Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1922)

n8 Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section Photoplay for April will be out March 15th rjECAUSE of certain readjustments *-* we have made, we are now able to change our publication date from the ist of the month to the 15 th. The gain to you is in time. FIRST: We have perfected arrangements that permit still quicker action between the arrival of news stories in the editorial offices and their issuance from the press. SECOND : By printing at a later date than hitherto, we can hold the forms open for all the very latest developments of special interest to you. Photoplay is essentially a quality magazine, both as to character of contents and its mechanical appearance. But it is something more. Its service may fairly be compared to that of a metropolitan daily. To still further speed up, to perfect, this service is the reason for our change in publication date. Remember! From now on, Photoplay will go on sale the 15th. Underworld Life in the Films {Concluded from page 67) Also, he i much given to dancing ; and here again he has his own individual style. He puts both arms tightly about the lady, as if wrestling, makes a mean face, humps his back, and moves about in the menacing, lugubrious manner of so-called Apache dancers in musical-comedy olios. Speaking of the ladies of the screen"? underworld, it must, in justice, be set down, that the female burglar, without exception, is chemically pure. Her working partner, in fact, has never so much as implanted even a chaste and fraternal buss upon her brow. This state of almost unearthly virtue is no doubt due to the fact that the lady crook of the films really detests her career of crime, and constantly longs for the sweet, simple domestic life of the bourgeois housewife. It is her loathing for her male confere and all he represents, which, when he endeavors to woo her, brings on the emotional climax that turns her into a Pollyanna. All the submerged good in her nature leaps to the surface; she Sees the Light, and makes a dash for liberty and righteousness. The burglars of the screen are very' susceptible to the influence of small children in canton-flannel night-suits. They simply can"t proceed with their devilish work if they happen to be robbing a house where one of these infants appears unexpectedly. The minute a film burglar is mistaken for Santa Claus or some other honest and benevolent individual, he goes all to pieces. With the cops at the door, breaking in. he is unable to leave until he has carried the child to its crib and carefully tucked it in. And, by thus lingering, he is not infrequently t aught. His virtue, however, is invariably rewarded, for the child's father (who is a millionaire merchant) makes him his private secretary, and later on gives him his beautiful daughter in marriage, and takes him into the firm. In fact, ninety-nine out of every hundred crooks of the screen's underworld reform and go in for honest careers, such as plumbing or waiting on table. A large number of them even retire to a cottage in the country and devote their declining years to sprouting spuds and battling with the bollweevil. Questions and Answers (Continued from page 89) Tony J. — Gordon Edwards took a company to Italy to film "Xero" for Fox. He has made his picture in Rome. Violet Mersereau is the only American in the cast, I understand. Edwards directed ''The Queen of Sheba" for Fox; and he was Theda Bara's guide, philosopher and friend when the original "vamp"' made ''Salome*' and ''Du Barry." I don't know Mr. Edwards personally, but I have heard good things of him, chiefly from Marguerite Clark and her sister Cora, old friends of his, who are devoted to him and Mrs. Edwards. Ruth.— I don't like to disappoint you, but I didn't miss your letters at all. I hope you had a good time abroad. Of course I am just jealous because I. can't go to Europe myself. And now you come back and want to know about one of those French producers. Abel Gance is celebrated as a playwright and a picture director. His "J'accuse.'' which in English means "I Accuse," was shown here not long ago. He is young and unmarried, I believe. (Continued on page no) Every advertisement in I'HOTOPt.AY MAGAZINE is guaranteed.