Evening star., 1922-10-01


young screen players in the country,
began his histrionic career driving a
truck for the old Balboa company.
He became an assistant property man
and then turned the camera crank FOR
while. Once he got a chance to act,
his future was assured.
Patsy Ruth Miller. ingenue in Re
membrance." Goldwyn Rupert
Hughes production. is only eighteen.
and considers "fapper" merely nor
NAL. healthy young girl of the present
day. Miss Miller led her classes
through school. and in a psychology
test made at the Goldwyn studio re-
ceived the highest ranking of any of
the players. Ever since she has been
IN motion pictures she has lived with
her mother. She is what is termed a
home girl"
Sol Cohen. violinist Of the Los
Angeles Philharmonic Symphony Or
chestra, is preparing a special orches-
tration for Maurice Tourneur's elabo-
rate picture version of Lorna Doone."
Cohen is an ex-service man, who also
wrote the orchestration for Thomas
H. 1nce's Skin Deep"
There is at least one man in the
world who doesn't want to get in the
movies. He is Chief" Barnet Of
Muskogee, Okla, said to be the rich
est Indian in America. The chief"
with his white wife and daughter,
was recent visitor at the Thomas H.
Ince studios and was taken on an in
spection tour of the plant and the lot
The Indian seemed SO interested in
all the details of the studio that Mr..
be made Of him. The chief" immedi-
ately fled with grunts Of disapproval
In spite of the coaxing of his wife.
Miss Bradley King. continuity
writer for the Thomas H. Ince
rious new coupe at the conclusion Of
popularity" contest conducted by
Los Angeles newspaper. The coupe
was a consolation prize. Miss King
has two original stories. What a
Wife Learned" and "A Man of Ac-
A new addition to the cast of Alice
| Brady's latest Paramount picture.
Anna Ascends," now in the making
at the Long Island City studio, Is
| Grace Griswold. one of the leaders Of
the theatrical workshop movement
and well known for her work on the
legitimate stage. She has appeared in
but three pictures. "Disraeli," with
| George Arliss: 'Sni'in' Through"
-.
Griffith picture.
Pauline Garon, the charming young
actress who played opposite Richard
Barthelmess in ''Tol'able David" end
Sonny" has been engaged by Fa-
nous Players-Lasky to play one of
the leading roles in Cecil B. De
Miles next. production for Para
mount.
cI,s ,svr ~
where President Lincoln was assas-
sinated will be feature in the Rock
ett-Naylor photoplay production The
Life of Abraham Lincoln The in
terror of the theater as it appeared
the night Of the assassination will be
, constructed at the Hollywood studio.
but the action at the front OF the
theater and the escape Of Booth at
the rear will be filmed al the old
| building here in Washington.
George CowI. who has an important
! role in Penrhyn Stanlaws' production
| of Pink Gods" started on the stage
at twenty-one with stock company
on tour in England, where he was
born. Later he was a cattle rancher
at Fort Que Appelle. in Saskatchewan:
| He also hunted gold in Arizona and
Nevada. Later he ran a ranch where
| he raised horses, but the early lure
! of the stage came back on him. and
| in 1913 he went TO New York. and now
| he is motion picture actor.
! AS a result of her excellent work in
Burning Sands" George Melford
production, Jacqueline Logan has been
/! signed to a five-year contract to ap-
pear in Paramount pictures. She wlll
play leading roles as member OF the
News item in Jackson tWyo.
Courier: "Bobbie Cox Tarred and
Feathered.-Bcbbie Cox sI1a ran Into into IA a
was tarred and feathered by the irate
citizens of jackson and run out OF
i town" The truth of the matter is
! that he was tarred and feathered and
| run out of town for scene in the
Cowboy and the Lady" In which he
Edward Sheldon is said to have
proved that he can write sea story
with all the skill of w. Clark Russell
His first screen original. "On the High
Seas has been produced for Para
mount by Irwin w. Willat. Those
who have seen it say 1t has all Inc
! thrill. all the mystery and wonder
and horror of the sea. coupled with
a romance developing when a loSely
and carefully reared woman finds her
| self on board a derelict vessel with
two men-stokers.
ITS nothing new to say that the
! greatest acting is a lack of acting,
saws George Fitzmaurice. producer Of
Paramount pictures. The point OF
nerfect Interpretation of an emotion
passes when the player comforts MS
or her face, twists the BODY or other-
wise carries action beyond the tempo
which would be used by a person &C.
the scenes specified"
! Spanish parts are falling to the lot
! of Lila Lee regularly: She had one
Sand" she played Carmen. and now
! she is a Castilian princess, IN Ihe
T; Ghost Breaker"
Interest was manifested last week
in a program of James ONeirs hrst
presentation of Monte Cristo" In
washington, December II. 1888,
which hung throughout the week OIL
| the front of the box office OF Gran :
dalrs Metropolitan Theater. where the
Fox film version of the Dumas clas-
sic was being shown. The program,
in an excellent state of preservation
after thirty-nine years. was present
ed to the Metropolitan by Anton
Heitmuller of 1907 14th street north
west It listed a cast OF players that
included many stage celeorlties wen
known to, the present generation OF
theatergoers, among them Eugene
Rlair. who played Mercedes as Mr.
| ONeil's leading woman.
| Wearing a cloth -of-gold train about
fifty feet long and sitting in uncom.
Portable juxtaposition with a couple OF
Bengal tigers are only two Of the
things Leatrice Joy was called upon
to do in filming Cecil B. De Miles
production of "Manslaughter, at
Loew's Columbia today.