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Note: Mark X here it you aUo dcrirc Fniemcd Record Album at irpedial price of only 69c. (store: price *l-00-> Attractive and durable: bold* cicbt record*. 1 SCKEEN3LAND THE MAGIC NAME IN ENTERTAINMENT THE WORLD OVER YOU whose lives are spent in one locality may have a dim idea of "the thousands of other communities keenly enjoying Paramount Pictures at the same moment. You who travel all over the United States have seen for yourselves that Paramount is always mysteriously there ahead of you! But world-travelers can add still another chapter to the story! They know that ,'; FAMOUS P LAYERS- IAS KV CORPORATION ADOLPrf ZUICOR. f>m.lftnt Paramount' s fame is blazoned through every continent.. It is no surprise to them to see the familiar trademark on theatres in London, Paris, Algiers, Japan, or Australia. In some far eastern communities the name Paramount (perhaps the only English term they know), is a magic word because it means to them just what it means to you — "to-night's the ^•jjjiiifr night: for a great ==^3$?§7 show!" ^ i paramount ffictur&s If it's a Paramount Picture it's the best show in town ! nd a yiagazine of Young Ideas Publisher: Myron "Label Editor: Frederick James Smith Associate Editor: A.nne Austin VOL. VI 1 1 Contents for OCTOBER, 1923 No. 1 CLAIRE Windsor (Cover -Design) Rolf Armstrong Screenland Gallery 11-14, 31-34 FEATURES OF THE MONTH The Romantic Age of the Movies ". Robert E. Sherwood 15 The Costume Picture's Develop into an Avalanche Is This Waste? . ■ - ■ • • Helen Starr 17 Fortunes are Annually Wasted Through Ego The Adventures of Photoplay Phyllis John Held, Jr. 20 The Beginning of a Fascinating Cartoon Series Rodolph Valentino and Matrimony Anna Prophater 22 Mrs. Valentino says there is no secret of love The Crepe de Chene Revolution . Helen Lee 26 How the photoplay has changed the taste of America Dons Gloria Believe It Herself? Delight Evans 29 Is Miss Sivanson just a good business woman f Is the Screen Afraid of Sex . Gladys Hall 36 The Silversheet shuns the facts of sex Bursting Bubbles . . . Mildred Doherty 38 Shattering Illusions Is Hollywood's indoor sport Grand Larceny .... Eunice Marshall 40 /Infill the gentle art of stealing the picture Ay Outline of Motion Picture Etiquette Delight Evans 44 A humorous discussion upon correct picture behavior The Movies? Absolutely, Mr. Gallagher! - Harrietie Underbill. .46 The comedians, Gallagher and Shean, invade the films Hidden Wedding Rings . . Grace Ktngsley "49 How Film Weddings are kept. secret ... New Hope for the American Photoplay ; Constance Palmer Lit tie field ■ 62 Victor Seaslrong talks of our pictures Stars IN Embryo . . . . . Ted Rupert.- 70 Screenland's Hollywood artist observes the st extras Fool's Gold . . . . - . . , Anonymous -79 Further chapters of the Extra Girl's Diary DEPARTMENTS The Screen Year in Review . Frederick James Smith -52 A complete analysis of the film season And Yet They Censor the Movies .... 56 Photographic glimpses of the Stage Hits Our Own News Reel ~ . 58 The film news told in pictures Autumn and Milady's Fashions . ... 64 The neatest fashions of the picture stars The Listening Post Eunice Marshall and Constance Palmer Lktlfield 72 The gossip of Hollywood and New York C&& S035> Published Monthly by Scrbsnland, Inc. ( A Delaware Corporation) at Cooperstown, N. Y„ U. S. A, Copyright, 1923, Trade- Mark registered. Single copies 25 cents; Subscription price, United States and Canada $250 a .year; Foreign $3.50. Entry as second-class matter applied for -at the Post Office at Cooperstown, N. Y. Formerly entered as second-class matter, August 27, 1920, at the Post-Ofricc at Los Angeles, Cal., under the act of March 3, 1875; entered on April 15, 1922, at the Post-Office at San Francisco, Cal, Permission to reprint material must be, secured from the Thompson Feature Svndicatc, 45 West 16th St., New- York City. General Executive and Editorial Offices at 119 West 40th Street, New York, N. Y. Western Advertising Office, Young & Ward, 168 North Michigan Blvd., Chicago, Illinois. Publishers also of Real Life Stories. Subscription price. United States and Canada, $2.50 a year; single copies, 25 cents. Club rate, the two magazines, $4.00 a year; Foreign, $6,00. Screen- land Magazine out the first of every month; Real Life Stories otrfe the fifteenth. SCEEEMLAHltt Announcing A NEW MAGAZINE Screenland, Inc., publishers of Screenland Mag- azine, announce the first issue of a new national magazine— REAL LIFE STORIES. A high and worthy purpose actuates the publishers in their new venture. The new magazine, we believe, is destined, to be a very real and helpful force in the lives of its readers. It is to be a Book of Life. . Every story will be a heart story, a living, throbbing slice of Life. Our book will- be written by our readers," out of the fullness and richness of their own experiences. The. tawdry, the cheap, the flimsy, the unreal will have no place in REAL' LIFE STORIES. But eyery phase of real life as it is lived in these good, old wholesome United States of America will be mirrored there. ' " The First Issue From the very first number, we want you to feel its excellence, its sincerity, its dignity of purpose, and its absorbing in- terest. • Here are only a few of the titles, but they will give you a glimpse into the new book, sufficient, we are sure, to intrigue your interest: Mad Youth The poignant story of a child-wife, bored with the monotony of the farm and with her silent, good husband, steps blindly out upon the primrose path with a charming vagabond poet, who feeds her on lyrics and "tramps" the lovely countryside with her in a rattling Ford, until — Strange Seas Not all show-girls are tarnished gold ; not all well-bred men are chivalrous; but some show-girls are pure and many "gentlemen" are cads, according to the bitter experience of a soubrette who steps down from, the stage into marriage and grief: ' And the Gods Laughed An"0. Henry bit of brilliant satire upon a stage woman's craving for domesticity," told by a newspaper reporter who inter- views her. The Dangerous Age Every man of forty-five who has been serenely married for years meets a Rosa- lind ; and every Rosalind who works for a living meets her "Judge - Thompson" sooner or later. . - The Brick Wall AH the .delicate wistfulrtess.of the sor- row-ravaged face of her who wrote this story is here for you to see, together with' a poetic quality which we had believed to. be stifled with grief. Free Love v "I have heard a hundred variations of the gospel of free love, and every one of them from some man who : wanted to pos- sess me — temporarily — and to salve his con- science," said a self-sufficient and charming young business woman. "But I know a girl who beat the 'free love' game, and I believe she'll write her story for you." We found her in the little Western city where she now lives happily, and asked her to write the story — and she did. The Poppy Plant The story of a dead soldier's interven- tion between his worthless wife arid .his. own brother — a "come back" by way- of a poppy plant and an opium pipe. Watch for the first issue — fifteen- splen- didly told stories out of the lives of "real men and women. - - On all news stands Sept. 15- — 25- cents- the copy STUDIOS and ADDRESSES Astra Studios ; Glendalc* Calif. Balboa Studio , ..Hast Long Beach. Calif. Benvilla Studios 5821 San la Monica Blvd.* Hollywood Century. Film Corp. 6100 Sunset Blvd.* Hollywood Clias. Chaplin Studios. .La Brae Ave,* Hollywood Christie Comedies „ 6101 Sunset Blvd.* Hollywood Irvings Cu minings Prod. 1729 Highland Ave* Hollywood [ Douhleday Productions Sunset & Bronson Ave,, Hollywood Ferdinand Earle 'Productions '" ^ ■■ ' Hollywood. Studies, Hollywood Wm. Fox West Coast Studios 1417 N. Western Ave,, Hollywood FineArts Studio. '. 4 £00 Sunset Blvd„ Hollywood J* I*. 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J> w — -BnTWa Skipping Ptn»l_, Citu- jma w oa mo >cur uttit ft** rujmitu SCREENLAN© r The Huntress is Coming! SHE'S given the war-cry, this Indian maid on the war-path. She's after a man — and bound to get him if she has to take a scalp. So she ropes and ties him and carries him off to her wigwam, where he falls in love with her — to find that after all she's a delightful white maid brought up by the Indians. A delicious romance of love and adventure with thrills that will make the blood tingle. Don't miss this picture with the delight- ful Colleen Moore. And always watch for the First National trademark on the screen at your theatre. It is the sign of the ultimate in artistic and entertaining pictures. ASSOCIATED FIRST NATIONAL PICTURES. INC. pr^ms % HUNTRESS" featuring COLLEEN MOORE storv by J^B% supported by Hulbert Footner s*M?'"£- Lloyd Hughes vdopuaty /Qm&m MUnsszW Simpson Percy Heath Jir*;J|k A Walter Long Lynn' Reynolds « '^' v wi esa^ Chas.N. 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How have the farmers and the inhabitants of small towns and cities kept tip with the most modern inventions? Why can tbe far- mer with justice say that the possession of a car is no sign of prosperity ? What is the gauge of the farmer's pros- perity? These are some of the ques- tions that were answered in the A T e\v York Times by Julius Rosemrald, ft President of Sears, Roebuck & Co., tlie i largest mail order house in existence, i For a long time the argument luis^i been put forth that the cities of tlie nation do not represent the life and the thought of America. They are the high lights, the sky rockets. Outside of them is the steady, slow grind of movement that marks our growth. To understand America, or any country for that mat- ter one must go to the farms, to the villages and towns. It is contact with these, with eight million American homes situated beyond the flare of the white lights, that makes Mr. Rosen wald an authority on one phase of national iife. "Publicity in the broadest sense," Mr. Rosenwald began, "is the power that gives direction to demand and supply. Magazines, movies and motors, the three all-important 'M's' in American life, enter into the publicity factor. Call it education if you will. The peo- ple we deal with", tlie people who read our catalogues and then enclose check for shipment of goods, the eight million homes representing front thirty to forty million individuals who depend upon us for the necessities and luxuries of life, live on farms, in scattered communities, in small towns that have not yet in some instances gained the' dignity of a mark on a map. And they read tlie maga- zines, they go to movies and they travel about in cars. ''Go back ten or fifteen years and find out to what extent magazine circu- lation depended upon the home that was off the beaten track. The proposition was very small. Those were the days when a farmer and his wife would read-—| the newspaper that served as a wrap-n per for their supplies, and thought J! they were keeping up with the pace of.v the world if it happened to be only a"_ week old. Those days are past. Today almost every home is on the subscrip- tion list of some national publication. Big business followed in the tracks of the mail order house and found that the stake was not a negligible one. "Big business — I am referring to the magazine and newspaper business — dis- covered, that it was easier to get a subscription from a man outside fef J SCHEEM1LAN© UJlNetfYo $3^) aiihe mselike IPP complexion of ^ the famous Spanish beaut}/ mir Even blase New York marveled 1 When this dainty Seriorita who had come from sunny Spain to make her American film debut, stepped oil the liner, spontaneous exclamations of wonderment came from the welcoming throng. At the docks — hotels — and studios — all wondered at the saintly beauty of the complexion of this great Spanish film star. «. i i s >- - L J ■ -1 1 ■.' ■ S later, she !.n.i,:ht:i,:l> Tepllud: ''Since childhood I Imvo used unty cocoii Ltnlpt— the, fa.-.isri.li' cosmetic of SponJ^li i!i-:niit^. Hut — since coming Lo AniL'tlca I havrj found a lli'W MU\ bAttSE Iviy 10 n-- my bef oveti ewoa buit er. Now 1" m Bern will iout Uoco-Blaoni ( Cocoa - Butter) Crema. "I i-.■! ;.-i hs it h.i . to mine. "1 mnt nil American Women lo know of ilia uniLi|i;rj it litis in- rf armed for mo, s" 1 Itaiy Imtocfid ill,- maker* iu make a •-;■ = - ■.- 1 :* i Introductory offer, reducing price from 75c; lo &rjc tli ill Ml Screen I ami'* readers m&y set" for ihLiHuulyei the waiLderfLd rydulu/* . The singly at thin price li limited, ita order your Mr today, money Luck It nor satisfactory. 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Hoto the Movies Educate £\r the same time that the litera- ture of the country made its inroad into the life of the hitherto secluded family, the movie took its place as an educational factor in the community. I am considering education from the point of view of publicity, from the point of view, if you please, of the merchant who believes that customers need to be educated to their wants. It is not a narrow point of view. Raising standards of living has long been the goal of the educator. That the mer- chant profits by this is merely a fortu- nate corollary. "Take the farmer's wife or the small town housekeeper who goes to the movie show to see the latest episode iu the Perils of the Pure. The perils mean something to her, and so does the pur- ity, but the things that make as great an impression are the things the her- oine wears and the furnishings of the home she lives in. To the movie patron they are the essence of social lite and form. Imitation is the greatest princi- ple in the theory of education; and hope springs eternal in the human breast. When the farmer's wife or the small town housekeeper conies home, she looks over her wardrobe, she looks around her house, she draws compari- sons and she makes mental reserva- tions. It is on the strength of these reservations that our business depends, to a great extent." M ucii is expected from Douglas Fairbanks' new production, The Thief of Bagdad. Great sets have been erected on the ten acres recently added to the Pick ford- Fairbanks studios, and, according to Fairbanks, The Thief of Bagdad will begin where Rabin Hood left off. "Our plan." said Fair- banks the other day, "is to choose players who are the living counterparts of the illustrations of the 'Arabian Nights.' One of the unusual sets will have for its base a concrete floor cov- ering two acres. According to what I have heard the cement work will cost $20,000. Around the floor, which serves as a sort of plaza, will be the bazaars of Bagdad. Other sets, the foundations for which are now being laid, will tow- er above 'Robin Hood' castle, dwarfs ing it to quite ordinary proportions." 10 SCKEEMLAND The Most Daring Boole Ever Written! Elinor Glyn, famous author of "Three Weeks," has written an amazing book that should be read by every man and woman — married or single. "The Philosophy of Love" is not a novel — it is a penetrating searchlight fearlessly turned on the most intimate relations of men and women. Read below how you can get this daring book at our risk — without advancing a penny. TJ17ILL you marry the man "" you love, or will you take the one you can get? If a husband stops loving lus wife, or becomes infatuated with another woman, who is to blame — the husband, the wife, or the "other woman?" Wil I y ou win th e gi rl you want, or will Fate select your Mate? Should a bride tell her husband what happened at seventeen? Will you be able to hold the love of the one you cherish — or willyourmarriageendindivorce? Do you know how to makepeople like you? IF you can answer the above questions — if you know all there is to know about winning a woman's heart or holding a man's affections — you don't need "The Philosophy of Love." But if you are in doubt — if you don't know just how to handle your husband, or satisfy your wife, or win the devotion of the one you care for — then you must get this -wonderful book. You can't afford to take chances with your happiness. What Do YOU Know About Love? DO you know how to win the one you love? Do you know why husbands, with devoted, virtuous wives, often be- come secret slaves to creatures of another "world." — and how to prevent it? Why do some men antagonize worn en, finding them- selves beating against a stone wall in affairs of love? When is it dangerous to disregard convention? Do you know how to curb a headstrong man, or are you the victim of men's whims? 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Leather Edition. ¥3.12* Cash with coupon* ALMA RUBENS By Alfred Cheney Johnston NITA "NALDI By Edward Th«ter Monroe PHYLLIS HAVER By Edwin Bovver Hesber GLORIA SWANSON By Willi j\m Eolinton SQREENILANB 6 Romantic Age in the Movi ovies Bj' Robert E. Sherwood Drawings by EverettSh/nn 0,Tiv Costume Pictures are a Terrible Blow to the Hollywood Barbers — but the Fencing In- structors are Growing Fat. F JL-/verv human being who is deposited on this earth, ior one reason or another, passes through two stages before he (or, as it frequently happens, she) attains full growth. The first stage is Infancy. The second is known as 'the romantic age." The symptoms of the romantic age in the female of the species are these: Reading and writing poetry. Pasting pictures of Ramon Navarro on the mirror. Gazing at the moon. Wishing that the days of chivalry would come back. Writing fan letters to handsome actors. Posing for photographs with a rose held between the teeth. Practising Greek dances on the lawn. The symptoms evinced by the male element are almost parallel : Stars, once content zzith st>orl shirts and evening dress, are noiu going in for jerkins, suits of armour, doublets and other antiquated articles of regalia. Reading the novels of Scott, Henty, Dumas and other writers of historical fiction. Gazing at the moon. Trying to cultivate a small, silky . mus- tache and a pair of side-burns. Writing fan letters to comely ingenues. Posing for photographs with Bill Hart expression of calm determination. Practising tenor solos. None of these symptoms are serious or incurable. In- deed, they are all part of the natural course of events, .. T6 SCREENLANB Richard Barthchness. wHose chief rharm has been his homely Ameri- canism stepped forth in the finery of another day in "The Bright Shawl' that flashing affair of the brave days of 1850. T. Hoiv "Passion" Started It / - 5 ~'J* >w -. '5* ' :' J ; Noiv Comes the Romantic Age A he fact that the movies are fundamentally human is proven by their career. They passed through an infancy that was as celebrated and profitable as their own Jackie Coogan s, and as long as Mary Miles Minter's; now they have entered upon the romantic age Today, the screen is all littered up with love (in the old fashioned sense- of the word.) Stars who, four years ago, were content to appear in immaculate evening dress, sport shirts or natty cowboy togs are now going in for jerkins, suits of armor; doublets, crinolines and other antiquated arti- cles of regalia. Villains who once were willing tc be killed with blank cartridges, are now being punctured with lances, rapiers and dirks Fencing instructors m Los Angeles and vicinity are growing opulent and fat. • . • Chins that were once as smooth as an oil stock promoter are now hidden behind Van Dyke beards. The Hollywood barbers are starving. It is indeed a strange situation, in a world that is suffic- iently strange to begin with. How, you may ask (and probably won't), did it all happen? he romantic age on the screen started on a chill December after- noon in 1920, at the Capital Theatre on the desert isle of Manhattan. The occasion was the first film to be imported from Germany since the invasion of Belgium in 1914. The picture was "Passion" — a cos- tume drama if there ever was one. When Passion — or Du Barry, as it was originally called — reached the unfriendly shores of these United States, it confronted a situation difficult enough to scare off the most determined invader. As the shortage of bananas had not become acute at that time, the popular song of the moment was, "Yes, We Want No Costume Pictures." Romantic dramas, said the wise- ones of the movie industry, were as out of date as yesterday's shave. Any producer who dared to suggest that he would like to make a pic- ture with scenes laid in the good old days of 1911 — or previous — was told to buy a one way ticket to Samoa and take time to think it over. The film rights to old novels were in the same Jormant condition with the proverbial Ford Serv- ice Station in Jerusalem:; r - ■■••.■ Shaking Off the Cocoon Jtassion", however, surprised everyone (including its sponsors) by making a big hit It was bought on a basis of German marks, but it was sold to the local public for 100 per cent. American dollars. • Moreover, it made a profound impression on the Holly- wood aristocracy. Movie people decided that they would like to direct like Ernst Lubitsch and act like Pola Negri. When that idea had been firmly implanted in their minds, the silent drama started to shake off the cocoon that had stifled it and emerged from its infancy. The results of this tremendous upheaval have been startling. Aside from these incidental aspects of the situation that I have mentioned above — the opulent fencing masters, the im- poverished barbers, etc. — there have been many revolution- ary changes on the screen. What is more, the public has accepted them. Following Passion and its Teutonic brethren— Decep- tion, Gipsy Blood, All for a (Continued on Page 84) , SCEEENLANEJ 17, (^Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Are Annually Thrown Away in Pictures because of Ignorance. Van- ity and Wilfulness. is THIS WASTE? By HELEN STARR J[/ orrest Halsey, the playwright, wrote a story with a motion picture angle. He offered it to a big film producer, who put a ridiculously low price on it. "Originals, they are no goot," said the big producer. "But your name, it might sell it. How about fife hunderd dollars, nicht?" "Nicht," said Halsey decidedly, and put his story on the shelf. A month later he wrote a play around the plot, and secured a brief Broadway run for it. But after that it faltered and died, as so many Broadway plays do, and the storehouse received it. But an agent, who knew the psychological processes of big film producers, asked to be allowed to sell screen rights for the play. He named a figure he could get for it — twenty times what the first offer had been. Halsey laughed at him but told him to go ahead. One shot of the fantastic set showing the ancient city of Bag- dad, built for Douglas Fairbank's n'eiv photoplay, "The Thief of Bagdad." One and a half acres of concrete forms the basis of the structure. Within thirty days the agent came to Halsey and asked if lie would accept a check for $20,000 for the screen rights to his story. The offer was from the same producer who had originally offered him $500. When Halsey came out ■ of his delirium, he accepted on the spot. The reason for the enormous increase? Simply that the scenario was no longer an "original" ; it had had a stage showing. And although the publicity value as far as the country as a whole is concerned to the producer was worth about a thin dime, yet he was impressed by it to the tune of $20,000. Cecil de Mille about to "shoot" the spectacular charge of 250 chariots and 500 horsemen across the Mojave desert in 'California for his "The Ten Commandments." : 18 SC1EENLAND The high pylon of Pharaoh's palace, designed for Cecil de Mille's "The Ten Command- ments," in course of construction. When finished it was a hundred feet high and a thousand feet long. What of Cecil dc Milled ill failure face Cecil de Mille's The Ten Commandments, now being done so luxuriously in California that it may eventually cause the famous director to change his studio base of operations ? That remains to be seen. Any- way, de Mille is spending a fortune. Will Doug Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad be a superb adventure or a financial winner? Anyway Doug has gone ahead to build the ancient city of the Thousand and One Nights adventures as he fancies it — without regard for cost. What of the dozen or so other big "specials," already completed or under way? Is this waste? A Wasteful Business , JL ins typical incident is only one reason for the colossal wastefulness of picture producing. In no business in the world is the overhead so tremendous and the wastefulness so wanton — except perhaps in our government at Wash- ington. It's an amazing business ! Hundreds of thousands of dol- The same setting as shown lars are thrown above — in its completed away annually in f%m aiid as it appears in the making" of J. he Tc " Commandments." . ■ . . J tie royal procession motion pictures. about to exit is SCMEENLAN© m Thrown away, be- cause of the ignor- ance of a producer, or the vanity of a director, or the wil- fulness of a star. A n d, sometime s, thrown away because of situations that could never be foreseen and are u n d o u b t e d 1 y caused by the malig- nance of Satan him- self. Any director will swear to the last statement. A certain street in Hollywood has cost the Fox studio thou- sands of dollars. The Fox studio rambles along on either side of Western Ave- nue — the dramatic lot on one side and "the comedy lot on the other. Every day, lumber and "props" and lights have to be carted across the street, laboriously engineered over the heavy flow of traffic. When the studio \vas built; West- ern Avenue was a little-frequented street. Nobody foresaw that it would become the artery of traffic that' it now is. Nobody foresaw that so much time — and time is money in picture-making — would be wasted, just in crossing that street. Fox has purchased 450 acres of land out in Westwood, midway between Hollywood and the ocean, for a new Another glimpse of the old city ■■ of Bagdad as Doug Fairbanks has re-created it. studio. The Fox heads figure that it is cheaper for them to buy new land and move their huge plant, than to continue carting materials over expensive Western Avenue. And the new studio will not be separated by any publicthoroughfare ! The studio will have, its own private lake and its own ' railroad track. It is tired of paying from $50 to $100 an hour to the railroads, for the privilege of using their trains for a few shots. Now some retired,' decrepit engineer will, run one ancient locomotive up and down a studio track and enjoy the comfort of his pension days. Real Jezvcls for Atmosphere II he passion for realism has carried many a director to lengths that gave his producer acute agony in the region of the pocket nerve. Consider the director who hired some $400,000 worth of diamonds from Tiffany for a ball-room scene at an exorbitant rental, when the five-and-ten cent store variety screen exactly as well. Consider, too, the directors who "write in" location trips in the quest for pleasure. Locations cost money. To move a whole company of actors, technical people and live stock counts up tremendously. One shudders to contemplate the cost of the location trips entailed in The Covered ll'agon — but in that case the cost was certainly justified by the results. More and more, however, directors are passing up locations in favor of studio se t s — or rather, the cost experts are doing it for them. Studio carpenters and "prop" men are becoming so clever that they can manufacture a desert that looks more like ... ., ., , a desert than the From this platform Cecil dc Milk has been directing 2500 players. Y o u will note him in goggles and veils as protection against flying sand. (For the scenes were shot on the 300 square miles of barren dunes in North California. This cost. $30,000 a day.) Sahara does. In fact, not so long ago, a director out on location in Ari- zona wired his boss, "Coming home to- morrow. Better western atmosphere on the back lot.". Cont'd on page 82 2(k 2. (right) Face to face with a sheik who 1. (left) Came a day while walking through the garden of love, she came — Gathered her in his strong brown arms and hied him hence ie DVENTURES By John Held, Jr. SCMENLAND 21 And, awakening, found she had dozed off in the caff pasture. 22 SCREENLAN© Natacha Rambova Valentino believes that an over-em- phasis of the Valentino personality has blinded the public to the fact that Valentino can act. And so her whole fight-rand his fight— has been against "Sheik stuff." s SC1EENLAND 23 O. Mrs. Valentino says there is no secret of love and matri- mony—and that Rudy's film personality is a false one. RODOLPH YALENTINO and MARRIAGE By Anna Vrophater Y V HEX Rodolph Valentino married Winifred Hudnut, the opinion of nine-tenths of the women in the United States was that she was the luckiest girl in the world. The opinion of the submerged one-tenth was that >ht might have done better had she married the Prince of Wales. And the unanimous opinion of the men who had seen the Valentino craze break hearts, homes and engagements was that the marriage wouldn't last two months. For every- one with any common sense knows that a crazy, dancing foreigner is a bad choice for a husband and that a girl who calls herself Nat- acha Rambova and goes in for Rus- sian dancing does- n't measure up to the requirements jf the ideal wife. Just a couple of crazy love Bol- sheviks, that's all. Still Laugh at Each Other's Jokes other's jokes. The first sign of domestic trouble comes when the husband springs a good one and the wife merely answers with a dirty look. The Valentinos haven't come to that. Of course, just because a movie star and his wife have lived together more than a year in peace is no sign that they will be celebrating their golden wedding. But you ought to give them credit for breaking all records established by the Upper Park Avenue set where marriage doesn't last as long as the lease on the apartment. Contrary to feminine opinion, Mrs. Valentino was not ell, the Val- entinos have been married nearly two years, New York time aiaiost a California and they laugh at and year, time still each Natacha Rambova Valentino is en- grossed in her hus- band's success and his ambitions. Like Mary Pick ford, she is the Disraeli, the Colonel House and the Charles Evan Hughes of the household. 24 SCEEENLAND the luckiest girl in the world. Would you consider yourself the luckiest girl in the world if you married a man who owed $80,000? Would you think you were in for a life of bliss if your husband had no position and stood small chance of getting a position for several years? Would you think you stood on the top of the world if your husband were dragged from the honeymoon to answer a charge of bigamy? No, you wouldn't. Very likely you would go home to father and the certainty of three meals a day. Mrs. Valentino, naturally enough* won't admit that she wasn't the luckiest girl in the world. But she will admit that the first months of their married life weren't all moon- light and roses. For moonlight please substitute the un- - becoming glare of publicity and for roses please substi- "// Rodolph had simply been an attractive man with a certain charm for women, it would have been easy to re- place him," says Mrs. Valentino, "But it hasn't been so easy to find an- other Valentino, has it?" tute legal papers. But it's all over now. In her apartment at the Hotel des Artistes, Mrs. Valentino pre- pared for a trip to France and Italy. An- other honeymoon ? No, just a vacation. It will be a rest from the long, dreary and lonesome months spent on the dancing tour. An Unusual Sort of Movie Wife JL here are all sorts of movie wives. There are the frivolous ones who step out, there are the home-loving ones who- do the mending, there are the wives with ca- reers of their own and there are the wives with influence. Mrs. Valentino is one of the few wives with influence. She re- minds you of Mary Pickford. She talks business in a ' sane, cool-headed way. She is engrossed in her husband's success and his ambitions. Like Mary Pickford, she is the Disraeli, the Colonel House and the Charles Evans Hughes of the house- hold. And, naturally, her husband thinks she is the Whole Works. Too Sophisticated to Talk of Love ■ rs. Valentino is much' too sophisticated to talk about love and marriage. She won't give you any rule about How to Hold a Husband. She knows that if there were an- infallible method the secret would be worth a million dollars. Too much publicity about her marriage has made her sensitive and shy about talking about her romance. She believes that an over-emphasis of the Valentino personality has blinded the public to the fact that Valentino can act. And so her whole fight— and his (Continued on page 96) SCKEENLANB 25 With reports of her divorce rumored and denied and rumored again. Irene Castle has just returned from fiance. The two pictures on this page zverc "shot" on the famous beach at Dcau- ville. They reveal a differ- ent glimpse of "the best dressed woman in the world." WIDE WOULD III contrast to Miss Castle's Deauville costume is Alice Brady's bathing suit and soft coat for strolling along the beach. The picture was made beside Miss Brady's own pool in the garden of her Long Island home. ©UNDERWOOD AND, UNDERWOOD 26 j? SCMEENLANH) B. ack in the days when we were young and in- nocent and never went to the movies, all little girls and boys thought that an envelope was something you sent a letter in and that a combination was a salad made of cucumbers and tomatoes. Also it was polite to refer to lingerie as "unmen- tionables," although, strictly speaking, it should have been "unpronounceables." It was generally conceded that you couldn't beat a good, high-necked and long-sleeved flannelette nightgown for durability and warmth. You were also supposed to be risking a bad case of pneumonia or a severe attack of quinsy sorethroat when you ventured forth in less than two flannel petticoats. Nightgowns or petticoats with ribbons on them were thought to be an infallible sign of a wayward dis- position and a tendency for the primrose path. The first daring pioneers who ventured into pink crepe de chine were terribly talked about when the neighbors sighted the filmy garments on the clothesline. Clergymen were immediately reminded of the Fall of Rome. Nowadays the girls who wears pink crepe de chine is considered just too naive and unsophisticated for words. Gloria and the Flannelette Market ■Out, so far, no viewer-with-alarm has yet blamed the movies for the terrible slump in the flannelette e Q:epe de chene Revolution By Helen Lee Black negligee is piquant— and as worn by Mae Murray, at the left, is more propa- ganda for crepe, de chene. The young lady below is. Peggy Shaw. *7 :or Glyn was not to blame for the head-dress. Neither was Sam Wood, who used to direct Gloria. Maestro Wood told Mary Eaton, who lately glorified the Follies and is at pres- ent illuminating Para- mount's Long Island City factory, and Mary Eaton told me, that he couldn't see that head-dress at all. Gloria liked it. Her red mouth curled around her little pointed teeth. She has been told, by Glyn and others, that she One of the' Parisian hack stage scenes of Miss .. Swanson's "Zaza." ■ •- 1 ■ ■■'■/ y ~' j - : ~~ i 1 -"'ji. -' '■'' '.•■■'" 3? . - "': "'-"■•■ ■ ■— mm ■ -- ,r ' . ■ - : ! - -flfl ^ r mmm\ -Jk~%1 (& V ** 0v^|-' : •sit '** 1 . .--."*» !■ 1 JHA mm Jm7 ' JmJm »■. T REX INGRAM By Alfred Cheney Johnston AUCE TERRY By Alfred Cheney Johnson * MARTHA MANSFIELD By Alfred Cheney Johnston r SGREENLANID) 3. e &?% rom A. M. P.M. IN HOLLYWOOD 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:01 7:15 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:00 12:00 12:05 12:06 12:30 1:00 1:15 1:16 1:30 1:31 1:35 1:50 1:55 1:57 2:00 2:15 Morning 5,782 extra players awaken. Milk-wagon horse refuses to climb Whitley Heights. 192 directors awaken. 191 directors go back to sleep again. 349 alarm clocks serenade 349 assistant directors. 1,831 extras report for work. 42 stars stir in their feather beds. Goldwyn gatekeeper checks in Abie Lehr. First automobile accident of day. First actor shows -up at Armstrong's restaurant. Lasky office boy is sent in search of Pola Negri. June Matins and Frances Marion complete first scenario of day. 10:30 10:50 10:59 11:00 11:02 11.15 11:30 11:45 Noon 3,678 pies ordered at Universal lunch counter. Party of tourists from Clinton, Iowa, arrives in Ford and inquires way to nearest studio. Lasky director sent in search of Pola Negri. 27 actors at Goldwyn studio ask Murphy to charge the lunch. 12:31 12:35 Afternoon 55 actors at Armstrong's sign the luncheon checks. All male members of Writers' Club adjourn for game of pool. Women scenario writers return to work. 127 ex-plumbers sign up at a motion picture talent bureau. Government reports labor shortage. Another "second Valentino" is given the air. Street railway inspector notes uncrowded cars reach- ing business district. Street railway corporation cuts down number of cars 11 per cent. Second hand Ford dealer sells 175th car of day. Lasky studio manager sent in search of Pola Negri. Cecil B. De Mille shoots first scene of day. 2:30 2:45 3:00 3:05 3:15 3 :30 3:31 3:33 3:34 3:35 3:36 4:00 4:15 4:30 47 excursion buses leave for new real estate tracts with 759 passengers and 8 prospective buyers. 25 sight-seeing buses leave for "free trip to the oil fields" with 45 stock salesmen. Weary bootleggers start on their rounds. Lasky assistant director is sent in search of Pola Negri. Goldwyn gatekeeper checks in Mickey Neilan. All film executives reported "in conference." Title writer, who lias been thinking all morning writes "Came Dawn." First hot dog sold at Venice. Young girl from Clinton, Iowa, thinks she sees real actor and .faints dead away. First section Overland train pulls in with 423 home- seekers, 18 travelling salesmen, 6 imported Eng- lish authors, 71 writers assigned to "cover - " Hollvwood boulevard and 3 Calif ornians. Carl Laemnile decides to spend another million. 78 divorce decrees granted. 77 more marriages. Bootlegger admitted to exclusive country club. Jesse L. Lasky starts in search of Pola Negri. Ambulance rushes down Boulevard. Excitement. Automobile with movie camera follows. More ex- citement. Crowd gathers. Police reserves arrive. Automobile accident. Crowd disperses. Six movie ingenues adjourn for ice cream soda. Pola Negri reports for work. Pola Negri quits work. {Continued on page 99) Besides being a frequent contributor to the fiction magazines, Miss Hall is one of the best known writers on motion picture topics. She is an author of decided sparkle and vivacity. Gladys Hall 37 THE SCREEN AFRAID I OF SEX? By Gladys Hall W HY IS the screen afraid of We put the question naively. Laughter. Mocking, magnificent and ironic laughter. ' • . Petrova speaks with the poniard of irony.. When she . writes she dips her pen into vitriol and veracity. When she laughs the heathen gods awake and shudder and the powers of dark- ness slink away, their tails between their legs. Traditions Do Not Shackle Petrova Uhe is brilliant, ruthless and relentless. Bogies do not jump at her from sentimentally shadowy corners. Super- stitions do not shackle her nor traditions hamper her. W't said again, more timorously, "Why is the screen afraid of sex?" "IS it?" she asked. More laughter mind's eye came scenes from here must have sent the youths and maidens of the great towns and small hell-bent for the park benches. "Still," we protested feebly, 'there's less of it now than there used to be in the flaming films gone by." Which same Madame admitted. And before our and there which "There are two ways of looking at sex," muray says Mine. Petrova. ''One person will say Sex and will mean innuendo and sensuality. Another person will say Sex and zvill mean frankly what he says." equal of which for sheer ribaldry I have neither seen or heard of since. At that time I said to my companion in the theatre. 'This is the high point of sex on the screen. They can go no farther.' It has evidently proved to be so "Possibly a reaction has set in. I do not see very many pictures and therefore cannot constitute myself as an in- fallible judge, but it is quite likely that there has been a reaction and that with this re- action the screen will revert to putting skirts on the piano legs and valances of lace and tulle upon the nude statuettes. The High Point of Sex 11 A , ,, rx h, that is probably true she said, "some time ago I saw a very well-known picture made by a famous director, who shall be name- less in the interests of discretion. In that picture a scene occurred the H^The photoplay shuns the faffs of sex and whets the appetites of curiosity mon- gers with fiction of sex, says Mme. Petrova. Afraid of the Reality of Sex SCIREENILAN1B {^Shattering Illu- sions About Our Dear Stars is Hollywood's Favorite Indoor Sport. H, .oi.lywood hasn't any Follies, nor a Woohvorth Building-. Ethel Barrymore wouldn't shed a tear if she never saw the City of Angels again. Third, and even fourth musi- cal comedy companies try their piti- ful best to please at the Mason Op'ry House. And they do say it takes a year for a style to travel from Fifth Avenue, east, to Seventh Street, west. But— And it is around that "hut" that Hollywood carols gleefully. For. my dears, Hollywood boasts that it is THE film capital. Its secrets are as safe with us as with a hroadcasting station. Hollywood inhabitants are the only and original star-leggers — willing to exchange 'em for any illusions you may have. Imagine saving- all year for one look at that storied place, Hollywood ! And then — You are the envy of all Dultith when you announce your plans. You are actually going to see Gloria Swan- son — for didn't Fan Fare show pic- tures of her strolling down Holly- wood Boulevard, buying the evening pork chops, and trundling Gloria II ? Perhaps Charley Chaplin will ask you for a match ! The carefully buttered publicity has been carefully digested in your town, however. You know, for instance, that some of the stars aren't a bit better looking than the local gals. And you have been warned that all that moves is not movies. • But — again that volume-speaking "but" — that isn't the fourth of it. All Hollywood, and your friends in particular, are "D o y on use rouge?" 'he inter- viewer asked Miss A y res. "IV hy paint lite lily?" re- sponded Agnes. only too eager to play that tireless game ''un-hokum- ing Hollywood" for you. SCKEENLAND 39 / lURSTING /3 UBBLES By Mildred T>oherty You get off the Santa Fe Limited, with your handbag and your happy illusions. You leave, a withered wretch, minus all the illusions you brought and a few you didn't know you had. Hollywood, thy name is Heartbreak ! The Old Hokum! til JL sn't Viola Dana too lovely for words ? And that won-der-ful Bill Hart !" you exclaim. "Cowbells !" choruses Hollywood. "And, oh, please, could I see naughty Barbara La Marr in a dope den or something? Just slumming — ' apologetically. "Apple sauce!" the chorus barks. And so they go— out of the ardent fire of your ima nation, into the frying pan of heartless Hollywood— your little illusions. Believe me, they are panned, all The old cardiac regions get the greatest knock-out the open secret of Hollywood is told within this walled city. Rudy Won't Vamp! alentino is no lover ! There ! What's more — Rudy hates the very word sheik. An ex-Metro star is said to have given Rudy a broken wheel made of lilies after a beach party with him. That was before either of his marriages, of course. A week and you are in the know. You can write home with suavity about Claire Windsor's wig, and Larry Semon's doubles. Then There's Alice Terry's Hair A lice Terry's hair is really brown-black, as any blase citizen can tell you. A disappointment ? At .that, Alice is twice as sensitive about her ankles as her hair. Another Broken Blossom .atherine McDonald, the favorite of Former President Wilson, Former Husband Malcolm Strauss, and Current Husband Charles Johnson, is another broken blossom when it conies to living up to her publicity. Let me hasten to explain — not in the line of beauty. She's really lovely. But about those wondrous advertisements, claiming she got that way by using X's cold cream, Y's powder, and Z's corn cure. Alice ^ Terry wears a wig — even in private life. This, hozvever, is the wig she adorns in "Scaramouche" Katherine is a Scotswoman, who scorns expensive emol- lients and perfumes, and goes in for a certain five cent brand of soap, and plenty of city water. She has a marcel only when the script calls for one, but then she gets only $50,000 a picture. When Katherine dies she can tell St. Peter the last num- ber in her savings. Louise is Comelv and Clever Lc /ouise Fazenda has disappointed many a hopeful tourist. The uncooked truth is that Louise is a comely young lady who reads D. H. Lawrence, and rides in limousines, keeping the broken shoes and the wheefbarrow only for celluloid gymnastics. I know of one hopeful lady interviewer who came to Hollywood, determined not to have her cherished fancies about her favorites squelched. The Film Intelligentsia JHLer first interview was with Agnes Ayres. It had been bruited about that Agnes had (Continued on page %) 40" "He Stole thePicture!" is the one Glorious Phrase in all Screen- dom — FamousThefts from Charles Ray to Ernest Torrence. T JL iiese are dark clays for the Arrow school of actors and the seminary of golden curled actresses. The character player is darkening their doorsteps with a vengeance. Time was when a perfect profile or a baby stare meant a iVell nigh sure road to cellu- loid stardom. Those days have gone forever. The public is actually demanding that actors act! Not so long ago, the Holly- wood press agents put on a party and invited many guests, at five dollars a head. To en- tertain the guests, the press agents trotted out their prettiest stars of both sexes. And after Herbert Rawlinson and Anita Stewart and William Desmond and Pauline Garon and J. Warren Kerrigan had smiled and dimpled over the foot- lights, who do you suppose carried off the greatest round of applause? Ernest Torrence, the demon "heavy" of Tol'able David and the memorable scout of The Covered Wagon. And the cheers that greeted Torrence symbolized the new public taste. W.hich un- doubtedly accounts for the fre- cpuency with which character actors have "stolen the picture" in several recent big produc- tions. We want acting, and the man who can give it to us, Dial Patterson ran away with several hits in Richard Bar- ' thclmess' productions during the past year. Judging from this camera study, we can't under- stand why Dial plays character roles. RAND I / .Xarceny By Eunice Marshall be he hero, villain or 'comic relief,' is the man for our money. To "steal a picture,'' in Hollywood parlance, is to carry off acting honors away from the star. Such dramatic larceny is the end and aim of every actor that is worth his salt. But the star could be arrested and put in jail for life for what he thinks of the proceeding! That Robber Torrcncc E rxest Torrence is a notorious bandit, when it conies to stealing a scene right out from under a star's nose. Remember how he stood out as ' the central figure in The Covered Wagon ? He wasn't supposed to. He was only a scout, a subordinate character. He wasn't pretty and he hadn't shaved for weeks. And as for the '"sex appeal" that the ex- hibitors swear by, he had about as much as Bull Mon- tana. But every spectator that saw the picture went home to tell about the old plainsman who got so de- liriously drunk, and perhaps quite forgot to mention anything about the two leading characters, Lois Wilson and J. Warren Kerrigan. Quite right, too. Lois Wil- son was sweet and gentle, but she missed the chance of a life-time to act, and Kerrigan wore what was appar- ently a self-cleaning, white doe-skin suit and looked as pretty as a new red wagon, but that was all. The real actors in the picture were Torrence. Tully Marshall and the little chap who "chawed tobaccer" so manfully. But, speaking of Torrence. reminds us of his first success. He snapped into fame with his unregenerate bad man of Tol'able David, that classic of the Vir- ginia hills in which Richard Barthelmess starred. Torrence didn't run away with Tol'able David, Barthelmess is too able an actor for that. But he did put himself across with a smash. Wallace Beery's "King Richard" Three notorious gentle- wen bandits of the silver- sheet : Malcolm Mac- Grcgor (above), Ernest Torrence at the left and Wallace* Beery below. allace Beery had wronged innocent young damsels under the blistering Kliegs for many years, before Douglas Fair- banks saw that he was something more than a "heavy." So it was a delightful surprise to the public to view Beery's superb characterization of the roystering ', Richard the Lion-Hearted, in Fairbanks' Vera Gordon "ran azuay" xiiith "Humorcsque" and started a vogue of mother pictures. *42 SCREENLANB Robin Hood. In fact, he was so good that, if rumor is true, as occasionally it is, Douglas sharpened up the scissors and operated on that film in the privacy of the cutting room. It's all very well to have one's supporting actors good, but it's not necessary to have them too good, you understand, Mawruss ! A Hebrew Mother Machree OU saw Humorcsqucf Of course. Every- body did, and loved it. But did you realize that one of the most flagrant instances of grand larceny was being enacted before your eyes ? Vera Gordon was happily engaged in stealing the picture right away from the outraged Alma Rubens. And she did such a good job of it that the exhibitors put her name up in electric lights instead of Alma's. The success of Huinoresquc precipitated upon us the flood of "mother" pictures. Up to this time, screen mothers had been all very well as atmosphere, handy to have around and all that, but they mustn't get under foot when the young lovers got into action. Vera Gordon showed them that a mother's place is right in the spot- light. Walter Long Did It, Too tealing a picture away from such a popular actor as the late Wallace Reid was quite a feat, but Walter Long accomplished it. It was in The Dictator. Walter Long, as the hard-boiled taxi- driver who followed Reid clear to one of the banana republics to collect the money the latter owed him, proved himself to be a comedian utterly wasted as a "heavy." The scene where he was arrested by a company of militia, marched up against a wall to be shot, at the last minute reprieved and all un- conscious of his fate, remarked to the staggered soldiers : "Well, so long, you fellers. When I come back, I'll drill you some more," stands out as one of the funniest scenes the writer has ever giggled over. There was no danger of Long's name being put up in electric lights instead of Reid's. Wally was too universally beloved for that. But he did get a great deal of comment, both from the press and the public. We would like to see more of Walter Long in comedy roles. Enter Rosa Rosanova hen Goldwyn cast Hungry Hearts, it chose Helen Ferguson for the {Continued on page 102) In the oval — George Hackathornc, a dan- gerous member of any cast. In silhou- ette, Sid Chaplin, who, they sav, burns up "The 'Rendez- vous" with a per- sonal hit. SCEEENLANB 43 THE EDITOR'S PAGE W IIAT do y° u think of this issue of Screenland? In it you will find a number of writers new to Screen- land. Delight Evans, for instance. One of the cleverest — and youngest —writers in the whole field of motion pictures. Robert E. Sherwood, associate editor of Life and motion picture editor of The New York Herald. Harriette Underbill, motion pic- ture editor of The New York Tri- bune and a sparkling writer on the photoplay. Grace Kingsley, the "motion pic- ture editor of The Los Angeles Times and one of the best informed authorities on motion pictures in the very capitol of picturedom. Gladys Hall, the versatile and unusual writer on the silent drama and the people behind the screen. signed to accept the editorship of Screenland. You can count upon frank and unbiased criticisms from Mr. Smith. Better turn now to his review of the past • screen vear in this issue. What are the Ten Best Pictures Ever Made ? SCREENLAND is interested in finding out the ten best motion picture plays ever made. To secure an accurate idea of the real ten milestones of the silver- sheet, SCREENLAND has asked the foremost authorities in motion pictures in America to name their ideal list. The next issue of SCREEN- LAND will present the results of this canvass — together, with a tabu- lated list of the ten photoplays re- ceiving the most votes. JL hese writers will continue to contribute to Screenland. And— to this list — will be added the best contributors on motion picture topics in America. Such writers as Helen Starr, Alma Whitaker and Eunice Marshall will continue to contribute to Screenland. Qcreenland is to be the young magazine of the screen — fearless and unafraid, untrammeled by prece- dent and radical in its ideas about the world of celluloid. With the best writers in all filmdom contributing to its col- umns, Screenland will be the one magazine of personality in the entire field of motion picture magazines. Ocreenland poin's with especial pride to its department of reviews, conducted by Frederick James Smith, the leading authority on the cinema in America today. Mr. Smith, who is also the editor of Screenland, shaping its policies, was i managing editor of Watch the November issue! JL ICTORIALLY SCREENLAND will be the most attractive magazine of the films. The foremost photo- graphers in this country are now taking pictures exclusively for its pages. T •Jl- ins month you will find such distinguished art contributors as Everett Shinn, John Held, Jr., and Wynn among the pages of Screen- land. The next issue will find such famous artists as Oscar Fred- erick Howard and Ray Van Buren added to the list. *3 creenland's covers stand alone. The greatest cover artist in Ameri- ca is making them — Rolf Arm- strong. JLn brief, the new Screenland will be built upon the theory that the motion picture needs a magazine of youth. The field is crowded with Merton magazines, with their purring, bla-a-a interviews and cheese-cake criticisms. Screenland be- lieves that the time has come for a magazine to treat of the screen lightly, through the eyes of youth. We Want YOU To Write For Screenland SCREENLAND realizes that it must be in direct touch with its readers. It must have the pulse of the public. To reflect this accurately, SCREENLAND wants you to write for its columns. Beginning with an early issue, SCREENLAND will conduct a department consisting of the best contributions of its readers. Every contributor will be paid for his work — according to the importance of the contribution and its individual merit. But contributions must be interesting and they must be constructive — besides having ideas. Don't be afraid to say what you think about the screen and its players — in your own way. Address your letters to THE EDITOR'S LET- TER BOX, SCREENLAND, 119 West 40th Street, New York City. -UL here will be nothing old, antiquated or pond- erous about the new Screenland. It will be a live magazine of per- sonality dealing with live personalities in the one walk of life, in which the romantic lure of the gypsy still re- mains. luove all, Screenland will strive for humor. It will direct its appeal to the sophisticated. It will be vigorous, young and unafraid of any- thing or anybody. -II- ou'll en jo y the movies more if you read . Screenland. *■ 44 5-UMltf Perfect behavior at orgies: All the Quests should fall yrace fully into reclining attitudes. A Advice to Mothers Li, mothers whose sons are away from home should keep a lamp burning; in the window. On Christmas Eve, a candle should be substituted. The mother should arrange, on this holiday, to be seated at the old organ singing. When the door opens she should not turn — it might be only Santa Claus. But at the word "Mother" she should allow her hands to fall slowly from the keys, and should respond, "My son." White hair, a hurt expression, and a skirt which sags slightly should always be worn. Young mothers should neglect their kiddie for Society until the little one falls ill and cries feverishly for "Mummy." .She should then come running home in her evening gown and kneel beside the little bed to gather baby in her arms and murmur, "I'll never, never leave you again." At these words the little fellow is restored to perfect health and con- fidence and pats Mummy's cheek with his hand. This is Mummy's cue to break down and have a real good cry. SCEEEN1LAN© AN OUTLINE OF otion Picture Gtiquette By "Delight Evans Drawings by Wynn time, she should give an ecstatic back kick, clutching her sweetheart by his coat lapels. The proposal should take place in a roadster parked in a flowery lane, in an old fashioned garden, or in the conservatory. One of the important points in any courtship is the chase from tree to tree. Girl should glance coyly back over her shoulder, and when she has dodged the tenth tree she should allow him to catch up with her and kiss her hands. This scene is played only by engaged couples. ; T, Conduct for Kiddies here are two kinds — rich kiddies and poor kiddies. Tt is the rich kiddie's duty to climb out of his bed in the nursery while nurse is asleep, and with his little white wooly lamb interrupt the big domestic scene down in the drawing room. He should take mama's hand and papa's hand and drag them together, smiling up at them through his curls. This invariably results in a reconciliation and kiddie being bounced on daddy's shoulder. The poor kiddie is an orphan ; but he should learn to cry prettily and the Little Angel of the Slums will take him home with her and he will soon be a rich kiddie himself. Rules Regarding Love hen kissed for the first time, a ^irl should close her eyes. The second Rule regarding the debutante — she slwuld be surrounded by a mob of young men all trying to claim her attention. «HWW ■9 45 d, Any one who desires to behave properly in pictures should heed these words of advice. The screen has eslablished its own code of morals and manners, and to succeed in its best society certain rules and regulations must be observed. Perfect Behavior at Orgies Jjtrictly speaking, this is impossible. By perfect we mean, of course, correct. Flowers will be scattered and paper caps dis- tributed. Sometimes a swimming pool is provided for the guests. Care should be taken not to drink champagne from a slipper. Up- to-date orgies have a reigning beauty appear from a floral center- piece and dance. The. male guests should then toss jewels at her. An air of impressive hilarity must be obtained at any cost. To gain this effect it is generally necessary for all guests to fall gracefully into reclining attitudes. Otherwise your audiences might not guess that the orgy has been a huge success. Hints for Big Business Men ractice is required to give just the right touch to the examina- tion of the ticker tape, the alighting from your motor, the chewing of cigars, and presiding at directors' meetings. Perhaps even more difficult is the scene at your desk when you sit there with bowed head groaning, "My God, I'm ruined." The pace up and down the office is a good thing to remember. It should be done slowly, one hand behind the back, the other toying with pince-nez. The pince-nez is also employed to ad- vantage^ in a conference — tapping the chin with it has been known to change the entire course of events in The Street. Don't worry about your home life. You can always be detained at the office. Rule regarding love: When kissed the second time she should give an ecstatic back kick', clutching her sweetheart by his coat lapels. A Private Lives of Actresses, Dancers, etc. a knock is heard, run into the next room. In a moment you will hear a female relative's voice — it may be your step-mother, or your older sister, demanding to know where you are. In a minute she will join you — your father, fiance, or brother has arrived. Clutch her hands until she leaves you to confront the men. As soon as the hub-bub dies, slip out quietly. Remember, a real lady always avoids scenes. The Debutante luxurious apartment is absolutely essential, one with iron-grilled gates instead of doors preferred. No man should be permitted to cross the threshold. Don a negli- gee and begin returning the gifts admirers have sent you. You may keep the flowers, but pearls, bracelets, and dia- mond pendants must be returned. This will take up all your time outside of the theatre. How to Behave at Tea [■*-T is quite all right for you, little girl, to go to tea in his i apartment. Your poke bonnet will protect you. After the I Japanese valet has been dismissed, your host will try to ■hold your hand. Snatch it away and run to the door. When you find it is locked, try to assume surprise. When hould be surrounded by a mob of young men all trying to claim her attention. She should laughingly shake her head at them and run off to another group of young men. Of late she has extended her activities somewhat — she lived her own life in Greenwich Village, smoked, went for rides in airplanes. But it is the earnest hope of all lovers of good form that she will soon return to the ball- room and be her sweet, simple natural self again. Procedure at Country Places 'nly those with appropriate wardrobes may aspire to social success in the country. Nattv little sports costumes of velvet or georgette, trimmed with fur, for the girls; T (Continued on page 100) 4 46 SCREENLANB V fl^The famous comedians of the Vollies invade the screen ivith a film comedy. 4 T&M. 0WJ" P ribsolutely, Air. Kjallagher ! Positively, Air. ohean! By HARRIETTE UNDERHILL v v henever anyone succeeds at anything;, whether it be crocheting- doilies, playing- the piano, shooting a help- meet or reciting verse some perspicacious person conceives the idea of putting him or her in motion pictures. It" you are a him it is desirable that in addition to your other qualification you have straight shiny black hair. If you are a her it will help a lot if you have wavy blonde hair. But these are not absolutely necessary. The real thing is to have succeeded at something. Now there's Gallagher and Shean. To New Yorkers that needs no addendum. "You're a celebrity, Mr. Galla- gher, you're another, Mr. Shean," to put it in the well known rhythm which has made this pair famous. Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean have succeeded in making people laugh immediately at their verses which they chant each night at the Ziegfeld Follies. Whereupon Mr. William Fox immediately decided that they would be great on the screen. Whether he is right or wrong remains to be seen but at any rate the two versifiers are now hard at work in a studio built on top of one of Manhattan's tallest sky- scrapers. "Around the Town" W E visited them there the other morning and watched them making their first picture which is going to be called Around the Town with Gallagher and Shean. For once the title of a movie will bear some relation to the picture itself. There is nothing so very original in Around the Town with Gallagher and Shean, but it is explicit. And from what we saw of the shooting, and from what we know of the plot, the picture ought to be amusing and probably a lot of people will go to see what Gallagher and Shean are like who would not otherwise go to see what the picture was like. That is why it is good businessto become famous in almost any line. Somebody is sure to realize that the rest of the world would like to know how you look and will satisfy their curiosity if given a chance to look you over on the screen.' Then that somebody will offer you a job in the movies. Being a celebrity, Mr. Gallagher, along with his partner, Mr. Shean. has invaded the screen. Why? because he's a celebrity. ■ The films never reason why. . . . I 47 XjSH Mr. Gallagher, oh Mr. Gallagher, Do you like to work in pictures here all day?" '•Well, I think I'll like it fine, for fin swinging right in line, And I feel J 'in getting Better Day by Day." "Oh Mr. Shean, oh Mr. Shcan, You're a star, yourself, if you know what zee mean; And if Gallagher's half as good You'll be where we said you would." "In the ash can, A£r. Gallagher. 7 " "In the As/or, Mr. Shean!" For years Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean worked side by side or doing a "single" in vaudeville. If we remember correctly they once told us that their average wage in those times was $40 a week. Now they must be making 100 times as much as that for not only have screen magnates realized their worth but they have drawn a token of ap- preciation from a newspaper magnate, also, in the form of a nice weekly stipend for allowing the story of their lives to be published or something like that. "Sweet are the uses of" — prosperity, with apologies to Mr. Shakespeare. Working Atop a Skyscraper r. Gallagiiku and Mr. Shean are nice, friendly people who seem as pleased as children over the good fortune which has come to them. We found them up on top of this skyscraper, and the director, the camera man, the assis- tant camera man and the assistant director all rushed forward with the caution, "Don't tell anyone where we are working, it's an absolute secret." "But why must you work on top of the — of a building like this? Couldn't you take these scenes in a studio?" "That's the idea, you see," replied Mr. Gallagher. "We are the world's greatest detectives," added Mr. Shean. "And our office is supposed to be in a secret place high up in the clouds," said Mr. Gallagher. "As it really is." added Harriette Underbill. For we were puffing from the last climb up two flights of stairs and one flight of ladder. The elevator dumps you out at the twenty-sixth floor and that's two floors below the roof. The office of the world's greatest detectives is built up still higher and is reached by a secret ladder. We do not care much for climbing and there would be even more room at the top than there is reputed to be now, if everybody was like us. We do not care much for mornings, either, and anyone who elects to be interviewed by us before 1 p. m. must take the consequences. "You see by staging our office scenes up on top of the — a skyscraper, we get the whole of New York for a back drop," said Mr. Shean. "But don't you know that in that way you are taking all the joy out of the life of the property man?" we said severely. "He loves to furnish painted drops showing the Singer Building and Trinity Church and he has a passion tor designing Brooklyn Bridges a yard long and Leviathans which may be wrecked in a bath tub full of rocks and breakers." {Continued on Page 98) Mr. Shcan and Mr. Gallagher have been "shooting" their first screen comedy on top of a New York sky- scraper. The skyline of the metro- polis mil be the real thing in the way of background. 48 Would you be- lieve that Hazel Keener was born on an Illinois farm t Certain- ly there is noth- ing bucolic about the accompany- camera study. But it's true. Hazel moved to Iowa and, at the age of seventeen, won a beauty contest. After that Hollywood zvas inevitable. SCREENLANID) She Comes From Iowa «&£ * SC1EENLAKD 49 Hidden Wedding Rings By Grace Kingsley Film brides Have Been Vutting Mufflers on Their Sledding Bells NTH, recently, the best film circles considered it highly disastrous to combine a Career and Cupid — publicly. One's public must be considered, you know. That is, this has been the case right up to the present moment. To be sure, it is fashionable to be married by ring and book, if you can have the ceremony performed up at "Pickfair," for instance as Marjory Daw and Eddie Sutherland. And since Rodolph Valentino owned up to his marriages without any loss in pop- ularity, others are beguiling to 'fess up about their nuptial adventurings. So little by little, coyly and with bash- ful blushes the brides and grooms are brushing the cobwebs off their wedding rings. PANEL Louise Fazenda, winner of the pric for the loncj time secret marriage. But in the old days, you would have thought there was something disgraceful in being married, the way these pic- ture gels denied their marriages. Louise Could Keep a Secret! robably the prize long-term secret marriage of the bunch is that of Louise Fazenda. And yet they say a woman can't keep a secret ! Louise Fazenda became a blushing bride some six years ago, when she ran off to Santa Ana .and became the wife of Noel Smith, a comedy director,- "50 SCEEENLANB F. Francis MacDonald Isn't Telling. RANCIS McDonald is another screen person who owns a hidden wedding ring. He is really a very home loving man, even if he does play villains on the screen. Once upon a time he was married to Mae Busch. But Mae and he parted after about two weeks. McDonald went off a few weeks ago, and married Belle Roscoe. the divorced wife of Albert Roscoe, but somehow the fact never reached the public. Their romance began only a few months ago, though the two have been friends for a long time. Arc You Deceiving Us, Helen? 1 here are those who say that Helen Ferguson and Wil- liam Russell have a couple of wedding rings that haven't been advertised. Bill and Helen have been even as Joan and Darby for faithfulness for lo, these many moons. Everyone knows they are engaged. And more than a few hint vigorously that there has been a giving and taking of rings. But both Helen and Bill deny it. A very good job of covering up the wedding ring was done by Helene Chadwick when she married William Well- man. In fact, the world got quite a shock when it learned that Helene was not a flapper, but had an able-bodied husband. Billy Wellman is a director at Fox's, I believe. Now Helene is sueing for divorce, charging desertion. The Farnum-Rubcns Match Jl7 ranklyn Farnum and Alma Rubens were secretly married. The news broke in a Los Angeles newspaper a fortnight later — but they had already separated ! So when Miss Rubens telephoned Guy Price, dramatic editor ,of The Los Angeles "Herald, asking him coyly to deny her marriage, Price printed this : "Miss Rubens asks me to deny her marriage to Franklyn Farnum. She not only is married to him but she is separ- ted from him, and divorce proceedings are about to be commenced." Reginald Denny a Benedict L, ' ittle is heard about Reginald Denny's marriage, but not because Denny wishes to keep it dark. I imagine that Universal believes that Denny's romantic appeal is greater as a bachelor. Denny has been married for ten years, to the same wife, and still likes her! He is really thirty, though his press agent proclaims him twenty-six years old. Malcolm McGregor is married too, darn it ! He passes for a bachelor in print most of the time, but is an ardent enough husband in private life. Romantic appeal, like the case of Denny, is probably the reason for the non-publish- ing of the bans. Evelyn Brent's Marriage 1 ne of the most interesting instances of a secret mar- riage recently was that of B. F. Fineman, the producer, and Evelyn Brent. The marriage was actually kept from the public for more than six months ! Of course, no account of California matrimonial events is complete without comment upon Pola and Charlie. No, they're not married ! In fact, as we go to press, they're not even engaged. Which is as far as we dare predict. Mrs, Louis Leon Anns and her daughter; otherwise Mae Marsh and the youngest o' the Anns family. Miss Marsh has just gone to the coast to l>la\ the star part in "Daddies." BALI. The flashing success of Wynn in the field of humorous caricatures has been one of the sensations of the maga- zine world. Wynn has just returned from a year on the Continent and he zvill contribute his best future work to Screen land. .» IFynn & SCREENLANB THREE OF THE YEAR'S BEST FILMS: THE COVERED WAGON, DRIVEN AND BLOOD AND SAND A.'.-.-ji^-^ . J4- CREEN WEAR in REVIEW np Jl here are any number of significant features to the screen year which closed on August 1st. First in importance — superfi- cially, at least — has been the ava- lanche of costume dramas. And the end is not yet in sight, al- though there is every indication of an overproduction of the ro- mantic picture. Of more genuine importance is the vogue of picture successes made away from the maddening studio. This we credit to the artificiality of our motion pictures in over-lighting, over-production, indeed, over-everything. The third — and highly disas- trous — element of the film year was the general slump of our directors. Only two or three came through the gruelling twelve months without at least one cinema disaster to their credit. It certainly was a bad year for the megaphone gentry. The Best Verformances of the Year 1. Florence Vidor in "Main Street" 2. Ernest Torrence in "The Covered Wagon" 3. May Marsh in "The White Rose" 4. Emily Fitzroy in "Driven" 5. Rodolph Valentino in "Blood and Sand" 6. Charles Chaplin in "The Pilgrim" 7. Emil Jannings in "Peter the Great" 8. Charles Ray in "The Girl I Loved" 9. John Sainpolis in "The Hero" 10. Myrtle Stedman in "Famous Mrs. Fair" An Interesting Year A, .IX ix all, it was an interesting year. The silver- sheet came out of its slump and attempted many things. The steady trend of romancism — the production of one Individual Hits Were Scored by Charlie Chaplin. Mae Marsh, Ernest Torrence, Emily Fitzroy. Dick costume opus after another — was a curious thing. It dates back, as Mr. Robert E. Sherwood points out on another page, to the first presentation of Pola Negri and Ernest Lubitsch's Passion in this country in 1921. Up to that point there had been a posi- tive belief that audiences did not want to see stories of another day. A curious theory — and yet it completely barred the romantic play from the screen until the German-made Passion proved its fallacy. Immediately America launched into the costume field. One im- portant element of the successful German costume pictures was overlooked by most of our native producers. That was the fact that Ernest Lubitsch, in making Passion, Deception, and one or two other pictures, had succeeded in making his characters live. They were no mere cardboard folk sporting swords and wigs. Some measure of this ability to re-create the pulsating atmosphere of another day got into Robin Hood and When Knighthood Was in Flower. But there was much more of this fine spirit in Peter the Great, the visualization of the colorful life of the adven- turer who founded the Russian empire. KMENLANB 53 THREE OF THE SEASON'S LEADERS: ROBIN HOOD, THE PILGRIM AND SAFETY LAST By Frederick James Smith Artificiality of Our Films "The Covered Wagon" "Blood and Sand" "Driven" "The Pilgrim" "Safety Last" 6. "Nanook of the North hile American-made pic- ares have largely failed to catch fe fine skill of Lubitsch in cut- ng deftly into one episode after mother of a story, limning each :.ith quick touches of mental and ;hysical clash, they have unques- Rmably progressed far further :i superficial technicalities. No foreign-made picture can ap- proach our own in lighting, stag- ing or photography. But this very perfection in technicalities has led our producers to worship at the feet of false gods. Each one of the three departments is "verdone to the detriment of the lory. Our producers seem to confuse the magnitude of heir settings with the bigness of their stories. All of vhich has led our screen into the blind alley of artificiality. iVe have been over-lighting, over-directing, over-acting and >ver-producing our silent drama. This year saw the inevitable reaction. Nanook of the Xorth, a picture made under the auspices of a fur selling firm and designed to tell — simply and directly — the life of an Esquimau family of the Far North, made an amazing success. It was different. In reality, it was far more than The Twelve Best Yictures of the Year 7. 8. .9. 10. n. 12. 'Robin Hood" "When Knighthood Was in Flower" "Peter the Great" "Merry-Go-Round" "Where the Pavement Ends" "Down to the Sea in Ships" that. It was vital — and it wasn't overdone. Away-from-Studio Hits s< oox after that Down to the Sea in Ships was released. This was a story of the whaling ad- ventures of the '50's, made by a professional director, Elmer Clif- ton, but actually produced and financed by the very descendants of the old time whalers them- selves, families living in and about New Bedford, Mass. The picture wasn't much on story, as it was screened, but it did show the hardy days of young America — and it had an "away-from-the- studio" virility. It succeeded surprisingly. Charles Brabin took a comparatively unimportant com- pany of players into the Georgia mountains and made Driven, which if made in a studio, would have been just another moonshiner picture. But, shot far from railroads and hotel luxuries in the very cabins of its prototypes, it became a living thing. Besides experimenting with a slow tempo, Brabin made the picture for $35,000 and came back to civilization with a fine contribution to the silent drama. It was another "awav-from-the-studio" success. Barthelmess, Emil Jannings, Theodore Roberts, Myrtle Stedman, Laurette Taylor and Ramon Novarro IBM 54 When Knighthood Was in Flower, Where the Pavement Ends and Peter the Great w ERE SIGNIFICANT "Covered Wagon" Scores JL hen the prize picture of this kind appeared. It was Emerson Hough's The Covered Wagon. While everyone in motion pictures seems to be willing to take the credit for this epic photoplay, we strongly suspect it was a lucky shot — and nothing more. One of those chance successes that come once in a life-time. Director James Cruze was sent with a company to Utah to make this story, a romance in the midst of a covered wagon's tortuous passage across the plains from the outposts of civilization to the Pacific Coast. But the slender romance was swallowed up in the midst of the panorama of pioneer hardihood. The wagon train had stolen the center of the screen away from an ingenue, much as the French Revolution swallowed up the petty tribulations of the Gish sisters in David Wark Griffith's Orphans of the Storm. History has a way of making mere humans seem very inconsequential. The Covered Wagon turned out to have epic sweep but we wonder, down in our hearts, what the studio staff thought of the picture when they first saw it in California. It is significant that two minor characters, a quaint scout of the plains, played by Ernest Torrence, and a sly old trader, portrayed by Tully Marshall, ran away with the production, along with the very personable wagon train. How many who see The Covered Wagon will remember much of the so-called "love interest" ? But who will forget that wagon train, fighting its way westward ? One of the amusing things incident upon the success of The Covered Wagon is the fact that producers look upon it as indicative of a revival of interest in so-called "Westerns." It has given Buck Jones and other celluloid folk new heart. Game of Follow the Leader o we are getting many Westerns, for the field of motion picture making is one of follow the leader. To this is due the many costume pictures. To this sheep reasoning, and the fact that a costume piece is a marvelous sop to the vanity and ego of an actor. Also to the fact that it gives a new outlet to a producer's propensity to spend money on big sets. But to return to our actual selection of the twelve best pictures of the year ending August 1st, 1923. They are: 1. "The Covered Wagon" 2. "Blood and Sand" 3. "Driven" 4. "The Pilgrim" 5. "Safety Last" 6. "Nanook of the North" 7. "Robin Hood" 8. "When Knighthood Was in Flower" 9. "Peter the Great" 10. "Merry-Go-Round" 11. "Where the Pavement Ends" 12. "Down to the Sea in Ships" The Girl I Love actually deserves a place in this chosen list of twelve and can well be included, dividing honors with one of those named above. The Year's Best Playing Ti . he ten best performances of the year, to our way of thinking, were Florence Vidor in Main Street (although her playing of the title role of Alice Adams wasn't far behind), Ernest Torrence in The Covered Wagon, Mae Marsh in The White Rose> Emily Fitzroy in Driven, Ro- dolph Valentino in Blood and Sand, Charles Chaplin in The Pilgrim, Emil Jannings in Peter the Great, Charles Ray in The Girl I Love, John Sainpolis in The Hero and Myrtle Stedman in The Famous Mrs. Fair. Second lists are always interesting — and our second list of twelve leading pictures would number : The Bright Shawl, The Storm, Bella Donna, Grumpy, The Hero, Pen- rod and Sam, Enemies of Women, Mr. Billings Spends His Dime, Kick In, Fury, The Flirt and Timothy's Quest. And our list of the second ten performances of the year would be : Theodore Roberts in Grumpy, Richard Barthelm- ess in Fury, Florence Vidor in Alice Adams, Laurette Tay- lor in Peg O' My Heart, William Powell >n The Bright Shawl, Nita Naldi in Blood and Sand, Tully Marshall in The Covered Wagon, Ramon Novarro in Where the Pave- ment Ends, Erich Von Stroheim in Souls for Sale, and May McAvov in Kick In. The Directors' Year I n A directorial way, Fred Niblo and Rex Ingram alone NITA NALDI, MAY McAVOY, ANNA MAY r I "SCREENLAN© Interesting events were Merry-Go-Round, Down To the Sea in Ships and Nanook of the North 55 showed any sort of progress. Griffith contributed two dis- astrous plays. One Exciting Night, a confused effort at thrill melodrama, and The White Rose, a hark back to the sol) inducer of other days. If Griffith is to maintain his leadership of the American screen he must pause for time to set a sane perspective upon himself. Just now financial exigencies seem to rush him into one tawdry film effort alter another. And the Griffith of 1923 doesn't seem to lie the Griffith of five years ago, close to life. He is aloof and harried by circumstance. Our list of the significant six directors would number Griffith, if only for his fine past contributions to the photo- play's progress, Erich Von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, Mack Sennett. Rex Ingram and Charlie Chaplin. Von Stroheim started Merry-Go-Round — but didn't fin- ish it. Vet there was enough left in the finished film to jive us a taste of this superb master of passion and in- trigue, seen through sophisticated Continental eyes. We -hall await his film version of Frank Morris' McTcaguc with high interest. Lubitsch has been directing Mary 1'ickford in The Street Singer, as yet unrevealed to the public. Will he keep his tine command of himself in America? We shall see. Mack Sennett Underestimated Ijmilic if you will but we honestly think Mack Sennett i- underestimated. No one in all screendom has made greater contributions to the screen than Sennett. He has developed the one branch of the screen which, if we may indulge in a pun, stands upon its own legs. It isn't an imitation of the stage, literature or-'anything else. It is in the production of film farce that the silversheet has alone achieved individuality. Chaplin is the genius of this field, of course. And his The Pilgrim was a rare thing of comedy. Vet Chaplin is more than a maker of laughs. His first serious drama, WONG AND CHARLES RAY DID FINE BITS A Woman of Paris, on which he has been working for months, ought to be highly significant. Rex Ingram lapsed with his directorial orgy. Trifling Women, and then made a step ahead with his production of John Russell's Where the Pavement Ends. This last was not only a sympathetic camera drama — but it enmeshed the strange lure of the South Seas. That alone was a triumph. Niblo's "Blood and Sand' : F. red Niislo did two very excellent photoplays, his vis- ualization of Ibanez's story of the bull ring, Blood and Sand, and James Forbes' study of a certain phase of Ameri- can life, The Famous Mrs. Fair. Two widely different things — and yet both well done. We wouldn't be surprised if some of the praise for Blood and Sand rightly belongs to June Mathis, who so materially aided the rise of Rex Ingram, but, even so, Niblo deserves his superlatives. Blood and Sand had color and swiftly unswerving move- ment in telling its story of the peasant lad who became the matador idol of all Spain. The other directorial leaders weren't so successful. Cecil De Mille seems to be steadily losing his grip. His Adam's Rib was an awful thing of its kind. Marshall Neilan doesn't take his work seriously. He is losing because he doesn't care. Allan Dwan seems to have been more injured by Robin Hood than anything else. His efforts since have been engulfed in massive sets. King Vidor, once so promising, seemed to hark back to his ideals with Peg O' My Heart but to slip again with Three Wise Fools. Hobart Henley revealed flashes at Universal during the year. Under difficulties, too, we suspect. John Robertson has temporarily linked his artistic fortunes with Richard Bar- thelmess. 'Their The Bright Shawl had charm, if little virility, but their The Fighting Blade, a story of Crom- wellian days not yet released, has both. Herbert Brenon has been disclosing his fine ability, even with inadequate materials, at Famous Players. Maybe his The Spanish Dancer, with Pola Negri, will give him his opportunity. The Shrinkage of Stars JL here has been a shrinkage of stars all along the line. The meteoric rise and' legal eclipse of Rodolph Valentino was the big histrionic event of the year. Valentino proved that he was a fine actor with his matador in Blood and Sand, and gave the part color, passion and a breathless touch of brutality. It was a stark and palpitating per- formance. The biggest advance of the year was made by Harold Llqyd. There is no bigger box (Continued on page 88) The Ben AH Hoggin tableau, "The Triumph of Venus" is an interesting cuticla display in the Ziegfeld Follies. But suppose the films tried this! Just suppose! And YET They Censor THE Movies c# At the left, Ethel Kenyon, one of the cutest of the Winter Garden flappers in "The Passing Show of 1923." Here the costumes are frank, to say the least. Above, Margie Whittingtmi, one of the beauties of the Ziegfeld Follies. GFOKG [ SCKEENLAND 57 • Mac Daw, another charmer of the Zie'gfeld follies. SCHWABZ Above, the now fa- mous "living curtain" in George White's Scandals of 1923. Save for property foliage,, the girls are abso- lutely devoid of any- thing but tan and a smile. Vera King is one of the attractions of "The Pass- ing Show of 1923" at the Winter Garden. A glance at her portrait will make you understand why. . 58 SCREENLAN© Culver City, Cal. — The minor players of the Marshall Ncilan Company while aivay moments between scenes with little lla Anson doing "Hot Lips" as an interlude. Los Angeles, Cal. — Haccl Keener, who is the dancer in Maurice Tour- neur's "The Brass Bottle," displays her brand new bathing suit. OUR OWN NEWS REEL Los Angeles, Cal. — Holding hands but nothing serious, y' know., Agnes Ayers and Casson Fergu- son at the Lasky call board. 1 59. Rye Beach, N. Y.— Charming Zena Keefe and her playmates in their radio canoe. The girls — left to right — are Alyce Mills, Sadie Mullen, our own Zena, and Lucy Fox. .■ Invermere, Brit- ish Columbia. — Sccna Owen tries out a new pair of snowshoes between scenes of " Unsee- ing Eyes." Berlin, Germany — Betty Blythe in a scene of "Chu- Chin-Chow," now being shot in the German capital. The sheik is Jameson Thomas, an English actor. SCREEN Los Angeles, Cal. — Three brains at- work on a single story, "Rita Coventry." The brains (from left to right): William de Mille, the dircctoi— Clara Beranger the adapter; and Julian Street, the author. Hollywood, Cal. — Doug Fair- banks, Jr., in training to eclipse his illustrious dad. Doug, Jr., by the way, is highly proficient in the art of self-defense. Astoria, Long Island — Between scenes of "His Children's Child- ren," with Direc- tor Sam Wood explaining things to the principals: J a in e s Rcnnie, Mahlon Hamilton. Mary Eaton and Bebe Daniels. im « SCEEENLAND 61 On the California Sand Dunes. — A blase burro surrounded by Charles de Roche, the Rameses II of "The Ten Commandments," and Lealrice Joy; who plays the girl of the modern theme in the same production. Los Angeles, Cal. — Something new in bathing attire, the "Tango Togs." The wearer? of course you recog- nize 'cm. You're r ig h t. Phyllis Haver. The "Tan- go Togs" arc high- ly popular along the Pacific. Los Angeles, Cal. — Herbert Brcnon (not visible) has selected a pretty zuoodland dell for this scene of "The Spanish Dancer." The embrace consists of Antonio Moreno and Pola Negri. 62 SCEEENLAN© A We have been taught to expect fine things of Victor Seastrom. His greatness was first heralded by the pictures which came before him from Sweden. These pictures were made by a master mind. black-robbed figure, its youth and strength subdued to stately step, heads a solemn procession through the cold austerity of an English courtroom. The moment is fraught with intensity, for this young man — the newly-made deem- ster — is to sit in judgment on a girl accused of killing her illegitimate baby. Out of all the world, only the girl and the judge know who the father of that child is. The courtroom is crowded with spectators eager for de- tails of the sordid tragedy. The girl, white-faced and cold in the extremity of her terror, has steadily refused to speak the name of her seducer. She has not faltered even though she knows that that seducer is the judge whom the prosecut- ing attorney is forcing into a pronunciation of the death sen- tence. Back of this great dramatic conflict stand the minds of two men. One of them is Sir Hall Caine, who first created the situation in his ''The Master of Man." The other is Victor Seastrom, the director who is transferring that novel to the screen for Goldwyn. Depends Upon the Director 1 N the hands of a weak man, the story could become merely a melodramatic sequence of fights, rainstorms, ranting vil- lians, and noble heros. Under the guidance of a certain loud- mouthed director — incidentally my pet personal aversion — I can easily imagine the girl's trouble resulting from a cafe drinking party in which three hundred and fifty extras NEW HOPE FOR THE AMERICAN PHOTOPLAY BY Constance Valmer Littlefield blithely stick confetti down one another's necks and thirty-two scantily-dressed Follies girls languish in the middle of the cleared dance-floor, thereby giving the exhibitors the pesky "big set" which he demands. But we have been taught to expect better things of Victor Seastrom. His greatness was first heralded by the pictures which came before him from Sweden. These pictures were made by a master-mind. They sounded truly and surely the sombre note of tragedy which deepens and strengthens the great symphony of life. American producers and American audiences — which one is the cause and which the result we cannot say — have mada of life a fairy tale of Cinderellas and happy endings finally punctuated by the last fade-out clinch. Producers say ex- hibitors demand these abortions, and exhibitors in their turn say they are prompted by the public which supports the box- office. Public Demanding Realism JL he public — as far as can be judged from letters received by Screexeand and other film magazines — is slowly but surely rousing from its passive acceptance of things as they are. and is demanding a true reflection of life. There is every reason to believe a great, thinking, earnest public exists. But, unfortunately, this public never puts pen to paper in the interest of motion pictures. It is the same public which has tamely allowed certain laws to be foisted upon it. In the mad dash for ducets, the producer aims to make pictures which will at one and the same time please Flossie Bright-eyes and an old man with a long white beard, a pro- fessor and a cook, a lady and a scrub-woman. Obviously, it can't be done. But in Victor Seastrom lies hope. Since his coming to us from Sweden, he has been instrumental in organizing the Little Theatre movement of the screen. It is related to motion pictures much as the Theatre Guild is related to the theatre. SCKEENLAND 63 C Is Victor Seastrom, the Swedish "Director, a ~New Force in Our World of thednemaP Little Theatre Film Movement A he aim of the organization is to pro- vide, through existing little theatre groups, university dramatic societies and women's Victor Seastrom on location with his "The Master of Man" cast. This was taken while Joseph Schildkraut was still a member of the company. Later Conrad Nagel succeeded him. Elsie Bartlett, Mrs. Schildkraut, can be seen sitting in the foreground while Schildkraut is sitting on the platform. clubs, a practical release for those artistic films which cannot find a place in the commercial theatre," its announcement states. The first film scheduled for release by this organization is "Mortal Clay," a picture which Seastrom made in Sweden. The movement is still in the process of formation. It is independent in that one studio contributes no more toward it than another. Yet it so happens that practically every large company contributes one or more of its big names to the list of sponsors. For instance, Rex Ingram, Ernst Lubitsch, Hugo Ballin, Paul Bern and Rob Wagner are a few of the men interested. Outside the industry, the Federation of Women's Clubs for Southern California, the Juvenile Protective League, the Friday Morning Club and the National Board of Review all sponsor the cause. High Purpose of Idea i- hose who have investigated the purposes of the Little Theatre movement in pictures have every faith in its ultimate success. With these brains behind it and its first release "Mortal Clay," it will have a good start on the road. Once started, all it will need is support — yours. The editor of Screenland wired me to ask Mr. Seastrom for his views on "What is the matter with American photoplays?" But after talking with persons who knew the director well, I decided that discretion was the better part of valor. He is, it seems, very bashful with inter- viewers and very reticent in his expressions of opinion Victor Seastrom and his earner am an, Charles Van Engcr, "shooting" a scene of "The Master of Man." regarding American films. The method of approach, there- fore, had to be roundabout. I found him in the stone court-room I have described. He is a tall man, strongly built. His eyes are typically Nordic blue — the blue of the winter sea, and his voice, soft now, gives suggestion of great strength and volume. In fact, latent strength is the keynote {Continued on page 83) -64 SCEEENLANto S GRENBEAUX . A'" exotic lounging robe from old Canton lends piquancy to Claire Windsor. It is of heavy grass silk, the foundation color being of cool lemon yellow, While the squares are batikcd in orange. il T the right Carmel Meyers may be seen adorning a new and striking bathing suit de- signed principal- ly for beach strolling. IARY BETH MILFORD (above) is wearing a navy blue and white sport suit, the coat of which is half cape. With this Miss Milford wears a white felt hat trimmed with navy blue. . Grey suede pumps and grey stockings complete the ensemble. utumn & (M/ilady; ashions SQREENLANB 65 .* Swanson — wear- ing a cape of un- usual novelty, combining a Jer- sey-knit and a collar of mantil- la lace. shows a plain ermine coatee of decided charm. The dress is of blue and gray silk brocade and the band of fur which forms the hem is also of plain ermine. BALL, A T the left Carmel Meyers reveals the nczi'- est thing in Cal- ifornia seaside coats, now all the rage along the Southern Cali- fornia beaches. It is a "huppic," or Chinese coolie coat, made of rice fibre and cotton — not too cool when the wind blows, nor too warm when the sun shines. , 66 SCEEENLAND UNDER Italian SKIES Lillian Gish re- cently spent nine months in Italy filming the late F. Marion Crawford's novel, "The White Sister." Herewith are three scenes from the tragic ro- mance of the ill- s t a r r e d heroine. Miss Gish has re- turned to Rome to do George Hliot 's "R o m o la" — with her sister, Dorothy, playing a leading role. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ABBE -* SC1EENLAN© r 67 C The public dearly loves to sympathize. I Sorrows for By Anne Austin f certain motion picture people now in the limelight were to advertise in the classified sections of the news- papers, their bid for business would read like this: For Sale : Sorrows. Nationally advertised, guaranteed to bring tears and sympathy. Seller, realizing enormous publicity value of the great tragedy which has marred his life, offers his sorrows to the highest bidder. Address Hollywood, Box, 23, P. D. Q. Sorrow is the most salable commodity in the world of fil- . lum and hokum. For sorrow is the woof and warp of hokum. The public dearly loves to feel very sorry for someone, to see in the flesh or in the film the person for whom it is sorry. Of all our emotions, we enjoy our sympathy, our ■ ■ vicarious grief, the most. The public never loved Wally Reid so well in life as they did in his heart- breaking death. So its interest turned to Mrs. Wallace Reid and it was natural j can Acker, who has that she would be approached by motion capitalized the sorrow picture producers with starring con- market — b i', headlining tnH-s «;hp had a enrrnw fnr snip vaudeville bills and ItS- tracts bne had a sorrow tor sale i, w her former, husband's No doubt high motives actuated name. Mrs. Reid when she made Human Wreckage. She wanted to save other fellow - creatures from the agony which poor Wally suffered. There are rumors that little Bill Reid will be put into pictures. No doubt his mother has been offered con- tracts. Bill would be a good bet for the same reason that Mrs. Wallace Reid was a sure-fire box-office attraction. And to add to his sales, value, Bill— called Bill plainly for all the five or six years of his life, by both his mother and dad — Bill has had his {Continued on page 94) Mrs. Wallace Reid, whose "Hu- man Wreckage" is a bid for pub- lic sympathy, and her son, Wallie, Jr., together with her adopted daughter, Betty. Little Wallie may enter pictures. 68 Yhree Big ocreen , NLoments Douglas Fairbanks as he li-ill appear in his new spec- : taclc, "The Thief ! of Bagdad." Doug promises that the new Arabian Night romance nil! out- . do the magnitude of his 'Robin Hood." ^GREENLAND ; 69 1 E^^kw^l P - i- i - < "'- ? *"7 -=^_ X '■ - 1 K|.l if !*"**« L 1 i 4M >, .•hmmhIME . ; : ; |>#t • 1 "*^9W8(BI r is \ s ^^"* ^ » ■ 1 M 1 £$ '^ .• i - W*am <• 9o-/x? An interesting moment in Cecil de Mille's production of "The Ten Commandments" — •with Theodore Roberts a digni- fied Moses. Herbert Brenon seems to have achieved a su- perb screen moment in his production of "T he S pan is h Dancer." ■ Pola Negri is the poignant figure on the steps. ^Q SCKEENLAN© Stars In Embryo Cowgentleman from the vast, open spaces who believes he would make good in them he-man parts. He is now in the act of wondering if the Kaiser's shock troops could stand up to the 98-pound- on-the-hoof blonde who meets you in the outer office and asks your business. The embarrassing-est moment of all! The extra gentleman thought he could make a hit with the gang by addressing the comedi- an by name. What looked like a comedian in makeup is nothing more or less than Mor- timer Floode, the direc- tor, in his new golf pants. The near-actress who has rushed all the way from Kokomo, Iowa, to make finer and better silent drama. And she has a correspondence school diploma to prove it. The casting director is retiring to his inner office to gaze upon said diploma. -■* ^GREENLAND /i By Ted Rupert One-tenth of one per cent of the daily crop of beauty prize win- ners. They toil not, neither do they spin, for the visible supply of beauties in Holly- wood exceeds the demand by sev- eral thousand. Two specimens of the" boy who looks like Jackie Coo- gan. The profession of being a double for Jackie is preferable to some others, a cap and suit be- ing the only capital re- quired. There are never more than seven of them around any one studio. Young gent trying to crash the studio gate. He is deciding that the average gate man posseses fewer brains than the law allows. The vocabulary of this particular one is sadly limited. It consists entirely of "No." J n SCKEENLAN© istening ost T he avalanche of costume drama is on ! D. W. Griffith's next production will be a big spectacu- lar drama of the American Revolution. Richard Barthelmess is going to do a big special in the Spring. It will present the tragic story of Nathan Hale. Marion Davies is now well into her new costume picture, "Yolanda," at her New York studios. And there are dozens of others in preparation. Divorce in the Air A.s Screenland goes to press there seems to be some doubt in Paris to whether or not Irene Castle is divorced. Cable reports indicated that divorce proceedings had been started in Paris but, upon her return from France, Irene declared that there was nothing to it ! So there you are ! However, Elsie Ferguson did get a Paris divorce. That's that. • Day of Best Sellers roduction is at its height in that portion of the motion picture industry located on the West Coast. Best sellers are being bought for the screen; plays dickered for, and even — oh, unprecedented ! — here and there an original story is being filmed. It is really surprising how leary the astute producer is of the innocent, unassuming little original story. "Has it ever been published?" asks the high and mighty one of the trembling author. "N-no, s-sir," gasps the intimidated one. "Well, I can't look at it until it is. Any magazine will do, just as long as it's in print." The bewildered wretch stumbles off, not knowing the whereof of which. But by and by he learns the reason. It's because the chooser of motion picture stories does not trust his own judgment — he must first have the product stamped with the approval of another brain. An interesting example of this is the story which Mar- shall Neilan has just finished filming. It is called The Rendezvous and was written by Madeline Ruthven, a Texas girl. She came to Los Angeles from a Dallas newspaper, intent upon gaining a foothold in some lucrative scenario department. To make a long story short, after months of effort, she took a stenographic job in the Lasky scenario department. Here she learned every bit of knowledge there was to know about the actual construction of photoplays. By and by — but not nearly so easily as that — she evolved The Rendezvous which in due course of time was returned from practically every studio in the business. Then Marshall Neilan saw it, and Marshall Neilan does not need any one else to tell him when a thing is good. And here's the s e q u e 1 — Mrs. Ruthven kept right on at her secretarial job at Lasky's for some months. Promises were made her, but nothing mate- rialized until about ten days ago, when she was made an as- sistant editor. Yes, dears, it's a hard, uphill pull, this movie busi- ness. Don't let One reason why Cali- fornia is popular. The beaches are zvarm the whole year 'round — and tony day you may glimpse Sigricd Holmquist on the beach. I SCKEENLAKB 73 By CONSTANCE PALMER LITTLEFIELD AND EUNICE MARSHALL 'em tell you the streets are paved with gold — good intentions is more like it. Gulliver's Travels „ing Vidor has had a clear enough vision to see the won- derful picture possibilities in Gulliver's Travels. He says that all his life he has wanted to film it, and he is delighted that at last he is to have a chance. As soon as he finishes Wild Oranges, from the novel by Joseph Hergesheimer, he will stamp Gulliver on celluloid. He says, "I believe there is a crying need for more imaginative and fanciful productions on the screen. Our growth has been retarded by our worship of realism. Most people get their fill of realism in their own lives and they seek escape into the realm of imagination for their entertainment. The cinema is ideally suited to portray fantasy and myth." Think how the kiddies will love the giants and pigmies — how they will revel in Gulliver's adventures ! And how the grownups will enjoy the splendid satire of Swift's fairy tale! Searching for Paul not find it in her heart to refuse. And so Three Weeks, which has almost become a classic — so widely has it been read — will become a motion picture the latter part of August. The cast of the picture will be small, and necessarily Mrs. Glyn is bending all her energies to picking actors and ac- tresses who are ideal types. There are many rumors afloat as to the heroine. Theda Bara and Aileen Pringle seem to be the runners-up so far. Picking the hero is even harder. The author favors a stalwart Englishman, name so far unknown, who she thinks is the ideal. But insofar a she is unknown to the public, Conrad Nagel — who is also a popular choice for the part — seems more logical. Carmcl Myers Entertains C. E, ilikor Glyx, one of the most interesting figures of the literary world, is to venture again into the motion picture field. Her first experience — not a very happy one — was with the Famous Players-Lasky company. It has never been quite clear just what the trouble was, but Mrs. Glyn returned to England shaking the dust of pic- tures from her feet. But when most generous offers were made for the purchase of her dearest brain- child, with every assurance of co- operation on the part of the com- pany, she could A perfect day in Cali- fornia. A sea breeze, the soft music of the waves, the vsprmtk of the shift- ing sands — and Alma Bennett. Particularly Alma, 'Armel Myers, who is the lady-villian of George D. Baker's production of Balzac's The Magic Skin, gave a luncheon at the Goldwyn studios in honor of Daniel Froh- man, President of the Actors' Fund. Mr. Frohman is in Los Angeles to promote the interests of this charity. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Lehr, George D. Baker, Conrad Nagel, King Vidor, Rupert Hughes, Josephine Quirk, Carey Wilson, Gilbert E. Gable, June Mathis, Mrs. Myers, Mae Busch, Herbert Howe, George Walsh and Bessie Love. By the way, Bessie and Carmel used to be chums in high f SCEEENLAN© Pola Negri reads her di- rector's fortune. The in- terested director is Her- bert Brenon. Pola, by the way, found a lot of ominous cards when she tried this on her former director, George Fits- maurice. time, were said to be re- united. I suppose it's just a case of not being able to believe what you read in the papers. Tommy Meighan Back T, school ten years ago. They went into pictures at the same time, and played-., together . in The Flying. Torpedo— -with Bessie the heroine and Carmel the disturbing element. However, though they remained as close friends as ever, they^ were never. cast in the same picture again — until this summer when, in The Magic Skin, Bessie is' the heroine and Carmel the disturbing element. Nagel in Real Estate . peaking, of Conrad Nagel — he's been bitten by the fatal California real estate bug. The attack, though severe, promises to be lucrative. He owns two ranches. The first comprises 40 acres planted to watermelon, honeydew melon and cantaloupe, and is valued at $65,000. This he will subdivide and sell five lots to the purchaser with the admonition to build resi- dences. The second ranch extends over 25 acres of ground and is covered with orange trees. As it is situated closer to the business section Conrad will subdivide it and build apart- ment houses thereon. Schildkraut Moves JL he Master of Man, now being filmed by Victor Sea- strom from the novel by Hall Caine, started out originally with Joseph Schildkraut as leading man. After several weeks' work on location, the daily rushes revealed the fact that Mr. Schildkraut looked too — well, too — Yes, that's it. So they put Conrad Nagel in his place, and retook all the shots in which Mr. Schildkraut appeared. Lila Lee and Kirkwood Marry .eee's news hot off the wire! Lila Lee and James Kirk- wood are married. The rumor of their engagement had been bruited about Hollywood for some time,- but was firmly denied by all parties concerned. Piersonally, we're just a little bit puzzled about it, because not so long ago Mr. kirkwood and his wife, who have been separated a long- homas Meighan arrived the other day from his umpty-steenth . trip hither from yon New York. He says he ' really prefers to travel . because one meets such nice people on the train! He will start al- most immediately \ on Woman-Proof, another George Ade Story. Lila Lee will be his leading woman. Doug, Jr. to Do His Stuff Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. is about to start on his first motion picture. It is called Stephen Steps Out, arid is taken from a story by the late Richard Harding Davis. In the cast supporting him will be Theodore Roberts, Harry Myers and Noah Beery. Quite a lot of high priced support for one young feller ! Name Changed Again illiam de Mille has again changed the name of The Faun, which he has been making into a photoplay from the William Faversham stage success. The preceding title was Spring Magic. Now it is The Marriage Maker. If Mr. de Mille doesn't watch out, he will run Norma Tal- madge a close second as a title changer. Only no one could beat Norma when it comes to terrible titles ! . Agnes Ayres and Jack Holt are the featured players of The Marriage Maker. Louise Fascnda JL< ouise Fazenda has been given a long-term contract by Warner Brothers whereby she will play straight roles. By the contract she will virtually become a star, although a provision is made enabling her to go on immortalizing her inimitable slavey characterization. Hale with Warners •reighton Hale started' August 20th in a picture, as yet untitled, directed by Ernest Lubitsch. Creighton has two children and three brothers. The three brothers are all officers in the Navy. One is a commander, another a lieutenant-commander and the third a lieutenant. The two kidlets are also in the Navy — as much as they can be. The eldest wears an officer's uniform and the youngest that of a gob ! 75 Speaking of Engagements JUillian T ashman, that decorative young lady of stage fame, is in Los Angeles as the guest of the parents of Edmund Lowe, well known stage leading man who is playing Don John in Ik the Palace of the King. I'll bet they're engaged ! Mary on Goldwyn Lot Lary Pickford come over to Culver City to pay Abraham Lehr and the Goldwyn lot a little visit the other day. Immediately all the publicity hounds were out with their cameras, and all sorts of rumors ran rife. Now what significance had the visit of Mary? Did You Know That ..oscoe Arruckle appears before you in Hollywood, the James Cruze production for Lasky? When Angela, the heroine, tries to find work at the casting window of one of the big studios, she turns away hopelessly to give place to a gentleman of generous proportions. The casting director takes one look at that rotund countenance and slams the window shut. Although they do not tell us so, the actor is none other than our own Roscoe — more power to him ! Watch for him, you fans who have been hungry for sight of that genial face. The Motion Picture Exposition JL he Motion Picture Exposition, celebrating the Cen- tennial of the Monroe Doctrine, was expected to be an affair that was going to make the San Francisco exposition look like an Elks' minstrel show in Paducah. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the hip, and we regretfully announce that the exposition was more or less of a flop. The exposition was held on a huge park, very beauti- ful to look at in the evening, when the colored domes of the buildings gleam under the electric lights. On the opening night, tickets were ten dollars apiece. The visitors paid and paid and paid, and when they got past the eagle-eyed guardians of the gate, they thought at first that all they had purchased was the right to go in and spend more money at the Owl drug A chic glimpse of Carmclita GeraffKty, daughter of the redoubtable Tom Geraghty and now making a name for herself at the Goldwyn studios. store booth, at Brandstatter's cabaret, and at the other booths scattered around the grounds. But later they found their way to the Coliseum, where a three-ringed circus was going on, punctuated by the exhibition of stars, driven around the arena in their motors to be stared at by the tourists. Fred Niblo, the noblest master of ceremonies of them all, announced them. He worked hard, did Fred, that night. In fact, he got a greater amount of applause than any of the stars, especially when he introduced his wife, Enid Bennett, with the remark, "This is Enid Bennett, and I think she's sweet !" She looked sweet, too. Last year, under the super- vision of Daniel Frohman, the picture people put on an out- door-performance of A Mid- summer Night's Dream which was enormously successful. Never will I forget Charles Ray as Thisbe, nor Viola Dana as a hard-boiled little Puck! Although Jackie Coogan pre- fers his toy motor cars, he zvas persuaded to try out this bit of rolling stock at the Pasadena Ostrich Farm. fl 36 SCEE1BHLAN© Alary Pichford paid a visit to Abraham Lehr, vice-president of loldwyn Pictures, the other day — and started all sorts of rumors. A Family Affair icture making is getting 1 to be more and more a fam- ily affair. Now Natalie Talmadge Keaton has announced her intention of supporting her husband, Buster Keaton, in his next feature comedy. And to make the family circle complete, Baby Joe Keaton, a little more than a year old, is to have a part in the picture, too. A Sacrifice for Art nna Q. Nilsson had a wealth of lovely blonde hair. We hope you notice the tense. She had it. She hasn't any more. When they cast Anna Q. for the leading role in Ponjola, she at first thought she could wear a man's wig when she came to the sequences where she would have to doff skirts for male clothes. But the realism wasn't per- fect, so Anna Q., like a heroine, marched into a barber- shop and ordered, "Cut it short and shave my neck." By the way, Ponjola isn't the heroine's name, as you might think. It's Rhodesian for ''hooch." Louise Presented Cup JL» ouise Fazenda had a new job wished on her out at the Ship cafe, at Venice, the other evening. She presented a silver cup to the pair of best dancers on the floor. And although a number of screen players contested, the winning dancers were non-professionals. Harry's Life Story ■It's stylish to get the bi- ographies of stars for studio records, now. They gave Harry Myers a blank questionnaire the other day, and here is the way he filled it out : Lillian Tashman paid a visit to Edmund Loive at the Goldwyn Studios and the rumor of their engagement tvas revived. Mr. Lowe is the Don John of In the Palace of the King. Name: Harry Myers. Bom: Yes. Lived: In luxury until I was weaned. Since then it's been a devil of a struggle. Educated: At all saloons north of the Mason and Dixon line. Pets: Directors, stars and cameramen. Father's profession: He hated work, too. Just a good talker. How entered films: Had something on Lubin, Laemmle, Beaumont, Lasky, and Warner Bros., and un- less I get some work for Louis Mayer soon, I'll pull one on him. Company: Do you mean who I go with? (Signed) Harry Myers. Out of the Mouths of Babes D aby Peggy is a famous star and all that, but she has to mind her p's and q's. Her mama is very anxious to keep her little girl surrounded by the best of influences. So she was rather up-set when her baby came home from visiting her auntie at a week-end party for grown-ups at the beach the other day. Mrs. Mont- gomery wanted to know if the host had said grace at dinner. "What did Mr. B say, dear," she asked. "Oh," said Peggy, "he said, 'We'll be seated now.' " "And then what," pursued mama. "He said," Peggy answered, " 'never mind putting too much orange juice in it!'" ... SCiEEHLANP 77 The Hollywood Exodus JL hey're coming back, all of Hollywood's little film pilgrims to the -wicked shores of New x ^ork. Harold Lloyd and Mil- dred Davis Lloyd are back from their honeymoon in Gotham, speaking in awed tones of the wonderful time they had. Only the Follies didn't come up to expectations, with Will Rogers gone. For Will is in Holly- wood, too, now. Which reminds us that Will was one of the reasons that Harold Lloyd packed up and left Hal Roach, according to rumor. Harold had been hav- ing some friendly disputes with Roach over salary But when Roach brought a rival comedian to the studio where Harold had reigned alone for so long, the dis- satisfaction came to a head, and Harold took his doll rags and went over to the Holly- wood studios. And took his .whole organization with him. Tommy Meighan is back, too. Again. It's hard to keep track of Tommy, he's back and forth so frequently. This time Tommy received all re- porters at one fell swoop before leaving the big town, and entertained them in B. V. D's and black dressing gown, the while he threw shirts and socks into his bag. No, Ella- Rin-T in-Tin, high jumping the canine movie star, gives a demonstration of at the Los Angeles Motion Picture Exposition. belle, the reporters were all men. Lila Lee is another prodigal who has deserted the bright lights for the Kliegs, Agnes Ayres decided that she was needed at home, too, so now Bebe Daniels is the only Paramount star still A. W. O. L., and the Paramount lot is looking less like a set for The De- serted Village. George Ade, who came to the coast again to work on another story for his friend, Tommy Meighan, announced that Hollywood has progressed wonder- fully since he was here three years ago. "It then took two min- utes to cross Hollywood boulevard, owing to the traffic," he said. "Now it takes five minutes." Fatty in Germany JL hey aren't so fussy in Germany, and the censors {Continued on page 86) One of the first "stills" of the first Potash and Perl- mutter production, with Barney Bernard, as Abe Potash, a very puzzled in- vader of the model's dress- ' ing room. 78 ©GREENLAND All you need for these exercises is a bathing suit and a roof. Dorothy Mac- kaill, by the way, runs away with a big hit in Dick Barthelmess' "The Fighting Blade." Dorothy Mackaill uti- lizes the roof of her apartment building for her setting up exercises. Dorothy really doesn't need 'em. An English girl, she was one of the most popular of the Ziegfeld flappers. That was before she made her successful screen debut. PHOTOGRAPH BY BALL m SCREENLAND 79 / lasted about twenty seconds. It was a trick horse. The rest you can guess. I landed a fall instead of a job. Versatile Vera €L "Iris in" on Hollywood as the film folk know it. FOOLS GOLD The Diary of an Extra Girl The Diary Qontinves From Yebrvary 1923 Could I Roller-Skate? nr (( I, .f I can't do anything else when I get to Hollywood, I'll do extra work" — I'd like to het that nine out of ten of you aspirants to movie fame have secretly admitted this to yourselves. But you little dream that what is demanded of us in extra work is ten times more than what is de- manded of a star. For one all too short period of my Hollywood career, I Ritzed about like a Jazz-Queen. Didn't I have a job at $150 a week with Gilbert Tarryton? I did — for two weeks. But Nemesis still pursued me. The "Hell's Litany" com- pany went broke and my contract was a scrap of paper. When I found myself outside the studio doors, well then — I jumped at whatever came my way. One day a call came from Hope Hampton's director. Was there a girl at the Studio Club who could both sing and play the piano very well, and both at the same time ? Anyhow, the job was wished on me. I reported at nine A. M. on Sunday morning at a little Victrola and music store on Broadway in Los Angeles. I was to be an "ivory tickler" who jazzed off popular melodies, chewed gum and sang — over and over again, the two or three hits of the hour. This sounds easy. Try it sometime. I sang and chewed and pounded till I was dizzy, but I felt an utter failure that night. I needed the seven fifty they, gave me for the day's work, or I'd have mailed it back. I knew I didn't make the grade. JL he next day the Service Bureau wanted three girls to roller-skate. Again I was pushed in on the job. This time I had no fear, be- cause as a child I used to neglect the higher branches to improve the lower limbs. Many a time and oft, have I "hookied it" from school to roller-skate around Mt. Tom on Riverside Drive. So, forgetting the years that " have inter- vened, I vowed to the director that I could skate. So I was promised three days' work oh my glib assurances. My first hours on those skates ! Trying to look grace- ful, keep my balance, and talk naturally to the spectators made one of the most painful memories of my life. Again I barely made the grade. However, I now feel I must practice roller-skating several hours daily, so I won't feel a fool if ever (large if) another chance comes to do roller skating. I might be called on to double for a star, or I might be a star myself some day. A girl I knew called me up and told me there was a great job coming up at Ince. Just a few girls to be used all through a picture in riding habits. She knew I'd get it if I went out all dressed up in a stunning habit. She had done this and had landed the job. The next day the casting director called me up about this. He said, "Put on your habit and come right out. I can promise sixty-five dollars a week for several weeks." Scattering cats ! All the money I could borrow in one's, two's and five's I gathered together, went forth and bought me a real riding habit — latest model, all wool ; rented a taxi and drove in state to Culver City. They liked my looks. They led me to a path and helped me mount a horse. A trick horse. I lasted about twenty seconds. The rest you will guess. I landed a fall instead of the job, and I tore a large hole in my brand new riding breeches. They have never graced my girlish figure since 80 SCMEEMLAND Being a Bathing Beauty 1 n the strength of my accumulated debt I jumped at a call that very week to go to Santa Monica with a comedy company for three days' location. There we had to jump into barrels, into fake fishes' mouths, with our feet and legs sticking out, play leap frog, and last but not least, dive off a cliff — really quite a dangerous trick. I was utterly disgusted with life, myself, the jobs 'I'd been handed, and the people I'd been working with. Generally speaking, I love movie people. As a class, they are as fine and real as any other people in the world. But this particular crowd didn't vibrate with me, nor I witli them. So instead of going home with them when the work was over, I said I was going to visit a friend. With my three days' checks in my pocket, to be cashed later, plus my car ticket and seventy-six cents, I started off walking down the board walk beside the ocean, thinking. About an hour later I passed a fortune telling parlor — "Prisda, the Gypsy Queen." Now I must confess to a weakness for having my fortune told, so I stepped in and asked the "Gypsy Queen" what she could tell me for fifty cents. She led me into her mystic den, and instead of telling my fortune, we began to talk — of life, its battles, its heartaches, its victories, and its joys. When I told her of my life, she said, "Why don't you stay here with me a few days? You can dress up as a gypsy. You can clear a few dollars. I'll advertise you as 'Vera, the Medium' — just here for a few days on her way to Roumania." I "Tella-a da Fortune, Lady?" fell in with the idea, with the same thrill I'd have had as a child at running away with a circus. Think of ac- tually living with a gypsy queen! But had I visited the Queen of Sheba, she could not have treated me more royally. I told dozens of fortunes. Several of the biggest stars in pictures came into our little booth. And I wonder, now that I am back in Holly- wood, if the next time I'm working on a lot with some of them, they will recognize the mystic, seeing eyes of "Vera, the Medium." Hollywood's Religious Complex T March 10, 1923. he newspapers and magazines throughout the coun- try accuse Hollywood of all sorts of things. But I feel that Hollywood's greatest complex is a religious one. There are many churches in this small community. Every other person you meet discusses science, truth, healing, demonstrations, the subconscious, or the particular Karma you are working out, until sometimes at night I find my head reeling with isms and ophies that I had never even heard of before. And even in my film work, this summer, I've lived in a deeply religious, strictly orthodox, Biblical atmosphere. I read the other day that ninety per cent of the High School children in New York City knew -nothing of the Bible. I suggest sending them to Hollywood to enter the so-called "wicked world" of filmdom. Here at least, they will imbibe a bit of sacred history, just from extra work, or the constant talk about the Pilgrimage Play, or the open discussions on religion. Here, no one is ashamed to profess his faith openly and ardently. Neither do we have religious martyrs. Tolerance is perhaps Hollywood's greatest crime. Making Bible Pictures JL began early in June, working with the Sacred Film Company, in the episode of Sarah and Abraham. We searched days and days, in scorching sand and through barren waste, to find the Promised Land. It was there, oddly enough, that I met one of the .real people of Hollywood. A carpenter who had been building the tiny hillside homes to be used as the setting for the great Pilgrimage Play. I was fascinated in the sketches he was making from colored prints of Bethlehem and Nazareth. We began talking, of course, and one day he took me with him up into the canyon where the work was going on. There, clinging to both sides of the narrow canyon, on the steep sides of the hills, were small, flat- roofed homes, just like the ones we had pored over to- gether in the big library Bible. Things come about in strange ways, and it was really through this new friend Davies that, about a month later, I got a chance to play the part of Martha in the Pil- grimage Play. F. The Pilgrimage Play John the Baptist rode to rehearsals on a motor cycle. OR three summer months, the life of Christ is por- trayed every evening. The performance takes place in the hills in a real natural theatre, and the audience, about fif- teen hundred in number, sits at the foot of the hills, on the sloping floor of the canyon. ^ SCEEENLANB 81 The entire play is handled in a reverential spirit. But to be in the Pilgrimage Play, and possess a sense of humor, is to be handed a laugh a minute. And surely the Lord loveth joy. John the Baptist on a Motor Cycle X. he first thing I laughed loudly o'er was the approach of the man playing John the Baptist. Can you imagine the "Voice crying in the desert" riding on a motor cycle ? Well, "John" did. He attended rehearsals and performances at the risk of his life, approaching in breakneck speed on a snorting red motor cycle. Then suddenly someone would call out to me — "Martha, if you go down the street, bring Herod and Caiaphas a couple of eskimo pies." - Another remark oft heard was, "Lazarus, have you got a Lucky Strike?" or "Pilate, give me a stick of gum." St. Peter Will Be Waiting 1 ne day, during the run of the play, I was working in a picture in the daytime, and the gate man on the lot came to me with a baffled expression on his face, and said, "There is a strange man outside — he sent this message: He says to tell you St. Peter will be waiting at the gate for you in his Ford to take you to the performance tonight." When the demoniac boy left before the season was over, we all chipped in to buy him a cigarette case. Six Maids and a Man April 4, 1923. Pame Fortune's daughter has clamped her hands heavily upon us Extra girls, lately. Not a call from any of the agencies. Not even a promise of work at the studios. The portals of the "Land of Make-Believe" seem locked and bolted for at least three months. Everywhere the of- fice boy would say, "We are not casting today." This threw a great gleam of gloom upon us. So one night, about six weeks ago, we held a debate in the attic of the Studio Club. Three held fast to the affirmation of the affirmative : "It is worth while to struggle, suffer, and starve for Art's sake." The negatives : "It is selfish, stupid, and soul-slaughtering, to let Youth slip by on the quicksands of the Film world." It was about two A. M. when the debate abated. I saw Pat slip out of the room chattering with the cold, but grasping a pad and pencil. Babs followed her. We all felt the "muse was on." Two hours later, when the other four of us, still wide awake and huddled together in one bed, were about ready to cash in on the whole movie game, Pat entered the room and demanded our undivided attention. In two hours' time, seated on the side of the bathtub, she had written a short Vaudeville "Act," depicting the life of six girls in Hollywood, struggling for entrance into filmland. It fairly glistened with clever, witty lines. And Babs had, with the aid of a night light and a blunt pencil, written some adorable lyrics for three songs. Pat had a friend who could write jazzy music. We could think up some dances, and go storming into vaudeville with the act, while the studios were so dull, playing about on small time for a few weeks, and perchance be booked on Orpheum time later on. We felt we had a great message to bring to girls in the big cities and girls in small towns and hamlets, warn- ing them against entering into this heart-breaking struggle My first hours on those skates! Try- ing to look grace- ful, keep my bal- ance and talk naturally I barely made the unless one had an herculean constitution, aided by the pos- session of at least one thousand sheckles. N, Rehearsing for Big Time I ext day rehearsals actually started and continued for many days to come. If you've ever tried getting anything ready for vaudeville, you know what hard work is put on things that are apparently dead easy. Pat was terribly strict about rehearsals. Glory used to tumble downstairs in exactly one garment, and the rest of us hadn't much more on, I must admit. Booked at Last e tried to make each a distinct character, and true to our own type, and at last the Act seemed really whipped into shape enough for its "premiere." We managed to get a booking at one of the cheap little movie theatres at the Beach for two days, giving four performances a day. I must tell you that our chauffeur on this and many suc- ceeding occasions was none other than Davies, my old friend of the Pilgrimage Play. There are rare individual souls scattered here and there in the world, who give and give without a thought of receiving. Davies is one of them. His battered old Saxon {Continued on page 97)-. 82 Thousrnds of Dollars Are blasted on the Altar of Ego. Justifiable Waste. irERE is wanton waste and eco- nomical waste, paradoxical as the lat-. ter may sound. Cecil B. DeMille has been an expert on making- wastefulness bring in dividends. Did you ever see a. C. B. DeMille picture that did not have at least one big scene that looked like a million dollars ? You never did. There is always a great ball-room scene, or an expensive-looking bacchanal, or a historical Hash-back with intricate and elaborate costumes. You whistle and comment, "Gee, C. B. certainly shot his wad on that scene." The exhibitor reacts in just the same way. He sits in the projection room .and mentally calculates how little he can buy the picture for. But expensive looking scenes impress him. He figures that he must expect to pay niore for a picture that cost so much to make. It is an error in economics to spend money that does not show. No matter if it is artistic, the lavishness must be as visible as the nose on the exhibitor's face. In Charles Ray's picture, The Ctrl I Loved, a whole farm was built on the studio lot, at enormous expense. But Charlie couldn't convince an ex- hibitor of the fact. "Go on," the exhibitor would argue slyly. "Don't tell me that picture should cost mc so much money: Why, you could shoot most of it out in some- body's cow pasture." "More sincerity and less flashy os- tentation" is the plea of the critics and the public, but the plea is not echoed by the exhibitors. And as the policy of pictures is often- held in the pudgy hands of some ignorant, pig-headed ex- hibitor who firmly believes that what the public wants is something they have outgrown at least two years back, can you blame the producer for deciding in favor of ostentation? Driven, on the other hand, cost some- thing like $35,000 to make. An ab- surdly small budget to make a picture on. Yet Charles Brabin did it, and his picture was acclaimed one of the finest of the year. Economy did it. Brabin took his company up into the Georgia moun- tains. They lived the life of the moun- taineers, in little cabins. Every ex- pense had been figured out beforehand. Brabin knew almost to the foot how much film he would shoot. And he did not over-shoot. Over-shooting is one of the greatest sources of waste. A producer often shoots four and five times as much film as he ever expects to use. Is This Waste? {Continued from page 19) Occasionally a canny producer gath- ers up the rejected film and patches it up into a new picture. Do you remember the Paramount comedy, Don't Tell livery thine) ? If Hollywood gossip was true, it was made partly of the remnants of the ill-fated Affairs of Anatol. T 'Time Is Money J-ME is money, with the enormous studio overhead running up every minute. But you would never know it, gazing at the leisurely fashion in which motion pictures seem to be made. Some- times hours pass by, while a director fumes and frets and the actors yawn and gossip, and electricians sweat over some lights that refuse to function. Sometimes a camera will balk right in the midst of a great mob scene, and the whole thing will have to be repeated. "I never saw a camera balk over a small shot," Cecil DeMille said once. "But take a big, smashing scene using thousands of extras, and ten to one something will happen to the camera." It is the apparent time-waste that re- duces the efficiency experts to a state of inarticulate frenzy. These "cost- hounds" are the most cordially hated persons on a lot, and sometimes justly so. Used to the cut and dried function-, ing of a factory, they cannot under- stand that a motion picture cannot al- ways be turned out with all extra move- ments eliminated. They pounce upon little evidences of waste with all the gleeful zest of a cat upon a mouse. "Look here," the cost hound demands of a director. "This cost sheet shows that you bought two fifty-cent cigars for your picture on location. Why wouldn't nickel cigars have done just as well?" "Because we were in a small town, and that was all they had. Tt would have taken three hours of valuable time to go to the next town for cheaper ones." Cosily Philanthropy Sometimes a director allows hundreds ol extra folk to dawdle on salary for days, in order to preserve the strength or humor the whim of a high-salaried star. One director is greatly beloved by extra people because of his bent for keeping as many extras on salary throughout the picture as he can. He knows how much a day's work means to an extra, and when he has the slight- est excuse for keeping an actor, he does it. Because he is a very good director, he gets away with this laudable but costly philanthropy. The malady known as "klieg "eyes" has caused more waste of time and money than any other malady. Scenes have been held up for days, while the star kept ice packs on her streaming eyes. But the inveterate cost hound is working on this expensive malady, and little by little it is being conquered. Many actors wear colored glasses on the set, when not working, to prevent the ultra violet rays of the big lights from inflaming their eyes. Handling Mobs ■IT or years, a great deal of time has been wasted in handling extras in the big mob scenes. But army efficiency methods are being injected into -the movies. Fred Datig and Harold Stal- liugs, . casting directors at Universal City, worked out a successful plan for handling the great crowds used in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It has formerly taken from three to four hours to check the extras into. the studio and give them their costumes. Under the new system, it took just fifty minutes to dispose of some 1,200 extras and start the cameras grinding. They received their tickets at the froni gate. Then, instead of the usual tedi- ous roll call on the set,, they passed before two men at typewriters. The typists took their names as fast as they were given, and the next official, gave them their costumes. Salvaging Sets great source of waste in days past has been the huge and elaborate sets built. Much of this waste is now being overcome. At the Lasky studio, there is a studio carpenter who makes a study of cheap materials, lie can build the most mar- velous ball-room out of composition board, stained or covered with wall paper. The wall corners are held to- gether only by small iron keystones. The polished ball-room floor is usually made of composition board, too, and treated with bard glaze finish. The elaborate fireplaces, . friezes, fountains and carved panels are de- signed by the studio artists, and cast in plaster moulds. A fter they have been used, the plaster is discarded, but {Continued on page 84) ^SCIREENLM© 83 Victor Seastrom Talks About Our Motion Pictures. of his -character. One can see it iri'his ; hands, in his every move. Difficult to. Interview JL cudgeled my brain for the opening question. This is all-important, for by it, the interview may freeze his vic- tim into ice on the instant. They had planned that T talk with him at lunch, but at noon, when they approached him on the subject, I could see him shaking his leonine head vigor- ously, something like terror in those . sea-blue' eyes. I thought, with- an ir- reverant inward giggle, of the terror of an elephant for a mouse. At last they persuaded him to remain ; cornered for a very few minutes, .v. . Now for my carefully-couched ques- tion !''■-'- ".-. - -"- " ' • _ "Would you mind telling me, Mr. Scastrom ; a little of how they make pfctiires in Sweden?' Is the ■- industry oh/a^arge' Sscale as>it isvliere^ 1 ' * ~ "Wellr-",- and this strong man 'ac- tually .faltered, chob^^ words oh, sp carefully. . "It is quite large." ;_..";".. . Not so good on that' one, but an open- ing at least. ' - . . "Is there .as Imiich,- money invested there. as there, is here ?",. . ,;._ . . "Ye-es there is a good deal of- money in pictures there." . Not so good. "Are pictures in Sweden backed by independent capital? 'is "the industry, made .up of. independent producers ?" - Swedish Film 'Trust m ^j.uN,aT exactly. Tt is_ more like a 'trust."/'; Ah ha — an admission ! Poor man; — • he had fallen into the : trap ! ' "But aren't - there ' anti-trust laws there, as there are here?" \ - - "Oh, yes,— but there" are always ways, you know," smiling apologetically. So ; rriuch for that; Well— - "Are "the studios aslarge as they are here?"- ■ - . ' -/---:-- "Yes, they are - quite large. Maybe not so large; though." (Yes, we have no bananas, I thought. )• "Maybe not so large as Stage Six.": You have all heard of Goldwyn'-s Stage Six; the: largest in the" world. "Maybe as large as this',"- lie waved his hand inclusively at the courtroom, which is not large .as sets go. : Evidently, "stage" as " picture fans' understand the -ward, means "studio" in Sweden. - ."...... ' ~ "How about working facilities?"- New Hope for the American Photoplay (Continued from page 63) One-Man Pictures ."' ." e have /not' so many as here,", he ; said more positively. "One has no as-" sistants there.; One does all" oneself. -' " "How about, lights-^how: is, location work managed ?" _"''.. "W e have fine lights, . too. '..You . see we work only . in ; summer because the - theatres dose" and. the .actors come direct ; from, them to the studios. There are rco' actors .vyhp : ;give their talenta^oiely;. to the screen" "Is the stellar . system practiced in ■ Sweden.".; ; > - • -.-' .-.. "No— oh, np, indeed," further "warmth . and interest. "We do not believe in. that. The same actors appear in all the pictures made, by the producer. . Yes — a stock "company.: It is like one big family." , Again the smile. "One is very happy to work with them." But in spite of the smile, I could see him becoming more and more res- tive. I could not find it in my heart to torture hini longer. He was ' so r ob- viously unhappy. I intimated that he! was released. "Oh,-~-thank you!" and before I could turn to him from a" glance about in search of my guides, he had, vanished. Whether he had flown through the; ceiling or had disappeared into thin air, I know not. with, him— not. about ships and sealing wax^-iiut about Victor Seastrom, his one poor subject of conversation. , . So, - if we are to learn his views on American photoplays and photoplay- making, we must reconstruct them from the few remarks recorded on these pages. ... Therefore, at. the risk of incurring his righteous wrath, I shall make so bold. as to give you his views as I con- ceive them: He— quite naturally^-likes to make pictures' better in Sweden than he does here; You can't blame him. There he is v ampng his people, speaking his tongue, basically thinking his, thoughts. His mind is' Swedish and his pictures appeal first and foremost to Swedish minds. Great Technical Opportunities ^ •Dux America gives him greater tech- nical . opportunities for the making" of pictures 1 -— providing the American pub- lic will accept .them.- That- ft the' ehafrce : he is "running, now. In all probability, the thought 'which is uppermost in his ; riiind. during. these days of-fihmng The Master of Man is r, '..""" * "Am I making a picture which the American mind will embrace ? Will each and every scene in this picture be clear ; to the American public?" I sensed that he regretted having said that Swedish motion pictures were con- trolled .by . a trust. The remark oozed out, jits . it were, and was quickly re- pressed." But here, perhaps, is another reason ..why Seastrom is making pic- tures -"iri this " country. "It is possible that Jie was restricted too much by this combine, and feels that America is the promised land, in that respect at least. % Short Picture Making Season Vast Knowledge of Life ' o : not. think . I. am ; poking fun at Victou Seastrom. Far from it. My life as an interviewer: has been made up of such a large number of things, that I have honest liking and gratitude for this particular variety of .victim. When one realizes the past achievements of the man— realizes' the nice application of his vast knowledge of life and acting to the work at hand, it. is astounding- to find such reticence: Poor, Unhappy man ! He is doomed to many an uncomfortable hour, for the world within, the next' year will send many and- many an interviewer to talk hen, too, the time alloted to Swedish, picture making is short. A few brief months in the summer and— -ppuf ! it is over. ■ . - We are all awaiting eagerly the re- lease of both Mortal Clay and The Master of Man. These pictures, made under varying circumstances, in two - different countries, will offer food for comparison. By them we can learn the relative merits and demerits of the native and the foreign branches of the industry. In other words, we will see what America has done for or done to] Victor Seastrom. I prophesy that the world will soon: recognize him as the greatest director in motion pictures. _ . : 84 SCKEENLANB CL, The 'Hollywood Venting Instructors Are Growing Yat. Woman and :. One 'Arabian - Night — there canfc a . veritable tidal wave- of American made costume pictures .to fill and . overflow the channels that had been opened by these sturdy pioneers. Oddly enough, the native productions made money where most of the orig- inators had. failed. Our Stars Try Costumes considering categorically, the big- gest stars and directors in The Filmy Way, we ..find that each of them has taken a flyer in romantic drama. Some of them have gone in for costume stuff to the exclusion of everything else. Douglas Fairbanks, in the past three years, has made two pictures — The Three Musketeers and Robin Hood ■ — both of which were reeking with romance. His next production, The Thief of Bagdad, v/fll follow the same schedule. Mary Pick ford has made Little Lord Fauntleroy and is now engaged on Lolita, a story of old Spain. Rex Ingram has done The Prisoner of Zenda and Scaramouche. Norma Talmadge reflected two stages of the 19th Century in Smilin' Thru and The Eternal Flame, and has gone even farther back into the dim past in Ashes of Vengeance. Even the sprightly, sophisticated, ultra-modern Constance has attempted to. prove that . the flapper isn't a new, invention. In . The Dangerous Maid . »and. Mine. Pompadour, she. is follow-, ing the fashionable trend into history. D. Wi Griffith, who was adept at this; sort of thing even before the German The Romantic Age In the Movies (Continued from page 16) invansion, produced Orphans of . the Storm and then, characteristically, shifted his scene to the present time and started to put romantic drama into dress suits. ''- ■•■'- '■--.-' Barthelmess Tries It, Too .ichard Barthelmess, whose chief charm has* always been his essential, homely Americanism, has chosen to cast off the humble habiliments of Tol'able David and step forth in the finery of an elder day. The Bright. Shawl- was a flashing affair of the brave days in 1850 when Cuba was 1 first struggling for. in- dependence. The Fighting Blades- Dick's latest — is a romantic melodraifia of the early 17th Century. . Marion Davies, whose picture, is published regularly ' in many of our leading newspapers and magazines, has run wild with costume pictures. When Knighthood Was in. Flower' and Little Old New: York have been as. complete as Wells' Outline of His- tory and Yoland and Alice of Old Vincennes are to follow. ' "' .". ; '"-"- William Fox ~ has' donated rThe' Queen of Sheba, Nero, Monte Crisio, Monna : Vanna, A . Connecticut. Yankee in' King Arthur's Court and a few others of equal ~ magnificence. Cecil B. De; Mi-He" has never quite departed from his favorite Fifth Ave- nue mansion, with its marble beds and patent leather, sheets, but he has in- serted in each of his pictures a streak ' of historical stuff. There are many more names on the list : 'The Covered Wagon, To Have and to Hold, Oliver Twist, Down to -the Sea in Ships, Grandma's Boy, Trilby, Richard the Lion Hearted, Under ■ jl 'wo Flags, The Green Goddess, The Hunch- back [of Notre Dame, The Brass Bottle, Omar the Tentmaker, Blood and Sand, Rupert of Hentzau^— and so on as far as the eye can reach. : .' -,- •'■;' Satisfying Stellar Vanity here" is-' no doubt that many of these spectacular romantic dramas have been produced to satisfy the star's per- sonal" . vanity. There is no actor ;or actress 'in.; the. world . who doesn't like to! dress up, and the gorgeous costumes of the olden days offer great opportuni- ties for costly display. But it is equally certain that films of this type have, on the whole, been successful financially. Although" statistics gathered by the energetic"' Mr. . Roger Babson indicate that exhibitors still believe that the pub- lic doesn't * want" costume . pictures, ~the actual box-office' records prove other- wise. "." .' ■ ". "''..N So the production of costume dramas will probably continue until every pe- riod in* the : history of the world has been carefully covered. Then, perhaps, the silent drama will pass quietly from the romantic age and achieve its full growth. In the meantime, however, it's going to be pretty tough for the Hollywood barbers. the moulds are retained, altered a bit and used again. . -. The" Lasky studio saves every piece of lumber. over, four feet long. A spe- cial nail-pulling gang pulls out all nails from the wood, and even saves the nails for the next job. >' Presto Change! Jl_ he efforts of the much-maligned "cost hounds''" have vanquished waste-, ful tactics in the "prop" "line;- at least. At the Lasky studio; a drapery, may. start its screen career, at a drawing- room window. -Tn. its' next appearance,' it may be cut up for. pillows or act as a piano cover. Or it may be bleached andrdyed' and, used '■ over, again. . War clubs;' spears ,.aud/.§wr>rds are used :pxsX: and -over again to suit -the fashions of" -Is This Waste? (Continued from page 82) different eras. Cobble stones, Belgian blocks and marble floor slabs are kept, in stock and used . to pave streets of foyers at a moment's notice. They are used over and over again. Telegraph poles used on locations are saved to make log cabins for some plains picture.!.. '. Stairways, arches and portions of the walls are saved. ■ Structurally, they are not changed, but you would never recognize them under' a disguise of new paper and fitted ! info a new setting, t,, There, is. an emulsion rich in silver salt Jeft in. the developing fluid by the filmy Laboratory experts treat this fluid carefully, removing the silver. So gradually, the wasteful days are passing.. And they must. In the flush pioneer days of pictures, waste didn't matter. The new business was so great that it carried the movie makers along to fortune as on a tide. They couldn't help making money. But today compe- tition is murderously keen. The public appetite for pictures is a bit sated. Waste is cutting into the profits so deeply that the producers, being busi- ness men first, last and foremost, are taking steps to prevent waste. Let's hope they succeed.. Then per- haps the price of pictures will come down, and father can take ma and the kids to the show oh Saturday night once more, without feeling that he has paid a quarterly instalment on the na- tional debti SCREEHLAHB 85 The study of Miss Shannon (just above) is an interesting one; but if another amendment is made to our constitution, we hope it will strictly prohibit the adorning of Ethel with more than one per cent of a zvrinklc. n QJ Xouth WiS Be erved Judging from the accompanying camera studies Ethel Shannon success- fully spans a half century or so in the forthcoming celluloid version of the operetta, "Maytimc." Ethel's pul- chritude attracted attention in "Daughters of the Rich" and "The Girl Who Came Back." SCIREENLANIU. Alta Art Studies An artistic book of 29 beautiful poses from life Never before has such a fascinating scries of art studies in the nude been compiled in book form. 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He's going to make come- dies, backed by American capital, for foreign consumption. He has a good chance for success, too, for the- Ger- mans are still laughing uproariously over Fatty's old custard pie comedies. • Tom Moore To Tread Boards JL ,he silent drama is all very well in its way, but there's a fascination in the "legitimate" that calls its children back to the footlights, sooner or Liter. Tom Moore is taking his Irish smile and his choicest brogue to the Mason thea- tre in Los Angeles, in a play called Dust of Erin, according to Tom's Scan- dinavian manager, Terrence Duffy. Lucille Rickscn to Have Lead J-»ucille Ricksen is really and truly grown up she says. She has been assigned a leading role in support of Jack Pickford in his new mountaineer picture, as yet untitled. Lucille says she is 16, but privately we think she's nearer 14. Never mind, she'll reverse the ratio in a few more years. Mean- while she's a fine little actress. Sympathy Wasted e had been feeling very sorry for Margaret Leahy. You know, the little English girl who was brought over here by the Talmadges. She was highly touted, had all sorts of publicity, but somehow, when it came to acting, she just wasn't there. Buster Keaton en- gaged her for his leading lady in one picture. Then Margaret found other jobs not available, and quietly she crept' off back home. We felt mighty sorry for Margaret. But we needn't have been. A copy of a staid old British news- paper reached Hollywood from London. This was what it had to say about Mar- garet Leahy: "Although no one knew of it in ad- vance. Margaret Leahy was in London yesterday incognito. Her one day's slay at home on her way to Paris was supposed to be a secret. "But Margaret Leahy, in England, cannot keep her identity a secret. When at Euston station she left the train which brought her to London after her enthusiastic reception at Liverpool, 1000 people were waiting to see her. "Then Miss Leahy dropped into Giro's for lunch. No one in the club knew she was in the city. But as she passed down the floor to her table, luncheon parties rose and stood, out of courtesy to her, until she was seated. "For dinner, she stepped in at the Em- bassy club. Here, again, there had been no announcement. Not even a table was reserved for her. But the club staff recognized her at once and addressed her by name. In a few minutes glasses were lifted to her in silent toasts, whichever way she glanced." The paper said more. It told of how she had begged to be hidden away [at Murray's Club late that evening, for a bite of supper, and how again she was recognized and toasted and cheered. And it seems the King and Queen have ' commanded her presence at the pre- viewing of "her picture" at Bucking- ham palace. And wlien she gets ^to Paris, President Millerand is going -to receive her. After long and earnest thinking, we have come to the conclusion that our sympathy has been wasted. Hereafter when we have any sympathy left over after contemplating our own troubles, we're going to donate it to Will Hays. He needs it worse than Margaret does. $7500 A Week No Living Wage I *-t IS a Christmas tree year in filmdom. Actors who last year were down to their last limousine now turn up their noses at a contract that reads less than four figures. And sometimes even then Elmer Harris offered Dorothy Gish the lead in his new picture, at the miserly wage of $30,000 for four weeks labor. Dorothy wired back: "What other stars will be in cast? Who will direct picture? What is the story? Are you sure it won't take longer than four weeks to shoot? And anyway I don't care for the job." Or words to that effect. The Perfect Monologist L„ levy's is one of our most patronized cafes. It has metropolitan atmosphere ; it does not close at ten P. M. 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He doesn't approach, of course, the serio-comic genius of Chap- lin, but he is a conscientious, highly likeable and ingenious funmaker. Right here let us note that, curiously, the sad- faced Buster Keaton, working along the same lines, has been wanning. This is an old phase of the screen, to be sure. The only other star who has more than held his own is Richard Barthel- mess. This earnest young actor has been steadily going on. His invasion of the costume drama has been an interesting one. Here is a star who turned to ro- mantic stuff to develop himself. He felt that to stick to the field of homely Americanism, in which he is pre- eminent, would be to limit himself. Barthelmess, we might add, is many degrees higher in popularity than a year ago. Lillian Gish's Position L/ illian Gish worked nearly all year in Italy on The White Sister but the production has not been revealed publicly. Her position as our foremost emotional actress still seems to stand untouched, however. Doug Fairbanks is still plunging on spectacles. There is a limit to this sort of thing, but apparently Fairbanks hasn't reached it yet. They say that The Street Singer will reveal a new Mary Pickford. We shall see. Just now her status is doubt- ful; her revival of Tess of the Storm Country wasn't such a happy thought after all. Norma Talmadge is slowly dropping backward, while Constance Talmadge seems to have slipped almost from view. On the other hand, Gloria Swanson, plus clothes and personality, has more than held her own. Pola Negri gained nothing by invad- ing America and is nowhere nearly as important a personage in Hollywood as she was in Berlin. Yet the next month may change all this. Pola is a person of high power potentiality. Thomas Meighan, to be honest, is get- ting along in life. He is reaching the difficult age of getting vehicles — and holding his followers. Jackie Coogan has not made any particular progress in the twelve months. Tzvo Sensational Come-Backs Two sensational come-backs were staged during the year. Mae Marsh gave a brilliant performance through much of the turgid distance of Griffith's The White Rose and Charlie Ray, after a long chain of artificial screen creations, came back to his hoosier boy- hood and did a smashing thing in The Girl I Love. We wouldn't be at all surprised to §£e Blanche Sweet do a real come-back in Eugene O'Neil's Anna Christie. Marion Davies' Progress ariox Davies has made a surpris- ing progress during the year. Long just a pretty star, Miss Davies has suddenly developed into an actress, as well as a comedienne, of distinct pos- sibilities. We credit Florence Vidor with the greatest personal development of the year. She is steadily advancing and, if all goes well, should soon challenge the historionic leadership of Lillian Gish. Here is an actress of charm, beauty and a rare humanness. Her Alice Adams and her Carol. Kcmiicuit of Main Street were superb charac- terizations. Ramon Novarro, the Rex Ingram discovery, made a striking flash across the horizon as the pagan lover of Where the Pavement Ends and rather took us off our feet. And yet, looking back at this distance, we aren't wholly convinced about Novarro. For a mo- ment we looked upon him as the young actor to challenge Valentino but we doubt all that now. Barbara La Marr was another strong personality to hit success during the year. From a minor role in The Pris- oner of Zenda she has stepped to star- dom in little over a year. A picturesque but not a sweeping personality. Nita Naldi lent picturesqueness to a role in Blood and Sand and immediately be- came popular. A colorful 'personality — but we now realize her limitations. Of more potentiality is little Mary Philbin, the heroine of Merry-Go- Round. Here is a young actress who may really do something worth while. We see nothing in that much touted "discovery," Eleanor Boardman. Leatrice Joy has been striking a very good average but our chosen six as to reliability are Baby Peggy, the Prince of Wales in all his news reel appear- ances, Farina, Mae Busch, Lois Wil- son and Strongheart. Mae Murray seems to be able to go on capitalizing affectation. An odd- ity of popularity this. It has been a bad year for the No. 2 stars, such as Agnes Ayres, Bebe Dan- iels, Jacqueline Logan, and even wo"S2 for .wanning. lights such as Mary Miles Minter and Dorothy Dalton. Other minor figures, such as Viola Dana, go along their way seemingly untouched by time. Yet Priscilla Dean isn't quite the same. The season's worst flops? Cecil de Mille's Adam's Rib and the Over- lordship of Will Hayes! G SCREENLANB PLAY PIANO BY EAR Be a Jazz Music Master Anyone Who Can Remember a Tune Can Easily and Quickly Learn to Play Popular Jazz or American Rhythm By Ear at a Very Small Cost. The New Niagara Method Makes Piano Playing Wonderfully Simple. 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The party proved hospitable and Charlie proved responsive, so a solicitous waiter hurried up with another chair. And for hours Charlie talked, brilliantly, interestingly and uninterruptedly. All about his new picture, which by the way, deals with the life experiences of Peggy Hopkins Joyce; about his trip abroad — he's still talking about it; and about Charles Spencer Chaplin. The Tatler stag- gered out about midnight, but the mono- log continued until 3 :3S the next morning. Egoism, would you say? Or artis- tic temperament? Or just loneliness? Any man that talks as interestingly as Charlie Chaplin and loves an audience as well as he does, ought to have a wife, sav we. Take Your Choice T: here seems to be a difference of opinion over why Evelyn Brent took her make-up box and left the Fairbanks lot. Evelyn said that she had signed with Doug to work in pictures, and that so far she had been the world's cham- pion rester. Doug said that his Thief of Bagdad picture had to be an airy, ethereal sort of picture, and that Evelyn was a bit too voluptuous to match the picture. But Dame Gossip says that Mary put her pretty little foot down and told Doug to get another leading lady. For be it known that Doug has an appreciative eye for feminine pulchritude, and Mary knows the weaknesses of sex. The same thing is said to have hap- pened when Doug was casting for Robin Hood. Marguerite de la Motte had been eminently satisfactory to the public, and to Doug, and Fairbanks ex- pected to retain her for Robin Hood. But Marguerite had been announcing fondly in print that all that she was and all she hoped to be she owed to Douglas Fairbanks, or words to that effect. So Mary changed his mind and picked out Enid Bennett, a lady who was safely in love with her own hus- band. So there's three stories. You pay your money and you takes your choice. 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Leatrice, who is a brunette like Pola, Tir l another one of Gloria's negli- also wears sealing wax red trimmed in gees is of apricot and silver chiffon fox fur and, because she has white and it is made to match an apricot skin, she can dare to wear apricot nightgown. But be careful how you pajamas — when the script calls for choose apricot silk ; it is only becoming them, to women who have very white skin, -n- You have probably noticed that Gloria JL/ouise Faz^nda was a flannelette only wears the most trying colors. And heroine when she worked for Mack she gets away with it. Sennett. You cannot stand the hard Pola Negri is more cautious than work of slapstick comedy unprotected ' Gloria about disrobing for the benefit by anything but a layer of chiffon. But of an enthusiastic public. Pola hasn't Louise cuts loose in her first vamp been in this country long enough to part — that of Mabel in The Gold Dig- know that posing for the public in your gers and she is going to prove to the underwear is one of our quaint native world that she, too, has a chiffon soul, customs. Rags were royal raiment for May McAvoy and Lois Wilson have Pola in her German-made pictures, never vamped a man in all their screen even though they were never worn for careers and so their lingerie has never virtue's sake. caused the Lasky wardrobe department However, in The Cheat, I hear that to work overtime. Pola actually walks up to the edge of The whole history of the "right" and the famous Lasky bath-tub. And she "wrong" in lingerie is told by Louise makes the trip in a bathrobe of sealing Dresser in Rugglcs of Red Gap. When wax red and white with flowing sleeves. Louise first appears, she is garbed in The robe is draped in Russian blouse what is called snappy stuff on Main effect. In Bella Donna her negligee Street, Red Gap. Some of her negli- was of white chiffon with beads and gees illustrate what is decidedly not ermine trimming. And there was one being done this season. Crude, stuffy, brief glimpse of her in a radium silk lace affairs that look as though Louise had sacrificed the family Battenberg curtains. Uncouth and "rough dia- mond" tea gowns with big, flaunting bows and the. stripes running all the wrong way. Expensive but declasse. Posing in Crepe de Chine hen Louise goes to Paris and buys some negligees guaranteed to bring out the morality committee of Red Gap. Paris almost succeeds in making her over but, like Cousin Egbert, she can be pushed only so far. Therefore her lingerie doesn't quite measure up to Gloria Swanson's. Many of the studios employ extra girls and sometimes leading players as fashion models. And so it is the duty and pleasure of these girls to pose in lingerie. 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Leatrice Joy is rather too ingenuous She appeared in one tea gown of Delft to make a perfect lingerie model. Her blue embroidered in copper. Like Bebe smile usually outshines her clothes. Daniels, Jacqueline looks well in fluffy, Still in Four Chauces she wears a neg- frilly things, ligee of yellow and silver with pale So far as lingerie is concerned, Nita mi- SCKEENLANB Naldi and Barbara La Marr are the enigmas of the screen. What do they wear under those slinky, tight-fitting evening gowns ? Why do their clothes fit them so perfectly? Why is it im- possible to detect a wrinkle or a crease on the surface of those satin garments? Could it be possible that — ? After all, why not? Since we have discarded layers and layers of flannel- ette and long-cloth, anything might happen. Perhaps, it has. 93 K.T is reported that elaborate experi- ments are being made by Thomas H. 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No, she doesn't ; The Inconvenience of Popularity JL t only means that he is popular on the screen. Sometimes it is incon- venient. When we were on tour, the children used to crowd around the private car and try to look through the windows while we were eating break- fast. We had to pull down the shades and stuff towels in the cracks. I sup- pose you can't blame the children. Private cars aren't an everyday occur- rence in small towns. It must have been just like a circus to them. "But in most of his pictures, Ro- dolph has been a false personality. People have the wrong idea about him. In 'The Sheik,' for instance, he was an impossible sort of man. No wonder the men took a dislike to him. As soon as people hear him talk, they change their minds about him. They forget all the ridiculous and impossible things they have read about him." No Secret of Matrimonial Success want good pictures. How do they know ? Have they ever tried making them ? A Pretty Woman zvith an Idea nd the secret of the success of their marriage ? "There is none. You can't speak about marriage in generalities. Of course, Rodolph and I have the same interests. Perhaps this fight — this law- suit — has brought us closer together. We both believe in the independence of the artist. Yes, and in the dignity of the artist, too. The whole tangle has been inconvenient but it hasn't been exactly hard because we know we are right. "If Rodolph had simply been an at- tractive man with a certain charm for women, it would have been easy to replace him. But it hasn't been so easy to find another Valentino, has it? "The movie fans will learn that suc- cess — permanent success — isn't a ques- tion of luck and a good-looking face. hen Rodolph begins working on his new pictures for Ritz Carlton, \ he's going to make good pictures. And I believe the public will like them. And then, we'll know that it has been worth all the trouble and all the fights." Substitute the small, blonde Mary Pickford for the tall, dark Mrs. Val- entino and you have the same argu- ments that launched Douglas and Mary on their career as independent artists. Mary, stubborn and contrary, also fought her way through lawsuits and matrimonial difficulties. A pretty woman with an idea firmly fixed in her mind can baffle strong men. Nataclia Like Mary Pickford ■O esides their stubbornness, Mary Pickford and Mrs. Valentino have another trait in common. They have a sense of humor. They can laugh at their husband's jokes and at the grotesque comedy of the rest of the world. They are experts at discovering the silver lining and at making the best of bad situations. The dancing tour may have been bad in many ways, but it made new friends for Rodolph. The law- suit was disagreeable but it has proved to the public that Rodolph has the courage of his convictions. 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Comedv Detectives ut on the set away from the of- fices of the "world's greatest detec- tives," we detected Alan Hale, Lucy Fox and Arthur Houseman. "What are they doing here?" "Oh, yes," answered Mr. Shean. "There are really two stories in this picture." "A love story and a detective story," added Mr. Gallagher. "And the two never meet," continued Mr. Shean. "You see, we are hired to find the girl, Lucy Fox." "Who iias been stolen by the villain, Alan Hale" — "Is pursued by her lover, Arthur Houseman" — "And we go all over the world on all sorts of adventures." This is Mr. Gallagher talking now. "And never once come anywhere near the girl." "How true to life," we ejaculated. "This scenario writer certainly has held the mirror up to nature !" Again the two versifiers smiled at us pleasantly. They have a way of saying exactly what they mean and of not understanding people who speak in bitterness. The Listening Post (Continued Sessue To Work in France essue Hayakawa is to appear in a big French picture, to be made abroad, according to w-ord recently received here. He and his dainty little wife, Tsuro Aoki, who is to be in the picture also, are in France now. They are to return in the' fall, when Sessue will make an- other attempt at legitimate fame, in a new stage vehicle. Fame is Rclathe Los Angeles exhibitor had a bright idea last week. He booked The Sheik, with Rodolph Valentino, and The Shriek of Araby with Ben Turpin, a take-off on the Valentino picture, and ran them side by each on the same from page 90) program. For purposes of comparison, you understand. Alone at Last J ack Pickford and Marilyn Miller would rather be scrappily married than happily separated. They don't like this East and West stuff, so after a trip to Europe this summer, Marilyn will ap- pear in another Zeigfeld show and Jack will make pictures in New York. 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