Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
FHMOGRAMS

NOAH BERRY has been engaEed to
play the part Of Adolf Valborg in
the Warner Brothers screen version
of Sinclair Lewis novel Main Street"
now being directed by Harry Beau
mont.
The screen version of Brass"
Charles c. Norris novel OF marriage
and divorce, has been completed at
the west coast studios under the d.
rection of Sidney Franklin. 1t was
adapted by Julien Josephson. and II
was produced by Harry Rapf The
complete cast includes Monte Blue,
Marie Provost, Frank keenan,. irene
Pat O'MalIey, Helen Ferguson. Vera
Lewis, Harvel Clark, Margaret Sed-
don and Edward Jobson.
Since Marie Provost is said to have
announced her engagement to Ken
meth Harlan she has classited nus
bands. 1.-The first husband, she says
lis he who stays home every evening,
has no vices and works for salary.
The second is the atavistic master
whose mistress is to worship him.
and the third is the worshiper Of his
wife to the exclusion of everything
else. This type demands an emotional
actress for wife,"
Buddy Messenger. with whom
Broadway got acquainted as the boy
in Booth Tarkington's THE Flirt."
will be seen as a printers devil In
Vitagraph's coming Jess Robbins
comedy drama of newspaper life, "a
Front Page Story"
Vitagraph promises an entirely diff
ferent twist in it's story of the desert.
"One Stolen Night" in which Alice
Calhoun appears. Followers of this
pretty star will see her for the first
time in the costume and character of
an Arabian girl.
Colleen Moore, who plays in ''The
Ninety and Nine" is credited with
giving the best performance of her
career. Warner Baxter has the role
played by Robert Hflliard when Ram
say Morris play was staged on Broad
way.
An inquiring fan asks IL Larry Sc.
mons comedy THE Counter Jumper.
in which a mysterious frog-legged
egg plays leading part, Is drama
tization of Mark Twain's jumping
Frog story. 1t is not, Jeanette.
Having virtually finished THE Abys-
NAL Brute" the Jack London story In
which Reginald Denny is starred. Ho-
of up the Ladder" the owen Davis
play with Virginia Valli as his star.
Both will be released as Universal
Jewels.
Almost three blocks of cobblestone
pavement have been laid down in the
sets for 1.-The Hunchback of Notre
Dame" which is being constructed at
ing picture ingenuity is being expended,
Il is claimed, to make this production
as complete a INSTALLATION of Victor
Hugos story as possible.
Universal players started this week
on a new type of moving picture serial:
II Is called 1.-The Phantom Fortune"
The story deals with big business,
against a background of business prob
lens. Universars pioneer efforts in the
Observation-Disclosures field have inspired
this new bit Of pioneering. William
Desmond will be the star.
Since production on Drifting" the
big William A. Brady stage play. began.
Priscilla Dean has become an enthusiast
in the famous Chinese game Of Nah
Jongg. The production requires her TO
know IL and the Universal Is paying for
lessons In this Intricate and interesting
game So
"-Thundering DAWN az a title for
"Bavu," ELECTED such a thunderous pro-
test that 1t has been decided to change
this photoplay'S title to "Bavu," under
which II opened the Earl CarrolI Inc
ater in New York.
Another beauty winner in the films"
is title blazoning itself across the
country. Little Mary Jane Sanderson,
who won a beauty contest in Johns
town, Pa. and who received a. trip to
Universal City as prize from the
Grand Amusement Company, has re-
turned to Universal City to support
Nicely Edwards and Bert Roach in their
humorous tramp comedies. Mary Jane
Is said to make dainty foil for the be-
whiskered pair.
Betty Compson, who recently COM
pleted THE White Flower" at the
Lasky studio at Hollywood, Is in New
York on a, short shopping tour. She
will return to Hollywood January IL
to begin work in The Woman With
Four Faces"
E;quipping q. fur traders cabin for
motion picture purposes is no simple
matter, Henry Kolker, director of
Alice Brady in 1.-THE Snow Bride" her,
latest Paramount picture, has discov-
cred. 1t took 963 raw skins, valued
at s13,999.50, to make the cabin look
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