New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
All, All Are
Gone, the Old
Familiar Faces
Work and Won Work Alone
if You Happen To Be
Starring i'm Fora Lee
By FIarriette Underhill

tue grandeur thas was Rome" should
be added sthe fame that was Fort Lee. !"
for If that village, opposite Har-
lem, was not so big and so wicked it
was quite as Important in the making
Of history not so long ago. We can
remember when one could visit nearly
every star OF the East just by crossing
the river at l3oth Street and boarding
street car or climbing in Ford with
q meter on it. That was when the d.
rectors forgot to send their "limou-
sines"; and how natural it is to call a
limousine limousine when you write
about the movies? That is what closed
car is invariably called by the title
writers, who love to fill it with ''kid-
dies" and then give them "reel"
thrill in "filmland."
But that is not what we started out
to say at all. We started to say that
the World Film Company, the William
Fox, the Goldwyn, So.znick and Cos
mopolitan all used to have their
studios over in Fort Lee, and any time
you crossed the river on the funny
ferry you were sure to be parked
alongside of Mae Marsh or June FL
vidge or Carlyle Blackwell or Maxine
Elliott or Mary Garden. That was
where the "reel" thrill began. Then
when you got over there you could
wander around the studios all day and
take luncheon with Alice Brady and
Marion Davies and Monte Love and
Kitty Gordon, all in costume. This
was where the "reel" thrill continued.
OF course, we knew that gradually the
big companies were drifting out to
the West, whence they came. Why
they ever came East in the first place
and why they went back again after
being here is more than we can say.
Perhaps Penrhyn Stanlaws has the
right idea, but that is commented on
in another column.
Hope Hampton
The NWhite Hope"
One day last week we chartered one
Of those "limousines" and crossed the
Fort Lee ferry, thinking that it would
be pleasant to visit the old familiar
haunts. On the way over we met Hope
Hampton, and she said, "Good! You arc
coming over to call on mel"
"Not especially" I answered. "I'm
just going over to stroll around the
studios and talk to the people, and
take luncheon with some Of then."
Miss Hampton viewed US sadly, and
then she said, "All, all are gone; the
old familiar faces. I am the only
worker there now. But you can stroll
around the Paragon Studios as much as
you like and take luncheon with me.
At least you can take it; / don't eat
any"
'Why not7"
s'Well, can't take any chances until
cate, and it wouldn't do to have her get
fat"
"Don't you feel like White Hope
playing in this picture?"
II did, but they have changed it to
The Light in the Dark"
"That's too bad, for had million
dollar scheme which I intended to sell
to your press agent whore he was to
give benefit performance and adver-
tise II, Showing Of White Faith, with
Hope for Charity Now. Tho Light in
the Dark sounds like an X-ray picture"
BY this time we had reached the
Paragon Studios and we asked to see
the modern Adonis who had been
picked out by popular vote for Miss
Hampton's leading man.
"He isn't an Adonis; he's an Apollo.
and he isn't my leading man. Lon
Chaney is." The name of Lon CLANCY
drove all thoughts of the modern
Apollo out Of our head, for this was
Mr.. Chaney's first trip East.
Tho Actress Must
Die Many Deaths
Almost as soon as we got in the
studio Clarence Brown, the director,
called "Camera!" or whatever the
magic word is whereby they assemble
their players. Miss Hampton hastily
mussed up her glorious red hair,
dishevelled her collar and threw herself
on her humble cot. We knew nothing
Of William Dudley Pelley's white
Faith" but this we did know: Miss
Hampton was very poor and very i'll
with something fatal. such as cancer,
melancholia or the like, and Lon
CLANCY. looking like reformed
apache, was trying to induce her to
eat
It was necessary to shoot the scene
over and over again because one of
the actors couldn't be induced to ig-
more the camera. 1t remained never
ending source of amusement to him.
In the middle of scene he would in
variably point his finger ct it and say
"Look, choo choo!'' He was only two
years old, though. Being screen
star doesn't look like bit Of fun, even
# they do earn as much in week as
the rest of US do in a year. It's hard
work. just as though our editor tore
up our story and made us write it a
dozen times. We'd resign!