Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1920 - Feb 1921)

llllllllllllilllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllw Illlllllllllllll I Teacups latest gossip — and tells most of it. Bystander retorted, wondering if Fanny knew she was ducking her head down and smiling the way Lillian Gish does or was doing it unconsciously as a result of her attack of Way-Down-Eastis. "Since I've come to New York I rush around so that I never catch up with myself. And I simply can't escape the movies. Why, the other day I was just walking calmly along the street, and then all of a sud den there was a crowd, and I ran over and encountered a scene of 'The Misleading Lady;' Bert Lytell was driving his automobile through a traffic jam and meeting Lucy Cotton, driving in the opposite direction, and stopping to talk to her in spite of the shrieking teamsters and other motorists all around them. I'm wild to see that scene on the screen now — I imagine it will be awfully funny." "Oh, I almost forgot!" Fanny nearly upset the teapot in her excitement. "The other night I went to the 'Midnight Frolic,' and Charlie Chaplin sat at the next table. It looked exactly like him ; dark and not very tall and clean-shaven — and he seemed to be having a good time, though he was all alone, and nobody else seemed to recognize him. And I wondered if he'd gone there for the same reason I had — to see if the girls in the show are really ae beautiful as they're supposed to be." "I saw General Pershing up at the 'Frolic' one night, too," I contributed. "People recognized him fast enough. And I wanted to have a party up there for Dorothy Gish when she got back from Europe, but she arrived in a complete state of collapse and went straight to bed; so did her mother. I suppose you heard that report that she and Bobby Harron had been engaged, and that she broke dow n completely when she heard of his death ?" "Well, whether that's true or not — I mean about their being engaged — you can't wonder at her being overcome; why, they'd been associated for years and years — ever since the beginning of Dorothy's screen career. Really, I'm almost sorrier for Lillian than I am for Dorothy ; she'd been so anxious to have her mother and sister get a good rest, and then they came home almost ill — nice home atmosphere for Lillian just as she was beginning her career as a star !" "Wasn't it!" I exclaimed. Then, as I happened to think of some one else, "Aren't you glad that Vivian Martin is back on the screen at last? I went to a special showing of her first picture, 'The Song of the Soul,' and it seemed so nice to see Vivian again. Oh, and have you heard anything about Madge Bellamy, who's to have leading roles in Thomas Ince's productions? She's had very little picture experience, but has been on the stage for some time, and now she's to have the best chance in the world to become a screen star." "Well, speaking of that sort of chances, isn't it great that Helene Chadwick has one ? You've heard about her, of course ; she did so well in 'Scratch My Back' that Goldwyn is featuring her in Godless Men,' a sea story. I'm awfully pleased, because she has been working so steadily for so long, and doing really good work." "I suppose you've seen some of the European travelers who've returned? They say they all had the most scrumptious time, in /Paris— just one party after another.'^. "Well, it would be a party for 'some of them to stop picture making for a few weeks, whether anything thrilling happened or not. Truly, Constance Talmadge was so thin when she Madge Kennedy is back on the stage — but the screen will get her again if her manager doesn't watch out. Thoto by Edward Thayer Monroe went away that if she'd been my daughter I'd have put her to bed and kept her on a milk diet for weeks ! And speaking of thin people — Alice i Brady's looking much better, isn't she? I saw her in her new stage play, 'Anna Ascends,' the night it opened, and she'd improved a great deal. She was like a shadow a month or so ago." "By the way, have you heard about what Evelyn Greeley is doing? She's joined a stock company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and is~ working like a Trojan, fitting herself for a stage career. She hasn't been seen on the screen for ever so long, youknow. And Barbara Castleton has deserted the movies, too — she's appearing in Willard Mack's new stage play with him -'Her Man,' it's called." "Rather an appropriate title, in view of the fact that he and she were married not long ago," commented Fanny, adding cream cheese and plum jam indiscriminately to a water cracker. "Oh, did you hear about Will Rogers turning minister ? Yes, honestly, he did. He and the rector of the Temple Baptist Church, in Los Angeles, met in a debate on whether cowboys or ministers had done more for civilization, and after it was over — no, I don't know who won — the minister invited Rogers to take his pulpit and preach on humor in religion — and he said he would ! Probably somebody dared him to do it — he'd do anything in the world cn a dare, I believe." ■ "Well, that's not half as risky as what Dorothy Phillips did a while ago. She advertised for a double; and no less than two hundred girls appeared, each of whom was convinced that she looked exactly like Dorothy. And Dorothy didn't think any of them did! I had a letter from the Coast telling me about it — and also about Lois Weber's buying a studio. That makes her the first woman director in the industry to have her very