Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1917)

The Picture Oracle 307 doesn't work, do Alan Pickford roles. You certainly must be very versatile. The only way to get Stuart Holmes or Jack Standing to write to you is to drop them a line first, and tell them how much you enjoy their work. Stuart gets all of his mail at the Fox Film Corporation, 126 West Forty-sixth Street, New York City. Jack Standing also gets his mail at the Fox Company, but at their Western studios, on Western Avenue, Hollywood, California. Amie T. — Write to Bryant Washburn in care of the Essanay Film Company, 1333 Argyle Street, Chicago, Illinois. I haven't his privateresidence address, and the rules prohibit giving it if I did. He gets all his mail sent to him at the studio anyway. Flavia. — You ought to make a very good editor of Picture-Play, because you admit it so freely, but I'll forgive you for that, because we all think we can do something better than the next fellow. Evidently Grace Cunard is the only star in the moving-picture world for you. Well, there are a good many others that feel the same way as yourself in this respect. I, for one, am extremely fond of her work, and of Grace, too, because she is one of the finest women on earth, and everybody's friend. She is always trying to do some good for somebody. Peggy. — The Fairbanks twins are just seventeen years old. Madeline and Marion are their names. Clara Kimball Young's eyes are certainly very large and expressive. Zoe Rae Bech is little Zoe Ray's real name. She is still with the Universal. Address her in care of Universal City, California. Charles Ray is certainly a nice chap, and a very good-natured one indeed. He is very popular among his fellow players as well as with the film-loving public. He is twentyfive years old, and will get a letter addressed to him in care of the Ince studios, Culver City, California. Grace Cunard has auburn hair and blue eyes. Theda Bara is twenty-six years old. Write to her in care of the Fox Film Corporation, 126 West Forty-sixth Street, New York City. You are correct regarding Fannie Ward and Mae Marsh. Mabel Normand is with her own company, and can be reached by letter at the Mabel Normand Film Company, Los Angeles, California. Address Marie Doro at the Lasky studios, Vine Street, Hollywood, California ; Roscoe Arbuckle in care of the Paramount Pictures Corporation, New York City; Helen Holmes at the Signal Film Corporation, Los Angeles, California ; Charles Chaplin at the Lone Star Film Company, Los Angeles, California ; Doris Grey and Florence LaBadie at the Thanhouser Film Corporation, New Rochelle. New York. Lillian and Charlotte are not related. Lillian Walker is now heading her own company. Address her in care of the Ogden Pictures Corporation, Ogden, Utah. Jack Moyer is her new leading man. Maude W. — "Romeo and Juliet" is the latest Shakespeare play to be produced on the screen. Two companies did it almost at the same time. Fox produced the picture with Theda Bara and Harry Hilliard, while the Metro Pictures Corporations made a version of the play with Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne. "The Merchant of Venice," "Antony and Cleopatra," and several other works of Shakespeare have also been produced in motion pictures. Call up either the Fox or the Metro exchange in your city, and they can tell you where the picture is showing. Helen W. — Write to Pearl White in care of the Pathe Exchange, 25 West Forty-fifth Street, New York City. Hope. — You are certainly a very patient little miss. You always seem to be moving every time you write to me. Yes, I heard that joke on Alameda, California, but I hope it is not as bad as all that. Of course living in a quiet place is all right, as long as it isn't too quiet. Write and tell me how you like it. You should blush at having to confess never seeing William S. Hart in a film. You have missed a rare treat. Hope, and want to catch up with yourself at the next opportunity, and see him at all costs. His pictures are always good and entertaining, and, knowing your likes and dislikes, I am sure you will enjoy his work. Charles Ray was certainly fine in "The Weaker Sex." If you thought him huggable in that film, you want to catch him in "The Pinch Hitter" at your earliest opportunity. Address your friend Maude in care of the Famous Players Film Company, New York City. You are thinking of H. B. Warner as Jimmie, in "Alias Jimmie Valentine" on the stage. Yes, I got the wrapper of the frozen mints. The editor devoured them before I arrived on the scene, but they must have been very good, because he seemed to enjoy them very much. Thank you very much just the same. You certainly have a bunch of likes and dislikes as regards the film players. This is the first letter I have received from you in which you did not make any mention of your favorite Wheeler. Your other favorites seem to be cutting him out. Helen W. — George Larkin was last with the Kalem Company, playing the lead opposite Ollie Kirkby in the series of "Grant, Police Reporter." Jack Standing has returned to the Fox studios. Jay Belasco is with the Strand-Mutual Company, playing opposite Billie Rhodes in light comedies. Tom Forman is with Lasky, and Harold Lockwood appears as the leading light in Yorke-Metro films. Carlyle Blackwell stars for