Picture Show (May-Oct 1920)

4 Tht Piciufe Show, May 22ni, 1920. PICTURE SHOW CHAT. fCo^eejfr' Anna Adopts Anna. ANEW addition to Anna Q. Nilsson's Hollywood bungalow is little Anna Nordja, a diminutive orphan, who has travelled all tho way from Stockholm alone. Some time ago Miss Nilsson's parents, in Sweden, wrote to her about the plight of the hi tie one, who lost both parents in ah accident. Miss Nilsson, always having wanted to adopt and educate a youngster, cabled them to send l he child to her. The little Nordja girl, who is nearly six years old, did not come through tho post or accompanied with a tac, but rather rode across the continent in a Pullman. Miss Nilsson has made arrangements to educate her in a private school ni Hollywood, and will immediately take steps legally to adopt her. A Real Thrill. FOR a new First National picture, Marshall Neilan, who is over here, recently staged one of the most hair-raising " thrills " ever screened. The stunt consists of a man dropping from an aeroplane to tho roof of a Pullman t rain going at seventy-five miles an hour. -Later, a scene was taken showing the man returning to the 'plane from the top of a train, by leap:ng into the air and catching a rope ladder from tho plane. To get these scenes a camera man n OS strapped to the wing of the aeroplane, and two others were stationed on the top of the train, where a special platform had heen built. Waiting for the Clouds to Roll By. I SAW Henry Edwards, the famous Hepworth producer and player, tho other day. It was not. far from Charing Cross. He was sitting in the driving-seat of a Rolls Royco, which also contained other " filmy " people, amongst them being Chrissie White. And just behind the Rolls Royco I espied another car, in which E. Phillips Opponheim was fitting, gazing, as were the rest of tho company, skyward?. But tho clouds tool; on a Macknoss as of the night, and tho camera-man shook his head sadly. The company, 1 learned, had been waiting about in tho vicinity of Trafalgar Square for four hours in the hope of being al io to record a few hundred feet Of short scenos," but the famous author, \< lio had como to see the filming of some < 1 the episodes in one of his stories, which Henry Edwards is producing in screen lorm, was disappointed. Mr. Edwards {.■ave tho order to " right about turn," and informed everybody with a cheerful u'-'ignation worthy of recording, that, '* We've had a healthy day in the air, dear friends — and to-morrow we may have another." — — Riverside Stars. A EL the Hepworth players are getting busy nowadays, preparing lor tho river " season," for they all love the Thames and either own boats, canoes or punts, or are the lucky possessors of Small white bungalows nestling on tho river bank, where thoy can revel in all the glory of a riverside existence when work is through, and the camera has »€>ased to record their movements. Alma Taylor and Leslie Henson. ALMA TAYLOR has just como back from the seaside looking bonnier than ovor, and very enthusiastic ahout studio work. It rained hard [most •J tho time she was away, but tho rlemonts never worry this little lady. I'erhaps her radiant, hoaUhy smilo is sufficient proof of the truth of her contention that "The weather doesn't Matter really ; if Nature's roof ehoo'os »« leak wo can't slop it, and Nature's tho most wonderful tonic in the world." By the way, we are shortly to see her m « play with Leslio Henson. I wonder »f I.cshe will be as funny on the screen as Ik is on the stage J Clothes Cost Money. FR1TZI BRUNETTE is bemoaning the ever. , rising cost of clothes. " Oh, dear," she was heard to sigh on a shopping expedition, " if we didn't have to spend a good share of our income for elaborate clothes for our pictures, our salaries would lie just as lovely as they look in print. As a matter of fact, any girl in my profession comes out at the end of the year with a very small net sum. But there's some compensation in wearing clothes. Every girl likes that." Do You Know ? — Thai Priscilla Dean started her stage career at the age of four ? * * * — That Elsie Ferguson numbers riding and swimming among her pastimes ? • ■ •• * * — That her second Christian name is Louise ? CONSTANCE TALMADGE at Palm Beach by the Sea Waves U FROM "OVER THERE." Notes and News from Los Angeles. SINCE the recent announcement in the Press that Charles Clary is to have his own company, he has been besieged by persons seeking positions on his staff. In one week he' has received forty-three original stories, four! offers to direct his pictures, six offers to write liis scenarios, seventeen applications from young and untried leading ladies, and thirty-four from " handsome " leading men — at least, thus' they describe themselves, and, of course, they ought to know. To Her Who Waits. ANN FORREST, the girl whose wonderful acting in ' Dangerous Days" has made her a star overnight, has been working at the various Los Angeles studios as an extra, waiting for her big chance to come. The rolo that has raised her to stellar heights did not seem to offer many opportunities at first sight, being one of some half dozen so-called " minor parts." But little Ann prepared herself for days, putting into' the part all her life's hopes and ambi-.' tions, and injected so much realism into her "bit," that director and author looked on petrified by what they both declare to be one of the most wonderful pieces of acting they had ever witnessed. Everything conies to him who waits, hut the readiness is all. Fatty to Forsake Farce. ROSCOE ARBUCKLE is to definitely forsake farce-making for feature specials. His contract called for twenty two-reoled comedies, but on his recent visit to New York, the rotund Roscoo evidently succeeded in persuading Mr. Zukor to let him off. Somo weeks ago Roscoe went over to Lasky's to play the fat sheriff in a five-reel feature called " The Round-up," and apparently this first flight in the legitimate drama has caused him to decide to forswear custard pies for ever. As some wit remarked, on hearing the news: " Next thing we shall hear is that Roscoe has started reducing ! " A Slight Difference. TEN years ago on this day of writing, Frank Woods sold his two hundred and eighteenth scenario to Biograph for seventeen dollars fifty cents," the highest price that till that time had ever been paid for a photo-play script. Tho other day two hundred thousand dollars were offered for the screen rights of "A Tailor-Made-Man," and tho offer was — refused ! Times have changed. For One Film Only. MADGE KENNEDY spent five thousand dollars on her wardrobe for her two last tioldwyn picture-, and woroeachof her beautiful gowns just" ence. One orchid -coloured opera-cloak, valued at one hundred and eighty-five dollars, was worn in order to deliberately get it spoiled in an artificial rain-shower, according to script requirements. What ii CONSTANCE coin* to do ? Sitting on the sand is Sister Natalie with David Kirkland and bis false beard. Norma is laughing in ber deck-cbair at tbe back. The Will to Live. YOU would never believe to look at Hobart Boswort h that t wenty years ago his physician gave him up as« hopeless tubercular case. Ho was told '.hat by living in Arizona ho might prolong his life by a brief span, but that anyway his doom was sealed. So to Arizona Bosworth went, lived a free lifa in tho open, and occupied his mind so much that he had no timo to think of dying. After a number of months he had himself overhauled by a specialist, and was told that there was not a trace of a gorm in his whole system. Now at fifty two he is six foot, tall, weighs two hundred pounds, and is in perfect health. See him fight in that grim picture " Hehind the Door,".and you will realise that sometimes the sheer will to live is the best means of cheating the undertakers. Elsik Conn.