Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-17

NJ. NJ. MI can only repeat that l
have no definite information where
those scenes were made, though l be-
lteve in New Jersey. I cannot under
stand why the company did not answer
your letter. You're another OF those
I have to thank for the information
on Miss La Badie
s.Vessie MaIlet'' writes: "Ch. Mr..
NseIy, I've completely changed. III
never knock the movies again. You see,
like lot Of fans, never real ted what
a lot Of smart business o-sSes to put
over the dumb drama. (The rather
coarse expression Is Anos'.) But you
~, now personally know a star "
course. not intimate any more. but she
used to work right next TO me az tne
Sugrarr Shoppee when she was Minnie
smith and had red hair before the fan
me1oyines told the world that It was
Titian and before Max BlOomingo!den
boueht Minnie a swell refugee title
which he got at q wonderful bargain
wien some dancer let the payments
slide and tho New York agency took 1t
/ back.
.'AraI and SkopulolNpop made a pile
OF dough IN the Shopee with Honey DO
eonfections that had M!nnie's 3 picture
on all the boxes on account or posing
fon nothing and some cabinet size
sephs, and finally Max said, Maybe
should 20 in the picture business, WIN
Eve gross Of Minnie in stock, and
Skopy admitted that every Immigrant
knew that the pictures were getting
way ahead Of shoe shines and candy
narlors and they were acting accord
ingly, so they organized the High Ar
Productions and they added Ntte
to the Honey Do trademark, and now
Won can see Minnie billed all over the
country as The sweetest thing IN pic
,ures Minnie wanted 70 start her
artistic career in @ slightly different
manner, more Ike the girl IN Polly OF
tho Follies,' but being q city glrl with
no romance attached, she took what she
could get. She IS going TO have an
swfully artistic career. They got an
elegant art critic TO destgn the sets and
Amos wrote the first story IN
three hours and seven minutes.
MAX is advertising it lavishly at
xreat expense, as The Record Break "
, Ing Story And Amos IS 50 modest
about It. He says dozens Of staff writers
. can turn out all the stun the pictures
!, need with orc hand and their mind
nhut. Minnie cant help being famous
because Max knows everybody in the
business and has her booked all over
and isn't II fortunate that pictures are
run in such q NusIlesS-Ake manner, &C
that theatres all over can be sewed VI
in contracts, and that gives the fans 1
chance TO sec everything certain com
panies put out? And some hn!cky peo'
ple think an exhibitor should run arount
and pick and choose, 10 please the few
Now suppose two people wanted 20 se
'One Glorious Day With Nanook, n
compared to ten people who enjoyed WI
Ia NV Wandering Boy Ten Nights in
Barroom Over the IIill" Why the pic
ture people aren't IN business for the!
health, so who would pay any attention
TO the two? Fans don't reu.4ze hov
hard it is 10 produce anything on sched
ule. A moving picture or making merry
60 rounds, for instance. believe i
giving the devil his due.
"And many producers try so patheu
u. calIy to please everybody. They gener
ny ousiy put in u little something of every
'" thing. Now Minnie Is going to do
South Sea, a Canadian mounted police
n sacrificing sister and daughter Cmak
ing n double punch, wild mountai
rirl (she's having La Steal design th
dresses for that, as they are so clever q
simplicity) and lured wife who
saved by her little child. And Mimi
hates kids. But, then, art means sac
rifice, Max sent out some stills OF Min
ME. with some refugee kids from II
alley in back of our house, and son
fans had the nerve 10 call Minnie ma
ternal.' She was furious, for cverybod
knows that you can't hold your publ
n you don't look young. And there
eoing to be n cabaret scene, u soup an
Ash ball, with special effects: curl
haired child with some dogs or rabbit
4 rescue, sunset fadeout, with Il
lovers entwined, in every one of her pic
tures. What more could the fans ask
Amos admits that Minnie will prove
81 superlatively supertluous at leas
and I only hope the fans will apprec!a,
su was afraid you weren't comii
hack; thought perhaps Amos had nal
pied you and taken you off to Honolul
a. Monte Carlo. You have interestir
fs1snds; Minnie rs quite AZ fascinatir
o Amoe, 80 as real-.whatever thu
!. 4 1ana nesst thing about your ever
n IN jeHnaf - peopls thsyS'