The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

mn screens. Making it
more difficult to get
an audience in a
theater b a n at a
murder trial.
One word titles arer becoming a film
fashion. Among the new ones are
Excitement" Experience and "Ex-
travagance.''
Bryant Washburn is soon to tour
the principal cities and appear per-
sona1Iy at theaters showing his new
production, The Road to London"
Owen Moore opines that another breadth
cut of skirts will take the breath out of
man.
MARY Queen of Scots is TO be done IN
England by an American producer We
believe she was done" there once before.
1.-THE Servant in the House is a perplex-
ing feature of ''The Servant Question"
THE. movies make it so hard to keep
her there.
Now that it has become film, is 1.-THE
Appearance of Evil" still to be avoided?
Margaret sousa daughter of the famous
band master, appears in Lest We For
get"
Another film. version of the Bible has
been made This by the French. 1t con-
The age Of actresses IS always of in
terest. Elaine Hammerstein, on June .,
1921, will be year older than she was
on that date in 1920.
Seeing stars of the screen under the stars
of heaven will soon become the fashion
rip Van inkle" is to be produced
in pictures with Thomas jefferson, a son
of the original Rip.
Owen Moore owns a tract of swamp land
in New Jersey that he calls his hop field"
Bullfrogs are Moore's only tenants, and
they spend nine months a year croaking,
altho their rent is free.
Bill Hart ,has given Mary Garden the
sombrero he wore in many of his pic
lures.
Four to five thousand drawings are re-
quired for an animated cartoon. That is
Why few of them are more than go feet
One scene Of Deception" shows 500
horses and knights in armor and 1000 ex-
tras.
Eddie Polo has+returned to Universal
City from two weeks at Byron Hot Springs
recuperating from the strenuous effects of
his recent serial production, The Seal
serial thrills calls for recuperafien, espe-
cially If nine of these episodes are filmed
in Havana.
Plans to stage a real train wreck, the
most spectacular ever contemplated in the
announced by Hope. Hampton in connec-
ton with the picturization of the Fannie
Hurst story. Star Dust"
william s. Campbell, director of animal
comedies for Educational, is paying his
first visit to the east since he ran away
from bis home in Ashley Pa, some twenty
years ago because he could not resist the
lure of the animals in a visiting circus.
Campbell is the pioneer director of animal
They're Still Laughing.
Joshua, en- remarked the Judge
you're not the man who made the sun
mo sab. Judge" replied the darby,
Use de man dat made de moon shine"
Hoots Gibson has begun production at
Universal City on two-reel action drama
End lett s direction Ell Of Lee kehmar It
edy-drama of the west. Marcel Pershing.
second cousin of General Pershing, is
playing the leading feminine role.
Received short Answer.
Priscilla Dean, Universal star, tells of a
little girl who was lost in bargain sale
rush in a downtown department store the
other day. She had become separated from
her mother and was crying her eyes out.
Mhy s diqp you rh hold ro on -, to X9gT
Priscilla of the tot.
II couldn't reach it," was the naive re-
ply.
Some Is an Some Amt.
al have here an original story" declared
a white haired lady as she presented a
manuscript to Lneien Hubbard, scenario
MY dear madam" replied the gallant
Lucien, '-you don't look that old"
| Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA 1
From the Columns Of II
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL Il
April 80, 1895.
The people living in Topeka avenue be-
tween Tenth and Fourteenth streets, want
the old street ear tracks taken up This