Evening star., 1917-06-03

to have an important role In a Gladys
Brockwell feature.
Virginia Pearson is said to be scour-
ing the water front in the vicinity Of
New York for a place to locate "a
pa1atfal houseboat" in which she will
live this summer.
Mae Busch is said to be studying the
monkeys in the Griffith Park Zoo, Los
Angeles. for comedy suggestions for the
films. They are SO human"
A film comedy now under way will
call for three ducks, two geese. seven
hens, five pigs, one calf and two
rooSterS.
/ Jumping of a porch and landing on
a train rushing along at the rate of
forty miles an hour They say
Douglas Fairbanks does it-in a movie.
Wolf Lowry" pictures William S.
Hart as grim. silent. big-hearted,
western ranchman with
one love in his solitary life.
The movie press agent says it takes
eight acres a head to sustain cattle
throughout the year for studio pur-
poses; which may account in part for
the high cost Of beef.
The war scenes in 1.-The Little Amer
lean" were staged for the camera under
the personal supervision of Capt. Ian
Hay Beth. English army officer and
author of THE First 100000"
The Kimberley diamond" wanted in
London for the British crown. is to be
recovered from a band of thieves by
Sylvia of the Secret Service" other
wise known as Mrs. Vernon Castle.
William A. Brady is advertising
Susan Grandaise, the star of "A Naked
Soul a rather painful tragedy, as the
sweetest girl in Europe
Maxine Elliott. after finishing her
two pictures, has returned to Europe
to resume her work for the allied
wounded.
Bryant Washburn is being filmed as a
national guardsman in "The Man Who
Was Afraid" story by Mary Brecht
Pulver.
Elliott Dexter. pictured last week as
Mary Pickford's leading man in "A Ro-
nance of the Redwoods," will be seen
on the screen next week as leading man
for Margaret Ellington in THE Inner
Shrine"
''The Star Spangled Banner" to be
released June 10, is based on story
dealing with the United States Marine
Corps. 1t is to be used as recruiting
feature.
stories made him famous under the
nom de plume 80. Henry" died June S.
1910. The General Film Company is
just releasing photoplays based on
these stories.
When My Ship Comes In." has been
made into a seven-reel photoplay. Jane
Grey is the star.
A submarine battle between a man
and a giant turtle is to be feature
Fairbanks picture wild and Woody"
is announced for release June "a in
stead of June II, and Mary Pickford's S
The Little American" for July 2. Both
are Aircraft pictures.
"a Kentucky Cinderella" F. Hopkin-
son Smiths novel. has been screened.
with Ruth Clifford and Rupert Julian
as co-stars.
THE Little Orphan" the story of a
little Belgian girl who came to Amer
lea on consignment to find a home-an
incident of the world war-is to be
shown in June with Ella Hall in the
leading role.
Ruth McCord, on a motor cycle, is to
make a 25,000-mile tour OF the country,
visiting every Triangle exhibitor in the
United States and returning to the Gull
yer City studios September, 1918, If
all goes well.
Sessue Hayakawa has been seen many
times on the screen as a son of Nippon,
and has even impersonated Chinese.
Hawaiian. East Indian and American
Indian characters. His new role. how
ever. pictures him for the first time as
a Mexican of the Pancho Villa type.
S. E. Snyder's Dictionary of Movie
Terms" is authority for the information
that "ingenues" in the movies may be
six feet tall, forty years old, wrinkled
as grandmothers and yet appear as cute
as doodlebugs in paw paw season.
Drugged coffee, puncture in the
arm Of an unconscious man and the
slipping Of hypodermic syringe under
the pillow on which he was lying en-
abled the villain in The False Friend"
in which Robert Warwick and Gail
Kane are pictured, to furnish the plot
for the photoplay.