Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section Plays and Players (Continued front page 86) would have been prevented if Absorbine Jr. had been applied when this " little accident" happened and the wound would have healed promptly. tefMi'STH Isanti ■SEPTliGSiii n i m entkyW; It cools and soothes, takes out the pain and soreness and helps the injured tissues to heal. And being a positive germicide it makes any infection quite impossible. Absorbine Jr. is especially good for all the little hurts the children are constantly getting, being made from herbs and essential oils and therefore perfectly safe. $1.25 a bottle at your druggist or postpaid. A Liberal Trial Bottle sent for 10 cents in stamps. W. F. YOUNG, Inc. 1 8 Temple Street Springfield, Mass. i •:U//idt Vo m&y Use t6 have that beautiful, soft, silvery-white babyskin and those "Pretty Little White Noses" The\' use Pure and Evauisite A wonderful pi eparation. 7^c and $1.2^ sizes at dealers or direct by mail. ANSEHL PHARMACAL CO. 1 7 Preston Place. St. Louis. Mo. S-'mi ^ <iu>u-':f<u a M(ui,itu>; IV'^^fdin;, Day Beaufy Box containing Jurr-cw It-'onders for Beauty, Kill The liair Root Mill In"! i« th'' oFiIy wny t.i iirfvcut tlio hair from m'<nv:af;ai n. I'lasy. painle.-^H, harm IrHs. No8i-arR. TJoolvlct free. it< today, enclo^inf^ ;i statu i)^i. w.' tca''li H.-aiiiy riiMnrc. I. MAHLER, t96-X Mahrer Park, Providence, R. I. BESSIE McCOY DAVIS is going with Fox. And thereby hangs a tale. A certain theatrical man managed to purchase a goodly number of the stories of the late Richard Harding Davis for a small sum. It was known he could not make use of them himself. He couldn't — but he could sell them to William Fox — and he did. The widow of the popular novelist complained that the sale was made without the knowledge or consent of herself or her small daughter Hope Davis; and she might have taken legal steps — so the story goes — if William Fox had not approached her with an offer for her film services. A test was made of the Yama-Yama dancer, and it was declared most satisfactory. So watch out for her on the screen, as the heroine of her husband's stories. ETHEL BARRYMORE is taking another flier in films. She has agreed to make a picture for a new concern headed by Joseph Byron Totten, an actor and author who was once affiliated with Essanay. Miss Barrymore's camera work will not interfere with her .performances in "Declasse," her most . popular play i n years. INASMUCH as 1 many ■ ministers have been doing it, the announcement that the Reverend C. C. McLean will show pictures as a supplement to his religious services is not of extraordinary interest — except for the fact that this pastor ofi the Lincoln Road M. E. Church in Washington, D. C, is the father of Douglas McLean. McLean, Sr., says he will show Mack Sennett films in future, as well as offering of the O. Henry and Mrs. Drew type. As yet he has not exhibited any of his son's celluloid efforts. If he shows Sennetts, what's the matter with "Mary's Ankle?'' THE films had another Eternal Triangle — this time an executive rather than a dramatic triangle. But it was broken when P. A. Powers, treasurer of the Universal Company, sold his holdings in the concern to Carl Laemmle and R. H. Cochran, president and vice-president respectively. Powers, it is said, has other interests that claim his attention. The position of Universal in the world of film companies is a unique one; and its rise to prominence is worthy of a passing word. The Cochran brothers — for R. H. has a brother who is associated with him — once conducted an advertising agency in Chicago. Among their accounts was a department store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Carl Laemmle was one of the officials of the store. Having amassed a goodly sum, he thought he would like to go into business for himself. He consulted his friends, the Cochrans; and together the three of them entered a brand-new field — the moving picture. With Vitagraph and Biograph, Universal shares the distinction of having been among the first in the field. Laemmle, with his Imp company, joined a combine of independent producers to fight the Patents Company, which was then striving to monopolize the industry. The independents made a stiff fight, and won ; the rest is. picture history. Universal today is not only a producing organization ; it distributes as well. Its slogan has been : "The Play's the thing." And it believes firmly that advertising— in large letters— pays. ISN'T there an appalling waste of One of the winners in PHOTOPLAYS first, and last. Beauty and Brains contest four years ago, was Claire Lois Butltr Lee. Now ]ust Lois Lee, she provides piquant support to some of our best known te-stars, notably Bill Russell. beauty and talent right now in film production? We can call to mind three young women of promise: not mere promise o f beauty, they have that in abundance; but, one of them, with more than the usual amount of acting intelligence ; another, with a decided fund of humor with which proper coaching might develop her into a fine comedienne ; a third, with a power of pathos rare indeed in dramatic circles. And yet: the youngest of these young women is forced to do meaninHess "Pollyanna" imitations in which she registers abounding love for everything and at which the spectator registers proportionate disgust. The potential comedienne is sadly directed, her sense of humor gone astray. While the dramatic actre.'^s is so loaded down with good-looking gowns, duly advertised, and mediocre vehicles that she hasn't a chance. What's the matter? Their producers have only one object in view, apparently: to make money. Why, then, do they not realize that to make money they first must make capital of the appealing points of the three young stars? ONRAD NAGLE evidently made a good impression in "The Fighting Chance." He has the opposite lead to Sylvia Breamer (Continued on page go) I V^ 1 Every advertisement in FHOTOPLAT MAGAZINE is guaranteed .