Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1919)

f QUESTIONS^ .f^i?-> AND ll] f^i ANSWERS ,44,,, m. '/ L^' ^-r^ \-— ^^H DA. G., Akron, Ohio. — You would like to get Miss Priscilla Dean's picture. Suppose you write to the t.\quL<ite Thief at Universal City, Califomb. and ask her gently for her autographed likeness. Tell her you doni think she is really naughty in real life. I am almost sure that Priscilla will send you one. (If this works, let me kr. A and I'll try the same thing.) Yes, -M:-> Dean has risen amazingly in the last Ji'.v months; she used to play small parts at U but they recognized her ability and pave her bigger ones and now she's a star. I wonder, though, if they would have boosted her so if they had known what a marv-elous member of the light-fingered gentr> this Wicked Darling was going to turn out to be? Sisir Bucc. W.vsHi.NCTON, D. C— You are positive you will succeed in pictures if only given a chance. Evidently you think :• have to live up to your name. Ah well, >--ie, I wont advise you. The best thing is to give a girl good advice — and then watch her do as she pleases. Pearl White hi, joined Fox. She do say she's off the ?<rLi! stuff for life. Her stories, we undersLifld. will all be adapted from well-known books and plays. I'm for her; she's a pearl of great price — ask the Fo.x company. I M. S. Berkeley.— Will you be my little electric fan? he said. And she: "Oh, blow away!" The da>-s are cooler now; but I still see substantial men in striped shirts take off their haU and rub their heads — as if they were not shiny enough as it is. As we were: Wallace Kcidy's baby b a boy; J quite a big boy now — did you hc the picture in the Aurust issue? Yep — Bills mother is a corkinc actress; I wish she'd come on back — D , -.hy Davenport, you know. I saw >;. r -h'-r in a comedy the other evening. 1^ id is Hal, who is a scenario writer man" for Universal in their New j \.j;k jiiKcs. He was the King of Mclo. drama — the author of many popular old I stage plays. Jack Holt is with Lasky ; he's j another famUy man. There are several little Holts, if I mistake me not. Virginia Lee Corbin was having her own company the last I heard. M CRTS ^^ look Crystal McD., Pine Bllft.— Every time look into your clear eye* — ah, it is hard, to write, of such mundane things as It b perhaps a bit of irony — th, VOU do not hav» to be a suhscnber to Photoplay ■* Mafonnr to get questions .inswrred in this Depart, ment. It is only rrquirrd th.it you avoid questions K'hiih Kould cM (or unduly lon^; .inswers. sucli as jynopses of plays, or casts of more than one play. Do not ,\.\k questions touching religion, .scenario wnting or studio employnient. Studio addres.ses will not be gntn in this Department, because a complete list of thim IS printed elsewhere in the magazine each month. VC nte on only one side of the paper. Sign your ^11 name and address; only initials will be published if requested. If >-ou desire a personal repl\*, enclose selfaddrrued, stamped envelope. Wnte to Questions and Answers, Photoplay Magazine, Qiicago. wot? — that in order to enjoy you communications further I must work hard answering this one. Yes — write to any photoplayer in care of this Magazine and it will be forwarded. Phis is a little service we arc only too glad to perform for our readers — it is nothing, it only keeps two mail-girls busy from eight tiH five — Don't mention it. Mildred X., Salisbury, N. C— So you have heard some awful tales of how the film players conduct themselves on the Sabbath. Weil, Mildred, I can't tell you much about that. My pood friends the Gishes go to church on Sunday; so do some other picture people I know. I don't think any of the studios keep open, as a rule; however, I must look into this and let you know. But why in samhill do you folks believe all you hear — believe it so readily^ I'll supply you with the proverbial grain of salt anytime you say. Some of you need a little reasoning. Warren Kerrigan is playing right along. Last I heard he was at the head of his own company. A late Kerrigan film is "The Best Man." Webste; Campbell, with Vitagraph last. Married to Corinne Griffith, with whom he has often appeared on the screen. Theda Bara's dramatic future seems rather unsettled at present ; there are so many different rumors — some that she's staying with Fox, others that she is going into vaudeville. She has, I believe, issued her ultimatum against doing any more vamps. Vamps aren't so good, any more. Sweetness and light seems to be the one grand call. Arthur, Rochester. — You say, "My relations think and say that I would make a very good actor, as when I go over there I always make them laugh so much that they nearly break their sides laughing. Even my friends say the same." Poor Charles; poor Roscoel Mister Sennctt might be able to do something for you. However, his object is to entertain his audiences, not to make them break their sides laughing so I would suireest that you a<^e less comical metho'b. But I wish you would come over here and try it on my relatives. Write to Douglas Fairbanks in Hollywood, California— it will reach him. I won't guarantee that he will read and answer your letter r>ersonally; he's a United Artist now and has a heap of other thins^s to do. said there are three good ways of communicating anything telephone, telegraph, or tell a woman. However, my dear, do not think that I doubt your word when you say that, if I will only tell you whom's divorced from whom you won't breath it to a soul. Xo— I don't doubt you— much. "The Hooded Terror" is a character in "The House of Hate," a Pathe serial. Hoods seem to have taken the place of masks, which are slightly out of vogue. Some new serials of which inklings have come to my desk — via the press-agent's mimeograph— are "The Great Gamble," in which Anne Luther and Charles Hutchison appear; "The Tiger's Trail," with Ruth Roland, who, by the way, has her own serial company for Pathe now. under a newly-signed contract; "The Perils of Thunder Mountain, " in which Tony Moreno and Carol Halloway figure. There are — others. By the way— I am unable to discover what relation the Hooded Terror is to the heroine in "The House of Hale " — the synopsis doesn't say : I know this much, though— they don't look alike. Fatty Arbuckle dead? Et tu, Fatty! To Fatty Arbuckle goes Charles Chaplin's record for reported demise. Come to think of it, though — in his last comedy that I saw Roscoe did look a little wan and pale. It made my heart ache. I do not think, however, that he is at death's door; nor yet is the wolf at Fatty's. He makes a nice little salary — something like a little under a million per annum. P. S. D., Fargo.— "The Poppy Girl's Husband" was indeed a corking picture; Bill Hart was great, wasn't he? Juanita Hansen was tlje Poppy Girl. Same Juanita who used to stop custard-pies; now she stops the show— but not in slapstick. That reminds me to mention that whenever wc have a beautiful younc slapstick artiste all trained and eVer-thini;, along comes somebody to Erab her u|) for drama. I think I'll propose some kind of a law to the effect that the place for a peach is on the beach. Still look at Juanita, and Alice Lake, and Mary Thurman— all ohboy girls who have gone in for serious stuff — and made good, from the Kround up. Ain't nature grand? as Ford Sterling remarked when he looked at Phyllis Haver. Elizabeth George, New York. — Someone Georgia C, NASirviLLE.— Marguerite Clark is in California now. Oh, she's about