Evening star., 1922-08-20

when 1t gets you mixed up with some
one else" she thinks.
Arvid Gillstrom's latest Cent~ry
comedy that stars Brownie. the Gem
tury wonder dog. is called "A Bark
ing Sleuth, and features Brownie
In Sherlock Holmes outht-cap,
pipe and baggy. trousers.
Jack Earle. the seven-foot.thres
young giant, though only fifteen anu
weighing 237 pounds. did SO wen
In Jack and the Beanstalk" thst
the father in "Hansei and Gfetel." !;
Mrs. Claire Hersholt. who for
twenty years was Denmark's most
popular actress. but who is now re-
tired. has just left Hollywood after
| a years visit with her son, Jean Her
sholdt. the director-actor. who plays
! the villain in Mary Pickford's new
Tess OF the Storm Country :;
In 1920 the fashionable beauties in
! England made their own hairpins.
They used strips of wire. which were
bent into shape by the dainty fingers
or the users. The research depart.
ment of the Paramount organization
discovered this. it is said. when II
started looking UP details for George
fitzmaurice's new production, "TD
Have and to Hold :.
Stars-real stars of the heavens as
well as the -saiaried kind that
are featured in electric lights-are
to be seen IN George Melford's new
production. Burning Sands" This
| was made possible, 1t is said, by the
inventive faculty of James Wong
Howe. second cameraman for Nc
Melford. who has devised a process
for showing the stars in the sky and
| making them twinkle. The process
has been embodied in several of the
| night'scenes taken at Oxnard, Calf.
One of Louise Dresser's earlieN
jobs. in the theatrical professionsa
| was with 'Peck's Bay Boy" COM
pany on the road, for which she was
| engaged at $40 a week. Since then
she has gotten as much as $1,000 4
week in a vaudeville act
Thunderstorms, even motion pic
ture thunderstorms. are usually OUT
of-door phenomena. The interior %
| studio isn't usually considered. =
desirable place to blow a lot of water
around with wind machines, because
i It might get on sets in other picture&
But in William De Miles picture
Nice People" these considerations
| were overlooked. Mr.. De Mile had
! the sets indoors. because he prefers
| to do all his work there, SO the storm
was put on inside the studio.
Writers who will formulate their
ideas for stories and translate them
into picture form will save US thou
sands of dollars" says Sam Wood,
who directed Gloria Swanson in Her
Gilded Cage" Il will prophesy that
| within five years we will have young
| men who will conceive their plote,
ideas. develop their scenario, super
| wise the building of the sets and ac5
as the guiding mind for the dfrecl
! tors"
| Jack Holt came east to make exter
rior scenes for his newest Paramount
! picture, Making a Man" and is now
| in Atlantic City filming Boardwalk
! scenes.
Pomeroy Cannon. who attained
prominence by his portrayal of
| Madariaga. the old Spanish grandi
father of Julio. in The Four Horsei
| men Of the Apocalypse" is one of the
noted players chosen for the cast for
| Youth to Youth" headed by Billie
Dove.
! Rex Ingram's next photoplay pro:
| duction for Metro Pictures Corpora
| tion will be The Passion Vine" by
John Russell. after which he win
! make Victor Hugo's "Toilers of the
| Sea- on the Maine coast.
The loss Of part of one of his ears
| has turned Phil Ford son of the
screen hero to a screen villain. AZ
result. he was hired to play one
I of the tough guys" in the Wesley
Barry picture Heroes of fhe Sfree% -