The Photo-Play Journal (May 1916-Apr 1917)

PAGE 48. THE PHOTO-PLAY JOURNAL FOR APRIL, 1917. liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii BAFFLING GRAMMAR npHIS is taken ■*■ verbatim from a recent press sheet of the Mutual Film Corporation: "Nance O'Neil, Mutual star, dotes on jades." The dictionary says a jade is either a tired horse, a worthless nag or a stone used for ornamental carving. Now just what would this press agent have us infer? X X X •JT'XX >C X~3tL >JIMIItlllllltlllllt<IIllllTIIIMlllltMlilllllllllflMIMIMIIIIMMIIIItllMIWI*Tlltt|||tilllllltlll11IIIllMllllIIIMMMHHIimil^C3C-3C?C X TC X X "XZ^SIZglZI CREEN STORIE WITH BLACK FAC coMEDTi n^llUIIUIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIillilllllllllllllliHllllllllMllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllUltlllllltlllllllllli-'-MU I W HEN Ann Murdock, now a Mutual star, wants a little recreation she hies away to a little cabin she owns in the Adirondacks, where she invariably wears boy's clothes and has lots of fun. All of which revives that famous ancient question: How old is Ann? A/rlSS GAIL KANE despises tea and *■*■*■ also parrots. Well, they both are hard on the nerves. I \T/ILLIAM STOWELL, the Universal ■ VV leading man, was at his tailor shop. The price of a prospective new suit hit him too hard, and he said so. "But, look at your size," said the tailor. "Tell you what I'll do," replied Bill, "suppose we make it a knickerbocker suit, knee breeches and all?" A compromise was thus effected, and big Bill obtained a discount. And if the high cost of living continues to mount higher, many of us will be lucky if we can afford pants which extend down as far as knees. We'll cease to laugh at the lone fig-leaf idea yet. Instead we are liable to appreciate it, for it may be the only way to beat down the prices. TJ ECTOR PASHO, who introduced the *■ cake of soap into movie comedy, has retired on a pension. He literally cleaned up as it were. TT7ILLIAM FARNUM is getting to be a * * regular camera fiend. He possesses three cameras, and seems to keep them all busy. He and his brother, Dustin, are constantly photographing each other. This is what you might call a picturesque brother act. ]V/r ATT MOORE, who played the part of -L'-* lover to Mary Pickford in "The Pride of the Clan," is her brother-in-law, being the brother of her husband, Owen Moore. But even this does not explain why Matt was such a dismal failure as "the leading man" in this picture. In fact, far from being in the lead, he was away behind. T T is easy to lose a pocketbook one wants A to keep, but Marguerite Clayton, the Essanay star, finds it impossible to lose a purse she doesn't want. It was an old wornout purse and she threw it into her wastebasket. A maid discovered it, and noticing the star's monogram returned it to her. Miss Clayton then threw it out a window and a newsboy, looking for a reward, returned it. We were going to suggest that she throw it into Lake Michigan, but then some poor fish would bob up with it. Ah, now we have it! If she really wants to get rid of it, all she need do is to slip a little change in it. npHE high cost of loving is solved by -*■ Bryant Washburn in the Black Cat feature entitled "A Four-Cent Courtship," in which the young man demonstrates how to win a bride on a four-cent splurge. Impecunious bachelors should please copy, because with the cost of brides down to a couple of two-cent stamps, why even Job's turkey should be able to win a wife. § "CUNDAY, Sunday," yelled Max Lin^ der, the Essanay comedian, in the midst of a scene being filmed. Nobody knew what Max wanted. He slammed a door and locked it, motioned as though drinking from a bottle, and then shook his head. "He wants a close-up," shouted a wise one. "Sunday — closed up. See?" Max doesn't drink, but he has learned that Chicago is dry on Sunday. Dry subtlety is this. TT-ALESKA SURATT, the Fox star, has ' named her pet marmoset, Menelik after the King of Abyssinia. Now the question arises: Which is honored, animal or king? TTARRY CAREY is probably the only A -1 movie actor possessing a license from the United States Government as a skipper. But you couldn't hire him to do any skipping— he's a settled sort of fellow. T UST now Kathlyn Williams, the Morosco ^ star, is playing a new role in real life. She is serving as the administratrix of a deceased uncle's estate, and she is performing like a regular business woman. So she proves she can act as something else besides an actress. ANENT DIRT TV/TARIN SAIS, iV1 the Kalem actress, owns a fine ranch near Lund, Utah. She is a strong believer in investing all her savings in safe real estate in sparsely settled sections of the country. We don't know exactly what her idea is, but it might be that it is dirt cheap. r> RACE CUNARD, of the Universal, ^-* owns twenty-five dogs of every breed and variety. Needless to add, the neighborhood in which her home is situated is not a healthy one for cats. This may explain her fondness for dogs — they make for a howling success at preventing cat-howling. A/TARY GARDEN'S advent into "the 1^J pictures" as one of the Goldwyn stars, is a notable event reflecting great honor on the importance of the photoplay art. Indeed, since the famous international opera star has been signed, the Goldwyn press agent has been able to even make his typewriter fairly sing. A NEW record in the matter of the number of scenes taken in a single day has just been established by Dorothy Dal ton, the Ince actress, who "did" 81 scenes without a re-take in six hours. This reminds us — we made a record once: we had one scene with our irate friend wife that lasted eleven hours, and if there had been any necessity for a re-take, we would have fainted from sheer exhaustion. r^ HARLIE CHAPLIN has a pet snake." ^ — Press Bulletin. On paper? T T is claimed that Mary Miles Minter has *■ 72 strings of beads, and every one of them is a different color. We'd name the 72 different colors, but we're color-blind. Of course, perchance, there may not be 72 different colors. We don't know. Will some one who has had experience in playing the colors advise us? AT YRTLE STEDMAN possesses a splendid soprano voice, and she sings extensively at church entertainments and various charitable functions. This should be interesting to the countless Anxious Inquirers who are constantly flooding photoplay magazine editors with letters containing their fears that motion picture folks are "no good." Myrtle is indeed a very good gel. Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH