steppes of Fort
Lee, N. J. This is the feature,
dealing with Rasputin and the
Russian court intrigues, in which
Iliador, the so-called "mad monk,"
plays the stellar role, the exact
part he played in real life, while
Nance O'Neil appears as the for-
mer Czarina, Alfred Hickman is
the deposed Czar, Edward Con-
nelly is Rasputin, while the Ger-
man Emperor is portrayed by
George Dunueburg.
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Mildred came from the
Winter Garden, but
she left it far behind.
An Ingenue Who Won't Ingenue
NATURE BUILT MILDRED ON BABY DOLL
SPECIFICATIONS. BUT GEE, HOW THAT
GIRL HATES CUTIE TRICKS. CURLS
AND CHOCOLATE CARAMEL ROLES
By James 5. Frederick
"T^ATE destined me to be an ingenue,"
I confesses Mildred Manning, "but I
just wouldn't believe in fate. If I
couldn't do anything but wear curls and
go through all the kittenish movie ingenue-
isms, I'd rather — Well, anyway, I just
wouldn't. Why I put those doll-faced
ingenues in the same class with those pretty
leading men."
"That's fjretty tough on some poor work-
ing girls," said I, ostensibly a cavalier, but
really to goad her on to a further denuncia-
tion. But the twinkle in her eye told me
she was on.
Mildred Manning is five feet four with-
out her high heels. Mildred herself con-
fesses that. She has an olive complexion,
singularly expressive eyes and a constitu-
tion likely to cause the family physician to
move away to a more profitable neighbor-
hood.
But to return to our interview and Miss
Manning's declaration of war against the
ingenue. "The screen has been crowded
from the start with pretty girls — most of
them sweet and appealing- — but everyone
of them seemingly without the ability to
do anything but look pretty. Never once
did they get into the character. The
people of a photoplay are usually like a
lot of cardboard folk, without depth. The
heroine is a cutie who leads the broad
shouldered hero through five reels of tribu-
lations, and then falls into his arms while
the faithful old sun does the conventional
sunset.
"^A'hen the Vitagraph company ga\'e me
the O. Henry stories to play I felt that
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my chance had arrived. Scenario writers
are still too much concerned over the action
of their photoplays to bother about char-
acterization. They give a player nothing
to work with. But O. Henry! He crowded
a thousand flashes of characterization into
a 2,000 word story.
"It was bully fun playing O. Henry.
I loved Hetty Pepper in 'The Third In-
gredient' most, although all the others
were interesting. The Vitagraph company
has just promoted me to five reel features.
Of course, I'm glad — but I hate to leave
(). Henry behind. My first five rceler is
'Mary Jane's Pa.' Yes, indeed, I'm play-
ing little Mary Jane. I don't wonder
you're surprised. I was, too, when tliev
gave me the part. I haven't done kid stuff
since my musical comedy days."
As you may judge, Mildred's rhusical
comedy days aren't so very long ago. "I
started in 'IJttle Nemo' at the New Am-
sterdam theater, playing Tilly," she says.
"Then came 'Over 'the River,' 'Oh, ()h.
Dclphine' and 'Dancing Around,' at the-
Winter Garden." The Winter Garden.
i)y the way, is fast becoming a training
school for movie stars. Pause to consider
June Elvidge, Mary MacLaren and the
several others yvho used to sing merrily
from the runway.
Miss Manning didn't make her screen
delmt with Vitagraph. She was with Pio-
Miss Manning and Frank Daniels in a scene from
" Captain Jinks the Cobbler."
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An Ingenue Who Won't Ingenue
37
rehearsed by Thomas R. Mills in a film adaptation of an O. Henry story.
graph for a year in the old David Grif-
fith period of the photodrama. There she
appeared in "The Charity Eall," "Poor
Relations," "Concentration," and other
Griffith-made film plays. Miss Manning
has all the usual player's worship for Grif-
fith. "He could teach you more in a day
than others can in a year," she vows.
Miss Manning wouldn't admit a single
hobbv. Yet she confesses that she swims
pretty well, likes to ride and drives her
own machine. Moreover, she is a crack
shot with the rifle, ^^''hich is understand-
able, when you know that her ancestors
were among the first settlers. She is a
descendant of one of the Crane brothers
who helped found Newark.
"I'm too busy to have a hobby," declares
Miss Manning. "It's task enough to keep
in physical trim for the long studio hours."
■■■■■■g
WHILE Jack Kavanaugh, gentleman adventurer, con-
firmed misogynist and recognized overlord of certain
enchanted islands in the South Pacific, was occupying
himself with a pearl concession on Kailu, and altogether
regarding life in much the same fashion as Adam must
have done before Eve took his education in hand, society
back in the States seemed stifling and unreal. And then
one day Captain BillyConnor's Favorilt dropped anchor
in the lagoon and discharged three (jassengers — a Massa-
chusetts bishop, his widowed sister, fascinating Alice
Stormsby; and their pretty niece,
Enid Weare, the product of gen-
erations of strait-laced old New
England culture.
After a few days, the bishop
surprised Kavanaugh with a re-
quest that he and the two women
be allowed to accompany their
host on his expedition down to
Trocadero Island to look over a
new pearl concession — and Kavanaugh, mindful of warm
glances from Mrs. Stormsby s eyes and of Enid s nymph-
iike charm, gave permission. So the expedition set out in
his schooner Circe. Accustomed as he was to the free
and easy life of the Pacific, it was rather vexing to Kav-
anaugh to be continually on his guard for fear of offending
the silly sensibility of a prudish schoolgirl, who flew into
a sudden anger if the spill of the mainsail or any wanton
eddy raised the hem of her skirt to reveal an inch or two
of ankle, and he often felt like boxing Enid's small,
pink ears.
Twenty-five miles from Trocadero, a howling South
Sea squall drove the Ctra on a reef. All hands turned
to load the boats with supplies and set out for Trocadero,
where they arrived safely.
Here was a desert island,
here was the primitive, and
here two men and two _
women must live until the
boat crew, which had been
dispatched for help, could
return with another vessel.
In the midst of this pre-
dicament, a horde of native
pirates raided the island
one morning before dawn,
making away with every
piece of moveable property
save the silk pajamas and
" nighties " in which the
victims happened to be
garbed. Alice Stormsby ac-
cepted this delicate situation
sensibly, but Enid hyster-
ically shut herself up in the
bungalow. When her
frightened relatives declined
to interfere. Jack Kavan-
augh went in to reason
with her. No profaned
modesty was now evident
in Enid. She was in a white
rage which took no heed of
anything save the shame of
his presence there, and she
whipped suddenly around
and gripped a stool by one
leg. A struggle ensued. Dicky, the diminutive bantam
cock, championed Enid and planted his wicked spurs in
Kavanaugh's eyes and the girl wrenched herself free and
PRECEDING CHAPTERS
OF
Pearls of Desire
fled down the beach. Though scarcely able to see for the
blood and pain in his eyes. Jack flung himself after her
into the deep, green, shark-infested water and somehow
managed to bring her ashore.
Wfien he recovered consciousness, Enid was leaning
over him. She had shed all her scruples and seemed
utterly indifferent to the scantiness of her attire, even after
the removal of the salt- water compresses which had been
put over Kavanaugh's eyes. The women and the bishop
collected dried seaweed for beds and made tunics from
the plumage of the wild fowl of
the island. The castaways be-
came accustomed to primitive
conditions and felt the rush of
clean, strong blood in their veins.
Weeks passed and then — a
sail on the horizon ! Propin-
quity had done its work and,
prompted by a feeling of regret
that their cameraderie was so
soon to be a thing of the past, Kavanaugh asked Alice to
become his wife. She demurred, for purely mercenary
reasons, as she quite frankly admitted, but assented to a
provisional engagement depending upon the success of his
pearling activities.
It was Channing Drake, a sort of modem Gil Bias,
with a dash of Don Juan thrown in for good measure, and
reputed to be the very worst blackguard in the whole
Pacific, who, in order to curry favor with the authorities
who were watching his actions, had come to the rescue
with his buccaneer crew.
When Jack hauled in the fishnet, preparatory to leav-
ing the island, several big oysters were found caught in its
meshes. And then, as he and Alice were examining the
exquisite black jewel which
one of the bivalves dis-
closed, Drake came upon
them and learned the secret
of the newly-discovered
pearl fisheries. Kavanaugh
had no gear with which to
dive for the oysters; Drake
had, and insolently insisted
upon a half interest in the
concession. Although
Kavanaugh's papers had
been stolen, he decided to
stay on alone and protect
his legal rights. In case
Drake, after taking the
others back to Kailu, should
return before the necessary
reinforcements could be sent
to him. Jack figured that,
from the shelter of the cave
in which the few remaining
stores and weapons had
been kept, he could effect-
ively hold up any opera-
tions which the fellow
might attempt on the pearl-
ing grounds below.
Against this decision, the
bishop and Alice protested
feebly; and Enid remarked
cuttingly that, since her
aunt was Jack's fiancee,
her duty to remain behind
stake. At this Alice be-
came very angiy and a lively quarrel ensued.
however provisionally, it was
with him while he made hi;
llilliliillllllllllllllilllllllllllll
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Almost at the veranda she pitched forward and lay prone on the loose sand.
Pearls of Desire
A Twentieth-Century Romance of the South
Seas — tiie most remarkable story of the year.
By Henry C. Rowland
Illustrations by Henry Raleigh
CHAPTER IX
THE squall in our family circle ap-
peared to ha\'e blown over but Alice
was looking flushed and angry while
Enid was stitching away with a set, in-
scrutable face. She looked up as I entered
and again I was struck by the peculiar
expression of her eyes. The bishop inquir-
ing anxiously the result of my interview
with Drake I told him simply that Drake
was evidently determined to land them as
soon as possible and hurry back to have a
whack at the pearls, whether I liked it or
not, but I made no mention of his threats.
Then, as it was to be ouj last evening to-
gether I suggested to Alice that we take a
stroll down the beach, to which she agreed.
So we started off together in the throb-
bing tropic twilight and coming to a shel-
tered cove seated ourselves to watch the
sunset. The day was fading in pulsating
vibrations of light and color. Down
through the chromatic scale sped all the
tones of the spectrum with what seemed to
be a caressing pause on every note until the
violet having been reached there ensued a
lingering, as though these flaming beauties
grudged their age and were loth to depart.
They still clung to the wet, gleaming beach
with its opalescent hues ; haunted the ser-
ried surface of the mole as an ill child
presses its face against the furrowed wrin-
kles on the face of a loving grandparent.
Tlie sea absorbed them finally and drew
the mantle of the night about them.
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But even then the loveliness did not de-
part It merely changed its guise and the
great pale moon, a shimmering disk of
silver green now took over the watch and
lightened the heart of the darkness. Her
elusive halo charged the sky with more
than pallor, almost color, etheric moon
prisms in which the cool, delicate hues were
felt rather than seen, invisible yet evident.
They flecked the ripples, brushed their
essence along the surface of the sands,
l)ainted the silent pahn fronds and gave the
night a witching beauty.
We were both englamored I think, or
perhaps merely subdued and silenced by the
profundity of our surroundings. At any
rate, for a long time neither of us spoke.
Alice's hand lay passively in mine and I did
not try to caress it. I had in fact not the
slightest desire to so much as press it, which
would have struck me as strange if I had
thought of it at all. I doubt that I was
thinking of her very much ; certainly not
like a lover on the eve of being abandoned
by his prospective bride and left desolate
upon a soulless circle of rock and sand. I
was thinking actually of Enid and w-onder-
ing what peculiar sort of impulse had pos-
sessed her to assail her aunt in that vicious
way. It was more than a departure from
her usual manner ; it was a volte-face and a
charge. It is true that the violent shock to
her sense of propriety the day of our visit
by the natives had w-rought tremendous
changes in her but she had not once shown
actual irritation or anything to approach
the cold, cutting scorn of voice and look
when commenting on Alice's desertion of
me. And what business of hers was it, any-
how? If Alice chose to go and I to remain
what difference could that possibly make to
Enid? She had made me feel at times that
she held me in singularly low esteem as an
individual. She had not spared her caustic
comments on what she was pleased to con-
sider my arbitrariness of ideas, false confi-
dence in qualities which I wrongly pre-
sumed myself to possess (such as a knowl-
edge of astronomy and how best to cook a
fish) , a certain cynicism unjustifiable in one
who had actually seen very little of the
world beyond the limits of an element which
one could not look very far into, as the sea.
or discover very much about, as the skv.
and whose views on most subjects were
purely academic. She had even made bold
to criticise my physical being, finding it too
bony for one of my stature and when I
riposted by telling her that she herself
would be fat at my age she impeached my
politeness. What she found most to criti-
cise in me was that I was practically self
taught (and faultily) self-willed, self-ruled,
self-esteemed and most unduly self-confi-
dent. She implied that a college of sages
with he of Samos in the chair and ably sup-
ported by Solomon, Socrates, Epictetus and
Abraham Lincoln could not possibly have
convinced me of error in a single of my
views, nor could the persuasive measures of
the Spanish Imjuisition have induced me to
alter the application of them. In fact I
was of opinion that she held me a stubborn
fool and not always an agreeable one.
Why then in the sacred name of St.
Christopher should she find reason to pitch
into Alice for having more sense than to
immolate hersfelf with me on Trocadero?
What difference did it make to her if I
went as balmy as the afternoon trades and
fancying myself to be a sea-gull flapped off
a rock and broke my silly neck? Turning
the problem in my mind I decided that it
was the result of nerves and the reaction of
being rescued. It occurred to me also that
of latter days Enid had not displayed any
conspicuous affection for her aunt. I had
several times remarked Alice's voice to con-
tain a note of vexed reproof in addressing
her niece, while the trickling murmur of
Enid's in answer was always as cool and
liquid and indifferent as rain gurgling
through a water-spout. Sitting there in the
lambent moonlight with Alice's cool hand
in mine it struck me suddenly that perhaps
the relations of these two might possibly l)e
more filial than friendly. But after all,
Enid was at best a haughty minx, if a very
pretty one, and if fault there was I did not
think that it should be laid to Alice's
account.
As if intercepting the current of my
thought she suddenly aroused herself and
asked abruptly : —
"What did you think of Enid's criticism
of me. Jack? Do you believe that I ought
to stay here with you?"
"Don't be silly," I answered. "Of course
not. Besides, I wouldn't let you."
"But if I insisted? What if I absolutely
refused to let you stop on here alone?"
"Jn that case," I answered, "I should
accept Drake's offer . . . though with
profound regret, first because it would dis-
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gust me beyond all measure to have that
swine share our fortune and second because
we want it all for ourselves."
"Of course we do," she agreed. "After
all, you know best about it. Jack. This
whole experience has been so wild and
strange that we are none of us quite our
real selves. Enid is quite a different per-
son, and so is Geoffrey . . . and as for
myself, I scarcely know who I am. People
not accustomed to such things can hardly be
expected to go through with them and be
quite the same for some time after, can
they. Jack?"
I asked her if she were trying to break
it to me gently that once away from her
savage surroundings and back again in an
atmosphere of the civilized and established
order of things she might feel differently
about the promise she had given me.
"You put it so brutally, Jack," she com-
plained. "How can I tell?"
I rose. "In that case," I said, "please
consider yourself entirely absolved from
anything in the way of a compact which
may have passed between us during our
exile on this island. You need not feel
yourself bound to me in any sense what-
ever, Alice, nor I to you. If I see the thing
through and win out I may come to you
later and ask you to marry me ... or
again I may not. In other words, if you
desire to have our conditional engagement
broken, please say so. It all rests with
you."
There ensued a good deal of argument
over this point, Alice protesting against my
assumption that she was mercenary, and that
her sentiments toward me were based on
the chances of success in the matter of the
pearls. I listened, putting in a word now
and then. But I might have spared myself
even this effort, as the situation was plain
enough for any man with the sense of a
guillemot. Now that deliverance was at
hand, with the prospect of a short voyage
which might land her back where she be-
longed, Alice was beginning to gather up
the warp and woof of her earlier ideas.
She found it difficult to picture herself as
the wife of, an adventurer like myself and
she desired to retrench and reconsider.
But she did not feel herself compelled
to concede the same privilege to me. Her
idea was apparently to keep me on as a
sort of sheet anchor, a sinking fund, as one
might say. It might have shocked her sen-
sibilities could she have seen how obvious
it all was. It would have been a far greater
blow if she could have read what was pass-
ing in my mind. But the sacred laws of
hospitality must obtain even on desert
islands of the Pacific and she was my guest,
so I merely assured her that it had been a
great honor and privilege to have had her
confidence during these past trying weeks
but that under the present circumstances it
seemed to me preferable that no obligations
be entailed on either side.
"Don't be so stilted. Jack," she pro-
tested. "You are almost banal at times."
I quoted a French proverb to the eft'ect
that promptly settled accounts made good
friends and added that I should always feel
myself deeply in her debt for her trust in
me. In fact, I made all the polite and
friendly platitudes I could think of. It
gave me a sort of malicious pleasure to
spatter her with these formalities. I felt
that she deserved them, not because she had
declined to remain on the island with me,
but because she had made no protest at my
doing so. Most of all, however, I was sore
at her fear of binding herself to me by any
pledge until confident that my fortune was
assured. It seemed to me that she might at
least have taken a chance on that, consid-
ering the cheerless future immediately
ahead of me.
Perhaps the truth of the matter was that
Enid's remarks had shown me Alice in
another and truer light. From being my
splendid companion, sympathetic and fear-
less, I now saw her as a conventional and
rather selfish woman who was not even a
good sport. She wanted to gamble but
with no personal risk, and I really felt
that all things being equal she would rather
have married me than not. She desired
very much indeed to re-marry, and I believe
that if a couple of dozen millionaires be-
tween the ages of thirty and forty (myself
included), and of good class and sound
physique had been trotted up and down for
her selection of a mate her choice would
probably have fallen on myself. I do not
wish to be vain, but I had several times felt
her want of me very strongly and if I had
cared to take advantage of certain periods
of emotion I could no doubt have got her
promise. Perhaps it was my own fault in not
having pressed my suit with greater ardor.
No doubt the piggy-man was a better hand
at that sort of thing. But while I fancied
'Jack. . . . Jack. . . . I'm not a
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myself in love with Alice and felt naturally
at times an almost irresistible desire for her
there was yet always a quality which was
subtly lacking. The white flame was not
there ; the deeper love was lacking.
Drake's coming also had raised an in-
visible barrier, less in the danger of his
getting away with the pearls but because he
represented a stepping stone from the
island to the outer world and so as it were
put us again in contact with society. We
all felt the difference ; a sort of sagging
down from our high tension; a return from
the freedom of the wild to the fenced en-
closure. The bishop from being so pleased
with his splendid physical condition had
started in immediately to spoil his "cure"
with gin, and instead of waking the next
morning with a rush of high vitality and
almost passionate relish for his bath and
breakfast, would complain that after all tiie
experience on Trocadero had tried his
nerves more than he had realized, and so
excuse himself for taking a matitutinal
bracer. Enid appeared to have given evi-
dence already that .she was about to resume
her strict ideas with her clothes, while
Alice and I were almost on the edge of a
quarrel. It seemed a great pity. Almost
as though the merciless hand of established
conventions had clipped our free wings and
tossed us back into the fattening coop.
I pointed this out to Alice and she
laughed. "After all, why not?" she asked.
"We were born in captivity and the barn-
yard has its blessings."
"It has its blessures," I answered, "usu-
ally under the gills with a hatchet."
"One can always fly the fence occasion-
ally," she observed. "I wonder how we
are going to like each other in civilization.
Jack?"
"There will be no change in my feeling
toward you," I answered, "but I don't think
I shall be very keen about the civilization."
"Nor do I think you will," she answered.
"I believe that I made a mistake in prom-
ising to marry you in six months if you
made a fortune. You would never be happy
in the sort of life I lead."
"Do you want me to release you?" 1
asked. "Not that it makes any particular
difference, though, as neither one of us
would care to hold the other to an unde-
sired obligation."
"It does seem superfluous," she mur-
mured. "Do you really think that you
have anything to fear from this Drake,
Jack? Any actual violence?"
I told her that I had never yet feared
anything from Drake and did not purpose
to begin now, also that if there was any
violence Drake was very apt to be the first
to suft'er from it. Since Knid's commenta-
ries I was beginning to feel that Alice was
more in fear of Drake's violence to the
pearl beds than to myself. Her niece's re-
marks had rankled, and she realized that it
would picture her a pretty sordid proposi-
tion to let me exi)Ose myself to danger and
loss and then marry her piggy-man in the
event of my failure. At any rate, after
staring for a few moments at the moon she
sighed and said : —
"This has been a charming idyll, my
dear, but after all one can scarcely be sure
of oneself under such extraordinary condi-
tons as we have been tiirough. Perhaps it
would be better should we not consider
ourselves bound by any pledge but wait
and see what the future brings forth. If
you succeed and still want me, then come to
me and we shall decide. So kiss me, dear,
and then let us return."
It was in the nature of a farewell em-
brace and left me cold, and I must confess
with a curious sense of relief. There was
no question but that my feeling toward her
had undergone a change in the last few
hours. If she had declared her intention of
remaining with me on Trocadero it might
have clinched my love for her, even though
I should not have permitted it. To have had
her there would have meant the necessity of
abandoning my plans for the defence of
the pearls, as I .should not have thought of
exposing her to the danger of violence nor
did I believe that her presence would have
stopped Drake. He was too avaricious and
too confident of his ability to get out of a
me.ss. So with another little sigh Alice rose
to her feet and we strolled silently back in
the bright blaze of the moon.
CHAPTER X
■yV/E found tlie bisliop alone and in very
'' low spirits. He was sitting on the
edge of the verandah in a most unclerical
position, collar unbuttoned, sleeves rolled
up, smoking a cigar. In the vivid glare one
could see the rime of sweat upon his face
and he exhaled the odor of gin.
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I was watching you from the grotto in the cliffs.
"Here's a nice kettle of fish," he growled. headed fool when Enid must needs take up
"Drake came up here' whining about Jack's her big stick in his defence, and they had it
stubbornness and slanging him for a pig- so warm that I was obliged to interfere
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and tell the girl to hold her tongue if she
could not be polite. 1 don't know what's
got into the child all of a sudden. Fancy
her being rude to a man who is putting
himself to all this trouble and expense to
come to our relief ! Then after he had
gone she sailed into me for not defending
Jack and we've had a regular cat-and-dog
iight. It wound up by my telling her that
if she could not observe the respect which
was due my age, my cloth and my being her
uncle she had better go in and go to bed.
At this she slammed off down the beach in
a rage and has not yet returned."
"She has probably gone to bathe," Alice
observed. "Let us hope that it may cool
off her temper."
I remarked that I did not care much for
the idea of Enid's bathing at night, even
with so bright a moon. The fin of a shark
was fretjuently to be seen close under the
cliffs by the little beach where the ladies
took their dip and I cautioned them not to
venture out more than waist deep. In the
daytime there was no danger but at night
there might be. Sharks have a way of
nosing up into very shoal water at night,
drifting in with the tide and sculling astern
as it recedes. You can never tell about
sharks and their habits. They are a good
deal like bishops in this respect. I have
had savants on marine zoology tell me that
no self-respecting shark would think of
eating a man. That may be true, but one
can never tell when a shark is going to lose
his self-respect, especially when very hun-
gry, which sharks .sometimes are. Even if
able to control himself and draw the line
at men he might lose his head and take a
chance with a girl, especially at night.
But I merely remarked to Alice that I
thought it misafe for Enid to bathe alone
at night, especially when in her present
odd, reckless mood and that she had better
go after her. So she started off leaving
me at the mercy of the bishop who pro-
. ceeded to maunder along complainingly.
"No respect for age . . . "he miun-
bled, "no regard for dignity. I don't
know what the younger generation is com-
ing to. Told me I should have been
ashamed to sit here and let Drake slander
you. I did remonstrate, but rather feebly
perhaps as I could see that the fellow was
very sore about your not letting him in with
the pearls, and besides he had been drink-
ing a little more perhaps than was fudi-
cious. Disapiiointmcnt, I fancy. That
Schuydam schnapps buzzing in his head
made him careless of speech." The bisho[)
mopped his face and reached for a jug of
cold .spring water at his elbow.
I asked him what Drake had said about
me. "Oh, the sort of thing one would
expect, considering your relations," an-
swered the bisliop, deprecatingly. "Rather
intimated that you were a bit of a Pharisee
and while professing strong missionary
sympathies were known to have helped
yourself pretty freely to whatever you hap-
pened to want. I was feeling a bit drowsy
and did not catch quite all of what he said
but Enid was listening at some remark of
his about some native girls at your planta-
tion ... 1 lost the gist of it . . .
she went off like a bunch of Chinese squibs.
Told him that she wa.s not in the habit of
listening to that sort of thing and that if
he must unburden himself he had better do
so to you, intimating tliat he would "ue
afraid to do so and that you would tear
his head off if he tried."
"How did he take these remarks?" I
asked.
"Oh, {juietly enough, at first, but I could
see that he was getting angry so I roused
myself sufficiently to stem Enid's eloquence
and send her into sulks. Drake became
most apologetic, then ; said that it was so
long since he had frequented the society of
ladies that he sometimes forgot himself. He
went away finally, saying that he would like
to get away with the tide at daybreak and
asking if we could be ready. This had
been already agreed upon, as the situation
here is no longer agreeable and the ladies
are willing to finish their dressmaking on
the schooner. No sooner was Drake out
of sight than Enid turned on me . .
on me if you please, as though / had been
traducing you ; I whose esteem for you,
my dear Jack is of the very highest order,
not only for your sterling qualities as a
man but for your kindness and patience
and unfailing good temper and resource
and all of those qualities which go to
"What did she say?" I interrupted, for
the good man was working himself into a
tiregome garrulousness which mv exemplary
patience did not feel quite up to at that
moment.
"What didn't she?"- he exploded. "She
accused me of ingratitude to you and im-
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peached my loyalty as your friend while
at the same time intimating that one of
sterner stuff than I would have put Drake
immediately in his place. As a matter of
fact I was not listening to him particularly,
■ having felt the heat more than usual to-day!
I explained this, ascribing it to the reac-
tion of our rescue, when she had the im-
pertinence to imply that it was more prob-
ably the reaction of over-indulgence in the
matter of stimulant. She then said that
it was my plain duty to share your con-
tinued exile on the island, and when I
pointed out that I had offered to do so but
that you had insisted upon my escorting the
pair of them she burst out that she was not
afraid of Drake nor a dozen like him. I
must say I could not but admire her spirit
even while feeling it incumbent on me to
reprove her."
"How did you accomplish that?" I asked.
"Rather shortly, I fear. To tell the truth
I fear I was on the point of becoming
angry. She then asked if I realized what
it meant to be left entirely alone upon an
island like this; the solitude, the loneli-
ness, the desolation. 'It would be quite
enough to send one off one's head,' said
she, and wanted to know how we should
feel to learn that you had gone mad or met
with some accident as the result of moody
abstraction. She recalled your thoughtful-
ness and devotion and accused her aunt and
myself of ingratitude and disloyalty and
cowardice and I don't know what. I
rather lost my temper at this and told her
that if she felt that way about it she had
better keep you company herself and asked
if she had gone and lost her heart to you.
Indelicate. I admit, but there are limits to
one's good nature. This drove her (juite
wild and it was then that she became so dis-
respectful that I peremptorily ordered her
to bed. Fancy a chit of a girl of twenty-two
subjecting a man in my position to such a
tirade. And so uncalled for . . . so
unmerited . . . so . . ."
But sounds other than the bishop's ex-
postulations had caught my ears and I
sprang to my feet Across the dazzling
stretch of moonlit beach between the
bungalow and the little promontory of
rocks came Alice staggering towards us,
bare, gleaming arms flung wide and as she
lurched along there seemed wrenched from
her a series of moaning, strangling sobs.
Almost to the verandah she pitched for-
ward and lay prone in the loose sand, her
body heaving convulsively.
We sprang to her side. "My God . . . !"
I cried, "what is it? What's happened?"
"Enid . . ." she moaned. "She went
to bathe . . . and . . . a shark has
taken her." She caught at my arm, dropped
her forehead upon it in a paroxysm of
weepmg which was silent but appalling in
Its mtensity. The bishop had collapsed
mto a huddled mass.
It was several moments before Alice
could control herself enough to speak co-
herently. She had gone to the sheltered
cove where they were wont to bathe and
not finding Enid there had continued on
her way down the beach, calling at inter-
vals. (We had heard her calling but
thought nothing of it.) Thinking that
Enid had perhaps wished merely to walk
off her fit of pique Alice had kept on to
where the cliffs came down steeply into the
sea and then, thoroughly alarmed at find-
ing no traces of her niece she had started
to return to get our help. But on arriving
again at the cove her eye was caught by a
white object on the beach, or rather on a
low, flat ledge of rock at the water's edge.
This to her horror proved to be the girl's
feathered tunic and beside it lay her
sandals.
The awfulness of the thing was that of
some ghastly nightmare. It struck us
dumb and cold and nerveless and it was
several moments before I could rally
strength enough to get on my feet and go
to the spot, leaving Alice moaning in the
arms of the bishop, himself able only to
gasp out exclamations, pious and .self -con-
demnatory. It was as Alice had said. The
tunic and sandals lay on the sloping ledge
which was still wet from the fallen tide
and as I stared at the 'flat sheen of the
water its surface was undulated by the fur-
row of some great, sinister body moving
beneath.
For a long time I stood there, sick of
heart and soul and body. Enid, that
lovely, vital creature with all the richness
of life before her the prey of sharks ! It
seemed too hideously, outrageously impos-
sible. And yet it was unquestionably so.
In the face of the pathetic testimony of her
primitive garments the tragedy seemed in-
contestable. I picked up the plumy tunic
and with wet eyes and a choking in my
throat made my way wretchedly back to the
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bungalow. Besides the horror of the thing
I was conscious of a pain that was ahnost
physical. Without realizing it I had grown
really fond of Enid and my mourning for
'her was profound and sincere.
Alice's condition was really very bad,
while that of the bishop was abjectly piti-
ful. I do not think that either of them for
a moment suspected the girl of suicide, but
no doubt they felt that (as I had unfor-
tunately suggested) her recklessness had
been the result of her vexation at being
reproved for her protests against leavhig
me alone on Trocadero. Whatever the
fault we were all three as profoundly
shocked and stunned as it is possible, but
after listening a few minutes to Alice's
incoherent moanings I , decided that our
first duty was to her, so I roused the bishop
and drew him outside the bungalow.
"We must get her away from here at
once," I said. "If this goes on much longer
she will be starting a brain fever or some-
thing. Everything about this accursed
place is a reminder of Enid. The best
thing would be to put her aboard to-night
and by this time to-morrow you will be
well on your course and she may be able
to get a grip of herself."
He agreed to this, so I went down to the
edge of the beach and hailed the Madcap.
Drake himself came in with the boat and I
told him what had happened. I could have
struck him dead for the callousness of
manner in which he received the informa-
tion, though his words were such as any
sympathetic stranger might have used. He
managed however to convey the impression
that the tragedy might have been averted if
I had been a more vigilant protector, but I
was too miserable to feel the sting or want
to resent it.
"The main thing now," I said, "is to
get Mrs. Stormsby away as soon as possible.
Once clear of the place she will no doubt
manage to pull herself together."
"Then are you going to stick on here?"
he asked.
"Yes," I answered. "I can't see how my
being aboard would help things any. This
whole experience has rather sickened me
with the Pacific, and all I ask now is to
make my clean up and get away. Besides,
when I start to do something I like to carry
it through. Don't you make any mistake,
Drake ; this devilish thing that's happened
hasn't got my nerve to the extent of my
making you a present of the pearls."
He did not say much to this, so back I
went to the bungalow and had a short talk
with the bishop, asking him merely to ex-
plain the situation to young Harris and tell
him to get there to my relief as soon as
possible. I knew that I could leave it all
to Harris. Then the Madcap's boat came
in and we enveloped Alice in some of the
cloth which Drake had sent ashore and got
her otf aboard. She scarcely seemed to
realize what was going on, nor her parting
from me at the water's edge. The bishop
merely wrung my hand, the tears streaming
down his face. Then they were gone and
I returned to our little shack and threw
myself down on a couch, my head in my
hands?
Sometimes it seems to us all that the
harder we try the more we fail. And the
worst of it is that if we are honest with
ourselves we can usually place that failure
at our own doors. Casting back it seeiVied
to me that I had made an awful mess of
things, not only in the present but in the
past. I told myself that I had gone about
things entirely wrong; that on graduating
I should have accepted any one of the
positions offered me rather than having let
myself be led away by the glamor of the
Pacific, and that in that ca.se my parents
might at least have finished their days in a
comparative luxury instead of the bare
necessities of life which I had managed to
supply them with, usually on borrowed
money advanced by a Chinaman named
Von Bulow of Fiji and other places,
against my prospective interests. Von
Bulow had proved a lenient creditor and
his liens were soon liquidated, leaving us
good friends, socially as well as commer-
cially and I think that our esteem was
mutual. But the delay had cost me those
last precious moments which a man who
adores his mother ought to spend with her
at the sunset of her earthly pilgrimage.
The next distinguished failure had been
the result of my folly in thinking that be-
cause a girl fancied herself in love with a
man who happened to attract her by virtue
of what she considered to be a romantic
setting, this foolish male person should be
so vain as to expect any constancy of heart.
Looking back, I felt quite satisfied to be so
well out of that mess, but all the same it
had a bitter taste until washed out by work
and worry.
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Then had come business troubles and
losses and 1 was just begnniing to find my
feet again with a good prospect for the
future when my three guests arrived on
Kialu, when I had been guilty of the double
error, first of risking their lives in a voy-
age on a frame-sick vessel and secondly in
wiping said vessel across a reef. Followed
our long exile and now to crown my calami-
tous career came this shocking tragedy of
Enid which might so easily have been
averted had I laid the stress which 1 should
have done on the dangers of night bathing.
It was all my fault. Every misfortune of ths
many which my life had experienced was
my fault and now in my solitude and pro-
found depression this black burden became
almost insupportable. Sleep was of course
impossible and finally in sheer desperation
I got up and seated myself in the doorway
of my hut.
The creak of sheaves and clank of chain
cable and windlass pawls aboard the Mad-
cap roused me slightly from my crushing
despondency and I discovered that Drake
was about to go out, not waiting for the
first of the ebb which would be at about
6:30 of the morning. It was then about
eleven, nearly slack water but he would
still have a fair current to take him out of
the lagoon and a light but favorable breeze
was stirring aloft. The moon was so vivid
that it might as well have been day so far
as any danger from the darkness was con-
cerned and outside the sea was smooth with
a light air ruffling its surface. I reflected
that Drake did well to put to sea at ^.nte
and I was glad that he was going. Since
I was doomed to solitary confinement I
desired that it should begin at once.
The Madcap got her anchor and the
high air filling her topsails began to glide
swiftly and silently out of the lagoon. She
loomed of exaggerated proportions in the
entrance and then getting out from the lee
of the island began to dwindle rapidly in
size while yet not appearing to increase her
distance. Then the crater hid her and I
suddenly realized the crushing immensity
of my loneliness. It descended upon me
with a sort of terrifying majesty seeming
to threaten the obliteration of my entity.
It chilled my being to the very core seem-
ing to deprive me of the power of noise or
motion . . . almost of thought, itself.
I felt deprived of the ability to assert my
existence by so much as a spoken word.
Can you realize what such absolute lone-
Imess IS like? Did you ever awaken in the
night from some vague dream of abysmal
infinity almost pulseless from the dread of
It.? Have you ever had that overwhelming'
sense of such utter solitude that you could
feel yourself slipping away into the noth-
ingness, and known that unless you could
immediately hear the sound of some living
thing or sense the presence of some animate
being you would be lost to yourself, dis-
solved in limitless emptiness? There is no
terror such as this devitalizing dread of
absolute dissolution. I could feel my very
soul evaporating as it were and made a
.sickly effort to rally it. "This is mad-
ness, I thought. "Enid was right. I
shall go mad here. I am going, now."
The sweat burst from every pore and
shudder after shudder swept through me.
If only something would come, something
would stir; something hold me together
before I slipped out into the awful No-
where. A Spirit of Darkness would have
been a welcome guest. Some thing, any-
thing to hold me to myself. And then as
if in a sort of convulsive effort, a spas-
modic protest of my Ego against annihila-
tion I sprang up with a loud, shuddering
cry, flinging out my arms to the moon.
IV/iaf zuas that . . . ? An echo ? An
answer? Or was it the mockery of some
impalpable entity haunting the penumbra
whither I was fading? It came again. And
now I did not want it. I was filled with
an agonizing dread of it. I staggered back,
clutching at the thatch of the hut and as I
did so my starting eyes were caught by a
moving figure shimmering in the moonlight
on the edge of the lagoon. It advanced
with swift, gliding steps and even in my
nerveless terror I recognized it as the simu-
lacrum of the drowned, devoured girl. It
was the wraith of Enid haunting the place.
Or was it merely a delusion? The first
ghostly visitant of my disordered brain.
That must be it, I thought, and oddly
enough the mantle of dread slipped off me.
Better that than nothing. Better madness
than nothingness. I greeted my guest with a
wild, cackling laugh.
"Hullo, Enid dear," I called. "So there
you are, feathers and all. Come right
along . . . I'm not afraid. . . ."
The figure paused, seemed for an instant
to recoil, then suddenly flung out its arms
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I am
Humanity
By
Julian Johnson
1AM Humanity.
SonK-tiiiK's 1 gaze out at you
rom j'our screens and you laugh
md weep and applaud Me. Why do
ou not let Me come oftener to j'ou?
I am the Great Shadow of you —
and you — and you — and you. I am
the enduring enchantment because I
am the onlj- enduring mystery. You
have weighed the stars and drained
the seas and harnessed the lightning
and torn every secret from the
breast of the world — but I baffle
you, as I shall always baffle you. I
am neither good nor bad, lofty nor
mean, kind nor spiteful, finite nor
eternal — I am at once all of these,
jet not any ol them.
Every day you flock to your
screens to find Me, yet you do not
often find Me. And I stand waiting
for some One to unlock the doors of
light that I may come to you.
Ceaselessly you ask for Me and
they give j'ou instead White Pup-
pets and Black Silhouettes, Sugar
Girls and Vinegar Vi.xens, poison
slices of a Iiorrible white saccharine
they call Life.
I am not only the Father of Prog-
ress, but I am the Inspiration of all
Art. My life is red and living, not
white and dead — My heights are
'orious because they are hardly
won — when I Love they know it in
Heaven ; when I Hate thev feel it
in Hell.
I stand waiting for some One to
unlock the doors of light.
I am Humanity.
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Copyright by Photoplay Publishing Co. . 1917
CLO S E-U P S
EDITORIAL EXPRESSION AND TIMELV COMMENT
Syncopating
a Viking.
IT was not a cow-camp or a mining town, but a sedate
Pennsylvania village which saw this sign hung above
one of its motion picture theatres last month: "Special
for this engagement only: Henry Ibsen's great domes-
tic drama, 'A Doll's House,' music by Fitzhugh's Old
Virginia Jaz Band."
THE omniscient arbiter of silversheet morals in Houston,
a Texas town named after a warrior, has placed his ban
upon all war pictures, because of "their bad effect upon
the community." We presume that if this person's
wife were slapped by a ruffian her peaceful protector
would cover his eyes and exclaim, "Oh, mercy!" He
seems to have seceded from America, dragging battling Sam's namesake city
after him. We are in a war, and while we learn much about our war by
reading, we see it in its actuality only in moving pictures. There is no other
way. Any city which is too tender for visual war information, properly
edited and selected, is too boneless to be part and parcel of a stiff-spined
nation.
This reminds us of the Ohio censor who forbade any showing of
Kaiser Wilhelm's well-known visage, lest it stir up racial animosities.
1i?
Again, the
Scintillant
Censor.
A Great
Picture Future:
The Chinaman.
RUSSIA doesn't need our harvesting machinery any
more severely than China needs our pictures. And
China is getting our pictures much more rapidly and
plentifully than Russia is getting the harvesting
machinery.
The camera is waking the great sleeping dragon of
seven hundred million individual brains where the missionary, the drum-
mer and the Cook's tourist barely stirred him. The movie-light shines
every night hundreds of miles up the yellow rivers. The film can is a
commonplace object from the heart of Mongolia to the frontiers of India.
Charlie Chaplin capers into fifty million almond eyes every time the sun
goes 'round, and they think he's great. They love the Indian and the fight
of the plains. They adore Bill Hart.
But, perhaps subtlest of all influences, the travel picture and the news
pictorial are going into China and teaching the little sons of Heaven that
there is another world than the heart of Asia. What matters it if the film
of State street is three years old? It's Chicago, isn't it? And it means a
lot to carry Chicago itself to China.
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Too Many
Cooks;
Poor Taste.
SOUP which has had a large consultation is, tradition-
ally, anemic. Whether this is so in practice we know
not, but we do know that the large staff which makes
any motion picture, generally without consultation,
does more or less spoiling.
There are too many cooks in the photoplay shop,
and too little unanimity of expression.
Gilbert &. Sullivan — and, we imagine, Shakespeare — insisted in thun-
derous tones that their pieces be produced as they came from their hands
without the change of a line, a note, or a particle of stage business. If there
were alterations, they made them, or fought against them; but in any event,
no understrapper made them.
Passing the average scenario, what happens to the high-class novel or
play which gets itself illuminated these days.'
Generally, the author takes his money and runs as fast as he can, so that
he will not have to witness the murder of his child. A scenario hack
makes the scenario. Somebody else, or the director's wife, may put in the
continuity. The director has ideas as to characterization, and business. So
have the actors. So has the producer. So have some of the star's friends.
Maybe the director cuts his own pictures; maybe he doesn't. Some one
else does the titling. Some one else —
Is it any wonder that a good book or a strong play comes out
unrecognisable hash?
HERE is a new photoplay problem:
Are the big picture theatres of our cities growing like
cancers, to crush the life out of the neighborhood reel-
shop; or can ultimate screen drama, the finely-done
play of life and reality, only attain its full fruition in a
great theatre of high auspices?
This query is prompted by the forecast of four great new picture theatres
for New York City, to seat a total of 40,000 persons, and to be completed
in two years; by the strangled outcry of the New York "neighborhood
theatre" men even now; and by plans for colossal theatres of the same com-
parative sort in Chicago and half a dozen other American cities.
The "neighborhood" man says that he has made the picture business;
that he and his brothers brought it into existence and keep it going; that
the interests of the big theatre men are diametrically opposed — that he wants
freak plays, special comedies and travelogues and news pictures of impos-
sible cost; that he presents symphony orchestras — finally, that his tonal
bon-bons and pictorial premiums make the neighborhood picture-patron
discontented and restless, and that the ruin of the neighborhood theatre in
every American city of size is at hand.
There is some truth in his complaint. For instance, the "big" manager
now takes all of the news-pictorials, tears out their best glimpses, assembles
them, and throws the rest, or majority, away. The little manager can't afford
that, of course, any more than he can afford a symphonic band.
But, big theatres must be, and we think there is a place, a patronage and
provision for both types.
The Big
or Little
Theatre ?
Close-Ups
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The Pretender
A Panderer.
A DROP of ink will discolor a whole bucket of water.
In quantity, the nation's unclean motion pictures are
to the rest as the globule of ink is to the relatively vast
volume of clear fluid around it; but, like the ink, they
stain the whole business.
These pretenders continue and continue and con-
tinue, under the guise of service and timely revelation. Most of their junk
plays have whining titles. None of them have an iota of artistic worth or
human possibility.
They pretend to talk of birth conditions, or "fallen" girls, or they ask if
you would forgive your wife if she proved to have just a touch of smut off
your own black make-up, or they issue polluting posters advertising
"exposures," or "startling facts," or "the underworld laid bare."
These pretenders are panderers; panderers to adolescent boys and silly
women, and they ought to be reached under the law which covers
panderers.
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The Poor
Finish; Why?
ISN'T it a fact that eighty percent of all the better-class
photoplays grow weak and commonplace in their
finales? Think over the pictures you've seen in the
last month. If every fifth picture finished with its sus-
pense maintained and its interest at speed you've seen
really an extraordinary lot of photoplays.
The hug wind-up is the worst of all evils, and the most often inflicted.
But there are others. A casual observation would indicate that the play-
makers, both scenarioists and directors, are playing too close to the cushion
on their certain finishes — a term which we may substitute for "happy
ending," for what is more certain, nine times out of ten? And what is more
tiresome than a certainty?
It was perhaps a wicked philosopher who said, "Suspense is the life of
marriage," but he might have applied his statement, with boundless virtue,
to the photoplay.
Little Feet in
Big Shoes
J
WE mean triple-A, ladies', in 10-B, gents'.
As the men march away to volatilize in flashes of
trinitrotoluoul — or to volatilize their opponents, if
lucky — their gentle companions are womanfuUy assum-
ing their jobs. And they may not give them up when
their Johnnies come marching home.
We have learned that ladies can plow, mold iron, handle tram-cars, load
shells, harvest crops, pitch hay, butcher cattle, clean boots and smash
baggage.
If some of the gentlemen in the seeping sepias are ever called to the
front certain poor girls are going to be worked to death posing for still
pictures, answering mash notes, writing testimonials, devastating the make-
up market, abusing the tailors, cur4ing their hair, bleaching their hands and
denying their wives and families.
Mae Marsh as Polly in "Polly of the Circus.
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Polly of the Circus
IT'S A LONG. LONG WAY FROM THE
SAWDUST RING TO THE RECTORY
BUT MISFORTUNE STARTED IT
AND LOVE POINTED THE WAY
By Jameson Fife
HOLD your horses— hold your horses,
here come the elephants," shouted
the resplendant circus herald of
Barker's Great United • Shows. The
"superb, startling, spectacular and scintil-
lating free street parade" was moving
majestically through the crowded
streets of the village of Maple-
ville.
A dozen red and gilt
cages, their sides care-
fully closed to the in-
quisitive eyes of the villagers,
lumbered by. Two street bands
blared past. The elephants and
camels followed, along with a
half dozen white faced clowns in
donkey wagons, with the younger
portion of the village marching
behind in open admiration. A
cavalcade of riders, in tights and
spangles, came next, riding c]uite
oblivious to the awestruck
throngs.
Tlie Widow Jane Willoughby,
holding her son, Willie, by the hand, gazed
in open disapproval at the pink-tighted
circus girls. She hurried her offspring
away from the contaminating sight.
"Aw, maw, let me see. let me see," he
shrieked above the din of the approaching
steam caliope.
"I don't want vou to see any more,
Willie."
"I ain't seen nothin' yet."
"You aren't going to see anything as dis-
graceful as that," said his mother turning
in the direction of the parsonage to voice
her disapproval of the circus. At the
rectory door she met Miss Sally Perkins,
a spinster member of the church choir. It
required several rings of the bell to attract
the attention of the Rev. John Douglas'
housekeeper, Amanda Washington Jones.
Miss Jones, otherwise Mandy, was at the
moment gazing from a side window. The
circus lot was just across the road.
"Mandy, where is the pastor?" asked
Miss Perkins.
"He's not in now. Miss Sally, but he's
comin' back soon to begin a-writing of his
sermon for tomorrow."
"Very well, we'll wait," said Miss Per-
kins with determination.
The Rev. John Douglas
was approaching the parsonage
when he noted a familiar figure
among the circus canvasman.
Much to the amazement of the
circus workers, the minister
beckoned to the boss canvasman.
The man, known as "Big Jim"
among the circus folk, looked
with surprise at Douglas, then
a smile of recognition broke out
upon his tanned face. He wiped
his hand upon his grimy shirt and
clasped the rector's hand.
"Blamed glad to see you again,
Johnnie," grinned the canvas-
man. "The old town looks just
the same, doesn't it?"
"Not much changed, Jim." laughed the
minister. "My father died several years
ago and I've succeeded to his post. Come
in and see me before you leave town."
Gazing from tlie parsonage porch, the
Widow Willoughby and Miss Perkins could
hardly restrain their shocked feelings. A
minister talking to a circus worker! And
the circus folk were not less surprised at
this unusual sight. Close to the circus
dressing tent sat a group of performers,
among them a little bareback rider. When
Jim turned back to the circus lot, she
exclaimed, "Oh, gee. look at our Jim
gettin' religion from a sin savin' sky pilot !"
"Quit trying to josh me, Polly," laughed
Big Jim. "The parson and I used to play
hookey from Sunday School not so very
long ago."
"Good evening, Mr. Douglas," simpered
Miss Perkins, when the minister climbed the
rectory porch. "We just came in to tell
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you that you needn't expect any harmony
in the choir tomorrow."
"I don't," laughed the young minister.
"\Miat?" exclaimed Miss Perkins and
Mrs. Willoughby in chorus.
"I've been here too long to expect that,"
smiled the minister. At tliat moment Man-
dy opened a window. 'I'lie strains of
oriental music from the circus sideshow
floated into the plain little room.
"Well, I defy anyone to sing 'Lead
Kindly Light' to a tune like that," snapped
Mrs. Willoughby.
"Oh, you needn't worry about that, Mrs.
Willoughby," responded the rector with a
"We can have soul in our
music if not skill. .\s for
that out there — just think
what a treat it is to the
l)ovs. ^\"hy they'd
rather hear that
music than listen to
the finest church
■;mil
"Of course," replied the Rev. John
Douglas, "I'm afraid some of the grown
ups would, too."
Meanwhile Mrs. Willougliby's little
Willie had found his way to the open win-
dow. "Willie," exclaimed his horrified
mutlier, "come here instantlv, wliat will the
jiastor tliink of yuu? Isn't it awful, Mr.
Douglas?"
"Awful?" repeated the pastor.
"The circus, I mean," explained Mrs.
Willoughby.
"I don't know, I haven't seen it."
"I should Iiope not," exclaimed Miss
Perkins, with something akin to horror.
And the widow giggled, "Vou will joke,
.Mr. Douglas."
"Not at all," replied the minister, "I
saw the parade. It was (]uite wonderful.
It made me think of the first time I ever
saw one."
"The town has no right to allow that
parade," broke in the spinster. ".\s for
the circus, I think it's a shameful imposi-
tion for it to pitch its tent riglit under the
church's nose. And sonicboily ought to
stop it."
'I'he Rev. Jolm Douglas ilid not seem
to hear. His
thoughts car-
ried him back
some fifteen
\ears. "That
]jarade to-
day made
me think of
the first one I
ever saw," he
Watching over the un-
conscious Polly, the
minister falls asleep.
Polly of the Circus
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said, "I never remember that first parade "Something's happened," exclaimed El-
without a thrill of pleasure." verson, turning towards the window.
"Did you go into the tent?" demanded "Mr. Elverson," said the spinster re-
little Willie, his interest aroused. proachfuUy, "it's merely some fight. When
"No, I didn't have money enough to get these desperadoes who travel with circuses
inside," he replied, to Willie's disappoint- come to town, there are always fights. It
ment. "But I peeped," chuckled the rector. does seem as if a law should be passed — "
"A parson — peeping?" repeated the Mandy rushed breathlessly into the room,
shocked Miss Perkins. "Oh, Marse John, Marse John," she cried.
"I wasn't a parson then, Miss Perkins," "Ves, what is it?" responded the young
laughed Mr. Douglas. minister.
"No, but you were going to be," re- "Dar's done bin a accident," panted the
minded the spinster. breathless Mandy.
"Well," smiled the "POLLY OF THE "What, an accident?
minister, "I didn't know CIRCUS" Who's hurt?" asked
it at the time." Douglas.
The door bell rang and M-'t-^^'M^^, by permission, "Little circus ^irl done
rx o. •l'^ trom the photodrama ot the ^ -^-iL^^ic lih.us ^,111 uonc
Deacon Strong, accom- game name. fall ott her horse," con-
panied by Deacon Elver- Produced by Goldwyn with the tinued Mandy, "an' de
son^ a little nervous man, following cast: doctor say kin he brinf
of uncertain, hesitating John Douglas Vernon Steele her in here'"
manner^ appeared^ "1 ^^--^--^u^Jtltl^Sl ''Why. of course." said
heard that Deacon blver- j^j^y Charles Eldridge Jo^"' liurryuig trom the
son was around the circus 5/c; y'n;;. !"!!.' Welhngton Playter room.
tents this morning," whis- Sally Perkins Isabel Vernon Miss Perkins turned to
pared Miss Perkins to i?"^ lVillougkby..Vio\^Compton j^^^ ^^-^^^ ■ .^^ j
\/r TT7-11 11 u \ 1 Deacon Strong Charles Riegel ., . ^ ' ^
Mrs. Willoughby. "And n/Z/a- rc/z/W;.. Maury Steuart, Jr. cus nder, m here? In the
•him the father of a boy Dr. Hartley Louis R. Grisel parsonage?" "I can't be-
and a father of the Deacon Elverson J. B. Hollis lieve my ears," snapped
Church." _ Mrs. Willoughby.
"We are all very much interested in the Loud voices sounded just outside the
circus," remarked the young minister, rectory. A crowd of villagers and circus
having overheard the remark. "^^'e workers crowded upon the porch. Mandy
thought you might tell us about it." The held the door open while John Douglas,
two choir members gazed at the minister carrying the unconscious circus girl, pushed
with disapproval. his way through the throng with a doctor
"\Miy — no — yes — I was obliged to look and Big Jim. An old clown followed,
in at the circus lot — er — for my son. I The young minister ignored the horrified
fear — er — Peter strayed from home," stam- church members and started up the stair-
mered Elverson. way with the injured rider. The physician
"Had he really?" inquired the parson. followed him up the steps.
"I stopped at your house on the way here. The crowd tried to force its wav into the
Deacon Elverson," said Miss Perkins, "and rectory but Mandy blocked the wav. "Jes'
your son Peter was there all morning." you stay whar you are, you folks. Ain't
"Is it possible?" said the discomfited El- nobody comin' in to dis here house what
verson. "How strange, I must have — er — • ain't got no business here. Git along out
overlooked him." now, git along."
"Let us hope the church will not over- The astonished Mrs. Willoughby turned
look things as easily as you do," said the ^ to Miss Perkins. "Well, what next, I
spinster primly. wonder? She's a circus girl. This house
"Oh, well," said the Rev. John Douglas, is no fit place for us."
"if the church has nothing worse than a "Gee, maw," responded Willie, "she's
circus to overlook, we can all feel quite at awful pretty, y'ought to seen her."
ease." The gentle, sad faced clown, with his
At that moment unusual sounds came white wig and face and painted lips, smiled
from the circus lot. The band was hushed at the child. He was wearing- a clown's
and shouts and cries were heard. skull cap and a black overcoat over his
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clown suit. In liis liand was a
girl's jacket, a straw hat and
a small satchel.
"Excuse me," he said apolo-
getically and rather timidly.
"Jim knew it would be all
right to bring her here. We
just brung some of her things.
She'd better put on her coat
afore she goes out. It's gettin'
kinda chilly."
As he placed the things on
a table, .sudden misgivings en-
tered his heart. "It ain't — it
ain't that she's — " He fal-
tered, afraid to ask the (]ues-
tion. "It ain't that, is it?"
Little Willie pulled away
from his mother's hand. "Aw,
maw, ain't he funny," he
shrieked.
"Hush, Willie," exclaimed
his mother. Turning to the
clown, she said curtly, "I
guess you'll find what you are
looking for upstairs." And
she departed with Deacon
Strong and Miss Perkins,
dragging the reluctant Willie
with her.
The clown turned to Deacon
IClverson. "She ain't hurt
bad, is she, sir?"
"I — I'm sure I couldn't say,
1 — I must be going." And the
deacon disappeared.
Jim and the old clown
gazed about the rectory puz-
zled, just as the minister hur-
ried into the room.
"Good evening, Jim," he
said to the canvasman.
"How is she?" asked the
old clown anxiously.
"The doctor hasn't told us yet."
At that moment the physician ajfpeared
from the upper room.
"Not bad, I hope, Hartley?" questioned
Douglas.
"Urn — yes — rather bad," responded the
physician. Then he noticed the despair of
Jim and the old clown and added, "Oh,
don't be alarmed. She's still unconscious,
but she's going to get well."
"Vou sure, sir?" asked the clown.
"Quite sure," responded the doctor.
"But she had a close call, poor little thin"."
' ' You can 7 go yet, ' ' said Douglas.
"Then, we'll have her back soon, sir,"
said Toby hopefully.
"Say, Doc," Jim demanded grufflv. "how
long's it going to be before — before Polly
can ride again?"
"Probably several months." replied the
doctor. "The ligaments of the ankle are
badly torn. Where are her parents?"
"She ain't got no parents," said the cir-
cus man, "except me and Tobv."
"Is she a relative of yours?" asked the
doctor.
"Well, no, not exactly," replied the
Polly of the Circus
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'You are badly hurt."
other, "but Ave've taken care of her since
she was a bal)v."
"What'll we do?" said the old clown to
Jim. "We can't stay with her."
"Can't, wliy?" asked the physician.
"You see, sir," replied Toby, "circus
folks is like — like soldiers — it don't make
no difiference what happens — the show has
got to go on and we've got to be in our
places, no matter how^ we feel."
"Well, don't let that worry vou," said the
minister. "She shall stay right here until
she's well again."
"That's mighty white of you, Johnnie,"
said the circus man gruffly to hide the tears
in his voice.
"Well, if Mr. Douglas says it's all
right, it's all right," said the doctor, before
departing. "You see our town hospital
l)urned down last month and it's liard to
tell what to do with a case like this."
Jim and old Toby turned towards the
door. "AVe'll be starting," said the canvas-
man.
"Can't you stay on here, Jim?" asked
Douglas. "This is your home town,
you know !" But Jim shook his head.
"You'll tell her how 'twas," said
Toby, "me and Jim had to leave her
without sayin' goodbye, won't you,
sir, and tell her we'll write."
"I'll tell her, Toby," said Doug-
las kindly.
The old clow n took some
money from an inside pocket and
put it in the girl's satchel. "I'll
je.st put this here." he said.
"That'll be enough for now
and we'll send some more
soon. You see," he added
apologetically, "we're mighty
fond of her. Lord bless you, sir,
I knew Polly's father and mother,"
continued Toby, "and I know'd
their mothers and fathers, too.
^\■hy, she comes of a circus fam-
ily, sir. I noticed some of them
church folks seemed to look
kind of queer at me. and I
thought' maybe as how you
folks don't understand us
circus people — and now
that I'm leaving her with
you, sir, I just want you to
know there ain't no better girl
jiowhere. She's good, clean into the middle
of her heart. I've heard a good deal how
some folks feels about circus people, but
if anybody's got any finer families or any
better mothers or fathers or grandfathers .
or grandmothers than we got amongst us,
I jest want to see 'em, that's all. That
girl's mother rode the horses afore her —
and her mother afore that and their grand-
mother afore then, and there wasn't no-
body nowhere's that cared more for their
good name and their children's good name.
You see, sir, a circus is just like one big
family, and it keeps goin' on an' re-
peatin' itself for generations and genera-
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tions. I — I jest wanted you to know 'cause
we're leavin' her with you — you under-
stand, sir."
"Perfectly," replied Douglas, "I'm glad
you told me, Toby."
"I'll send you our route and you'll let
us hear, won't you?" continued Toby.
Douglas promised. "It's mighty hard
to lose her," sighed Toby, "but the show
has got to go on." After the two had dis-
appeared into the night, John Douglas
turned to his study table.
Mandy tiptoed down the stairs. "Dat
sure am an angel child straight from
heben," she whispered. "She done got a
face jes like a little flower."
"Vou can leave the lights upstairs,
Mandy," said Douglas, "I haven't finished
tomorrow's sermon. I can sit up with the
child and write, too."
Douglas paused thoughtfully. From the
distance came the creak of wagon wheels,
the crack of whips and the muffled shouts
of the circus workers.
Old Toby's words recurred to the min-
ister. "The show has got to go on," he
repeated.
It was not until the next morning that
Polly fully recovered consciousness.
Mandy was arranging the quaint old par-
sonage bed, when the little circus girl sat
up suddenly, rubbing her eyes in bewilder-
ment.
"Who are you?" she demanded. "Say,
this ain't the car."
"Lor' bless you," exclaimed Mandy, "dis
ain't no car."
"Where am I?" asked Polly. "How'd I
fall in here anyway? Where's Jim and
Uncle Toby and all the bunch?"
"Deys gone wid de circus," responded
the negress.
"Gone! Gone where?" questioned the
little girl. "Then what am I doin' here?
I got to get to the next berg — AVakeficld.
ain't it ? Til be late for the show — " With
that Polly tried to rise but she fell back
with a cry of pain. "I recollect now," she
sobbed. "It was the last hoop. I had a
hunch I was goin' to be in for trouble. Say,
it's my wheel, ain't it?"
"Yous' .what, chile?" said the puzzled
Mandy.
"My creeper — my paddle ! Gee, it's sore
all right. Say, where are my clothes? I
got to get out of here."
The minister had heard the conversation
f rum below and -appeared in the doorway.
"Here, here, what's all this about?" he
asked with a smile.
"Gee, it's the sky pilot !" exclaimed
Polly.
"He's the one what done brung you
here," explained Mandy.
"Well, he ain't goin' to keep me here,"
Polly snapped. "Say, you, mister. Vou get
out of here. I want to get dressed."
"Vou can't go yet," said Douglas. "Vou
are badly hurt. Vou had a bad fall."
"Jiminy crickets," sighed Polly, laying
her head back upon the pillows. "I sure
did. Without me that show will be on the
bum for fair."
"They'll get along all right," consoled
the minister.
"Get along?" demanded Polly, starting
up again. "Without my act? Have you
seen that show? Well, you bet you ain't,
or you wouldn't make a crack like that.
I'm the double forty racket. I'm the whole
cheese — the star feature. Say, you're
stringing me. Vou musta seen me ride !"
"No, Miss Polly," said Douglas, "I've
never seen a circus."
"What?" exclaimed the circus girl,
speechless with amazement. Finally her be-
wilderment sul)sided. "Say, this is a swell
place all right," she exclaimed, gazing
about the room. "This must be the main
tent, ain't it?"
"It will be your room now," said Doug-
las.
"My room — think of me havin' a regular
room," laughed Polly. Then her face
clouded with tears again. "I bet Mother
Jim's in the dumps, all right."
"Mother Jim," said Douglas for a mo-
ment astonished. Then he laughed. "Vou
mean Jim?"
"That's what I call hirn." said Polly,
"but the fellows call him Big Jim. He's
been my mother since mv regular mother
went out."
"Out?" repeated Douglas, not under-
standing.
"Ves," continued Pollv. "finished, lights
out ! Say, I don't like to talk about it.
It was the limit. I'll bet she'd have been
ashamed if she'd a knowed. Why. she was
the best rider of her time, every one says,
and she cashed in by fallin' off a trapeze.
If you can beat that I"
"And your father?" asked the young
pastor.
Polly of the Circus
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"Oh, his finish was on the level. He
got his'n in the lion's cage where he
worked."
Douglas turned to go. "He's got to go
to de church pretty soon and preach," ex-
plained Mandy.
"Will you get onto me a landin' in a mix
up like this," said Polly aghast. "Right
with a sky pilot. I never thought I'd be
a talkin' to one o' you guys. How long
have you been a showin' in this town?"
"About six months," answered Douglas.
"Six months," repeated Polly incredu-
lously, "in a berg like this? Your act must
have an awful lot of laughs in it."
"Not many laughs, I'm afraid," said
■ Douglas sadly. "But I try to say some-
thing new every Sunday."
"What kind of a spiel do you give
them?"
"I try to help my people to get on better
terms with themselves and try to forget
their week day troubles," explained Doug-
las.
"Well," said Polly consolingly, "that's
iust like circus business — only circuses
draw more people'n churches."
"Ves," responded Douglas with dry
humor, "yours does seem to be a more pop-
ular form of entertainment."
"Well, you ain't got all the worst of it,"
said Polly cheerfully. "If we tried to play
this dump for six months we'd starve to
death."
"Wish I could see your act," continued
Polly, after a pause.
"Vou can, for we'll put you in an easy
chair by the window." said the minister.
"and 'you can hear my sermon in solid
comfort."
Mandy helped Polly to the window. "I
can see fine," laughed the circus girl. From
her point of vantage she watched the little
congregation file into the stifif pews and
finally she saw young Douglas ascend to
the pulpit. She listened intently. The
words of the Sunday text came clearly to
her ears.
" 'Entreat me not to leave thee or to re-
turn from following after thee,' " Douglas
was reading. " 'For whither thou goest I
will go, where thou lodgest I will lodge,
thy people shall be my people and thy
God my God. Where thou diest will I die
and there will I be buried. The Lord do
so to me and more also if aught but death
part thee and me.' "
"Um, that's kinda pretty, ain't it?" com-
mented Polly wonderingly to Mandy. "I
didn't know they had things like that in
the Bible."
"There's a lot more beautifuller things
than that," said Mandy. "That's the story
of Ruth and Naomi."
"Ruth and who?" asked Polly.
"Naomi."
"I never heard that name — 'Naomi',"
said Pollv. "Gee, that'd look swell on the
billboards."
"It's a Bible name, honey," explained
Mandy. "Dar's a picture about it." And
Mandy handed an open Bible to the little
circus rider.
"Why, say," said Polly in surprise.
"They're dressed jest like our chariot
drivers."
Later that day the little circus girl asked
Douglas to tell her the story of Ruth and
Naomi. She was ashamed to confess that
she was unable to read. "I ain't much on
readin' — out loud. Read it to me, will
you?"
"Indeed I will," said Douglas, pulling
his chair close to Polly's bedside. " 'And
Ruth said, "Entreat fne not to leave thee or
to return from following after thee, for
whither thou goest I will go, and where
thou lodgest I will lodge, thy people shall
be my people, thy God my God," ' " he re-
peated.
The months passed swiftly for Polly in
the parsonage. The long weeks of con-
valescence had served to endear the little
circus girl to the young minister. At the
same time John Douglas had unknowingly
won the heart of Polly. Her neglected
education had progressed rapidly, too. The
slangv. ungrammatical little bareback rider
of the old days had given way to a newer
Polly — sweet and sincere. But affairs had
not progressed without the frank disap-
proval of the village congregation. Polly
was still "that circus person" to them.
The climax came finally. Deacon
Strong, the church elder, a loud spoken,
raw-boned bully, prompted by his daugh-
ter, Julia, who was "setting her cap" for
Douglas, called the young rector aside.
"I want to talk to you about that girl — ."
he began blusteringly, "and talk plain. We
want to know how much longer she is going
to stay here."
"Indeed, why?" questioned Douglas, re-
straining himself with difficulty.
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"Because she's been here long enough,
that's why," Strong ahnost shouted.
"I don't agree with you there. Deacon
Strong."
"It don't make no difference wliether you
agree or not. We say she's got to go."
"Whom do you mean by ive/" asked
Douglas.
"The members of this congregation.
How much longer do you intend a keepin'
her here?"
"Will you tell the congregation, for me,
that that is my affair?"
"Your affair." demanded the deacon.
"When that girl is living under the church'^
roof? Eating the church's bread?"
"Just a moment, Mr. Strong," said the
minister calmly. "Let's understand this.
I am minister of this church and for that
position I receive — or am supposed to re-
ceive— a salary to live on ; and this par-
sonage, rent free, to live in. Any guests
that I may have here are my guests and
not the guests of the church. Remember
that please. There are other reasons. Two
friends of the little girl came to me the
night she was injured, the circus had to
go on, and they were obliged to leave her
behind. I promised them that I'd take
care of her. A short time later, one of
them, an old clown, died, with my promise
in his heart."
"Well, we don't think she's the right
sort of girl to associate with our young
folks," returned Strong. "She's nothing
but a circus rider — you know that."
"I shall do what seems best for Miss
Polly," said the rector with finality. "And
now you will excuse me. please."
Strong, mad with anger, turned away.
A second later he came face to face with
Polly, entering the rectory garden. Pollv
had just heard that Barker's Circus was
showing in a nearby town. Indeed. Big
Jim himself had called to see her. He had
begged her to return to the circus but Pollv
had told him her whole view of life had
changed. "Why, Jim," she had said,
"when I lie in my little room up there at
night and everything is peaceful and still.
I think how it used to be. The cheerless
cars, the fearful noise and the rush of it
all — the mob in the tent, the ring with the
blazing lights and the awful whirl around
and round through the hoops — and Jim,
the tights — I couldn't."
Polly was still sad when she faced the
frowning deacon. "Look here, young
woman, do you know that your stay in this
trouble?" Strong
IS
making
parsonage
began.
Polly started back surprised. "It don't
look good." continued the deacon, "and the
wliole town's a talking about it — and if Mr.
Douglas keeps on being so bull-headed and
refusin' to have you go, we'll get another
minister and git him quick."
"Oh, no. no. Deacon Strong." exclaimed
Polly. "Vou wouldn't do tliat. I'll go
away — I'll go now — today — the circus is
in Wakefield — only you won't send Mr.
John away, will you? Vou see, it wasn't
his fault. He was sorry for me, that's all.
I'll go away and never, never see him
again."
"He can stay for all me." responded
Strong mollified. "He talked pretty rougli
but I ain't holdin' that agin him. He's
been a good minister enough — I ain't for-
gettin' that."
"Oh, thank you. Mr. Strong, thank you.
I'll go right away."
That night she packed lier few belong-
ings and slipped away from the parsonage.
Barker's (Ircater Shows welcomed her back
with open arms.
The circus came to Mapleville months
later and once more pitched its tents close
to the village church. The afternoon per-
formance had passed uneventfully and it
was about time for tlie night show to start.
Polly sat on a little trunk just outside the
dressing tent. She was gazing at the
church steeple, silhouetted against the star-
studded sky, and repressed a flood of tears
with an eft'ort.
Big Jim came around the tent. "Star
gazin'. Poll?" he asked. "Do you feel bet-
ter?"
"I'm all right." said Polly listlessly.
"I was a fool ever to liave brung you
back," said Jim bitterly. "Vou don't be-
long with us no more."
"Oh, don't. Jim, please don't. Don't
make me feel I'm onlv in tlie wav here,
too."
"In the way?" demanded Jim. "'Here,
too'. You wasn't in his wav, was vou.
Poll?"
"Yes, Jim."
"You couldn't a
credulouslv.
"I tried not to be
been," said Jim in-
-I tried so hard — he
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The Boy Magnate
ROWLAND, PRESIDENT OF METRO
AT THIRTY, BEGAN AT TWELVE
RUNNING THE LIGHTS IN AN
"UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" SHOW
By Julian Johnson
THERE are a number of very impor-
tant-looking people connected with the
Metro Pictures organization. Some of
them are tall and impressive ; some have
■whiskers and some have pompadours.
But vibrating in and out among these
people who look their parts is a lively
young fello^Y, who, ,if he had any more
hair than DeWolf Hopper, might be mis-
taken for a juvenile. He is there with the
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strong liand-shake, the quick "yes" or "no,"
and he looks important only because of
his frank geniality and his speed. Outside
the office everybody seems to call him
"Dick." Inside he is the kid magnate in
the picture-magnate group of New York
City — he is just a little over thirty — and
on the line set for the president's signature,
he signs "R. A. Rowland" to scores of
Metro documents every day.
Young Mr. Rowland views his trans-
parent enterprises with interest and ambi-
tion, but without illusion or without thrill.
He was the doctor's errand-boy when the
film business was born ; he held its small
inflammable hands when they were too
weak to grasp anything bigger than a little
finger, and he was its playmate and school-
fellow on its road to adolescence. Now,
they rather serve each other.
Last month Mr. Zukor gave Photoplay
a great truth in a single sentence when he
said: "My motto henceforth is: the best
photoplays for the photoplay theatre."
Meaning — no more of the casual material
in the picture houses, and the reservation
of all extra effort for a lengthy "two dol-
lar show" in an auditorium devoted to the
talkies.
This month, take an epigram from Row-
land: "A star is the manager's insurance."
Isn't that the best short summary of
reasons for the star system that you ever
heard ? —
And Rowland doesn't believe in the star
system, except as a means to an end.
It seems to me that he described fully
and clearly the whole motion picture situa-
tion from the manager's standpoint when
he said :
"The producing end of the film busi-
ness is a great hazard, and we are only
able to continue in it — rather those who do
continue in it do so because thev take ad-
vantage of every one of the very few cer-
tainties that it affords.
"The producing end is built on creative
minds alone. That means the combina-
tion of delightful and exasperating quali-
ties that we call 'temperament,' because we
don't know what else to call it.
"A manager today can do one of two
things: he can exploit starless pictures, or
he can exploit stars. In any event he is
going to make the best pictures he can.
and let me tell you something : no picture
has ever been profitable which wasn't in
some degree satisfactory to its makers. No
matter how lurid, sensational or based upon
news events photoplays may be, punk pic-
tures do not i^roduce results anywhere, at
any time.
"However, a man can't be certain that a
play is going to be good. As the old the-
atrical saying goes, if there were a man who
could pick plays unerringly, he would be
worth one million, two million — almost any
yearly salary he might name.
"There is. and always will be, a great
body of motion picture patrons who have
neither the time nor the instinct to discuss
plays, trends, or exhaustively criticise the
drama. These people love the screen and
they seize upon personalities as an embodi-
ment of their respective creeds. Though they
are in the same general class, they won't
all admire the same man or woman. But
the personality is the thing, in any event,
and they follow the name. It drags them
into theatres. It makes regular patrons of
them. It makes the local manager pay
iVigher prices for this person's pictures.
.Maybe it is profitable to the producer. At
any rate, it makes a star.
"Now, the people who have been drawn
into the photoplay vortex in the past two
years — what we might call the new aristoc-
racy in patronage — didn't like the old star
system at all. And they had good reason.
Most of the stars were tin idols who
couldn't really act under any provocation
or circumstance.
"So, more or less unconsciously, they
made new stars. They demanded plays,
too. but they began to use star's names.
They go to see Viola Dana, and Douglas
Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin — but Dana
or Chaplin or Fairbanks couldn't hold
these people a moment if their vehicles
weren't in some measure satisfactory.
"So, really, you see it's just as Shake-
speare said : the play's the thing. And
while the manager's most ferocious effort is
centered on getting good plays, and bet-
ter ones all the time, the star is his in- .
surance."
Mr. Rowland believes, however, that the
whole industry is in danger from the giant
salaries being demanded and received by
some of the head planets in the silversheet
sky. These, he says, will wreck the whole
star system because of the utter inability
of producers to keep up the pace. Prices
that may. be charged are more or less fixed j
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matters ; therefore there cannot be unlim-
ited expenditures.
The energetic, practical and productive
young Mr. Rowland first saw the smoke
of day in Pittsburgh. His father, in an
optical business, furnished calcium light
for stereopticon entertainments and the-
atres w'hich had no electricity, and Dick's
first really independent job was running the
illuminations in Peter Jackson's and Joe
Choynski's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." He was
twelve years old.
The elder Rowland died before Richard
attained his majority, and the business
l^assed to the family.
The first genuine nickelodeon in the
world is declared by Metro's president to
liave been John Harris's five-cent institu-
tion, on Smithfield street, Pittsburgh.
The picture business was beginning to
talk, and the young optician began to rent
films. They came to Richard for calcium
material, and took aAvay reels. He made
a flving trip to New York with all the
money he had: $2200. He invested $1200
in films — you bought them outright in those
days — and $1000 in projection machines,
and hurried back to Pittsburgh. He had
established a delightful and surprising
reputation by dealing on a cash basis ; a
custom he has never forsaken, for Metro,
unique among film manufacturing corpora-
tions, is not backed by a bank or a group
of financiers.
There were at this time no exchanges.
Those advantages to manufacturer and ex-
hibitor came later. When a print was
worn out another was purchased at the
same price. The few producers in the
business manufactured and sold their film
outright. Rowland and his eventual Pitts-
burgh partner, James B. Clarke, found
that their powers of rental and distribu-
tion west, north and south were limited
only by the agility with which they could
turn their money over.
Presently they had a tremendous busi-
ness going. They were film powers, reign-
ing without dispute in their territory from
Canada to Florida. General Film, the
then-great picture trust, flourished in equal
luxuriance. In 1910 Rowland, his asso-
ciates, who had started on less than $3000,
sold out to General Film. When the trans-
action was made they were the largest sin-
gle interest of tiheir sort in the country.
Rowland now became a huge exhibitor.
He built theatres, and became the agent
of Universal, Mutual and Famous in Pitts-
burgh and Chicago. From the moment he
had sold his first large interests his lot
was definitely cast Avith the primarily
humble "independents," those little bottle
imps who, released, were to fill the whole
picture sky from horizon to horizon. Bye
and bye Jesse Lasky purchased Rowland's
P'amous interests, and, two years later, he
handed back his Mutual and Universal
holdings.
He was drawing nearer his own produc-
tion day.
This came about through the organiza-
tion and exploitation of a huge film con-
cern for which much was hoped, but from
which came no results. This was the Seeley
"Alco deal," and when the firm couldn't
deliver pictures the exchange men who had
placed their faith in it were stuck. Thev
were the goats, and they made their butt
of protest by organizing a manufactory
themselves. Finding the executive was a
matter of natural selection. Finding a
name wasn't so easy, but they got that,
too.
The result: Metro Pictures Corpora-
tion : Richard A. Rowland, President.
'X'ULiLY MARSHALL, the versatile Lasky artist, tells a new story. Accord-
•*• ing to Mr. Marshall, an old actor organized a company to play one per-
formance on Thanksgiving day in a small town. Upon their arrival in the
town, being informed that the seat sale was poor, they decided to see the
principal people of the village and personally sell them seats. They called
on the leading banker and asked him to buy some seats. The banker drew
himself up and said, "Sir, I will have you know that I have not been in a
theatre for twenty years." The old actor came right back at him and said,
"Well, that's fifty-fifty ; I haven't been in a bank for twenty years !"
Photo by H.irtsook
Stars of the Screen and Their Stars in the Sky-
By Ellen Woods
FROM the earliest times, "the heavens have told." The astral influence was helieved in before
Babylon. The astrologers of Persia, the oracles of Greece and the soothsayers of Rome
took great stock in planetary augury, and -star-readings have persisted in every century of the
Christian era.
Whether you believe in starry signs or not, the careers of successful men and women today
follow their set and unchangeable indications with the most amazing accuracy. The study is
more than interesting; it's positively fascinating.
Nativity of Henry Brazale Walthall,
Born March 16th.
IN the figure of this subject's nativity, 4:28
P. M., the fifth degree of Capricorn is on
the cusp of the Fifth home, governing the
theatre, and Saturn, the Lord of Capricorn, is
in an angle and in close aspect to the Sun,
Mercury, Mars and Venus, while the Fifth
also holds the benevolent Jupiter. Thus we
see what a great actor he must be. No wonder
he can assume so many parts and make them
appear real. As many aspects as the Lords of
the Ascendant and of the Fifth receive, just
so many kinds of characters will the native be
able truthfully to portray. Mr. Walthall has
all these aspects in the Zodiac. He should be
able to play anything from a porch climber
to a minister, humorous roles as well as dra-
matic, although he is invariably cast in the
latter. He should generally play parts in
which he is made to suffer persecution and
unjust blame from men older than himself, but
with those in high standing always coming to
his defense. The Lord of the First House,
which represents the native, and the Lord of
the Tenth, which represents his honor and
fame, being in conjunction with the Lord of
the Fifth, and the theatre in the Western
angle, indicate that he will have lasting renown
in his profession. One of the finest traits of
character appearing in this horoscope is rever-
ence and pride of ancestry.
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Nativity of Clara Kimball Youn§.
Born Sept. 6th.
THIS lady missed, by just two minutes,
being a "September Morn," as she was
born at 1 1 :58 P. M., September sixth. At this
moment the sign Cancer was ascending, with
the Moon Lady thereof, in the intellectual sign
Gemine. The ancient astrologers say that
Gemine bestows beautiful eyes, and they are
surely right in this case. Miss Young's horo-
scope shows that she is above the average
intellectually, with a philosophical mind and a
tendency to the occult. She is an excellent
judge of human nature, when her judgment is
not biased by her affections. She is inspira-
tional as an actress and in authorship, and in
my opinion should be at her best when inter-
preting stories which have to do with the
separation of mismated couples. The Moon
Lady of the ascending sign, in strong aspect
to Mars, Lord of the Sixth and Eleventh
Houses and posited in the Twelfth, the house
of bondage, indicates that she must not believe
that all are her friends who pretend to be so.
The Sun coming to aspects of the planets
promises to Miss Young three marital unions.
Lack of harmony is indicated for the first
two, but in the third, the tempestuous sea of
discord will have become calm, and the greatest
desire of womanhood will be granted her.
With this marriage will also come much of
this world's goods.
Ask the electrician or the cameraman how Neilan gets such excellent results, and he'll say, " Oh,
Mickey just kids 'em along."
Director "Mickey"
HE ONCE MATINEE-[DOLLED AS
MARSHALL NEILAN BUT NOW HE
TELLS OTHERS HOW TO DO IT
By Alfred A. Cohn
WHO d'juh want; Director Marshall
Neilan? Why — Oh, you mean
Mickey ! Right over there in that
bedroom, where the lights are going."
"Ain't got no puttees or sport shirt on?
Sure not ; but that's him anyhow. He
doesn't even wear a wrist ticker."
The stage hand was right. It was Direc-
tor Neilan, who has made good even though
he has defied studio convention by refusing
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to don the pigskins and other
insignia of the Cooper-Hewitt
maharajahs, potentates and
poobahs. At any rate his ele-
vation to the rank of Mary
Pickford's director would sort
of indicate his having made
good; wouldn't it?
But the promotion hasn't had
any appreciable effect on the
size of Director Neilan's pan-
ama, so to speak, and he is still
"Mickey" to all hands, al-
though some of the writing
highbrows continue to embar-
rass him by calling him "Mis-
ter" Neilan.
Marshall Neilan has the dis-
tinction of having played oppo-
site Mary Pickford in more
five reelers than any of the
other fortunate leading men
who have enjoyed that privi-
lege. So Miss Pickford wasn't
"talking to a stranger" when
she invited Mr. Neilan to be-
come her director.
The subject of this essay is a
pioneer of the films, although
he is but 26 years old. A half
^€->
Only 26, yet he directs
the screen's most popular
actress. Some kid.
dozen years after his birth in
San Francisco, he became a
child actor, and as such played
in the old Alcazar in that city.
He also portrayed "kid" parts
at the old Helasco in Los An-
geles and on the road. Then
those in authority removed him
from the footliglits and put him
in school. Notliing noteworthy
occurred for several years ex-
cept indulging an ambition to
become an automobile expert.
Had the movies not happened
along "Mickey" would prob-
ably l)e superintendent of an
auto factory somewhere in Jer-
sey as he was getting off to a
good start in tliat field when
liis attention was attracted to
tlie flicker stage.
Neilan's initiation into cam-
eradom happened at the old
Kalem. ^\"ith that company he
was everything from assistant
cameraman to manager and
during his last enlistment with
that concern he wrote the
scenarios, bossed the camera-
boys, hired the actors and
Director, star, and scenario writer. You can see Mary pays attention to "Mickey"— and that other girl?
Oh, that's Frances Marion. At the World studios they called her the Laura Jean Libby of the screen
because she's such a prolific scenarioist, but wait— watch for a story next month about her.
Director "Mickey"
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"Mary, ivhy not make the entrance like this?" says Mickey. "No, I
think it ought to be like this, " says Mary. And that's how they made
"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm."
supervised the work of four directors. He
was with Biograph in the early Clriffith era,
when he played opposite Blanche Sweet in
many of her earliest pictures, including
"Classmates," "IVIen and Women" and
"The Wedding Gown." He was also with
American and Universal and in the early
days of Lasky, Cecil deMille starred him'
in "The Country Boy." Then he went to
Famous Players and played opposite Miss
Pickford in' "Rags," "Aladam Butterfly"
and other well known photoplays. His last
work with that company was with Mar-
guerite Clark in "Mice and Men."
There was another journey to the Coast
and Selig acquired Neilan to play Colfax
in "The Crisis." At the completion of this
big feature he directed several five-reelers
for the same company, including "The
Prince Chap" and "The Country God For-
got." In both of these he established a
speed record that has never been equalled.
In the former he directed 1 1 2 scenes in one
day and the latter was completed, cut and
shipped in seven days.
From Selig, Neilan reverted to Lasky,
where he directed Blanche Sweet, Sessue
Hayakawa, Louise Huiif, Vivian Martin,
Jack Pickford and other silversheet
notables. "The Tides of
Barnegat" with Miss
Sweet, "The Bottle Imp"
and "The Jaguar's
Claws" with the Japa-
nese star and "The (iirl
at Home" with the Mar-
tin-Pickford combination
were regarded as his best
efforts for Paramount
patrons.
Then came the request
from Miss Pickford and
"Mickey" became the di-
rector for the screen's
most notable girl. Com-
ing as it did immediately
following such a tensely
dramatic production as
"The Little American," it
was perhaps forunate for
Mr. Neilan that he was
assigned to produce so
delightful a story as
"Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm" with its quaintly
simple sweetness and en-
gaging "kid stuff." This
he followed with an adaptation of Frances
Hodgson Burnett's "The Little Princess."
Ask one of his colleagues why "Mickey"
gets such excellent results and you will
get the reply: "Great imagination dnd
wonderful creative instinct." Ask the
electrician or the property man, and he'll
say: "Oh, Mickey just kids 'em along."
Watch him in action and you'll see how
well the observant stage hand has "Mickey"
sized up. At work he employs the tactics
of his Celtic ancestors rather than those
of the ordinary camera autocrat.
The writer had the privilege of witness-
ing a number of the scenes of "Rebecca"
in the making and was struck with the
manner in w*hich the most desired results
were obtained without a single gesticula-
tion or the raising of a voice. In one of
these incidents, the pathetic deathbed scene
where Aunt Mirandy cuts loose from her
earthly anchor, there was only the brief--
est of rehearsals, during which the voice
of the director could not be heard ten feet
away. Then followed a bit of silent act-
ing that raised considerably the humid-
ity of the place. Even one of the camera-
men— two negatives are made of each
Pickford photoplay — had to stop grinding
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in order to adjust his Adam's apple. And
throughout tliere was scarcely an audible
movement. No one seemed to be ashamed
of the rising ocular tide either. There
is a great deal of sincerity in the make-
believe life of the sunlight stage. No
where is there less desire to withhold the
word of encouragement or the slaj) on the
back for a bit of good work.
It's a pretty hard job to interview a
director of Mary Pickford because they
all insist on talking about Mary to the
exclusion of all other topics. Because of
space exigencies and the fact that just
about everything has been said about
Mary's sweetness, and cleverness and
brains, and the joy it is to work with her,
we will just skip to the Neilan ideas and
ideals, reduced to a few brief paragraphs.
"The permanent photoplay of the future
will be composed of these elements: A
play w-ritten by a scenario writer, rather
than a dramatist ; directed by a motion
picture director and played by a motion
picture cast.
"The sooner stage stars who have come
into the pictures merely for tlie big money,
get out of it, the better for the pictures.
"There can l)e no success without co-
operation, from star down to the lowliest
employee. The most wonderful play, in
the hands of the highest priced star and
most artistic director, can be ruined by
poor camera or laboratory work."
.And not a word about the heretofore
regarded necessity for pigskin puttees,
hornrimmed goggles, sport shirts or fore-
arm ingersolls. Times do change.
Why Are Vampires?
Why are Vampires?
1 laugh at them.
Whose Eyes Sear One's Soul.
( I just wish they would try it on
These Dangerous Ladies
ME!)
With Pasts which a glimmer of Light
They are never Sorry.
Could never struggle through.
They leave that to the audience.
Vamps ! They wear
They con.sume a thousand feet of film
Rings, though they have no hands —
In their Death Scenes —
only arms.
The Terrible Death in the Last
They Recline at Length on the Tiger-
Reel
skin
^^■here they Wallow in Tragedy,
Which Reggie mortgaged the Old
And Crumple Up and fall
Homestead
And allow Close-ups to be taken
To buy.
Of their Convulsed Features.
They are eternally Wrecking Homes
And then
And forcing trembling gentlemen to
There is one Final Heave,
their knees.
And the Vampire's eyes close con-
They never eat — they never laugh.
tentedly
They hide behind screens.
On the Ruin she has made
They sneer.
For the poor Property Man.
They carry Concealed Weapons.
(I wish f were the Censor.)
Vamps ! These Tawny Ladies
Whose Smiles Burn One's Heart.
WHY are Vampires?
(Though Heaven only knows why
I laugh at them.
they should.)
Hats — New and Smart
for Midseason Wear ,,
Always stunning and
especially for the girl with
dark eyes and hair, is the
fluffy white fur and the
white hat which makes the
eyes look larger and the
hair darker by contrast.
This year milady looks
through the brim of her
hat and not from under
it, as illustrated in the
charming model shown
below.
Milady's fur may form a question mark
but there is certainly no question as to
the becomingness of this happy combina-
tion of feather turban and summer furs.
Posed exclusively for Photoplay Magazine by Miss Gail Kane
The Story of Edith Storey
By Frederick James Smith
I DON'T know why everyone calls me
athletic," said Edith Sforey protest-
ingly, "I've never been able to under-
stand it."
"But you ride splendidly."
"Yes, pretty well."
"And swim?"
"Of course."
"Drive a car?"
"Yes, and a motor boat, too."
"Handle a sail boat?"
"Ye-e-s."
"You like the out doors?"
"Indeed, I do. I love to work in my
The Story of Edith Storey
73
garden. I'll admit that I can do the
hardest sort of digging and weeding — and
like it."
I tried to think of further queries and
gave up. "What do you think an athletic
girl should be aljle to do?" I asked.
"Well," said Miss Store\', pausing to
consider, "I — I — don't know a single thing
about baseball."
"Even with that horrible gap in your
education," I remarked, "I'm afraid you
would hit an average of about .950 in the
athletic league, unless, perhaps, you've neg-
lected aviation?"
"No," admitted the
actress, "I've made quite
a few flights, although not
alone. Still, I have been
thinking recently of get-
ting a machine of my
own."
Does Miss Storey love
the open country? One
glimpse of her artistic
little bungalow, tucked
away among the trees on
the edge of Long Island
Sound, proves that.
. "I built it away out
here," said the star at the
end of our fifty-odd mile
trip through Long Island
in the family limousine,
"because it's away from
everyone. Here I can
forget all about studios
and photoplays and just
listen to the sea and the
birds." "Edith loves soli-
tude," added the actress'
mother, who made the trip
with us.
The bungalow, to be
exact by the way, is lo-
cated at Eaton's Neck,
Northport, L. I. North-
port is a quaint old vil-
lage. Its one point of
interest is apparently Miss
Storey, who has dis-
covered that she. is looked
upon as "that actress per-
son." Only a day or two
before our interview the
star took a hike along the
l)each. She encountered
a villager, who, failing to
recognize the actress in sweater and sport
.skirt, asked if she lived nearby. "Up at
the point," Miss Storey answered. "Oh,
you must live up there near that actress
person," said the Northporter. "I do better
than that," replied Miss Storey, "I am the
actress person."
So tlie arrivals and departures of the
yellow Storey limousine are seemingly mo-
ments of pleasant anticipation and interest
to the inhabitants. Immediately upon our
arrival, Miss Storey hauled up the Stars
and Stripes to the family flagpole on the
The patriotic Edith running up "Old Glory" on her private beach.
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beach. (To be un-
patriotically but strictly
honest, she 'phoned to
the village iceman first.)
Then she dashed into her
sport clothes, natty
enough to influence
growth out of any dis-
cerning radish or onion,
seized a hoe and de-
scended upon the
garden.
Miss Storey surveyed
her 12 ft. x 12 ft. veg-
etable plot and said, "I
call this 'the farm.' I've
got radishes, lettuce,
onions, beans and some-
thing else that I've for-
gotten now planted here.
Across the road, between
the roadway and the
beach, we have a lot of
potatoes growing. I ex-
pect them to make us
wealthy when they be-
come ripe — or whatever
you call a potato when
it's ready to be French
fried."
The Storey bungalow
is an ideal summer
place. The beach is a
few feet away, where
clams and oysters may
be hunted in their native
haunts. Other features
of the place are a com-
Edith goes in for gardening. In these
strenuous times one must do all one can
to combat the high cost of living.
fortable looking fire-
place, two cats racily
named Stutz and Mercer,
a dashing looking garage
and two dogs. Accent
upon one of the dogs, a
collie yclept Laddie, pos-
sessing a particular dis-
like of interviewers.
Even stars have their
troubles with servants.
Miss .Storey hasn't been
able to find one with
enough liking for the
open country to sacrifice
lier evenings to the
placid existence of
Northport. "They all
love the movies too
much," sighed Miss
Storey.
Due to this, my inter-
\- i e w lunclieon w a s
served l)y tlie star her-
self, aide d by her
motlier. Right here Ave
should note that Mama
Storey is considerable
cook. "After this chat
appears," I warned,
"you're going to receive
a lot of 'phone calls from
hungry would-be inter-
viewers." To these gen-
tlemen we particularly
recommend the Storey
strawberries. For this
dish one of the chauf-
The comfortable bungalow on Long Island Sound that Miss Storey calls "home.
The Story of Edith Storey
75
feurs raced in a Ford to a nearby farm
for cream — the tliick. yellow cream
that reminds you of the days when
you sneaked away from the little
red schoolhouse and played
hookey.
To turn from epicurean ^.
matters to things statis-
tical ; Aliss Storey starte(
on the stage at the age
of eight with Eleanor Rob-
son in "Audrey." "I was in
'The Little Princess' and
played Australia in the
original 'Mrs. Wiggs of
the Cabbagie Patch,' "
Miss Storey told me.
"Then I was the stut-
tering girl, Emma
Jane, in 'Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm.'
Ernest T r u a x
played oppo-
Miss Storey, despite popular be-
lief, isn't a Western girl. She was
born in New York City and learned
o ride — not on the rolling prairies
— but in Twenty-Seventh street,
where her uncle was a dealer in
horses. "It was this ability to
ride, acquired after many tumbles
as a kiddie," she laughed, "that
)rought about my first advance
in the movies."
There is an odd exotic touch,
difficult to define, about Miss
Storey's screen personality. Now
and then one catches a flash of
Slav fire in her emotional
moments. In reality
she is a delight-
' Sooner, " one oj Miss Storey's dogs,
learning to salute.
site me. I was about to begin my second
season in 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'
when I drifted into motion pictures. I
began with the Vitagraph company and,
shortly after, was loaned to the Melies
company, then doing Western melodramas
in Texas."
About this time Miss Storey attracted
unusual attention with her daring riding.
Vitagraph recalled her to its Brooklyn
studios. Almost immediately she scored
a hit in a production of "The Lady of the
Lake." A varied series of characterizations
followed, most of her roles being of the
modern society type. Some months ago
Vitagraph sent her to the Pacific coast to
head its Western dramatic company. There
she remained until recently when she
severed connections with the organization.
ful young American girl of the self-reliant,
rugged type. Miss Storey's brother, we are
frank to admit, showed remarkable fore-
sight in selecting a sister. I can't imagine
a better candidate for the position of ideal
sister. Seriously, however. Miss Storey is
a young woman of initiative and ability to
think. She would have been highly suc-
cessful on the stage.
"Be sure to forget my freckles," warned
Miss Storey. She isn't at all proud of these
badges of athleticism. You see, they inter-
fere with close-ups. It's because of them
that I detest those magnified glimpses of
beaded eye-lashes and painted lips.
"If you want to be really nice, you can
say that I'm a good waitress. I'm sure
that I'd have been a real success in Childs'
— if the movies hadn't captured me."
ALL is not waste in the movies. Recently one of the big companies emploj'ed a
director to produce a photoplay from a popular Western novel. A high salaried
cast was employed and considerable time expended in making the picture, a ten-reel
affair. When it was finally completed and submitted to the home office in the east, it
nearly caused wholesale heart failure among the officials. It was that bad.
A release of the photoplav was impossible. It would have "queered" the company
with every theater owner who exhibited it. Salvage was decided upon and the com-
pany's film "doctor" was ordered to the rescue.
The result was one five-reel featnre with a highly euphonious title and lots ot
western thrills, one two-reel "western" and one single-reel comedy. The remaining
two reels were saved for a retake of the original story.
^^Don't Be Afraid of Breaking It
It's only Rented"
rjTRECTOR JAMES YOUNG is hav-
ing a hard time getting this scene put
over exactly to his liking. So he's rehears-
ing it thoroughly before he orders
"Camera."
This scene is in the new Bessie Barriscale
production, the first under her own cor-
porate name. And "Jimmie" is evidently
determined to get it into the camera before
the sun sneaks behind a cloud.
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Married to Who
Cupid takes pleasure in inaugurating his casually list
this month with portraits of Mrs. Joseph Schenck, and
the gentleman who was fortunate enough to marry
Norma Talmadge. Don't think that the hundreds of
young men who sivallowed rough-on-rats over Norma' s
nuptials ivere the only sufferers; numbers of Broadway
young women had set their chapcaux for the enterprising
young theatrical man, and these sustained all sorts of
heart-pangs when they learned that their idol had
gone the ivay of the license bureau. He has been general
manager of one of the country's largest theatrical
interests, and has determined to devote all his time
to motion pictures.
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Girls, did you know that Allan Holubar had
a wife? [Boys, did you know that Dorothv
Phillips— you didn't? Well, here they are.
At the right. Mr. and Mrs. They are
among the liveliest producers in the Univer-
sal camp : Mr. Holubar as director and actor;
Mrs. Phillips-Holubar as Universal's best
emotional actress. Above, Joseph Kaufman,
the well-known husband, holding his well-
known wife, Ethel Clayton, on his not-so-
well-known knee.
Who's Married to Who
79
In the car, William
Courtliegh, Jr., and his
bride, snapped while Mr.
Courtliegh was playing
"Neat of the Navy " for
Pathe. Below, George
Hernandez and
Mrs. Hernandez,
a pair of Univer-
sal favorites.
My,
Ain't She
Grand?"
Only it isn't a lady a-tall; just Mr. Julian Eltinge, most famous male portray er of feminine roles, who
ts submitting to film tests on his first day at the Lasky studio, with "Rebecca" {Pickford) "of Sunny-
brook Farm" an interested spectator.
Sprocket-Hole Embroidery
The Mutual office in Chicago recently received a dirty-looking consignment
of film from a water-tank movie house in South Dakota. Also a letter.
'Dear sir" — it said — "The reason we had for to send back your pictures
today was because we couldn't run one of them through our machinery. The
lace is all off one side."
What Bill Hart Told in the
Maid's Room
By Hilary Vos^es
w
HEN William S. Hart came to
Chicago, on his recent shooting-up
of the whole United States, he was
assigned a magnificent suite at the Hotel
Sherman. Among the thousands of Chi-
cagoans anxious for
just a peek at the
rangy horseman I
was one of the most
fortunate, for I put
in a good hour with
him in his rooms.
Did I s a y
"rooms?" Or even
"his" rooms? Wait:
T h e particular
Hart suite was fur-
nished with a vesti-
bule in Circassian
walnut ; a drawing-
room of some Louis
or other with piano
to match ; a bed-
room of dim lights
and luxury, and a
bath which would
have satisfied a
calif. As is not un-
common with suites
of this nature, a
small, plainly fur-
nished room opens
off the entryway for
the occupant's maid,
or other servant.
Hart's secretary
swung back the
heavy door, and I
turned toward the
"parlor." Sudden-
ly the door of the
maid's room opened.
Hart's big frame
filled the doorway
from top to bottom,
and Hart's b i g
voice filled the hall.
"I'm right glad to see you!
here — not there."
Hart closed the door, and indicated the
Your true desperado never pulled the trigger;
he 'fanned' the hammer with his thumb. "
We shook hands.
Come
one straight-backed chair. I sat on it. He
sat down on the little iron bed. His huge
wardrobe trunk almost extinguished the
small dresser, and a welter of guns and
ammuntion-belts was piled in a corner.
"I've gotten used
to such plain sur-
roundings," Hart
explained, rather
confusedly, "t hat
fancy furniture
mixes me all up.
So I gave the rest
of the place to the
boys ; this is good
enough for me."
"The boys" in
the Louis-whatever
drawing-room and
the sensuous bed-
room were his sec-
retary and his valet !
After we had set-
tled the great war
and the greater pic-
ture business, we
fell to talking of
the West that was,
and the West that
is in the show busi-
ness — and never
was.
"F 0 r instance,
the rope," explained
Hart. "I make no
pretense of having
been raised a buck-
aroo, so I go out
frankly to learn.
And one of the first
things I learned is
that the real punch-
er has a quaint, al-
most fanatic respect
for his implements,
and never plays
with them. In other words, he may be
so unerring that he can noose a puppy,
without hurting it, at the full extension
of his rope, but he will not be able to show
81
My,
Ain't She
Grand?"
?<!'ttJwiat%r*f-J'''^¥-''-J''^T ^^^'""S^' most famous male portrayer of feminine roles, u
IS submitting to film tests on his first day at the Lasky studio, with -Rebecca" (.Pickford) "of Sun
■ Lasky
' an interested spectator.
who
rty-
Sprocket-Hole Embroidery
Tl™ ^-^^^l^'?.^.''.'' "' 9""^^^^ ^^^'^"t^ a dirty-looking consignment
r ^^ r ^ ---v.x*^ij X v-v-^i V »-*^ a. tail
of film from^a water-tank movie house in South Dakota
Dear sir —it said— "The reason we had for to senu i.acK your i
oday was because we couldn't run one of them tlirough our machinery
lace IS all off one side." ^
Also a letter.
send back your pictures
The
What Bill Hart Told in the
Maid's Room
By Hilary Vosges
WHEN William S. Hart came to
Chicago, on his recent shooting-up
of the whole United States, he was
assigned a magnificent suite at the Hotel
Sherman. Among the thousands of Chi-
cagoans anxious for
just a peek at the
rangy horseman I
was one of the most
fortunate, for I put
in a good hour Avith
him in his rooms.
Did 1 s a y
"rooms?" Or even
"his"TOoms? Wait:
T h e particular
Hart suite was fur-
nished with a vesti-
bule in Circassian
walnut ; a drawing-
room of some Louis
or other with piano
to match ; a bed-
room of dim lights
and luxury, and a
bath which would
have satisfied a
calif. As is not un-
common with suites
of this nature, a
small, plainly fur-
nished room opens
off the entryway for
the occupant's maid,
or other servant.
Hart's secretary
swung back tlie
heavy door, and I
turned toward the
"parlor." Sudden-
ly the door of the
maid's room opened.
Hart's big frame
filled the doorway
from top to bottom,
and Hart's b i g
voice filled the hall.
"I'm right glad to see you
here — not there."
Hart closed the door, and indicated the
Youf true desperado never pulled the trigger;
he 'fanned' the hammer with his thumb. "
Wit
shook hands.
! Come in
one straight-backed chair. I sat on it. He
sat down on the little iron bed. His huge
wardrobe trunk almost extinguished the
small dresser, and a welter of guns and
ammuntion-belts was piled in a corner.
"I've gotten used
to such plain sur-
roundings," Hart
explained, rather
confusedly, "that
fancy furniture
mixes me all up.
So I gave the rest
of the place to the
boys ; this is good
enough for me."
"The boys" in
the Louis-whatever
drawing-room and
the sensuous bed-
room were his sec-
retary and his valet !
After we had set-
tled the great war
and the greater pic-
ture l)usiness, we
fell to talking of
the West that was,
and the West that
is in the show busi-
ness — ■ and never
was.
"F o r instance,
the rope," explained
Hart. "I make no
pretense of having
been raised a buck-
aroo. so I go out
frankly to learn.
And one of the first
things I learned is
that the real punch-
er has a quaint, al-
most fanatic respect
for his implements,
and never plays
with them. In other words, he may be
so unerring that he can noose a puppy,
without hurting it, at the full extension
of his rope, but he will not be able to show
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"/ can only 'fan' with
one hand, my right. I've
never gotten
it with my
left."
you a single trick of the twirling or jump-
ing-through sort. The country is full of al-
leged 'cowboys,' in vaudeville, circuses and
even cabarets, who spin the rope, jump
through it and do many other interest-
ing and rhythmic feats. I dare say that
not one of these fellows was ever on the
range in his life. A year or two ago I
had the greatest roper I ever sav.- at
Catalina Island, off the Southern Cali-
fornia Coast. A baby seal, far out
in the bay, fell upon a ledge of rock
from which its mother could not
extricate it ; yet this boy, throwing
the farthest extension of his longest
cord, lifted the baby seal back to
safety as gently as a mother might
lift a child into a cradle. He
knew no "stunts," and was
angry when asked why he
didn't learn any. He said
he "had too much respect
for the rope to monkey
with it."
"Will Rogers, one of
the finest of all the '''West-
ern acts,' is too honest to
make any pretense of having rid-
den the range as a means of
tuition.
" 'Where'd you learn that.
Will?' I asked him in New York
last week, after a particularly hard
exhibition.
" 'Aout behind a liv'ry stable in Okla-
homa,' he answered, grinning. 'Where'd
you learn your tricks?'
"I told him that mine, such as they
were, were also of the domestic, not wild,
variety."
In Hart's remarkable collection of guns
is a triggerlcss weapon with three
notches in its handle. I asked about the
mutilation.
"This was taken from a dead bandit's
uuul," he answered. "It's the real 'fan
gun' of the plains. Your true
desperado never pulled his trig-
ger. He would have been
ashamed to be so slow, and
it wasn't safe. He 'fanned' the
hammer with his thumb, and a real 'Jesse
immy' hero could fan with both hands.
Me? No, I fan with only one: my right.
I've never gotten it with my left.
"Al Jennings, the ex-bandit, gave me
both his guns, and in both tlie trigger had
been removed. Other members of the
shooting craft, who didn't care to . have
their fire-arms amputated at tlie blacksmith
shop, took rawhide thongs and lashed the
triggers back to the
guards."
' '/ make no pretense
of having been raised
a buckaroo, so I go
out frankly to learn"
The Hollywood Studio Club
where a new democracy
among screenland's femi-
nine members has been
formed.
Here the "star, " the "extra
girl" and the girls of the
studio who do not face the
camera get together.
Pliologrdphs by Sugg cxclusiveli fur PHOruPLAY
The Studio Club
By Elizabeth McGaffey
WHAT on earth is that?" asked Mrs.
Tourist, pointing to a handsome
Colonial mansion on Carlos Ave-
nue, in beautiful Hollywood.
"I don't know what it is, but it looks
good to me," replied Mr. Tourist, twisting
his neck to catch a last glimpse. For the
spacious grounds were filled with girls
of every age and size, from the tiny tot
with the Pickford curls, to the expensively
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Photoplay Magazine
gowned beauty, whose face is known to
fans all over the world.
No, it's not a Young Ladies' Semi-
nary, nor a Mormon's dream of Para-
dise,— it's the only club of its kind in
America — The Hollywood Studio Club.
Any girl connected with a motion pic-
ture studio in any capacity, is eligible for
membership. And there are oodles of
women who earn their living in the studios,
who are not actresses — but that is another
story.
Let's use a "cut-back" right liere and
see how this thing started.
First I must introduce the pretty little
Hollywood public library, and its presiding
hostess, Mrs. Eleanor Jones. Of course
she is the librarian — but first and foremost
she is a hostess — she just can not help it.
About a year ago, Mrs. Jones noticed
several girls, "extras," who spent their
evenings in the library reading room until
it closed. One girl in particular, — young,
pretty, well-dressed, interested her because
she was always alone. They talked about
books, and the girl read only the best. Mrs.
Jones wondered what had happened when
A Sunday
afternoon
tea at the
Studio Club,
with Louise
Huff presid-
ing over the
teapot. Left
to right, the
group com-
prises A nita
King, Ger-
trude Grif-
fith, Anna
Bauchens,
Miriam
Meredith
and Louise
Huff
\
President Anna Bau-
chens {at left) head of
the stenographic depart-
ment at Lasky's, and
Secretary Margaret
Pendill, employed by the
Y. W. C. A. to look
after the affairs of the
club.
illlUNl
the girl failed to appear for several weeks.
One day a very pale, thin ghost of a girl
walked in, and ^Irs. Jones greeted her cor-
dially.
"I've missed you — where have you
been?"
The girl swallowed hard and said :
"Hospital — a whole month and not a soul
came to see me. I'm licked. I'm going
l)ack home."
The girl disappeared, and one of the
"extras" told Mrs. Jones that she had re-
nounced her ambition to be a star and gone
back to her Eastern home. No one ever
knew her name — but s/w started the Club.
Some of the "big girls" got together
and talked things over. Why should any-
one be lonesome all by herself in Holly-
wood? Why not "get together?"
So Mrs.' ■\Villiam C. deMille, Mrs.
Richmond, "Mother" Lule Warrenton and
Mrs. Lois Weber Smalley started a little
club of drama study in the library base-
ment room offered by Mrs. Jones. Then
the Y. W. C. A. heard of it and offered an
instructress in dancing to the girls. They
met two nights a week, one for drama study
and the other for gymnastics and dancing.
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The fun they had and tlie comical gym
suits they improvised !
The news spread — personal advertising,
you know, gets results — soon the room was
too small to hold the girls. The "big girls"
Miss Lee, of tlie V. W. C. A. lived there,
as "stage mother," and cami)cd out at first,
with one slieet and a pair of blankets. The
Club had absolutely nothing but an empty
house and a crowd of enthusiastic mem-
Ikts, all of whom were just a couple of
juni])s ahead of comjjulsory djet.
i'hen two girls wlio didn't jump
already referred to, interested the business
men of Hollywood in the Club, and they
paid a year's rent on the big handsome
house on the hill.
There are accommoda-
tions for regularly em-
ployed actresses as well
as for girls who have
found th2 going on "The
Glory Road" too diffi-
cult for a slender purse.
The girl here is Yvette
Mitchell, whose specialty
is Chinese roles at
Universal City.
lively enough, told Miss
Lee they had no place to
live. Miss Lee impulsive-
^^.^ ly said, "Come right
here ;" and they came.
She never would tell
how they managed to get
an extra bed and some
bedding !
'Ihe Y. W. C. A. strained their budget,
and met the running expenses someway.
You see, they had no funds for this totally
unexpected expense.
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Providence seems to smile upon this
Club, and it, being temperamental, does
not object to a hand-to-mouth existence
just so long as the Giant Loneliness has
been routed.
One Sunday afternoon, one of the girls
was playing the piano, and dropped into
a swinging, popular melody. In a moment
the room was full of dancing, laughing
girls.
Miss Gertrude Griffith, of the Y. \V.
C. A., is the "House-mother" now, and
speaking of tact — well, listen !
Some women would have scowled fiercely
_and ordered: "No dancing on Sunday,"
and been silently disliked forevermore.
But, Gertrude Griffith clapped her hands
and said: "Oh, girls! I have a wonder-
ful idea!"
Instant attention on the part of the
girls.
"Of course you know we ought not to
dance on Sundays, but let's have a regu-
lar party — informal, of course, and ask
the boys and just have a glorious time —
what do you say?"
Noisy approval — squeals of delight and
many squeezes for Miss Griffith.
So the little informal dances started on
Friday nights, because — and here is a
point which the wily Miss Griffith had con-
sidered long and prayerfully — because most -
of the girls went to public dances at the
beaches on Saturday evening.
You see, Los Angeles' law prohibits
dancing in the hotels, so light-footed youth
must drive outside the city limits if it
wishes to dance, and of course at the re-
sorts a girl is very liable to take a glass
of beer — perhaps more. Many a pitiful
case of bitter sorrow and disillusionment
has resulted from an innocent desire to
dance.
Miss Griffith and the other "big girls"
said:
"The Motion Picture Business is essen-
tially a business of Youth, and Youth must
play — especially if it works hard every
day and several evenings."
The dances started and the crowds grew
larger each week until one Friday night
several girls got together in a corner and
whispered mysteriously — then marched in
a body to Miss Griffith and requested that
the dances be held on Saturday nights !
With a beating heart, but a carefully
careless voice, Miss Griffith consented —
but I can tell you that she walked quickly
to the back porch and there laughed and
cried in a most undignified manner, be-
cause she kneio right then that the Club
would be a success. The girls preferred its
lemonade parties to those big public dances
at the beaches. Clean fun with no after-
math of sorrow or regret.
How about it, Mr. Movie Fan, aren't
you just a bit proud of the muchly-
maligned extra girl?
The Club has grown beyond belief.
Now the stars are interested in it, and
every Sunday some famous person like Lois
Weber, Ruth Stonehouse, Dorothy Daven-
port or Tsuru Aoki gives a tea.
There is keen rivalry between the studios
and when Lois Weber gave her tea, everv
girl in the Universal Company who could
possibly get there, was there in her best bib
and tucker.
The last Sunday in June was Lasky day
with Mrs. Wm. C. deMille as hostess, and
the beloved Cieraldine Farrar was tliere
talking sociably with all the girls ; — so-
ciably— do you get that? — not condescend-
ingly.
The club has escaped the blight of "so-
cial patronesses" or "institutionalism" and
is run by the girls and for the girls. They
elect their own officers. Anna Bauchens,
of Lasky studio is President ; Miriam Mere-
dith, Gertrude (iriffith, Anita King, Ella
Hall and Carmel Myers are Vice-Presi-
dents.
Lessons on make-up and pantomime are
promised the girls this Summer, besides
their gym work and drama class. Just at
present they are all studying "First Aid"
and learning to knit for the soldier boys.
With the blessed hopefulness of youth,
they are not worrying about next year's
rent — or little things like that! Every
bedroom is filled — some "paying guests"
and one "emergency."-
The membership has reached the 175
mark and — most important of all — the
stars, the directors and the "extras" have
discovered that they are "sisters under the
skin" — all working to uphold the dignity
of their profession. Like all pioneers they
must travel a rough road for a while, but
let's wish them success and a receipted rent
bill for next year and a few pieces of furni-
ture for those big sunny bedrooms.
Loneliness is dead 1 Long live the Studio
Club!
When Charley Dropped
EVERY once in a while ihe highest priced come-
dian in the world drops in at the Lasky drama
foundry after a hard day's work for a little
visit with the highest priced "movie queen" in the
world and the highest priced
■■Let 'er buck!" bravely cried juvenile in the world. Their
the trio m unison, knowing that respective studios are just a few
;/ was a studio -broke animal .' , . ■' , .
and not a bucking horse. But minutes apart and whenever this
if President Adolpii Zukor had trio gets together, a lot of the
seen this stunt, a movie mag- highest paid directors in the
nate migJiUtave^sucmmbed to ^^.^^j^,^ ^^-^^^^^^ ^..^j^, scenario writ-
ers in the world and liighest paid
You'll see this
rig if you go to
see little Mary in "Rebecca
of Sunnybrook Farm" but
you won't see the two high-priced flunkies in the rear seat.
In for a Visit
cameramen in the world
cease their activities tem-
porarily and just play
for their own amuse-
ment.
<)n this occasion the
highest priced photog-
rapher in the world who
had been subsidized by
the greatest magazine in
the world, lay in hiding
and snapped at whatever
he thought would look
good in Photoplay.
When discovered by
the famous trio, they in-
sisted that he take a
".regular" picture.
The "regular" photograph
of Douglas and Mary and
Charles. Don 't it remind
you of the old plush album
group.
An interrupted serenade.
The first plaintive notes of
" Her Name Was Mary"
had just emanated from
the funnel of the horn
when — unfortunately it
wasn't a motion picture
camera that was aimed
that way. You'll admit
that it is some picture
though.
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"// lias been tough on you, deary girl," he
said gently. "But can't you stand it 'til
we can go back together?"
Big Timber
A STORY OF LOVE AND CONSPIR-
ACY IN A GREAT LUMBER CAMP
By Mrs. Ray Long
IT was Fyfe himself who introduced
Monahan to Stella. He had no one
else to blame. But he didn't see how
he could have avoided it for Stella was not
the sort of person to be left in the back-
ground and Monahan would have found
some way to meet her anyway.
Monahan was that kind. He had a cool
assured manner and a searching eye. That
combination never failed to single out the
prettiest woman from any company for his
own especial diversion. So what chance
was there for Fyfe to keep Stella out of
the range of his prehensile vision in a small
lumber camp where the young wife super-
intended the cooking?
It had been late in the afternoon when
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Monahan had come. After a look around
at the great pine belt and Fyfe's men at
work he was taken into the rough cook
house to supper. And there Stella reigned
as supreme and lovely and incongruous as
some heavenly star shining alone over a
mass of dirty storm clouds.
Monahan was served with Fyfe but gal-
lantly refused to eat till Stella should join
them. When she came he leaned a little
too close and said, "Man only dines in the
presence of woman. When alone he —
feeds." Fyfe was terrified at the beauty
of Stella as she smiled her acknowledg-
ment to the implied compliment, and yet
more terrified at the little wrinkle that
ridged itself between ber brows as she gave
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a quick glance toward the rough lumber- That night Fyfe did not close his eyes,
men noisily finishing their meal at the next For the most part he lay starmg into the
table. darkness and wondering what he should do
P'rom that minute Fyfe began to change. if he lost the dear golden head within touch
He ate little and said less. One day he of his outstretched hand. For the rest he
was so absorbed with the torment racking let his tortured fancy paint pictures of
him that a falling tree nearly caught him. what he would like to do to Monahan.
His firm hold over the men slackened and
he felt half sick. For after two weeks of HTHE next day Stella stood intent before
trying every means to get Monahan to come ■*• a piece of unframed mirror glass
to the point and buy the timber belt the tacked to the log wall of the camp kitchen,
sale was no nearer com- She arched her white
.pletion than on that first "BIG TIMBER" throat, posed her mid-
night. XTARRATED by permission, "ight eyes at different
Of course Fyfe had to i>| from the Morosco-Para- angles, and turned her
keep at work for this mount photodrama of the same head to get a satisfying
holding was his only "^me. Produced with the follow- ^jg,,, ^f the rich swirl of
property. He had used a ^^ ' t- ^, , -ur-ii- her audacious hair. She
\ : ■ T -^ 1 Stella Benton. ..Kathlyn Williams , , , ,
moderate nihentance and ^^^j, p^,r,- Wallace Reid wondered whether she
much skill and patience Walter Monahan Joe King looked more like Helen
to get possession of it and Charlie Benton Alfred Paget of Troy or Lillian Russell
then induced Stella to Linda Abbey ...Helen Bray in her gala days as Mona-
come into the wilderness han had said,
with him. For he believed he could soon She decided on Helen,
turn his claims into a fortune. But the "Not that I have the least idea how the
slopes were steep, the ravines bad, and men Trojan lady looked," she called gayly over
hard to get. So when the wealthy head of her shoulders to the Indian girl wiping the
"Monahan and Company," Seattle lumber- thick camp cups, "but it must have been a
men, had shown an interest in buying his plenty. And now that that weighty matter
claim, Fyfe had jumped at the chance and is settled let's discuss the evening feast,
written Monahan to come. Three or four "Bear meat with the hair off. Mind,
<lavs would have been enough to investigate off, smooth, scraped. White men, even
the property but Monahan stayed on and lumber jacks, have their fastidious mo-
on. He fished, he hunted, he climbed and ments, Neemis. Perhaps you wouldn't be-
he canoed — with Stella. He never let a lieve it but they do stop at eating hide,
day go by, however, without telling Fyfe Do you understand?"
that the acquirement of the timber still Neemis grinned,
interested him. "Some day your garrulity will make me
Fyfe felt like a tormented monkey on deaf, positively deaf," complained Stella,
the end of a string. For while he grew pretending to protect her ears.' "Speak
more glum and uncompanionable, .Stella lower, please, and to the point."
bloomed and pirouetted gaily. Back home Again the Indian grinned. But this
in their native city he had thought her a time she grabbed a knife and vigorously
beauty among beauties. But now, as he scraped the outside of a cup.
watched Monahan's open admiration of her "Perfect," smiled Stella, "and — oh,
she shone as one glorified to his jealous, Neemis, if Mr. Monahan should enter these
adoring eyes. palatial halls and ask for me while I'm
"God, how I wish I were in a position gone, tell him I'll be back soon. Under-
to tell Monahan to get out of here," he stand?"
burst out unguardedly one night. Neemis' grin widened till she showed the
Stella turned on him with more heat than gums above her teeth,
he had ever seen her display in all her "Too perfect," whispered the girl as she
bubbling girlhood and their six months of scurried out across a little clearing and
marriage. "I should think instead you'd into the shadow of a great timber stretch.
do everything you could to make him like "I don't like the look of Neemis when she
the place and buy it, and stop moping smiles that way."
around and being uncivil," she retorted. Her light step startled a family of young
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grouse. After their upward wliirr, the
afternoon silence, broken only by an occa-
sional shout and crash at a distance, settled
over the forest. Stella made straight for
those sounds. Suddenly she came out of
the heavy shade into another open space,
one of nature's clearings, a mountain
"meadow," that stretched and wound
through the forests, a river of tall grass.
Across this "meadow" in the farther timber
belt, Fyfe was working with his men. He
saw the slender figure beckoning and
hurried.
"What is it?" he gulped, a strange fear-
fulness upon him.
Stella climbed daintily to a stump,
clasped her knees in her arms, smiled coax-
ingly and hesitated. Fyfe gathered her to
him just as she sat. "Did my little girl
come away out here just to see her tramp
of a husband ?" he asked exultantly.
The girl viewed him gravely. She hes-
itated and then her words came with a little
rush.
"I want some money. I want to go
away. I can't stand it here any longer. I
want to go back among people and have
nice clothes, and sing. I do. Jack. Please,
let's go." Her face flushed and her eyes
pleaded.
Fyfe's arms grew limp and fell away.
Fear sharpened his features and his tone.
"Vou want to go back and sing in pul)lic
places to make money, — and be admired?"
The words carried a certain cruelty. The
girl drew in her breath sharply.
"I want to take more lessons and I want
to sing to make money," she answered.
"Is it so bad here?"
"I've had six months of helping men
turn themselves into animated heaps of pork
and beans. Ug-h-h-h. How they do shovel
it in!" The shudder was followed by a
nervous laugh.
Fyfe did not laugh. "Il luis been tough
on you, deary girl," he said gently. "Hut
can't you stand it till we can go back
together? I'm standing it too, you know."
For a minute Stella was shamed. Then
that little wrinkle that Fyfe had first seen
between her brows the night Monahan
came, appeared.
"Jack, you don't understand — because
your business is trees," she explained.
"That's what you specialized in, forestry.
So you're sort of at home up here, but my
business isn't cooking. It's singing. I'm
losing my voice here where I can't use it."
"But isn't it helping us both in the best
way for you to be here?"
Did my little girl come away out here just to see her tramp of a husband?" he asked.
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"No, it isn't helping me most." There
was a petulant note that jarred on Fyfe.
"My voice is a part of me just like my
hair or my teeth. And you wouldn't want
me to neglect them and let them fall out,
would you?"
Fyfe did not answer at once. He sat
down beside Stella, folded his arms and
rested his chin dejectedly on them. Finally
he muttered, "if this timber were only on
l)etter ground. It's so darned hard to get
out."
"Yes, poor trees," murmured Stella with
a whimsical little outstretching of her arms
up toward the tall tops that seemed to grow
down from the sky. "It seems as hard for
them as it does for me."
"Don't you think you're rather overdoing
the pity act for both yourself and the
trees?" rejoined Fyfe tartly.
Stella jumped up, a golden fury. Fyfe
had struck the wrong chord. No beautiful
woman, beautiful as Helen of Troy, takes
criticism from a man without at least
temporarily hating him. "I've told j'ou
what I want," she cried. "I want to live.
I want to see people that are people. I
want to see lights that light. I believe I
could go down on my knees and kiss the
cobble stones that used to tear the heel^
from my slippers. I'm sick, sick, sick of
all this ! No place to go that's any differ-
ent from the place I'm in ! Nothing to do
but the same thing I do every day ! If I'm
very, very good and hurry my work I may
put on my best calico and go out and speak
to — a squirrel or a chipmunk. Isn't it
thrilling? And everywhere I look there's
nothing but trees, trees, trees. I want
human scenery ! Oh, how could you put
everything into a timber place when this
is a world of stucco houses, coal furnaces,
and steel ships? You ought to have known
better !"
Fyfe raised his head at that. A look of
stubbornness settled about his mouth.
Through all Stella's tirade he had been
gradually deciding to give up, renounce
what seemed the work of his life, leave the
wilderness, and make a new try in the city.
He could go into some lumber firm and
work his way up, offering his timber claims
for a partnership. He would do it. Stella
was right. He would tell Monahan to go
to the devil. He would pick up the beauti-
ful W'ife of his heart and run away with her
to civilization. And then came that wail at
his impotence, that attack on his ability and
judgment. And no man can stand that
from a woman, not even from a Trojan
Helen. "We stay here," he said doggedly.
Tears suddenly, came out like dew on
Stella's long lashes. "Oh, you can't do this
thing to me," she exclaimed in the amazed
terror of a petted child who finds its world
suddenly gone wrong.
"I have done it to you," and Fyfe
emphasized the "have," brutally.
Stella stood her ground long enough to
cry out, "it will be a relief to see a gentle-
man, a man who knows how to treat a
woman. I'm so glad Mr. Monahan came.
I was forgetting what the world was like."
Then she was off like a wild thing.
Fyfe watched the flitting figure till it
was lost in the trees. He was as a man in
a dream, a bad dream, who longs to be
awake again and find his misery gone. But
waking didn't help him. When he finally
came out of his dazed stupor and went
back to work, he purposely kept the men
busy long after quitting time. He wished
he could avoid the cold meeting to come.
He even wished vehemently in his mind
that he did not have to see Stella again
while his arms were craving the sweet
Imrden of her, his eyes were burning for
the sweet sight of her, and his ears ached
for the sound of her voice, sweet to his
ear even in anger.
It was almost dark when they reached
the cook house. Supper was ready, and
Neemis. But Stella was not there, nor
Monahan.
Fyfe went over to his shack, his heart
turned to ice. He found a note from Stella
saying only "I am gone." And a search
of the shack allotted to Monahan showed
that he had gone too.
IV/TAN is more mechanical than he thinks.
^^'- Something makes him go on and on
even after he has decided he hasn't any-
thing to go on for. If he does not there is
something missing. He isn't a man.
Fyfe kept to the business of felling his
trees. He sold timber steadily, as fast
as he could get it out with his limited
facilities. His sales were enough to keep
the camp running, and a little over. But lie
got no more inquiries about buying him
out. The timber business seemed at a
standstill.
He received infrequent letters from the
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Fyfe's holdings were burning and Monahan's men were caught.
outside world. Six months after Stella left,
a lumber dealer in San Francisco added to
a letter asking for the filling of a moderate
order that he had seen Stella singing at a
leading hotel during the supper hour. He
made no comment. He was the brother of
one of Fyfe's college classmates. He did
not mention Monahan. Fyfe inwardly
thanked him.
He spent that night deciding on the
surest way to end his tormented existence.
But at seven the next morning he was lead-
ing as usual in the tree felling.
It was true what the lumber dealer had
written. Stella was singing now while
others ate instead of seeing that thev were
well served. But the change had brought
no pleasure. She liked only one place in
a dining room, a place at the table with
others to sing to her and do her bidding.
She looked down at the women looking up
at her with a greater envy for their place
in life than their envy of her for Jier
beauty. Her bitterness almost got into her
song.
"A parlor voice, sweet and true, but only
a parlor voice." The words clanged noisily
in her consciousness even while the silly
words of a popular song slipped from her
lips. That is what the great singer on
tour had told her that day.
"But a parlor voice with no parlor."
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Stella had protested in her breezy, flippant
way while her heart grew numb.
"The acquisition of the parlor should be
easy for Madame," the singer had replied
suavely.
So Stella stood facing her dinner audi-
ence with all .the insouciance her valiant
soul could muster till the applause ceased
and she was at liberty to go. It was then
that she saw Alonahan. He arose and inter-
cepted her as she hurried toward the door.
"Steila, you little devil of a run away,"
he cried exultantly and grabbed both of her
hands.
"Please, Mr. Monahan, please," breathed
the girl as she tugged to withdraw them.
Her eyes gleamed and her cheeks flamed.
"People will see."
"So they will," he said, "but we can
easily fix all that," and he signalled a taxi-
cab.
Stella moved away from him. He
caught her wrist. "A scene wouldn't be
nice," he said easily. "I want you to slap
me again just as you did that last afternoon
in camp before you took to the canoe. But
I don't want you to do it here."
"And I had just finished telling Jack
that, you v.'ere a gentleman !" cried Stella
remorsefully.
Monahan laughed. The taxicab moved
up and he helped her in. She did not dare
object so tried to act indifferently. "Drive,"
he told the chauffeur and slipped him a bill.
When he settled himself he folded his
arms. "Just to show you I mean to be
good," he said. "Now tell me all about
it."
Stella clasped her hands and looked de-
terminedly forward. She would not say a
word.
"Do you want these arms of mine to get
into mischief?" Monahan leaned toward
her. "You got me hard, you little corker,
and you know it. I found you up there, a
queen. I smiled and you smiled. And
there are two sides to everything. You
mustn't overlook that. Fyfe had a legal
claim to you, it's true. But he wasn't mak-
ing good. And according to my code, it's
up to a man to do his share of giving, not
let the woman do it all, or step aside and
let someone else have her, who can appre-
ciate her. Why did you run away from
me?"
Stella still kept her eyes forward but she
had seen much. Woman's peripheral gaze
is wider than man's. She had seen an
earnestness on the sleek face beside her that
she had never seen before, and the fear in
her evaporated like a fog before the sun.
There was not so much to fear from a man
in earnest. When she answered, her voice
had the old lilt in it. "I ran away from
everything. Why shouldn't I run if I
want to?"
"But it must have been such an uncom-
fortable run when it could have been so
comfortable. And to find you singing in a
cabaret! God, what a finish for you!"
Stella's lips opened to retort that she had
only made a beginning. They closed again
over the miserable recognition that he was
right. She answered not at all.
Monahan was quick to infer the truth.
"What's the use, little queen," he said
coaxingly. "You're making yourself cheap
when you should be a winner. The only
trouble with you is that you've missed your
line. You're a beauty, not a singer, join
with me and I'll make you make the other
women of the country wish they hadn't
come."
Still Stella gazed straight into space.
But her lovely lips quivered and a tear
dropped from the down-cast lashes nearest
him. Despite his promise, Monahan's
undisciplined arms unfolded and his hands
sought Stella's cold, clasped ones.
"Come with me and I'll settle a fortune
on you," he whispered hotly. "I'm making
a clean-up. I came down here to meet a
government agent who wants lumber for
ships, millions worth of lumber. They
want wooden ships, you know, to fill the
gap made by submarines. I've got to start
north this week to round up timber, all the
stuff in sight. I'll give you, lord, I'll give
you the world and an airship to conquer
new ones if you will."
A gleam shot into Monahan's watchful
eyes as he felt a thrill in Stella's soft fingers
and noted her sudden look of interest. "Do
it the regular way if you want to," he
coaxed. "Divorce Fyfe, and we'll marry
the day after."
OTELLA remembered little else of what
happened or was said on that ride. One
thought only bubbled from her brain to her
toes. It never left her till a week later
when she and the government agent, of
whom Monahan had told her, saw a
strange haze in the air as they spurred on
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their horses only fifty miles from Fyfe's
lumber camp.
"Fire," muttered one of their guides.
He took a long look at the morning sky
with his practiced eyes. "And a hell of a
fire too," he added.
From then on the ride was a race. The
agent told Stella they would have to leave
her if she couldn't keep up. She kept up.
She was even gay in the face of the roaring
devastation they neared. "My husband will
find a way to beat the flames," she told the
agent again and again. "He loves the trees.
He ^ will never let the fire get into our
claims !"
But she was wrong. It was Fyfe's hold-
ings that were burning, that had l)een
secretly fired two days before. The fire
had been kept to the southern end Imt the
flames were gaining and threatening the
whole great tract. For Fyfe had lost his
spirit and was only half fighting.
It was night when Stella and her party
reached the camp, a night of red glare,
thunderous crashings, and furnace heat.
The fire was burning from them toward the
north. The awful swirl of the flames was a
horror. The burned out, dry air was sick-
ening. "Great God what a loss," the agent
kept shouting. "Trees worth millions!
Why don't they stop it? There's no wind!"
When they left the bank of the stream
to approach the cook house a man appeared
hatless and bootless. He had been catching
a few hours of sleep. He rubbed his eyes
to get out the smoke and glare as the riders
came up. Stella threw ofl: her hat and her
liair gleamed in tlie fierce light. Then the
man leaped forward, grabbed her out of
her saddle, and stared into her straight
forward eyes as if he never could stop.
"Then you didn't go away with Mona-
han?" he demanded eagerly.
"With him?" Stella's amazement sent
Fyfe's sluggish blood bounding. "Of
course. I didn't go with him. I went from
him !"
vVt that I""yfe almost finished the .smother-
ing the vitiated air had begun for her. It
was minutes before the remonstrances of
the e.xcited agent got to his ears to make a
new figlit to put out the fire. He kept tell-
ing Fyfe tliat si.x hours more fighting was
all that was needed.
"How did it catch?" iniiuired the agent.
"Monahan, rather Monahan's men,"
replied Fyfe. "I can't guess his object.
We caught them, but they wouldn't tell."
And then for the first time Stella, who
could guess Monahan's oI)ject perfectly as
soon as he found she had used what he'd
told her al)out the government wanting
timber and fled to Fyfe, for the first time
she remembered to introduce the agent to
Fyfe and e.xplain his coming. "Just to
think Jack, what an idiot I was to put up
my puny little voice against your great,
powerful trees," she cried.
She stood, again her old whimsical self,
and held out her arms toward the burning
forest. "Look, Jack," slie bul)l)led, "just
look at that. You had millions, millions to
burn, and I never knew it !"
" My Harem "
Y^^U have always thought a harem a vast place with latticed windows,
surrounded by a mysterious chunk of water full of dirty murders, policed
by brunette Shriners in cozy-corner pants. You're wrong. You should see
my harem. It's not vast : it's very small, and I have no latticed windows, no
moat and no Shriners. I can't swim, and I wouldn't trust the Shriners with
the women in my harem. Oh, boy! Listen: Mae Murray spent four davs
with me two weeks ago. You know how dull rainy afternoons are? Weil,
Geraldine Farrar came up to my harem the last rainy afternoon. You should
have seen the glow in her eyes ! If the raindrops had hit them the place would
have been full of live steam. I didn't know whether we were having rain, or a
foreign invasion. Oh, boy! But I guess I'm fickle. Virginia Pearson was
the only girl I had last week that I let stick around for as much as two days.
She came up Monday noon, but back with her Tuesday night ! Wednesday
Fay Tmcher came in; Thursday, Clara Kimball Young; Fridav, Dorothy
Dalton; Saturday, Louise Lovely. Yes, and Marv Thurman's coming next
week. Oh, boy ! '
My harem is a projection booth. I am a motion picture operator.
Alan of All
Trades
IN the twenty-six years of his
life, Alan Hale has been
almost everything but ball
player. Hale, who had been
playing opposite Clara Kim-
ball Young before the now
celebrated Young-Selznick
war was declared, is nothing
if not versatile.
Young Hale began by
studying at the Philadelphia
College of Osteopathy, thus
starting out to be an expert in
Alan Hale and Clara Kimball
Young in a scene from "The
Price She Paid."
the manipulation of
bones and muscles.
As the result of a
prank. Hale, along with
a few pals, departed from
college and a medical
career at one and the same
time.
Hale next enlisted with
the Massachusetts militia
and became a member of
a machine gun squad.
Fate made the guards-
man a movie actor. A
motion picture concern
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secured the gun crew for a big film
scene. Hale still maintains
that they used the twentieth
century rapid firers to re
pel a Sioux Indian at
tack. Which is very
possible, since the
mere matter of a cen-
tury, more or less.
made little- difference
to producers of the
early days.
Anyway, the movie
debut, brief as it was.
started Hale's theatri
cal-screen career. First
he planned nothing less
than an invasion of the
Metropolitan. But his
voice, Ijank roll and music teacher
gave up at the same time. So
he turned to vaude-
ville, where a voice
is taken on face
value.
It was but a step
to pictures. Hale
has played with the
Champion, Lu b i n,
liiograph, Reliance-
Majestic, Lasky and
Famous Players, be-
sides, of course, his
recent association
with theSelznick forces.
He is the luishand of
Oretchen Hartmann, the
actress.
Moving Pictures in Church,
School, and Home
"The motion picture will be the great educational
factor of the future."
Thomas A. Edison.
Service will be the essential purpose of these
articles. They will be full of practical infor-
mation.
Beginning with the October issue, out Sept.
1st, Photoplay will publish a series of articles
of extraordinary interest on the use of motion
pictures in churches, schools, and homes.
Free Equipment for Churches
and Schools!
Photoplay has instituted a plan whereby any
school or church can secure a projection
machine and full equipment absolutely free.
Write the editor today for details of this plan.
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Review
Charles Ray and Margery Wilson in "The Clodhopper."
IN a shrapnel-smaslied world, Mr. Chap-
lin is today the greatest single lightener
of the iron burden. This statement is
made in solemnity, with discretion and
during sobriety. If there is any other
device or being which has so successfully
chased the imps of j^ain witii lashes of
laughter, chroniclers of current events are
uninformed of his or its whereabouts. From
the desert places of Mongolia to the Hima-
layas ; from Petrograd to Gibraltar ; from
Rio to the villages of the Andes, Mr. Chap-
lin's smile and cornerings are almost as
well known as they are in America, or
France, or Japan — which enterprising
country, indeed, has not a few slant-eyed
imitators who are professional Charlies for
ihe Nipponese.
The preceding paragraph is not an
attempt to rattle anything out of a husk of
perfectly-shucked news, but by way of in-
troduction to a very live topic : Mr. Chap-
lin's growing and very genuine artistry ; an
artistry I dare say comparable to Mr. David
Warfield's, or to Mr. Lew Fields' when
that variable gentleman is hitting on all
cylinders.
Did you see "The Immigrant?" I not
only saw "The Immigrant," but I saw some
light, disparaging reviews of it — one or two
by metropolitan critics. Henceforth, these
persons can never make me believe any-
thing they write, for the subject of their
malministrations is a transparent inter-
mezzo well repaying the closest analysis.
In its roughness and apparent simplicity it
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is as much a jewel as a story by O. Henry,
and no full-time farce seen on our stages in
years has been more adroitly, more per-
fectly worked out.
It has, to an extraordinary degree, those
elements of surprise which are necessary in
every play, and which put the cai)stone of
liumor on comedy, because they add to the
ludicrous the deli-
ciousness of the un-
expected. Examine,
for instance, t li e
passages in which
our shabby - genteel
finds a half-dollar,
and, slipping it as
he thinks into his
pocket, but really
through a hole in
his trousers, enters
the palace of tough
service and orders
with the independ-
ence of a capitalist.
How cunningly
these sequences are
bound together !
Our gourmet - hero
has no sooner hope-
lessly destroyed a
half-dozen orders
than he discovers
himself decidedly
not in funds. Then
the grim procession
of waiters, headed
by the vast Eric
Mary Pickford in a Scene from
American."
variation worked out with such patience and
skill that every sccpience of action seems
entirely natural and spontaneous.
'I'here is one flash of Chaplin's inimitable
pathos in this picture : that rollicking
moment in which, lifting the petite hand of
la Purviance, he discovers clutched within
it tlie black-bordered hankerchief whicli
t(.lls the story of her
mother's death.
Simi)ly, sincerely,
and with a look of
inlinite pity he
lowers her hand.
'J lie moment, gen-
u i n e 1 y affecting
though sandwiched
in l)oisterousness, is
a little flash of
genius.
"The Immigrant"
is singularly free
from vulgarity.
IVyiR. I'.RENONis
^^^ back.
He comes trotting
in on "The Lone
Wolf," a creature
sired in the library
of Louis Joseph
Vance, and born to
the sunlight in a
Selznick studio.
Here, ladies and
'The Little gentlemen, is the
concrete instance
Campbell, to -destroy a recreant customer
and oust his remains. The plot fairly
curdles when, in answer to Mr. Chaplin's
gasping query as to the cause of the trouble,
the giant replies ominously: "He was ten
cents short."
In dizzying succession come the waiter's
loss of a iifty, Mr. Chaplin's screaming
salvage of the piece, his return to calm —
and the waiter's discovery that the half is
pewter! Probability on 'a single incident
would now be quite exhausted under ordi-
nary circumstances, but Mr. Chaplin brings
to his table a friendly artist. There is some
polite fumbling for the check— and the
knight of the rattan cane is outfumbled !
His payment of the waiter with his friend's
change concludes what is without any doubt
at all the longest variation on a single
comedy incident ever put on the screen— a
long sought to show the difference between
real (or human) melodrama, and the
symthetic (or mechanical) melodrama
which has won almost every stage of tumult
and conflict in motion pictures.
It is so easy, when you get right down to
it, to devise.schemes, deformities, tricks and
traps. It is a bit harder to weave an all-
brass symphony of purely human hates and
desires ; to fabricate an exciting play about
an average lot of undecided villains, instead
of a chemical formula on a dial)olic nest of
maniac scientists, their hellish inventions,
and their pig-in-the-parlor puzzles of
homes.
Mr. Brenon has, it is true, a story a bit
old-fashioned. It narrates the dealings of
a romantic Parisian criminal known as
"The Lone Wolf," with a band of unro-
mantic criminals calling themselves "The
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Pack," but after this novelistic tradition is
accepted, the director busies himself to such
variety and interest with his naughty
gentry that the improbabilities of the
author's plot are forgotten in the extraor-
dinary vividness witli which each man
and woman appear in full character and
complete purpose before you. His grisly
material thrill is provided by a particularly
realistic murder ; his hair-lifting touch in
the awful — because commonplace — destruc-
tion of the murdered man's body. When
more producers realize with Mr. Brenon
that real, dull crime is far more blood-
chilling than the entertaining stunts witty,
malefactors might do, we shall have cellu-
loid melodrama more nearly comparable to
that of the old stage days. "The Lone
Wolf" also contains the best practical
demonstration of the airplane's possibilities
yet seen in a regulation screen-play, and
some unatmospheric and unconvincing
attempts to connect the story with the cur-
rent war.
Beyond its own excellence it should be
noted as the vehicle for the birth of a full-
sprung star — Mr.
Bertram Lytell. who. as
the lonely wolf, is debo-
nair and romantic enough
to win every kerribush-
reid girl in the U. S. A.,
yet is endowed with
enough force and sin-
cerity to make men swear
by and not at him. Lytell
is a genuine find in pic-
tures.
Miss Hazel Dawn is
■warmer, sweeter a n d
more lovely than she has
ever been on the screen,
and the rest of the ad-
mirable cast includes
William Riley Hatch,
William Shay, Alfred
Hickman and Ida Dar-
ling.
"The Lone Wolf"
moves with such swift-
ness and power that Mr.
Brenon's "Eternal Sin"
may now be liooked
merely as a transient
error.
DERSHING'S army in France is prob-
ably no more an advance guard than
"The Little American," a tragi-comic
Artcraft hurrah starring Mary Pickford.
There will be war plays of the water, war
plays of the land, war plays of the air.
But all of them would do well to emulate
the care, finish and ingenuity with which
this precursor has been put together. "The
Little American" is not only a stoutly
patriotic play, but it is classy, it is sensible
— a product for well-tutored people who
know oleomargarine from butter wlien they
taste it.
Angela Moore, summoned to France to
receive the legacy of an expiring aunt, goes
calm in the love of a German-American
who has returned to fight for his Father-
land. Angela is torpedoed, and from the
decks of the sinking "Veritania" shouts her
defiance to Kulturdom. Thence her exist-
ence is a pandemonium of frightfulncss,
for, in the chateau inhabited by her aunt,
she plays spy for the French, is witness
both to murder and rapine, and is saved
from a firing-squad's rifles only l)y the
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Douglas
Fairbanks
in
"Wild and
Woolly."
divine interposition of a 75 mm. shell.
Mr. De Mille, who directed this play,
is responsible for a most admirable sequence
of truths, from the garb and conduct of the
soldiery to such wee matters of realism as
an imminent voyager's selection of the one
New York paper known among trans-
atlantic travelers as the carrier of the most
reliable shipping news.
On the other hand, there are two or three
glaring improbabilities. But the balance is
on the credit side of the ledger.
Miss Pickford is forceful as well as
charming; Mr. Hatton, as a French re-
servist, has an inimitably sympathetic role ;
Jack Holt, as Karl von Austriem, the re-
pentant Kaiserman. is excellent, and Walter
LongandHobartBosworthare a valiant pair
of hell-hounds in the Prussian otficiarate.
Perhaps the most subtly dramatic
moment of the play is that in which Angela,
in the cry-wrung cellar of the chateau, is
confronted by a bloody, muddy, dull-eyed
girl whose rosary, still tightly clutched in
her shamed and impotent hands, seems a
cross upon the German Calvary of bestial-
ity. "But," says the Prussian colonel to
Angela's protest, "My men must have re-
laxation !"
lyiISS ANITA LOOS is the slyest bur-
lesquer the film tricks ever gathered
in. In "American Aristocracy" she bur-
lesqued snobbery ; in "The Americano" she
split Latin frenzy right up the back; in
Mr. Fairbanks' last play she took a re-
sounding and timely whack at pacificism;
in "Wild and Woolly," liis latest manifes-
tation, slie thrusts with friendly laughter
at tlie "\\'estern stuff" wliich has been
])lastcred in all its rope-talk on peaceable
Wyoming towns having a Chautauqua
every summer and chamber-music con-
certs every winter.
"Wild and Woolly" in its main
constituents is such sheer and impos-
sible farce that you quit asking
yourself as to its credibility, ancl
\ijt'^ swallow it whole. Jeff Hilling-
K ton, son of a railroading
W New Yorker, is a Western
nut whose room reseml)les
.1 \\'. S. Hart bill-room.
His father sends him to
the plains to get rid of
him, and the plainsfolk,
trying to haggle a branch
line out of father, remake tlieir New Eng-
land village and remold their staid talk to
give the son a taste of what he thinks is
the real thing. There is a real robbery, in
addition to the fake, and Jeff, of course,
is the real hero.
Mr. Fairbanks is seventy per cent of
the picture. Miss P2ileen Percy, his new
leading woman, seemed unfortunate in
make-up for her initial effort.
Some of the scenes, cut to too short
fla.shes, make the titles, in immediate juxta-
position, seem entirely too long.
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HE most significant and one of the most
interesting Universal features issued in
many months is "Come Through." It had
as its author George Bronson Howard,
than whom no cleverer nor more erratic
man has written for the films ; it deploys as
its hero Herbert Rawlinson, who has been
screen acting for years, yet who, as far as
good work is concerned, might just as well
have made his delmt here ; and it had as its
director one Jack Conway, about whom
you've heard very little, but concern-
ing whom you're going to hear a great
deal.
The fellow who makes the others come
through is a rather common sort of crook,
one James Plarrington Court, Avho, after
all, has the right instincts. His principal
patron in the come-through business is
Buck Lindsay, of Montana. Lindsay is in
love with Velma Gay, an orchid-like girl
who doesn't love him. She thinks she loves
Archie Craig, a society stripling.
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Buck, determined that the caveman idea
is the only winning way, continues to press
his suit with an overhot flatiron, and at
length discovers the sly meetings and secret
correspondence of Velma and Archie. At
this juncture Mr. Court happens among the
ungay Gays in search of plunder, and, re-
sembling Mr. Craig, is "stood up" by the
unceremonious Mr. Lindsay, and made to
wed. Then begins a coming-through of
heart for Velma, a coming-through of in-
tentions for Court, and a coming-through
and casting-out of all preconceived ideas
by Lindsay. The story is long and interest-
ing ; it contains several fights, and a lot of
real love-making and passionate restraint.
And it winds up with the blatant cowboy
and the erstwhile crook good friends. The
crook keeps the lady.
The development of the play is slow for
nearly three reels — too slow ; it contains
several pieces of such old-fashioned foolish-
ness as the love-note-in-the-hoUovv-tree, and
other relics from Laura Jean Libljey, but in
the main it is a stirring, realistic affair.
Alice Lake, George Webb, Roy Stewart —
and, as we have said, Herbert Rawlinson
in the role of Court — are the chief members
of the cast.
In "A Kentucky Cinderella," adapted
from F. Hopkinson Smith's story of the
same name, Universal produces a most re-
freshing bit of light comedy, and advances
into certain favor one Ruth Clifford, a
pretty girl who is not only pretty, but who
brings to the screen certain traits of childish
artlessness woefully lacking in most of the
"pretty" girls of the present day. Rupert
Julian directs and acts, and does both well.
There is much intimate life in this photo-
play, and the whole plot of its Cinderellaish
content is revealed in the two-word title.
Artists and studios are absolutely fatal
at Universal City. Like coy lures, they
hang around to muss up otherwise perfectly
good finales, insinuating themselves into the
most unexpected places, and running a trail
of beards, palettes, velvet coats and
Bohemian intentions over the plane surfaces
of matter-of-fact lives. Such a distortion
concludes "Fires of Rebellion," a strong
play with a strong name, all about a shoe
A Scene from "A Kentucky Cinderella.
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town. The piece starts with the Homeric
simplicity of a Galsworthy tract, and winds
up in a dull fudging clatter of syrup-of-figs
"morality." The participants include that
fine emotional actress, Dorothy Phillips;
Helle Bennett, Lon Chaney and William
Stowell. _____________^___
"The Little
Orphan" is a light
vehicle perfectly
adapted to the
talents of Ella Hall.
Its story is highly
reminiscent of
"When We Were
Twenty - One," ex-
cept that instead of
a male "Imp," to
stir up the love in-
terest and bedevil
the elders, there is
Rene Lescere, a
little B e Ig i a n
orphan, one of a
trio of children
adopted by three
bachelors : David
Clark, Dick Porter
and Jerry Mathers.
David is under the
impression that he
is getting a boy, but
the realization that
he didn't grows on
him during the years, until finally, Rene
failing to choose a suitable husband, she
pounces on her guardian. Ella Hall is an
accomplished minx, and Jack Conway not
only directs, but acts the leading male role.
This pleasing fantasy is the work of H. O.
Davis, whose essays in management have
l)een much more renowned than his essays
on a typewriter.
jyrONTE KATTERJOHN has been
■*■ rattling his Remington at Ince's
camps for a long time, but "The Flame of
the Yukon," recently shot down the ways
with Dorothy Dalton as an iridescent
figurehead, is the most vigorous photoplay
he has turned out. In its directness and
vitality it is, indeed, reminiscent of a work
of Rex Beach or Jack London. There is a
similarity in all the sub-Arctic stories ;
their range is as narrow as their climate;
the men of '98 existed in gulches and rec-
reated in dance halls ; they endured the
silence and dark and cold, and when they
came into the light their blood warmed
either to fight or frolic.
In "The Elame of the Yukon" Miss
Dalton is posed as Ethel Evans, the highly
desirable shake-down artist of "Black
Jack" Hovcy's hap-
Herbert Rawlinson and Alice Lake in "Come
Through."
l)Uicss empormm.
Comes along (ieorge
Eowkr. a stranger
who seems to have a
lot of dust. The
Magdalene melts,
and saves where she
should slay. And
of course there is
the inevitable crash
of physical conflict.
Miss Dalton is a
blaze of fleshly
glory, and though
fights are as stale as
double exposure,
there is one in this
play whicli will hold
you as though you
sat at a ring-side.
M e 1 1) o u r n e
MacDowell, leading
man of the heroic
t y p e y e a r s a g o,
makes a mighty
debut as the wicked
"Black Jack," and
Kenneth Harlan plays the stranger.
If Louise (ilaum can be kept away from
nutty attire and too many close-ups, she is
the screen's most credible vampire. She has
acting ability, and she has sympathy, a
faculty Avhich none of the other lady
demons seem to possess — though Bara, it
must be confessed, came very near it in
"Under Two Flags." One might say that
any man can begin a good story, but only
a genius can end it — so many are the well-
begun and wretchedly concluded tales of
the screen. "A Strange Transgressor,"
Miss Olaum's most recent expression, is an
example. It begins on the trite plot of the
father who confronts a former mistress in
his son's wife — but it begins well. And it
ends with a dull, inhuman plunk. J.
Barney Sherry is elected to the role of the
inhuman physician who was the girl's
keeper. If the doctor could only shake
Miss Glaum as easily as he shakes the
belief of his audience!
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"Madcap Madge" l)rings a new girl-star
to the screen who will pile up public favor
exactly in proportion to her layoff on pota-
toes and pastry. Olive Thomas plays
Madge, and if she will hold herself at her
present weight, she has the world by its
celluloid tail. She is not only pretty but
sweet, and she looks sixteen, eighteen —
whatever. This play is light, trite and com-
monplace, but it serves : it introduces Olive.
Score two for author Katterjohn : while
"The Clodhopper," his recent writing for
Charles Ray, does not possess the power of
"The Flame of the Yukon," it has that
which most photojilays lack : a fresh, even
if not novel viewpoint. The clodhopper is
the choreboy son of a country banker. As
father's safe swells his fists grow tighter,
and at length the boy, having no desire to
become the man with the hoe, beats it to
"the city." The first job that stares him in
the face is a janitorship in a theatre ; and
here the stage manager, struck with his
humorous possibilities, injects him into the
frou-frou entertainment. His success
proves him no clodhopper.
"Paws of the Bear" is a secret-service
story about the war. Not especially orig-
inal, and weak in that its heaviest blows
are delivered in the opening scenes. Tlie
leading people are William Desmond and
Clara Williams.
"The Hater of Men" : an interesting
study of feminine psychology l)y C. ( Gard-
ner Sullivan, featuring Bessie Barrisrale.
"giG TIMBER" is the best vehicle
Kathlyn 'Williams has had in a year.
It is an honest, virile story of men and
women in the lumbercamps ; has real sus-
pense, and a triangular interest where justi-
fications are left up in the air until the
crises arrive. It is used as a fiction story
in this issue of Photoplay. Miss Williams
has the fine support of Alfred Paget and
of Wallace Reid, and if you would know
how very, very much one little scant mous-
tache can change a man's personality, try
to find Reid under his. The picture is
convincing until its final moment — that
absurd, author-sent rain, nickoftimey as ye
old-fashioned reprieve.
What we said last month about George
Beban's need for new scenarios goes double
in the case of "A Roadside Impresario."
YV/HOEVER selects Pauline Frederick's
plays is ruining the greatest dramatic
talent among screen women. No woman
ever brought to the depthless stage such a
Dorthy Dalton in "The Flame of The Yukon.
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wealth of physical and intellectual splen-
dor, such big-muscled, perfectly trained
histronic resource, such glowing -reputation.
The slow-moving photoplay hath her sacri-
fices no less than war and machinery, and
among these seems to be the young woman
who began life as the most brilliant actress
of her type in the l-'.nglish world. Some
day we will arrive :r^====^=^=^=
at celluloid revela-
tions of life itself;
we will have the
scripts of a camera
Bernstein, or a
Thomas, or a Gals-
worthy, and we will
cry for a Frederick
to play them ; a n d
there will be no
Frederick. For no
woman can survive
the rubbish w h i c h
month after month
encumbers Pauline's
regal feet.
In "The Love
that Live s," her
latest masterpiece,
she plays a scrub-
woman coveted by a
broker ; and as if
this were not nov-
elty enough, she
sells herself to the
broker for long, ter-
rible, awful, dread-
ful, hideous, unbe-
lievable, unen-
durable, unendable
years of luxury and
Corinne Uzell and Sydney Ainsworth in
Trial"
leisure in order that her son may have an
education — to become a fireman. When
this splendid education, gained at his
mother's inconceivable sacrifice, enables
him to clap a nozzleman's helmet on his
head, of course mother kicks comfort right
out of the window and goes back to scrub-
bing, as they all do, and is perfectly happv,
as they all are. It. is to be expected that
the lad will find his own sweet kiddo, and
that the (assuredly) very endurable broker
will want her, too. Mother saves her in a
fireworks finale (also expected) which en-
ables the young man to show his tricks as
a ledge-walker unafraid of water, ice or
hack-flare. Our impression of Miss Fred-
erick in this sort of thing is Charles Dana
Gibson making a living drawing smutty
post-cards.
"The Boy Scout" should not be con-
demned. It should be forgiven. It is a
mis-fire, mis-fit play intended to star
Ann Pennington. But it was a rocket
which blew up before it got off the
ground.
Away with funer-
als, and on with the
rejoicing! "At First
-Sight," a vivacious,
dainty, down-to-the-
moment story • fea-
turing Mae Murray,
is ample cause for
festalizing. In the
first f)lace, it pre-
sents a writing man
of the real, not
story type. In the
second place, Rob-
ert Leonard's suave,
human direction is
felt in every foot
unreeled. In the
third place — j u s t
Mae ^lurray. Sam
Hardy's portrait of
Hartley Poole, t h e
diffident writer of
popular serials, who
is persistently
mashed by his wor-
shipper J u s t i n a
( >Iiss Murray) is a
gem. The denoue-
ment of the story is
delightful; Poole,
telegra[)hing h i s
publisher for light on a snarl in his oncom-
ing novel, receives this reply : "Why not
abduct her?" And because his rival, who
is let in on the wire at the country tele-
graph office, believes it refers only to
Justina. the finish comes thick and fast.
"The Long Trail" : a story of the Cana-
dian Northwest, featuring Lou-Tellegen
and Mary Fuller. Not notable, but pass-
able program material.
YV/HEN "On Trial" was produced in
^ New York City it was a great sensa-
tion, because it exhibited actors in person
making the quick changes of age and attire
that have grown so commonplace in the
{Continued on page 14.1)
'On
YOUR NAME, PLEASE?
Here is Mary mailing a few pictures of herself to her admirers. No wonder they pay her $500,000
a year. She must spend at least half of it for postage stamps. But Mary is such a generous little soul
she just can't refuse 'em.
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Some Film Folks Not
Jesse Lasky
about to start
on the last leg
of his recent
transcontinni-
tal automobile
tour.
Rembrandt Photo
William DeMille is
getting an uncom-
fortable "cost" ar-
gument from Fred
Klcy, superintend-
ent of productions
cf the Lasky outfit.
Milton E. Hoffman, studio
manager at Lasky' s, is often
called upon to settle differen-
ces between mem-
bers of the
company.
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Seen on the Screen
William Fox is a
gardener when he
isn't trying to
gather money for
Theda Bara's
salary envelope.
J. Stuart Black-
ton, Vitagraph's
moving spirit,
was an artist
before he went in
for moving pic-
tures. And still
is. He's only
changed his
medium.
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IPfays ancf\Players
FACTS AND NEAR-FACTS ABOUT THE
GREAT AND NEAR-GREAT OF FILMLAND
^jeal2/or/t
WELL, here we are. The million dollar
salary is a reality. Charles Chaplin took
luito himself a new affiliation during the past
month. He signed a contract with the new
National Exhibitors' Circuit, a co-operative
organization of theater owners, by the terms
of which he obtains $1,000,000 for eight two-
reel comedies. He was said to have received
one-fifth of this in cash upon signing the con-
tract.
BREAKING away from Triangle after
having officiated as one of the angles of
that organization
since its inception,
Thomas H. Ince has
become one of the
producing units of
the Paramount-Art-
craft rapidly expand-
ing institution. He
took with him from
Triangle, William S.
Hart, whose salary
incidentally jumped
to $10,000 a week,
placing him in the
Fairbanks - Pickford-
Chaplin class. The
Hart pictures, it was
said, would be re-
leased by Artcraft
with those of Miss
Pickford, Douglas
Fairbanks and George
M. Cohan. Charles
Ray and Enid Ben-
nett also followed the
lead of Hart and
Ince-supervised pho-
toplays starring them
will be marketed by
Paramount.
SIMULTANEOUS-
LY it was an-
nounced that Triangle
had purchased the
Keystone trade name
and that Mack Sen-
nett having disposed
of that name, would
make comedies under
the Sennett brand.
little personage. It had been announced pre-
viously that Miss Normand had signed a con-
tract with Goldwyn. Pretty hard to keep
track of 'em these days. Now Goldwyn is
seeking an injunction to restrain her from
making pictures for anyone else.
LIMA CAVELIEKI, of grand opera fame
and an international beauty, is again in
the films. She has agreed to appear in a
series of photoplays for Famous Players-
Lasky. It is not her initial effort on the
screen as she took part in a film play made
in Italy about a year
ago with her husband,
Lucien Muratore, the
noted tenor.
THEY
R
call Wallie
Reid "Father" at
the Lasky studio in
Hollywood. The rea-
son arrived at the
Reid home on June
i8^a son weighing
10 pounds, net. As
the result of a con-
ference held some
lime ago between Mr.
and ilrs. Reid ncc
Dorothy Davenport,
the arrival was
promptly titled, "Wal-
lace Reid, Jr." The
proud father states
that indications point
to a career in the vo-
cal rather than the
silent drama for the
youngster.
B'
can
be-
pa-
his
While on his inspection trip to Los Angeles, Major
General Liggett 0/ the U. S. Army visited the Fox
studio and met Theda Bara, who quit vamping
General Marc Antony to pose with General Liggett
{Mrs. Liggett was there all the time.)
AT about the same time word was sent
out that Mabel Normand was also to
become a Paramount star with Sennett parti-
cipatmg m the photoplays featuring that dainty
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I ILL HART
lay claim to
ing a practical
triot. During
swing around the cir-
cle in May and June,
he was requested in
nearly every city vis-
ited to make a talk
in behalf of the Lib-
erty Bonds. He got
so enthusiastic on the
subject that he made
numerous purchases of bonds himself. Ar-
riving in Los Angeles when the campaign was
just winding up. Bill bought anotlier batch
of bonds and the next day his bank notified
him that his account was overdrawn nearly
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111
$1,000. He had spent every cent he had for
bonds, and then a lot more. But the bank
extended him a bit of credit so that he didn't
have to go out and touch his friends so that
he could get along until his $to,ooo salary
began.
FRANK M O R-
GAN will be
seen opposite Madge
Kennedy in the first
comedy dramas that
famed comedienne
will do for Gold-
wyn. Mr. Morgan
attracted wide at-
tention from screen-
goers by his por-
trayal of the role
of Halkcft in "The
Girl Philippa."
COMEDIES in
which the late
John Bunny con-
vulsed millions of
film followers in
the pre - Chaplin
days will be reissued
by Vitagraph, ow-
ing, it is said, to the
big demand from
exhibitors.
Eva Tanguay tvho takes
a vacation from vaude-
ville to appear in a Selz-
nick Picture.
MA.UDE FEALY, of stage and screen
fame, was granted a divorce in Denver
recently from her husband, James Durkin,
a screen player. Miss Fealy was last with
Lasky in California. She ' was originally
known as Margaret Hawk and it was her
second divorce, the first having been from
Louis Sherwin, the dramatic critic.
ALICE MACCHES-
NEY, once of Essanay,
is a new Metro luminary.
Miss MacChesney got her
chance by winning a popu-
larity contest conducted by
a Chicago newspaper. "The
Trail of the Wisp" will
mark her Metro debut.
FILM folk on both sides
of the continent have
been "doing their bit" al-
most continuously ever
since the appeals have gone
out from Washington for
men and money. In New
York they have been in
almost constant demand
for benefit performances
and the same condition
has obtained in California.
After the Liberty Bond
excitement came the Red
Cross drive and every star
in the duchy of Hollywood
participated in the money
raising.
THE big event of the Red Cross season
in Hollywood was the band concert at
which world famous stars did stunts they
never even contemplated before in order. to
stimulate the money giving. A woman in the
audience held out a check for $ioo which she
said she would give if Doug Fairbanks jumped
from the roof of the stand. Doug promptly
shinned up the side of the structure and
jumped down, a distance of about 20 feet.
Charley Chaplin led the band for a similar
amount and then auctioned off his hat— the one
he was wearing— in two sections, the hat
proper and the lining which he had auto-i
graphed. Julian Eltinge consented to dance
the hula hula for a $100 donation to the fund-
and "Dusty" Farnum was induced to sing a
song which was said to be "The Cowboy's
Lament." Cecil B. DeMille acted as the
spieler for the "show" aided by Wally Reid
and other notables.
BEFORE the tourist rush begins this fall
Universal City is to have a wedding.
The engagement was announced at a ball
given recently at that screen municipality in
honor of President Carl Laemmle. Of course
the story wouldn't be complete without the
names of the co-stars in the approaching
event. The bride is to be little Ella Hall,
star of a hundred Universal photoplays and
Emory Johnson, the handsome blond leading
man of the same company now playing in
"The Gray Ghost" serial.
PEDRO DE CORDOBA, who will be re-
membered for his Escamillo in the Farrar
"Carmen" as well as other notable film por-
trayals, is a recent acquisition to the ranks
of the wed. The bride was formerly Miss
Antoinette Erwin Glover, a beautiful young-
woman of New York, where the marriage
occurred. Miss Glover has been on the stage
where she was known as Antoinette Erwin.
Here it is at last! — Mary Pickford and her little niece, Mary Pickford
Rupp, snapped on the lawn of the Pickford home in Hollywood, Cal.
Sister Lottie has kindly consented to allow Mary to pose with her
wonderful daughter.
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THEDA BARA has moved into a Holly-
wood bungalow and is now a full-fledged
native daughter of the Golden West. In fact,
she has become so thoroughly acclimated that
she refers to the Atlantic Seaboard as "the
efTete East." Miss Bara is iiusily engaged,
assisted by Director J. Gordon Edwards, in
transcribing to the celluloid her conception
of Cleopatra, whose batting average of .750
in the Egyptian Vamp League was never
equalled until Edison discovered the motion
pictures.
EDITH STOREY'S jump to Metro was
another big item of news for the picture
people last month. The resignation of Miss
Storey from Vitagraph several months ago
took him circles by surprise because of the
fact that she had been identified with that
company for so long a period. Metro will
star Miss Storey in a series of six big photo-
plays.
VITAGRAPH jumped into the limelight
when it signed up Frank H. Hitchcock
as its chief executive. Mr. Hitchcock was
postmaster general in the Roosevelt and Taft
cabinets and was the man who was credited
witli having "put over" the nomination of
Judge Hughes at the Chicago convention.
So he will probably be at home in motion
picture politics.
LLOYD INGRAHAM has succeeded James
Kirkwood as Mary Miles Minter's direc-
tor. Mr. Ingraham was for several years a
Griffith director, his best work for Fine Arts
having been in the direction of Alae Marsh
and Bobby Harroii. Miss Minter recently
agreed to play for two years more in Mutual
pictures.
ELSIE CLAREXS. a member of Goldwyn's
Jane Cowl company, committed suicide
in New York recently. She had just taken
part in a death bed scene and because of the
prominence of her role, the entire film will
have to be retaken. She left no word as to
her reason for self-destruction.
F.^NNIE WARD is no longer a Lasky star.
Within a month after signing a new two-
year contract the perennial flapper of the
films got into a temperamental tiff with her
director, George Mel ford, aiul the latter was
awarded the decision. Result: Miss Ward
was notified that her contract had been can-
celled. The services of Jack Dean, Miss
Ward's husband, were automatically dispensed
with at the same time. Miss Ward is regarded
as one of the wealthiest actresses extant, so
to speak, her jewels alone being appraised at
something like a half million dollars.
MILDRED HARRIS, once portrayer of
child roles for the old Domino and more
recently a Griffith ingenue, has been selected
by Lois Weber to play leads in the new pro-
Who's on the wire? Why it's Eileen Percy, but
she's not on the phone. It's a guy wire which
helps to keep the Fairbanks offices from blowing
auay. They're all doing it around the Fairbanks
main top— vaulting fences, climbing buildings and
ell the other Doug stunts, and not even Eileen is
immune. For purposes of identification, Eileen
was "Our Little Nell" in "Wild and Woolly" and
she now has a reg-fhr si'uation as the Fairbanks
opposite.
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113
ductions of that foremost film propagandist.
The first photoplay to come from the new
Weber studio is entitled "The Whim," and
in it Miss Harris is supported by Kenneth
Harlan, late of Fine Arts. Like the former
Weber star, Mary MacLaren, Miss Harris is
not yet seventeen. One of Miss Weber's forth-
coming productions is to be an adaptation
of Mary Roberts
Rinehart's "K."
H.-XRTLEY MAN-
NERS, play-
wright - husband of
Laurette Taylor, has
enjoined Triangle
from exhibiting
"Happiness," an Enid
Bennett celluloid ve-
hicle, alleging it to be
an infringement on
his stage play of the
same name.
THE Hollywood
highbrow colony
has been augmented
by the arrival from
New York of Miss
Frances Marion, who
has become official
scenarioist to Miss
Mary Pickford. Miss
Marion, who is one
of the highest paid
script writers in the
business, was for a
long time head of
the W^orld scenario
department. She made
her bow to the film-
ers as an actress in
"The Girl of Yester-
day" with Miss Pick-
ford, and prior to
that she had been engaged in newspaper writ-
ing and poster painting.
GERALDINE FARRAR, doubly famous
as the wife of Lou-Tellegen and
America's leading operatic star, is engaged
in making her fifth photoplay, as yet unnamed.
It is a story that dates back to the Aztec
rulers of Mexico and the players therein are
said to be wearing garments made of chicken
feathers. Cecil B. deMille is the director.
FLORENCE VIDOR, the girl who made
such a decided hit as the unnamed little
milliner who went to the guillotine with Wil-
liam Farnum in Fox's "Tale of Two Cities,"
is playing with Julian Eltinge in his first film
play. After leaving Fox, Miss Vidor played
opposite Sessue Hayakawa in a Japanese play.
T WARREN KERRIGAN is now playing
J» in pictures under his own auspices which
are to be released by the newly organized
Paralta Company. His first one will be an
adaptation of Peter B. Kyne's "A Man's
Man."
THAT sterling idol of the Amalgamated
Association of Letter Writers, Antonio
Moreno, is to be seen as leading man with
Mrs. Vernon Castle in her newest Pathe pic-
ture. It is heralded as a thriller.
ALICE JOYCE'S
is back in New
husband, Tom Moore,
York after a sojourn
on the Coast. He
will appear opposite
Constance Talmadge
in the stellar debut of
that young woman
under the Selznick
It will be
as "The Les-
colors.
known
son."
Appearing opposite George M. Cohan in his new
picture, is Anna Nilsson, the popular film actress.
In the leading role of the "Seven Keys" supporting
cast Miss Nilsson appears to particular advantage,
which fact will be readily appreciated by those who
are familiar with her work.
PARAMOUNT has
gone into the se-
rial business. The
first "continued next
week" affair to be
turned out by that
concern will be "The
Twisted Thread"
with Kathleen Clif-
ford as the star. The
serial was made by
Balboa and was or-
iginally intended as a
Pathe thriller.
TALKING about
serials, that
queen of the contin-
ued "story," Pearl
White, is out in a new
one which bears the
interesting title, "The
Fatal Ring." It will
take fifteen weeks to
find out what finally
became of the ring.
DIGBY BELL, noted player of stage and
screen, died in New York several weeks
He had been ill
ago at the age of 68 years
several months.
FIRST among the Los Angeles film colony
to hasten to the front was Lucien Little-
field, the youthful character actor at the Lasky
studio. Immediately following the comple-
tion of "The Little American" in which he
played a French soldier, young Littlefield left
for the front with a unit of the American
Ambulance Corps. Harry Ham, a well known
film comedian, was among those who departed
later.
A
BIG dramatic future appears to be con-
fronting the well known Fairbanks
twins, Marion and Madeline, once of Than-
houser films. They have been playing in Mr.
Ziegfeld's Follies and that gentleman has been
so impressed with their dramatic ability that
he has signified his intention of presenting
them in drama before long. They may even-
tuallv become photoplay stars — one can never
tell. "
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MONTANA lias decided to get on the film
map. A company was recently organized
at Butte with a two million cai)italization
and Vivian Rich, former American and Selig
star, has been engaged to furnish the featured
feminine feats for the initial offering.
CONSTANCE TALMADGE has joined
her sister Norma in the Sclznick con-
stellation and lias already taken .steps to pre-
clude the possibility of anj- sisterly advan-
tage such as a bigger electric name on Broad-
way for Norma than for herself. The j'ounger
Talmadge did her best screen work as the
Mountain Girl in "Intolerance." There is still
another Talmadge, Nathalie, the baby of the
family, who expects in time to increase the
stellar duet to a trio.
stein's daughter. Tiic latter has been playing
opposite Robert Warwick in recent releases.
ANITA STEWART was compelled to give
up her film work in June because of a
nervous breakdown, due to a too early resump-
tion of camera activities after her attack of
typhoid fever last summer. Siie spent several
week, in a Connecticut sanitarium.
J
\MES W. HORNE who has been with
Kalem for many years is suing tlie Kalem
Company. for $i6,o<X) for breach of contract.
Home of late has l)een directing Marin Sais
and it was he who created tiie famous "Mys-
teries of the Grand Hotel" series, two years
ago.
I^ rather unwelcome
sort has been lav-
C a r 1 y 1 c
during the
or eight
Alimony
$1 10
paid
ished on
Blackwcll
last six
weeks.
amounting to
weekly is bein
his wife Ruth Hart-
man Blackwcll, pend-
ing trial of a suit for
separation. They
have two children,
Esther and Carlyle,
Jr., five and three
years old respectively.
At one time Mrs.
Blackwcll was her
husband's leading
woman. It was dis-
closed during the
hearing that Black-
well received $500 a
week from World and
he testified that it
took nearly all of
this sum to get along.
RO M A I N E
FIELDING
seems to have suc-
ceeded in his come-
back stunt. After
directing a number of
pictures for World,
Fielding went to
Montreal to produce
a patriotic film en-
titled "For Liberty" in conjunction with the
Canadian military authorities. E. K. Lincoln
IS to be co-starred with Fielding in the picture
and Miss Barbara Castleton plays the feminine
lead, b leldmg had been away from the screen
for more than two years.
T EE SHUBERT and Arthur Hammerstein,
l-j whose names are familiar to stage patrons
have joined forces with Ralph luce in a new
picture-producing company. The principal
stars will be Lucille Lee Stewart, Mr Ince's
wife, and Elaine Hammerstein, Mr. Hammer-
M
UTUAL has ac-
Captain Ian Hay Beith, author of " The First
Hundred Thousand, " one of the great stories of
the present W7r. visits Laskyton and is photo-
graphed with Captain Cecil B. dcMille. commander-
in-chief of the Lasky studio.
AlixTt Capellani, one
of the best celluloid
guides in filmdom.
The well know n
French director is to
look after tlie screen
destinies of Julia San-
derson, who is mak-
ing her shadow stage
debut. M. Capellani
directed many of the
recent film successes
of Clara Kimball
Young.
tUI.IANELTINGE,
J wJio has been des-
ignated "the best
dressed woman on the
American stage," is
now a film player. He
readied Hollywood
late in June, signed
the payroll at the
Lasky studio and
donned his latest fem-
inine creations for a
photoplay under tlie
direction of Donald
Crisp. It is to be a
comedy -drama witli
Eltinge in his well
known double stand-
ard role.
A
NNOYANCE
thusiastic do the film
patrons become when they see June Caprice in
a theater that the little star always disguises
herself now when venturing out to see a
"movie show," so we are told by the Secretary
of Intelligence for William Fox. Fame is
sure a terr'ble thing.
RITA JOLIVET is re-entering American
movies under the Selznick Iianner, and
the personal management of her husband,
Count Cippico, a young Italian nobleman
closely related to the reigning house.
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"Writing"
Slapstick
THE MOST SERIOUS BUSI-
NESS IN THE WORLD
By Alfred A. Cohn
Drawings by R. Wetterau
IF you have any doubts as to the correct-
ness of the above caption, take a peep
into the scenario department of any
slapstick works. That is, with reference
only to the seriousness of that little-known-
about profession, for slapstick comedy is
not written. It is "doped out." But so
long as they call it "writing" we may as
vvell fall into the spirit of the thing. As
to the utter seriousness of the vocation,
trade or profession — or you might stretch
a few points and call it literature — why a
conclave of comedy writers would make
an undertakers' convention look like
the most joyous occasion one
might conjure up. These plot
ters of boisterous film fun
are serious almost to the
point of morbidness ; they
even take themselves seri-
ously.
Don't mistake the
intent of this little
paper ; it is not in-
tended as an expose.
Its purpose is purely
educational. The au
thor will guarantee that
after perusing this
thoroughly, any-
one can succeed
as a writer of
slapstick comedy.
In other words, forti
fied with the information about to be
divulged, the ambitious reader will only
have to go out and get a job, and then
make good.
In learned articles of this kind, there is
usually a little preface containing a history
of the subject, as it were. Hence :
The father of comedy — and comedy is
The first comedian struck the second comedian with
a wooden implement so constructed that a loud re-
port was given out.
refined slapstick ; or it might be said that
slapstick is ultra-obvious comedy — was a
(ireek gentleman named Aristophanes.
Prior to his appearance something like
2,500 years ago, the only thing the people
had to laugh at was tragedy. A few hun-
dred years after Aristophanes had cashed
in, two Roman fellows called Plautus and
Terence broke into the torchlight of pub-
licity, as it were, with some more modern
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comedies which were probably advertised
as containing "a laugh in every line." Any-
liow they wrote several hits which had long
runs in the leading playhouses of Rome
about 150 B. C. The next thousand or so
years did little fur the cause of comedy,
.the next notable writer, being William
Shakespeare, a number of whose plays have
recently been iilmed with great success.
The first really obvious comedy was con-
tributed to the stage by one Moliere, a
French author-actor-producer of the seven-
teenth century and it has been alleged that
a lot of his stuiT has been purloined by pres-
ent day artists.
But with the exception of a few Moliere
comedies, nothing worthy of emplacement
in the slapstick hall of fame transpired
until the middle of the last century.
For the benefit of those who do not
realize the fine distinction between straight
comedy and slapstick, it may be stated tliat
the latter is more pointed and therefore
more apparent and easily understood by
the masses than the former. Here is
how slapstick comedy came to
reach its fruition :
The climax of many
lumcdy situations didn't "get over" back a
generation or two ago, because the comedy
was too subtle. For instance one comedian
would stick a pin in some part of his part-
ner's anatomy, thereby causing the latter to
jump suddenl)-, or perhaps fall grotesiiuely.
Everybody would "get" the result but only
to the initiated was the cause obvious. To
correct this weakness the slapstick was
devised. Those to whom the foregoing
example was too subtle, quickly got a clue
to tlie situation when the first comedian
struck the second comedian with a wooden
implement so constructed tliat a loud
report was given out when tlie point of
contact was reached. This imj)lement was
called tlie "slapstick." I ruly, necessity is
tlie mother of invention.
The civilized world owes a great debt to
llie inventor of slapstick comedy, who-
ever he was. The Encyclopedia Brittanica
and like publications are strangely silent on
this vital subject.
Regardless of its early history, a new
technicjue for slapstick came into being
wlien audiences were transformed into mere
spectators ; when silent .sliadowy reflections
rejjlaced the living presence and the
spoken word. The present exalted
status of the film comedy is the
result of evolution, though some of
the foremost exponents of that art-
lorm would probably deny indignantly any
such accusation.
Fhe writer recalls in stereoscopic mind
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117
pictures,
sight of
, - -.^-- ~,^v, ™*^'*'5^S^
his first
a slap-
stick comedy in the
making.
The locale was
front of an immense grandstand at a
famous automobile racing
The time about five years a
The cars were spinning
by so fast that one
could scarcely catch
their numbers.
haps only four.
\\'hile the cars were spinning
by so fast that one could
scarcely catch their numbers, the
thousands in the stand were sud-
denly attracted to the idle — as it were—
side of the course. A man with a camera
had "set up" along the rail. A big fat
man, now known to all film see-ers, took
his place in front of the camera. Another
man, perhaps equally famous, took his
place at the side of the corpulent one. He
was made up as an old man. A pretty girl
whose face is familiar wherever films are
screened, joined the party and a little thin
man with a strong Teutonic accent sta-
tioned himself beside the cameraman.
With a word from the latter the action
began. The slim man at a command from
the director made a jump for the fat man
and bore him to the ground.
In a moment arms and legs were flying
and the crowd forgot the racers.
The little director yelled for more .speed.
He exhorted the thin man to kick the obese
one in the stomach. He pleaded with the
fat man to claw at the thin one's face. He
importuned both to battle more fiercely and
when the fat one managed to throw off his
tormentor, he directed the big fellow to
hurl the little fellow over the rail into the
crowd. All the while the girl was hopping
about, encouraging first one and then the
other. By and by, one of the racers drove
into the pits for repairs and at the instiga-
tion of the director the girl dashed across
the course regardless of oncoming cars and
threw her arms about the astonished and
begrimed driver.
AV'hen asked what the film story was all
about, the director blandly replied that he
didn't know. That they were just "shoot-
ing as they went along." They didn't
know the beginning of the story, nor the
ending. They were taking advantage of a
big event,' a made-to-order mob and an
o p p 0 r-
tunity for in-
spiration.
That was character-
istic of the early, or Pleistocene age of
the slapstick comedy. No one knew what
the story was to be until it was well along
toward completion.
It's much different now. Before they
get more than 10,000 feet of film "shot"
for a two-reel comedy, they can almost tell
how the story may be going to end.
The chief policy of one slapstick foun-
dry is to "thrill 'em as well as make 'em
laugh." So they have brought into play
the super-stunt in which the camera fs the
chief performer, aided by derricks and
piano wires. The pioneer slapstick is
indeed a modest, and one might almost say,
refined, comedy appurtenance in these days
of strenuous stunts. Yet the name still
clings though the stick is not nearly so
potential as the familiar pie, which con-
tinues to be called upon to fill any unex-
pected void in a comedy. They get the
old slapstick eft'ect most commonly now by
hitting the victim with an auto or blowing
him up with a bomb. There are many other
standbys. commonly designated in comedy
circles as hokum, or gags.
One of the accepted studio proverbs is:
"When in doubt, gag it." That is. slip
in one of the old sure-fire laugh producers,
or some variation of an old one.
Getting back to the subject of "writing"
slapstick comedies. thousands — perhaps
hundreds of thousands of writers have won-
dered whv thev haven't been able to sell
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a comedy scenario to one of the big film
companies.
The chief reason is that there is no sucli
thing as a scenario or 'script of a slapstick
comedy. No continuity is written and the
writers, as stated earlier in the day, do not
write.
In one of the biggest comedy plants, a
staff of about twenty writers is employed.
Yet, perhaps not more than a few of these
writers have ever written anything, or could
if their respective lives depended upon it.
The only desks in the place and the only
typewriters are for the stenographers. In
this place of strenuous endeavor, no one
person has ever been solely responsible for
a completed comedy. The finished product
almost invariably is the result of conference
work.
One "writer" comes in with the skele-
ton— or maybe only the jawbone — of a
plot. It is passed up to the "chief." If
the latter'si verdict isn't "rotten," as it
often is, a council of writers and a director
whose forte is building this sort of a com-
edy, get together and "dope it out," every
word spoken in the conference being faith-
fully taken down by the stenographer.
Then there are other conferences and
rehearsals before they start "shooting."
Perhaps the entire plot is altered during
the course of production and not infre-
quently several months have been required
to complete a two reel comedy.-
Film is the cheapest thing around a
comedy plant and for the average two-
reeler, between 12,000 and 20,000 feet of
film ordinarily is exposed.
When all has been shot, then comes the
subtitling. Each of the "writers" submits
a set of subtitles. These, of course, are
actually "written" and the best of them
are chosen for the completed picture after
perhaps a week or ten days has been spent
in the cutting room. The "writer" is usu-
ally called in wdien the director puts the
"story" on the operating table for the
deletions. The theory of the cutting room
is that the more a comedy is cut the better
it becomes, a precept that probably had its
origin in more advanced surgical sources.
The early slapstick fathers would prob-
ably fail to recognize their posterity. Ad-
judged by the old standards, the antics of
the old boys were rough. Subjected to
the modern curtain fire of custard pies
or bombardment of brittle- bottles, they
would become peeved; they would prob-
ably lose patience with a director who asked
them to roll in a lot of molasses so that a
feather bed would more easily attach itself
and if recjuested to hop from a skyscraper
into a tank of unfiltered water, they would
perhaps object strenuously that this was
not art. Thus have times changed.
The "writers" of this form of inaudible
dramatic expression have been gathered
from all fields of endeavor. Some have
been barbers ; some have been bookkeepers ;
some have been butchers ; some have been
poets and others song writers ; and in iso-
lated instances humorous writers have been
employed.
An encouraging sign of the times is the
improvement in this so-called slapstick
comedy. There is more story and more
human interest than in tlie earlier days,
without sacrificing any laugh potentiali-
ties. A slapstick explorer has rediscovered
an ancient apathegm that laughter and
tears are closely related and occasionally
we get bits of pathos and dramatic acting
that are real art, even though sandwiched
in between a meringue engagement and a
hydrolaughic bombardment.
There is a distinct trend comedywards.
There isn't an awful lot to laugh at in these
days of conscription, high onions and in-
creased income tax. Besides there is big
money in laughter and it is no wonder that
those who would tickle a harassed world's
funnybone are taking their business more
and more seriously as they reiterate their
everlasting query, the eternal question of
the slapstick studio: "Will it make 'em
laugh?"
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dictating a message to the American people
in his office in the White House w-as sent
to nearly every motion picture theatre in
the country. Half a million feet of film
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The Slacker
By Janet Priest
CAIJ,
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the lifeguards. A man is
.•ning !"
Tlie cry aroused the listless
group on the beach. Some of the bathers,
who had been sunning themselves on the
sand, ran hysterically to and fro in a wild
attempt to find someone who would go to
the rescue.
"Bob" Wallace, one of society's idlers,
raised his lazy length from beneath a great
sun-umbrella to see what all the noise was
about. His keen eyes caught sight of the
black .spot bobbing, battling helplessly with
the breakers. Hastily taking off coat and
shoes, he swam swiftly out. A few moments
later, the lifeguards were reviving the half-
drowned swimmer, while Bob was being
acclaimed as a hero.
"Why, I never dreamed he had so much
spirit," said Virginia Lambert, a pretty
little debutante.
Marguerite Christy answered her. "Non-
sense ! Do you suppose I'd be engaged to
marry him if he hadn't? Your George isn't
the only member of the A\'allace family,
even if he is yearning for war so that he
can be a soldier !" She gave the girl a
good-humored smile, and then turned to
Robert.
"You'd better run along and change your
clothes, Bob," she said. "You're all wet,
and this hero talk is very gratifying, but it
won't dry vou a bit." Marguerite would
not admit it, but she was really very proud
of her lover's brave deed.
One thing, though, she could not quite
fathom. He had shown no interest what-
ever in the talk of impending war. "Of
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course it will be different if \var is actually
declared," she told herself. "lie's just
waiting for that."
A few nights later, at the McAllister
dinner, she stopped short on hearing her
own name pronounced. She was about to
answer with one of the quaint jests for
which she was noted Avhen further words
held her spell-bound. Her hostess, Mrs.
McAllister and Morton Hayford were dis-
cussing her engagement to Robert Wallace.
"He's treating her
shamefully," said the
aristocratic hostess.
"They've been engaged
two years, and the date of
the wedding is still, as the
society editors say, 'in-
definite.' "
"Perhaps she's not
ready to be married," sug-
gested Hayford.
"Oh, it isn't Margue-
rite. She confessed to my
daughter Jane that it
wouldn't annoy her in the
least to be married. You
know her odd way of say-
ing things. It's Robert.
I suppose he loves her, in
his way, but he's just too
lazy to think of changing
conditions." They moved
toward the music-room
and Marguerite fled, not wishing to be dis-
covered.
Rather amused than otherwise, she wan-
dered into the garden. Gossips-! What
did she care about them? She and Robert
would marry in their own good time — or,
rather, in Robert's own good time. For
the present, she was at least contented, if
not happy.
John Harding, faithful friend of the
family, followed her.
"Marguerite! This is luck!" he ex-
claimed. "To see you alone for a minute.
You're generally surrounded bv a mob."
"Why, John ! You could se(^ me at anv
time vou wanted to. A good old friend
like you!"
"I'm afraid that's the trouble. Margie.
I'm too old a friend to be taken seriously."
There was a note of surprise in her voice.
"Surely you don't mean that."
"That's just what I do mean. Margie. I
can't bear it! Robert is neglecting the
"THE SLACKER"
NAkR-ATEU, by i>crmission of
the Metro Pictures Corpora-
tion, from the i)hc)to drama of the
same name, written and directed
by Christy Cabanne. Produced
with the following cast :
Marguerite Christy .Kmi\y Stevens
Henry Wallace Daniel Jarrett
Robert IVallace Walter Miller
John Harding Leo Delaney
Mrs. McAllister
Mrs. Mathilde Brundage
George IVallace .. .Eugene Borden
Jane McAllister Belle Bruce
I'irginia La»iZ>rr/. Millicent Fisher
Mrs. Christy Mrs. Sue Balfour
Sergt. Jennings
G. P. Hamilton, Jr.
Valet Charles Fang
Child of th,e flag. . Baby Ivy Ward
oiipurtunity any other man would give his
right arm for."
"John, you mustn't talk like that," she
said, her face white in the moonlight.
Disregarding her words, he continued.
"Margie, marry me ! I've loved you always;
dear. My life is yours to do with as you
please."
She laid her hand gently on his arm.
"Really, you mustn't talk so. You know
I'm in love with Robert. I know it's stupid
of me, but I'll never get
over it."
John stood silent for a
moment, trying to control
his emotions, and then
strode into the house. As
luck would have it, he en-
countered Robert on the
veranda, and his wrath
flamed out at the laggard
in love.
"Bob ^\'allace, you treat
that wonderful girl as she
deserves to be treated, or
by (iod ! you'll have to
answer to me !"
Robert gave him a look
of well-bred surprise, and
Harding, regaining his
composure, hastened to
apologize for his rashness.
The men shook hands, and
Robert continued his lan-
guid stroll into the garden to join his
fiancee.
"Really, Margie," he said with a good-
humored laugh, "I had no idea I was en-
gaged to such a heart-breaker. A moment
ago Harding almost threatened my life."
He put up a well-manicured hand that
failed to conceal a yawn.
"Do I bore you?" asked Marguerite,'
Avith an amused smile.
"Oh no, really, Margie — not in the
least." Another, and more persistent yawn,
possessed him.
The girl quietly took his hat from his
other hand and put it on his head, then
grasping him by the shoulders turned him
squarely about.
"Go home, Robert." she said. "Don't
let me keep you up." And home he went
to the attentions of his valet, thanking his
stars that he was engaged to a girl with
some sense.
Next day the blow, long expected by the
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whole nation, fell. Great headlines in the
newspapers proclaimed the declaration of
a state of war. The enthusiasm long with-
held by a position of neutrality broke loose,
and everywliere excitement reigned.
John Harding went thoughtfully up to
his "den." There the Confederate and
the United States hags hung together. Rev-
erently John kissed the tiags his forefathers
had died for. Then gently unfurling
the Stars and Stripes he said: "My father
fought under the Confederate flag. I'll
fight under this one I" In that silent room
John Harding dedicated his life to the
nation and to humanity, wherever it might
be menaced by the spirit of militarism and
ruthless slaughter.
He thought himself unseen, until his
Chinese valet, Wing, spoke.
"Allee same my flag, too," grinned the
Chinaman.
"Your flag, you yellow rascal. What are
you talking about?" said Harding.
"Wing go enlist. \\ ing go to wah allee
same boss."
"Why, Wing, they don't need you.
There ate plenty of good Americans to
fight for the flag."
But the little Chinaman for once in his
life was serious. He shook his head earnest-
ly as he made his position clear to his be-
loved "boss."
"Wing good Amellican, too. Wing le-
ceive honolable discharge from Spanish-
Amellican wah. Wing on Admillal Dewey's
flag-ship. Now what you say, boss?"
Harding was dumfounded. "I haven't
a word to say, Wing. You enlist."
One day George Wallace, Robert's
younger brother, slipped away and enlisted
in the navy. Everywhere men were dedicat-
ing their services to the nation, and women
were proud of them.
But it was not so that Robert Wallace
took the news. Over and over he read the
announcement that single males between
the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one would
be the first called. That word "single"
seemed to stand out in letters of fire. He
turned for relief to the society column. Al-
most the first item upon which his eyes
rested was a criticism of the long engage-
ment between himself and Marguerite
Christy. He picked up his hat and with-
out more ado went to the Christy home.
Little effort was needed to make his
fiancee agree to an early marriage, and Mrs.
Christy was overjoyed to think that at last
she could still the tongues of the gossips.
Everyone was delighted at the union, — e.x-
cept poor faithful John Harding, who
suifered in silence as the bridal party drove
away.
Marguerite, radiantly happy, always in-
tensely patriotic, plunged into the work of
recruiting on her return from her honey-
moon. "Robert! isn't it glorious?" she ex-
claimed, "to think we have the privilege of
putting liberty on a firm foundation for all
nations? Peace is wonderful, but the fear-
ful, uncertain peace of one who fears a thief
in the night is not peace. It is terrible, of
course, that the contest had to come. But
isn't it glorious to know that we have the
will and the courage to grapple with the
menace, and fight for ideals against anarchy
and barbarism?"
"Fine, Margie," said her husband. "But
why waste all this on me? Save the fire-
works for your recruiting meetings."
It was a matter of great annoyance to
Robert Wallace that his wife insisted on his
accompanying her on these patriotic excur-
sions. He sat back in the automobile,
utterly bored, while she addressed the
groups at the recruiting stands. The blood
of heroes was in Marguerite Christy's veins,
and that fact was never more apparent than
now. She put her whole heart and soul into
the work.
She reminded her hearers of that priceless
heritage, the courage of their ancestors ; she
reviewed for them the brave deeds that
had served as milestones to mark the prog-
ress of the nation.' She brought vividly
before their eyes the valorous souls who
have won the nation's eternal gratitude. —
Nathan Hale, the gallant Paul Revere, the
statelv ^^'ashington, that sturdy aristocrat
who could keep warm the spirits, if not the
bodies, of his patriots at Valley Forge ; and
Lincoln, who had the high courage to be
true to the right as he saw it and save a
nation for posterity.
"Are vou worthy of such sires as these?"
she cried with arms outstretched. "Did
courage, patriotism and honor die with
them? Don't dare to tell me that it did !"
They rallied around her, eager to enlist.
On the edge of the crowd a mother was
pleading with her boy, who had started
toward the recruiting officer. "Richard !"
she implored. "Your father was killed in
the war with Spain, your brother died at
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A few moments later the life guards were m
Vera Cruz. Surely our family has done its
duty by its country."
"Yes, mother," he answered. "But
there's my duty to be considered !"
A blond youth, plainly of Teutonic
origin, was arguing with his father, after
listening gravely to Marguerite's speech.
"Yes, those were brave deeds," said the
older man, "but this is not your country,
Rudolph. Your country is the Vaterland,
where both of us were born."
"True, we were born there, father," said
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123
half droivned swimmer while Bob was being acclaimed as a hero.
the son, "but this is where Ave live, and
it is here the little Mother is buried.
This is my land now, and I will light for
it!"
A blind man forced his way to the group
around the motor-car. Tears streamed from
his sightless eyes. "I'm not shirking, lady,"
he said to Marguerite. "I lost my sight in
the Spanish-American war, and I'd gladly
give my life if they'd take me now."
"Haven't we had about enough of this?"
asked Robert. And Marguerite, tired but
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"A slacker! Why
that's all you are
at any time. "
happy, signalled the chauffeur to start
homeward.
A boy scout jumped up on the running-
board and gave her a handbill. It read:
"Is the man you're going with a slacker?"
A hideous fear possessed Marguerite for a
moment. She looked at her husband invol-
untarily, as if to measure him with a glance.
But the incident of the beach, when he had
risked his life to save an unknown man
from drowning, came to her mind. Reas-
sured, she laid her arm across his shoulders,
satisfied. She did not realize that the
sporting instinct in a certain type of selfish
man would cause him to risk his life once,
whereas he would not deliberately walk into
danger in cold blood.
Social, rather than patriotic duties, con-
tinued to interest' Robert Wallace. The
usual round of receptions and dinners
claimed his attention, and he was already
beginning to neglect Marguerite. With her
accustomed bravery she hid the wound in
her heart. It was at a musical that Robert
upbraided his brother George for coming in
his sailor's uniform.
"Have you no more respect for your
hostess?" he asked, "than to come to a
social function dressed in the ugliest cos-
tume a man was ever cursed with ?"
"Why, it's beautiful!" said Virginia
liotly. "It shows he's a brave man, and I'm
just as proud of him as I can be !"
"Why don't you object to my appear-
ing here in uniform?" asked John
Harding.
"Why, you're an officer!" said
Robert. "That's vastly different."
"It is not in the least different !"
said Harding. "If every man
waited to be made an officer
there would be no soldiers and
sailors to uphold the honor of
the nation !"
"Bravo ! we'll have to let
you join Margie on her
recruiting tours."
"I notice you are not yet
in uniform," said Harding.
"What branch of the service
do you intend going into?"
"Vou read the call, didn't
you?" said \\'allace coolly.
"Singh' males within a certain
age limit. Well, I'm not
single. I took mighty good
care of that !"
Harding stood aghast. "Do you mean
to say that you deliberately married to es-
cape duty?"
Robert did not know that his wife stood
just within the doorway. He made answer
glibly enough.
"Certainly! Why should I be annoyed
with all this jingoism? Life is too sweet
for me deliberately to put myself in the way
of (jcrman bullets."
Harding turned on his heel without a
word, unable to bear the presence of this
avowed coward. George, humiliated be-
yond words, turned his back on his brother,
and led Virginia away. Marguerite fled to
her room like a stricken, wounded creature,
not wishing her friends to know that she
had heard. It was Jane McAllister and
Virginia who went up to Robert's room and
tied a yellow ribbon to his curtain, as a
visible reminder of his cowardice.
Marguerite sent for John Harding, to ask
his advice. As she left the house, gloved
and hatted, her husband asked where she
was going. "I don't know." she answered
dully, and vouchsafed no further informa-
tion. He followed her, and saw her join
Harding in the park.
"You thought you could deceive me." he
sneered when she returned. "But I saw
vou — vou were with Harding."
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125
Marguerite had ant
It was the inevitable c
"And why not?" s
fully. "Why should I
friend as to what can
slacker?"
He winced at the
word, and she fol-
lowed up her advan-
tage. "Yes, a
slacker ! I only wish
the word were a
whip with which I
could lash you
across the face ! It
might bring back
some of the natural
feeling, some of the
manhood I once be-
lieved you to have.
A slacker ! w h y ,
that's all you are at
any time ! You've
married me under
false pretences, and
you're paying atten-
tions to other
women. You're a
slacker in love, and
a slacker in war.
The very blood in
your veins is not red,
it is yellow ! Truly
the voung people
were right when
they tied a yellow
ribbon to your cur-
tain !"
She turned away
and went slowly up
the stairs to her own
room. All night she
sat alone in the
darkness, dry-eyed
and sleepless, in a
despair too deep for
tears. And in her
lieart was the
knowledge that
another little life
was to come into
the world.
"Oh, God, don't
let him live !" she
prayed. "I cannot
give him a coward
for a father."
icipated this scene.
Umax.
he answered scorn-
not consult my best
be done to arouse a
Dawn came, and found her still staring
out of the window with eyes that saw noth-
ing of the scenes before them. The bril-
liant spring day seemed to mock at her.
The hours wore on, and at last she became
conscious of some children playing in the
street below. They
were playing at war.
No slackers there,
anyway, she thought
with a bitter smile.
Suddenly there was
a childish cry. A
big boy had torn a
flag from the chubby
grasp of a baby girl.
"I want my fwag!"
wailed the little one.
"How tan I be a
Wed Cwoss nurse
wivout my fwag?"
George Wallace,
home for a day's
shore liberty, dashed
across the street and
took the flag from
the boy. A drunken
German truck-driv-
er, lounging nearby,
decided to take a
hand in the game.
Snatching the flag
with one hand, he
felled George with
the other mighty fist.
Marguerite was
about to cry out for
someone to come to
the boy's rescue
when another figure
was added to the
little group below.
Robert, her hus-
band, had been
watching the scene
unknown to her, and
at last his manhood
had asserted itself.
With a bound he
was in the middle of
the street and had
grappled with the
giant Teuton who
stood over his
younger brother.
Back and forth they
struggled in the
Reverently he took its sacred folds in his hands
and kissed it.
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dusty road. The hot liquorous breath of
the truck-driver fairly nauseated the fastid-
ious Robert, but he stuck, to his task,
using in a righteous cause the muscles that
had received such expensive training, only
in the interests of sport. It %vas the newly
aroused spirit of the man, the grim deter-
mination that injustice should not conciuer,
that finally won the victory. As Marguerite
watched her husband compel the big Ger-
man to salute the flag, and then give it back
to the child, hope surged once more into
her aching heart. "Thank (iod!" she ex-
claimed. "At least I have married a man !"
She descended the stairs to meet him. Cov-
ered with the dust of the street, one hand
bleeding from the encounter, he was more
handsome in her eyes at that moment than
he had ever been before.
"Every word you said was true Margie."
he said dully, without any other salutation.
"But I'm going to make good. I'm going
now to enlist." He turned away, and
though her whole heart followed him, she
did not move, knowing that it was his priv-
ilege and his duty to work out his own
salvation.
The days that followed, while Robert
was in camp, were lonely ones for the young
wife, but filled with a secret happiness.
Letters from Robert were read and re-read
by the whole family, and then laid away
tenderly with Margie's sewing, where she
could glance at them in moments stolen
from her work. They told of long, hard
hours spent in training, of unaccustomed
toil, of hardened muscles and bronzed skin.
Because of his iron determination to suc-
ceed, to make a man of himself, Robert
Wallace found favor with his superior offi-
cers, and was speedily advanced.
The day came when he returned home on
leave of absence, prior to sailing for France
with a detachment of soldiers. The old
Wallace mansion blossomed with light and
cheer for its soldier sons, for George, the
sailor, was at home too, to welcome his
brother. The meeting between the two
young men was a touching one, second onlv
in sincerity to that between Marguerite and
her. husband.
Virginia Lambert, with Jane McAllister
and other girl friends who were engaged
in sewing for the Red Cross, had creptup
to Robert's old room, untied the yellow rib-
bon, and hung across the window a beauti-
ful silk flag. A lump came into Robert's
throat as he stepped across tlie threshold
and saw it. Reverently he took its sacred
folds in his hands, and kissed it, tears
springing to his eyes. In that moment he
consecrated himself anew to the cause of
liberty, and humanity. He went across the
corridor to Margie's room. With a hurried
mo\ements she hid the tiny garment on
which she was sewing, burying it beneath
a pile of Red Cross work. The silent em-
brace of the two was more eloquent than
any words could have been.
A brilliant smile struggled for supremacy
with the tears that glistened in Margie's
eyes. "I must share you with the others,"
she said. "I think the whole town is here
to greet you."
Indeed, it seemed so, for the broad rooms,
the verandas and the gardens were filled
with friends, come to welcome the "Wallace
boys." They thronged around Robert and
George, eager to shake hands with their
"heroes." There was another demonstra-
tion when the boys departed. A little
French serving maid paid her tribute. "I
am proud you go out there. Monsieur
Robert," she said. "My brothers — they
die for Belgium. Maybe you live — for
France !"
"I would gladly go," said one friend,
"but I have five children. Their mother is
dead. I cannot leave them."
Robert gave him a reassuring pat on the
shoulder. "That is just why we men with-
out children are going." he said. "So you
men with families won't n?ed to go."
Margie caught her breath convulsively,
but at once regained her composure. Her
secret was safe.
When Marguerite Wallace had said
goodbye to her soldier husband and watched
him out of sight, smiling, as the brave
wife of a brave man should, her mother
turned to her in amazement.
"Marguerite, why did you keep the truth
from Robert?" she asked.
The resolute woman made answer. "He
would have left part of his heart behind,
mother, if he had known. He will need all
his courage at the front. I did it for the
sake of the nation. Not all the fighting can
be done by those who go to war. Each and
every one of us can make some sacrifice for
the cause. I want to be worthy of my sol-
dier husband — and I want a son worthy to
bear his name. This family cannot contain
one slacker !"
WHY-DO-THEY-
DO-IT?
THIS is YOUR Department. Jump right in with your contribution. What have
you seen, in the past month, which was stupid, unlifelike, ridiculous or merely
incongruous? Do not generalize; confine your remarks to specific instances of im-
possibility in pictures you have seen. Your observation will be listed among the
indictments of carelessness on the part of the actor, author or director.
How to Spot the Villain.
N'
[OT by his ciga-
rette or his leer,
or yet by his waxed
moustache, shall you
know the heavy, but
by his hat. At least,
that's what Eugene
Pallette seemed to
think when, as a city
guy and a heart-
breaker in "The
Lonesome Chap," he
vamped the trusting
maiden to perdition
without once remov-
ing his derby in her
presence.
Donald MacDougall, Portland, Me.
Battle Stuff.
I'VE seen everything, I think, from the rows
of the ancient Huns to those of the modern
ones, and in every scrap where guns are used,
the men are always equipped with breech-load-
ing Springfield rifles (pat'd 1869). And you'd
be surprised to know how many people, in-
cluding the ladies, notice, too, when the Green
Alountain Boys or General Custer's followers
execute a charge with more up-to-date guns
than some of our regulars can get hold of to-
day. H. W. Cyrus, Rickreall, Ore.
Mutilation of Films.
CAN'T something be done to stop this care-
less hacking up of films? To go to see a
picture repeated because of the pleasure its
first presentation gave, and find it all shot to
pieces, is a disappointment which does not
seem altogether necessary. When we note the
cast reduced in footage so that it cannot be
read, whole scenes missing, leaders left stand-
ing alone and meaningless like chimneys in a
burnt district and even the title of the piece
lacking, we wonder whether this mutilation is
due to country censorship or country operators,
jvho are better adapted to handling threshing
machines than the delicate celluloid.
Lizzie Cheney Ward, Denver, Colo.
Avaunt the Screen Vampire!
1 UNDERSTAND that vamps are becoming
unpopular. This is a matter of deep regret
to me. I am even told that some people insist
that they ain't no sich animal. Well, isn't that
just their chief attraction? Now that we have
no more salamanders and gargoyles and other
slinky, slithery things, I don't think we should
be deprived of our pet zoological horror,
especially when Misses Glaum and Bara so
graciously consent to wriggle for us.
Helen Southworth, Evanston, 111.
"Ain't it the Truth?"
WHY, oh, why? Last night I sat through
a Burton Holmes travelogue and a
Shriner parade in Cheyenne to find that Chap-
lin will show tomorrow.
HiLDEGARDE RUDIN, ChicagO.
We Pass on This One.
IN "The Millionaire's Double," the hero,
traveling across the continent, reads a news-
paper account of his suicide. In the next col-
umn is an article about an explosion. Later, in
San Francisco, he reads in another paper the
account of his wife's getting the money. _ But
the same old explosion story is right beside it
again ! E. South, Philadelphia, Pa.
Biologists Please Note.
I KNEW that the woodland glades of other
dayf, such as the one in which Valeska
Surratt walked through in "She," were infested
with various species of big black bugs, just as
they are today, but I must admit I was some-
what startled "to see a little Ford machine run-
ning pertly along in that forest primeval of an-
other century. Alice Morgan, Bronx, N. Y.
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That Scrap Again.
THE eternal at-
tempted assault
on the heroine and
the eternal shooting
of the husband, ex-
tra lover or villain
who stands in the
way of the happy
ending, by the hero-
ine, must be done
away with. To how
many women of re-
finement do these
two repellant things
happen ? Yet, in
nearly every picture
I have seen this
year, either one or the other has occurred. In
real life, these circumstances would, in the
average case, reflect on the dignity of the girl
or woman. Pauline Frederick has shot at least
a dozen men in her screen life. I do not read
in a year's newspapers of so many shootings
and stabbings of men by women as I could sec
in a week of moving pictures. In only one
play tliat I recall was this everlasting struggle
well done — "The Jaguar's Claws," with Sessue
Hajakawa. That Japanese actor has such a
splendid personality tliat the scene escaped the
usual vileness, though the suggestion was there.
AIadkline M., New York Citj'.
Order in the Court!
" I qVE OR JUSTICE" had just one mar in
■I—' it — the courtroom scene. In the real
thing, do the people in the courtroom jump up
and press against the railings every time the
witness says something? I think not — unless
they wish to risk being tapped on the coco by
some burley policeman.
I hope some of these "nut directors" will
take notice of j-our new department. But now,
why not an appreciation department also?
When an actor does a fine bit of acting, or an
author writes a good story, why not let them
know that you like it? They are human.
John Bullingtox, Dallas, Te.x.
Well, You Don't Need Opera Glasses,
Anyway.
WHY the wholesale abuse of the close-up?
It is really annoying to have your bird's-
eye view all sliced up and sectioned oft. For
instance, I watch a dialogue between two men,
such as that in "The Americano," one man hir-
ing another. My mind holds the combination
perfectly; any child could get the simple idea.
Yet I am shown a separate, regular old-fash-
ioned family crayon enlargement of the em-
ployer's face, and after I have looked at that
a little too long, I am given the doubtful priv-
ilege of viewing the same huge close-up of the
face of the prospective employee. This con-
veys nothing to me but annoyance, and makes
a fair-looking person appear like an old bat,
showing up all the pores and wrinkles.
Amy H. Slater, On the Pacific Coast.
Awfully Considerate of Him.
IN spite of his corduroys and V-necked haber-
dashery, the romantic lead spares us the dis-
tress of watching him work for a living. In
"A Romance of the Redwoods," Elliott Dexter
looks up from tiie pan of dirt he has been
washing witii a long-suffering expression that
would seem to indicate months of fruitless
prospecting, although we know, from the
scenes that have preceded, that he's been on
the job for just about ten minutes. In "The
Moonsome — " — I mean "Lonesome Chap,"
House Peters does go so far as to remark, in
a subtitle, to his dog: "Let's go down to the
mine, where there's work to do." But fortu-
nately, something happens to block his horrible
intention and the onlj- time he's seen around
the works is when there's some picturesque
rescuing to be done.
Elk^abf.th Forrey, Pensacola, Fla.
What She Saw.
IN one scene of "The Sting of Victory,"
where Dave Whiting (Henry Walthall) was
provost-marshal in his home town during the
Reconstruction period, I looked through the
window and saw skyscrapers.
Martorie Myers, Medford, Ore.
Church Etiquette.
DID the director of Marguerite Clark's latest
picture ever go to ciiurch ? If so, it wasn't
the Episcopal Church in which he worshipped.
He doubtless chose the setting of that church
for "The Valentine Girl" because it was pic-
turesque. But —
1. Doesn't he know that all talking, much
less love-making, is forbidden within the altar
rail?
2. And that to place anything — even
flowers — on the altar itself (Miss Clark and
her lover even rested their arms on it) is con-
sidered sacrilege?
3. That the candles are never left burning
after the service?
4. And that to lift the candlesticks off the
re-table and blow them out with one's breath is
ridiculous? M. A. Peete, Denver. Colo.
She's the Referee.
IT gets my particular personal goat to see two
men fighting over or about a girl, while she
stands there registering terror. If she were
terrorized, she'd run or do almost anything but
stand there. If she were any kind of girl at all,
she'd sail in and help. Wouldn't she?
Carlow, Baltimore, Md.
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Dual Roles.
H'
we seen them ? In
times; in life — never!
Kathryn Reinlander
OW often have
we seen twin sis-
ters miraculously alike
in appearance ! But
one is a lily-white
saint, who exists
solely that she may
sacrifice herself for
her coal-black devil
of a sister, who in
turn is entirely occu-
pied in wrenching the
lialo from her sancti-
monious twin's head
and placing it on her
own. How often have
pictures — innumerable
Sacramento, Cal.
Southern Sentimentalism.
THE most unfair, inopportune and incon-
gruous picture that I have seen for a year
was "Those Without Sin," with Blanche Sweet
in the leading role. There can be no justifica-
tion for such a picture. The Northern soldiers
were grossly misrepresented. They were pic-
tured as ill-bred, unkempt and utterly lacking
in respect for women, while the Southern sol-
diers were clean, well-groomed and all that
was noble. There was not one decent North-
ern character in the picture. All the honorable
people were Southerners, and still the high-
bred women of Richmond, by deliberate lies
and malicious gossip, distorted a harmless inci-
dent until it bore no semblance to the original,
and ruined the leading lady's reputation. The
producers of this picture evidently were suffer-
ing from brain-storm, and the censors were
probably on a vacation.
IsoBEL Gray, Tulsa, Okla.
Rah! Rah! Rah!
THERE was no mistaking the alma mater of
those college boys who hazed Charley Ray
in "The Pinch Hitter." They came from
Keystone University all right. Practical joking
and peppermint stripes were their specialties
and their smart aleck buiifoonery failed to sug-
gest, even remotely, the antics of a bunch of
college kids.
John Randolph, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Shine, 5c.
AF.'^LSE note in an otherwise consistent
characterization is detected when the
bold bad man of the slums, with soiled, sul-
len features and ragged clothes, agrees to do
the murder in new, well-polished shoes in-
stead of the old, worn-out pair which you
would naturally associate with such an indi-
vidual. Perhaps I am unduly critical, but any-
thing like this affects me in much the same way
as if I saw the above mentioned vagabond
wearing a jaunty fedora instead of that dirty
cap pulled over his shifty eyes.
Oliver Sheppard, Penn Yan, N. Y.
An Anti-Feminist Heard From.
I'm for the dissolution of the "Only-Their-
Husbands Club." Just because friend wife
happened to get there first, is no reason why
Lou-Tellegen, Elliott De.xter and Owen Moore
should be put in eclipse by big scareheads on
every theater signboard proclaiming their bril-
liant matrimonial connections. If their wives
run true to form, as far as feminine psy-
chology goes, they don't like it either.
Kae Garrett, Brant ford, Ont.
No, We've Never Seen That Kind, Either.
I HAVE been a stenographer for several
years, have known many stenographers, and
have seen hundreds of young men and women
taking "notes," but never yet have I seen — that
is, off the screen — a stenographer standing
up, with absolutely no brace for her paper,
and taking lengthy dictations at about a mile-
a-minute speed. That's one thing; here's an-
other :
Never, oh, never, have I seen a stenogra-
pher take her employer's hat and coat upon his
entrance and hang it up. He usually has the
pleasure of doing that himself. To be a
man's stenographer does not necessarily mean
being his valet. V. F. H., Houston, Tex.
The High-heeled Slavey.
WHY do kitchen servants always wear high
heels? And housework slaveys, too? And
all the others from tattered farm lassies to
moonshiner cuties? High heels are hardly the
thing for mountain hikes, and I've yet to find
a cook with any sort of heels at all. I'm
willing to concede a high heel or two to a
French maid who is optically pleasant, but
darned if I think directors should keep on
permitting 'em to the rest. Here's hoping
Photoplay solves the shoe problem.
Shoe Store Owner.
Can Anyone Enlighten the Gentleman?
THIS is my eighth year as a regular city
fireman. That's why I'm hanged if I
wouldn't like to know what brand of asbestos
clothing our pompadoured film heroes wear
that enables them to dash through the burnmg
building, grab girl or papers and return un-
scathed to the cheering throng outside, with-
out even a wet towel for protection.
Walter L. Garrison, Keokuk, la.
Coincidence or Fate?
By Elizabeth Peltret
DERHAPS it was coincidence that
■*■ Leslie Reid, an actor with the Ameri-
can Film Company in Santa Barbara, Cali-
fornia, should have died at about the same
time as his two brothers in France and his
mother in Canada, and just as fame held
out her arms to him. Ves, it may ha\e
been coincidence, but somehow it seems
simpler to take the fatal-
istic view of this strange
real-life drama and re-
peat the old formula of
"Kismet — what is to be,
will be."
"None of the results
we know in this world
have, in point of fact,
been purposed in ad-
vance in all their de-
tails," said W i 1 1 i a m
James in a lecture. And
again, in the same lec-
ture, "T h i n g s tell a
story. Their parts hang
together so as to • work
out a climax. They play
into each other's hands
expressively. Retrospec-
tively, we can see that
although no definite pur-
pose presided over a
chain of events, yet the events fell into a dra-
matic form with a start, amiddle. and a finish.
"The world is full of partial stories that
run parallel to one another, beginning and
ending at odd times — "
All of us have heard such stories. His-
tory and fiction alike are crowded witli
tragedies in which an adverse fate seemed
to move living people around like puppets.
Of this type is the story of Leslie Reid.
Reid was a British subject, handsome
and talented far beyond the ordinarv. At
the outbreak of the war his mother gave
her two eldest sons to the service of her
country but she pleaded with her "babv"
not to heed the call to arms.
So, for her sake. Leslie Reid came to
the United States. He joined a stock com-
pany in Santa Barbara. After a few
weeks, the company disbanded and -Reid
became an extra man with the American
Film Company. He gave promise of un-
usual success from the start. For a small
Leslie Reid
ture he was given almost as many notices
as the star.
After this a scenario called "The Ride
for Life" was written especially for him.
It was a western picture, full of the usual
thrills and hairbreadth escapes.
The hero, taken prisoner, had his hands
bound behind him before he was able to
destroy some written
evidence derogatory to
the reputation of the
heroine. The action rc-
([uired that he should
make 'his escape by
springing from the top
of a stage coach into the
river with his hands still
bound behind him. Or-
dinarily, the "stun t"
would have been doubled
by a professional
swimmer but Reid in-
sisted on doing it him-
self. It was h i s first
leading role and. nat-
urally, he wanted all of
the glory.
Tlie spot from which
he was to j u m p was
carefully marked on the
bridge — ("Something
strange about that," said an eye witness.
"they said the motion of the coach must
have had something to do with what hap-
pened")— Exactly how it happened no
one will ever know, but Reid jumped ten
feet too .soon. His head struck a project-
ing rock, and he bounced into the river.
His director jumped in after him. When
the body came to the surface the face of
the dead actor was only a few inches away
from that of the director.
Reid's death was all the more tragic in
that he died I'ust on the verge of the suc-
cess he covete4 and even more utterly un-
known than if he had been killed "Some-
where in France."
After his death three letters came for
him. The first opened told of how his
eldest brother had met death "on the field
of honor." and the second letter said that
his other brother had also died in the serv-
ice of his countrv. The third letter told
him that his mother, too. was dead. She
part which he played in his second pic- had been unable to withstand the shock.
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A Pioneer Without Whiskers
By Randolph Bartlett
WHEN anyone says "pioneer" you
immediately visualize a rather
ancient party with a heavy curtain
of "Belshazzars" draped from his chin to
his waist line, whose remarks are usually
prefaced by "I remember in the fall of
'76," whose voice is scpeaky, and who is
saved from being classed as a bore only by
the reverence which is invariably com-
manded by old age.
However, ladies and gentlemen, do not
question the word of the present scribe
when he assures you that the pleasant-faced
young man whose features more or less
adorn these pages, is a pioneer. For in
the picture business anyone who was
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actually drawing salary for work, in the
camera realm previous to "The Birth of a
Nation" is a pioneer.
For example, our present subject, Direc-
tor Charles Giblyn. When he first began
work, out in Los Angeles, the places where
pictures were made were not called studios
. — they were called "camps." There were
three good reasons for this. The first was
that most of the pictures in those days, espe-
cially those made in the vicinity of Los
Angeles, were of the wild west variety, call-
ing for the presence of many cowboys, and
the whole outfit looked as if it had just
dropped in. The second reason was that the
plants were of the most temporary and
makeshift character. But most important,
in reference' to the word "camp" was the
military atmosphere.
It is a long, long way from these pioneer
days to the luxurious Selznick Studio in the
Bronx, with its marble staircases, elaborate
equipment, shower baths, hot and cold
stage-hands, etc., ad lib. It is in this pala-
tial setting that Director Giblyn was found
recently, working on the latest of his Clara
Kimball Young pictures."
He dropped Clara, meta-
phorically of course, for a
moment, to tell about
the cinema trenches
of his pioneer
days.
"You could
always tell
w h en y 0 u
were ap-
proaching
moving pic-
ture plant
in those
days,"
r^'
said Giblyn, "because you would come
across a man sitting on the top rail of a
locked gate, with a double-barrelled shot-
gun across his knees. If you made any
move to enter the i)lace you found yourself
lookiiig into the business end of the gun,
and heard a gruff voice wanting to know
your name, age. business, color, weight,
and previous condition of servitude. If you
satisfied him that it was not your intention
to steal the star, the camera, the scenario,
and the watchdog, he allowed you to explain
the cause of your visit to the inner guard,
and in the course of time you were passed
on to the manager.
"The story of the bloodless battles of
Edendale would take more time to tell than
you have to spare. The cause of the cruel
war was that the now quite respectable and
peaceful General Film, at that time con-
trolled, or claimed to control certain
important patents, which would prevent
anyone else from making pictures. While
the fight was going on in tiie courts, a few
of us dared to make pictures anyhow, but
we guarded our operations as if we were
second-story workers. We
thought the other
fellows were
the real
c r i m i -
Director Giblyn rehearsing Clara
Kimball Young and David Powell
in a scene in ' ' The Price She Paid. "
A Pioneer Without Whiskers
133
nals, and in the end the courts said some-
thing of the same sort. Now anyone can
make pictures, if they have the money, but
believe me, in those days it took nerve to be
a pioneer."
Mr. Giblyn has graduated from the rough
and tumble. He is now one of the highest
salaried directors in pictures. Following
his creation of the Clara Kimball Young
feature, "The Price She Paid," he took over
the new Selznick star, Constance Talmadge.
He will make a series of pictures with this
young sister of the popular Norma in the
next few months.
Director Giblyn is one of the few men
in the picture world who have a successful
stai^e background. Most of the big screen
successes have been achieved by men and
women who were failures on the stage, or
at least of no great importance — Griffith,
Ince, Pickford, Talmadge, Brenon, Stew-
art, Fairbanks, Chaplin, Hart — etc., ad lib.
again. Giblyn, on the contrary, was well
known through his connection with such
productions as those of Harrigan and Hart,
William Gillette, E. H. Sothern, Charles
Frohman and Henry W. Savage.
But he has found his real work in films,
and his work with Triangle attracted the
attention of Lewis J. Selznick so favorably
that he was induced to leave his beloved
California — he is the most rabid of Los
Angeles boosters — to take the supervision
of the big studio in the Bronx.
THEY'RE NOT A5 SCARED AS THEY LOOK
Even the kiddies are called upon to do hair-raising stunts for the camera. But they are never in danger;
the hero is always at hand. These youngsters, Jane and Katherine Lee, are being featured by William
Fox in " Two Little Imps. "
"Dusty" Collects
Dust for the
Red Cross
THE big ones of screen-
land took a big part
in the Red Cross drive for
millions. These are scenes
from the Red Cross band
concert in Hollywood
where film stars helped raise
thousands of dollars. Cecil
B. deMille, acted as official
spieler and chief wheedlcr
for the entertainment, while
Dustin Farnum passed the
hat.
I'hotu \<y staeg
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Jack Pickford.
Olive Thomas.
Yup! They're Engaged!
'^ OW all the Pickfords are taken. Olive
Thomas is going to be Mary's sister-
in-law. They've been sweethearts for a
long time, and the engagement was an-
nounced recently in Los Angeles where they
are both playing, — no working.
For several vears Miss Thomas deco-
rated Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolics and the
Follies, and recently she graduated into the
flickering shadows. She is now being
starred in Triangle productions.
Jack has been a star several years, and
is just old enough to get caught in the
registration. Olive is just twenty.
WATCH FOR PHOTOPLAY IN THE LARGE SIZE! ^J\Ji^^!^^^!^^
(Same as Cosmopohtan and American.) gravure and a hundred other
new features. Better order yours now. It is going to be in great demand, so be sure of getting a copy by speak-
LTvan«^.°"i^sXoniyway" BIGGER! BETTER! AND BRIGHTER THAN EVER!
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A Gentleman of France
AS SUCH MR. CLARY
HAS ATTAINLD DISTINCT
SUCCESS ON THE SCREEN
By K. Owen
PERHAPS you saw him as "La
rrciiDuillc." the Spicier, in "Joan
the Woman," and if you missed him
iherj you surely saw him as 67. Eiic-
mondc in "A Tale of Two Cities." Tlie
latter was not so important a ])art, but
it fully established the ri^'ht of Charles
Clary's title as he is dublied at the top
of this paLje.
But it is only lately that Mr. Clary
has been playing (Jallic gentleman, if it
is permitted to place tlic Spider in that
category. And just to make good on
the title, it may be stated that Mr. Clary
can family tree himself way back to the
very day of Joan herself in Frencli his-
tory, with the added distinction of being
a son of the American Revolution. His
mother's great-grandfather was Benja-
min Stoddert. the first secretary of the
navy who authorized the construction of
tliose historic battleships the "Constitu-
tion" and the "Constellation," the
names of wliich are to be perpetuated in
two modern men-of-war now building.
Secretary Stoddert himself named
the originals and his painted portrait
Charles Clary as "La Trcmouille, "
one of the principal roles in "Joan
the Woman. "
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still hangs in the Army and Navy Building in
Washnigton. To complete the family history,
Mr. Clary's father was a captain in the Twelfth
Kentucky Cavalry during the Civil War.
Mr. Clary, of this sketch, first looked upon
the world and declared it good, in
Charleston, 111. The date was March
24, the year — strangely enough the
interviewer forgot to ask him the
year, but it was somewhere in the last
He went to Kansas at an early age and received
his education at Washburn College, , Topeka.
He also got his first job in Kansas, working in a
hay field.
Mr. Clary obtained his initial job as an actor in
that histrionic prep school that has turned
out so many stars, the old Burbank in Los
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Chaplin — And How He Does It
(Continued
tent to do great bodily harm, set upon by
a violent New Idea. Together they left
the street set and forgot it.
There was no picture making that day.
"Something's got his goat," the camera
men whispered.
"Rain. No light, street set waiting"
was the wire report to the home office of a
studio manager bankrupt on alibi material.
It may be here remarked in passing that if
the rain reports from Los Angeles studio
managers recei^■ed in New York offices
were correct submarines could dock in
Hollywood.
But the StreetTdea was not dead. It
recovered and staggered in from the desert.
One day while "The Rink" was in the cut-
ting room and the perennial quest for "the
next story" was reaching one of its periodic
peaks of acuteness the Street-Idea knocked
and was welcomed.
This time the street throve and blossomed
into "Easy Street," which according to the
box-office assay is reported to have run
more dimes to the running, linear and cubic
foot than any previous Chaplin comedy.
Mr. Chaplin may be said never really
to construct a story. He merely worries
about a story until it hatches or happens,
or sort of exudes out of the circumaml)ient
ether like gum on a cherry tree. The story
arrives first in the embryo of a piece of
"business," in the vernacular of the play-
craft, related to the then tentative Main
Idea. This piece of "business" grows and
grows and grows, at both ends and in the
middle until it is a story — just like the
escalator victim's fall in Sixth Avenue
grew into a department store built around
an escalator and Mr. Chaplin as the novice
floorwalker, beset by circumstances which
made it necessary and advisable for him
to use the escalator frequently even if
ineptly.
So, any reader who is yet with me will
see that the quest for "the next story" is
very closely related to the equally constant
quest for new gags or pieces of business.
It is as natural for Mr. Chaplin to find
new business as it was to Henry D.
Thoreau to find Indian arrowheads, and
for the same reason — he is looking for
them. Chaplin's only difficulty is in sort-
ing out his collections and making a choice
of material. In looking for new stuff Mr.
Chaplin takes his own where he finds it.
It may be a joke in the cartoon comics in
from page 23)
his daily paper, a stunt on the vaudeville
stage, a street happening, a related stor)-,
or an accident of his own active fancy. It
is a laart of Mr. Chaplin's life and work
to expose himself to crowds and peojile
that lie may observe their mannerisms, ex-
pressions and mishaps. U'hen anything
makes an impression on him it is sure to
be translated into picture material at some
time. Some weeks after Mr. Chaplin went
to live at the Los Angeles Athletic club,
where wrestling bouts in the gymnasium
drew his attention, along came his comedy
entitled "The Cure." In "The Cure" he
worked off a wealth of wrestling burlesque
for some of the best laughs in the piece.
It is not either plagiarism or misappro-
priation when Chaplin adopts a bit of
"business." He refines, recasts and re-
coins it into a new product bearing his own
original imprint. For every idea he cap-
tures he creates a dozen.
Chaplin was walking past a store with
his brother Syd one day, where a window
trimmer was dusting off a bewigged wax
figure.
"Here's business, Syd, — get it in the
book, put it down." Chaplin's voice was
aquiver with his momentary excitement.
"Dress up a butler with a wig, put a rub-
ber tube in it, fill the hair with talcum.
Then I come along and blow into it, while
he stands there all dignified. Big puff of
powder — see — that'll get a laugh."
This incident occurred months ago. It
is freely forecast that someday, sometime,
this will appear in a Chaplin comedy- —
unless he boycots the idea to put the lie on
this forecast.
To trap the notions and inspirations that
come to him in the night Chaplin has a
phonographic dictating machine by his
bedside. Just how this has l)een overlooked
by his press agent I can not say. Into
this phonograph Mr. Chaplin pours any
comedy idea which invades his boudoir.
Then in the morning along comes Mr.
Thomas Harrington, secretary extraordi-
nary, diplomat unusual, to transcribe any-
thing of promise he finds in the wax record.
(N. B. — The author reserves all joke
rights on the idea of Chaplin talking to
the dictaphone in his sleep.)
The Chaplin comedy formula — if there
were one — would be this : Get an idea
carrying one "punch" or "gag" or "laugh"
of major importance. Then build a con-
Chaplin — And How He Does It
139
tinuity of plot in front of and behind it
to make it swing into, and appear as part
of, a story. Note that the phrase is "a
story," and not "the story." Having taken
care of the big laugh, proceed to tie into
the continuity material as many incidental
and occasional laughs as is convenient,
making sure that there are enough to prop-
erly support the footage of film and that
they do not fall too close to one another
and get into each other's way — Chaplin
spaces his laughs far enough apart that
you may get your breath and be all set
for the next one — then add dramatic in-
terest, pathos, tragedy or anything equally
handy to create somber backgrounds
against which to parade the laughs.
It is inevitable that this method should
lead to experiments and excursions off the
mainline of construction, often resulting
in a complete change of the structure as
originally planned. If one of those inci-
dental, secondary and ornamental support-
ing laughs as developed before the camera
proves a promising lead Mr. Chaplin is
more likely than not to follow the new
line of thought, leaving his original con-
ception of the comedy flat on the lot, so to
speak. But this means nothing if it should
happen that yet another "laugh" or new
piece of business should turn up with still
better promises.
Raw film stock ready for the camera
is about thirty dollars a reel to the buyer,
but it is nothing at all to Mr. Chaplin.
When he gets on the trail of a comedy
Idea he goes after it with the camera shoot-
ing film stock with the abandon of a ma-
chine gun marksman repelling a German
charge. Talking studio costs to Mr.
Chaplin would make 30U think that the
American eagle on the other side of the
dollar was a buzzard, talking salary — well
that's another matter.
When Mr. Chaplin and the battery of
cameras at the Lone Star studios got done
shooting "The Immigrant" he had used
slightly more than ninety thousand feet
of raw film stock. Out of this came two
thousand feet of negative, selected in the
cutting room, for the printing of the fin-
ished production. This figure will appear
particularly significant when it is recalled
that this is about equal to the reported
footage of film used in the taking of "The
Birth of a Nation," a production which
was released in twelve reels of one thou-
sand feet each, or six times the length of
the Chaplin comedy.
Wlien it comes to raw stock Mr. Chap-
lin can spend money at a rate that would
have made Coal Oil Johnny think he was
a miser. Chaplin is after the laughs and
nothing is going to stop him even if East-
man has to work nights over at Rochester.
The taking of every Chaplin comedy takes
enough celluloid to reach from the Bat-
tery to the Bronx.
■f'here are several things that Mr. Chap-
lin knows better than any one else in the
world. One of them is that there is noth-
ing funny about a homely woman.
A very great deal of nature's rawest
material has been used up in the construc-
tion of feminine forms and faces that are
doing the landscape no good. A lot of
these natural mistakes have appeared in
motion pictures, but not in Mr. Chaplin's
motion pictures. If one is going to laugh
it is vastly necessary to be in a good frame
of mind to do it. Nothing is so disturbing
to the placid poise of the so-called mind
than the appearance of a girl who looks
like a neglected opportunity. Mr. Chap-
lin, whether as a matter of gift or culture
I know not, is a very competent judge of
scenery of this character.
All of this is introductory to the remark
that Miss Edna Purviance is susceptible
to observation without fatigue and that
while her part in Chaplin comedies is
distinctly that of a foil, she is consider-
able foil. It is not to be assumed that
it is merely accident or coincidence that
she is pretty, that she is just tall enough
to make Mr. Chaplin appear not too large
on the screen, that she is in blonde con-
trast to his brunette tone, or that she is
of Junoesque design in contrast with his
slenderness of form. Those are the reasons
why she appears opposite.
True to my promise I have set forth the
complete science of Chaplinism. Do not
think that Mr. Chaplin knows all these
things. He can not and does not. Mr.
Chaplin is not an organized thinker or
worker. If he had a correct system of
mental operation and knew how to run
himself as a producing machine he would
be a failure.
Science knows a lot about proteins and
carliohydrates but the hen still controls
the egg market. It is so wath Chaplin
comedies.
Ruth and
A GLIMPSE INTO THE
VERSATILE YOUNG
We forgot to ask
Ruth if she answers
her letters personally,
but this picture would
lead one to believe
that she does.
NLESS you are familiar with
the Hollywood liills, you'd
lave a rather difficult time
finding the domicile of Ruth
Stonehouse. It's up in beauti-
ful Laurel Canyon, a pic-
turesque gash in the moun-
tains which overlook the
cinema empire of Hollywood,
California. It's a sort of cross
)c't\\cc'n a Swiss chalet and a
bungalow, surrounded on all
sides by nearly every breed of
tree mentioned in Mr. Webster's
work on words. It's the sort
of a place a literary hermit
would select at which to compile
his )nagiiinn opus, or words to
that effect.
And the Stonehouse house has a kind
of literary atmosphere at that, owing
to the fact that the little actress is also
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Her House
DOMESTIC LIFE OF THAT
PERSON-RUTH STONEHOUSE
Owen
quite clever as a writer of film stories.
And it's also the home of Mr. Stoneh —
or rather, Mr. Joseph Roach, who, in
private life, so to say, is the husban
of Miss Stonehouse. Mr. Roach is a
writer of considerable repute in photo-
play circles. The rest of the family
comprises "Billy," a Scotch collie who
has an intense dislike for automobiles
and onions.
Although rather difficult of approach,
the Stonehouse house is a happy destina-
tion once reached. The wayfarer is as-
sured a hearty welcome, flanked by
wholesome food and drink, and un-
less especially desired, no one will
talk shop.
The lady of the house. Miss Stone
house is now serving her second year at
■Universal. During the year which has
elapsed she has been promoted to a director-
ship, but she is again "just acting" because
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It seems that
the long-
handled im-
plements of
the garden
have suc-
ceeded the
golf stick in
the estimation
of the "movie
stars. "
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142
Photoplay Magazine
of the many difficulties which beset the
path of the actress-directress. She is
proud, however, of the fact that slie "got
away with it" when she was writing, act-
ing and directing her own "stuft."
Miss Stonehouse, who is better known as
just "Ruthy" on the big "lot," is a Western
girl. She was born in Denver, and raised
in Arizona. Some of her fondest rerollec-
tions are of her childhood home in Douglas,
Ariz., during the days when that border
town was one of the few "wild and woolly"
spots on the U. S. map. Then she was
sent to school in Illinois; learned to dance
gracefully enough to get into vaudeville
and finally turned to the shadow stage.
For a number of years Miss Stonehouse
was Es.sanay's leading star in Chicago.
She remained with them until joining Uni-
versal a little more than a year ago.
There is nothing else to catalogue but
tlie facts that the heroine of tliis sketch
loves riding and hunting and her home life,
which includes a vegetable garden and a
lot of flowers.
"It's a perfectly dandy life" said Miss
Stonehouse by way of an interview ; "and
my ambition is to be a good director."
"For Instance!"
THE recent successful film production
of Augustus Thomas' "Witching
Hour" recalls an inimital)le story of the
days attending its preparation for the stage.
The producing manager, an energetic
though ignorant man, had just been bit-
ten by the flea of amateur stagecraft, and
took it upon himself to conduct as much
of the rehearsals as Mr. Thomas' pa-
tience would permit. And
Mr. Thomas was very pa-
tient. His friends won-
dered at his smiling phil-
osophy ; but they under-
rated the Thomas re-
sources.
Anyone who remembers
this play will recall its
superb lines ; its glittering
epigrams ; its rich, ripe
humor ; its scintillant
philosophy. It is one of
the most literary mai>u-
scripts ever written for
the American stage.
At the dress-rehearsal
this episode had been
passing in magnificent re-
view before a number of
admiring watchers, and at
its conclusion no one felt
that he had at hand the proper thing to
say. Except the astute young manager.
"Say!" he cried, popping up from a
front seat where he had been sitting on
his spine ; "what we need in here is a
lotta bright talk!"
Everyone was aghast and outraged.
Save Thomas. He leaned forward, smiling.
"Yes?" he agreed. "For instance?"
\ the ver>'
© Int. Film Service
*'The film has come to rank
high medium for the dissemination of
public intelligence, and since it speaks
a universal language it lends itself
importantly to the presentation of
America's plans and purposes."
President Wilson
The Motion Picture "School"
DEPORTS indicate that the fake mo-
•'■^ tion picture school is beginning to
siiow itself again. , 'I'liis evil is not new,
indeed, it seemed at one time that it had
been entirely wiped out.
The methods of the "schools" are out-
right swindles. They charge a certain
amount for a try-out film to determine
the' photographic possibilities of the appli-
cant and a considerably
larger amount for a
course in screen acting.
Naturally, every appli-
cant passed the film test.
In the end the victim gets
a hit of film, a few stills
and a resplcndant di-
ploma. In many in-
stances "graduates" are
promised positions with
reijutable concerns. In
tlie end comes disillusion-
ment to the victim.
Not one of these
schools can aid a would-
be screen player. They
liave nothing to teach ; in
fact, their recommenda-
tion is an outright handi-
cap. A number of com-
panies have been calling
for concerted action against the evil. This
would aid, of course. But the menace will
never be stamped out until all moving pic-
ture publications as well as newspapers
follow the lead of Photopl.w and refuse
the advertisements of the swindling mo-
tion picture "schools." No magazine can
retain its self respect and allow fraudulent
advertisements in its columns.
The Shadow Stage
(Continued from page io6)
143
rapid scenes, cut-backs and visions of the
screen. When the witness in the stage pro-
duction of "On Trial" began to tell about
the murder the lights suddenly faded, as
quickly came on again, and lo ! his evidence
became visible and material, re-enacting
itself just as he saw it. Extraordinary re-
liearsing, military precision and a revolv-
ing stage made these things possible in the
famous Candler theatre production. For
this very reason, "On Trial" on the screen
is a matter of supreme difficulty ; its spoken
appeal lay only in its great novelty, and in
pictures this novelty is no novelty at all.
James Young, handling it for Essanay,
did as well as any director could have done
with the piece, and better than most. Play-
ing a good part himself he was assisted by
Sidney Ainsworth, Thomas (iuinan, Bar-
bara Castleton, little Mary McAllister and
Pat Calhoun, and hindered by Corenne
Uzell.
"Filling His Own Shoes" : Bryant Wash-
burn's job, unaccomplished if the shoes are
the lovable Skinner's, as they must be,
since Washburn is wearing them. Try
again, Bryant.
"The Land of Long Shadows" : one of
the mine-run of "frozen North" melo-
drama, with Jack Gardner.
pTHEL BARRYMORE'S is another
'-^ great talent which seems to be wan-
dering about disconsolate in motion pic-
tures. "The Greatest Power," a five-reel
charge of spies and explosives, is a fine ex-
ample of the old-fashioned mechanical
melodrama — of which we spoke more ex-
tensively in our opening paragraphs — in
which fulminate mysteries, not souls', make
the swirl of action. Only the adroit
scenario of A. S. LeVino, creating proba-
bility where probability never stood before,
and weaving a thread of human interest
into a fabric old as the pyramids and dry
as the dust therein, makes this celludrama
endurable.
"The Trail of the Shadow" : next month
we think we will oiTer a prize for the epi-
gram best describing the numerous plays of
this type: smug, dull, hypocritical, full of
a fairly shocking appreciation of virtue,
and the notion that there are two classes
of men : the ivory-soap pure, and the
skunks. Emmv Wehlen illustrates "The
Trail of the Shadow."
"Aladdin's Other Lamp" : here is Viola
Dana, Metro's best bet. The play is a tritle
whose sweetness would be somewhat sugary,
perhaps, were it not livened by Miss Dana's
very real and delightful humanity, and re-
lieved by the careful direction of Mr. Col-
lins, who is probably delighted in being
Miss Dana's husband, but wiio, we feel
assured, would ride in an automobile even
if he were not. The story of "Aladdin's
Other Lamp" has been told at length in
Photoplay Magazine, so it need not be
re-related here ; but it is a quaint, clean lit-
tle story, full of charm; and it is well acted,
and well produced.
Decent Fox productions include "The
Slave," a very moral play featuring the
very bizarre Valeska Suratt, with her very
freak clothes ; another Suratt play called
"The Siren," and described as "a drama of
transgression" ; "Two Little Imps," a
quaint little vehicle for those real little
imps, Jane and Katherine Lee ; and "Some
Boy," which we can only guess is a to-be-
expected attempt to beat Julian Eltinge
into pictures. Here George Walsh, never
an easy actor, always an extraordinary
poser, fusses himself up completely in the
togs of a girl. The best that can be said
for the picture is that it is harmless.
'"yHE MAELSTROM": a melodramatic
•^ play, with plenty of action and ma-
terial thrill, deploying Earle Williams and
Dorothy Kelly. The suspense is good, and
because the casting has been carefully done
— the players include such people as Julia
Swayne Gordon, Denton Vane and Robert
Gaillard — the parts are uniformly played
with snap and speed. The piece is a bit
old-fashioned, but it is well done.
"The Question" : a dream play, featuring
Alice Joyce and Harry Morey. To their
names must be added that of Gladden
James, in a rather unsympathetic role.
The trio do excellent work in a play whose
technique may be judged by the source of
the revolver, which, as is to be expected in
all drammers of this class, is lifted from
the table's drawer.
"The Magnificent Meddler" : a turbulent
story of an inexperienced but capal)le
hand's "meddling" with the affairs of a
newspaper in Arizona. The featured:
Antonio Moreno and Mary Anderson.
PHOTOPLAY ACTORS
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2nd Prize 5.00 4th Prize 2.00
Ten Prizes, Each $1.00
These awards (all in cash, without any string to
thcni) are for the correct, or nearest correct, sets of
answers to the ten pictures here shown.
As the names of most (jf these movie people have
appeared many, many times before the public, we feel
sure yciti must know them.
This novel contest is a special feature department
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OF THE
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Third Prize.
Fotirth Prize.
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-Mrs. S.
Grand
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L. Lyons,
Forks, N.
3.00— Mr. Fred Hall, West
Haven, Conn.
2.00— Miss Kathryn Tim-
mins, Chariton, la.
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JULY PHOTO
Mrs. F. Hank, Chey-
enne, Wyo.
Mrs. Robert Cloughen,
Mountain Lakes, N.
J.
Miss Ruth M. Tainter,
Fitchburg, Mass.
Miss Gertrude Dorn,
Miami, Fla.
Mrs. H. Sorensen, Chi-
cago, 111.
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actor or actress. The actor's name is really a descrip-
tion of the picture that goes with it; for example
"Kose Stone" might be represented by a rose and a
rock or stone, while a gawky appearing individual look-
ing at a spider web could be "Web Jay."
For your convenience and avoidance of mistakes, we
have left space under each picture on which you may
write your answers. Remember to write your full name
and address on the margin at the bottom of both pages.
Cut out these pages and mail in, or you may send in
your answers on a separate sheet of paper, but be sure
they are numbered to correspond with the number of
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and expense to you, so please do not ask us questions.
Only one set of answers allowed each contestant.
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PLAY ACTORS NAME. PUZZLE
f Miss Miriam Briston,
I Mansfield, Ohio.
I Mrs. Robert Beasley,
I Beeville, Texas.
d nn D ■ >■ I Mrs. B. F. Lloyd, At-
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Miss Nancy Buhta,
I Minneapolis, Minn.
I Miss Edna Davis, Fort
[ Wayne, Ind.
CORRECT ANSWERS TO THE JULY
PUZZLE CONTEST
1. Marguerite Clark.
2. Harold Lockwood.
3. June Caprice.
4. Arline Pretty.
5. Theda Bara.
e. Gail Kane.
7. John Mason.
8. Peggy Hyland.
9. De Wolf Hopper.
10. Kathlyn Williams.
MS
T0\] do not have to be a subscriber to Photoplay Magazine
• to get questions answered in this Departmenl. It is onlv
required that vou avoid questions which would rail lor unduly
long answers, each as synopses of plays, or casts of more than
one play. There are hundreds of others "in line "' with vou
at the Questions and Answers window, so he considerate.
This will make it both practical and pleasant to serve you
promptly and often. Do not ask questions touching religion,
scenario writing or studio employment. Studio addresses
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of them is printed eUewh«'re in the magazine each month.
Write on only one side of the paper. Sign vour full namc
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you desire a personal reply, enclose self-addressed, stamped
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Magazine, Chicago.
Napoleon, Portland, Ore. — Not wishing to
take the word of anyone because of the im-
portance of the issue, your answer was delayed
until we had an opportunity of ascertaining in
person the real low-down truth in the matter.
Well, here it is: Mary Pickford's eyes are hazel;
not blue, nor gray. That's final. Sorry to dis-
turb you further, but Mary was really 24 in April,
your figures, deductions and subtractions to the
contrary notwithstanding. Now go back to St.
Helena, Nap, and your potato
patch.
Desmond. Presume this is the role to which
you refer.
H. P., Quebec, Canada. — Write the Christie
Film Co. at Gower and Sunset Blvd., Holly-
wood, Cal.
B., Jacksonville, Fla. — Hobart Bosworth's
chief roles this year were in "Joan the Woman,"
"Oliver Twist," "A Mormon Maid" and "What
Money Can't Buy." Your laudatory comment is
deeply appreciated.
Alpha Bett, Melbourne,
A u s T R A L I a. — Sorry, but we
can't identify the photoplay
from your vivid description, so
it must be one of the few we
never had the pleasure of see-
ing. Adda Gleason played the
lead in "Ramona." She was
on the legitimate stage prior to
entering pictures. Virginia
Pearson is 29, Myrtle Stedman
in her early thirties and Kath-
lyn Williams docs not state
her age for publication
T. S., Rochester, N. Y. —
You have been eating some-
thing, child, which hasn't
agreed with you. There have
been no stories in Photoplay recently
Mary Pickford or Francis X. Bushman.
Kimball Young seems to be disengaged at pres-
ent. Had a story about Charley Ray about a
year ago. Fifteen cents will bring it to your
door.
IN order to provide
space for the hun-
dreds of new corre-
spondents in this de-
partment, it is the aim
of the Answer Man to
refrain from repeti-
tions. If you can't find
your answer under your
own name, look for it
under another.
J. L., Freehold, N. J. — Miss
Minter has Renewed her con-
tract with .'Kmerican. Her ad-
dress is .American Film Co.,
Santa Barbara, Cal.
about
Clara
often, Tane.
Jane, Des Moines, Ia. —
Joseph Henaberry, who played
Lincoln in "The Birth of a
Nation," has never used any
other name and was never in
vaudeville. He is now one of
Douglas Fairbanks' directors.
Marshall Neilan directed "The
Tides of Barnegat" and re-
cently completed "Rebecca of
.Sunnybrook Farm" with Mary
I'ickford. Yep, you're wrontr.
"" Franklyn is not related to
Dustin or William. Call on us
We will be glad to hear from you.
The Girls, Higcins, Tex. — Pests? Well,
rather not ! Your devotion is positively touch-
ing. By the way, what's the fare to Higgins
from Chicago ?
Mollie, Toronto, Canada. — After a diligent
search we fail to locate any governess in "The
Birth of a Nation." Try it again.
Sunny Jim, Chel.sea, M.\ss. — Lizette Thorne
is still with American and will probably answer
your letter if she doesn't die alaffin. Your sense
of humor is so gruesome that you ought to tnake
a hit writing comedies. Moral : Don't try to kid
the Answer Man.
Frank, Brooklyn, N. Y. — Shirley Mason gets
her mail in care of McClure Pictures, McClure
BIdg., New York City. Her real name is I.eonie
Flugrath. Doris Pawn is with Fox and June
Caprice was born in 1899. Sidney Ayres died
last September.
L. L., RocKFORD, III. — Charles Gunn played
Otis Slade in "Blood Will Tell" with William
146
'Violet, Wellington, New Zealand. — Maurice
and Walton are married. They have been
dancing partners for several years. Robert
Walker is married. Francis Ford's wife is a
non-professional. Don't seem to know anything
here about Lillie Leslie.
Questions and Answers
147
Phryne and Daphne, Knoxville, Tenn. —
Both Mary and Marguerite have natcHelly curly
hair and they very, very seldom resort to wigs.
Now trot along to school.
Aline, Pocatello, Ida, — Antonio Moreno is
no longer a Vitagrapher. He is now with Astra,
one of the Pathe producing units.
Clyde, Columbus, O. — "Brownie" Vernon's
first name is really Agnes, and if you address her
at Universal City, Cal., she'll get the letter unless
the mail train is wrecked.
Sunshine, San Francisco. — Theda Bara's first
work in Los Angeles was "Cleopatra," which was
begun in New York. Yes, there are several
points of resemblance between Messrs. Lockwood
and Hamilton, noticeably in the number of eyes,
ears, etc.. possessed by each. Enjoyed your
newsy letter. Write again.
F. E. L., Wellington, New Zealand. — Your
friend is wrong and you are right — most em-
phatically so. Those fights and tumbles are the
real thing. If there has been any faking in any
of the Fairbanks films, it has been kept a secret
from the cameraman. Thanks ever so much for
your appreciation.
Bee Kay, Los Angeles. — So you think our
answers "are getting humorous." Well, sis,
there's nothing like trying, is there? William S.
Hart was born in 1874. Do we think he is hand-
some? We pass that one; Bill's a friend of
our'n. Florence Vidor was the
sister in "American Methods."
Alan Forrest is the husband of
Anna Little. No, you're not
too large to become a "movie
queen." Yes, some girls do ask-
"rather silly questions." (Just
cntre nous though, if they
didn't, we'd have a hard time
holding this job.)
Rita, Toronto, Canada. — Charles Clary had a
big part in "Joan" with Geraldine Farrar, then
he went to Fox and played in "A Tale of Two
Cities" and other big productions. Mary Pick-
ford's latest is "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm."
Yes, we heard she was born in Toronto. \\'e,
also, think "Pearls of Desire" is quite some story.
Gym, Milwaukee. — Charles Ray was born in
Jacksonville, 111., and educated in Los Angeles.
He entered the pictures soon after graduating
from High School.
Anxious, Sherman, Tex. —
Antrim Short may be reached
at Universal City, Cal.
Reader, Lowell, Mass. —
We've told the editor about
your Webster Campbell re-
quest. Anna Nillson is the
wife of Guy Coombs.
SO thatconstant repe-
tition of addresses
may be obviated, letters
to screen players ad-
dressed in care of
PHOTOPLAY MAG-
AZINE will be imme-
diately forwarded to
their destination.
Betty, Gloucester, Mass. —
Edward Langford played oppo-
site Gail Kane in "As Man
Made Her." Dustin Farnuni
played the title role in "A
Gentleman from Indana" and
Valentine Grant starred in
"The Innocent Lie." Vivian
Rich was featured in "When
Empty Hearts Are Filled."
Edna Holland was Madame
Barastoff in "The Confession
of Madame Barastoff." "The
Heart of Lincoln" was done
by Francis Ford for Universal.
R. J. H., Mount Union, Pa.
— So you gather that we are a man. Heavens,
that confirms a suspicion we have long cherished !
Mr. Warner's full name is Henry Byron Warner
and his wife is Rita Stanwood. His big stage
hit was in "Alias Jimmie Valentine" and he was
last with Selig in Chicago. Write him at 58
East Washington St., that city. Liked your
letter.
E. K., Philadelphia. — Ethel
Clayton is an 1890 girl and she
is just as good an actress as
you think she is. Write her
care of World for a photograph.
_ G. H., Pontiac, III. — Hazel Dawn is not mar-
ried ; Geraldine Farrar can be reached through
the Lasky company and Mae Murray in private
life is Mrs. Jay O'Brien.
D. P., Havana, Cuba. — It's really too bad that
you don't get the opportunity to see good photo-
plays down there. Why don't you protest to the
theater people. Louise Lovely w.as in the July
number, so your request was anticipated.
J. K., Shreveport, La. — Biograph changed the
name of "Judith of Bethulia" to "Her Condoned
Sin" when it was re-issued. Why? Search us.
The reason was probably pathological rather than
financial.
Grace, Green Bay, Wis. — Haven't the slight-
est idea what you are trying to get over. Give
it another whirl.
A. D., Minneapolis. — Edward Earle's latest
release is "God's Man." He is mum about his
birthday. William Garwood was last with L'ni-
versal and Violet Mesereau still is. Marguerite
Clark's latest is "Cinders."
Peggy, Pasadena, Cal. — Yes, quite a few of
'em get away with it until they fall down on
their alimony. Ruth King, who is the wife of
Tom Forman, is now with Essanay at Culver
City, Cal.
Aggie. Memphis, Tenn. — You most certainly
are mistaken. That was Mr. and Mrs. Bushman.
Be sure you're right before you write.
Mavis, Freeport, L. I. — It seems to be a pretty
well established fact that Olive Thomas is now
Mrs. Jack Pickford, although no formal an-
nouncement has been made. Miss Minter is to be
with American for the next two years. You
probably know all about those eyes now. Your
other requests have been forwarded to the board
of strategy with a favorable recommendation.
Eda, Chicago. — The Chaplin contract last year
called for twelve and not ten pictures. The last
of the dozen is just being completed although
the contract expired on March 20. Glad to get
your correction on the Pickford eyes.
B. C, New Orleans, La. — We have no record
of "What Will People Say?" having been pub-
lished in any of the motion picture magazines ;
nor has there been a story about Mr. Del.int.
Ella Golden was the dancer in "The Love Liar"
and she was not in "Wasted Years."
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L. L. — All your questions can he answered in
the negative : Pearl White isn't married, Creigh-
ton Hale isn't married. Dustin Farnum isn't mar-
ritd to Winifred Kingston, John Bowers isn't —
hold on, we're not so sure about that, but we're
perfectly willing to give him the benefit of the
doubt anyway. Warren Kerrigan is not partial
to any particular leading lady, but regards variety
as the paprika of existence.
Picture Company (Kay-Bee). He is five feet
eleven and three-quarters inches in height, ac-
cording to his own statement.
Darlf.i.ve. Beatrice, Xkb. — For your benefit
and that of the seventeen other young women who
are losing sleep and weight worrying over the
question of whether or not Montague Love is
married : He isn't — that's a fact.
Peg o' Yer Heart, Mt. Carmel, Pa. — Sorry,
Peg, if, in our conscientious adherence to the
truth, we have smashed some of your illusions
concerning your idols. We've spoken to the editor
about it, but he says he's powerless and that
you'd better plead with said idols yourself. Yes,
Blanche Sweet appeared in the old Biograph, "Oil
and \\'ater." Yes. again, it was at Mission Inn,
California, that ^Iary and Owen were married.
Douglas F'airbanks is not the father of the Fair-
banks twins. Why did they call it "The Deep
Purple?" Oh, suppose they wanted a change of
color scheme. Didn't you find it an agreeable
relief from the scarlet titles
that have been so popular ?
J. I. A., Va.ncouver, B. C.-;-\Ve must reply to
your question concerning Anita Stewart's popu-
larity with a decided affirmative. Miss Stewart
was born in Brooklyn in 18<)6 and went to school
at Erasmus Hall there. Her screen work has
been done exclusively for 'Vitagraph, notably in
".\ Million Bid," "He Never Knew," "Sins of the
Mother, " "The Goddess" (a series), "My Lady's
Slipper," "The .Suspect," "The Daring of Diana"
and "The Girl Philippa." In spite of the unde-
niable charm of her lovely brown hair and eyes.
Miss Stewart has so far escaped matrimony.
F. M., Des Moines, Iowa. —
Mae Marsh has left Triangle
for Goldwyn, and Bobby Har-
ron has gone to England to
join Griffith. David Wark
Griffith is no longer connected
with Triangle — never has been
very much so, according to his
own statement. The "B." in
Henry B. Walthall's signature
stands for Brazale. Here's the
cast of "Hell's Hinges": Blase
Tracy, William S. Hart; Faith
Henley, Clara Williams; Rev.
Robert Henlev, Jack Standing;
Silk Miller. "Alfred Hollings-
worth ; Clerijyman, Robert Mc-
Kim ; Zeb Taylor, J. Frank
Burke ; Dolly. Louise Glaum.
A LL letters sent
to this depart-
ment which do not
contain the full name
and address of the
sender, will be disre-
garded. Please do
not violate this rule.
E. B.. Columbiana, O. — No,
Earle, Kathlyn and Clara Wil-
liams are not related. Louise
Lovely, who is married and
who was an extra girl before
becoming a star, is with Uni-
\ersal. So are Herbert Raw-
linson and Jay Belasco. Little
NLirie Osborne is with Pathe
and Theda Bara is with Fox.
Cast of "The Bugler of Al-
giers" : Gabrielle, Ella Hall ;
Anatole Picard, Kingsley Bene-
dict ; Pierre Dupoitt, Rupert
lulian.
The Kid. Nashville. Tenn. — Ethel Clayton,
which was her real name before she had a hus-
band named Kaufman, was born in Champaign,
Illinois, on November 8, 1890, and married on
February 10, 1914. She has no children. Joseph
Schenck is Norman Talmadge's husband.
H. H., Tami'a, Fla. — The
Fairbanks twins are fifteen
years old. "Our Wives," "The
Stranger in Gray," "A Royal
Family," "Emmy of Stork's
Nest," "The Kiss of Hate,"
"The Crucial Test," "The Narrow Path," "The
Blossom and the Bee" and ".Miss George Wash-
ington" are a few of the plays in which Niles
W'elch has appeared.
G. C, Racine. Wis. — A little directory for
your own personal use : Marguerite Clark, Famous
Players, New York City; Mary Miles Minter,
American, Santa Barbara, California ; Dustin
Farnum, Fox, Los .\ngeles, California ; Earl
Williams, Vitagraph, Brooklyn, New York.
Sary Ann Triangle. New York City. — Where
have they gone to ? Well, Flora Finch now has
her own company, Mary Fuller is with Lasky. the
Fairbanks twins with Thanhouser. and Dorothy
Bernard with Frohman. Joyce Fair isn't with Es-
sanay any more. She's about thirteen years old
and has been on the stage.
M. M., Grand Rapids, Mich. — Pearl White's
hair is red and her eyes are green and she's
twenty-eight and unmarried. Florence La Badie,
who has brown hair and blue eyes, is five years
younger than Pearl and George Ovey is five years
older.
M. B., Phil.\delphia. Pa. — Valentine Grant,
who happens to be of feminine persuasion, and
Sidney Mason played in "The Daughter of Mac-
Gregor." Why does Olga Petrova always wear
a wrist watch ? Well, since, as far as we have
been able to observe, madame never wears it
hanging down her Ijack or clamped to her ankle,
but in the place where one naturally expects to
see a wrist watch, do you think that it would be
prestimptuous for us to state that she uses it for
the purpose of telling the time ?
.•\. W. C, Tasman, N. Z. — Seena Owen, alias
Signa Auen, of Fine Arts, was born in Spokane,
Washington. She was educated there and in
Copenhagen and has been on the screen since
1914 — with Kalem, Reliance-Majestic and Fine
Arts. "The Lamb," "The Penitents," "Martha's
\'indication" and "Intolerance" are among her
best pictures. Miss Owen is five feet six inches
in height, is very fond of art and music and is
the wife of George Walsh.
A. P. H., New York City. — Cast of "Lost and
Won" ; Cinders. Marie Doro ; Walter Crane,
Elliott Dexter; Kirkland Gaige, Carl Stockdale:
Cleo Duvene, Mayme Kelso ; B, H. Holt, Robert
Gray.
Rose and Lillian, Cleveland, Ohio. — In 1912,
Harold Lockwood was with the New York Motion
Triangle Booster, Lawrence, Mass. — House
Peters' last pictures were "As Men Love." with
Myrtle Stedman, "The Lonesome Chap," with
Louise Huff, and "The Highway of Hope." The
fact that the Griffith players have disbanded does
not mean that you will have fewer opportunities
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of seeing them than formerly. They're all work-
ing just as hard as ever. Since you wrote us,
Douglas Fairbanks has acquired n company of
his own, releasing through Artcraft.
sliould l)e given a half million of it, isn't it? As
a general rule, salaries are based on the earning
power of the player.
Ima Nutt, Racine, Wis. — Your pen name is
startlingly original. How did you ever think of
it? Ella Hall is twenty-one and Charles Chai)lin
is thirty-one. Yes, wc liked your letter and shall
try to be patient imtil you write again, but don't
wait too long. Kathleen Williams' address is
.Morosco.
M. C. I..ACKAWA\NA, -X. Y.— Bill Hart has
never been m.irried, but we'll bet you an Easter
bonnet, payable in 18 months from date, that
he'll get hitched within that time. Now don't
.ill write at once. The address is Culver City,
Cal.
Henry, Troy, S. C. — You will have to be more
explicit — in other words, put us wise to what
you really want us to do. Can't tell from your
letter whether you want us to make you a suc-
cessor to F. X. Bushman or to Captain Kidd.
Ethel C, Toronto, Canada. — Lois Weber's
address is corner Vermont Ave. and Sunset Blvd.,
Los Angeles, Cal.
S. T., Hanna. La. — Don't you mean "\ot My
Sister"? If you do, the little sister was Alice
Taafe. She is still with Triangle at Culver City.
Adelaide. Chicago. — We haven't all of "Tom
Meighan's stage record. His wife, Frances Ring,
has never appeared on the screen. She did play
in stock in Los .\ngeles. At this writing Dustin
Farnum is making his final pic-
ture under his Fox contract.
Yes, it is trying to answer so
many questions. We're just
trying all the time.
E. P., Cheyenne, Wvo. — It wasn't Alice
Joyce's baby in "Her Secret." Tom Moore is
with Lasky. He has played with his wife many
times in the old Kalem davs.
E. P., New York City. —
The man who married Mar-
guerite Clark in "The Valen-
tine Girl" was Richard Bar-
thlemess. He is 22 years old.
Gracie. Brooklyn. — William
Farnum is now playing at Fort
Lee, N. J. His wife was
known as Olive White on the
stage and they have a little
adopted daughter.
L. W. J., Glendale. Cal. —
If you are really Mrs. Castle's
double you are five feet seven
inches tall and weigh around 135 pounds
is a blonde.
'T* HIS department
•*• will be glad to for-
ward to the proper des-
tinations all letters
addressed in care of
PHOTOPLAY MAG-
AZINE, to any of the
screen players. Thi§ is
a service department
and is conducted solely
for the convenience and
pleasure of its readers.
Babe, Quebec, Canada. —
You will have some trouble
getting in touch with Mile.
-Mice Lagrange, who played
Marie in "Mothers of France."
I-ihe is "somewhere in France."
Essie, Greenville, O. —
Mary Boland played the lead
in "Stepping .Stones." Roy
Stewart w;is born in 1884 at
.'^.in Diego, Cal.
She Hollywood, Cal.
I.OLA. .Salt Lake, L'tah.^ — •
Monte Blue w-as the youthful
bandit in "Hands Up." He
played the cowboy who pre-
tended to be the bad man in
"Wild and Woolly," the Doug-
las Fairbanks thriller. Write
him care Fairbanks Company,
C-F Admirer, Strathroy, Canada. — Francis
Ford's wife's name is Mrs. Elsie Ford and they
have a little boy. Grace Cunard is living with
her htisband, Mr. Joseph Moore. Is she as cute
off the screen as she is on? Well, we assume so,
although we do not make a practice of prying
into the private lives of the players.
Betty Lou, Ft. Leavenworth Kan.— Try the
Motion Picture News Directory, which your
news dealer probably has in stock, or can get
for you.
G. N., Flatbush, N. Y. — You won't be dis-
appointed.
G. a., Hamilton, Ont., Canada. — Many thanks
for your commendation.
J. L., Roanoke, Va. — Frank Kecnan is back
on the stage playing in "The Pawn," produced
by himself. Nicholas Dunaew will get mail ad-
dressed to him at Universal City ; Mabel Trun-
nelle at Edison and William Shay with Herbert
Brenon, care Selznick. (How is the Roanoke
Bushman Club prospering?)
Ethel, Hector. Minn. — In Vitagraph the "i"
is long. In "Anita," the accent is on the knee.
M. N., Norfolk, Va. — Frank Campeau played
the male lead in "Jordan Is a Hard Roid."
Mary Pickford has no children, .\rthur Johnson
has been dead more than a year and G. M.
Anderson is engaged in an effort to elevate the
musical comedy stage. Write whenever the spirit
moves you.
Ethel, Lewes, Del. — Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks'
maiden name was Beth Sully and she was not
on the stage. There have been no divorces in
the Pickford family.
Elad, San -Antonio, Tex. — Your queries are
slightly out of our line. Pretty hard to tell whv
the popularity of any player or team of plavers
slumps. That is, it's hard' to give the exact psy-
chological reason. People just get sick of looking
at 'em, we suppose." As to the increasingly
big salaries of some of the stars — well, if he, or
she, can make a million dollars a year for his,
or her, employer, it's only fair that he, or she!
CLrTCHiNc Hand. St. Johns. Newfoundland.
— Spottiswoode .Aitkcn was the girl's uncle and
Elmo Lincoln the blacksmith in "Her Shattered
Idol." Here's the cast for "On Secret Service":
Nell Bertram, Winifred Greenwood; Frank
Ketchell. Ed Coxen ; James Whitmore, George
Field; John Bertram. Charles Newton.
Jtmmie. Peru. III. — Rockliffe Fellowes was
born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1884 and made his
film debut in Fox's "Regeneration."
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Fkenchie, Kank.'VKEe, III. — Write Florence
Holbrook, care Variety, New York City, and it
will be forwarded. Thelnia Salter is eight years
old.
ViRGiE, New Orleans.— Frank Mayo was last
with Balboa. Letters addressed him there will
be forwarded. Ralph Kellard has the male lead
in "Pearl of the Army." The "Skinner" pictures
are not a serial, but perhaps, a series.
HoNOLULUiAN, BERKELEY. Cal. — You wron.g: us
woefully. We never play Rolf. Not exciting
enough. And we didn't forget you either. Hope
the House Pctt-r.s story in the July number gave
Vcm a thrill.
C. F., New Have.v, Co.vn. — William S. Hart
is still unmarried and may be reached at Culver
City, Cal. Tell him what you told us about him
and we'll bet you a liberty bond against a hard
boiled egg that he'll send you ,i nice photograph
of vour favorite actor.
M. T., RoxuuRV, Mass. — No contest on for
movie stars now that we know of. Hard luck.
I oi.LVPOp. Emans, Pa. — -Ml we know about it
is that they were real rocks that Miss Kellernian
was dashed against. We cannot go into the
tcclinic.il details. Sorry to have kept you wait-
ing so long.
C. S., Wichita, Kan. — Dustin and William
Farnum are not the same person but almost.
They are brothers spaced by a period of two
years. Paul Willis is 17 years old.
T. E., Elizabeth, N. J. — Baby Marie Osborn
has plaved in "Little Mary Sunshine." "Sunshine
and Shadows." "Told at Twilight" and other
child plays. She is now with the LaSalida Com-
pany, Los Angeles.
Ruth, Redlands, Cal. — It's just perfectly
adorable of you to think that we write such
awfully cute answers. No, we never get bored
reading "foolish letters l.ke mine." Reached the
state of immunity long ago, so write often. A
letter addressed to Mahlon Hamilton at Famous
Players will reach him but we can't guarantee
his matrimonial freedom. The all-star cast you
suggest would be a great stunt, but the battle
for footage would surely result in fatalities.
The Chums, Pasadena, Cal. — Haven't any
(lope on the salaries you are curious about. Dif-
ferent with ages though ; listen : Clara K. Young,
24: Marguerite Clark, .30: Jack Pickford, 21:
Blanche Sweet, 22: Owen Moore, 29; Harold
I.ockwood, 30 : May Allison, 25.
V. J.. San Diego, Cal. — ^Gertrude Glover may
be reached at Essanay, Chicago. Edith Johnson
is no longer with I'niversal. Blanche Sweet has
been away from the camera for about six months.
Thanks for your good wishes.
D. R,, Hamilton. Ont.. Canada. — William
Farnum played the two roles of Dariiay and Sid-
ney Carltou in "A Tale of Two Cities."
H. M.. Des Moines. Ia. — May Allison, at this
writing, has not signed with any other company.
.Anna Little has taken her jilace in the Lock-
wood company.
Georgie, Van port. Pa. — George Walsh is 25
years old and is with the Western Fox studio at
Hollywood, Cal. He is married to Seena Owen.
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C. p., New Haven, Conn. — It's hard to tell
you how many summers Marie Prevost has seen.
You see it's always, or nearly always, summer in
California. That's why so many stars have given
up attempting to figure out the number of their
summers. If it's all the same to you, Marie is
]9 years old and is wholly unincumbered. Emmy
Whelen is in her early twenties. She was
starred in "The Merry 'Widow," "The Dollar
Princess," "Marriage a la Carte," "Tonight's the
Night" and other musical plays before taking to
the screen.
A. M., Appleton, Wis.— Those are the Gish
girls all_ right in the October number, but they
occupy just the opposite positions. Both sisters
are now "Somewhere in France" taking part in
a Griffith war picture.
Pauline, Terre Haute, Ind. — Ella Hall lives
in Hollywood, Cal., and may be addressed at
Universal City, Cal. She will be glad to send
you her picture and so will William S. Hart.
Glad you like Photoplay so much.
Mary Agnes. Charleston, S. C. — Address
Shirley Mason at McClure Pictures, McCIure
Building, New York City. Mrs. Vernon Castle
sends her pictures to admirers. There was no
trick photography in "Poor Little Rich Girl" that
we know of.
K. S., Albuquerque, N. M. — Martha Ehrlich
was the beautiful blonde who played opposite
Max Linder. She was on the musical comedy
stage in New York prior to the Linder engage-
ment.
Escribe Pronto, .Dunkirk, N. Y. — So you
dont' know which you like best, this department
or "the reading matter." Of course you didn't
mean it that way, bvit gosh, it sounded awful
rough to us when we first lamped it. "Diantha"
has not been picturized so far as we know.
Photoplay is on sale on the first of each month.
Amour Propre, Melbol'rne, Australia. • —
Ethel Barrymore is Mrs. Russell Colt in private
life. Much of "The Feast of Life" was filmed
in Cuba. Enid Bennett was born in Australia
and is 20 years old. You're much too far distant
to advise you as to employment, even though
that particular subject were not banned.
Billy, Chicago. — When it comes to falling in
love,' you seem to be a sort of feminine Don
Juan. Write to them as follows : Gladden
James. Pathe ; Emorv Johnson, L^niversal ; Harry
Benham. World : Charles Gunn, Culver City,
Cal. ; Mahlon Hamilton, Lasky : Crane Wilbur,
Horsley, Los Angeles : George Walsh, Fox, Los
Angeles.
G. M., Great Falls, Mont. — Being the only
girl of your age who is "not crazy to be a movie
star," a copper cross is being made for you.
(To make a copper cross you hit him with a
brick.) Grace Cunard and Francis Ford had a
company of their own for several years with
L^niversal. The dogs you mention were bor-
rowed. There has been some talk as to whether
Theda Bara was born on the Nile or the Ohio.
Our information is that Egypt is in the lead now
for the honor of being her birthplace. George
Beban is a native of California. Grace Darmond,
Ralph Kellard and Leon Bary are the principals
in "The Shielding Shadow." Grace Darmond
has been on the screeen about three years and
hasn't discussed her age with us as yet. We'll
have to see about it.
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S. T., San Francisco. — Berna in "Civiliza-
tion's Child" was Anna Lehr. She is married.
Valeska Siiratt's nationality is Hoosier, as she
was born in Indiana.
L. C. Wife, Detroit, Mich. — Glad you got it
out of your system. We quite agree with you
that Margery Wilson is a very nifty little player.
Had a story about her last year, but you must
have missed that issue.
T. W., Salt Lake, Utah. — Marie Walcamp is
still with Universal although she left that com-
pany for a wtiile to play in "Patria" with Mrs.
Castle. Send fifteen cents for the magazine con-
taining the Walcamp story.
L. P., Jacksonville, Fla. — We have no record
of the play to which you refer.
Molly, Washington, D. C. — Vola Vale was
the real Lady Pamela in "The Wooing of Sally
Temple" with Fannie Ward. Miss Vale is now
with Balboa at Long Beach, Cal. Mrs. Castle's
maiden name was Irene Foote. Milton Sills
played with several companies before getting
"Patriatic." Gee, but that's a bad one, isn't it?
J. S., Exeter, N. H. — "The Ne'er-do-well" wis
filmed by Selig more than two years ago. The
leads were played by Kathlyn Williams and
Wheeler Oakman and most of the scenes were
taken on the Panama Canal.
A. D., Charlevoix. Mich. — Divorce proceed-
ings between James Young and Clara Kimball
Young are pending. Address Jack Pickford.
care Morosco Company, Los Angeles. Yep, it's
a tegious job, but we never get discusted with
our correspondents.
Miss Bobby, Pensacola. Fla. — Delia Trom-
blcy was the sister of Anton in "Anton the Ter-
rible." We thought it was too. None of those
you mention are related to any of the others.
Your suggestions are excellent and we have
passed them over to the editor.
Tommy, Alton. III. — Norma Nichols played
Chiquita in "The Ne'er-do-well." . She is Amer-
ican. We have no record of "The Primitive
Call."
D., Johnson Creek, Wis. — You will h,ave to
take up the matter of Farrar stills with the
Paramount Corporation in New York.
Stella. Sydney, Australia. — Pearl White
don't seem to have birthdays. "Pearl of the
Army" ought to be over there pretty soon. Ask
your thfater man about it. Don't worry about
our "Americanisms" ; sometimes they puzzle iis.
so you have nothing on the Answer Man.
Dorothy, Alameda, Cal. — Chester Barnett
was Billce to Clara Kimball Young's Trilby.
Write Charles Ray at Culver City and he will
send you a photograph.
A. L., Smithfield, N. C. — J. Warren Kerrigan
is with Paralta, 5.300 Melrose Avenue, Los An-
geles, Cal. Creighton Hale, we are told, is
wifeless.
Helen, Norfolk, Va. — Jane Grey was born in
Middlebury, Vt. in 1883 and has had a successful
career on the stage. She made her film debut
with Fine Arts in "Let Katy Do It" and has
since played with a number of other film com-
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A. R., Dknvek, Coi.o. — You arc ricrht : "Ivan-
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M. M.. CoLLi.N.sviLi.K. ()kl.\. — Yes, that's the
way Kthel Clayton really looks.— Mr. and Mrs.
Wallace Reid live in a cute little bungalow in
Hollywood, Cal.. with their young son who was
horn on June 18. C'reighton Hale is with Pathc,
Kdward T. l.angford has gone to France and
Harold I.ockwood is with Metro.
M.MiF.i, C-, Xew York City. — GoTcnwr Hunter
in "The Honor Sy.stem" was portrayed by James
Marcus and not the real governor, who at th.'il
time was Governor Hunt. George and RaonI
Walsh are brothers and they have a sister, Mrs.
Willie Hoppe, wife of the billiard champion.
Marc McOermott is the husband of Miriam Nos-
bilt. and Milton Sills is noncommittal on his
marital state.
B. B., Guthrie, Okla. — Inasmuch as he has
married her, it is a pretty safe assmnption that
Bill Russell will appear again with Charlotte
Burton. His last two are "The Frame-Up" and
"Pride and the Man."
H. S-, New York City. — Our opinion as to the
merits of the actors you mention is no better
than yours. Their salaries are a pretty good
indication of their commercial value and they
rank in that respect just as you have named
them. Fairbanks, Hart, William Farnimi and
Walsh.
Admirer. Grand Fork.s, X. D. — If your argu-
ment is based on a sound premise, people who
"put their whole heart" into a dry goods business,
or a law business, or street car conductoring, or
milk delivering, etc., should also refrain from
marrying because they are thrown into daily con-
tact with those of the so-called gentle sex. And
just think of the ice man ! Where the movie
star meets one girl, the ice man meets a hundred
every day. Sure; write any old time.
E. B.,
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Thomas
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KANSA.q City, Mo. — Florence Rockwell
on the legitimate stage. She has been
in Australia. Theodore Roberts was
San Francisco. Lenore Ulrich is not
Sessue Hayakawa uses his own name.
Forman appeared last in "Forbidden
Isaac Henderson was the author of
's "The Mummy and the Humming
E., KiRKi,AND, Wash. — Marc McDermott was
enjoying good health when we saw lyni last.
"Builders of Castles" was one of his recent
photoplays.
Elizabeth. Louisville, Kv. — Robert War-
wick's right name is Robert Taylor Bien and he
is married to Josephine Whittell, of the oper-
atic stage. Shirley Mason's right name is I.eotiie
Flugrath. 'Sou will have to write to the studio
addresses of your friends as it is not customary
to send letters to their homes. Norma and Con-
stance are sisters. No trouble.
Elizabeth, Oakland, Cal. — Victor Moore was
last reported at Jacksonville. Florida, by our
secret service, care Klever Komedies. Mary Pick-
ford usually answers her correspondence, so your
letters must have gone astray.
Ethel. East Palestine, O. — Gretchen Hart-
man is Mrs. Alan Hale. Alice Brady and Fran-
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Betty, Melbourne, Australia — Cleo Ridgely
and Margaret Thompson are not the same. Miss
Thompson is with Triangle. We have nothing
about Miss Neilson. Sorry you don't get time
to answer the puzzles, but you can have a lotta
fun outa them even if you can't win a prize.
Silver Spurs, St. Paul, Minn. — Earle Foxe is
over six feet, weighs about 180, has dark blue
eyes and was born in 1887. Yes, it was very
sweet of Harold to send you a photograph and
letter.- We never printed "The Dream Girl."
Glad you like the covers so much. They're sure
beauties.
.r. K., Waco, Texas — Tom Forman was born in
your state and seems to be proud of it.
C. T., St. Louis — Your request concerning lit-
tle Mary Pickford Rupp is already answered.
Mabel, Sarkia, Ont., Canada — Jack Barrymore
is married. Frank Elliott is with Selig. • "Near-
ly a Lady" w as produced by Bosworth (now
Morosco). Grace Cunard is a blonde. Sorry
you don't approve of her marriage. It's pretty
hard though for the players to please all their
friends.
S. M., Havana, Cuba — Antonio Moreno is
Spanish born but so far as we know there are no
Cubans in the movies. Glad to hear that we're
so popular in Cuba.
H. W., Sydney, Australi.^ — Olga Petrova's
married name is Stewart. Louise Lovely was
born in your city. Her husband's name is Welch,
also of Australia. Edmund Breese is still at
work. Marguerite Snow's last appearance was
in a Canadian National Feature Ltd. production.
LuciLE, Brooklyn — Gerda and Stuart Holmes
are not related. Gerda is the wife of Rapley
Holmes, a well known actor. Miriam Nesbitt is
the wife of Marc McDermott. Lillian Walker
recently signed up with a company at Ogden,
Utah. Valeska is still with Fox.
H. B., Northfield, Minn. — Actresses usually
buy their own" costumes except where period cos-
tumes are required. Robert Warwick is in his
late thirties and is married. Write Clara Kim-
ball Young, 729 Seventh Avenue, New York.
Pauline, Plainfield, N. J. — Freckles don't
show on the screen as they are carefully hidden
behind the make-up. Harry Hilliard is with
Fox vet.
L. F., New York City — Mrs. Vernon Castle
has signed a contract with Pathe. She is 24.
Hobart Henley is 30.
J. W., San Marcos, Tex. — Rosemary Theby is
still playing with Harry Myers. Understand she's
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Charlotte, Brooklyn — Musta been a mistake.
Creighton Hale is not hooked as yet. Retain
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Dark Eyes, Goshen, Ind. — No indeed, sixteen
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Reid makes it a practice to answer letters from
his admirers. Enjoyed your poem very much.
Many thanks.
J. P., Honolulu, H. I. — Emmy 'Wehlen is five
feet, four inches. Don't know of any Chinese
player on the screen.
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BARRYMORE, LIONEL August, 1917
BAYNE, BEVERLY March, 1917
BEXXETT. RICHARD April, 1917
BROCKWELL, GLADYS
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BURTON, CHARLOTTE ...December. 1916
BUSHMAN, FRANCIS X April, 1917
CARMEN, JEWEL July, 1917
CHAPLIN. CHARLES June, 1917
CLARK, MARGUERITE ...December, 1916
CLAYTON. ETHEI April, 1917
CLIFFORD KATHLEEN August, 1917
COBURN, GLADYS May, 1917
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CONNELLY, ROBERT February, 1917
COOPER, MIRIAM July, 1917
DANA, VIOLA February, 1917
DESMOND, WTLLIAM August, 1917
DORO, M.\RIE December, 1916
DREW, S. RANKIN April, 1917
DWAN, ALLAN May, 1917
EMERSON, JOHN November, 1916
FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS
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FARRAR, GERALDINE August, 1917
FAWCETT, GEORGE April 1917
FAZENDA, LOUISE August, 1917
FISCHER, MARGARITA ...February, 1917
FOXE. EARLE December, \9\6
FREDERICK, PAULINE June, 1917
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GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK
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HARLAN, MACEY May' 1917
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HOLMES, STUART December, 1916
HOWELL, ALICE August, 1917
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LLOYD. FRANK July,
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LOVE, BESSIE August,
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LOVELY, LOUISE July,
LYTTON, R(JGER April,
MARSH, M.\E.. March, 1917, and June,
MARTIN, VIVIAN August,
MASON. SHIRLEY March,
MEIGHAN. THOMAS August,
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PICKFORD. MARY March,
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SMITH. C. AUBREY February,
SNYDER, MATT December,
STANDING, HERBERT ...November,
STEVENS, EMILY August.
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TALMADGE. NORMA February,
TEARE, ETHEL June,
TELLEGEN, LOU July,
THEBY, ROSEMARY December,
TURNBULL, HECTOR December.
VIDOR, FLORENCE August,
WALCAMP, MARIE November,
WARWICK. ROBERT March,
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WHITNEY. CLAIRE December,
WILLIS, PAUL August,
WORTMANN, FRANK HUCK
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Pearls of Desire
{Continued from page ./p)
and came fluttering toward me. A clear,
quavering voice cried out : — "Jack . . .
Jack . . , I'm not a ghost . . .
I'm real . . . real !"
And then the moon began to rock and
sway while its light dimmed and darkened
and I slipped gently into oblivion.
CHAPTER XI
IT is probable that I got the truth of it
■*■ barely in the nick of time to save my
reason and that my brief faint was in the
nature of a mental anodyne. I recovered
consciousness to find myself lying on the
sand, my head on Enid's lap and she alter-
nately sluicing my face from the water jug
and pouring between my lips the last few
drops of the bishop's Schuydam gin. Even
as I lost my senses I had realized that here
Avas no ghost, but Enid in the flesh.
And now as my brain resumed its func-
tions I understood it all. We had been
the wretched victims of a deliberate ruse
on the part of this subtle, self-willed girl
who for reasons of her own (and sound
reasons a^ it proved) had decided in the
depths oi her extraordinary mind that a
man of my nervous and imaginative nature
could not be left alone upon a desert
island without danger to his reason and
therefore, feeling under obligation to me
and being of a nature to pay her debts at
any cost had coolly determined to share my
exile.
My awakening intdligence had gathered
these facts before she discovered that I had
come out of mv faint and 1 took my time
about relieving her anxiety. I wanted a few
seconds in which to reflect. Besides, for
the moment I felt physically unable to stir
an eyelash though my mind was active
enough. Why had "Enid done this out-
rageous thing? ^^'as it really through a
sense of duty or in large measure to spite
her aunt and uncle, for Alice had told me
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and pallid face and muttered: "You
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Her answer came in a flood of tears.
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demanding to know what else she could
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to cry, e.xcept in rage or thwarted will. It
was a phase which I had never thought to
be latent in her character and I was des-
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about my poor eftorts at keeping them com-
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sojourn on Trocadero. An unjjrejudiced
person listening to her might have been led
10 believe that I had been in the habit of
transfusing them daily from my heart's
blood and the volatile extracts of my soul.
It made me ashamed to lie tliere and listen
to her, but I found it singularly ])leasant
all the same. It was precisely the medicine
required by my system at that moment.
"Vou see, Jack," she murmured, "Uncle
Geoffrey is rather muddy after all, and I
knew that he would (|uickly get over it
while y\lice will make an heroic effort as
soon as she comes to realize that violent
grief is bad for the looks. Two people
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"Well . . .?"
"Well, because you are not the least in
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"No," I answered. "That's all off."
"I knew that you would call it off when
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. . . there was nothing left but for me
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"Perfectly." T said. "It would mar your
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didn't take very long, did it? But I must
say that I think I might have worried along
if it hadn't been for the shock you gave us.
That hove me down, because I felt that it
was my fault and it started the black
thoughts that wound up by sapping all of
the strength out of me."
She nodded. "Of course," said she.
"But all the same I don't believe that you
could have stood it very long. A stolid,
phlegmatic person miglit, or one who had
been alone here from the start and was
thankful enougli to get off alive. A ship-
wrecked sailor miglu have managed well
enough for a certain length of time. He
Avould have been too busy keeping body and
soul together to have felt the solitude so
much and would probably have taken it
philosophically. But you are a good deal
of a child in some ways, Jack; an imagi-
native child and your fancies might have,
got away with you. I felt that when I
made up my mind to stay here. You had
better go to bed, now, and I will do the
same as we are both tired and we have got
a lot of things to do to-morrow. I don't
suppose that beast of a Drake left you any-
thing, did he?"
I told her that we had only our few
remaining stores with the little stuff which
Drake had sent ashore, including the flan-
nels and calico. In the stress of the mo-
ment not even Drake's callousness had been
capable of depriving me of these insignifi-
cant articles. But they were sufficiently
precious to Enid and myself, especially the
textiles, as the season was approaching a
change.
So we bade each other good night and
retired, Enid apparently indifferent to the
loneliness of the bungalow and accepting
the new and extraordinary condition of
things with a calmness which amazed me.
It seemed outrageous ; incredible. Here
was a young girl who had been brought up
in such an atmosphere of cold storage con-
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that a lifetime of varied experience would
be enough to thaw her out around the
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exile when I had jokingly remarked that
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had a pretty good course in the expedients
of shipwreck she had told me primly that
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usually indelicate. Her ideas of delicacy
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unsterilized body requiring immediate re-
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most modern current fiction. Her prudery
had amounted to a passion and she moved
about the world like an Alpiniste making a
dangerous ascent in a fog. This extreme
abhorrence of what she chose to consider
the gross had never taken the form of
timidity. On the contrary if unable other-
wise to avoid it she would probably have
tackled a lascivious work of art with an
axe, and shown animus in its annihilation.
Not only did this extreme prudery pre-
vail in regard to inanimate suggestion but
also in her personal relations with men and
other beasts of prey. According to Alice
and the bishop she had sent no lack of
swains scudding for shelter, up stick and
away before the gusty draughts of her dis-
approval. Any amorous suggestion had
been abhorrent to her and even timid votive
offerings to her shrine had been spurned
and sent spinning from the temple gates.
She appeared to have considered it a sacri-
lege even to have been admired from a safe
and respectful distance, but as she was
destined to be richly endowed, her near
relatives had never worried themselves sick
over this phase of character.
And now, here was this Vestal, this
golden Artemis slipping down from her
ivory tower to immolate herself on a desert
island with a wild Hibernian for fear lest
he have hysterics . . . and by St.
Christopher, saving him from them by the
skin of his teeth. I make no excuse for my
frailty. I was really in a very bad \\ay
and might easily have flown to pieces. But
I like to think that this was less the result
of unmanly weakness than because even at
that early moment there were germinating
in my system the grains of such a love as
grew later when the fallow soil had brcn
properly labored. Possibly Enid had felt
subconsciously this- nascent burgeoning and
responded to it. Some instinct may have
told her that in one poor honest soul the
day would come when the touch of her little
finger would outweigh the mass of all the
universe.
(To he continued)
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Polly of the Circus
{ton tinned from payc 6j)
used to read me verses from the Bible about
my way being his way, and my people his
people. But it isn't so, Jim. Your way is
the way you were born, and your pcoi>le
are the people you was born with — antl you
can't change it, no matter how hard you
try."
"You was changin' it. Poll," protested
Jim. "You was gettin' jest like them peo-
ple. It was me that took you away and
spoiled it all. Poll, do you love the par-
son?"
"Yes, Jim," answered Polly softly.
"Didn't he care for you that way?"
"Oh, no, Jim. He was good and kind,
always, but he didn't care, t/tai way." Jim
hurried away to supervise th& packing of
the circus paraphernalia just as the young
minister suddenly appeared from the
shadows.
Polly started and drew lier cloak about
her. "\Ve were close neiglibors today, I
rather thought you'd call on us," began
Douglas.
"When you're in a circus, there isn't
much time for calling," answered PoUv
with an effort.
"Well, you see," smiled the rector, "I've
come to call on you. Why did vou leave
me as you did that night?"
"I've come back to my people."
"You aren't frank with me. You're not
happy here. I know it. And I'm not
happy without you, Polly. You've grown
so close — "
"Oh, don't, please don't," begged the lit-
tle rider.
"I want you, Polly," continued the min-
ister passionately. "I need you, I 16ve you.
Polly, Polly, why- did you leave me?"
"You mustn't, it's wrong, all wrong,"
said Polly, frightened.
Before Douglas could reply, Deacon
Strong climbed over a tent rope. "So,
you're here, are you. Douglas? I've been
-watching you tonight."
"Yes, deacon, I'm here," answered the
minister defiantlj^
"I might a known how she'd keep her
bargain," sneered Strong.
"Bargain, what bargain? So that's it.
It was you who drove that child back to
this."
"Oh, please, Mr. John, please don't make
him any worse," begged Polly, clinging to
Douglas' arm.
"What right had you to interfere?" de-
manded the pastor of the deacon.
gruffiv
answered
"Your
"1 had every right,"
Strong. "It was my duty."
"Your 'duty'," repeated Douglas,
narrow-minded bigotry."
"I don't allow no man to talk to me like
that." shouted Strong, "not even my par-
son."
"I'm not your parson — any longer," re-
turned Douglas. "I've stayed with you
and your narrow-minded congregation up
to now. because I believed that you needed
me. But, now, this child needs me more.
She needs me to protect her from just such
injustice as yours."
"I don't need you, Mr. John," sobbed
Polly, "I can take care of myself. Don't
mind what.he says, Mr. Strong, I'll do as
I promised. I'll stay with the circus. And
Mr. John will think only of his chur( h and
his people."
"God is greater than any churcli or
creed," answered Douglas. " Thcte's work
to be done everywiiere — His work. We'll
find our work together."
"No, no," begged Polly. "It's time for
my act. I'm going to ride now." With
that she ran into the main tent entrance.
Shouts and cries came from beliind the
dressing tent. Douglas turned puzzletl.
and saw Big Jim fighting off a gang of
toughs. The young minister dashed into
the maelstrom and, between the two, the
hoodlums were beaten off. One of the
gangsters, badly battered, crawled away to
a pile of straw. A quick flash of a match
and the straw blazed high into the summer
sky. The flames swept rapidly along the
ground and a second later the "big top"
had caught.
The sudden whirl of smoke threw the
audience into a paroxysm of fear. At that
moment the animals and elephants caught
the smell of burning canvas and their cries
completed the panic. An elephant, in mad
fright at the flames, ripped up the stake to
which he was chained and l)urst bellowing
through the crowd.
Douglas and Big Jim forced their way
among the fleeing villagers with one
thought— Polly ! The minister was blinded
by the smoke but the big canvasman dashed
under the flaming canvas. Staggering to
the animal tent, he found the little rider
Iving unconscious bv her horse's side. Tlic
flames were creeping through the straw
towards her fluffy riding costume.
Jim picked up the frail little form and
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(^Continued from page i66)
crawled through the blinding smoke.
'I'wice he fell but each time he managed to
regain his feet. Finally he reached the
main entrance, where the minister was try-
ing to force his way through a cordeon of
circus men.
"Old friend," said Jim, still half choked
bv the smoke, "I've brought her back tn
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The two men carried Polly to the par-
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recovered quickly. "You've brought me
i)ack at last — back — home!" she sighed as
she snuggled into Douglas' arms. Tears
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leave tliee.' "
Hig Jim turned stoically away. Hcneath
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lie said, "and the show lias got to go on.
(loodbve, folks."
Polly clung to Douglas' arm. " 'Whither
tliou gocst, will I go,' " repeated Polly.
" 'where thou diest will I die.' "
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