The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 22, 1921, Page 1

GARDEN—D. W, Gritntn's Stret.” MOUSH — Betty Blythe ta Sheba,” second week. Mart im “Three — George Arliss t “Die { Washbara te — M William Fairbanks in “Men- uu } George Artise George Arliss - Loutse Hutt Reginald Denny ARLISS, the famous P , is now at the Strand in sen version of his wonderful stage - “Disraeli”. The story is well known to the theatre- At revolves about the | Angeles girl, and is best known for | i i} i H #34 t j ar. jen de Neville Christine Mayo man of good family, who disappointed in love, and Gesires to disgrace himself, is us role Bryant Washburn ip “An Amateur Devil,” the iy comedy which tops the at the Colonial, starting to- REX «“MONTAN. ¢ Robert Kortman Ernest Van Pelt & husky young cowpuncher Be the love of the pretty daughter Prominent ranch owner is re- min “Montana Bill,” the new drama which is now being mat the Rex. Fairbanks plays the title oi! DIRECTING D HARRIS he DeMille will direct Mildred in "Mies Lulu Betts,” a screen wm of Zona Gale's prize play, 2 Was produced last season on Petiiction of the picture will be- Once tn the Lasky studio, 1—William S. Hart, Coliseum. 2—Betty Blythe, Blue Mouse. Clemmer. |Los Angeles May Lose Film Producing Industry sociated First National Pictures, Inc) Wanderer—Fiorence Vidor is a) Southern girl, Houston, Texas, being the place of her birth. Her first success came in the role of Mimi; in “The Tale of Two Cities,” with ‘Wiliam Farnum. She has brown) hair and eyes and is the wife of | King Vidor, the director. } Pierre—Fay Baintor has never been in pictures. She is a Low her roles in light comedy. Rex Beach ts filming his; firat picture, The working title is! “The Iron Trail.” The cast includes | Wyndiram Standing, Alma Tell, Het- ty Carpenter, Reginald Denny, Bula- lie Jensen and Harlan Knight. Jenny Lind—You are mistaken about the mothers in the two pic: tures, It was Mary Alden and not Mary Carr who played the mother in “The Old Nest.” Mary Carr was the mother in “Over the Hill.” Oriental—Gareth Hughes ts not You are thinking of an- other Hughes who is married. Gar. Los Angeles, known as the ‘film city of the world due to the fact that over 76 per cent of the American movies are produced there, may lose millions of dollars yearly, if it adopts Jocal eensorship, . An indication of the determina- tion on the part of the big movie producers to move elsewhere should censorship become effective, was disclosed by Marvhal Neilan, promi- nent producer, who has held up the building of 4 three-quarters of a mil- Hon dollar .producing¢plant pending the decision on the question of cen- sorship of films shown in Los An- geles movie theatres. Mr. Neilan some months ago pur- chased a large parcel of land in Los Angeles for the purpose of building @ gigantic studio accomnpdating five big producing companies. In POPULAR STARS IN “LITTLE MINISTER” Vitagraph has started to fitm “The Lite Minister,” with Alice Calhoun in the title role. Famous Players Lasky has about completed a film version of the same play with Betty Compson, directed by Penrhyn Stan- long screen in preference very weak stories which dominated. HENRY CLIVE SIGNS WITH PARAMOUNT Henry Clive, famous painter and illustrator, whose portraits of Wal- are to be exhibited next fall ina New York art guilery, has signed a year’s contract to do posters for Paramount pictures, EDWARD STEVENS Edward Stevens, the owner of the the Great White Way 15 continuous years, seven of which were with Charles Frohman, Billy Bevan and Mildred June are featured in the next Sennett com- edy, “Be Reasonable.” ‘Will Rogers has started work on “Ek,” a comedy for Paramount. this new plant Mr. Neilan planned to double his own output and affill- ate with various other producers in & cooperative plan calling for the interchange of stars, directors and laboratory experts, HALTS STUDIO ACTIVITIES Upon returning from a trip to New York where he perfected finan: | celal arrangements for the project, Mr. Nellan finding the censorship) jsituation threatening Low Angeles, | a ae a halt to all activities which were in charge of John Jasper, well known bullder of studios in Los An- geles and San Francisco, and owner of the big Hollywood Studios at the foot of the Santa Monica mountains. The Eastern capita) that would be imported and spent in Los Angeles as & result of the new Neilan project would approximate $5,000,000 yearly. Over 500 actors, stars, directors, carpenters, electricians, laborers, me- chanics and other studio men would find employment in this plant. Marshall Neilan is recognized as one of the most consistent producers of big successes in the motion pic- ture world. Among the pictures he has made during the past eight years in Los Angeles are such world. wide successes as “Bob Hampton of “The River's End,” “Go and Get It, “Don’t Ever Marry.” “Daddy Long 3—William Fairbanks, R 8—Ralph Graves and Carol Dempster, Winter Garden. | ’ ex. 4—Bryant Washburn, Colonial, 5—Scene from “Disrael i,” cture Patter | “Bebe” is not Bebe Daniels’ screen | name, She was christened that way. eee Donald Crisp has completed “The Bonnie, Brier Bush,” filmed in Scot- land. ; eee Cullen Landis ts to have the lead ing role in “Where Is My Wandering Boy?" eee Wanda Hawiey ts making “The Love Charm.” “Cry Baby” will be her next, eee “The Herijage of Dedlow Marsh” | is being adapted as a picture for Con- stance Binney. od cee Eric Von Stroheim gets bills for chickens, cats and rabbits killed by his two Rusisan wolf hounds, One lady wants $4 because the dogs ve ge @ squirrel tail from a new eee “Footfalls,” featuring Tyrone Pow- or, is released, cee “What Fools Women Aref That's | the title of a new picture, eee Beasie Love studies dancing to en- tertain when she makea personal appearances, eee Virginia Valli is to play opposite Legs.” “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” and’ “Amarilly of Clothes line Alley”—the last three pictures starring Mary Pickford. He in at prefent producing “Penrod” with Wesley Rarry. Mr, Nellan is affitiated with As sociated First National Pictures, who distribute his product and which organization controle over 000 theatres throughout the coun. try and supplies @ service to 10,000 other theatres. Other producers are determined to take similar steps should the pro- pored censorship law become effect- tve, including the Metro Pictures Corporation, which has announced that it would discontinue all future production pending the outcome of the battle. FLORIDA BIDS FOR FILM STUDIOS Los Angeles proposed a city cen- sorship on filma. The movie pro- ducers, whose weekly payrolls in Los Angeles total $500,000, let out one long yell. Florida heard that yell and now cities of that state are bidding for movie studios, One studio is now located at Miami. Marshall Neilan made one pieture, “The Hidden Paradise,” in Florida. He recently received an offer from business men of Miami to bring his entire producing plant there. And the offer includes the possibil- ity of a municipal studio. LIBERTY NEWS Some features of the Liberty News to open at the Liberty on Sat- urday morning will be the horseback events held at the Speedway at In- terlaken by Seattle's society. The most interesting are the paper chase and the jumping. Another item will be the football game between Broadway High and West Seattle High at Denny Field. PICTURES IN . PUBLIC SCHOOLS ‘The city fathers of Sain-Htainae, France, have decided to introduce the cinema ag a pructical means of in- struction in all the public schools. To this end they have voted a pre- liminary sum of 30,000 francs for the ma- ing the all-star cast. It is an odd and most dramatic story of Chinese mys- tery and revenge, interwoven with the clean life of the great North- west. MARJORIE DAW WITH UNIVERSAL Marjorie Daw, the pretty little | ‘actress who has been seem in sev- eral Marshal Nellan pictures, is now with Universal. Little Miss Daw is to play opposite Herbert Rawlinson | in a new picture now underway, | GLORIA FONDA Gloria Fonda, Seattle actress, who recently returned from the Orient with the T. Daniel Frawley com-, pany, |» in Los Angeles, Miss Fon-; som % reenter pictures, This is the latest photograph of Mary Pickford. It shoud raged pete her with Mary, Jr., her little niece, the daughter of Lottie Pickford. Mary, Jr., makes her first salaried screen appear- ance with Aunt Mary in “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” soon to be shown here. Wallace Reid and Lester Cuneo are close friends and can be seen daily disportnig in Wally’s swimming pool at his Beverly Hills home, Bert Lytell again. This Right 2 tme in “The eee After James Young completes “Texas Steer," he is to direct the, Making of screen versions of Rich- ard Walton Tully’s stage sucesses, eee Pauline Starke ts to pla; Thomas Molghan tn “If You Believe too! Overture—‘“Patri” Jackie Coogan Helps Kiddies Jackie Coogan is sending Mme. Paderewski his first check, made up from money received from ardent | fans requesting his autographed) photograph. Jackle arranged to give the ex-Polish premier's wife all his) “fan letter’” money, which madame in turn will use to assixt the starv- ing kiddies in faraway Poland. FRENCHMAN WRITES SPECIAL ART TITLES Paul Iribe, famous French artist and art director for Cecil B, DeMille, is now at work on a series of special art titles for the latest DeMille pro-| duction, ‘Fools’ Paradise.” When Mr. Iribe finisher this work the pro- duction, which was adapted by Beu- lah Marie Dix and Sada Cowan from Leonard Merrick'’s novel, “The | Laurels and the Lady,” will be prac Mealy completed and ready fof acreening. ETHEL CLAYTON IN “EXIT THE VAMP” Ethel Clayton has completed “Exit the Vamp,” from Clara Beranger’s original story, which she has been making at the Paramount studio un- der the direction of Frank Urson. In @ week or ten days she will start work on “The Cradle,” an adaptation of the stage play from the French of Eugene Brieux. The continuity is by Olga Printzlau and Thompson Buchanan will supervise the produc juon. —with Jane Novak The tale of a silent fighter of the plains, who meets Indians, ruffians agd politicians in some of the most thrilling fights ever screened! COLISEUM CONCERT ORCHESTRA Program Sunday—12:30 P. M. Selections From see Soprano Solo—“My Heart “Samson and Delilah”... MRS. JAMES TY! “March of tho Tin The Pinto pony is in it, This program subject to change without further notice 7—Nazimova, Mother Acts as * Picture Censor ‘There is at least one censor in Los Angeles who is in high favor with two movie producers. Not only is she a film censor, but she still her boys’ actions, despite their 28 and 40 years. She is Mrs. C. A. Christie, mother of Al and Charley Christie, comedy producers, and the idol of ber two tion to ig my mother,” says Al Chris “And she’s the hardest censor or hamlet in Christendom. What pleases her, we know will please every mother in the land, and she don’t need to worry about a few ‘reformers’ who want to condemn