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

n Heart last week Miss Laurette
Taylor started to say something
about reviving her husbands comedy
for purely legal reasons" when the
curtain came down, sending her into
the silences and leaving the audience
writhing with curiosity. When It rose
again Miss Taylor spoke not a word
further in this vein, apparently hav-
ing decided suddenly that il was a
subject that should never be men
toned again between friends.
Ii has since been learned, how
ever. that the purely legal reasons"
concerned the movies, the starting
point of much tnat is legal and less
that is pure Miss Taylor is too wise
in her own day and grease paint 10 be
ignorant that the fate of every re-
viyal no matter how excellent, is gen
erally dubious, and II now appears
that her chief aim in bringing back
Pea at a date when Michael, the dog,
had grown too fat and old to sup
port her adequately in the play, was
~ smooth the way for its final inter-
ment in the films.
S
r Hartley Manners. in which she VIII
naturally shake the principal curl will
he her first essay at living through five
reels. The spoken production is not
onlv intended 70 advertise the silent one.
getting the public accustomed once more
10 the spectacle OF Miss Taylor defyinS
the lightning Of British aristocracy. but
also 10 keep up legal blockade of an
other film production or the comedy
that doesn't enjoy the sunshine OF MISS
1aylor's smile. The Famous players,
after the movie rights were dealt out TO
this company, embalmed the piece In
celluloid against the outcries Of the
Manners family. The courts We're ap-
pealed to. an injunction against the
film company fell into the Manners zap
ls st December. and Famous Players
have foreborne releasing the picture Pc
cause the Judge might feel hurt
The foreign invasion of the American
motion picture field continues, and ma
tive producers are beginning to feel 1t
should be placed under the same super
vision as Continental epidemic. Miss
Ivy Duke and Guy Newall. oilled
throughout Great Britain as "the Eng
,ish Mary Pickford and Douglas Fair
hanks" viii presently be streaming over
mere TO have II out with the original
Mary and Doug on their own field OF
honor However. their particular Tim
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 Nivaeity
than goes with many peaches and cream
complexions. She is said to be so popu-
lar that she can even afford to go in for
farming in a gentee expensive way.
Mr. Newall is a veteran of the world
war, and 1t was while serving in the
anti-alrcraft 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 Newall 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. n. Y.
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-
tent!ous outpourings OF talent as THE
Garden of Resurrection" by Il. 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 numer-
Gus trunks. They will come here ia
act before the camera in the fall when
Mr.. Clark, who recently fitted back Ia
England after a short stay to start the
excitement plans TO nave a studio ready
ant oil .,, IL .t.f,
an American foundation.
Charlie Chaplin has just issued de-
nal of a report that he would leave
the United Artists fiat on their united
backs and swear allegiance to Samuel
Goldwyn. retaining Goldwyn in charge
Of his business worries while Chaplin
cut UP didocs without care in the
world. Denials are generally looked
upon in amusement circles as a mere
matter of form. but for once credence
IS given TO such statement, and ii is
believed In the film world that Mr..
Chaplin will stick by United Artists
until the last--that Is. until the last
shekel is paid over on his contract ue
already has started one OF tho three
two-reelers he Is to deliver to this or
Sanization, meanwhile trifling IN his
mind with an offer from Miss Katherine
Macdonald to direct her in her nex,
picture which the press agent is willing
to put in the hundred thousands
Miss Katharine Hillilser. who has
Just sold her first original screen story
He Took In Washing" to Miss Con-
stance Binney, Is one of the new order
Of craftsmen who seek to make movie
sub-titles something more than an addi-
tional strain on the eyesirht cLa T.
more than a titling expert-sbe Is i
hlm DOCTOR" who saves a. picture bv
extracting aching captions and substi.
| tutlng the anodyne OF few deft words
She charges from $3.50 To S30O roeI
and while this mounts up 10 81 snn -,
a hve reel picture the producer o,,o,,
doesn't fnd this too high when !, ~, !,
mean giving n $4,000 production (
new grip on life after IL looks incurabla
IN TINS way Miss Hilliker IL said ~
nave gathered TO herself $1,000 nj least
curing the last year without doing any
straphsnsinS FOR it. and the coming
yea. sne ~ expected to reach $4,000 n
work which, while difficult md arduo,,s
nevertheless allows one To order l,,,,,,
con whenever one wishes After boy,ino
I been an assistant Sunday editor ~ ,hc
! san Francisco Gail she made a stand
\ IN New York Journalism. doing her firs,
\ titles Tor Outing Chester sccnics which
raised travel pictures from Tho Ieve
/ or "chasers.' with which 1nanngorg !,
continuous run movie houses could shoc
Il out the audience and clear ,bc afr
4 Observers OF these pictures yyarc str,,cr
with Miss Hillikers knack IN nal,ina
I even hippopotamus seem an amusine
4 little pct Likewise she revamped a..
Of Miss Constance Talmadges Garlic,
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