Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1926)

Photoplay Magazini Advertising Si i mon 103 Lcatrice Joy visited New York last month for the first time in three years. It took her all that time to press the ruffles in her new "French Pastry'" negligee, which she designed herself. Besides the negligee, Leatrice brought along a new mannish haircut million dollars for her place, which was completed shortly hefore Mr. Ince's death, but she refused the offer. pEGGY JOYCE doesn't follow the fashions. * She makes her own. Even in Paris, where they are going considerably to colors in women's wear in the new styles, Peggy wears nothing except the purest white. Her simple girlish gown and the absence of jewelry has made her notable among the crowd of fashionable women who are now exhibiting the new three-colored dresses launched by Poiret. As a result of the adoption of novel goods, flaring skirts are considerably reduced in size, although assuring the same freedom of movement. The innovation is due to the fact that in spite of dieting, sports and beauty treatments, seventy per cent of the women are too stout to look well in a short skirt which flares out at the hem like an inverted morning glory. p.V.ME down on the train from Del Monte ^-*the other night with Rod La Rocque, who had been up there making scenes for his new picture, "Brave Heart." Rod is a likeable youngster, naturally exuberant enough to have the whole dining car looking at him when he gets interested in a topic of conversation. Just then he was intensely exercised over whether the contractors had remembered to put the tile soap dishes in the walls of the bathrooms in his new house. "This building a house takes all a man's time," he said. "You have to keep your eyes on them every minute." Incidentally, Rod has a rather exceptional Watch This Column ♦ "Sporting Life" is Here Marion Nixon and Bert Lytell in "Sporting Life" Do you folks remember the old Drury Lane Theatre melodrama, "Sporting Life," which came from England years ago and created such a sensation in this country? I remember sitting through it with bulging eyes and tangled emotions, and I got so much out of it that I went to see it again and again. Those old English melodramas were splendidly written and perfectly constructed and this one, by Seymour Hicks and Cecil Raleigh, was one of the most famous of all those fathered by Drury Lane. In picture, as produced by UNIVERSAL, it becomes even more vivid because of the magnificent open-air action and scenery which were impossible on the stage. "Sporting Life" is a big, exciting, kaleidoscopic drama, full of life, and featuring among other things the great derby at Epsom Downs, a thrilling fight for the championship between an English lord and the British champion — intimate backstage scenes in a great musical comedy — a thrilling auto race and a rescue scene from the haunts of kidnappers. It involves high English society, is beautifully dressed and full of romance. UNI VERSAL selected Maurice Tourneur to direct the picture, and hechose BERTLYTELLand MARION NIXON toplay the leading roles, assisted by such favorites as GEORGE SEIGM AN, PAULETTE DUVAL, CYRIL CHADWICK. CHAS. DELANEY, TED 'KID" LEWIS. OLIVER ECKHARD, FRANK FINCH SMILES and CATHLEEN CLIFFORD. Watch for "Sporting Life" and ask the manager of your favorite theatre to get it. It may interest you to know that "The Phantom of the Opera" is drawing greater crowds than even we dreamed of, and some of our dreams were very optimistic You must not miss it. I wish you'd let me know in which theatre you'd like to see it in your town. 0 (To be continued next month) \rl JTaemmle President If you want a copy of our new "White List" booklet —just say the word— it's free — you can also have autographed photograph of Mary Phitbin for /O cents in stamps UNIVERSAL PICTURES 730 Fifth Ave New York City When JTOU write to ndrattlseis please mention PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.