Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-29


and love of men is all-compelling. en-
titled The Dark Road The cast in
cludes Robert McKm. Lydia Knott
JACK Livingston, Jack Gilbert ant
Walt Whitman. Other first-run pic
lures will be shown with musical &C
compartments played by the orchestra
Filnograns.
The Saints Adventure" featuring
Henry b. Walthall and Mary Charleson
is scheduled for release May !.
Shirley Mason is to be the star of the
Edison feature, The Little Chevalter,
story OF early Louisiana. by NJ. Il.
NJ. Davis.
Vivian Martin. who has been widely
exploited by the press agent in articles
the wrong side.
Mrs. Vernon Castle has signed for a
long job and large salary with Pathe
She is the daughter of doctor of New
Rochelle, n. Y.
The darling of the rails is the owner
Of an ebony ju ju. This means that
Helen Holmes owns an African idol
She owns goat also.
two-year contract with the l.asky-
Paramount company. will next be seen
in Little Miss Grown-up.
Frank H. spearman is author of the
novel upon which The Railroad
t;aiders55 is based. Like Helen Holmes,
he is strong for railroads.
Charles Kenyon who wrote the
scenario for the Lasky film, Sacrifice.
IS to develop it into a stage play, re-
Nersing the order of things.
Florence La Badie. the movie star.
has set the example of "mobilizins the
backyard for food purposes by mobi-
ltzing hers in New Rochelle, n y.
request to 'cneck extra chins at
the box office is said to have resulted
in sprucing up the appearance of the
players in one studio at least.
Two green and gold East Indian
love birds are shown in their nest in
Lady Rarnacle." Viola Danas forth
coming Metro-t,olumbia photoplay.
Violet Heming. who has been taking
try in the movies, may become a
Red Cross nurse, serving in the summer
months" according to announcement.
Maxine E,lliott's first Goldwyn picture
is to be shown first in thirty cities for
the benefit of the Red Cross fund. Roi
story.
Clara Kimball Young's next Selznick
picture. why l Left My Husband is
not to be produced after all. 1t is to
give way to a modern American story
by famous writer
Balboa has issued advice to Young
Girls. 1t reads. Don't think the
movies need you. They don't Don [
fall in love with the leading man. He's
generally married.
Winifred Allen, the Triangle star. is
four feet eleven inches in hiSh-heeled
shoes. tips the scale at 100 pounds and
is only eighteen. with natural apti-
tude for movie acting.
Charles Pathe. head of the famous
house of film producers. sums UP the
financial difficulties in the film world
as due to the world battle of quantity
against quality Of films.
The Night Workers" an Essanay
aim, deals especially with newspaper
me,l VINO at night. Its plot is
laid in the office of New York morn
ing paper. 1t will be released May Il.
Evelyn Greeley. who is featured with
June Elvidge in Carlyle Blackwell's
new photoplay. Passions Slave" Cfor-
mer1y The Price of Pride'D, is said
to have made distinct hit.
Anita Stewart will be pictured in
MY Girl Phillippa.' Robert W. Cham
bers' story, at the Strand next week.
Lionel Barrymore, in The Millionaire's
Double" will be shown also.
Clara Kimball Young, in Eugene
Walters drama The Easiest Way,
will be a feature at Moore's Garden
Theater next week Viola Dana will be
featured also in Gods Law and Man.
The Neglected Wife" is the story
of the man. the wife. the other
woman" and 1.-THE man who falls in love
with the other woman. IT pictures the
fiction characters of Mabel Herbert
Crner's stories.
William A. Brady is quoted saying
that actors who spend any length OF
time in the movies may improve their
pantomme. but they cripple their
voices. making them useless for the
speaking stage.
III. B. Warner in THE Danger Trail
has Violet Heming. the noted young
actress, for his leading woman 1t is
his first appearance in drama OF the
Canadian northwest. w. Lawson Butt
also is in the cast.
Fannie Ward. who is playing three
roles in the same picture-a mother
and her two daughters-is sitting up
at night studying how the mother Is
a burning building.
olive Thomas, who was Miss New
York in the "Follies. and whom Har-
} rison Fisher. the artist. declared the
loveliest American show girl is being
perpetuated in films by the Triangle
corporation.
Geraldine Farrar is about, to resume
her work in motion pictures in new
lie Mile creation at the Lasky studio
in California. Her new productions are
TO be released by the Aircraft corpo-
. Ration
Poppy Norma Talmadges latest
photoplay. based on Cynthia Stockley' S
novel, has all the elements of romance.
action, surprise and suspense, accord
ing to announcement Poppy is a
child OF nature over whose trials the
world has wept.
A broken scarab and the prophecy
Of an humble shepherd, who lost his
life for daring to love the daughter of
a Pharoah. that when its parts should
be reunited in future ages the lovers
souls should be reunited. is the story
Of The Undying Flame, Olga Petro-
vas Lasky feature film.
Samuel Goldfish, president of the
Goldwyn corporation, warns American
investors that big companies making a
profit won't divide IL with the public