Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1922, Page 45

- Coming Altractions :BELASCO—*“fhe Exciters.” The dramatic:season will open next - Sunday night, August 27, at the Be lasco Theater, where the Selwyns will Ppresent a new play by Martin Brown, entitled “The Exciters,” which is -:?tduled for Broadway immediately after. Featured in it are Tallulah Bank- head: daughter of Representative Bankhead, an actress of charm and beauty, whose talents have won wide commendation, and Alan Dinehart, among the foremost of Broadway leading ,men. The cast will include also Marsa Allen, Echlin Gayer, Dal- las Tyler, Florence Flinn, -Roy Gor- don and Adrian Morgan. Edgar Sel- wyn will personally direct the Wash- ington presentation of the new pro- duction. The Belasco has been cleaned and redecorated from pit to dome, and new hangings and interior fittings will add to its attractiveness. B. F. KEITH'S—Eddie Foy. Eddie Foy and his fun family will topline next week's bill at B. F. XKeith's Theater. Others will be the meistersingers, Seed and Austin, Wil- liam Halligan, Harry and Dennis Du- four, Francis' Arms, Paul Nolan and company; Fridkin and Rhoda. GARRICK—“Seventeen.” Booth Tarkington's “Seventeen,” ‘with several members of the original company in the different roles, not- able among whom will be Percy Hil- ton, will be next week's production of the Garrick Players. Mr. Hilton was last seen in Washington with David Warfield, in “The Return of Peter Grimm." GAYETY—“Mimic World.” Next week’s attraction at the Gayety Theater will be Cain and Davenport's “Mimic World. *Yeung blood.” it is announced, has been ex- clusively employed to people “Mimic World” with singers, dancers and snappy specialties. Every member of the cast, pumbering nearly fifty, ie declared ‘to be under twenty-one. Amiong _the . celebrities ‘‘imitated are Nora Bayes, Nan Halperin, Fritz! Scheff, Bessie Clayton and Tempest and: Sunshine.” - A bewitching chorus‘is promised... Cotmos Opens Next Week. -The Cosmoa Theater will open its searon next week with the usual matinees and evening performances. Manager Julian Brylawski says his [theater has been practically rebuilt from the floor up, that it has been supplied with -the ‘latest furnishings and devices for the comfort and convenience of his patrons. and that, above all things, there is absolute certainty of its security, especially in the matter of fire protection. Many beauties and Improvements will ‘be found also, which will add to the pleasure of its entertainment. - The reopening_bill will be headed by “The Dress Rehearsal,” a laugh- able farce filustrating the troubles of a play author in directing his first rehearsal. It is good, wholesome fun and ought to make the time pass pleasantly. , Other attractions will include the Quarrelsome Quartet, a new kink in musical fun, presented by four acro- batic song singers; Prince Chersi in musical varfeties of the latest type; Mahoney and Cecil in mirth and mel- odies; Cecilia Weston. a_personality girl, and company, in a repertory of songs that get over the footlights, and Cotter and Aldwin, two_eccentric 0o- medlans and dancers; in “One on You.” A beautiful first-run Goldwyn spe- cfal production, picturing Betty Comp- son .in “Always the Woman,” a love story, ancient and modern. will head the film attractfons, which will in- clude also a Pathe comedy, an exclu- sive news reel and the famous “Movie Chats.” During the season, Manager Bry- lawski states, the feature photoplay will be shown at all performances, ex- cept on Saturdays and holidays an on Sénday evening. . Inspires Enthusiasm [ VERY screen star has a triple per- sonality, it s claimed. In the first place, there is the per- ®on as he appears in his roles; then the person as he appears more or less formally '“off-stage” before the pub- lic, and lastly—and most important— the person as his fellow actors see him in the work-a-day business of production. | _The fellow actors—or actresses— ®re the ones who really know a star, for they see him or her in every pos- sible mood. Consequently, it is in- teresting to hear Nita Naldl's version of Rodolph Valentino's personality, gained through weeks of work with him in “Blood and Sand." “He is as ambitious as Alexander.” she says. “I don't mean that he is ambitious in a_ selfish way—for from jt! He is ambitious for himself, for the entire cast, for the director and for the picture. It is a sort of all- embracing enthuslasm that sweeps everybody along with it. You can't work in the same company with him and not feel it. “There i3 one thing you have to re- member when you consider Valentino. It is that he would rather act in pic- tures than do anything else in the world. It is impossible to imagine a man who {s more contented or hap- pier in his work. “During ‘Blood and Sand’ he was always the first on the lot in cos- tume. Long before it was time to begin work he and Fred Niblo, who directed the picture. were ‘at work with Alvin Wyckoff, settling_prob- lems of scene and lighting.. Valen- tino was ready to work whole heart- edly with every one in the company. “He is the most_inspiring_ person I have ever seen. It was impossible to work with him and without getting some of his spirit and feeling that what he was doing was the most important thing in. the world. In some of my scenes with him, espe- cially the scene where I intrigue him~ into making love to me—we worked hours establishing. what you might call the tempo of *When we agreed we had worked the scenes to the point where they were flawless, Mr. Niblo called for lights and camera. It went off without a hitch, and we were all happy. But the next day when Val- entino saw the film, he decided that it wasn't exactly right. And so we had to spend another day of terribly hard work doing ,it all over again. The point is that he made us and the entire company positively enthusias- tic about doing it “Another thing which shows his attitude toward his pictures is that he insisted on taking every scene in which he appeared close to the camera twice—once while he spoke his lines in\English and once while he spoke them in Spanish. His point shown in Spanish-speaking coun- tries, and the people there might be disappointed “if they saw a bull- fighter mouthing English words when he should have been talking in their own language. He doesn't want to disappoint any one.” Graflex King Makes Record ARLES WARRINGTON, known at studios In Hollywood as “King. of the Graflex Men,” s credited with making the most artistic set of “still” photographs ever taken In connectlon with' a motion picture production. It s sald that Warrington saved close to $10,000 in materials andstime for Douglas Fairbanks by making snapshots during the taking of his latest production, officially known as “Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood.” Before breaking into the movies, Warrington was a newspaper pho- tographer, and- he has applied the samee methods to making ‘“stilis” that he used in newspaper work, thus eliminating entirely the neces- sity of players posing. SHUBERT OPENING | Make Ready for Elsie. HESTER WITHEY will direct Elgle Ferguson in her new Paramount picture, “Outcast” which is sched- uled for production the latter part of August at the Long Island City stu- dio. John S. Robertson was to have di- rected this production, but he is di- recting Mary Pickford and will not finish his work In time to take up the megaphone with Miss Ferguson. “Outcast” will_be the first picture work done by Miss Ferguson since “Peter Ibbetson” was produced, more than a year ago. .Last fall she ap- peared on the stage in “Varying Shores,” and th! summer she. has toured Europe. Tom Geraghty will come from the west coast .to resume his old post of chief supervising- director of the Lon Island studio. He will bring wit him the compieted scenario for “Out- cast” and production work will start soon after August 20. EXC ALLAN DINEHART THE SELWYNS PRESENT MARTIN BROWN'S NEWEST COMEDY THE WITH - AND And A WONDERFUL CAST OF PLAYERS Including Marsh™ Aflén Adrian ‘Morgan right Kramer Florence Flinn- Albert Sackett S-r-lnE‘n;: t Echelin Gayer i -Edwi - i orda Robert Hyman _ A Du LR A Albert Marsh S o 2 -And Qthers of Equal:Note * - R .TALLULAH 'BANKHEAD! ~ STAGED UNDER PERSONAL DI OF .EDGAR SELWYN ONLY MAT. SAT. - The meason’ Going “VHY MEN Matinee 3:00 All Star SEATS ON SALE. THURSDAY Week begiuning Sunday Eve., Wagenshals and Kemper (Producers of LEAVE smartest comedy Hit, by AVERY HOPWOOD SUNDAY, AUGUST 20 .- ONE DAY ONLY . EMPEROR JONE Only Appearance in Washington This: PRICES, -50c TO $250 “The -Bat”) Preseat HOME” | Yerk Oity. was simply that the picture will be Madame Bessoa's wrap of pink georgette, worn at Keis S =T \ e [S Meade's' dinner gown of worn In “Three Wise Fools.” Miss Harriet Hoetor's dainty taffeta frock, seen at Keith's. ASHINGTON blds good-bye to Miss Ada Meade this week, with a hope that perhaps she will return to looal stock some time in the near future. In “Three Wise Fools,” at the Garrick last week, she appeared as the charming protege of three old bachelors_who had once loved her mother. In their efforts to entertain and please her they planned a box party for the opera, and presented her with a lovely new gown, silver slippers, a fan and pearis for the oc- casion. - The frock, which is sketched, was of pale blue chiffon, draped on the new long lines, with the skirt touch- ing the ankles. The tight camisole bodice was velled tront and back with straight chiffon panels, bioused at the waist by a low girdle of self{-material. Narrow silver ribbon shoulder straps Jjoined the two folds, and held them high on the neck, so that a bateau outline was given. The skirt was made in many layers; some long, some short, and others at the sides draping into long, graceful points, which touched the instep. A large flower of blue chiffon with silver-tipped petals | was placed at one side of the girdle to add the only bit of trimming. Miss Meade's hair was simply arranged without combs or flowers, to corre- spond with- the quiet dignity of the gown. — Gossip. OROTHY 'PHILLIPS was born in Baltimore, Md. Allan Holubar is her husband. Her latest picture I8 “Hurricane’s Gal.” Eugene O'Brien is six feet tall; and has brown hair and blue eyes. Some of his pictures are “Clay Dollars. “Gllded Lies,” “Worlds Apart,” “Fig- ehead” and “Hig Wife's Money.” He has been' engaged -to_appesr opposite Norma Talmadge in “The Voice From the Minaret,” but work on that pro- duction has boen ‘suspended pending outcome of the serious injury of Mr. O'Brien by an auto truck. atherine MacDonald is not mar- ried, but she is sald to be engaged to & wealthy San Franciscan. The news of her wedding date has not et been announced. ¥ inia Stewart is an Erasmus Hall -aduate. Bl Marguerite Clark has not been in evidence since “Scrambled Wives. She is married to H. Palmerson wil- llams and lives down south. It is true that Mary Pickford has boen on the stage since she was five. Here are some bobbed hair stars: Constance Talmadge, Norma Tal- madge, Dorothy Phiilips, Anita Stew- art, Shirley Mason, Dorothy Dalton d Viola Dana. ‘ *Marion Davies is to have for her next picture the stage success “Adam | “Fools Errant. nd Eva.”. o Charlotte Walker was born in 1878 in Galveston, Tex. She had a success- ful stage career before appearing on October under the screen. Some of her most im- portant pictures are “Out of Dark- Mme. Besson, at Keith’s, in a play- let entitled “The Woman Who Knew.’ wore an attractive wrap. Light sheli- pink georgette formed the medium and brown fox fur the trimming. The filmy material was shirred into a dainty ruff at the throat, and just be- low it a choker collar of fur was add- ed, with a second georgette ruching appearing beneath. A~ wider band of flufty fur circled the wrap at its center and held the light folds out with a suggestion of bouffancy. The lower part of the wrap was edged with a straight collarlike fold of geor- gette, to which the ampler drapery above was neatly gathered. Mme. Besson's gown was of shim- mering opalescent sequins, cut in one straight plece, and held in place by jeweled shoulder straps. A twlisted fold of delicate pink georgette cor- responding with the cape marked a very low waist line and fastened in a loose knot over one hip, with its trailing end forming a graceful train that swept the floor. Miss Harrlet Hocter, also at Kelth's. appeared in a chic little period frock made of apple-green taffeta and trimmed with garlands of pink roses, and diminutive pink ribbon shoulder straps supported its bodice. This was cut on snugly fitting basque lines, and 2n unusual touch was added in aj bertha collar, front and back. which " |slanted into long points at each side. The wide crinoline skirt was almost completely covered by folds of spiral taffeta drapery bordered with rose wreaths, which swayed to and fro with the movements of the dancer. Miss Hocter's chapeau was of shell pink georgette in poke bonnet form, trimmed with a few scattered rose- buds and with gay streamers of pink satin ribbon. Miss Ethel Russell, ingenue in “A Little Cottage,” first wore a quaint frock of old blue silk, with a small hat tipped with ostrich fronds of the same shade. Later she appeared in a gown of white satin and old rose georgette, girdled in rose velvet rib- bon. The satin bodice was cut with a slight rounded neck, and diminu- tive kimono sleeves, and both sleeves and neck were dotted with large rose- colored beads. The skirt, also of satin, was wide and gathered, and was finished with a satin ruching at the top which drooped over and almost entirely hid the narrow streamer girdle. The rose georgette formed large panels at each side, which fell just to the xkirt hem. Heavy silk embroidery in a slightly deeper shade of rose appeared on the lower part of each and gave a semblance of in- tricate lacework. In the Spotlight JLLIAM FAVERSHAM will be seen in New York this week in “A Marriage Has Been Arranged.” by Sutro. “Hunky Dory.” the new Scotch com- | edy, will be seen in Montreal for a SOk ‘before opening in New York on| Labor day. The premiere o “Lights Out.” an- unced for tomorrow night in New, York, has been postponed until Wed- nesday. Jean Brown, Kitty Flynn nnd"Ednl Morn will play the title roles in “Sally, Irene and Mary,” which the Shuberts are producing. Marjorle Rambeau, who had been nnounced to end her New York en- Fase t in “The Goldfish™ last night, agemen fhatead will continue her run indefi- nitely. “Dolly Jordan.” a play by Iden Payne, will be placed in rehearsal this week. Mr. Payne is, now Sstaging James T. Powers will be seen in melodrama is from the novel “The House of Fear,” by Wadworth Camp. “Marjolaine” will be.sent on tour by John Henry Mears this season with Pegay Wood as its star. It will open in Philadelphia September 18. Oliver Morosco will present “Mike Angel with Leo Carillo, at River- side, Calif, next Wednesduy, night prior to its opening at the new Cur- ;an l’l;heal!r, San Francisco, Septem- er In support of William Courtenay, when he appears in New York in “Her Temporary Husband,” early in Sep- tember, will be Ann Andrews, George Parsons, Henry Mortimer, Harry Allen and Selena Royle. Claude King, now appearing in “He ‘Who Gets Slapped.” has been en- gaged for Robert Housum's play, “The Star Sapphire,” which E. R. Goetz will present in Buffalo on La- bor day. Phyllis Le Grand, for years leading woman with various companies for George Edwardes, in London, ar- rived in New York last week, and New York in a musical comedy in the management of The production will i ‘Morosco. ouver “Somebody’s Lug- be a_version of * in which he acted several sea- “The Trail of the Lonesoms|gage,’ e Just a Woman" and “Eve In |sons ago. BN T - The rehearsals of “The Awful lnwmdm‘g:e;; Hohowr o TR | rath,” for Henry Miller's Theater, e Cedman Is appearing in an|New York will begin this week. Tho s|cast will include Ina Claire, Bruce “The Dangerou a John M. Stahl produttion, will be released in the fall. s -dark brown hair and eyes. not related to Myrtle Stead- important_role, in Age;’ which ma AT ter and Natalle Keaton have a|Teturn to the stage I, (00 0 (or, op younk son. H!;,":;ly‘"’;;‘b;"{,:" «in | Helen Hayes will head the cast agan. une. Talmadge family, of course, he runs 2 chance of being spoiled. Larry Semon was & newspaper car- toonist before he entered pictures. He writes, directs and. stars all his productions himself. ‘Agnes Ayres began her stage career as an extra at the Essenay studio in Chicago. She has played leading roles in various pictures. She was made & star by Paramount, her first starring vehicle ‘being “The Lane That Had No Turning.” Her latest.'picture .is “Borderlan: She is five feet four inches in" height, welghs 115 pounds and has golden.brown- hair and blue oyes. She fs not married-at the pres- ent time,. although ‘she. has been. Edwin Carcwe's next picture will be “Mighty Lak a Rose’ The .Talmadge .sisters are in New York at present.” They will soon sail for the continent. Constance's next release will be “East Is West. Hugo B;uh;‘r latest 1 “Married People” * considered one of the best pictures of the year. -Mabel Ballin is-THugo's wite. . ost_beautiful woman -on. the luT.r;:n,mlf votes o\:;lll! hll Kllh:;::: e was e eonte “which rin“Iln I picture id ‘Husbands” and th oné: to. follow. will “be” “The Woman Conguers.” * < B Travels Far t E TIAN VON SCHNEID, Z"fi_m paat six months has beén’| painting - portraits-of Mary Plckford and Douglas Fairbanks will. leave Los. Anl'e{u early next week to mo- tor 1,600 miles to Crater Lake, Ore., ere -he ‘will: ‘paint several can- Von Schneidau; who is rated as ‘the : brated Swedish ‘pdinter in- America, anxious to study” light vibrations in the ~Pgint; - U, who| ter Lake ‘courntry, where, due to the aiti- o and. phculiar “Hight. nditions; -complex -fiels and pect S son has just purchased Hollywood, undeterred sy L e a|return to the stage in “To the Ladies, Co.. in_ Hartford, McRae, Cora Witherspoon, Louis Mc- Intosh and Paul Harvey. Louis Harrison, one of the best known of the old-time comedians, will “Behind the Mask,” a play by Maj. C.-i:ldenrson Wright, dealing with the Ku Klux Klan, will be produced in New York saon by the author. “The Torchbearer,” a comedy by George Kelly, was presented In As- pury Park last week, by Rosalie Stew- ‘art and Bert French. The cast in- cludes Mary Boland, Helen Lowell. Alison Skipworth, Arthur Shaw and Douglas Garden. Tempest will be seen in-New Yg‘r'krhA\lguapl 24 in “The Serpent's Tooth,” a comedy by Arthur Rich- man. “The Edward Locke, an Who Laughed” by otker will be presented at acre Theater, New York, ;l:ex( %:dg esday night. Martha Hed- Tian, Gilda Leary and William Pow- ell are in the cast < 1y Wives,” under the manage- mertPetY A H. Woods, will play a engagement in_White D Y., (omorrow and Tuesday.! nights before opening in. New York Wednesday night. Alda, recently with the Efayle pens in vaudeville tomor- row in New York In “Sadie—One of | Those Girls,” a one-act operetta in, three scenes. Howard Greer, who has_just re- turned from France, where he was associated with Paul Poiret and oth- ers, has been selected by John Mur—' ray Anderson to design costumes !or| the fourth annual production of the! “Greenwich Village Follles. 1 —_— ] The title of “The Old Soak” has| been restored to the play by Don! Marquis which Arthur Hopkins gill; present in New York Tuesday njght. | Harry Beresford will play the title: role. Rehearsals for “The Yankee Prin-! cess” 4 L. Erlanger’s musical com- | edy production, started last week un- der the direction of Fred G. Latham. Vivienne Segal has the leading role. “The Yankee Princess” is now play- ing in Berlin under the title of “Die Bajadere.” Emmerich Kalman wrote the music, Willlam» Le Baron wrote the American book and-Bud De Sylva the Iyrics. > Tons of Money,” the English farce which Charles Dillingham to pre- sent tomorrow night in New York, had fts first hearing in Atlantic City last Homer B. Mason and Mar- dr .k‘lllnd!ln ‘will present e S raing ” by Thomas F. Fallon, , Se ber 1. ith Rob- n-in-the. . will appear In Edward Royce's pro- duction of “Orange Blossoms,” in New York, next month. MarilyA Miller (Mrs. Jack Pick- ford) wired F. Ziegfeld, jr., that she leaves Los Angeles next Tuesday to report for rehearsals of “Sally, :vhlch resumes on Labor day in Bos- on. % The musical version of Frank Cra ven's comedy, “Too Many Cooks, which will be produced by Willlam A Brady, will be called “Up She Goes.” Joseph McCarthy is writing the lyrics and Harry Tierney the music. The New York opening will take place early in October. New faces will greet Gayety The- ater patrons_this_season as ticket sellers, and Miss Lillian Barlow as treasurer, and Miss Flora Barlow as assistant treasurer. Al Stauss will conduct the Gayety Orchestra this season. Hiram Richey will begin his tenth season. as stage manager, and Thomas Ryan, formerly fleld mah for moving plc- ture houses, will fill this position on the Gayety stat Scheduled for rly production by the Garrick Players is Mark Swan's comedy-drama, “Her Own Money," with Julia Dean heading the cast. Miss Dean, it will be remembered, starred in the original company. She was famous with the old Columbla Players. F Garry McGarry, production man- ager of the Garrick Stock Company, has returned to Washington from & trip to New York, during which, ‘it is announced, he made arrangements for the appearance here of some of America's greatest stage stars in their most notable successes. One of the announcements of the new season is the coming of the new Wagenhals & Kemper show., “Why Men Leave Home,” scheduled .for early presentation at - the Belasco Theater. It is by Mary Roberts Rine- hart and Avery Hopwood. Ira J. La Motte continues as the resident manager at the Belasco The- ater. The regular season of Shu- bert vaudeville will open September 17. During!the summer Manager La Motte made a tour of inspection -of the Shubert houses as far west as Los Angeles. Jimmy Hussey will be the headliner of the first Shubert vaudeville unit to appear_at the Belasco, in Sep- tember. There will be thirty-eight separate shows on the wheel, which, it is said, insures a season without a single repeat act., Oldest Courthouse. 'N one of the backgrourids used in the filming of Richard Barthelmess' new photoplay, “The Bondboy.”- will be seen what is claimed to be the oldest courthouse in ;the United States. It - is located at Warm Springs, Bath county, Va. The bulld- ing was erected in 1781, and tradl- tion has it that Patrick Henry, Thom- 'ames Madison ag Jefferson and J: one time or other appeared couttroom to practice law. The. ing is now being used as the clerk’g office, -~ - i -builg- ml% Stahl's First" “One Clear Call. " Goldwyn's - production, ‘With 'l'w'n Ipothafl.i' and “Divorce Coupon: Palace. Clara Kimbull - Young Hands_ of “Nar; - ‘Columbis. V. Blascq Ibanes's Sand,” in screen Valentinp, Lik the chief roles y traction at Loew’'s Columbia theater. - Rialto. ‘The Universal .production, “The Married Flapper,” starring Marie Pre- vost. A Local Headliners. ANAGER ROBBINS of B. F. Kelth's {s confident that he has made a real, genuine “find” for vaude- ville right here in the home town of the someday stars. 1t is the two Bird boys, Dick and Jacl Bird, sons of J. Maurice Bird. Mr. Robbins gave the youngsters a try-out last Tuesday at his matinee and without advance heralding of any sort and without their local connec- tion being known, save to a few, the lads made a wonderful hit. Mr. Rob- bins refuses to modify his adjectives of praise and insists that the per- formance by the boys next week will more than justify and .confirm his own judgment. They will appear in the same bill with famous Lionel Atwell, though in the fourth place of prominence and it'is predicted they will hold it down with moré than credit to them- selves and their “Christopher Colum- bus” Robbins. Singing is to the boys as much & oy and a sport as swimming and base ball. For the past three years they have been choir boys at the Washing- ton Cathedral.. There the soprano, Dickey Bird,- was given important solo work. In conjunction with this they have two dally periods for songs used gn concert work. Jack's deep, mellow contralto, when combined .with Dick’s full-toned so- prano in duets, makes a thrilling emotional appeal. The boys naturally love to sing- and many of the close harmonies in' their work are their own arrangement. ‘Owing to their intensive- study they read and in- terpret difficult musical compositions at sight. They have a large repertoire of 'songs, good music mostly. A Lincoln Symposium., VERY person in California ‘who knew Abraham Lincoln at any period of his life is to be invited to be the guest of the Rockett-Naylor Motion Picture Company upon the occasion of -the shooting of the first scene ‘of {ts fifteen reel production of “The Life of Abraham Lincoin." The fcature of the occasion will be a dinner to be followed by speeches zr\: a symposium of recoliections of the martyred chief magistrate by the venerable guests. Senator Cornelius .Cole, 100 years old and Lincoln’s oldest surviving friend. who served in the United States Senate when Lincoln was President and stood In touching dis- tance of him at Gettysburg when he delivered his immortal address there, will be the guest of honor and will preside at the symposium. Uncle Joe Cannon also will be uged to attend and there will be sev- eral old soldiers present who knew President Lincoln well. Dr. Gilbert Ellis Builey of the Uni- versity of Southern Califorriia and chief of the research department of the Rockett-Naylor Company. him- self a neighbor of Lincoln When a boy in Springfield, will be master of ceremonies. A Dr. Balley would like the names and addresses of all men and women . who knew Lincoln in order that none may be overlooked who are eligible and able to attend this affair. A feature of ‘the symposium-dinner will be an exhibit of authentic Lin- coln relics. Néw Film CompanyHere EGOTIATIONS were concluded yes- terday, it is announced, whereby the Safety First Films Production Company will soon have its staff of directors, camera men and casts a sembled here ready to start filming a series of comedies with scenes laid in and near Washington. The first of the productions will be filmed on that. part of Glen Echo Park not used for amusement pur- poses and will be started immedi- ately upon the conclusion of the park season, the latter part of September, under the direction of Jack Wolf- man, general manager, who has sign- ed contracts to take over the prop- erty - for- picture-making purposes. The principal studio of the com- pany is _located at Davista, a suburb of St. Petersburg, Fla., where pro- duction of a super film, “From News- boy to United States SBenator,” is now in_progress. Several of the scenes of “this film have already been “shot’ in Washington under Mr. Wolfman's direction, and others, which will show some of the Glen Echo amuse- ments in operation, will be flimed be- @pre the park closes its summer se: son, shortly after Labor day. John duction, in “The l “Blood and form, with Rodolph “Buddy.” sald to be a second edi- tion of Jackie Coogan and a Wash- ington en actor, is portraying the character of the mewsboy, while Louts Gadke has the principal lead in the production. 'Wonder of Wonders{. EARLE DORSEY, a genius in_ his way, contributes the following: iThomds ‘Meighan is an inveterate story-teller. Several years ago: he was in London, and, in the lobby of the, Hotel Savoy, he met Perley Poore Sheehan, the novelist, who then was the, forelgn correspondent of & New .York mnewapaper. Meighan makes a speciality of knowing writ- ers, and it is sald sometimes that he knows , thore - writers than he knows actors. At any rate, Meighan got ‘to -telling ,sfories, and ‘Sheehan, he_ correspondent-author, was a good e or. " 3 S x eighan, toldf one - story aboitia city,boy’ who hecame involved with 2 tough”city gang and fled ‘to the country. to; escape. contaminating in- fluences, only ta discover rural brands of perfigv:of which; the Bowery had never héard.. ¢ Lt ‘Sheehan sald.nothing at the. time, but the idea impressed him power- fully, and not more, than.a year rolled by before the same story appe novel'!gzm. entitled, ‘If You D.el!e!t 1y imj - byllmc-'o( Sheehan’s story; and he in- vited tha Author to come to California and, assist in -its production for: the screen. -.:Befors. Tucker : could -bégin work on the picture;. however, he died. “After / Tucker’s 'death Meighan chanced to run across a copy of the book,-and. he read it, along with the ‘hundré@s or so°stories hie' reads every year in his search for screen material. ““Meighan - was charmed with . the basic idea-of the story, afid samehow it uely .suggested something :he Inml ‘:‘;r'd"b!:lo’c. l‘i’a 'z:fl 11;" m&n o auf and _then, for, the -5'?;}"1 e éu—‘l.gea*‘nrfic“\.é;.:.' anxious to appear in a story that he Kad ,no:nn:ux told, 16 Shethan, “in the Savoy Hotel, several years be. fore.’ e sobre “for Elmer 'CIif: at| in the | Gllbert, vl(,'l‘OR HUGO'8 masterplece, “The | Hunchback of Notre Dame,” will shortly be put into production by Universal. Frank Mayo's next picture is to be “The Altar Stairs” by G. B. Lancas- ter. In this production Dagmar Go- dowsky (Mrs. Frank Mayo) will re- turn to the screen as a South sea “vamp,” while Louige Lorraine wil have the féminine “lead.” The second series of “Leather Push- ers” prize ring pictures is starting at Universal City, . with Reginald Denny again cast as Kid Roberts, the part created In the firat of these | H. C. Witwer stories. Elinor Fields has been engaged to play opposite. It has been definitely decided that Norman Kerry is to play the male lead in “Merry-Go-Round,” Erich von Stroheim’s next super-Jewel of pre- war days in Europe:—His role is that of an Austrian count. ck London's_stories of the sea, es of the Fish Patrol” will be picturized by Universal in_ a series of two-reelers, with Jack Mulhall in the leading part. Hoot Gibson wlll soon be seen in “Ridin’ Wild,” an original story by Roy Myers. “One Wonderful Night,” a swiftly moving romance, by Louis Tracy, has been purchased by Universal for Her- bert Rawlinson's use. A wedding dress that weighs fifty pounds is worn by Marion Davies in the big Cosmopolitan production, “When Knighthood Was in Flower.” in which Miss Davies plays the parl of Princess Mary Tudor. The dress 18 made of silver cloth trimmed with ermine and pearis. Bernard Sexton, writer, lecturer, educator and story teller, whose “Lit- tle School In the Woods” was a Mecca for educators everywhere, | who came to see how woodcraft and happiness were revolutionizing child training, has gone to Siberia with the Russian Pictures Corporation, of which W. K. Ziegfeld is president, to have charge of the filming of the first authentic news, scenic, educa- tional and Industrial pictures ever| taken in that country. Bert Lytell once appeared in an “Uncle Tom" show. He had four parts in the slavery story and chased Eliza across the ice. Rockett-Naylor Productions was or- | ganized to produce a series of super- | cinema dramas of subjects of national and world appeal. While the subject to follow the Lincoln production has not yet been definitely determined, it is not unlikely, it is said, that a great picture of Washington and fhe revolution will be the next. In “The Ghost Breaker" Wallace Reid has to battle his way through twelve men in armor in an old Span- ish castle. In his encounters with! the armored figures on several occa- | sions during the filming he was pinched by the coming together of | pieces of metal which made up the!| suits of armor while he was being | roughly handled by these men. | “Every time one of them bumped] against me I was pinched in some place.” he says. 1 Monte Banks announces he has in- vented a new kind of comedy—neither slapstick _or situational. What can it be? That's what Monte Banks, wants you to ask until September, when his innovation will be released. Dorothy Manners, supporting Jaock Pickford in “Garrison's Finish,” wants to make sure of not being con- fused with another Dorothy Manners in pictures. Hence hereafter she will | Le known as Dorothy G. Manners., She also wishes to have it impressed | that she is a decided brunette, while | the other Dorothy blonde. A Close-Up of EBE DANIELS. Paramount picture star, has a line of Spanish an- cestors. She has also one of those rambiing white bungalows, with tile roofs and a courtyard in the middle—they call ‘em “haciendas” in the land of olives and bullfights—and a love for ori- ental furnishings. But don't get the idea that callers are expected to play a guitar beneath her balcony win- dow on a moonlight evening. Bebe doesn’t sit around the house in mantillas and fan herself. Not at all, not at all! When _vou ring the front door bell of the Daniels bungalow no imposing figure in gold lace and knee breeches responds solemnly. On the contrary, it's quite likely that an attractive little woman in gingham apron will usher you in and ask you to be seat- ed, while she dashes back into the kitchen and pulls a cake out of the oven. That little \woman with black hair like Bebe's d the same large black eyes is Bebe's mother. That is what happened to the inter- viewer who gathered these few im- Pressions. Before - opportunity was afforded to gaze at the soft colorings of the oriental rugs and the varied examples of richly carved furniture and the plainer pieces, which were quite evidently family heirlooms of great age, Bebe herself breezed in. - Breezed is the only way to describe the way she entered. She is an ath- lete, you know. Back In the slapstick .comedy days, when the bathing girls had to bathe and dive and fall off piers and trolley cars and things, Bebe used to be quite active. She ac- quired her full share of the bumps and bruises that went with the earlier type_of moving picture acting, and she hasn't settled down to a life of Manners is a! “There’s a lot in a name’ NNOUNCEMENT is made by Louls £1 c. Smith, secretary-treasurer of the Natioral Archery Associafion, that the forty-second annual tournament and convention will be known as the ‘Robin Hood' tournament” and will be_ held at Cooperstown, N. Y., Au- gust 22-25, inclusive. ‘In making this announcement Mr. Smith refers also to new trophies which are to be competed for this year by members of the association. who come from all sections of the United States. Among these new trophies, which #re in addition to -those usually gwarded at the annual tourhaments, fs_an exceptionally handsome cup which is being given by Douglas Esirbanks, and will be known as “the Douglas Fairbanks ‘Robin Hood This cup is to be awarded to the winner of a Fair JEXCLUSIVE motion pictures of the Nijni:Novgorod fair in Russia, the most famous of all great fairs, will be photographed by Russian Pic- tures Corporation, of which W. K. Ziegfeld is at the head, and which tsro months ago sent the first cinema project ever permitted by the Ru: " Russian 7 ions granted if, in said e o n given the cxclusive ‘which continues for two'months. “Postponed sinoce the Russisn revo- 1ugton, .the Nijni-Novgorod fair L sxid~ FILMOGRAMS iin | the villain lin ~to"~ have “been revived ' by the!gamera has’ when it gets you mixed up with some one els he_ thinks. Arvid Gillstrom's latest Cen Tomedy that stars Brownie, the o tury wonder dog. is cailed “A-Bark- ing Sleuth,” and features Brownie in a Sherlock Holmes outfit—cap, pipe and baggy trousers. % Jack Earle, the seven-foot-three young giant, though only fifteen anfl Wweighing 237 pounds, we Jack and the Beanstalk™ thqqli Julius Stern deeided to let him play the father in “Hansel and Gretel.” 3 Mrs. Claire Hersholt, who for twenty years was Denmark's most popular actress, but who is now re: tired, has just left Hollywood after a year's visit with her son, Jean Her- sholdt. the director-actor, who plays t in Mary Pickford's new “Tess of the Storm Country." In 1620 the fashionable beauties in England made their own hairpins. They used strips of wire, which wens bent into shape by the dainty fingers of the users. The research depart- ment of the Paramount organization discovered this, it s said, when f1 started looking up details for George Fitzmaurice’s new production, “Te Have and to Hold.” H Stars—real stars of the heavens & well as the high-salaried kind thdt are featured in electric lights—are to be seen George Melford’s new production, “Burning Sands.” This was made possible, it is sald, by the inventive faculty of James Wong Howe, second caméraman for Mg Melford, who has devised a process for showing the stars in the sky and making them twinkle. The process has been embodied in several of thp nightsscenes taken at Oxnard, Calif.: One of Louise Dressers earliest jobs in the theatrical professiona “Peck’'s Bay Boy" comy was™ with pany on the road, for which she was engaged at $10 a week. Since them she has gotten as much as $1,000 g week in a vaudeville act. : Thunderstorms, even motion pic ture thunderstorms, are usually outs of-door phenomena. The interior o a studio isn't usually considered. 3 desirable place to blow a lot of water around with wind machines, because it might get on sets in other pictureg But in_Willlam De Mille's picture, “Nice People these considerations were overlooked. Mr. De Mille hag the sets indoors, because he prefery to do all his work there. so the storm was put on inside the studio. : “Writers who will formulate their ideas for stories and translate them into picture form will save us thou- sands of dollars,” says Sam Wood, who directed Gloria Swanwon in “Hey Gilded Cage.” “I will prophesy that within five years we will have young men who will conceive their plots. ideas, develop their scenario, supers vise the building of the sets and aq as the guiding mind for the direc tors.” : Jack Holt came east to make exter rior scenes for his newest Paramounl picture, “Making a Man.” and is now Atlantic City filming Boardwalk scenes. ~ Pomeroy Cannon, who attained prominence by his portrayal of Maudariaga. the old Spanish grandi father of Julio. in “The Four Horse: men of the Apocalypse.” is one of the noted players chosen for the cast fof ;)\;oulh to Youth,” headed by Billig ye. Rex Ingram’s next photoplay pro- duction for Metro Pictures Corpora- tion will be “The Passion Vine,” by John Russell, after which he will make Victor Hugo's “Tollers of thé Sea” on the Maine coast. H The loss of part of one of his ears has turned Phil Ford,- son of thé screen actor. Francis Ford, from & screen hero to a screen villain. As a result, he was hired to play ome of the “tough guys” in the Wesley Barry picture, “Heroes of the Street. Bebe Daniels. . kiitting needies and rocking cha yet. “Come out and meet grandmothe: she suggested. We did. Out on a cool porch, pa; hidden from the attractive lawn climbing vines, there was a white- capped old lady, not much larger than Bebe, who responded with surprisin Iy energetic cordiality to Bebe's i troduction. Soon mother returned from the kitchen without the apran. “Now the whole family is here.” the chafmin gyoung hostess announced: Tea and cakes and things werr served and there followed a walk through the beautifully kept grounds. Bebe knew all the plants and the va- rious kinds of shrubbery. In fact, she confided that she helped heér mother take care of them. becaube she likes to “dig.” It is one of her hobbies. , I love to get out into the opes,” she said. 1 Hike animals, too. Jukt now I have two dogs, a collle and_-a bulldog. Horses, t0o, L am very fogd of. T have ridden almost “since 1 cgn remember. We have a country place of twenty-five acres:near Glendale, ° Calif., and 1 like nothing better thiin to spend the week end there. “‘Oh, yes, 1 like some sports—s as polo and swimming. I don't care much for golf or tennis. Of the im- door sports.] like dancing best.” = Miss Daniels is much interested In her home. She has a passion for ceJ- lecting oriental things. It is sharéd by her mother. Some of her furmi- ture was given to her by her gran@ mother, who is a daughter of a for- mer President of Colombia. It is from her grandmother that she inherits her vivacious Spanish type of beauty. Her grandfather was a Mr. Griffin, & Connecticut Yankee, who was consul general at Buenos Aires at the time he met her grandmother. = Robin Hood Trophies cial “Robin Hood"” contest in the na* ture of a long-range wand shoot. J. F. Cooper also, has offered a tro- phy to be known as “the Leathez- stocking cup.” The manner in whith this trophy is to be awarded will-Be made known later. James S. Jilés also has offered two handsome pine. one to go to the winner of the men's novelty shoot and the other to the winner of the women's novelty shool. Events of a social nature also ake being arranged for. the enuru‘:‘i- ment of the visiting archers, includ- ing a tea party at Fynners, the estate of the Fenimore-Coopers; evenifg plays at The Little Cahmonix The- ater, an outdoor Greek theater, and probably an evening excursion on Otsego lake. ; ' Mr. Smith wishes members of the archey association to know that head- qQuarters for the “Robin Hood” tourna- ment will be at the O-Te-Sa-Ga Hotel, Cooperstown. to Be Filmed soviet government and. returned.to its old-time splendor. At Nijni-Nov- gorod merchants , gather .from east nd west €0 buy and sell. Caravaas come from China, Indi Siberia, ghana, from Per: s ‘The races of the east comie ds of miles with wonde: e goods, silks, skins, rice, tes, carvings. foods, etc. ~Asmedly of n&- atan soviet government to entér Si- | G M., dghists, Parsees, Mohamme- 0% |dans, Christians, fire worshippers “he * Ziegfeld expedition, among|from Persia and others—bring. théfr handiwork. tain temples of Tibet come wares sale. - ‘The spectacle; it is expected, will He ready f:? American presentation: in the early fall along with a series:of scenic, ednuu:n‘l‘l, .l-ltldnluh; .{'.‘..‘ news ures of the interior of m hitherto the motion picture “been unknown. — ¥~