Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

^fiy -'Do^fieii Go ^t Title Ren. U. S. Pat. Oft 'THIS is YOUR Department. Jump right in with your contribution. ■*■ JVhat have you seen, in the past month, that 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. Let Her Be Diffe'-ert CONSTANCE TALMADGE, when she and her employer go to a cabaret, is the only one that has a hat on. J. B. M., New Orleans. "Yo Ho Ho—" IN "Piccadilly Jim," we see Owen Moore and his leadmg lady standing well forward on the starboard side of an ocean liner. The weather, we are told, is keeping most of the passengers below. There is a strong wind blowing from the starboard quarter, whipping the lady's veil, into Jim's face. Such a wind would make even the Aquitania not only pitch, but roll; but you couldn't even make a match roll on that deck, it was so level ! Dorothy C. Dodd, Chicago, 111. Sears-Roebuck Mountaineering IN "Heart of the Hills," i Mary Pickford's charming picture, Steve smooths his oiled hair down with a silverbacked brush. Neither he nor his cabin fit in with that brush, somehow. M. V. P., Maiden, Mass. We'd Like to Know, Too IN "Checkers," a fe'low *■ named "Push" buys shoes, suit, and straw hat for $5.00. Where? D. G., Media, Pa. A Question of Time ANTONIO MORENO, in "The Invisible Hand" has been thrown into an underground tank and is swimming around for probably twenty minutes and then is let out into a sewer by Pauline Cur'.ey. He swims to liberty through that sewer and as soon as he gets out of the water he pulls his watch out of the vest pocket and says, "I have just five minutes to catch the train the bandit is on." I'd like to have a watch like that. J. A., Slidell, La. A71 Improved Model IN "Double Speed" Wanda Hawley is seen jumping into Wallace Reid's car in a very becoming little hat and coat to match; at the end of the ride she has an automobi'e bonnet, street suit, and large cape fur. That car must have been a wonder. Mrs. H. F. E., Salt Lake City, Utah. A Thrifty Hostess IN Norma Talmadge's picture, "She Loves and Lies" Conway Tearle and Norma, dressed as an elderly lady, have tea together. Norma pours— but strange to say she doesn't offer her guest any cream or sugar. Lots of us noticed this. Edith W., Corona, L. I. 76 'S All Right; The Shew Didn't Do It SPEAKING of movie reporters, in Dorothy Dalton's "L" Apache" about t'wenty French newspaper men scribble excitedly during the trial of the star on a murder charge. When a policeman rushes into the courtroom with the news that a dying man has confessed to the crime, do the reporters beat it for the nearest telephone or hike for the office with the "big story ?" Gosh no — they yawn and polish their finger nails. No Wonder They Were Seasick f NOTICED, in watching the Charlie Chaplin picture, "A •I Day's Pleasure," that not only the boat rocked, in the excursion scenes, but also the entire ocean and horizon! A. T. Shearer, Sierra Madre, Cal. "It Was Back In—" 1SAW "Beyond the Law," with Emmett Dalton. The scenes and plot date back to the Eighties. In the scene on the ranch, on an old cabin (in which the boys are roughing it) appears in big blazing numbers the year "igiS." R. J. C, New Mexico. What Kind of a Houdini is O'Briett? EUGENE O'BRIEN, in "Sealed Hearts," goes upstairs to see his dad (Robert Edeson). He wasn't wearing a vest when he started up the stairs, but when he got to the top, he had one on, and all buttoned, too. E. M. J., Los Angelas. Even the Walls Quivered T KNOW that the scene * where Lionel Barrymore rests his hand on the wall while looking at the mask of Lincoln, in "The Copperhead," was a fine emotional one, but why should an ordinary wall "give?" Why didn't they cut those few feet of film where the wall shook instead of allowing it to creep into such a good picture? A. D., Denver. Dick Harrison, Saskatoon, SasK This Sounds Siispicious IN "The Lost Princess" I ■I read in the sub-tit'e that the hero'ne said she had "Suite 16." On her door I plainly saw "Suite 23." Donald Fisher, Crawfordsville, Ind. There Is Something New BILL FARNUM rescues a box of rifles from a rocky pinnacle and floats them to shore in "The Wings of the Morn'ng." F. G. Mc, Iowa City, la. Correspondence School Art WE see Sessue Hayakawa painting in "The Dragon Painter." He smashes his first through the picture and casts it aside. A few moments later his bride runs in, in grief, and picks up the picture. It seems to be in perfectly good shape. And in "The Broken Melody" Eugene O'Brien takes a canvas painting on which he had just been working and tucks it under his arm to convey it to another room. His colors must have possessed some magic drying quality which all artists would like to know about. C. H. S., Oklahoma City.