Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC Edith Me. — On bended knee I ask your forgiveness. So you dont tbink I m courteous and that I dont know politeness. Stop in some time and I’ll let you read a few of these billet-doux and see how they affect you. ' Me Only Me, Eddie. — Never felt better in my life, for at this writing the greatest thing in my life has happened — an armistice has been declared, ending the war. Never forget 1 the day — November the 11th, 1918, the biggest day in history. You suggest that the exKaiser be exhibited by Barnum & Bailey, and that he be kept in a cage. I’m afraid he wouldn’t get very far alive. Eddie Polo is with Universal. Safe T. — You say a whistling dog or crowing hen always comes to some bad end. I Which end do you mean? And whorn do you refer to? Louise Fazenda was the hired girl in “Her First Mistake.” Chester Conklin, I guess, was the mistake. Calamity Jake. — Where’s Jane today? Thanks for the fee, all donations thankfully received. You say, O for the life of a star ! t You’d surely be up in the air then. Easy, boy, ij easy. Marcia Moore was born in Chicago in l! 1898. I Serious Nell. — Alice Brady was Lola, Ormi Hawley was Kitty in “Her Great Chance.” j; But no fear should deter us from doing good. I That may be all right, Nell, but love sought 1 is good, given unsought is better. Nazimova I is Russian, Petrova is Polish and Mary Pick11 ford is Canadian. ( A. D. S. — Come again — even the door-mat j says welcome. Nothing to answer in yours. Ask me some questions — that’s why I’m here. il Socrates. — There may be always hope of |i acquiring the ornaments of knowledge. Oliver I Goldsmith, the famous author of “The Vicar of Wakefield/’ when a boy at school was coni sidered by his tutors to be such a blockhead I that they despaired of ever being able to I teach him anything; and other great men have I been equally stupid in boyhood. You’re young I yet, so dont give up. Creighton Hale was Philip, Emmy Wehlen was Doris and Wanda Howard was Kate in “His Bonded Wife.” September Eve. — Certainly I do not play j pinochle. I look upon it as a small collection of pasteboard cards entirely surrounded _ by il Germans and steins of beer and a terrible ;'! waste of time. Monroe Salisbury and Margery ■ Bennett in “Hugon, the Mighty.” ij: Millie T. D. — A votre sante. Dustin Ij Farnum and Winifred Kingston in “The I Light of the Western Stars.” Bigelow Cooper i is with Paramount. ’Member him with Edison? I', No, I dont talk with my hands — only Jews, ; the French and women do that, and I am neither. j Jimmie T., Boston. — Sarah Bernhardt, being :: born on October 23, 1845, is 73, while Lillian i| Russell is 57, and she is just as good-looking 'i as ever. ' Little Mary. — You ask “Who was Hami' let?” You go to Sunday-school and you dont !, know that? Peggy Hyland and George Clark i as Susan and Peter in “Marriages Are Made.” Helen T. B. — The term “Union Jack” is ij applied to the national flag ot the British ! Empire. It consists of three crosses combined lij on a blue field, viz. : the cross of St. George 'j for England, of St. Andrew ior Scotland, i'j and of St. Patrick for Ireland. You are much i; mistaken when you say I snore; I have no small vices — all large ones. ■' Tillie M. T. — Yes, I saw Charlie Chaplin 1 throwing the limburger in “Shoulder Arms.” j And did you see his feet — and did you see the ■: way he was toeing the other fellow around? j Great picture all right, and I laugh even now i in my sleep when I think of it. '! Nickabobatotato. — Surely I remember you. ! The editor doesn’t read the verses as they ; come in now. He has several assistants. Yes, j James Kirkwood is directing Evelyn Nesbit i for Fox. Marion Davies is with Select, 729 I 7th Ave., N. Y. C. Mitzi Hajos is playing in j “Head Over Heels” on Broadway. We wont ; be able to start The Players magazine while ' the war is on. The War Industries Board j wont allow it. Stop in again some time. I (Seventy-seven) Desperate Desmond (^Continued from page 19) yes I was, and he said, ‘And do you rope horses, and chase cowboys over hills, and do you — do you, honest injun, do all those things?’ I nodded ‘yes.’ ‘Gee, fellows,’ we heard him exclaiming, as we got under way, ‘that was Billiam Desmond, an’ he ropes cowboys and rides horses, and saves girls. Gee, fellows, aint it great?’ “If you care to, I would like you to say that I thoroly enjoyed doing ‘The Pretender.’ I had a bunch of honest-togoodness cow-punchers with me in that picture, and they were the finest lot of boys I ever knew.” As we left our table, I noticed that Bill Desmond tipped the waitress two dollars, because she had exclaimed, worn out in these strike-filled days of New York, “I am only an amateur waitress, sir,” with tears of vexation in her eyes, when she could not bring the alligator pear salad we had ordered. And I was glad, for my judgment of William Desmond was confirmed. Happy he is and carefree. Irish and prodigal. Generous to a fault, loving life and all its beauties, never morbid. “There is nothing I like so much as a sweet, natural girl,” said Desmond, explaining his generous tip. “She was a fine girl. I could tell it by her expression. I admire the real qualities of womanhood. I had seven sisters, you know.” Desperate Desmond? If you’ll pardon the alliteration, we’d like to call it Dimpled Desmond. But we wont, ’cause he hates ’em — the dimples. The Celluloid Critic {Continued from page 49) “Such a Little Pirate” (Paramount) disappointed us because it discounteckjDur first impressions of Lila Lee in “The Uruise of the Make-Believe.” Here Miss Lee is quite colorless. The story, to be sure, is much at fault, being trite and enemic ; i. e., the search of an old seaman, his granddaughter and a handsome young sailor for buried treasure. This drama, too, makes use of the draft slacker as a scoundrel. There is one point of novelty, a chimpanzee, who gives the subtitle writer an opportunity to introduce some really funny captions in orang language. Theodore Roberts offers ‘a bully performance of the old seaman and Harrison Ford is likable as the young lover. But we give first histrionic honors to Mr. Orang. Just why Norma Talmadge isn’t as vivid as she was quite baffles us. There was an incisiveness about her, a distinct — shall we say? ■ — sex attraction that reached from the screen. That is now lacking. For one thing, Miss Talmadge doesn’t seem inspired. She doesn’t ring true. And she should stop imitating Alla Nazimova. Select expended considerable on her latest, “The Forbidden City,” but never once does the thing seem real. Miss Talmadge plays both a mother and her daughter, dualling just now being quite popular among stars. 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