Picture Show (May-Oct 1920)

Picture Show, August 'tit, 1920. " PICTURE SHOW" CHAT. lCotZed3f)om He wishes me to impress on readers that he docs not want elaborate technical scenarios, but good narrative stories of not moro than ti.OOO words long. If you want to try, write for further information to — The Broadwest Film Co., 175, Wardour Street, London, W.l. Full of "Inefficiency." A JAPANESE admirer, asking Elaine Hammerstein to send him an autographed copy of her photograph, concludes his letter with : " Pleaso to send same at once, as my collection will be full of inerliciency until it is received at hand.' Her "Husband" Was Missing. BESSIE LOVE tells me that among the letters she received was one from a Picture Show reader which requested a picture of her and her husband together. Although Bessie has received scores of proposals of marria,go from all parts of the globe, many of them couched in strange and wondrous terms, she is still fancy free. The Picture Show reader has received her picture, but the " husband " is missing. How Louise Lovely Began. DO you know how Louiso Lovely first entered pictures ! It was because she lost her voice. She was appearing on the vaudeville stage, and had an important engagement in Los Angeles for a week. The day before she began she woke with a severe cold, and was unable to speak. Her act required her to sing three songs, but on the Monday morning she had to write out her orders for breakfast, dinner and supper, and she had to provide a deputy for her turn. The next day a picture-producer offered her a position, and as her voice was not required, she began acting before the camera within twenty-four hours. Wo are shortly to see her with William Farnum in a new photo-play, entitled " The Joyous Trpuble-makers." By Request. WILLIAM FARNUM has brown hair and brown eyes ; Tom Mix, black hair and black eyes ; George Walsh, brown hair and brown eyes, as has also William Russell. This in answer to many queries received. If our Answer Coming Soon. PEARL WHITE has arrived back at the Fox studio, and tells me that for some weeks to come she will spend all her spare time answering her post baa. She prides herself on giving personal attention to her letters, and as she receives several hundred daily, you may MONTE BLUE. His very MILDRED DAVIS, the delates* picture. It is said that lightful little lady who plays Monte contemplates haying opposite Harold Lloyd in his own company this his latest comedies, autumn. well imagine the number that greeted her when she arrived back. Jackie Saunders Back Again. WE are to see Jackie Saunders with William Farnum in a coming Fox photo^play, at present entitled "The Scuttlers." Jackie was born in 1892, and has been on the stage from an early age. She has appeared in many screen plays, and id the author of several film stories. From Jack to Tom. TOM MLX, as you know, has one of the best stables in tho West, in which are housed some of the horses of the West. He has also the makings of one of the best kennels. Jack Dempscy, tho world's champion heavyweight, has just presented him with three fullblooded Belgian police dogs. Claire's Busman's Holiday. CLAIRE ADAMS, who plays the part of Barbara in the new Goldwyn picture, "The Penalty," spends her spare time in tho picture shows. She attends a picturetheatre throe or fonr times a week, and studies the film magazines for news of her favourite stars. Tho only regret she has in playing " Barbara " is that it docs not give her a chance to wear any of the pretty summer drosses sho recently purchased. " Barbara " is a girl absorbed In an artistic career, and she wears an artist's linen smock the whole way through. " A career is all right," sighs Miss Adams, " but I do like pretty clothes I . However, Miss Adams is pretty enough to make even an artist's smock look alluring. Fay Filmer, GERALD AMES as Richard Staire and CHRISSIE WHITE as Val in the HENRY EDWARDS in the Hepworth picture-play, " Possession," now being shown on the screens character ol Blaise Barewiki in ol Great Britain. Chrissie White confessed to me that " Val " is her the same photo-play which he favourite part as yet on the screen. also produced. FROM " OVER THERE." Notes and News from Los Angeles. KATHLEEN O'CONNOR, who is leading lady to Harry Carey, is one of the most fearless girls in screenland. Naturally, the type of play in which she is at present appearing requires an exceptional amount of athletic ability. No stunt or hazardous feat is too daring for her to undertake,, and she keeps herself fit by swimming, riding, fencing, besides being an expert in ju-jitsu, the Japanese art of self-defence. She has just discovered that a novel way of amusing your friends !s to play ragtime piano-rolls backwards on a pianoplayer, and then invite the victims to guess the name of the composer, also, if possible, of the composition. Solving a Mystery. ALBERT AUSTIN, who for several years was assistant director and a prominent member of tho Chaplin Company, will probably soon be returning to his native England to take up directorial work there. Mr. Austin has just completed an engagement with Mary Pickford, and will bo seen as her leading man in hor next picture for the United Artists, " The Duchess of Suds." The play has an East End London setting, and, being an Englishman, Mr. Austin was consulted on many details regarding the setting of the story, and proved extremely helpful in suggestions for the type of shops that would be found in tho average London " mean " street. Having arranged for an " Eastman's," a greengrocer's, a pawnbroker's, newsagent's, baker's, and fried fish and chips establishment, Mr. Austin had a hurry call one morning, to inform him that there was still ono shop on the " set " whose owner was without any ostenaibla means of oarning a living. For a moment Mr. Austin's resourcefulness failed him. Then he had a really bright dea. " Stick up the shutters," ho phonod back, " and put up a bill to say it's " To Let." Which they accordingly did. The Story of " Dynamite." BILL HART has his favourite "Pinto" pony, and Harry Carey has his trusty steed " Dynamite." To tho casual observer, "Dynamite" is a mild-looking animal, and you will probably wonder how his master ever camo to give him such an explosive sort of name. However, there's a certain diabolical gleam in his eye which is worth watching, and if anybody but his master should attempt to mount him, " Dynamite " lives up to his name in the real sense of the word, and just goes up in the air. Harry Carey says that he wouldn't loan the horse to Rockefeller if ho offered him a milium a day for tho loan, though it seems more likely to me that Rockefeller wonldu't attempt to mount him for a million, unless he's thinking of suicide. Like Hart's "Pinto" pany, "Dynamite" has appeared with his master in countless pictures, and whon he gets too old for work, he is going to he pensioned, and live in clover on the beautiful ranch in the San Francisquite valley. Carey has, of course, many other horsos, and another favpurito is ono ho bought a couple of years ago for five pounds from a knackor. The poor beast had been badly hurt., and was to have been killed, but Harry thought he could save him with proper treatment," and called in the best vet.' to bo found. In a few weeks that horso was racing the wildest broncs on tho ranch, and now its value is estimated at $1240. Only Harry says it's not for sale. Wanda is a Musician. WANDA HAWLEY, the charming little blonde who has recently become a Realart star in hor own right, is an accomplished musician. As a matter of fact, tho movies stole, her away from the concert stage. Miss Hawley received the greater part of her education at Seattle High School, and has always kept in touch with her old teachers and schoolmates. A short time ago she set the school song to music, and was as proud to hear that hor setting had been adopted, as she is of the bright gold star on her new dressing room. And the first vacation she gets, sho says, sho is going straight to Seattle to visit her old school, and hear the girls sing the song she composed for them in return for alt that her own schooldays have given her— a rich storehouse of happy memories. Elsie Cood.'