Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1924-Jan 1925)

t ^MOTION PICTURp Id I MAGAZINE < Jim in The Woman With Four Faces. George O'Brien and Dorothy Mackaill are playing in The Painted Lady. Idealist. — yEolus was the god of the winds and son of Jupiter. Adolphe Menjou is five feet ten and a half. Jack Pickford is -five feet seven. Stan Laurel is burlesquing Rudolph Valentino's Monsieur Beaucaire in his next picture for release thru Selznick entitled Rhubarb Vaselino in Monsieur Dont Care. Irene Rich in The Lost Lady. Constance T. — According to the legend, The Man in the Moon was the first man who broke the Sabbath. Norman Kerry was born in New York. Reginald Denny is with Universal. Dont mention it. Evelyn C. — No, I haven't read The "Eve" of the French Revolution, by Marie Antoinette. Corinne Griffith is five feet four and weighs 120. Marjorie Daw is five feet four and a half and weighs 112. Helen C. — So you dont believe that I am an old man at all. And you have been reading this department for over eight years, and dont believe in me. You'd be surprised. Mabel Julienne Scott, Edward Connelly and Warner Oland have been signed for roles in the Biblical insert in So This Is Marriage. . Eleanor Boardman and Conrad Nagel have the leads. Betty. — You're like the chap who said "He gave away nothing so liberally as advice." As for all those addresses, Betty, that's out. La Marr. — Sorry, but I have no record of stock players, you know. Gladys Brockwell plays in an occasional picture. The next Emory Johnson picture will be released as Life's Greatest Game, and Jane Thomas, Johnnie Walker and Gertrude Olmstead are playing in the cast. You bet I love to answer questions. ' Hinemoa. — Well, if you build castles in the air, your work need not be lost ; that is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them. No, that was Joseph Schildkraut, and not Ivor Novello, in Orphans of the Storm. Jack Gilbert is with Metro. Let me hear from you again. Au revoir. Mary B. ; Kitty C. ; Francis T. ; Dorothy Q. ; Movie Fan Donald T. ; Joseph G. ; Julia K. ; Ella F. ; Dam B. ; Anna S. Coral G. '; L. D. ; James E. S. ; Pauline; Anna B. ; Skeezix Eunice A. C. ; Babe; Jenn D. ; Lillian Gish Fan; Coyotte H. Helen B. ; Thanks ; Carol P. ; and Isabella. Sorry to have to put you in the alsorans, but your questions have all been answered above. Mrs. C. W. R.— You're right ; no sort of boarding can be the same as housekeeping. It is demoralizing to board, in every way; it isn't a home if anyone else takes the care of it off your hands. I may live alone, but I have never boarded. You say that Lillian and Irene Rich are not sisters. I have always been led to believe that they were. Dotty D— What a very fine letter you write. I haven't Norma Shearer's age. Well, to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. Edmund Lowe's second for Fox is The Brass Bowl. Claire Adams opposite. Eva Novak and William Fairbanks are being featured in The Beautiful Sinner. U. Tellum. — Are you in again? Just send to Famous PlayersLasky for Ernest Torrence's picture. Pell. — Hello, Pell. Thanks for sending me the picture. It looks just like you except that you appear to be reducing. Glad you like the magazine. Your letters are very interesting. Write me again. Maude A. — Actions, words, looks, steps, from the alphabet by which you may spell character. No, Betty Blythe was to play In Hollywood With Potash and Perlmutter. It is The Story Without a Name. Viola Dana will play Pan in the screen version of Pandora La Croix for First National. Milton Sills opposite. Leedes L. — Why, Claire Windsor is twenty-seven. Honest, she is. Harold Lloyd and his wife, Mildred Davis, are planning to film Alice in Wonderland. It hasn't been decided when it will be started. He was in to see us here at the office last time he was in New York. I didn't see him, tho. A Wally Fan. — I doubt whether you will ever see the Wallace Reid pictures again. Few people can stand prosperity. A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants ; and secondly, how much more unhappy he might be than he really is Miss R. C. ; Am. M. ; Meda R. ; Marjorie B. ; Lillian S. Maggie ; Josephine B. ; Mitzie ; Katie S. ; Mary, 14 ; Nora G. Monroe G. Your questions have all been answered. Betty Bee. — You bet you be. I forwarded yours, as requested. Oolong! Margaret K. — Colleen Moore has been in pictures over five years. Yes, Clara Bow, John Bowers, Lillian Rich and Charles Murray have the leads in Empty Hearts. Edith Roberts is playing in The Age of Innocence, in which Beverly Bayne and Elliott Dexter have the leads. Country Flapper. — I bet you are not such a country one, at that. Richard Dix was born in St. Paul, Minn. Yes, Earle Williams plays in an occasional picture. Molly Malone is playing in Christie Comedies. Averil B. — In the United States there are more than seven thousand women who are engaged professionally in directing public recreation work. Patsy Ruth Miller at Whitman Bennett Studios, 527 Riverdale Avenue, New York City, N. Y. All right, here is the cast for Ben Hur: Ramon Novarro, May McAvoy, Francis X. Bushman, Carmel Myers, Kathleen Key, Nigel de Brulier, Claire McDowell and Frank Currier. Production is expected to be completed by the first of the year. Billee. — It is mighty hard to get a letter of admittance to the various studios. There is really nothing I can do for you. Sorry. Cutie. — That was Eileen Percy in Within the Lazv. Charles de Roche is playing Le Fevre in Gloria Swanson's Mme. Sans Gene. The rest of the cast is composed of some of the most noted French players. Plant the crab-tree where you will, it will never bear pippins. In other words Geraldine. — You say against three score have something in store. The best I've got is a pair of old shoes. You refer to Being R ipectable. Yes, everybody likes Irene Rich. Dorothy Block was Rose, the baby in Lilies of the Field. See you later. Busy. — Mahlon Hamilton in Under the Lash. That was Harry Myers in A Connecticut Yankee. And he was very good, too. Ruth Cummings and Margaret Mosier in Maker of Men. Alice Lake is playing in The Lost Chord. Buck Jones has.. started work on his next after Winners Take All, and it is from the story, The Man Who Played Square; • ' Bubbles. — No, no. Queen Elizabeth ruled in England from 1558 to 1603, and she was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. You'll have to be patient, Bubbles. Doris May opposite Tom Mix in The Deadwood Coach. Slim. — Some dreams are divine as well as some waking thoughts. Dreams are the touchstones of our character; our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. Larry Semon, \vho is producing a. series of two-reelers for release thru Educational, has been placed under contract to turn out a daily comic strip which will be syndicated thruout this country and Canada. He was a cartoonist on the New York Evening Sun and Telegram ten years ago. Address Barbara La Marr at the Sawyer-Lubin Productions, 1540 Broadway, New York City, N. Y. G. F. G. — Why, didn't you know that Mary Pickford was born in Toronto, Canada? Gloria B. — You say you dont know my name. Just call me anything — Answer Man, Rip Van Winkle, Moses, Solomon, or anything. That was an error. Enid Bennett and not Alice Terry in The Red Lily. You win the big red apple — your answer was right. Harriet. — Well, I'll try to brighten the corner where you are. So now you like Warren Kerrigan. Wait until you see Captain Blood. Address him at Vitagraph, Hollywood, Cal. He is thirtyfive, and is six feet one. Black hair and hazel eyes. No, he is not married. Gibraltar. — Just like the rock, what? Richard Dix was born in St. Paul, Minn., so I am afraid he isn't from your home town. Yes, Margaret and Cullen Landis are brother and sister. Ricardo Cortez is to play opposite Bebe Daniels in Argentine Love, from the original story by Vincente Blasco Ibafiez. Bow Wow. — Now see here, you want me to tell Richard Dix you liked his hair-comb in Icebound, but not in The Unguarded Woman. Richard, hearest thou? Shirley Mason in That French Lady. Florence Vidor has started work on The Mirage, at the Ince Studios with Clive Brook and Vola Vale. K. G— Yes, Leatrice Joy is the mother of a baby girl born September 6th. Mother and infant doing nicely. Bert Lytell in Ne'er the Twain Shall Meet. Jacqueline Logan is to play in A Man Must Love. Sin Twister. — You mean tongue-twister, dont you? Have you tried any yet? You have every instinct of a journalist. That was Joseph Dowling in The Miracle Man. So Florence Vidor is your ideal. May McAvoy was born in New York City in 1901. She is four feet eleven and weighs 94 pounds. Dark hair and blue eyes. Adolphe Menjou will play the part of the Prince in the Famous Players-Lasky production, The Swan, which is being directed by Dimitri Buchowetski. Pell. — Yes, I saw Will Rogers out at the polo games this fall. He has just bought a pony for Patricia Burke Ziegfeld. I haven't read your A Piece of Life as yet, but will report later. So long. V Vyrgynya. — Thanks for sending me the "Think 'Bout You" card. That was Anna Nilsson in Frivolous Sal. (Continued on page 80) ■UMBSSMMMi