The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-25
CINEMA BREVTTIES
BY D. J. |.

Helen Ferguson, who Is playing op- posite Harry Mercy at the Vitagraph studios has been presented with a sleigh from an Alaskan adnirer. Hel- en is around crying for snow.
 Richard Barthelmess Is back on the coast busily engaged in the next Griffith production in which he Is to have a featured part. He Is adding sideburns and gotee to the mustache with which he surprised old friends here. Evidently he is going to be n highwayman or something of the sort He expects to be able to meet the barber and cut She disguise off some time in August.
 Barbara Cast1eton has returned from the coast where she played op 'posite HI. B, Warner in the picture "The Man Who Nurned White, ,, While out there Miss Castleton played in an all-star Aircraft special "Peg O My Heart
 Evelyn Martin, who is co-starrine with Guy Empey in "The Cndercur- rent is resting between pictures. Miss Martins idea of resting is tearing un
 
 keeping the "coppers' in anything but smiling mood.
 Betty Blythe has completed work In Dust of Desire" for which she was especially engaged and will leave Tor brief vacation at Lake George before signing new contract.
 Tarrytown has something else to be proud Of. Agnes Ayres spent a week there recently making scenes for the picturization of Charles Klein's '~The Gamblers Now they are thinking of naming one of the principal streets after her. already having a theatre that bears her name,
 Rod LaRoque will be seen in a role which Is really true to life in Love and the Woman's in which June FL vidge is the star. He is to play an artist. Rod spends much of his time at home painting with fairly satisfac- tory results. However, it must be said that he is a better artist on the screen than off.
 Erte, the artist, is the designer of one of Alice Joyce's gowns in ''ven- geance" her last picture under the di- rection of Tom Terr1ss. Wesley Rug gles just returned from the service, will direct her future pictures. Writing to friends fin town, Kenneth Webb, who is up on the New Eng land coast enjoying q vacation tells of some wonderful catches of fish he has made Just to prove that they are not fish stories" Ken has had snapshots taken of his catches, and is right in the picture holding up several pounds of the finny tribe. In the July issue of Vanity Fair an article written by Elsie Ferguson, My Two Years in the Movies," will be one of the special features Miss Ferguson, who has never before put down on paper her experiences before the camera, has given to the press some of the most amusing and de- Hghtful little touches of life behind the screen that has ever been written by a star.
 Tom santschi received a very fine offer to star in films to be made in Alaska, but Tom has a cozy home in Los Angeles and he is quite a home bird Besides, I am doing nicely here, thank you" he remarks Sant- schi is now under the direction of Frank Beal at the Fox studio in the West
 Mildred Davis is to be the new lead- ing woman to play opposite Harold Lloyd in Rolin comedies. She takes the place of Bebe Daniels who goes over to the Famous Players-Lasky studios Miss Davis is a petite blonde, and is pretty, clever and young Add to all this a fine figure, and one has the ideal feminine comedy lead. As soon at Bertram Grassby has finished his heavy work with Sessue Hayakawa, he will start on a produc- ton with Louise Glaum- Bert is al- ways busy.
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