Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
News of the Motion Picture
Stars and Their Plays

William Farnum, well known film
alton at the Clara Barton Hospital,
Los Angeles, and is now at work on
The Lone Star Ranger" from the
story by Zane Grey.
During the heighth of the Salvation
Army. Home Service Fund drive
Americas sweetheart. Mary Pickford,
sold newspapers on the streets OF
Los Angeles. She was probably the
highest priced newsie that ever hol-
Miss Pickford was attired as a SAL
vation Army lassie and so gracious
was she in this new role that the
Les Les Angeles Express got out special
Smiling Bill" Parsons is planning
to make Capitol Comedies in Mexcio
Hawaii, the Philippines and the West
make tour of the world. hut de-
cided, after negotiations with the
State Department, to postpone his
wSIld s0Tr until peace is restosed sfar
around the Latin-American and
Ukulele circuits. His comedies Will
probably be released at the Colonial
as soon as they are made.
Minta Durfee, Fatty Arbuckle's
wife has decided to return to the
moving picture game. She recently
made an announcement to this effect.
Her plans are not yet in form for
detailed statement, but the come
dienne will probably favor the comic
side in her next creations, although
putting her comedy on somewhat
For the past two years Miss Dur
fee has been engaged in relief work.
Constance Talmadge. the versatile
to Il /, 4, nj n
the hearts of Harrisburg audiences
announced yesterday her latest re-
lease. The Yelled Adventurer." The
story is original with Julia Crawford
lNers who also furnished the seen
ario. Miss Talmadge again takes the
role of Il fun-loving girl.
A reproduction of the Dragon
in old Pekin = will be one of the
many scenes in the latest Nazimova
production, The Red Lantern"
=, The Dragon Room is reproduced to
pillars. its carved throne. inlaid in
stones, its hand wrought fligree and
dragons and all the sumptuousness
that surrounded the yellow monarchs
overthrow and establishment of re-
public in the ancient land of the Mon
gols. June Myths and Albert Capel-
lani collaborated in adapting THE
INeu Lantern TO the SCTeen
While the scenic environment. of
the Nazimova production is the last
word in artistry, the story itself Is
one that stands out in bold relief
from the beautiful background; 1t
an Burasian girl, Mahlee, in whom
runs the blood of a Chinese mother
and an Anglo-SaXon father - against
very unkind fate.
Besides enacting the role of Mahlee.
Nazimova does that of Blanche Sack :
Vile, natural daughter of Mahlee's
English father. This part, so unlike
that of the Eurasian girl, is COM
plete transformation in makeup and
emotional range. AS Mahlee, NaZi-
nova is darkly oriental. as Blanche
Sackville. she is a blonde = stately
and aristocratic.
This picture will soon be shown in
Harrisburg.
Pauline Frederick loves the society
of people with ideals : young people
who are ambitious, such as one would
meet at a gathering of art students,
for instance. She always delights
in encouraging. them to confide. in her
and in aiding them whenever she can:
Having been on the stage herself
she knows how difficult it is for a
young person to enter into the show
business seeking fame.
While making her latest picture
for Golwyn entitled zone Week of
Life she learned there was plenty
of chance for her love for idealists
to grow. In this picture she has an
occasion to go into Los Angeles.
There she made a new friend - a
Chinese poet who is now contributing
short poems to newspapers. Miss
Fredericks, knowing more than the
average person about literature is his
tutor.
Moving picture magnates are now
patting Director Emmett j. Flynn,
director of Mary Miles Minter, on
the back for using "Miramar" bung-
allow of artistic design located in the
foothills of Santa Barbara in his
latest film. This bungalow has stood
for several years inaccessible to the
movie camera owing to it's location.
But Flynn got 1T at last He made
at least fifteen futile attempts.
Jack London's famous novels which
have readers the world over are soon
to be introduced in filmdom by c. Il.
Shurtlem and j. Frank Brockliss
Work on the reproduction of Jack
London's novels will start as soon as
Mr.. Shurtleff returns from the Golden
Gate where he has gone for the pur-
pose of locating characters to be used
in this work. The stories will be
filmed in the east.
Yankee Doodle in Berlin"
Sounds lively doesn't it And IL is
lively. This Is the name Of the latest