Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-24

Thomas Holding and Hans Roberts are
pictured in a cast of several hundred.
Filnograns.
Elsie Ferguson viii soon make her
film debut in ''Rarbary sheep"
Julian Eltinge has joined the Famous
Players-Lasky forces for film work.
George NJ. Cohan's next photoplay
Will be adapted from THE Seven Keys
to Baldpate."
Mary Garden has consulted clair
voyant to learn what her success is to
be In the moving pictures.
The American tendency to utilize the
by-product is said to be manifested in
a wide desire to novelize Bradymade
pictures.
Juliette Day, the attractive stage
ingenue. is to make her film debut. in
Edward Hungerford.
Mary Miles Minter now is posing for
Melissa Of the Hills" in the big tree
country of California Spottiswoode
Aiken is pictured in the cast.
Constance Talmadge is to furnish the
first instance Of movie star employ
ing her own home to provide setting
for her picture. She does this in
Moths"
What Money Can't Buy" featuring
Louise Huff. Jack Pickford and Theo-
dore Roberts. will be Lou-Tellegen's
first film production as a director 1t
will be released In July.
Leander Richardson says that Ethel
Clayton, in THE Woman Beneath"
"bakes an oven full of pies with such
realism the spectator can almost smell
the browning crust"
Alice Brady has been declared by an
artist who saw her in the colonial cos
tune of the famous Betsy Ross to be
IAN incarnated. living. pulsing. breath
ing portrait"
Harry NJ. Crandall was in New York
city the past week planning the equip
ment for the Knickerbocker and the
Metropolitan theaters. which will be
opened in the early fall
Robert E. MacAlarney has succeeded
Hector Turnbull as head of the Famous
Piayers-Lasky scenario department.
The latter will devote his time exclu-
sively to writing original photoplays.
A sign in front of a western movie
theater reads. Special for this week
only The New Orleans Jazz Band will
accompany Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll
House. by Norway's favorite son.
In The Rainbow Box" Marguerite
Clayton poses as millionaire's daugh-
ter to win a youth she believes to be
wealthy. When she finds he is a poor
bookkeeper she takes him, neverthe-
less, for better or worse"
In Taylor Holmes first film feature,
Efficiency Edgar's Courtship," Edgar
nearly loses his girl because his rival
is a musician, but wins her back by
his bad performances on cornet and
violin. She yields in self-defense.
Lawrence Beatus, manager Of Loew's
Columbia Theater, tomorrow will begin
a conf ined business and pleasure trip
to cover a period of six weeks and take
him to st. Louis. Memphis. Texas and
Toronto.
Maxine Elliott's first picture is to be
municipal officers of Rockland Me-, her
birthplace, in August. Before John
BrouRham christened her Maxine Elliott
she was known to her family and
friends as Jessie Dermott, daughter of
a Maine sea captain.
Jim Tarver of Texas is to be the
giant in a movie. Jack and the Bean
stalk" He is eight feet six inches tall
weighs $50 pounds. has a chest meas
and his outstretched arms. from tip to
tip, measure eight feet
Paul Gordon. who is pictured at the
Casino Theater this week in THE Great
White Trail has Joined the United
States army reserve. and was one of
the first men selected for Plattsburgh
Doris Kenyon. in The Great White
Trail plays the part of snow hero
inc.
Ann Pennington, who reappears on
the screen after a long absence in
THE Little Boz Scout" has signed an
other contract whereby she is permitted
to appear in the '-Ziegfeld FoiIies' at
the New Amsterdam Theater. New
York. these summer evenings and de-
vote her daylight hours to film produc-
lions in the Famous Players studios
Under the circumstances the high cost
of living should not keep Miss PEN
nington awake during the few hours
she allotS to sleep.
Bushels of potatoes, carrots and other
vegetables beyond the reach of the
m moderately rich were used as 'props"
in the new Roscoe Arbuckle photocom-
cdy, "A Rough House." which will he
released next week Some of these val
liable edibles were badly mutilated nv
me comedians uHpdtenIeQ process of
pairing potatoes with an electric fan.
but enough food material was saved ont
OF the wreck to prove an unexpected
blessing to numerous New York East
Side families.
The bill at Loew's Columbia the first
half of next week includes The Little
Roy Scouts" a story of adventure on
the Rio Grande. with Ann Pennington
in the stellar role, and The Immi- !
grant the newest Charles Chaplin |
Dhotocomedy, in which the eccentric |
comedian is pictured as a steerage pas
senger on a liner embarked from port |
'.somew here In Europe" to The Prom |
ised Land
Features for the second half OF the |
week picture Wallace Reid in big
m ar" nd "EattY'' Arbuckle in "a |