Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1924)

w^i niie Answer M an Tim department is for information of general interest only. Those zvlio desire anstvers by mail, a list of film manufacturers, etc., must enclose a stamped, addressed envelope. All inquiries should contain the name and address of the writer, and, if it is desired that a petitions name be used in anszvcring, it should be -zvrittcn in the upper left-hand corner of the letter Jane S.— Glad to hear from you. I love to make the acq-iaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I dont like to think of myself as growing old. Antonio Mor'»no was born in Spam m 1888 and he is married to Mrs. Daisy Canfield Danziger. Address him at the Famous Players-Lasky Studio, 1520 Vine Street, Los Angeles, Cal. A. Silverman. — Speaking of politics, the Secretary of State ranks at the head of the President's cabinet. Ruth Roland played in "The Red Circle." Ruth is fond of circles, she makes the trip from San Francisco to New York in circles. Parlezvous.— Yes, me too. So you liked "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." It had quite a run in New York. .Try Universal for Jerry Gendron. Yes, there has been some talk of Charles Ray playing in "Merton of the Movies" for the stage. Alice F. — Now, now, you know I dont send pictures of myself to my readers, so dont bribe me. John Gilbert is twenty-nine and married to Leatrice Joy. Cullen Landis is twenty-nine. Lillian Gish is twenty-eight and not married. Eric von Stroheim is about to direct two more pictures for Goldwyn. McDoXALD. — Good old-fashioned name. Of course, I would have my tonsils out. What good are they if they trouble you. Yes, I still have my appendix and tonsils. I'm all there in those respects. Yes, send along the pictures from Australia. Norma Talmadge is still married to Joseph Schenck. Guess she is very happy. Barney Sherry is playing in "Robert E. Lee." You write a very interesting letter. Let me hear from you again. Helex Mc. — \Miy Rudyard Kipling obtained his first name after a lake by that name which is in Stafford. The first meeting of his father and mother occurred on the shore of Lake Rudyard and that led to the eldest Kipling's being given the name Rudyard. I see, so it is Percy Marmont you like. He is playing in "Souvenir" with Agnes Ayres, also as the husband in "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." Yes, he was educated in England. Six feet tall and weighs 150 pounds and has blonde hair and blue eyes. No, I dont seem to mind the cold weather with my long beard. M. D. New Britain. — I dont like to talk about dying, but it was Abraham Lincoln who said "How hard it is to die, and not be able to leave the world any better for one's little life in it." Thanks indeed for the card, I am pleased to be a member of your club, altho an inactive one. A. Jelly Bean. — So you think it is quite exciting to write to me. It is more exciting to read some of these letters. Sometimes I get so excited that I wish I had some hair to pull. And you think you are a mystery. Somi ! Alice Brady is playing on the stage now. Pauline Frederick in "Let Not Man Put Asunder." DuNEDiN Fl.\pper. — So you have the flapper craze in New Zealand, have you? Maude Adams, thru the Guide Made Pictures, Inc., will produce pictures in color, the first being "Aladdin." Miss Adams' association with the Guild does not interfere with her plans for the independent production of "Kim,"' the picture rights to which she recently acquired from Rudyard Kipling. GJad you like William Russell, Buck Jones and the rest of the Fox players. Yes, they are popular over here too. Artist.— -I want to thank the person who sent me the drawing of Lillian Gish as "Diana of the Follies." I believe I answered you thru the mail also. One Who Knows. — So you say that Louis Wolheim was not a professor at Harvard, but is a graduate of Cornell. Perhaps he was ! Freckles. — Well, it isn't what you endeavor to do, it's what you do. That's how you estimate a man. Irene Rich does not gi^e her age, but she was born in Buffalo, and she is five feet six, weighs 138 pounds. She has dark hair and brown e\ es and has two daughters. Gloria Swanson is playing in "A Society Scandal," and some of the scenes were taken in Brooklyn. So you will see the City of Churches. Run in again some time. Ramon Novarro's Best Fax. — I think you do very well with your English. Yes, Valentino has agreed to return to Famous Players and resume the making of pictures. His first picture will be "Monsieur Beaucaire." which will be directed by Sidney Olcott. And of the 2,500,000 wage-eamers in New York Citv, 691,000 are women. M.\rv M. M. H. — That's all right, but moonlight and propinquity are responsible for more engagements than any other dozen of causes. Herbert Rawlinson, Jack Hoxie, Louise Lorraine, Laura LaPlante are all with Universal. Y'es, I think they will send you their pictures. You might write them anyway. Carl E. — No, I have never been in love. A typical old bachelor. Loving too much is a situation more productive of tragedy than not loving enough. No, I haven't the height of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. You can address him at the First National Pictures, 383 Madison Avenue, New York Cit}^ Rex Ingram says upon the completion of "The Arab'' he is going back to sculptoring. D. Af. Australia. — You say you dont know which is better, to be hard-boiled — or half-baked. Well, I should say I would prefer being well done. Yes, of course. May McAvoy did her own dancing in "Her Reputation." She is four feet eleven and has blue eyes and dark-brown hair. Y^'es, she does resemble Jacqueline Logan now that you speak of it. Thanks, but I dont need to try the Wallace "daily dozen" method for chest expansion. Do you? Young Australian. — Well, it's not only the moon that's on its last quarter, but your friend the Answer Man. And you didn't like Anita Stewart in "The Lover Piker." She is playing in "The Great White Way." You might write to First National, Lfnited Studios, Los Angeles, Cal., for both Enid Bennett and Sylvia Breamer. No, I haven't dark hair, neither have I a David Powell mustache. I have several mustaches all in one. Kitty C. — No, I am not the artist ? I've got all I can attend to just being the Answer Man. Milton Sills is married to Gladys Wynn. Write Lon Chaney, Famous Players Studio, Los Angeles, Cal. So you have been dreaming big things, have you — well, in order to make them come true, you must wake up. A. L. G., New York. — Y'es, I read in the Los Angeles Times, where Edwin Markham, the poet, says that Henrj' Ford is another Lincoln. Possibly a poet can not tell the difference between a Ford and a Lincoln, but any garage man can. It is rumored that Glenn Hunter will play in "Merton of the Movies," for the screen. Maria of Harlem. — Thanks for the fee, I'll buy me some buttermilk. Well right now I'm reducing too. So you want me to coax Marguerite Clarke back to the screen. Wish it could be done. So you liked "Potash and Perlmutter" very much. Didn't see it. Gall. — Take from men ambition and vanity, and you will have neither heroes or patriots. Robert Gordon is his real name. He is married to Alma Francis. Educated at Los Angeles Polytechnic Junior College, played on the stage for a season with Hollywood Community Players, and started his screen career with Paramount in "The Varmint." Is that all ? Write me ag_ ,i. Loutilda. — Y'ou have made my burdens lighter to bear. No one is useless in the world who lightens the burdens of it for anyone else. Norman Kerry was born in New York, educated at St. John's Military Academy, in Annapolis. He is six feet two, weighs 180 pounds, has dark hair and