The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01
IN STUDIO LAND
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Facts and fancies About the Folks
Who Make the films

Motor trucks, flies, costume designing
and outdoor sports much the same as
shoes and ships and sealing wax and cab
bages and kings are topics that the
pictures tell us all about, in no words
and clearer description than any book
could do. The single reel reviews of
daily doihgs, aside from giving us a peep
into realms far and near, of which we
may or may not have heard in our fie-
tional readings, have been known. not
Eonty to awaken wider interest in events.
OF the day, but also as result of this
newly gained alertness. have in many
eases which we could cite but for lack
Of room and a sense of delicacy, aroused
q passion for reading books and papers
worth while. Features. too, have had TO
Work for accuracy with this wider and
broader knowledge that has spread over
| picture going audiences, and have so i'm
proved in their educative qualities in
many cases, that We, you and | and the
/, sage critic, now Know what TO expect for
our money and what to tilt our noses at,
if we don't get what is coming TO us.
That's where our reciprocity notion comes
in; pictures make US see, and, once we
see, woe to the film that falls below the
mark. Going Upl" That may rightly
be said of the industry. We may also
add. that the one-time infant is grow
| ing up
Another wealthy brewer has confided
to his friends that he intends to take a
! dip into the film business and expects to
/ do considerable producing shortly. We
can readily believe the latter part of the
story. He'll do considerable producing
all right, if the promoters who have hin
in tow get him into the film game. OF
you Sheppard amendment. you'll have i
lot 10 be responsible for.
! Carmel Myers. beautiful Blue Biz,
star, gave herself new Hudson super
, six, sedan as a birthday present.
i Two canine pups have been adoptc,
permanently by Ethel Clayton. Il
! Credit must be given to Mack Sen
! nett's Bathing Beauties. During the wa
they saved to the country millions o
| dollars worth OF clothing by not wear
! ing it.
, IL. W. brlfith advises actors not I
!, bank upon their beauty. You're right
Kid. II they did, Wally Reid and Eai
Williams would be worth millions BIZ
! Hart would be broke and George Fawcet
!. and Ben Turpin couldn't even make
: depositi
4 My how times have changed! In tn
: days of long, long ago when Greek me
: Greek" something terrific was sure I
!. happen. Nowadays, however, .whe
: Greek Meets Greek the chances are te
to one that they Immediately get bus
and open up restaurant or picture SHOW
:. Mary Jane: June Elvidge is marie
!. TO Lieutenant Badgley who has been
charge of the Photographic section of II
British Bureau of Information, New Yor
r City. Lieutenant Badgley went oyerse,
in 1914 with the First Canadian Exped
T tionary forces He won the NJ. c. at Il
battle of Coureeleite, and afterward W.
inyalided TO this country after heir
Iwounded, shell shocked and gassed The
lspent their honeymoon in Ottawa, Cans
!, da. You're welcome.
True Blue: Yes, the Common Cau
has been released, The stars are He
< bert Rawlinson. Sylvia Dreamer. II
Blackton Riddles, Irene Castle, Marjor
;; Rambeaui, Ellie Shannon, Violet IIemin
Julia Arthur and Hnntley Gordon. Eth
Ciaston's latest is..SIaggie Pepper" TIL
was Douglas Mclean with Dot Gish
4 The Hun Within" Hart and o'Bri,
: are both single. Chaplin drinks. nothir
stronger than Bevo. Aazimoyq is st
in pictures her latest is, "out OF The Fog
49,
Low, Fatty Arbuekle decided son