Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-17
THE MOVIE FANS LETTERBOX
By HENRY NJ. NEELY

''Duke' writes: "Whew. yesterday
certainly was a hummer at our soda
fountain. We're right next to the best
movie theatre IN town, and it keeps ne
steppin' on high TO get around to all our
tables. But with all the rush ] can't
help kind of gettin saturated with
movie pickups of the day.
"Darn it! Why you know when
Peter Ibbetson' played here, old man
Crabtree and his wife. instead Of head
ing for the first seat and ordering the
inevitable cherry phosphate and plain
vanilla cream, the old lady steers for
the back table under the staircase.
When she gives me the order she looks
up and bushes (and did you ever see
aErand gray haired lady blush! Gosh
4 It's wonderful y and orders a sweet
heart sundae.' The old fossil kind OF
mellows up and says, Same for me, my
lad Hot dog!
'iWell, 'Manslaughtcr' Is here now,
and two cuckoo lookin' fellows with
thick goggles, I hear cne say he don't
blame the other attorney for objectin
to Meighan's sleep PRODUCER on Rome
and the other guy says he wonders d!d
the Roman girls really wear such
clothes. I n.ean wells.
"And they start m argument on law
and Ipstick and next hear Miss Shu-
bert, the school teacher. say how much
she likes Leatrice JOY, Lois Wilson and
the Judges face.
Anyway, this afternoon I saw IN"
picture with mine own eyes and here $
to Cecil, "the master mind Henry
Ford, I guess, sells more cars. / mean
Fords, than other manufacturers. be-
cause they've an appeal to possibil-
ity for the mass Of the peepul.
"Same with Cecil. He's selling to
the crowds an crowds and he's givin
'em what they want and can asSlm!-
late; ,,,..
wasn't a snappy picture; pep and ac-
tlon, you know, right from. tho start
Less draggy than The Loves OF
Pharaoh to most, same as The Sheik'
is less tiresome reading to them than
Peer Gynt' or 'Walden.'
"Get me, I'm with you Pretty good
acting, but what makes De Mile hurt
are his occasional really brilliant
flashes. Notice scene showing Lcatr!ce,
Evans and her son at opening door and
Leatrice entering? Subtle way to sug-
gest reunion OF mother and son, non ?
''But how Ceci! fell in not being
able to make us feel the repulson and
disgust Leatrice felt at the garbage
And how the end Topped. Terrible
stuff.
-,,I "A,Inyway, know the doorman, so I
(Y'know. Duke. I'm suspicious we've
been missing something good not hear
ing before this some of the movie gos-
sip from your soda fountain. Where've
your been all my l!feD
"Scream Face" writes: "Oh. gee,
mister, what a crimp you did put in
my Uranium by your answer to Serb
bier Because-about Il year ago
began devouring literature on photOplay
writing, attending lectures on the art OF
writing for the screen and timidly push
ing my little pencil. And-any of my
friends who came upon me, wrapped
as II were, in a sort of psychic trance
said, 'sh. she's visualizing,' and tip
toed quietly away.
$50, mister, bein's as I rely so or
your good judgment and sane viewpoint
on all things cinematical, your state
ment that the beginner has one chanc,
in 10000 sure set me back somethin
"And now, when I have written ,
gang of pages Of perfectly lovely con
tinuity all about the villain saying
scornfully, 'IIa, an ex convict in tn,
governors house! Nix " and the big
ample but oh so virile Rex Beachi'
woodsman, whose heart is putty in th
hands of the woman he loyes-shall
gtve It up? No, think I shall con
tinue, but only as hobby. (That's
good loophole in the event of almos
cNrtain failure, you see.
"Will you tell me, please. If thcr
y chance of THE Loves Of Pharaoh
heine shown in the city again?
x &insed seeing II. Some weeks ago. 20,
trote a few words concerning the diff
6RSut directors. May ask on wha
N that was? Thanks"
Loves Of Pharaoh" has a chance o
shown again when some thoatr
si< s rho cares NOTHING whateye
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