Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

■fr'/frfn;. ^1 every woman should be a good housekeeper." She can perform every branch of the household art. She is a Boston girl with a full quota of Yankee faculty. Often she irons her chiffon blouses because no one else irons them to suit her. She thinks domestic science should be thoroughly taught. If there were visiting teachers of domestic science she believes every household would be happier. She would have been glad to serve in such capacity had not the screen claimed her. Robert Edeson is a physical culture specialist. Wherever he sets up his home there is also a gymnasium. With but slightest encouragement he organizes groups of his fellow actors in the art of keeping yourself fit. He would have been a doctor but that the time and expense of taking a medical course and the years required for the establishment of a practice reared mountain-high obstacles to "Bob" Edeson in his teens. Instead he suppHed himself with nearly infinite vigor by a health course on a western ranch and in the northern woods. An hour a day in his gymnasium at the Hotel des Artistes is his minimum. Those are reasons why he says "Motion picture work is being paid for what I like to do. I like to ride and swim and dig and wrestle. The movies give me a chance to do these and pay me for it." Hamilton Revell paints a little and makes many artistic photographs. Mrs. Fiske thinks them artistic else she would not have permitted him to photograph her. His studies of her adorned the menu cards at the dinner given to her last winter by the Society of Arts and Letters. Marguerite Clark has discovered that designing and manu Billie Burke gets out Her easels and paints alleged likenesses oi her defenceless th year-old daughte Evidently Mrs. Fiske thinks Hamilton R.evelle an artistic photographer or she would not permit him to photograph hi facturing dolls is a way to fortune. The demand for dolls is as great as that for motion picture entertainment. If she hadn't adopted "the pictures" she would have invented and manufactured a huge variety of dolls. Kitty Gordon, who came from the neat, tight little island of England, has a liking for landscape gardening. Also a belief that that way success would have lain for her. At her home at Manhattan Beach, the Moorish villa with the yellow roof, she gives evidence of what she might have achieved had she turned her back upon pictures and her face to English and American gardens. Bessie Love thinks her forte is animal training. She watches with manifest envy the woman who cracks the thongs above a snarling leopard's head. But she would have tamed the leopard by means of love and patience, she insists. She doesn't believe what she hears about the untameliness of the leopard. She wouldn't fear to undertake the education of a zebra. Meanwhile she practices on the lawn of her Hollywood home reducing a mongrel dog and two feeble minded poodles to a state of complete subjection. Nance O'Neill says folk travel without the necessary degree of forethought and display of intelligence. She would have liked to arrange and conduct world tours. Howard Estabrook studied Spanish that his dream of owning a cattle ranch on the Argentinian pamapas might come true. He would a South American ranchman be. Kathleen McDonnell started her livelihood earning as a pianiste. She believes she would be a great composer, if the film studios did not absorb all her waking hours. 49