Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-04
FCzs Daily Movie Magazine

this kind and fewer epistles ravine on
them wonderful eyes would certainly
help the Italian actors cause.
IAN acto. that ! canrot enjoy is
Bert Lytell. ] have heard great many
very complimentary things about him.
but fail TO see just why he has found
such favor. To me he seems thoroughly
stacy. and his acting abounds with
mannerisms>~a and exaggerations OF
peculiar sort. How do you feel on the
subject of Lytell? OF course. ! know
that he has had the misfortune OF hay.
ing had bad stories lately, and that he
has not appeared to ns much advantage
Ms he might have :Nin fact, his Trip TO,
Paradise almost finished me, but even
before these evil days. his personality
las always seemed to me strained and
unnatural: that is. Of course, his screen
personality.
agnes Ayres is another star who,
II seems to me, has not enough charm,
personality or bistrionic ability to be
starred: she should remain a leading
lady for some male star OF the Wallace
Reid variety. l-
screen her chief claim to screen honors
lay in her fresh vibrant beauty (some
of her close ups In The Furnace were
cxquisite), but now even that seems to
have forsaken her and her face has a
most regrettably soft and flabby look.
and no matter what clothes or jewels
she arrays herself in, the result is the
same. In fact. the more she elaborates
her dress the worse she looks. ] sup.
pose | will coll down the criticism of
the fans on my head for this, but I do
not mean it in slurring. yindictive
way.
what has become of 'Mignon'? Has
she sunk to oblivion through the late
war waged on her by the Letter Box
fans? am sorry, as who cared whether
her, letters were grammatically correct or
not? II people would pay attention to
the grammar Of their own language they
would find their hands full anyhow.
Also 'Latrovaska what has become of
her?
II must say that lam very much
amused at times when you receive a
letter from some superior person who
does not wish to take up the space
Of your regular correspondents and
hardly ever has the time to give to
the movies and therefore knows nothing
about them These people generally
write the most interesting letters and
always have something definite to say,
and 1t is always apparent at the end
VI tuciT lCttSto thut tuVs hhoW lui
about the movies than they care to ad-
nit. think their attitude is both in
teresting and amusing.
What would the movie fans OF
Philadelphia do without your. column
You are our movie barometer.
yeah! Usually predicting stormy
weather. ! think I'm inclined to adj
mire Bert Lytell as an actor. but the
material he has lately had has been
simply calamitous Uf there is such a
world. There is one thing toi be said
In his favor; he has shown versatility
that few screen stars possess.
have been tempted to cry my eyes
out over Agnes Ayre's failure. Gosh
How was prepared to love that girl {!
But her wonderful personality seems
now to have deserted her entirely and
she seems only pathetic in her obvious
struggles to be somebody. ] do wish
she'd make good.
l don't know why "Mignon' and
''I.atrovaska" have deserted u.s.. I've
felt very much slighted by it my self. }