Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1923, Page 49

AMUSEMENTS. / NewSanchomment By W. H. Landvoigt. ETROSPECT may be productive of geod, results with those who are accustomed to be guided by experience, but it is believed the average human, as a rule, gets from it merely temporary sorrow for- his shortcomings, the desire to ‘make good resolutions, and, when he strikes his normal stride, t be too discouraging to ponder over o keep moving as of yore. It would he faults of the moving picture in- dustry in the past. and so from a mavie standpoint an attempt will be made to forget and to try to forgive, provided the manifest purpose for | the future is $alutary reform. THE: 'SUNDAY' U/e(P \ i The way of the réformer is rough and | rugged, and timid souls shrink from it, but happily there is leit in the | world enough of the sturdy old spirit of the pioneers of America to, encourage_the hope that things will grow better in every way. The sane & and sensible purpose to eliminate’ extravagance is one of the bright signs ; We have had too many system cannot help being a costly one. of the times. look the other periormers who: drama as well for the screen as for the stage. v for th the “special, supreme, superproductio recalled those which tax the list of known adjectiv expendityre of big ‘sums of mon which had nothing to commend th a steady diet. 'stars” in the movies, and the star With “stars” we are apt to over- efforts, in the main, make or mar Stars” also tempt the r setting, and in so many of W ‘lhill memory, can be to describe, and yet " easily em beyond the beauty of the “star” | and the “superb grandéur” of what surrounded her. Spectacles are well | enough to please the eye now and then, but th are dangerous food for With fewer stars, more good actors and directors and the use of better stories, the future of the movies will be a brilliant one. The movies have served their time in t the w he exploitation of mere woman, and men who make them are turning their attention to other things that make for better drama and better photoplays. E of the glad signs of the ne: (0) and her efforts Iy announced M ith the industry s Adam while the schedule of the Maude Adams under he : Aladdin Miss Adams collaborated on the scenario laborate with the guild in the preparation of all its picture some of the Yale University series of “The Chronicles of America.” Adams’ association with the guild, however plans for the independent production of ° which she recently acquired from Kudy: at this time, the first pictur the Arabian Nights story of “ Maude Adams has now positively identified her intelligy w era for pictures is the news that nce, her art “The Guild Made Pictures” has formal- association with that institution, and adds that | is jiot announced | ion ‘will probably be production own supervi nd that it will be made in colors. will not interfere w im,” the picture rights to rd Kipling. It is well known that Miss Adams for a long time has been engaged in research work in the laboratories of the General ctric Company and of the Eastman Kodak ; Company in the matter of lighting and color. % % D then com on the job with Famous Players his stories, his director and virtually to name his salary. he will begin work on .a film version of Booth Tarking- | It is doubtful if the general public has ever after the holiday ton’s “Monsieur Beaucaire.” been advised of all the differences employers. Each told a side of the * ¥ so the news that RudSlph Valenting is back again -Lasky, with a carte blanche to select between Valentino and his former story. But it was Valentino who in- sisted that he was ambitious to do better work and climb higher, and in order to enable him to do this he 1 his stories and of the man who wa must have a voice in the selection of s to direct their production. It was not moncy, he insisted, that kept him gnd Famous Players-Lasky apart but they had a contract and the law insisted he must fulfill it. lic will-look forward with anticipati ditions,reported. And. by the way, Valentino.” E 3 T is doubttul ii Washington ever genuine regret than with “The Covered Wagon ¢ The pub- on to his efforts under the new con- he signed his new contract “Rudolph * ¥ parted with a photoplay with more " Capacity houses were the rule in the closing week, and the final showing last night doubtless left many with an unfulfilled desire to see the picture. President Coolidge tacitly gave an the new picture of the Rockett Brothers, “Abraham Lincoln.” by express- ing a wish to have it as a part of the Christmas entertainment which his offering to the disabled veteran: as s at Walter Reed, and the tense in: terest which its exhibition aroused in.the big audience of seasoned Amer: cans who saw it last week at that private exhibition in Washington, ex- cites general interest in its public showing, as well as the hope that the young -producers in working out their cherished dream of years have succeeded in. creating another greal dustry. * % UT in California there is a youthful scientist, Louis H. Tolhurst by | name, whose hobby is the motio: t work to glorify the photoplay in- * X n picture camera and the microscope. He has been experimenting for several months, and now is said to have found success. His actors are insects like the bge, the ant and the spider. He has taken each inscct and scope, and the first of the splendid hotographed it with the aid of his micro- results he is said to have achieved, “The Bee,” is being shown in the photoplay theaters in the west. PhotoplaysThisWeek At the Photoplay Houses This Week. METROPOLITAN.: noon and evening. PALACE—Zane Gre noon and evening. s “Call of RIALTO—Rupert Hughes' “Reno.” evening. COLUMBIA—Mace Murray, in “F “ashion Row." noon and evening. AMBASSADOR—"“Her Tempgrary Husband.” noon and evening. CENTRAL—"“Bright Lights of Broadway.” and evening. CRANDALL'S—“The- Mailman.” ning. “Her Temporary Husband Shown this after- the Canyon.”” Shown this after- Shown this afternoon and Shown this after- Shown this aiter- Shown this afternoon Shown this afternoon and eve- LINCOLN (Colored)—Mariori Davies, in “Little Old New York.” Shown ¢his afternoon and evening. Metropolitan—"Her Tempo- rary Husband.” This will be laugh week at Cran- dall's Metropolitan Theater to usher in_the new year. The major fea- fure will be” First National's “Her Temporary Husband,” a funny screen transiation of the stage play by Ed- ward Paulton. The secondary mirth- waker will be Christie's new . “Black and Blue” a two-reeler, featuring Jimmie Adams, with the Metropoli- tan World Survey. An elaborate New embellishment, arranged by Daniel Breeskin, will include as overture Rossin’s “Barber of Seville,” a no elty number, “Sleep,” and an fnter- pretative mosaic of melody gems, for the screened features. “Her Temporary Husband” con- “erns a young woman who decides lo marry a doddering. old,” white- Whiskered millionaire under the im- Dression that his wealth will outlast its possessor. The more vouthful, but less Midas-like sweetheart whom she thus deserts decides that he will not give her up without a struggle. He assumes a disguise that makes him Appear the cxact counterpart of the elderly groom. Sylvia Breamer is cast as the girl and Sydney Chaplin, brother of Charlle, has a very amusing role. The young lover is portrayed by Owen Moore and Tully Marshall is the old Croesus. Presentations will begin this after- noon at 3, and the usual hours of showing—11 a.m. to 11 p.m.—will pte- vail throughout the balance of the hollday period.. Year musical n Columbia—)'fn; Mutray "Fashion ROW." A dramatic masterpiece, magnificent in color and beauty, with « dual role for its star, Mae Murray, Is promised in “Fashion 'Row” at Loew's Columbia this week, beginning this afternoon. It has been produced by Robert Z. Leon- ard and in it Earle Fox, a Washington stock’ favorite, appears as leading man. It is described as a gripping and powerfyl drama of two contlnents, & tale of woman's passion and man's vengeanse, in wh Miss Murray enacts the role of a Russian peasant g::.wlm wins fame and fortune ~on dway and is about to contract a wealthy marriage, only to find her so- | clal fiight abruptly checked by the ap- Doaraiice of & figure from (he Past who brings tragedy in his train. Second_only in importance to the story is declared the beauty and gran- deur of the settings and eostumes. One seene in particular—that of a Russian masked ball—is sald to offer the most cxquisite settings ever . photographed and Miss Murray to wear gowns esti- mated to be worth $200,000. adsed offerings will include the Sen- nett comedy, “Flip Flops,” the Inter- unational news pictures and an overture " and musical embellishment by the Co- Jumbia Orchestra, undeg Leon §m5fld. \ B.mlto‘-A— Rupert Hughes' “Reno. Moore's Rialto Theater, this week, beginning today, will offer what is sald to be a highly amusing, yet tensely dramatic story by Rupert Hughes, the famous novelist, entitled | “Reno.” It is described as a frank éxpose of the inside workings of the "d;;ol;ae mill. esides writing the story, M. Hughes directed it for Goldwyn pl tures. The cast is unusually strong, including Helens Chadwick, Lew Cody, George Walsh, Carmel Myers, Hedda Hooper and Dale Fuller. The story concerns Guy Tappan muchly married man, who takes a third wife in Reno, leaving his sec- ond wife in New York clty with their two children. Guy finds he is penni- less and his new wife makes the same discovery. The way in which he Afs- covers his legal status in some of the states is sald to make one of the most unusual, yet up-to-the-minute Fofoen entertainments. . Much of the picture was photographe: in Yellow Stone National ng;,apfl;g spouting _geysers form a background for a tesrific fight which takes place near the Jleaming crater of one of them. prom! that the picture wil bo;l}n thr!l{";;g‘d surprise. 2o Wil e_subsidiary attractions' will in- clude Will Rogers, in his latest comedy offering, “Uncensored Movies,” Tn which the star mimics Willlam S. Hart, Tom Mix and Valentino, in a ‘Very. amusing way, and the Fox News. _The orchestra, under Director Geo; Wild, will play ‘as an overture “Songs of the Past,” compiled by Ray Hart. Palace—"The - Call of the . Canyon."” The New Year's bill Palace for the week begii afternoon — will pr time here, at Loew's nning this il Present. for the Arst f ou; veralon of Zane Grey's novel, “Tha Call of the Canyon,” & picture” de. scribed as a love idyll of jazz-mad Broadway and the silent stretches of .the far west, with Richard Dix Lois. Wilson in the - chief roles, p- parted by Marforie Daw, Noah Beery. cardo Cortez, Fred Huntley, S Lelghton and Helen Dunkas? ~ Victor eming, who directed “ Call of the Canyon also did Tng L% ot o is lschroeder and Edfrid Bln'hln{. = Mr. Dix has the role of Glenn Kil- bourne, a_soldier, who returns from Frante after the war, shattered in health and hopeful of finding peace and happiness with the girl he loves, Carley Burch. , Their meeting is a shoek to both, for she has not expect- ed to fifd him an. invalld, nor had he expected to find h extravagant, reckl ayety of New {Continued on Fourth Page.} Immediately E The fact that | indorsement to the theme, if not to | ngrossed in_the and it is her purpose to col-; i including | Miss | th her | WILLIAM . HART, who has just returned to the screen in “Wild Bill Hickok,” has had a career as vivid and rich in colorful events as any of the stories In which he has played. Although he was born in New- burgh, N. Y. he was taken to the Dakota territory when he was but six months old. There, in the real west, he grew to strapping boyhood with |a_ Sioux Indian vouth for his only aymate. His father, wi student at Oxford, the son of a noted ax one of those souis who helped settle th In those days the luxuries and ny of the necessities of civilization Té not to be had in the. frontier ettlements. The first fifteen years of Bill Hart's life were spent in the west of frontler days. This answers the oft-repeated query: “Did Bill Hart get his knowl edge of the west in motion plctures? With an Indian playmate, he learned to ride Indlan style, as well as with the xaddle, to shoof accurately with sIx guns and rifle, to hunt and track {with the wisdom of his friends, and to play the rugged body-building ‘Bames of the native Amerfcans. Today Bill Hart can still speak in Sioux, still understand and speak the silent tongue,” the sign language understood by ali Indian tribes. He has never forgotten his early boyhood friends and recently was elected vice president of the American Indian Or- der, the national organization which is striving to secure justice for all Indians. When Bill Hart was fifteen years old his father decided to return to New York, not only because he real- ized the need of giving his children the benefits of an education, but be- cause the mother of the family was broken in health. St Paul was the first big city Hart saw, and it was there he wore his first shoe leather. He had hitherto known only the com- ! forts of moceasins. | “Once in New York. the yonth was [like a duck out of water. ~He failed ito hit it off with the various school s because of his silent, graven mannerisms. It ia said that ned most of his education in braries, where he spent daye at time. He had inherited the gift of oratory and expression which ran in the family. At this time, however, we find the youth so homesick for | brave | west m - ISTER PITT,” Zona-Gale's new . play, had its first- performance for the public at-Stamford, Conn., last Tuesday evening. ~The following extracts from the ’leldlfl! review may be of interest ito Washington, which will be the inext to.see. this new play by. the author of “Miss Lulu Bett,” which {won the Pulitzer prizg in 1921: ! "It takes its principal characters and some of its episodes from her inovel, “Birth.” As a matter of fact, the play is a serfes of eplsodes. There are five of them in each of two acts, and in the final one the story is taken up in the surroundings where it be- a|&an twenty:years before. Skill- has been exercised ‘in trans- ferring well known characters. from the pages of the story to the stage. | The ‘talented author has conferred a striking individuality upon each character. The play i @ mingling of humor and pathos, human emo- tions belng evoked under-quaint cir- cumstances. o Marshall Pitt is a-“hick" for whose sophiatication there is o hope. First introduced as a canvasser for canned ¥ New York in David Carb's and Walter P. Elton'u “Queen Vie- toria’ Miss Beryl Mercer essayed what TEE | fow actresses would be willing to at- tempt. Beginning as the sixteén-year- {0ld girl, she carried through the life of Queen Victoria of England -until -the i golden jubllee, catching both the fllu- i slon of youth and the tottering old lady who sat upon. her thréne Coutent’ to have been “‘a good queen.” Beryl Mercer made her great Amer- ican success jn Barrie's “The Old Lady Shows -Her Medals,” - some :critics de- claring that Beryl Mercer did as much Hardships and Moyies. RECABDLESS ‘of his fame as a novelist, it s~ doubtful if Zane Grey- ever ‘becomes -highly -populsr with scréen’ players, and “for very simple reason.. Filming: Zane Grey storles s & task entalling a-degree of hardship that players.-are -none too fond ‘of:: The best: movie, ‘from the actor’s point of view,yis a “studio picture”—one made in. the studio— while the worst picture he can imag- ine Is one that carries.him.into. the desert country of the southwest for days at a time on “location.” ¥ ,Two of Zane Grey's stories have al- “m MURRAY - Coluntbra s ] MARION DAVIES - Lincoly ™ STAR, s EDMUND £ ‘ BREESE. ~Central SHIRLEY MASON- Strand William S Hart's Career. his beloved west that he tridd for West Point, as a means of getting back to the frontier at some Army post, but falled to get an appoint- ment. | Bitterly disappointed, the youth Iturned to the stage. He worked his way on a cattle boat walked all the way from Liverpool to London and then supported hims at odd jobs In London and Pa meantime frequenting the theate at_nlght. That a raw youth from the west- ern plains at nineteen could secure an engagement with the once-famous Daniel II. Bandmann, the German actor who starred at the Adelphi Theater, London, with Sir Henry Ir. ing in his supporting cast, must be onsidered remarkable. After a short training in Shakes- perian ana classical repertoire, Wil- lam Hart, at twenty-one, became leading man for the famous Mme. Modjeska. Then followed three years in the same capacity with Mme. Rhea, the equally famous French tragediennc. Then, he had a vear with Margaret Mather, and then a few seasons opposite Jull Arthur, favorite actress of the Amer. ican stage. Imagine Bill Hart play- ing Romeo to Juliet and Pygmalion to Galeta! Probably one of the New York stag ing night of “Ben Hur,” in which he played the original role of “Messala.” The lats Edward Morgan played the title role. Hart's stage career is too long to cite here, but his part in making the west popular on the stage Is excep- tionally interesting. It was in the role.of “Cash Hawkins.” the bad man, in Willlam Faversham’s “The Squaw Man,” produced at Wallack’s Theater in 1903, that Bill Hart established the popularity of western plays and characters, which have been a part of him ever since. He ltkewise pi “The Virginian. In 1914, while on tour in the leading role in_“The Trail of the Lomesome Pine,” ‘Hart became attracted to the possibilities of motfon pictures. Un- like his fellow actors, he did not look upon the new art with scorn, but perceived the golden opportunity to picturize his beloved west. In May, 1914, although he was mak ling $600° a week on the stage, Hart leclined a flattering offer in Now Yerk for @ successful play. and paid his own rallroad fare to Los.Angeles, where he started working in pictures as 2 star at the salary of $75 a week. is greatest hits on was on the open- Zona Gale's Newest Play. goods, “he weds Barbara Ellsworth and settles down in a mid-western village, taking up the business of paper-hanger formerly carried on by Barbara's father, lately deceased. Six hours after the wedding, Bar- bara, at a hotel, meets a natty trom- bone player, and realizes that her husband never can become accus- tomed to the speech and manners of polite soclety. Shaméd by his crude- ness, she is forced to recognize his simple goodness and devotion, yet finding 1ife with him unbearsble. A year later, the bandman reap- pears and persuades Barbara to elope. She had a young baby.. The infant roved an obstacle to his plans, and ove for her child, mingled perhaps with realization .of injustice to her husband, prompts her to return home. She .saves herself from disgrace, but persists - in leaving - Pitt. A neighbor undertakes the care of the child. - Pitt goes to the Kiondike, returning after twenty years un- changed in any-respect but age, and finds his son what in his .Innocent way he had aspired to'be. The son is at first-disposed to be ashamed of his father, but in the final passages it seems as if Pitt’s fine qualities are recognized both by- the son and his flancee. Performed a Difficult Task i for Barrie as the playwright did for th e M played her first part i ss Mercer pl er in America in “The Shulamite,” wjth Lena Ashwell. Later she ‘nm‘d with Marie Tempest in ‘Lady’s Name,™ with Lionell Atwdfl, in ‘The ‘Lodger" with Otis Skinner, in “Humpty Dump- ty," “Three Live Ghosts,” and “The Evergreen Lady." Beryl Mercer was born In- Seviile, Spain, the daughter of Sheppard Mer- cer, an English diplomat, and, Beryl Montague, an ish concert ' singer. Her mother sent _her to Jersey College in the Channel. Islands, where she stu- died for six years. She left college and made- her real .stage: debut WIEB Lity Langtry. y been filmed by Phramount.- The first, “To the Last Man,” was recently seen .at the ‘Palace and’the second, “The Call of the Canyon,” wil.be seent here -this afternnon. . Both required long and arduous trips into the bad 1ands of Arizona for “atmosphere.” In fact, “To the Last Man” was filmed in the Tonto Basin country, 200 miles from the nearest raiiroad: Director. .Victor . Fleming took a company of forty-one players “‘out on location,” when: he started filming. *“The. Call ,of the Canyon,” and that number-does mot. include ths mem- bers of the photographic an . Chanical state, T And me “WASHINGTON, ‘D: C, DECEMBER 30; DIX and = LOIS WILSON ~Palace to England. | i | HENRY B. WALTHALL | Awbasrador Next Week's photoplays COLUMBIA—Rex Beach’s ig Brother. METROPOLITAN — Colleen Moore, in “Flaming Youth.” RIALTO— Goldwyn's “The Rendezvous.” PALACE—“The Man Liie Passed By.” AMBASSADOR — “ Flaming Youth." CENTRAL — Kenneth Harlan, in “The Virginian.” CRANDALL® — Jackie Coo- gan, in “Long Live the- King.” I ' l MORE than two and candy nd thousands !“‘v re given ay at the special Cran- dall community celebrations in the Crandall residential theaters Christ- mas morning. At Crandall's Avenue Grand and Savoy theaters the crowds of children were so great that Man- agers Lohmeyer and Sherman were compelled to stage two identical cele- brations in order to permit all the youngsters -to gain access fo the theaters. ! half tons of of tovs Two new musical numbers will be given prominence at Crandall's Met- ropolitan Theatcr this week, where Daniel Breeskin has arranged an- other of his matchless melody pro- grams. One is “In Love With Love, from _Jerome Kern's “Stepping Stones,” in which Fred Stone and his daughter Dorothy are scoring a smashing hit in- New York; the other “Sleep,” a novelty number that is a gem. Paul_Iribe, assistant director for Cecil B. De' Mille, in charge of the art, wardrobe and property depart- ments, is as§embling his staft in pre aration fér the start of “Triumph, Mr. De Mille’s mext picture. “Tri- umph” will be an adaptation of May Edginton’s story. Thomas Melghan sent the following cablegram ta_Henry King last week: “Your son made his screen debut doubling for me tdday.” Mr. King is in Florence, Italy, directing a pic- ture, but his one-year-old son is in New York with his mother. The baby appears in the plcture as young Jack Malone, the role which Mr. Meighan has in the story, "Pled Piper Malone™ At one time In his career Ernest Torrence, the huge character actor of the screen, played romantic lover roles in the Savoy Theater in London and sang baritone. He recently fin- ished work at the Paramount Long Island studio in “West of the Water Tower,” Glenn Hunter's first starring picture for Paramount. Charles de Roche, who plays a fea- tured role opposite Pola Negri in “Shadows of Paris” starred in the same role when the play first ap- peared in France under the title, “Mon Homme.” Mr. de Roche toured the French provinces for more than a year after the play went on the road. Rafael Bongini, an Ttalian actor of ten years' standing in America, who spent all his earlier life on the stage in his native country, makes his first appearance with Gloria Swanson in “The Humming Bir Gaby Ravine, who scored a_succe: as the French girl in “The Mounte- bank" last seasom, ‘been _added to the cast of “The Hi ing Bird.™ A dbzen extras hired for a scene in Alan Dwan's film version of Rex Beach's story, “Big Brother,” will spe nothing but their feet in the'complet- ‘ed picture. They had to walk back and forth in front of a basement win- dow while a restaurant scene was being filmed. Phyllls Haver, former _bathing beauty, who has come to the fore- ground among screen esses of emotional power as leadilg woman for Willlam S. Hart in “Singer Jim McKee," has successfully demonstrat- ed her astuteness as a business wom- an’the past several - yoars by her transactions in Hollywood real estate. | _!Recently she became the owner of 1923—+PART" 3. PR RAEPE Lewig Craudalls Christmas at Crandall's. | *THE reception and Christmas cele- bration given the Americaniza- tion School of the District by Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher, director of the public service and educational cepartment of the Crandall theaters, in the Metropolitan Theater last Sun- | day afternoon from 4 to 6, was at- |temded by the entire enrollment of |the Americanization eclasses that | have pursued their visual instruction |under the co-operative ausplces of |the hoard of education. Harry M. |Crandall and many distinguished Buests, Addresses were made by Chief Justice Walter I McCoy, of the Dis- trict Supreme Court; T. V. Powderly, of the board of review of the Im- migration Department; Mrs. Louis N. Geldert, national president of the | League'of American Pen Women; Mrs, | Locher and Harry M. Crandall, who has donated his theaters and and equipment to the wor] OtLers of the guests included Miss Grace Mcyer, Mrs. G. K. Cowling, Mrs. Gertrude McClintock, Miss M guerite Donaley, Miss L. O. Bur. roughs, Mr. Souren Hauessian and executive committeée of the A. 8. A and Miss Maude Alton, principal of the school. In sddition to the contributions to |the program made by the pupils them «lves, Daniel Breeskin, oon- ductor of the Metropolitan Orchestra, and Miss Viola T. Abrams, harpist, were heard in vioiin and harp solos and duets | BRegmts a “Wild Moment.” | F{ARDIN MEAKIN, the genial scribe of the Variety-Chpper bureau, kas been having a “wild moment" He says he signed up for membership in the advisory council of a drama league and the drama league wants to raise money and he doesn't like the idea, and so he has resigned and is sorry he ever had a “wild mo- ment.” grams one of the principal bungalow courts tin the center of Hollywood. Richard | worl s _produc- | tion, “The Stranger,’ hich he had |a featured role with Beity Compson. Lewis Stone and Tully Marshall. He is to begin work soon in William de Mille's next production, “Icebound. Rod La Rocque has been in two big productions of recent date, Cecil. B, de Mille's “The Ten Commandments" and William de Mille's “Don’t Call It Love.” He s to have a featured role in Gloria Swanson's next picture, “She Who Iaughs Last” adapted from “The Laughing Lady,” Alfred Sutro’s play, in_which Ethel Barry- more starred last year. As soon as he finishes work in this production he will return to the west coast for a role in Cecil B. de Mille’s production, “Triumph.” Kathleen Key has the most beauti- ful hair of any brunette screen star, according to Clarence Sinclair Bull, who has been photographing screen celebrities for year: Claire Windsor, on being assigned the title role in “Nellle, the Beautiful Cloak ModeE” declared, “It's my first chance to get all mussed up. chops mpleted “English mutton (twenty minutes).” This is the sign one often seés on the menu card. De Witt Jennings has & fine pair of “mutton chops” that it took him twenty days to get. How- ever, they are the kind that grow on hie cheeks and add color to his por- trayal of Dan, the tyrannical Manx farmer in Victor Seastrom's produc- tion, “Name the Man! Mae Marsh made the trite remark the other day that “we are becoming a mation of zoophilical lychnobites, merely because some one said most folks like dogs and work more by electric light than in daylight. Of course, every one knew at once just what Miss Marsh meant. In-the first picture he ever filmed Alan Crosland directed Erich von Stroheim, then an actor. The picture was made in New York. Now both men are directing for Goldwyn. Cros. land is filming “Three Weeks” and von Stroheim is king’ “Greed.” Ina Anson, player in “In the Palace of the King,” has received three of the colored wigs now the rage in Deauville, ,France, which she will wear 1n forthcoming dancing scenes in pictures. They are red, brown and green. Helene Chadwick wore a wig for the first time in her screen career in Rupert Hughes' new picture, “Reno,” which deals with the conflicting' ai- vorce laws in the United States Eleanor Boardman has'decided that her favorite screen role.would be a feminine version of “Dr. Jekvll and Mr. Hyde” , Hobart Bosworth, featured player, trod the boards of the famous Daly's Theater, in New York, more than twenty years ago. In-the: company with Bosworth was Tyrone Power. Mae Busch, leading' woman in “Name the Man," declares ‘there should be less talk about artistic ilms and more effort at making them. The Goldwyn wise-cracker is in again. “If it took thre months to film Elinor Glyn's ‘Six Day' how lon will it take to make ‘Three Weeks'?" he asks. And when that is correctly figired out he wants to know, ac- cording to that ratlo, how long it ;House of Youth,” a novel by Maude AMUSEM Holly ENTS. Fox Company Busy—Norma Talmadge Changes Plans. Blanche Sweet With New Contract. . BY HALET ABEND. Special Correspondence of The Star. LOS ANGELES, December 28.—The west coast studios of the Willlam Fox Company are unusually busy. George Archibald and his company have left for Somora, Calif.,, to filn “The Plundered,” in that old muping camp. Frank Mayo, Evelyn Brent and Tom Santch! head the cast. Msan- while other pictures in production are Shirley Mason's starring vehlcls, “The Morocco Box,” the Lincoln J. Carter thriller, “The Arizona Ex- press,” with Anne Cornwall, Pauline Starke, Francis McDonald and David Butler and Tom Mix's ‘Ladies to Board.” Norma Talmadge, instead of taking a long rest journeying to New York and Florida, will start work within a fortnight on a fllm version of “lhe Radford Warren. Frank Boreage will direct. Frances Marlan is preparing the script and Eugene O'Bricn will probably be the leading man. Kathleen Myers has been angaged as Herbert Rawlinson's leading woman, in “The Virtuous Crook.” : Hoot_Gibson's next picture will be “The Coco Pah Kid,” a story writ- ten by Johnston McCully, the man who wrote Douglas Fairbank's “The Mark of Zorro.” The new role will show Hoot as a high-hatted gambler of the old days of stage coach hold- ups. Blanche Sweet has signed a new contract with Thomas H. Ince and has started work on “Those Who Dance. This wil give her a highly emotional This will give her a highly emotional “The Cinema Queen” is the title chosen for the First Universal serial now being made by Luciano Albartiai, the Ttallan sta: “Idle Hands," soon to be produced at the Ince studios, was written by Willlam Dudley Pelley. It deals with 1ife in a federal prison and has been sponsored by the penal board of the TUnited States Department of Justice. Swedish Author for Films. | Hjalmar Bergman, one of Sweden’s noted younger writers, comes to Los Angeles to join the staff of Victor Seastrom, Goldwyn director. Only one of Mr. Bergman's novels has been translated into English, “God's Orchid,” but Mr. Seastrom filmed four of his stories abroad before coming to_California. Rupert Hughes has chosen a cast for “True as Steel” which includes Aileen Pringle, Huntley Gordon, Eleanore Boardman, Cleo Madison, Kathleen Key, Willlam Orlamond and Luefen Littlefleld. Brenda Lane, former Follies girl, is playing in comedies opposite Slim Summerville. George Melford's next® Paramount production will be “Dawn of Tomor- row” and will be put into production {at the Lasky lot here on January 7, with Jacqueline Logan in the lead. Laura La Plante is preparing for ‘An Old Man's Darling,” an adapta- tion of Hulbert Footner's story, * New Girl in Town. Charles Maigne and Anne Cornwall have celebrated their elghth wedding anniversary. Bryan Foy, son of the famous Eddie Foy, ie now a motion picture director. He is making Estee Come- dies, two-reeler releases. Carlton Griffin, Keith vaudeville performer for the last five years, has been cast as the villain {n Harold Lloyd's “The Girl Expert.” Warner Brothers have purchased the screen rights to Hubert Wales' novel, “The Yok Chester Bennett, producer and di- rector, and his 'star, Jane Novak, have both been {ll. They will start worlk on a new picture the first week in_January. Eva Novak has just returned from a trip to Alaska, where she worked in a plcture being made by Norman Dwan. Nita Nald! is taking a brief fiyer in vaudeville In a skit called “The Famous Vamp.” Christie’s four comedy stars, Bobby Vernon, Dorothy Devore, Neal Burns and Jimmie Adams, have all resumed work at the studio. {Story’s the Thing, Says Loew Marcus Loew, head of Metro, who is now in Los Angeles formulating plans for next season’s productions, thinks that more care will have to be spent lupon storfes. “It matters not who i the etars may be, not the amount of imoney expended upon a_ production if the story is not sound the film is a failure,” he savs. “A good story will make a success, even if there is no star. Theda Bara is starting work in rented space at the Goldwyn studio on 2 new play written for her by Fred Jackson. y Louis Beach's story “The Sguare Peg,” has been purchased by War- ner Brothers. Kenneth Harlan and Marle Prevost have gone east for a series of per- sonal appearances at theaters. Jacqueline Logan has gone to Kansas City to make a personal appearance at ‘a showing of “The Light That Failled,” in which she is starred. Ernst Lubitsch. That Europe has contributed au- other notable personality to Ameri- ca’s colony of screen folks is no long- er debatable in my mind after ha: ing been granted a pre-view of Ern; Lubitsch's “The Marriage Circle. which it was my pleasure to_see in a projection room at the Warner Brothers' studio, in Hollywood, the other day. No doubt there wi:l be.a great hue and cry in the newspapers about “the foreign touch” in the d: rection of this film, and though I am one of the first to admit its superior excellence, I can but smile at the “foreign touch” stuff. There is mno/ more “foreign touch” to it than there is to Chaplin's “A Woman of Paris” or Henley's “A Lady of Quality. The fact is that Lubitsch knows drama—a thing which few American film directors know—and that his knowledge of drama and of the subt- leties of characterization have teen lies the roth- \ embodied in this film. Ther: production’s merit and there 1 ing particularly foreign about it, even though the scene is laid in Vienna. “The Marriage Circle” is a loose screen adaptation of an Austrian atage success called “Only a Dream. The original_was by the Viennese playwright, Lothar Schmidt. Pau Bern made the screen adaptation an did » good job of it, and Lubjtsch gathered a distinguished cast, includ- fag Marie Prevost. Monts Blue, Adolphe Manjou, Florence Vidor. Creighton Hale, Harry Myers and Dale Fuller, Lubitsch proves what other great directors have proven—namely, that the play does not so much matter as does the directorial treatment. Like Chaplin with “A Woman of Parls, Lubitsch has taken an oid, old sto and made it fresh and pulsing W life by his method of treatment. Marie Prevost Stands Out. More than that, this director, who made Pola Negri by his magnifice direction of YPassfon,” has made new star of the first magnitude by his direction of Marie Prevost. The blithe and pretty Marie has never be fore even remotely approached tk excellence of the acting which sk does in "The Marriage Circle,” and the same may be sald in lesser de- gree of Monte Blue and Creighton Hale. Menjou is just as sound a per former in this as he was in Chaplin's succees, and Miss Vidor, though she has not the distinguishing role that fell to Miss Prevost's lot, still exceeds in color and charm her previous per- formances. Dale Fuller and Harrg Myers have only small bits in the picture. By the production of “The Mar- riage Circle” Lubltsch at once raises himself far above any height h reached by the direction of Mary Pickford's “Rosita.’ He has a fre: hand here to give such story av plot development as he sees fit, u trammelled by any wishes of an great star, and he has created fc himself a place with the mere hanc ful of great directors of screeniand Clara Bow Grabs Success. Frank Lloyd's screen version of Gertrude Atherton's successful novel “Black Oxen,” is another screen pl of the first rank, which I have seen in pre-release run of late. Mr. Lloyd in this production excels the work he did as director of Norma Talmadge's “Ashes of Vengeance" and has accom- plished the feat of transcribing to the screen with great dramatic ef- fect what was. in essence a vers wordy novel. Corinne Griffith is the nominal star of the production, for to her feil the very fat part of Mme. Zattiany, the s|xiy-year-old woman who becomes twenty-four_thréugh modern science, but Clara Bow, the young English actress, virtually steals the picture by her characterization of the soclety flapper. - Miss Bow was excellent in “Maytime,” but in this play surpass- es her former efforts. Conway Tearle as the leading man redeems himeself from the awful impression he made in Constance Talmadge's “The Dan- gerous Mald.” This Frank Lloyd film enhances Mr. Lioyd's reputation and standing as a director. It is thoroughly workman- like throughout. “Phantom Justice” is a crook play made nearly nine months ago, fea- turing Rod La Rocque. This was be- fore La Rocque made his success as the wayward son_ in Cecil B. De fille’s “The Ten Commandments.” 1 ave just seen “Phantom Justice” and find it a melodramatic crook play of unusual entertainment value, It will be released early in January and will afford theater patrons the country over an opportunity of seeing the work_of La Rocque which won for him the opportunity to star im De- Mille's production ot yet generally release i, 1923, in Tnited States and Great O itein’ by North American Newspsper Alliance. Al rights reserved.) LonChaney 'sUniqueT raining . ON CHANEY'S success upon the silver screen is due to training in the magnificent pantomimic art, which began soon after he was born. Both Lon Chaney's parents were deaf mutes. Perfectly normel in every other way, with particularly bright minds, the father and mother taught their children to talk with their hands. In addition to the deaf and dumb alphabet, the family devel- oped a language whereby they ex- pressed a whole series of thoughts and ideas with a few gestures. Trained from childhood in the art of pantomimic suggestion, Chaney found his life's work before the mo- should have taken to film Mme. Glyn's “The Great Moment.” Carey Wilson wrote the continuity of “Nellle, the Beautiful Cloak Model,” in five days. Black Beauty, the horss which starred in the picture by that name, ppears in Emmett Flynn's “In the Palace of the King.” He Is the pranc- ing black charger ridden by Hobart Bosworth in the impressive court- yard scenes. Conrad Nagel always wears pink collars—that is, on the screen. Pink photographs a soft white. The only Chinese cameraman in the business is one of the claims to fame of James Howe, who fiimed Zané Grey's novel, “The Call of the Can- yon” for Victor Fleming. Mr. Howe is said to have been born in Chin but of American parents, * The ‘movies are now uging extinet voleano craters for prize rings in Arisona, according to a bulletin from the Famous Players-Lasky Corpora- tion. Volcano craters in Arizona? This Is news, indeed. Mae Murray wanted “realism” and “atmosphere” for her picturs of Rus- sia and New York, “Fashion Row,” so she and her entourage arranged to visit Ellls Island. She found, how- ever, that the Russlan quota was ex-| ‘hausted and she had to wait around until & fresh consignment put in an appearance. . A testimonial was given to Cissle Loftus in -Henry Millers Theater, New York, last ¥riday aftérnoon. to signalize her entrance into the con- cert, field. Blanche Bates was in charge. Actresses who asaisted were Frances Starr, Ruth Chatterton, Ethel Barrymore, Fay Bainter, Jane Cowl, Billle Burke, Mary Nash, Helen Men- ken, Madge Kennedy and Margaret Anglin. | 5 S tion plcture camera. His easy facility of gesture soon made him one of the foremost players in the silent drams In addition to his abllity to suggest ideas by -expression and ~gesture, Chaney soon became noted for the vast variety of faclal make-ups which he devised. So many were these that few of the milllons who have seen him on the silver screen have ever seen his own features They know Chaney only as a gifted player who hides his true self behind a long procession of character make- ups. In “The Next Corner” he plays fo: the first time in_nine years with practically no make-up. uThe piano Movers And the Actress” McDevitt, Kelly and Quinn, in “The Piano Movers and the Actress, will head the program of vaudeville and pictures at the Strand Theater next week. Others will be the Geraldine Mtil- er Trio, “artistio exponents of ath- letic art”; Bert Grant and Mildred Feeley, popular song composer and “the Irish colleen”; Ward and Bohl- man, in “After the Banquet" and Eddfe Cook, with Dorothy ‘ and Gladys Shaw, in a smart production of harmony songs, dances and i strumental music. The photoplay will be Prisciila Dean’s Universal production, “Whitg Tiger,” in its Washington premiere. DANCIRG. PROF. AND MRS_ACHER'S STUDIO, 1127 lota nw. 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