Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1921-Jan 1922)

TWWW [CSfe Z&fispoer* '3S$Oifi^ J. C. B. — Why, the "Musty Suffers" comedies haven't been done in years. Count of Noah Count. — Yes, I think Theda Bara was a good Carmen, also Pola Negri, and last of all, Geraldine Farrar. Whom did you like best. Dick, Rudy and Gene. — So this is your first offense. Hope you come often. Just send your verses in to the Editorial Department. Well, they say the best wedge to drive out an old love is to take in a new. Carmel Myers is playing in "The Black Cap." Yes, indeed, Billie Rhodes is playing — she and Victor Potel arc playing in "The Stolen Umbrella." Howard C. Camden. — Your letter was great. I read every word of it. Wish I had room to print it. So you knew Jack Pickford when he was a baby. Thanks for all you say about me. I'm going to ask for a raise after that. Anna A. — Thanks for sending me the box of Social Teas. You wanted Wallace Reid and Corliss Palmer to have tea with you. I'm sure they both thank you also. Sunshine. — Oh, dont be so indignant. Indignation is grief and anger boiled up to the height. You think I am ugly because I wont tell you about myself. I have told you so many times that I am eighty. Wheeler Oakman, opposite Mabel Normand, in "Mickey." You say, "if you answer me it will be the superlative felicity of my sub-lunary existence to congratulate you upon your miraculous knowledge of human nature." "Tis well. Now we're both happy. Of course, I like Kathlyn Williams. Mary Thurman and William Russell are playing for Fox. Douglas MacLean, in "Passing Thru." Write me again. Ruth, Fredericksburg. — Well, people who are "tired of life" are always taking medicine. I am quite contented with life, and if I had any more money, I wouldn't know what to do with it. No, Victor Smith isn't with Vitagraph any more. That player's first wife is married to a doctor, and his second died. He now has a third. Clara Horton, opposite Hoot Gibson, in "The Mascotte of the Three Star." Hayakawa Admirer. — Comment vous en vaf We had an interview with Sessue Hayakawa in the October, 1920, issue of the Magazine by Adele Whitely Fletcher. Yes, Harry Myers is playing with Grace Darmond in "Handle with Care." Ben Turpin, in a series of two-reel comedies for Mack Sennett. Gene O'Brien Forever. — So you dont like the way I "call" Eugene O'Brien. Why, there's nobody who likes him any better than I do, and I hope I haven't hurt your feelings. Rebecca of Sunnybrook. — Oh, yes, I can read expressions. Why dont you send me one of yours. Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand, than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence. May McAvoy is four feet eleven inches in height and Mary Pickford is five feet. Jack is going to play in "The Tailor-Made Man." Yes, Lillian Gish is a blonde, and a beautiful one. Robert Harron died September, 1920. Gumsucker. — So you are very curious. Well, there is one thing to say for curiosity, and that is, that it has made some very valuable discoveries. Barbara Bedford, in "Deep Waters." You want to know when Beverly Bayne, Violet Mersereau and Enid Markey are coming back to the screen. Wish I could tell you. Hobart Bosworth is starring in his own company. Nerissa. — Well, I always try to be cheerful. Isn't that the way to be ? Who has not what he loves, must love what he has. Victor Nevarre was Fantomas and Renee Carl was Lady Betham. Shirley Mason played in "The Mother Heart." Yes, Elaine Hammerstein, in "Handcuffs and Kisses." B. A. Freeman.— Well, I would like to know, too, where Valentine Grant is. I haven't heard of her in years. Will someone page her? Selrahc. — That's what you get for betting. Tom Formaii, and not Casson Ferguson, in "The \* Sea Wolf." Mollie King is in vaudeville. So you ^ think Torchy is almost as funny as Harold Lloyd. : "Theodora" and "The Ship" were made in Rome, and Goldwyn will release them. Let me hear from you jain. I liked yours. Sphinx. — No, no, it isn't time to think of my winter flannels yet. I'm still in my B. V. D.'s. I can't say. aren't you, because you dont wear them. Lead me to that garden of Bacchus. Mary Miles Minter was in Europe for a while this summer, but she is in California now. Realart Company. Griffith is doing "The Two Orphans," with the Gish girls. Fox did it with Theda Bara and Jean Sothern. A Florida Fan. — I have a Westinghouse alongside of me right now. After I read some of these letters I think I am at Coney Island. Ever been there? Oh, boy! So you want more said about your favorite, Clyde Fillmore. To be sure, he is entitled to an interview, and if you are patient, you shall have it. May McAvoy will play the role of Babbie, that Maude Adams made famous in "The Little Minister," for Famous PlayersLasky. Yes, I like her, too. June B. — That might stand for anything — June Bride or June Bug. Which is it? Jack Holt, in "Ducks and Drakes." Well, it may be folly to be wise, but it is sometimes a convenient sort of foolishness. Louise Huff is playing opposite George Arliss in "Disraeli." L. B. S. — Why, the expression, "Between hay and grass," is a proverbial expression in America, equivalent to the English word "hobble-de-hoy," that is, a youth between boyhood and manhood. You want to know all about Tom Mix. He has been recently interviewed, and it will appear soon. Cecil Vanaker, in "Girl of My Heart." Togo Yamamoto was the Chinaman in "The River's End." You're very welcome. Call again. C. C. B. — You're right, nature gives every man a character, but he has to supply his own reputation. Why, Roberta Courtland is in Atlanta right now,, doing special writing. Thanks for the snapshots. You ought to screen well. Why dont you try to have some tests before a camera? Write to me again. Achilles. — Thanks for the joke. The longer I live, the less I know that I know. "The Birth of a Nation" has been revived, and shown on Broadway. Edith Storey is going to play in "The Beach of Dreams." Yes, she was one of my favorites years ago. Louise Dupree is Mary Pickford's double, so they say. No, my heart is not insured. And now they say Doraldina is having her legs — limbs, rather — insured for $125,000. Wonder if Houdini has his arms insured? Harrison Ford, opposite Constance Talmadge, in "Wedding Bells." George Walsh and Miriam Cooper, in "Serenade." You're quite welcome. Kathleen, Dunedin. — Well, I dont like to see a woman cry. It isn't right. They say the sporting spirit is that which prompts a man to admire a woman cordially for not crying when he breaks her heart. No. Douglas MacLean is not married. I never hear from Flossie C. P. any more. She has forgotten me entirely. Olga 17 was in to see me the other day. She was looking better than ever. So you want to see chats with Betty Compson, Lila Lee and Viola Dana. Bogs, N. Z. — That's the spirit. You have the right idea, and you see it pays to wait. Surprised to learn that New Zealand is so particular about their pictures. So you think you wont see "Broken Blossoms" or "The Right Girl"? No, Marguerite Clark's husband never played in pictures. So Petrova is still your favorite, and you wish she would come back to the screen. Be patient, as I said above, and you may yet see her. Lucy B. — So you are twelve. You write a clever letter for that. Marguerite Clayton and John O'Brien, in "Bride 13." Harrison Ford, Talmadge Studio, 318 East Forty-eighth Street, New York City. Run in any time. Mille Baisers. — You say, to succeed as the wife of a man of temperament, a woman mn be a trained nurse of the affections — quick to detect a temperature and know just what to do about it. But most women always do the wrong thing. .So you didn't like the Vivian Martin cover. You say it looked like Henderson's seed catalog. Cheer up, there are better ones coming. Write to me again. I like yours. 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