Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS V^OU do not have to be a subscriber to Photoplay ■*■ Magazine to get questions answered in this Department. It is only required that you avoid questions that would call for unduly long answers, such as synopses of plays, or casts of more than one play. Do not ask questions touching religion, scenario writing or studio employment. Studio addresses will not be given in this Department, because a complete list of them is printed elsewhere in the magazine each month. Write on only one side of the paper. Sign your full name and address; only initials will be published it requested. If you desire a personal reply, enclose selfaddressed stamped envelope. Write to Questions and Answers. Photoolay Magazine, 2'> W. isth St., New York Citv. Pearl Je.\n, McAlester, Ok]..\ho.m.\ — A Jittle widow is indeed a daunerous thing. So you expect to be a genius some da>'. So did I. Ben Wilson was married, the last I heard. The WUsons have several children, too. I don't know how "The Trail of the Octopus" ends; I don't even know how it begins. F. B., Buffalo. — Your rainbow letter received. Please wire me when to expect more. I have ordered a pair of smoked glasses. It was really too much trouble for you to hunt up all those variouslycolored stationaries; I don't want to piik you to so much trouble again. I can't help it; it's true: Dorothy Gish is not married to Dick Barthelmess and I don't know what you or I can do about it. Neither of these youngsters is married at all. That's flat! Thirteen, S.'Vndy Creek. — My three favorite correspondents? Let's see: The Mystic Rose, and Donalda, and — what did you say your name was? I may add, if I care to be truthful, that my favorite correspondent is always the last one. Or the considerate one who typewrites his letter, asks a sensible question sans matrimonial conjectures, and doesn't call me Old Lady or Old Man. I shouldn't be surprised if Mary Pickford really likes little girls; I would •advise you to hurry with your letteraddressed to her in Hollywood — because it is said Mrs. Fairbanks is going abroad soon. C. S. F., BucKNER, La. — Suppose they will be abolishing spirit-lamps, next. "That wonderful" Billie Burke may be reached at the 56th Street, Manhattan, studios of the Famous Playcrs-Lasky Company. Still plaving in pictures: still married to Florence Follies' Ziegfeld. B. E. B, Omaha. — In calling me dov.n for an alleged mistake, you say, "If it weren't for me, you'd be the biggest liar in the world." I wonder if you know how funny that soujids, — ^ad it over. The 5mall son of Pfancis X. an^^everly Bayne Bushman is mot the one wno"^ appearing in Christie domedies. That'.sj Ralph Bushman, son of\F. X, by his fifst wife. He's nineteen. Eugene O'Brien hasn't been married since the la^lime__yi»u wrote. Sorry to have to disappoint you. 96 M. M., Ca-stlewood, S. D. — Mary Pickford and Owen Moore were divorced in March, 1920. They were married when Mary was only seventeen and both were with the old Imp motion picture company. Moore is with Selznick on the west coast. His latest is "Stop That Man," by George Hobart. The other Moore — Tom — was di Poor Gish! By S. KING RUSSELL Will they stop hounding Gish? (You know which one I mean,) La pauvre belle Gish. Every time that I see Her perform on the screen I shudder, and wish They would treat her kindly; Will they hark to my plea And stop hounding Gish? She's such a weak child — Such a pitiful prey ! But as soon as she's smiled, The men all run riot To chase and to seize her — She drives villains wild. They hunger to squeeze her (It's done on the quiet) And then steal away. Now I really wish They would do this for me, (Or else it's her fate For being kow-tish) It's D. W.'s fault (He directs her, you see,) If they don' call a halt Before it's too late^ And stop hounding Gish. vorced from Alice Joyce, who is now married to James B. Regan, son of the proprietor of one of Manhattan's largest hotels, the Knickerbocker. She has a daughter, .\lice Mary Moore. Connie Talmadge isn't engaged to Harrison Ford. She isn't engaged to anybody. H. R. F., New Rochelle. — Marcus Loew pronounces himself and his theaters "Low," not "Lowee." What do I know about him? Well, he is a well-known exhibitor in New York, his son married Adolph Zukor's daughter, and he is interested in Metro Pictures, having bought a very large share in that concern. That's all. Nellie, Brooklyn. — You women are wise. I know, you are only flattering me, but I can't help having the pleasant glow that comes from fulsome praise. Buster Keaton is playing in the Metro version of "The New Henrietta." Now that Arbuckle is going in for features, wonder what'll become of Buster? He'll probably become highbrow, too. Ruby Lafayette was with Universal. So you want pictures of some of the older players, in other words, character actors, in our art section. I'll speak to the editor about it right away. Bernardine, Wilmington. — You're absurdly litgfai. — ^fminds me of the young man w}t67 when asked by the girl's father if he conld keep he^wi clothes, replied that he wasn'^worrying ; iJb could keep her in gloves — he'd Oij^' aslj^ for her hand. Thomas J. Carrigait~tn "Checkers." Charles Meredith was recently married. He's with Blanche Sweet in "Simple Souls." Edward E. Jenkins, Philadelphia. — f have handed your poems to the Gish girls — that is, to Lillian, who will see that Dorothy reads the verses you dedicated to her. You will probably hear from them So vou adore Theda Bara ! Mrs. G. G., Newport News, Va. — Some leave tov/n for a rest; some leave to avoid it. I do not-Jinpw the details of the Nicky Arnstein ffSse — biit Mrs. Nicky, or Fannie Brice, haa neverjbeen seen on the screen, except — if my mefmory serves me — in a brief flash in thewcajjaret scene of a Norma Talmadge picture; Madlaine Traverse is with Fox, in that company's western studio. She does drama — very heavy drama; one of her best was "The Hell Ship." I don't know J. H. P., Rocky Mount, N. C. — You are absolutely right. Valeska Suratt is now touring the varieties in "Scarlet," a playlet Except for one Lasky picture, "The Immigrant," she always appeared for Fox.