Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-07-16
Film Flashes

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Hobart Rosworth, the distinguished
photOdumutic star and director ha:
been especially engaged by Cecil Il
De Mile. l.aSky company director
general, TO play one of tl~ principal
roles with Geraldine Farrar in new
Paramount picture.
Every morning before she Leaves
her AmityVllle home for the Famous
Players studio Hazel Dawn, star In
Paramount pictures. runs down To see
whether OF not 1t IL warm enough 20
permit of her taking dlp. She has
determined TO be the srst one TO take
plunge nj the South Bay this season.
but has so far found the temperature
SO low that It cooled her ardor
Slim Summeryille, who has been
away from the Triangle Keystone
studio for a few days owing To illness,
is back at work again and looks even
simmer than before. a number OF
the photographers at the comedy fac
tory have requested the comedian to
put on few more pounds of flesh.
They say photographing slim Is too
much like double exposure.
Billie Burke. star Of "Gloria's Ro-
nance" fondles beautiful white an
ton. That Kitty was gift to Billie
when IL was but "A kitten and came to
her in a basket lined with lilies of
the valley. Now II is n great big blue
eyed cat. weighing many pounds, and
it's name is Lis" being Us you know
the French for Lily"
Before the Ladies' Art Embroidery
club members last evening. Mllllcent
Dcverc, who scored as a servant girl
in East Lynn" read well prepared
essay on Lessons From the Lip
stick" Martha Meringue. who Is
studying for the movies, spoke inter
es;ingly on the topic: "Finer Shad
ings in the Art or Eyebrow Pencil
ing"
Mile. Hedda KusZewski. who has u
leaaing part In the forthcoming pro-
duction by the Lubin company of An
thuny i. kellys original dramatic
story THE Light at Dusk" which
Edgar Lewis is transforming into u
photoplay Of the first magnitude. was
born in odessa Russia, educated in a
convent Berlin achieved fame as an
artists model in Paris, and made her
stage debut in musical comedy In
London.
After waiting vainly for some
moneyed film magnate to meet her
price of $4,000 per week, Eva Tan
quay, the vaudeville headliner, plunged
into the screen pool, ION her own"
just to see how the water was. with
the announcement OF her first screen
comedy came the statement that she
was contemplating western tour at
the head OF her own vaudeville COM
pary. The water must have been
chiuy.-Photoplay Magazine.
Director william Bertram in Like
a knight of Old" put Nita Davis
through strenuous week in shooting
that stage robbery picture. Nta is
used to being dragged by runaway
horses, fling over cliffs and plunged
into icy cold mountain streams. Tho
director certainly made us earn our
keep this week" Nita was heard to
tell one of the extra men. i've been
in tight places many a time, but today
he had me hanging on by my imagi-
nation. That's all / had left to cling
to-"
The World Film corporation re-
ceiVed an offer several weeks ago
from committee in charge of the
Washington state fair. saying that u
real, genuine locomotive collision
would be staged there and that If
scene Mt the same time, II could be ar
ranged The offer was declined. They
are building several hundred yards OF
track and have purchased two heavy
mogul type engines which will be used
in the crash. II will take place u
Seattle.
Little Dodo Newton, seven years
old, and May Cloy, leading woman
oil hi Tn 10
Mary" look enough alike to be twins
except for the difference in their
ages Dodo plays Mary when she
was wee girl Miss Cloy taking up
the characterization when Mary has
grown into her teens In the same pic
ture. This is the first of strong
series Of comedies written by Aaron
Hoffman exclusively for Kofb and
Din. Others Will be announced as
they are completed
Size has very little 70 do with ones
importance In this world, AZ Margue-
rite Clark and Ann Pennington DEM
onstrated the other day when these
two Gtminuuve stars. seen only in
Paramount pictures. neither OF whom
towers TO the lofty cminenCc of five
feet monopolZed the entire floor
space Of the Famous Players studio
II SO happened that the other stars
were either out of town or doing ex-
terror scenes As result Miss Clark
and Miss Pennington were monarchs
of all they surveyed
Alice Joyce. popular star, who re
turns 10 the screen in Vitagraph's pro
duCtion. The Battle Cry OF War has
been working In an office transported
from the Noolworth building, New
YORK city. 10 the Vitagraph studios
The steel trim constituting the
moulding. window sashes, doors and
base boards were taken from vacant
office In the Woolworth building and
brought to the VitaEraph studio for
the making Of one OF the big sets"
for the new sequel to The Battle Cry
OF Peace" In order that this steel