Picture Show (Oct 1920 - Apr 1921)

r>iturc Show, Murch Wh, 1921. Famous Readers of the " Pidture Show. No. 62.— M. B. (LEFTY) FLYNN. MB., who is perhaps better known as # Lefty, Flynn is a keen admirer of the Picture Show. Lefty gained this nickname when he was a famous football player. He is now playing for the films in Goldwyn photoplays. 4-t A Story You Mustn't Miss. THE MIDNIGHT BRIDE " is as thrilling a story as the title suggests. The story lias also made a splendid film, with Gladys Leslie as the girl heroine. This story is now appearing in the " Girls' Cinema," beginning to-morrow, Tuesday. You'll regret missing it when you see the film if you do not buy a copy to-morrow. — ♦> — The Real Thing. WHEN we see the "Purple Riders." with Joe Ryan in the star part, we shall see a group of real Westerners with whom Joe rode the plains before his motion picture days. How Lila Received Her Name. LILA LEE, whom we can now see in " The Cruise of the Make-Believes," is, as you know, one of the youngest motion picture stars before the public. She is well known on the music-hall stage, where she lias earned the name of " Cuddles." When but fourteen years of age she was announced as a " find " by one of the largest producing companies, and she lias certainly fulfilled their expectations since then. As " Cuddles," Lila Lee was prominently identified for nine years with a vaudeville show. A song, " Look Out for Jimmie Valentine," needed a cute tot to properly express the humour of it. After a prolonged aiid unsuccessful search, Lila was discovered playing in the street, dancing and sinking to a barrel organ. The consent of her parents was obtained, and Lila became " Cuddles " at four years old. — «-» — Good Fun. CULLEN LANDIS says there is nothing in the world that is better fun than collecting eggs from one's own chickens. He has a large number of chickens working for him. He started with a few prize birds, then became interested in them, and gradually purchased more and more, until now, he says lie will Lave to dispose of some of them, or buy a ranch on which to keep them, A Sensation in Lyndhurst. MILTON ROSMER created quite a sensation the other day in the old market town of Lyndhurst, where he has been enacting scenes for his new film, " Belphegor, the Mountebank." Mr. Rosmer, of course, plays the title role, PhoWrapkg a rd Paragraph? cP Picciire.r. PI aw and Playerj and the whole town stayed up all night to see him sword-swallowing in the market place by the light of a brilliant portable arc lamp. Bonfires were lit, and there was a picturesque torchlight procession to add to the excitement. Other scenes in the film, which is founded on the old stage play, were photographed in tho fine galleried courtyard of the George Inn, at Huntingdon, where Milton Rosmer startled the inhabitants by performing the difficult feat of balancing upon his chin a pole supporting a tiny child. Mr. Rosmer asserts that he lias had " no previous experience whatever," and Huntingdon still wonders how it was done. — — Modest Nazimova. RECOGNISED as one of the greatest actresses on the American screen to-day, Madame Nazimova is said to be still as modest as on the day she first arrived in New York as a member of a Russian company of dramatic players, who embarked with borrowed capital upon a season of Russian presentations in the metropolis. At that time her artistry and emotionalism, coupled with her type, compelled dramatic critics and exacting theatregoers to admit that she was something new and great. This opinion she knew, of course, but when it was repeated to her, Nazimova protested : " I am not great. . I am not even well known in Russia. I have played in Petrograd, but only for a single season. In Moscow, and in some of the smaller cities, they like me a little, I think, but really I am not so great as some would believe." — — An Innovation in Picture Shows. A NOVEL feature of a new picture theatre just opened in America is a room where mothers can leave their babies when they wish to go to the movies. Many women, who would otherwise stay a^ home, now bring their little ones, and leavo them in charge of the matron, while they proceed to enjoy -themselves for a time in tho theatre. Congratulations. I AM sure all my readers join with me in sending congratulations to Louise Huff on the birth of a son. Miss Huff, vou must know, off the screen is tho WILKIE LISTER, the well-known comedian, is now appearing in Cameo Comedies on the screen. His latest picture being entitled "Sea-side Frolics." Mr. Lister is also well-known i n pantomime, taking Idle Jack in " Dick Whittington " and principal comedian part in "(LittIe Jack Horner." LYDIA YEAMANS TITUS, now appearing in Goldwyn pictures with her husband, first introduced a piano on the music-hall stage in England (at the Oxford . Each night for many months she sang " Sally in Our Alley " on the stages o! the Pavilion, Mile End Road, and The Pavilion in Coventry Street. CONSTANCE WORTH as a pierrette in the carnival scene from Harma's coming photo-play " The Education of Micky." wife of a New York business man. She has only Toft the screen temporarily, however, and expects to be back in the studio shortly. — — The Ill-fated Hope Diamond. ML'CH curiosity has been excited by the arrival and forthcoming exhibition of the " Memoirs of the Hope Diamond." the ;>>ial picture in which the history of the famous jewel which for centuries has exercised such an uncanny influence over many women, as related by May Yohe. one-time musical comedy actress. May Yohe is now herself in Los Angeles with her husband, a nephew of General Smuts, and her personal supjrvision as well as the information she has been able to gather is of enormous value to the directors in the piecing together of this panorama of events, which for unusual interest and strangeness have never becu equalled. Why He Followed. IN a recent film a dog followed the hero around \ with a fidelity and devotion that was turn ual, even for a faithful animal, and specta rs wondered how tho director had managed it, or how the actor in question had inspired such wonderful affection. But when ib was explained it was simple enough. The ac tor had a nice fresh piece of liver in his pocket, and it was not a case of any wonderful training, or unusual affectionate faithfulness, but simply one of " following the lunch basket." You Must Laugh. NEWS has come through that ,; Seven Years Bad Luck," Max Linder's latest, is tho greatest laugh-producer ever projected upon the silver screen. As a matter of fact, the film has created a record, and if the old adage is correct, you will have the whole world laughing with yen when you see the film, and begin to giggle.