Motion Picture Classic (May 1921 - Dec 1927)

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Eastern Stars busily as they do Out West by llall Caine himself. Maurice Tourneur is directing. Priscilla Dean brought her entire company all the way to Coney Island last week in order to shoot some scenes in the famous old Eden Musee there. Our managing editor went down one night at about eleven o’clock to watch them, and after spending the remainder of the night with the freaks and the wax figures, death-masks and bally hoo-ers, snake charmers and what-not, she’ll never be the same again. Priscilla has gone back to her first love — the beloved and silklined crook, and in this picture she is an expert pickpocket. A wedding dress that weighs fifty pounds is worn by Marion Davies in the ambitious Cosmopolitan production, “When Knighthood Was In Flower.” It is made of silvercloth trimmed with ermine and pearls, and is worth a fortune in its own right. Holmes Herbert has just returned from the Adirondacks where he was on location, supporting William Farnum in his latest picture for Fox. Carol Dempster and Henry Hull are working at the Griffith studios at Mamaronek. completing the final episodes of “One Exciting Night,” a mystery comedy. The stills have just been received at our office, and after looking them over we’ll guarantee the excitement ! (Sixty-one) Percy Marmont .is abroad Winter Comes.” He strikes us as being a perfect choice for M a r k Sabre, the protagonist of this superb story. Violet Mercereau and her sister-who-looks-j ustlike-her arrived a week or two ago from Italy, where Violet had been for weeks and weeks the persecuted Christian heroine of “Nero.” for the making of “If Above, Jack Pickford and Marilyn Miller snapped just before ';hey left for the West to be married. Right, Betty Blythe takes lessons from a celebrated Spanish dancer for her latest picture, “How Women Love.” Below, Percy Marmont on the porch of his home in Beechurst, L. I. Bottom of the page, Lew Cody, Frank Borzage and John Powderface, chief of the Stoney tribe of Indians at Banff, Canada, while filming “The Valley of Silent Men” While Will Rogers was making the scenes of the thrilling race between Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, in his newest picture, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” a belated party of revelers coming on them unaware signed the pledge then and there ! They never dreamed it was only a moving picture. They were sure it was bad “hootch !”