The Washington times., 1922-09-21
,AUTUNN'o LEAVES
AND IDOLS ARE
= :: FALLING
The "Sheik" Declines to Trade
His Arabian Charger for a
Barrel - viIIainy on the
r Plains Gets Rest as Big
BiII' Hart Looks Up Divorce
Attorneys.
By HAROLD PHILLIPS.

e6lN 1ODlED cruelty, NO
." dolph Valentino calleI
the practice of his en:
ployers in making him use
barrel for a chair in his dress
ing room during the filming oF
"Blood and Sand" Valentino
Is suing Famous Players-Laskey
for revocation of his contract
which they allege runs to Feb
ruary, 1924. Rodolph is also
angry because Lila Lee and
Nita Naldi were mentioned on
the billing with him. and he is
further angered apologies to
the chemists association) be-
cause he had to engage a rea,
herman toreador to alternately
provoke and pacify the bull.
Another pair Of golden fo t
with muddy stains!
s@RIG.HEARTED" Bill Hart
also fell out of charac.
ter in the last week. Bill
slabled his pinto pony, unuelteu
1.-The irons" from a slOuChing hip,
put on a white collar and went
over to call on his wlfe, Wini-
fred. Villainy on the Western
plains took a lay-off Vile Biil at
tended his domestic difficulties. 1t
Is said he dumped 100000 in gold
into Winifred's lap, took peep at
9TH little vaIm.nt" the s,ork
brought him and then beat it back
permanently for "ouL thar where
the West begins" each hectic day
with hot chocolate and the mornt
ing papers.
Up to a few weeks ago Bill Hart
was the movie industrys main an
chorage to domestic deCe ICY.
Every time the sub rosa tattlers
began the Il heard" sonata. UP
sprang loyal defender with
'Now take Bill Hart. f'rinstance.
There's a man." etc, etc. Bill
was inevitably the Man Who" in
all alibis for screen scandals.
A lot of us invested Bill with
ethereal virtues whose influences
made little boys like to go to
school and carry kindling wood.
When Bill strode through the spe-
cious grounds of his Hollywood
castle, even the sparrows sang
after the best fashion of imported
canaries and the sun beamed with
a softlier touch. So superstition
told us.
And now Bill-pig. hearted, open.
handed Bills sucCumbing to the
divorce mill and the kids are drop.
ping the kindling wood to steal ap
pies from Old Man Snide's or
chard and the "sparrows don't
seem to sing no more like they
useter."
A BLACK cat nearly ruined the
bedroom scene in "Why Men
Leave Home" at its New York
premiere last week. While the
neglected husband in the play was
denounCing the gadabout prOClivi-
ties of his wife Doth abed) in walk
ed the cat, deigning first a glance
at the haranguing pair, then walk
ing to the foOtlights, where II
blinked seriously at the audience.
Recognizing no familiar faces,
Tabby disappeared under one of the
beds. The actors recovered their
composure, but out walked the cat
again, strode twice across the stage
and disappeared in the wings.
There wasn't a door or a win
dow or a crack leading to the stage
from behind the scenes that wasn't
nnn,,nip1 hHv atn h.a. .,1 n
director, each with arms out
stretched and each pleading,
pretty Kitty, come here nice
Kitty" said Avery Hopwood.
THE actors were so nervous they
could hardly speak when the act
ended"
GEORGE MARSHALL, sponsor
for the Belasco stock com.
pany. which held forth here dur
ing some of the summer months.
is trying to cultivate Baltimore to
an all-yearround stock engage
ment. He opened this week IN
"Lilies of the Field" with 10.
sephine Drake in her original role
as "Maisie. Ada Meade, re-
membered for her fine work with
the Garrickers, Is now playing In
THE Blue Kitten" on tour. Den.
mis- King and Wanda Lyon. also
former Garrickers, are. respec-
lively, in "Bluebeard's Eighth
Wife" on tour, and Lonely
Wives" in New York.-D. w.
Griffith has finished the produc-
ton on which he has been work
ing for five months. The picture
is as yet publicly unnamed. MIR.
Griffith says the coal shortage Is
seriously interfering with his fu.
ture plans.-JaCkie COoSan..
princeling of child stars, has com
pleted "Oliver Twist" in eight reels,
and now he's vaCationinS.---
Mary Pickford is re-doing Tess of
the Storm Country" and her pro.
ducers plead that II be not con-
founded with the old version made
some years ago.