The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

Goldwyn contract this fall. Miss Nor
mand will go under the A. H Woods
banner for a season on the speaking
stage in a new comedy called, Go
Easy. Mabel"
Germany is flooding her market
with rank pictures The majority are
highly immoral
Nine. Sarah Bernhard has returned
70 Paris after tour of Brittany and
Normandy.
All Orpheum houses thru the mid
die west Will try a three shows per
day policy beginning June l.
The road show with Wallace Reid
as the star was a complete failure.
The show has closed.
Writers who write Stories about
stage life make it so easy for a chorus
girl to become a star over night.
The spotlight often reveals more
imperfections than talent.
The state department refused to is
sue passports for Mr.. and Mrs. Doug
las Fairbanks owing to the pending
trouble in the west over their divorce
and marriage.
The popularity of Georges Carpen-
tier in the United States was striking
~ emphasized yesterday when the
New York County American Legion
voted to take charge of his debut as
motion picture star.
Ninety-four pounds is the exact
weight of Gloria Hope.
she is drinking nine glasses of
mailed milk daily in hope of achiev-
ing her ambition, which is to weigh
100.
Only two women will be in the cast
nf Tho Rrinppre
They are Eczema Keefe and Anita
Booth It's a story of adventure, star
ring Ralph Ince.
Frances Haskell. daughter of the
first governor o. the state of Okla
homa. makes her screen debut in sup
port of William Farnum in THE Ad-
venturer"
Gloria Swanson was married recent
" to Herbert Sonborn, president of
the Equity Pictures corporation.
Irene Castle one of the best dressed
women OF the screen. has signed a
CONTRACT to design dresses and wraps
for one of Chicago's largest mail order
houses.
The prohibition question. which
seems to be bothering lots of us, might
be answered satisfactorily by some of
the old timers who remember the pro-
QuctOns A temperance IoWn, pro-
duced In New York on September IS,
1924. This play was by Charles Hoyt.
INDIGNATION surged upward when
the lonc-"1f "ering public heard there
Is a possibility of five-dollar theater
seats. what's the kick? Records
show that in 1850 orchestra seats were
selling at three collars in nearly all
sections of the country-and nobody
complained.
Tully Marshall. who has one of the
principal parts in The Gift Supreme"
Republic picture. had the part of
Sylvius in Shakespeare's las You Like
iSaa.
T'he first theatrical performance in
Cili go was given in 1897. in a theater
controlled by Dean and Mckinley.
The first Chicago theater worthy of
the name was opened ten years later
The first newspaper editorial to be
produced for the screen is "A Good
Fellow" made by Lewis ]. Selznick,
from a Herbert Kaufman editorial.
Famous Dancer at Cozy.
Information supplied by Press Depart
mcnt of Theater)
Theodore Kosloff, the famous Rus
sian interpretative dancer, is a mem
Der of the all-star cast of the new
Cecil b. DeMille production, why
Change Your Wife," which will be
shown at the Cozy theater for six days
commencing Monday next. Kosloff,
who is well known thruout the world,
made his screen debut several years
ago in The Woman God Forgot" also
produced by Mr.. DeMille. He was
very anxious at that time to continue
with the cinema, but stage contracts
prohibited.
The opportunity to reappear in pic
lures came a few months ago when
Kosloff was planning his Australian
tour. Upon receiving the offer from
Famous Players-Lasky corporation:
the trip was cancelled and Koslotf
agreed to play in two DeMille specials,
of which why Change Your Wife %
is the first. In this story, which was
written by William DeMille. Kosloff
has the role of a Russian musician,
who forms the fourth party in mat
rimonial square.
Thomas Meighan and Gloria Swan
son figure prominently in the cast or
why Change Your Wife ?" tho every
player is a screen parsonage OF note.
Olga Printzlau and Sada Cowan fur
nished the scenario. It is a Para
mount Aircraft picture
Another Sennctt Super.
Another super-comedy in five reels
Is announced from the producing
genius of Mack Sennett whose Down
on the Farm" was the fourth multiple
reel production made by the comedy
king The fifth, which will be released
July To- is titled Married Life and
exploits an entirely different field of
humor than Down on the Farm.
Like all Sennetts productions, Mar
ried Life" promises to be as timely ms
today's editorial. While Married
Life" exploits no particular star, It Is a
comedy written with the idea, con-
stantly in mind, to provide an appro-
pirate leading role for Ben Turpin.
The inimitable comedy performer with
the inimitable eyes. a regular demon
OF a Romeo. whose glances strike hus-
bands hearts with apprehensive jeal-