Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1920)

84 Advert i s i ng Section When ydur Eyes KgQistQ? Emotion FRIGHT PLEASURE SORROW VyHEN your eyes ^* "register" emotion — as Hope Hampton's eyes do so tellingly in these photos — your eyes play an important part in expressing your appeal. Long dark lashes make the eyes luminous and meaningful. Use Lashlux— 2 preparations in one. Applied after powdering, it supplies to the roots of the lashes and brows the natural oil which stimulates th ei r growth. In addition Lashlux darkens the eyebrows and lashes immediately. In 2 shades— Brown and dark; also Colorless for use on retiring. Delicately scented, in a dainty brown box, 50 cents. At drug and department stores, or direct from the makers. ROSS CHEMICAL CO., 26 East 23d Street, NEW YORK means luxuriant lashes The Movies' Magic Tank Continued from page 14 X-BAZIN famous FRENCH Depilatory for removing hair A delicately perfumed powder; removes hair, leaves skin smooth, white: for arms, limbs, face; 50c, also $1.00 size, which includes cold cream, mixing cup and spatula. At drug and department stores. Send 10c for trial samrle and booklet. HALL & RUCKEL, 104 Waverly Place, N. Y. could make it supplement the ballroom. This was an unusually striking set, and would have done credit to any real hotel whose manager had foresight enough to make use of a similar arrangement ; as it was, the setting did duty most effectively for this one picture, and then was destroyed to make room for something else. In "The Sea Wolf" the wrecking of a ferryboat had to be shown. Exteriors for this scene were filmed in San Francisco, but scenes showing the interior of the boat, with the passengers struggling frantically to escape, could hardly be made there. And so a duplicate of the wrecked ferry was built in the Lasky tank, and the panic took place there quite as effectively as it could have taken place in the neighborhood of the Golden Gate. Like Egypt and Italy, China has found its way to the tank. Ethel Clayton's new picture, "Crooked Streets," is laid in Shanghai, some of the scenes taking place on the water front. And the waters of the tank were cast to play the role of a sluggish river of the Orient, and did it most acceptably. Far more fashionable was the set built for "The Fighting Chance," recently screened from the novel by Robert W. Chambers. The tank became a swimming pool in a millionaire's home, and the scene of one of the most striking stunts shown in a current production — the submarine kiss, described elsewhere in this issue. Incidentally, this marked another feat on the part of those who make possible the demands of imaginative authors — a new development in underwater photography. Of course, these pictures aren't the only ones for which the tank has been used; not by any means. "The Secret Garden," in which Lila Lee appeared some time ago, had some scenes in a very beautiful garden, at the edge of a lily-filled pool, which were also laid in the tank. You'll probably be able to remember many others which, now that you know how these things are done, you can be pretty certain were made there instead of out on location somewhere, in a place where permission to shoot had to be obtained and where, if the shots turned out badly, it would be rather difficult to repeat the performance. Between pictures the tank does duty as a swimming pool ; when he was working at the Lasky studio, Ffoudini frequently practiced his stunts in it, and more than one noted star has found it a welcome refuge when the Klieg lights were sending the mercury in the thermometer skyrocketing, and a solid day and night of work loomed up ahead. But, refuge though it may be, that tank is the graveyard of many an illusion as to long trips to beautiful locations. However, its uses are interesting enough to make the mere shattering of illusions of small account. Introducing Every Woman's "Little Devil" Continued from page 65 cigarettes between us, that I was listening to what would be the epitome of the attractive young man who was speaking. The words came with a gentle, almost foreign twist. "Every young girl wants to meet her 'little devil' — and every older woman remembers hers — perhaps that little smile in the gray-haired after years is in memory of the delicate love she still bears for the twinges of pain he gave her. "To-day, as always, he is a brainy, attractive, well-groomed human being. Please remember he is a human being. He is likely to be more brainy than the hero, and as clever and intuitive as a woman. "He is not 'sugar-coated.' this character I am trying to make live in place of the model 'villain,' but he tries to sugar-coat life. He wants his woman to see the beautiful velvet of the couch — not the dust and dirt under it. When he has his fail ures, and he does, he hides them gayly, but he is careful that other people shall advertise his successes. He never boasts, and he never gloats." Then the clock butted in, and the purple silk dressing gown disappeared up the broad stairs, its owner announcing that "he would be right down" and to "wait a minute," and I did, and he was. From his glossy, straight, black hair to the tips of his shiny tan boots, and in his snappy summer suit, Lew Cody was ready for a Sunday afternoon drive in the long, low roadster waiting outside in the drive. His grasp was firm and warm in saying good-by, and as this perfectly groomed, dark, and handsome young man with the wickedly small mustache irised out in the snorting car down the Hollywood hill, one wondered— well, how "little devils" behaved on Sunday afternoon drives !