Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1922)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section 99 "Kiss Me, Frank" (Concluded from page 41) here. It is much, much more exciting than California. Look— I haf a picture of him when he was a leetle boy. Was he not sweet? See, my lip-stick — from Kansas City. I stopped there for one reason only — to buy this lip-stick. Nowhere in the world have they lip-sticks like Kamsas City's." She used the Kansas City lip-stick with exquisite discrimination. Emerging from the silken recesses of her beaded bag, she presented to the world an even more alluring portrait than before. She left — to telephone mama that they would be home for dinner. ''Kiss me," she commanded; and a goodly portion of the K. C. lip rouge remained upon Mr. Mayo's cheek. "This is a great town," he said when she'd left. "Nothing but those darn fool films in California. You know what I'd like to do, don't you?" I didn't. "Well, I'd like to make 'Davy Crockett' in pictures and then put it back on the stage as a vaudeville sketch. I think it would have a public. My father played it with great success. I haven't had such good luck with my pictures lately. Good stories are hard to get. I'd like to make good pictures; I really would. But you take — " Dagmar descended upon us. "We are going to mama's and papa's for dinner, beloved," she said. "And then we are going to see 'Kiki' again." "You know Daggy got an offer to play Kiki in the west," volunteered her husband. "But I don't believe a woman should work after she is married. Of course, if she ever wants to — " "Of course," smiled Dagmar Godowsky Mayo. "You see, I am so much interested in my Frank's career, I do not give one single little thought to my own. We haf our nice, big home in Hollywood; we haf our books and our pets; we haf each other — " "Kiss her," I commanded — and vanished. Minister Flays Malicious Scandalmongers THE Rev. Frederick E. Hopkins, pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Michigan City, Ind., preached a sermon on scandalmongers a few weeks ago. "It was scandalmongers who started the run on the bank and were happy when the poor lost their money," he said. "They have lied about actors and actresses until they have virtually ruined the theater, and now they are after the movies. They have told so many indecent stories about dancing that decent people are wondering what to do to enjoy life and not be talked about. "They have tattled about preachers until many church members have lost interest in the church," the speaker continued. "The scandalmonger is the original little messer. We wish scientists would find a way to exterminate the scandalmonger." A LITTLE boy stood at his garden gate and *» howled and howled and howled. A passing lady paused beside him. "What's the matter, little man?" she asked. "O-o-oh!" he wailed. "Pa and ma won't take me to the movies." "But don't make so much noise. Do they ever take you when you cry like that?" "S-s-sometimes they d-do and sometimes they d-don't," wept the lad, "but it ain't no trouble to yell." "In Every Man and Every Woman There Is Some Great Moving Picture Scenario" THIS is the astonishing statement made by the world's greatest motion picture producer — David Wark Griffith, the man who made "Birth of a Nation," "Way Down East," "Broken Blossoms," "Intolerance." Is his surprising statement true? Can it be possible that there is "some great moving picture" in the life of every man and every woman — in YOUR life? "Every man or woman has known, has seen, or has lived part of a great story," says Mr. Griffith. "There is material for screen masterpieces in the life of the dullest person you meet on the street today. Your neighbors are living stories that, if told naturally and spiritedly, would touch and thrill the world." Why don't YOU get the story out of YOUR life? Wait! Don't say you CAN'T, because you don't KNOW you can't! Thousands of people, who thought they COULDN'T, found out they COULD, and now make big money in their spare time, live comfortably and happily, envied and admired by all their friends. Maybe YOU could write stories and plays and don't know it! Don't laugh at the idea! "Ofttimes one can do best the thing he least suspects." YOU may possess hidden talent only waiting to be developed and brought out. You may not suspect this but Pnoto j) i>y E it may be true just the same. MISS CLAIRE WINDSOR, Famous Film Star Many of our ^greatest authors Read her inspiring mesjao,:yi"Tli,!Wo„der Bool: for Writers" the honored guests of Kings and Presidents. We have just published a new book for you that amazes every reader — and the most amazing thing of at the ease with which they learn to write! Many find that about all they need is an ordinary education, an observing mind, some will power, and a little con6dence. 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