Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1920 - Feb 1921)

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Evon if you have no previous knowledge of drawing, our Course will enable you to become a successful cartoonist or illustrator. Many students earn money while they are learning. If you are ambitious to get ahead, to earn more' money, write for our free book and special offer now. You can do as well as our other successful students ! Write now for free book, "How to Become an Artist." Mail letter or postal. Washington School of Art, Inc. Room 1568 Marden Bldg., Washington, D. C. Who is flie Greatest ^Vampire of tSie Screen ??? Can youtruess? Wouldn't you like to have her favorite portrait? We have it. And YOU may have it size 8x10 -for 50c. Yea. and 11 other rich nhi.ioa of the bijrjrest and best beloved of Movie Stars-all for $5.00 Here they are: Mako Your Selection From This List Theda Bara Alice Joyce Mary Miles Minter Mabel Normand OI(?a Petrova Mary Pickford Blanche ^weet Anita Stewart Pearl White Earlo Williams Clara K. Younff (■Yank Mayo Katherine McDonald Charles Chaplin Mildred Harris Kichard Barthelme f of the other popul; SO Cents Each— 12 for $5.00 Ch'.'ck those you want and enclose money covering your purchase totrethor with this advcrt's.-tnent , with vour name anil address written plainly thereon and mail TODAY to S. BRAM, Dept. 97, 209 W. 48th St., N. Y. Dilly Dish Wrincer and Susie Mop Handle. — You must be some relation to the Gold Dust Twins. No wonder you "clean up" in everything you tackle. Henry Walthall has retired from the screen for a while and will devote his time for a while to the stage, starring in Ibsen's "Ghosts." He recently left the screen to support Maude Fulton in her latest stage play, "The Humming Bird," in which he scored quite a success. Wadd'ye mean — wild? You must think they feed up on raw meat. Cleo. — I thought for a time you weren't even going to get in this month, but just as I was nearing the monthly batch of letters your color scheme in envelopes loomed up. You haven't missed more than two issues in four years, which is a pretty good average, I should say. Your questions get fewer all the time. Well, it is no wonder. You should know about all there is to know alter asking questions for four years. So you haven't even seen a picture this week? You must have been lockedup somewhere then. It is certainly too bad to lose Bobby Harron. Bobby was one of the finest characters that it has been my good fortune to come in contact with. He never impressed any one as being anything but a good, wholesome boy, and that he was. He had a good word for all, but never anything about himself. In the passing of Robert Harron the screen has suffered and the profession has lost one of its finest examples of American boyhood. Common Sense. — House Peters is still making pictures. His latest release is "The Great Redeemer" for Maurice Tourheur and released by Metro. He is at present doing a picture with Louise Glaum, which will be shown shortly. He was a well-known stage favorite before he went into pictures. Clara Kimball Young has no understudy and neither has any other film star. It isn't like the stage, where an understudy can go on any old night that the star doesn't show up. In pictures, when the star fails to put in an appearance, there is no understudy to take her place. They just wait until she gets there. James R. — George Chesebro is married. He seems +o be devoting all his time to seriating lately. He started with Ruth Roland in "Hands Up," until he joined the army. When he returned he went with Texas Guinan in the two-reel Westerns she made. Then he went with Juanita Hansen in the wild-animal serial, "The Lost City." His latest release is the serial "The Hope Diamond Mystery." Robert F. — I can't help you get into the movies. I'd become a booking agent instead of The Oracle if I could. The only way you can get cut-outs from the films is from some cutter at the various studios. If you don't know of any, I'm afraid you're out of luck. That picture was made in California, so the scenes couldn't have been taken in New Jersey. The "Market Booklet" gives the names and addresses of all the motion-picture companies. Send six cents in stamps to the editor of Picture-Play to cover cost and mailing. Universal City is the largest motion-picture producing unit in the world. Eugene O'Brien is not married, but Tom Mix and Frank Mayo are. Harry Carey is still making pictures for Universal. His latest release is called "Sundown Slim." Mrs. Gertrude L. — William S. Hart is not married. Richard Barthelmess is the hubby of Mary Hay. Mae Marsh is back on the screen once more. Marguerite Clark is living in New Orleans at present. Jack Perrin and Josephine Hill were recently married. ■Etelka H. — Write to the editor about the pictures you would like to see published in the magazine. I haven't anything to do with that end of it. Larry Semon is not dead. He is still making comedies for Vitagraph, although he has a lawsuit up against that company for damages at present. Anita Stewart was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was educated there. She went to Erasmus High School in Brooklyn at the time she worked in her first picture at Vitagraph, where her brother-in-law, Ralph Ince, was working at the time. She is not a Texas girl, no matter who tries to tell you that she is. Constance Talmadge is not engaged. Dorothy de Vore, a Christie comedy girl, was loaned to Charles Ray to play Mary in his "Forty-five Minutes From Broadway." Addresses at the end of this department. Stella H. — Constance Talmadge is not wearing a wig. It's bobbed, that's all. There are Norma and Natalie. She has no' other sisters. Olive Thomas' hair was light brown. Her latest release is called "Everybody's Sweetheart." She died in Paris from accidental poisoning on September ioth. Anita Stewart has no married daughter and is only twenty-four years old. There must be some heavy gossiper in San Antonio. This is the second letter this month from there with foolish assertions about Anita. You will find the other answer just ahead of your own. 1896 was the year of her birth, and Brooklyn, New York, was the place. Cullen Landis played with Mabel Normand in "Pinto." Louise Glaum was born near Baltimore, Maryland. You refer to Howard Ralston. Yes, he is just as young as he looks. Mary Pickford has hazel eyes. Eugene O'Brien has brown hair. He is not a blond. Jack Holt had the leading male role opposite Clara Kimball Young in "Cheating Cheaters." Miss Dot. — You'll find the addresses at the end of this department. Gaston Glass is working right, now, but Mary MacLaren is not. I believe that she has retired from the screen for the time being. Jack Mulhall has been playing opposite Viola Dana lately. Jack and Bill. — That's a good plan for seeing the world — traveling with a company that makes travel pictures. It's rather hard for me to advise as to what chance you'd have of getting a job, as I haven't the faintest idea what you can do, and nobody is taken along on a trip like that who can't earn his way, you may be sure. The only way for you to find out what your chances are would be to apply in person at the offices of the companies that make travel pictures. D. D. — So you're to give a talk on "Chaplin, the Comedian," are you? Well, I don't know of any better source of information than the article by Herbert Howe that appears in the December number of PicturePlay ; I presume you have already read it; it gives the most authoritative and up-to-date information that I've seen recently about Charlie. M. M.— No, Art Acord isn't dead. Where did that rumor start? These reports seem to be like storm centers, and move at an even grait. At present the one of Dorothy Gish's marriage is coming from Ohio, the announcement that Theda Bara is dead has reached Kentucky, and from Texas come dozens of letters declaring that Constance Talmadge is engaged— and every last rumor is wrong! I'm sorry to sav that the reports of Bobby Harron's and Olive Thomas' deaths were not false, however. Would that they had been !