Photoplay (Feb - Jun 1921)

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124 Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section The Coast (Concluded) JS* "I Now Hear Clearly" You, Too, Can Hear! Inasmuch as 400,000 users have testified to the wonderful results obtained from the " Acousticon." we feel perfectly safe in urging every deaf person, without a penny of expense and entirely at our risk, to accept the 1921 Acousticon For lO Days' FREE TRIAL No Deposit — No Expense Juat write, saying that you are hard of hearing and will try the "Acousticon." The trial will not cost >ou one cent, for we even pay delivery charges. WARNING 1 There is no good reason why ev""""'""' eryone should not make as liberal a trial offer as we do. so do not send money for any instrument for the deaf until you have tried it. The "Acousticon" has improvements and patented featurea whicn cannot be duplicated, 30 no matter what you have tried io the past send for your free trial of the "Acousticon" today and convince yourself — you alone to decide. Dictograph Products Corp. 1404 Candler Bldg., New York City, N. Y. An Easy Way to Remove Dandruff If you want plenty of thick, beautiful, glossy, silky hair, do by all means get rid of dandruff, for it will starve your hair and ruin it if you don't. The best way to get rid of dandruff is to dissolve it. To do this, just apply a little Liquid Arvon at night before retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp, and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By morning, most, if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and three or four more applications should completely remove every sign and trace of it. You will find, too, that all itching of the scalp will stop, and your hair will look and feel a hundred times better. You can get Liquid Arvon at any drug store. A fourounce bottle is usually all that is needed. The R. L. Watkins Co., Cleveland, Ohio. 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ROBERT F. ROSE EXPERT SHORTHAND SCHOOL which must be overcome by the director and the camera men in their endeavors to translate a story to the screen. It was extraordinary to walk through an empty studio one morning and pass through it the next to watch an army of carpenters erect a suite of rooms, including a bathroom perfect in all its details, the solidity of which made one gasp. I saw Mr. Wilfred Buckland in a series of rooms which looked like those of a busy and successful architect designing sets which ranged from the Tudor period to that of modern New Rochelle. I lunched at cafeterias in the main street of Hollywood and sat in close and amazing juxtaposition to Charlie Chaplin in his makeup, and I studied with keen amusement the long line of motor cars which daily ranged themselves up outside the studios with their various noses pointed to the long low line of buildings bathed in the gorgeous sunlight of California. It was easy to tell which of these cars belonged to Miss G'oria Swanson and which to the head carpenter. It need hardly be said that Mr. Cecil deMille's car was a cross between an aeroplane, a Zeppelin and one of those racing implements which tears around tracks leaving a cloud of surprised dust behind it. A snippit of conversation that I heard one day may be interesting to report. A carpenter was speaking to one of the roughriders who chewed gum and worked a spotlight. "Is God here yet?" "Yeh, he's comin' in now." Nearly jumping out of my skin I followed the direction of the latter's eyes and saw who? — who else than Brigadier-General Cecil deMille! Finally I had the audacity to bury myself away in my small bedroom in the only hotel in which I could get, and while trying not to be too interested in the movements of a very bulbous colored lady whose life seemed to be devoted to the hanging of very intimate garments on a clothes line, to write the scenario of a screen story. I emerged after two days' work with the result of my efforts, and with shaking knees reported at Mr. William deMille's office and there, presently, under the searching brown eyes and slightly cynical smile of the man who had become my friend, I read this thing. There followed a lengthy discussion, several alterations and mutual enthusiasm. After which, with vastly more respect for the movies than I had ever felt before, I returned to New York to wait and see. Alter many days ''Midsummer Madness" was thrown upon the screen of a projection room in the New York office of the Famous Players and here, with Mr. Lasky and a small party of friends, I had the infinite satisfaction of seeing my story, which had been called "His Friend and His Wife." come to life under the magic touch of the man who had made my knees tremble away back in March and who had, it seemed to me, put his camera not in the middle of the sets but at the keyhole of their various doors and stolen the story of a domestic crisis unknown to the actors of it; who had, in a word, created a photoplay rather than a motion picture, doing away in one fell swoop with that star system which has done so much to twist stories out of their proper relation to art and similitude and prove that after all, the old technique of playwriting and novel writing can be very valuably applied to the new technique of the screen. And the question that one asks oneself in all seriousness in thinking about the formation of pictures, as well as the creation of plays is, "Is there any such thing as technique anyhow so long as one can move an audience to tears and laughter and be sincere?" Whether this is so or not and whether it is interesting to say so or not I am now to be numbered on that daily growing list of authors who are to be placed among picture fans, and who regard the screen with respect, with the keenest interest and with a considerable amount of awe because of its gigantic public. Questions and Answers (Continued from Page 107) H. M., Philadelphia. — The Loving Brothers are rallying 'round me this month. Philadelphia is suddenly curious about the movies. I am glad you finally wrote to me and hope you'll write often. Constance Talmadge was the Mountain Girl in Griffiths "Intolerance,"' made while Constance \v:is with Triangle-Fine Arts. She appeared in, several Fine Arts pictures before she became :i star for Select. Now her piclures are released by First National. for Constance Talmadge. She and John Emerson are married: and they recently wrote an original story called "American Love," which will be produced soon without a star. In other words, the star will be the story. Joseph Schcnck will release it through First National. H. A. S., Baltimore. — I notice that many young men of my acquaintance cherish a delusion that they look like the Prince of Wales. It seems to be the thing nowadays. Antonio Moreno is acting in features now. He is lost to serials forever, T believe. His first long picture in a long time will be coming along soon. Tony isn't married. George Walsh is divorced from Seena Owen Sccna is in "Lavender and Old Lace" from Myrtle Reed's story. M. IL, Caney, Kansas. — You think Cullen Landis is the handsomest man on the screen. So does his wife. Herbert Rawlinson opposite Anita Stewart in "The Tornado" for Mayer-First National. Herb's charming better-half, Roberta Arnold, is scoring quite a success opposite Frank Craven in the new comedy, "The First Afar." at the Little Theater in New York City. Thev have no children. Suite 93. Columbian Bldg. Washington, D. C. I Anonymous Third. — So you like the Mystic Rose. Delight Evans' stories. Ashton Dearholt, and Me. You are very versatile. Anita Loos is still writing scenarios Ai ict. Missouri. — The worst thing that could happen to a star would be to bump her head and see a lot of other stars. Harold Miller was Sir Gerald in "Her Five Foot Highness." Mary Mad aren is with International now. in "The Wild Goose." a Gouvenour Morris story. Albert Yosburgh in "Her Father's Son." ivoiy advertisement In rnoTorr.AY MAGAZINE is guaranteed.