ON THE SCREEN

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 2, Issue 8, 1 February 1924, Page 50

ON THE SCREEN

“Main Street” is a Warner Brothers’ classic of the screen, featuring Florence Vidor and Monte Blue, with a notable supporting cast composed of Harry Myers, Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda, Robert Gordon, Josephine Crowell, Gordon Griffith, Otis Harlan and Alan Hale. 0-0 o “Brass” is a Warner Brothers’ production, adapted from the famous best seller by Charles G. Norris. It is a slice of life with a big plot, dramatic surprises, and absorbing situations. So popular was the story in its book form that it ran into forty-five editions, and was read by more than half a million people. Monte Blue’s supporting cast in the picture of marriage and divorce includes Marie Prevost, as Marjorie Baldwin; Harry Myers, Vera Lewis, Irene Rich, Frank Keenan, Miss Dupont, Margaret Seddon, Helen Ferguson, Edward Jobson, Harvey Clark, Cyril Chadwick and Pat O’Malley. o o o “Beauty always is desirable if it is not obviously trading on beauty alone,” says Oliver Morosco, in telling how lie selects his screen and stage stars. “Personality is the strongest qualification. And personality most often is intelligence. The acting of Colleen Moore in ‘Slippy McGee’ is an explanation of what I mean.” o o o Eileen Percy was selected to portray the role of Aggie Lynch in “Within the Law,” starring Nonna Talmadge, after considerable time was spent in looking over all available material. That no mistake was made in her selection is proven by her work as the blackmailing girl of this famous stage play, which was written by Bayard Yellier. o o o “The best rule which anyone can possibly have where manners are concerned, is to be careful of the feelings of others,” Miss Talmadge asserts. “Don’t say or do to others things which you would not have done or said to yourself. That is the foundation of good breeding, and gives a social code designed for comfort and convenience.” And I think her theory is right, don’t you? o o o Mary Pickford, I hear, recently filled a whole trunk full of keepsakes and presented them to the chaplain of Hollywood to lie auctioned for the benefit of his church. Among other treasures were the little velvet suit she wore in “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” and the lace handkerchief which she used in her latest film, “Rosita.” 0 o 0 Norma Talmadge wears a new kind of bracelet in “Within the Law,” but in spite of the fact that the ornament is so attractive that no one within sight is apt to overlook it, there is very little chance of a new fad starting from the photoplay. The bracelet is really a twin; there are two of them connected with a short chain. They call them handcuffs.