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Barrie Refuses $ Little .Minister, BEHIND ‘THE SCREEN “Close-Up” News and Views of Film- 4” land and Its People. ,000 for Screen Rights to “The Which Was Sought for Mrs. Chaplin—James J. Corbett to be Seen in “The . Prince of Avenue A”—Remarkable Child-Actress| in Helen Keller’s Play Roberts. Is Daughter of Florence BY JULIAN JOHNSO ILDRED HARRIS CHAPLIN is returning to work, In Los Angeles, during the coming week, Her first story will be an adaptation of Eleanor, Hallowell Abbott's noved, “Old Dad.” A new title is being sought. Waldemar Young, a former made the adaptation and Joveph Henaberry, form director, will be Mrs. Chaplin's conductor, San Francisco newspaper man, has ly Douglas Fairbanks's They're not going to hurry the Picture. The principal scenes will not be flmed until October, and Nov. 1 will probably arrive before the film is finished, And, this time, how docs Charlie look upon his wife's stellar activities? He is said to be still opposed to her following a professional career, but his opposition confines itself to the expression of his preference in the matter. Moantlme I hear that Louis B. Mayer, Mrs. Chaplin's producer, was after ; much bigger material for his diminutive celobrity’s re-entry to the cellulolds. | ‘The piece he wanted her to come back in was nothing less than J. M. Barrie's | “Little Minister,” and he cabled the Stotchman an offer of $50,000, It was | refused. Barrie has always been wary about putting his Ahings into the cinema, @raillaume Fox knocked a hornet’ mest off thé exhibitorial tree when his Press agents announced that “Kath- len Mavourneen,” now playing at the 44th Street Theatre, was taken from “Tom Moore's famous poem.” So much for well meant error—and then, aceerding to veracious report, a sharp rejoinder from the Goldwyn camp: “If Tom Moore writes any- thing for anybody, it'll be for us. We hold an exclusive contract with him.” Ma@ith Storey, the former Vita-/ grapher who has been in war work for a year and a half, will leave for the Coast and the Robertson-Cole studio early next week. Miss Storey’s was the most conspicuous and long- eat enduring departure from film ac- tivity during the conflict. Hers too was wholly a patriotic service, as she was in Ambflance, Red Cross and ‘Motor Transport service on this side of the Atlantic, where the toll was @s arduous and the service as great, Bo doubt, but without any chance of abundant press notices and no prob- able emoluments to pride in the way of desorations, James J. Corbett's feature photo- Play, to follow hie serial, has been @ matter of considerable speculation. In all probability it will be an original story called “The Prince of Avenue A.""and the unique feature of its writing and purchase is that it was writeen by the scenario editor of an/ entiyely different concern than that whieh employs the former champion. | Corbett is under contract to Uni- versal, but bis new piece was written as independent undertaking by Selanick's so~oario editor, Frank T.{ Dazey. Frank Dazey—a ‘Lieutenant | with the overseas American forces last year—is the sva of Charles T. Dazey, veteran dramatist and author of “In Old Kentucky. Monday next is the Goldwyn Company's second birthday, On Sept- 8, 1917, the first Goldwyn picture was released. It was “Polly of the Cir- cus,” with Mae Marsh in the title| role, and this picture was very soon followed by Madge Kennedy in “Baby ine.” Margery Daw, who came East to wet a rest and a vacation doing the shops and seeing the theatres, is leav- ing without having accomplished much that she set out to do. The theatres closed just as she arrived, and @ bad cold laid her low so that what shopping she did had to be sandwiched between sneezes. Margery, who will play her first big featured part in Marshall Nellan’s first inde- pendent production, “The Eternal Three,” from the novel “Bob Hamp- ton of Placer,” is anxious to get back t© the Hollywood she loves, and where her young brother, Chandler House, is moving the House household to little bungalow. There Margery will have a bird and ber brother will have a dog, and their childhood dreams will really come true. Etna Noss, the little girl whose re. markable performance in the Helen Keller sunplay, “Deliverance,” has done much to ‘make that picture a success, used to support Florence | Reberts in Denver, when the Elitchs} Garden had its summer season. You} see, Etha’s real name is Fiorence| Roberts, too, but the older actress re- | quested her’ to change it when little Sitma played child parts. Maurice Tourneur !s engaged in| picturizing ‘Treasure Island.” Great| news: For those of us, anyway, who| come to synonomize Tourneur | Pictures with the best in celluloid, | | EERE Hughes and Rex Beach, has had se eral of her literary children mal- treated in the movies, but this is her first personal attempt at picture pro- duction, Metro was the lucky—and highest- bidder for “Old Lady 31," a play which has been the hitherto elusive fish for picture producers’ bait. It was a legitimate success when Lee Kugel produced it at the 39th, Street Theatre. “Old Lady 8i" is the third play by Rachel Crothers to be put on the screen. “A Man’s World” served | Emily Stevens as a celluloid vehicle e ago, and “The Three of also been done. Marjorie Rambeau, it was an- nounced some time ago, was to make @ series of pictures for Albert C pellani. Now we hear that the Ram- beau subjects will be only one of the features of a new programme. Edgar Lewis will make a directorial come- back, producing four stories with all- star casts; Dolores Cassinelli will star in Edwin Carew's: productions and June Caprice will do a film or two— all under the management of Harry Cahans, James Oliver Curwood has affiliated himself with Louis .B. Mayer. Mayer, who has Anita Stewart and Mrs. Charles Chaplin under his managerial wing, has bought tweive of the Cur- wood stories and will put them into immediate production. Famous Players-Lasky ‘has ob- tained the screen rights to all of the plays of Oliver Morosco—the past, Present, and future dramatic output of the theatrical producer. “Cappy Ricks" will be the first of the Morosco plays to be translated into celluloid. Frank Losee, who has played fath- ers to most of the Paramount stars, and who used to chase Pauline Fred- erick through countless reels of gela- tine, has been placed under contract | for another year by Famous. William Carleton jr. who supported Elsie Ferguson in “A Society Exile,” has been signed dy the same company for the same period. Both will work in the East, Princess Mona Darkfeather, an In- dian girl who was a-picture promi- nence in the Kalem days, is to make a new eeries of one-reelers, She has been absent lo, these many months. “The Sacred Flame,” an Abraham Schomér offering, will serve to re- iAtroduce Emily Stevens to a screen following which she acquired in her Metro days, She will presumably follow this come-back with others. Supporting her are- Earle Schenck, Lionel Adams and Maude Hill, Elinor Field used to be the star in the Httle domestic comedies pro- duced by Al Christie, Now she has taken just a supporting role with Dorothy Phillips in Allan Holubar's latest Universal, “Ambition.” Emily (Vichester, the little giggling girl of the Dorothy Gish pictures, will also take part in “Ambition.” In fact Holubar seems to have robbed the younger Gish of some of fh players. Rudolf Valentine hi lured away, r best The American studios at Santa Rar- bara have taken on new life. lotte Walker is making a_ picture there, and she is assisted by such | well known leading men as Wheeler Oakman and Thomas though Santschi is known as a “heavy.” A best Santsch! perhaps Eugene O'Brien has been nt from the Selznick studios. fe suf- fered from an abscess in his ear, and was confined to his room at the Roy- alton, where he umierwent an eper- ation. Hey getting along all right- and he had finished “Sealed Hearts, been} Char-| aforesaid, is finely shown as to}/ technique. Ms a John Wallace Gillies shows some || beuutiful New York scenes in straigtt || | photography. } ever since he put “The Bluebird” into! #0 his releases will be in no way af- cans. Shirley Mason will be Jin fected. | Hawkins, the immortal boy hero, and | Sack Holt will return to character! Take, the Boston bull who has been parts when he plays Long John Silver, Fatty Arbuckle's so-star in a Ftear this will be a blow to his fem- | of comedies, has come Enst.” It is not inino following, which likes to see him) Luke's first trip, but this time he with a celluloid soul as white as his shirt front. Bull Montana, the pugilistic acting marvel, is cast as Morgan, aad Wallace Beery, once the husband uf Gloria Swanson, 1s Isracl Hands, — | Bushman-Bayne, as a film brand, is to be revived. The acting couple | are coming back at the head of a now | company, backed, so they tell me, by Wall Street capital. Francis X. Bushman has been a meaningful | name to film fans ever since he acted | for Essanay. His pretty brunette | wife, Beverly Bayne, has also been more or leas a public favorite, so | there is no doubt that their output will find a following. Both have he: interest of late, through the arriv. of a young Bushman named Richard ry. | Mary Roberts Rinehart, out in Cu!- ver City, Cal., is working on the Gol m lot with the company which is Giming her “Dangeroys Days,” tio which was chesen as Mrs, Rine- are faitial "Eminent Authors” of- tering, Gina Rinehart, like Rupert will come for work and not for p ure, Minta Durfee, who is Rose: better half in real life, is making a series of two-reel comedies herself, in and about Manhattan, and she wired for Luke—offering him, we sup- pose, an extra bone or two a dey to! come and work for her, aiedediees Spaghettt Ore The first of a series of meetings to organize all the spaghetti and macaroni makers in Greater New | York to prepare for a@ strike was held last night at the Manhattan Ly- coum, Other meetings will be held soon in Brooklyn and the Bronx, A strike is expected in two weeks. Salvatore Aidia, Chairman of the Press Committee’ of the Macaroni Makers’ Union, said there are be- tween 6,000 and 10,000 men employed in this industry in Greater New Yor The men have been making from $1 to $22 a week, and demand a 35 per @ent, (moréace and # 44-hour week, tography. His achievements are re- || markable. I Nickolas Muray has produced somo || admirable photographs of dancers, both draped and jn the altogether. Certain of his feminine subjects are |} supreme in both beauty and technique. | || | T, O'Conor Sloane jr. contributes || kym prints to the exhibition in the|| execution of which he has triumphed grandly in a dificult field, Many of his motifs are nudes and semi-nudes, || all of which he has handled with great skill. —_—~<»——__—_ State F Carmen Must Accept Wage Award, | / AG fete + RB EVENING “WOR MPR LD, A FuRday, SEPTEMBER 6, 1919. War. Worker Who Will Again Face the Camera; A Ae] Fortune Gallo Charlie Chaplin’s Wife Going Back to Work| And the Opera; MILORED HARRIS Music’s Promise By Sylvester Rawling. ORTUNE GALLO’S attempt to begin the music season with a Presentation of “The Mikado” oy hie Engtish Opera Company. at the Shubert Theatre last Monday night was foiled by conditions growing out of the actors’ strike over which he had no control. He may achieve his purpose yet for, save a belated sum- mer concert, no other musical per- formance Is announced before next Saturday, and who shall say at what moment the strike may be brought to an end? Heretofore Mr. Gallo's Chris- Usn name bas typified his enterprises He 1s the only man who, year in and year out, after extongive tours of the Continent with his Italian Grand Opera Company, at popular prices, has been able to show a balance sheet on tho credit side. When, late last season, he was called in to direct the seemingly failing fortunes of the English Grand Opera Company which now bears his ‘name, the god- dess did not desert him and he car- ried that as well as the Older organiza- tion to & successful finish. 11, pre- maturely, he brought some of us back from our annual holiday to write atout his company, his intentions were honorable and we must forgive | him. First to appear in the concert (eld, if announcements are fulfilled, will be | Nina Tarasova, the little Russian |singer, who made a remarkable im- |pression upon us at the very end of llast season by her two recitals, in jcostume, of Russian folk songs Hall next | appearance, | by Max Gegn: The scenery [ane will use has been painted by her- Four soloists from the choir of well. “The Village’’ Photographers | Show Their Art By W. G. Bowdoin, | The Paint Box Gallery, No, 43) Washington Square South, has put| on as its opening autumnal exhibi-| tion a group of half a dozen Green- wich Village photographers, The ar- tists are as follows: Jessie Tarbox Beals, Robert Edwards, John Wallace Gillies, Benjamin Grey, Nickolas) Muray and T. O'Conor Sloane jr. The exhibitors have evidently se- lected their best prints, for this show- ing and the exhibition as a whole, is one of the very best of The Paint Box's efforts, , The work is altogether high class, | and the poses, the portraits, the land- scapes, the nooks and corners of New York, Boston, Chicago and other cities, as well as everything else in- cluded, are almost without exception | noteworthy in high degree. Jessie Tarbox Beals, in her group, || covers a wide field. Miss Beals is | alike good in her presentation of the | Village celebrities and in her inter- | pretation of Metropolitan and other urban incidents. Her photograph of the Chicago Art Institute lion in grey tones, silhou- | etted against the Chicago mist, for | example, is especially to be com- | mended for its photographic triumph. “Sheridan Square,” “St. Thomas's Church,” ‘The Flatiron Building,” in | winter, “Times Square,” about the | same season, and a typical “Sky Line | of New!York,” are among the gem- like showings of the creator of Group I. Robert Edwards, (locally known as | “Bobbie, lies), shows Group II, all portraits of villagers, His ‘portrait of Millia Davenport Moss, Editor of ‘The Quill, is fairly and one of the Greenwich | typical. Mrs. Moss is shown in full face, in & most commendable se. ‘Tne ‘outlines are finely rendered but the print, beig an enlargement, has || lost much in definition, | “Sonia,” in direct print, is far more || sharply defined, The pose is highly spirited and the unconfined hair is decoratively registered, A self-portrait of Mr, shows him holding his Ukulele, Mary Caroline Davies, the Village poetess, whose name appears in aix- teen anthologies, is another notable || as snapped by Mr. Edwards. || y of light upon her hair, os|) Edwards, famous The p His portraits also are rving of high praise | Benjamin Grey, who was gassed in || military service abroad, and who sub- sequently became a pupil of Clarence ||| ws for the first time his f-aoor and other work in pho- r BOSTON, Sept. 6.—The State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration ruled last night that employees of the East- ern Massachusetts Street Railway | Company were bound to accept the recent award of 12 per cent. increase | in wages by the National War Labor Board, The award was made on| Aug. 12, and later the carmen voted to reject it and to strike. 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