The Washington times., 1922-04-20
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|. FATTY MAKING
STARS PONDER
Rumor Nora Bayes Is Listed
for Screen Work Excites
Broadway.
BY wILLENE TAYLOR.
opyright, Iszz, by Cosmopolitan News
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NEW YORK, April 2o.--The ban
ming by win Hays. dictator of the
movies. OF $1,000, 900 worth of book.
ings of Fatty Arbuckle's films was
in motion picture circles
today as the first step In cleanup
campaign directed against certain
faction of the Hollywood, Cal, film
colony.
The action was taken to mean the
public is TO be protected from film
folk who figure I'm scandals and that
otLer characters win have TO watch
their steps" or get censored into
temporary oblivion, as In the Ar
buckle case.
BY his action Hays has proved
he intends TO be no figurehead. He
intends to earn his bank-size salary.
Nora Bayss may go into the
movies. II she does the stage will
hastily don a weeping mask. for II
there is any comic personality the
stage would regret to lose it's
vivacious. melodious Nora.
She hasn't yet bid the stage good.
by, but she has admitted intense
past several days has been at the
Talmadge studio watching with
keen interest the filming of a new
Achievement Pictures Production
Hence the reports that she is con
sidering the movies as a future
vehicle for her fun-making. The
two beautiful children whom she
has adopted, Leanora and Norman
Bayes, accompanied her to the
studio.
Stepping off Central Park wes'
into Sixty-ninth street and ther
into the coziness of Fannie Hurst's
studio apartment at No. IL. we find
ourselves looking across one OF
Miss Hurst's handsome Batik's al
that most regal of motion picture
actresses, Betty Blythe. Mis-,
Blythe. star of "The Queen oi
Sheba," has snuggled, IL you car
imagine Betty smuggling, into the
authors library, and into her den
and into her kitchen and settled
for the period during which ths
well-known scenario writer win bs
in Europe.
She was seated between the two
great iron candelabra holdins
many orange-tinted candles. anC
with a sweep of her hand com
mands, Now, bring me the Who'll,
of Miss Hurst's library" She's
hungry for reading after completing
Should Husbands Known" hel
latest starring vehicle.
Girls, you won't have to wait unit
autumn to see Eugene O'Brten, tbs
romantic movie hero. In prepara
ton of facing audiences next season
on the legitimate stage. OBrien hai
decided to do some preliminary train
ing in the form of personal. appear
ances at movies, beginning at In
dianapolis in a few days. Before
leaving for the Hoosier State h'
said:
''The cat no longer has my tongue
I'm tired OF the screen and the silen
drama. / want to talk once more"
At his bachelor apartment Ii
Townhouse club, he was inspected
by the writer and we can repor
that every wave In his pompadoul
is genuine.
At the Pyramid Pictures studi,
the management has begun the frs
defensive tactics against the powel
OF the radio. The movies have be
come just a bit afraid of radio. Th'
potentialities of radio are so I'm
measurably great that the produc
ers of the motion picture industr,
have begun to fear II already. II Il
thought that the crowds may b
diverted from the picture houses q
radio concerts, an dthat gradual.
the popularity of the movies may b
snatched away by radio.
To be in on the start, Pyrami
Pictures are installing in thei
studio a large radio broadcasting sci
the sister set of the one now beinl
installed by the American Telephon
and Telegraph Company, the larges
set in the world. Pyramid expect
to have the set ready for broadcast
ing by May Is, after which II Wi
arrange for regular concerts, smal
chats by it's stars, and stories cor
cerning its productions to be sen
out over the country aspspecial nun
bers on movie programs in movi
houses.
A special department will arrang
for these concerts, which are to &C
company Pyramid Pictures all owe
the country, It is a defensive movJ
they say at the studios, and one ded
Gated to the welfare of the motiol
pictures.
Dorothy and Lillian Gish, two o
the daintiest bits in all screenland
have banned organdies for the sun
mer. Organdies-those sheer, fairy
like fabrics which in pastel shade
make a slender. girlish figure seer
etheral by moonlight, will not grac
the Gish figures. Dorothy and Ii
lian are going TO follow the cold bel
North all season, keeping just on tn
other chilly side of the line an
sports wear will fiji their trunks.
Tweeds and trailing bright scarf
well become these quaint, smal
girls, whom we have last seen II
hoops in the Orphans of tn
Storm" The reason for the tri
North is the falling nealth of thei
mother, who was subjected to tn
horror of many London air raid
during the war and who has iatel,