Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1920)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

By WILLIS GOLDBECK nie, and when I left I had been engaged to play a part in his famous 'School-days' tioupc! I played « ith him for many months and finally, when Lila Lee left to enter the movies. I took her jiart. that of 'Cuddles.' It was lots of fun." .She smiled happily at the memory. "Rut how did y(ni happen to enter jiictures?" I asked. "Oh, 1 got to thinking about it when Lila left. .\nd when things turned out so nicely for her I felt even more eager to try it. I felt kind of doubtful inside, but Korsnkan said yes. "The first man I went to see was l^dgar Lewis. He was looking for a leading lady for "Love and the Law.' I determined to hit high and so I walked in and asked for the |)art. When I saw all the other girls who were there, I felt a little weak, but that darned heatlien god kei)t insisting. I put up a good argument and when the afternoon was over,' all were eliminated but myself and one other. The only great difference between us was the fact that her nose was (irecian while mine was 'pug.' Mr. Liiwis couldn't make up his mind, so he called his wife. For some reason, she came out strong for the pug. .So you ■iee. I won by a nose." Mrs. Lewis was sjieedily justified in her choice. Josephine outdid herself. Rut she was still in the l'"ast when the picture was completed, and California, the movie cent e r , w as three thousand miles away. So she declined all .>tifers, packed her bag. and in two week.s was searching for a home in Hollywood. .She was engaged by Universal and for ,1 time played two-reel Westerns o]]posite Neal I'lirns, and later Jack Perrin-. She built u]) an enormous following among the cowboys and ranchers. (Continued on pat/c 80) Photos tiy Miss Hill's recent marriage with Jack Perrin, the Universal star, was the talk of the day. It was extremely dilfir cult for ye interviewer to believe that the tiny girl on the chair, her feet escaping the floor by a space of several inches, was a wife. Just to the left, you will not fail to notice that our heroine is a real fisherman in every sense of the word, tho we wonder what sort of fish she can hope to catch in this exact spot, unless it be a mud turtle! Left, Josephine in a somewhat difficult situation in her most recent Metro success, "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath," in which, as leadmg woman, she gives an unusually clever characterization (Twenty one) >\v^"