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12 Picture Show Annual What memories the photographs of Fanny Ward, Norma Talmadge, and Maurice Costello bring back to the old picturegoer. Fanny Ward has so solved the secret of perpetual youth that she really ought not to be in this gallery of pictures of the past. It may be that before these lines are in print the fascinating Fanny will have come back to the screen as a flapper in a talkie. To Maurice Costello belongs the title of being the first screen hero " idol." He was a sound actor and one of the men who made the pictures. With him is Alice Calhoun, and she is one of the early screen actresses that I thank for leaving me with many delightful memories of her performances. I have always thought that Norma Talmadge is one of the real actresses of the screen. Her performance in " The Lady," was an exceptionally fine piece of work, and she has many other notable successes to her credit. A Unique Record It is very fitting that this section of the Picture Show tik± Annual should have in it a pho- tograph of Alice Joyce. She holds a unique record on the screen, for not only is she a fine actress, but one against whom there has never been a breath of scan- dal. Her fellow players call her " the lady of the screen," and always she has lived up to that title. At the moment of writing Miss Joyce has acted in only one talking picture, but she has made more than one come-back, and it may be that we shall see her again. " Sweet " is the one word which sums up Alice Joyce. She was to the screen what Ellaline Terriss was to the stage. There is a gold mine of memories in the photographs showing Mae Marsh, Clara Kimball Young, Earle Williams, Rudolph Valentino, Kate Price, and John Bunny. In regard to Mae Marsh, I cannot add anything to the words of the one who wrote the caption under her picture. They express my own view of this charming actress, so clearly and so perfectly. As to Rudolph Valentino, that star of stars, he was no more—at heart—like a successful screen star than daylight is to darkness. t Margaerit? Clark was one of the most beloved screen stars — as Topsy in " Uncle Tom's Cabin." The success of a film Was assured in 1920 when two such favour- ites as Alice Joyce and Maurice Costello played in it. This is a scene from " The Cambric Mash. n n Mary Pickjord with Matt Moore, who later became her brother-in-law, in " The Pride of the Clan."