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36 Picture Show Annual THE MAN WITH THE DUAL PERSONALITY One of the most likeable things about Percy Marmont is his smile. And when you consider the degree of popularity he has achieved upon the meagre allowance of smile which we are allowed to see in his films, you can realise that off the screen Percy Marmont is even more likeable than he is on. For Percy has been the screen's Most Miserable Man ever since he played Mark Sabre in " If Winter Comes." His whimsical humour has been buried underneath his burden of screen sorrows, and he has plumbed every possible depth of film wretchedness. But once away from the Kleig lights things are different. He at once becomes a normally cheerful and very friendly person, whose lack of pose and conceit is delightful and whose outlook on life is as far removed from that of his screen self as it is possible to imagine. Percy Marmont. ^DOROTHY DWAN'S TWO "PETS" Dorothy Divan. Everyone has a pet economy and a pet aversion. Dorothy Dwan is not peculiar in this matter, but hers are closely con- nected. The first is stockings and the second darning. She used to find it very difficult indeed to reconcile the two until one day at the studio the cameraman solved the problem. A ladder had developed, and Dorothy, saddened by this occur' rence in a perfectly new pair and the thought of the darning later on, was ascertaining the precise length of the damage, when the cameraman interrupted. " Don't bother about that. It won't show in the film," he said. " Do you mean to say the camera won't pick out stocking ladders ? " said Dorothy. " Not in flesh-coloured ones. Only in black, where the flesh shows through," was the reply. And now Dorothy declares that she is going to wear all her laddery stockings for film work and her whole ones off the screen, thus saving stocking bills and darning. Dorothy, you may know, is the charming little comedienne who has appeared opposite Larry Semon in so many of his pictures.