Motion Picture Classic (1923, 1924, 1926)

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And Reports The Hollywood Gossip To Harrv Carr Doug. They slipped in as unobtrusively as possible, hoping not to be noticed. At the first intermission, a fond mamma came galloping up the aisle with a cherub child and announced in a good strident voice, "My little girl wants to kiss you." Whereupon Mary got smacked. This spread the wild alarm. All over the house, other fond mammas leaped to their feet and started down the aisle dragging other angel cherubs presumably to he ki-sed. Happily for Mary, the first fond mamma had no intention of letting anybody jump her claim. She seen Mary hrst b' gosh; so, to the intense indignation of all the rest of the mothers, she staved right on the job and monopolized Mary until the intermission was over. They are having the time of their lives out at Mary and Doug's studio. Mary has got hold of some seventy old Biograph pictures made in 1913. Mary took us in the projectingroom and showed us one in which she appeared as a little page boy in tights. She was as fat as a partridge, so fat she could hardly show her eyes when she desired to emote. Bill Hart seems to have come back to the fillums full of pep and excitement. His first picture based upon the life of Wild Bill Hickok was made in the almost unprecedented time of thirty days. And at that, he was much of the time on location out at Victorville where work is ordinarily slow. Among other things, Bill would seem to have scooped all the studios with the first Abraham Lincoln of the season. Everybody is making pictures with Civil War atmosphere and Abe Lincolns. possibly fired by the example of the Rockett boys in filming the life of Lincoln. Ince is making Barbara Frietchie with a Lincoln in it ; somebody else is making "The Warrens of \ irginia" and so on. Just by way of. good measure. Bill also has General Custer, General Sheridan. P,at Masterson and the Earpes and other historical characters in his. Bill's second picture is going to be one that he wrote himself — a story of the West of about twenty years ago called "Singer Jim MeKee." Theodore, Roberts has been living a very strenuous life of late. He has been appearing in vaudeville during the evening hours in Los Top of the page: Spring Magic from "Maytime." Above: Two little children from "The Light That Failed." Left, reading from top to bottom: Charlie Chaplin, Manuel Alonzo, Bill Tilden and Douglas Fairbanks; the best in their professions, screen and net. Below: Victor Seastrom, the great Swedish director, with his wife and children (Sixty-seven)