Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb 1914 - Sep 1916 (assorted issues))

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You and many others seem to think that this is a joke department, but, I assure you all, it is no joke. The Sun. — Just send the questions on to me, or tell your readers that we answer all questions. Yes, and some of the questions they ask are beyond me — far beyond, in the hazy, distant, unfathomable beyond. Lattnce. — Clarence Elmer was Harry Lane in "The Engineers Revenge" (Lubin). Guy Coombs' picture will come soon. I appreciate your novel gift. Whoever hammered that dime into such a beautiful stickpin? Carlyle Joyce. — Lillian Gish in "During the Round-up" (Biograph). That's the wrong title on that Yitagraph. Louise Glaum in that Kalem. Harry Millarde was David in "The Hunchback" (Kalem). LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Our new, enterprising advertising manager and the editor of this department will certainly come to blows if that gentleman persists in using up all the space that the editor intended for this department. We have accumulated many interesting letters from our readers, and it is with pleasure that we here publish them for the edification of all. Mr. Fred J. Somerton writes us from 15 Grey Street, Gisborne, New Zealand, to say that Mary Fuller and Maurice Costello are his favorites, with Clara Young a close second to Miss Fuller. Mrs. Henry Locker, of Hopkinsville. Ky., writes to protest against the "eternal sex problem" plays. Mr. Phillip Brown, of 250 Broome Street, New York, says that he was not aware, until he saw a recent film, that they had baker unions in the Middle Ages, and that the unions required union labels to be pasted on their breads ! Mr. W. H. Price, of the JEolian Co., writes us some good news : It may interest you to know that a friend of mine who is engaged in downtown church work in Manhattan, tells me that within a very short distance of one of these churches seven saloons have been put out of business by the Moving Picture shows. A New York writer, who signs himself "Broadway," seems to be unusually intelligent and keen. Judge for yourself — here is his letter : After several months as an interested and admiring reader of your magazine, and especially of the Answer Department, and after years of following the Movies, I would like to relieve myself of some accumulated ideas by bursting into print. I think that the subject of the so-called educational and moral films, in which some of the producers seem to take an inordinate pride, is open to considerable discussion. Here the film is analogous to the stage. Many plays of this nature fail, because