Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1926-Jan 1927)

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We trust you. Write quick lor Free Trial, SWORN Prool and $100 weekly salary guarantee to agents. M-M Laboratories, 6972 N. Clark, 114 at gents Guaranteed The Editor Gossips (Continued from page 55) uncomfortable. That is a tribute to our guests. Everyone was so busy talking . . . about everything. For one thing we talked about "Variety," the German film we mentioned in this column last month. Sooner or later we were bound to. It is a conversational feast in motion picture circles. There was a difference of opinion about Boss hhiller when he caught Artinelli, even tho he would have liked to drop him from that high trapeze. We argued . . . Did he catch him because that was his job and he must do it well ... or did he catch him because he was the exhibitionist and he could not bear to appear to fumble with the audience watching him? We plunged into a psychological discourse. And what other motion picture would induce this? Groaning over some recent films we had seen, we wondered why the Germans seemed more able to achieve interesting results than we do. "We have never quite forgotten that they are motion pictures," Hugo said quietly. "Pictures that would move. At first, in the very beginning, we showed waterfalls, race-horses ... a man walking or running . . . always moving things. Then we discovered that we could show crowds of people in motion. We have been doing this ever since, only on a more elaborate plane. "Always we have concentrated upon showing motion. We have overlooked emotion. The Germans have not done this." It seems to us that Mr. Ballin has stated the case. "A re they really a motion picture actress and a motion picture director?" our maid asked the morning after the Ballins had been to dinner. We assured Anna that they were. "They dont act like it," she said with a Finnish finality. "They were just like the other people we have to dinner . . . nicer than lots." We said nothing. We have always believed in every individual's right to speak the truth. Gladys Hall and we played a most amusing game the other day. We were supposed to be working on a scenario that we are doing for First National. But you know how it is. You can always think of the most preposterous things to do if they will keep you from the work at hand. "If you could look like anyone on the screen, whom would you look like?" we asked her. G. H. did not pause. She appeared to be quite at home in the playing of this nonsensical game. "Alice Joyce," she said, "Alice Joyce, by all means." "Who else?" we persisted. "Petrova or Nazimova . . . Nazimova only under the consideration that I could look like her and go in for a different style . . . you know what I mean. "Who would you look like?" "Corinne Griffith," we said, "Or Alice Joyce. Or Florence Vidor. Any one of those three would do beautifully." That evening others dropped in. Thyra Samter Winslow, the novelist, chose Lillian Gish. "Especially the way Lillian looked about four years ago in 'Broken Blossoms,' " Thyra said. Henrietta Sterrett, a fashion artist, and a Mrs. Collins, whose husband is a professor of something-or-other, chose Corinne Griffith. Someone else selected Pola Negri. "Um-m, because she has a way with the men!" we exclaimed, cattily. "But has she?" demanded Thyra Wfflslow. "Or is she more the type that women think men like? "Not having been asked to give a discourse on the subject, I think there are two types of women, the women whom men do fall for and the women whom women think men will fall for." A vote was taken from the men, who had remained silent thus far. Did they like Pola Negri and Lya de Putti? The men said they did not think these two types as attractive as others. One of the men then spoke up in behalf of Claire Windsor. We knew one of them would. She suggests the clinging vine. Pola and Lya might cling, but they dont look it. We think the men are a little fearful of these two ladies. They have read about them in the papers. But then you cannot tell anyway. They might think them the most attractive women on the screen. They were surrounded by wives. But, it is a good game if you do not play bridge. Or even if you do. We guarantee it will liven up the dullest group. Try it! Say It With Letters (Continued from page 90) Gilbert wants to be happily married and have children and mow the front lawn. Hal Hal That's a rich one. If he would be happily married and have children, where else could he have picked a more adorable wife than Leatricc Joy, and who on this earth has a baby half as adorable as their daughter? While I believe that John Gilbert is certainly at the top of the ladder, when it comes to being a perfect motion picture actor, I do think that this soft stuff that is written about him, is fierce. It should certainly be stopped. Another thing I cant stand is this bunk Why that is written of Hope Hampton, was she given a medal in Europe — probably because she decided to return to America. Tn my opinion, she is about zero when it comes to acting. Surely there is no reason for her popularity, if one would call it this. Give us more of Alice Joyce, Ronald Colman, William Haines, Lloyd Hughes, and above all John Barrymore. Where are Henry Walthall and Guy Bates Post? Can Charlie Chaplin. He is passe. I would much prefer the low comedy of W. C. Fields. L. B., Baltimore, Md. Every advertisement la MOTION PICTUUE MAGAZINE is fruaranteed.