Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1920)

^aUESTlONS AND ANSWERS OU do not have to be a subscriber to Photoplay Magazine to get questions answered in this Department. It is only required that you avoid questions that would call for unduly long answers, such as synopses of plays, or casts of more than one play. Do not ask questions touching religion, scenario writing or studio employment. • Studio addresses will not be given in this Department, because a complete list of them is printed elsewhere in the magazine each month. Write on only one side of the paper. Sign your full name and address; only initials will be published it requested. If you desire a personal reply, enclose selfaddressed stamped envelope. Write to Questions and Answers Photoolay Magazine, 25 W. 4Sth St., New York Citv. TooDLES, Far Rockaw.^w. — So you are five feet seven and one half inches high, have dark brown hair and eyes and can play the violin and piano and would like to have me join your Girls' Club. I, am much taller than you, have dark hair and eyes also, and am afraid I can't join. You see, I only play the harmonica. Imogene, Washington. — I shall quote to you from Pilgrim's Progress if you aren't good. Marguerite Clark has left Famous Players, so if you don't want to take a chance on addressing her there and perhaps having the letter forwarded and perhaps not, you'd better wait until Photoplay announces her new afli iation. Ruth C, Brownwood. — It's difficult to tell Constance Talmadge's age because she grows younger every year. Officially she is twenty. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks will be in Europe when you read this, if they carry out their present plans. Nazimova recently resigned her contract with Metro. Charles Bryant is her husband and leading man. Mary Thurman is w-ith the Allan Dwan company. Harrison Ford is divorced. M. 0. N., Canada. — Adversity is usually the force that drives most women into a professional career. Our great actresses very often come from families not rich in worldly goods, automatically provided with a material impetus to art. Mary Pickford went on the stage at the age of five to help support the family. Mary is a finer actress because of it. She and Douglas Fairbanks have a home in Beverly Hills, near Los Angeles, California. Lois F., San Francisco. — We don't have so many of those old stories about the wealthy manufacturer's son who falls in love with the beautiful factorv^-hand, throws over his wealthy fiancee and his private stock for her, and marries her after the final clinch — or at least we hope he marries her. Lois Wilson is Mrs. Phillips Smallcy. Ben Turpin is with Sennett; Dorothy Gish with Griffith; Alice Lake with Metro. TnoRA, Bedford. — Robert Louis Stevenson has said — in other words — that no art produces illusion; that when we are in a theater we never forget that it's all a plav. although sometimes we condescend to be taken in by the reality of the characters. He himself was a great master of fantasy ; "Treasure Island" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" on the screen carried most of us out of the theater. Ruth Roland has been married, but she isn't now. Irene Rich and Will Rogers are not married to each other. Mrs. Rogers isn't a professional. Cullen Landis is married; Bebe Daniels isn't. The Studio Dog ("Around Our Studio") He doesn't see the sense of it. The how or why or whence of it. But heartache— he has none of it And his is all the fun of it. The pleasure of the chase he gets. And cares not for the space he gets. He doesn't scan the papers, O ! For records of his capers, O ! In danger he's heroical; His attitude is stoical: Let others draw the salaries — His pictures fill the galleries I — Morrie Ryskind. M. S., Bi.ackshear. Ga. — Oh, well, I don't starve, exactly. Of course I might get a little higher pay, but I can't strike. I've been told so often I'm the one and only Answer Man, that I think I'd have a lonesome job of it. Olive Thomas' only husband is Jack Pickford. Neither was married before. The little girl in "The Flapper" with OIlic is her own little sister. Wallace Reid's w'ife is Dorothy Davenport. Edith L., Conn. — As some sage has said, you may be able to make your own spirituous substitute, but will you be able to drink it? Madge Evans is with Prizma; whether she works regularly I couldn't tell you. Madge is growing up fast now. Next thing we know she'll be playing ingenues. "Yes, yes — Norma Talmadge is still Mrs. Joseph Schenck. M. G., New York City. — So you arc not one of those girls who are crazy to act. Well, it may be possible that you have talent. I can't give you the address of an interpretative dancing school, unless The Ruth St. Denis School in Hollywood would come under that heading. I know so very little about dancing of any kind, let alone that sort of thing performed by pseudoSennett maidens on a dewy lawn and aided by a garland of flowers, a photographer, and Grecian expressions. Eileen Percy is now a Fox star. Juanita Hansen is making serials for Pathe. Emma Dunn made "Old Lady 31" for Metro. Ann Murdock hasn't been seen on stage or screen for a long time. Trenton Adm'rer, Kirksville, Mo. — You neglected to enclose the final page of your letter so I don't know what it is you want me to ask the Editor. However, I presume you want your information regardless. Pell Trenton has been on the stage since iqio. He began with Julia Marlowe, playing in Broadway productions and also in repertoire with Sir Herbert Tree in London. He has played juvenile leads in "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath," "Seven Days,"' "Peg O' My Heart," and others. He is with Metro, where he supported Viola Dana in "The Willow Tree" and May Allison in "Fair and Warmer." Better write and ask him those personal questions. I haven't the heart. J. M., Opelous.as, La. — The persecuted heroine of that "Vitagraph serial called "The Invisible Hand" is little blonde Pauline Curley. .Antonio Moreno is the star. This same team is making another chapter thriller now. Moreno is to be starred in features soon. L. G., San Antonio. — I regret to inform you that Francis X. Bushman is not in pictures any more; but his son, taking pity on our Bushmanless existence, came right in like the little man he is, and signed with Christie. Ralph is his name; he's only nineteen and resembles his father. I don't know if he wears a large amethyst ring, however The younger Bushman is playing a juvenile lead in Mary Roberts Rincharfs "The Empire Builders" for Goldwyn right now. You can get all the well-known players' addresses from this department and look up the companies in the Studio Directory. 87