The Picture Show Annual (1931)

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Picture Show Annual il Fanny Ward, who thrilled picturegoers for many years, and looked as young when she retired as when she first played in a film, in " On the Level." hero, and the world's picturegoers owe a big debt to Hart for introducing it. It was perhaps the first step in the moving of the movies from the very crude melodrama and sloppy sentiment that was the basis of most early picture plays. These were so unlike real life that one wonders how people could stand them. The pictures were certainly in their infancy in those days, and there was every justification for calling them " childish." The photograph showing Lillian Gish and Jack Bromhead is an eye-opener to me. I do not remember the film, and I can scarcely recognise Miss Gish. On the other hand, Adolphe Menjou in his first film does not look much different from the Adolphe who made such a suc- cess in " A Woman of Paris," and many other films. If any- thing, Adolphe looks slightly older in this early picture. The beautiful Corinne Griffith, shown here before she attained stardom, makes one wonder whether the craze for slimming is worth while. The present Corinne cannot give any points in looks to the one shown here. Maurice Costello, father of Dolores and Helene, in his matinee idol days, with Alice Calhoun, who was playing her first part opposite him.