Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1925, Page 61

AMUSEMENTS, By W. H. Landvoigt. F we could all think alike there would be no disagreements, no-need of censors, no unpleasant plays or pictures; nothing, indeed, to dis- turb the peace and the pleasure of humanity, provided, of course, we all thought the right way. Or if we could only busy ourselves with removing our own faults and improving our own spiritual condition but half as much as the dear little flapper does in caring for the lights and shades of her pretty little face, we would, at least, succeed in approxi- mating peace in our distracted world. But it seems to be fate that we cannot and do not do either of these things. for the other fellow, who is always wrong. be out of employment, * ¥ Instead we go gunning He has to be, or we would * * 'ANAGER BEATUS, probably with an idea simply to provide his patrons with what some have called a screen masterpicce, unfurled on his silver sheet during the week iric von Stroheim’s production called +'Greed.” The advance notices hinted that von Stroheim had been called “the mad director,” because, absorbed in his aim to reach his goal, he scattered the paltry things we call dollars regardless of their number. That, of course, aroused a peculiar interest in the man and his work, which, contrary to the usual movie custom, did not bear a “selling” or “box office” title. Opinions of the picture—as numerous as the people who saw it—are strangely conflicting. Mere men seemed to like “Greed,” and many strongly indorsed it. Iy denounced it. the way to permanent peacel * ok Not so the women, who, as a rule, sharp- This radical difference in judgment, dividing the sexes, aroused the curiosity of a seeker of the why of things. the writer, who merely announces the reason given, namely, picture lays bare woman’s great defect.” that “the And yet the world is seeking %ok REED,” however, with its sordid picture of life, is not aimed at woman, but at a defect that may be found in all humanity and from which many other evils proceed. Selfishness is so common as almost to {pass unnoticed. It is the besetting sin of the world. It is the mother of greed, and, if you will think of it, the cause of nearly every other sin that flesh is heir to. of a master craftsman. To paint the vice in its true colors requires the hand Von Stroheim has never better vindicated his artistry, even though he may be indebted to the novelist, Frank Norris, whose “McTeague” furnished the inspiration, for he has painted with unerring strokes the ultimate of an reason “Greed is one of the greéat pictures of the screen. ever-present shortcoming. For this It is a direct challenge to humanity—and Washington at this very time is more than passing familiar with the type of humanity it fits. * % UR fair city has been the stage of another movie conference. * % Movie conferences are becoming almost as familiar to our daily life as the fault from which greed is said to spring, and sometimes one is tempted to believe that self-aggrandizement is behind some of them. be with us. like the poor, will alway The radical, He sees only the worst side of fife, and his remedy for it is always drastic, and very nearly always wrong. There is no reason in the world why every man and ever woman should not believe as he or she pleases. Indeed, it is not only holy, but most wholesome, to possess a faith that leads one onward and upward in the moral scale of life. down the throats of all the others. The evil comes when some try to crowd their beliefs And when that happens then comes war. Very often it is not the virtue of wanting to better the world that lies behind it all. Sometimes the feeling of self-importance prompts onc to attempt the betterment of the world. The Man of Galilee, more in- terested, doubtless, than any of us not make war upon it. of his present-day followers. * % came to save the world; but he did His method was very different from that of some * ok LYL H. HAYS, in an address delivered last Fall before a State Fed- eration of Woman's Clubs, reminded his audience that the motion picture today is the principal amusement of a great majovit: ple and the sole amusement of millions e of our peo- that 25 years ago the motion picture was a mere idea, and that its greatest progress has been made in the last five vears, a period during which there has been no such progress in any other form of art or form of expression. There has been no great picture painted, no superwork of sculpture or music has been achieved, and even literary people have lent themselves to the tendencies of a dis- ordered age and have produced works which relied more on sensationalism lhan true art for their appeal. So widespread, said Mr. Hays, was this ondition that a very great State, for the first time since the first amend- ment to the Constitution of the United States, was seriously menacing, for a period, to censor the works of American authors. “When the dra- smatic art was a thousand years old, the players were bedded in barns and their lines in stable yards, aid Mr. Hays. “When the art.of drawing wwas thousands of years old, its crudity was still primitive; orchestral muasic, as we know it, has existed for 200 forms of syncopation even now cars only, and yet perverted are annoying the lovers of harmonics. Why, then, all the hue and cry directed solely against the motion picture? Ever since its invention it has been improving, but not from the efforts of censorship. It has responded to custodian and regulator of American moral and civic culture. time to rid a patriotic army of unworthy camp followers. achieved the results attained by the motion no industry has, heretofore, icture in so incredibly short a period of time. the demands of the public, the real Tt takes No art and Its greatest need now is help—constructive help—and hands off from those whose disposition is to reform it without knowing exactly how best to do it. * X * * ECAUSE “the picture of a mother is the same in every language” the picture is the best and casiest learned of all languages. cation hy which the whole world may become better dium of commur It is .a me- acquainted and the ideals, customs and aims of every nation may become fa liar to all the others, thus making for internatiowal peaceiand amit It may have its shortcomings—doubtless they are many some of them serious—but worthy heads and competent hands are ever busy with its blems. xyvrn A little time. a little patience, and, if one must be busy remedy- ng things, a little constructive suggestion will accomplish wonders. Barnum in Pictures. YBAR'S tlme, declares Monte Katterjohn, film authcr, has been voted to preparing a scenario of the life of P. T. Barnum, the famous showman, to be screened during 1925, under the title, “The Great Barnum.” Though details of the production are not completed it is said that the film will be undertaken on a vast scale, and not only will it be an en- tertaining pioture, but also a worthy tribute to the creator of “the greatest &lhow on earth.” Two candidates have been mention- ed for the name role, Thomas Melg- han and Wallace Beery. The method employed by the author in obtaining material for bringing “the prince of humbugs”’ to the Bcreen, is interesting, iy} Convinced that. the subject afforded’ unfque entertainment, Katterjohn gave up his position as a staff writer at Famous Players-Lasky studios and began assembling data relating to Barnum. He traveled atross the con- tinent six times, visiting- different scenes of Barnum's. activities. He also followed the Ringling Brothers- Barnum and Balley circus on tour for ten days getting ‘Jocal color.” He talked with hundreds of men who' knew Barnum, and from @n old showman, now proprietor of a movie house in Southern Indiana, he de- clares that he secured the big ldea for the thundering spectacle which concludes this picturs. and which, it 1s said, stamps the story with distinct originality, £ i He declared to | THE SUNDAY STAR, 'WASHINGTON, D. O, JANUARY 18, 1925—PART 3. Lincolwu ELEANOR DOARDMAN Americans Love Art. =“N WHERE,” says Duci de Kere- kjarto, hful Hungarian violinist, “have I found people more responsive to music than in America. Americans have, contrary to the ab- surd stories that float around Eu- rope, a strong feeling for music and, in fact, for art in every medium. “Befors I came to this country I was under the impression that Amer- icans were more or less barbarians. First of all, T had a picture in my mind of a wild, rough country, with Indians and cowboys running around You see how benighted Europe used to be? Then continental artists | would tell wierd tales of the “Dol- lar Country,” where art was unap- preciated and only money mattered So it _was with fear and trembling that I over about 18 months ago for a concert tour “You can imagine my surprise to find New York just like London and Paris, only better, and to see that people flocked to concert and opera and demanded the best in art. When I entered Keith Vaudeville, I was even more surprised, for I discovered that I could give exactly the same pro- gram on the vaudeville stage that I had given on the concert platform. ‘Since 1 began my Keith tour I haven't plaved one single plece of light or popular music. My program is made up entirely of concert num- bers and I find that the people mot only enjoy but understand them in a thoroughly musicianiike way. Amer- icans are true lovers of art and 1 am proud to be able to play for such discriminating audiences.” SE— Unique Chessmen. A UNIQUE set. of chessmen—the only one of its kind in the world—ap- pears In_“East of @uez,” Pola Negri's latest piSture, & scene of which shows Pola engaged In & game with Rock- cliffe Fellowes. For this game =& speclal set of chessmen was made. The ordinary pawns are Chinese dagger-men. The kings and queenrs are minlature busts of Pola Negri and Mr. Fellowes, done In plaster and boiled in oils to glve them the polish and almost the hardness of granite. The chessmen were prasented to Pola Negri, and now repose in & glass cabinet at her home, where she leeps a remarkable collectlon of fvory carv- ings. Has But Two “Subtitles.” (CRITICS and motion ploture execu- utives awalit the day when it will be possible to make pictures without subtitles, James Cruze has come very near the ideal in “The Goose Hangs High." Barring a brief foreword, the picture containg only two subtitles—that is, titlos necessary to explain the actlon of the story. There are, of course, many spoken titles in the course of the production. According to Walter Woods, scen- arist and writer of titles, “the action was so graphle, and every phase of the story so clearly told in the film, that practically no explanatory sub- titles were needed.” “The Goose Hangs High" 1s a story of Christmas time. In its original torm it was a popular New York dra- matic success by Lewls Beach. Coiffure Key to Character. “A WOMAN'S mode of dressing her hair represents the clue to her inner being,” says Irene Rich, the screen star, and for the benefit of her friends she has gotten up a scale of six types of coiffure on which she bases lier. characterizationg for the silver sheet. Frizzed, elaborate massing of arti- ficial curls represents shop girls or habitues of dance halls. Different “bob” styles portray any- thing from a high-brow to a gum- chewing flapper. The Mona Lisa hairdress keynote to the woman who to gain a career, but found mate. Disheveled halr stamps a woman as the tired mother or the sour- mouthed shrew. The woman careful of her appear- ance usually affects the marcel wave. The unstudied soft wayes to frame a woman's face—that' speaks of charming purity, sweet hopes and dreama, 18 the started a soul- Pagrae TREDERICK S Rialto Josepr Kincour, AMUSEMENTS. Awbasvador At the Photoplay Houses This Week COLUMBIA. evening. PALACE—"East of Suez.” and evening. RIALTO—"Smoldering Fires.” ning AMBASSADOR—“Husbands and and evening. CENTRAL—“The Flaming Forties.” evening. LINCOLN (Colored)—“He Who Gets Slapped.” noon and evening. Columbia—"The Thief of Bagdad.' Douglas Fairbanks, In “The Thiet of Bagdad,” the wonderful, gorgeous Arabian Nights fantasy, that en- chanted New York for a year at §2 prices, which, for the daring, magni- tude and opulence of its conception and treatment ranks as Mr. Fairbanks’ greatest screen achievement, will be given its initlal presentation in Washington at Loew's Columbia Theater, ,beginning this - afternoon, and at the regular scale of Loew's Columbia. prices. “The Thief of Bagded” is literally a page torn from “The Arablan Nights Tales” as far as atmosphere, color and fantastic imagery are con- cerned, though the story itself is an absolutely new narretive, Directed by Raoul Walsh and supervised by Mr. Fairbanks himself, with the aid of ¥dward Knobloch, the noted British playwright, “The Thief of Bagdad” brings to the silvershest a series of episodes that seem impossible of ac- complishment _through _any means but magic. With the beautiful Ju- lanne Johnston as his leading womian, Mr. Fairbanks has literally scaled the heights of imaginative production. The story reveals how the Thief, gaining entrance to the princess’ apartments by means of @ magic rope, which he has stolen, enlists the in- terest and concern of the princess at a time when she is beset by offers of marriage from three visiting poten- tates. In order to effect a choice, she sends them all on a seven-moon jour- ney, agreeing to wed the one who re- turns with the rarest treasure. The cast includes Snitz Edwards, Anna May Wong, Charles Belcher, Brandon Hurst and many others. Owing to the unusual length of the production other features usual on the Columbia program will be omitted, but the Columbla Orchestra will play a musical score. Palace—"East of Suez."” Pola Negri's beauty and power as an emotional actress will be revealed 1 her latest FParamount picture, East of Suez” which is announced for this week, beginning this after- noon at Loew’s Palace Theater. “East of Suez” is a screen version of W. Somerset Maugham's play. Raoul Walsh, who staged Douglas Fairbanks' “The Thief of Bagdad,” is its director, and the cast, talented and distinctive, includes Edmund Lowe, & noted young actor who was secn_opposite Lenors Ulric in “The Son-Daughter” several seasons ago and is Pola Negrl's leading man, to- gether with Rockliffe Fellowes, Noah Beery, Sojin Kamayama, Mrs. Wing Wong, Florence Regnart, Charles Re- qua and E. H. Calvert. The eternal struggle between the The Thief of Bagdad.” Shown this afternoon and Shown this afternoon and evening. METROPOLITAN—“Husbands and Lovers.” Shown this afternoon Shown this afternoon and evening. TIVOLI—“Her Night of Romance.” Shown this afternon and eve- Lovers.” Shown this afternoon Shown this afternoon and Shown this after- East and the West to meet on & com- mon ground is the theme of this story of the Orlent, with its locale “some- where East of Suez, where the best is like ths worst,” according to the Kipling phrase. It concerns a beau- tiful girl, supposed to be the prod- uct of a marriage of East and West, and the dashing young nephew of a British consul in the Far East who has been trained in the convention- alitles of Western soclety and whose flery love for the girl s resisted by all the conventional forces of his na- ture. Added attractions will include Har- ry Langdon’s latest comedy, “The Sea Squawk,” the Pathe News, Topics of the Day and orchestral embellish- ment. Metropolitan—"Husbands And Lovers.” ‘Husbands and Lover: shown the first time in Washington at Crandall's Metropolitan Theater this week, beginning this afternoon. It is announced as a domestio drama of sparkling humor, many uncxpected developments amd a wholesome at- mosphere. 1t is a tals of incompata- bility. The husband carps at the wife's indifference to her personal ap- pearance—whereupon she goes on a hafr-bobbing and clothes-buying orgy that fills her lord and master with chagrin. The male friend of the family steps in and says and does the kind, thoughtful thing every time the husband fails to. Result: Friend wife at a party confides to her hus- band in a darkened yoom that she cannot endure it and will marry him —thinking all the time that she i talk- ing to the supposed friend of the family. And what happens then af- fords a most diverting climax. Lewis Stone is said to contribute an infmitable performance as the bored husband. Florence Vidor is the wife, and Lew Cody the suave young bachelor friend, who finally lsarns a great deal about women from her. The comedy will be Christie's “Low Tide,” featuring Ned Sparks, a droll young comedian. ‘Tho Metropolitan World Survey also will be shown. The Metropolitan Orchestra will be heard in & tuneful program, including a new arrangement of Irving Berlin's ballad, “All Alene.” Rialto—"Smoldering Fires. Pauline Frederick comes to the Rialto this week in a story written especially for her, namely, “Smolder- ing Fires.” Once more she plays the part of a middle-aged woman and she is sald to dominate every scene with her distinctive personality. The cast includes, with others, Laura La Plante, Tully Marshall and Malcolm MeGregor. “Qur Gang” comes in “Every Man for Himself”; the orchestra, under Children's Picture Programs. | ICTURES that are not now being presented in the motion picture theaters, but which possess qualities that endear them especially to juve- nile spectators, are now being made the basis of the programs being pre- sented particularly for children every Saturday morning at 10:15 at Cran- dall's Tivoli Theater, Fourteenth street and Park road northwest. The featurs yesterday morning was Mar] Twalin's “The Prince and the Pauper. Others to follow include “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” Kate Douglas Wiggins! delightful “Timothy’s Quest” and others of like worth. The spe- cial programs for children are con- ducted under the auspices of the pub- lic service and educational depart- ment of the Crandall theaters, under the personal direction of Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher. the diraction of Bailey F. Alert, will play an arrangement of “Songs of the Past,” arranged by the saxophone so- loist, Raymond Hart; International News and a new program by Duffey and MacKenzie will complete the bill. Tivoli—"Her Night of Romance."” Constance Talmadge will be seen at Crandall's Tivoli Theater today and tomorrow in her latest First Na- tional picture, “Her Night of Ro- mance,” a charming comedy In which she is supported by Ronald Colman and Albert Gran, together with Lige Conley’s new laughmaker, ‘“Motor Mad. Tuesday and Wednesday, Metro's production, “So This Is Mar- riage?” with Eleanor Boardman and Conrad Nagel; Harry Langdopn, in Mack Sennett's “The Handsome Cab- man,” and a new release of the Ly- man H. Howe's ‘Hodge-Podge." Thursday and Friday, Madge Bel- lamy and Charles De Roche, in Uni- versal's production, “Love and Glory,"” and Cliff Bowes, in “Have Mercy,” a new comedy. Saturday, “The Galety Girl,” featuring Mary Philbin: Earl Hurd’s cartoon comedy, “The Artist's Model,” and installment 3 of “Gal- loping Hoofs.” Ambassador—"Husbands - and Lovers. - John M. Stahl's “Husbands and Lovers” will be shown also at Cran- dall's Ambassador Theater the first three days of this week, beginning this afternoon; Charlie Chase, in “Hello, Baby!” and other short reels, with Otto F. Beek's pipe organ musle. Wednesday and Thursday, Marlon Davies, in Cosmopolitan's production of, “Janice Meredith. Friday, “Flaming Forties,” featuring and Bobby Vernon, in Saturday, Helene Chad- “Trouping With .Ellen” “Our Gang,” in “Jubile, Jr.” amd ia- stallment 4 of “Galloping Hoofs."” Central—"The Flaming Forties.” “The Flaming Forties,” a film ver- sion of Bret Harte's famous story of “Tennessee’s Pardner,” will be shown today and tomorrow at Crandall's Theater, with Harry Carey in the stellar role; the tenth releass in Jack Dempsey's “Fight and Win” serles, Earl Hurd's cartoon comedy, - “The Sawmill Fou: with pipe organ ac- companiment; Tuesday and Wednes- day, Vitagraph's picture of Rafael Sabatini's romantic .tale of “Captain Blood,” and an Aesop fable, “A Game Pup”; Thursday and Friday, Eleanor Boardman and Raymond MeKee, in “The Silent Accuser,” with Petar the Great, the police dog, as the star, and Bobby Vernon, in “High Gear”:; Sat- urday, John Gilbert and Norma Shearer, in Monta Bell's production of “The Snob,” and Harry. Langdon, in Mack Sennett's comedy, “The Luck of the Foolish.” Lincoln—"He Who Gets Slapped.” . “He Who Gets Slapped,” the tragedy of'a clown, adapted from the famous play by Leonid Andreyev, and directed by Victor Seastrom a&s.a Metro spe- cial, will be presented at the Lincoln Theater the first three days of the present week, beginning this after- noon, with Lon Chaney, Norma Shear- " (Continued gn Fourth Paged Magic in the Movies. OTTION pictura fans have become 80 accustomed to hearing the in- nermost secrets of the movies brought out and discussed in the newspapers that it must be something of a shock to. suddenly discover that, all of a sudden, the men who make photo- playvs not telling their secrets any longer. Of course, one may hear from time to time of this or that trick employ- ed to make a blue-eyed actor photo- graph better, or how a director man- aged to make a ki n look sleepy but it is true, none the less, that the real magic of the screen is no longer being told to the public Several reasons are advanced for this sudden change in policy. Up to a little while ago the press agent was a privileged character in an studio, and mechanical tricks form ed the subject of many a story that found wide currency afterward Nowadays, however, the movies are going in for what is clearly tb thing to magic, an this too high-priced a commodi plain to the blic—and, erentia’ Iy competitors. Therefore the movie magician has come to the point where he specifically stipulates no publicity as a condition to the use of his maglc. The era of the movie magician has he next magic ¥y to ex Q¥NcE ipanese temple, a beautiful rved of Orjental craftsmanship appears Pola Negri's latest picture, “East of Suez,” as a fireplace. It a magnificent set constructed for this Raoul Walsh production and an exact duplication of a temple in Asia. The temple has been transformed by a wealthy Englishman into-a home for himself and the architects have taken advantage of many quaint designs in building to create modern necess ties out of anclent articles. an altar inaJ Edna Murphy, who has the part of Eleanor Ross-Fayne in Richard Dix's picture, “A Man Must Live,” which Paul Sloane directed, has appeared in Paramount pictures and also in other films, and recently had a role {n “The White Moth.” Lilltan h, filmdom's “comet,” passed a chlldhood free from theatrical atmosphere, although both her parents were players. She says: “My parents had a theory that I would do better on the stage if I were away trom it while I approached maturity. As a result I never was allowed near a theater until I was 14. Miss Rich was haled from obscurity to play the featured lead In “The Golden Bed,” Cecil B. De Mille's new picture. As incident in “One Way Street,” Anna Q. Nilsson and Ben Lyon, with whom she is co-featured; ascend the balcony of immortals a Romeo and Juliet. The scene is an innovation and is presented in an entirely modern setting. an Willlam Almon Wolff, novelist and short-story writer, who for several weeks has been observing picture- making at the Paramount Long Island studio, has been added to the staff of the company’s scenario department. Among his recent works is noveliza- tion of the Broadway play, “The Show-oft.” ——— T. Roy Barnes has arrived at the Paramount Long Island studio to play in Bebe Daniels’ next picture, “The Crowded Hour.” Other members ot the cast are Kenneth Harlan, Frank Morgan and Helen Lee Worth- ing. Mary Brian, who played the role of Wendy In “Peter Pan" for Paramount, has been signed to a long-term con- tract, according io announcement by Jesss L. Lasky. Neil Hamilton, last sesn in D. W. Grifith's “Isn’t Life Wonderful?” and now appearing {n Willlam De Mille's production, “Meh and Women,” is con- sidered an expert on Ford troubles and is often called upon to help in an emergency. Hamilton worked in the Detroit plant some vears ago and owns one of the flivvers. With Ricardo Cortez In the title role, production has started on “The Spanfard” at the Famous Players' Hollywood studio. Jetta Goudal will play the feminine lead. Noah Beery has an {important characterization. Raoul Walsh, who directed Pola Negri in “East of Sue: is the producer. “The Spaniard” was adapted by J. T. O'Donohoe from a British novel. Many of the biggest scenes in “The Alr Mail” will be shot at Reno, the Government co-operating in the use of the landing fleld and Government airplane hangars located there. Bil- lte Dove and Douglas Fairbanks, jr., are featured. Sidney Olcott will direct Pola Negri in “The Charmer,” an adaptation of Henry Baerlein's English novel, ‘Maripos: Miss Negri will play the role of a wild Spanish mountain girl who overnight becomes a world- famous dancer. ‘Miss Belle Bennett, who has a role in “Playing With Souls,” got the part purely through a bit of good luck. She had been playing in stock in San Franciseo and by chance happened to | aiv is a part of | newest | | arrived B it wi Ceeil 1 he enga Do Mille started Roy Pomeroy to de an {mitation Red Sea for the production of “The Ten Command- ments.” A little Jater Pomeroy was called on to make more magic for Paramount when “Peter Pan” went ito production, but the tricks where- by Peter Pan and the chiliren were wafted over the church steeple | the moonligh ned as deep and dark secre way Pomeroy divided Nor given rem as Red Sea the slightest public by Douglas Falr- banks as to the manner in which Douglas appearsd to climb a rope right up into the sky in “The Thief Bagdad,” nor by what means he was enabled to fly over the house- tops on the maglc carpet or to ride the winged horse to the court of the moon and bring back the magic chest of Nazir. In fact, 2 whole mine of fascinat- ing trickery has been kept completely in the dark about “The Thief of Bag- dad.” Certainly no picture has ever revealed tricks of lighting, photography and stage mechanics as ig story of ancient Bag- h was built by Mr. Fair- < the theory that whatever the mind of man can imagine, that thing already exists the th has the hint been being cast. She was offered the pa of the frivolous mother and gave up age cngagement to take it. She s glad she followed the “hunch,” for her work in picture is proving suc- cessful. Buster Collier, who “Playing With “doubles" t Hoge, 4, plays Buster at that age and Don Marion at 12 years. Both children are said to bear a remarkable resemblance to Buster, so appears in Souls,” needed two picture. Helen The Rialto has established an ushers’ school, where the boys en- gaged for work at that playhouse as ushers must attend before being allowed to go on the floor to handls the public. It is the policy of the playhouse to offer tha best in service, and since the ushers are the only persons who come in direct contact with patrons it is necessary that this branch of the service be given especial attention Inasmuch as “The Gooss Woman" has a very Intricate crime complex, Universal has engaged Charles Furth- man, former assistant district attor- ney of Chicago, to confer with Mel- ville Brown, scenarist, and Clarence Brown, direotor, in the preparation of the story. The latter is now work- Ing on a Los Angeles newspaper to obtain first hand local color. Loulss {;rosspr is the first star engaged for e cast. Willlam Desmond will make a new chapter play under the direction of Henry McRae, entitled “The Ace of Spades.” The cast includes Mary MoAllister, Albert J. Smith, Cathleen Calhoun, Jack Pratt and Willlam Steel. Universal has purchased through Fred Boeck, European anfmal expert, what is claimed to be the only full grown gorilla in captivity. The big ape is on the way from Johannes- burg, South Africa, and will be used in Edward Sedgewick's productfon, “Lorraine of the Lions,” after which it will be the prize exhibit of the Universal City Zoo. Golf, mah-jong, bridge, swimming and every other diversion heretofors popular ‘among the film folks in Hollywood are in the discard. The screen folk have taken to treasurs hunting, the English game, which they acclalm the most thrilling sport of the century. Lois Weber, the most famous wom- an director in the world, is back at Universal City. M Weber won her first great succes with Universal. Untl Mr. Laemmie returns to Univer- sal City in a few weeks, Miss Weber will act as script supervisor, Camera work on Samuel Hopkins Adams’ story, “Siege,” {s near com- pletion. Virginia Valli {s starred, with FEugene O'Brien, Mary Alden, Marc McDermott and Helen Dunbar the cast. Rupert Jullan, the director, and threa expert cutters are reducing the footage of “The Phantom of tha Opera” to working proportfons. Owing to the number of cameras used on many of the blg scenes, the work of selecting the most effective shots will take several weeks. Mrs. Winifred Reeve, the new story editor for Universal in New York City, is the author of “Cattle,” one of this year's best sellers, and under the name of Onoto Watanna wrote a number of Japanese stories, which were very popular about ten years ago. The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, the backfield of the world’s greatest foot ball team, visited the star of “The Four Horsemen,” at the United Studios in Hollywood the day after they had plowed through the Stanford line. Coach Rockne led his whols team onto the set and introduced each one of them to Rudolph Valentino and be on the lot when the piciurg was (Continued on Fourth Page.)