Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-07
THE MOVIE FANS LETTERBOX
By HENRY NJ. NEELY

"Malinds writes: Tonight I read
the names of some of the Crushcs you
have in your column. | was mighty
glad TO find that ] have n crush on
four of those Won mentioned. namely,
+ Alice Terry. Betty 'ompsnn. Jack Holt
and Dick Barthelmess. | think Alice
Terry and Betty tompson are two Of the
most beautiful actresses on the screen,
/ also like Lila Lee and Norma Tall
madge. but | think the latter has been
playing In poor pictures lately.
There is one actor whom | think
wonderful. but whom I've never seen
praised at all in your column. That
actor is Lon CLANCY. I've only seen
him in one picture. which was The
Penalty but I've never forgotten his
fine acting. Do you like him? Please
tell me what pictures he has played in
and II he is making any now. Also
what is his age and IS he married?
DO you like Charlie Chaplin? | am
great admirer of his I know very
Few people who profess TO like him
and yet, wherever he plays there is
full house and the very people who say
be makes them tired are the ones to
laugh the loudest.
We've discussed Chaplin pretty
thoroughly in this department and we
all seem to agree that he is one Of the
real geniuses of the tlm--or would be
II the public could induce him to do
straight comedy drama and leave the
Slapstick stuff. l have the greatest adj
miration for him--so much SO. in fact,
that it really hurts me to see him in a
custard pie stunt.
You bet l like Lon Chaney. Who
that has seen the Miracle Man" and
Penalty does not? His other recent
pictures are The Night Rose"
Treasure Island. "A Blind Bargain"
and "Ace of Hearts" I'm sorry I
cant answer the questions about his
age and single blessedness. But ! think
he's still SINGLE
Betty b." writes: II have been
reading your column ever since 1t start
cd and certainly do enjoy it, So glad
that you like Jack Holt. for he is one
of my favorites, too also House Peters,
Milton Sills and Rudie, of course.
II have a friend in Los Angeles who
10 a teacher IN the telephone school, and
she instructed Agnes Ayres in the work
while they were taking Bought and
Paid For There were six still pictures
taken at that time and some Of the pic
lures appeared in movie magazine of
March %. She has promised to send ME
the magazine. Would you like to see
It II she does? She also said that
while Miss Ayres was very sweet, she
was very affected, but she has both met
and seen quite lot of the movie folks
and said they are all more or less that
way. She seems to think that the movie
game makes them that way. OF course,
she didn't mean that they all are.
Would You be interested to know
that I save the movie page each night,
and at the end Of the week send them,
with Saturdays EVENING PUBLIC
LEDGER to my friend. and she sure
does enjoy both, and after she is fin
ished with them she sends them to
nurse, who Is from Philadelphia also,
out in the desert somewhere. So yOu
see just how much your page is ON
joyed. Does your Miss Palmer get
your paper each day?
please tell me what has become Of
G. X. Young. Did she ever marry
again!"
No. Clara Kimball Young hasn't
married again. Thanks for offering to
send me that magazine, but Miss Ayrcs
has already sent me the original photo
graphs. We published one of them
coupla weeks ago. Your friend is un-
fortunately perfectly right about most
of the movie people becoming "up-
stage and Rit2y once they have won
success. But I've found that great sue
cess in any line does that TO most peo-
ple--if the success comes 50 suddenly