Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1920)

great idea." Let's hope he has some more. Enid Bennett is about to be put on alimony when she takes the advice of a smart lady friend and gets some nonskid hairpins. This action supplies the title "Hairpins" for C. Gardner Sullivan's latest photo play. Miss Bennett appears as a flannelet femme whose literary diet is Economical Recipes for the Thrifty Housewife. Because she cares more about the price of rib roast than she does about a permanent wave she loses her husband's attention. "Just like a man," commented the Advertising Section lady who sits next to me. "He wants a woman who will reduce the high cost of living, and when he gets her he ditches her in order to run around with a fricasseed chicken." Here again we have the story of the sweetheart who ceases to look or act like one after she becomes a wife. It's an old story made over by the deft Mr. Sullivan, so that "it's' as good as new, my dear." Miss Bennett as the lady whose hairpins won't stay put is tremendously funny in a subtle, elusive way. With a few more such roles, she will be established as a distinctive comedienne. 99 Maeterlinck and the Shadows Continued from page 18 I was tempted to ask him whether it might not be that the silent drama was the medium for him to express that which he had left unspoken in his plays — if, by action or gesture, he could not better convey the speech that it was impossible to put into the drab form of words. And when I finally did put the question, he smiled — one of those rare illuminating smiles which scintillate like sunshine dancing on mid-ocean. "I believe there are many things that can be expressed in the photo play which cannot be said in any other art," he replied. "It is not a simple thing for the man who has never written for the screen to compose a scenario, and it is not my intention to attempt this. But writing a story for the cinema should hardly prove any more puzzling than writ ing for any other form. The laws of logic are the same for all." It was approaching the twilight hour, the perfect Maeterlinckian hour, by this time. And I felt it was the moment to leave to take with me the proper mental picture of the man. I felt that with the lengthening shadows his personality gained an even deeper significance, that he was revealed as a sort of colossal welding of mysterious forces and of the clear vigor of practicality from the twentieth century. As I left the white house on the palisades, and gradually began to return to the jangle and noise of present-day life it seemed to me that although the man appeared curiously disassociated with that noise and bustle, yet he beheld our days and methods with the eyes of a very fine comprehension. The Secret of the Submarine Kiss Continued from page 51 his work mean to him. His work in "The Fighting Chance" got him the leading role in the Mayflower production of Mr. Chambers' 'Athalie." And just between you and me and everybody else in town, the directors have had to take a good, sharp pruning knife to the work of R. W. C. before they could get him to play in these parts. The Nagels are still, so much in; love with each other that they find it quite wonderful enough to walk out toward the sunset when the day's work is done and then to sit together after the sun is gone — occasionally going _to_ seea movie. ~ They have been playing at housekeeping in a doll-size apartment in Hollywood, but recently Conrad Na^el was given a five-year starring contract by Jesse Lasky, whereupon they dashed out and purchased a lovely villa surrounded by flowers and fruit trees. Mrs. Nagel is dreadfully sorry she didn't take the advice of her grandmother, who wanted her to learn to cook. She says Conrad swears he likes everything she sets before him — of course, she knows he's fibbing, but she thinks it sweet of him just the same — but she can never invite the same people to dinner more than twice, as she only knows how to cook two things really well — breaded veal cutlets and lamb stew. Now" that this story is done I'm a bit conscience-stricken over having written it; when "The Fighting Chance" is released I'm afraid not a frog or fish in the country will have a peaceful summer — and, oh, pity the Owners of private swimming pools ! Still, neither they nor Father Neptune supplies iron rings for lovers to cling to as ballast — perhaps that will counteract the evil effects of this exposition of the newest brand of lovemaking. The Final,. T;QHch Comp Improves the faulty complexion —protects thebeaijty of the perfect one — and stays on. 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