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Picture Show Annual 135 from which these illustrations are taken are no longer seen. Yet these stills were taken from films made, at the most, ten years ago. Death has claimed many of them—Barbara La Marr, Willard Louis, Theodore Roberts, and Wallace Reid. Agnes Ayres has left the screen, Viola Dana is seldom seen, nor is Adolphe Menjou, May McAvoy and Conway Tearle. Lionel Barrymore, who is seen seated on Barbara La Marr's right, spends most of his time directing, but Hoot Gibson's Westerns are still pleasing picturegoers. Already some of those who are seen in these stills as small-part players or extras have given up screen work. Miss Dupont's popularity was of short duration, for she chiefly worked for Eric von Stroh eim, while Alice Terry is seldom seen now. How many of the others will still be popular in 1940? A group of Universal Company's girls in the wardrobe room — thus reads the caption in the picture. Alice Terry, on the extreme right, and Miss Dupont, on the extreme left, were not well enough known then to merit particular mention. On the left is Reginald Denny, in a Roman toga, with a chaplel of flowers round his head, and blacking where there is no toga, in Hoot Gibson's picture " The Thrill Chaser." Would you recognise the dashing John Gilbert of to-d ay in this leading man ? This is as he appeared in " While Paris Sleeps," which was released over here in 1923. Adolphe Menjou in his first big role, that of the villain in Wallace Reid's " Clarence," with May McAvoy and Agnes Ayres. It was seen over here in 1921.