Picture Show (May-Oct 1920)

The Piclar,< Show, June 5th, 1920. 3 Photographs a ml Paragraph? cP Pictures. Plays an.-) Playenr Famous Readers of M The Picture Show." No. 22.— MADGE STUART. MADGE STUART reads our paper, as you see above. We are shortly to see this pretty star in a number of all-British photo-plays under the direction of Maurice El vey, of the Stoll Film Company. She has the onlv woman's part in " The Amateur Gentleman and the lead in the film version of Rita's famous convict story, " The Iron Stair." Pale Blue and Black. HAVE you had your second volume of The Picture Show bound yet ? It is the bes,t way of keeping your favourite picture paper together, and the binding covers aro in keeping with this artistic production. Pale blue cloth with black lettering. As you know, you can get these covers for 3s. post free from the publishers, 7-9 Pilgrim Street, Ludgato Hill, E.C. 4. — — P Choosing the Stars." THE counting of votes in our Choosing the Stars competition is nearing the end. It has been a colossal task, but it has been worth while. So many voters taking part, when ♦ he final lists are made, it will prove representative of the taste of " theBritish Public." The Picture Show will also know the stars you prefer to see and read about. The prizewinners will appear as soon as the lists are complete. I hear, also, there is to be another fine competition shortly in this up-todate paper, but I will tell you more about this later. In Answer to Yours. SOME photographs 6f Bert Lytell have so often been asked for that I am pleased to tell you to turn to our centre pages. I know the Art Picture of Tom Moore will also gladden the hearts of many of my readers. He is nice, isn't he ? Douglas MacLean's Father Approves. DO you know that Douglas MacLean, whom we. now see playing opposite Vivian Martin in " Mirandy Smiles," is the son of a minister? Well he is ; and so well liked aro photo-plays by his dad that a regular feature of jiis church's activities is a cinema show of various specially selected pictures. — — " The Law of the Yukon." WE are to see June Elvidge in the leading role when we see "The Law of the Yukon," the big photo-play of the Noi th now in the making. This film is based on •the verse classic by Robert W. Service. You r member : " This is the law of the Yukon : That only the strona shall thrive. That surely the twafr shall perish, And only the ft BWVwe.V Looking Back. IT is interesting to look back on tho days of old and know what our favourites were doing before they appeared on the screen. Tom Alix was giving exhibitions of riding and roping in a circus twelve years ago. Eileen Percy was a model for Charles Dana Gibson and other well-known artists. Wallace Reid started his career as a newspaper man. ' Wanda Hawlcy was a successful concert singer and composer, and Alico Joyce in the days of old was a hello ! girl. A Real British Comic. THE story of " Alf's Button," the new Hepworth picture play in which we shall see Leslie Henson, is one of the finest screen comedies ever produced, and worthy of a British company. You can imagine the fun Leslie Henson gets out of the incident where he finds that one of the buttons on his khaki tunic was made from the metal of the original Aladdin's lamp, and that every time he polishes the metal a genie appears to obey his slightest command. The genie's taste runs to plenty of slaves and dancing girls, and so the granting of Leslie Henson's wishes are most often very embarrassing, but very amusing. As Alf 'Iggins, Leslie Henson gives us a gem of characterisation. The Crowd in Trafalgar Square. I WAS passing Trafalgar Square the other 1 day and was attracted by a huge crowd on the steps of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, the famous church where so many society weddings take place, you know. Having a few minutes to spare, I joined the throng, and saw Henry Edwards, in a silk hat and frock coat, and Chrissie White. Then I saw tho camera man, and the mystery was explained. Henry Edwards told me that it was for a scene in " The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss," and, as the script called for a scene to be played Mme. OLGA PETROVA snapped in her garden at home with " Mascot," a tiny pig. The delightful actress is also a short-story writer and a composer, and has made a number ol records for the Emerson Phonograph Company. Besides her own songs, her favourite in her present repertoire ii " The Bells ot St. Mary." in Trafalgar Square — in Trafalgar Square it WM played ! Although tho actual taking only occupied a few minutes, the whole afternoon was taken up in recording these moments, m tho crowd was so dense, and invariably one or another of the people got into the picture, even gazing right into the lens of tho camera. When You Know How. EVERYTHING is easy when you know how, and making a cow bellow is no exception. During the filming of Tom Moore's next picture. " Tho Great Accident," the director was having a hard time trying to do the stunt when a rancher came along. The director put tho problem up to him, and when everything was ready for the scene he called " Hey, you Bessie ! " The cow answered him, and the camera caught the scene. Lucky Boy. WESLEY" BARRY is the envy of all tho children in U.S.A., and out of it for that matter, because he is a real film star, and has his own car, pony, and plenty of money to buy marbles. He is to accompany Marshall Neilan on his J. CLEAR MORTON the EILEEN SEDGWICK, rising young British cinema the beautiful cinema star. We are shortly to actress, playing opposite see him in the character EDDY POLO in the study ot Spider Conoily in "Cyclone Smith" " The Definite Object." stories. picture-making tour through England. Spain. France, Belgium and Italy, so perhaps we may see him. Strangers — but Sweethearts. WHEN we see " The Mutiny." which is the picture version of Jack London's story " The Mutiny of Elsinore," wo shall see Helen and Cosson Ferguson. The two Fergusons who bear the same surname are not related. In fact, up to the time of writing they have never met, but in this Metro picture play they are to be sweethearts on the screen. A Tip From Mabel Normand. LEAP-FROG is a fine old game, but Jttabel Normand says it pays to get careful figures of the weight of each of the players before consenting to tako the part of the person who is vaulted over. Lilian Silvester, who. tips the scale at 250 pounds, went into the Coldwyn studio the other day and found Mabel Normand playing l?apfrog with Joe the property man. Lil was invited to play by Mabel. She stepped back about six paces, turned, measured the distant s with her eye. and ran I They pulled Mabel fainting from beneath the wreck, and since then Mabel only plays leap-frog with someone her own size. — »-» — ■ Betty Blythe Not to Leave the Screan. BETTY B I. YTHE denies the report thai she is to leave the screen because of her marriage to Paul Scnrdon, the Goldwyn director.