Evening star., 1923-07-22
LATE MOVIE GOSSIP
FROM HOLLYWOOD.
Motion Picture Exposition and Monroe Centennial

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few days and will at once start upon
another feature film. rcs
Inc Universal unit which has been >
ilVlng In tents in Arizona while taxi
ing The Ramblin' Kid" has returned
10 the big studio here.
"Trilby" Filmed, Atmosphere and All,
Richard Walton Tulley has done
~hat thought was the impossible
j ne has transferred "Trilby" to the
screen. The whole story Is there, but,
more than that, he has brought Paris
atmosphere and all. And the charm
OF the old tale of the hypnotist and
the singer and the artists is intact.
Arthur Edmund carew's playing of
tne part OF Svengali gives him a
new place in fllmdom, and Andree
i,aFayette does the name part SO we'll
that 1t Is hard to imagine her ever
a convincing Little Billee.
Harold Lloyd's last picture at the
Hal Roach studio, Why Worry?" will
be released within six weeks 1t is
SAID TO exceed Safety Last" in come
dy and in holding power The come
dian OF the horn-rimmed specs has
taken the entire staff under which
ne grew up over to the new Holly
wood studios. where he will make all
future productions. 1t is surmised
that after his next picture, in which
Jopyna Ralston will play the lead.
ms wife. Mildred Davis, will play op-
posite him.
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Sol Lesser and Principal Pictures
"IIl stare WORK next month on a film
version Of Longfellow's "Hiawatha
according to Mr.. Lesser, the photo
play Will be made with fidelity to
the text and every attempt will be
! made to preserve the poetic beauty OF
ehe original poem instead of per-
putting a punch" into it by chang
ing the plot.
Mae Murray and her director hus-
pahd' robert Leonard, have returned
from New York to begin work at
the GoIdwyn studio in a fiIm play TO
be called Fashion Row."
Hal Roach has opened a school for
directors on his lot. All Roach en-
ployes who aspire to learn the art
OF directing comedies will be permit
teu 10 enter the class. Work Will con-
slst OF lectures and demonstrations of
IDEAS by the Roach directorial staff.
! kenneth Harlan is doing SO well in
| Ihe FIrginian" for b. T. Schulberk
that he may quit matinee idol roles
! ana become younger bill Hart His
picture after The Virginian" will
De George Agnew Chamberlain
! White Man" Tom Foreman will di-
| Rect.
Victor Schertzinger VIII soon begin
directing The Boomerang" at lne
] SchuIberg lot.
->etta Westcott, English stage star,
mas arrived here and will become d
| SchuIDerg star.
Hope Hampton will leave next
| week Tor Paris via New York She
! has completed work on The Gold
| Diggers at the Warner Brothers lot
In the fail She Will retufn to NI1n
] Irene"
| Paul Berne VIII make the scenat,o
for the hrst Ernest Lubitach produA-
| tion for Warner Brothers. The play
Is an original written by Lubitsch
! himself.
The receiving hospital here was
! filled with casualties when Civil War
| scenes were made for the Rocket
! production The Life of Abraham
Lincoln" Several people were
| trampled and others were powder
burned. More than 1000 people were
| used on the big set
| Antonio Moreno and his bride will
make a trip to Europe in the spring.
Pola Negri in The Spanish Dancer
and will be busy all winter for Para
mount.
/ Shannon Day has signed for the
leading role in No More Men," an
Elmer Harris story to be produced by
; Associated Authors.
Blanche Sweet has been awarded a
greatly coveted part, the leading role
filmed this summer at the Thomas 5.
Ince lot.
Raymond Mckee and his bride.
Marguerite Courtot, whose romance
| began when they played together in
;"Down to the Sea in Ships are in
Hollywood. Miss Courtot has retired
| from the screen but Mr.. Mckee will
! work in films here.
| Bill Harts first film under his new
| Lasky contract will be based upon Il
historical parsonage of the west in
the days of '49. He will play the part
of big Bill" Hickok, famous
| character in the days when travel
westward was over the Sante Fe
| trail.
Frederick Truesdell, William Col
lier Jr and Mary Pnilbin will have
the leads in the next Frank Rorzage
production. "The Age of Desire"
| William Turner, stage star of the
old days, is playing in "Other Mems
! Daughters" Ben Wilson production.
/ Hereafter all Preferred pictures
! will be distributed by the An-Star
Features distributors. This deal in
cludes all the b. p. Sculberg output
and the work of Kenneth Harlan,
Castor Glass and Ethel shannon.
Paramount has taken an option on
the three big downtown theaters mere
; owned by Sid Grammar. The deal IN
!, wolves about $4.S50,000. Mr.. Grau-
man will abandon downtown Los
Angeles and build two new theaters
IN Hollywood.