The Washington times., 1922-05-02
MOVIE STARS
SHINE GA|LY ON
OLD BROADWAY
Galaxy of Screen Talent Is
on Hand for New York
Carnival.
BY wILLENE TAYLOR.
Copyright. ls22. by Cosmopolitan
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News Serviee)
NEW YORK, May New York
has begun TO take on the gala at
mosphsre, with streets strewn with
confetti and all pretty girls and
handsome blades strutting about try
ing their hardest to look like the
movie stars from Hollywood who are
in town for the May movie carnival.
BaIloting for the favorite movie stars
is to be the chief sport OF the
carnival.
AT the Plan, seated in a little iing.
teaing and talking. were Theda BarSa,
Mae Murray, Zena Keefe. Madge
Kennedy, Constance Binney, Lucy
Fox, Sasha Beaumont. Wyndham
Standing, Johnny Hines. Taylor
Holmes, and other famous screen
personages-eachw with a secret hope
OF wearing a regal crown May 3,
Theda Bara was gowned from head
TO toe in fawn colored georgette.
Hat and afternoon gown were made
OF the same material, and the dress
panels nearly sweeping the floor and
mink trimming on the waist. Madge
Kennedy was dressed in a dark wine
colored tailored suit with hat TO
match. Constance Binney was a pic
ture in brown. Her small hat was
trimmed with brown ostrich feathers
and she wore long string OF large
red beads over her brown dress. Mae
Murray's blonde hair looked very
stunning under wide brilliant
orange colored straw hat. She was
wrapped in gray, broad-tail cap
with silver fox collar.
VIII Hays. dictator OF the movies,
Marcus Boew, president of Metro;
Adolf Zukor. president OF Famous
Plsyers-Laskey. and other big guns
are much I'm evidence.
Many teas. parades. cafeteria par.
ties. dancing. luncheon and other
entertainments will feature this
week.
wyndman Standing. dignified
screen star. now being seen In
"Smilin' Through" with Norma Tai
madge, arrived from Florida just in
time to get in on the carnival. While
in Florida he completed the making
OF THE Isle OF Doubt" He thinks
the Syracuse Production Company
will star him next in Robert Louis
Stephenson's The Master OF Bal
lantrae."
Johnny Hines, comedian OF hun
dred bellhop and office boy roles, Is
starting work at Long Island
studio on another "Torchy" picture.
The last "Torchy," not yet released.
is "Torchy Steps Out" Hines has
only two more TO do, after which hc
says he will return TO six.reel come
dies.
Seven-year-old Mickey Bennett, OF
Reported Missing" has taken up
reading the sporting pages to give
vim to his personal appearance here.
When the Criterion's spotlight is
thrown on the box where he and his
mother sit, Mickey jumps snd VA
lutes the audience, his sleeves "olled
up above his elbows, ready for sc-
tion. His vocabulary, too, smacks
of the prize ring.
Visual education is becoming more
and more recognized by the school
authorities Of New York, and it has
become an integral part of the
school room curriculum. Miss Rita
Hocheiner. assistant Instructor OF
visual education in New York public
schools. told the New York City Fed
Grafton OF Womens Clubs OF the i'm
porance OF the motion picture in the
class room. and solicited their aid in
obtaining a larger assessment with
which TO get the use of proper pic
lures for the children.
When d. w. Griffith returns from
England Wednesday II is expected
he will begin work with Carol
Dempster in "The White Slave"
production which has been promised
for some time. II is said that he
made the trip abroad to obtain rights
from filming OF II. G.. Wells out.
line of History" and to complete
plans for his long talked of Christ
picture.
Maurice Costello, one OF the
earliest screen actors, is returning
TO pictures.
Rupert Hughes has renewed his
contract with the Goldwyn Company.
the new version being unique In the
motion picture field because under
its terms Hughes will write. direct.
title. and edit his own pictures. He
In the only author who IL in sole
charge OF his pictures from the
formation Of the original idca IN the