The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-04

irA&(<~ AH ton and now they
ErE.SY have turned to old
MUEV songs for photo
kNW HkA play topics. No need
II. WA /&$ now for mother %
w W. MM wall: Where Is
1AgEM%&TE 8 My Wandering Boy
Tonight?" S h ell
find him at the movies!
other film-song-tit1es may be
Father, Dear Father. Come Home
With Me now" while yeggmen are
making raids 'On the Banks of the
Wabash"
For a comedy in which all the ac-
tors will be dogs. miniature street
and buildings, perfect to the smallest
detail, has been constructed at the
Century studio. No less than fifty dogs
take part in one scene.
Charles Chaplin has new sweetheart! !!
She is the sSete young Lila Lee eEsto
school Days fame and now a familiar
ingenue in pictures
"Her Only Way" led Norma Talmadge
into moving pictures.
Mermaid Comedies has followed the ex-'
ample of Sennett and Christie and decided
| to discard bathing girls" in its fun films.
May Allison is the latest of the promi-
nent screen favorites to leave the cinema
field, at least temporarily. She has sold
her home in Hollywood and announced her
return to the footlights.
Announcement has been made by Hiram
Abrams president of United Artists Cor
poratiOn, of the affiIiation of Charles Ray
prominent film star. with the big Four"
comprising Mary Pickford Charlie Chap
lin, Douglas Fairbanks and David w. Grif-
fifth.
John C. Brownell, eastern scenario eM-
Of has JTlEf Irf.Ir1 cal
Ouida. Priscilla Dean will play the char
acter of Cigarette" the heroine.
Mae Murray's newest picture. "Peacock
Alley" has been booked more heavily than
any production ever released by Metro
Pictures Corporation. with the one ex-
ceptton of THE -Four Eorsemen of the
Apocalypse"
Elaine Hammerstein pays $100 to have
hert hair permanently waved while her
cOlOred maid gives twice that sum to have
own curly locks made straight.
Here's pertinent question : Why don't
the '.'depravities'' of the films affect the
morals of censors? That's what Rupert
| Hughes wants 70 know. How can censors
says he sarcastically. remain pure and vir-
tuous watching these terrible movies they
say are being made? Well!
How Time Flies.
Films; only short time ago in their in
lfaHcy, have arrived, according to a new
title, at THE Foolish Age"
What Do Men want "At the Stage
Door"-especially when the electric signs
apply to u movie theater?
Arthur Rankin, who will appear In sur.
port of Pauline Frederick in her next re
production THE Lure of Jade" comes Of
a very distinguished line of.players. His
grandfather was MKee Rankin, his grand
\ mother Kitty blanchard. He is the son
OF Phyllis Rankin and Harry Davenport
n of 7 TQnr
Sidney Drew. Which gives him a the
| atrical ancestry of which any player may
| well feel proud,
Sara Bernhardt has been Invited to
Hollywood by a distinguished committee
/ of producers and stars to be the guest of
| honor at celebration of the tenth anni-
versary of the motion picture drama. 1t
is figured out that the first real feature
Madame Bernhardt was the first great
stage artist to star in the films.
Someone has been porips over the "best
American photoplays of 1921" selected by
various, critics and finds that they agree
Iron" Chapiin's 7'The Kid" "a Connecticut 1%R
! Yankee" with Harry Myers. 1.-The Four
Horsemen Of the APOCALYPSE .'The Three
Musketeers,' Little Lord Fauntleroy,''
"Disrealr' and Sentimental Tommy
lures is Andy Archibald. who plays chef
in The Dust Flower for Goldwyn He
| rises feet 8 inches into the ether.
You Are Hereby Informed
That Eugene O'Brien began life as a
baby
That Buster Keaton has finished shoot.
ing Cops"
That Conway Tearle is off the stage and
| into pictures.
That "The Soh Saver is not the pic
| tured life Of a cobbler.
That owen Moore's new comedy declares
Love Is An Awful Thing"
| That Evelyn Laye will be made a screen
queen with an English reputation.
| Believed by many to be the most dis
| tinguished actor on the American stage to-
day and the only worthy successor to the
mantle of the late Richard Mansfield, Guy
Bates POST has entered the ranks of screen
lands great stars. His portrayal of the
dual leading roles IN the 'Masquerader,"
whose film version for Associated First
/ National marks his motion picture debut
| in a Richard Walten Tully production,
| has become a stage classic
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