Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1923 - Feb 1924)

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The Story of How I Cured My 1 self are all explained in my \ free booklet. Write for your copy "today and learn of the results gotten by thousands of men and women.VV E. S. GIVENS 237 CHEMICAL BLDG. KANSAS CSH, MO. Advertising Section are deserving of much praise. "Valentinos may come and Valentinos may go, but Guy Bates Post goes on forever!" I won't say much about Irene Rich. Alvin Tweedy in his letter published in Picture-Play for August says it for me. Nazer Husk Rothchild. 6809 Bennett Avenue, Chicago, 111. A Friend of All the Players. Pola Negri is getting a rough deal since she came to our country. Every one seems to be concerned chiefly in her private affairs. We should not care what she does in real life, it's her screen acting that should get our criticism. She is a great actress. She is very beautiful, sincere, magnetic, and puts her whole heart and soul in the part she plays. I sincerely hope the Lasky Company will not spoil her by making her film characters into Pollyannas. How can any one knock Mae Murray? We should admire her for her wonderful dancing, and not scorn her for her not-sowonderful acting. In spite of all, the theaters are jammed when she is the attraction. I have no knocks for any of the stars. I love them all. Mrs. S. Totillo. 623 Union Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Where Doug s Admirers Come From. In the Picture-Play for September Adele G. Foster says : "One of the unsolved mysteries of the century is Doug's seat atop the world. Won't some one start a campaign to find out from what class his devotees seep?" The rest of her letter seems to indicate that she thinks most of Doug's admirers are from the sporting world and include but few girls. I am a girl, and not a baseball or football fan, either. But I am a movie fan and Douglas Fairbanks has been my favorite star for four years. I see his pictures when they are shown in Minneapolis and again in Anoka. I have seen every picture he has made in the last five years and many of his earlier ones. I have read his books and everything I could find about him in the magazines. I say he deserves his "seat atop the world," and that he gained his present eminence largely because he had the courage to go ahead and give us what we wanted — historical romance — when nearly all the producers thought the costume drama would not pay. ,„ Adele G. Foster asks if his smile ever really thrilled any girl. I don't think he is the type to whom girls write silly love notes ; that is an additional reason why I admire him — he seems so sensible, with not a bit of the matinee idol about him. But I don't see how any one who has seen him in "The Mark of Zorro," "The Three Musketeers," and "Ro'bin Hood" can doubt that he is one of the greatest of screen lovers. He shows much better taste in love scenes than most actors, for he is one of the few who can get love scenes over without making them appear mushy and silly. Judging from the crowds of men, women, and children that fairly pack the theaters of Minneapolis and Anoka when one of his pictures is shown, there are plenty of people who share my enthusiasm for him. I know from conversation with my friends who saw "Robin Hood" that the girls enjoyed it as much as the men did. I like Doug because he is a typical American, because he is so strong and energetic, because he is the type that can be admired by both sexes and all ages, and his cheery smile can thrill people of all classes, and not just flappers alone. Yours truly, Evelyn E. Bowen. Route 2, Anoka, Minn. Three Kinds of Stars. Of the many stars of to-day I have listed those who seem to me most popular in three classes, with my frank opinion of them. The first class is composed of those who have reached stardom by sincere, hard work. The second class those who were starred principally on account of their beauty. The third class — well, read on. The first class includes Mary Pickford, the sweetest personality on the screen, truly deserving the title of "America's Sweetheart ;" Harold Lloyd, the best and cleanest comedian we have on the screen; Richard Barthelmess — a real honest-togoodness actor, one we could slap on the back and say : "Atta boy, Dick, we're with you !" And to these I would add Lillian Gish, a little wisp of sunshine, making her characters so real they live in our memory always. Those whom I regard as successful principally because' of their beautv are : Agnes Ayres, Katherine MacDonald, and Mary Miles Minter. Gloria Swanson and Rudy come under a clcss of their own. The former impresses me as being a spoiled darling, though she surely is a splendid model for the stunning gowns she wears. But she makes me feel as though she were saving, "Give me the whole picture or I won't play. So there!" And as for Rudy, whenever I see him I have a wild impulse to muss up that hair of his. Mary Gibney. Norwood, Pa. Fanny the Fan is Rebuked. This is my first fan letter, though I have been a regular reader of PicturePlay and its admirer for years. But I am herein asking the privilege to take exception to a certain paragraph appearing in the column of "Fanny the Fan" of the August edition. I am speaking of my old and coming favorite, George Walsh. The aforementioned column appears to be strictly a line of women's chatter for women fans alone, but I happen to read it occasionally when I am not too bored. So it was that I happened to notice Fanny's remarks anent my friend, George Walsh. In plain words, they were downright catty. I have .followed this actor's career from the old days when he was a star for Fox, appearing in features that were so valueless in themselves as to have killed any ordinary player, professionally speaking, but were redeemed only by his splendid, virile personality. Perhaps, had Mr. Walsh been featured in "jellybean" roles and in some of the "sheiky" stuff with which we have lately been overdosed, he would be more in solid with the feminine faction, Fanny the Fan included, and would not cause them to ponder so at his growing importance in leading casts. But, thanks to the eternal fitness of things, as the real he-man that he is, Mr. Walsh would never appea in such sugar-coated dope. No doubt, there are many other fans who rejoice with me to see him in his constantly rising success, justly deserved, and are awaiting with eagerness his next triumphant appearance as leading man with the stellar star of the screen, Mary Pickford. C. A. McAlister, Secretary, City Detective Bureau. City Hall, Beaumont, Texas. From a Fan in Wales. Having heen a regular subscriber to PicturePlay Magazine for over three years, I feel it is time that I sent in my humble contribution to "What the Fans Continued on page 106