Film Fun (Jan - Dec 1918)

FLASH BACKS AFTER Ella Hall appeared in the Little Orphan, six •**• hundred and forty fellows wrote to her, offering to adopt her. Charlie Ray, announcing the marriage of his sister, says she is now an X-ray. Rather clever of Charlie, don't you think? That sorrowful, pleading expression you so often see in Charlie Chaplin's eyes is not acting. He's afraid Eric Campbell will fall on him. Theda Bara asks $100,000 damages because Major M. L. C. Funkhouser, of Chicago, has criticised her attire in various plays. So much for so little ! "Ralph Ince will direct his wife, Lucille Lee Stewart, in her new screen vehicle, "Step by Step." Ya-as, he will ! Who ever heard of a man directing his wife ! Fannie Ward took a two weeks' vacation to heal an injured shoulder. Mack Sennett hopes the idea won't spread in his camp, where a bruise goes with every laugh. Visitors at Chaplin's studio notice in his dressing-room a glass case containing many rows of books. They marvel that he has time to read them. He don't — they are bankbooks. Mary Pickford plays the two principal characters in "Stella Maris. " Fine! We like lots of Mary in her pictures. None of us would complain if she played all the characters ! Jack Pickford and Louise Huff's appearance in a lovestory picture called "The Varmint" has caused a crusty old bachelor to say that at last somebody has called Cupid by his right name. H. C. O'Livin, an "extra" on the Laskey lot, has petitioned the California Legislature to change his name. He claims every time he shows up for work, the other "extras" try to mob him. You can't keep the airy Douglas Fairbanks down ! He asserts that next year will find him flitting in France as a flier with the Allies. Not to be outdone, Roscoe Arbuckle claims he is going to enlist as a tank ! Theda Bara claims to be a reincarnation of Hoo-Sis, a daughter of one of the Pharaohs. It looks as though she may be able to get away with it, too, because no one can prove she isn't. Charlie Ray has some cousins who are continually sending him presents along with their hintful hopes of getting into pictures. Charlie says he at last understands the meaning of "diplomatic relations." Rufus Steele, whose preparedness film, "The Eagle's Tell us how you Wings," is still running strong, tells us all his ambitions are "up in the air." He made a number of flights, and now he just hates ground traveling. Wallace Reid likes to go duck shooting. We go as far as anybody in our faith and admiration, but that yarn of his about bagging the limit, and "then that somebody stole all of 'em" sounds awfully like a fish story. Constance Talmadge is haunted — by the skeleton she has lately discovered in California. The ruins of Babylon, the set in which she worked as the Mountain Girl in "Intolerance" a year and a half ago, is still standing. Leander Richardjon must have been some peeved when he wrote of a "male star of considerable candle-power manufactured by the producer's publicity bureau." He mentioned no names. Maybe you will know whom he meant. Mack Sennett has every male moveite in the U. S. raving over his bunch of bathing beauties. No wonder the population of Los Angeles is increasing ! As for the writer of these lines, he would rather be the Pacific Ocean than President ! Leon Trotzky, now so prominent in Russian politics, was at one time a moving picture actor in this country. He appeared in "My Official Wife," with Clara Kimball Young, and his salary, it is said, was just five dollars a day — the days he worked. During the big Red Cross drive a woman at Hollywood offered $100 to the fund if Douglas Fairbanks would jump from the roof of the stand. He did— a distance of twenty feet. Five dollars a foot. Doug says he is glad the lady didn't offer a thousand dollars. Anita Stewart has a contract with Vitagraph calling for $1,000 per week salary and a guaranteed royalty of $75,000 per year. And Anita wishes to break that contract ! It is news like this that causes the $8 per week shopgirl to swallow her gum and go into hysterics! All the way from Balboa, at Long Beach, Cal., comes this suggested amendment to the Hoover schedule: Cheatless Sunday, Treatless Monday, Meatless Tuesday, Wheatless Wednesday, Sweetless Thursday, Heatless Friday (this is every day in New York just now) and Eatless Saturday. We're in favor of somebody else trying it. Clara Kimball Young engaged Norman Selby (Kid McCoy) to play the part of the detective in "The House of Glass," and it is related that on his return from his first day's work, he found that his rooms had been rifled of jewelry, clothing and $200 in money — real, honest-to-goodness money. He's sleuthing now on and off the job. like this page.