Picture Show (Nov 1919-Apr 1920)

The ricture Show, January ilst, 1020. t CINEMA CHAT PHOTOGRAPHS AND PARAGRAPHS OF PICTURES. PLAYS, AND PLAYERS Famous Readers of "Tfje Picture Show." No. 4.— MABEL NORMAND. A MOTHER reader of our favourite paper i? shown above. Mabel wanted you to recognise her, so she obliged the cameraman by looking up for a few seconds while ho snapped her. But she wouldn't lose her place, and held her favourite film paper open ready tho moment the. camera clicked to continue reading. — — Peeping Stars Competition. 1 EXPECT you arc all getting anxious to know if you have been able to name correctly tho concealed faces in our "" Peeping .Stars " Competition. As you have been promised, the original photographs used in this competition are all to appear in the Picture Show, with the names underneath. Though the names will not bo needed, foi nil these concealed stars are very popular film favourites. They will be published shortly, so watch our pages. Also, I bear another and even more exciting competition is coming in a short while, as well as many other splendid new features. ] have this information redhot from the Editor, so tell your friends, — — On Our Cover. LARRY SEMON. tho clever comedian who glances at us so whimsically from our cover this week, used to be a cartoonist. Ho used to draw them, now he docs them in person. Tho Larry Kcmon-Vitagrapb comedies are the final result, A coming Giro, entitled " The Head Waiter,'' is one of . the funniest film? yet shown. ~~ — *♦ — Chrissie White's Latest. DO you know that Miss Chrissie While's latest, hobby is motor -cycling ? 'The other day sho had a hasty spill on her way to the Hopworlh studios at Walton.on -Thames from her home at Chiswick. Sho had just passed through Richmond when tho greasy state of the road caused her machine in skid, and Miss White was thrown violently to tho ground. Fortunately, she escaped with a few bruises and scratches, but it might have been a very nasty accidont. A Real Ruth Story. WE) ore shortly to sec Ruth Roland in a Rathe serial, entitled '•'The Adventures of Ruth." 'This is most decidedly Ruth's own serial, for she wrote the story from which the scenario was prepared. Her own company produced it. She supervised the direction and played the star part. This explains why Ruth has been so retiring and exclusive for the last few months. Ruth's leading man in this story is Herbert Heyes. Another Mystery Character. MAJOR WALLACE McCl Till HON, a veteran of the British Army, plays in '"The Black Secret," a coming serial in which Pearl White stars. He takes the part of Frederick Yaux, the mystery character, and he makes the part startlingly real and mystifying. 'The exact status of the weird Mr. Yaux is not known until the final thrilling episode, when ho is show n for what he really is: Those who have seen the serial describe him as " the greatest mystery character ever written into a serial."' News of Warner Oland. WE have not Been Warner Oland since lie played Wu Fang with Pearl White in " The Lightning Raider," but I hear that at present ho is very busy oh a new serial, entitled "The Third Eye,' in which he shares tho star parts with Eileen Percy. Why Harold Lloyd chose Mildred Davis. AM interviewer, who has been seeing Harold Lloyd, gives us an insight into tho comedian's character. He Bays : " The new Lloyd leading woman is a petito blonde. The creator of these comedies -ays that Mildred Davis was chosen because of her fresh, good looks and talent. He expects to keep her in all of his pictures, refusing to believe a constant companion in his films can deprive him of any of his merited attention. I have heard so many stars speak of the bad judgment in having the same lead, it was refreshing to have young Lloyd speak up and say he expected the public to want to see MisDavis just as much as they want to see him."' A Hundred Weddings. {HEAR that Colleen Moore is busy selecting another wedding dress, as she has been cast for a new Christie comedy : and she says all these happy plots of married life begin or end with a wedding. As a matter of fact, Al Christie directed bis ninety-ninth wedding in the special comedy. 'He Married His Wife," featuring Edith Roberts, and this play, with Colleen Moore, will be the culmination of his aim to achieve his hundredth screen wedding. — — Douglas Fairbanks' Way. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS says, •' If you want to bo happy, remember that a smile in the morning will do you more good than a tonic, and cost less. Don't lie afraid to say 'good-morning,' and when yon say it, add a smile to sour words, so that tho one to whom you are saying them will know you mean it. When you hhake anybody by the hand, do it as though you enjoyed it ; put a couple of ounces of pressure behind your grasp. Don't go at it as though you worn picking up a hot coal. Start with a smila and kcop it »Vp till late, then you will bo a success. Take a last look into the mirror each night jusl before you turn out the light ; if you are smiling at yourself, you will have a good sleep."' — — What They Like. A NUMBER of film stars have been askod for their favourite diversions, Charles Ray says be iikes tennis; Norma . Talmadge, dancing; Ivatherine MacDonald, polo; Charles Chaplin,, charades; Betty Blythe, golf; Wallace Reid, music, particularly jazz ; Antonio Moreno, designing automobiles ; Florence Deshon, writing ; Madge Kennedy, sketching ; Larry Sernon, cartooning ; Lillian Gish, reading ; Mae Marsh, clay n od • ling ; William Russell, horseback riding : Louise Fazenda, baking and breaking pios. — M— To Keep an Elephant White. THE director of Madge Kennedy's new picture at the Goldw-yn studio says he understands now the meaning of tho old phrase, "a white elephant on one'* bands," for he has one — not exactly on bis hands, of course, but on the stage for the play. This is a real elephant, but it is not really white, and that's the trouble! The elephant can be made to look white by the liberal appli i tion of chalk, but he does not care for chalk and is always rubbing it and blowing it off. So three men arc kept busy all the time trying to keep the elephant white till the scenes are taken. She Likes Pictures Best. ELAINE HAMMERSTEIN says she ward into pictures to escape going on the stage. Her father, who is the son 6' tho famous impresario, Oscar Hammcrstein. hail set his heart on a stage career for 1 i< beautiful daughter. But Elaine didn't want -i stage career; in fact, was not particularly keen on any" career whatever. Sho says she'd rather be entertained than entertain. S! o likes pictures better than the stage, simply because they give a girl more opportunity to enjoy her home and social lifo ; and now that she's getting well into the game, she says she's going to work ever so hard at her pictures, because site's beginning to take a pride in her work, 'and not merely becauso it furui-hes a channel of escapo from the footlights. VICTOR SCHERTZINGER, who directs MABEL NORMAND, is devoted to his wife. Here you sea their invariable parting, 'vhen he hands money to his wife with these words j " Have a eood time, dear, and buv whatever you want."