Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1921 - Feb 1922)

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34 THE MOVIE ALMANAC SEPTEMBER Edited and Illustrated by Chables Gatchell 19 2 1 PREDICTIONS FOR SEPTEMBER. There will be a marked increase this month in the attendance at matinees in movie theaters located near school buildings. Owing to the censorship scare of last winter the fall season promises to be mild and temperate. The storms aroused over the German pictures are expected to have died down, save for occasional local flurries. 1 — Th. — Reginald Barker appeared as Jonathan Wise in "The Mormon Wife," at the Central Theater, San Francisco, 1902, 2— Fr. — Viola Dana (then a precocious stage child) was Celeste Bergeret in "The Model," Harris Theater, New York, 1912. 3 — Sa. — Griffith's "Way Down East" opened in New York, the best seats selling for ten dollars each, 1920. 4 — Su. — Bert Lytell was leading man of the Blaney Stock Company, Brooklyn, appearing as John Nazare in "The Cherry Pickers," 1902. 5 — M. — "Intolerance," the Griffith spectacle was shown for the first time in New York, at the Liberty Theater, 1915. Bobbie Harron died, 1920. 6 — Tu. — Douglas Fairbanks was Eddie, an office boy, in "A Duel in Wall Street," with the stock company at Manhattan Beach, Denver, 1898. 7— W. — Tsuru Aoki born, 1892. 8 — Th. — Alice Brady was warbling sweetly as Hehe in "Pina fore," at the Casino Theater, New York, 1911. g—p^v. — Herbert Brenon was appearing as Hon. Thomas y ' Fenwick in "In a Woman's Power," a melodrama, at Heuck's Theater, Cincinnati, 1901. 10 — Sa. — Olive Thomas died in Paris, 1920. 11 — Su. — -A serious fire almost wiped out the Famous Plaj-ers studios on West Twenty-sixth Street, New York, IQTS 12 — M. — Mabel Ballin was Pippins in "Sergeant Brue," support ing Frank Daniels, at the Jefferson Theater, Portland, Maine, 1906. 13 — Tu. — Anita Stewart saw herself upon the screen as Jose phine Blake in the Vitagraph picture, "The Lost Millionaire," 1913. 14 — W. — Famous Players two million dollar studio on Long Island opened, 1920. 15 — Th. — "Buster" Keaton was starting a vaudeville tour with his parents, Joe and Myra, at the Orpheum Theater, Kansas City, 1901. 16 — Fr. — Lew Cody was Signer D'Orelli in "The Mummy and the Humming Bird," with the Poli Stock Companjr, Worcester, Massachu.setts, 1910. 17 — Sa. — Elliott Dexter appeared as De Castro in "The Man from Missouri," with Tim Murphy, at the Academy of Music, Selma, Alabama, 1903. 18 — Su. — Ethel Sands began her "adventures in movieland." 1920. 19 — M. — ^rBessie Barriscale was cast as Pauline in "Frou Frou," with the Proctor Stock Company, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Theater, New York, 1904. 20 — Tu. — Constance Talmadge gave the order "not at home" to all sttitors except John Pialoglou, 1920. 21 — W. — The Oracle answers for the one thousand five hun dred and eighty-seventh time the question, "Does Pearl White wear a wig?" 1920. 22 — Th. — Dorothy Dalton born, 1893. 23 — Fr. — Milton Sills, Charles Richman, and Theodore Roberts were leading lights in "Diplomacy," at Maxine Elliott's Theater, New York, 1910. 24 — Sa. — Pauline Frederick was skipping merrily in the chorus of "The Rogers Brothers in Harvard," at the Knickerbocker Theater, New York, 1902. 25 — Su. — Elsie Ferguson enchanted all as Grecba in "The Bondman," with Wilton Lackaye, at the Bijou Theater, Evansville, Indiana, 1907. 26 — M. — A convention of hair dressers offered Mary Pickford twenty-five thousand dollars if she would give a testimonial to the effect that her curls were supplied by them, not nature, 1916. 27 — Tu. — Hedda Hopper was an imposing Mrs. Grey in "A Matinee Idol," supporting De Wolf Hopper, at the Grand Opera House, London, Ontario, 1909. 28 — W. — Conway Tearle played Paul de Lahne in "The Best of Friends," at Drury Lane Theater, London, 1902. 29 — Th. — Fannie Ward and John W. Dean headed the cast of a play entitled "A Fool and a Girl," written by a man named David Wark Griffith, which this date received its premiere at the Columbia Theater, Washington, D. C, 1907. 30 — Fr. — Herbert Howe started for New York, after a year in Los Angeles, 1920. OUR MONTHLY RECIPE. Cream Puff. Use the cream of the acting profession Hero's heart must be tender though shell may seem rough Lots of dough must be there This is cooked with hot air ror i'ue press agents furnish the puff. HISTORICAL ANECDOTE. About ten years ago, David Belasco, the famous theatrical producer, was in Rochester, New York. He went behind the scenes in a theater and found a child of seven years sitting alone on a chair and crying as if her heart would break. "What is the matter?" asked the kindly Mr. Belasco. No answer except sobs. Mr. B. put his hand on her head. Then he took her in his arms and sat down in the chair. In a quavering voice, choked with tears, she told him that the Rochester Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children had refused to permit her to appear on the stage that night, because she was too young. "And I — I love to a-act so much !" sobbed the child. "Never mind," said Mr. Belasco. "Some day you'll be a big girl and a star." Well, she isn't such a big girl now and she isn't a star, but she's gone far. The kiddie David Belasco held in his arms was Lila Lee. SQUINTING BACKWARD. When motion pictures were first shown in New York, the manager of one theater predicted that in ten years vaudeville would be dead. And yet we understand that Eva Tanguay is still drawing a small salary every week. And back in '92, a fellow by the name of William^ S. Hart was doing Shakespearean roles. Whereas, in 1888, when the circus came to town, New York papers complained that "Barnum's parade hurt theatrical business all over town." Going a little farther back, we notice that in 1866, when Forrest opened an engagement in San Francisco, the first ticket for the opening brought^ $500. Regular present-day speculator prices, evidently. Readjusting the telescope for another squint, we learn that in 1776, the city fathers of Providence, Rhode Island, passed an "Act to Prevent Stage Plays and other Theatrical entertainments." because they caused "great and unnecessary expenses." "The star system in the theater is doomed," sighed Daniel Frohman in 1903. Guess again, Daniel ! A film censor is but one step removed from the income-tax collector in_ point of popularity. The two couldn't win a vote in an election even if they ran for a dog catcher.