The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-08
Hodge P0dge

Walter Hampden, whose recent six
 weeks engagement at the Broadhurst4
 theatre, New York. convinced the
 critics of the metropolitan neWspa-i
 persy that he now stands '-defnftefyi
 and inconteszb1y at the head Of al11
 American hagedtans'' has planned
 a tour for next season which will take
 him to all the principal cities of the
 South, Middle Vest Northwest and Pacific coast. The meteortc rise oA
 this young actor has been aocompnsn-i
 ed near the Atlantic seahoard-nei
 has been "a star seen in the East as
 it were-and he has decided that be-1 tween next October and June he Wilt play mostly in cities where he never
 yet has appeared st head of his own company Alice Joyce has two well Enown leading men in her new yitasTapn. based on novel by Charles Caldweni Dobie. They are Holmes D. Herberf,i who played opposite Miss Joyce n several of her earlier pictures, and joyed an enviabls reputation on tns1 spoken stage and who but recently became associated with motion pic-t tures The remaiuder of the east isi EequalIIy notable, including such play :ers as Jane Jennings, Mrs. DeWoI1 Hopper. Ida Waterman. Josephine whittel1, Grace Barton and John Webb Dillon.
 Jean Paige. whose fame has spread throughout the country through her
 masterpiece, tsBIack Beauty" is now in the East awaiting the compleuon
 of the script of the picture version Of s'The Prodigal Judge," in which she will appear as Betty Malroy." 'oThe Prodigal Judge" by Vaughan Kester, enjoyed a huge success when It was published a few days ago.
 Jimmy Aubrey has completed his new comedy, '"The R1ot.'' Jimmy ap- pears as an amateur golfer who finds a detective badge on the links and fooIishly pins 1t on his coat. Alter that he has more than the usual trials and tribulations of a beginner at the ancient and honorable game. So that American movie stars may appear at their best on European screens, Watterson R. Rothacker has
 in London The Rotthacker Film company now has laboratories in
 Chicago and Los Angeles, where the
 negatives of Mary Pickdord;; sf Douglas s
 others of the screen royalty are null tipIied into the positive prints which the theatres use. The London plant will mean that the foreign prints will be just as good as those here at home. the three standardized laboratories
 using the same processes and fornu- las.
 Sam H. Harris announced yester- day that he had signed contracts whereby Elsie Ferguson will next sea- son appear under his management. 1 For Miss Ferguson's return to the stage MT. Harris has acquired '"The 1 Varying Shore," a new play by Zoe l Akins.
 | Miss Ferguson's last New York stage appearance was in Arnold Ben nett's Sacred and Profane Love- l produced something over a year ago. 1 Following her engagement in this play 1 she resumed her work as motion picture star, appearing in the screen version of the Bennett opus and other pho top1ays.
 President Harding. like his prede-
 the movies" it has been disclosed. The President spent the weekend with Senator Knox at the 1atter's 1 country home Valley Forge, and wit, messed a private showing there of seWet Go1d,'' the Williamson under sea picture which Go1dwyn Is reIeas- ing. A projection machine was rig ged up in the Knox mansion for the occasion
 on the gateman at Universal City: I'm a bank examiner from Iowa. said the visitor.
 That's hardly reason to enter the
 studio,'' said Brown. the keeper of
 eyes, it is,'' was the&nswer. ~I hear that Harry Carey is using a bank
 scene in his picture and if it has any
 thing to do with bank gotta right to see it.