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

174 MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE (Continued from page 172) Anna Little lias just bought a new bathing-suit, for the odd reason that her old one was worn out. She actually put it hors de combat in the briny deep, and not in bathing parades and camera poses. Ollie Kirkby, the Kalemette star of "The Social Pirates," is one of the best "society" dancers of the West. She has danced since she was a child and she has taught more new steps to her friends than she herself can render. When Ollie is on the floor, the others usually draw aside and watch her light-footed art with delight. She does not show off and is entirely unconscious of admiration while she is dancing. In a benefit for the Actors' Fund, recently held in Los Angeles, many of the studio stars entered their cars in a "fashion review" for automobiles and costumes. Among others were Mabel Normand, Ruth Stonehouse, Francelia Billington, Mary Anderson, Cleo Madison and Baby Zoe Bech. The prize for the most beautiful decorations was awarded to Priscilla Dean, of the Vogue Company. It is not generally known that Mabel Taliaferro, the stage star, who is at present in the Metro constellation, is probably one of the smartest magazine authors of today. Her contributions often appear in Smart Set and Black Cat, and she wrote "Cinderella," the photoplay in which she made her premiere. Over the Studio Tea-Cups Spoonfuls oi Gossip, Flavored with Players' Fads and Fancies As this comes to our readers' eyes. Douglas Fairbanks is wTining and dining with his friends in Los Angeles, preparatory to his departure for New York. There have been several dinner parties extended to him, with more to come, and his farewell to the Coast is sad news. "Smiling Douglas" will join Norma Talmadge at the Fine Arts studio in N. Y. Fay Tincher is still striping everything in sight. Her latest bathing-suit is a sixlayer concoction that would put a chocolate cake to the blush, and her newest negligee is a striped pajama design wThich buttons, laces, hooks, or maybe just clings. "The expression of the feet" may create new screen technique. The eye, the mouth and the hand have usually combined to register emotions, but Charlie Chaplin started the vogue for expressive feet, and now comes Ruth St. Denis, the dancer, just pirouetting into the Nevada Film Company. "Close-ups" of her dainty pedal extremities, registering joy, sorrow and jealousy, will now be the real thing. Diminutive stars, like Ann Pennington and Marguerite Clark, are having troubles these days in selecting a sizable east. Where young misses are supposed to appear with them, they must be, of course, smaller than the star, and leading men, if they are too tall, have trouble in getting their faces into the picture. As a welcome home to pictures, Alice Joyce was the guest of honor at a recent dinner given to her on the Strand Roof Garden. The dinner was attended by all the principals who will appear in "The Battle Cry of War," the new Vitagraph spectacle, in which Miss Joyce will take a leading part. OTga Petrova showed her versatility, and also succeeded in blocking traffic, by recently appearing on Fifth Avenue, New York, in an outdoor scene — monkey, handorgan, and all. Marguerite Courtot is having a lot of bills sent to her nowadays by irate hotelkeepers. She did not contract them herself, but a most ubiquitous "double" is working the hostelries and trying to live higl at Miss Courtot's expense. Her double iingenious, to say the least. When things got too hot for her in Houston, Tex., the newspapers "fell" for her story that "Marguerite Courtot had eloped with a prominent local young society man." A few hairpins will be shaken out if the false Marguerite is caught by her namesake. When a star has a lovely theater all for herself, and is the heroine of a romance like "Gloria's." people have the habit of doing nice little things for her. 'Tis said, at the Globe Theater, New York, where "Gloria's Romance" is spinning, that anonymous admirers leave silver vanity boxes, Mechlin lace handkerchiefs, and other sweet little mementos, to be sent to Billie Burke.