Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1924, Page 55

AMUS EMENTS. News andComment ByW.H. OMAN. i W about a vou sit up and take notice, the week. itself right away. Woman, always d And the photoplay. with but scant advance notice, Landvoigt. got busy with the photoplay during 2ot busy tful, and especially so when she gets her mind ual woman, woman that knows what she is taiking | d womar that knows how to write it in a wav to make | to working on things that have seemed to be insurmountable obstacles to | were man, is going «uestion, “What does tlie public wan discussions which have preceded. She isn’t a bit iooled by the long o answer that famous theatrical and “cinematical” | She doesn't care for screen statistics. | She is determined to ascertain for herself what the public wants by first | inding out why. She isp't going to be satisfied with the trite things that | have been tossed about by the tircle Will H. Hays kn she means job with a nice long, informative letter, which told some things that are | of interest to the gencral public. 1 ss press agent. business. And he was quickly on the i was one of the papers read at the photoplay discussion held by the League of American Pen-Women at the Shoreham Hotel Wednesday. picture “America” was inspi Davi id Wark Griffith, - whose wonderful d by the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, sent his good wishes irom far-off Italy, and even Doug and Mary | fook a recess in their world conquest abroad to say-some nice things. Universal told th irom “unknown Robinson it was not true oombs, t material by w t needs yet m year thirty others. But, with it al Carl Laemmle, tories and he want iberally for them, is going to give a! r Univer. large Universal . she told the s preside them quickly HE Pen Women that producers did not want stories and its assistant director of publicity. | that while Universal buys a great deal of 1015, owing 1o its enormous produ Maud 1 plant, going to make during the coming pictures alone, in add m, or rather convey the fact that cit to many ed to them from wants original willing to pi he | | APRIL_ 27 1924—PART 3 AMUSEMENTS. Hollyzoo Hergesheimer Touch in d GosSip "Cytherea"—Irene Rich Comes Into Her Own—Viola Dana Turns Free Lance. BY HALLETT ABEND. IO8 ANGELES, April 2j.—Joseph Hergesheimer’s novels would seem to be dificult of adaptation to the screen but are they? King Vidor's screen version of “Wild Oranges” is certainly both good screen drama and faithtul to the novel. And now comes “Cytherea,” an even more diflicult tale to handle, but splendid drama and also faithful to the novel, 25 pro- duced by Samuel Goldwyn, _“Cy'—henl" was directed by George Fitzmaurice from a scenario written by Frances Marion. Miss Marion also did the titling and in both plot and titles she has admirably .preserved What the book reviewers call “that Hergesheimer touch.” “Cytherea” at last gives a part of real power to Irene Rich, a beautiful woman and a talented actress, who has steadily risen in popularity de- €pite 2 long succession of trumpery parts. In this new film she comes into her own, for she plays the part of the wife in a way that should put an end to the habit of giving her only quiet roles. Thomas Stone plays the husband admirably, but Miss Rich steals the picture from him, and those who know Mr. Stone's splendid abi ties will realize that is prajse indeed Alma Reubens plays the title part and in it does about the best work of her career. Norman Kerry has a part without particular color und Con- stance Bennett, as the flapper of the Diece. scores heavily time after time. screenland. She has been signed by Universal for a sccond feminine rolc Barbara La Marr and the Women. Barbara La Marr jus ow s suffer ing from a misunderstanding. Th Women's Council of Sacramento is urging that all of Miss La be barred from theaters i apital city intervi quoted the ; sald something (o the woman must be | a convinei mov star as h effect moral La Marr is high vamp, so the Sacramento s Council has decided that, according to the star's purported as- sertion, she herself must be none too strait-lac And the Sacraments women profess to be fearful lest Misa La Marr's lovely face and fizurs, Af shown upon the screens in their eity. may “demoraliza the young people who go to the movies for amusemems * Poor Barbara La Marr! Does mea Sacramento know that the lovely star in question conforms to legal and so cial forms with great tenacity? Does it ot know ti boen mas ried four times? S tion of marrizge 1 isfy them that the for all forms of c Rupert Hughes picture director, is maintain oncerning the just warriage of his twen Rush Hughes, and Mar ri¢, singer and vaudeville actress. Mr Hughes 4t one time express:d an tagonism toward the attachment, which was a matter of Hollywood gossip soon after Rush Hughes met Miss Harris when she was a cafe en- »nvincing ention author a n Har ant to know first how writers and pro- | e to produce the best in screen drama. They say shiows that the producer at the outset first st important factor, then he concei it was the and now they believe he is getting wise tb the fact tertainer here. The bride is several vears older than her young husband and has a daughter by a former mar- riage. Von Stroheim Also Suffers. therea” <is vastly superior to “The Eternal City,” Mr. Fitzmaurice's last picture for Mr. Goldwyn. The di- rection is better and the handling of story is immeasurably more adept. Fitz- ducers can co-oper. the evolution of thought himseli the tar, then the director the writer of screen S'))IE interestin Associated 1eme, and ti she 1 v iat’s wh v M screen tas titled definite, p acting, and who ¢ of American Pe nagination and Liave contributed notably to the art, ¢ best photoplays that have be rmation was Nationa! think t so many R. HAYS a'so adds that the known writers are not wanted vaper, the magazine and the b. creative work of those whose ab tories is to hav mpre his or her day. developed. Mr that woman s suggest w ire of predominant version of the novgl . Hays, who belictes woman ha i picture production, apart westly want the help of the League “their_intelligence. their live derstanding of dramatic situation the naturalness and the humanness of it Florence Strauss of the best box-office v or things with interest to her, His Harvest” from is not true; that just as the news- publisher gives preference to the ty and merit have been definitely | | 3 | | | i ion that original storics by un~ established, so the photoplay producer naturally turns to the work of | established writers, and he feels that this is justified since the photoplay producer, like the Business house sceking employes, the base ball manager | seeking players, the c'ient sccking a lawyer and the patient in search of a doctor, natura’ly wants to securc the best results. count are in demand, but they technique of writing scenarios, quickly learned, but nc stories believed to be origina original nor plagiarized, but s good memories ir. st TIT IS of general interest to learn wanted are “the simnle story. aimply, cleanly and humanly told prevent the m or less prevalent inroads toward becomin with other things, reflect plots and i om Mr. Hays th 1 Original stories that be both original and screenable. The writing, and too often Ily by woman writers, are neither dents retained by cen perhaps long has been read or e types of stories ally human story, is determined to c’ean_story, th that his associatio: Mr. Hays thinks, is simple and can be | so the art oi creative i type of book from making serious | which be can produced only after such changes as to leave the producer subject to the charge of deception, and to avoid th e use of titles indicative of a kind of picture that cannot be produced, or which by their suggestiveness seek to win patronage, states briefly that it is his tain the highest production.” 1SS TOOMBS reminds the Pen Women that “Universal which will appeal to every one. and t The movie fan is not a highbrow, ss which must yield profit tands back of the orches owners put a black na ts, and you can't get them to b may be. HESE are items in the help to make clear its 1owdown heing shocked or perplexed wou'd by find little favor with adults, and yet average censor. Raz children to amuse themselves with, able in their way for adults. matters that is demanded in pro olays, and it is only by such ultimately be reached. The * % ARL LAEMMLE'S representativ “The Hunchback of that Universal will produce another or title was not given. A LMOST before the Fairbanks’ “Th comes the new “America” is. NTEWS reports. says Film Dai'y, i . mans are getting together <ides seem to be strongly set D ALTIMORE is to hav movie houses, big o Lk was atement irom a sixteen .and counts the empty se; against the kind of picture that ide of the movie discu ell be added, among them that pictur 2 Ty f of Bagdad” i the thing equally reprehensible.” In other words, he | association’s purpose “to establish and main- | possible moral and artistic standards of motion picture | s stories not just highbrows, for the average e picture-making industry is a busi manager of a movie house, she says, ts, and theater won't fill the cxceptional it uy it. no matter how 1 of the picture-producing world that jon. Others 1 es that every child may see without e all right for the children, but would this has been one of the ideals of the ors and other edged tools are not proper things for and yet they are very useful and desir- It is the fair consideration of all these onouncing judgment generally upon photo- fair consideration that a proper solution will b Pen Women should be and are fally alive to the needs of the case. it is believed they * e at the convention intimated that Notre Dame” has been a financial success, and | big picture soon. although its theme on the statement that Douglas the greatest photoplay ever madc same metropolitan Source that icate that the French antd thie Ger- ! one thing—reciprocity in films, and both 1 that direction. -page rotogravure program for ail the nes and neighborhoods alike. ‘ * %k WAMOUS PLAYERS is making a check-up on “what the pubfi - and fifty exhibitors are said to he helping out, Lo lC Tants Tk ok 'QUN-BONNET SUE,” Gus Edwards’ music: into a movie. More About HEN representatives of David Wark Griffith broached the sub- Jéct of restaging some of the historic ~eenes of April 19, 1 on Lexington Green the whole town almost rose its wrathtul horror. sBut when Grifiith ifigton that th scenes “iaerica,” the photonls the war of American requested Ly the Daughters of the American Revolution for their cele- bration of the sesquicentennial of this country’s freedom, the modern Minutemen of Lexington — meaning. every one In the famous Middlesex town—offered every possible facility, which explains why the Lexington, Concord and Boston scenes in Grif- fith's “America,” now at Poli's The- ater, are accurate and authentic. John L. E. Pell, who made the his- torical arrangement of the story, written by Robert W. Chambers, the novelist, was the emissary chosen to secure the co-operation of the Lex- ington authorities. i “It was characteristic of us as New Inglanders that we didn't warm up 10 the idea at all at first,” said Edwin 3. Worthen, president of the Lexing- won Historical Society, in discussing ihe matter. “In fact, the very idea of using such a shrine as the Han- cock-Clarke house as the locale for o motion picture eaused a shiver to yun down the backs of most of us. Lexington and its historic associa- tions seemed too sacred to us to be reproduced on the screen. “Cold as we had bgen to the prop- osition when it was first proposed, we speedily warmed up when we came to understand the great work Mr. Grifith had undertaken and the masterly manner in which he had gone about it. If the United States Weserament could co-operate through were for ' romance of convinced Lex- | independence, | * % al comedy, is to be made “‘America.’” having the War Department turn over Regular Army units for use in the picture, for the fist time in his- tory; if the leading historical experts in other sections of the country could {®ive their valuable services; If the | Virginia _Historical Society, Massa- | chusets Historical Society and other similar organizations could place at his disposal cheir entire personnel and their collection of relics, Lexing- ton could do no less. “When we learned “that through Mr. Charles K. BoMon, secretary of the Boston Athaneum and _senior warden of the Old North Church, those in charge of that famous edi- fice, braving the fire risks and other danwers, had given permission for Mr. Griffith to wire the church tower for electricity in osder that Paul Re- vere's two lanterns might shine brightly enough for screen purposes, we could hardly do less than offer Mr. Griffith every facility at our dis- posal. And so we told Mr. Pell that Mr. Griffith might count 100 per cent on Lexington. I bellevé that after meeting him we would have torn the town to pieces to help him make his plcture. “The second time I viewed the pic- iture I did so in a most critical spirit, |almost_hoping. with that passionate hope of one jealous of thi of his home, to find some It speaks volumes for Mr. Pell's r search and Mr. Griffith's master! work that T could not find one.” In staging his battle scenes Mr. Grifiith had before him the depositions of men who actually fought at Lex- ington, Concord and Bunker Hill. In order to compress into the al- lotted space of two hours and tHree- quarters as many of the leading events and characters of the war of independence as he could, Mr. Grif- fith was obliged to forego the use of many scemes. Mindful of the tre- mendous part this section of the country played in the revolution, how- ghr‘ € the prevalent type of picture, and to prevent. | the picturization of books or pl HooT GIBsoN Central Scene fiom : M - Polis : |aen, P hotoplays This Week[ COLUMBIA—De Mille's evening. METROPOLI and evening. RIALTO—“Girl Shy” (second week). evening. PALACE—“The Confidence Man.” evening. riumph.” —"“A Son of the Sahara.” At the Photoplay Houses This Week Shown this afternoon and Shown this afternoon Shown this afternoon and aiternoon and Shown this AMBASSADOR—“A Son of the Sahara.” Shown this afternoon and evening. CENTRAL—“Hook and Ladder.” | evening. - | | CRANDALL'S. evening. Columbia — Cecil B. De Mille’s "Trium\ph.' iunounced by ter for thi ming this a iumy feature Loew's ma; 3 scenarized by Jeani enacted by _Joy Rocque, Victor Varconi, Charles Ogle, Theodore Kosloff., Robert 2 Julla Faye. George Fawcett, woode Aitken, Zasu Pitts, Raymond Hatton, Alma Bennett and Jimmie Adams. “Triumph” is claimed to be an eye- filling spectacle, dazzling in the beau- ty of its costume effects and lavish in its settings. The story concerns two men in opposite social spheres, each suddenly brought face to face with the problem of the other. In the one case the wealthy man is suddenly made penniless, while the other is | suddenly raised’ to great wealth and responsibility. Mr. De Mille works out what he regards as the probable effects, and also the part that a wom- an plays in such . A fight between rival lovers in a limousine going at ninety miles an homr, a great industrial plant in full swing and a daring fire and dream sequence are incidents of the picture. An Aesop’s fable, the International | news “and orchestral music will added attractions. Metropolitan—"A Son of the Sahara.” Son of the Sahara! First Na- tional's film version.of the novel by Louise Gerai§ to make which Edwin Cavewe took his American cast on a 14,000-mile jaunt to the actual locale of the story, will be this week’s at- traction at Crandall's Metropolitan Theater, beginning this afternoon. The companion feature will be Waring’s Pennsylvanians, in a group of delightful syncopations, which they have never before played in the Nationa] Capitad. The Metropolitan. world survey and minor films also will be shown, and there will beorchestral contributions. the'love of a young Algerian prince for an English girl, reared and edu- cated in America, 'He is a man of extreme wealth, educated, cultured but with a revengeful nature. When he is given his conge, because he is not a “white man” (as he subsequent- 1y proves to be), he swears vengeance against all who have opposéd his suit. Bert Lytell appears in the title role, with Clair, ndsor. Montagu Love, ever, he has devoted the entire first half’ of “America” to events which transpired here, even incorporating several scenes which serve only to give the audience some interesting sidelights on life as it was in the days of 177. % be | “A Son of the Sahara” deals with | The Silent Stranger.” | | Shown this aifternoon and Shown this afternoon and Walter MeGrail and Rosemary The in the cast Palace — “The Confidence Man. Melg! 1w one of his greatest pa ing melodram; finance Thomas 1 e ris 1ot he Confidence Man' L Theater this week, beginning this afternoon. It is based on a magazine story by Laurie York Erskine and Robert H. Davis, and was directed hy Paul Sloane, who directed “Big Brother” and “Over the HIIL" t concerns a man who goes to a small-town with the idea of selling the town millionaire a flock of worth- less oil stock. In order to ingratiate himself he performs public spirited acts that soon win him the confidence angdesteem of tho town's people. The cast includes Virginia Valli as leading woman, Laurence Wheat. Charles Dow Clark, Helen Lindroth, Jimmie Lapsley, Margaret Seddon, George Nael. Dorothy Walters and David Higgins. Added features latest § 1¥"; the music. Rialto—"Girl Shy. larold Lloyd's latest production, ir] Shy Moore" will include the unshine/ comedy, “Jazz Week- Pathe News, and orchestral at Rialto Theater today | Washington picture fans have found it a clean, high-speed, distinctive comedy, and as a result great crowds of young and old have been In at- tendan e at every showing during the past week. Harold Lloyd . believed there is “something new in the miovies,” so he set out to show screen fans that an original and un..d idea couid be wace into a merion pictur:. In “Girl y,” he has in a measurs, followed the footsteps of “Grandma's Boy.” Tt has less gags and more story than Why Worry” and boasts of as strong a vein of comedy and unusual s't- uations together with thrills galore. Lloyd portrays a smajl town boy bashfu] and scared to death of the fair sex, yet he attempts to write a book on how to handle the girls | for the benefit of all men. Jobyna Ralston plays' opposite the r and Richard Daniels and Carlton riffin are in the cast. Short film features and an interpre- tative score arranged by Director George Wild will complete the bill. .Ambassador—"A Son of the Sahara.” Bert Lytell, Claire Windsor, Rose- mary Theby, Montague Love and Wal- ter McGrail are the .featured players in Edwin Carewe's production, “A Son of the Sahara,” adapted from the novel by Louise Gerard, aso shown at the Metropolitan this week, whicn . will start its second week | CONRAD NAGET, Taucoln | | will be the film attraction the first | three days of this-week at Crandall's | Ambassador, beginning this after- nson at 3 o'clock. A comedy Bow. Fold Up,” and music F. Beck, will complete the Jac Coogan wi the for Thur by Otto program, bill Sydney Franklir upD | company. Bobby Vernon will be in a tro-reel riot, * Or Bust. On Saturday Bryant Washburn, Bil- lie Dove, Edward Horton. Liotel Bel- more, Joseph Kilgour and Rose Dione will be seen in the principal roles of a delightful comedy, “Try and Get It,” with comedy, “Barnum, Jr. Central — Hoot Gibson in “Hook and Ladder. At Crandal’s Central the first four days of the present week, beginning this afternoon at 3 o'clock, will be seen the spirited production, “Hook and Ladder,” starring Hoot Gibson. This vigorous actor has a role well suited to his style and productive of thrills, stirring rescues and physical {risk. Mildre®® June and Philo Me- | Cullough are prominent members of supporting cast. Mack Sennett’s mile, Please,’ a comic two-reeler, |and a new sport reel, “The Cail of the Game,” will be added features of the | programs. ¥ Beginning Thursday and continuing | throughout the remainder of the week ~ will be shown Norma Tal- madge, supported by Joseph Schild- kraut and Arthur Edmund Carewe, in “The Somg of Love,' an oriental ro- mance of suspense and thrills, in which Miss Talmadge is cast as an Algerian dahcing girl. Her costumes are extremely picturesque, and her role gives her the opportunity for much emotional expression. * The bill will be completed by a new lssue of the Kinograms and “Heeza Liar's Ancestors,” a bit of grotesque fun. Crandall's — “The Silent Stranger. Fred Thomson, former. champion Padific coast all-around athlete and a clergyman who was attracted to the films through the activities of his wife, Frances Marion, one of the highest pajd 6cenario write America, will be the pictured star at | Crandall's Theater the first three | days of this week, beginning today at 3, In “The Silent Stranger,” which is sald to afford him an opportunity for a cleancut, wholesome characteriza- tion. A comedy by Clyde Cook, “The Misfit,” and varied ghort-reel sub- jects 'will complete the bill < Betty Compson and Richard Dix will be seen on Wednesday and Thursday, in *The Stranger.” & plc- T (Continued on Fourth Page) i i ‘ by Clif | : > | well known director, sets two years| A L JOHN GILBERT . trand Matinee¢ for Children. 3 newest service undertaken by the public service and educational artment of the Crandall Theaters, | under the direction of Mrs Harriet Hawley Locher, will be children's matinees, that have never been a suc- | cess in Washington or anywhere else. But Mrs. Locher has evolved a plan | which she believes will prove suc- cessful. At any rate, il will be given {2 thorough trial at Crandall's new Tivoli Theater, 14th street and Park | road, Saturday mornings, M 10, 17 {and 24 The bills will consist of spe cially selected pictures, one scment and stories told from by Pegey Albion. known to a who listen to the tories over the radio. These program. the public elamor for special bills fo hildren. The programs will be ar. |ranged with particular reference to the amusement requirements of juve- niles from six to twelve vears old, but should prove of interest to all ages. If these special performances prove successful and seem to supply an actual need in the community they will be conducted regularly, begin- ning next autumn. are (o be a test of Two Years Enough. W long must the talented begin- ner wait before winning recos in the studio? Gasnier, the | o ‘H nition the limit in whi player who establishe the; | “Under ordinary circums actor or actress Who does in two years will never mediocrity,” says Gasnier. most_pitiful to sée the hundreds of Dpeople who haunt the casting offices of the Los Angeles studios day after day looking for work. Many have spent years in pictures, never achiev- ing anything beyond ‘atmosphere,’ or perhaps some bit of acting that 1s invariably eliminated when time comes to cut down the footage in the final editing. “Yet most of thess peopie still are confident that their big chance is sure to come. They are unwilling to accept the fact that they are failures and to try their hand at something else in_which the suctess they ha.e noped for might really come within their grasp. . “Don't spend more‘than two years chasing the rainbow of screen fame, is my advice to beginnere.” It Makes a Difier-ence. S+ JT'S funny that a woman will ralse a howl if hubby tracks a little mud on the parlor rug and yet she looks forward with 4 joyous heart to a seance with the masseuse who tosses bucketfuls of mud all over her face,” remarked a camera man while shooting a beauty parlor scene in a new Al Christie production. “In these up-to-date beauty par- lors where the girls go to have their bair bent all out of shape and their faces reassembled, it must be a hard- boiled human who caf't et a good laugh.” Next Week's Photoplays RIALTO—John Barrymore, in “Bead Brummel.” TIVOLI — “Jazz+A - Week,” music, singers, dancers, etc. METROPOLITAN — “Why Men Leave Home.” PALACE—“The White Sister.” AMBASSADOR — “Why Men Leave Home,” “Love’s Whirl- pool” and “The Printer's Devil” 3 CENTRAL — “Love’s Whirl- pool,” “A Boy of Flanders.” CRANDALL'S — “The Love Bandit,” “Painted People,” “The White Tiges.” de luxe | bedtime As always when Mr. maurice makes a photoplay, the eve is delighted. 1In this film the di- rector uses beautiful color effects for the dreams, a clever way to enhance | the drabness of reality, Viola Dana a Free Lance. Estelle Taylor has been signed on a long-term contract by Cecil B. De Mille to take the place of Leatrice Joy 1» O De Mille-Lasky fil Joy, meanwhile, has been e stardom by the Lasky organizat Marion Aye, former Orph liner, has been signed 1| Film Company to head the ¢ will make “The Last Man on under Jack Blystone's direction. Charlie Chaplin and his comy nearly one hund: i cast, carpenters, electricians and the helpers, have gone to an isolated dis- trict near the summit of the Sierras to make the snow scenes of the Alas- kan comedy upon which Mh. Chaplain is now working. They will be away about a month. Viola Dana, who for nine years has been a Metro star, has decided to | be a free lance actress and ha | fused to sign a renewal of cont | offered by Metro. “I want to have | greater varjety of roles utive star explains. ° { being a funny, fapperish person all | the time. People may th | only one type of thing. May {all T can do, but 1 want a ¢ ! wider range of characleri; Fred Niblo has begun fi Tted his own stor | Enid_Bennett, and_Ramon are the co-stars. Wallace { the villain. The stor. tany and in Paris A Pauline Fredericks and Lew Cody will have the leading roles in the next picture which Ernst Lubitsch will make for Warner Brothers. Louise Fazenda has packed away her funny clothes, given up comedy and is now an emotional actress. She had begun work at the Warner lot in. the part of Deborah in Grace Flanderau's “Being Respectable.” “Christine of the Hungry Heart Kathleen Norris' latest novel, has been purchased by Thomas H. Ince. John Griffith Wray will direct. Florence Vidor signed with Louis B. Maver to play the lead in a domestic comedy M. Stahl will di Hugo B: the Goldwyn Compar Mabel Ballin, Bow has cal to play ne." Valentino in Rex Beach Story. « Valentino's next picture after “Monsieur Beaucaire" Beach story, not vet titled. Henabery, who will direc ready left Hollywood for to_confer on the script. Ralph Graves has signed with Mack Sennett for a series of two-reel comedies. Tom Miranda is titling J. Stuart Blackton's picture, “The Hill Man,” adapted from the novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Anna Q. Nillson has goue to New York to work at the v studio therc opposite Ernest Torrence in {*The Mountebank.’ Her husband, | Johu M. Gunnerson, a Los Angeles | business man, went vith her. Helenc Chadwick’s first starring pictur: “Div n Hi, Novarre Beery d to_direc “The P with | wife, Joseph ¢ will productic coripa P waterfront sce San Francisco. Olive leading woma Margarita Fischer, vears ago before she A. Pollard, director. married Harry is returning to TENDENCY to explore new flelds was manifested by Cecil B. De Mille, the producer, when he laid aside the mood that dominated such productions as ‘“Manslaughter,” “Male and Female” and “Why Change Yot Wife?" and led him to attempt a se- rious drama of the Old Testament, “The Ten Commandments" | It was also this same araving for a change of style that led Thomas Meighan to drift away from mo-ealled { “crook” roles and to offer character- The public following of these two men, Says the press agent, Was never quite satisfled to have De Mille and Meighan alter their style, while a host of De Mille followera thrilled wife. | drama which John | ill be a Rex | Name { Frich von Stroheim is spending much time in the courts he Besides being sued & wife for asserted failure r the support of thei has just denied an ar & I | counting of the mone | paid her at the rat: [Now come Gladys T | cwis and Selma i . writer a Jlisher, asKIDg the mawer ot of “Merry GO pictura which von al, b Von Stro d to have the ation of the the heim started for 1 'ni Rupert Julia: heim had publishing : n'l:{‘n'-] us(v‘ «nhh & she wants achance in something “other than the black and.bluo drama’ Dorothy Devore Christie comed: ar, has decided not to rencw her ie contract, but {0 bacome a free-lance. Miss Devore has been with the Christie company r_years A ot Meredith, once leading man for Marguerite Clark, Mas Marsh, Constance Talmadge and other stars has returned U Hollywood after B ndimg two yeRrs making Alms in Englard. V abread he Married 1 jan tng New York 1 ywood befor: Licts ned to pla in two fil rd pleture fo Dirty Hands Little Robi Moo Conway Tearle Colleen ed b; aries v has started work or | “Smith” for Thomas Ince. The play shows him as a voung San Fran- cis0 newspaper man who becomes involved in difficulties through a visit to the Barbary coast. The scene then shifts to Alaska. Gardner Sullivan wrote the story. Will Rogers may return to the “Follie" in New York if he can in- Auce Hal Roach to open an eastern tudio so that he can make pictures and do his “Follies” act at the same time. Kathleen Clifford, the first time is making a two-ree working on the i her husband, Rol» “Circe,’ by Vieente on Merzed Siudios Conwolidate. uction is exnected to start with ow that the Metro-Goldwyn- Maver merzer has been officially an- notinced. Foth the Mayer studio on Mission road and the Metro studio, covering four city blocks in Holly- wood. will be abandoned and prodae- tion will ba ocentered at the Goldwyn stidio in Colver city. The Metro realty holdings are now immensely valuable as business and apartment house sites and will bs sold. All Goldwyn employes will be re- ed. Marcus Loew will ba presi- of the consolidated firms, whiar alied Metro-Goldwyn. The includes many thes brings under Mr ¥ 2 total of about 350 de will be inue releas ures throug! me at least. will have th directors: Re M L 2 Murray, Leonor. Busch, Hobart Bos- aton.” Claire Wind- yin and others. in United States and Great wth American Newspaper i rights Yield tov Pressure. to the dynamic drama of “The Ten Commandments.” in hundreds of let- ters to the producer, it is olaimed reiterated a desire for more pictures of the iridescent, satiric type, buiit around sodial themes, which had hali- marked Da Mille's work up to the time of “The Ten Commandments® Melghan's followers, one is also in formed, ever cease to clamor for more. . largely because Meizh won with stories of that iype. The carrent week in Washington. ce, happens tc by a curious coinci: reveal the capitulation of both mer to the pressure of public demand. So far as Washington is concerned, both | apps ¥ Sield to “the voioe of ille, in “Triumph,” drope back into the exotic production mood, and Meighan, after two ov three years’ absence from crook drama, presents “The Confidence Man.” Quarantine and the Movies HDLLYWOOD is up against it. Not only have two phases of mo- tion-picture production been threat- ened with extinctien, but the general aspect of filmdom is undergoing a complete change. California has de- creed no animals shall be transported from one county to another, because of the hoof-and-mouth epidemic prevalent on the west coast. One company in particular has been especlally hard hit by this live stock quarantine. Considerable of that company’s product is of the “western and serial variety. The ban on trans- porting animals has already resulted in Hoot Gibson, “western" star, hav- ing to postpone production of “That Riding Kid From Powder River,” and engage, instead, in work on “Hit and Run,” a base ball story. What else could he do? No self-respecting “western” star would care to be seen on the screen riding range on a prop- erty bronc’ made up of two “extras” as the fore and hind legs wnder an enveloping horse hide. The company is in a qulndl.rfi re- garding the making of seri: any of the eplsodes derive their “punches” ! N from hairbreadth escapes of the prin- cipal players from wild animals, most often lions. Lions in captivity ca: not eat beef, which has u superfiui of fat and is usually fatal. Con- demned horses are, therefore, used to feed them; but under the state ruling none may®be movea about Los An- geles. While the matter is being dis- cussed by studio and state autho; ities the supply of lion food is dimin- ishing rapidly. Jack Dempsey is in a quandary. In one of the stories he was to film much of the action centered about hi horsemanship. The world's champio; is trying to make up his mind wheth- er to learn to ride a bicycle or borrow an equestrian clown's outfit, consist- ing of a papler-mache horse, which straps around the rider's waist. The greatest blow of all, as far as impressionable flappers are concern- ed, is the holding up production on “sheik* pictures. Those young ladies who want their cave men mascaline but Musiem, turbulent but turbaned will have to wait until camels are moved from the cattle into the eig- arette category 7 A