The New York herald., 1921-08-21


Douglas Fairbanks, to watch his smile
streak across the screen at the Lyric
Theatre when his latest agitation.
"The Three Musketeers," is projected
at New York on August %. will prob
ably remain a couple of weeks buying
gowns and eating chocolates until her
own new picture, Little Lord Fauntle-
roy" brings their youth back 10 Man
hattanites almost as potently ss q hair
restorer For Mary also Is to have an
extended fling on Broadway with
those golden curls.
The Fairbanks family has decided
TO come in for some of the currency
that seems to lie easy to the hand that
is flourished for long period in a
Broadway house. So her latest photo
play, now almost completed, will take
to cover here at some local temple Of
art-possibly the Forty fourth Street
Theatre-about the middle of Septem-
personal sweetness over two weeks for
New York's benefit.
Following their visit the most noted
husband and wife on the screen will
career back to the West, for Douglas
has to insert himself into chaps and
Wyoming Immediately for his next pic
ture, "The Virginian." In which he will
twirl lasso instead of mustache,
which has now gone into the great be-
yond since the Dumas picture put II on
the retired list. Mary has two or three
stories to hand, with all Of which she
Is trifiing, for when one has million
dollars or so one Is privileged to vacil-
late.
1t is not unusual for artists of such
high standing to buy story for pic
ture, select locations, have the continuity
made, and then on reading the script or
even after starting work in the studio
decide that this way madness lies and
turn their fickle fancy on another gem
of literature.
Charlie Chaplin's next picture, to fol-
low '"rhe Idle Glass" now almost ready,
will be virtually of the Assembled
type, and Henry Ford, on hearing Of the
process of its fabrication. would prob
ably feel that the movies are now on a
really efficient basis The story for his
ensuing vehicle hasn't been picked yet
I'm fact no one, not even his press agent,
seems to have any idea of what it will
be about-yet 1t has actually been
started.
The report goes that Chaplin has al
ready taken comedy scenes here and
there, which have been carefully stored
on the shelf, and that when the right
theme comes along these scenes will be
cut and hitched on to it. much after
the manner in which the estimable i'm
presario of The theatrical troupe In
Nicholas Nickleby" built all his plays
around a pump he'd bought. And the
chances are that this picture. scrambled
together with careless ease, will be much
funnier than the products of some come
dians who even put In as much as a
week on figuring out stories.
His next comedy after THE Idle
Glass" will be his last donation to First
National; after that he will be one of
the commodities sold through United
Artists. Revivals OF his early pictures.
by the way, are selling like hot dogs.
The comedies which he made for Essa-
nay back in the days when his aspira-
tions never scared above his splay feet
10 the heights OF Hamlet" have been
reissued half a dozen times and are still
bringing more money than they did
when his baggy trousers first became
the reigning sensation in film modes.
The German pictures imported into
this country, it Is now becoming known
In the trade, have blown up much as did
the Hindenburg line eventually but
without shaking the country to its core.
After a great furore at the start, pas
sion." the first importation. which made
big pickings in the beginning. has sagged
into positive decline. The Cabinet OF
DR.. Caligani" proved to be something OF
q stillbirth.
Deception" wasn't much better and
never really had chance to establish
itself as a household name like Three
Weeks" The reason for this decline and
fail Of the German empire OF the Aims
was that the importers charged such
huge rentals for the pictures that the
exhibitors and the public, to whom the
burden was passed along. preferred to
stay out In the cheaper and purer open
air
Maude Adams is now a slave of toll
with the General Electric Company at
Schenectady. No. she hasn't decided
that II is more profitable to be me-
chanic than a stage star. She is busy
IN the companys laboratory devising
new lighting effects for her own motion
picture enterprise, WIN which She hopes
TO put the movie business on the path
70 glory. Miss Adams. who has always
been interested In stage illumination.
will not appear In her own pictures, but
Will back them and turn on the lights as
well as the temperamenta
This promises to be her only activity
for the immediate future. for so far no
plans for her return to the speaking
stage have materialized TO keep her
from being UP to her charming neck In
the films.
Once n film actress, always register
ing. Anna @. Nilsson. one of the first
Of the American trained film luminaries
Isolated by Famous Players-Lasky for
the production Of pictures. American
plan," in their London studio, went
abroad originally to have good time
and not 70 hire out her emotions by the
foot. She departed for Sweden this sum-
mer to visit her home, and there the
Skandinavisk Film Ccntralen heard she
was among those present-these press
agents are sometimes indiscreet--and
Immediately wanted her to let them use
her eyes and general equipment in q
film. That seemed 70 be their conception
Of her good time.
They prevailed on her TO do an an
Client Swedish legend, called "varnmlin-
garna," which the hardy Swedes are said
10 be able TO pronounce with one breath.
So they set her to hard labor in the
s.rt