The Washington herald., 1919-01-23
NEWS AND REVIEWS
FILM FLASHES.


This month Famous Players will
commence issuing the new comedies
of Mr.. and Mra Sidney Drew. As
their present stage play. Keep Her
Smiling" they will take with them a
complete motion-picture equipment,
and will do stories according to To-
cation.
We may anticipate fine results from
the union of Director Lois Weber and
Actress Anita Stewart. It's one of
the most interesting and hopeful
business combinations of the year.
Miss Stewart is on the coast now,
and Miss Weber Is not only director
of her first story there, but author
and continuity writer as well.
The announcement of Priscilla
Deans engagement to Capt Edward
Rickenbacker, American ace of aces
is q fine example of cheap CONNER
cial exploitation Of private affairs,
Rickenbacker denied II by cable-and
then Miss Dean denied 1t.
Maurice Costello. long considered
finally retired. Is back at Vitagraph,
acting opposite Alice Joyce. Another
comeback is Edna Mayo, star of a
new company. In play called
Hearts of Love"
Ruth Roland Is endeavoring TO be-
come Ruth Roland. That is to say.
she Is endeavoring to say a legal
goo'-by to her husband, Lionel Kent
She alleges cruelty.
Fred Stone proposes a punishment
for the late Kaiser which is almost
too terrible. Stone says: Lock him
up in an automat restaurant without
a nickel
Crane Wilbur is now Papa Wilbur
For his wife, on November Is, pre-
sented him a son.
william Shea is dead. He was a
veteran of picture veterans, for he
began to act before the camera thir-
teen years ago. with the Vitagraph
Company. He died at his home in
Brooklyn.
Wonder what Olive Thomas will do.
now that Triangle seems to be his
tory? At his writing she is resting
in New York, but the welcome mat is
said to be out at the New Amsterdam
Theater-the home of 1.-The Follies''-
and at the office door of Select.
Is this the day of the individual pro-
duction as against the program. the
great owning company. and every
thing else of kindred nature? There
are strong indications that 1t Is. Chap
lin was the big success who led the
way where others had failed, Kerri-
gan seems to be going along. Mary
Pickford is her own mistress at last
Walthsll is, to all intents, a solo. So
is Anita Stewart. Frank keenan, is
preparing to produce Independently.
Ralph Ince-as a director-has just
started to do so-and Fannie Ward is
said to be on the independent horizon
Infiuenza's last reaping in Los An
geles took Anna Harron. Bobbie Har-
ron's 19-year-old-sister; and Wayland
Trask. the big husky of Mack Sem
nett's comedies.
More than 5000 wads of gum were
removed from beneath the seats Of
a single Chicago motion picture the
ater. after the city health depart
ment had selected this playhouse as
their experimenting ground in a
search for forlorn and abandoned
cuds. Now We know who pays for
Wrigley's block-long electric sign
on Times Square. New York-the
greatest and most expensive electric
sign in the world.
Do the Los Angeles courts have
time to try anything except picture
squabbles and actorial love-stories
that missed fire? Add civil actions
James Young's suit for $4,000
against c. r. McCauley. the New
York cartoonist end film promoter.
Cause of war, a propaganda picture
Mr.. Young alleges he was engaged
to direct.
Unbelievable-that Julian Eltinge- in
THE Fascinating Widower," will be
his manly self without once resortinG
to corsets and long wig. However,
that's what is definitely promised.
Normal Talmadge has signed with
the First National Exhibitors Cir
cult. First National. having signed
Mary Pickford and Jack Pickford,