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Photograph by Jael Feder Courtesy of Gwynedd V ernon of London
N< >\\ ihui the only Theda Bara is returning to the screen an recalls W illie Collier’s remark to George M. Cohan, that Theda was his favorite actress.
"I ha\e seen her.” says Willie, “twenty-seven times, and every time I go to see her she always saves her honor.. . . hut 1 mean to keep right on going. ...”
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\ hint hut had list of Hollywooden crimes would include: I a Duchesse de Langeais” being changed to “The Eternal Ilame.”
"M’hss” to " l he Girl Who Kan Wild.”
"Blaik Orchids” to “Trifling Women.”
"How Women Love” (couldn’t be worse).
"What a Wife Learned.” Anything to do with "What a \'»ung Wile Should Know” we wonder?
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I ley wood Broun, the w itty iconoclast of the .\’r« York I oild, was deploring in his column the other day. the regrettable tendency for reform that is sweeping the world. He -aid that even the beautiful Lola Negri didn’t look wicked, and wasn't wicked, and moreover was not going to portray any more wicked w umpires on the screen. She told him so herself. This was more than Hey wood could bear and he was able to survive only because he remembered Bert Savoy’s despairing
wail in the last “Greenwich Village hollies I'm m<i had woman. I’m not a bad woman 1 want to be natch worse!’
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Among the intolerable hardships endured by out movie starare these: The things they read about themselves that aren’t
so; the tilings they read about themselves that are so; the dread lest somebody from the old home town will turn up and commence talking birthdays.
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Here's a piece of Hollywood scandal Associated l're>please copy. Betty Compson doesn’t live with her husband She hasn’t any.
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Buster Keaton, who is not yet thim has evolved a set of rules for living one hundred years He has left out only one thing That is. if you are a frozen-faced comedian and your frozen face is your fortune, and you break out into a grin every time your brand-new son is mentioned, you’ll be dead — or that is — broke — and you’re better off dead— -before you know it. Anyway, here is Buster’s recipe for a full-blown centenarian :
In the first place dunt on any account die before you aie a hundred. This is important.
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