Photoplay (Feb - Jun 1921)

fQUESTlONS^l •AND ^ ANSWERS VOU do not have to ho ■ subscriber to Photoplay A Magazine to pet questions answered in tins Department. It is only required that you avoid questions that would call for unduly long answers, such as synopses of plays, or casts of more than one play. Do not ask questions touching religion, scenario writ studio employment. Studio addresses will not he given in this Department, because a complete list of them is printed elsewhere in the magazine each month. Write on only one side of the paper. Sign your full name and address; only initials will be published if requested. If you desire a personal reply, enclose selfaddressed stamped envelope. Write to Questions and Answers, Photoplay Magazine, 25 W. 45th St., New York City. MB., Georgetown, Texas. — So you have always been good at arithmetic, but one fraction * troubles you: your better half. Fie fie! I am not married so I cannot sympathize with you. Albert Roscoe, Metro studios, Hollywood, Cal. There have been rumors always are. •but then there Billy W., Spencer, Mass. — You sent in a limerick four lines long and said you would write a lot of them every week if we would pay you one hundred dollars evenSaturday — and I replied that we could only rent you, not buy you — and now you're mad. Well, I can't help it. And I don't know why I am answering your questions but here you are anyway. Earle Williams' wife was formerly Miss Florine Walz. Walter McGrail was Maurice Monnier in "Blind Youth." Douglas Fairbanks is five feet, eleven inches tall. G. S., Racine, Wis. — I think you will be able to communicate with Barbara Bedford through the Fox studios, Hollywood, Cal. She is awfully young and pretty and nice, isn't she? I liked her in "The Last of the Mohicans." She has the great gift of repression. Annabelle. — Have never heard Buck Jones called any other name, though I doubt not he would be just as interesting if his name were Pete Perkins. He's a comer, all right. His latest is "The Big Punch." Ruth Roland and Herbert Heyes are not married — to each other. Miss Roland isn't married at all — now — but Mr. Heyes is, and has several very charming children. NATALIE. — Good intentions — but no stamp. Thai 's why I am writing you in full view of the audience instead of by mail. You may address Pearl White at Fox, in Manhattan, even if she did sail for Europe for a vacation. They will deliver your letter to her when she returns. Marguerite Clark, First National; George Arliss, Pathe. Neither of these artists is making pictures right now, but the companies will forward their mail. Arliss is giving a superb performance in "The Green Goddess," a new legitimate production, in New York City. Wanda.— Well, Wanda, I am certainly glad to welcome you back. Where have you been? You hope, you say, to be a great artist. Oh, Wanda, why won't you wish something original? Marguerite Clark has made one recent photoplay, "Scrambled Wives. She lives down at Red Top Farm, her husband's home near New Orleans, La., and she's happily married and doesn't care who knows it. I couldn't say when she will make another picture because Marguerite couldn't sav herself. An revoir, Wanda. A Tragic Trilogy Anna. — Do you, you ask, catch cold if you sit in the Z row in the theater? Oh, Anna, Anna! For that I should refuse to disclose the identity of the gentleman you are seeking, but I must do my duty. Henry Clive played Richard Yale with Alice Brady in "Her Silent Sacrifice." I never knew a woman yet who ^^^^^5. sacrificed or did anything in silence, but I suppose it is possible. S' I Billie, Dallas. — Did you see Bebe Daniels when she visited her old home town — also yours? She was there, all right, and I understand the town turned out for her. I would, if I were Dallas. Norma Talmadge is married to Joseph Schenck and Constance to John Pialoglo. Mr. Schenck is a theatrical manager and Mr. Pialoglo a tobacco merchant. Bebe isn't married or engaged to be. 1 HE wanted to be a movie star — of course. And she besieged the studios where they said her nay in cold disdain. "We never heard of you; go and get a reputation." And so she went and got a reputation — a good one, and quick. And now nobodv speaks to her! II He was a high-brow author. "Why do you not write for the screen?" asked his friends with polite encouragement. "The films?" he cried, aghast. "Bah! the film-!" But he secretly wrote a fearsome five-reeler which he called "The Tiger's Mate" or something on that order and sent it to a literary agent to sell. "Well, anyway," he muttered grimly, "I can buy a home in the country with the money." . . . But nobody bought the masterpiece of the high-brow author. Ill He married the star in whose pictures he had played the role of her fiercely passionate suitor. And then, after a few months, she sued him for divorce. "He drinks and gambles and stays out nights," she wailed to the judge. "How strange," murmured the court as he signed the decree. P. S. — Ah there, little postscript! I don't know how they would pronounce it in Japan, but in Hollywood it is .SV/;-shu Ha-ya-Jfea-wa. I hope you will be able to astonish your friends when you master this seemingly simple feat. It's great exercise for anyone who stutters. Demosthenes should have tried that instead of the pebbles. GLADYS, Omaha. — You admire everything about me: the way I write, my eyes and hair, my sarcastic remarks. And I — I admire about you your extreme good taste. It's wonderful what good taste you have. "Trust Your Wife" is Katherine MacDonald's latest photoplay. Katherine isn't married now and has no matrimonial intentions that I have heard. In the Feb'ruary issue of Photoplay there was a "West Is East" impression of her.