The Photo-Play Journal (Jan-Jun 1919)

52 PHOTO-PLAY JOURNAL February, /gig On the Advantages of Embonpoint (Continued from page jp) So he gets in the habit of being cheerful and radiates good nature. If he gets ill, people scarcely sympathize, and he has to get well to have a good time. Whether he drinks a drop or not, everybody has the comfortable idea that he puts away great quantities of fat-producing beverages and he can have a jamboree on cold water if he likes, which is inexpensive. And sometimes he can make his avordupois pay — as I've done. Yes, I think my book is going to be all right. I shall perhaps dedicate it to the fat men of history. Perhaps a Fat Men's Club will be organized on the strength of my work, and I shall be named president with a fat salary. So, until I greet you in the guise of author, yours for embonpoint. His Parisian Wife (Continued from page 18) mortification and made a hasty exit from the room, feeling her presence was undesired in such an icy atmosphere. Upon ascending the stairs to her room, she was overtaken by Wesley, who had followed her out of the room. His eyes flashed with anger and his distorted expression indicated his rage. "That costume is absolutely immodest," he raved. "You should be ashamed to appear before respectable people in such a decollette attire." He thereupon snatched the handsome rose she had so deftly fastened to her bosom and threw it on the floor, with an oath. His roughness caused the pin to badly lacerate her breast, from which blood began to flow profusely. She hastened to her room, vowing she would tolerate her husband no longer. After dinner Tony wandered through the room where he thought he had heard a faint cry, and came upon the crushed rose lying on the floor. He readily understood a friction had arisen between the two and he sought Wesley to pacify him, but his pleadings were in vain, and Wesley, unable to endure the friction in his house, imbibed freely of liquor, making his Boston rooms his abode. "I'll divorce her, that's what I'll do," he mused, and faking evidence, he had a hotel bill prepared for himself and a strange lady and mailed it to Fauvette, which caused her a great deal of anguish, for she really idolized Wesley, but would not endure his antagonistic manner toward her. SupGrfluQujHAIRallGONE FOREVER removed by trie Mahler Method which kills the hair root without pain or injury to the skin, in the privacy of your own home. Send today two stamps (or Free Booklet D. J. MAHLER CO. 1591-B Mahler Park, Providence, R. I. We write muaic, guarantee publisher's acceptance. Submit poema on patriotism, love, or any subject. CHESTER MUSIC COMPANY 538 South Dearborn Street, Suite 228 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS She remained away from him and sought diversion and livelihood by writing novels, rapidly gaining recognition in the literary field. Her royalties poured in incessantly, but her philanthropic nature exhausted her funds because of her generosity in helping her struggling contemporaries. When her funds were so depleted, she resorted to the loan sharks, who haunted her with threats during the succeeding months. Meanwhile Tony told Wesley just what he thought of him, and plainly showed him what a fool he had made of himself in driving from his home a woman who was always loyal and faithful to him in every instance. "Perhaps you are right, Tony," he answered. "My family blinded me to her charms, but since I have been away, I have often thought what she might be doing at present. I still love her and I am going to win her back if possible." Wesley stopped drinking and began to work hard on an important case, giving it his whole thought and attention to plead his case successfully. His previous experience fitted him for the task, and he won it with a great deal of credit to himself and his client. "All I need now is the forgiveness and caresses of my wife to make me the happiest man in the world," he lamented. Wesley embarked for New York with a firm determination of wooing back his wife, and realized that he had a difficult task before him, due to her supposition of his unfaithfulness to her. Tony, learning from Wesley that his supposed escapade in the hotel with a strange woman was a frame-up to discourage Fauvette, hastened to impart the knowledge to her. She was overcome with joy to learn of his innocence. "I knew his actions toward me did not come from his heart, but were influenced by his parents," she said, joyfully. "How I wish we had never gone to his home but instead had taken a quiet little apartment and enjoyed eternal happiness." Wesley nerved himself to woo her back and hastened to her apartments. Fauvette instantly noticed a wonderful change in his appearance. His face was brighter and his manner clearly showed his former affection towards her. "At last I have found you," he cried, exultantly. "Won't you forgive me? I need you so much now." "Then you don't think I am as bad as 1 have been pictured to you ?" she inquired. "The whole world could never turn me against you again," he assured her, and Fauvette fell into his arms in ecstacy. A deluge of questions passed between the happy pair and both were overjoyed at their reunion. "What have you been doing during my absence ?" he asked. "I have written many successful novels and have been able to live fairly well, excepting that I still have a debt to pay to the loan sharks." "I shall pay that and we shall once more live in tranquility," he told her. "You shall take renewed interest in your work and win greater fame in your efforts. I will help you in every way possible." "I am truly glad that this happy moment has arrived, for I thought perhaps when you impulsively married me in France, it was only from infatuation, but since you have passed through many extenuating circumstances on my account and still seek my affection, I do believe you love me," she told him. "Such is the case, Fauvette," he vouchsafed. "I hope you can trust me never to desert you again." "You have my confidence and love always," she assured him, and gave him a kiss. Interesting Facts About the Clan That Acts (Continued from page 23) Josie Sedgwick is very much of a pugilist, for whenever a leading woman is required for a story calling for a big fight, Miss Sedgwick is naturally asked for, and he can give some good bumps as well as receive them. Tom Santschi would make a good sparring partner for Miss Sedgwick. Douglas Fairbanks has adopted the advanced idea of aerial mail service. He recently sent Secretary Joseph Tumulty a personal letter by aeroplane, which left California on the first trip made in the endeavor to mark the start of the thirty-four recordbreaking transcontinental aerial flights to the national capital. Before the mail planes left the aviation field, Mr. Fairbanks persented lucky pieces to the three aviators who were to take turns in piloting from the Pacific to the Atlantic. There is no room for superstition in Enid Bennett's make-up, for she fears no hoodoos. In fact she says thirteen is her lucky number. Only recently she was called upon to participate in a scene before the camera in which there were thirteen players and a black cat. She has slept in rooms in hotels marked No. 13. Still she's happy. Glen Cavender, one of the prominent members of the Sunshine Comedies' organization, while watching a recent government war film, became greatly interested in one of the scenes showing German prisoners held by the Allies. So interested did be become that he watched the picture through three or four times to study the features of a certain prisoner. Returning to the studio, he immediately started to make up to look like the man, and in so doing, created a new style of make-up, which is admirably suited for comedy purposes. One of the gowns which Madlaine Traverse wears in the "Danger Zone," the William Fox super picture, is a Liberty Bond gown, as Miss Traverse made the garment herself and converted the money saved into a United States certificate. When Miss Traverse arrived in Los Angeles she found she had a quantity of material on hand, so she turned one of her rooms in the Hollywood Hotel into a sewing room, and turned out an economical creation, and at the same time aided the Government by her thrift. Realism often plays a prominent part in the making of scenes at the studios of which the public are not always cognizant. When Corrine Griffith, the Vitagraph star, was busily engaged in finishing her part in a cabaret scenes in "The Girl Question,'' she was playing on her birthday, and didn't believe she would have a chance to celebrate, but her supporters couldn't let such an auspicious occasion pass without some sort of a celebration. In the cabaret scene, Miss Griffith was, of course, the leading feature, and all her company was in it, and as there are lots of toasts and good fellowship in it, the director had figured that it would be in the interest of screen realism to turn the cabaret scene into a surprise birthday party for Miss Griffith. That was done, and no scene ever was filmed in which there was so much unrestrained joy. Miss Griffith had no inkling of what was going on until the scene was well under way, when all of a sudden her leading man, all as part of the play, handed her a bunch of American Beauties, and some time in the course of the scene each member of the company found occasion to approach the star with some little token and well wishes. May Allison, the Metro favorite, added to her list of sports by acquiring a new sailing boat which she handles herself. Miss Allison is an expert motorist, swimmer and tennis player, but her new sport has superseded all else in her affections, and when not at work on her productions, she is generally to be found, dressed in fetching boating costume, competently handling the wheel of her boat. Kenneth Webb has a speaking acquaintance with every traffic cop in New York City. This is not, as one might suppose, that he has been arrested by all of them for violations of the traffic rules, but because the director has so often had occasion to use the streets of New York for making scenes. Webb always tips the coppers off in advance, thus avoiding trouble and always having a clear field for his camera work. Jack Mower, of the Universal, is now convinced that hair is a great bother so far as pictures are concerned. In his latest picture Jack had to have his hair very long for the prologue, so that he let it grow. When the scenes in the prologue were finished, he had to have his hair cut for the modern scenes. Three days afterwards it was discovered that the scene had to be re-taken, and it took nearly two hours for him to make up his hair with crepe paoer. .