Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1922)

The dear old Northwest Mounted Police have occupied the screens for quite a spell now. But leave it to Buster Keaton to show them all up. He introduces a few little improvements into arctic life, including a subway service, in "The Frozen North," his newest. We're going to be in the audience when Buster gels his man Not the low-heeled shoes, but the astounding head-dresses that cause such startled comment. She seems to effect the bizarre and almost the outre for public consumption. In her latest picture, "Broadway Rose," she is said to perform in even less than she has before — and if you have seen "Peacock Alley"' and "Fascination," you know what that means. Perhaps she thinks the public expects it of her. That's what we want to know. Do you like that sort of thing? Wouldn't you go to see Mae Murray just the same if she dressed her hair a little less wildly and wore more conventional gowns? ■p\ICK BARTHELMESS almost made a ■'— ' speech. The reason he didn't was because he had to stay in Virginia on location longer than he intended, but several of his friends have hinted that it may have been stage shyness which caused the postponement. Dr. Christian Riesner, minister of the Chelsea Methodist Church, is a true friend of pictures and picture people. He has always staunchly defended the screen ; and when he instituted his Happy Sunday Evening Services at his church, he invited Lillian Gish to address the congregation. Then he asked Barthelmess to speak on the subject of "My Indebtedness to Religion." Dick's sermon should have been a good one, for his mother's uncle was Bishop William Boone. Episcopal Bishop in Shanghai, China, and his father before him was the first Episcopal Bishop ever sent to that country. 'T'HE newest form of social amusements in ■*■ Hollywood are "cat parties." One evening a week is set aside by the various cliques of women and girls around Hollywood as their "night out." On that designated evening — generally it's Friday, because then, male appendages can go to the American Legion boxing bouts — the cats get together at successive houses and have a real nice evening, talking over the world in general and the people they know in particular. Norma Talmadge is said to have originated the idea — anyway, she gave the first one, at which Constance, Natalie, Peg (Mrs. Tal madge), Dorothy Reid, Mabel Normand, Winifred Westover Hart, Colleen Moore and Mrs. J. D. Williams were present. Now some of the younger girls have followed suit — one at May MacAvoy's the other night included Lois Wilson, Helen Ferguson, Pauline Stark, Colleen Moore, Mildred Davis, Patsy Ruth Miller and Lila Lee. CEVERAL of the elderly and middle-aged ^ ladies of both sex, leaving the Town Hall in New York after the private showing, by the National Board of Review, of Nazi mova's "Salome," were heard to remark that "the picture certainly doesn't contain a moral lesson." But the National Board deserves, surely, a little pat on the head for projecting the picture under its auspices. Whether or not it will ever be shown in a theatre — to which the general public is admittable — is a question everybody is asking. "Salome" will be generally considered shocking. It should be privately printed. Meanwhile its star and her husband are sojourning in Madame's eastern home, Port Chester, N. Y. TTIE last chapter has been written in the ■*■ colorful life of Fern Andrea, once Fern Andrews, of Watseka, Illinois. She was one of Germany's three most noted screen stars — celebrated for her daring in thrilling stunts. She left her middle-western home to join a circus. Eventually she left this country to go to Germany, where she became a film performer and finally a popular figure. She was killed when a Hamburg-Berlin mail airplane in which she was riding fell to the ground. The pilot of the plane was also killed. He was Baron Richthoff, brother of the famous commander of the Richthoff air squadron during the war. The mother of Fern Andrea is now living in Indianapolis. T_TAVE you ever thought about how many ■*• *• screen stars were seemingly destined for the operatic stage? That is, if you believe their press agents. They always, according to these imaginative men, took singing lessons when quite young, or sang in the choir. Their parents always thought they would be song-birds. In fact, they studied at the conservatories — sometimes, in extreme cases, at the Conservatoire — and were much praised by all the instructors. Sometimes they even accepted positions in musical comedy choruses, preparatory to the Metropolitan. But then — came the films. Ah — the films! The great offer from the big producer to be a star in their own company. And — of course — they left the Metropolitan flat. BUT— The delights of being rich and famous are pictured here. The world's most highly paid motion picture actress is eating her lunch up a tree, while one of the industry's foremost directors is knee-deep in Chalsworlh Lake, California — all for an exterior for Mary Pickford's revival of "Tess," supervised by John Robertson _