Moving Picture World (Jul - Aug 1918)

404 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD July 20, 1918 Bathing Suits Excess Baggage. Alice Brady puts picture first! This fact was exemplified recently when Miss Brady balanced in the scales interest in her picture and the desire to wear two fetching costumes. It was at Long Beach, and Miss Brady was accompanied by some very particular friends: and a bathing: party was projected. It so happens that in her next Select Picture there is a bathing scene, and Miss Brady had bought two unusually handsome bathing costumes, the price of which, be it whispered, ran into three figures, one of which was her own. These costumes Miss Brady had just purchased, and had taken them with her in . her car on the trip to Long Beach. Given the three elements for a dramatic situation — particular friends, a bathing party and marvelous bathing costumes — what would any other girl do? The answer would appear to be a simple one; but not so in Miss Brady's case. She struggled — and Alice Brady is some struggler. (See "At the Mercy of Mm.") Although her companions teased and protest,, i. Miss Brady stoutly refused to weir her gorgeous bathing costume before they had been filmed for the scene In her picture. Choking back her vanity, she astounded her fashionable friends by buying, in a Long Beach "department store," an ordinary bathing suit. This she put on, and drably attired, when might I geously arrayed enjoyed her dip in the surf. The gorgeous I i silk and satin remained safelj in their tissue wrappings under Miss Brady's tonneau. — w s s Texas Talent Under a Bushel. Louis Pelleran, auditor for the U and the f. n. r Texas offices at Dallas, is an auditor than whom there is none whomer. At any rate, that's what folks from Dall ired. Louis thinks in figures, they say. Also he get's good figures for good "fillums." But another talent possessed by the versatile statistics sharp has been discovered. When Madame Petrova was in Dallas on June 2v in the W m . n. she visited the Metro and f N B C. i. Hires. She was Introduced all 'round. and everybody gasped when it came Louis' time. They saw him click the other and his trim body bend at the waist line in a bow that might have been the envy of a Paris boulevardier. i something like this: (Insert French conversation, ad lib.) The with hands and rattling of tongues, which nobody else tinders! i. bj which it a tat LiOUlB is a Ouent of the 1'rrm ),!, i talenl he had been hiding under a bushel all the wb 1 1 is forbt 'is were all of that I on which has shown the World how valiantly DUB can fight. — w s s Great Star's Good Influence. Geraldine Farrar has amazed her d tor and the Goldwyn organization by lor tremendous eagerness for hard work. During the entire fortnight devoted to her first picture she has been at I Goldwyn studios in Fort Lee before 8 a m. daily, and since it requires an hour t,. get from her home over the river Into New Jersey her rising time each day can be guessed. <m several occasions she has not only worked all day. but on two occasions well into the night. Evening came on a few days ago with the star and a big group of players in the middle of important ■ es for which every player was properly keyed up. "Why stop now," asked Miss Farrar, "When everyone of us feels the parts we playing? Tomorrow we would have t < > work for a long time before we attained our present pitch and sympathy with our roll The entire company worked before the Goldwyn cameras until 1 a. m. Rambles 'Round Filmtown Enter the Mexican Jumping Bean. iles. Aria. — Citizens of Xogales have formed a company, which will be Incorporated in the near future, for the establishment of a moving picture studio in this city. General Ivaro Obre; one of the incorporators — Moving Picture World. — w s s The meticulous care exercised by Goldwyn in casting the plays Btarring Geraldine Farrar. Madge Kennedy. Normand, Mae Marsh, and Tom Moon exemplified last week, when casting Director Clifford Robertson personally Inter■1 1,174 applicants for parts in forthcoming plays to be done at the big studios in Fort Lee. Bach actor was considered for a part, and the question of mobs did not enter into tlie calculations. He Must Be a Good Listener. — w s s Earl H. Hulsey, president of the First National Exhibitors' Circuit, of Texas, is the father of a strenuous young chap bearing the name of Earl, Jr. who arrived in Dallas a few da J Mr Mills, ■> dc that from now on he will have somebody to fight his battles at the regular annual meetings of the Fits tional directors Satisfying An Optical Yearn. Ever sine.' Madame Olga Petrova en picture business she has with iil: deliberation tinned to US in all P publicity portraits, the left aide of \\e have, with hitherto unrequited determination, sought for a glance hi cheek Bert Ennla and Charlea Wiener Barren, publli the famous Polish ai ,,i,d the First National Exhibitors' circuit, ctively, verj haughtily spurned our pleadings for a picture oi the always n right aide of t he i •. tro> a profile, But we ha I the w hole out lit. Here is a picture of Petrova, kodai • i Aiiant. pondent while Mme Petrova was in that fair city aelling Thrift and W'.u 6 u her ndurted pa t riot ic dri\ > to H at t In I I llll mi t Ic 1 1 plainly slew a t ha t her right • LS pi el I v as In l PI l We still aeefc a photograph of Cecil De in sport shirt Mme. Olga Petrova, Screen Queen. World's Champion Result Getter in W. S. S. Patriotic Sales. When Beauty Takes Her Pen in Hand. B3 Mabel Kincaid, Lasky studios. Oh. Charlie Fuhr, Long, long I've wondered Who you were. In all my dreams You have hunted me; And all day long I've hunted thee. Oh, Charlie Fuhr! Elusive child of ai't Art thou With Jugs of wine h blossomed bough — with gasoline Poured in my prow — I've rushed on madly To pursue, Oh, Charle Fuhr, My search for you! Hut all things end, And end this must. 1 f I find j on not Mj heart will bust. If you're a myth — As some infer — I'll bow my head, i»h. Charle Fuhr. And pray to shake This house of clay, To be like you — Be \\ hit J tui may — Oh. Charlie Fuhr! Rare Genius for Evasion. The anti-cabaret ordinance recently passed by the city council of Chicago has proven to be a most malodorous and dismal failure. « • • The principal clause in the ordinance prohibits dancing and and the sal. .ii liquor under the same i \ number of the larger cabarets | ten "\er this by taking the I ....! oil \ a I icl \ — w s s — "What next"" asked one of Edith 's frlenda, "You've dune every sort of part ..I from i ic Corsican bred the two-gun woman in 'As the Sun Went Down.' You've p] herolnei o1 everj nationality ami every ■hade oi character But never a vam— " "No. not vet," replied Miss S \. faintly smiling. "I'll play a vamp some days," confessed iIh star. "1 don't see why I shouldn't If it is a feat of acting Cni when I do it will be a different sort of vampire from any vou have ever seen on the sen on t he st. That Will Be Another Storey. — w s s At Metro's; West Coast BtUdloa there ■in loin "I'.erts" Bert I. .vtell. star; Bert i.i Vino, acenarl t; Bert Dorria, assistant ior, and Bert Wayne, property man ' :.ll. The other day George D. Baker, mani lotions, wanted Lytell for ■ i conference on the details of a so, ne lli i inn to the rear door of the atudlo offices, and. making a megaphone of his cupped hands, shouted: "Oh, Bert"! And all four Berts answered. "There are more Berta here," said Mr. I laker, "than i meat In a filbert. If we gel ail moil rn have to start a caul index system to keep track of 'em." "Either that," suggested Lytell, "or the B( I'll Ion BJ stem." For This They Should Egbert. — w s s ii i : i ;. er, oi Gi nera] film < !o'a publicity department, should he a good sourci (oi i: i >M M' He is invited — w s s i 'out i licit lona a i e always Joyfullj corned. "Chew ' Ine, id the quipa fall whei i a e Only thus may I from the smoke-h > Tllh: KAMI