The Washington times., 1922-04-22
broadway
FILM PRODUCES
SORE T00TS|ES
Mae Murray's Pretty Pink Toes
Swathed in Medic ated Cot
ton Bandages.
BY WILLENE TAYLOR.
,pyriEht. 1922, by the Cosmopolitan
Nava Reryica

as Mae Murray will tell you If you
catch her between acts" In her
draping room, with her small pink
feet swathed in cotton and medi'
cines. To be broadway Rose" in
her next picture, which Is being d.
rected at the Tilford studios by
Robert z. Leonard, the blonde star
must dance herself to fame, no
matter II sharp stones bruise and
bleed her tender feet.
Her costumes are many and elab-
crate. heavily jeweled from toe tip
to head dress, and made Of the most
lustrous silks. There are seventeen
in all, and since dancing Is her prime
virtue In the picture, she must dance
in most every one. An immense
theater Is built within the studio,
and a stage Is set with silver
throne against q silver sunburst back
drop. In front OF this, Miss Murray
dances 10 the music Of a syncopat-
ing orchestra, while the extras clap
and clap, and the directors yell and
yell.
over and over. the large rhinestones
feet. The curse Of jewels!
In The Fighting Streak" Tom
Mix finds himself very much at
home. AT the pre-release showing OF
this last Tom Mix picture at the Fox
studios, this athletic hero was seen
III every Western antic considered
honorable in a man. 1t IL an enter
tanning film, filmed with thrills. and
not too much sentiment.
Tom Mix, as Andy" Lannirg.
has every opportunity to show his
prowess, from killing the black
sheep sheriff to shoeing horses.
The setting Is in the Rockies, and
ANDY" Lanning is called tender
foot because he refuses 10 fight.
He had promised his mother never
TO fight until ne had his back
against the wall. But when the
fighting streak In Andy" Is touched
off, he does not do anything lut
fight. and fight like mad until he
gets what he wants, which IL JUS.
! tice and the girl he loves. There
Is not much merriment in the film.
but 1t will appeal to those WHO like
good fight and a strong heal
mixed with a dab Of romance.
Patsy Ruth Miller. who 3lays the
girl lead. has very little - do ex.
cept look pretty occasionally. which
she does very well. Tho whole
story is built around miles Of fast
riding. daredevil leaps and ErIrplay.
Corinne Griffith is making 4 new
picture, Linda" at the Eitagraph
O. in In oh l.a., 4,
finished s." will appear in a regu.
, lar ShieIi picture. The Arab" She
and Director Webster Campbell,
with the rest of the cast, have JUST
returned from Charleston, S. G.,
where they made exteriors on the
picture and figured in southern
"feud' between Charleston and Sa
vannah. Ga.
! ku klux riders appear in Miss
GriIfith's dreams these nights be
Causa OF the midnight parades she
witnass't while In Carolina and in
! her hometown in Texas the week
, before. Great blazing torches re-
mindcrs OF the French revolution
awak' her nightly, she says.
Billie" Corrinnes black Pom
crantan, stuck his black nose iI,:o
a set Of Linda" and the director
| said he should stay in the pictur,
and be handed his pay envelope OF
SLICED liver every Saturday. The
English actor, Holmes Herbert. IS
the lead opposite Miss Griffith, tn.
young lady with the wide set gray
eyes for whom limouines and cold
creams are being christened
! The expectation OF our movie sta.e
Is beginning. A warning note was
sounded Il few weeks ago by John
Emerson, president of the Actors
Equity. that America would lose it,
| producers and its stars IL the price
| OF r,OCiOn picture production in this
country was not lessened. The
statement was made In a plea for
high tariff against foreign films Al
a n;.eting of the New York hoard
! OF motion picture review.
! Joseph SChenck, producer OF PIC
lures starring Norma and Constance
Talnadge. said upon leaving for
Hollywood this week. ne could make
| pictures in California much cheape,
than in the Fast. That is why pro
ducing companies nave been golna
West for the last several years.
Now Hollywood appears to be toe
cAptISlNo " tUS
tunities in foreign countries.
! A producing company has been
formed in New York with New York
capital which Will have studios IN
Vienna, and make oil its pictures
there. And whom have they chosen
to take with them, but two Of our
, most popular stars, Hazel Dawn and
Norman Kerry. Kerry will arrive
here from the coast in time to sail
for Vienna by May I. Miss Dawn
withdrew from the stellar role In
the "Demi-Virgin" while It was play.
ing on Broadway to make preparL.
tions for making the Viennese pic
lures.
Burton Holmes, who has Just re.
leased his "Trip Around the World
With Burton Holmes" an educa.
tional film, Is just starting 20 the
Orient today. He says that there
are lots OF beautiful cherry blossoms
and types OF Japanese architecture
out there which he did not have half
time enough to film in his trip
around the world. He will be gone
about six months, and on his return
promises to show the beaU . spots
of Japan in a film.
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