Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1921)

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From Another Loyal Griffith Fan. To the Editor of PicturePlay Magazine. I notice a letter in the February number of "What the Small Town Thinks About It," and am surprised to learn how little some people know about making and booking a picture. What difference "does it make how old a picture is when you see it if they show it in first-class shape? "The Birth of a Nation" was out three years before I had a chance to see it, and I would go again to-day if it were in town. A good picture is the same as a good book : it never gets to be an "old thing," and if you read it ten years after it is published, it is new to you. We are anxious to see the best pictures, and I have no doubt that "Way Down East" is one of them. But Mr. Griffith and his managers know more about how a picture should be made and put on the market, so we should not try to tell them how to run a picture, but see it when we can. Elmer C. Morris. 21 19 Eakin Street, Dallas, Texas. Poor Old New York ! To the Editor of PicturePlay Magazine. I can't resist the temptation to come to your open forum and tell of a situation that perplexes me more every day. I think that something ought to be done about the cabaret scenes in the movies. I am not a crank or a prude, but I do feel that something will have to be done to restrain motion-picture directors from putting such wild scenes on the screen, supposed to occur in New York public restaurants. It never bothered me much until last summer; I confess that I even deliberately sought such pictures sometimes when I felt I wanted to see something sensational. But now they have become a real problem for me. Last winter I went to my cousin's, up in New Hampshire, for the winter sports, and while I was there we talked about movie stars, of course, that being one interest that girls both in the country and the city have in common. I happened to mention that Dorothy Dickson was the hostess at the Palais Royal, and probably didn't make another picture after "Paying the Piper," because her duties there began for the season and kept her up so late nights. And I remarked that I had seen Dick Barthelmess at the New Amsterdam Roof with his wife, and probably I enumerated some of the prominent stars that I've seen at the Century Roof. Well, you should have seen the looks those girls gave me. They simply froze ! _ Finally, after a deadly silence, my cousin spoke up, "Well, if I did go to places like that, I wouldn't talk about it." Finally I dragged it out of them that they thought it was a dull evening in any of the big New York cabarets when at least one man didn't come in, discover his wife with another man, and shoot them, or when women at dinner parties didn't get up and dance on a table. They simply wouldn't believe that those places are awfully select and quiet, and that any girl is mighty lucky to get taken there. That incident was amusing, but when I came back to town I didn't think any more about it, except sometimes when I saw wild scenes in the movies that were unlike any cabarets I had ever been in. I asked my Uncle Ned if he had ever seen a cafe where people acted like they usually do in the movies, and he just laughed and said: "Bless you, no. Not in New York, anyway." Well, it still struck me as funny, until a few weeks ago, when Charlotte came to New York to visit mc. Her father is my lather's oldest friend, and we have corresponded ever since we've been able to write. Of course, I simply wanted' to turn the town inside out to show her a good time. Well, the first night Uncle Ned and a college boy I know took us to see "Sally," the musical comedy Mary Hay is playing in, and then, afterward, we went up to the New Amsterdam Roof to see the Midnight Frolic. I thought it was simply gorgeous, but would you believe it, Charlotte was as blase as could be? "When do they start?" she whispered to me excitedly once between dances. "What?" I asked her right out, but she wouldn't explain. And do you know that no matter where we took Charlotte or what we did for her, she seemed to think that the places were awfully stunning and the shows good, but the people dull. And it was all because the people didn't jump on tables or the parties mix with each other or angry husbands stride in the way they so often do in movies. Other New York people must have had similar experiences. Don't you agree with me that people are getting the wrong impression about the way we New Yorkers live and act? E. J. J. New York City. In Praise of Agnes Smith. To the Editor of PicturePlay Magazine. Although I have been a reader of your magazine for a long time, I only recently began reading "What the Fans Think," and now I always turn to it first. It simply thrills me to find people all over the country feeling, just as I do, that Herbert Howe is a sort of safety valve who lets off steam for all of us, that Fanny the Fan is a friend we wouldn't miss for worlds, and that Louise Williams is simply invaluable in teaching us how to dress like the stars. But what I can't understand is wrhy the fans who write in seem to take Agnes Smith for granted ! I think she is simply great. There isn't another reviewer that can compare with her. Most reviewers make me tired ; they set themselves up as authorities, and write in a lofty, inspired way that makes one wonder how they ever came to descend long enough to be a part of a mere movie audience. And then there are others who never see a picture as a whole, because they are so intent on running down tiny discrepancies in the plot or the furniture or the heroine's etiquette. But worst of all are the ones — and the majority are like this — that are wishy-washy. They speak of films being "amusing," "adequate," or "moderately good." Dear editor, can anything be "moderately good" without being mediocre? And if it is mediocre, shouldn't they say so? But Agnes Smith is different. She has