Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

798 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIX, No. 17. "Laugh and the World Laughs with You A THREE COLUMN CURE FOR THE BLUES *9 A BUDDING magazine writer seeking to interview Edith Storey, Metro star, was ushered with some ceremony into her dressing room at Metro's west coast studios in Hollywood while she was making up for her stellar role in "Treasure." The young man was plainly nervous. After the introduction he blurted out: "Er, Miss Storey, how do you like America?" The star elevated her brows, registering astonishment. Consulting his notebook the scribe went on. "Tell me about the revolution. Did you find it hard learning English? What did you think of the statue of Liberty? Did you see any submarines on the way over and if so, were you frightened?" Miss Storey gazed at the young man, speechless. The silence could be heard. "Why, I saw you in 'The Legion of Death' and I was sure you were Russian," the youth apologized, adjusting his tortoise-shell glasses. "Oh," returned Miss Storey, suppressing a smile, "I'm so sorry I can't oblige you, but I'm an American girl, born and raised in New York City. I never saw Trotzky nor any revolutions. I think the United States is the finest country in the world. Anything else?" "Then you're not Slavonic?" the scribe inquired, chagrined. "No, I'm a vegetarian," was Miss Storey's rejoinder, and the interviewer fled, leaving his notes behind him. 4? 4? 4? As one of the press agents looked up from his desk at Triangle's Culver City studio during the production of the western story, "Paying His Debt," he found himself looking into the muzzle of a ferocious forty-four automatic. The business end of the gun seemed as big as the opening to the Hudson tubes. Behind the gun, the press agent could dimly make out the huge, menacing form of Roy Stewart. "You have here," drawled Roy in a cold, threatening tone, as he held up a newspaper clipping, "a slanderous and lying tale to the effect that I furnished my movie audiences a thrill in my last picture, 'The Boss of the Lazy Y.' " "Is it not true?" whispered the guilty P. A. as he sucked his breath through his' arm pits and felt his heart beating it. "Villain," thundered Roy as the muzzle of his gun commenced to assume the proportions of the Grand canyon. "The only thing I ever furnished was a suite of rooms." With that he turned contemptuously on his heel, fearless of consequences from a treacherous foe. 4* <• 4? , "Ain't it funny! When a man's so drunk he can't drink any more, they put him behind bars." Thus muses a philosophical drunkard at the beginning of "Brave and Bold," a new George Walsh film for Fox. The inebriated gentleman's clothes are stolen. The thief is careful to leave behind his own torn and dirty suit. When the intoxicant has slept off most of what the desk sergeant has termed "a beautee-ful jag," and is released from confinement, he emits a wild shriek. "Thish a fine pl'sh," he says. "Robbin' a man in a p'leesh station. I'm goin' have thish pla'sh 'pulled.' See if I don't." 4* 41 4v Jack Conway, Triangle feature director, having postponed a hunting trip in the Canadian Rockies to finish a series of photoplays scheduled for his direction, lent his hunting outfit to a friend. The friend got as far as Spokane, stopped off a couple of weeks, met a girl and married her. He wired this news to Conway, adding: "We shall spend our honeymoon in the great silent places," meaning the North Woods. Conway wired back: "Impossible — after marriage there aren't any." •ie 4? 4: One of the scenes in "Western Blood," Tom Mix's quick-action Fox production, called upon the agile Tom to get his luncheon in peculiar style. Tom seats himself in the open door of a box car and spears tomatoes with a knife out of the can he holds in his hand. After this part of the story was in celluloid, Tom showed no sign of stopping his food-grabbing propensities. "What's the idea?" asked a fellowmember of the company of Fox players. "Just getting my dinner a la car-te," said Mix, and dodged. Manager Takes New Job Phil Godel, manager of the Francais Theatre, Montreal, has become manager of the Dominion Theatre at Ottawa. Both the Francais and Dominion Theatres are on the circuit of the Canadian United Theatres, Limited. Varied scenes from "Mr. Fix It," an Artcraft picture starring Douglas Fairbanks.