Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-16
CCoGN(IZnVo the wide public
tntorest In the products Of the
motion picture world. The Star

no8 o0eCfeo IN 3Hions -
in collaboration with the
P.ths News, whereby the. most impor-
tsux news events of-<hs world will be
shown. in moving pictures IN Washing
tom N wen as IN Maryiand. and Vir-
ginia.
Twice each week new pictures will be
released that the public may be Kept
abreast Of tho times in motion picture
news of the great happenings not only
In this country, but throughout the
world
The latest release will give glfmpses
of the big Shrine parade In Buffalo,
which marked the opening of the forty
second annual session Of the Supreme
Council, and Of the great parade OF the
Elks IN Baltimore the stsweek. Other
unusual events and news happenings
are to be found among the animated
news pictures
A Chaplin storx-"Charles Chaplin %
SAYS the press agent. had. an expo
rianoe in the making Of hisalatest pic
TURF. The vasabond.' that he'll not
forget in q hurry.
"The scenario cslledsfor hissrescue Of
. beautiful young American. girl from
. band of gypsies who had kidnapped
her in her youth To add realism and
tho proper atmosphere to the story the
director sought out a caravan Of Rom
any nomads encamped about forty miles
south of Los Angeles.
AFTER much persuasion the gypsies
were induced to pose with their camp
ing outfit and wagons in the picture for
q eoodly si.ed amount Of Uncle Sans
coin of the realm.
I'm The Vagabond Mr.. Chaplin, who
plays the role Of itinerant musician.
his violin the beautiful American cap
SLOUGH at coaxing lifting melody from .
fiddle. for, as he says himself he
scraped a living that way in his youth.
The gypsies are proverbially fond Of
music and Chaplin and his little old
violin had them charmed.
The chiefs daughter soon fell under
the spell of the fascinating music. and
openly fiirted with the violinist who
shamelessly winked at her in return.
One evening. after the picture was
about completed. the gypsy maid and
her father suggested that Chaplin join
their band. using as an argument two
glistening stilettos. The comedian caught
sight of the argument in the moon
light. implanted one of his famous side
way kicks upon the chiefs solar
plexus. made one of his celebrated runs
to the corral and mounted the fastest
nag. He never stopped until he and
the horse reached the studio in Los
Angeles !.
day was to tear up the gypsy lass
photograph. break up his perfectly
yrin In nd nj = i-- f-hk
high in the air softly murmur, Never
again"
"King Lear When q Boy."-It hap
pened in Butte, so the story goes,
while John Mcguire, a famous charae-
ter In the west, was manager of the
theater.
Frederick Warde's advance agent,
King Lear" had fixed up all the de-
tails and was about to go when Ma
Euire stopped him.
Wait a minute" he said; "you
haven't left me any newspaper cuts of
Lear.
Il am sorry" responded the agent.
but am nearly out of cuts. All
have left is one of Mr.. Warde as Ri
naIdo. in The Lions Mouth" but as
Rinaldo was a young man of twenty
one and Lear was eighty years old in
the play, that will not help you"
Never mind" said Mcguire. Leave
it with me-"
The agent did, and a few days later,
on picking up a Butte newspaper. he
was astounded to find a long advance
notice of Warde's appearance in King
Lear" accompanied with the cut
bearing the underline King Lear
When a Boy.
Ellen Terry's Ffnd-Roland Bottom.
ley. who is pictured as John Burton
In the Pathe serial The Grip Of Evil"
says he was persuaded to adopt the
stage by Ellen Terry. the famous.
She heard him sing as a solo boy at
q celebrated London church, and asked
him II he would like to go on the
stage. Yes" he said; and she told
him to go tell his mother and she
would call upon her the following day
The next day mother said, NO" very
emphatically. My son an actor?
Never" But Ellen Terry had persua-
sive powers. and before she departed
she had won the mothers consent.
Bottomley has played with Sir Henry
Irving in Henry VIII" Thomas .
Beckett" King Lear" Charles l."
Louis XII" Faust and other produc-
tons. His later career embraced en-
gagements with Sir George Alexander
and Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson.
He also has created important roles in
plays. such as Shaw's You Never Can
Tell and Capt Brassbound's Con-
version" Later he went on tour with
Ben Greet.
He also had important roles in mu-
steal successes. including Pink Lady"
THE Laughing Husba nd" High links,
The Arcadians" and "Sari."
Now he is in moving pictures