Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

SCEEENLAND 103 Adventuring Among the Stars (Continued from page 21) Pola so much that she chuckles with glee if it is called to her attention. "No," she said, making a doleful face, "I am so unpopular; that is why I am so sad. Whom do I like best on the screen? I like Lillian Gish. She is the greatest screen actress in America. But she would not be were she compelled to. stay out here. The climate depresses me. It is so warm — always sunshine — sunshine. My head aches all the time. It is not too good to work here all the time." And we agree with Pola perfectly about that. It is not too good ! Hollywood Is Depressing I t seems to us that any actress who makes pictures on the coast should come to New York between productions or she will cease to make good pictures. The atmosphere out there is narrow and depressing The ideas go around in circles so that if you launch one on Monday it ought to get back to you again by Friday, at the latest. We found the Talmadge girls much changed from their sojourn on the coast. When Constance was working here in New York she had the world at her feet. At the Montmartre she was always the best dancer on the floor. Her conquests were many. She was filled with the joy of living. Her bons mots were remembered. She was quoted. "I'm bored — I'm bored to extinction !" she said wearily when I saw her for the first time in California. Coast Changes the Talmadges it houldn't you love to go back to New York ?" we asked. She shrugged her shoulders. "What difference does it make ? All places are alike when you are working. That's what I'm out here for — to work. You know — the climate — the light — everything— good for pictures." "Yes, but not good for young stars," we replied. " 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'." And the vivacious Norma, too, seemed apathetic. As sure as the world, California does that to you and our motives are not entirely selfish ones when we say that we wish the Talmadges would all move back to New York. It isn't so bad for girls who come to Hollywood from Weeweedin or Seacausis, where they won beauty contests. To them Los Angeles must seem great and mysterious and wicked. They go about for years, wide-eyed and vague, without knowing what it is all about. The movies are full of them and sometimes it seems to us that the less an ingenue has inside her head, the more she seems to be able to do with the outside of it. It is undoubtedly true that much of the fine screen acting which one sees does not emanate from the brain underneath the curly locks of the heroine or the slick coiffure of the hero. The Film Flapper Mirrors Some directors seem to be able to throw their own emotions onto the faces of their people as though they were mirrors. Of course, the less there is to interfere with the reflection, the better the results. If you do not believe we are right, listen to this. One of the greatest actresses on the screen told us that she had difficulty in getting her husband away from a party, adding — "He's such a gay Othello !" And the greatest actor on the screen told us that actors depended too much on their "spontanuity." We find that this communication has become so very frank that we will have to let some of our subjects travel incognito ; and while we are about it, we'll put one more on this list. This one we would not identify for anything. He is a handsome leading man but that tells nothing. We encountered him in one of the studios in California and immediately recognized him as an erstwhile carriage man somewhere in New York. We used to call him by his first name, but that isn't his first name any more. He is terribly popular out there and goes about everywhere. 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