Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

86 Questions and Answers (Continued) John F. T., Miamisburg, Ohio. — The Big Four has its office at 729 Seventh Avenue, New York City. Griffith is the only one of the quartet who ilaakes his pictures in Manhattan: Mary, Dougk and Charhe all work in the west. Thanhouser is one with Lubin, Kalem, and Essanay\ it has passed. The Jimmy Cruzes are in California where he directs for tasLy. Mignon Anderson has been free-lancing. Morris Foster with Universal last. As you know, perhaps, Flo La Badie was killed in a motor accident. Betty and Margaret. — There's such a lot of team work lately. Have all the girls formed secret societies? I never yet heard of a girls' secret society that was really secret. Most of those I hear of are for the purpose of exploiting some well-loved screen star. Dick Barthelmess is very dark as to complexion — not disposition. Geraldine Farrar was born in Melrose, Mass., and she is somewhere in her thirties. Dorothy Gish has no "permanent"' leading man. Dick, Ralph Graves, and Rudolph Valentino have all played with her recently. Pandora, Charlottesville. — Indeed I hope your curiosity has happier results than hers. So you don't want to write to Madge Kennedy because you're afraid she might answer and spoil the illusion. Yes, I know just how you feel about writing to celebrities and rich relations. Madge was on the stage before going into films; she was the cocktail-imbibing heroine of Avery Hopwood's "Fair and Warmer." She was discovered while acting in amateur dramatics. Married, to Harold Bolster. Castle Clip Number Two. — So you wish all our screen actresses would, bob their hair? I don't know; it mightn't become some of them. Let's see: there's Irene Castle— who is, I think, contemplating letting hers grow; Constance — also Natalie and Norma Talmadge; Anita Loos; Nazimova; Viola Dana and sister Shirley Mason. There may be others; girls have such a way of turning up their hair to make it look short. Unless you have curly hair, however, they tell me that bobbed hair is just as hard to fix as long hair. Harder, in fact, on rainy days. Let me know when you join the Honorable Society of the Bobbed-Haired Jazz Babies. Mrs. W. D. C.> St. Louis. — It is a pleasure to read a letter like yours. I like H. B. Warner, myself. In fact, he represents a boyish dream I always had — I should have wished to grow up to look like him if I'd known him then. Sort of a Sir Galahad person isn't he ? Married to Rita Stanwood; address him care Hampton studios, L. A. There's a little Joan Warner, only about two and a half years old. Kitten, New York City. — When a girl named Kitten inquires wistfully if I have hair slightly grey at the temples — what can a poor man do? But I can't lie even to you: my hair isn't grey at all. I say — what do they call you, at home? Surely they don't say "Kitten" whenever they want you. You seem to be such a nice girl, too. Alec B. Francis was a member of the old Eclair company; he was on the stage before that. Write him at Goldwyn studio. Culver City. Cleo, Kentucky. — You would like to drop in on my Eveless Eden, would you? My stenographer is always here ; every Adam must have a litttle evil, as the saying goes. You can drop in any time — with a letter. Elsie Ferguson, Famous Players studio in New York. She is a Paramount-Artcraft star. Latest to be shown, "Counterfeit." I may not have a nice profile but I turn my toes out as I walk and I am very good to office-boys, waiters, and taxi-drivers. If you would rather read me than eat, you can say no more. Josef G. C, Dowagiac, Mich. — Polly Moran is Sheriff Nell in the comedies. She used to be with Sennett, took a flyer in vaudeville, and is now with Fox-Sunshine, I understand. Works in Hollywood. Other answered elsewhere. N. J. B., New Castle. — ^Your answer has been delayed but I hope this will serve you. Al Jolson is not in pictur:es-and has never been but you mighta*Wress him at the. Winter Garden, New/York. John Barryrirlpre's pictures may h^ obtained through Famous Players-Lasky, Iss Fifth Ave., New Yo^k. Francis X. BusHman is on the stage nciw. Maurice Costello will probably send you a photograph if you write to him care Vitagraph, Brooklyn. He is in Corinne^riffith's picture, "The Tower of Jewels ' Kharline p., Tacoma. — Yes, I think Olive Thomas is perfectly darling. Would you mind telling her that I think so when you write? I know Olive, filmically and personally, and only wish I could get up enough courage to tell her how much I like her eyelashes. Her latest are "Out Yonder" and "Out of the Night." She has been Mrs. Jack Pickford for several years now. Ella Hall is married to Emory Johnson. W. K. Youngstown. — On that bet — Charles Chaplin has no children. You win. The little son of the Chaplins died when only a few hours old. Mrs. Mildred Harris Chaplin's new picture is called "The Inferior Sex." M. E. S., Brighton. — So you want me to be epigrammatical. One cannot be epigrammatical with a cold in the head. If I wrote as I felt this morning, this Magazine would never pass the censors. Eugene O'Brien no sooner finishes one picture than he begins another. Several recent ones are "Sealed Hearts" "The Broken Melody" and "His Wife's Money." Norma Talmadge's new one is called, "She Loves and Lies." Elsie Ferguson is Mrs. Thomas B. Clarke. Betty, Hume, Illinois. — Don't address me as "My dear — er — "! That's as bad as the proposal of a bashful man — "Darling, I — "! I should say that man was a good actor if he starred in a temperance picture — and he was so enthusiastic too, you say. Evart Overton? His middle name is Emerson; he was with Vitagraph last. G. C, Providence. — Oh, don't always believe the billboards of a musical show when they advertise, "A Chorus of Twenty." They refer to numbers, not to age. In the films, however, the girls must be young. It's a safe bet that Mack Sennett never engages a girl for his comedies if she's over twenty-five.. Phyllis is just a baby. C. E. L., Laconia. — Old man, I'd like to oblige you but I can't even get any myself. The art editor uses them in the art section, then he takes them all and says he has to save them. It isn't right; it isn't fair. And that was such a pretty picture of Phyllis Haver, too. (Continued on page iji) T It^s a SmaU World! EN Feet From New York to Cairo! That is, ten feet from the structure built to represent a tenement in New York to tlie picturesque little huts on the Cairo street at the right. It's all on the same lot— a line divides Douglas Fairbanks' outdoor set at the left from Bessie Barriscale's Egyptian set, on the big Brunton lot in Los Angeles. The far ends of the w^orld meet in a motion picture studio.