Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1920)

1 MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC .■ LEARN DRAFTING at home in spare time as you would in victual practice. Men and women in great demand for permanent positions as mechanical draftsi»cn. Our comprehensive Home Study Course quahfies yon to secure and hold one of these desirable positions. No previous training is necessary to become a practical, mechanical draftsman by our successful method of home instruction. We have hundreds of successful graduates now holding good positions. EARN $35.00 to $100 A WEEK Many of our graduates have reached high s.ilaries rapidly owing to their practical training. They secure excellent salaries at the start —as high as $2,600 the first year. Usual pay of ilr.ifismen is $J5.00 to $100 a week. Advancement is rapid. DRAWING OUTFIT FURNISHED We supply every student with a Drawing Outfit for use throughout the course. There is no extra charge for this and it becomes your personal property when you have completed the course. HELP YOU SECURE POSITION We are frequently able to place our Students in good positions, sometimes before they complete the course. Many concerns write us offering positions to our graduates. The demand for trained draftsmen is greater than the supply. The training we give enables students ttj secure positions without trouble, on completing the course. Write today for Free Book of par ; ticutars. COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF DRAFTING ROY C. CLAFUN. Prtiidtnt m DepI, IIOS 14di and T Sb.. W»liiii|loii. D. C. The Mid-Day Frolic (Cotitiiiucd from page 20) for the fir.st time in a one-piece bathing more apt to suit before the camera, mother clucks and sputters and follows daughter artmnd the picture camp with a belligerent and watchful eye. Rut tlie life she sees and the routine of hard work is so decidedly humdrutri that she promptly retires, completely at ease as to the pitfalls and snares in the wake of a virtuous flower, satisfied to let the matron put arnica on bruised knees and to sec that tlie wardrobe mistress fits her into the requisite low-and-behold attire. The various "companies making use of this rarified feminine "atmosphere" differ in their handling of the girls. In the first place, requirements of production differ. Sennett's beauties, such as Phillis H.aver and Harriet Haivmond. are the languid, gracile type of tirl, replete with eyelashes and soulful eyes. Hampton Del Ruth, when he selects girls for Sunshine comedies, never wants a girl who is more than five feet five inches in height. His system of weights a_nd measures is meticulous, as follows: I 6 9 Xrainiti^ jor /Twlltorsliip HoWtoWriie.WhottoWrHc, and WKerc to sell . CultiV(rf"C yovrr miiul. Develop yourKJerory gifts. Most'cr tke ari of selfexpress ion. Make your spare hme profitable. Turn your xAoas into dollars. Courses in Short-Story Writing, Versification, Journalism, Play Writing, Photoplay . Writing, etc., taught person Dr.EsenWein ally by Dr. J. Berg Esenwein. for many years editor of Lippincott's Magazine, and a st.Tf of literary experts. Constructive criticism. Frank, honest, helpful z6\\ce. Peal teaching. Ofi» papll has racHVd over tS.OOO for atorits and articles iriiten m^sth In spare lime — "plop kfork." he calls It. Inoiher popll received eVer $1,000 before completing ter first coarse. Another, a batf ^Ife and mother. Is tVeraglng oVer $75 a ^eek from pholoplog writing alone. There b no other injtitution or agency doinB lo much for writen, young or old. The univerritie* recoenirc thii, for over one hundred members of the Engliih faniltic* of higher inititulion* aze itudying in our Literary Deportment. The editors recogniM it, for they arc constai.'tly recommending our courses. , .iMcHpiixbvMUl r<H. W* >iw pttblMi ., ^ * oOk . ■Miurrtpl {flUcLn wrfk*. MO*pag« llluatraiad •:ataleiu« trma. Tfie Home Cdrrespandoice School Dcpt. 1 12. Sprinqfteld, Mass. iHcow.'OiATte i9o4 ITAau4HtD >8»r ml'»T«TTS Height Weight 5 ft. 1 in. lOS lbs. 5 ft. 2 in 110 lbs. 5 ft. 3 in 115 lbs. 5 ft. 4 in 120 lbs. 5 ft.' 5 in 125 lbs. Questions relative to height and weight are the first asked at any studio. No experience is necessary. The majority of the producers prefer to get girls un. spoiled by any idea of technique or tricks. When a girl comes to Del Ruth with the intimation that she is a second Mary Pickford, he promptly disillusions her. P.oth Sennett and Christie, while they use girls in the en.semble, insist upon the beautv being brainy enough to understand the fundamentals of acting, inasmuch as the background has to be decorative enough to play a principal part in the ])icture. Phillis Haver, for instance, could never have been the beauty in "Salome vs. .'Shenandoah" if she had not possessed both beauty and histrionic ability. Xor could Marie Prcvost have appeared in "Yankee ntjodle in P.erlin" had she not mani|)ulaled her grey matter as well as her shapely legs. "I got a girl," remarked .\1 Christie, liroprietor of tlie comedies, "who had not a particularly good figure, but a very winsome smile. I figured that I could use her. We could cover up her underpinning and play up her teetli." Christie jirefers to get girls with experience, inasmuch As each damsel of nemust be able to do cessitv a certain amount of legitimate dramatic comedy. He will consider no girl applicant more than five feet six inches in height. His .rirls are slightlv different from those at the Sennett and Fox studios, because they generally play '•dressed-iip" parts and are appear in afternoon teagowns than in a bathing-suit, altho one of the Christie beauties. Vera Steadman, wears bathing apparel whenever the scenario editor can find a suitable excuse for it. But Vera, too, is required to thespianize — to use facial expression as well as a beautiful figure to "put her over." Helen Darling, another of the Christie fiock, is a former cafe dancer, chosen for the. comedies chiefly because she is graceful and can walk thru a door without giving the impression that she's all left feet. Dorothy DeVore, perhaps the tiniest girl on the screen, is five feet one inch tall, a former singer in a Los Angeles cafe. She is a good type, because she has a bright, snappy personality. Marjorie Payne, on the other hand, is taller and of more languid aspect. She is the winner of a national magazine beauty contest and has a wistful, Mona Lisa face. Florence Gilbert was picked particularly for her face, as a type opposite to Miss DeVore, who is a brunette. Miss Gilbert is almost the fluflfy blonde type and is possessed of a lovely oval face. Peggy Davis, on the other hand, is the vivacious, sprightly, medium-sized brunette lorelei. On the .Sunshine lot, Dorothy Lee represents the terpsichorean coterie of mirth-maids. She, like Dorothy DeVore, is small and extremely vivacious, with a . snapf)y personality. Norma Canterno, a large-eyed, beautiful Italian girl, is possessed of perhaps the most beautiful shoulders in comedy, while Bessie True, a brunette with light-blue eyes, was selected particularly because of her knees and ankles. Lillian Hackett's feet are the smallest on the "lot," while Dorothy, Terry's arms, hands and shoulders are proclaimed ideal. The lovely,' dreamy, blonde Phillis Haver is the ideal girl on the Sennett lot, cxiierts have testified. Miss Haver has deep, bahy-blue eyes and lips that form a natural pout. Her arms and hands are slender and her fingers are tapering, and her legs are as perfectly formed as those of a young child. Marie Prevost is her exact ctmntertype, with a live-wire, sprightly manner and a "mickey" personality that has proved extremely attractive to thousands of film "fans," Only one girl in 10,000 can qualify fo;the movies' decorative background. So says Mack Sennett, the originator of the mid-day frolic in front of the camera— the Ziegfeld of the films ! It was only a few years ago that Sennett conceived his idea of the feminine atmosphere, inspired by the success of musical revues thru their attractive chorus. Bathing-suits for the movie maids were the most natural garb imaginable, and the California beaches furnished exclusive, original locale. (Continued on page 73) (Seventy)