Picture Show (Oct 1920 - Apr 1921)

I2.al. 1921. IS JDIOS. AND GOSSIP ABOUT YOUR OWN STARS couldn't go to Nice in another Lasky film, but thcro was not a suitable part for inc. Just when I was inclined to repine, because I hate beinc idle, I had a most wonderful offer from tho Granger-Binger Company, Holland. A Pauline Frederick Part. IT was to play three glorious, dramatic leads,'' Marjoric Hume said delightedly, " one being in the adaptation of Fergus Hume's novel, ' The Other Person,' and the other in ' Kitty Tailleur.' May Sinclair's book. Some of the exteriors will be done in the South of England. I must tell you," she added, "before I could accept the Granger-Binger offer, I had to run over to Islington to ask Major Bell's permission for the Famous Plajers-Lasky, and it was very kindly given, but of course in all printed matter connected with the film, the permission must be shown ! Artist, Musician. BESIDES doing film work," Marjorie Hume confessed, " I have done black and while work. I studied animal painting under Edith Magill, and when I was about eighteen, I sold quite a lot of my sketches. I also used to practise the piano four hours a day — but, of course, I cannot do that now," she laughed ; '.' however, I keep up my music, just sufliciently to amuse myself and my friends." A Phillips Oppenheim Scenario. I HEARD from Pardoe Woodman the other morning ; he is one of the lucky ones who has been basking in the sunshine at Nice. He tells me he is playing the lead in a Famous Players'-Lasky Film. It is an original scenario " written specially ' for the Lasky folk, by Phillips Oppenheim." The title is not yet decided upon. Before leaving for the south of France, Pardoe Woodman put in long hours on " Place of Honour" (Stoll film), in order to get finished in time. A Studios With an Atmosphere ! THE other morning, out of tho fog and gloom of a London street not far from Holborn, I stepped into fairyland. It was a delightful studio, merry DORIS LLOYD. One of the charming exterior scenes in Shadow Between." _ and gay with cretonne and flowers, where once upon a time Irving and Toole rehearsed their plays. It is now occupied by Miss Doris Lloyd, and her brilliantly clever sculpture sister, Milba. Doris Lloyd told me that she understudied Miss Gladys Cooper in " Wedding Bells." She was also in Tod's Experience, with Owen Nares. For six years Doris Lloyd was in the Liverpool Repertory Theatre, and she played in well over a hundred parts, which included works by Sbaw and Galsworthy — "Just the same sort of work as the Everyman Theatre is doing now," she said. " Nearly all the people who ptayed at the Repertory Theatre are doing good work in West-End theatres. A Dangerous Coast. MANY of the scenes in the film, ' The Shadow Between,' in which I played a lead, were done in Newquay, Cornwall. Unwillingly we chose a very dangerous part of the coast for some of the big scenes. It was not until wo bad done the wreck .scene, and the -breakers were so enormous that we were nearly all washed away, tfiat we were told there were two deaths a year in that particular spot ! Luck, and a Wreck. IN one scene we wanted a wreck, and it actually occurred before our eyes ! Tho picture shows the children picking up the wreckage as it was washed up on the beach. It was a French tramp steamer. A Too-Zealous Servant. SOME of tho scenes for 'The Shadow Between,' had been taken in the studio, London, before wo wont down to Cornwall. Tho hero's ■ dress suit bad been specially prepared, with sizo and glue, for tho rescue scenes in the water. At the Newquay Hotel all his clothes were put out. The day he wanted to wear his prepared dress suit for the wreck, it had been carefully brushed, and a noto of apology greeted him with the words : " ' Done the best 1 can with them ! ' m . LEWIS DAYTON. Tantagels and King Arthur's Round Table. THE last scenes were taken at the top of a cliff, which has romantic associations with Tantagels, and King Arthur and his round table. To reach this particular spot, we motored thirty or forty miles, and had to wait for the sun to set, expecting to be blown down the cliff every minute, and I was wearing a crepe de Chine dress and thin shoes." A Screen Favourite. THE other afternoon I met a great screen favourite, Lewis Dayton. I expect many of you have seen him in some of the newly released British films, although he only came back from America last Mareh. He plays the lead in the " Shadow Between," and in " The Great Day," for the Famous PlayersLasky. In the " Mystery of Bernard Brown," Stoll's ; " A Rank Outsider," Broadwest ; and " The Way of a Man," Gaumont. Lewis Dayton has also done quite a lot of w ork for William Fox, the Universal Biograph. Silver Fox. 1 SPENT some time two hundred miles north of Alberta, Edmonton," Lewis Dayton told me, " trapping silver-tipped foxes. It was bitterly cold, the temperature being forty-eight and fifty degrees below zero." He also did ranching and cow-punching in British Columbia ; so Lewis Dayton has had a very varied and strenuous career, perhaps that is one of the reasons that his screen acting is so real and virile. " In my first picture I plaved with Marv Pickford and Blanche Sweet. "W. D. Griffith was quite a small man in those days, and our producer." The Rev. Silas Hocking. THE famous author of " The Shadow Between," was an interested spectator at the trade show of the adaptation of his book for a film play, at the Shaftesbury Pavilion, Shaftesbury Avenue, the other morning. In answer to my question as to his feelings when first he saw the characters in his book brought to life on the screen, he says : " When you ask about my feehngs, yon bring me tip with a very difficult question. For the first time ono sees one's story through other people's eyes, and it is something of a shock. There is so much that has necessarily been left out, and it. is another shock. Then one begins to wonder at the ingenuity of the patchwork, at t!ie cleverness of tlie actors, at the amazing beauty of many of the pictures, and at the effecthn co-ordination of all the parts; I was tremendously interested, and the time passed like a dream." . . Edith Nepe4>". SILAS HOCKING.