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QSome Escapades of the Playboy of the Motion Picture World
The LEGENDS of Mickey
jTjSKS^YEAR or so ago, Marcus Loew pulled off a little housecleaning at the Metro studio. Nearly all the stars and directors were let out, except Rex Ingram. Ingram was retained as a boxoffice bet and a money maker and most of Loew's film prospects were staked on his success. In other words, Ingram was to Loew a morning star, a meal ticket and a guarantee against starvation.
Considerable money was spent bringing Ingram to the East, and the
company was sent to Florida to film Where the Pavement Ends. Loew has several hundred thousand dollars and . his heart and soul invested in the picture.
Late one night, Loew's telephone rang. The movie magnate shook off sleep and answered it.
"Is this Mr. Loew?" asked a voice.
"Yes."
"This is the managing editor of the Los Angeles Eagle." "Yes, yes, go on."
"Have you a man named Ingram working for you down in Florida?"
Loew gulped hard and responded, "I have. What about him?"
"He's dead."
And the receiver clicked. After a sleepless night, worrying about the lost thousands, Marcus Loew learned that the "managing editor" was Mickey Neilan.
By Helen Lee
f&JVhile Marshall Neilan is familiar to the movie public as the director who put in a few good licks for Art in Stella Maris, Bits of Life and The Strangers' Banquet, the real Mickey is known only to a close circle of a few thousand intimate friends, all of them deeply involved in the film business. H,Mickey is the playboy of the movie world. Charles Chaplin springs the epigrams. Will Rogers pulls the wisecracks. Bull Montana says the wrong thing at the right time. But Mickey stages all the loud, rousing laughs.
Mickey Neilan.
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be printed about you in tomorrow's papers, I am obliged to withdraw my picture. Sorry. Douglas FairBanks."
Just as the manager had recovered, another telegram was shoved before his bewildered eyes. It read: "Owing to stories that have reached me, and which will soon be made public, all film service must be cut off from your theatre. Will Hayes."
Several frantic hours elapsed before the theatre owner learned that the telegrams had been sent by
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.prominent theatre owner in a Western city was opening a new "million dollar palace of the silent drama" with Douglas Fairbanks' picture, Robin Hood. The exhibitor had made considerable commotion over the opening. Flocks of stars had been invited, the mayor had promised to be present and the leading lights of the local social world had dusted off their diamonds for the occasion. Everything was set for a grand, glittering and gorgeous evening, with plenty of honor and glory for the theatre owner himself.
On the afternoon before the opening, the manager received the following telegram: "Because of the scandalous story to
strange messages, telephone calls and letters received from film folk are credited up to Mickey Neilan. One evening John Robertson was reading his fan mail when he came across this line, "I think you the handsomest man in the business."
"Ha! exclaimed Robe r t s o n , throwing [Continued
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