The Washington herald., 1919-11-27

Elaine Hammerstein is progress
ing rapidly with her Greater Than
Fame" The picture is said to be
even more beautiful in setting than
was The Country Cousin" Walter
McGrail is again leading man and
Alan Crosland the director.
Eugene O'Brien completed his
work on THE Broken Melody" on
a Friday. and the following morning
started work on his fourth picture.
His wife's Money" This is said
to be the quickest action of the sort
on record. In The Broken Melody
cast Lucy Cotton and Corine Bar
ker.
The next picture in which Olive
Thomas will star will be known as
out of the Night" The fourth
Thomas picture. out Yonder.' Will
soon be seen in the theaters. 1t
was completed on a Thursday after
noon and the star started work on
"Out of the Night" the following
Monday. Since taking up the new
picture Miss Thomas has been work.
ing nights as well as days.
Before the great assemblage of
militant Americans brought together
in Minneapolis last Monday for the
first constitutional convention Of the
American Legion, Col. Henry ID.
Lindsey, chairman of the cOnven-
ton, read a letter from Samuel Gold
wyn, president of Goldwyn Pictures
Corporation. offering all the facilities
Of his tremendous producing and dis
tributing organization to propagate
the Legion's ideal of Americanism on
the screen.
Confirmation has been given to the
rumor which has been circulating
through the film world for the past
week to the effect that Thomas H.
Ince, Maurice Tourneur. Allen Dwan.
Mack Sennett and Marshall Neilan had
agreed to associate themselves in the
motion picture business upon the ex-
piration of their present contracts.
This is the first official announcement
to come from any of these widely
known producers.
One of the most priced possessions
starring with Doris May in Thomas
H. Ince productions. is a photograph
of his first sweetheart, with whom
he was madly in love. Mr.. MacLean
says there is not money enough in
the world to buy the picture from
him. The picture is one of Julia Ar
thur famous Shakespearean actress,
who was appearing in Chicago at
the time Douglas lost his heart. He
was IL years old at the time.
Upon completing women Men
Forget" her second production for
American Cinema Corporation, Mol
lie King. the American beauty, took
advantage of her brief vacation be-
tween picturs to visit again her Lex
ington. KY. estate with her hus-
band. Kenneth Alexander.
World Pictures has just completed
filming the screen version OF The
Steel King" a story of modern busI-
ness and romance, which it expects
will be one of the outstanding sue
cesses of the screen during many
seasons. and on which it expended
every effort to turn out a film mas
terpiece. The entire studio force at
Fort Lee and all of Worlds stars
are engaged in-this production,
which was directed by Oscar APPEL.
Under these circumstances. the fe-
male lead in the picture was en-
trusted to June Elvidge.
Leah Baird. the well-known star
of the Artco-Hodkinson Special pic
turization of Augustus Thomas
greatest plays. has achieved the sIg-
nal distinction of having the newly
reconstructed studios at Cliffside,
N. j.. named after her. This move
places Miss Baird among the screens
elite and also insures her every COM
fort and convenience in the produc-
tion of her subsequent pictures.
After achieving undisputed promi-
nence on the screen as one of its
most noteworthy leading men and
younger male stars in feature pro-
ductions. Herbert Rawlinson is now
engaged in filming twenty two-reeI
features which are based on cases
handled by the United States Secret