Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

Niblo, Rex Ingram, John S. Robertson, Henry King, Marshall Nielan and James Cruze sit. D. W. Griffith has a back seat as far as I am concerned, and will continue to have one until he makes another good picture, which I am afraid he can't do without Lillian Gish. Why doesn't some enterprising producer try to lure Joe Cook into the movies? He is a wonderful pantomimist, and if he were allowed to write his own sub-titles and think up gags he would have his audiences in stitches. If that, powerful imagination of his could be harnessed and put to use in pictures, there might be more hope for the future of the moving picture. Now, I'm going to explode! Can something be done about Mae Murray? She's a menace to the more-or-less intelligent public. I suggest that a society be formed for the suppression of her pictures, and am sure that Robert E. Sherwood would gladly take the presidentiachair. I hereby apply for the position of aide-in-chief to Mr. Sherwood in his humane work. I went hopefully forth to see Mae Murray's most recent effort — "effort" is good — The French Doll, and had to walk out at the end of the third reel — I was nauseated. Now for a few pleasant remarks. Forthwith ismy list of the real actors and actresses in pictures, in about the order in which I regard them: George Arliss, Lowell Sherman, Laurette Taylor, Lillian Gish, Norma Talmadge (in spite of the titles and sub-titles of her pictures), Leatrice Joy, Charles Emmett Mack (so miscast in "The White Rose!"), Alice Terry, Ford Sterling, Lew Cody, Jackie Coogan, Richard Barthelmess and Lloyd Hamilton. And here's my list of the ten best pictures to date: Disraeli, Nanook of the North, Broken Blossoms, Minnie, The Flirt, Peg o' my Heart, Driven, The Three Musketeers and The Famous Mrs. Fair. Only nine — excuse me! MURDENA M. MACGREGOR i i 26 Moyer St., Pittsburgh, Pa. The Editor's Box, screenland. Why do authors allow such wholesale mutilation of their best novels? Of course, the answer comes to me immediately— money. But what I can't understand is how they can stand to see their stories changed so! How can they bear to see their brain-children made unrecognizable by the awkward hand of some bungling director? Take for an example, Main Street. Sinclair Lewis put out a great work — a book that will last. I predict that to the future generation he will be what Dickens is to us. With his mass of detail he gives us, and the generations to come, an authentic picture of the small western town as it is today. (Continued on Page 14) MAGIC GI0VES Whiten Hands Overnight Astounding Scientific Discovery— Dr. Egan's Magic Night Gloves! Make rough, reddened, work-worn hands soft and white over-night! Results Absolutely Guaranteed in Writing. Legal Guarantee Bond with Every Pair. JUST think of it— putting on a pair of gloves for a night and finding your hands exquisitely white and soft! That is the magic of Dr. Egan's amazing medicated Gloves! 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