Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1925 - Feb 1926)

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" 'Cassar's Wife,' my next picture, will give me an opportunity' for several sequences in costume," she said, "but I am so anxious to do a real, costume drama — 'Monna Vanna,' if possible. For second choice, a dramatization of the life of the Empress Josephine. I don't know whether costume dramas are practical or not. I am told they are simply 'out' at the box office. I wonder? I think the fans will patronize any picture if it is good." I think so, too. Corinne Griffith, in fluffs and laces, amid court intrigues and medieval tragedies, would be Corinne Griffith come into her own. But if she could get a screen story that would employ some of her own charming, lazy humor, it would be a sensation. Of all the charming people Beauty Parlor Notes. Hair is being worn off the forehead and ears this season. As practiced in Hollywood : Dorothy Devore looks like some one's little kid brother. Patsy Ruth Miller looks like a young debutante who is determined to wear the prevailing style or die. Aileen Pringle looks dashing — and daring. Anna Q. Nilsson looks like a lady viking in from a cruise in icy watefs. Perfect Cafe Behavior. Mr. Donald Ogden Stewart, who has several bids to celebrity, other than being one of Patsy Ruth Millet's boy friends, wrote a book called "Perfect Behavior." It is quite a good book if you care for humor at its best. But carelessly, Mr. Stewart omitted a chapter on "How to Act In Cafes — Though Bored." Having picked up some firsthand observation from some of our mutual screen favorites, I should suggest to Mr. Stewart that the chapter run somewhat as follows — if at all : "Under no circumstances should the well-bored patron order more than lettuce or less than coffee. Potatoes, rice, puddings, and pork, making for bigger and beefier movie stars, should be dodged like personal appearances. When served, the idea is not to eat, but to toy negligently with (1) the soup spoon, (2) the stem of the water glass, or both. This last is not recommended with arty degree of enthusiasm, however, as it creates the illusion of energy, which in turn creates the illusion of activity, which might be mistaken for a good time." But anyway, it is funny how bored the players are with cafes. It is the fashion at the moment for stars to pick out inconspicuous little tables in the corners and around the walls and sit there for the rest of the evening. The only person I have seen recently who seemed to be getting any fun out of his cover charge was Syd Chaplin. Syd often visits Montmartre on the dance-contest nights. On one of these occasions, there was a draw between the final two couples. It seemed impossible for the judges to decide which of the rival ladies merited the prize of the dancing slippers. With Solomonlike wisdom, it was Syd's idea to give them each a shoe. "Unhappy Hollywood?" Speaking of cafe boredom, there is a great deal being written now about "unhappy Hollywood." Clever philosophers and keen diagnosticians insist that, behind their seeming gayety and contentment, the stars are nursing secret sorrows. And there is no getting away from it — you do hear a lot of sob stories. The more stars you know, the more sob stories you hear. Remember that actors are essentially egoists — which is meant in no disparagement, egoism in some form or other being an attribute of all creative artists — but some of the stars are inclined to take their moods and whims too seriously. With almost childish morbidness, they dwell on their misfortunes and emphasize them out of all proportion to their importance. One girl told me she was simply a slave to the studios. She had no time to read new books, to attend concerts or theaters, or to pay attention to other "developing influences." I nearly wept over her plight until I ran across her spending a two-week leave of absence executing the Charleston on the sets of her friends. This Hollywood "unhappiness" reminds me of the philosophy of a little girl I used to know. Every new doll she got she immediately proceeded to smash in the face and otherwise mutilate. When her mother asked her whv she acted so horribly, she said, "Because, after they are dead, dear, I enjoy burying them so much." I may be wrong. Maybe they are unhappy. But I do know this : if they weren't just a little bit miserable, they wouldn't he happy at all.