The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-08
CINEMA BREVITIES
BY D. J. l..

II BY D. J. IL. Il
 Fanny Ward. the motion picture star, and her husband, Jack Dean were among the notable passengers
 who left on the White Star Liner
 Adriatic when 1t pulled out of it's
 dock for Liverpool last week. They will stay abroad and travel exten- sively probably returning some time
 in the Fall.
 Emory Johnson, leading man for Margarita Fisher, has gone to the trouble of growing a genuine mus
 tache rather than wear a crepe hair adornment for his part in 'Trixie from Broadway" Johnson has re- peatedly experimented with false mus taches, but declares that the real thing puts 1t all over the best of them. In his latest picture he plays the role of a young orange rancher who becomes involved in a romance with a Broadway chorus girl.
 Production of a new Mary Miles Minter feature tentatively titled "Yvonne from PariS' was started this week at the American's Santa Bar bara studios. The story relates the adventures of a Parisian dancer who comes to America and learns that the highway to success Is not strewn with roses. Miss Minter has a most unusual part and she is supported by Alan Forrest. J. Barney Sherry, Vera Lewis. Rosemary Theby, Bert Grassby and r. E. Warren.
 One of the most disconcerting sit uationS ever put into a photoplay Is said to be contained in Dorothy Gish's latest Paramount picture "Peppy Pol ly' when Polly, after planning with the judge of the juvenile court to be sentenced to three months in a. refor- matOry so she may obtain evidence of graft in the institution, comes into court and finds the wrong judge on the bench, and is sentenced to the re- formatory for three years. Lots of pep to "Peppy Polly" and in the main support is again seen Richard Barthelmess.
 The inmates of the Minnesota State penal institution at Still water were royalty entertained recently by a i screening of Adele" In which Kitty 1 Gordon Is starring. Members of the 1 Red Cross Chapter at Saltwater were also present at this presentation. To add a bit of realism to the occasion, lpI lhb pS&y IS DullL ATOuHO the nO9- pital corps of the allied army, the la dies were attired in their Red Cross uniforms.
 Robert Harron and Lillian Gish will ! not be seen as opposite leads in 'The l Girl Who Stayed at Home" as Miss Gish is now vacationing, a much | needed one at that These two stars have appeared together more than l any other two people and have been | with MT. Griffith for seven years. | When vacations came to be spoken of | Mir. Harron exhibited his chivalry by l suggesting that Miss Gish take hers first. On her return MT. Griffith had | decided to produce a Chinese pie | ture and Mir. Harron, after several | studious hours on the subject, re- | marked that, although he had spent | considerable time in front of the look | ing glass he could in no wise bring l himself to resemble one or any of the | people who came over to wash up | America So he was excused.
 Owen Moore has been a screen ia | vorite long enough to reminisce with telling effect. Participating in Rex i Beach's "The Crimson Gardenia" he recalls the vast difference between | methods ten years ago and today. | Then he used to appear in two short | pictures weekly. Now 1t frequently | happens that Director Reginald Bar ker devotes an entire day to rehears- | ing a single scene, so complicated are | the characterizations and the action in | the Beach drama.
 When MT. and Mrs Sidney Drew 1 were staging the mystic initiation | scenes which add laughter to the cur | rent Paramount Drew comedy "Once | Mason" the president of the V. B. | K. Film Corporation chanced to visit | the studio. You're just the type we l need for this scene" exclaimed Mrs. | Drew, when she spied him Before i the visitor had a chance to remon- l strate. MT. Drew followed Mrs Drew's cue and hustled him down to a dress ing room. Ten minutes later, draped 1 in royal robes MT. Van Beuren was on | the lodge room set following the di- | rections of Mrs. Drew. His business in the scenes required him to hold the l Eoat.-the all-important prop in such