The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-02
CINEMA BREVITTES
BY D. J. l..

The scenario for Eddie Polo's new ] Universal serial still being far from | finished the popular star has begun
 work on a third two reel Western drama entitled Buck Lawson Pays a 1 Debt" This is the second of a, ser
 ies of Buck Lawson stories Polo has
 used.
 l Charles Ray has a role in The Sheriffs Son" his next picture which | affords him splendid chance to give 1 constructive interpretation of an interesting psychological character. ! Seena Owen, whose screen acting has won her much critical praise Is sup porting Ray and also has a fine role. It Is not generally known that Leah Baird Is a scenario writer and that many of her pen products are well known to film fans and have served as successful vehicles for many of her contemporary stars. Following are several of her screen stories and the stars of same: Kiss of Retributton'
 with Norma Talmadge; '"The Mould ing" with Anita Stewart; "A Soul l in Bondage" with Earle Williams, and ! ''T'he Dawn of Understanding" with E. K. Lincoln.
 Charles Hutchinson, who is starring with Anne Luther in ''The Great Gamble" was injured last week while 1 taking scenes for the serial in Chat tanooga, where the company went for exterior work about a month ago. MT. | Hutchinson was geIloping down a steep cliff when the accident occur red. The horse upon which he was riding lost his footing. Unable to get control of the animal Hutchinson was 1 dashed head1ong against a rock and 1 knocked unconscious. He is now on 1 the road to recovery.
 Norma Talnadge who has been
 making snow scenes for her latest picture, '"The New Moon," a Russian story, returned from Saranac Lake i last week and started work at her l own studios. Many picturesque I scenes were taken at Saranac, where
 a log cabin colony was built, and doz-
 ems of Russian officers in their hand l some uniforms, and loose-bloused ! long bearded Bolsheviki and peasant
 girls in their gay sashes and pretty
 shawls tramped about thea hills in | twelve inches of snow. A couple of ! jingling sleighs lent further atmos- | phere- Miss Talmadge, who has play | ed French, American, English, Chin csc, Indian heroines will have an op- portunity to add a Russian princess
 to her long list of characterizations. Dorothy Gish's leading man is in
 trouble. He has been buying a car. At lunch recently Miss Gish asked
 him: MT Barthelness, what is your
 car, a Cadillac or a Chandler?'' 1 To-
 player. Its a conspiracy
 No more beautiful photography has
 ever been seen in motion pictures
 than that in The Girl Who Stayed al Home" D. W. Griffiths latest pro-
 duction. The two leading male roles
 are played by Robert Harron and
 Richard Barthelmess while opposite
 them respectively are seen Clarine Seymour and Carol Dempster.
 Working all night out on location
 sounds like an awful hardship, but
 that's what Olive Thomas did one
 night last week in fulfilment of the
 eXigencies of her new production '"Tht
 Spite Bride" However, it's no
 nearly so bad as it sounds, since tn,
 location was the dining room of tht
 Alexandria Hotel. Really this stor,
 doesn't begin until somewhere nea.
 morning, when Joe Engel of the Metro company and the party to whom h,
 had been giving supper upstairs de , cided it was time to go home. Meet ! ing Miss Thomas they jubiIantly con sented to appear as "eXtras' in he cafe scene. John Ince, the director who hasn't appeared on the screel 5 for years did & small bit, that of man who had dined well but not wise ly. And MT. Ince hadn't lost a bi ' of cleyerness-indeed it was q won r derfuI piece of acting, said Mis-
 Thomas afterward-just as natural a could be.