Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1924)

Advertising Section 119 he can act. When given the right role he is convincingly real, genuine, and sincere, revealing great depth and humanness. I hope that Mr. Harlan's work in "The Virginian" will be an eye opener to the producers, and that they will continue to bestow upon him pictures worth)' of his splendid talent. When I saw Mr. Harlan in person recently, I was pleased to find him such a quiet, unassuming young man, not the slightest bit upstage. There is no mistaking his sincerity ; it is indeed quite refreshing and contagious. I think that King Baggot, Ramsey Wallace, and Kenneth Harlan are the three handsomest actors the screen has ever had, and their gifted histrionic ability is just as pronounced as their good looks. Mrs. Lqrenza Stevens. 711 Superba Street, Venice, Calif. Douglas MacLean Writes About Maude Adams. The article about Maude Adams and her new association with the Film Guild in the recent issue of PicturePlay tempts me to add a few words of sincere appreciation of one of the finest women of the American stage — a temptation too strong to be resisted. It was through Maude Adams that I received my first real opportunity on the legitimate stage. She engaged me to play opposite her in "Rosalind,'' a one-act play by J. M. Barrie, and later I appeared with her in "Peter Pan," touring New England. Since the first day I met her, I have always regarded Maude Adams not only as a consummate artist and a splendid woman, but as an ideal. Her name symbolizes the finest things of the theater. She is loved and admired both by the people backstage and those out in front. I have never known any one so pleasant to work with, so kind and thoughtful for other members of her company or so beloved by the profession and the public alike. She always made it her personal duty to see to the comfort and happiness of every member of her company, and she was' continually mindful of her obligation to the thousands of theatergoers whose appreciation and admiration had raised her to the pinnacle of success. There are few anecdotes to tell of Miss Adams, for she was of a retiring nature and rarely appeared in public save on the stage. She usually took her meals in her hotel room and when traveling wore a veil, so that new members of the company often failed to recognize her. Her charities were many, but only a very few of her friends knew anything of them at all. Whatever she did for those less fortunate than herself she did quietly, without ostentation and as a matter of course. Maude Adams knows the theater from the box office to the stage entrance — knows more about its many phases than probably any woman in America to-day. She was not content merely to be one of the greatest actresses of the generation. She must know about everything else and know it thoroughly. She understands stage lighting as well as the best, and has developed numerous new types of lights and methods of illumination. Stage direction, play construction, presentation — Maude Adams knows and understands them all. In addition, she is an exceptionally keen business woman who knows as much, or more, about her business affairs, as the people who handle them. Several years after I appeared with Miss Adams, she came to Los Angeles in "A Kiss for Cinderella." I saw her for a few moments backstage and, as always, the visit was an inspiration. I doubt if anything that might be said about Maude Adams could overstate her many admirable qualities. Douglas MacLean. . The Picture Oracle Continued from page 102 Ella. — I'm sorry your letters to those players were returned from the addresses listed in The Oracle, but they were correct at the time they were written. Freelance actors move about so much, seldom staying at a certain studio for more than one picture, that by the time a magazine is made up, printed, and released for sale the whereabouts of certain players are likely to be changed. The studios, I suppose, can hardly be expected to hold or forward mail to every free-lance actor who happens to have had a part in one of their productions: half the time they don't know where the players have gone, anyhow. Now if all these rovers would forward me a permanent address for fan mail, as some of them have done, everything would be fine. But lacking such information all I can do, since the fans insist upon some address, is to give the one that is correct at the time, so that they can mail their effusions and trust to luck that they will find their way to the players. W. Y. — I can't tell vou whether or not the_ production of "Peg o' My Heart," which Famous Players made several years aero with Wanda Hawley, was actually thrown into the fire, but I know that it might just as well be, for it was a dead loss to them, as they could never show it arvwhere, since the author, J. Hartley Manners, secured an injunction against its exhibition. That is the same story, of curse, which Laurette Taylor made as her first screen production last year. There have been millions of motion-picture dol lars sunk in the production of numerous films on which not a cent of return ever will be realized, through one cause or another. The "Peg o' My Heart" injunction was an unusual case, as was the unfortunate Arbuckle affair, which left the same company with two or three finished films representing a production outlay of hundreds of thousands of dollai-s that turned worthless overnight. But any number of films are started, carried along for a while at considerable expense, then dropped because the funds ran out or the company split up or something else put an end to the enterprise in midair. Sometimes films have turned out to be so bad when completed that no distributor would take them even as a gift. The storage laboratories are full of just such filmy ghosts, representing tremendous outlays of real_ money, and yet having hardly the exhibition value of a penny. Flapper in Love. — You use strong words, my dear. Perhaps it is just as well that you see Bert Lytell only on the screen. I think he'd be rather scared of "worshiping" females. "The Eternal City" has already been released ; and, in 'case you missed the February issue of Picture-Play, you can get a copy by sending twenty-five cents in stamps to the Circulation Department, Street & Smith Corporation, 79 Seventh Avenue, New York City. 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