Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1925)

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However, I admit I am like the rest of the public in that I have sudden likes and develop sudden antipathies. I have had a very unreasonable and unexplainable dislike for Nazimova, and Pola leaves me cold. I may take as sudden a liking to them as I did to Rudolph. It depends on seeing them in a play that presents them differently. It is going to take me a long time to recover from seeing Ernest fumble both a general and a clown. I saw it, too, the day after I saw "He Who Gets Slapped." It will take a lot of good work to bring Torrence back to where he was with me. D. R. M. Pittsburg, Kan. Certain Striking Scenes. I like to consider, not the players, or the pictures in their entirety, but certain outstanding scenes. For a motion picture is nothing but a number of scenes made into a story, and often we find a gem of acting and directing even in second-class pictures. James Cruze's "The City that Never Sleeps," for example, has several bits of acting that are worthy of a much more popular picture. There are three big scenes that I shall always remember. The first is in "Robin Hood," where Fairbanks begs to go back to England. The villain kicks him in the face as he lies on the floor. Wallace Beery, as the perplexed king, did wonderful work in this scene. Next is the supper-table scene in "Scaramouche." Third, the dressing-room scene in the same picture with Ramon Novarro and Edith Allen was very good. H. T. Rufie. Omaha, Neb. This Fan Dislikes Male Stars. After a great deal of heavy thinking, I have come to the conclusion that the males are all right as leading men, but when it comes to making stars of them — heaven help us. I've seen the Richard Dixes and Tom Meighans until I'm sick and tired of them. These men don't belong in star roles. What I'm driving at is this : The men of the screen can't act at all — why try to make stars out of them? The funny girl is always funny ; the dramatic actress always dramatic ; the funny man is everything but that — he succeeds in looking homely, and that's all. No man is really handsome, anyway, and the screen actor is no exception. Good looking? Man? I guess not! Bony-faced, small-eyed, round-shouldered — words fail me. Just recently I saw Dix in "A Man Must Live." It was fierce ! The star prowled around on the screen, growling and hissing. He had "all the animation of a slow motion picture of inertia." (He said that about a certain actress, and it's laughable because the boy isn't so fast himself.) And he isn't one bit good looking. As I said before, no man is. "Raman Novarro! Reginald Denny!" you exclaim indignantly. "The immortal Rudolph!" and so on and on. None of these are good looking, so, why all this raving? There are only three actors who seem to be worthy of any one's attention : Ramon and Reginald and Rudolph. The others can jump in the lake for all I care. J. H. Hibbing, Minn. Disappointed in Peter. Why, oh, why, was Betty Bronson chosen to play Peter Pan? She never once suggested the "little boy who wouldn't grow up" in the film version of Sir James Barrie's immortal classic of Never-Never Land! Of course the author ought to know his own character, but in this case he certainly did not. Miss Bronson portrayed her role as well as any other actress could have done, but why wasn't a boy allowed to enact the part ? There is one actor who would have been Peter to the life. He is that most talented of young players, Ramon Novarro. If you will recall the Mexican boy's delineation of Motauri, you, too, I am sure, will agree with me. Mildred McConnell. 2520 Division Street, Port Huron, Mich. Praise for "The Swan." Well, I've just seen "The Swan," and I am going to tell you how it impressed me. First, how I liked the acting of the players in it. Ricardo Cortez is superb. He is perfect in every movement, and he certainly can make love divinely. For the first time in his screen career he wins the girl in the end. He surely can portray extremes ; as the sad, quiet tutor in "The Swan" he is strikingly different from the manner in which he portrayed the dashing young senor in "Argentine Love." (You've guessed it, he's my favorite.) Frances Howard did remarkably well as the princess, considering that this is her first screen appearance. Adolphe Menjou, as usual, is a gay, carefree prince, his usual kind of a role. He is getting rather boresome to me. The costumes, sets, and scenery are all beautiful in this picture. They've changed the story quite a bit. In the picture the tutor wins the princess which, of course, is lovely. But in the picture the prince is a gay philanderer, and in the play he was moral and stupid. The screen version has several incidents that the stage version lacked, and this makes it more interesting. The only things I didn't like in the picture are that they didn't allow the princess and the tutor to smile once throughout the whole picture. Not even at the end, when I'm sure they were happy ! Instead of having more pretty love scenes between the young lovers, the director had the prince show how funny he could be. It was pure nonsense, this supposed-to-befunny part, and I really did not care for it. Betty Morrell. Chicago, 111. A Boost for Betty. I am writing to criticize a critic. That person is Miss Agnes Smith and, although heretofore I have agreed with her, I have turned against her this time. In the April issue of Picture-Play Miss Smith reviews "Peter Pan." That play, as she says, is the big picture of the month. I agree with her also when she says that Betty Bronson rises to the top in the most difficult scenes, but I am a firm believer that she rises throughout the play, dominating character that she is. A. L. S. Detroit, Mich. Want Alice ? Of Course ! Do the fans want Alice Joyce? Do children want candy? Of course, we want her ! I saw "The Green Goddess" just to see Alice Joyce. And I am highly elated that she is going to play ' Alix's mother in "The Little French Girl." She has always been one of my favorites, and I for one will welcome her return to the screen. Winone Dreben. 1727 Second, Dallas, Texas.