Motion Picture Magazine (Mar-Jul 1918)

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Letters to the Editor Elsie Mae Shepherd, of West Point, Ind., just has to steam up, so here goes : I simply gotta write to some one, or explode, and as I have seen only sixteen summers and winters, and I have never been blind, either, 1 am in no state of mind to allow my youthful career ( ?) to be nipped in the bud by such an occurrence. The first thing I am going to let off steam on is Miss Theda Bara. She is my favorite by a wider margin than ever struck Wall Street, and whenever I hear any one speaking lightly of her, or giving her the "rub," it affects me in much the same manner a cat is affected when her fur is rubbed the wrong way. She is a REAL woman and a sincere actress. • I dont care whether she was born in our good old U. S. or in Jericho. Indeed, we should be proud to know that she is one of our people. Miss Curtis Pierce is the next on the list. Give me your mitts, Curtis. You're the best thing that has ever hit the "Letters to the Editor" column. Every time you open your mouth, or pick up a pen, you say or write something. Now, Curtis, you were not the only one that saw "Purity." I got a squint at that effort myself. Thomas Finnerty is right there when he says that is the "only face Audrey Munson ever had and ever will have," and the good Lord knows she does not need any more like it. Kitty Gordon is another I am right there for. Altho I have seen her but a few times, she has become one of my favorites. Give her the right kind of plays and she is going to make people sit up and take notice. When it comes to the laugh-getters, Chaplin has got the others looking like preachers at a funeral. Some one said his face was expressionless. That man can show his expressions as no one else can. I know nothing about Mary Miles Minter, and do not care enough about her to look up her age. She is not of the type that I admire. But dont worry. She will be getting married some day, then watch her 'fess up. Once and for all, let me hand it to the Superb Theda, and Witty Curtis. Hope I will be alive when the next issue of the Magazine comes out. Wilbert G. Eaton, of Las Vegas, Nevada, is going to stir up some answers from among the ladies, or we're mistaken : Well, here's another nut who is going to do all he can to make the Misses Morton and Bayless stick to their bombproofs. First I want to stick in my word for Mrs. Crawford. I belong to the Bushman Club myself, but have never had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Bushman personally, but Mrs. Crawford is absolutely right about all she says of Bushie. I can positively say that all with whom I have corresponded that HAVE met him were lavish in his praise — not only Mrs. Crawford, but about twenty more of my penfriends. Mrs. Crawford has stated it better than most of them, however. Now, as to facial expression. The young ladies boast of Wallace Reid. Well, if Wallie has any facial expression I'd like to find it. To me, he seems like a Piute Indian, and the only thing he can do is make love and grimace with those "kissable" lips of his. And dont let those young ladies say a thing more about Kathlyn Williams. Who was it that contributed largely towards the success of "The Spoilers"? Who was the mainstay of "The Ne'er Do Well" and "The Rosary"? KATHLYN WILLIAMS! And, well, when it comes down as far as indigestion, I think the young ladies must be of the John D. Rockefeller class. Again, I want to say that when it comes to comedy, Charles Chaplin has the rest of the bunch beat a mile, after giving them a head start. I'd liked to have seen Max Linder in such plays as "The Adventurer," "The Vagabond" or "The Floor Walker." It would have been a rank failure. It isn't the slapstick entirely that puts Chaplin's work over — it's the subtle humor and pathos of his characters, and /'// say that Chaplin does more real acting than a great many of these bepompadoured, sport-shirted "kissablelipped," first-water heroes. I myself would just like to see Chaplin in a drama for once. I think he would make a decided success of it, tho I wouldn't want him to keep it up. We need him in comedy more than we do in anything else. And why doesn't Chaplin go over and stop the German bullets? He doesn't need to. He's doing his bit staying right over here, cheering up and taking the people's mind off the struggle that is going on "Over There" and cheering the soldiers themselves in the training camps and in the Y. M. C. A. theaters in France. If that isn't as much as Max Linder is doing, well — but, when it comes to Billie West, once is enough, and too much. Now for Earle Williams. He and King Baggot are classed by the young ladies as "has-beens." Well, they're not. Far from it. Earle Williams has more followers now than he ever did. Any one that can say he isn't a sterling actor must have a very queer taste for dramatic ability. I suppose Jack Pickford or Paul Willis would be more to their taste — seeing that they are YOUNG, which seems to be the main requirement for a real actor. Who could have done "The Christian" better. And King Baggot? Well, any one that had seen "Absinthe" or "The Marble Heart" need have no fear of Baggot's popularity. Of course there isn't one actor or actress on the screen that can stay away for any length of time without losing admirers. Take Anita Stewart, for example. She hasn't been gone very long, BUT you couldn't count on both hands the admirers she's lost. Then there are the Gish Girls and Bobby Harron. They've not been gone very long, nor has Blanche Sweet — but what has happened to their following? All going over to the "steadies," many of them who wouldn't dare take even a short vacation for fear of losing standing with the fans. But I guess I've said enough to show that I disagree with the young ladies to some extent, altho when it comes to Viola Dana, May Allison, Harold Lockwood, Mae Marsh, Polly Frederick, and Olga Petrova — well, let's shake hands, girls, on that par,t at least. We »cant all have the same favorites, of course, for then what would become of the other players? But we must all stick up for ours, detrimental or not to the others. And like the girls from Virginia, I'll say the Motion Picture Magazine and the Classic are the best yet, and here's long life to both, and success to OUR favorites in the Hall of Fame. (Continued on page 130) 14