The New York herald., 1922-12-10
S OF THE PICTURES AND THOSE w
THE NEW MOVIES
By Robert E. Sherwood

VIII Rogers as IcltGbod Crane, will be
on view at the Capitol during the week
of December "a.
We do not know whether Mr.
Rogers has added anything to Wash
ington Irvirg's story but we hope So
The news that Ernest Lubitsch will
direct Mary Pickford in Dorothy Ver-
non of Haddon Hall" comes as pleas
ant surprise.
1t will be remembered that last jan
uary. when Mr. Lubitsch visited New
York, he expressed a desire to go out
to Hollywood to look the place over
but was dissuaded by his advisers. as
it was felt that his reception might
be anything but cordial. A great
many of the unemployed movie labor
ers have resented the importation of
German films on the ground that they
were taking the bread out of honest
American mouths, &c. &c. So they
had it In for Mr. Lubitsch and others
OF his ilk.
| Now. however. Pola Negri has gone
to HOLLYWOOD and has not as yet been
made the target for any vindictive
bricks, so we assume that Mr.. Luz
bitsch will be safe.
! His visit there should be highly val
/ uable-to himself and to Hollywood.
He will bring with him a humber of
ideas that can be used to great advan-
I tage by the California film gentry, and
they. IN ttrn, will be able to tell him
( a few things. The interchange OF
ideas will be mutually advantageous.
! We hear that Clare Eames is to play
| Queen Elizabeth in Dorothy Vernon
of Haddon Hail." and this should be
another wise selection on Miss Pick
ford's part
Miss Eames has been seen twice be-
fore as the virgin Queen, once at the
age of 16 and once at so. We mean
the queen. not Miss Eames. In the
Pickford production, she will be 80.
Edmund Goulding, having 6omplet-
ed the continuity for several new pho
toplays, has gone home to England for
a six weeks vacation. Mr.. Goufding
came to this country first some four
| years dSO, hOtAiAho acONS eAAN
movies. Since then he has made a
sizable fortune with his virile pen.
Learn to write scenarios! 1t pays!
Claire Windsor has been added to
the cast Of Bella Donna" Pola Me-
girls first American picture.
Miss Windsor has been coming
along fast Of late. and. while there is
not much danger that she will out
shine Miss Negri in Bella Donna"
she should be able to help out consid-
erably. -
One Of the worst bunco games that
the movies are perpetrating is the
false exploitation Of new stars in old
pictures.
| Whenever a film player makes a
hit and his name becomes valuable
from box office standpoint Ahe pro-
ducers begin to dig up his past. If
they can find an old picture in which
an extra they polish 1t up and re-
release It under his name.
Rodolph Valentino, who knocked
around Hollywood for several years
before he effected his meteoric rise.
has been made a particularly flagrant
example of this malpractice. He Is
being featured in more revivals than
any star on the screen.
| Just to get the thing straight we
publish list Of the following pictures
in which he Is legitimately featured:
THE Four Horsemen of the Apoca-
lypse," THE Conqueroring Power"
The Sheik.- Blood and and"
Moran Of the Lady Lefty" Camille"
and The Young Rajah."
Good news for professional con-
test answerers.
| Another embryonic film star wants
name. She is at present using
"Derelys Perdue" as a label, but evil
IDENTIFY yearns for a change. She is
employed by the Film Booking Offices
of America
BY the way. what ever happened to
that great contest which was to re-
suit in a new name for Helen Lynch?
Last week we offered a vote of
lHdlhS W f1u6O fNieStIIeiQ anu sam
uel Rothafel for their courage In
showing many pictures which no other
exhibitor would dare to book We
neglected to extend this gratitude to
Joseph Plunkett, managing director of
the Strand, but hasten to do so now.
He has taken his chances on such
pictures as BLACK Beauty" Gypsy
Passion. "All for a Woman" "The
Devil" 'Disraeli." "A Dolls House"
and "A Woman of No Importance"
He has also given us the Fokine bal
| let.
! There is. however, one legitimate
criticism which may be made of the
presentation at the Strand. and that
is against the poor projection. Pic
lures often appear so muddy and badly
/ lighted on the Strand screen that It is
difficult for the audience to distin-
/ guish the expressions on the faces of
the players. Sometimes, of course.
this comes as a blessing. But 1t is apt
to be annoying.
The Griffith repertory season at the
Selwyn Theater has come to an alb
rupt close, and so we shall not have
the opportunity to see Intolerance"
or Broken Blossoms" just yet.