Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1919)

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^. .MM4^^^ vv#iii^'^M--i'm^;r^?r^^ Pudding and Progeny By Truman 13. Handy and Hare, ami who lor 2j years in association with the Criterion Theatre, was one of the most successful actormanapers of London. The dinner was a surprise. Tlie veteran had promised the aforementioneil Yorkshire puddinp and the ale, although nothing at all was said about the canar>' and the Cecile Brunners. When you see "Herl)" — as Alec B. Francis calls him — at the studio, he is in his full glory — supposedly. But when you see him in his home, he is cock of the walk. And he'll tell you at all times about his sons, and how Percy is now playing opposite I'auline Frederick and Guy has been knighted by King George and that Wyndham, God bless 'im!, is the finest actor on the screen today. And sometimes he forgets and branches off about his daughters — Joan, who is going to be one of the greatest comediennes on the stage when she grows up, and Grace, who once told him that she doesn't hanker for the boards, but "wants a regular job," and Beth, the wife of his dead son. Jack, whom he has adopted as his own, and who is making a name for herself with her voice. In the five years that he has acted under the Kliegs and Cooper-Hewitts he has versed him.self in "the game of ^^^ games." as he ^^^ terms the cinema. He has faith that pictures will almost entirely supersede the spoken drama, because, he says, who wants to sit three hoQrs through It's hard to tell vvhethcr Herbert Standing is fondest of his wife's cooking or of his children. YORK.SHIRE pu<iding and old bass ale. Curry and rice and tea. A family comprising three adoring daughters and a motherly wife. A home sheltered by Cecile Brunners anri bouganvillia and palm sprays and with a canary singing at you from the front porch, where chiMrcn are playing. And dinner with Herbert Standing, the silver-haired veteran of the stage and recn — a man who has been a co-worker of Henry Ir\'ing, Wyndham At the age oi iiixy yr»r« taken vi'licn he w«o known ■■ the mott famous aeior manaifer in Ixjndun. thruiigh hif UMxriation with the Criterion theater, ui which he wu co-lcMcc «ritli Sir ClurU* WyDtihani. m