Pictures Press (Aug 21-28, 1920)

August 28, 1920 PICTURES PRESS 49 From Bathing Beauty to Comedienne ‘ Bp! ’ * Phyllis Haver as Bathing Girl and Star pTROM bathing beauty to principal comedienne is the screen evolution of Phyllis Haver. This young Los Angeles High School graduate, who has the chief female part in “Love, Honor and Behave,” the Mack Sennett five-reel comedy which was given a preview at Venice last week, was only a short time ago just one of the Sennett bathing girls. Miss Haver first came to screen notice in the leading part in the comedy, ‘ ‘ Married Life. ’ ’ That made her almost a real celebrity. “Love, Honor and Behave” will advance her on the way. Two years ago she was still attending high school. Kansas is Miss Haver’s natal state, but her parents moved to California when Phyllis was such a tot that she has no Otis Skinner to Complete Work Soon in Kismet “JZISMET,” the Robertson-Cole provduction now being screened under the direction of L. J. Gasnier and featuring Otis Skinner, will be completed next week, according to an announcement from the Los Angeles offices of the company. An interesting feature of this photoplay is that it marks the initial appearance of Otis Skinner in motion pictures. There is probably no more romantic figure of the contemporary stage than Skinner, who ever since he made his first public appearance at the old Philadel recollection of the event. As a piano player in a cinema theater of one of the residential sections of Los Angeles, Miss Haver made her debut as a picture devotee. This happened while she was still in high school, and parental objection to the late hours involved — plus the manager’s objection that Miss Haver’s repertoire was limited to the fifteen pieces she could play by ear — nipped her pianistic aspirations in the bud, sent her back to finish her high-school course, and gave her opportunity to nurse her screen ambitions until they landed her as a Sennett bathing beauty. Her stepping upward in her profession followed by virtue of a personality of unusual charm and unique gifts of pantomime and dramatic expression. phia Museum in 1877 has held a conspicuous place in theatrical history. On several former occasions, Mr. Skinner has been approached to do “Kismet” for the screen, but each time the producers hesitated on account of the great outlay the production would necessitate. But now the production is well under way. On the large tract of ground recently purchased for the new RobertsonCole studios, settings have been built which cover several acres and which will form the background of the exteriors of ancient Bagdad with its mosques and palaces, its bazaars and its strange streets. The interior sets are occupying several of the great stages of the Haworth studio. iiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimHiiiimiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiimmiiiiimmniiiiimiimiiiiiimmi'i 1 Success is Assured for Pictures Press \ I HERMANN FILM CORPORA 1 | TION Santa Monica, Calif., | | Aug. 24, 1920. | 1 Editor, Pictures Press, | Los Angeles, Calif. The fact that you have inaugu | | rated a trade-paper in the home of | | motion pictures is indeed gratify | | ing to me as a producer and as one 1 | who has the upbuilding and | 1 growth of the picture industry at | 1 heart. You will meet with sin | 1 cere co-operation of everyone in | 1 terested in pictures and the allied | | arts, and success should and will | I crown your efforts. E. P. HERMANN, j | President. 1 I UNITED STARS PICTURES I CORPORATION San Francisco, Calif., 1 Aug. 18, 1920. I 1 Editors, Pictures Press, | Los Angeles, Calif. Permits us to say your initial | 1 edition of “Pictures Press” con | I tains the right make-up for all it § | represents — a presentation to the | | public of the motion picture in 1 1 dustry by a publication located in | 1 the section where pictuers are | 1 made. We predict that which | I you deserve, Success. | R. E. CLAPP, | Director of Publicity. 1 5iiiiiiiimi mini Reid Scores Success Portraying Dual Roles “The greatest acting ever done by Wallace Reid” is the way folk who worked with him during the production are describing his portrayal of the dual role in “Always Audacious,” his latest Paramount picture. The dual roles in “Always Audacious” was peculiarly difficult. Reid played the two parts without varying his make-up. He changed his suits as he stepped from one role to the other, but they were the same type of suits. As the “crook,” he wore a business suit; as the man of position and wealth he wore a business suit. In other words, he was not aided by being able to change from good clothes to tatters. In one episode he wore a beard for one of the two roles, but that was only one episode out of many. At all other times he was unaided by outward appearances.