The Washington herald., 1920-12-05
TALK OF THE PLAYERS WORLD

For years we have had soaps. per.
fumery and various other articles
advertised as being the special
brand of some stage fayorite, and
now we have a new one A sign
on upper Broadway, New York. sets
forth that the establishment is the
Poor Little Ritz Girl' garage. Fiji
teen members of the Lew Fields
musical comedy have stored their
/ cars there for the winter.
Rising costs of transportation.
however. carried away all margin
of profit. Doyle and Dixon, thus
idled. have stepped into the cast
of -Hitchy-Koo," replacing Charles
Withers, whose act, while unde-
niably comic, was considered not
Of a piece with the ensemble.
One of the tales which Irene
Franklin has brought back from the
hinterland concerns the manner in
which Ethel Barrymore. in the final
act of "Declassee," died for Henry
Ford during her recent engagement
in Detroit. In the midst of the
death scene Miss Barrymore espied
Mr.. Ford in the audience, and OBJ
served that her leading man, as
the scene had always been played,
would be in Mr.. Ford's line of Wis
ion and cut off his view of her.
Accordingly. clutching the actor
firmly by the arm just as she sank
back upon the cushions, Miss Bar
rymore swept the surprised per-
former to one side-and died tri-
umphantly with Mr.. Ford's gaze full
upon her.
After all, "Evind of the Hills" is
to be produced at the Greenwich
Village Theater, in New York. but
only for special matinees. Those
who have been invited to take part
include Margaret Wycherley, Har-
| rison Hunter, George Gaul and e
G. Robinson. 1t will be presented
at the Greenwich in about two
weeks.
The French comedian, Max Lin.
der. will lie seen in four comedies
yearly under a new contract just
signed with the Robertson-Cole
Company. The first will be entitled
Seven Years Bad Luck"
Harold Lloyd is now making his
first comedy under his new contract
with Associated Theaters, Inc.
after a long alliance with Pathe
The pictures starring this meteoric
farceur and featuring his beautiful
leading lady, Mildred Davis, are now
shown in more than 1000 of the
$4,000 theaters of America-a record
| N - IlaIaH hty o-It fxu1 ~tk kn
screen celebrities.
"a word of caution to those who
would producing GO in the thea
ter. They want to make sure that
| they have the capital at least. The
cost of production has increased
greatly. like everything else" said
William Harris, jr., in a recent in
terview, Mr.. Harris being the gen.
tleman who produced John Drink.
waters abraham Lincoln" East
Is West" and a few others. "A
good. modest musical comedy will
cost the manager $4,000 before the
first performance. (And immodes,
ones they say are even more ex-
pensiveD II 1t fails to go over, he
may lose, 100000 by the time the
road losses are footed and all the
money is spent trying to get the
thing on it's feet. In the same way
It Is an easy thing to sink s25, ,o0O
TO $4,000 in a dramatic failure"
Bessie Loves future movements
are matter ~ unusual interest, in
the first place because she Is to be
the second of our cinema stars to
make a picture in EnrIand--fn his
toric England, one might say: in the
second place the picture is to be
based onNone OF Charles Dickens
greatest works.
A. ]. Callaghan. the stars pro-
ducef. announces that her trip to