Photoplay (Apr - Sep 1918)

i<>4 ACCORDING to his daily schedule for work and play, "Fatty" Arbuckle should be anything but fat. For the following is a complete outline of a day spent with Fatty: 7 a. m.. Fatty rises; 7:15. a dip in the surf; 7:30, breakfast; s. leaves tor studio; 8:01, arrives; 8:02, rolls the makin's; 8:05, reads his mail; 8:15, work> out with his trainers; 8:45, Marts to make up; 9:30, confers with his comedy staff; 10, on the set; 10:01, rehearses; 10:30 to 1 p. m.. shoots scenes; 1 p. m., lunches; 1:30, back to work until 4:29; 4:30, takes make-up off; 5, starts out in racer; 0:30. dinner; 8, goes to the theatre, for a motor boat ride, to a rival motion picture, or — to bed! NELL BOONE, who is Mrs. Niles Welch, appears with Jack Barrymore in his first picture since his return. LEONCE PERRET, who directed "The Million Dollar Dollies." now has his own producing company, and his first release is a patriotic picture in which E. K. Lincoln and Dolores Cassinelli, formerly of Essanay, enact the leading roles. Plays arid Players (Continued from page 89) TOM MOORE has been elevated to stardom after serving an apprenticeship as leading man to Goldwyn's trio of feminine stars. Mabel Normand, Madge Kennedy, and Mae Marsh. Moore's first is "Just for Tonight." FRANCES MARION has just signed a new contract to write scenarios for Artcraft and Paramount for another year. Miss Marion has written many of Mary Pickford's most successful screen-plays. ELLIOT DEXTER has a new contract with the Paramount organization whereby he will continue as leading man in their West Coast companies. HAROLD LLOYD is a strong War Savings Stamp man. He strolled into a grill and after dinner called for his bill. He paid his check, gathered up the change from the waiter's little hold-up tray and laid a twenty-five cent thrift stamp thereon. The waiter seemed stunned for a moment, then he smiled and pocketed the stamp. "I understand, sir," he said, "it is a very good idea, sir. Thank you, sir." THE War Department has decided that Charles Chaplin is more valuable as a fun-maker right here at home than he would be in the trenches over there, so they have placed the comedian in the fifth classification. It is believed that he will render the United States greater service by continuing his work as a screen star, paving an income tax of 8250,000, and doing such work as he has been doing for the Liberty Loan. Chaplin's income, it is said, would pay for the expenses of a whole company of soldiers for a year at the front. BRYANT WASHBURN is now with Paramount. He was with Pathe until that organization attempted to make him play opposite Baby Marie Osborne as the kid star's leading man. He will make eight pictures a year for three years. BLANCHE SWEET will appear in the screen version of Rupert Hughes' sensational novel of the great war. "The Unpardonable Sin." Miss Sweet has signed a long-term contract with Harry Garson. (Concluded on page no) Do You Woo the Scenario Editor? I DEFY you to point out to me a man, woman or child who hasn't written a scenario, doesn't intend to, or doesn't think he or she could if they ever tried. Everybody's doing it; and it's fair to say that frequently the unknown comes forward with the real live idea. I met Mrs. Kate Corbaley on the street in Los Angeles not long ago. You remember her, of course: her "Real Folks" won the first prize in Photoplay Magazine's scenario contest, and she has been delivering salable stories ever since. One studio-manager bought five of her scenarios in a lump. She was carrying a large packet of letters, her morning mail. "Since I won Photoplay's first prize, I've come to be one of the most popular persons in the world," she laughed. "I have received hundreds of letters, and from every civilized country on earth, asking me how to write scenarios and howto sell them. I don't know whether all this popularity is a tribute to me or to Photoplay's circulation. One letter came from Calcutta, India, another from New Zealand, and another from Buenos Aires; and I've had a dozen or so from England. And on top of it all I've just spent two hours standing on one foot and then the other at my front By Cal York One scenario editor's assistant found two milk bottles on her stoop — one partly filled with a scenario. door listening to detailed plots delivered by the son of our plumber! Can you imagine it! " Mrs. Corbaley is not the only one with such tribulations. When H. O. Davis, general manager of Triangle, had fully made up his mind that hehad discovered the best barber in Los Angeles, that gentleman began pouring plots into the defenseless Davis ear whilst he unconsciously poked lather down the Davis vocal orifice. Mr. Davis straightway bought a safety razor. C. Gardner Sullivan was forced to discharge a negro chauffeur because the colored pusson paid more attention to plots than to the carburetor and traffic regulations. Josie Sedgwick eschews her oldtime favorite hairwashing parlor since the lady in charge has found that Josie's a motion picture actress and has begun to bombard her with melodrama of her own invention with every lemon application. Last but not least, Mary O'Connor, assistant to Frank E. Woods, who is head of Laskys production department, sauntered out on the back porch of her Hollywood bungalow for her morning's morning and found that her milkman had left two bottles, one filled with the usual extract of kine and the other partly filled — with a scenario!