The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-24
ST A CE
 " WHISPERINCS
By E. s. G.

1 Pioneer has acquired the rights for 1 New York city, New York state and
 northern New Jersey of the screen adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "A Man
 There Was.' Victor Seastrom, actor and director is featured in the pro- duction. Arrangement for the ac- quisition were made between M. H. Hoffman, general manager for | Pioneer, and Louis Miller of the Ra- d1oSou1 Films Incorporated.
 Miss Juanita Hansen, motion pie
 ture star and one of the correspon- i dents named by Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit
 Montani formerly Mrs. Harry K. Thaw, in her counter suit for divorce , against Virgil Joseph MontarM, a Isstage dancer known as Jack Clifford, filed her answer in the Supreme Court yesterday.
 Miss Hansen denied the allegations of Mrs Montani, involving her with
 Jack Clifford. Counsel for the mo- tion picture actress explained that Miss Hansen would have filed her an- swer sooner, but she had expected Mrs. Montani to see the injustice of . her charges and withdraw them. Mrs. Montani also filed a bill of particulars demanded by Miss Anne Luther, another screen star, who is correspondent in the case. The for mer Mrs. Thaw said the woman re- | ferred to in three paragraphs of her complaint was not Miss Luther, but she reiterated that from January to June Montani and Miss Luther were continuously in each others com pany.
 Montani is suing his wife for a di- vorce and her action is brought as counter suit. He names Eugene Strong, an actor. Madame Peacock" will be the next of the Nazimova productions to
 be released by Metro instead of "Bil- lions'' was originally announced. Madame Peacock" is a story that was written by Rita Weiman. It gives Nazimova an opportunity to appear in a triple role. Not only will Nazi- mova play Madame Peacock, but also
 the role of the daughter. In addi- tion, she has adapted the Weiman play for screen purposes.
 D. W. Griffith's latest venture into
 the realms of ceuuloid which has
 been retitled The Love Flower" will
 be the feature at the Strand Theater
 in New York next week. It is a United
 Artists release. Richard Barthe1m ess
 and Carol Dempster have the leading
 roles. Others who appear in the pie
 ture are George MacQuarrie, finders
 Randolph Florence Short, Crawford Kent, Adolphe Lestina, William
 James and Jack< Manning. MT. Grif- filth describes the picture as a love story of the South Seas.
 As reward for his direction of Dr. Jekyll and MT. Hyde." Famous PIayers-Lasky has turned over to director John s. Robertson the pro duction of Barrie's Sentimental Tommy stories, which will be ex- plotted as Robertson Special. The picture is to be made in the east, from a scenario prepared by Jose phine Lovett.
 Robertson has written full details to Sir James, asking his cooperation in the making of the feature He is now engaged in picking the cast and will commence work shortly.
 This will be the third Barrie piece to be filmed by Famous this year The first was Male and Female" adapted from '"The Admirable Crich- Hour" in which Dorothy Dalton is starred. It will be recalled that Jesse L-asky brought back from Lon don with him the manuscript of an original screen story by the English author.
 The engagement of David Belasco of Rose Coghlan for the coming sea son marks the end of mild feud be- tween player and producer which has lasted since Belasco's Californian days. Belasco, so the story goes, was selected to stage a piece in San Francisco and the company had senbled in the theatre. Prominent in the cast was the stately, tmperi- ous Rose Coghlan. Upon reaching the theatre she haughtily inquired for thestage director. The slight and then youthful looking Belasco acknowledged he was it. Miss Cogh- Ian looked around Belasco in her most queenly manner and repeated, I'm looking for the stage. manager. I don't see him."