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JANUARY 1924
Pictures and Picrvre$uer
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Top : Frank Stanmore with Hetty Balfour in " Love, Life, and Laughter." Above : Constance Talmadgc and Conway Tcarlc
in " The Dangerous Maid"
fantastic clothes and get away with them. I can't make up my mind about Charles Ray, Bill Hart or Dick Barthelmess. But I should like to pass sentence of prohibition upon Stewart Rome, Thomas Meighan, George Walsh, Ernest Torrence, Harry Myers, Norman Kerry, Ralph Graves, Raymond McGee, Forrest Stanley, Bryant Washburn. Tom Mix, William Farnum, and a fewothers, so far as dressing up is concerned. Not for these worthies were curled wigs, lace ruffles and silken hose created. If Tom
Frank and Mary are a complete surprise as " Sir Peter Teazle " and " Mrs. Candour" in " The School for Scandal."
Meighan felt anything like as uncomfortable as he looked in the scanty splendour wished on to him in The Admirable Crichton and Manslaughter, he thoroughly deserved all the expressions of sympathy I heard on all sides when 1 saw these movies. And Forrest Stanley in When Knighthood was in Flower, raised many a smile for which the director did not bargain.
Clive Brook is another star whose handsome face does not look its best above a point-lace collar and a satin suit. The best British romantic star is undoubtedly Gerald Ames, who puts away all modernity with his collar and tie when he appears in a costume play. So does Hugh Miller, a very successful " villain." But, candidly, I can't say the same of Nigel Barrie, nor Wyndham Standing. Strangely enough, Victor McLaglen, great burly Britisher that he is, is entirely at ease in old English attire. He has not the features one associates with period plays, yet Regency raiment becomes him exceedingly well.
Not so Cecil Humphreys. Not as " The Scarlet Pimpernel " at all events. Cecil can wear period clothes, but not every period. He would, however, make an excellent " Sheik." He would
Top : Mary B rough as " Mrs May." Above : Mabel Normand in satin and feathers instead of gingham and snub o nne t.
also, I daresay, rather die than portray a Valentino type. From Cockney to Costume seems a far cry, but Frank Stanmore bridged the gulf most surprisingly in The School for Scandal. But then Frank is an old stager and a really clever character-actor. Anything less unlike " The Blower of Bubbles " or certain other Cockney studies than Stanmorc's '' Sir Peter Teazle " could hardly be imagined. And Mary Brough's " Mrs. Candour," is certainly "Mrs. .May's" ancestress. Priscilla Dean loses that restlessness