Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12
Filnograrns.

Filmograns.
Mabel Normand is to be starred in typi-
cal American film comedies that tell a
story.
Virginia Valii is said to hold the
long distance record for swimming in
Chicago's motion picture colony.
George Ovey is to have a film comedy
pictured around a recently broken arm.
Such is the humor of the movies.
of rigid discipline upon young and
vivacious girl in quest of innocent amuse-
ment- Mary Macdonald MacLaren is its
picture star.
President Schlessinger of the Mayfair
corporation has announced his intention
of asking the legislature to compel pro-
ducers to brand each print of film with
Tom Santschi is to be pictured in THE
City of Purple Dreams" as a man who
rises from the depths until he reaches
the pinnacle of success as a million
aire wheat Spectator"
Marguerite Clarks new .sub-deb'
series, as it is called. is to be released
in September, the first picture being
"Bab's Burglar" Mary Roberts Rine-
harris first film venture
All future photoplays based on Rex
Beachs stories and novels are to be dis
tributed through the Goldwyn Distribut-
ing Corporation. THE Auction Block
will be the first.
Henry Gsell. who plays the lead in
he "a al limo md Fl Il
Levy. the London stage celebrity be-
gan acting in barn in Los Angeles
admission, twelve pins.
THE Hungry Heart" by David Ora
ham Phillips. will be produced with
Pauline Frederick in the leading role
character of young American woman
hood drawn from life.
Pearl White made a hit at the Chi
cago movie exhibition with diamond
anklet. but declined to "1et loose any
OF her stunts" saying she had checked
them at the studio.
Dorothy Dalton, a Thomas II. Ince
star. has been added to the Paramount
forces and will be featured in eight
pictures She is Chicago girl and a
graduate of the Sacred Heart Academy
Dustin Farnum's first picture under
Fox management. "Durand of the Bad
Lands" is announced for release tomor-
row. Winnifred Kingston. Tom Mix and
Babe Gresham are pictured in it.
In filming one of the scenes of Julian
Eltinge's first photoplay at one of the
Los Angeles country clubs. the mem be RS
and their wives crowded the extras
out of the pictures and posed them
selves.
The Famous PlayerS-Lasky corpora
ton announces that new page in mo-
ton picture history is to be written this
season in the introduction of genuine
comedy into the films, not horseplay or
burlesque, but straight comedy.
The Balboa Company is to picture the
rugged and beautiful scenery of Canada
not familiar to the tourist world, from
the Mackenzie to Hudson bay, and re-
lease it in its serials.
Tom Forman, familiar to admirers of
Paramount pictures. has enlisted in the
18th Company. Coast Artillery Federal
Reserves. Ted Duncan is its captain and
Walter Long its second lieutenant, both
from the Lasky forces.
1t was quite an accomplishment for
the HearstPathe News to picture de-
velop. edit. title and deliver to the
factory, in time for issue Saturday.
July II. the scenes of the Army draft
in Washington the day before.
Goidwyn Pictures debut to the cinema
world of art" will he Polly of the Cir
Gus with Mae Marsh rs its star. to be
released September .. 1t required $4,000
and night photography, and has nine
spectacle scenes.
TAYLOR Holmes is accused of having
acquired a superstition since his ad-
vent in the movies, because. after re-
scenes. he found a horseshoe. picked il
up. kissed it and threw it over his left
shoulder. with a wish.
Following Jack and the Beanstalk."
film productions of Babes in the
Woods" Aladdin and the Wonderful
Lamp The Brownies" "Mikado."
"Pinafore." "Alice's Adventures in Won
derland" and "Ali Bahia. or the Forty
Thieves" are to be made by William
Marie Dressler staged with mathemati-
Fox.
cal precision a triangular automobile col
lson of three machines. One wouldn't
bulge and the two others did. When they
fished Marie out from the debris she eX-
citedly exclaimed, Gee. Fords have been
flying through the air for five minutes.
But never again.
Helen Hayes. who is known to the
stock patrons of Washington as Helen
Hayes Brown. has just completed work
as the star in seven-reel feature
photoplay and. after a brief vacation.
will return to New York for rehearsals
in the title role of "Pollyanna." under
the management of Klaw & Er1anger
She will tour to the Pacific coast in
"Pollyanna"
Announcement has been made by
Clara Kimball Young that she has en-
tirely severed her connection with the
Selznick enterprises and will hereafter
direct and manage her own photoplay
productions Her first picture. THE
will be made in the l
raleaaad San.