Photoplay (Sep - Dec 1918)

Questions and Answers (Continued from page go) Incognito, Chicago. — Grace Valentine is now playing at the Cort Theater in Chicago, in "Lombardi, Ltd." She was "The bnchastened Woman-' in the screen version. Elsie McLeod, who used to be with Edison, appears in support of Viola Dana in a recent Metro picture. That was Charlotte Burton in "Up Romance Road." Mary Fuller has retired; she is not married. I have heard lately of a Jack Halliday who is playing in stock; perhaps you mean him. We have heard nothing further about Bill Hart's reported engagement. Yes, someone once said that "American dry goods" meant American novels; but that must have been written before the days of Tarkington, Hughes, Rinehart, et al. Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section ioi Mae H., Sanger, Cal. — You are the third or fourth this month wanting to know my nickname. This sounds like a conspiracy against the poor old Answer Man. We haven't a nickname; we don't want a nickname; and we are so fierce nobody ever dared to wish a nickname on us. But, if I must have one — why, write your own caption— call me anything you like, all of you. Oh, that is nothing — everyone is original nowadays. It would be positively refreshing to find someone with no ideas at all. Then you could make them listen to your own clever opinions, don't you see. M. H., Hayward, Cal. — You want "one of us," you don't care which, to tell you our nickname. That "Questions and Answers" seems to have confused you ; but we can assure you there is only one of us. And who would presume to nickname a dignified person like The Answer Man? Mary Pickford is not working at the present time. She answers letters from admirers. To tell the truth, it rather flatters us to be called sarcastic; because we were never sarcastic in our lives. C. C C, Henrietta, Texas. — Milton Sills was Joseph Stanton in "The Honor System." 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