Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1922)

At the Pickford plant, scenarios are diagrammed before they're written. A chart is drawn setting forth the motive and theme of the story and showing the action. Here's our Mary and her brother, working out Jack's new film, " Garrison's Finish " lonely bridge near Naples, she would be shot at the first opportunity. The writing was declared by the police to be the same as that in a note sent to Theodore Kosloff and other prominent citizens. A double dressed in Bebe clothes went to the appointed place, followed by a police guard, but apparently a lookout warned the blackhanders, and a big car dashed away from the scene just as the fake Bebe drove up. "I don't see why they pick on me," said Bebe. "I try to be nice to everybody and I get less salary than most any other star, so why should they want to hurt me?" PARAMOUNT has reopened its Long Island ■*• City studio. Alice Brady is working there under Joseph Henaberry's direction. The picture is "Missing Millions," with David Powell playing opposite. Miss Brady was a vaudeville headliner for a few weeks in a tabloid version of a play produced by her father, " Driftin'," in the varieties known as "Cassie Cook of the Yellow Seas." Elsie Ferguson is scheduled to make "Outcast" in the eastern plant at an early date. AFTER seeing Pauline Frede-ick's magnificent performance in "The Glory of Clementina," her last photoplay, it seems more than ever a pity that while she was a screen star she was not provided with suitable stories. ALICE JOYCE REGAN evidently has no intention of returning to pictures. Friends say that the former Vitagraph star is lovelier to look at than ever, is perfectly happy in her home life as the wife of James Regan, Jr., and the mother of a daughter and a new little son. She has not communicated with the Brooklyn studio since she left it after making her last picture. How many other women, having tasted the joys of fame and individual fortune, would be content to give it all up for domesticity? There's Louise Huff, too. She is devoting her entire time to her home and family. As Mrs. Edgar Stillman, wife of a wealthy engineer, the little blonde presides over two charming homes, one on Long Island and the other in Manhattan. It is said she is awaiting a new arrival — an addition to the nursery at present occupied by her daughter, Mary Louise, and her little son. She last appeared on the screen opposite Richard Barthelmess in "The Seventh Day." She's a sweet and gracious person. ' I 'HE Indianapolis Speedway classic is over *■ and Wallace Reid was not among the drivers who contested so bitterly for the honors of motordom. The Famous-Players-Lasky corporation were firm in their stand that his long-term contract with them made it impossible for him to take such a chance of death, injury or dis figurement and when Wally's attorneys told him that they could make their claim good in a legal suit, which threatened, Wally complied with the request of the Speedway officials that he keep the suit from being filed and withdrew. TTHE motion picture elite turned out very ■*■ well for the recent Los Angeles Horse Show, at the Ambassador Horse Show Arena. The affair was a very brilliant and exclusive one, engineered by the local "400" and in the first line of boxes I saw Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ray, Mrs. Ray wrapped in a beautiful moleskin cape; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Niblo (Enid Bennett), Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schenck (Norma Talmadge), with Miss Constance Talmadge; Mr. and Mrs. Thompson Buchanan and Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Kyne. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil de Mille had a box party — I think both Mrs. de Mille and Mrs. Charles Ray were on the horse show committee. The evening was quite cool so that all that could be seen of the ladies' costumes were their gorgeous fur wraps. The opening night of John Drew and Mrs. Leslie Carter in "The Circle," in Los Angeles, was also quite a social event in the motion picture colony. Mr. and Mrs. Rex Ingram (Alice Terry) had a box party which included Mr. and Mrs. Paul Iribe and Casson Ferguson. Alice wore black velvet, low cut, and a big tortoise shell Spanish comb. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Niblo (Enid Bennett) were in a box, and so were Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Nagel. Mrs. Nagel wore periwinkle blue, and a black lace hat. Theodore Roberts and his wife were there, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Durnina (Shirley Mason), Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Reid "(Dorothy Davenport), Mr. and Mrs. Douglas MacLean, Walter Hiers, and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Meighan. T TNIVERSAL, whatever its faults, has never **-*• been backward. In publicity and advertising it has always rushed in where Famous Players, Goldwyn and the other companies probably feared to tread. Anyway, "U" is now determined to cash in on the present tremendous popularity of Rodolph Valentino, recently elevated to stardom by Famous. Before the name of Valentino was known to the world, when the Italian great lover was a The home of Norma, Constance and Natalie Talmadge; Buster Keatons Jr. and Sr.; and Joseph Schenck saves the bally-hoo man a lot of trouble. All of those celebrities living in one Hollywood mansion makes it easy 68