Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1924-Jan 1925)

dfi ^MOTION PICTURF e)l I MAGAZINE * » "I Can Teach You to Dance Like This — Sergei Marinoff You can study classic dancing in all its forms. Greek, aesthetic, intrepretive, Russian, ballet — under the direction of the famous Sergei MarinoS . This remarkable home study system, endorsed by well known dancing teachers and dancers, enables anyone to master the technique of the dance. MarinoS makes the training easy and fascinating. You have a complete studio in your home. The equipment consisting of practice costume, slippers, phonograph records, and dancing bar, are furnished free with the course. Write Today! Everyone interested in dancing should write to Sergei Marinofi at once and get complete information about his splendid system of home instruction in Classic Dancing. This information is free. Write today. Sergei Marinoff, School of Classic Dancing 1924 Sunnygide Ave., Studio C-126, Chicago Do this for sunburn . Don't spoil a good time/ After a lazy hour on the beach, a speedy hour on the tennis court, or a round of golf, splash the burned skin freely with Absorbine, Jr. It cools and soothes instantly — takes out all the soreness and inflammation. And the next day only a slightly deeper coat of tan as a reminder of the day's sport. Absorbine, Jr. is not greasy. It does not show. Its clean, agreeable odor quickly disappears. It may be used on the most delicate skin. And for those troublesome insect bites Absorbine, Jr. almost instantly stops the pain, the inflammation and the swelling. At all druggists', $1.25, or postpaid Liberal trial bottle, 10c, postpaid W. F YOUNG, Inc. 292 Lyman St. Springfield, Mass. Other timely uses: Cuts Insect bites Strains Tired feet Bruises Stiffness Our Reporter's Notebook {Continued from page 74) water?" Which reminds us of the sagacity of a youngster we heard talking to her father on top of a Fifth Avenue bus. Her father was pointing out to her the handsome plate-glass windows along the Avenue. Coming to a particularly large one, he told her she would not see such a glass as that any place else in the world. "Why not, father," said the imperious little lass, "you just have to pour water in and do whatever you have to do to make glass !" Father was speechless. There will be several child characters in the film and perhaps an adult know-it-all. A Ray of Hope — that's what we see in Charles Ray as "Smith," to be produced on the Ince lot. It was Thomas H. Ince who first started Mr. Ray on the road to fame as the country lad, and it looks as if he would soon get him back into his winning paces. Bessie Love, appealing as ever, will play opposite Mr. Ray in the role of a music-hall girl. Wallace Beery and Virginia Brown Faire will be in the cast also. The story is by Gardiner Sullivan. An honest confession — Orville Caldwell, who has been in one stage success after another, under the direction of Morris Gest, the latest "The Miracle," says that of the two arts he prefers the silent drama — he is about the only actor who does. We take it he speaks the truth since, while he is playing in "The Miracle," he arises in the wee hours of the morning and beats it over to the Fox Studios to take the lead in "Crossed Wires," opposite Alyce Mills. "The more I work the more energy I have," he says, and screen work with its regular hours appeals to me. Of such is the species tagged The Idle Matinee Idol. Moving in circles like a dog chasing his tail — that's the way Ronald Colman reached his goal of stardom on the silversheet. He left stage work in England, his native land, in the hope of getting film work here. But for a long time he found himself out of a job. Finally he was engaged to play opposite Fay Bainter in the stage version of "East Is West" — stage work again, but it took him out to the Allow us to decipher the Chinese poster which Mary Astor holds in the photograph below. . . . (However, if you'd prefer to decipher it yourself, read no further.) The inverted "Y" on the character she points to represents a roof — hence, a house. The rest indicates a great multitude in the house. The character above is a sacred building, hence a cathedral. Below the house-sign is a symbol for a deformed man. The whole conveys the idea that "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" brings crowded houses to the theater owners. As for the equally confusing characters on the right, they explain that this picture is to be seen in such and such a theater '*3v