Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05
TWO KNOCKS AND
SOME BOOSTS FOR
STARS OF SCREEN
BY CONSTANCE PALMER

HOllyWOOU, SHlu.
T HEAR, on good authority, that the
l. contract of Mary Miles Minter with
Realart has terminated, or Is about to
terminate. The technicality to be en-
ployed is Miss Minter's present trip to
Europe.
Let's say Thumbs down. on Miss
Dupont, Universal's latest screen find
of the year" Not so good.
As Marguerite Armstrong she played
opposite Eric Won Stroheim in Foolish
Wives" Then it was considered
master stroke to change her name to
Miss Dupont" and as such she will be
presented to you as a star.
extremely blonde, painfully cultured and
quite self satisfied.
Miss Dupont is appearing under the
direction of nice Jack Conway In q
masterpiece yclept The White Pea
cock Feather" Jack Perrin is her
leading man, and Ramsey Wallace plays
the heavy. Ramsey's an old friend Of
mine, lots of fun and very nice. lie
played opposite Mildred Harris In The
Woman in His House. Remember
He is also a well known player on the
legitimate.
TIAvING given vent to two snappish
L i items, We'll say something nice.
l like Priscilla Dean, bless her heart.
Watched her work yesterday on one
of the final scenes of "Contiict; IN
which she is directed by Stuart Patton,
a homelike appearing man with glasses
and a shaggy head.
But truth to tell, Miss Dean doesn't
seem to need much direction. She
knows her business quite thoroughly,
watching camera angles, lights and
the work of the other actors.
Martha Mattox is the villainous
housekeeper in the story. She usually
plays perfectly correct spinsters, ou'
now she slings mean eye. 10 meet
she Is very calm and unnervous-goliy
Id like to take lessons from her -
She Is playing every night at the Lit
tle Theatre in 1.-The Kangaroos' by
Victor Mapes, co-author of "Th'
There are some very well-known names
in the cast-Russel Simpson !playInt
doytimes with Gloria Swanson in '"Ih'
Shulamite"D, Olga Gray Zacsek, Neel!
Edwards, Of comedy fame, Kathleer
Kirkham and Lincoln Stedman.
Speaking of Little Theatre work II
Holiywood and Los Angeles, there 4
nrobably no place in the country, out
side of New York. that can comman'
Last night I visited the Mummers
|, Workshop, a Hollywood organization
They were rehearsing some new plays
Charles Meredith was doing n part i
"Plots 4 and Playwrights, ,Joytu
: satire Ann May is in "CoIumbine,
e with Michael Dark. Every one ha
lots of fun and enjoys the. work I'm
t mensely. They are wonderfully faith
ful-have rehearsed every night 10
= three weeks on this group of plays, I
a be given next week.
t BECAUSE Hollywood is crowde
d with famous writer's. Marsha
d Neilan has taken advantage Of the fac
to employ several of them to work wit
him on stories rather than to pa
fabulous sums for their books, whic
have to be changed so radically for Il
=, screen that the authors themselves ofte
J don't know them.
IS He has working for him now HuG
Wiley, of Saturday Evening Post fam
's George Ade Is titling The Lot,
5 1 Eater" which stars John Barrymor
% With Mr.. Wiley and Mr.. Ncilan worl
ing on "Bits of Life" are Walt
Ie Trumbull and Thomas McMarrow, we
It known as magazine writer's. We
: shortly Don Byrne will cOllaborate wi
ie Mr.. Neilan on the biggest producti'
the latter has yet done, they tell m