Photoplay (Jan 1921)

84 D. D. D., Pittsburgh. — Yes — that music was original — once. Harrison Ford is now play ins opposite the Talmadge sisters. Write him care Talmadge studios in New York. Ethel Clayton is the widow of Joseph Kaufman. Miss Clayton is one of the most charming screen ladies I know. She was abroad this summer. Madlaine Traverse is rive feet nine inches tall. June Elvidge is the same height. An Old Fashioned Girl. — A new writer is always welcome, whether she's old fashioned or not. I say — can you make pies? Alice Lake's latest is "Body and Soul" — one of those nice little Metro titles. Ruth Roland appears only in serials now. Her latest is "Ruth of the Rockies." Herbert Heyes opposite Ruth. Don't forget to write again. Frank Edward Slater, London. — Your letter was the best I've read for a long, long time. You say you have nearly seventy large photographs of stars in your room, but half of them are divorced. Why do you keep the other half ? You also say it is pure vanity that makes a fellow write to me, just to see if he is considered important enough to have a decent long answer or an also-ran. Well, well — I didn't know I ran any also-rans. I'll have to remedy that right away. Cast of "Love or Justice" follows : Nan Bishop, Louise Glaum ; Paul Keeley, Jack Richardson; Jack Dunn, Charles Dunn; Winthrop E. Haines, J. Barney Sherry; Phyllis Geary, Dorcas Matthews; Judge Geary, Charles K. French. Drop over again soon old thing. Toodle-oo ! A. L. M., Baltimore. — I should be very glad to give you the picture of Miss White if I had anything to do with it — but I haven't. Photoplay does not sell its covers or its photographs, either, so I'd advise you just to write Pearl at the Fox studio and ask her for a good likeness. Her cover appeared in April, 1020. H. C. — Estelle Taylor isn't married. She's a Wilmington, Delaware, girl. Mighty nice child, Estelle. Now appearing in "My Lady's Dress." Oh, don't mention it. It's a pleasure to answer a question about Estelle. (Now I've started something.) Mary. — I met my landlord this morning and he never spoke to me. No, I wasn't offended — only relieved. May McAvoy is coming along now: she is Grizel, in "Sentimental Tommy." She never was on the stage. Monte Blue in "Something to Think About," "The Jucklins" and "The Kentuckians." Monte alleges there is no Mrs. Blue. There is a Mrs. Charles Meredith. Yes, the Vidors are very devoted — to each other and to small Suzanne. Did you know Photoplay first called attention to Florence Vidor in her first little bit in "A Tale of Two Cities?" Aileen, Buenos Aires. — I enjoyed your letter very much. Your friend is slightly misinformed when he says that all the actresses in pictures are old except Vivian Martin. Vivian isn't old — she is quite youthful, in fact, but then so are many others. Mary Pickford, the most famous of them all, is only twenty-seven. The Talmadge girls, Mary Miles Minter, the Binneys, the Gishes, and many many more I could name are in their early twenties. It's a youthful industry, ours. Look at me. Brown Eyes. — Joseph Schenck doesn't direct — except his wife's business career. He's a theatrical and film manager. Olive Thomas' last picture was "Everybody's Sweetheart." Answer to Marguerite Clark Questions and Answers (Continued) question elsewhere. She's Mrs. H. Palmerson Williams. Enid Markey opposite Elmo Lincoln in "Tarzan of the Apes." Enid has been on the stage over a year now; she played in the Woods' farce, "Up in Mabel's Room" and is now in a new play. She isn't married. A. L., Brooklyn. — There's no fun arguing with you. You agree with everything I say. Your letter was very nice, however, so we'll let it go at that. Mae Gaston opposite Thomas Carrigan in the Nick Carter films. Carrigan is divorced from Mabel Taliaferro. Miss Taliaferro plays the Painted Lady in "Sentimental Tommy." I The Solitaire By LEIGH METCALFE AM the Engagement Ring — That ever-ready clincher, to be gouged out of a waistcoat pocket By a fiery lover who would have forgotten it but for the director's assistant. Between proposals, I relax in a velvet case in the studio vaults. I have aided in plighting more troths than are broken yearly in Reno. If all the lies, husked under the calcium Were exploded in real life, Cupid would be bald-headed. Half of the ingenues who wear me For the brief moment the camera turns Will never get nearer to a real happily-ever-after ! . . . . Oh, dear! Here comes that Property Man again, fidgeting with the lock. I wish I were back In the belly of the Transvaal. Curious Kathryn. — All I have to say to you is that you are too curious and that I am not bald-headed. Ellen, Philadelphia. — The only time a telephone ever comes in handy is when a young man wants to ask a doting father for his only daughter's hand. At that it requires courage. It usually takes so long to get a number that I should change my mind in the meantime. Can't say I adore Dick Barthelmess but he is a nice chap and a good actor. He is still with Griffith at the Mamaroneck studios. It isn't likely that Conway Tearle will ever play with Norma Talmadge again. Tearle is now a lone star. Blue Eyed Jeanne of Fr\sco. — So your fiance gave you a diamond ring, a pearl necklace and a wrist-watch. Has he any money left? You can't start housekeeping on a diamond ring and a wrist-watch, you know. Wanda Hawley is twenty-three. Gloria Swanson doesn't tell her age. There's a new Gloria Swanson now, you know — arrived at the Herbert Somborns' home in Los Angeles in October. Gloria is coming back to the screen as a Paramount star the first of the year. Charles Ray is twentynine. Mae Murray, twenty-four. Dick Barthelmess, twenty-five. Robert Harron died in New York City. Eleanor, Chicago.— Ruth King played Ana in Clara Kimball Young's "For the Soul of Rafael." The Young lady isn't married. She was divorced from Jarne* Young some time ago. Her latest picture is "MidChannel." Wondering, Ohio.— Of cuurse it takes courage to face the music — particularly a wedding march. I've never tried it — yet. Charles Meredith opposite Ethel Clayton in "The Thirteenth Commandment." L. K., Nekooso, Wis. — You ask me if I realize that every time I take a breath someone dies. Yes, and I know that if I stop taking breaths I'll die too. Is thai all? Cleo Madison returns to the screen in "The Price of Redemption" and "White Ashes," both Metro pictures. Miss Madison is now a member of the western Metro stock company. E. S. D., Detroit. — Tony Moreno ha? made his last serial. Hereafter he will only appear in features. Pauline Curley is hi leading woman in "The Veiled Mystery." Address them both at western Vitagraph. N Tony isn't married. He's Spanish — that is he was born over there. He speaks English— not, perhaps, as she is spoke, but fairly well. That's all right. Mimi. — Doris Keane is at present in London. She intends to present "Romance" in Paris, I believe. Basil Sydney is her husband. Did you see Miss Keane in the screen version of her famous play? Richard, Philadelphia. — Curiosity isn't really idle at all. I have found this out all by myself. Charles Ray has his own studio in Los Angeles. His manager is Richard Willis on the Coast while Arthur Kane handles his productions. Ray was in musical and dramatic stock for four and one-half years. He was also in vaudeville His screen career commenced with Ince and he appeared in "Peggy," "The Coward,'' "String Beans" and others. His latest production is "Nineteen and Phyllis" the fictionization of which appears in this issue of Photoplay. C. W. F., Cleburne, Texas. — I am afraid Constance Talmadge won't give you a personal answer. She tells me she is too busy to write letters to her admirers. You will undoubtedly get a photograph of her, however. Constance didn't get married while she was in Europe and she hasn't been married since she returned. Whereupon you may deduce that she is blessedly single. Norma is Mrs. Joe Schenck. Helen. — You say I know so much and yet in my answers I don't make you feel like a fool. I must be clever. Viola Dana, Metro; Harold Lloyd. Rolin Pathe; Doris May, Thomas Ince; Marie Walcamp, Universal. Theodore M., New York. — Very much obliged for taking the trouble to send me the cast of the serial, "The Fatal Fortune." I will publish it here so that the Manila gentleman who wanted it in the November issue may run and read: Helen Benton— Helen Holmes; Tom Warden — Jack Levers ing; Howard Warden — William Black; John Burke— William Frederick: "Wolf" HawktHi — Frank Wunderlec: "BVnky'' Bill EatonLeslie King; Invisible Face — Floyd Buckley. Marie, Kansas City. — Many a man dreams of millions and then lunches in an arm-chair fo'odery. You may write M. Georges Carpentier care Robertson-Cole. He made one picture for them, "The Wonder Man." He probably will not make any more before his bout with Dempsey. Are you betting? (Continued on page 120)