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Iiy HENRY
Dick's Stardom Simply Went Right to Mother's Head
WHEN" yon gn in!" n moving-picture utmlin, Ornldlno. yr-ii will notirc one
very peculiar tlilnR. You will find n lot of rliulrs in more or le passable
state of repair standing ntinut juM bojonil the rntnern on the ot. There will
be two of them that nre good. They will be folding clialrs with canvas backs
and thcTC will be a name painted on each back
You will find that you can fit in any elinlr except thepe two. and tiobodv
will pay nny attention to you Hut Mt in one or the other of them and you feel
the air Immediately become charged with nntnijoiilMli- electricit.v. (I'm speak
ing poetically no. not ciontirlcall.v.)
You won't it in the chair long. You'll see hostile glance cat In your
ilirectlon and. If jou haven't the good en'e to get up anil fade out. some one
Will request you to do just that little thing.
Those two chair are the thrones of moledom. One of them bears the
name of the diieclor. the other, the name of the tar They xvmbolize nil that
is sacred in the magic realm of the silent drama client. I mean, except when
the carpenters are at work or some one on another "et is practicing to become
r bollcrmnker)
Unless jou have spent a great deal of time In studios, jou will not fully
rtallfe all thnt is represented b those two chair Tbej are really sacred
emblems, to be venerated like a tatue of Huddhii or a bott'e of pre-war three
star. And een the nvvper of the nompanj wouldn't think of coming in Biid
sitting In one of them. Nobody but u movie editor would cer so far forget
the proprieties.
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TT IS necessary to eithbUih the snercdness of these ehmrs irt ynur mind
in order thnt you winy uudfrsMnd
m the Bionrnph studios m fir Vorfr last week when Pick Barthelmess
was finishing the interiors lor his tirst starring picture, "TnVahtti
Hand." tick has been n leading man fur n long tunc. Sow hr m u
star, lie has arrival nt the inj height nj his profession.
"KS silly old mother " a lie calls herself (if every man had a ' silly
U old
old mother" like hpr there would be
studios while he his been making his climb upward Paring the four ears
he has been in pictures she has sat and watched lum act just three times She
didn't want her presence to take his mind off his work
But. after the company came back from location in the Virginia mountains
and began to shoot the interiors in the htudlo, she broke her rule nml went to
see him. She has been on the stagi and in picture herself; she knows the rules
about the chairs around a set
Br good luck I happened to be in the studio talking to Pick when slip
entered. Ve did not see her until we he.ird a little cr.v of happ astonishment
Then we turned and saw her staring imbeliewnglj at the chair with Dick's
name on it.
Figuratively, she rubbed her eyes and then pointed it out excitedly tn two (
friends who had come in with her. 1 never saw a woman look happier in my
life. She knew her son had been made a star: she had seen it in the papers and
all that sprt of thing, but it remained for that one iuul. hallowed sign to!
bring it home to her
Pick smiled as he saw it.
he has a really beautiful smile.
And.
confused and as self-conscious
as any
she hid hen-elf in another set.
JLJK H A l n limit jnh hiinqing
i' Ar apologised to Ihck ami e
her
apologised to Ihek ami explained to vie thnt He irM n illy
old mother" mid )utt couldn't help
nf Wicfc'i iimiir on that chair hnd
some one icouM be as iy a that
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RP. while they were fixing the lights. I saw Director Henry King
and sit down with Pick and his mother And Mrs. Barthelmes.s
began to tell him about the incident. I snapped their picture: it made an inter
esting souvenir, don't you think?
And now. (Jeraldine. pleasp don't start deluging me with letters about
Pick, 1 know jou hae worshiped him for a long time: lots of girls hnve. He
gets over 200 fan letters every a.
Mother used to open all these letters for him And she confided to me that
I had no idea of the utterly foolish things ome of the girls said. Some of them
really acted as though Pick belonged to them bv right of conquest or something,
and in secral cases she was afraid they might go to extremes and get themselves
into unpleasant notoriety. ,
She never let Pick see these letters She kept the more rabid fans at a
distance and destroyed the letters from others. She gave Pick only the ones
that contained nice things about his acting or suggestions that might be helpful.
DfCK himself feeh that a great weight hm been lifted fiom Jim
shoulders, note that he has finished "lolnble Druid " 1 1' n bin
tetpaniihilttti for a boy of tirentn-firc to carry by himiclf the foi
tunes of n do:en other actors and nctitsses mid the big sum of money
that is necessary to launch a iiew star.
The shooting is finished; he's cutting and editing now. It's mi
unusual part that he has in this picture and something totally different
from anything that he has done befnie. St, he and Mother and ciery
one else concerned are looking forirnrd irith a good deal of nervousness
tn the impicssion it is going to make on you and me, (leraldine. But
I think there's one thing he already has in his favor. B'e re always liked
him immensely, lint en' t iref
Daily Tabloid Talfs to Fam
on Br?.ating Into the Movies
By JOHN EMERSON
Rules for Beginners
The authors of this series are the
famous Emerson and Lons. who hm e '
written some of the most successful
photoplays. They now haie full
charge of all scenarios for Constance
Talmadge,
THERE nre a few rules which begin
ners In the studios would do well
t( follow Heie the an
Be modest Bei mise von don't
understand wbv something is done
don't believe it is all nonene And
remember that oii ne ever o iiiu-di
to leirn about the b-l-lliess
Don't criueie
Try your best to p!cae every one
particuhri the director ituso
shouldeis are carrying the responsi
bility for the whole production and
whose manner mav h a bit grulT
ns it usuallv is when n nmii i' Inlior
ing under a heavv IhihI
Don' be nshntned "! being in mo
tion pictures. If oii tlnnk mctures
are a low -brow form of milking n
living, jour nsoclaies will ureb
become aw nre of your state of mind
and jou will be quicth frten out.
In th' old da of the photoplay so
cial status in the studio wan deter
mined by a curious system, based iinm
the pay eneloic
Actors for the film world is iom
poseil foi the prenter pari of actors
are rlassrd into the Mars. ,ho "lends '
the "parts," the "bits," the "extras '
and "mobs. '
The star is, of course, the highly
J. aid aclor or actress who is the feiiire
of the production, the "lead" is the
leading icnn oi woman ho iom oppo
slto the star, the "patts" inilude ill'
those chiractiiH whnh appear on tln-
PTogrant tho minor iharaeters of tl
play; the "bits' .up those who are I
called on to perform n bit of inillwdiuil
iiiiiun, 3UCU as hip iiutier w iio opens
the door, or the chauffeur who drives
Ujb car, but who have no real part in
tha play ; the "extras" an simply mem
bers of the crowd, hh the ballroom
throng, while a mob u juM a nuss of
jieople, like nn army jr the audience
at a football game
THE large producing companies fre
quently gae elaborate dinners,
seating three or four hundred people,
and under this ridiculous old system the
star sut at the head of the table, with
thp "leads" nenr at hand.
Then came the "parts. ' then th
''bits." 'iiul llniily, hw.i.v down nt tlie
foot of the table, were the "extras."
In the same win diieetois insistent
directors, studlr irnnngers and ho foiih
yttte groueii dawn 'icmriling to ho
mch money ihey dri'i from the (.ashler
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4oay on mi inoDnery nns patsed
fT3& Daily Movie Magazine
MOVIE GAME
M. NKEL.Y
thr pretty little scene thnt I saw
no .101N ' has purpovelj kept out of the
He doesn't often smile, 1 wish he would, fori
when his mother saw It. she became as
seventeen - jrar - om Pick-worshiper anil
hnrk. And when tAc rfid retwiii
ichat she had done hccninc the sight
gone straight to her head. I with
nter me.
and
ANITA
LOOS
in Movie Studios
nwai The puttire world has itc smart
ei and its sitniiM, ns m nl,y other
world, hut the cntenon is artistlt
wouli nut monev
W lnop or one rnther unpleasant
personality who h.is risen to stardom,
but is -imp!n-dy ignored bv the lesser
lights of the profession desjiitp tills
star's atl"injits to break into "fibn v
eien." ' 7 hesr "Tabloid 'talks" arc con
dented from the material fo hi honk
''! Mr I'mrrsnn and lim f.on tn be
published hv the nines A, Mrf'nnn
Company. cir ) ork . I
IT hat ) our Favorite
Film Stars Are Doing
Vgnes Ayies mivs she can si iparhire
with the American soloiei , nnn -.pout
much nf their time in the on! r train
ing; cimps, where sand'torms were
more fr-sjuent then cnIN to sign tlie
pay mil For 'he lost week .Miss Ayrei
litti been in the midst of n lnj; and
norm stlired up bv perfectly go. air
plane mototH. which will be one of the
feitur- frenes in the picturizatlrn of
"Hie Sheik," E M. Hull's novel.
I.lla l.p plnvs the douh'e role of i
country G"'. s-veet ind ingenious, and
of a citv sir 1. up to the minute in fash
ion. in Houro,. i Fatty i Arh-nkle s 'ntet
picture "Freight Piepaul"
Kathryn Terry, 'he Xiegfeld Follies
qirl, who e.ent'v cloned null llwen
Moore, the film stnr, plays I In- rule of
ii gold ligger in the plctunrcd version
of the -fnge p!av called "W'liv (ilrh
l.envc Home" prodine.l bv Wnrnet
Brothers, supervised by Harry Il.ipf
nnd diiis'ted bv William Nigh.
Kate Itlanhe, who plays the mother
love ole in the Kupert Huglns screen
story. "The Old Nest. ' plnvs- n similar
part in "Why flirls Leave Home "
produced by Warnei Hi others, an J
adapted for the screen bv Willinm Nlgh
Harry Hapf, the theatrical and motion
picture producer, supervised the filming
of the picture.
Hetty niytlvo. who hn.s been in New
York for several months, has finally de
cided to return to her home in Cali
fornia. I.os Angeles will welinme Mis
Itlvthe buck on Scptenibci I nIic having
ile ided to iciurn theie and nsumc hei
piiture work rather than stay In the
.ust .Miss Illy the says "Ouccn of
Sheba' still gives her n thrill, nnd
'she cjpecU shn will be nmong those
present when It plays In
Los Angeles, j
DICK'S NAME ON HIS
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WIIKN Mrs. llitrthel
Bloci.-iph studio to
mess went to the
nn stui ho to see her "on Pick
finishing up the Interiors for "Tol'nble
fa iil. ' she ncarl fainted when she
saw Ins name on a chair in front of
the set.
WESLEY BARRY IS
'RIPE' FOR TENROD;
DECLARES NEILAN
WESLEY BARRY
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ARSHALL NEILAN'S next pio
ductlon. now that he has iom-
pleled "Bits of Life" will be "Pen
rod." Booth Tarkington'? famous Ihij
character, with Wesley Barry in the
title role
"Penrod" is to the present geneia
tion of playgoers anil magazine leaders
what "Beck's Bad Boy" was, to those
of another generation. The torv is
i onsidered one of the most xalunble
pieces, of theatrical propeity that has
appeared in years, nud Neilan hn li.nl
! the screen rights to it for about two
I years. He explains that his delay in
putting it into woik was due chiefly
I to the fact that he deshed to watt
until Wesby Harry was "ripe" foi it.
Now that he lias, followed "Daddy
i Long Legs' with "Dinty,' "Hob
1 Hampton of Placer." 'MJo and (let It"
' and other pictures, he feels thut the
lo has armed at me point wneic
he can take "Penrod" nnd make him
un historic personage of the screen
Neilan declares he has been asked
bv numerous exhibitors in the last two
years win he did not put on "IVn
iod." and th.it to all of them he ieilied
that he did not wnnt to do it until
his boy stur had had n little mure
seasoning Young Barry appeand on
the stage of the Little Theatre, Los
Angeles, in the p'o about a year ago
and was n huge success In it. a fact
Pint made Neilan more determined than
ever to put It on. Prior producing
plans howexer, have prevented lum
from getting under way until now.
rpHItj little village w-n constiucted of
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JLcnrdbounl and appropriately painted ..,. Piabtcrern nun otiiers engaged in
by thn technical department of Cosmo- Gliding witting would know just what
politan Productions J J"ttH rc1u,rc" 'k'' an'1 trom thid
CII4IR GAVi HIS MOTHER A REAL THRILL
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In movie studios this is nlmoM n .Mrs. Jlnrthelmcss is shown here tell -sacred
sjinbol, it means that the man mg Director Henry King what a thrill
or woman luis reached stardom or a di- the name of her son gave her when she
tectorship The chuirs with nnines nie
thrones from which the destinies of tin
companies nre i tiled.
CONFESSES OF A STAR
As Told to Inez Klumph
CHAPTER III
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SEEMS funny to me now to look
hack on thnt time when Isabel Heath
' was just stinting out to charm the
(world of men. I've never renlly grown
accustomed to having nice voinon say
i to me. "Well. I wouldn't want mv
husband to meet you you nctresses are
nil such iiens!" We aren't, really . nt
nil. People voluntarily cast n glamour
over us, nnd tnke it for granted that
(we're awfully attractive and quite ir
resistible, simply because they've til
woys seen us in pictures in which the
scenarios make us so.
I That's the way it is with Isabel.
! She's awfully pretty, but if people
' would look at her clearly enough they'd
see thnt she has n lot of little stock
tricks, rather than a magnetic person
ality. The company I was working with
went on location in tlie mountains the
next day, nnd I didn't have n chance
t-i see how things were going with isn-
bel till we came back to Los Angeles,
I several weeks Inter. I'd been having a
nerfcftlv henvenlv time, fishinc mill
riding horseback and doing tilings like j
'thut when I wasn't working, and Dei ry
j Winchester had been along he was
playing the role of tlie star's younger i
brother anil we'd hnd n wonderful
ennnce 10 :er wen ni-iuiiiiiii-u. .-mi hi1
almost forgotten about Isabel's new I
stunt.
hen the compnnv got back to town
we nil headed straight for the rooms
' where pictures; were run off. In the
movies we urn off what we've taken
level y few days, sometimes every day.
so that if there have to lie any re-
I takes tliev can be made at once.
Something hnd happened the last
week we were in tlie mountains so that
we couldn't use our projection machine,
and we were all nw fully eager to sUt.
how tlie last stuff we'd taken had gone.
I'd had a thrilling rescue scene. I'll
tell you about it later. And I was wild
I to see how it hnd come out. of course.
We were coining out of tlie projec
tion room. Into in the afteinoon. when I
met nn awfully sweet uung woman nf
whom I was very fond She was the
wife of one of the lending men, alid
I'd often stayed with them when the
aunt with whom I lived was out of
town. Ami sometime when I li.nl to
work awfully Inte nt tlie studio her
husband, Billy (irnhaiu. would take me
home
"What's the niattei. Nnn"'" I asked
Really, she looked as if she'd been
doing crying scenes for a week. Her
face was so gaunt, and her eyes looked
as if her very heart was tired out from
grief
"It's Billy, Di." she told me. "Thnt
.awful Isabel Heath has simply be-
'witched him. I don't know w lint's
come over her, or him either. 'Ihey've
known each other for a ear. and
played together befori - thei'rp woiking
in a iiiiture togither now--and he
i never thought anvtluiig about hei Hut
MODEL LOOKS LIKE A TOY, BUT
i The model was made 10 that caipcn -
LrWoa
lirst riiw it
The nrtlcln nt the beginning of this
page tells nil about it.
THE STORY BEGINS
iritli the early dnys in the old Fine
rts studio in California, ichcn Col
leen Moaie. tin dish girls, Bessie
l.ovc and n host of others itcre not
much more than ixlra girls. Diana
Chcync iclatis the tnle: she begins
irith the day in the studio when she
nml Isabel Heath, not stars then ns
they aie now. wcic sitting on the
stairs tricu a stiangc man inmc into
the studio mid Inokid nt them. The
caineiaman called them down to
nuct him, and it proved the turn
ing point in Isabel's life, t
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
now he doesn't think about nny one
else!"
She sat down then on a carpenter's
bench to wait till Billy M be ready to
go home; motion-picture wives have to
"wait for their husbands more than any
oilier kind do, I believe.
I went nwny very thoughtfully. I'd
been skeptical about Isabel's new arts
before but If they weie going to ninke
tumble between Nnn and Billy 1 was
icady to wring her prettv neck.
J hut night I called Is up. Her
mother answered Hie phone, nnd said
that Isabel was out; her voice sounded
worried, and when she asked me if I
wouldn't run over a minute 1 was glad
to do it.
.virs, jientli was nn nwlullv nice
woman; pretty nnd sweet, but awfully
weak. Her husband had died when
Isabel was a babv. nnd thev'd been
awfully hard up for n long time.
Then, when Isabel wns ju.st thirteen,
she'd got a job playing kid parts in
pictures. She didn't earn a great deal
of money, but it wns enough to help
out with the living expenses. And us
she went on. earning inoie nnd more,
she support! d both of them.
That meant a good deal, of course.
It made life much easier for Sirs.
Heath in one way, but mm h more difii-
I cult in nnothci. Tor whnt control
she d had over Isabel was lost, of
fouise. She simply couldn't do any
thing with her.
She cried nbout it that night.
Baby's gone out riding with thnt
Mr. t rnney, she snid, wringing her
hands, "nnd he has such an influence
over her; I don't know when she'll get
home or what she'll do. Last night
sue wns out till hnitjpnst one. And no
body seems to know anything about
him, ami I don't like ills looks, What
would you do, Pi .'
Naturally. I couldn't give her nny
advice. I felt nw fully sorry for hei.
but 1 was rather glad that Is had been
diveited fiom practicing her newly
gained knowledge on Hilly Grnhani.
However, I said I'd see if I couldn't
talk to Isabel, and went home. And
late that night, or early in the morn
ing, I was w likened by the hum of a
iar. and looked out of the window to
see Isabel getting out of a big red cur
in front of her lmuc
To be continued tomorrow
IT'S NOT
l model n minitituic village wua con
Mrucieu.
'The. iiictu
las jet uunn
ro fur which It wan made la
med.
SCHILDKRAVT FAR
TOO GOOD WOKING
DECLARES GARRY
By HELEN KLUMPH
MfTlHERE'S n new menace In the
-L movies," (Jarry announced pom
pously before she even said hello to me,
And even the censors haven't rcnlized
it yet. But they would," she added
wisely. "If they had been watching
the filming of 'The Two Orphans'
up at the I). W. Griffith studio nt
Mamnroneck."
She was referring to Joseph Schlld
kraut, the handsome young Continental
actor, who is making his debut in
American films in the newest Griffith
production. On'y for n moment did 1
fear that she was going to tell me that
the master director wns going to thrill
us with some new transcription of hell,
morp horrible even thnn the one In
"Dream Street." where the dragons
waddled nnd looked strangely like croc
odiles. "Mr. Griffith won't have to resort to
colored photography or anything like
thnt for novelty in 'The Two Or
phans.' " she added, "All he needs is
Joseph Schildkrnut. And if his smile is
hnlf as devastating to the girls In the
audience ns It Is to the girls In thp com
pany well, all the young men In the
country will hnve to brush up on their
cqurt'y mnnners if they nre to be in
theT-iinning with him.
"When he first arrived at the studio
the girls every on from the pretty lit
tle bobbed-hair telephone operator to
some of the leading players, wns simply
moonstruck. 'I didn't know nnv one
could be so good-looking.' they all de
clared. At their earliest opportunity they
i journeyed down to New York and saw
i him play on the speaking stnge in
'Liliom' nnd then thev decided that his
good looks hod very little to do with It,
after nil. It was his manner they like.
ffQOON he began making love to
"s- every one within earshot, from
lovely Kate Bruce, who plays mother
porfs, down to the very youngest flapper
In the picture. He did it eloquently,
grandlosetr-i-within n few days he had
covered so much ground that he wns
the one topic of conversation among
tlie girls,
"And. of course, the inevitable 'And
he said to me' ruined everything. They
found that he had been pnylng the same
extrnvngnntly fintterlng compliments to
nil of them. Ills repertoire of lovemnk-
ing even re-enfoiced ns it wns uy the
experience of having played over -00
leading pnrts in European repertory
theatres wirsn t extensive enough to
provide n fresh theme for every new ac
quaintance. "For n dav or so the ones who hnd
compared notes- were disconsolate. But
the next time thev saw him he smiled.
nnd nil wns well.
"The.v nre just beginning to realize
that pel haps he Is not to be taken ns
seriously nt an American, but they nil
adore him nevertheless And while he
makes love to all the others, deep down
in his henrt he has the greatest ad
miration for Lillian (iish. lie thinks
that she is n great nrtist and he thinks
that scene in 'Broken Blossoms,' where
she hid in the closet is the finest screen
acting he hns ever seen.
HYTH. SCI
Js'-L on the
"TR. SCHILDKR.UT likes acting
possible he'll leave the speaking stage
and just do pictures. But every one's
afraid that ome company would get
hold of him that would just capitalize
on his good looks and then where would
ins u.'Llof; i ii ii-iil. uc .
"Where Kntherine Mncdonnld is," T
answered "Krequentlv promised, but
never seen They don't need to act
when they get thnt good-looking. It's
a great telief just to see them."
"Well, come to think of it," Gnrrv
milled ihouplltflllK. "T ! IM- 111,..
to see Wolly Held and some of thei
other handsome favorites once or twice!
before Schildkraut sweens them out of
the way
"All right
I agreed "Let'n go.
Famous Feet Got Nervous
When Charlie Landed Tuna
THOSE world-famous feet did a new
kind of shuffle the other dnv. Thev
registered about everything in the gnmut
of human emotions, nnd there wasn't
even n lone enmernmnn on the job
Charlie Chaplin, having completed his
latest film. "The Idle Class." m gone
fishing. He landed nn eighty-pound
tuna at Avalnn. Not only that, but it
was the only one caught during the day.
Can you vision n close-up of the great
est comedian In pictures when he
brought it to gaff?
At the time Charlie wns visiting the
California report as the guest of Ed
ward Knoblock, the author.
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JACKIE COOGAN
17 A Mil V THEATRE Ifll I :Urk.t 8L
rAlVllL-I 8 a M. TO MIDNIGHT
In "I'Et K'l HAD ROt
Di: MILI.F'H I'KIIIH'CTION
"THE LOST ROMANCE"
1ATI-1 5T TilBATUB Balow Hpruo
JO 1 n O 1 . MATINEE DAILY
JACK PICKFORD
tn "THE MW WHO HAD KVF.HVTHINO"
FRANKKORD 4"6 avenu"0
MADGE KENNEDY
In "TIIE QIRL WITH THE JAZZ. HEART'
GLOBE
6UU1 MillKET ST
-J 3D and A.30 to 11
I'lll.A MC.RI In
"GIPSY BLOOD"
PR A NT u- OIIIAHU AVE.
jIAfMN 1 MATINEE DAILT
llm il tv. miiirriTii'ri . ..
"The Greatest Question"
COMPANY r J
Back From British Columbia
&. &ki&ss? wssaf.fcv.;!3se!s &&&,
PRISOILLA DEAN
"She's ns game ns n United States
marine." That is whnt members of
Prlscllla Dcnn's expeditionary force
said of the famous star when the out
fit rolled into Universal City after four
grueling weeks In British Columbia,
where the principal scenes for "Con
IHcl" were directed-by Stuart I'nton.
The trnveling group is with Prlscil'n
to u man. "She slept on the ground,
nte the, grub without squeaking, wprked
like n Trojan and made every one
around her happy," said one of the
bunch.
Movie Expedition Conies
to End at Universal City
After 2 Years' Absence
OB
tJ.1
EVEN
battered
packing cases,
delivered nt Universal
City the
other day, marked finis to the most
tragic denth nnd heroic expedition in
the history of the motion-picture in
dustry. Thp boxes contained trophies nnd
equipment returned from Africa by
members of the Snilthsontnn-Univcrsal
African expedition.
Tlie expedition left Universal City
in July. 1IH0. under tlie joint auspices
of the Smithsonian Institution nnd the
Universal company .
After months of hardship in the jun
gles, during which tune cameramen and
scientists bntthsl their way through
dangerous country to bring back to
civilization n 'ihotcgraphic record of the
black continent, a wreck on the Congo
rnilwny killed William Stowell. the
Amerieiin screen stnr; Pr Joseph Ann
strong, business executive of tlie ex
pedition, nnd seriously injured P'hliny
Home, tlie Universal camera-explorer.
The deuth of "Bill" Stowell sad
dened the world. foi he wns immensely
popular n u screen player nnd had
contributed much to the success of
many photodromns, among them "The
Heart of Humanity." Pr Armstrong
wnt tlie stepfather of Edilh Roberts,
the young girl who rose to stardom
with Univeisnl.
t ,,, 1VY ,,,,....
! TJ'11'1 H"l.M
tlie cameraman.
- 1 - ""', so bndlv injured that he was
unable lo return to tlie United Stntes
for several months, lying unconscious
in n i ongo nospitni.
Because of the denth of Stowell nnd
Pr. Armstrong, Cnrl LaemmV u called
the expedition Although more than
.'WU.OOO feet of film had been exposed
nnd a recoul inndc of people never be
fore photoginphed, the exploiers left
the jungle.
The packing cases received at Uni
versal City contained, among other
curios, three elephant feet, two hippo
feet, scores of rare skins, hnms. na
tive costumes, implements and trophies
of the chase.
Besides Stowell. Pr. Ariustiong and
Phliny Home, tlie personnel of tlie ex
pedition included Prof Edmund Heller,
representing the Smithsonian Institu
tion: Dr Homer ShnnU, of the United
States Department of Agriculture:
Harry Raven, entomologist of tlie
smithsoninn : Henry Kohler, laboratory
expert, and George Scott, inmernmnn.
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The following theatres obtain their pictures through the
STANLEY Company of America, which is a guarantee of
early showing of the finest productions. Ask for the theatre
in your locality obtaining pictures through the Stanley
Company of America.
i GREAT NORTHERN v?at
Rt Krle
P. 11, !
Mnhle .liillrnnp Srntt nml .Ml-Stnr "St In
"Don't Neglect Your Wife" '
IMPERIAL
COTH WALNUT HTS.
Mats 3 30. Kvna 70
M.UlbllA!.!. NTII.AN's. I'ttUOltTION
"DINTY"
Lehigh Palace -"""Ja-
"THE TEN-DOLLAR RAISE"1
OVERBROOK u3d aAn'Hrror"d
HIU .TAIIFA II, IIXHUIF.'S
"SENTIMENTAL TOMMY"
PALACE
1214 MARKET ttTHEET
in a r m 11. IK u t
THOMAS MEIGHAN
"TDK CONQIEST OF CANAAN"
In
PRINCFSS 1018 market bti.eet
MiN-noD8.30 A Mit t0 Uil5 P. Ui
.IWH Vftl'lll I..
'THE GOLDEN TRAIL"
1 REGFNT "ARKKT ST. I)..ow 1TTH
lL.vjl..n 1 01B A M to 11 P .
MARY MILES MINTER
I In "THE LITTLE CLOWN1'
RIALTO (il:M AN7! OWN AVENUE
ll-L I KJ AT TL'I.PKIJOCKKN ST
1 WILL ROGERS
In ".IKS- CALL ME JIM"
i RUBY MAKl'r ST REIX3VV 7TII
( ivoi , A M (0 u lB p M
i ALICE BRADY
In "THE LAM) OF HOPE"
SAVOY 1S11
' .
MARKET STREET
8 A. M. TO MIDNIOHT
CONSTANCE TALMADGE
In "l.r.SSOVs in I.OF."
SHERWOOD rMAy F'EwFSB
J"fk ,,0lfHEl,MASK"',00r; '"
STANLEY "nKET AT loflf
GLORIA SWANSON
In "TIIE (IREAT MOMENT"
333 MARKET..8?".'?''1, thkairK
-'-'' iniiiw I ) A Sj lo lists P.M.
TIIIIM H II. IVIl't
THE BRONZE BELL"
VICTORIA "ARRET BT."h, TIl
in "ArrEii youn own iiKAnr
7
CAN MOVIE PLAYERS
COME BACK AFTER
LENGTHY ABSENCE?
"T
JUST couldn't
stay
awny
longer!"
any
longer; wns the ciithimi...!
declaration of Cleo KldglcJ TOft ;
screen actress nnd former Lasky li?
the
ns sue went to thn Hollywood stmUo'1
recent y. to begin her work as the f' '
Inine heavy n Betty Common'. . 2d
Marring vehicle, "The Wmi.nn fth,
Miss Rldgley. although still a yon,,, '
woman, was one of the first ,;ii.'
pictuie stnrs. She remained In 'n?
tures up to four years ago. nt vX,'
time she wns married to James 1?
Home, n prominent film director qIJ
after she left the Lasky stuXV vfe"
she had been first n co-stnr with W,
lace Reld, nnd later n star In her !,'
right, Mis, Rldgley became the nr0rH
n other of n pair of beautiful twin. - '
n boy nnd a girl, whom she named Jim"
and June. u,ra
As mothering twins nnd starring !'
motion pictures was one task too mtn!
for one little woman, the actress d.
cided to stny nwny from the Klieg ll.wj,
for n period nnd play tb reaKlif.'
mother role. '"".
A year ngo she returned to the serwn
for n short time to piny two leH
Then she decided that she must wait .
little longer before permanently .-'
suming her work.
"TWTOTION. PICTURE work is TKJ
.. 7 acting," she says, "and y(t .
t is very fascinating. Once one hi.
been in the profession for some rear.
it is very trying to drop out suddenlr
and stny out. "'
"The twins nro now four years old '
and nre getting nlong nicely.
"I hnve u heavy rolo in tiie . u.
ture, which Is being directed by' Pea.
rhyn Stanslnw. I like to play heaviij
because they require n lot of character
work nnd expression, hut when I .
myself in such n part on the screen it
makes me feel almost like n .i
villain." "7
Miss Ridgley began her career in til1
screen in 11(), after playing one jtu
in legitimate stock. She was with tht
old Kalcm Company in Florida, tiea '
with Lubin. contemporary with such
stnrs ns Florence Lawrence. Ethel
Clayton, Lois Wcbcr, Phillips SranHir.
Jack Standing, etc. '
She will Le recalled ns the girl whi
made the trip from const to oast oa
horseback, a journey requiring sixteen
months. All the way across country
.Miss Rldgliy made persnnnl appenr'
nnccs nt motion-picture theatres, and
was snid to be one of the fust screen
actresses to establish tills precedent
vhlcli has .?inee become n very popular
CUStOllli
AFTER nrriving on th
Miss Ridelev iomc.
c west coaei.
1 the LasW
Mudin stock nnd co-stnrred with V1.
I nee Reld in two or three nietnm tfc.
first he'ng
"The Colcen Chance." Th
tram wns then unlit ...
(o-starrinc
Wnlhi-e Reid tilnvine with (frrnMiM
Farrnr nnd Lou Tellejen supporting
Miss Ridgley.
"The tove Mask." "The lellow
Fawn," "Victory of Conscience" anl
other vehicles followed. After two and
n half years' work at the Lasky studio
enme her marriage mil temporary re
tirement from the screen
Mis.s Ridgley nnd her husband reid !
in n beautiful bungalow in Olcnd&Ie,- j
ninr iionyuoo i. y
Mustaches Again in Style.
Though Not Like Chaplirlt
fTlHE sight of Douglas Fairbanks'
lieatit'fnl flowing mustache, which he
grew esppcinllv for his lotest produc
tion. "The Three Musketeers " m
aroused pitch envy around his tudlo
that every one there Is trying to fol
low in his footsteps.
The first lompetitor to Douglas wji
the hirsute adornment of Hubert Fair
banks, his hi other nnd production man
ager. And now even the office bo;,
Tommy Chirk, has blossomed out with a
little pe-iehblow.
Real Hotel Used for Movli
The Cocoa nut drove nt the Ambatia
dor Hotel lis Angeles, provided tht
ready-built spiting for a big cafe scene
staged for "Exit the Vamp," in which
Ethel Clayton Is starring. The hotel
orchestra was retained, the waiters
"waited" and the tables were nil set.
The company worked all night, light
being provided bv n motor cenerator
erected outside (lie grounds with cables
l.n,l! ,,. Ilin .-... ...! .l. 1 It...
j i. .....OH V" iu- null UUP, null till- iwicg.
I lie room s decorated with rncoanut
' palms and Is
very .Urlkin-; T. Roy
I Barnes is leading man in this picture,
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.orAMtnicA
RThe NIXON-NIRDLINGERtfTjf
UJ THEATRES Ml
BELMONT 8aD ABOVE MARKBT
UJ-U.1V1W1N I 130 3. 8 30 to 11 P.
M'KC IAI, ( A'.T In
"THE CONCERT"
' CEAR '30ai "fifr
It'll Mill DKMIOMl In 111V SCIXVI
"THE PARISH PRIEST"
COI IFI IM Market Det. BOIh
V-ULIOCUIVI ; 30 nd 0 30 to tl P
.Marllm Miinsflrlil and tlllltnni l)rmind t
"WOMEN MEN LOVE"
JUMBO fr'KO.VT 8T. & QIRARD AJ
jvjmuw jumbo June, on Kranktord "V
I.LOIK.E RERAN nnd SPECIAL tAHT h
"ONE MAN IN A MILLION"
I FAnFR -I1ST A LANCAbTER AT
LLrtUCI MATINEE DAILY
THOMAS MEIGHAN
. In "WHITE AM) I'NMARIIIKR"
I OCl KT r'2D AND LOCI ST STREET'
LAJUU31 DOt'BLB HIM'
HAROLD LLOYD in "I DO"
Swim Ourn In "The oman (Jod Chn-
P l l t K.m a K.r oiVEnu HTS.
MVULl " ' MATINEE DATt-t
Jiinif Klrknoml, Allrr Ilollatrr. Ann ForrMt
I "A WISE FOOL"
'STRANn OERMANTOVVN AVE
J 1 IMU AT VENANOO STREirt
I WILLIAM S. HART
! In "THE WHISTLE"
AT OTHER THEATRES
MEMBERS OF M. P. T. O. A
Germantown 60i?AT"NnEEn,DA.LT
PAULINE FREDERICK
In "ROADS OF DUSTINV"
JEFFERSON sATfNi?EUPDhAa.a
JM HOLT In DE MILLER ,
"THE LOST ROMANCE"
PARlf R1DQE AVE. & DAUPIHI!
1 f"liV ! OilH V.vam Al4S tA 1ft
LIONEL BARRYMORI J
In "TUB DEVIL'S OAHDEN" 3J
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