Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1918)

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Earl Foxe is playing opposite Norma Talmadge at the present time, and any letter to him ought to bear the address of Selznick Pictures, 729 Seventh Avenue, New York City. Don't mention it. Hope. — Your second letter this month, and close on the heels of the other one. What are you doing so far up in the mountains? Trying to catch a little cold or something? I see that you didn't fail to take your green stationery. There are just two of my readers in the Oracle Department whose letters I can tell by looking at the stationery. One is my good friend "Cleo," and the other is your own little self. I still think that you are a bit fickle, even if you do deny it, because every once in a while you drift your affections toward some hew star. You say that they drift back again; but the fact still remains that they drifted, so you must be fickle. You almost forgot even to mention Wheeler in some of your letters, and raved about Harold and a few others. You see, I keep a pretty good record of your letters. It has evidently been your luck to miss your favorite. He has been working all the time since he finished "Mickey," but with different companies. He went to Fox, then to Universal, and from Universal to Triangle. He has just started work opposite Edith Storey in a feature at the Metro Studios, so you see if you don't keep a close watch on Wheeler you can't keep up with him. I agree with you about "The Pinch Hitter." It was one of the best pictures combining comedy and pathos that I have ever seen. Too bad that Charlie doesn't get more stories such as these? I don't know about that. If a person keeps on playing the same part, picture after picture, I think he becomes tiresome, no matter how good he is. Variety is the spice of life, and of picture plays as well. You should have a great collection of stars' photos, judging from the fast rate at which you have been receiving them. Lucienne Paul. — I don't know whether there will be another Screen Opportunity Contest or not conducted by the Picture-Play Magazine next spring. Time will only tell. There are several different contests under consideration for the readers of this magazine, and just as soon as an understanding is reached regarding them our readers will be let in on it. Mary Pickford will get 3'our letter at the Lasky Studios, Vine Street, Hollywood, California. M. H. O. — Earl Foxe is playing opposite Norma Talmadge at the present writing. A letter addressed to him in care of Selznick Pictures, 729 Seventh Avenue, will be received by him all right. Chester Barnett is the name of the young man who played opposite Clara Kimball Young. Drop him a line in care of the World Film Corporation, 130 West Forty-sixth Street, New York City. Winifred Kingston had the leading role opposite Dustin Farnum in "The Spy."