The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-11-05
About Film Stars
and Newest Plays


and Newest Plays
| Alice Brady, who is now at work for
Realart on her next starring produc-
ton. Voice of the Blood" is known
as one of the best dressed women on
the screen, despite the fact that she
refuses to follow the dictates of fash
ion. Miss Mrady believes that to be
well dressed you must wear what be-
comes you, not what you see in the
shop windows or the fashion magazine.
Mary Miles Minter has completed
work on Eyes of the Heart" adapted
from Blindness" by Dana Burnet and
has already started work on Cali Souls
Eye" the Ann Crawford Flexner stage
success, which Chester Franklin is di-
recting. Jack Holt will play the lead
opposite Miss Minter. Carmen Philips,
Mickey Moore, Clarence Geldhart and
Lottie Williams are also in the cast
of the Realart feature.
prairie Flowers" story of the
great West by James B. Hendryx, is
now being put into the picture form
by William Fox. The production will
be released under the title Prairie
Trails" with Tom Mix as the star.
| Beatrice Durham is playing opposite
Earl Williams in his next Vitagraph
feature taken from Diamonds Adrift,"
magazine story by Frederick J. Jack
son. Miss Burnham is the Spanish
| type required by the story.
| "The Sin That Was His" William
Faversham's new picture for Selznick
is from a story by Frank L. Packard,
author of 1.-THE Miracle Man." 1t will
come into a Broadway theatre for a
New York run when it is released.
Lewis J. Selznick characterizes it as
|
One of the novel scenes in
Peaceful Valley" Charles Rays next
picture, will be the perpendicular
farm" described in the play. 1t was
cultivated on the side of steep hill
for the purpose.
ga Mans Home" the next Ralph
Ince special for Selznick is the story of
man who was so actively engaged in
welding power and accommodating mil
lions, that he neglected his own home,
and awoke one morning to find it in
helpless disorder. How he set it right
again, re-won the love of his wife and
protected the future happiness of his
daughter is the theme of the Anne
| Steele Richardson and Edmund Breese
play.
Catherine Calvert, who portrays the
leading role in Vitagraph's mammoth
production of Dead Men Tell No
Tales" has returned from two weeks
vacation spent in Canada. Her final
weeks work on this picture is being
done this week. The big sailing YES
sci used in the production, the Lady
Jermyne," will blow up off Northporr,
Long Island, and this will complete
the actual camera work on this special
production. Tom Terriss is directing
Dead Men Tell No Tales" and has
closely followed the action of the book,
written by e. W.Hornung, author of
"Raffles."
George Randolph Chester, produc- |
ton editor of Vitagraph, has finished |
his new novel, "The Son of Walling |
ford" in collaboration with Lillian
Chester. 1t is regarded as possible |
that Mr.. Chester will himself direct |
this film production, after the novel
has been published in prominent |
magazine.
Agnes Martin, who scored such a |
pronounced hit on the stage in Daddy |
Long Legs" "Rio Grande" and "The
Brat" is the latest of the legitimate |
stars to hear the call of the motion
pictures. She appears opposite Johnny |
Hines in "Torchy Turns Cupid" one
A. do fr.0y
the stories of the red headed office
boy by Sewell Ford and released
through Educational.
In the supporting company of Pearl
White in "The Thief" from Henri
Bernstein's great New York, London
and Paris stage success, are Wallace
McCutcheon, Charles Waldron, Anth-
Il