Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1919 - Feb 1920)

The Glory of "Every woman' 33 it, but when the big chief saw us he just gave one horri fied groan and exclaimed, 'Take 'em away — they've grown ten feet in ten weeks !' Well, it wasn't quite as bad as that, of course, but it was a horrible lesson to me, just the same. And while I'm not afraid of growing too tall for a part, I keep a pretty strict eye on my weight." Just then a retinue of try-'em-on artists, maids, and pin-pickers-up from the costume department surged about her like an incoming tide, quite excluding me. So I wended my way out across the Lasky lot, past groups of girls talking about the sets / in "Everywoman," past men discussing bits of action in "Everywoman," past mechanicians and carpenters arguing about the amount of money spent on the production, and innocent bystanders talking about the beauty of "Everywoman V £ star. The studio ballyhoo was waiting for me r***** as I left her dressing room. "How about a bite of lunch?" he inquired. "That's where you see 'em all out of their glory — just 'as is' you know, with their grand \ costumes left behind 'em." ^ So we wandered off across the lot to the lunch room, where the cast was gathered about the big xv tables. The ballyhoo was still feeling jovial, and comment on personalities fell as the gentle rain from heaven, though nobody seemed to care. "Here comes Beauty — Wanda Hawley, you know. Beauty is right for her — no paint, no powder, and a honey wafer and a drop of dew for lunch. 'Can't eat your waistline and have it, too !' she said to me the other day. Oh, Modesty, so glad you're among us again today — was afraid you took cold in swimming yesterday. Didn't know you ever took that suit in bathing. Margaret Loomis, and about the sweetest girl in the world, I guess — Oh, and there's Monte Blue — Love. Love is right. Everybody loves Monte, and Monte is always in love — not always with the same girl, but always in love. Purity has a will stay up those parties. , Noah Beery as "Bluff." headache — just and dance at / / / One of the birds in the bazaar scene. Ano t h e r engagement ring, Purity? f Who's t h e incumbent ?" You could have made up rather an impressive movie "who's who" just by glancing around the tables. Theodore Roberts was talking Airedale dogs — his hobby — and Edythe Chapman Neill, James Neill, Noah Beery, Charles Ogle, Tully Marshall, Clara Horton, and Raymond Hatton were all trying to give their orders at once. I looked around and saw faces I'd seen on the screen ever so often — and the ballyhoo murmured in my ear names I'd heard quite as often in movieland and hadn't been able to associate with their right faces before. And anybody would have wagered that there were any number of prospective stars among the extras. I'm an old friend of the movies, and I never saw prettier girls ! Presently George Melford appeared on the scene. "Well, there are a lot of characters who could be added to the bunch," he moaned, as into a seat in the corner, pulled his hat over Do you blame stray motorists for wanting to give Violet Homing a lift? he dropped wearily his eyes, and ordered ham-and-two-turned-over, meanwhile gaz ing darkly out at his big crowd of stars. "And their names, I suppose," suggested the studio ballyhoo, "would be Cagey and Always-late-on-the-lot and I-wouldn't work-for-no-such-money and Hog-the-scene — : — " "Oh, say not so !" said Mr. Melford, brightening, as Beauty and Vice both smiled at him at once. "Oh, Lord, no — just Brotherly Love and Take-the-scene-dearie-I-don't-want-it and You-look-lovelv-darling-how-do-I-look and Stuff " Wanda Hawley is a pearltrimmed, pinksatin ''Youth." Melford?" "No, no! were, Stuff "What?" said Stuff, turning quickly, tickled to death to have the director address him. "Were you speaking to me, Mr. As you sighed Melford, turning back to his ham-and-eggs. as you were !" I expect to enjoy seeing "Everywoman." But I don't expect to enjoy nearly so much as I did seeing it in the making. it