The Washington herald., 1919-09-14
Movie Stars Embark For
Production Trip OUerseas
Thirty of Them Sail for Italian Studios to
Make. Pictures for "Filn-NIad Starve-
lings of Russia

New York. Sept. l3-The first boat
load of movie stars-thirty. count
'em-to sail to Europe. leave the mid
die of the week to occupy the Italian
studios and make moving pictures for
the movie -mad-starvelings of Russia.
Everybody in7Russia is going into the
moving picture business. On a block
near the Metropole Hotel in Petrograd
there are fourteen moving picture
theaters
The rich. the poor and the middle
classes flock to the movies and many
of them open at S o'clock in the morn
ing to accommodate the crowds all
day long. Pat Powers. the Universal
chief. is, sending the first boat load
across, following the alliance of his
company with the Garibaldi interests
called the Roma-New York Pictures
Corporation.
There will no doubt be many zippy
wireless stories of hand-to-fn battles
with man-eating sharks with the mar
celled hero saving the fair haired
heroine in the middle of the Atlantic.
However. the movie stars may now
sneer a couple of sneers at their sis
ters on the legitimate stage, who al
ways contended that the movies con-
sisted in committing between Fort
Lee and the theatrical boarding houses
of the forties.
Horses Draw Crowds.
Speaking of the movies. Checkers"
is playing at a Broadway theater and
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race horses saddled out in front The
way the crowds gather around to see
them equals the lure of Bosco, the
snake eater, at the county fair.
Broadway is getting lively again,
now that the strike is over. The first
new production immortalizes Houston
street. which vanished from stageIand
with the passing of THE Music
Master" Now Houston street comes
back.
Houston street is the nowhere re-
ferred to in up From Nowhere" the
new American play by Booth TarK-
ington and Harry Leon Wilson. All
the critics like it save three And you
cannot please everybody. 1t is from a
little cigar store in Houston street
that Harrington and Wilson's new
hero. George Washington Silver, rose
to fame and fortune.
Works by Wireless.
And George Washington Silver is a
splendid character. He is the new
American. Il am part Portugee,"
explains Silver, part Dago, part Irish,
part Swede. I'm a wop." He is the
most refreshing character that ever
staggered across the boards. He is a
cousin of pirates, more than half
devil. yet wholly a gentleman and he
knows the feminine heart and how to
conquer it. Norman Trevor as Silver
has made one of the hits of the year
in the play.
The craze to kill distance-annihilate
space-is becoming worse each day.
Hark to A. M. Andrews, a Wall street
broker. who has equipped his Yacht
with wireless telephone, so he is
now able to look after his business
and still cruise around Long Island
Sound at the same time. He calls
up his office every hour, while the
Exchange is open, and gets the latest
quotations. He gives instructions and
rings of. He is the first Wall street
man to do this. AS yet he is unable
to call his office at will on his radio
phone. as there is no wireless signal
to ring a bell at the other end. lie
and his Office manager have arranged
to listen in" on the hour from 10 to
8. Later on he hopes to have his
radio-phone equipped with a wireless
signal so as to be able to call his
office at any time. Mr.. Andrews, by
the way, used to be "a week office
boy before he began accumulating
his millions-and he is reputed to have
quite a few.
Has Faith in 2.75.
Devotees of the Beaux Arts, the
little bit of Paris tucked away oppo-