Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1925)

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A dime brings 100 auu samples to try. Write ENGEL MFC. CO. lof buys %QO Dept.44T 4711 N.Clark St., Chicago WANTEM2 1» Every second we« ft Ml. WH V MAIL CLERKS t $1900to $2700 Year. Men,18un. livery second, week off— full pay. Common education sufficient. Write IMMEDIATELY for free list of Government positions now o en to men and women and frej sample examination co;iehinir lessons. Do it today sure FRANKLIN INSTITUTE Dept. C294 ROCHESTER. N. Y What the Fans Think Continued from p;ige 8 I have seen about twenty-two stars and have yet to be disappointed. "What the Fans Think" is the best feature in Picture-Play. Think of being able to read the opinions of fans all over the world ! It's a wonderful treat. Helen L. Stewart. 1256 Bryn Mawr Avenue, Chicago, 111. If If Famous Players would give Bebe Daniels roles worthy of her real dramatic ability — If Metro-Goldwyn would sign Patsy Ruth Miller on a five-year contract — If the producers would become cognizant of ' the fact that in Helen Ferguson they have an unusual player — If the critics would give Ricardo Cortez a chance to live down the title "Valentino's Successor" — If Virginia Valli's pictures were distributed more widely — If Mary Pickford would make more pictures— If Edna Murphy would leave serial pictures for features — If Lillian Rich would doff her blond wig— If Mildred Davis would come back to the screen — If Leatrice Jo\r would allow her bob to grow out — and If Charles Chaplin would forget he has been called a genius and become Charley again — If, I say, all these things would come to pass, this writer would be the movies' best fan and most sympathetic critic. Dorothy Lltbow. 2064 Vyse Avenue, New York City. Meighan's Recent Stories Do Not Satisfy. I like Thomas Meighan. He's good to look at, but I don't like him in his recent pictures. I have heard several make the same remark — they don't like the stories. Why can't he find something like "Manslaughter," "Back Home and Broke," and "A Bachelor Daddy?" They were fine. He is too good an actor for that fight-and-win stuff. Let Jack Dempsey have that. Joseph Pine. Burlington, Vt. What the Fans Like. What do the fans think? They think quite a bit, and if Eric1, von Stroheim thinks that they will enjoy his horrible old picture, "Greed," let me disillusion him right here and now. People have troubles and anxieties enough in their daily life, and nine tenths of them go to the movies for relaxation, entertainment, and not to have their nerves sharpened to a point. Of course, the acting in "Greed" was wonderful. Zasu Pitts never did better, but, oh! what a play! The pictures the general public wants to see are ones like "A Thief in Paradise." "The Thief of Bagdad" was good, but we couldn't see one of that nature very often and enjoy it. "Miss Bluebeard," with Bebe Daniels, might not be looked upon by the critics as an especially good picture, but it is highly entertaining, and it -gives the. audience a chance to forget its troubles for a while. "The Devil's Cargo" was good. So was "Classmates." "Her Night of Romance," "The Navigator," Harold Lloyd's pictures, and others of this type are the ones that draw the crowds. Helen Noel. 2337 Central Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. Why the Gills Love Ruth. I am right with Esther Short when it comes to Ruth Roland. I've almost worshiped her, and before I came to California for a visit I organized a Ruth Roland Dollar Down Club in Buffalo, my home town. Our club is a social one, and to boost our favorite pictures when they come to Buffalo. As Ruth Roland is our favorite star we named our club after her, and have between fifty and a hundred members. Each member paid a dollar to join. We had various dances and social gatherings to raise funds, and each time the admission was one dollar a couple. When we wrote to Miss Roland and told her of our club, she sent us a large autographed photo for our clubroom. Since I have been out here, I wrote her and she invited me out to the studio to watch her work. Maybe I wasn't thrilled and excited at the prospect of meeting Ruth Roland ! After feeling her firm, strong handclasp and finding her violet-blue eyes smiling into mine, I could neither think nor see anything else. Thrilled? My, I tingled all over in excitement and I haven't recovered yet. After the picture was over Miss Roland came and talked with us who were watching her and had some snaps taken with us. I surely prize them. How I wish Esther Short could have the same experience I did ! She says she doesn't know why she loves Ruth. I think it is because she is so sincere, kind, and thoughtful, just a real girl who is really much prettier off the screen. Ruth Miller. An Interest in Two Stars. Hasn't any one noticed Pierre Gendron? I was impressed by his work in "Three Women" and "The City that Never Sleeps." It seems to me that this young chap has possibilities. I shall watch for him in the future. But am I the only one who has marked him" May I echo what Ruth Raymond sa}s in the March number? If only some one would reach out a helping hand to Gareth Hughes. I wonder why inferior talent is exploited while they let such fine players as Gareth Hughes sink into obscurity? If only some one could do something! Daphne R. Marshalltown, Iowa. News About Ivor Novello. "Where are our wandering stars today" is the wail of every English fan since the "flower of the British . movie world" decamped to Hollywood. Clive Brook, Betty Balfour, Flora Le Breton, George K. Arthur, Victor MacLaglen — you have all deserted us, and in spite of the perfectly appalling fact that we can't blame any of you, we do wish you'd come home ! We have a mere handful of stars left to comfort us, but they do work hard for us, and there isn't a fan in the British Isles who does not thrill with pride and gratitude at the' mention of one star in particular. You have all heard of him before — Ivor Novello, popularly supposed at one time to be a candidate in rivalry to Rudy, Ramon, and Ricardo. He never has rivaled them because he is as different from them as Doug is from Jackie Coogan. Besides being a popular film star, he has become, in the course of a few year?, an author, musician, composer, singer, playwright, producer, and stage actor. He doesn't let his efforts rest at that either,