Pictures and the Picturegoer (Jan-Dec 1924)

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JANUARY 1924 us Bon Voyage home and a successful film. I had quite a long chal with them. The scenes on the Cross-Channel journey amused the bona fide passen immensely. They were of the ' mushy ' persuasion and consisted of the two turtle-doves (Fred Groves and myself) stealing as many kisses ami embraces as we could. Everybody wanted to see, ami there was such a crowd on the one side of the boal that it listed badlj , I found it rather embarrassing, but then, I always do when working out of doors. Pictures and Pichurepver Above : Ivo Danson, Quecnic Thomas, Hargrove Manolk, and Jennie Matkew in "Why? " Then when I reached London I had to stay in bed for ten days." Filming the Great Day. I was one of the ' guests ' at ' Squib's ' wedding, when it was filmed at Famous Lasky's, Islington, where they put up a lovely old village church set. It was very convincing, for real trees and bushes were taken there, and a lawn laid specially for the occasion. A cobbled path led up to it, through a lych gate, upon which a pair of doves sat tight throughout the proceedings which lasted four hours. These birds must have been hardened movie actors for they never turned a — feather under the blaze of lights, neither did the confetti upset their equanimity or their balance. They exchanged a few ' coos ' when Hugh E. Wright and Irene Tripod tripped lightly beneath their point of vantage, but were still sitting up there when I left. The Festivities. Betty's was a slow-motion wedding. She went into the church at least twenty-times and came out of it quite six. And every time the bodyguard of flower girls and " Bobbies " threw confetti and cheered. Some of it stuck, and Betty had to be carefully dusted all over with a big feather duster. She looked adorable in her pale draperies, but said, with a grimace, that if reai weddings were anything like film weddings she'd never, never, never have one. We had tea all together after Above : Russell Thorndike playing in "The Fair Maid of Perth." Gerald Ames as " Bothwell," in " Mary Queen of Scots." wards, before the players had changed their costumes, and it looked for all the world like the Mad Tea Party in Alice In Wonderland. For Hugh E. Wright, complete with hat looked like the Mad Hatter, and Frank Stanmore could have assumed the identity of either the Dormouse or the White Knight readily ; he has all the characteristics of both. About the Tea Pot. And the Studio teapot deserves a whole paragraph to itself, not to speak of the pretty girl behind it, who belongs to the Welsh Pearson studio staff. It would have contained any two of the party easily. Frank Stanmore is exactly the same off the screen as he is in Love, Life and Laughter on it. He emits humorous gems half-unconsciously, and that pathetic expression of his kept everybod II the whili And in pullin nil the) nc .iil> di I u mp< I'd and bi II w ith a Ch< i I Mil "II WOI th) ol ,m old lish martyr. A Stage Cowboy. i ,. raid Anns has goni i once ni"i 6, II' long pio\ incial tour with " Tin I >an< ers," in which he will star in Sir < m raid I hi Mauricr's role of " Ton) " Do sou think people will like me as a cowb he asked me somewhat dubiously, I thought. 1 don't think he need worry; people seem to like him as anything. The tour starts on the South ("oast, in Bournemouth, and other towns will In the first to welcome their film favouriti . Gerald Ames still aspires to he a producer, I shouldn't wonder if his aspirations bore fruit early in this new year. Carnival Tidings. The Kinema Club Carnival, which is now a Hardy Annual, will take place at the Hotel Cecil, London, on February 4, the Opening Night of the British Film week. The whole Kinema world will attend, besides as many of the general public as the place will hold and the preliminary list of attractions include a Midnight Parade of characters from British films in which all the best-known players will appear, each in his or her most representative characterisation. All the British producers will also be represented by groups of favourite players in favourite roles. The Parade will be headed by one of the most beautiful British stars as " Britannia." There will also be Living Roulette, and many valuable prizes such as an eveninggown, a cabinet of scent, chocolates, etc., for Lucky Tickets which will be on sale there. Fancy Dress is optional and the tickets cost 25/ each from The Hotel Cecil, The Kinema Club, 9, Great Newport Street, and the Hon. Organiser, Miss Billie Bristow, 175, Wardour Street, W.C. It looks like being some Carnival ! Owen Xares resisting Gertrude McCoy's choicest vamping in " Miriam Locella."