Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1924-Jan 1925)

says that motion picture artists should be called portrayers, anyway, and not actors. If Adolphe Menjou, as a Parisian man about town, reminds one of French plays, it is simply because men about town of the Menjou type have been used by practically every French dramatist. But on the screen, he sets himself the task of being alive every moment of the time. A slip into miming, and the shot has to be taken all over again. He is now working on The Swan, which was so successful as a play on Broadway. It has been whispered to me that the film version is a terrible massacre of the original. But that isn't the point that concerns us here. Menjou, who will play the Prince, tells me that he intends to make of the character a real portrait of one of those cultivated idlers, those bored heart-breakers, who were to be found before the war at the Courts of Central Europe. "Like the Princes of the Austrian imperial family," I suggested, aware that the type had never been really shown in an American movie. "Precisely!" Menjou nodded eagerly. "It is the Austrian Court I have in mind." And that promises to be no end of a treat. A brand-new Menjou will be presented to the public. There has been a danger in his being held to the French character part. He is versatile, and now has a chance to prove it. The New Piccadilly Qxe of the most attractive motion pic. ture theaters in the world was opened on Broadway in late September. It is called the Piccadilly. I have nothing but praise for the novel architectural design, the decorations and the comfortable seating arrangements. But the picture, Barbara Frictchic, which was offered as the first picture — alas ! How could Ince have been guilty of making it? Apart from the fact that Barbara is dramatized as a young girl, in place of the gray-headed woman of Whittier's poem, there are so many historial errors that it's difficult to count them. Men like Griffith have set a standard for the historical film which I thought that lesser producers were at least trying to maintain. It is absurd to use the Revolution or the Civil War, unless the facts presented are correct in every detail. My Chat With Jackie T ast month, I told the story of Jackie Coogan and that marvelous invention, "the gooseneck lens." It took up so much space that I had none left for my chat with the child genius of the screen. He was sitting in a taxi, in East Sixtythird Street, New York, waiting to be called for a shot in The Rag Man. "Jackie, how do you like Xew York?" I asked him. He put down the book he had been reading, The Scarecrow of Oz, and considered the question solemnly. "Not so much," he said. "It's too big, and I feel so — so lost here." "Do you really like Los Angeles better?" "Oh, yes ! I'm wanted there. That's it." "But you're wanted in New York, too," I assured him. "Haven't you noticed how the kids all crowd about to take a look at you." He pursed his lips. "I can get all I need of that in Los Angeles," he declared loftily. "Do you look forward to your trip to Europe ?'" "Sure. Seventeen countries, and I'm to see the Pope." {Continued on page 105) Advertising Section <fr.M0TION PICTU IflOl I MAGAZINE The proverb maker who spun the phrase. iAlLgoob thingswmn iitthus ■ might have found inspiration in the TRE-JUR TRIPLE. For — in this beautiful compact, cleverlyarranged, are powder, lip-stick and rouge of finest quality. One touch — and the opened lid reveals a powder delightfully scented with JoliJSiemoire. Below — the pressure of your little finger releases the magic draiver— bearing rouge and lipstick of exquisite quality. Three dainty musketeers — inseparable and ready for instant service. Encased in polished brass and amazingly priced at $1.25. THE HOUSE OF TRE-JUR "THINEST" A shallow masterpiece of handy circumference. Ample powder u 'id full-sized puff $1 J 9 WEST 18th STREET NEW :ORK CITY TR.E-JUR offers a Compactfor evwp rmd. Ask at your favorite store for your own s bade ofpoiv I ■Fr£| der and rouge. Or order by I K^M mail from us. Ttefills always Hpfllfia aw available. "PURSE SIZE" TWIN Powder and rouge in an ingenious cast that fits into the smallest purse $1 :' » ■ . When you write to advertisers please mention MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE. 87 PAG t