The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-05
IN STUDIO LAND
Facts and Fancies About the Folks
Who Make the Films

81 WIN WOhS sHS liz
A dramatic critic, who apparently can't
see the moving pictures through the
Mount Wilson telescope, said recently
that the claim of the moving picture peo-
pie that the camera went everywhere
was an exaggeration.
OF course, the camera hasn't gone ev-
cry place. 1t hasn't gone to perdition
yet. notwithstanding our critic would APP
parently like to send it there, and l don
think there are any cameras in Heaven,
but then the camera IS comparatively
only q recent invention. Give 1t chance.
1t has, however, been at the South Pole;
| almost to the North Pole; at the bottom
of the seas; in the crater of more than
one volcano; in the jungles of India. AT
RIGA and South America; 5000 feet under
ground in the Calumet & Hecla mine; in
i balloons and aeroplanes as high as 10000
feet above the earth; in the tombs of
Egypt; in the tundras of Siberia; in the
uncharted regions of the upper Amazons;
/ in the front line trenches; and under fire
of enemy guns; in the deserts of Sahara,
America and Asia; on top of the Hima-
layas and in the valley of the Dead Sea;
among the furnaces Of the steel mills and
/, in the swanps of the rice country; on
| battleships and railroad trains, in palaces
and in novels, among the cannibals of
the South Seas and in the vaults Of the
worlds treasures, in factory and in
schoolroom, III clinic and in lecture room.
Where does our critic want the camera
to go? Where indeed
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| Thomas jefferson, son of that famous
grand old man" of the stage, Joseph
Jefferson, the creator of Rip Van Wrinkle,
is member of the cast supporting Creigh
ton Hale and June Caprice in the first
picture they are making together.
4 Corinne Griffith promises US, though
as to details she maintains the mum
NEST" kind of secrecy, that her next pro
duction will founce before us a number
of startling creations. Very well, Corrie
, we will be waiting
Cant say that this prohibition sweeI
was much of SURPRISE" remarked Beri
: Lytell, during spare moment in ths
filming. of his late picture at the Holly
! wood studio, because it's been a big
year for ice water anyway
"How's that?" asked John Ince, whc
is directing the piece.
81 say it's been big year for ice wat
err repeated the star, "ever since tn,
hotels have been hiring girls as bellboys.
: 1t is now rumored that the new add
) ton to the Big Four combine is to be nom
other than our own popular Norma Tai
T madge, she of that winning personality.
A frail skiff furnished Mabel Normant
{ with considerable thrill the other day
The .curly haired coincidence was rowinl
across Balboa Bay, when a sudden wins
proved bit too strong for the craft. Lik
c the tree-top song of our baby days owe
: went Mabel and the boat and all. S
, Mabel had good ducking that WASH
part of the scenario, and swim to shor
with all her toys on-also not planne'
: ahead
: Robert Gordon, back from war, is nov
leading man for Dorothy Dalton.
e And Eugene O'Brien is playing heroe
opposite our little magnet, Marguerite
= Clark.
When dainty Peggy Hyland is not bus
at the studio she spends her time in he
home breeding all varieties of birds A
present she has % canaries, Ii cockatoos
six parrots and 60 prize carrier pigeons
r Where's the game warden?
q Mae Marsh has retired temporary
from the screen, and will be seen shortl
n in vaudeville.
Wally Van has returned to the screen
e and is now at work on his first produC
e ton for the Rothapfel Film corporation
o Jess Willard is contemplating plung
into he motion picture field, as produce
. and actor-he will produce all right
Sometime this month production c
Thait, starring Mary Garden, will tax
place at the Vatican in Rome, to b
viewed by the Pope and his attendin
cardinals. Anthony Interrante, Goldwyn'
representative in Rome is responsible 70
the arrangements.
irene Castle will appear shortly unde
the Paramount banner in The Firing Line
She is at present in Cuba, where she wen
to recuperate from severe attack of th
flu. The Firing Line is by Robert Chan
hers.
The last picture made by the one an
only Harold Lockwood will be release
this month some time and is entitled .
Man of Honor
The Famous Players-Lask, Corp. ha
just broken ground for a mammoth bi
studio in Long Island, to be built on tn