Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

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He cabled to South Africa, convincing the claimant for avuncular relationship that Charles Ray was just Charles Ray, without a share in a diamond miiieT I know, for the cablegram went thru my office and even a calloused letter-reader like myself felt for the man's disappointment. Now if / had only been able to make up to resemble Mr. Ray perhaps these confessions would never have been written! No such letters have come as yet to Mr. Douglas MacLean and Miss Doris May, tho in volume their correspondence equals that of any of our stars. So fb-mly are they linked together in the popular mind that should the envelope be addressed to Mr. MacLean the letter invariably refers to Miss May as well. If the children at an orphan asylum beg Miss May to spend an afternoon amusing them, she must certainly bring Mr. MacLean with her. And there have been many of these requests lately. In the nature of paying visits, come other invitations of a less exacting nature. The young twain who appealed so strongly in "23y2 Hours' Leave," bid fair to become society favorites if they accept even a part of the invitation to dinners and weekends at exclusive California homes. This is an unusual aspect of a motion picture star's correspondence and, I believe, in the case of Mr. Ince's youthful stars it is unique. I notice a falling-off in the offerings of presents that used to come in great number to the stars. It may be that people are beginning to realize the plutocratic households maintained nowadays by their favorites. Recently a charming remembrance came to Mr. MacLean and Miss May that would seem to show that the old order of things is passing, even while the spirit remains, for instead of something useless, came a collection of fresh-water pearls from a man in Arkansas, who had found and collected them himself. Six strung on a fine chain for Miss May, and four, set in cufflinks, for Mr. MacLean. The donor explained that he had been saving them for his children, a boy and girl, who had recently passed on, and would the stars accept them as a token of his gratitude for the pleasure they had brought into his life? A real human document, I call that. In fact, in almost every letter that comes to the stars, there is a heart-beat. I suppose that is because motion pictures are first of all democratic and bring people to the theater who might not go to a stage play. There is something, too, in the intimate contact which exists between a screen star and his audience that does not exist even when the voice is heard on the stage. Indeed, one woman wrote to the MacLean-May combination, saying that she was deaf and dumb, and therefore never went to the theater except when her favorites appeared on the screen. Then she could tell by the movements of their lips what was said and knew, she_ said, that "their words always expressed joyful thoughts." And so it goes : letters, letters, letters. All kinds, written badly and written beautifully, expressed awkwardly and phrased with taste and understanding. Often I am reminded that if people were not interested they would not write at all. That's just it: they are interested in their stars more than in their writers, their singers and the makers of their laws. I might add — "and the maker of some of their stars," for Mr. Ince gets his share of letters, too, tho his private secretary naturally assumes the functions of the mail clerk who goes thru the stars' letters.