The Washington herald., 1918-05-19

noise right now, it would be alb!
voice left among the picture people
10 as the Home of the Whisper
: sudden hoaTseness was the wind-l
night, when the whole colony tn
"nver the top" with her bond quot
w. Griffith, who gave a mastery
seen them in France and made Z
: chase of bonds. But what the rel
tory they made up in energy and
sell at least 10000 worth OF govern
Actors and actresses who have al
ways fed from audiences suddenly
found their tongues and speaking
from the heart out, added their peas
to the others
Little Nary Thurman, the Mack
Sennett beauty, whose knees quaked
when she was introduced to the big
crowd and who announced that she
had never. and could never. say a
word TO an audience, found her voice
AID gave forth a harangue that would
have made William Jennings Bryan
jealous.
Every body was in earnest and
everybody was sincere.
Everybody Talked.
Henry walthau. Bessie Barriscale.
Louise Glaum, presided over the Par
alta booth. Over the Vitagraph were
William Duncan, Nell Shipman and
Carol Halloway. Next door to them
was the Metro with Bert Lytell,
Frank Reicher and Edith Storey,
who took turns in talking to the peo-
pie. At the Famous Players-Lasky
booth were Vivian Martin, Wallace
Reid. Ann Little, Wanda HawIey.
Julia Faye. Sylvia Ashton, Clarence
Geldart, Dorothea Abril, Charlotte
Greenwood.
At least a half million dollars
worth of bonds were sold by the
moving picture people.
The entire sales of the film indus
try workers among themselves was
si,5OO.OoO. The total quota of Hol-
lywood. sSOs 900. was Oversubscrib-
ed nearly five times. The Fa-
nous Players-Lasky subscription
closed at sJOs. coo for the one studio
within $500 of the total Hollywood
quota
Next to the excitement over bond
sales came the announcement that
Bill Hart was threatened with mat
rimony. The young lady who has
captured the bad man of the screen
is Miss Margaret Evans, OF Butte,
Mont. Bill met her while on his
liberty bond campaign, and it is said
that she is now in Los Angeles with
her parents, and wedding bells may
soon ring for the screens greatest
bad man.
The Lasky Fire.
Another little event to brighten the
life Of the picture colony was the fire
at the Lasky studio which entirely
demolished cne OF the small stages,
color room. stock room and upholster-
ing, drapery and wallpaper depart
ments.
One OF tie interesting events was
the care with which each director
saved his own productlois from the
film vaCits IT. the big concrete laI,ora-
tory building, which for q time was
threatened. Donald Crisp dashed IN
and carried the negatives of The
Iirefly Of France" and Relieve Me
Nantippe," his two latest big prUduc-
tons. to place of safety. George
Nelford rescued two Hays kawa pro-
auctions, and to be perfectly safe, put
them into his car and took them to
his home. William D. Taylor took
the negative of How Could You,
Jean" up TO the Hollywood Bank and
put 1t in a safety deposit vault.
While the fire was raging, Cecil X.
IpeMille was on location filming
scenes for We Can't Have Every
thing" a picturization Of David Gra-
ham Phillips novel In the novel
there Is an incident where the ingsnuc
Is working in a moving Dlcture studio
and the studio catches on fire. Mr.,
DeMille had almost decided not to
use this in his picture, as II would
be so difficult to satisfactorily repro
duce fire in a studio, but arriving
AZ the plant just when the fire had
been gotten under control. he imme-
diately decided to put in these scenes.
His cast had been out with him on
location. and selzing everyone avail
able as extras, he promptly began
taking the necessary scenes
Charles Ray was one Of the auc-
tioneers at the Red Cross booth, and
he and Dorothy Dalton managed to
entice quite a bit OF money from the
public.
Clara Kimball Young has finished
her production OF THE Claw and is
taking a little rest before starting on
her new one
Much to the joy Of the film folk.
Blanche Sweet is once again at work
on a production under the manage
ment Of Harry Gerson. called THE
flushed Hour" Miss Sweet has been
off from the screen for a year and
II is with 4 great deal Of joy that this
clever actress is welcomed back
again.