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THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
Oh! Have You Seen Pris-cil-la Dean
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The biggest painted sign on BToadway und probably in the world.
£c/'~\^^ Have You Seen Pi-iscilla Dean in Universal y_) Pictures?"
If you haven't something's wrong in Denmark — or somewhere. The sparkling eyes, the pearly teeth and the mischevious smile of Universal's vivacious star now smile down on bright Broadway from the biggest painted sign in New York and probably the world over.
It was originally planned to have a display of the usual size painted on the building where this sign is located. After the sign painter had looked at Priscilla's likeness, he threw up his hands and struck — struck for more space!
"I like to do good things in a big way," he said. "I couldn't do justice to those eyes and that smile and the dimples and — oh — I want more space, or I won't paint the sign."
As a result there is a sign which reaches from the fifth floor to the roof of the ten-story Mecca Building at Broadway and Forty-ninth Street. The sign extends the full width of the building which runs through from Broadway to Seventh Avenue.
And so Priscilla Dean's smile now beams gaily down, morning, noon and night from the biggest painted sign in the metropolis, on the greatest of all pleasure thoroughfares in the world — the Great White Way.
As for Priscilla — she has just finished the final scenes of "The Virgin of Stamboul", Universal's forthcoming
special, under the direction of Tod Browning. This pro
duction is based on H. H. Van Loan's picturesque story of Constantinople which is almost ready for release. It is Universal-Jewel's biggest effort to date.
AT LAST PRISCILLA BATHES
**M^ for a Turkish bath," said Priscilla Dean when the camera clicked its last click on "The Virgin of Stamboul," her latest and greatest Universal photodrama which Jewel is about to release in eight reels.
"I'm going to soak for a month, too," she added as she disappeared with a can of scouring powder, a curry comb and all the refined equipment of the Turkish bath.
For five months Priscilla Dean has been compelled to wear a complexion not her own. She was forced, at the beginning of the picture, to stain her skin a copper-red for her role in the amazing photoplay. Because it was too much trouble to put on and take off the stain, and because Tod Browning, her director, feared that she would not be able to exactly duplicate the shade, she wore the paint for five weary months, with the exception of an occasional from Saturday to Monday week end.
Now that the big production is finished the beautiful Priscilla is going to resume her own alabaster-like complexion. It will require a long Turkish bath to remove the Turkish complexion but she is going to get rid of the color if she has to sunburn and peel.