Evening star., 1922-04-30

THE showings of The Miracle |
/ Man. during Paramounts nc
vival week developed that three
of the players who rose to fame in
that offering were busy at work in
'"The Bonded Woman; Ihomas
i Meighan, on Our Leading Citizen"
, by George Ade. and frankie Lee. the
pathetic crippled boy of the great mas
lter-picture, on "Borderland," an Agnes
Ayres picture.
Corinne Griftlth has had the jumps
| in the last few months. December
saw her on the Florida coast, south
of Miami making the exteriors for
Island Wives" In January and Feb
| ruary she was at Fort William Henry.
on the lower end of Lake George. taxi
ing SNOW stuff for "a Virgins Sac
rifice," and now she is down south
again. in Charleston, S. c., working on
+; her next picture. 49,.
| B. Cory Kilvert. an artist, formerly
with Life. Scribner's and other maga-
zines. originator of the kilyert Kid
| dies. and immortalized by o. Henry
. in several of his stories. is now on
the staff of the title department at
| the Lasky studio. where he will do
| special colored titles for motion pic
! lures.
| Vitagraph is confident that it's new
seven-reel comedy. TOO Much Busi
ness" will make history. Its story
concerns a young sales manager, who
falls in love with his employers pri-
vate secretary and gets her to sign
! an option to marry him If he doubles
his salary in a months time. Ten
| minutes later he gets fired. 1t is
| founded on John Henry and the
Restless Sex the magazine story by
Earl Derr Biggers.
One of the strongest casts assembled
| for picture in long time. il is
said. is now being gathered for
| George FitZmaurices first California
| made Paramount picture. an adapta
tion by Ouida BergeTe of Mary john
| ston's ITO Have and To Hold" Betty
Compson and Bert Lytell will have
the leading roles, and Theodore Kos
loff and Theodore Roberts are slated
| for important parts.
| Uncle Sam is taking hand in NOV
ing pictures. Betty Compson's new
picture is sea story, and the adap-
which the action takes place the
| Comet" Uncle Sans order. however.
Will change this, for he insists that
no fictitious names shall be painted
on hulls. or the name changed from
| that under which the vessel is duly
registered. So when THE Bonded
| Woman" reaches the screen, the name
| of the ship will be the one mentioned
in the charter when the company goes
on location to San Francisco.
| Little frankie Lee, now playing
with Agnes Ayres in 'Borderland,"
will probably be remembered always
\ by playgoers as the "crippled boy of
| the Miracle Man"
| The grandson of the first dentist in
| California is playing in Blood and
Sand" which Fred Niblo is directing.
George Field. interpreting "El Ma
cional," in the Ibanez story of Span
ish life, is direct descendant of DR..
II. G. Blankman, who came around
the Horn in 1S47 and pulled teeth in
San Francisco. during the gold rush.
for fifty-dollar slug per moiar. This
! should be enough .quanhcat1on Tor
| any actor.
So successful, it is said, was the
first revival week of old-time Para
mount pictures that the company has
| decided to issue second block OF
well known features. including Cecil
B. De Miles why Change Your
| Wife," The Woman God Forgot,
and We Can't Have Everything;
Mae Murray, in The Gilded Lily;
THE Woman Thou Gavest Me-; the
William A. Brady production, Little
Women" and Elsie Ferguson, In bar
barry Sheep"
Frederick Warde is retailing a rem
iniscence of Douglas Fairbanks first
engagement at seventeen in one OF
Warde's Shakespearean repertory COM
panies. Doug" was broken in with
one-line part. in which he was to
say, Stand back, my lord, and let the
coffin pass" The future Broadway
favorite and screen hero of "The
Three Muskateers." Warde says, usu-
ally got confused and rendered the
line: stand back, my lord. and let
the parson cough"
| D. W. Grifith's latest big picture,
"Orphans of the Storm" has closed its
special three months New York en-
gagement and is now touring the
country During Easter week Or
phans of the Storm made its debut
in sixteen big cities.
Ray Smallwood. has for the second
time been drafted from retirement to
play a role considered inevitably APP
propriate for her. She has been cast
for Tanya in Charles Rays ambitious
production of THE Tailor Made Man.
She was a favorite screen star until
! 1917, when she decided to devote her.
self to home, husband and baby. In
1921 she was lured from the fireside
by an enthusiastic director to do i'm
portant roles in Gareth Hughes pic
lures After that Mrs. Grandin re-
solved to remain domestic for
keeps"
George Arliss is soon to begin film