Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1917 - Feb 1918)

(The Picture Oracle — Continued.) R. M. B. — You can procure a picture of Francis Xavier Bushman by addressing him in care of the Metro Pictures Corporation, 1587 Broadway, New York City. Harold Lockwood is now in New York City, and should be written to at the very same address. Lillian Walker will get any mail that you may send to her in care of the Ogden Pictures Corporation, Ogden, Utah. Send six cents in stamps to the editor of PicturePlay for a copy of the Market Booklet. It will give you the names and addresses of all the motion-picture companies, and it also states what kind of scenarios they are in the market for. I am sure that it will be a great help to you. You should map out your route differently, friend Bobbie, so that you could go to regular towns where they have picture shows and Picture-Play. No town is complete without both. P. C. E. — Sir Walter Scott's famous "Lady of the Lake" was produced by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company several years ago, but I don't think that you could procure a copy of it to-day, as the film is too old by now to be in condition to run in a theater. Lieutenant. — I suppose it is proper enough to send your photograph to a motion-picture star when you ask her for one of her choice sittings, but it isn't done by very many. You can get a picture of June Caprice by writing to her in care of the Fox Film Corporation, 130 West Fortysixth Street, New York City. E. F. L. — If you don't chink that so many people want to get in pictures, you should just glance over a small portion of the letters I receive each month, and I am sure that you will find about nine out of every ten asking how they can get into the lens limelight. Of course by this I mean new readers. My old correspondents have asked that question before, so they don't need to again. I have a few chosen ones who have never even mentioned a desire to go before the camera. Of course they may have that desire, but if they have they have kept quiet about it. No, it doesn't tire me to any great extent to answer questions. When it does, that is the time that I will cease being an Oracle and act like a human being once more. I still feel O. K. so far as being far from tired is concerned, so there is no immediate prospect of my ceasing to answer questions. Of course the motion pictures are doing a lot of good. Even the industry's worst enemies will have to admit to themselves, if to no one else, that the moving-picture industry has done a great deal of good. Uncle Sam is finding a moving-picture camera very handy to have around with him in the present war, to say nothing of the pictures which stir up that patriotic feeling and bring forth new recruits. Of course they are not as bad as they have been painted. 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