Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1920)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section 105 Plays and Players ( Continued ) Petrova emptied her purse of coins of all denominations into the street and during the young riot that followed managed to make her escape. GREENWICH Village parties are the latest fad in eastern filmdom. Every week a party of noted stars goes out for a wild, wild(?) time in the haunts of Bohemia. Greenwich Villagers are still talking about the time Mary Pickford took a party of girls down there for a hen party. There were Norma Talmadge and Constance, Anita Loos, Frances Marion, and Dorothy and Lillian Gish. Mary was recognized and almost mobbed by the children; while young girls crowded around asking for autographs. Another time the Talmadge and Gish sisters went to the Village very much incog.; they didn't care to have anyone see them. In a tiny tea-shop a woman came up to Constance and said, "You know, I hope you'll pardon me — but I can't help telling you you look exactly hke' Constance Talmadge !"' EVIDENTLY the English producers are not going to sit back while American producers invade their locations. Already they are planning systems whereby their productions may be released in this country. Stoll Film Company, Ltd., of London, one of the largest producing concerns on the other side, is arranging for the distribution of its output in America. Hepworth and Alliance Films are not asleep either. Few English productions have been shown over here — First National released one, "Choosing a Wife," which was not a marked success, although some audiences liked it. LARRY SEMON will leave Vitagraph as soon as he completes two new comedies. It is said Vita wUl concentrate on "specials" in the future. They have let out most of their scenario staff, oldest of its kind in the business, established for eighteen years. To get back to Semon : he will probably form his own producing organization. His leading woman, Lucille Zintheo-Carlisle, will leave him soon, being destined, as are all comedy queens, for "drahma." WHERE is Mary Fuller? Nobody knows — but a lot of people seem to care. The Answer Man's mail contains at least a dozen letters a month asking what has happened to Mary, but even the Answer Man is up against it. Mary Fuller has disappeared. Her actor-friends from Edison days have tried to find traces of her, without success. A lawyer who formerly handled her affairs has failed to locate her. No doubt she prefers to remain in seclusion— but why? An intelligent woman, a splendid actress, still young — why should she wish to hide from the world? It is a question no one seems able to answer. "■W7HY CHANGE YOUR WIFE?" has W just played a successful one-run engagement before a distinguished audience which held a poignant interest in the theme of the DeMille film in which Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels and Tom Meighan shared honors. The audience comprised the inmates of Sing Sing prison with the front row seats occupied by fifty bigamists. The bigamists were the butts of many a merry quip by the burglars, highwaymen, forgers, swindlers and firebugs while the picture was on the screen. THERE is "air stuff" in Dorothy Gish's new picture "Up in the Air with Jane" which will be released in the late autumn FASHIONED HOSE n jllice'Lake Sold at Leading Stores BURSON KNITTING CO. ROCKFORD, ILL. When you write lo advertlsera please mention PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.