Evening star., 1921-06-12
Filnnogranns.

Reports from London indicate that
,, Donald Crisp has begun work on film
ing Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush"
in Scotland. with a cast including
some of the best known film and stage
players in England. Paul Powell. who
also is working in the London studio.
is about to begin on a production
which has not yet been titled.
In his long list of thrillers with
melodramatic titles, Charles A. Tay-
lor, the veteran dramatist. who adapt
ed and directed THE Half Breed" :"
overlooked Train Robbers That Have
| roading in California Taylor went
through six train hold-ups.
Sheldon Lewis. who has been ap-
pearing in vaudeville with his wife.
! tract to play the part Of Jacques IN
the forthcoming production, The Two
Orphans" Perhaps never before have
SO many persons been tried out" for
a part. the score being more than six
ty at the end of the third week.
Following the completion Of 'The
Great Impersonation," upon which he
is now engaged. George .Mclford will
produce an adaptation by Monte Kat
terjohn Of S. N. Hulrs novel. The
Sheik."
Colleen Moore. who will play the
leading feminine role in "Slippy NC
Gee" has had only brief breathing
spells between pictures since she be-
gan her screen tutelage several years
ago. Although still in her teens. Miss
Moore is now starting her nineteenth
picture
Noah Beery drives the first automo-
bile that made its appearance in Los
Angeles many years ago. in Marion
much tinkering the relic was made to
60 on itS own power-for about fifty
feet. which was all that was required
for the film.
The Case Of Beeky." in which David
Belasco featured Frances Starr. Is to
be Constance Binneys next picture.
Gloria Swanson has 2 screen version
of 1.-The Shulanite.' The Shulamite'
was originally a novel by Alice and
Cfaud AskNw. It was later made into a
three-act play by Edward Knoblock
and Claud Askew.
'Nobody. has Just been completed.
Jewel Carmen plays the lead. sup
ported by Kenneth H8rlan. She has
recently returned to tho screen after
q years absence.
mel Myers, and Helen Smith, who ap-
peared with him in Loves Butter
fiy,'' have recently announced their
engagement
House Peters and Allan Forrest VIII
appear in The Man From Lost
River"
James cruze is directing Roscoe
[F.stys. ArDuckle in Should a Man
"Peter Pam II to Be done in the fitms.
Either May McAvoy or Betty Compson
will play the lead.
Marsha1l Neilan has engaged George
Ade to do the titling for his recently
completed picture Tho Lotus Eaters,' %
starring John Barrymore. and has also
contracted With Doun Byrne to rewrite
for the screen his novel. The Strangers
Banquet"
Katherine MacDonald's next pio-
ture will be "Peachie." q light comedy
drama This will, be the famous
Of : comedy drama Tho first was
Stranger Than Fiction" soon to be
released. --,-.
ing masculine role in Peter B: Kyne's
Kindred of the Dust" which Raoul
Walsh is to make.
Nayme Krasne. voted Omaha's most
popular business woman. has made
her debut In THE ConQuering
Power" where she has . small role in
q French street scene.
A story by Rita weiman ID being
filmed by william De Mile. The
setting represents the back stage Of
a metropolitan theater. Jack Holt,
Lila Leo and: Charles Ogle play the
leading roles. Others in the cast In
clude Shannon Day, Carleton King
and Ruth Miller.
Justice" John Gelsworthy's first
great stage success, is to be produced
next fall. and will follow AZ nearly as
possible its original form. This pic
ture will be placed on the screen by
the original name, Justice" with no
changes in the plot or ending.
A San francisco woman who died
several years ago left fve thousand
dollars each to ten Of her nephews. on
condition that her tombstone was to
be replaced every two years with q