Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

136 Grace Ellen Cox, Carlisle — You wrote to the Educational Department for advice as to becoming a movie actor! But they only turned it over to me, so you won't get any more advice than I gave you last time. You're a freshman in high school who wants to be a star and what should you do? Be a sophomore, a junior, and a senior in rapid succession, then think it over and write to me again. Charles Antoine H., Paterson — Let us not speak of what has passed. Your letter never came to my desk. Only Mr. Burleson knows why. I must brush up in my French ; I had to consult my little dictionary to translate parts of your letter. If I were you I would not pay while learning motion picture acting. I do not know, right now, of any French casting director; but be assured that any of the better companies will take care of you if they can use you. Seth a. C, Peru — Corinne Griffith would rather her friends addressed her care the ■Vitagraph studios in Brooklyn. Don't send your letters to 40 Clinton street; she says she hasn't lived there for some years. Irene Castle is married again; she is Mrs. Robert Treman now. Charles Maigne directs some of her pictures. Mary Pickford's real name is Gladys Smith. Frisco Fan — You think I must have stepped right in to my job as Answer Man. I don't know just what you mean stepped right in but I know that I have been nine years — nine long, shapely years — rising to my present position. What it is I don't know. Alice Brady, Realart. She's Mrs. Jimmie Crane. "Sinners" is her new one. Alice Lake with Metro ; Dorothy Dalton with eastern Paramount. Right now she is working at the i2Sth street studios of that organization in "Black is White," but address her care Famous-Lasky, 485 Fifth Avenue. Wanda Hawley, western Lasky. Toot, Portsmouth, 'V'a. — Your name reminds me of the golden days B. P. That means Before Prohibition, of course — and it is really quite unworthy of me, I have never shed any tears over the recent amendment — why should I, I am prepared. Well, anyway: you are entirely wrong about Miss Talmadge. She is not ill, but playing right along, in Manhattan, in her studio. E. E. J., Philadelphia — Thank you for sending me your poetic birthday remembrance to Theda Bara. She must surely have appreciated it. I like the line, "I'd die for you." Wonder if anyone will ever write anything like that about me? Miss Bara's last for Fox were "La Belle Russe" and "Kathleen Mavourneen." K. Moore, 'Vineland, New Jersey — The greatest thing in the world ? Courage. The worst thing in the world is to conceive a bad deed and lack the courage to perform it. There is no keener torture. No, Mabel Normand works in Culver City. "Jinx" is one of her latest. Constance Binney, Realart, New York. Fifteen, Ontario — You begin, "You will probably think I'm crazy." Oh, well, never mind. I have thought I was a Napoleon among Answer Men many, many times. I never get mad, my dear. Life was cruel to me before I ever began to answer questions— in those days I used to ask them. Norma Talmadge is married, to Joseph Schenck. Eugene O'Brien isn't married. His new Selznicks are "Sealed Hearts" and "The Broken Melody." Questions and Answers ( Concluded) S. F. H., Tacoma. — George Fawcett was one of the three musketeers from the little village in "Hearts of the World." Fawcett frequently appears in Dorothy Gish productions. He is married to Beulah Poynter. George Siegman was the hun in "Hearts.'' Rosemary Theby was the vamp in "The Great Love." Your town, Tacoma, fairly teems with movie fans. Call again; always delighted to hear from you. The Lightning Raider. — What, again? Bertram Milhauser is Pathe's scenario expert. I agree with you, in a way, that melodrama now and then is relished by all of us. For myself, I sometimes get tired of too much reality. I love to enter, once a week or so, the realms of enchanted heroines and samsonesque heroes and villains who are so bad they blot the picture. ■Veta, Clearwater. — If I lived in your town I should keep a clear complexion and a clear conscience ! I like the open places ; windy-city life baiters down my self-control once in a while. But I never never take it out on my stenographer. May Allison is in her early twenties; she is not married and never has been and that's her real name. Her new Metro is "Fair and Warmer," in which May drinks the cocktail that Madge Kennedy made famous on the stage. Master C. Aldridge. — Kitty Gordon isn't in pictures just at present. Her latest was "Playthings of Passion'' for LTnited Theatres. She has a young daughter Vera Beresford. Louise Huff has a little girl Mary Louise; Miss Huff is with American Cinema. Dorothy Bernard is Mrs. A. H. 'Van Buren. Claude, Philadelphia. — Houdini, the magician was in "The Master Mystery." Marguerite Marsh played with him. He has signed with Lasky to do more pictures for them to follow "The Grim Game." Houdini was celebrated as an escape-artist on the stage ; but he has found the movies too much for him. Fancy him trying to wriggle out of any film once he's in it ! Dorothy L., Harvey, North Dakota.— An old joke, like an old friend, is the best. Of course we dress them up and trot them out so that they look like new — but really, isn't it a comfort not 'o have to think about it at all, just laugh and say, "Yes, that's good" or "I always did like that one." John Barrymore's wife was Katherine Harris; they are now divorced. It's Robert Harron's real name. B. J. D., L. A.— You write like Bebe Daniel looks. Bebe, by the way, your pastelled namesame, has forsaken comedy to go with DeMille. Her first, "The Admirable Crichton." There was a story about Tom Meighan in the October issue. I hope it pleased vou. Peggy, Hamilton, Ohio. — Most of your questions have been answered before, but your little corsage touched my heart. John Bowers is married to Rita Heller. Goldwyn, Culver City, wOl reach him. W. Elizabeth C, Philadelphia. — A healthy percentage of my mail comes from the Quaker City. No, I don't play in pictures; I much prefer ring-around-the-rosie and other simple games like that. Hate to disappoint you, but Vivian Martin was not born in your City of Fraternal Affection — but in, or near, Grand Rapids, where all the furniture comes from. Kathryn Connor, Fairbury — No. Elsie ' Ferguson hasn't a double. She played both roles, herself, in "The Avalanche." Pretty tribute you pay Elsie's versatility. E. K. and Elmo Lincoln are not even remotely related. Elmo is the man who wiggles such a wicked muscle in the "Tarzan" pictures and in the serials, while E. K. is the Lincoln who began with Vitagraph and was lately in Zane Grey's "Desert Gold." Pete, New York — I am not alarmed at your offer to send me fudge. I am wellinsured, against love, death, and ptomaine. I never would say anything in a disparaging way about your sweet efforts, but since you started it — Just because I wear a stripedshirt once in a while — on holidays and birthdays— doesn't signify that I'm a fat man. ' Believe me, I'm not fat. Conway Tearleli with Norma Talmadge in "Nancy Lee," renamed "The Way of a Woman." Jinny, Missouri — I don't think you're a '• "hick" because you don't come from New York. There are as many hicks in Manhattan as there are in the back-woods, according to the gospel as picturized by James Montgomery Flagg. Eugene O'Brien still lives at the Royalton, but I'd address him care Selznick at 729 Seventh Avenue, New York. Edith— Are you blonde? All the Ediths, personal, I know, are blondes. So you received autographed pictures of Mary Pickford and Wallace Reid by perusing my department. If I never had done or will do another thing I am a success. Douglas Fairbanks is a United Artist. His first, "His Majesty the American." Margery Daw is his leading woman in that — her last with Fairbanks before joining the Neilan organization. The Lightning Raider — I can't help answering you every month. There's something about the way you shape your letters "A" that I can't resist. I haven't seen Pearl White's first Fox, as it hasn't been completed as I write this. But by the time you read this it will probably be finished and you'll have seen it. Thanks for what you say about our covers. Watch out for innovations all the time. Grace, Lansing — The luscious young lady of the Cecil DeMille optic operas — "For Better for Worse," "Don't Change Your Husband" and "Male and Female," was, and still is, Gloria Swanson, although rumor had it sometime ago that she was about to become engaged in a matrimonial way to a young Los Angeles millionaire, which rumor, if true, would have resulted in her becoming Gloria-somebody-else. She is of Swedish descent. Vivian, Dallas — Why, I suppose you might write Miss Martin and tell her that you like her because her first name is the same as yours, but I like Vivian and our first names are not the same, so I daresay there is some other reason for your admiration of her, also. Ralph Graves, the goodlooking young blonde chap, now with Griffith, played the soda-fountain clerk in "The Home-Town Girl," with Vivian, who by any other name would play as sweet. Hazel K., Detroit — Marguerite Mar.sh is Mae's sister. Marguerite has been playing right along but Mae is still in private life as Mrs. Louis Lee Arms; she will probably return to picture activity the last of this year or the first of next. Mae's baby is a little girl.