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Show Real Romances 'Which Develop Before Movie Camera H H, " 'M XSv ' 9 H BY A. H. ,GIEBLER. THE olllce of Cupid. Ino.. always has beon a busy place. But since the. rnovlng-plcture ln- H (Gostry has grown to such vast propor- H Urns the headquarters of J.h'e, Httlo go.i H t loe has had to be enlarged and a B itoiy department added to take care ot j the increasing huslnces resulting rrom H the changed conditions brought about in i the life of the stage people. H -A special Cupid, experienced In the H vrjles and arts of heart piercing-, has been H detailed to take care, of the grpwlng busi- H nose resulting, and fo record tho new H cases U.at are developed dally. H A great many people think Cupid uovor H p3er anything but the old-fashioned bow H and arrows-ln his warfare against single H blessedness. This h a mistake. Cupid H is just at- ii-to-aate as anjona else. H Modern methods have taken the plaqc or H tho old-fashioned bow and arrows In Cu- H Pld's equipment, just as the phonograph, j the pjjjer-piano and tlic ulcuielehavo 1 supplanted the plpos ofiBani's l . H If ou could stepijfrtt?f?ncrooin Just H feacl:, of CupWk private? otllce marked HJ 'exhibits and IpoTefever the collection j tot things that, arc rioV used ip the lovc- j maknit campaign conducted against the j mortals by Hie ltttlo god of love, you H "would find, many strange and curious H i V-ne3, such as boxea of candy, cosmetics, H motorboats, high-heeled shoes, aqro- H planes, bathing suits, automobiles, hot H Wscu:ts, excursion trains, wjshbones, H jwalsts, colfluios, watermclpn preserves H and a g'eat many more things that nave" H beer of tnostlmable assistance In the M l-UJ:.rL-hup.tlnt; business, and setting up In H a. place or high honor, you would see the B latest and one of tho best pieces or love Mj V?at munitions of all, In the shape or a ' j kuoMiig-picturo camera, i Moving-picture studios are a new and M prolific field for the hunting expedition cr 1 qupid H Mcvr, moving-picture players have re- B cer.tlv thrown up their hands In token or H surrender to Cupid's assaults, and Jl biarchcd away to the altar and halter of J isatrlmony. H G.orla Payton and Neil Uaidln are thy J latest of the movie players to assume the J , patrimonial harness. These young pco- j J rde ire employed at the Balboa Studios j In California, and although ;Mi Hardin J I la one of tho screen's most accomplished H , lUains. Miss Payton lcarnod to lovo him 1 , The fact that they were lrequently cast 1 I together In plajs whore he was the crui 1 i persecutor, and .she the shrinking hero- Hl Ine, who dreaded the sound of his root- B ttopj- while at uork. did not deter him j from being all tenderness In their lelsuic j hours, or keep them from falling In love H "itli onn another In real life. Xell and 1 Gloria "stepped olt" early in June. H "The Neglected Wife." H Euth Roland, another player of tho H Eame studio, as married but a short H tlnio ago to Lionel Kent, and although H Wv. Koland has made honeir famous In H the part of The Xegloctcd Wife, she sayi H Bhe has no Intention of being a ncglectc.1 H VrMc outsldo tli0 movies, and there Is no j danger of it because it Is well known that H X.loncl is "Just crax" about Uptli, and H ihoae who are fortunate enough to know B fhe young -uoman do not blame him a bit M toe Jt H Before the coming of the pictures, H i Cupid had a moro stranuous time in Jnin- K Ins tho hearts and hands of the people ot Bf M ' ' f " T r- tho stage because propinquity, one of the rost Important ingredients necessary to a courtship, was nearly always lacking. The camera has Changed all this. Instead In-stead of the actor going here and there in a mad rush to find audiences to play to. ho plays to the little rolls of film In the c&mora, and they do tho traveling and the actor stays at home In the bosom 01 his family. Before tho movies, people of the re'gu-lai re'gu-lai stage oftentimes led lonely llvos. Thy uer grouped together In small travpllng companies. Their stops In tne different towns uas never longer than ono wook, and oftentimes only ono day. They had no chance to form acquaintances ir friendships, and the usual coclal affair", such as most oung people Indulge in, were almost unknown to their world Bm when the big studios wcio estah llthed, hundreds of the players were thrown together In their work and they found themselves able to indulgo In parties, par-ties, dances, receptions and week-end get-together meetings, the same as other people. Tho actor, so long deprived or social Intercourse with his fellows, took to the nev conditions like a child to new toys. AJI tho older actors who were married set up housekeeping near the picture-producing plants and threw open tho doors of their houses to the others, and the lire of the actor, which heretofore had been little better than that of a well-dressed am well-fed tramp, became-one or pleasant pleas-ant conditions. New friendships were formed between the single men and. women of the screen, anc" old friendships were renewed, which soon ripened Into sjch a state that i trip to the "little church around the corner" cor-ner" was the result. Not only Is lite n tin studios ' conducive to courtship and metrlmony, but holds out greater Inducements Induce-ments to those about to take the conjugal con-jugal leap. Seimiations Are Vow. A, Romeo on tho legular stage mlgnt I0V9 his Juliet ever so well, yet hesitate to commit matrimony for that very reason, rea-son, because he would know that their married life could be nothing more than a scries or long separations. "With the new conditions they could be married one day, rent a cottage and set up housekeeping house-keeping tho next, with the assurance that all or tholr lives, -with the cxcoptlon of tho .few hours that he could make his wife believe he was sitting up with a sick friend, would be spent together. The result or sill this has been to popularize popu-larize marriago and, although most of th$ feminine names tamlllar to the public are preceded Ly tho word Miss," the fact is that most of the women players or the fecreen arc married, and tho number or single ones Is growing smaller every day. Among the very latest movie matches is that or Ernie Shields and Betty Schado of the Universal plant In Call-fornla, Call-fornla, and tho wedding bells had scarcely scarce-ly stopped tinging- and the last ciumbs of cak.j garnered by the carpet sweeper until another pair at tho same plant lolloped lol-loped their oxample, when Grace Cunard Ihr serial queen, who ha3 risked hor lite a hundred times lo make a movie holiday, holi-day, qualified to share the Joys and soi-rews soi-rews and tho pay envelopo of Joseph iioorc my saying "Yes, Jog." Not all of the movie players who have assumed the marriage yoke have found hearts that wcie attuned to theirs in tl.eli own profession. But this fact doe not detract from the value or tho camera as a Hist aid to Cupid. .Camera Cupid Scores Again. For instance Bcsslo Eyton went down ' jM8-3 n, J South to take scenes on the historic Dat-llcfield Dat-llcfield of Vicksburg for The Crisis and mo' one Clark Coffey, m prominent young attorney of that city, and became Mrs. Coftcy. Now, if Bessie had been on the regula-ntagc, regula-ntagc, Vlcksbuig being a onc-nlght stand, what, with morning rehearsal, matinee and evening performance, small chance would Mr, Coffey have had to sec what a winsome girl Bessie is. or how red her 1 air glints In the sunllght7 Or what chance would she have had to listen .o his eloquent pleading, if Cupid's little camera had not turned the trick? Dorothy Kelly of tho Vltagraphers Is auolhci who did not find a husband In the studio, but. Just tho same, Cupid hai ci edited the camera with the match, ana the names of Dorothy Kelly and Howard Ubvonor aro set down in his ledger as members of the cameia's glided chain gang. There lo not an epidemic of matrimony among tho screon people. It Is Just the natural course of events, tho result ot ai.KOClatIon and propinquity, and to prove that there seems to bo no early let-up in the activities along this line, while this art'clo was being w rltten camo the ncwi that Charlotte Burton and William Uus sell had Just been married. Asasweirs to Famis Sign your name, but give title to uae In column. Address tho Pho-toplay Pho-toplay Editor, care of thlo paper. it rlRGINIA Kavo not seen Hal Cooley'u V name In a cast just recently, but hs haj- been wot king at Universal City, Cal., whoie you may .send a jetter to him. V OPPERFIELJ-) "William Farnum's v-' address is the Fox Film Corporation, 1.".0 West Forty-sixth street, New York. 1EFF CITY Tho old Blograph studio was at 736 East One Hundred and Seventy-sixth street, New York City, and It Is now being used by tho Selznlck Corporation. The rental price of films varies according to the ago of the subject, sub-ject, tho company that made it and tho size of the theater and the town In which tr is run. Some five-reel features are routed as low as $3.50 for ono night's run, and others as high as 31000 for a week's run. A two-teel Charles Chapln comedy rents for $00 for n. first nlghl'.i run MARIE SUNSHINE Baby Marie Osborne Os-borne Is 6 years old and Is with Pathe. 35 West 'Forty-llfth streot, New Ycrk Her newest picture is called "When Baby Torgot. Don't know the amount of .hor salary, but ll tho stories tho press agents tell aro true, wo would willingly trijdo ours for hera sight unseen |
