Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1927)

Advertising Section 115 stores my spirits and my buoyancy more quickly than would all the medicine in the world. Charles Ray. Among American authors, none equals O. Henry in my favor. I think he has painted types of American life with a cameo clearness which will stand the test of time and gain in added appreciation as the years pass. We are still too close to him to award the laurels which his artistry merits. Hergesheimer is one of my favorites among contemporaries, while Hamilton Gibbs won me with his "Soundings." I have always been an ardent admirer of Maeterlinck and have never ceased to find fascination in the stories of De Maupassant and Victor Hugo. William Collier, Jr. Classic literature does not interest me if you "apply the term to the archaic ages. I don't care to go farther back than Washington Irving, whose charm is so delightful, Poe and Walt Whitman. I have pored over "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" many an hour, and find something new every time in "Rip van Winkle" and "The Pit and the Pendulum." My favorite author among those writing now is Somerset Maugham and his book that I prize most highly, "The Moon and Sixpence." As a means of keeping up with the new fiction and the new writers coming on, I follow the magazines and make it a point to read at least one short story or novel installment every night before I close the good old eyes in slumber. Harry Carey. Being a rancher, and having been a cowboy and gold prospector, people think it's strange that I'm not more concerned with tales of the great wild West. But when you really lead that kind of life you understand it thoroughly and your mind turns to other subjects. I guess that's true of most folks. We all want contrast, just as the fans are lifted out of their humdrum lives by the romance on the screen. My liking runs chiefly to history and great men who have done big things. I would rather read ancient history than anything. When King Tut's tomb was opened I read every word about it because I believed some of the inscriptions would shed more light on what had happened in those early clays. The lives of Csesar, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Washington, and Lincoln are intensely interesting. I think few books are more worth while than those dealing with the personalities of the French Revolution. I'm a pretty active cuss all day, and at night I like to relax physically and let my mind turn handsprings and grapple with villains. Maybe that's why I'm more than a little keen on "Sherlock Holmes" and other detective stories. Greta Nissen. There is but one language in which to read, and that is French. It has the subtle meanings, the proper words with which to express infinite variations of thought. In English, a thing is so, or thus or that ; in French one may convey those shades of feeling which are a little of so and a bit of thus and a trifle of that. Do you comprehend? There is a pellucid, gossamery charm about French, a smoothness that ripples evenly. I read, too, in my own tongue, but the Norwegian literature has not the delicacy and gradations of meaning of the French. It is more blunt. Mostly I delight in the modern French poets. Pierre Loti I adore. What grace of style, how exquisite and enchanting his idyls ! And Tagofe I admire, oh, so much. Louise Fazenda. I find little in comedy to interest me when I read. I'm a funny person, and dabble a bit in this and that, verging from the Russian tragedies to poetry, but seldom tarry with fiction or humor. I have a few original manuscripts, some old philosophical things that are almost "extinct" and therefore very valuable, and many Hungarian, French, Russian, and German translations. And a sprinkling of memoirs and biographies. •Things to fit any frame of mind I may be in. I have moods and spells and follow a certain interest or trend of thought avidly, reading everything along that line that I can lay my hands on, until it wears off. Ruth Roland. Poetry comes first, in my reading. Hope's "India's Love Lyrics" and "The Bluebird" — in fact, all of Maeterlinck's works — charm me. As a child I was very fond of the flowery Japanese legends, and that love of colorful words makes Hugh Walpole a magnet now. His are such lovely English romances ; his language is so beautiful. "The Cathedral" and "Fortitude" are my favorites. For the same reason — fluency and melodious evenness — Michael Arlen delights me. Occasionally I h'ke a good mystery story, or one of Mary Roberts Rinehart's or Rupert Hughes'. you are<£erene BUT in this day of eager competition, can you be serene unless you are — well— • snappy ? You know, of course, that . . . The knowledge of being well dressed gives a woman a serenity that even Religion is powerless to bestow. 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