Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1924)

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71 Manhattan's Bright Lights Impressions and observations of a young man about town. By Leland Hayward NEW YORK has been full of kings and queens from Hollywood of late — Irene Rich and Pauline Garon were here for a few days before leaving for Europe. Pauline blew into the Algonquin, threw her shoulders around a couple of times, and since then has been look England has always been very successful in sending over talent to America for the stage, but their screen stars have never caused a great deal of excitement on this side of the ocean. Lady Diana Manners appeared in one rather inconsequential picture, "The Glorious Adventure," and Douglas Fairbanks imported a young ing into the restaurant and dressmaking situation from lady by the name of Evelyn Brent who has gotten as a serious angle. Pauline Garon has gained just a few pounds and all this running around to shops will do her a lot of good. Jack Mulhall and his wife are here, making a serial for Pathe in which Constance Bennett is also playing. When any one asks Jack his reaction to New York his answer invariably is: "Man, woman, child, never did I see such hilarity and high life." Irvin Willat and his wife, Billie Dove, are here. Willat brought East with him a print of "Wanderer of the Wasteland." Alice Joyce is back from England, where she was making "The Passionate Adventure." Cinema's siren, Barbara La Marr, is here making a story called "Sandra." Quite a stir took place when a press agent announced that Miss La Marr had to live all the roles she played. Needless to say, she immediately denied the statement. One of the favorite guessing games in the movies is trying to pick some one to rival Valentino for Latin parts, so I might just as well put in my bid. A South American doctor, by name Manuel Granado, came to America a few months ago for some athletic events — he can run the onehundred-yard dash in ten seconds flat — and some bright person thought of putting him in the movies. At present he is appearing in Tom Terriss' "The Bandelero." The company is in Spain to take a real bullfight. Manuel is going to go right in the ring and fight a no-fooling bull, so they say. Tom Terriss is all pepped up about Granado and thinks he has all the makings of a star. Jess Smith, who discovered Pauline Garon, Dorothy Mackaill, and Glenn Hunter, is also responsible for digging out Granado. The latter is taller than Valentino. To my mind he has much better features, and he has a tremendously strong personality. So watch for "The Bandelero." Manuel Granado is the latest "Latin lover" recruit to the screen. Renee Adoree vlays opposite him in "The Bandelero." far as playing some leads, but no recent British importations have set the movie world on fire. A tiny little creature, Flora Le Breton, arrived in this country a little while ago from the other side, and to me looks like a coming star. She has appeared in only one picture in America, "Another Scandal," which E. H. Griffith directed with Lois Wilson in the star role. Miss Le Breton is vivacious, extremely pretty, and could act any kind of role from Lady Macbeth to the heroine in "Tillie's Punctured Romance." To me, she would be the ideal Peter Pan — though I doubt very much that there is any chance of her being given the role. At present England is wild about her, and there is no reason why America shouldn't be as well. Robert Kane, the production manager for the Famous Players Lasky Corporation, told me of an interesting idea he is going to try out in their Long Island studio. He is going to tear down one end of the studio, and leave it semiopen. All the sets are to be built outside of the studio, and then pushed in on rollers when the company is ready for them. This, will keep the floor space clear of empty sets, and save a lot of time, which is the curse of this industry, anyway. Norman Kerry blew into New York for a few days. He was unusually quiet, for his mother recently died in Budapest, and Norman came East to bury her. Usually Norman breaks up the town when he's here, but he was very subdued this trip. I happened to be with him when he went to the Cosmopolitan studio to pay a visit to Marion Davies and Mason Hopper, the Continued on page 112