Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 312, 13 December 1915 — Page 2

TWO THE RICHMOND. PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, DEC. 13. 1915 .

Copyright, 1915, by The McCIure Newspaper Syndicate. Entered at Stationers Hall, LondonAll rights reserved, including rights of translation. Publication cf this article' in whole or in part is expressly prohibited except by special: arrangement with The McCIure Newspaper Syndicate. v THE MERCILESS CAMERA

Requests for the address of Mary Pickford have come to the office. Address letters to 270 Riverside Drive, New York. Do you know that I am still afraid of the camera? It seems au awful confession from one who has faced a camera every day for a good many years, but I am like a horse afraid of fire once burned, twice shy. In reading theold legends of Ulysses I came across a description of the Cyclops. It was listed as a demon with one eye in the middle of its head and nothing escaped that rye. If It was a Cyclops yesterday it certainly is a camera today. I think you know the feeling if you have ever been to a photographer. It is self-consciousness, but some time it makes me quite giddy and I almost resent the insolent way the camera eyes me. When the director tells me to look Into the lens I look just bove it, or below it, as if I were scanning Its forehead instead ft easing into its pupil. One who. has never been in moving pictures has no Idea how man: things we have to remember at once. If we make a mistake the merciless camera catches It and it is there, registered and held agiinst us. Th? is why the smallest details must be perfect in costume and manner. When there are four or five actors playing leading roles and a mob in fie background, this fiathful. ess t6 the smallest detail causes innumerable rehearsals. I have had very dramatic scenes taken over because in the background one of the extra people had looked into the camera or had made a false move.

Th audience may not be conscious i

or it, out it detects every uaw. sitting behind some people at the theatre, I overheard them saying, as a grocery store was flashed upon the screen. "They try to tell us this all happened in the dead of winter and just look at those boxes of apricots, pears and peaches." Now In "Madam Butterfly" I had to do five ddfferent things at once besides listening to the director and keeping my eye on the . camera so I would not overstep the bounds .outlined. I nad to remember, first of all, that I was no longer an American girl, with an American girl's manner and mannerisms, but a little daughter of old Japan. Then they gave me a strange Japanese musical Instrument which had to be held and strummed a certain way. Nor must I forget my Japanese walk, the customary . low bow which is so difficult because we sway to the ground; the Oriental mannerisms, and, most important of all. to remersber

that the Japanese girls never 6how j their teeth whei. they smile, but cover i

their mouths with their hands.

don't believe that. If a woman has poise and is not nervous the ia ready for any emergency. AUce & writes from Grand Junction, Colo., to ask If I plan my clothes tor the characters I take In mm work. Mother and I together plan them, and. the right sort of a costume for a poor girl of the slums Is herder to get

than the attire of the wealthy. One

can always get the latter at the a tores,

but we find that to secure better ef

fects It is best to buy the materials and

have our dresses made. Bu it is sometimes difficult to find a drees, a hat

and. a coat to suit the characters, say, Of a foundling, particularly when the foundling was supposed to hare lived

fifteen or twenty years ago.

FRAT MEN WATCH SUIT

J GREENCASTLE, Ind.." bee 13. Greek letter fraternity men are taking keen interest In the suit filed by the Putnam county commissioners to place the property of the Phi Kappa Pri fraternity at DePauw university on the tax duplicates. The suit grows out of the refusal of the county auditor and treasurer to place assessments on the tax duplicates as assessed by the county board of equalization.

In 1913 Africa bought nearly $900,. 000 worth of musical instruments.

Buy Them Pure, Home Made

We bad a cute little kitchen exactly

fitted as they are in Japan and I. had

several lessons before I could master

the many odd little kettles and bowls.

Those are the details that make mov

ing-picture acting so difficult.

The camera, too, serves to delight in showing up the crow's feet and the lines around your mouth.- A wrinkle may be cold-creamed and powdered out

of sight for stage-folk, but it shows up

pitilessly on the screen. A freckle, if it is not well covered with grease

paint, looks large as a ginger -snap when the film registers it. That Is why I headed this article "The Merciless Camera." It really makes one

look older and less attractive than in real life. It sees only your features and does not care a whit if your, eyes are violet and your hair red gold. Your complexion may be lifee a rose, leaf, with a sprinkling of tiny little freckles across the bridge of your nose. On the tcreen, as all red photographs black, your rosy cheeks become hollows and

the freckles give you the appearance; of a turkey's eff. Also, if you everj had any vanity the camera will steal ; it away from you. j ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Virginia D., Portland, Oreg., wishes to know what I think about women driving automobiles. j I see no reason why a woman shouldn't drive her own car. I drive mine and I drive it through the Crowded streets of New York. You know the men say that women should not drive cars because they can't keep their heads in time of accidents. I !

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