Evening star., 1918-02-17

new picture, Hike his other, presents
him in strong Characterization with
big human love feature.
The film production of A. n. Woods
safhe Guilty Man is announced for re-
lease by Thomas H. Ince February 1S.
Billie Burke's next picture will be q
satire entitled Lets Get a Divorce"
Anita Loos and John Emerson wrote the
story.
Irving Cummings is to be leading man
for Peggy Hyland. the English beanty,
in ''The Debt Of Honor" her first Fox
picture.
Edward Lansing cowIes' 'srhe Rise
and Fall of the Confederacy" is to be
released in March. It is declared his
torical masterpiece.
Virginia Pearson is now working on
a picture, "A Daughter Of France" a
war drama, to mark her second ami
versary with the Fox corporation.
Belle Bennett, a Triangle film star,
has been borrowed by oliver Morosco
for Ashton Stevens new play, ~Mary's
Way Out"
William c. De MfIle liz to write two
stories for film production By his
brother, Cecil B. De Mile, the Para
mount director.
J. Stuart R1aclzton maintains that the
story is the chief demand Of dramatic
art. SHAKESPEARE plays, he says, have
outlived all who have ever acted them
Goldwyn is to have series of twen-
ty-six two-ree1 comedies starring
Smiling Billy" Parsons. otherwise
known as William n. Parsons. presi-
dent of the National Film Corpora tion
of America.
Mary Pickford recently lodged a
Hoover order barring real food from
the movies'by staging a scene requir-
ing corn beef and cabbage and then
eating the properties for her real lunch
later.
Ruth Mason. who worked in fur
nishings store in Tucson, has been add
ed to Douglas Fairbanke: company.
etc
A Fairbanks thrill in a recent pic
ture crippled Eagle Eye, q famous
he has been pensioued by the aero
batic comedian.
May Rose Tapley is to tour the coun-
try with the Benjamin Chaplin series,
of Lincoln pictures, addressing women.
children. schools. clubs and theater au-
diences.
Studios in New York. where work
could be done during the recent in
tense cold spell. were SO much at
premium that, many stars were COM
PEELED to go to the far west to COM
plete pictures.
Talmadge's 1.-The Secrets of the Storm
Country and Ghosts of Yesterday"
has been secured to direct Alice Brady's
new Russian picture for Select Pic
lures.
Lewis J. Selznick recently paid
pu blic tribute to Harry NJ. Crandall of
this city. head, of the Crandall enter
prises. for his rock bottom sense of
justice and fair play"
Clara Kimball Young will be seen in
prison garb in -sThe House of Glass"
which is soon to be released. She is
pictured as happy girl on the eve
of marriage, who suddenly finds her
self charged with completely in big
robbery.
up the Road With Sallie' is to be
the title of Constance Talmadge's new
photoplay feature. 1t is comedy of
lighter vein.
Santa Ana, Cal. Roscoe ("Fatty'')
Arbuckle's boyhood home. wants him
to come back there to make his pic
of studio for him.
Margery Wilson. Texas Guinan and
Francis Mcdonald have started on a
magazine story under the working
title, Another Foolish Virgin"
Frank Bonn. a Triangle player. who
owns three ranches in the North
Yakima district of Washington, has
been informed that a bumper apple
crop is promised by present indications.
Thomas H. Ince wanted a thin man
for a character part One of the appli-
burned thin I have to have all my
clothes. 'ceptin' my handkerchiefs. made
to order"
1t is only in a photoplay that woman
can kiss herself, and this Gladys Brock
we'll succeeds in doing in '"Fhe Moral
Law" in which she appears in dual
role. 1t is one of the tricks of motion
Woman and the Law" in which a
mother had to smile at her baby and
the baby had to smile back. The moth
er came through all right, but the baby
refused even grin until the company
watching the scene executed a war
dance not in the scenario.
Tom Mix, recently elevated to film
stardom, previously had career. He
was a cowboy, a college student, sol
dier, a ranger, scout in Cuba and
the Philippines. a soldier in the forces
that relieved Peking and an organizer
of band of scouts to run down cattle
rustlers.
William S. Hart, who has made the
western bandit and gunman famous on
the screen, announces through Photo
play Art that he will retire from the
screen for all time at the end of his
contract. He sets five years
as the maximum for q movie star.
broadway Bill" Harold Lockwood's
picture, was staged, for the
most part, it is announced, in northern
Maine. while the thermometer register
ed 48 degrees below zero. with the
ground covered with four-foot fall of
snow and with a northern blizzard rag
ing.
The famous sombrero Of William S.
Hart, which is to be raffled off for the
Red Cross, was worn by him as Cash
Hawkins, in 1905-6, "The Virginian," in
lS07-S; as Dan Stark. in The Barrier"
1909, and Joe Brandt. in ''The Hold-up,"
1910, on the stage. while in pictures it
was worn in "On the Night Stage" The
"HeTl's Hinges THE Aryan,"
Between Men," THE Dawnmaker."
"rhe Patriot, wolf Lowry" THE