Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

Write to her care Famous Players ^""y ''^tter yours is— straight to the point arrives. I'll take a chance on its breaking 82 Margaret of McKeesport. — There seems to be no reason why I shouldn't give you Dorothy Dalton's address. Inasmuch as I can't write to her myself, you might as well. And then tell me what she says to you. New York; or the Century Theatre, same village. Miss Dalton has been married but b in the singly-blessed state at present. She was once Mrs. Lew Cody. Kathryn M., Chicago. — So you want to know whether the man named Harry Pollard who acts in the Harold Lloyd comedies is the tall young man with the glasses or the little short one with the drooping mustache. I make answer to that that Harold Lloyd is not Snub Pollard; then will I indulge in that form of vice known as versa and haste to inform thee that Snub is the little fellow, of absolutely no interchangeable identity with Mr. Lloyd. DonH make that mistake again, I beg of you. I suppose next you'll be asking if Phyllis Haver is the big fat woman who acts so funny in the Sennett Comedies. Questions and Answers (Continued) contract with American is up; she is to travel around the country with some sort of a government picture, I understand. Victor Wegnor, Minn. — What an un dread of bombs, poisoned candy, or loaded cigars. Naughty Sixteen. — I know I shall suffer an intense craving until that promised honey and carrying the earmarks of business. And so I shall answer in like vein — strictly business ! John Bowers leading man with Madge Kennedy in "Thru the Wrong Door." Wanda Hawley stenographer in the "Poor Boob." Bebe Daniels now with Lasky. Mary Pickford played child roles and was in Belasco's production "The Good Little Devil." Selah. enroute. Just send it along. The Answer Man needs sweetening, I'll tell you. Mary Pickford's hair is golden — honestly golden. Norma Talmadge's sister Natalie is on the screen. ''Intolerance" was taken on the Griffith lot in Hollywood, California. F. M., Pittsburg. — So you are very much interested in Thurston Hall. Well, I don't blame you, though he ought to make a good impression with 200 pounds. He is Charlotte, Fort Wayne. — At ten, the main thing in life is securing an autograph of your motion picture idol. At four limes ten the main thing in life is to wonder how on cirth you could ever admire a man like that. True love, my child, seems only to e-xtend itself to young handsome men with eyebrows like Wallace Reid's and hair like Eugene O'Brien's. If I am ever loved it will be for my sweet disposition. Alice Brady, care Realart Pictures Corporation, New York. Dra\> n by Nunnan Anthony, M. X. M., Michigan. — You told me to publish you as "Mary X., Detroit Only." And don't ask me how old Constance Talmadge is supposed to be. Very likely the young lady is supposed to be as old as she is. Which is earlytwenty or thereabouts. I am constantly bemoaning the cruel fate that ties me to statistics when I long to soar. Constance is a bobbed blonde; not brunette. Don't believe all you hear, kid. Anita Stewart is medium-brunette. Whatever that may be. Brooks of Sheffield. — I have no excuse whatever for answering you, because you not only break the rules: you step on them with your — I hope — daintily shod French feet and smash them into a thousand pieces. I can't help it; I never saw such erratic Virginia.— The "Curly Kid" in "The Girl from Outside" was Cullen Landis. Do you know his sister Margaret Cullen Landis? Perhaps you might grow to lite the whole family. I hope this word of enlightenment catches your eye before you leave this country. Do look in on us again, won't you? Charles D. B., Ottawa. — A pessimist is one who, when laughing, is thinking of the wrinkles it wUl bring. I'm afraid I can't help you in that personal matter. Constance Talmadge's leading man in "In Search of a Sinner" is Rockcliffe Fellowes. Robert Harron, D. W. Griffith studio, Hunt's Point, Mamaroneck, New York. There also you may reach the sisters Gish. Why, I never said I didn't like the Gish girls. As a matter of fact, there's nobody in films I like better. Celia 0., Hansboro. — It -s very nice to think about tl.e woman who is made for you. And it is nice, too, to think that you haven't met her yet. Ruth Roland has been married. Norma Talmadge Schenck has an apartment in Manhattan. Mademoiselle Fleurette, Marshalltown. — I have heard it said, too, that the early bird catches the consequences. But I forget what vaudeville team said it first. Your paper is tres jolie — but don't, I beg of you, use it again very soon. My eyes aren't so good as they used to be. Dick Barthelmess played the young brother of still in pictures. Here are some he has Nazimova in "War Brides" and he was played in: "Cleopatra;" "The Price Mark;" Marguerite Clark's leading man before he "The Edge of Sin;" "Love Letters;" "An went with the Grifflth company. He may Alien Enemy;" "Tyrant Fear;" "We Can't play with Dorothy Gish again but it is not Have Everything;" "Mating of Marcella." likely. "Thia is a five-reel picture. "Yes — four of them explain w^ho directed, photograpked it, etc., etc." I hope with these you'll see a lot of him. B. A. D., Mo. — So my sex is an enigma to you. Good; if you knew me well you would lose all interest in me and cease to typewriting as yours. Why don't you try think me clever. Distance lends enchanttying the old machine down once in a ment, I vow. Casson Ferguson was the while? Mine skids all over the desk — or did; now I have it properly trained. I reprove it by threatening to throw it out and get a Corona-Corona instead. Sometimes we accept contributions; it depends, said he wittily, on the contributions. LoRETTA R., Buffalo. — Don't marvel at your nose for news. Surely it can't be as long as all that. Besides, Loretta, I'm convinced that if I'd been conducting this department for a hundred years instead of only a few, there would still be women who had new questions to ask me. Mary Pickford, her own studios in California; Mary Miles Minter, Realart; Olive Thomas, Selznick, New York. Margarita Fischer's I. D. D., Windham, N. Y.— "Ivanhoe" was done some years ago in England with King Baggott and Leah Baird. So you were writing in a terrible snow-storm; don't you mean brain-storm? "Sporting Life" was produced by Maurice Tourneur and released by Artcraft. I don't know, I am sure, why "would-be bad man" in "Unclaimed Goods.' He is 28; has blue-grey eyes and brown hair it is that George Walsh makes up his eyes and is not married. Address Lasky, Holly so dark wood, Calif. He played in "How Could You, Jean?" as you suspect. Wallace Reid played opposite Geraldine Farrar in "Marie Rosa." His wife's pre-marriage name was Dorothy Davenport. No, to the children query. Ann Little is the wild mountain girl character you ask about. Lilly, N. Z.— Yes, Francis Ford still illuminates the screen. His latest is the serial "The Mystery of the Thirteen." He also directs. I. K. Colorado— You did right, Little You ask too much when you seek my fav Nell, in not attempting to deceive the An orites. I may have them, but I'm too swer Man. I can see through the slyest de canny to mention them. I have a hazy (Continued on page 12 ' Miss I., San Francisco. — There are two kinds of women: those who fall in love, and those with a sense of humor. And I am a man myself, too. Write to Tony Moreno at the Vitagraph studios in the West. He is to appear in features upon the completion of "The Invisible Hand" his new — and last serial.