Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-04
HER "sHIMMY"
WINS JOB
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
WINS JOB

"Toby's Bow" 1t was a fancy
dress ball of Bohemia. Director
Harry Beaumont had searched
IN vain for someone to do the
"shimmy" in closeup. Then his
eye happened to stray over to a
corner where girl not on the set
at the moment was dancing. He let
out a yell. He had found Just what
he wanted. He didn't know her
name, SO he had to call, "You with
the yellow hair and the fringed
crimson scarf, come here" She
came. And in the picture she viii
be seen in an interesting demonstra-
ton Of the proper manner of doing
the latest dance.
Following the release of "Dropped
Into Scandal the first of the new
series of Gayety comedies featuring
George Ovey, many hilarious fun at
fractions are being planned The
comedies are one reel each in length
and are termed as polite slapstick."
Ovey, with Lillian Biron and the
Gayety girls, are featured in the first
two releases, Dropped Into Scam
dal'' and Are Flirts Foolish?" The
third of the Gayety comedies has
also been started under the direction
of Carig Hutchinson 1T will be en-
titled Dark and Cloudy"
The Goldwyn Pictures corpora
ton has acted quickly ON its recent
decision to make pictures in the
east as we'll as at Culver City. The
officials of the company have ap-
pointed Robert B. Mcintyre produc-
lion manager in the east, and he is
now busily engaged in arranging de-
tails for the first eastern Goldwyn
production since the company es-
tablished its California plant. The
picture which has been selected is
Partners of the Night" by Leroy
Scott.
"The Fortune Hunter" one Of
Broadway's most successful plays
last season, has been chosen by Mar
jore Rambeau and Albert Capollani
to be picturized for Miss Rambeau's
debut as Pathe star.
John w. Grey, president of Su-
preme Pictures, Inc, announced that
his new Master Mind" serial will
take advantage Of the craze for the
occult Ez
This vogue for the psychic" says
Mr.. Grey, us the aftermath OF the
war in literature and the drama.
Why not in pictures which are the
dearest mirror of life? That was
the question that occurred to me and
was confirmed by Arthur B. Reeve,
the novelist and short story writer
associated with me here in our
Flushing studio.
"In some instances, previously,
attempts have been made in pictures
to portray hypnotism as an agent
of evil but these portrayals have
been not only untruthful, but un-
interesting. In the master Mind"
we use this for the good and up
lift of humanity
"Men in penal institutions natur-
ally have little to think of, and what
diversion is afforded them is made
much of and its Importance magni-
fed" declares Mary Miles Minter,
Realart star. Miss Minter says she
receives many letters from convicts
in penitcntiaries all over the United
States, wherever the institution pos
sesses moving picture outtt to give
the inmates some diversion, and IN !
the future she intends to do all she |
can to make the lives OF .tese poor
unfortunates as pleasant as condi- |
tons permit.
Photographed at great peril and
after innumerable hardships, the !
first of the pictures taken on. the |
Paramount-Va Vanderbilt expedition |
into an rnexplored region of the |
Canadian Rockies is now IN readi-
ness and will be released December
q as part of the Paramount, Maya
zine. The expedition, which was
gone three months and returned
only recently, was headed by Corne-
Illus Vanderbilt, jr., son OF Brig.
Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt. and IN
cluded in its personal several
wealthy New York sportsmen..
an the Canadian Wilds" is the
title of the first of the Vanderbilt
pictures. which was made in, sec
ton south of Bonff, in British Al
berta. shortly after young Wander
bilt had been made an honorary
chief of The famous Stoney tribe OF
Indians.
The expedition made its journey
from Banff south into the wider
ness entirely by pack train, sent INTO
the wilds by the nonhction depart
ment of Famous Players-Lasky cor,
poration. 1t went to the heao
waters Of the Spray river. thence
through the Goat range to pony
cast Of Mt. Assiniboine. thence south
through pass in the Misty range. to
H;uhwood river, and from there tor
20 miles south they were IN an uii-
oharted territory.
Josephine Sedgewick, champion
woman broncho rider of the world
and former leading lady for Will
Rogers. has been signed by Robert
Relation TO play opposite Jack
Dempsey in his $lS5,000 western Sc
rial. Miss Sedgewick has prooaoiy
won more riding and roping con
tests than any other cowgirl IN the
country.
Albertina Rasch may not be seen
in vaudeville again, at least. tor a
long while. Miss Rasch, who is now
tripping the light fantastic on the
Orpheum circuit, is planning great
ballet troupe under the auspices OF
one of the leading impressarios OF
the country.
Alfred ]. Moore. conductor OF the
United States jazz band. now Jazz
ing-it-up" on the Orpheum circuit, IS
going back into politics when theif