Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-16
LARRY SEMON USES
Al KAUFMAN IN
HIS NEW PICTURE
BY CONSTANCE PALMER
HOlIywood. Calf

Hollywood, Calf.
T TITLE Jackie Coogan is just out Of
- the hospital after having his tonsils
and adenoids removed. He also lost
two more teeth. "Oh, dear" he sigh
ed, with my adenoids an tonsils an
teeth gone, there isn't much left Of me,
Is. .there?"
A change has been made in his d.
rectors-Victor Schertzinger has been
replaced by Victor Herman, who di-
rected Owen Moore heretofore. John
Blackwood, formerly Universal writer,
is doing the script for the picture. which
will be the lads first five-reel inde-
pendent production.
Elliott Dexter Is back from New
York. He will take few days vaca-
tion before starting a new picture. One
| Of his ways of resting will be joining
Wallie Reid and Jack Holt in polo
match, In which they hope to defeat the
Chemawa Park Club team at River
side.
After Trixie Friganza's orpheum
contract Is up she Is to enter films,
putting Elmer Harris Poor Mama
into celluloid. She has ten by four
plot of ground here that she rondiy
calls her 'ranch," and little house in
which she lives with sister and broth
| Rim law.
n B. DE MILE is off on his yacht,
~. the Gee Bee, swordfshing with
Theodore Kosloff, the Russian dancer,
who does 30 many things in Mr.: DE
Miles productions. He dances him.
| self. designs sets and costumes for other
dances in which his pupils appear (he
| has a school, tooD, acts, and is gen
| orally handy. What must he be at
swordfshingt
I was called down a little while ago
for being sarcastic-not rampantly so,
but just nasty. Can you imagine that ?
And me just nice girl, trying to get
along!
Larry semon is at work on a new
comedy called. I think. The Bell
Hop" He not only acts. but he directs
all the scenes in which he does not
appear.
I watched him doing the latter on a
big set yesterday. Droves OF hotel
guests were surging through a lobby.
When they had all passed very tat
tered and dazed policeman arose from
the floor. and in sort of dream, kept
| blowing his traffic whistle and going
through the motions. He looked like a
| husky creature, so It must have been
n terrible battle. found out later he
was Al Kaufman, an ex-prize fighter.
Mr.. Semon has new leading woman,
very pretty. Her name Is Norma Mich
| OILS. She appears as musical comedy
, sort of maid, in q satin uniform and
| lacy apron. She replaces Lucille Car
lisle. who for n long time was Larry s
leading woman.
MAY MacAVOY, Realart's new star,
AVl is a sweet child. She is at work
on a new picture, called "The Happy
ENDING She is again under the direc-
tion of Frank O'Connor, and also keeps
many members of her old cast. Guy
Oliver appears this time as a New Eng :
land farmer, instead Of as moonshiner.
his part in "a Virginia Courtship,
Miss MacAvoy's last picture. Charles
were having regular old fashioned New
England boiled dinner the day | saw
them. They'd been eating corned beef
and cabbage the entire day. which was
sweltering. and they were weakening a
little.
Elmer Rice, who. under another
name, wrote the stage success "On
Trial" is now scenarioizing for Realart.
He also writes very clever titles for
their pictures, which helps immensely
He titled Tom Meighan's "White and
Unmarried" and Mary Miles Minter's s
Moonlight and Honeysuckle. He's
very nice and quiet and rather shy
| wholly likcable.