Picture Show (Nov 1919-Apr 1920)

4 The Picture Shoic, February 28///, 1920. PICTURE SHOW CHAT. (Continued from page 3.) From Washerwoman to Star. IN the coining Edgar stories, written for 1 tho Goldwyn Film Company by Booth Tarkington, we are to see a real coloured mammie, who was born in Alabama, and who can make cakes in a way to make hungry boys' mouths water. In this play she takes the pari of Iris. Her real name is Lucretia Harris. She was taking in washing for a living eight years ago when a moving picture director discovered her. Now she owns her own home and drives her own car. Enemies On and Friends off. YOU will remember Tom Lingham, who played the part of the despicable Starr Wiley with Marie Walcamp in the big serial, " The Red Glove." On the screen you will remember Lingham lights Marie with a ferocity that stops at nothing. If count could ,be kept of the times that he had hurled her off cliffs, shot at her, stabbed at her, etc., the total would be staggering; but from someone who watched the play being taken, I hear that both the star and the villaiin are oibbage enthusiasts, and as soon as the atrocities of the screen were concluded, they settled down to a friendly game. — ♦+ — Dorothy Davenport Comes Back. YOU all know that Wallace Reid is married to Dorothy Davenport, and that Dorothy has been away from the screen for a number of years. ■ Those of you who want to renew her acquaintance should look out for a photo-play, entitled " The Fighting Cltance," in which she is returning to filmland. How They Are Taken. DO you ever wonder how those close-up scenes of speeding motor-cars and yachts are taken? Here is the secret. A platform is built on the front of the car or boat, and on this the director and tho camera-man station themselves. Then the car starts, and they start, too, turning the camera as they go, and are always able to get the scenes they need. British Star For American Film. IT is rumoured that Godfrey Tearle, the handsome hero of the stage, who has already appeared in a number of British photo-plays is to go to America to star in some new photo-plays. JOE ROCK. EARL MONTGOMERY. These two comedians, who appear in Vitagraph Comedies, are great iavourites on the screen. They always appear together ns you may have noticed. A Visitor from America. (HEAR that Mr. Jules Brulatour, the New York representative of the Eastman Film Company, has left for Europe on a business trijj in behalf of that corporation. His tour will include Englahd, France, Italy, the Scandinavian countries, and the Continent. Binding Cases for "The Picture Show " A RE you binding your copies of The Picture Show ? As you know, binding cases for Volume I. can now bo had for 3s. They are of light blue coloured cloth board. If you want a case for Volume 2, will you send a postcard ? Send your order early. The larger quantity the Editor can order the cheaper the cases will be, so if you send a postcard now it may make a big difference in the price when you came to order your binding case. Address all communications to Tho Publisher, The Picture Show, Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, E.C. 4. Do You Know? — That Gladys BrockwelPs gowns are designed by her mother, " Billie " Brockwell ? * * * — That Eugene O'Brien is lucky enough to have three leading women at present — Lucille Lee Stewart, Mary Boland, and Martha Mansfield ? * ...** * ' * — That Texas Guinan, the feminine " Bill Hart," is now making two-reel " Westerns," which aro quite a new kind ? * * * , — That her surname is pronounced as if the " i " were "y" — Guynan ? * * * — That Nazimova's husband, Charles Bryant, is her leading man in her wonderful picture, " Out of the Fog," which we shall be seeing later ? Fay Filmer. FROM "OVER THERE." Notes and News From Los Angeles. Realism. JAMBS KIRKWOOD broke two of Ward Crane's ribs in a fight scene during tho filming of " The Luck of the Irish." "If this is tho luck of the Irish," Crane remarked on his return to the studio, " Yankee luck is just about good enough for me." Thereupon Kirkwood sardonically told him that he could thank his lucky stars it was not his neck that had been broken instead of a couple of paltry ribs. 'Gene O'Brien's Nickname. EUGENE O'BRIEN believes that athleticenable a man to keep at the top-notch of general efficiency, both physical and mental. At tho University of Colorado ho mi nicknamed-" Versatility," being tho captain ol his baseball, football, and basketball teams. Costly Furs in Cinema Play. TEN thousand dollars' worth of furs play a small part in the Goldwyn picture, " Tho Cup of Fury." One is a mink coat,, valued at five thousand dollars, which Miss Helen Chadwick just puts on on leaving a sumptuous drawing-room. The other is a long sable scarf lined with ermine and finished with a trimming of fur tails. These two valuable items were loaned for the picture, and when tho management were not worrying about the chances of their getting lost, stolen, or strayed, they were wondering whether they wrould "register" properly in the photography. Cutting. ROSCOEARBUCKLE and Walter Hiers, the two fat men of the films, recently met at the Lasky plant, and there was the usua interchange of courtesies. " Kindly step aside,' Hiers suggested pleasantly, " so that I can see the studio." " Oh, is there a studio around here ? " queried the rotund Roscoe with well-feigned astonishment. " I thought it was your suit-case." Witty Will Rogers. WILL ROGERS is perhaps the only film star who has made capital out of his awkwardness and general homeliness. His wit, however, is as quick as his movements are slow and deliberate, and his caustic comments on the topics of the day when twirling bis lariat on the roof garden ofthe New Amsterdam Theatre made him one of the most populai entertainers of New York City. Asked the othei day what was the most dangerous stunt he hat7 ever done, he scratched his head and drawled I " Well, I reckon it was when I went so far as ti let 'em shoot me for a close-up." Elsie Codd. Two striking «cenes from the photo-play," The Romance of Billie Riley and his Colleen Bawn," adapted from an old Irish book by the Film Company of Ireland. This is the second film produced by that company ; the first, " Knock-a-gow," is said to have created a bigger sensation in America than D. W. Griffith's masterpiece, " Intolerance.'!