Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-26
THE MOVIE FANS LETTERBOX
BY HENRY NJ. NEELY

Ray ID. o." writes: Nearly every
night | read your department ] see
some one slamming Mae Murray. Now.
Mae is no favorite with me lhcaven
forbid >. but ] can't help but notice
that these people who do slam her must
go to see her pretty often. Judging from
! the remarks they make of her pictures.
In my opinion she still continues to
draw the crowd and must be still pretty
I good to do 1t.
II see you are still speaking Of Ro-
I dOlph Valentino as a boy. lie seems TO
I have lived quite an interesting life for
a mere boy. notice that he has al
ready divorced one wife. and judging
, from his articles has had a great many
affairs.
II used to think Gloria Swanson was
! fine. but think Elinor Glyn has ruined
her. see that Gloria and Rudy are
in picture written by Madame Glyn.
All that is needed is Sissy 10 direct
and it win be some picture.
''One actress ] am sorry to see leave
| the. screen is Marguerite Clark. !
/ think she is one OF the very best. Her
pictures are never off colo- and her pri-
vats life seems to be very good. wish
/ that you would print 70 picture of her.
Can you remember II Wallace Reid ever
played with her: IT seems to me h"
did. -
Il don't think so. At least. find no
record of their playing together
, "Billic B."-If you watch the Pho.
,oplay Guide at the bottom Of this page
every day. you will find where Moran
Of the Lady Lefty is nnyine. Monte
Blue was Mac Murry's leading man in
"I'cacork Alley" and Vincent Cole.
man was the hero IN "FascinatiOn.
though Robert W. Frabcr had the most
important male role.
Mrs. NCtwaiI." wr.tes: ''Du" OF
YOUR correspondents wrote that .Ieifrsl
Farnols books were trashy and com
monplacc. She might think they. were
unusual or 'swashbucklcr. but certainly
70 one could consider them common
i.lacc. ! think in time some OF his books
may be c,asscd almost as classics.
Don't You think George Bebar
would be n good one 10 take the part
of the hero in The Broad Highway
or The Amateur Gentleman, if he can
ride we'll? For either case real actress
should take the hcroine's part. In THE
Sign of the Rose ] thought he hal
very poor support. The two chiidrci
were very good and the uncle. who kid
tapped the child; but her mother wa
not. They came on the stage and spoke
and acted their parts in next to the las,
act. Al least BebAn and several Of III,
actors did.
Il am also partial to Irish actors
liked Tom Moore in Made in llcav
Ell. j. shc no longer in pictureSf d.
YOU know if Mr.. Shepherd lR. ID. Me-
Lean has gone into the movies? lie i
the best Shylock | have ever seen. an,
! have seen several of the best Shake
srcaran actors in The Merchant u
Venice. lie and his wife, Odette Tyler
lived here Washington after they re
tired from the stage for several year.
but moved TO Los Angeles four year
ago. and we hear rumors Of their be
ing in the moving picture business.
"Who is going 10 produce The Prod
gal Judge! am very much interested
rs was taking tea at dear old Gunsto'
Hall, Virginia, with Vaughn kester'
mother when he wrote the closing chap
:crs of that delightful book. 1t wa
} very sad. his dying so soon after Iii
brother, Paul kcster. ought 10 write 70
the screen. He dramatized 'Whe
; Nnighthood Was in Flower and sev
cral other things for Julia Marlow1
| am going to ask him to write a pla
for the movies.
, "Who played Straight from Paris
The House That Jack Built VIII
| played sham and Among Those Pres
, cnt, and 'Dinty' 'thc boy? Is Paul
! inc Starkc the daughter of Theodor
| Starke, n comedian of twenty flee year
= ago. DO you know where they wcr
, from? Is Stella IIoban still in ligl
: opera or has she gone to the screen:
81 think that moving pictures hR
. improved very much in the last 70
years / did not see Orphans OF I'll
storm. ! saw Kate Claxton play IN
, Two Orphans ,from which 1t wa
taken) thirry-fivc years ago
OTIS good to get letter from q
old timer like you. Hope you won
mind my cutting out the nice things yo
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