Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1920 - Feb 1921)

Photo by Apedu Justine Johnstone is seen at all of New York's important theatrical events. YOU'VE been to 'Way Down East' again," I accused Fannj?-, as she lifted her veil and scanned the menu card with reddened eyes. "How many times is this — four or five?" "Five," she admitted shamefacedly. "But I just can't resist it. And when they show that part where Lillian Gish baptizes the baby — well, I simply dissolve." And she looked up at the waitress through her tears and ordered muffins and plum jam in a voice that would have made her a fortune as an emotional actress. "I wore my new duvetyne dress the evening of the first showing, and wept so hard that the next day the dressmaker had to put a new lace front in it — the other one was simply ruined ! But wasn't it gorgeous that evening, and didn't Lillian Gish look sweet in her little white dress with the off-shoulder effect, and that big hat? And wasn't it funny, the way Dick Barthelmess held on to her when the people' applauded so at the end of the picture, so that she had to stay up, bowing, when she tried to subside into a corner even though everybody did go on cheering and clapping their hands." "I thought it was too bad little Mary Hay couldn't have been there to share in the glory — but I was awfully glad Dick's mother could be," I commented. "And Over the Fanny the Fan knows all the By The ' mil;, iM<,»iH:liliMIHlli:MHIIIIIIMiillllMlillll»<fatttltMUIBiWUillllWlliHliHHIiailHWIWWi speaking of off-shoulder dresses, have you seen Madge Kennedy in hers? She looks so quaint and lovely in it. I went to the first rehearsal of her stage play, 'Cornered,' and it was too funny for words. You know, it's three years since Madge left the stage for the screen, and she simply couldn't get used to the sound of her own voice. When she worked into a big scene she'd forget and begin to gesticulate frantically and just whisper her lines, and one of the men of the company who'd played with her in pictures caught the habit and began to do it, too. The stage director was wild, and I was convulsed; truly, it was. one of the funniest things Madge Kennedy has ever done, and she didn't want to be funny at all." "I met Madge and her husband up in the country early in the fall conducting a camping expedition that was on its way to Maine," volunteered Fanny. "He had on some of his old army clothes, but Madge was too trim for words, though she told me she was wearing a two-year-ago suit. She and Mr. Bolster were riding along in state in their big car, and behind them came a station-wagon machine, containing their servants and Airedale. How's that for a motor camping trip de luxe?" "It's just what you'd expect of Madge," I declared, with one eye on the tea table and the other on Broadway, which was just outside the window. "There goes Matt Moore — it seems to me I see him every time I turn around. And it's the same way with Justine Johnstone; she and her husband go to the opening nights of all the new stage productions, apparently. She's so pretty, with her blue eyes and yellow hair, that it seems a shame she's deserted the stage for the screen; the camera doesn't do justice to her coloring. Shannon Day's another coming success who's had much the same beginning as Justine Johnstone did — and now she has a part in a De Mille production ; isn't that great ?" "Yes, and did you hear about Gareth Hughes? He did so well in 'The Chorus Girl's Romance,' with Viola Dana, that Metro gave him a long-term contract. Then he had appendicitis, and while he was recovering Famous Players-Lasky decided to do Barrie's 'Sentimental Tommy,' and felt that he was the only person in the country to play Tommy. So the powers that were got busy, and persuaded Metro to let him do it. Really, I think he's the nicest boy, almost, on the screen !" "You say that about every one that comes along," I