Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1926 - Feb 1927)

116 Advertising Section CHELSEA HOUSE Popular Copyrights Tales of the West, of Love and Mystery and Adventures on sea and land — you can have them now, fresh from the pens of your favorite authors. They are real books, too — no reprints of oldtimers but new books bound in cloth, with handsome stamping and jackets and all for 75 cents. Ask your bookseller to show you some of the books listed below — The Brand of Good Books THE AWAKENING OF ROMOLA Anne O'Hagan MARCIA Anne O'Hagan COWGIRLS— PLUS George Gilbert THE INCA'S RANSOM Gordon MacCreagh THE CRIMSON BLADE Madeleine Sharps Buchanan THE AMATEUR DETECTIVES Christopher B. Booth THE GLACIER GATE Frank Lillie Pollock WILD BILL Joseph Montague RIM 0' THE RANGE Ethel Smith Dorrance and James French Dorrance BLUE JEAN BILLY RONICKY DOONE THE FIGHTING WADES QUICKSANDS RED MOUNTAIN, LIMITED THE WIZARD'S SPYGLASS THE BRUTE THE WIFE OF ASA PINCHEON Charles W. Tyler David Manning John H. Hamlin Victor Thorne Eugene A. Clancy Emart Kinsburn David Manning Anne O'Hagan $10,000 REWARD Christopher B. Booth TOUCHING CLOUD Ethel Smith Dorrance and James French Dorrance GOOD HATERS George Gilbert WANDA OF THE WHITE SAGE Roy Ulrich MR. CHANG OF SCOTLAND YARD A. E. Apple BACK OF BEYOND Ethel Smith Dorrance and James French Dorrance THE WAGON BOSS Emart Kinsburn MR. CLACKWORTHY Christopher B. Booth ftiaSEA HOUSE v^PMl5flE|g 179-89 SEVENTH AV£.V I NEW YORK. CITY 75c 75c Those who can see great possibilities in Dorothy Gish have better vision than I have. To me she is blah ! Just that. Lillian, of course, is anything and everything any one could desire in an actress, and it is hardly believable that these two are sisters. Dorothy Gish and Eleanor Boardman are two girls whom I just can't see. But two who give one a newer, fresher outlook, arid who will really amount to a great deal, are Dorothy Mackaill and Norma Shearer. "The Volga Boatman" was a wonderf *1 picture, but Elinor Fair was a poor choice for her part in it. Julia Faye can act allaround her. K. L. Younr. Mt. Holly, N. J. She Gives Calm Advice. In a recent issue of Picture-Play there was a letter from June Whitehurst, in which she asked for various opinions of_ Jetta Goudal. I would say to you. Miss Whitehurst, that yours was not a fair criticism, in that "The Coining of Amos" was no proper vehicle for Miss Goudal, because it was a silly, far-fetched story. Did you see "The Road to Yesterday'' or "Three Faces East?" She was wonderful in both of them. Joseph Schildkraut is a good leading man for her, and so is Clive Brook. But as for Rod La Rocque — a thousand times no! He is all right to play opposite Vera Reynolds, or even Pola Negri, but for Jetta's sphinxlike beauty he_ is loo matter-of-fact looking. And, Miss Whitehurst, I think she was simply lovely in "Spanish Love." Of course, everybody is welcome to his own opinion. But, really, I think if you would see either of the two films I mention you would change your mind. Eve J. Robinson. 1216 West Eighth Street, Wilmington, Del. Why Glamour Appeals. This is the sort of girl I am. A college sophomore with the average sophomore intellectuality— at least I hope it's average — a flag waver for personal freedom, for living your own life regardless of the next person's opinion ; a liking for people with satirical points of view, sophistication, and a dash of pessimism. When it comes to art in the movies. I have insisted always upon realism and truthfulness of portrayal. Truthfulness, whether in the stark realism of a "Greed" or a Brenon fantasy like "A Kiss for Cinderella." Wild night life of Paris, gorgeous fashion pageants, and flapper films handed out by, say, Mae Murray and Cecil De Mille, do not always appeal. Note that I say "alwa}-s." Even I have my frivolous moments. After all, I suspect I'm human. Nothing unusual in all this, you say. Well, anyway, here's a funny thing that happened the other night. My young sister sprang some week-end guests on the family — and you know what that means. The amount of dishes that a family like ours, with a couple of guests, can accumulate, is nothing short of astounding — not to say hair raising! Well, my work was mapped out for me. Saturday was particularly trying. I scarcely stirred from the kitchen all day. That night I went to a show, "The Home Maker." What a relief it was to be out ! But what a show for a person who was beginning to blanch at the clink of a dish. Well, I have read that the picture was a disappointment, but I'm sure I don't know. The only after-impression I have is that at the sight of Alice Joyce struggling away in that home, at the sight of all that realism of the average home running in that picture, something inside me flopped, and I felt sickened for the rest of the time. Nozv, I understand why the tired housewife longs for a little color and Mae Murrayish glamour mixed in with the weekly routine. And I, who have always prated about realism, no matter how sordid and unpleasant it might be as long as it was sincere, and have scoffed at those longers after tinsel and romantic visions, say : May the movie producer give the tired housewife just as many glamorous pictures as she wants, for goodness knows her lot is not an easy one ! And, after all, there are now and then "The Dark Angels" which should have enough good qualities to go around and satisfy every one. Alice Clifton. 233 East River Street, Peru, Ind. An Illusion Lost. I must say a word of Esther Ralston. She had something of the appeal of Mary Pickford until I saw the startling photosof her not long ago, on which others have commented in your magazine. How I loved her in "Peter Pan !" For me she was the whole picture. I am not a prude, but therte are so few of the stars who seem, to have the spiritual quality that Esther Ralston lost when I saw those photos. I have other favorites of another sort. Mae Murray I love, and she never appears vulgar to me in anything she wears. In fact, she has the best reason for wearing scanty clothing in pictures. She is like a child or an elf in her appearance. While Esther Ralston appears as all flesh and bold display. Then Bebe Daniels, Marie Prevost, Constance Bennett, Patsy Ruth Miller, Constance and Norma Talmadge. Any of these girls could appear in a picture in scanty attire and I would not have been startled. They are all of a sophisticated type. Somehow, you just feel different about them. I like them all, but the special appeal for me is possessed by Mary Pickford first, May McAvoy to a certain extent, Jane Novak, Mary Astor, and Mary Philbin, also a little girl in comedies, whom I would like to see more often, Lillian Hackett, and Mary Brian. I cannot bear to see these girls assume any sort of sophistication. They all have a spiritual quality that I have reverenced and adored. They would attract me to a theater when the others could not. Mrs. M. H. E. M. Toledo, Ohio. A Confidential Guide to Current Releases Continued from page 69 "Nell Gwyn" — Paramount. Pleasing entertainment. Dorothy Gish, in the historical role of the lowly orange girl who captivated a British monarch, displays her well-known talents as a madcap comedienne. "Nervous Wreck, The" — Producers Distributing. Fairly amusing farce of the bloodcurdling adventures of a nervous young man in Arizona. Harrison Ford and Phyllis Haver. "One Minute to Play" — F. B. O. "Red" Grange makes his screen debut in a highly agreeable football picture, with an exciting climax.