Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1924-Jan 1925)

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f ^MOTION PI CTURF MAGAZINE > Motion Picture Magazine — Advertising Section Tr ^re-Jur's treasure chest of compacts designed to fill every need! Which will be Yours? THE "THINEST" a compact of handy circumference with no more depth than a seaside vamp. Yet it yields an ample supply of powder and full-sized puff. Price $1. THE 'PURSE-SIZE TWIN" Powder and Rouge ingeniously presented in a little case that snuggles comfortably into the smallest purse. Price $1. THE "TRIPLE" a compact that combines powder, rouge and lip-stick in a case. At a touch — the famous "sliding drawer" reveals lipstick—and rouge. Price $1.25 THE "PETITE SINGLE" —a generous compact and refill. The case is of gunmetal and inconspicuously beautiful. (With extra refilL) Price $1. All Tre-Jur Compacts contain a quality of powder and cosmetic that will delight the most delicate skin; — scented with Joli-Memoire, a perfume singularly alluring! Sold everywhere in your own shade of powder and rouge. Or by mail from us on receipt of price. Refills always available. THE HOUSE OF TRE-JUR, 19 WEST 18th STREET, NEW YORK TRE-JUR % £ This sketch of Miss Murray was • made by James Montgomery Flagg in 1915 Trie Story of My Life {Continued from page 82) performance. During that two hours I had to have dresses altered, and learn the music and words of two songs. Vernon was such a marvelous dancer, I had no difficulty in mastering the different steps. Learning the songs was hardest, on such short notice. The year 1915 took me back to the Ziegfeld Follies as its star, with Leon Errol. Up to that time I had not given motion pictures a thought. I had led suc^ a busy life that I had little time to consider any branch of theatrical work other than the one with which I was identified. During the earlier days, too, motion pictures were not considered very seriously by the people of the stage. One number in the Follies of 1915, was a burlesque on motion pictures. I, as the star, was "Mary Pickum." The day following the opening of this show, I received a starring offer from every motion picture producer in New York. My contract held me to Mr. Ziegfeld for several months. Before its completion I studied the motion picture field carefully and was convinced that there was a future for me in this work. Tn 1916 I signed my first motion picture 1 contract, as a star for Famous PlayersLasky. It was quite a serious step to take. I was the first Follies girl to desert the stage for the screen, and I felt quite like a pioneer when I packed my trunks, left Broadway behind, and took the tram for California. I liked Hollywood and soon formed new friendships here. Fannie Ward, then a Lasky star, has been a close friend of mine ever since those early days. Walhe Reid was my leading man in" my first motion picture, To Have and to Hold. I was very happy working with him, he was always so bright and joyous. It was during that first year in the studios that I met Mr. Leonard, who directed one of my pictures. He says that he fell in love with me at first sight, but my life had been shadowed by two unhappy matrimonial ventures and I was not thinking of a third romance at the time. Before my Famous Players-Lasky contract was completed, in 1917, I was wrapped up in my screen career. Night after night I would sit in the projection {Continued on page 103) Every advertisement in MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE is guaranteed.