Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1920)

WEST IS EAST A Few Impressions By DELIGHT EVANS You Can Remember The Time When The News-Reel was Something Like Medicine: You Knew It Did You Good, but You Hated to Swallow It. You Tried to Miss it; but If you Couldn't, it became An Entertainment Evil That You Slept Through, or During which you Discussed Hats, Babies, or The Latest Books. Along Came an Irishman, Named Terrence, Who Changed All that— Terry Ramsaye, The Kinograms Man. He decided There was Something More To a News-Rcel Film than — ' Great Revolution Among Pearl-Divers ' or ' U. S. S. Bunko Launched." He Made his News-Reel A Mixture of the Parts You Like to Read In a Newspaper: The Ladies' Column, the Kids' Page, And Real News. Somehow or Other, he Never Exhausts his Vocabular>^ Telling you About a Baby-show. No — he does it In a Crisp Short Sentence that Gets a Laugh — even from The Solemn Man Who Plays the Trombone In the Orchestra. He Hears of a New Kind of Chrysanthemum Down South, or A Queer Character On Catalina — and Sends His Camera-man, Tracy Matthewson, Down to Investigate. Ramsaye Talks Like O. Henry. He was a Re-write Man In Middle-western Journalism. He can Tell You Stories That Would Make DcMaupassant Jealous. .Among other Things, Mr. Kinograms is A Rug-maker, A Painter, and A Good Husband. Besides, he Could Teach Most Photographers A Lot About their Own Business That They Don't Know. And Just Wait Lentil he Begins to Write those Stories! I S.AW Alice Joyce * Just after she was Married. I went out to her Studio and Alice was Made L'^p with Long Hair and He pulls a lau(*h even from the solemn trombone player. A Purple Gown and Looked more Queenly than Ever. BillShe ordered some Ice-cream and We ate it before she Went on the Set. Later on I had a Ride In luT New Car, with its ".\. J. R."' marked on the door. I Bumped Into Harry Morey Out in Brooklyn, Too. He is one of those Thoughtful Gentlemen That John Galsworthy liki 'i to Write .\bo'it ; With Chiseled Lips and Hair That is Faintly Gray at the Temples. He likes Serious Things, Particularly Plays. I Know, Becau-c Whenever I Go To the Theater for a Really High-brow Evening, there Is Harry Morey — And his Wife. EVERYBODY is Going Off To Europe. Pearl White Just Sailed For a Little \'acation Over There. She Almost Missed her Boat. They Were Rushing Around .•\t the Studio Trying to Finish The last Scenes of her Picture: and Pearl Didn't have Time To Scrub off her Make-up. even, but Ran for her Low Car. and Put it in High. She Made it. All The Traffic Cops Know her. Imagine what a Time one of them Would Have at Home If he Stopped Pearl White From Going where she Wanted to Go. His Children Would Never Forgive him. KAY LAURELL Sailed with Pearl— she who Helped Make the Foliics Famous. She went to Make a Picture in Rome, for The Leading Italian Film Company — You Couldn't Pronounce it. even it I Could Spell it. And we mustn't forget C. Gardner Sullivan, Mr. Ince's Scenario Chief, Bound for Europe In search of New Ideas. But the passport officials Were so Slow That He Mksed His Steamer. I ll bet he writes A Scenario and roasts The Department of State. THE Circus C.ime to New York The Birds and the BeasU were There. Also Mr. and Mrs. Enrico Caruso and Dorothy Gkh and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Meighan and Lots of Others You Know. Dorothy Said she was Getting New Ideas and that she'd Like to Do \ Circus Satire. Bird Millman— billed as The Queen of the Wire. Makes her Entrance In a Rolls-Royce; and just to prove further How different Circus Queens of Today may be. She is Doing a Picture. SO