Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1923, Page 60

AMU SEMENTS. LATEST MOVIE GOSSIP FROM HOLLYWOOD Lanky $24 a Week Bill Collector Gets Title Part in Big Film—To Cruise 700 Miles on Frontier Trip, Chuck Wagons and All. By Hallett Abend LOS ANGELES, November 1.—About a year ago a tall, lanky man walked onto the lot of the Rockett-Lincoln Film | Company, gained access to Al and Ray Rockett and said he understood they were about to film the life of Abraham Lincoln. He wanted to play the title part, he sald. The Rockett boys, as they are known Hollywood, noticed that the man I s Sraringly lke the photographs of Lin even to the mc right side of his mouth; and what experience he had had. tage or sereen, said the visitor, buf he added that he knew all about Lincoln— had been fa martyred President. The man was Georse A Billines bill collecter for a Los Angeles co . He was then forty-two ¥ old and drawing a salary of §2 Rockett boy T him nd then a i‘h(‘\‘ul:h 2 sumed a pitylng pose when it he t they had signed the unknown Billings for the ] a twelve-reel feature photopla T have seen the completed flm, Dramatic Life of Abraham Which will be released in November. In spite of alk and gossip 1 had heard ahout Billings' work 1 was skeptical and thought the production would be only a dreary historical film, for 1 knew it car. ried Lincoln from the day of his birth in a log cabin to the day of his death in a house across the stre Theater Washington. wrong I like to admit it. hrugged its When I'm This film Is one of the best um(l!‘“h'\‘ this year of hetter pictures and Billings gives an extraordinary formance. It is not mental canonization of Lincoin, moving drama with a minimum Dattle scenes and flag waving. Phillip Rosen directed it, but most of the credit 1 feel, should go to Frances Marion who wrote the scenario. and to v Carr and the Rockett boys. who with Miss Marion personally supervised the filming, cutting and titline. Cost' figures on the picture have not been made known, but whatever the cost it far transcends in m and in interest several of the “million-dollar super spectacles” of the year, and In Billings it introduces to screenland a new face and a new actor of such fine sincerity that he seems not to be an actor at all. Another Big Spectacle. James Cruze, director of “The cred Wagon.” 'is to mak Hough' rth of Thirty Six" at onc for Paramount reles ave already been en rence and Jack Holt will be required and Abiler Austin, Tex.. will be rebui prints as they were fifty-six years ago. The story has to do with a ‘mammoth cattle drive pany will cover about 700 miles of rough country on horseback and in ox-drawn vehicles while the picture is being made. There will .be no permanent camps after the Abilene and Austin scenes are taken, and a company of people will be fed from chuck wagon rs the produc vered Wagon,” Cov- e Still another huge western Sp play is to be made at once., similar to “The Covered Wagon,” but this time Thomas H. Ince and not Paramount will be the producer. The production, which will be called “The La: tler, based on a s Courtney Niley Cooper and with the building nd completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Mr. Ince kept his plans secret and no word of the project le: d out until seven of his cameramen and a small army_ of technical and _trick hor: k riders arrived Wain- wright, Alberta, for the annual round- up of the Canadian go i mense herd of buffalo the exclusive motion pi this event. The Wainwright buffalo herd, the largest in the world, now numbers 8,000 head and this week it will be rounded up. divided Into two herds and about 2,000 of the surplus bulls will be killed. This spectacle is counted on to furnish many of the thrills of the production. As vet none of the principals has been engaged, but casting will be begun as soon as the buftalo herd footage has been doped and cut. Hundreds of Cree Indians_ were taken from their reservation to Wain- wright. Mr. Ince s on the | ated by the career of the | screen test | t from Ford's | S !start work this month on fous 1iregular comed and members of the com- | cause. Mr. Schulberg, who is now in New York, will take over Mr. Licht- | man's duties and until ho returns, | in"about a_month, production will be at a standstill. The company now has “The Virginlan” and ‘Maytime"” ready for release. Stars under con- tract include Gaston Glass, Clara Bow, Kenneth Harlan and Ethel Shannon, and the directors are Tom Forman, ‘Louls Qasnier and Victor Schertainger. “Cameo Kirby” Filmed. “Cameo Kirby," the dramatic ro- | mance of the steamboat gambler days on the Misslssippi, has been filmed by the William Fox Company, with John {Gllbert as the star. Dustin Farnum | made a smashing stage success of this play many years ago, and Mr. Gilbert's handiing of the character Dart is quite up to the stage tradition. AIr. Gilbert, who has a _growing fol- {lowing and is making better and better characterizations of romantic leads, will increase his popularity with this Cl i { is not only good drama-but spectacle well staged rected by John Ford. Constance Talmadge' “The Dangerous Maid,” is entirely jdifferent from her “Duley.” “The Dangerous Maid" is a costume play, a screen adaptation of “Barbara Wi slow, Rebel” a successful novel of! everal vears ago. The plot is laid In England in the time of the abortive, | rebellion of “the Duke of Monmouth. The film, which runs 7.300 feet, is splendidly cast and magnificently | costumed. Conway Tearle as the, lover looks too old for his part, but Miss Talmadge Is her usual charming elf. stirring and ably di- next release, What Others are Dolng. Willlam J. Kelly, the stage actor, has arrived here, after a long tour of Australian and 'New Zealand thea- | ters, in “Adam and Kva He has| purchased a home in Hollywood and | Is going into motion picture wonk. sdward Belasco, brother of Dav Belasco, has organized the Belasco Productions here and announces that he has purchased and will film “Wel- | come, Stranger,” a Broadway comedy drama hit of three vears ago. James | | Younx, director of “Trilby,” will di- I rect the productions. Two of Herbert Rawlinson's forth coming releases have been given new titles. “The Noblest Roman” has been jchanged to Million to Burn" and | “All for the Love of Glory” will be | released as “The Mystery Girl."” | _ Hal Roach announces that he will | r feature | | length productions in addition to his| schedule. The first | will be “The Fighting Family,” writ- | ten by Mr. Roach. He will direct it himself. H Lon Chaney has signe; | for a leading part in iner,” which Sam Wood Louise Lovely, now on the Orpheum ! ! vaudeville circuit, will return to ! Hollywood and her screen career the i 1st of January i Owen Moore will be one of the! featured “players in Maurice Tour-| jneur’s “Torment. Madge Bellamy, S§id Chaplin -and Ford Sterling have been added to the | Ince cast for “The Galloping Fish." The famous Itallan villa which fig- ured so largely in Stroheim's “Foolish Wives” three years ago, was pur- posely burned to the ground at the Universal lot to make a thrilling| sceno for Hoot Gibson's comedy, “Hook and Ladder.” Norma Talmadge has completed her | Saharan film, “Dust of Desire,” and will soon put on crinoline to begin: work on “Secret” with Frank Bor- zage directing, FEugene O'Brien will be_her leading man. Ralph Lewis, after playing the title part in “The Mail Man,” may be seen as a professional base ball player in | | the next P. A. Powers picture. i Jane Novak has received an offer | to make three pictures in London for | an English company, but will prob- | ably remain in Hollywood. Monte Banks has organized his own | producing company and will forsake | the two-reelers for feature-length films. ! | ., Barbara La Marr, now playing in “Thy Name Is Woman” under Fred | Niblo's direction, will next appear ! as “The Lady That's Known as Lou” in Services’ “Shooting of Dan M | Grew.” with Lasky | ‘The Next Cor- directing. | Fercy Marmont. THE: SUNDAY Burton Holmes: Nov. 25 Tl{lS last spring and summer Bur- ton Holmes and his still and mo- tion cameras traversed the length and breadth of tho countrl of Europe which today form the battle- fleld of that “war of peace,” which 1s none the less deadly because it is bloodles Five months Mr. Holmes devoted to studying conditions in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy and neighboring countries; and, announces, he not only h: matic story of absorbing Inte his cameras will reproduce interest- ing scenes of daily life in the coun- tries visited, which eollectively por- tray the acts of a world tragedy which is helllf written day by day by the actors themselves. The Ruhr, Duesseldorf, Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Cologne furnish much of the materiai for the travelogues to be given here at the National Theater on five suc- cessive Sundays, afternoons and even- ings, beginning November 25. Films to Rout Jazz. ’I'HE motion ploture is sald to be doing yoeman service to oblit- erate the present-day weakness of human beings for pursuing the gilded life popularly called “jaze,” according to Reginald Barker, ‘the screen di- rector. “I¢ my confidence in the power of the screen to further the work of the opponents to jazs life that has led me to assist in such a work,” Mr. Barker says, “In fact, 1 will be per- fectly frank in adding that 1 am convinced the screen will do more than any other agency to eliminate {he dangers of present tendencle: Mr. Barkers latest fiim is entitl “Pleasure Mad." “This strange manja of modern folk to indulge themselves to excess pro- vides a wonderful opportunity for the photoplay to demonstrate its power of protest without losing any of its ability to amuse.'" Virginia Valll and Wallace Beery, has left for Fort Bragg, 150 miles north of San Francisco, to film the exteriors for “The Signal Tower.” Reginald Denny, having suffered a broken pelvic bone in an automobile accident, will be confined to a hospi- tal for six weeks. Milton C. Hoffman, production manager for Metro for the years, has resigned and with_his will sail next month for Honolulu and the Orlent. Ill health forced Mr. Hoftman's resignation. Several years ago, after establishing the Famous Players studio in London, he suffered a breakdown, resigned and rested for a year. Jacqueline Logan, long considered one of filmdom's pretty leading wom- en, has by one performance earned the position of a star in her own right. I have just seen her in the part of Bessle, the London street girl, in the Paramount version of Kip- ling's “The Light That Failed,” and w mazed by her performance. star_of “If Winter Comes,” plays Dick Heldar, the art- ist, but good as his work is It is overshadowed by that of Miss Logan. Her acting was & sprprise to me for I had never esteemed her highly as an actre The story has been consid- qrably changed and now has a happy ending. (Copyright, 1923, in United States and Great ritain’ by North American Newspaper Alllance. A1l rights_reserved.) SPECIAL AT Thurs.4:30 THEATER THE EMINENT BARITONE EMILIO De GOGORZA Tickets, $2.50, $2, $1.50, $1, plus war tax. T. Arthur' Smith, Inc., 1308 G 8t. Second Series Star Concerts Anna Paviowa Efrem Zimbalist Feodor Chaliapin Mme. Oiga Samoroft N. Y. Phiharmonic Orchestra Dec. 6, Jan. 10, 31, Meh. 11 and April 1 Season Tickets, $12.50, $10, $7.50 and tax Applications accompanied by cheeks re- ceived by T. Arthur Smith, Inc., 1306 G Street TReaTer Tues. 4:30 First Conoert of the Season PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA STAR, WASHINGTON, ¢ B O, )VEMBER FILMOGRAMS The “Q” in Anna Q. Nilsson's name stands for Querent She was born in Sweden and Querentia is a family name. Alan Hale will play the part of Prince Hohenhauer in “Black Oxen.” Lilllan and Dorothy Gish will be seen together in George Ellot's story, ‘“‘Ro- mola.” ~Mary Pickford has just started :‘Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall.” Bar- bara La Marr is going to play “Donna Roma” in the screen version of the story, with Richara picture, but May McAvoy will appear ?lelle Dick in “The Enchanted Cot- age. - Anna Q. Nilsson, with locks shorn to | play in “Ponjola,” has put on a wig and | signed a contract to play Allegheny Briskow in Richard Walton Tully's “Flowing Gold" a First Natfonal plca turization of Rex Beach's novel. Willlam V. Mong, famous among Pictures being produced:ten mais mi® ed ten miles : P\Vhy Men Leave Homes: a Sta ot clal, and “Thy Name is Woma: Russell slmr:on and Mary Carr are an and wife in Clarence Badger's he Swamp Angel”” Last time they ere married on the screen was in “The Barrier,” twelve years ago. Frank Lloyd ha “Black Oxen” for Firet Natiomas He' 15 now getting read; tint's *“ now getting ready for Sabatinis “The John Francis Dilion Is gettin cast together for “‘Lilies of the Field,” a First Natlonal picturization of the stage piay of the same title. his Harry M. Crandall, owner of the Crandall theaters and First National franchise in the Washington terri- tory, presided at the meetings of the tri-state convention of motion ple- ture exhibitors from Maryland, the District ang Virginia at the Arlington Hotel last Tuesdax and Wednesday, | and also was elected chalrman of the executive council of the Motion Pic- ture Exhfbitors’ Allance, which took definite form as a result of the con- | vention sittings. This new organi- zatlon will comprise. the nucleus of a larger organization for purely co operative purposes which it is be lieved will eventually become tional in scope. na A representative of the Meyer Great Dane kennels at Bayside, Long Island, brought two handsome Great Dane pups_to the Capital iast Wednesday for Harry M. Crandall’s inspection, The dogs attracted much attention. The musical Metropolitan programs _at Theater have SONGS MusIc And a Bewitehing Bor broadcast during the last five weeks by the WCAP station of the CI peake and Potomac Telephone C any. During the past week many otters were recelved inquiring " it the practice had n _permanently discontinued, because nothing wue broadcast by reason of the that the program was a fepitition o the previous week’s music, One of the largest enrollments of the year attended Tuesday’s visual “instruction clas for the Americanization School of the Dis. trict in the projection room of Cran- dall's Metropolitan Theater. ~ The classes are presided over by Mrs. aude ton, principal, an o riet Hawley' Locher ot the Crandall organization, Lewis S. Stone should be decorated for bravery. In John M. Stahl's new picture, “Why Men Leave Home, he gets married three times, voluntarily and trustingly. And in each case he finds that the sweet young thing who was so adorable before marriage be. comes transformed into a sus jealous little tyrant before the ech of the wedding bells has fully died out. After experimenting for weeks, & new method of photograph- ing under-water work has been evolved by Thomas H. Ince for his new comedy special, “The Galloping Fish” Some of the novel “punches of the story come from shots made “the fish” played by Freddie, & , in & mammoth tank s clally consiructed for the pictur Louise Fazenda, as “Undine,” the div- ing beauty. merrily disports in the tank with Freddie, while 8yd Chaplin, Ford Sterling and Chester Conklin also have unlimited opportunity to display their aquatic skill. Contracts have been signed by Maurice Tourneur and a trio of popu lar players to appear with Owen Moore in the next M. C. Leves First Natlonal offering, “Torment. Maude George will have a leading role and Joseph Kilgour and George Cooper also are members of the cast. veral The film version of Rida Johnson Young's play, “Maytime,” one of next reicages, will introduce o number of new screen personalitie among them, Ethel Shannon, who w; ‘discovered” last winter in the le: ing role; Clara Bow, whose first pic- | ture appearance was in “Down to the Sea in Ships,' and Netta Westcott, English stage star, who came to America to play in’ this production, as well as twelve girls recently chosen by a committee of film no- tables as the most promising extras in Hollywood. The next series of pictures to be roduced by B. P. Schulberg for Pre- erred are Robert W. Service's novel, STH NEAR F. 8 RM.| GALA EVENT OF THE SEASON CLARK and McCULLOUGH STARS OF IRVING BERLIN'S MUSIO BOX REVUE Present THEIR OWN NEW AND NOVEL REVUE |MONKEY SHINES Wit (he Best Cast and Chorus Ever Seen in Burlesque FACES DANCES NEW et of Gergeous Girls Miss “Monkey Shimes” Yom Miss the Treat of the Sea NEXT WEEK: Teday Deors Open 2:30—Daily 10:30 A. M. to 11 P. M. “ALL IN FUN" I e et ereemmenee NI METROPOLITAN| F ST. AT TENTH—— 4. 1923—PART . 3. “Polsoned Paradise,” “White Man,” by George Agnew Chamberlain, ard “The Triflers” by Frederick Orin Bartlett. Mottimer Wilson, composer-conduc- tor of New York, will do the musical score for Douglas Fairbanks' “The Thief of Bagda He will watch the picture in the making, get his inspir- ation from what he seés and write the music as the production progresses. Although he has had wide experience in the world of music, this will rep- resent his first wholly original effort for the screen. ‘Cape Cod Folks,' now being pre- pared for the screen by J, C. Hawks, s this scenario writer'’s fifteenth adaptation for Reginald Barker. The two have worked together since the old Inceville days. Among the Bar- ker pletures adapted by Hawks are “The Kternal Struggle “Hearts ‘The Storm.” “The Brand- and “Bunty Pulls the Strings.” Renee Adoree is being unanimously elected to stardom by the reviewers of her characterization in Reginald Barker's “The KEternal Struggle, Louis B. Mayer, who produced the picture, is said to be in daily receipt of newspaper and magazine reviews lauding the picture fof its beauty and realism and pointing to Miss Adoree's work as its outstanding attraction, The cutting and editing of “Twenty-One,” Richard Barthelmess’ next rele made under the direction plete. In “Twenty-One,” Mr. Barthel- plete. In “Twenty-one,” Mr. Barthel mess will appear in a modern young man's role, & part greatly in contrast to hi me characterizations. David 8mith (s picturizing “A Tale of Red Roses” by rge_Randolph s Ilo”ywlfi;d o AMUS Young Ladies and+the Stag; BOUT this matter of young ladies golng on the stage there Is something to be learned from Ethel Barrymore, What the <n-nmzuishea“ ntaxs of whon d : ne ability. They fail to realize tiv. SaE afys EIwayn Les mtecest, DUt {corcf s o valne sy ie s more especlally 8o just now, for twofrom some one who knows: and reasons. One Is that she visits Wash- | Who know acting are very scarc : ced.” iAg toniithis) weAks; the’ oftior] Ye8Son(| il o7 wHicH, rexa literally. by 1s that she has written a Short stOry, | aspiring young parean. maemt o 0 her firat, and this is now on the|her to look’ before khe leapt, el | Tisten with Ight bit of skeptic The_story, written In collaboration | 10 those who tell her she's “perfe with David Wallace, deals with the | Wonderful. theater, and 1t touches ‘upon this very | _— atter’ under the title of -Loulse Fazenda Girl in Lotta Trouble, Of course, | trained seal, will be the headliner Miss Barrymore is too much of an | “The Gallopinz Fiche Thomn artist to indulge in opinions when |Ince's next offéring for First aatlor she {s writing fiction, but as all art| With “Anna Christic: in the cuttin reveals something of its creator, o | room, the producer has turned to this tale of the stage shows here and | entirely different field and prope there what. the star herself might! to put out a comedy special that wil possily feel. | laugh its name and fume around The most pointed revelations come | world. in 0dd bits, picked at random. There's | Owen Moore will appesr in the f. this, for instance, about the heroine | tured role of Maurice Tourneur's n.s of the story, Katherine Prentice, sit- | production, “Torment.” Moore's thir ting weary, discouraged and disconso- | First National producti in recer late in the lobby of a little New York | month: The other two were “Thu hotel: “She wondered If she should | dergate,” directed by Joseph have taken seriously all the praise | Gra and “Her Temporary Hu friends at college lavished upon her | band," directed by John MeDerm performance of Barrie'’s ‘Rosalind.’ | = - HShe was one more girl who had Str. Charles Macalester dreamed so pleasantly at home, and | For ,wakened to reality in a dismal Man- Mount Vernon, 85¢ hattan side street.” Again, in Katherine's meeting with (Admission to Grounds Extra) at 10 am. and 2 p.m. the man who is to play destiny for | Boat Steam Heated EMENTS. And the man who knew . replied: “More. That's the reasc | for the flood of young men women pouring in here, only a sm percentage of whom have any ger his ‘th and wddic her, there’s this illuminating bit of | conversation. Katherine asks him: “Don’'t you think there is just much danger from over-praise there is from too severe criticism? 'S COLUMBIA THEATER BEGINNING THIS AFTERNOON—SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4 T last!—Kipling’s finest story reaches the silversheet, por- trayed by a master-dramatist! A superb, dynamic tale of love, war and sacrifice that will thrill you with its breathless action, tug at your heart- strings with its emotion and leave you amazed at its sheer, romantic beauty! One of fiction’s greatest masterpieces, interpreted by a cast of the highest distinction! INCLUDING JACQUELINE LOGAN---PERCY MARMONT DAVID TORRENCE-—-SIGRID HOLMQUIST George Melford’s Latest Production for Paramount Leopold Stokewski, Oonductor, s in WAGNER PROGRAM " Comcert un lecal mon: T Rcthur Bmith, Toc, 1306 G Btre e ADDED OFFERINGS: BEN TURPIN COMEDY—“ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH” INTERNATIONAL NEWS VIEWS COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA—OVERTURE s~ THIS WEEK 9% First National F+-ients a Charming New Star in Thos. H. Ince’s Most Stirring Romantic Melodrama. MAY McAVOY | Al Lichtman, one of the pioneers of | Milton Sills will play opposite | pleture making, has gned from j Anna Q. Nilsson in “Flowing Gold the position of general and producing | Clarence L. Brown, Universal a ( manager of the F. P. Schulberg pro- | rector. with twenty technical men ductions, assigning ill health as the and a cast of seven people including “UNSEEING EYES” with LIONEL BARRYMORE o Sth ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM WEEK BEGINNING THIS AFTERNOON—SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4 ‘THOMASMEIGHAN WITH LILA LEEIN S ‘ A NEW STORY BY GEORGE ADE Another great story by America’s foremost hu- morist, specially writ- ten for Mr. Meighan— Lavishly produced with one of the best casts of the season! Supported L Hughes, Casson i'mon. Winter Hal?,' Ermw, lm’rm(o Besserer and a Specially Assembled Cast in ER REPUTATION A Romanee of the Newspaper Game in Which a Beautiful Inmocent ony Woman Is Called Upon to Risk Fire and Flood to Escape Soandal and Finally Is Forced to Seek Concealment Behind the Silken Mask of a Spanish Dancer in & Flashy &5 Yy A legacy of $1,000,000 awaited him if he married by a certain date, but long before, he had decided that no girl was going to marry HIM—no, siree! Then a dainty little lass stepped into his life and — there you have an idea of Meighan's latest success! OEW’S PALACE THEATER ‘WEEK THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS OPENING! Adspted by Bayard Veiller, from Arthar Stringer’s story of the Cansdian Rockies. EMBROIDERY. MINIATORE RECITAL BY JOSE. NUARTE Violin Virtuoso in “Gypey Airs” and “Souvenir,” Two Gems LEE MORAN IN “ONCLE SAM” DE LUXE WORLD SURVEY—A SCENIC GEM SYMPHONIC PRELUDE—“LA PALOMA” DANIEL BREESKIN .CONDUCTING WASHINGTON’S FINEST 00O A bt nn e e e T T TR BT T UL T T A Startling Photoplay Framed in the North Woods SEE . The Aeroplane Dash Over the Canadian Rockies. The most qwe—inapirlnz blizzard ever filmed. ~-ALL WEEK-— The no-quarter fight with a beautiful woman as the prize. TODAY, 2:30 P. M. _RI AL I O— DAILY 11 To 11