Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1923 - Feb 1924)

Over the Teacups 51 work on that for a few* weeks though, so she has gone to Catalina Island with Virginia Yalli to keep her company while she does some location scenes for 'Wild Oranges.' "My friends move around so fast I never can keep track of them. George Hackathorne has rushed off to the coast to play the leading role in 'The Turmoil' and Seena Owen has gone abroad to get a fabulous salary for making a picture in England. Jimmy Morrison has been here making 'On the Banks of the Wabash' and turning" down offers to go back on the speaking stage. That reminds me of something that happened over at the studio where lie was working. He and little Madge Evans were doing flood scenes and half freezing in the cold breeze every time they got out of the water. Finally Madge, with her teeth chattering and her hands positively blue with the cold, turned to Jimmy and said, 'And girls enter movie contests ; the dumb-bells !' " "Won't it seem funny to see her in a grown-up part?" "Not any funnier than Lucille Ricksen," Fanny insisted. "Don't you wish she would make a picture here in the East so that we could get acquainted with her ? Fd do anything for the Goldwyn company if they would only send her East to make a picture. Fd even write the scenario " "That would be a calamity, not a favor," I said in my brightest manner. "And whom do you think they have just sent East?" Fanny went on, her eyes popping with excitement. "Claire Windsor and Mae Busch and Lew Codv and Raymond Griffith. If they were just spending a million dollars in an effort to please me they couldn't have done better than that. And they're going to make that great psvchological drama 'Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model.' "It may be a bit melodramatic," I thought aloud, "but think of the gorgeous clothes Claire Windsor will have a chance to wear." "And speaking of clothes," Fanny chimed in, "wait till you see what Seena Owen brings back from Paris. She has gone to London to make a picture for the Ideal Company and she is going to get a huge salary. And just before she comes back she is going to Paris and blow it on clothes. That reminds me, Betty Blythe is back. But Betty Compson may stav over in London. There's a rumor going around that she is going to marry a duke or an earl or something like that." "I thought they were all in Hollywood playing extra parts in movies and denying that they are engaged. to Derelys Perdue." Doris Kenyon is making pictures for C. C. Burr. "And Dorothy Mackaill is going West to make a picture for Famous Players," Fanny went on. ''Dorothy will have a chance to wear gorgeous clothes at last, but it means giving up playing in 'The Enchanted Cottage' with Dick Barthelme:s. Speaking of Dick, I can hardly wait to see him in 'Wild Apples.' There is one scene where they are supposed to be giving amateur theatricals— classic dancing and all that — and Dick, much against his will, had to put on a leopard skin and leap about like a startled fawn. It ought to be priceless. "I hate to think of Dorothy Mackaill not playing opposite him any more. Put you can't blame her for wanting to spend the winter in Hollywood. She has had pneumonia twice and she just dreads spending another winter in New York. "And ZaSu Pitts is another one who wants to get away from New York before the worst weather comes. And she has been offered so much money to stay that Continued on page 103