The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 12, 1921, Page 3

Corinne Griffith in ™ jarket M—Mikdred Harris tn Woman tn His " STRAN arnt COLONTAL—Ralph Highest Law.” REX—James Oliver Carweod's mads of the North, RTY i Cart Milter ina Purviance Tharies Chaplin Tom Wilson e Tramp Policeman HE KID.” Charlie most ambitious production Which has caused more discussion than any other feature picture that has ever been marketed, ts at the Liberty “The Kid” is a six reel feature. The pening scene shows a tiny baby abandoned by its unfortunate moth er. Chartie adopts the infant their attachment is a real one, which @evelops as the child grows older Chaplin's to his young charge in table etiquette, ete, furnish Ro end of hilarity Little Jack Coogin, who ts the son @f George Beban, the p Italian @ctor, appears as “The Ki ee CLEMMER pret oe: ST “THE WHISPER MARKET" (Vitagraph> inte North bi fl North Chaplin's lessons rtnne Griffith orge ¥ Pd corge MoQua - dames O'Neil Corinne Griffith does some of the > finest acting of her screen career in “The Whisper Market.” the film play ‘ at the Ci As ol wife of the American § @onsul at Rio De Janeiro, she gives a Wigorous, sympathetic portrayal of a | Teal woman, moved by womanly emo- tions, who fights bravely to help her Thusband and unwittingly falls into the toils of a band of international Dlackmailers. It ts a story 6¢ mystery and ad Fenture, involving the goFernments @ two continents, and the woman is the center abour which it revolves. eee — STRAND | TRUTH ABOUT HUSBANDS” (First National) * Anna Lehr -.-H. B Herbert -Elizabeth Garrison ~May McAvoy (“The Truth About Husbands,” pereen version of Pinero's stage play, “The Profligate,” is now showing at Strand. theme, which is something , has to do with a young married living happily together until |) @stranged by revelation of misdeeds ing marriage, in this case, on part of the husband. | May McAvoy plays the role of the wife who has nourished very and beautiful ideals of mar ho idealized her husband and found that he wasn’t the man thought he was. eee COLISEUM | WOMAN IN HIS HOUSE” tional) Mildred Harris + Ramsey Wallace ‘Thomas Holding George Fisher Harris is featured in “The loman in His House,” the photo now at the Coliseum. Miss Harris appears as Hilda Em- jane the attractive young wife of ominent physician. and| "| Paula de Venna Erminie ; vice | 8 dustry } 2 Corinne Griffith, Clemmer. Mrs. J. H.—The best for your purpdses is the }ture Studio Dir ne | Motion Pictuge News, jenth ave., New York -. | | | “Moth pul Inc, n Pio: | hed by } 729 Sev | Jullan Ettinge ts| in vaudeville at present, but I am sure he will return to the again. His permanent ad is care of Fred J. Balshofer, Hollywood, Cal. If the scenario is one suitable for Mr, Eltinge, I should say send it to him direct. Aa, of course, you know, Mr, Eltinge is a very wonderful female impersonator oee | quite | | } | Marion H.—Wallace Reid haa a vely bungalow in Hollywood, but his maf} reaches huge proportions | he has it addressed to the Lasky Stu-| | dio, Hollywood, | send their photos when request is ac | companted by a quarter. Wally 4 . . M R &S-—-Antonio Moreno was born in Madrid, in 1888, He ts one of | the bachelor stars of the screen Wallace Reid i# married to Dorothy Davenport and has two lovely chil dren. eee Alice—William ‘Parnum has no | children of his own, but he and his| | charming wife have adopted a little | | girl, He haa letters addressed to him | |at the Fox Film Corporation, New | York city. No trouble at all; only too | | pleased to be able to answer your questions. A * Reciprocity | A reciprocal distribution of Amert lean and European photoplays ts the |newest development in the present reorganization of the film industry Eugene Zukor, assistant treasurer jof Famous Playrs-Lasky corpora:| | tion, is on the way to Europe to treat with foreign movie producers. “t shall assure European pro | ducers that America is not trying to | |monopolize the motion picture in thruout the world,” Zukor. “I shal try to combat the preju- dice that has sprung up in some European quarters against American films. | Scene from “The Highest Lat publication } 2 Colonial. 6 Ramsey Wallace and Mildred Harris, Scene from “The Truth About Husbands,” Strand, es | Woman Direct or’s Success Is Due to Study of Women fost of the stara do | Lois Weber, who does everything from writing to produc- ing. Her plays have feminine appeal. O18 WEBBER foremost tor— She's the whole works! She writes her own plays. them for the screen. Selects the cast. Directs the players. Super vises cameramen. Provides light mysying effects. Her rise was along no primrose path. She was born in Pittsburg. Be gan her career as concert singer. Married Philip Smatiey, an attorney. | | “I believe this prejudice is caused |by reports that America waa un friendly toward the distribution of | foreign filma in the United States. “To ‘obtain the best market for American films thruout Europe, | Believing |we should assure Earopeans that|a full-fledged director. |the movies, he as director, He quit law and played port of Mrs, Fiske Then husband and wife went tnto he ax in sup actress She became his assistant Went Then out | if cruelly neglected, Hilda car-jany picture up to our standards will|on the lot and in the studio with on a mild flirtation with Bob ingston, a male “butterfly.” Hus- d and wife are: growing further when the sudden illness of sir little son brings them together in. Realizing they have both been the wrong, they resolve to make a a eee COLONIAL |} “THE HIGHEST LAW” (Selaniek) Abraham Linco!n Bobby Goodwin Mrs. Goodwin ‘The Giri Ralph Ince both directed aed play- ~-Aleon Burr @d the leading role in “The Highest | Law,” the Colonial film play attrac- tion. ‘The story deals with the love of Young Bobby Goodwin for his mother. He had promised his elder brothers to take care of her and had kept his ‘word until one day he was prevented by circumstances beyond his control order to keep his vows he disre- 4% all man-made laws and makes his way to the little gray-haired old lady. How he Is saved from disgrace brings the story to a dramatic and pleasing climax. “NOMADS OF THE NORTH” (First National) Manette Rowiand.... Betty Blythe Raoul Challoner. .-+ Lan Chaney Corporal O'Conner Lewis & Stone “Buck” McDougall...Francis MacDonald In God's great wilderness 1,500 Miles north and west of Montreal, the action of James Oliver Curwood’s splendid drama, “Nomads of the North,” ts laid nette Roland, the heroine, ts Played by Betty Blythe. Miss Blythe Will be remembered for her clever acting with Lon Chaney in “The Pen- alty.”. Mr. Chaney also appears in thin Curwood story, but this time he is the hero instead of the villain A big storm and a spectacular for- fire are features of the produc- tion, which is now showing at the Rex. Elsie Ferguson will appear in a Picture of the Arnold Bennett play, “Bacred and Profane Love.” “The Nut,” which Doug Fairbanks 4 working on ngw, he wrote himself, jhave a fair | States, field in the United) to any foreign producer who gives our public the sort of amusement it wants” SCOTT COMPLETES NEW SCREEN STORY | | | Leroy Scott has completed his first original screen story and it is to be | put into production early in the year at the Goldwyn studios. It bears the title of “The Night Rose” and iy a tale of the New York underworld, which its author knows so well, and has in the past written about sd en- | tertainingty. Mr. Scott coMaborated with Arthur Statter in preparing the continu- ity of “The Night Rose.” Leatrice Joy has been selected to play the leading feminine role, She will soon |be thru acting the lead in Gouver neur Morris’ original screen story, “A Tale of Two Worlds.” Wallace Worsley will direct the picture. |RIVAL BEAUTIES IN COMEDY PICTURE Rival Broadway bequties have the | principal female roles in “Torchy's | Night Hood,” a new two-reel comedy from the stories by Sewell Ford, re- leased by Educational, Incidentally, ‘these furnish a comparison between | English and American types of beau ties. Dorothy Leeds, who plays the leloping girl, is said to be the highest | priced show girl on mdway, and | Dorothy Mackaill iy an English girl who, strangely enough, has been | picked as an ideal type of the Ameri Jean maiden, She is in the “Midnight Follies.” POPULAR ACTRESS” STARTS ON TOUR | Fay Tincher hag just started on tour of the country which will occu | py two months. Miss Tincher has | prepared a monolog all of her own, telling the way pictures are made. | | a “America will give a fair showing | megaphone in band. her suceemes are “The ortici,” “Where Are UNIVERSAL PICTURE Eva Novak will divide title role honors in her next picture with a| Saturday Evening Post story, trained goose, “Pussyfoo and the pee,” hee forthcoming Uni vernal feature by Emma Bell Clifton, is a-serio-comic story of a show girl who travels the road~of adversity accompanied by a trick goose, GOLDWYN TO FILM “THE OLD NEST” Rupert Hughes, author, is rapidly busiest man on the tinent. His latest job is that torian of the Robert Stowe ¢ st, American Legion, composed of authors and actors. Mr. Hughes, in addition to writing novels, is also writing original photoplays and adapting his published books to the screen. He is now at work on the sereen version of “The Old Nest,” which will be his next work to go into film production. becoming the western con- of his 1 ALICE JOYCE IN is not only the|bands Only,” “When a Girl Loves,” woman movie direc | and Adapts | ‘or Hus-| trying to learn what joldwyn eminent | “Borrowed Clothes.” | BECOMES | WEALTHY She became rich. Then she start ed her own company. In her own studio she produced “To Please One Woman,” “What) Do Men Want? and “Married| Strangers.” She erected a club jhouse and butlt a tennis court for \the recreation of her playerse be-| tween sets, | | word spells the success of | this woman—Women, Miss Weber studies women. Her | photoplays are cross-sections of a} woman's oul. They have a femi- |nine touch lacking in most man- made filma. She was asked what men really want. This was her answer: “Woman never knows entirely what man wants. He doesn't know | himeelf. Woman's greatest art is| he wants.” One ITUCKER STARTS ON NEW PRODUCTION | -Allce Duer Miller, author of the adie | “The Girl| Must Live,” which Ras been drama- | tixed for the screen by George Loane Tucker of “Miracle Man” fame, has arrived in Low Angeles in order tc confer with Mr, Tucker regarding | |the forthcoming presentation of | |"Ladies Must Live A great deal | of interest attaches to Mr. Tucker's | latest photoplay, inasmuch as it is! the first he bas produced. since the | astounding success of “The Miracle Man.” |POPULAR ACTOR IN “THE CO-RESPONDENT’ Perey Marmont, recently seen as the hero of “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” is playing opposite Corinn’ Griffith in “The Co-R@pondent.” | The company is now filming a dream | | scene of vast spaces, beflowered pil jlars and iridisce fountains, in| | which the heroine pictures the sweet- | heart who is yet to come, And Mar. mont lives up to the dream! t DIFFICULT ROLE|GEORGE ARLISS TO Allee Joyce presenta two separate personalities in “Her Lord and Mas or,” her forthcoming Vitagraph pro. duction. In the early scenes she la a well-educs Middle West, full of the joy of living; | brated in the later scenes she is the typ! English girl, demure, gelf-constrained and acknowledging her husband as “her lord and master.” The chang in personality is gradyal and is mirably enacted by Miss Joyce, CAREY ENLISTS ‘AID OF ARMY OFFICERS) |ing plays have not been released to| Maj. Kenneth Marr, of the Lafay Ni illustrate this with “A | | Siren.” Miss Tincher started | | work under D. W. Griffith, ing a} vampire role “T must have been so bad that I was fann she explains lit, for Griffith transferred her to such roles, and ie hy been for more than five Gebrge Arliss is supported in Devil,” his first screen play, b: wife, She v in comed | | he | produc ette Escadrille, is assisting in the production of Harry Carey's com ing feature, “verybody for Him self,” Jack Word, directing Carey, has gathered a company of former army officers to aid in making the Among the veterans Ford Charles Capt roll Mac- Lieut. 8. Luce jon Anderson, Donald and isting are J Harry |nay, all U. & Ay ed, vivacious girl of the| Screen, and George Arliss, the cele- | | | ducers, it goos wi APPEAR ON SCREEN! | Franz Molnar‘’s famous play, “The | Devil,” has been secured for the wlish actor, who interpret-| ed the title role of the piece In Amer: | in 1908-1909, hag consented to re t in the pictured story ‘Phe film will be presented by, Associ ed Exhibitors, Inc., thru Pathe his ig in itself a sensational ploee | of news, Mr. Arliss, with David War- | field and Maude Adams, has long| held out against the lure of the ma, and for that reason many strik: | the public via the sereen, secured Mr, Arliss, the movie pro- | nout saying, have spared no paing or ¢ to aur round him with a lavish and costly | production. pense Jack Holt, Conrad 1 and Tois| Wilson head the cast of “The Lost! Romance,” written by Hdward Knob- jock and directed by William De Millie, Joliseum, | added to Goldwyn forces clure Patter Most of the sunsets you see in movies are taken In California, even tho the scenes of the play are in New York or Nova Scotia, Dorothy Dickson, musical comedy star, bas leading part in “Paying the Piper.” Fitzmaurice made it in New York #0 she wouldn't have to leave Broadway, . We've waited ever since the Vol- stead law passed for a strictly dry comic. Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran are making it now. It’s called “Boot- legging.” . Anxia Yexierska is latest writer “vungry Hearts” is a symposium of her mag azine short stories, ee Fire did $5,000 damage to Harry Carey's ranch house. .. Tom Forman, considered by many an real star of Arbuckle’s “The Round-Up,” is now directing Tom Meighan in “White and Unmarried.” | j |opera and vaudeville as well as on A “blimp” was used by Mardhal! Netlan to photograph “Bob Hampton of Placer.” eee Houre Peters will have the leading role in “The ADL” Irene Rich will play opposite. eee Norma Talmadge made her debut in “A Tale of Two Cities.” She rodo in & cart with Maurice Costello, principles, by one Dr. Sellers tn 1861. eee Clear taffy was used for window glans in a net at Universal City. Reason: Fellow who had to leap thru window didn’t want to cut him Henceforth, at ” n HERE YOU HAVE IT Phogto. Pigalo. Pallogin. ‘alogto, Connie ‘Talmadge’s new name has been spelled al} four ways in the press, We have a straight tip the last is correct, | p ASE eae LIBERTY NEWS. SHOWS “FLYING” COWBOY Included in the Herberg News, to be shown at the Liberty Saturday, will be intimate pictures of Ivan J, Villers, the flying cowboy, in his efforts to establish a new world’s record parachute jump over Seattle; one | moet expensive her ba ment to Philadelphia for the Brent | wood sale in Murch, and the Jen's Athletic department of the Uni versity of Washington doing work with the coeds along the lines of | "Keep Fit" week of February 13 to 19. Holstein cows and TRULY SHATTUCK Truly Shattuck, known in comic | the screen, ix enacting the leading feminine part in “The Money Mas- ter,” Sir Gilbert Parker's photoplay which George Malford ts producing for Paramount. PATTULD TO WRITE ARBUCKLE FEATURE George Pattulo, whose short | stories have often appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, will collabo- | rate with Walter Woods in the writ- ing of a new feature comedy for his recently published stories. HOBBIES: Betty Compton, ing; Gladys Walton, tinkering ‘with auto engine; Eva Novak, highbrow plano staff; Elinor Fair, making salad dress new Jensen-Von | of Washington's | f ready for express ahip- | | Roscoe Arbuckle, based on some of | Katherine Agnew MacDonald Miss MacDonald was born in Pitts burg, fucated at ‘ville, college. hag brown ‘and blue eyes, is f 8 inches tall, and weighs pounds, Be movie Arteraft Film Co. and later signed a jong-term contract with First Nation- al, She is now working on her ninth starring vehicle, under the banner | | She hair n 1 Wom,| Which is titled “Stranger Than Fic-| tion.” Miss MacDonald ts not married. She has one sister, Mary McLaren, who also ig in the movies. DIRECTORS TO BUILD $200,000 CLUBHOUSE Plans for a $200,000 movie lodge of modern Spanish architecture became known in Hollywood this week when articles of incorporation were filed for the Motion Picture Directors’ Building corporation. The corporation grew out of the Motion Picture Directors’ associa- tion, which is headed by Reginald Barker. The seven trustees of the |ansociation—Reginald Barker, Will jiam D. Taylor, Frank Lioyd, Will jfam Duncan, Ben Wilson, Joseph De ramse' and Thomas Ricketts—are named-im the charter as corporation directors. An elegantly appointed cafe will be one feature of the building, which will provide meeting facitities for cinematographers, assistant direct- ors, art directors, screen writers and publicity men as well as for directors. and ed-| ‘cer with ‘omads of the North,” Rex. 4—Charlie Chaplin and Jack Coogin, Liberty. 5—George Howar® s | tar and Players in Big Landslide — Seena Owen, who has the leading: | role in “T! Woman God | her director, Robert G. Vignola, and | tec! “) staff narrowly escaped | death in the Bahamas, according ta advices received by her friends im | | Los Angeles recently, The mishap occurred near Nassau, They were working on a cliff 200 feet high when the ground be gan giving away and they were ie ried down with ‘the sliding ae: into the ocean. Mr. Vignola, who is” an expert swimmer, rescued Owen, who insisted on n, with the day's work in spite ef shock. Native divers recovered the cameras. ‘Those who participated in this expected ducking in the ocean, dition to Miss Owen and Mr, Vigmolias were E. K. Lincoln, Phil Carle, aa oe a sistants to Mr. Vignola, and members of the te@nical MISS COMPSON IS, CLEVER VIOLINIS! Betty Compson, who, at one the same time, became a motion ture star and an act 0 is an accomplished violinist. began studying before she had |playing with dolls and when 4 [14 played in the orchestra of @ theatre in Salt Lake City. ah; Now that Miss Compson only @ etar but the*actual head of Betty Compson Productions, she just about as busy as any woman could possibly be, but she finds time to play her She says it is the best she knows and when she is it never fails to rest her. HOUSE PETERS House Peters has been chesen. the leading role in “The Alibi,’ Charles Kenyon. Irene Rich will opposite Mr. Peters De Witt nings and Sidney Ainsworth have important parts. Frank will direct this Goldwyn p 0s this theatre, evening préces will prevail all on the WURLITZER “HALLELUJAH é CHORUS” from the Messiah” .. Handel “CANZONETTA” — “THE FIREFLY ”— Selection ... Friml Concert 1:30 Sunday — PATHE NEWS x. “Vata ne A First National, Special Attraction of a man, the house he builds for the girl who becomes his wife and—the girl, beautiful and true until temptation creates this wonderful drama! COLISEUM CONCERT ORCHESTRA 34 artists under Arthur Kay, playing ‘tdon—Lauders “Prince of Pilsen,” Selec A LIVELY COMEDY CHESTER OUTING SCENIC “MAD HATTERS”