Unusual Things Unusual Photoplayers Do (1917) 🇺🇸
Photoplayers do do some unusual things.
by George La Verne
Gladys Brockwell, star of One Touch of Sin, for instance, has built herself a house among the trees behind her bungalow at Hollywood, Cal. The snug, little domicile is firmly constructed away up among the branches of a giant redwood and is completely furnished. When she goes home from a day’s work, she promptly climbs the tree and finds relaxation up among the zephyrs. She has the steps leading up to this perch of her’s so arranged that all she need do is to push an electric button and she pulls them up after her. It would take a fairy prince — or a second-story man — to break in upon her seclusion. “My idea is to get away from earthly cares occasionally and to feel as free as a bird,” Miss Brockwell says.
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Dustin Farnum is not what you would call eccentric, but he, too, does strange things sometimes. As an example, he wears a soft, straw-colored Alpine hat, which was once the property of the late Richard Harding Davis, and he frets if weather conditions will not permit him to indulge himself in this odd pleasure at least once a week. “Mr. Davis was an intimate friend of mine and I love the memories the wearing of his hat always brings,” Mr. Farnum says.
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Marin Sais persists in “proving” there is something “in” superstitions. Most everything that happens she connects up with a superstition. When she was doing the work of playing the heroine of The Girl from Frisco, while the thirteenth episode was being “snapped,” it rained constantly. She spoiled a nice frock and got stuck in one scene by stepping on some chewing gum. “Now say, if you dare, that thirteen isn’t unlucky,” she says.
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William Desmond will not do anything but study the drama when comes leisure moments to devote to reading. He ignores books, magazines and newspapers in order to have all his time to expanding his knowledge of dramatic proportions, etc. “It’s what I like to do,” he says simply. But there is so often something strange about doing what one likes to do.
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Marguerite Gale always doted on making the acquaintance of and calling on stage celebrities, while Bertha Kalich has as a veritable hobby the study of agricultural subjects. She says she wants to see the day when all farm work, ploughing and everything, will be done by electricity. So goes it.
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The Photo-Play Journal for March, 1917
Collection: Photoplay Magazine, March 1917
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see also Marin Sais and Ollie Kirkby — Jealous? Not a Bit of It! (1916)