Evening star., 1923-08-26

lMAY McAVOY'S present visit to
- New York is her first since two
years ago. when she played in Sen
| timental Tommy" Now she is to
have the featured role opposite Glenn
Hunter in West Of the Water Tower"
| Theodore Roberts received a unique
honor on a recent visit to San Fran
cisco to film scenes in Cecil B. De
Miles The Ten Commandments"
! Fifty members of the alumnae of the
old Washington Grammar School. in
cluding former mayors, politicians,
| lawyers and financiers. attended a
vaudeville performance with him and
| gave him an ovation. Mr.. Roberts
was a. pupil at the school sixty-four
| years ago.
| Kathryn Lean, who has the role Of
| Claudia in His Children's Children"
! has been out of pictures for two
years. She played the leads in Ruler
| of the Road and in THE Girl of the
Sea" and was featured in George AIDE
| fables which Essanay made several
years 90.
Camera work has been finished on
| William De Miles latest Paramount
! picture. "The Marriage Maker" which
| was adapted by Clara Beranger from
| Edward Knoblock's stage play. ''The
Faun." The featured players are
Agnes Ayres and Jack Holt, supported
| by Charles de Roche, Mary Astor and
! Robert Agnew.
Leatrice JOY can become a milliner
\ if she ever finds it necessary to give
up motion pictures. She demon
! L., t., ln
making hats in her role In the new
| Charles Maigne picture, THE Silent
| Partner"
The dogs that followed the Children
\ of Israel out of Egypt were sup
posedly thin. poorly fed animals. a
! collection of dogs was taken to camp
| by Cecil B. de Miles company filming
| The Ten Commandments" but they
| spent most of their time lying around
week. After that several camp at
| tendants had to be kept busy seeing
that the animals got plenty of exer-
| else to keep their weight down.
The cast for Lloyd Hamiltons first
! five-reel comedy, ''Mammy's Boy" be-
| ing made for the D. w. Griffith or
] ganization. will include Irma Har-
! rison. Tom Wilson, Lucille La Eerna
and Edna May Spurl. Director Jack
| Noble has begun photographing at
the Mamaroneck studios The cast
| is largely the same as that selected
! for AL Jolson before he rendered an
abrupt resignation from motion pic
| ture work. .t
| 1t is reported that Andree Lafayette
| has recently signed with an inde-
[ pendent concern for the starring role
in a super-production. Miss Lafayette
1 had set her heart on a short trip to
! Paris. but was unable to withstand
| the entreaties of producers. who, be-
| cause of her success in Richard Wal
| ton Tully's screen version of 'Trilby.
| did some spirited bidding for her
I services.
Gilda Grey. probably the most
[ sinuous wriggler on the entire New
| York stage, and a featured star of the
i Ziegfield Follies, is one of the dancers
! in the screen version of Lawful
| here with "Hitchykoo" and other mu-
steal shows, also is featured in it.
/; Hollywood" the big Paramount
production, with its cast of screen
stars and notables, is really the
| west coast studios. AS soon, however,
| as the news of production work on
! Hollywood" was bruited about sew
eral other productions of similar type
| were rushed to the screen with the
result that Hollywood" was with
drawn, its release date postponed and
| its scope and treatment greatly am
plified to make it not only the first
| but the greatest story of its type.
D. w. Griffith and Charles Chaplin
| apparently are favorites of the Brit
| ish film-going public. according TO
! cable reports of a popularity contest
| completed recently by the Sunday
Pictorial, London. Way Down East"
was declared the most popular picture
| by the voting; orphans of the Storm"
the second most popular, and Charles
Chaplin's THE Kid" third. The vot-
| ing in the contest, II is claimed, in
| cluded every important American pic
ture shown in this country prior to
March.
| The title of the forthcoming Warner
classic, "Lucretia Lombard" has been
! changed to "Loveless Marriages" 1t
Is stated that the reason for this is
| that movie fans may be mislead into
believing the photoplay Is costume
| picture, as Lombard is province in
| Italy, and Lucretia was the first name
of the late Madame Borgia. Monte
Blue and Irene Rich are starred in it.
! Dorothy Vernon is playing an i'm
| portant role in Johnny Hines next
picture, conductor 1892" The lady
1
| Christie Comedy fame. Conductor
! 1892" is a screen version of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's story, THE Camers
Back"
Lenore Uric, who is now in Holly
wood filming the famous Belasco play,
Tiger Rose" Is keeping different
| hours to those when in New York
| during her season in "Kiki." The
popular star Is on the set from early
morning until o'clock at night.
Pretty soft for these movie stars,
huh?
| The National Board Of Review has
| selected Where the North Begins
starring Rim Tin, the famous po-
lice dog hero. and Little Johnny
| Jones" as the best audience pictures
for the month of July. This should
| also please our old friend George NJ.
Cohan, as he wrote and starred in
Little Johnny Jones'"
| A preview was given of THE Gold
Diggers," starring Hope Hampton. al
Glendale, Calf. and from the glowing
| reports that have arrived east one
| may CLEAN that the photoplay is ex-
pected to knock Broadway and the
| hinterland cold. Wyndham Standing
| and Louise Fazenda are included in
| the cast.