Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section 125 Their Little OV Pay Check Now? (Concluded from page j6) same applies to the good character or heavy woman. A notable instance is the rise of Marcia Manon. When she played the heavy in Mary Pickford's "Stella Maris," Miss Manon was drawing down the munificent stipend of $40 a week. Now her salary is up in the hundreds. It isn't so much the general upward trend of wages and commodities that has taken upward motion picture salaries — it is the tremendously augmented business since the end of the war — an indication of the universal turning to the photoplay theater as the chief recreation of the civilized world. With the end of the great conflict, the foreign market, long closed to the film salesman has been thrown open, thus giving the greatest single stimulus to the business of picture production. Then the theater has so greatly improved in class, both as to ecjuipment and performance that better prices could be charged the public, thus providing bigger rentals for the better grade of pictures. As to the stars themselves, their product is sold almost exclusively on their popularity and the merits of the picture? themselves. With an open market, it is a case of a survival of the best in a general sense. The stars who can best satisfy the public will continue to be well paid — the others will be consigned to the oblivion that awaits all those who, in the vernacular, have "played out their string." The public will not begrudge the successful ones the million they will take in exchange for the entertainment and the happiness they have bestowed through the medium of the screen. Why Don't They? HE girl on the Photoplay cover Has c^sed many a masculine heart To pau^ in its steady patter When pierced by Cupid's keen dart. T Oh, man, as you sit in your armchair, And gaze at the latest "mag" out. You murmur: "That hair, oh those dimples! Does she care if a fellow has gout? "I'm sure that her name is Priscilla, Or it might be Constance or Prue. Now what in the name of creation Is a fellow with gout goin' to do?" Though the girl on the Photoplay cover Wrecks the peace of the masculine mind, The lad in the collar ad surely For feminine hearts was designed. Oh, girl, as you sit near the mirror And gaze at the latest "mag" out, You murmur: "His hair parts so nicely, Now what is he thinking about? "As he laughingly gazes straight at me, With collar and tie on just right? I know that his name must be Jimmie; I wish I could see him to-night." Oh girl on the Photoplay cover, And lad in the collar ad there. Why don't you both go and get married, And end all the anguish that's here? — Esther Franks. Lore's light bum! undimmed in Beauty's realm •while your fair charms entrance my ey'ry thought. " — FROM AN OLD VALENTINE. It's your charm of face — your lovely complexion — that brings you the Valentines of love and admiration. To win supremacy in the courts where many vie for beauty, you have but to use DAGGETT<^RANSDELLS PERFECT COLD CREAM 7%^ Kind Thxxi ICe^eft^ Indoors and out-of-doors, at fetes and under public gaze, your fair skin will be assured ot softness and delicate freshness, if you apply D & R Perfect Cold Cream daily. It's the cream supreme that relieves all irritation of chapping and chafing. Hands that are rough and red respond quickly to its healing qualities. Babies are kept happy by its use. You will enjoy its home ministrations in countless ways. In tubes and jars, lOc to $1.50. Poudre Amourette — The face powder of distinaivc beauty. Looks natural and stays on. Flesh, white, brunette, 50c, of your dealer or by mail of us. IT IS just as annoying to the person next to you at the playhouse, when you cough, as it is annoying to you when they cough. Also it is just as unnecessary, for S-B Cough Drops relieve coughing. Pure. No drugs. Just eno'^'h charcoal to sweeten the stomach. \ Drop that Cough SMITH BROTHERS of Poughkeepsm FAMOUS SINCE 1847 i^iiii^miiiiiii^mii^iiiuiiiiiiiiiM^iimiuiuuiuitiuii^^ When you write to advertisers please mention PHOTOPLAT MAGAZINE.