Picture Show (Oct 1920 - Apr 1921)

"PICTURE SHOW" CHAT. {ConlZed3f)om Cinema " Stunt " Artistes Form a Club. •"j-'HE overwhelming majority of film artistes [ who are capahle of performing perilous "stunts" have just formed a club, the membership of which is restricted to " stunt " artistes. Tho headquarters of tho " Stunt '' t.'lub are at tho Film Tests .Productions, Ltd., 56, Great Marlborough Street, VV.l. Capt.West, tho well-known actor and rough-rider, being the originator and club captain. Tho club members include straight or rough riders, drivers, high divers and swimmers, motor cyclists and drivers, oarsmen and yachtsmen, boxers, wrestlers, acrobats, knockabout artistes, and animal impersonators. In short, every variety of film artiste who is prepared to risk his or her life to make a picture-lover's holiday. The Cinema Artistes' " Stunt " Club already includes such well known actors and actresses as Miss Sadie Bennett, Bob Clifton, Montagu Thacker, Lester Gard, Captain Charles West, Alec Orac and others well-known in the film world, and the membership is hourly growing. Mistaken Identity. VIOLET GRAHAM, who plays opposite Langholme Burton, in " A Man's Shadow," must hold a record for being mistaken for some other stage or screen celebrity. Not long ago, when filming at Mumble's Head, when she returned to the hotel, she was surprised to find an enormous crowd waiting. Hero she is ! Here comes Lucille ! " they • shouted, and she was given a rousing cheer. Not until later was it discovered that tho local picture palace was running a Lucille Love serial, and nothing would persuade the crowd that Violet Graham was not Lucille Love; in fact, she had to come out on the balcony of the hotel and make a pretty little speech. Then, when she was playing Lily Elsie's part in "Mavourneen," in spile of the fact that the change of cast had been widely advertised, the majority of tho audience went away under the firm impression that they had seen Lily Elsie. The Girl Who Looked Like Gladys Cooper. AND now, when producing " A Man's Shadow." in Brighton, u largo crowd assembled, and tho producer was taken by the arm by a young newspaper roporter, who asked in a stage whisper in which car ho would bo able to sec Gladys Cooper. " She's not hero with my company," replied tho producer. " Now don't try and bluff me," rt-pHod the reporter. " I know you don't want your work interfered with, but if you don't loll me on tho •juiet I shall have to find out hy searching." MOLLY MALONE. Tbe latest portrait of this little Goldwyu star. HELEN O'DONOVEN. OLIVE DARNBOUGH. Two cinema actresses, who are to feature in real life stories for a new British film company, which will follow the lines of an American film company, and, instead of filming fiction, will picture the real life stories of these stars. " You will find Violet Graham in the lust car but one then," replied the producer. Romances in the Letter Bag. ONE of the many letters which Miss Violet Hopson, tho famous Broadwest star, received last week, was one from South Africa, announcing the fact that a little baby girl had been named after her. The parents of the baby had become engaged while watching a film in which Miss Hopson appeared. They were married and adopted her as theirmascot. They expressed regret at the fact that the screen star was not sufficiently near as to stand as tho baby's god-mothor. Life Stories. THIS is only one of the many romances which are brought to Miss Hopson's notice through her mail bag. She takes tho deepest interest in her correspondence, and although she seldom has time to answer each one personally, she read3 all letters addressed to l\er.. Some of tho life stories which are confided to this ever sympathetic actress are tragedies, and Miss Hopson sax's that she finds that her letter bag resembles a book of. stories of people in every walk of life. In her they confido their ambitions, disappointments, hopes and sorrows, anil it isTstldoin that an answer is not forthcoming. — ♦-♦ — Prince to Die for a Film. KILLING a real tiger for a scene in a photoplay was the unusual st unt done for u coming production entitled " Tiger." " Prince," the feline actor who is a member of the Universal menagerie, was becoming too savage to live, and had to die anyway. Tom's Love of Daring. TOM SANTSCHI, who plays the hero role in a series of two-real thrillers, says that he probably inherits his love of physical peril in his work from his mountain climbing Swiss ancestors. Tho big and fearless star confesses to a sense of unbearable restlessness when deprived of an opportunity for physicul exercises. Working in the movies — scaling dirts, swimming rapids, riding over dangerous trails, and fighting desperate battles against heavy odds— bring him tho relief which his strenuous nature requires. — ♦•» — A Charming Girl. DOUGLAS MACLEAN and Doris May have rccoived charming homage from an old gentleman in Arkansas in tho form of a number of freshwater pearls which he had collected himself. Mr. MacLean's reached him in n pair of sleeve-links, and tho others were strung upon a slender chain for Miss May. The donor in sending them wrote that ho had been saving them for his two children, both of whom hade recently died. Their death had been a terrible blow to him, ond it whs only in watching thfc work a| the "Dual Deights " of the screen that he had enjoyed a few hours of forgetfulness in his great sorrow. Fay Filmsr. Picture Show, December 2bth, 1920. FROM " OVER THERE." Notes and News From New York. A Bachelor's Home. DID you ever hear of a bachelor who loved his home so dearly it cost him a pang every time he had to leave his own precious fireside ? If you have never heard of such a domestic bachelor, then meet Eugene' O'Brien. I have never known of a man who loved hi3 home with such unceasing devotion. He is simply wedded to the little place he bought this year on the co-operative plan, and he js actually unhappy when he has to go away to make a picture. I asked him not long ago, when I happened to see him the day before he was about to go south to make exteriors for a Srlznick production, why he looked so glum ? The famous O'Brien smile was entirely missing, and such a look of desperation was in his eyes, I thought he must be either in love, at least, or on the veige of matrimony. " Matter enough," he grumbled. " I have to go down into the mountains of Virginia to mako my next picture." " Do you dislike the country so much," 1 asked. " It's not the country, it's leaving my new baby grand piano, my pipe, a,nd' my books. Say, the more evenings 1 spend in my apartment, the more I hate to tear myself away.'' Come up some evening, and I will let you see my little home." I muttered something about it being un-^ conventional for a woman to dine with a man at his apartments. Then I felt very much nshamed of myself when he said in the most matter of fact way. " Oh, of course, ray mother is living with me.' You know, having her is a treat, and then cdmbined with having an honest to goodness home, its almost too much." I have some wonderful phototrraphs of Eugene in his drawing-room with all the comforts of home excepting a wife. Still there aro men who might not believe a . chatelaine would add to the interest of tlieir domain, especially when bachelorhood is considered such a blessed privilege. . The Inconsolable Patricia. BILLIE BURKE has instituted a country wide search for a wiry-haired fox terrier who answers to the family name of Billie. Suid Billie dog belongs to Patricia, the small daughter of Billie Burke the actress, and Forenz Zeigfold, theatrical magnate. He disappeared one fino winter day, and Patricia has been inconsolable ever since. She has worried herself almost sick about her doggie being out in the cold. Thinking to console the little lady, her father bought a smart looking Boston terrier w ith a pedigree and everything, but Patricia is loyal and she refuses to accept the newcomer as ;i substitute. Her devoted mother is searching, tho highways hoping to bring back the smiles t o her little daughter's face. The amount of tho reward offered is staggering, and sufficient to make any thief who has Billie Burke's dog in his possession willing to return it to the family home at Hastings on the Hudson. Tony Says It's Not True. IE these mole stars do not want to be credited with matrimonial aspirations they should not buy homes. Antonio Morono, being a thrifty young man, has recently purchased a home: I do not recall its exact location, but to sound well with his name I suppose it should be a castle in Spain. Ever since one of tho fan magazines carried the story of Tonjj's house, feminine hearts in America have suffered a terrible shock, and now Tony asks us to please dony he has any immediate intentions of taking unto himself a wife. — — Returning to the Screen. I CANNOT remember whether or not 1 told my English readers that Doris Kenyon is coming hack to the screen. She has started work on a picture to be directed by Leonce I'crret, and will supplement this feature with a series of productions for Mr. Perrot. A little later she will appear in a stage play under tho auspices of tho well-known American producer, A. 11. Woods. I.OUEIXA O. P.\nSONS.