Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1920 - Feb 1921)

82 Advertising Section INSURE HAPPY DAYS for those you love A Prudential Monthly I ncome Policy is like a radiant burst of sunshine thru dark clouds. A Prudential Check can be put into the hands of your loved ones on the first of every month. Hundreds of American homes know this day as PRUDENTIAL DAY THE NATIONAL PAY-DAY Insure in ruturnttat INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA Incorporated Under the Laws ot the State of New Jersey Forrest F. Dryden President Home office Newark, new Jersey Screen Gossip By The Film Colonist It was at a bullfight in Tia Juana, Mexico. And, oh, the sights ! Even Omar Khayyam would have been satisfied with the way folks were following his advice about drink and the morrow. Charlie Chaplin had just arrived when a staid old cow was lead in for the matador's attack. The animal wouldn't fight, so a calf was led in. The young cow would only play tag with the bullfighter. A third animal of mild aspect was then brought forth. The -bovine procession was too much for Charlie. He put his hands to his mouth and yelled: "Say, why don't you try milking that one before you bring her in ?" When a certain lady cross-examined Buster Keaton as to what he was doing at the wild, wild Tia Juana, he replied succinctly: "Losing." The Katherine MacDonald Company, chaperoned by Director James Young, was also in attendance. Director Young kept a close eye on Florence Deshon, one of his players, because Florence is young and very beautiful. "You mustn't go around alone," cautioned Mr. Young. "You know, this is Mexico." Florence, who had just won fifty dollars at the wheel of fortune, felt perfectly safe. , "Mexico ?" she murmured. "Why, Mexico is lovely. I never saw so manv policemen in my life except in a comedy." An Open Letter to Lieutenant Locklear. Dear Lock: This is a warning. If you don't quit flying so close to the pavement on Hollywood Boulevard, thereby knocking off my last year's panama, valued at twice its original cost, I'm going to sue you or tear a wing off your plane. Yours afoot, The Film Colonist. P. S. — If the young lady who dropped a dollar and a powder puff while turning somersaults with you over St. Stephen's Church will call at my office I'll gladly return same, otherwise I'll leave them at the Metro office. The film fold of Hollywood are to have a half-million-dollar picture theater in which to see themselves as others see them. Ground was broken for the building recently. Anita Stewart, Katherine MacDonald, and Mildred Harris Chaplin turned the earth with silver spades and chopped down the orange trees on the site. That is, they chopped long enough for the photographers to get pictures of them doing the stunt. The oranges from the trees were distributed among the spectators by Wes Barry, King and Florence Vidor, Mary Thurman, Annette Kellermann, Mr. and Mrs. Carter de Haven, and Ben Turpin. When House Peters finishes his work as leading man for Louise Glaum in "The Leopard Woman" he will join the list of stars heading their own companies. The other day a certain young lady tearfully reported to Grace Darmond that she was unable to collect her salary from a certain film producer. "What's the difference between a film producer and a banana?" was Miss Darmond's irrelevant query. "I don't know," replied the girl. "Well, you can skin a banana," chirped Grace. Dorothy Phillips is working on her first picture since she and her husband, Allen Holubar, left Universal and formed their own company. Miss Phillips' life has been insured for one hundred thousand dollars, the policy to last till the picture is finished, and as a result can't ride in an aeroplane, can't visit Tia Juana, where the stars spend their weekends, because Mexico is rather unsettled, and can't even drive about in an open car for fear she'll catch cold — and she's just bought a new roadster ! All stars are not on the screen. Mary Roberts Rinehart would make a great picture star if she weren't so clever. She is quite unlike the movie conception of a writer — no drab, ill-fed. ill-dressed, sallow scribe is she. Beautiful, well dressed, dashing, and altogether fashionable, this author of "Twenty-three and a Half Hours' Leave," "Dangerous Days." the Bab stories, and all such is quite seductive. We met her at the Beverly Hills hotel when she came out for a week to write subtitles for her latest picture. Every girl has a heroine, and Mrs. Rinehart happens to be the big H of Ann May's life. The actress was having tea with Mrs. Rinehart one day and expressed her ambition to be a writer.