Screenland (May–Oct 1925)

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He handed it to Jetta, and without a word the steaming cup of water was consumed, and Jetta, smiling, insisted that she was 'the only one in the whole company who really had solved the problem of keeping cool. So Jetta insisted that some of us try it. However, after watching the second patient through an agonizing minute or two, the rest of us decided we didn't mind the heat at all! I hope the men, particularly, read this next; it may help them the Way it helped me! I met my good friend Rod La Rocque the other morning, and as usual noticed something new about him. He had the cuffs of his shirt sleeves unbuttoned and turned up over his coat-sleeve about an inch and a half. I suppose I kept staring and gazing at him so much that he at last vouchsafed some information. "Say, Marion," he said, "that's perfectly okay. Don't you know that this is the very latest thing in 'What the Men Will Wear'? It's called 'The Wales' Latest', and it's the most sensible thing that's happened in a long time. Now I can wear some of my shirts which have been waiting to have the sleeves shortened." Pretty nice, isn't it? And it really does look well, top. Whatever is going to happen in Hollywood fifteen years hence is beyond me! There aren't going to be any escorts, and the only one held to account is Old Man. Stork, Incorporated. Oh, he comes around, all right, but he's unloading all the girls in the world on the Hollywood moving picture families, and everybody knows that you've got to have heroes just the same as heroines. All of which means that there are two new baby girls in Hollywood — little Miss de Haven, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carter de Haven, and little Miss Vivian Reed, daughter of Jane Novak Reed and her director husband, William Reed. Who'll write to the Never-Never Land and tell the boss there that Hollywood needs some baby boys? "Oh^ no, he doesn't look a bit like his father." How many times has that been announced about Doug Fairbanks, Jr.? And what do YOU think about it? I thought the same until I saw him the other day with the little moustache he wears in his new Henry King picture, "Stella Dallas." It's just like his father's and makes him a regular chip off the old block. Growing, your first "whiskers" must be a grand and glorious feeling! The Eighteen Great Adventures ■ [Continued from page 27) with any type but all of them are mighty attractive young people. Although most of the time has been spent within the spacious confines of the Famous Players-Lasky studio in Astoria, Long Island, or about New York City, the eighteen boys and girls, paradoxical to relate, have lived through twelve centuries and all over Europe and the Orient in one month! That is to say, they have worn the costumes of all countries and all ages back to medieval times. A large room, with a stage, has been set aside at the studio for the students. There all the classes are held, and there the students have been suffering the heartache or satisfaction, as the case may be, of witnessing their histrionic efforts on the screen. On the opening day of class, Mr. Terriss undertook to rid the boys and girls of their self-consciousness. This is a natural trait among civilized people. Even well known actors will admit that they are frightened just before the curtain ascends on a new play. And so it was with our eighteen adventurers toward film fame. They were scared to death, collectively and individually. "Miss Kenvin, please get up on the stage," said Mr. Terriss suddenly. Miss Kenvin did, feeling decidedly uncomfortable. "Recite something for us," directed the principal. The girl hesitated. It was plainly a dreadful ordeal. "Well, sing your favorite song," Mr. Terriss urged, kindly. Miss Kenvin was patriotic. She began to sing "America." The venture was not a great success. The young woman looked down into the faces of her colleagues. None were smiling or laughing. All looked sympathetic. Each was wondering, no doubt, who the next victim would be. They applauded Miss Kenvin. She broke into a natural smile. Her ordeal was ended. And her self-consciousness was banished. To the remaining seventeen pupils it seemed a long time until Terriss spoke again. 1 "Miss Dunn, please get up on the stage and entertain us," he said. With trepidation, she walked on . the platform. Her companions smiled encouragement. She sang a popular song. The ice was broken for her. Each of the students had to repeat the performance. Mr. Terriss gently but firmly pointed out to each his faults in walking on or off the stage, in gesture and posture while singing or reciting. The next thing that the young folklearned was to act pictorially. This is an important phase of screen technique that only a movie actor can appreciate. The students spent a whole day in going over and over a simple scene in which two men call on a girl, sit down and have a talk with her. Nothing very complicated about that, is there? No doubt every attractive young man and woman of the early twenties has gone through the routine at least a hundred times in real life. But you see in real life we're pretty clusmy about the way we do things. When three people meet, they usually bunch together, get into awkward positions when they are arranging chairs, get behind one another, and in general do many little things, which, while perfectly natural, would make even the most unsophisticated fan groan if they were done that way in the movies. In other words, our everyday actions aren't what is termed in screen parlance as "pictorial." And when these boys and girls who may be the popular heroes and heroines of the silversheet in the next few years attempted to do these commonplace little acts of sitting down gracefully and bowing casually, they found that it wasn't as easy as it looks. Just to enter a room,' for instance, in a perfectly easy manner, without too