Evening star., 1922-09-10


Turpin as the Shrek will be seen in
the harem pool surrounded by a
galaxy of beautiful and bewitching
sirens.
Richard Walton fully announces
that the film version of the famed
Omar the Tentmaker" has been com
pleted. Editing and titlins under the
supervision OF Director James Young
and Mr.. Tully began yesterday. Guy
Bates Post. the star. is resting al his
Pasadena home.
only fashions for American women to
follow" says Clara Kimbali Young
Il have been in the so-called stHie
ccnters of the world. London and
Paris. and ] must confess that
wouldn't even be bothered with
bringing their gowns home to the
United States.
The Maurice Tourneur production OF
Lorna Doone" will be one of the big
screen attractions for release through
Associated First National Pictures
Inc. this fall. according to announce
msnt just made.
To have stood before an altar on
fifteen occasions. TO have a ring placed
upon the fourth finger of her iett
hand as she repeated the highly I'M
rortant words, Il do" and still re-
main husbandless. is the experience
Viola Dana has enjoyed in her
motion picture career. Miss Dana
was married for the fifteenth lime
before the camera several days ago
during the filming of June Mad
ness"
In Sweden they do not, as rule.
intrust a screen role ito inexperienced
players. but Gull Cronwall is said
to be an exception. She was q ste
nographer. and one fine day she
plucked up courage to go to the
offices Of the Swedish Biograph Com
pany and ask for work. Rune Carlsten.
one of the directors. was struck win
her screen face" Without any the-
atrical training at all. and when only
seventeen years OF age. she was in
trusted with the role Of the heroine
in "A Dangerous Wooing," playing
opposite Lars Hanson, the star.
Whatever the next hirsute fashion
may be. the beauties at Universal
City. it is declared, are ready for 1t.
with the crowning glory of woman
unimpaired. Among those vino have
escaped hair -bobbing are Priscilla
Dean, Virginia Valli. Gladys Walton.
Louise Lorraine. Mary Philbin. Ger
trude Olmstead, Laura LaPlante. Lii
liam Rich. Edna Murphy, Barbara
Bedford, Andree Tournier. Una Ire
velyn and Marjorie Daw. on the
Century lot. however. We find one
bobbed head. 1t belongs to Baby
Peggy. three years old. She is ex-
pected to outgrow il.
Contracts have been signed by Guy
RoI
thors. and F. Ray Comstock. manage:
of the play Adam and Eva" whereby
the international! Film Service Com
pany. Inc. acquired the motion PIC
ture rights to this comedy for Cos
mopoiitan Productions Marion Da-
vies will be starred in il.
Carl Link. a famous artist. says
Marion Davies is one of the most
excellent models he ever saw. She
can hold one position with scarcely
the movement of an eyeiash for half
an hour at time.
A beautifully carved door. with real
antique lock which cost $3.50 alone.
was battered to pieces. il is said. in
the interests of realism during the
filming Of the Cosmopolitan produc-
ton. when knighthood Was IN
Flower" starring Marion Davies.
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hail
is probably to he Mary Pickford' $
next starring picture. She Ina :
already purchased the rights to the
Charles Major novel. according TO
word from the Pickford- Fairba n k $
studios The deal was arranged nE
we'll known agent for photoplays in
Hollywood.
The type Of woman portrayed by
Edith Erastoff in the Swedish Bio
grapn production of The Flame o:
Life" is said to be very different
from the slender, wistful. fragile
heroines Of many of our American
films. One cannot we'll imagine a
Lillian Gish or Mary Pickford por-
traying the virile. sturdy, stern and
courageous woman OF the northland.
where the female OF the species is
! At companion for the rugged man OF
the deep SHOWS and the lone soli-
| tudes.
Many curious types of vehicles are
! to be shown in in Quest of Happi-
| rcss" produced from Selma Lager
lofs famous novel Such as. cor
/ instance. the carriole or chaise. in
which the newly engaged couple
| drive TO visit the irorfnaster of the
story. Quite as odd is the equipage
used to carry the squire's mother.
But perhaps the Stran8eSt or all Is
the cavaliers carriage, or. as 1t is
called in Varmland. the witch
Jumper" which bends and sways be-
meath the weight of its occupants as
il possessed of the spirit of Old Nick
himself.
Touching double exposures and dual
roles. there is a scene in the Hep
| worth Picture Plays production OF
Anna, the Adventuress,' from the
novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim. IN
which Alma Taylor the star. in the
role of the twin sisters, removes her
cloak. throws ii across the room to
herself as the other sister and deN-
, terousiy catches il. This particular
! scene is said to be considered the
finest instance Of double exposure
work on the screen today for the
cloak makes the work of the camera
man harder than it would be were
any other piece of property" used.
Chrissie White. star of the first
Hepworth picture to be released in
I! this country, THE City of Beautiful
Nonsense" from E. Temple Thurs
toms novel. is a tennis enthusiast.
when she isn't working you can
usually find her in her "togs" putting
il all over some one at the courts
which are a part OF the Hepworth
studio grounds at Walton-onT Thames.
lust outside of London.
.The Maverick" the latest urban
popular classic released by Vita
graph, is as charming as one Of Err
nest Thompson Seton's animal ro-
mances 1t gives an entirely new