Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-17
MR.. HUGHES SAYS
NICE THINGS
OF CUTE COLLEEN
BY CONSTANCE PALMER
HoIIywnod Calf

TOLLEEN MOORE has done some
~ wonderful work in 1.-THE Wall
Flower" Rupert Hughes story which
has just been finished. In fact. Mr..
Hughes was so pleased with what she
did that he paid her a wonderful COM
pliment--for publication. never thing.
He says, says he: Colleen Moore is
wax to mold and marble to retain.
which Is the opposite Of many young
leading women, who are marble to mold
and wax to retain" - That's what /
call slngin' words.
Seriously. Mr.. Hughes has the gift,
but why did he write Beauty? Have
you read it? He and the literary critic
of the Times, our local organ Of higher
things, had rather wordy argument in
the press anent the authors assassina
ton of the United States language.
However, that has nothing to do with
his being able TO write a good photo
play.
The rest Of the Colleen Moores have
also made their respective debuts in
movies. Her mother played a bit in
"Slippy McGee" while she was
chaperoning Colleen on the company's
location trip TO Mississippi. Yesterday
the brother was COlleen's dancing part
ner in a scene in The Wall Flower. y
This picture seemed to be sort of
family affair, for Rush Hughes, the
authors son, played bit in the same
sequence His vivacious sister stood out
on the side lines and made fun of him,
much to the poor lads annoyance. Then
time eating the cake the company gave
Colleen on her birthday. / think some
! body counted twenty candles.
Two more pictures were finished yes.
| terday at Goldwyn. Grand Larceny
was one. Clnire Windsor, Elliott
! Dexter and Lowell Sherman were the
principals in this, and Richard Tucker,
! Tom Gallery and Roy Atwell filled out
the cast.
The third production now in the
process of cutting Is His Back Agains,
the Wall" in which Raymond Hatton
is featured. Lovely Virginia Valli Il
the leading woman, and funny little
Shannon Day plays, probably. the dis
turbing element.
Samuel Goldwyn says that by De-
cember eight or ten companies will bt
working at his studio, and-ehat ever
the last thirty days show change II
conditions.
T CALLED up Zasu Pitts yesterda!
l. to ask her to have one Of our period
ical lunches together. "Oh, golly.
walled Zasu, II can't so out of tn
house without Tom to protect me-l n
afraid of being summonsed.' pressed
her for the reason of the summons, bu
she didn't seem to be quite clear OF
the subject Just knew that Tom
knew all about 1t and could protect her
II you could just hear the tone
Iasu's voice when she says MY hus
band" it would cancel a lot OF tn
things they've told you about Holly
wood OF course, you know it's Tor
Gallery, whom you've seen in Marsha!
Neilan's pictures, and whom you wi
see in The Son Of Wallingford,
Grand Larceny" and The wa
Flower" aforementioned.
A year ago Zasu seemed. on the roa
to the most brilliant OF stardom--ha
her contract and all, but something wer
wrong with the company and she wa
left where she was before.
But it doesn't seem to make muc
difference to her, If only Tom Is sue
cess. She processes to be more tina
satisfied to make new kinds of muttir
for him, but / strongly suspect thel
is a dark person in the cord OF woo
' outside the kitchen door. Don't mis-
-. underestimate mean there are MOI
a contracts in pictures than ever wei
| fiooey. (Golly, I'm glad I fixed tn;
e up. 1t looked funny after I'd write
. it'l