Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1920)

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Fade-Outs 63 Must It Ever Be So? The first feud story we ever read and the first feud movie we ever saw interested us. After that — bla-a ! In one respect they are all alike, and we're betting we can guess the answer to any of 'em with our eyes shut and both hands tied behind our bony back. Nothing to it ! Girl And Boy Of Opposite Fighting Factions Fall In Love And Busts The Feud ! To further convince ourself that we were, as usual, correct, we viewed "Cowardice Court." We told you so ! Yessir ! and toddling along with this inevitable conclusion came the usual Girl Put Out In The Storm At Night ! Gosh ! don't they never get the gate in the daytime ? — o — A Literary Masterpiece. Seemed to us "The Hellion" was a nawful title to serve as a vehicle for such a perfectly nice little girl as Margarita Fisher — but the worst was yet to come ! Lookit how an exhibitor dished it up on his program reader: "The star appears in the double dual role of a cabaret singer and an insane daughter who is substituted for her and sent to an asylum. Her sweetheart is killed in the war and the shock deprives her of reason, which however, returns when he does, and thev are married !" — o — Ask A Policeman! Leave it to Universal to surpass 'em all when it comes to increasing the punch ! You've seen lotsa pictures having to do with that police "third degree" thing, haven't you? Sure, you have! Well, in "The Trembling Hour," Universal goes 'em one better and gives us a "fourth degree." Ever hear of it? — o — Keeping Charlie Busy. Often we have wished we were the husband of a star ! You know — a life of roseate luxury — picking out autos and trundling her salary to the bank, and, oh — little chores like that ! Well, sir, it seems these chaps have to hustle same as you or us ! Charles Bryant is Nazimova's husband. He is also her leading man and business manager. And just to keep his blood circulating, she made him her director ! And he sure got busy ! D'ja notice what he pulled off in "The Brat" ? In the last reel he gave us both the sad-but-logical ending of the stage version and the boxoffice-happy-ending of the film adaption ! To our simple mind this constitutes the greatest achievement in adaptology since Mary Pickford stabbed herself with lake in "M m e Butterfly !" Maybe They Went To Look At The Forest. After viewing A Certain Picture, several of our friends asked us if we could recommend it. We quoted to them the words uttered by an expert criticizer regarding the play : "It will never appeal to intelligent spectators. The story is poorly constructed and much of it is repulsive and sensational. The scenes in the forest where the heroine does acrobatic stunts clad only in a leopard's skin, is entertaining, but the rest is cheap melodrama." Well, sir, there were six fellows present when we delivered this knockalogue, and at the close every one of 'em rushed out to view the picture. Now, how do you account for that? — o — Answer to Correspondent: Pansy Pancake, Wahoo, Nebr. : Met your brother Buckwheat this morn. He disappeared shortly afterwards. No, I am not "The Oracle"; I'm the "Oracus." Which is from the Latin and means *'a little guy who talks." Nope, I never attend problem plays. Not being very bright at arithmetic I gave 'em up. Naw, I didn't see Billy W est's last picture — but I hope it was. How's your Aunt Jemima ? ^o — D'ja Notice 'Em. Robert Warwick is a husky chap and generally able to get around right peart, but the casting director of "In Mizzoura" musta thought Bob had been bitten by lassitude, ennui, or some other hook-worm microbe. Looking over the cast of that play we find Robert supported by a Short, Brown Cain ; a Blue Davenport, and a Morris ! — o — Bear Talk. An interrogative ad of "Fair And Warmer" shouts this one at us: "If you found your wife under a bear-rug in another man's apartments, and she poked her head out and said, "Wuff, Wuff !" what would vou do?" We'd bark "Ruff Stuff !"— right back at her! — o — Try It Sometime! Viewing Fatty in "A Desert Hero" it seemed to us his humor was skidding a bit. Some time afterwards we lamped a headline in a tradepaper — "Arbuckle Better After a Week's Illness." M Well, sir, later on we participated as party-of-thesecond-part in a seven-day contract with the mumps. Continued on page 104