Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

ii6 Photopla,y Magazine — Advertising Section Armand COMPLEXION POWDER h'Olw lUfLEPlNK G>WHnh BOXES 'THERE'S one way and only ■■■ one, for you to know that Armand Complexion Powder is as wonderful as we claim — and that is to try it. Go to any of the better shops and buy a box of Armand. Armand Bouquet is a fairly dense powder, and Armand Cold Cream Powder is very dense and different from any other face powder made. The Bouquet comes in a square box at 50c and the Cold Cream Powder in a miniature hat box at $1. If you prefer, send 15c and your dealer's name for three samples. Address ARMAND, Des Moines In Canada — Armand, St. Thomas, Ont. A Indoorsor out X Get Drop on ttiatCou^l HIKING or resting— the wind through the woods and the draft through the room may mean the same kind of a cough. Stave it off with Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops. Get them anywhere. Dean Medicine Company Milwaukee, Wisconsin tJifc^ i MENTHOLATED COITGHlllMiFS You can learn Fox-Trot, One-Step, Two-Step, Waltz and latest "up-to-the-minute" society dances in your own iionie by the wonderful l*eak. System of Mail Instruction. NewDiacram Method. Easily learned DO music needed: thousands taufirht eucceBsfully. Write for Special Ternift. Send today for FRKE information end surpriainfrly low offer. WILLIAM CHANDLER PEAK. M. B. Room 30, 621 Cr«*c«nt PUc« — Chicago, III. The Gentle Grafters Everytking the actresses use and wear in the films is real — the dear sweet things see to that ND now the poor down-trodden motion picture stars whose weekly stipends range from five to twelve thousand iron men a week, are obliged to resort to the pettiest forms of graft in order to look the H. C. L. gentleman squarely in the face ! How can any self-respecting star keep up an appearance if she does not stoop to the methods employed by politicians, city contractors, and reporters? It is the public's own fault that she is obliged to sully her soul in her desperate attempt to live up to the reputation she had wished on her of being extravagant, eccentric and exclusive. Even the department stores as well as the little shops on Fifth Avenue recognize the embarrassing position the star occupies, by allowing a ten percent discount on all goods she purchases. This helps some. Many of the motion picture producers go so far as to supply their stars with their wardrobes for the productions, in order to help them make ends meet. There is a certain star whose contract calls for automobile tires as well. In another contract, between a well known star and a well known producer, a stipulation for salaries for chauffeur and maid, as well as upkeep of the star's hair is included. Why should not the producer pay these expenses? Is it not the chauffeur who drives the star to the studio, and the maid who dresses her for the production and the hair that photographs like a million dollars part of the finished photo play, like the furniture and extra people? Then why should the star dip into her $S,ooo a week when really these things have nothing to do with her Art? The motion picture producer of to-day does not dare to oppose a star in any way. Whatever demand she makes must be granted. If a star is opposed, she can immediately take to her bed and register a nervous headache. The result of several days illness would cost a producer many thousands of dollars, and he has discovered after playing the game from every angle that it is cheaper to accede to her whims. If he should break her contract, he would only meet with the same situation from another star, because stars seem to be necessary, and after having spent a small fortune on publicity and advertising, in order to make a star popular, it would not be a profitable move to release her and give some other producer the benefit of the expenditure. So the star has the producer in the hollow of her hand, and any time he doesn't like it, she can move on to another producer and at a bigger salary. Of course all these concessions in the contracts help, but they are not sufficient to cover the necessary expenses of one who lives in a rarefied atmosphere, and like the little shop girl who sneaks a few spools of sewing cotton from the counter now and then, the star is obliged to contrive ways and means for procuring things without cost. One star — a clever little thing she was — charged the producers for the use of her pet dog in a production. Most dogs of breeding and pulchritude receive ten dollars a day for acting in the pictures and it was indeed a worth while consideration for the poor star to eke out a few honest dollars. Another star noted for her sinuous figure lunched day after day in her dressing room Every eritjertlsement in PITOTOPT-AY MAGAZINE is guaranteed.