Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1921 - Feb 1922)

56 Over the Teacups > LjwaiJ Thayer Mon: Louise Huff, looking hardly more than a child herself, talks wisely about the upbringing of her children. her enraptured decoration of her lips to match the hat she wa wearing, "who never wants to get a lot fatter or thinner is Agnes Ayres. She's always just right. I used to think that Agnes was so imperturbable that she was oblivious to ordinary things like hunger and thirst and heat and cold and weariness and even an overabundance of pep. But since she's been making 'The Sheik' she's surprised me. She says that after being in the midst of a studio sandstorm, kept up by aeroplane motors for a week or so, she'd find living in a desert, where sandstorms only came up once in a while, a regular paradise." "Oh, there's Alice Brady !" I almost shouted, as I happened to see her passing the window. The present star is always more engrossing than the absent one. "You should have been at her play the night it opened in Asbury Park," Fanny said in the superior manner which she affects toward people who are not picture-premiere hovmds and inveterate firstnighters. "Simply every one was there but Constance Binney. She missed it by going to California so soon. Alice has only deserted films temporarily. The play failed, and she's coming back to pictures as soon as she feels rested enough. "Martha Mansfield is on the stage now, too, and it's the greatest shock to find that her voice sounds as lovely as she looks. She does a one-act play with Crane Wilbur, and it's rumored that the partnership is soon to become matrimonial as well as professional. "Louise Huff expects to go on the speaking stage again this winter. Just as soon as she finished playing in the film version of 'Disraeli' she started frantically reading plays, but her stage appearance will probably be postponed for a while because of some very interesting film offers. "She looks hardly more than a child, so it's always an awful shock to hear her talking wisely about the upbringing of her children. Unlike most young mothers, she doesn't proclaim to the world that her children are beautiful. Instead, she insists that the baby is as far from beautiful as Leon Errol, the famous Ziegfeld comedian. After she has prepared you in that manner, you see the baby, and are simply swept off your feet by his good looks. "Louise flutters about the studio, mothering people quite as though they were all her children. She was terribly upset during the making of several of the scenes of 'Disraeli,' because the only shoes that the costumer could get for Reginald Denny in time were a little too small for him. "And speaking of mothers — Enid Bennett has a baby boy now ! There aren't nearly so many children or weddings or engagements among picture people as usual, though, are there?" "No," I admitted. "And there haven't even been any exciting accidents." I "Except Clara Horton's," Fanny spoke up. "She was out riding in a car that was overturned and caught fire. There's plenty of excitement, though, with Gloria Swanson here on vacation." "Oh, have you seen her yet?" I exclaimed. "How does she look?" "What perfectly foolish questions!" Fanny retorted in her most up-stage manner. "Of course I saw her Continued on page Photo by White Studio Every one at Vitagraph loves Pauline Starke because she has temperament without temper.