Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1927)

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Address . £Jor Swollen "Veins rub in Absorbine, Jr. QUIETING relief comes as Absorbine, Jr. penetrates the congested, area and stimulates circulation. With frequent applications Absorbine, Jr. has in many instances restored the former smoothness of the skin. Keep it handy — use it freely— it has many other uses. At all druggists', $1.25 or postpaid Sample bottle sent oa request XV. F. YOU MO. Inc. Springfield, Mass. What do you think about the movies? Send your opinion to Letters to the Editor, 175 Duffield Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. The Fatuous Public THIS is not a direct "kick" against the movies, but it is a kick against the moviegoing Public. To me, the way that the Public literally worship at the Stars' feet, is absolutely ridiculous. I happened to be in Atlantic City during the Movie Convention there and the publicity given in newspapers, posters, to say nothing of the Public, was absurd. Some persons actually waited around the station the entire day just to catch a glimpse of their "idols." And what are the "idols," merely dressed-up dolls, paid extra well to amuse the Public, and, when the fickle Public are no longer amused, then the one-time "idol" is "done for." Do not think that I am a grouch or do not care for movies. On the contrary ; for I see almost every picture, but I do think that if the American Public would cease being so enraged and insulted over some slighting remark they may hear about a Star and give some of their emotion and energy to the really worthwhile things to be done in our country, I think that it would be a more beneficial plan all around, both for the "Stars" and for the Public. c. , bmcerely yours, Arlene Goldberg, 1132 Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Arkansas. Never the Twain Shall Meet To my way of thinking, there is entirely too much "Hokum" in the movies. To illustrate my point ! I saw a very humorous picture called "Subway Sadie" at a local theater recently. I said it contained humor and it did — plenty of it — until the last part and then it transformed into a tragedy. Why ; oh, why, did Jack Mulhall turn out to be a rich man's son working from the bottom up when we were all filled up with the nice, simple, sweet romance of the two. In real life we do not find it so. Rich men do not marry poor girls. They do not even associate with one another. Directors, please do not put rich men working as subway guards. Rich men, if they do work at all, are working in offices in nice comfortable chairs, dressed in the latest of fashions and not in a uniform such as Jack Mulhall sported. What the "American Public" wants to day is more real true-to-life stories, stories which do not give a false conception of life as it is lived by the working middle class, which, after all, is the class which has put the country where it is today. Carolyn R. Smith, New London, Connecticut. Upstage T'he movies are beginning to put on parvenu airs. Like all the newly rich,. in other walks of life, they sneer at the aristocracy when that aristocracy is of no practical use to them. In this case, the nobility is represented by those distinguished and really skilled members of the profession which was old before the movies were young — the artists of thelegitimate stage. Not more than ten years ago producers were using every means to tempt legitimate stars into moving pictures ; and when they succeeded, they in some cases well-nigh ruined the stage careers of such stars as Nazimova and perhaps Elsie Ferguson. And now John Barrymore is said to have been won over permanently to the shadow stage. He kicks aside the ladder by which he ' climbed to success. And why, except for ; monetary reasons ? In an "industry" where men can be taken from athletic, fields and admiringly hailed as real stars, girls without training pitchforked into leading parts, and productions made avowedly for the sales clerks and saleswomen of the Middle West, not for "educated Philadelphians," see Saturday Evening Post! The descendants of ' the Drews are out of place. S. C. Watson, 1026 Frazier, W. Phila. An Extra's Lament T went to see "Fascinating Youth." At 1 first I thought that the "Stars"— God save the name — were trying to be funny, but finally I came to the conclusion that the poor things were really trying to act. I dont know what Mr. Lasky's motive was in creating the Paramount school of acting, but if it was to make i. ovie actors he sure made an awful mess of things. In introducing the picture, Mr. Lasky stated that the Paramount school was the result of the constant demand for new screen faces. You might mean well, 96 EvA\; advertisement in MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE is guaranteed.