Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section "Aphrodite (Concluded) 129 are no longer vogue. Every time I try one now the letters pour in by the basketful. 'Why does Miss Dalton do this sort of thing?' 'Can't you let Miss Dalton be her natural self?' 'Please, Miss Dalton, no more bad women.' And so on." "But why do you like to play vamps?" "Because they are always the best acting parts. There is something to them, they have character and force. They live." I asked her if she thought the picture.^ were going to improve. She thought they had improved. And if they had not il was not the producers' fault. They were willing to pay any price for stories by the best writers, and casts of the best actors. "Whisper," she whispered, "I don't want them to get too good." "Why?" "Because if they were too good there would be no chance for the stars to save them." Occasionally the truth will out. OUR READERS SAY: | Letters from readers are invited by tkeedi M tor. They should be not more than three p hundred words in length, and must have g; attached the writer's name and address. 15 Jamaica, N. Y. Editor Photoplay. Dear Sir: IN looking over February Photoplay I read your article "Give Labor the Star Dressing Room." I'll say, you sure did hit it right in a few words and I liked it. There are thousands of good workmen that never have the spotlight turned on them. A few articles more like that and any man with brains would endeavor to do better each time. Even if the public didn't all read it, he would know somebody appreciated him. Alonzo I. Kinney, Locomotive Engineer. Corsicana, Texas. Editor Photopl.^y. My dear sir: PLEASE allow me to enter my protest against the manner in which the producers of motion pictures abuse the mannerism of speech of we Southerners. It is true that we rural folk use some words incorrectly, either intentionally or otherwise, according to the standards set up and maintained by *taid college professors. There is one term of ours which if used in their presence, would cause the aforementioned C. P.'s to raise their eyes and hands — the former in supplication, the latter in disgust — to the skies. This particular term, so often used is" "You all." However we speak this always in the plural form. Never in the singular. I ask them to bear this fact in mind when pro^ ducing a sensible photo-play. They, the producers seem to forget that there are as intelligent people in the South as elsewhere. Now, for example I remember a photoplay was released, and it became quite a "drawing card" for the box-office, or was advertised as such. At any rate it was supposed to possess a Southern locale. And the way the Southern hero and heroine — also of the South — conversed — was — outrageous. Another instance of this barbarous butch-, ery of the Southern dialect was manifest in a current release: "Bill Apperson's Boy." A born and bred Southerner, ^F. 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