Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-22

Interested writes - "Your letter
box must call forth admiration from
even the most taciturn. Behold the
first letter have ever written to a
newspaper. ] must apologize for MAX
ing my entry with complaints. but hero
goes.
"Why does the space allotted TO you
shrink daily? Soon there will be moth
: ing left Of II at all.
And why do you head your column
The Movie Fans Letter Box when
you so often make Of it n question box:
Most Of the letters you print are so in
teresting and so intelligent that it is
n great disappointment for ono To turn
10 your page and find only list OF
answers TO so many stupid questions.
Most of us wonder how n stars abso-
lutelv correct weight or height or az"
can possibly interest n stranger. !
would suggest that you make your letter
box sort Of clearing house for inter
csting ideas, criticisms, etc. not omit
ting your own very clever comment. Is
my plan feasible:
II notice that many fans would set
one picture or another as the best OF
the year. Isn't it rather difficult TO
name one picture as tho best when
there are so many kinds of pictures to
appeal to so many different emotions:
We should at least divide them into
comedies, melodramas, tragedies, etc.
and then select tho best Of these.
"Now the greatest mystery OF tho
finn world. 10 me aud TO many others.
IL how the critics and reviewers, almost
without exception. came 10 select Lit
tie Lord Fauntleroy' as the years best
picture. / never saw anything more
usinine. Which reminus me-some peo-
pie may claim that Philadelphia is slow,
but ! believe this Is the first city that
had the nerve to 60 into cold print with
an unfavorable criticism Of namby =
pamby Mary Pickford. Her divorce
shouldn't enter into tn" reckoning All
such personal prejudice aside, only Nor
acting and her picture considered, ism t
she rather silly:
"'Saturday Night cCrtninly comes in
for its share Of criticism. We motto"
that some one called TO your attention
the disappearance Of the H. How
tinsel feather duster: When the Ferris
wheel suddenly halts in mid air. tho
duster flies from Shamrock hand anC
falls many feet to the ground. Severa
hours later It, is in the young lady
hand again; she carr..S II to Iris home
and when all have left the burning
building there sits Iris. forlorn and for,
!. saken, with the tattered tnseI frnthcl
duster in her hand. lost watch once
upon u time. | wonder If Cecil i. y,
Mile would dvulgc his wonderful
method Of recovering lost articles
IAN things considered, however
aren't his pictures cntcrtuln'nSt The.
are never Disappointing, TO say til" Least
for you see what you expect to see. u
ira superficial, of COl;iNc, Uur you know
they are and you know thar h" know
they are. so you got an hour pleasnr
out Of them.
"Not ike Norma Talmadgc's. for in
stance, where Norma takes u superficial
theme and does her darndCst 10 make /
serious. Somehow or other you can
do much but laugh at her attempts. Sin
works so hard TO E=ae tragedy of |
comic situation. Take Tie Wonderful
Thing for example. I've heard man.
adjectives applied to it, and the wore
wonderful wasn't among them. Ic
we all know that Norma can act. |
she doesnt watch out, she'll become I
has been.
"Although don't know wher
contests are held and votes are taken, i
generally comes to light that the ma
jority like such things. IT must b'
wonderful to have an imagination tha
will make such situations as those II
THE Sheik' seem real or even possible
And yet many people came home ant
Z Arrued over IL as il 1t had all hap
pened to some one they knew
s'rrhis letter il cNcepronally long:
doubt II you'y even read this far. But
X kefore ! leave on mayn'r l rake just
- stab at Mae Murray? 4 fash here
& 80 there in Peacock Alley makes ono
4; ktnk thst perhaps Miss Murray could
Il - 3fftrkA really had tn. And she has
III and grafe and a rare personality.
u 4 shI\ \pe that she should waste