The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-11

HRoM Bessie Barriscale's home
 this week was mailed large,
 handsomely framed portrait of herself, with charming letter to ac- company the gift. It was entrusted to Uncle Sam to carry to a little country girl near the Mississippi, and thereby hangs a tale.
 In common with many other photo
 play stars, Miss Barriscale was forced to let it be known that she asks 25 cents apiece for her photographs to cover the large expense entailed. Word of this reached the country girl, and
 she wrote
 If you charge for your photographs,
 Miss Barrscale. let me know and I'll
 save up the 25 cents by selling wild flow
 CTS to the rich women whom 1 see in
 automobiles. l live in little town where
 there is no amusement for me except the
 pictures, and I have made little dreams 1 of you that keep me happy" i Needless to say, there was no charge | for the photograph Miss Barriscale sent. Hal Cooley, whose work as the lead in the Monrovia company's big feature, is said to stand out very prominently, mo- tored to Santa Barbara this week to visit some of his friends over Sunday, and just managed to escape the speed cops. Cooley and several others went to ball game and Hal did more roofing than all
 the others combined.
 Bertram Grassby, clever character man of the Universal, still bears marks of a recent stage encounter with Cleo Madi- son. As Miss Madisons principal support in a western drama, Grassby was called upon to tusse with her. How that wom-
 an can fightr' Grassby exclaimed later. There was no rehearsal, and we didn't frame the fight. I tried not to hurt her, but I'll remember that fight scene for a long while"
 Richard Stanton the talented director for one of the western Fox companies, recently returned from the Mojave desert, 1 California brown as the proverbial berry. Stanton had taken his star George Walsh, into the desert to film some big exterior scenes of his first Fox pie ture, five-reel feature story of east ern girl who comes west and whose sub sequent adventures revolve around George Walsh.
 William D. Taylor Pallas producer, whose production of "Pasquale'' with | George Beban. is hailed as a veritable masterpiece, had a town erected recently 1 on the desert for his present photoplay, '"The Parson of Panamnt." The photo- play was written from the story by Pe- ter B. Kyne. MT. Taylor, with his pop ular star, Dustin Farnum, are located with their company the desert for a few days taking scenes. The picture promises to be an interesting one This
 goes without saying, for it is being well acted and produced.
 Marie Doro has begun work at the Lasky studios on her second photoplay for this company. 'The Heart of Nora Flynn a Cecil B. DeMille production, which was recently released on the Para mount programme, is proving one of the most popular features released in sev- eral months
 Fannie Ward, the Lasky star, has been in New York for several weeks obtaining rest and vacation, following seven months at the California studios. She will return early in June to appear in a new photo play.
 In an interview recently in New York Cecil B. DeMille, director general of the Jesse l.. Lasky Feature Play company was asked to analyze successful photo play He said he could give a definition in one word. His answer was, story" All the fine photography. excellent acting elaborate expenditure would not save from