Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1923 - Feb 1924)

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She is a distinct type and needs whimsical, emotional roles. She is too intelligent to play ingenues in the accepted fashion. Gloria Swanson is slipping fast, because her pictures are just so-called fashion displays— artificial, tawdry. Betty Compson needs better stories and better direction than she has had. Right now she is just about as good as the average, no better. Constance Binney was utterly ruined in her Realart pictures ; it may be that Pola Negri is unmanageable, but in her Paramount debut she was dressed up and made to act in the American-Paramount style. Dorothy Dalton has lost in popularity. Jack Holt has had one good picture, "While Satan Sleeps," in the past year. Bebe Daniels' directors seems to expect nothing from her but her gorgeous self ; she hasn't -:acted in months. I admire Rodolph Valentino for staying out of films rather than appearing in some of the things , selected for him. Ben Kaetman. • 1840 S. Kedzie Avenue, Chicago, 111. Too Much Make-up. I certainly agree with that writer who says many of the stars make-up too heavily, and let me say here and now that Gloria Swanson and Bebe Daniels are the two worst offenders. Now, wait, you* loyal fans, I didn't say the young ladies couldn't act! Just hold on a moment. Remember "Male and Female?" Was there ever a more gloriously beautiful female than Miss Swanson was in that picture? Compare it with those of her to-day. Her face has a hard, set look. And why? Too much black around the eyes, lips made up too heavily. The same goes for Bebe. I got the surprise of my life when I saw her in person. Boys, she's an honest-to-goodness beauty, but I wouldn't give you a penny for her looks on the screen. Come on you defenders ! Say what you will, but dog-gone it, I mean it ! And it gets my goat because it isn't necessary that these two stars in particular go to such extremes. In closing, may I ask these questions : Why does Milton Sills always keep his eyes half closed? 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