Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1924)

GMOTION PICTURfT nOI I MAGAZINE • O,: Well kept hair is the most important feature of a mans looks today No matter how you wear your hair, Stacomb will keep it in order all day. In jars and tubes — at all drug and department stores. FREE OFFER Standard Laboratories, Inc. Dept. ll-O 113 West 18th Street. New York City Please send me, free of charge, a generous sample tube of Stacomb, Name Address Let the children have all the Beemarfs they want— its healthful and tasty— its use is Pepsin Gumi^ I AMERICAN CHICLE CO. 74 On the Camera Coast (Cont'uiucd jrotn page 65) Mayer and Metro Studios are to be closed and all future productions are to done at the big Goldwyn Studio in Culver City. .A.ltho combined for convenience" sake, the three companies will maintain their individuality and will produce pictures under their own separate banners. Louise Fazenda has parked her funny clothes and let her back hair down. She has forsaken comedy, forever she hopes. For the first time in her life she will have a part without a shadow or suspicion of comedy as Deborah in Grace Flandreau's "Being Respectable." Louise once told me that she never saw Lillian Gish on the screen that she did not go home and cry herself to sleep. Because that was the stuff her soul hankered after; not comedy. She says she has always hated comedy. Jack Dempsey, the champ, has been besieged bj' many kinds of agents and admirers ere this; hut never this kind before. His hotel room is fairly cluttered up with agents for rouge and eyebrow pencils. Jack's disgust was terrible to witness when some one asked him for a testimonial for a lipstick. But it's all part of being an actor and Jack is about to be an actor out at Universal, in a series of Gerald Beaumont stories. .\ntonio Moreno is to have a special clause put in his ne.xt Laskj' contract whereby he gets a two months' vacation in order to go back to Spain to visit his mother. He has been trj-ing to make the trip for years, but a new picture alwaj's catches him and holds him back. Tony s mother lives in a little town in the south of Spain near Gibraltar. She has never seen Tony's wife, who, altho a very rich woman all her life, has never made a trip abroad. A great celebration took place in Hollywood recently when Theodore Roberts' physician allowed him to smoke the first cigar the veteran actor has smoked in four months, since he was taken sick in Pittsburg on his vaudeville tour. Ralph Graves has signed a contract with Mack Sennett to make a series of two-reel light comedies. These will be an abrupt departure from the old-time Sennett style, being no slapstick affairs, but more like the Van Bibber atmosphere. Sennett says that Graves more nearly typifies the modern young American than any boy he has been able to find in Hollywood. Alargaret Livingston made such a hit in "Wandering Husbands" that Ince has decided to star her in a series of flapper pictures. Warner Ba.xter has also been signed by Lice on a long-term contract. Leatrice Joy having been raised to stardom on account of her brilliant work in "The Ten Commandments," Cecil De ^lille will use Estellc Taylor as the featured player in his ne.xt pictures. Jackie Saunders cast her bread upon the waters a few days ago by lending two handsome fur coats to some flapper friends who were coatless. While they were still being borrowed, burglars broke into Miss .Saunders' house and stole her other fur coat. This shows us, children, that it pays to be warm-hearted. Charlie Chaplin has dashed away to .\laska to get there before the snow melts. He sent on ahead of him twenty-five carpenters and property men. He was accompanied by a grand retinue consisting of a personal chef, house staff, butler and assistant butlers. With all of which support, Charles is to play the part of a rou.gh Alaska miner. At last accounts. Norma Tahnadge was on a wild hunt for a storj' They had three different continuities written for "The House of Youth" ; then threw them all away. Also the story. Constance has been having similar adventures. They had a story all started with thousands of dollars' worth of sets built; then dropped the whole thing. An S. O. S. call was then sent to iVew York for Anita Loos, who came out and wrote an original story for Connie. Lew Cody is to go on a vacation trip to the South Seas some time this summer as the guest of Cliff Durant, the automobile magnate. New York's famous actor hotel, the Algonquin, is to have a counterpart in {Continued on page 78) Carmel Myers demonstrates how simple it would be to hide as a stowaway and make a flight around the world. Gertrude Olmsted and Maior F. L. Martin are her audience f