Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

Title Re^. U. S Pat OR '~rTHS is YOUR Department. Jump right in with your contribution. ■*■ What hare you seen, in the past month, which was stupid, unlifelike, ridiculous or merely incongruous? Do not generalize; confine your remarks to specific instances of absurdities in pictures you have seen. Your observation will be listed among the indictments of carelessness on the part of the actor, author or director. An Unruffled Head IN "The Shepherd of the Hills," when "young Matt" comes to the preacher's cottage to warn him against the raid — the preacher awakens and leisurely adjusts his wig. John D., Hyde Park, Mass. Only the Best for Anita ANITA STEWART in "The 'Mind-the-Paint' Girl" receives a bouquet with a card which reads, "From the Gallery Boys." It is composed of daisies and other simple flowers. But later, when Anita displays it, it has become a bunch of beautiful roses! In the same picture, when Lord Farnscombe and Jeyes leave her room, she has them shake hands. Farnscombe has not a hat or anything else in his hands. Yet when he and Jeyes start down the stairs, he is seen putting on a silk hat. Sylvia, Sauk Rapids, Minn. ANNOyNCINO Referred to Mr. H. Palmerson Williams IN Marguerite Clark's picture, "A Girl Named Mary," she is seen in one or two close-ups wearing a wedding ring. But she isn't supposed to be married. L. M. M., Allenhurst, N.J. It May Be N the last scene of Olive Thomas' picture, "The Glorious Lady," which is supposed to occur on the lawn of the Duke of Loame's estate in England, may be seen the top part of a ferris-wheel. Is it customary for English Dukes to have park amusement devices on their estates? Beauford Fisher, Crawfordsville, Ind. She Makes a Very Fair Salary WHEN Mary Miles Minter came from the orphanage asylum in "Anne of Green Gables," she wore silk stockings. How does she do it? Martha T., San Francisco. And the Audience Laughed TOM MIX, in "The Feud," which was supposed to have taken place before the Civil War, was almost up-to-date. Rubbertired carriages were used, and houses covered with rubberoid roofing were visible in several scenes. They also used a telephone. And Tom wore a shirt with the initial "M" embroidered on the sleeve. B. D. Cooper, Greenville, Texas. 68 "Lines Written While Waiting for a Number. . . ." IN "Mary Moves In," with Fay Tincher, a telephone is sitting on the library table. Someone calls over the phone. A few minutes later a moving van comes and takes away the furniture. Two men carry out the table and the telephone goes out with the table. A. W., N. Y. C. Such Is Genius IN "The Right to Lie," with Dolores Cassinelli, John Drake is supposed to have married Dolores Ferrari, an Italian woman, and the two are subsequently separated and made to believe each other dead. Some twenty years or so later, when Signora Ferrari is on her death-bed, they "re-discover" each other. Inasmuch as he is a well-known architect and she a world-famous prima donna, it seems a little incongruous that they should go on believing each other dead. R. F. B., Toledo, Ohio. A Crack Shot IN the third episode of "Lightning Bryce," the serial with Ann Little and Art Hoxie, Bryce and the girl are attacked at the ranch house and finally find out that they have only one bullet left in their revolver. Bryce shoots out the window at the bandits and two fall. W. J. W., Germantown, Pa. ht Alaska — California IN Rex Beach's "The A Brand," which I have only just seen, Dan McGill and his newly-wedded wife Alice enter his cabin, unoccupied and cold, but though their breath showed like a steam locomotive going up-grade outside, it did not show a particle after they had entered the door into the cold room. Later, Alice, during a fierce storm, appears at a window, a close-up from the outside of which shows it to be covered with sleet and ice, but she is undaunted. She simply wipes the sleet off the window from the inside, which we have just been plainly shown was on the outside of the glass. In a later reel a fierce mid-winter Alaskan snow-storm is raging, yet a view of a window and door of the cabin shows a big bush of some kind, full of green foliage, partly covering the window. A. L. M., Arizona. 1^#P