Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-14
THE MOVIE FANS LE7TERBOX
BY HENRY NJ. NEELY

L.-Your list of the screens beauties
Alice Terry. Claire Windsor. Mary
Miles Mintcr and Justine Johnston---is
all right. | suppose. though I'd GER
tainly substitute Elsie Ferguson for
Mary Miles, and Katherine MarDon-
aid tor all her stiffness Of ncting) is
4 real beauty. as also arc Marion Davies
and May MrAvoy. And ! still think
Clara Kimball Young one of the finest
looking women on the screen. How
ever, this is not list. merely n few
snggNStionS on my part. II is hard for
me- to say which is the better actor.
Lloyd or Chaplin. The latter is sup
posed to have the makings Of n genius
In him. but 50 far has shown his great
art only SpaSmodi"aliy and at brief in
tervalS. As lar as recent work Is con-
cernrh. Lloyd has il way over him both
In subtlcty Of comedy and sincerity Of
acting. As for I.ytell and Arliss, there
Is little chance to compare. ArlisS Is
great actor. one of the best We have
today, while Lytell is a good, service
able and hard working screen star
that's all, Glad you agree with me on
Alice Terry.
! NJ. r. B.--I share your laugh on
! those freak results. Pauline Fred
'erick's low score Is particularly awful.
When the thing started I idly figured
my own score out. and although | found
Norma leading. the other results were
far different. incidentally, Clara Kim
ball Young, was much, much higher.
and Poa Negri was many pegs above.
Ronald ThrOckmOrtOn writes: a.
last ] have Srlccumbed to the call of
the irresistible. must contribute.
II have a rather dim recollection Of
ne movies when they hrst appeared
In our town The earliest | re-
small and the wooden horse made II
deep impression upon my mind. In
those days ! Went to the show every
saturday night. The sole reason
didn't 30 oitcner was that the itin
Grant movie man only hit our town
once week. Nv enthusiasm for tho
movies waved highest in the days Of
the to- be continued next week Sc
rails. ] would have walked mile to
see Pearl White in The Pcrils Of
Pauline and The Exploits Of Elaine.
rut ! didn't hay" to- lived about one
hundred Yards from the |. o. .. +.
temple whore the pictures were shown.
! was thrilled with delight by Neal of
The Navy and Ruth Roland IN The
he'd Circle Finally I became fed ur
On serials and the most picturesque
posters cannot invcigle me into going
10 see Eddie Polo or any of the other
~rlaI artists Of today
limo was when | sat in the front
row with the rest of the kids and ap-
plauded and even Checred when the
nero foIIcd the villain or bunch Of
cowboys swooped down on tho das-
umrdly redskins and rescued the girl
rom their clutches. Them were the
n,aES' Plenty Of cowboys and In
nnnmcntS then. But ] have heard Il
appreciation Of the cowboys coming
Wup"n the homcstrctch slrurrcd on by
q too late.
4 always was and still am strong
r 'oh'llc Two comic situations
nnanu "u' above all others in nv mind.
nue. was when John Bunny made n
""'Ile " run and his teammates had TO
larry nm around the bases in a heel
TTT'roW' The other was when Harold
.'oNn tried to dress the little girl in
no' altogether recent picture. iiar-
cn S"n certainly WINS the palm when ii
'o."S to originality.
ouo,,1 nul ! cannot refrain from just on"
s""s,ion, Some day you ma, receive
".'cr IN which some one docs not
%SN ior something. but ! doubt it. Here
Iu,he ,he query: What ever became OF
thNan Ike: | was strong for him at
sro aye u ten. And that was some time
ro,,, A'kaIi ke' was, if remember Coz.
rttoE' by Harry Todd. and he is ntlll
cS'' Ss'eh 10 be seen in character and COM
w parts. lie was in "I[ceping Tn
NAV. mh l'lEzic, for example. Now
10y not be right about that identity
to uol get your axes ready and hew
10, ne me, by the way, here's let
Sobnnlom So rom the Adirondacks postmark Is
AZ A. P.-You must find first il
ss story is copyrighted. If not, you
scsut suggest II TO "a company for
sssehing, ssV as | Judge from what you
80 lha' II is not much known today.