Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1921 - Feb 1922)

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PIERRE VAILIGNY, Room 98, No. 34'West 58Hi St., New Yorli It is this Old World atmosphere which characterizes Maude George, her home, her garden — diametrically opposed to the atmosphere of modernity which permeates her screen self in such roles as the aforesaid Madame Malot, the malicious modiste of the "The Devil's Pass-key," and the equally malicious adventuress, the Princess Olga of Von Stroheim's as yet unreleased picture, "FooHsh Wives." "It's just another case of shock," agreed Miss George when I gave utterance to the thought that was in my mind. "We movie adventuresses are quite different in real life. We have to be wicked and villainous, because the expression of intrigue is the work of a theatrical heavy woman." It is difficult to believe in her as a villainess, even a play adventuress, because she has such a keen, ready sense of humor, such generosity and sympathy. And, besides, hadn't she spoken emphatically about her husband ? "Of course I have a husband!" she declared. "He doesn't in the least object to my being on the stage or in pictures. He helps me with my work — lets me rehearse scenes using him as a foil. He gives me pointers regarding the subtlety of doing certain bits of villainy in a picture scene, and" — and she sighed fondly — "he's so zcoiidcrfiil about doing errands at the grocery store for me ! He's gone now to get oranges." At this there was a decided twinkle in her gray eyes. "I guess I'm a peculiar sort of adventuress, if that's what }-ou insist on calling me," Miss George, or, rather, Mrs. Arthur Forde, laughed, "because I can't smoke cigarettes without getting just the least bit suffocated. All through 'Foolish Wives' I had to smoke long, intriguing Russian cigarettes because Princess Olga, the character I played, thought nothing of the bad effects of tobacco. "But personally I think it is so much more interesting to be wicked on the screen than to be merely a straight leading woman where you can alwavs count on the hero's kiss just before the last fade-out. It is difficult to avoid being crvide in stage villainy, and to be subtle is always a trying adventure. Villainy, wickedness, on the screen or off, is just disgusting if it lacks subtlety. "And Mr. Von" — her nickname for Eric von Stroheim — "has told me — oh, so many times! — that I've the wickedest smile he's ever seen.'" "Smile!" I entreated, and she smiled a very amused, very uii-xillainous smile. I entreated her to be wicked, however, because I wanted to see how she'd do it. "Look," she instructed, lifting one eyebrow a shade higher than the other, drawing the corners of her mouth downward ever so slightly and disclosing her teeth, set firmly together in a vampirish, calculatinggrin. "Nevertheless," and she dropped the acting pose and became herself, the lady o' the gingham, again, "I want some day to do a really dramatic, beautiful part. I've always admired Pauline Frederick ; I should be happy to be able to do something like her type of work and — who knows but that some day the opportunity may present, itself ?" In private hfe Miss George has only one mission. She is truly in love with her husband. Mr. Forde, a quiet, scholarly gentleman who is scenario editor of a film concern and who is, in addition, the father of Mrs. Tom Mix, who was before her marriage Victoria Forde, one of the earlier coterie of film comediennes. And, being in love with her husband, she is intensely interested in everything pertaining to him and his work. She is a glorious admixture of the adventurous and the Quaker. She has all the verve and brilliance of a De Maupassant heroine, and yet, in the confines of her unique Devonshire House, where she wears gingham morning dresses and old gloves to protect her hands, and where her chief duty is seeing that her husband's wants are promptly attended to, she is as quaintly conventional,as sweetly sympathetic as the fragrant, lovely, old-fashioned flowers she has planted in her garden. Winners in Film Stories' Picture Contest In accordance with the announcement which appeared in the November loth issue of Film Stories Magazine, we are printing herewith the names of the winners in the picture contest conducted by that publication. Miss Flora Krug, 2735 South Karlove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, was awarded the first prize of one hundred dollars ; Miss Eva B. Casey, 21 Amy Street, Providence, Rhode Island, won the second prize of fifty dollars, and Mr. Frank Power, 53 South Park Street, Halifax. Nova Scotia, received the third award of twentv-five dollars.