Pictures and the Picturegoer (Jan-Dec 1925)

Pichjres and Pic/\/rv$z>er FEBRUARY 1925 Ccwad Ns&el At home If we magazine writers don't stop bally-hooing Conrad Nagel as the original saint of the movie world, I'm afraid he may break out and do something devilish ! He simply hates being called good, and -his respect for his religion makes him dislike the idea of having the fact that he goes to church commented on. I must admit, however, that he doesn't go to wild parties, nor drink, nor get arrested for speeding, nor get mixed up in any divorce scandals — all of which things, of course, are supposed to mark a man in pictures as a regular guy. Too bad, isn't it, that he's had only one wife, and never beat her! V^et, strange as it may seem the Nagel household is one of the most interesting in Filmland. The Nagels are both musical, both play the piano and sing, having studied with Conrad's father, who is an accomplished musician. If you care for the best in music, you can hear it in the Nagel home. Also you can hear good talk about the newest books and plays, with both of which the Nagels keep abreast. I don't think they care much about some of the lurid, so-called high-brow literature of the day, however; but they aren't narrow-minded, eith It is just that they have taste. Mrs. Nagel is young, beautiful, and had an excellent chance as an actress, but she refused several offers for the screen, preferring, strange as it may seem, to make a home for her husband and baby to having a career of her own. Little Ruth Margaret comes in for a good deal of the family's worship. She is h.er father's idol, and every day that he isn't working, he takes his little three-year-old daughter down to the sea for a swim The baby is learning to swim. He is going to take her to the theatre some day, but not yet. But she goes motoring with her parents whenever they take a trip. She is never left to the tender mercy of servants, except when her father and mother go away on location, and then not for any long periods. arid sun-porches, on a quiet little street of Hollywood. There are big pepper trees in front of the door, and there are many beautiful rose bushes and shrubs about the ample yard Inside, the place is roomy and charming, modestly furnished, but a real home. man just naturally must have some housefaults, and Conrad is ;»o exception. His wife says that he isn't at all an easy man to provide food for ! There are certain things that he just won't and can't eat. Included are onions and most vegetables, and as for garlic it is clear out of his life. He likes string-beans and peas, and nothing else in the vegetable line. But — prepare for a shock ! — Conrad loves limburger cheese ! He eats rather sparingly of meat, but is rather fond of sweets. Conrad loves children, but woe to the youngster who harms his roses ! Nevertheless, even to such he is merciful and teaches them much about flowers and how to grow them even when he catches them red-handed. Grace Kingsley.