Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

Advertising Section 11 it, while a certain movie school is teaching a tc\v American boys and girls how it's done for enough money to keep up an orphan asylum for years? Why can't we all jump into pictures like that? Tell me! No. 13. El Dorado, Arkansas. Still a Matinee Idol In your November issue, N. Herman wrote that Mr. Valentino is the favorite screen star in Sweden. May I add that there is no sign of his popularity waning over here? I was among a crowd of thousands who waited yesterdr.y to see him arrive for the premiere showing of his picture "The Eagle" at the Marble Arch Pavilion, London. He was simply mobbed, and had great difficulty in reaching the theater. If this crowd represented his movie admirers — well, he must be a favorite. Mr. Valentino, also in your magaJne, writes that he does not know how to act when a crowd awaits him. May I, as one among a vast crowd who awaited him, suggest he need only smile as he did last night to satisfy at any rate, the feminine community at large! Irene M. Alexander. 11-A Upper Portchester Street, Hyde Park. London W. 2, England. Six Reasons for Liking Gloria For three years I have been following Gloria Swauson's career very closely. I have cheered, grieved, and laughed at the different happening^ that have made up her life. For three years Gloria has been my favorite star, and I'll tell you why. (1) I love her for her temper in her pictures. (2) I truly think and believe her to be our most wonderful actress. (3) She is so very different from the rest, so very interesting. (4) She is so brave and works so hard. (5) She can take any role and be a success ! (6) She reminds me of my mother, because of dealings and understanding of life. Gerry McCreery. Torrington, Wyoming. Poor Gloria ! I recently saw "Stage Struck," and all I can say is, "Poor Gloria !" Little wonder that she begged the producers not to release it! Please, Mr. Producer, do not cast Gloria Swanson as a laugh-provoker again. Better bring back the "clothes-horse" days than this. In "A Society Scandal" and "The Humming Bird" she was great. Let's have more like them. Howard Cunningham. 2407 Concord Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. A Hint for Lloyd Hughes In your January issue you tell the world that Lloyd Hughes has arrived to stay. If it has only just dawned on you, you sure are slow. I've known it since I saw him in "The Turn in the Road," several years ago. King Vidor directed that. I've liked him ever since a night in Los Angeles when I dropped my hat in a mud puddle as he passed with another fellow. He grinned at me in a sympathetic way, while the other fellow guffawed derisively. It was a brand-new beaver, too, and I needed sympathy. Oh, well! There is only one thing I have to find fault with, in him. He is too serious. In almost all his pictures, he rarely smiles. And he has such an engaging grin, too. A little more comedy in his characterizations would bring him even more to the front, because we all want to laugh and are grateful to any one who makes us. So laugh, Lloyd, laugh. Jerry Forsyth. 221 South High Street, Salem, Oregon. A Tip to Two Producers Something really should be done about Maurice Flynn. F. B. O. doesn't seem to realize what a prize they have in this player ; at any rate, they are very careless about distributing his pictures. They invariably give preference to Fred Thomson, who hasn't one tenth of the good looks and personality of the genial "Lefty." Undoubtedly, all Mr. Flynn needs is a chance ; certainly, he is far more handsome than most of the big stars. He should be a De Mille leading man instead of a player in Westerns that very few people ever see. Blond men don't seem to get as much attention in motion pictures as the so-called Latin type, anyhow. F. B. O. isn't the only company that doesn't recognize the merits of its own players; Warner Brothers belong in the same classification. Why on earth don't they stop giving us so much of Patsy Ruth Miller, stop fussing over their high-priced and high-hat John Barrymre, and, instead, make Pauline Garon a star? She is th<3 prettiest girl in pictures. I could use about fifty other adjectives, like "cute" and "vivid," but I won't. Co-starred with the original and zippy John Patrick in up-todate stories like Colleen Moore's, she'd be perfect! I'm also hoping for the day when Gertrude Olmstead will be given roles worthy of her beaut}' and talent, when Kenneth Gibson will appear in more pictures, and when Mary Miles Minter comes back to the screen. Oh, yes — and when the South sends us more girls like Corinne Griffith, Jobyna Ralston, and Olive Borden. " Ardith Greene. 2660 North Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Write for Photos? No! I agree with Madeline Glass that it is an imposition on the stars to ask them for their photos, when pictures of them are published in so many magazines which are more than suitable for any frame. I myself have been a Mary Pickford fan for the last twelve years, and although I have always wanted a picture of Manautographed, have never written her for one, knowing that she must receive so many of these requests, and no doubt some of them only want to add this picture to their collection. However, this does not mean that I have no picture of her, for I most certainly have, and they grace my room. But they are only ones I have taken from magazines. Gertrude Hoffman. Box 202, Arch Creek, Florida. A Criticism of Flapper Pictures. I am writing" this tosee if I can scare up any arguments about these so-called "flapper" pictures. I don't believe I've seen one picture that shows the flapper as she really is, except possibly "The Flirt." In the first place, in nearly every one of these pictures the heroine is played by a girl whom we know to be more than twentyyears of age. Virginia Lee Corbin and one or two other youngsters are the only ones really qualified to play flapper parts. Now7, for my second knock. I don't know of any flapper who lives in a mansion with about forty-'leven maids, who goes on midnight bathing parties or allnight drinking orgies. And I don't even know of any who smoke, or act like people who have taken a correspondence course in silliness. Maybe there are flappers who roll their stockings, chew gum, use rouge, and all that, but the ones / know have "a common-sense outlook on life" and don't go around acting like cute little babies just finding out what it's all about. Mary Foster. 102 Brooklyn Avenue. Dayton, Ohio. Continued on page 112 GIRLS! 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