Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

Over the Teacups 95 Continued from page 57 few days before, "is Ann Dale. She reminds me a lot of Lois Moran, though she doesn't look at all like her. She has been a martyr to personal-appearance tours ever since she played the little crippled girl in 'The Fool' But now she has come back to go into pictures again. "But have you heard the latest about Lois Wilson ? You know she takes a delight in making people say, Tm surprised at you !' She made me do it the other day when she started doing the Charleston just outside the lunch room at the Famous Players studio. She does it awfully well with a real, careless, negro shamble. "Our blondest blonde is going to desert us and go to England for a while. Greta Nissen is about to realize the ambition of every young player and work with Griffith. He has selected her for 'The Sorrows of Satan.' Adolphe Menjou will be Satan and I suppose Miss Nissen and Carol Dempster will be the Sorrows. "There are hopes of seeing 'Nell Gwynne' in this country soon. Dorothy Gish made it in England. She may soon start a picture here. You can't tell. She spends all her time trying to find a story that will satisfy her company and the releasing company. It is pretty hard. She wanted to do 'The Constant Nymph' but the Hays organization banned it on the grounds of its being immoral. But they were perfectly willing to let her do a story about a cheap little scheming trickster who lied and cheated and flirted. That didn't agree with Dorothy's idea of morality so she turned it down. The last I heard of her all parties concerned had agreed on a primitive, mountain story. "Here I sit without a word about the most exciting thing that has happened in ages. You've heard about people becoming great public favorites overnight, haven't you? "Well, every one is simply maudlin about Dolores Costello. She is the loveliest, most beautiful, most appealing girl. Every one simply raves about her after seeing her once. Unfortunately the great surprise of seeing how marvelous she was opposite Barrymore was spoiled by the fact that 'Mannequin' was shown earlier in that same week. Every one knew after seeing that that she was going to be great in the other. "I'm prepared for anything to happen after seeing that girl's triumph. I have a new interest in all young players who suddenly forge ahead. So when 'The Yankee S'ehor' is shown, you'll find me there when the box-office opens. Olive Borden plays opposite Tom Mix in that, and the Fox officials think she is so good they have given her a long-term con tract and featured roles in some of their most important productions. "Maybe you remember her ; I don't. It seems she used to play in Hal Roach comedies. "All the girls over at the Famous Players studio are trying their best to distinguish themselves in the hope of getting a trip abroad," Fanny remarked idly. "First 'The Sorrows of Satan' company is going over ; then Herbert Brenon will sail with a troupe to make 'Peau Geste.' "The Brenon company expected to go before this so as to make scenes at the Foreign Legion headquarters in Algeria. They had to make them here at the studio though, owing to the lack of consideration on the part of the Foreign Legion. It seems that the legionnaires went and got interested in some war or other against the Riffs in Morocco and with no regard for Mr. Brenon's feelings went off to fight." "People are inconsiderate toward movie people, aren't they?" I commented, "Always thinking of their own interests first." "Yes," Fanny agreed. "And just by way of proving it I am going up to May McAvoy's rooms this instant and ruin a perfectly good afternoon that she expected to spend studying her script." The Screen in Review Continued from page 67 Reginald Denny plays a well-to-do young man-about-town who, on the night before his marriage, becomes entangled with flying fists and is pretty well smashed up as a result. The girl's parents object to his appearance, strangely enough, and the wedding is postponed. He is disinherited but optimistic, and starts out to win the girl all over again. He invents a cross-country motor, electrically lighted and steam-heated, with all modern conveniences, even including a dance floor. In this, for a substantial fee, he transports pleasure parties from coast to coast. On one of his trips across the continent, he meets the young lady of his choice with her parents. They are in motor difficulties. Mr. Denny helps them out, and eventually wins his way again into their good graces. Not Enough Story "Too Much Money" is a long, involved slapstick comedy in which Anna Q. Nilsson and Lewis Stone are made to act in a very silly manner which doesn't suit them. It is the story of a wealthy man who seeks to cure his wife of her passion for society by pretending that he has lost his entire fortune. The husband seeks work alternately as a clerk in a delicatessen store and as a janitor in an apartment house. There are funny fat ladies, funny hats, and innumerable falls ; all of which, you will agree, is not meant for Lewis Stone. British Society Drama "Soul Mates" was adapted from an Elinor Glyn novel. A beautiful American heiress is forced into marriage with a young British peer. He loves her but she does not think so, so with coldness and quarrels the young couple start their married life. This then is the picture. At the end, a few cave-man tactics on the part of the young Englishman bring the young lady around in good shape. Aileen Pringle is the very scornful lady, and Edmund Lowe is the prankish husband. Fantastic Melodrama "The Unguarded Hour," although I do not like to seem too harsh, pre sents the very zero of entertainment. With Milton Sills as an Italian count, and a radio fiend in addition, and with Doris Kenyon using childish wiles to an embarrassing extent, there is nothing much for an audience to do about it but to stay away. The Count, we are told, "is besieged by women, but remains indifferent to them," until the sprightly Miss Kenyon falls from an airplane into his front yard. Just to be waggish, she throws a little well-aimed mud at his face, but he doesn't seem to mind, and when later she pretends she is drowning and makes him jump to save her, with all his best clothes on, admiration changes to love. A Story of Hollywood Associated Exhibitors present Peggy Joyce in "The Skyrocket" for those who would like to see this greatly discussed young woman. This is a story of the rise and fall of a motion-picture star. Miss Joyce photographs prettily and has a certain appeal. I thought she did remarkably well in a rather badly directed picture.