Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1920)

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Contents —Continued Too Good a Steak for "Polly" .... Louise Williams . . 56 Mrs. Sidney Drew couldn't resist a tempting role. For Men Only ! Charles Condon . . 58 Tuesday nights every male star on the coast is off duty. And here's the reason ! With ringside sketches by Ray van Buren. Just Clara's Dad Selma Howe . . .60 Edward Kimball is content to shine in reflected glory. Over the Teacups ...... The Bystander . . 62 "In the spring the young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of — separation!'' declares Fanny the Fan. Six-Shooters for Slapsticks Grace Kingsley . . 66 Fatty Arbuckle has abandoned the two-reel comedy for five-reel melodrama. How the President Sees the Movies . . . Donald MacGregor . 68 They have become quite the thing at the White House. What the Fans Think 69 Our readers turn a few side lights on the movies. A Made-to-Order Star ...... Hortense Saunders . 70 Zena Keefe had a debutante's training — and it was hard work, too! Which Would You Rather Do— Or Go Fishing . Celia Brynn . . .72 Most of the film favorites indulge in Izaak Walton's favorite sport. Let Hilly er Do It ! Paul Hubert Conlon . 74 Bill Hart's director can turn his hand to anything connected with picture taking. A Forecast of Films . ... . . . Herbert Howe . . 75 A few glimpses of some forthcoming features. A Tabloid Review . . . . . Peter Milne . . .79 A guide to the best of the recent releases. Rejuvenating Rod ...... Charles Reed Jones . 80 La Rocque — that's his last name, has been growing younger of late, thanks to the casting directors. The Picture Oracle 84 Answers to letters from our readers. NOTICE TO OUR READERS Owing to transportation tie-ups and delays due to the severity of the winter, the unusually heavy traffic, and other causes — and these delays coming on the heels of the strike which temporarily stopped our publication last fall — it has been impossible to get Picture-Play Magazine on the news stands on schedule time of late. Every effort is being made to overcome this, and we expect to be making deliveries on time very soon. Meanwhile we hope that all our readers will watch for the publication so as not to miss any numbers. IF you follow closely the news of the screen, you have noticed that practically all the important producers of comedies have suddenly abandoned the standard two-reelers, and have been madly at work getting out fivereel productions, which they are about to spring upon us. Perhaps you've wondered about this new phase of the picture industry, and are curious to know something about the reasons for it. Charles Phelps Cushing recently went out to Los Angeles and took a run around the studios. He became interested in the new plans of the makers of comedy, and in the new things they are doing. He has written us a vivid account of what he heard and saw in their "fun factories," and his article will appear in the July issue of Picture-Play Macazine. In the same issue we will have an article of especial interest to women, entitled, "Are You a Velvet or a Calico Girl?" Perhaps you recall an interview with Claire West, the designer of costumes for the De Mille productions, which we printed a few months ago. It contained a good many practical suggestions about the selection of garments to bring out a woman's best points, and to illustrate the points Mrs. West showed how she worked with Gloria Swanson and Bebe Daniels. Louise Williams, who wrote the interview, is the author of "Are You a Velvet or a Calico Girl?" This is an interview with one of the bestgowned women of the screen, Louise Glaum. Miss Glaum is known as the designer of her own costumes, and, like Mrs. West, she has a good many suggestions which are of practical value to all women. We shall also offer what we think is one cf the most novel features ever printed in a motion-picture magazine — the first-hand account by a very little girl who works in one of the big Western studios of her impressions and ideas about being a screen actress. This quaint little story is to be printed exactly as she wrote it, without a single bit of editing. It is a frank and refreshingly human document. Thomas Meighan, who just returned from Cuba, will tell us something of his impressions of the winter oasis, to which so many Americans have been flocking of late. Robert Gordon has some interesting things to say about Alice Joyce, with whom he now is playing. Lou Cody will chat to us about what he whimsically terms " 'Everywoman's' little devil," and which has a bearing on his present type of plays. With summer coming, we shall offer an unusually attractive lot of pictures, especially of bathing girls and out-of-door scenes. Don't miss the summer numbers of Picture-Play Magazine!