Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1918 - Feb 1919)

_ ^ (fjracle ^Q^epionj^ttjrtet'f about ^creen^ This department will answer questions asked by our readers relating to motion pictures. No questions regarding matrimony, religion, or scenario writing will be answered; those of the latter variety should be sent to the editor of the scenario writers' department. Send full name and address, and write name or initials by which you wish to be answered at the top of your letter. Address: Picture Oracle, care of this magazine, 79 Seventh Avenue, New York City. All questions are answered in the order received; failure to see your reply in one issue means that it will come later. If you desire an early answer, inclose a Stamped, addressed envelope, and a personal answer will be sent unless there is space in the magazine for it. T ILY OF THE VALLEY'S BROTHER.— It all depends on circumstances as to the time it takes for a writer to hear from a company regarding a story. If the story interests a scenario reader, he is likely to hold it for further consideration, until the editor has a chance to look it over and pass the final judgment. But listen ! Any scenario questions that you have should be addressed to the scenario editor of the PicturePlay Magazine. I'm not supposed to answer them. There is no charge of any kind to the reader for the scenario editor's service. Send twenty-five cents in stamps for a picture of Billie Rhodes. Address her in care of the Christie Studio, Gower Street, Hollywood, California. No, I haven't had a line from your brother, "Hard Boiled," as yet, but I will be on the lookout for one, now that you have warned me. players are that are to come to St. Louis to sell Thrift Stamps as yet. Pearl White's last serial was the "House of Hate." She will start another one very shortly. J. M. B. — You can't go wrong when you address me, "Dear Answer Man or Woman," as you have. Yes, Viola Dana and Shirley Mason are sisters. Shirley's correct name is Leonie Flugrath, but I like Shirley Mason much better, don't you? No, Mabel Normand does not play in slapstick comedies any more. She is being starred in polite comedy by the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation. "The Venus Model" is her latest film to be released, and a very good one, too. Clarence Badger, who used to direct for Mack Sennett when Mabel Normand was there, directed it. "The Revolt" is correct. "Intimate." — Write to the Mutual Film Corporation, Consumer's Building, Chicago, Illinois, regarding obtaining a photo of the late Eric Campbell, who used to play opposite Charles Chaplin in his Mutual comedies. They may have some of them left, and if they have I am sure that you could arrange to buy one of them. Anna Belko. — William Russell is now working on a new picture called, "All the World to Nothing." He was laid up for ten days with a wrenched knee that he received when he fell from his horse in his last picture, but is all right again. I think that Russell answers letters from film fans. Write him in care of Willis & Inglis, Wright and Callender Building, Los Angeles, California. Don't know who the Betty K. — Mabel Normand has dark-brown hair, almost black. Aikrdeedrf Squirg. — What kind of language do you call that? It is Wanda Hawley now, and not Wanda Petit. You can address her in care of Willis & Inglis, Wright and Callender Building, Los Angeles, California. The films are features with the exception that they are colored in natural colors. There are sixteen pictures to the foot, and each one has to be colored separately. When you consider that a feature runs about five thousand feet, you will realize that it is some job to turn them out. Mary Miles Minter was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, on April i, 1902, making the little lady just sixteen years old.