Picture Show (Nov 1919-Apr 1920)

Thi Picture Show, January Ird, 1920. CINEMA CHAT gffffi beard that Tom is a sheriff now as well as a motion picture star, and have a wholesome respect of his prowess with o gun. What do you say ? Advice to Mothers. MRS. WILLIAM MCDONALD; who is the mother of Mary MacLaren, the Universal star, lias some advico to give to mothers over here. She says : " Don't object when your child makes faces in the mirror." According to Miss MacLaren, her mother is right, for making faces in the mirror gave her the first idea of the silent drama. When sho was a little girl in a pinafore, Miss MacLaren used to stand before the long French windows in her Pittsburg home and go through tho action of dramatic situations. Her mother encouraged her, realising that the girl's natural beauty would one day be claimed by the stage or the screen. The habit of mirror gazing is excellent study for the photo-player, Miss MacLaren says, for the sincere player should be his or her own best critic. Bessie's Other Accomplishments. IT is not generally known that Bessie Love is an accomplished singer. The little star, who, by tho way, is about to launch a company of her own, has been a student of Enrico Constantino, the grand opera tenor, who has a studio in Los Angeles. Miss Love found time during the years of her arduous work establishing herself in the film world, to pursue her vocal studies, and it is said she could earn a handsome living on the concert platform if by any misadventure she was prevented from following her present career. Memories of " Hearts of the World." DO you remember Benny Alexander, the wonderful child actor who appeared in tho big Griffith photo-play " Hearts -of the World 1 We are soon to see this precocious and lovable child in a Universal photo-play, entitled " The Tiiflers." in which Kathleen Kirkham and Edith Roberts also play leading parts. A Triple Part. A TREBLE role has been allotted to Fritzi Brunette in her coming photo-play, " Out of Court." She is to have the parts of a vampire, a tough girl of the slums, and a society girl. Dual roles are not uncommon on the screen, but in few productions hat' any actress attempted three characters. It is a courageous artiste, sure of her versatile capacities, who would dare to submit her talents to such a test in one play. Bertram's Lament. BERTRAM GRASSBY, who is playing the leading character role in the first starring photo-play of Mildred Harris-Chaplin, which is to be called " Tho Inferior Sex," is bewailing his inability to spend more time on his hobby, which is landscape gardening, at his beautiful Hollywood estate. Successive engagements have kept him away from home, like the old stage days, when an actor's home was where he hung up his hat. FRED GOODWINS. A personal friend of Charlie Chaplin, who is now acting and producing in London. Albert Ray Receives Superstition Shock. YOUNG Albert Ray, tho popular Fox star, has several peculiar superstitions, and one of these recently caused him no end of embarrassment. He believes it is bad luck to throw away or give away a pair of shoc9. Ho has a trunk full of shoes he will never wear again, but no persuasion could induce him to part with them. " Ever since I first began to save old shoes I have had good luck," ho explained. " I tell you I will not throw any shoes away. I keep them in one of my extra trunks." Recently it was necessary for Ray and his costar, Elinor Fair, to take a trip in a motor-car to take some exteriors for their new Fox picture. The director warned tho two stars that ono trunk each was all that he could allow them for the trip. FROM "OVER THERE.' POLLY MORAN, who delights us in comedies with " Fatty " Paramount Arbuckle. Shortly thereafter a man appeared in Ray's dressing-room, and the star pointed out the trunk to be taken. Arriving at the scene, the director assigned the stars to their respective rooms in a farmhouse, and told them to get ready to work. In a moment Ray was downstairs. " I can't work to-day," he said to his director. " The idiot that loaded the trunks has brought me my trunk of old shoes, and I haven't my clothes or any make-up here." A motor was sent to Hollywood, eighty miles away, and Mr. Ray is not so sure now that old shoes always bring good luck. Do Yon Know — That Grace Darling was once a newspaper writer ? — That Annette Kellerman at one time appeared at the London Hippodrome ? — — ' — That Frank Kcenan numbers dancing among his hobbies ? Note* and News From Lot Much, Much. LOUISE GLAUM is to-day the proud owner of a beautiful piece of jade. It has just been sent her from China. It is in the form of a claw, and is said to be of exceptional value. It came as a gift from one of her admirers in China, tho letter reading : " They very much like the pretty lady, much, much." Anielei. Lois's Bad Luck. SOME people seem AI , v , RANC1S to have more The Goldwyn player we than their share are soon to se^'The of bad luck Street Called Straight." I hear that Lois Wilson, who has just been receiving congratu-' lations from her many admirers on recovering from a hospital confinement during an operation for the removal of her appendix, has juet had the misfortune to fall from a horse. Dear Realism. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS sometimes has to pay for realism. I hear that one of his actors has sued the athletic star for £20,000 damages for injuries received in a scene, when the famous actor went for him. Hisses Instead of Kisses. THE penalty of being a good character player means that you are cast for roles that do not enhance one's popularity. Claire Dubrey has found this out. She has already appeared with Frank Keenan as a Bolshevik agitator, and as a German spy. She complains that such parts do not inspire admiring letters from admirers. Proud of Her Plumpness. IT is not every star of the ■screen that is proud of being fat, but Annita Brown, the plump funstress of the Cuckoo Comedies, resents the published statement that she weighs 18 stone 12 pounds. When she made the Fairbanks' scale groan, she claims that it registered 19 stone. Diamonds on the Films. WHEN you see " The Corsiean Brothers,'' notice the diamond necklace on Dustin Farnum's leading lady, Miss Winifred Kingston. I hear that it was once the property j of Madame Modjeska, the famous Polreh-i American tragedienne, and that this necklace is valued at £20,000. — That Cranford Kent is a Londoner ? Fay Filmer. A Real Thrill for a " Reel " Drama. CATCHING with a camera a touring car as it hurtled So feet from a bridge, was the feat achieved by Ray Smailwobd with the aid of six camera-men and a powerful battery of arc lamps recently. It is one of the thrills in the Pcreen version of " The Best of Luck," the screen version of the Drury Lane melodrama. To make the effect more thrilling, tbi.s scene was taken at night time, or rather it wa* two o'clock in the morning when Mr. Smallwood gave the word for the car to start its mail dash. It came rushing down the steep grade, piloted by a chauffeur. Just before the bridge was. reached, the chauffeur leapt to the ground. The car hit tho gap, made a graceful leap,, t urned over once as it fell, and landed with a crash on the rocks at tho bottom of the canyon, i Another camera-man was stationed in the can-i yon with his camera at an angle to get the car from the time it leapt until the rocks were. hit. Other camera men caught the machine with the camera as it fell. A oar weighing 3,000 pounds was used for the scene.