Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-22
MEASLES STOP SCANDAL
FOR BERTHA KALICH
uork on New Fox Film Ceased
when Children Develop This
Contagious Disease
M the Photoplay Editor

,r,osIes. that dread dlsease OF child
ho. caused much trouble and loss
-. william Fox studios at Fort Lee,
and have necessitated the retaking
~ u,nch Of the picture play Scandal" in
~. Mime. Bertha Kalich appears as
the star
ohiidren. a son and daughter. Two
,N,onted young juveniles. Kittens Reich
70. and walter Ferguson, were cast for
a. narts. After considerable progress
w WI hsan made with the picture Kittens
paJ r.iobert appeared at the studio one morn
~. leaking like a bottle of strawberry
,ns, n had exploded" she explained.
,ntsasIes," declared doctor who was
,-r,ediatelv called in. Take her home
nd nut her to bed"
THAT eliminated Kittens from the play
"a racnueline Morhange was substituted.
because of the enforced retirement bf Kit
,,ns all that had been taken of the pic
n,re had to be retaken.
Evervthing was going along finely un-
an walter Ferguson proudly announced
hat he was worse than Kittens This
proved to be true and his ailment was
oulcklv diagnosed as measles. This again
stopped the picture and everything Is at
standstill until Walter gets better. The
doctors say he will be able TO resume act
inc nm Tuesday and Scandal" will go on.
directors have been requested in future,
In engaging child actors and actresses for
william Fox, to try to get children who
have had measles, whooping cough, scar
Ist fever and other ailments of infancy.
william T.. Smith, president of the
Famous Players Exchange, states that
maria Rosa" Geraldine Farrar's third
nhotoplay, will be released about the mid
Ala of NAV. The Lasky Company claims
that this is by far the best of the three,
ths other two being Carmen" and THE
temptation" With Miss Farrar will be
Wallace Reid.
Some weeks ago Sir Herbert Tree COM
Melted his work in the film production Of
Macbeth" and attended with other men,
bers of the company the first private ex-
hibition at the Los Angeles studios He
was enjoying the picture immensely until
there was flashed on the screen an in
sert," written by an unregenerate direc-
tor, which read. Mac visits his wife sur
reptitiously." Sir Herbert tainted.
Wives were scarce in the French colony
Of louisiana some 800 years ago-which
state or aIalTS leu 10 lne SldTlllHB du-
ventures of Daphne La Tour, enacted by
Lillian Gsh, in the Triangle-Fine Arts
play, Daphne and the Pirate" at the
Arcadia Wednesday. To give her settlers
all the comforts of home, France used
to send over a shipload of good-looking
grls several times year to be disposed
Of at auction to the colonists. Such is
the lot of Daphne.
Wallace Reid, the Lasky-Paramount |
star, who sprained his wrist in hurting |
Raymond Hatton to the floor in the fight |
scenes of "The Golden Chance" is once |
again able TO grab the steering wheel of |
his six-cylnder submarine. This feature |
will be at the Fairmount on Thursday.
The 56th Street Theatre will show |
NEARLY a King" on Wednesday and |
Jack Barrymore, who is seen |
in 1t, says that he never realized before |
that the holiday season was one during |
which people worked off ancient grudges.
But he has learned a lot during the last |
few days. He figured in a dual scene
in Nearly a King" in which he sue
ceeded in making a very deep impress
sion on his adversary with the point of |
his sword. Then the Famous Players
star was told that the scene would have
to be retaken. Thereupon the adversary
polished off the grudge and returned the
Impression with great fXity of purpose
and very sharp-pointed weapon. Barry
more says that such things take all the
real old-fashioned spirit out of the holiday
season.
Following her marvellous performance
N the dual title role of the adaptation of |
The Prince and the Pauper," the first of |
lhe inimitable Mark Twain's works to be |
transferred to the screen as a feature, |
Marguerite Clark appears as the star in
The Famous Players Film Company's pre-
sentation or the popular theatrical success,
Mice and Men" which will be at the
Sherwood on Wednesday and Thursday
The trial and conviction of a man who
sacrihces himself for the woman he loves
Is one of the many episodes in THE I'm
Dardonable Sin," the anew World Film
feature in which Holbrook Blinn will APP
pear as star at the Liberty on Thursday.
The feature at the Susquehanna on Sat.
lrday will be George Behan in the new
World Film production, THE Pawn OF
rate The story of this picture was writ
or MS vivid characterization in IAN
Alien"
Inc feature on the program of the Plaza
m Saturday will be the first screen ap-
'earance of Kitty Gordon. the noted stage
eauty, In new World Film picture en-
ited "As in Looking Glass"
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