Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

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CONSUMERS CO., Dept. 1Q-A 1265 Broadway, New York never is. She looks as Irish noblewomen should look and never do. She never calls women dear. She's Always Natural nly very beautiful or very clever women can afford to be absolutely natural at all times. At formal teas ; at interviews ; at the premiers of their own pictures. Of the gelatine heroines, I can recollect only Olive Thomas, and Mabel Normand, Norma Talmadge, Viola Dana, and Alma Rubens. Naive Ann Pennington once placed a plump Schopenhauer on the table when I called. I have never seen anything like this at Mrs. Rubens' house. If I ever pick up a book there, I shall pray that it is the Motor Routes of New York State. But it would not startle me to see that it is something by Remy de Gourmont. I've been to see Alma and her mother when they're just moving into a new apartment or just moving out ; when there have been paper-hangers and plumbers and new maids and maids being fired. There are always little dogs darting about. There is even a blind Pekingese. It's like something by Gertrude Stein, and twice as amusing. There isn't a framed picture of Alma in the place. Ma Rubens and Her Picture A paper once requested of Mother Rubens a photograph of herself. "You don't want to put my ugly mug in your magazine !" she cried in honest horror. There was another "e" in the family name originally, you know, but they could never remember just where it went, so it became, definitely Rubens. I remember Alma and her mother, silhouetted in twilight against a window that looks out on Central Park. Alma wrapped in something soft and rich and medieval; her amazing brown eyes half veiled with their preposterously long lashes. With Mrs. Rubens, who was in black, from France, she might have been posing for something. "What were you saying, Mother?" "Why, I went over to Second Avenue today for the vegetables ; you can do so much better over there than on Sixth." CL The Editor Comments on Current Pictures — From page 40 New Screenplays in Review L AST month lack of space prevented us commenting upon Pola Negri's appearance in her revival of The Cheat. I was going to be very caustic about it. But at this distance I can't seem to remember about it. The original screen melodrama had undergone terrible tribulations. The sinister Jap scoundrel of the original, once done so well by Sessue Hayakawa, turned out to be a fake Hindoo, done very badly by Charles de Roche. There were other changes, and for the worse. If I were Pola I'd be inquiring about the cost of living in Berlin — before it's too late. CL Helen Lee Introduces Some Silent Workers — From page 48 Hidden Hands ofi Filmdom While C. B. directs the dancing girls in the studio, Jeanie sits in her office and invents the scenes that must hold the story together. She can re-write a story hundreds of times to suit her boss. And she can re-write her own work without complaining. She isn't much in evidence around the studio but she is very much present when C. B. begins to put the picture together. And when the director gets stuck, the rush call goes out for Jeanie. D. Griffith and His Cutters W. Griffith's stories are not so much written as assembled. Griffith shoots miles of footage, works for months, stages all sorts of fine effects and then dumps the crude product on the door-step of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Smith. Whereupon Jimmie and the missus rescue the orphan of D. W.'s brainstorm and beat it into submission. The Smiths are officially known as the chief cutters of the Griffith studio. They are among the oldest members of the Griffith family. Jimmie was a school friend of the beloved Bobbie Harron and received his education at St. Joseph's Parochial School down in Greenwich Village in New York. But he went through his college training at the old Biograph studio. Griffith has known Mr. and Mrs.