Photoplay (May 1921)

66 Questions and Answers ( C onlinued) if it happened. Alia Nazimova has started production on "Camille, " don't know how soon it will be released. House Peters, Goldwyn, Culver Citj-, Cal. He is married, was born in 1888, and his late releases are "Lying Lips" and "The Alibi." port, who appears in comedies. Hawlej hails from Seattle. \\'anda L. N. R., ]\L\xcHESTER, England. — Thank you for your charming letter. I would always be as kind-hearted as you think me if all my correspondents were as courteous as 5'ou. Now that we have exchanged compliments, let's get down to business. Claire Adams is the actress to whom you refer, who played in "The End of the Road." She was born in 1898, and recent films in which she has appeared include, "The Penalty," "The Killer," and "The Spenders." She is now working in "A Man of the Forest" for Benjamin B.Hamption Productions, Hollywood, Cal. Address her there. No trouble at all. A Rambling Reck.— That was a peach of a letter — all except your nom de plume. It reminded me of those perfecth good pictures branded with terrible titles. The class in pronunciation will now assemble. Miss Daniels pronounces her name Bee-bee, Rosebush of a Thousand Years," a Madame F^ryant has never done anythi belter. You pronoimce her profession name Xa-seew;-ova' Mrs. H. F. W., morristown. — i don't know the first thingabout fashions and such like, as H. G. \\ ells would say, but I think you'll like Photoplay' s new fashion articles, beginning soon. Yes — Irene Castle is ]Mrs. Robert Treman. Young Tremanisan Ithaca business man. A photograph of Mrs. Castle-Treman appeared in Photoplay for December 191'); and a full i)age in rotogra\'ure in May, 1920. Mildred T., St. Louis.— So your fianc is making a big name for himself as a surgeon. Ah — carving his way to fortune. I see. Wallace Reid is just six feet tall and Bebe Daniels is Wm feet four. Then was an intervieu with Mabel Xormand in the December 1920 issue: with Tom Mix, in November 1920 Tom is married tn Victoria Forde and has been for sour time. He is still with Fox. Drawn by Norman Anthony H. D., Troy. — I'm not usually at home to men who malign me. But you do il so differently. I appreciate your sa\ing I am almost as good as Ring Lardner once in a while. That's something, isn't it? After all, in the average musical comedy there arc usually a thousand bad lines to one good one — oh, m the dialogue, of course; so some da\ if I can make sufficiently bad jokes, I may become jjrosperous. VVill Rogers is api)arently a bit backward about telling his age. He is very happily married and has two sons. Lives in California and works for C.oldwyn. His latest, "A Bashful RoTueo," in which SyKia Breamer [)lays ()[)p{>site. On Parole TisH. — You say the most beautiful girl in films played the bride in "Her Elephant Man." I find that her name is Ardito Mellenino and that I have never seen her. And I thought I knew all al)out pictures! M. C, F.KiuFiELD, III. — Not so long ago e\erybod\' who could hold a pen or pound a typewriter was doing a Dais\ Ashford. Now it seems to be the thing to write one's memoirs. I've been *o busy earning a living by writing answers I haven't had time to make a bid for immortality — I almost wrote immorality. Forrest Stanley is married, but he won't lell his age. Doroth\' Gish is twenty-two, Eileen Percy the same age, and Doris IMay tliree years younger. Dorothy is Mrs. Rennie; Miss Percy is Mrs. Busch. but doesn't object too strenuously il you call it Baby. Tom Meighan is Ton> Mee-an, with accent on first syllable. Hope you'll write often. Miss M. M. B., Newark. — Our Studio Directory, pu!)lished monthly in Photoplay Magazine, carries the studio addresses of most of the bettor-known film companies. If you will write and ask me what star you wish to write to, I'll tell you what company he is with and you can turn to the directory. Sec? This issue — page 89. Jean. Detroit. — It was Coleridge who said, these words — "For I had found That outward forms, the loftiest, still receive Their final influence from the life within." Certainly I belie\ e in reading — what a silly (|Ucstion. I am not one of those who belie\e that culture conies from checkbooks. Richard Barthelmess is twentyfi\e. He is inarricd to Mary Hav. I. [■,()[, A, Pa. — Most nio\i(' stars use the names (iod and their parents gave them. ^\al!a(■e Reid's father was I-lal Reid, the pla\ wright, who died a j'ear ago. Wally's wife's maiden name was Dorothy Davenjtort. Dorothy's mother is Alice Daven Machine. — Fortunatelx, I lune seen a few pictures in m\ crowded career, so I follow you. "The picture where an artist wants.to paint a Madonna picture beside a rose bush" is none other than Nazimova's "Revelation," the second photoplay ever made by .Alia, and her first for Metro. It was adapted from a story called "The Clarissa. — Thought is interesting, but life is much more interesting. If one could only strike a balance, now — but thai is the most difficult thing of all to do. Here is the cast of "The I^ove Light": An«eUi. . . . Mary I'ickford; Maria E\ el\ n Dumo; Joseph. . . Fred Thompson; Mario. Edward Phillips; Pietro . . . . Wheri Frisco; Giovanni . . . . Raymond Bloomer; Tony. . . . George Rigas; Antonio. . . .Jean de Briac. (Continued on page 93)