Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1922)

«°™KIU Caught on tke Boulevard {Continued from page 31) One of them asked the other if she was Mary Pickford. In a whisper came the reply, "No, she ain't got curls !" "They dont know who I am," tittered Miss Ferguson. "Great! I'll have to fire my press-agent." But, without either Helen or myself disclosing the secret of her identity, we managed to get a dollar reduction on the tire tube. Helen handed the man a five-dollar bill. He beamed. "I bet you'll never think to send him that photograph," I commented, knowing, as I do, of the forgetfulness of the famous. "I'll bet I will!" she said. "You think I wont, if it'll get me a reduction on all my garage bills ?" While the tire was being fixed, we stood on the curbstone watching operations. Any number of film satellites passed by in their gasmobiles — at least half a million dollars' worth, if salaries are to be taken into consideration. Tom Mix went by again. There was a smile on his lips when he noted our fallen glory. Ralph Graves and his wife waved felicitations from a speeding Stutz. Earl Metcalfe, two old ladies and a tiredlooking man breezed by ; Nazimova's Rolls-Royce passed, showing the Russian star taking a nap in the back seat. Altogether, it was a festive occasion. We managed to drive home without further mishap. On the way there, Miss Ferguson chanced to tell me about her two little proteges — their thrill at motoring, and all that. It seems that they are a pair of Jewish youngsters who worked with her in "Hungry Hearts" at Goldwyn. They knew how to swear so well that it attracted her attention. Not having any children of her own, she started in to reform them. Now she's got them so that they can come out to her house without scandalizing the neighborhood. Personally, Miss Ferguson is the sort of girl to whom any mother would like to see her son married. Quick on the mental trigger, good-natured, capable. She can cook and do housework, besides act. Very recently she obscured her rather Southern type of beauty to play the leading role in "Hungry Hearts." It is that of a Jewish immigrant girl, and Helen got the effect by skinning her hair back and drawing down the corners of her mouth by make-up. It is, she says, the best chance she has ever had on the screen. She doesn't want to be a star. "Any day in the week," she declared, "I would rather play in a first-rate all-star cast, where you really have a chance to act, than to star in a picture where the supporting cast is bad. Companies always save expenses in star-pictures by cutting down on the salaries of supporting actors. It spoils the picture — the star comes in for the critical panning, and pretty soon we hear that another luminary has died a natural death." "Burning Daylight" and "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" were the two plays that first brought Miss Ferguson into real prominence, altho before that she had played at Fox in a number of pictures, among which was "The Challenge of the Law," opposite William Russell. Now she is decidedly big-league in the film colony. She was one of the cast of "Miss Lulu Bett," in which her work was outstanding. But, withal, she would never be taken for a typical motion picture actress. Frankly, amusingly, she tells of her former experiences as a stenographer in a Chicago business office. She was too pretty to stay there — the films had to get her. I told her I was going to say this in print. "Oh !" she groaned, "if you do . . . !" 1 The Price You Pay For dingy film on teeth Let us show you by a ten-day test how combating film in this new way beautifies the teeth. Now your teeth are coated with a viscous film. You can feel it with your tongue. It clings to teeth, enters crevices and stays. 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