Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

un-movie-like person, certainly, ever interviewed ; eager and ready to learn from everybody, almost humble in her gentleness, devoted to her family, which consifts of her mother and Dorothy, undesirous of fame, preferring to be commanded rather than to command, fragile, ill but omnipotently strong because ol her very fragility, poetic with a subtly underlying practicality, a philosopher and a dreamer of dreams, an arti>t and just a girl. . . . The gossamer stuff of dreams as well as deeds and deeds as well as dreams. The One-Man Movie itinued from {'age 37) and they are learning to put one man in charge of one drama. He writes it. puts it into continuity, supervises direction. plans photographic effects, work-; with the art director, casts and rehearses the company." Mr. Emerson laughed, "Sounds simple, doesn't it? Believe me, it's a man-sized job — an artist-sized job at that. But it'the only way. It's new — as much oi a novelty as was Griffith's first-back or fadeout effect." "It's just that— its youth and its centralization of creative work in the hands of the writers — which give the amateurs their chance." Miss Loos explained, seeing that the interviewer was beginning to flounder a bit. The connection between new production methods and amateurs at all clear. He murmured something about the man who "never is but alwaj s to be blessed." "I know." the sub-debish person looked older suddenly as she responded with more heat than she had yet shown, ^'1 know that the average amateur is sure the professional will not give him a chance. Any one who will learn the rides, get out into the lot and get to know the technical side, who will keep on trying until he really knows, has the greatest opity in the world to make good." "How about money?" Miss Loos toyed with a silken tassel on the big blue pillow with the offended air of a devotee of art who di -likes to hear mention of money. Mr. Emerson, being a man and materialistic, took the plu "Not less than $3,000 to S5.000." be "Rumor has it that a successful mag writer has just turned down a $100 Of coi'r~c the bigger the name the r the demand, not so much bei the advertising value of hk preniee — the producer usually changes the nan a well-known novel — but because the ap of a popular writer i> pretty certain." "But," the erstwhile offended Miss Loos inserted at this point, feeling, apparently, that they were far enough away from lid matters, "any original plot is wel "W'e're buying plays for Ton-tance Talmadge now, using them a starting p lr own drama — " "But we'd love a story by some one eUe which we could really use. Original Hal is mighty scarce." r all it' the photodramatists who will make money," said Mr. Emerson, k of fie thinirs again. "A writer of inal plots may run dry or he may have bad luck. It's a precarious way of fiirhtincr the H. C. of L. But the ;.• man is in ever increasing demand. • are practically no trained experts in the field." It sounded like a correspondence -H-iool advertisement. M -itive to (Continued on fa'je 109) And then, through a beautiful actress, I discovered home Electric Massage I 0* THIS stage beauty, a radiant, youthful woman who has been famous for years, confided to me that electric massage is the one daily luxury that she insists on having. As a matter of fact she told me that this is not a luxury but an absolute necessity. So I bought a 'Star' and I'm delighted!" Likewise, to every woman who is not satisfied, unless she looks her very best, at all times, home electric massage is the one health-andbeauty treatment she can rely on. She knows that massage, when properly applied, will keep her complexion clear, fresh and colorful ; her hair and scalp in the pink of condition ; her figure supple, attractive and of youthful contour. Today more than half a million Star Electric Massage Vibrators are being used daily, Hundreds of women have written us that they are delighted with the almost magical results that the "Star" has wrought with their once muddy, unattractive complexions; stubborn, coarse-looking hair and unwelcome body blemishes. Don't the experiences of these other women prove to you that you, too, can re-create your skin, your hair, your youthful contour? Such beautiful women as Grace Davison, Corinne Griffith, Evelyn ( rosnell, photoplay stars shown below, and scores of others, use and endorse the Star Electric Massage Vibrator. Get a "Star" today. Price $5.00 for complete outfit. At leading drug, department and electrical-goods stores or direct from us on receipt of $5 and your favorite dealer's name and address. ( 1'riee in Canada, $7.50.) Fitzgerald Mfg. Co., Dept. 216, Torrington, ( onn. arMaf/Jge Vibrator ^-Jor use Inyour own home Corinne Griffith ■