Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

SCEEENLAN© 101 Jimmie for years and he knows that he can trust them. They are his Court of Common Sense. In the projection room Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie look at many thousand feet of film and decide what is essential to the story. It breaks a director's heart to see his best stuff go in the discard but Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie work so tactfully that they can cut a picture without forcing: Griffith to leap off Brooklyn Bridge in sheer depths of gloom. More Hidden Hands o, ddly enough, two costume designers can qualify as hidden hands. Both Sophie Wachner, of the Goldwyn studio, and Ethel Chafin, of the Lasky studio, have unusual personalities. In spite of the fact that they are close to the business of making pictures, they still have a detached and critical attitude about the work that goes on in the big lots. Sophie Wachner represents Higher Criticism at the Goldwyn studio. The actors or actresses really fear her. She can make them or break them with the company. Her likes and dislikes are as casual, as sudden and as unreasonable as a bolt of lightning. She either likes a picture or she hates, it. She seldom says why she likes it or why she dislikes it but, once she is mad at a production, she stays away from it. In other words, Sophie is the General Public. Her opinions coincide almost exactly with the reaction of a million or more film fans. Actors and directors court her favor, exactly as they court the favor of the public. Mrs. Ethel Chafin seldom expresses her opinions about the pictures and she doesn't play favorites in the studio. But she is a marvellous bureau of complaint. She listens to confidences, she smooths away fights, she gives good advice, she calms hasty tempers, she encourages beginners. And when she has nothing else to do, she designs clothes. If she were an older woman with white hair, she would be called the studio mother. But she is a young, good-looking and businesslike person and so her advice carries the force of practical experience. Thcda Bara and Driven T he old line from "Merton of the Movies" — the one about "the best pals and severest critics" — holds good in many movie households. As a matter of fact, the wives excel as critics and plenty of important movie affairs are settled on the bungalow porches of Hollywood. Or at little home dinner parties. Or at Sunday afternoon teas. If you want to know the truth about a picture, don't ask the director. Just go to the director's wife. 44th We would like to make it clear that our operation of the BROAD W A YCL.AKIDGE HOTEL, in the heart of New York is going to be successful only because we render sincere service at a "square price." It is our privilege to prove the old slogan "A Room and a Bath for $3.50" is not just a fairy story which generally applies to ONE ROOM in a 300-room unit. 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