Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1918-Jan 1919)

3TI0N piCTURF MAGAZINE U QBMSS THE AUGUST Motion Picture Classic An Aeroplane View of the Picture People And Their Work Every Little Studio Has a Temper of Its Own Here's a real inside story, with real studio atmosphere, about real studio people. Hazel Simpson Naylor recently visited the Famous Players, World, and Metro studios in search of something new to tell you, on the outside. She was just about to give up in despair when one of Filmland's stars, one whose disposition is as radiant and sunny as her sparkling blue eyes and golden hair, suggested a most interesting idea— one that has never been done before. Conjure up your idea of players from these studios whom you have seen on the screen, and then read Miss Naylor's story in the August Classic — as they really are. Miss Naylor has certainly given you an aeroplane view of studio folks. At the Fox Studio With the Extra Girl Ethel Rosemon's newest venture is playing with Miriam Cooper, the beautiful Fox star. Director Walsh has been producing a vivid war story and our Extra Girl was sent to create atmosphere — and, incidentally, to get a story for you. And such a story ! All the little studio touches are theic — even to the secret that Miriam takes a rev." egg at stated intervals during the day; she loathes being so thin! We think that is one of her greatest charms — her slenderness. And then there's the checker game. Miriam can beat any one in the Fo But, there, read the story for yourself in the August Classic _ We wont spoil it by telling you all about it beforehand. It would be like having some one behind you at the movies telling all about the picture on the screen. It does get your goat, doesn't it? Have You a Little Secret Panel in Your Home? A secret panel gives a gort "of sneaky pleasure to its owner — and "there are a lot of them in existence today, especially since this world war has been going on. One must be ever on the alert for the unexpected to happen in these days of spies and secret agents, so you mustn't get excited if you suddenly see a face peering at you fjom a panel in some door that you thought.perf ectly stationary. Picture plays use the secret panel quite a bit to create mystery, especially in Wallace Reid's latest picture, "The Firefly of France." A Close-Up of Other Things to Be Anticipated There will be an intimate story of Mary Miles Minter, in which she betrays her. inmost self ; Fritzi Remont will tell you about Enid Bennett's honeymoon, and Louise Glaum explains just why she is forsaking vampire roles. You will also find the storyized version of Wallace Reid's forthcoming picture, "Less Than Kin," and "No Man's Land," a Metro story starring Bert Lytell and Anna Nilsson. Dont be without the August Classic — you'll find numerous spare moments when time hangs heavily on your hands. Why not read about your player friends? MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC 175 Duffield St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 120 The Lily of "Hearts of the World" (Continued ft to know a little Australian lassie who knew and appreciated the stage and its silent and spoken art. I invited her to go with me, and her heart was quite full at the prospect of being present at the first showing, under such delightful circumstances. Griffith and his art had always been one of her idols. We were both quite in the seventh heaven when we reached the theater and passed along the flower-lined lobby. Just inside the door, who should we meet but the great Griffith himself? After an exchange of greetings and a word of appreciation for the invitation to attend his "first night," I asked if I might introduce the little Australian. Mind you, dozens of personal friends of this great man were standing in line waiting for a chance to speak to him. Did he hurry? He did not! He smiled down at the bewildered little girl before him, just as if she were the guest of honor, and said, "I'm mighty glad to meet you, little lady from a far-away land!" As she followed me to our seats, her eyes were moist with tears of plain appreciation. A very great, busy and popular man had taken time to greet a lonely little girl in a big, strange country. I wont go into the triumph of the performance. You all have heard of it ere now. Tho the reporters may have neglected to say that Griffith just brushed away the tears when the house went mad after the final curtain and demanded his appearance. You may appreciate that this was the climax of fourteen months' hard work. And — Griffith was not ashamed of his tears. I watched the Gish girls leave the theater with their mother. They held their heads down bashfully and modestly, and looking like sweet girl graduates, entered their car. 9 The following day I went to the Gish home for luncheon. The big Persian cat greeted me at the door, and Lillian had to admit the cat and the writer at the same time. The Gish girls have been trying to keep cats and birds together successfully for some time, and when I saw them last, the cat was still alive and they had two love-birds, a few canaries and a cockatoo to keep tabby interested in living. Lillian savs the cockatoo is "just human." He' answers the telephone for them anyway. If I had a bird with that talent I'd teach him a few words that are taboo in my own vocabulary. Mrs. Gish came forward to greet me, and a sweeter-faced little lady I have seldom met. Lillian curled up on a divan, mother chose a comfy rocker, and I took the biggest chair in the room. They told me of the many months spent in warstricken Europe — of the air raids in London, and how, with good reason, they spent most of their time wishing they were back in the old U. S. A. Lillian is a great reader — thinks deeply and reads good things. Among the experiences most treasured on the trip abroad to make "Hearts of the World" was the meeting of two of her idols, J. M. Barrie and G. B. Shaw. Quite in contrast to her sister Dorothy, Lillian is very quiet and serious. Just as Dorothy respects and looks up to her sister, so "does Lillian enjoy the little sister's fun and romps. When Dorothy came dashing downstairs, bubbling over with the joy of living, I was introduced to the romp of the family. om page 83) "Lillian liked London !" she exclaimed. "She liked everything English — the quaint old vine-covered houses and the quiet country places. Not for me ! I liked Paris best! Just think— there was only one place in all London where we could get an ice-cream soda!" I spoke of Dorothy's good work the night before in the play. "That character of Dorothy's just suited her," said Lillian. "Funny as it may seem, when you see us together, we do not look so much alike, but we do photograph very much alike. "So we planned and planned to find a good make-up that would give Dorothy a chance to be different. One day, walking down a main street in Paris, we saw the character we wanted — a typical girl of the Paris streets, a tough little tomboy, a sassy Tarn set at a jaunty angle on one side of her head, a boyish little suit and a shirt opened low at the throat. "We followed her for blocks, watching her every move. Dorothy tried to imitate her walk as we went — and you saw the result, the sassy swagger in 'Hearts of the World.' " "She was the sassiest thing," laughed Dorothy. "She met a soldier on the street and, walking up to him, put her elbow on his shoulder and leaned over on him as if he were a post." When luncheon was announced we went into the charming mahogany-furnished dining-room, Dorothy chattering all the while, telling me that she and her chum, Constance Talmadge, had both agreed to quit eating candy, that it was spoiling their complexions. With the appreciation and enjoyment you would expect a girl graduate to show, Lillian pointed out the flowers in the room that friends had sent them the night before. "Wasn't it lovely of them!" she exclaimed. "I do so love flowers." When the door-bell rang and the maid came to the dining-room to say that some one wanted to see the "lady of the house," Lillian exclaimed, "Now, mother, we dont want to buy any lace or baby garments, or have any washing-machines demonstrated." "Mother," she explained, as Mrs. Gish left the room, "just cant say 'No' to any one. Last week she bought a whole trunkful of lace from a peddler — stuff that we cant possibly use." After luncheon, when we went upstairs to don our wraps for a drive, Mother Gish showed me her babies' pictures. "My girls have never given me a moment's worry!" she said with pride. In the sewing-room, where the lovebirds and the cockatoo hold forth, dainty rainbow garments were in the making, bits of chiffon in lavenders, pinks and blues, latticed with dainty Val lace. The whole home atmosphere is just the same that you find in any lovely home. Love is there — perfect understanding. Nothing up-stage about these two stars, no envy of each other's success ! As we left the house I took an inventory, as a woman will, of Lillian's costume. She wore a white skirt and waist with a short black jacket having white cuffs and collar. A soft white hat framed her face. Her lips are thin, beautifully formed, like a rosebud; her skin is unusually white ; her hair a soft, natural blonde and her eyes a lovely blue-gray. She uses no rouge. She is all tliat is refined. A patrician from her head to her heels. Dorothy wore the same kind of waist