The New York herald., 1921-02-20
Screen Shadows
ny FRANK VREELAND.

| n Heart" last week Mis- LeIrette
Taylor started to say something
about reviving her husoanda comedy
for purely legal reasons" Nlan the
curtain came doWuL ,,ndirp her into
the sileuces ana leaving the audience
writhing with curiosity. When it rose
again Miss Taylor spoke rot Il word
further in this vein, apparently hav-
ing decided suddenly that il was a
subject that should never be men
toned again between frieads.
II has since been learned, how
ever. that the purely legal reasons"
concerned the movies, the starting
point OF much that is legal and less
that is pure. Miss Taylor Is too wise
in her own day and grease paint TO be
ignorant that the fate OF every re-
vival. no matter how excellent, is gem
orally dubious, and it now appears
that her chief aim in bringing back
PEG at date when Michael. the dog,
had grown too fat and old to sup
port her adequately in the play, was
TO smooth the way for its final inter-
ment in the films.
This screen production by herself and
j. Hartley Manners. in which she will
naturally shake the principal curl. will
be her first essay at living through five
reels The spoken production is not
only intended TO advertise the silent one,
getting the public accustomed once more
TO the spectacle of Miss Taylor defyinG
tie lightning of British aristocracy. but
also TO keep up a legal blockade OF an
other film production OF the comedy
that doesn't enjoy the sunshine of Miss
Iaylor's smile. The Famous Players
after the movie rights were dealt out TO
this company, embalmed the piece in
celluloid against the outcrles OF the
Manners family. The courts were ap-
pealed to. an injunction against the
film company fell into the Manners lap
ia December. and Famous Players
have foreborne releasing the picture be-
cause the Judge might feel hurt
The foreign invasion Of the American
motion picture field continues, and ma
tive producers are beginning to feel it
should be placed under the same super
vision as Continental epidemic. Miss
Ivy Duke and Guy Newall. billed
throughout Great Britain as "the Eng
,ish Mary Plckford and Douglas Fair
hanks" will presently be streaming over
here to have it out with the original
Mary and Doug on their own field of
honor. However. their particular film
ccstasies are not along exactly the same
lines as the American leaders follow,
since they shine most in the evening"
clothes and glittering silverware drama.
Miss Duke is of the tall, handsome
English type, with rather more vivacity
than goes with many peaches and cream
compilations. She is said to be so popu-
lar that she can even afford to go in for
"a rtt1i IN in pantaal aXnenSiyp
Mr.. Newall is a veteran of the world
war. and it was while serving in the
anti-arcraft that he met George Clark.
The English producer who recently took
root in our SOIL and was enabled to re-
coil into the films successfully after the
war quieted down. Even amid the
popping of the Arches NewalI could re-
member that he had a film position to
maintain in the world. and on relating
his ambition to Clark the latter. who is
said to be related TO the wealthy O. y. IT.
Clark family or thread fame. promised
to make him a shooting star as soon as
he had done with his other shooting.
They have appeared in such pre-
tentious outpourings OF talent as "The
Garden of Resurrection" by L. Temple
Thurston, and THE Dukes SON" by
Cosmo Hamilton. and six OF these
pictures will be brought over this
spring for the American public to toy
with as ambassadors TO precede the two
stars advent In person and with numcr-
Gus trunks. They viii come here to
act before the camera in the fall, when
Mr.. Clark, who recently fitted back 10
England after a short stay TO start the
excitement. plans TO nave a studio ready
TO present English cinema culture with
an American foundation
Charlie Chaplin has just issued a de-
NAL of a report that he would leave
the United Artists fiat on their united
backs and swear allegiance TO Samuel /
Goidwyn, retaining Goldwyn in charge
OF his business worries while Chaplin |
cut up didoes without n care in the /
world, Denials are generally looked /
upon IN amusement circles as mere /
matter Of form. but for once credence
is given to such statement. and IL is |
believed in the Aim world that Mr. I
Chaplin Will stick by United Artists /
until the last-that is, until the last I
shekel is paid over on his contract. He
already has started one OF the three /
two-reelers he is to deliver TO this or |
Sanization. meanwhile trifinr i'm his
mind with an offer from Miss katherine /
Macdonald to direct her in her next /
picture which the press agent is willing |
TO put in the hundred thousands.
Miss Katharine Hillker who has
Just sold her first original screen story.
lie Took in Washing" to Miss Con- |
stance Binney~ Is one of the new order
OF craftsmen who seek to make movie /
suo-titles something more than an addi- |
uonal strain on the eyesight She Is
more than titling expert-she Is n |
MN DOCTOR who saves a picture by /
extracting aching captions and substi- I
euting the anodyne of a few deft words /
one charges from $3.50 10 $500 a reel I
ana while this mounts up to $1,000 on 4
nve reel picture the producer often
uoesnt hnd this too high when II may
mean giving a $4,000 production n /
new grip on life after IL looks incurable
IN this way Miss Iiillker Ia said ~ 4
nave gathered TO herself $4,000 at least
curing the last year without doing anv |
straphanging for It, and the coming
year she is expected to reach 500 200 nj 4
work which. while difficult and arduois
heVertheless allows ono TO order lunch I
con whenever one wishes After. having
peeh an assistant Sunday editor of tho
san francisco CAL she made n stand
in New York journalism, doing her first
uties Tor Outing Chester scenics. which
raised travel pictures from the level
OF chasers. with which managers OF
continuous run movie houses could shoe
out the audience and clear the mir
observers or these pictures were strucl; |
win Miss Hilliker's knack in making
even hlppopotamus seem an amusing I
niue pct. Likewise she 'revamped ono
OF MISS constance Talmadge's earlier