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32 Picture Show Armual T hose who saw Norman Kerry and Mary Philbin in that wonderful film, “ Merry-Go-Round,” which Von Stroheim began and unfortunately did not finish, will remember that the picture “ made " these two artistes in Great Britain. They made a perfectly ideal pair of lovers—Kerry, the happy, careless soldier, and Mary Philbin, the Cinderella heroine, waiting for her Prince to come along. It was a wise choice, therefore, that Rupert Julian made when he chose these two for the lovers in that grim but romantic screen story, " The Phantom of the Opera," which many shrewd critics have acclaimed as one of the really great pictures of the year. There can be no doubt that Mary Philbin is now one of the most popular actresses on the screen, though she is still under twenty, and though she may be said to have gone up like a rocket, she certainly will not fulfil the latter part of the adage by coming down like the stick. Before another year has passed we may be hailing Mary Philbin as the Queen of the Cinema. Norman Kerry. To Von Stroheim must be given the credit of having been the first director to give her a real chance to show what she could do, but there must have been many people who “ discovered ” her. I well remember her when, little more than a child herself, she played a child's |Mrt in “Human Hearts.” A few days after seeing this film I spoke of Mary Philbin to a man who loomed rather big in the cinema world. “ Never heard of her,” he said, and went on smoking and talking. “ You will soon,” was the only remark I made. But there can be little credit for anybody in discovering such a natural cinema actress as Mary Philbin, though she is one of the kind that want an understanding director to get the best out of her. As for Norman Kerry, he came into his own none too soon. He had done much good work before-he got his big chance in “ Merry-Go-Round. ’ Tall, decidedlv handsome, and with a winning wav with him. as the Irish would say, he makes an ideal leading man. He filled that role opposite Constance Talmadge, Marion Davies, and Anna Q. Nilsson, to mention but three. And he is by no means at the top of his career. Still a young man, full of ambition, and, what is more important, a liking for his job, there is nothing to stop him going right to the top of the tree. A Happy Screen Re-union Norman Kerry and Mary Philbin Mary Philhin and Norman Kerry in "The Phantom o/ the Opera.'