Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-19
Film Flashes

Mary Thurman, the beautiful titan
or kestonia. whose athletic proves
has not been hi lden under Il buShel
by The Sennett Intelligence bureau,
was the heroine Of a recent tale re-
sardinS "Dmc OF the athletic records
she made While a student a: Vasslr.
Most beautfu, actresses % screen
land are graduates of that ferrinine
Institution of learning, if all press
agents arc to be believed. But that's
another story.
J. 4 Keystone director was rtad.n;
! one of these stories recently and upon
completing it cast it asiGe with a dis
| gusted grimace "A lOtta bunk, Mary"
| he declaimed with the air of one who
| could not he fooled. I'm bet that
not even any Of the fellows at NasSar
could make such records"
! Famous Players-Lasky has bought
| David Graham Phillips story, The
| Hungry Heart" for perturbation with
Pauline Frederick as star.
Richard Stantop is now director
for George Walsh. They say that
! Paul Powell, director for Walsh When
| he made the "trip to Portland. quit
before The Yankee Way was COM
| pieted.
Dorothy Dalton has quit Triangle,
| joined Thomas ii. Ince and will make
| eight pict1rcs a year for the Para
mount program.
The report is out that German
agents are trying to buy up all old
| film in tie country to make high an
plosives, 30 government officials have
requested all producers and distrib-
| utors in the countr! 70 sell no old
| finn until the war is ended.
Mabel Normand and Goldwyn have
settled Their differences one report
having il that the comcdicnne is to
receive as much as 81, 500 a week and
| she is expected TO commence work
| within u week.
Another pun: Mary Miles Mlnter
| is the despair OF her mother with her
mischevous pranks. Since a tot Mary
| has had passion for the water.
whether it be the ocean or merely q
v Well-flled porcelain tub.
One morning recently Mary disap-
peared. Her mother Mrs. Shelly, in
vestIgated and found her daughter
| ensconed in a bath tub full OF water
| hus!!y studying her English lesson.
! W men NlIS. SiltlhN tiAAtulPA'b W ttiho
tie book. the young star with mis-
! chievous twinkle in her eye said,
"Plcase don't, mother, l want this
lesson to soak in
Katherine Hlileker, whose work In
the scenario department ut the unl-
versal has made her Il literary Column
bus, has made new discovery She
has found a butcher who writes
scenarios. And the unusual angle to
the story is that he sellssthem.
Olive Thomas. Triangle star, has
am bitions to become Il playwright
and made her first rlove in that di-
rection by collaborating with Direc-
tor REYNOLDS on new screen play,
IT, which she shortly will be starred.
Cuddles. who has become IA
ynrite all over the country with keith
theater patrous in The east ana Or
pheum theater patrons in the west
and south as one Of The Gus Ed
wards star kiddies, is about to go be-
fore the camera.
Mr. Edwards discovered Cuddles
more thar eight years ago, when she
Was n 'toddler" He has just signed
a contract with a film corporation to
star Cuddles in a new moving picture
irea conceived by MIR. Edwards him
self.
"Rab's Burglar" the first sub
deb story by Mary Roberts Rine-
hart. in which Marguerite Clark por-
trays the character OF the 17-year-old
school girl, has been completed and
is now being made ready for release
by Paramount some time in Septem-
ber.
Triangle Director Walter Edwards
is authority for tho statement that
tie next play starring Louise Glaum
will be an absolutely nnparalle and