Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1924-Jan 1925)

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This month's magazine brings you upto-the-minute p i ctures and fresh news of your favorite pastime. ! A Fifty Million Dollar Hole y\ OROTHY DONNELL never fails to tell the things you want to -*^ know about screen people, and what's more, to tell ALL about everything. In this issue of CLASSIC she writes on the puzzling question: "Now where was the camera when they pulled that stunt?" You'll like to know about the way of a director with a camera. And you'll learn what methods are used by Griffith, by the DeMilles, and by von Stroheim. You're out of luck if you miss the October number of Q MOTION PICTURE ASSIC That "Different" Screen Magazine On the News-stands September 12 Letters to the Editor {Continued from page 85) Short Sayings from Scribes I quite agree with P. A. M.'s indictment, appearing in the August edition of Motion Picture, of Gloria Swanson's costumes and the interiors of the homes of the "Four Hundred," as represented on the screen. There can be little doubt but that both are overelaborate and untrue to life — but unlike P. A. M., I do not wish to see them changed. We must remember that to many of us the cinema offers an escape from reality ; a fairy carpet to transport us to lands of romance. If some of us prefer to see society women on the screen attired in exotic fashion, should this pleasure be denied merely because real society women are often dowdy and always simply dressed? R. B.. New York City. A man sitting back of me during the re** cent showing of Code of the Sea made this remark as George Fawcett's wellknown face was flashed for the first time : "There's Fawcett. Hope he doesn't have to die in the first act." A point well taken. Such a genuinely good actor as he is, it usually falls to his lot to be the grandfather of the leading man, who must pass out just as the story opens; or the sick father who dies clutching a priceless tapestry or cameo. Much better if some of the delinquent sons or grandsons did the early dying, leaving the very able Fawcett to carry on to the finish. D. S. v. K., Philadelphia, Pa. VV7hy not leave it to the police and the "public? The former may be relied on to see that nothing exercising a really immoral influence is allowed to get past ; while the natural good taste of the latter will reject any film which is definitely unpleasant and likely to have a debasing effect. For the unwholesome prudes who would put a skirt on the Venus of Milo I have no use, and I honestly believe the public hasn't either ; yet such people seem to be bossing the movie business today. It is a pity they do not pay more attention to something that really does matter, namely, the maltreatment of helpless animals, especially in alleged comedies, by those whose idea of humor is the sigh', of a cat half-drowned in blue-wash, or a turkey being lugged along by one wing (as was done in Giants and Yanks, a tworeeler recently released here). Yours very sincerely, Wm. C. Stone, London. 92 Rod La Roeque and Ricardo Cortez are stopping for an off-seene chat Every advertisement in MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE is guaranteed.