Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

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Dept. 0-1 52 Chic a got I PLAY BY mm Be a Jazz Music Master Yea you can, even if you have never touched a piano. The Niagara School of Music has perfected a method of instruction which will enable you to play all the popular song hits perfectly by ear. All you need to know is ho Our methodwhich you ca while-will ei form the tun through youi JAZZY mus All by ear. It Is Easy To Learn Many masters of Jazz and Raptime music don't kn ■only 20 lessons, n master in a little table you to trans> which is running head into actual c on the piano. Bes ster self. It is easy— the lessons interesting and simple - no tedious ding-dong daily practice, with the do, re, mi. until you think you will go crazy— not at all— just 20 brief entertaining lessons ard you have a musical ability at which your friends will marvel. You simply play by ear. Hum the Tune, Play [t by Ear Hear a new popular song hit, hum the tune, play it yourself. All by ear. Just think how many dull hours this easily acquired ability will make happy, —how many friends you will make happy,— how popu';<r you will be when you JAZZ the newest song success of Broadway after hearing it. All done by ear. Be a Jazz Music Master and enjoy life. Pend for our free booklet. The Niagara Method," today. Itis brimful of interesting and live matter Niagara School of Music, Niagara Falls, N. Y. .......MAIL THIS TO-DAY------ Dept. 196 Without obligation to me, please mail to acklresa below, your Booklet, "The Niagara Method. 20 LESSONS by I IMA It Name Street City State. ti ^126 afi£ Lockwood Admirer. — I hardly think any of Harold Lockwood's pictures will be reissued. He has no relatives on the screen. Thank you. Pat of Detroit. — Your fault seems to be in that you take disappointment as a discouragement, whereas it should be a stimulant. Pearl White was born in Missouri. Mae Murray is not the sister of Charles. Jack Mulhall is not married. Ruth Clifford is still in pictures. Yes, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" is being reissued with Marie Dressier, Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand. Mrs. Alice R. Allen writes that no one has been authorized to reorganize the Bushman Club at this time until the tour on the legitimate stage in the play "The Master Thief," by Francis Bushman and Beverly Bayne, is concluded. Joyce M. A.— I'm afraid I cant help you. You write, "Since you are the Answer Man, perhaps you can offer some suggestions as to how to exterminate the gumchewers at the right of you, gum-chewers at the left of you, gum-chewers behind you volleying and thundering. Woe is me who sitteth amongst them." This is the most unkindest cut of all. I am a gumchewer myself. But if some people chew as others eat soup, my suggestion is that' the management supply Maxim silencers. Plentibus Phulum. — Horrors ! Help ! Hibiscus ! In part you say, "You take such careful precautions to emphasize your relationship to the stronger sex, that my suspicions have been aroused and I really believe you to be a giddy, young peroxide blonde." Avast ! Begone ! I am neither giddy, young, peroxide nor blonde. Yes, you can get in touch with Madge Kennedy, Goldwyn Co., Fort Lee, N. Y. She is not an old maid — she would be a bachelor girl, except that she is married to Harold Bolster. Norman L. — It was Emerson who said "The first wealth is health." That is the only wealth I have. Elliott Dexter in "The Translation of a Savage." Yes, 25 cents is right. Not colored. Ethel Barrymore's screen play is "The Superwoman/' Miss M. Le C. — Dont fear, child. You see I dont bite. I really think I am tamer than I used to be. Oh, yes, grease-paint covers a multitude of sins and scars. I'm afraid we would not have that issue for sale anyway. It was in 1912, I believe. I admire your literary style. L. J. N. — I stand corrected ! You say, "The Peace Conference was held in Paris ; the Peace Treaty was signed at Versailles. The reason I happen to know is because I was a member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. Our headquarters were in the Hotel de Crillon, on the Place de la Concorde. All the other Allied countries also had their headquarters in Paris, and the meetings of the various committees were held in the city of Paris." Peace be with you and I thank you, distinguished sir. Admirator. — Thomas Meighan's wife is Frances Ring. Louise Huff is married to Mr. Stillman. She was divorced from Edgar Jones. Julian Eltinge is about 5 feet 8j4 and William Farnum is 5 feet 10y2. Dont mention it. Queen Elizabeth. — Thanks for the United coupons. I'm saving up for a coffee percolator. I just got an alarm clock. History repeats itself, they say. At the consecration of the national cemetery on the battlefield of Gettysburg, Nov., 1863, President Lincoln in an addiess, speaking of the victorious army, said : "The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here ; but it can never forget what they did here" ; but he was wrong, for what he said there will live always. Nemo. — Thanks for the pictures. You write a very fine letter for one who has been in this country such a short time. So you like Theda Bara. She was with Fox, and is now on the stage. Freckles. — You say you love to write letters, and you have no relatives. Let me be your poor relation. Write often. No wonder this magazine is the best of all, as you say. We have always tried to give the facts briefly, so that people will read them ; clearly, so that they will understand them ; forcibly, so that they will appreciate them ; picturesquely, so that they will remember them ; accurately, so that they may be wisely guided by their light. Viola Dana is a widow. No, I cant give you a list of the stars that came from Boston. You think I ought to write great scenarios. The companies dont think they are so great. Gardez bien. B. L. W. — Oh for a new Isaac Newton, who would invent a new law of gravitation that would prevent prices going up. Everything is going up around here except elevators — the elevator men are on strike. Yes, William Russell is out West. No, Louise Lovely is not married. Of course you are my friend. You ask if I ever hit the high spots. Oh, boy! Whoops! Our readers often go into movie theaters to laugh, but do not often realize that they can get many a good laugh by reading the funny wording of some of the signs out in front and in the lobby. We have noticed how audiences enjoy these funny signs which have been shown on the screen in The Literary Digest "Topics of the Day." So we have compiled the following list of signs which brought roars of laughter when screened in both vaudeville and picture theaters. Movie theater sign : " 'WATCH YOUR WIFE' EVERY NIGHT THIS WEEK" — Albany Argus Sign in front of Harlem movie theater: " 'MOTHER. I NEED YOU' FOR THREE DAYS BEGINNING NOV. 30th" —New York Globe Sign in front of movie house: "Geraldine Farrar, Supported for the first time by Her Husband." — Columbus (O.) Citizen Sign in a movie pictorium : " 'HER WEDDING NIGHT' every night this week." — Boston Transcript PUZZLED "Did you see a drama or a comedy at the movie show tonight?" "I dont know. It wasn't labeled." The Little Master Builder (Continued, from page 112) to come North every one said of me, 'Wait until Blanche McGarity comes back . . ^ she wont be the same . . . she'll change.' And I told them that they had never been so wrong . . . that no matter what happens . . . how great, how small . . . the Blanche McGarity that comes back will be the same Blanche that went away, happy if there be success, still hopeful if there be failure . . . which there wont,*' she added, while the spirit of the fighting ancestors,, players and pioneers touched her blue eyes and her_ smiling lips with a whimsical, invincible light. lz_