Motion Picture Classic (May 1921 - Dec 1927)

Of -the Stage, On the Screen, Caught by Flashes From the Eastern Stars ALLAN STINCHCOMB GLORIA SWANSON and her new husband, the Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudray, were met with 'the wildest enthusiasm on their return from Paris. Gloria » had just finished working on “Madame Sans-Gene” — but from all reports she didn’t spend every minute at work. Aside from taking time off to be married, she spent an afternoon looking for a new hat. She bought forty others before she found ’ the one she really wanted. * * * Harold Livingston left Paris for a visit to New York aw'hile ago. He is well known abroad as a screen actor, but his reputation in America is purely literary. He is the author of two books and many short articles and stories. * * * “Fifty-Fifty” is the first picture Hope Hampton has made since she starred in “The Price of a Party.” She is co-starring wdth Lionel Barrymore, and she says it’s good to hear the click of the camera again. * * * Betty Blythe is in Berlin after spending less than a year at home. Having made one triumphal siege of the foreign studios, the temptation to do it again seems to have been too great to resist. * * * In Milton Sills’ new picture, “I Want My Man,” he plays the part of a blind man. The question arose as to whether blind men smoke. Everyone in the cast thought not except Sills. Finally, they telephoned the superintendent of a New York institute for the blind. “Do blind men smoke?” Came back the answer, “Well, most people say they dont, but dont you believe it. Old Jake in the corner of the room is ninety years old and he smokes like a chimney.” * * * Ben Lyon, who generally plays the part of victim of the wiles of designing femininity, has burst forth at last in a real “he-man” role. In the new' picture he is making, “The Pace That Thrills,” Ben goes berserk at a prize-fight, fights a dozen or so policemen, and terrifies even his own producer by “doubling” for his double, and doing a few of the stunts that a picture star is supposed to do — but doesn’t. * * * “The Midnight Girl” is the third picture Wilfred Noy has directed in this country, the other two being “The Lost Chord” and “The Fast Pace.” * * * “Soul-Fire,” the screen version of “Great Music,” is starring Richard Barthelmess. The sets are made by Everett eystone \ ie\v Apeda Above, left: Walter Adolphe Roberts, Edna Hibbert, Tony Moreno and Roberta Arnold all met the other day at Apeda’s studio, so Tony treated the crowd to a free picture! Below: Dame Ellen Terry, England’s oldest and bestloved actress © Keystone View. Above: The celebrated Russian dancer, MikailMordkin, and his family in America for the first time in twelve years lit** ■I Left: The lovely star of “Dancing M others,” Mary Young, gives a tea party in her home in Washington Square and obligingly stops the party to pose for the press photographer J. T. Beals 53