Screenland (Apr–Sept 1923)

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Pay $2.27 and postage to postman on delivery. another player. On the set she attends strictly to business or to the fancy work or book in her hands; off the set, she is Mrs. Bernard Durning, happily married wife of that big, good-looking director. ISta breath of scandal has ever touched Shirley, and she attributes part of her good luck in this respect to her habit of making the most , of her time while "waiting," and of never gossiping with the other players. Consequently, Shirley Makon gets very little publicity. Her \ name never appears in the day's news; she apparently has no fads or hobbies, for publication. And, if she loses somewhat because of ! this lack of front page space, she ! gains in sincere respect and admiration, which everyone on the Fox lot, and in the motion picture colony, for that matter, freely gives her. Tom Mix and Telepathy -Tom Mix has become a convert to the belief in mental telepathy, since he was a victim of its powers on location one day not long" ago. Tom is one of the most fearless stunt men in pictures, and permits no one to double for him. But his fearlessness is not always shared by all the cast, director, property men, etc. HAVE YOU A CHARMING PERSONALITY? IF NOT, WHY NOT? Tart Your eel/. Self-revealing chart and Success Guide, 10c. thomson_HEy\voOD. Dept. X, Chronicle Bldg., San Francisco. Calif. Charles Ray's Solution Charles Ray went through a terrible financial struggle when he left a salary to go into independent production. He had to make every minute and every penny count, for he was working on borrowed capital and the capitalists were not "honing" to give him any more. It seemed vitally necessary to Ray that every minute of those precious hours be utilized to the best advantage. But occasionally, and with increasing frequency, he would appear on a set to begin work and find that things were wrongall round. It was hard to put a finger on the trouble. The director summed it up by telling Ray it was simply antagonism, working out in small ways. At last it almost "got" Ray. He found himself unable to act to the best of his ability, for the antagonism was so thick he felt he could out it with a butter knife. He did a little snooping on his own, and found that it was all because the players had so much time on their hands, waiting for the call oi "Camera!" While they. waited the players spent their time in knocking, using the hammer with violen pleasure upon the star himself. No that they felt any personal animosity. They simply had to pass the time away, and profession;! jealousy turned the current of th< idle conversation starward. "I know of no way to eliminati the waiting for action on the sets but it does seem to me that som< plan could be worked out whereby the players Avould wait with mon contentment, and with something constructive to occupy their minds, says Charlie Ray. "I believe the solution is a reading room, where the players cai wait their turn. Of course the rule of the room would be that no talis ing could go on. They would b forced to write letters or read. . signal system of electric bells couL be devised, by which players coulj .. be summoned, by the assistant d: rector. The reading room would qi course have to be just off the prir cipal stage, and some small amount of waiting could not possibly 1; avoided. But much of the pern, cious gossip would be eliminated i this way, and certainly the players would be in a better frame of mind for their work." Charles Ray is probably right, as far as he goes. We wonder what tb pirates appearing "in Ray's new pi' ture, The Courtship of Miles Star dish, would read in this off-stag library? Would they read Boccaci or Ooue, "Pickwick Papers" < "penny dreadfuls" — if there are an such left in this too-highbrov, world? Would the women playe dream over fashion magazines ( would they read Elinor Glyn Would Dickens have a place on tl book shelves, or would Arabiai Nights (unexpurgated) crowd hit off? Probably "Mademoiselle ch Maupin" and "Du Barry" woul. leave scant room for Jane Austen But whatever other classics are let off the shelves, we do hope ths "Merton of the Movies" has a: honored place. At any rate, reading room or nc there is no end as yet in sight fo the Hollywood ogre— WAIT! 100