Picture Show (Nov 1919-Apr 1920)

T/u Picture Show, January ZUi, 1920. CINEMA CHAT £?£.s — That Forrest Stanley, wlio lias been absent from the screen so long, re-appears in ' The Thunderbolt " 1 Marie and Accidents. THERE is no doubt about it that the stars of cinema serials take many provide us with thrills. chances to During the filming of " Tho Red Glove " Marie Waleanvp. after falling 50 feet from a fire escape, suffered ■i sprained ankle and cuts on tho head. It was during a sceno with Tom Lingham, the " bad man : of the serial production. Ho was hoi. lma heavy iron hook while Miss Walcamp was on an improvised fire-escape. The action of the scone called for him to fall, which ho did, but in doing so he accidentally dropped the hook, which struck the actress on tho head, rendering; her unconscious. She swayed and fell forward, (ho director tried to break her full, but only partially succeeded. Sho was rushed, still in an unconscious Condition; to tho hospital, whero sho was revived, her wounds bound up, and her sprained ankle put into a plaster. This was following another accident, in which Miss Walcamp broke her arm. . . — — Virginia Pearson Believes in Psychic Power. MISS VIRGINIA PEARSON believes we aro guided in this world by psychic powers. Hore is her own explanation : " I believe that I haye seven occult guides, nnd that I cannot live my own life to please myself." ' '« My Hindu room is modelled after the Hindu stylo and according to the direction of my psychic guide. '" My Japanese room after .my Japancso {.■Hide's advice. "Tho Greek room is used to entertain, and is fashioned after my beautiful dancing girl's home which she owned while on this plane. " Last, but not least, my boudoirs aro all i-M-gestions of my artistic guides. ''Without tho help of these wonderful creatures, I would not have won the success I now enjoy. I havo great hopes for the future. " If I fall short of realisation, I shall fasten the blame where it belongs, or must I be grateful for past favours and shoulder a bit of the responsibility myself ? If more people would emulate the example of these unseen psychic helpers, What a wonderful plane this would be ! " — — Fr&nkie Lee and a Hatchet. SOMEONE gave Erankie Lee a hatchet, and the cherry tree episode of George Washington's career was nothing to what the little star did with his present. First, ho died it on the garden hose, the result being a fountain on the lawn. He was just testing the resistance of tho tyres on his uncle's motor-car, w hen someone came out to see wha t Frankie was doing, and the sequel was too sad to relate. — — A Compliment for Mabel Normand. MABEL NORMAND is tho life and soul of thoGoldwyn Studios. Agreat compliment was paid her by Andrew Arbuckle the Other day. After a particularly hard day, Mr. Arbuckle remarked with great emphasis, "We ought to havo to pay for working here, instead oi getting paid for it. It's worth a lot to work hero, with this girl, she's a wonder ! " Do You Know — That Pedro do Cordoba's mother was a Parisienne and his father a Spaniard, and 'I, at he himself was born in New York } That in "Virtuous Men," hi which you u ill fab r be seeing E. K. Lincoln, several scenes v. ere " shot " in a big shipbuilding yard ? That "Tho Unknown," a Lasky production to bo released later on, is an adaptation from R. Wylie's novel, 'The Red Mirage " ? That it features Geraldine Farrar's husband, Lou Tollegen J —That Will Scott, the famous caricaturist and author, has been selected as director of productions ' 1 ■ — That Scssue Hayakawa's great ambition is to epitomise the history of his country in films ? Fay Filmer. JACK LOVELACE. PEGGIE STUART. JACK LOVELACE has just returned from America. He is launching out on an entirely new type of film production, and promises us vivid and thrilling scenes under the sea. MISS STUART, whom you also see above, is his leading lady. A delightful portrait of the wonderful little film star MAE MARSH taken with her nephew and niece, JOHN HENRY and BETTY BERTHOLON. FROM "OVER THERE." Notes and News From Los Angeles. She Knows What She Wants. KATHERINE MACDONALD owes hdr success in the film world to the fact that she has always known exactly, what she wanted, and been equally determined to get it. The idea of going into pictures nevejr entered her head till one day, at tho Horsierstudio, whither she would daily escort ber sister, Mary MucLaren, the director suddenly said : " You'ro hanging round here all the time doing nothing. Why don't you work ? " They tried her first in comedies, but she, soon gave that up. " I'm too big for comedy," she explains.] " Besides, I've not got a funny nature, and 1 can't make faces. Since I've taken up picture; work seriously, I've never played anything but leads. I've never asked anybody for an engagement, and never lost a day betwen engagements. When once I realised (hat I was worth three hundred dollars a week, 1. got it. When 1 lived in Now York, I used to. breed French bulldogs. I made up my mind that I was going to breed the best one in' America, and 1 did. Oajniquet has been shown all over the country, and she's never been beaten." And neither has Katherine MacDonald. Stories of Stars. WHEN William and Dusfin Farmnn wcro touring the Slates in 1911,. mi " The Littlest Rebel," they experienced considerable difficulty in retaining any child young enough to play the title role, on account, of tho stringent laws concerning child labour. So they carried two little girls along to provide against emergencies. The one, Viola Flugrath, is now better known under her screen name of Viola Dana, and the other, still in her teens, now graces the screen as Mary Miles Minter. Can You Read It ? TOM MOORE had to wark Christmas Day to get his picture finished " according to plan." Tho scene they happened to bo filming that day required that he should run a letter off on the typewriter. Tom pounded I away at tho ivories in such a workmanlike manner that his director complimented him on his efficiency. Without a word, Moore handed him tho letter, and this is what his director read : " i wou§d rat,r -zb doWn at The beiiaeb Than sitSSng UNd-er thiS hot Lamp 3Toin ? " A Hairdresser's Hint. HERE is a coiffure designed by Gloria Swanson, famed for her ingenuity in devising startling head-dresses. She calls it the "Centre Marcelled Parting with Low Pompadour," and it is admirably adapted for those informal occasions which require the removal of one's hat. " Part your hair an inch in depth in the centre and draw it back to a low pompadour. Marcel the sides. Dress front part first, then tho sides. Curl ends and dress back, permitting curled ends to cluster a little above the low pompadour." Miss Swanson believes in the use of a net to keep her elaborate structures in place, especially when the hat has to be frequently removed. William Farnum's Leading Lady. WILLIAM FARNUM is to return tr tho coast in February, and Louise Lovely i3 again to be his 'leading lady, .\li-s Lovely was with Big Bill in the live pictures ho made this year in California, and is the only leading lady who has been with .Air. Farmnn in a run of consecutive pictures. How Wanda Earned Money. WANDA HAWLEY taught Latin once upon a time at a Normal School. She Bays sho has earned money ever since she can remember. She showed signs of becoming u brilliant musician at a very early age, and used, to play accompaniments for Albert Spaiflding.. ] ater, when studying vocal music with the in-, lention of embarking upon an operatic career, sho earned her pin-money by posmg tor arUSttj and photographers. ' l.LMK COBD.