Picture Show (May-Oct 1920)

amous Picture Readers of the Show. No. 28.— HELENE CHADWICK. BEAUTIFUL Hett Chad wick, the Goldwyn star, is another staunch admirer of our paper. Helene is one of the most beautiful girls on the screen. Her photograph is much in demand for decorating chocolate ■boxes. Here she was caught by the camera when recognising a new picture of one of her dear friends on the screen. Merry Mabel's Picture. THE demand for a big picture of Mabel Normand has been so insistent lately that I have been able to persuade the Editor to devote the centre page to merry madcap Mabel this week. I hope this picture v. ill please her many admirers : it was sent to us by Mabel as her favourite and latest portrait. Real Crime Stories. ARE you reading the series of real crime stories now appearing in the Picture "Show ? Don't miss them ; they are so realistic and are actually true in every detail. Inspector Flynn, whose photograph is given, is the' inspector who had charge of the cases in real life. These stories are printed for the first time in the Picture Show. Make Your Own Frocks. MILDRED DAVIS is looked upon at the Rolin studios • as one of the Best' dressed women" there. Mildred says it is because she makes most of her frocks herself. ■. — ' " Every girl who can wield a needle should do so," says Mildred. " No one knows what .suits you best better than yourself." . Some of the frocks made by Mildred we shall see on the screen. Harold Lloyd says -sho is prettier than ever in them. Fur and Feather Frocks. TALKING of frocks, bird and beast contribute generously toward making Viola Dana's -costumes for her Metro pictures, ""The Chorus Girl's Romance," distinctive and attractive. Monkey fur upon a foundation of black net, ornamented with jet, forms a striking evening cape. One of the gowns 6he wears as a dancer is made of ostrich feathers. Both the bodice and skirt are formed of row after row of the black feathers, with only a narrow jet band over the shoulder. A second dancing dress is of four shades of chiffon — pink, blue^ apricot, and orchid. The bodice of silver and blue ribbon has for its only trirnming a spray of sweet peas, bordered with ostrich feathers. In the B. & C. Studio. | DROPPED in at the B. & C. studio the I other day. It is at Walthamstow, you know. Everybody was working at high pressure on their new production, which has been adapted from Mr. Esmond's play, " The Sword of Damocles." and which we are to see under the title of " Fate." PKdb^rapk? and ParayrapK^ cF Picbire^, Play^ 3rd Players The manager, Mr. Geeves, spent a lot of his valuable time explaining the various things to me. It is surprising what a lot one can learn in a short time at a studio. I saw Miss Jose Collins, who is playing tho leading part in this photo-play. One could spend days watching the making of films, but time was going, and I had to tear myself away before the day's work was done. Miss Jose Collins, in her own charming way, wished me good-bye, and sent her love to the readers of the Picture Show. waters of matrimony. Sho is at prosont simply holiday -making. News concerning hor futuro plans will be issued bv the Ince studio in the near futuro. A Big Film Fee. LILLIAN GISH, for the last ten years, has been D. W. Griffith's leading lady. I hear now she is to appear for tho Frohman Amusement Company, which already has Ruth Clifford and Jack SherriU in their company. It is rumoured that Miss Gish is to receive £100,000 for her services. Miss May is Not to Marry. RUMOUR has been busy that Doris May is about to become the bride of Wallace Mac Donald, but Miss May wishes me to deny it. She emphasises the fact that at this time sho has no inclination to plunge into the whirling Sessue at the Theatre. SESSUE HAYAKAWA has been spending a couple of weeks in New York. He says it is the best summer resort in the world. Do you know how he has spent most of his time ? In the theatre, watching real flesh-and-blood actors performing on a real stage. It was not only a treat, but an education," says Sessue. " It was so refreshing to sit still and actually watch someone else act, instead of doing all the acting yourself, with only an unsympathetic camera-man and a loud-voiced director for an audience." Where Snow Is. HEARTS ARE TRUMPS," the Drury Lane melodrama now being filmed at the Metro studio, has some snow scenes in it. The real thing is very hard to find this time of the year. Twenty-seven members of the Metro company travelled thirty -five miles to take six scenes in a place called Huntingdon Lake, whero snow o mid be found. While the crowds were anxiously waiting to catch a glimpse of Mary and Douglas outside the Ritz Hotel, London, on their recent visit, our Editor was being received by the world-famous stars in their" apartments. This interesting photograph was snapped by Mary's photographer to commemorate the happy occasion,