San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-28
JAMES w. DEAN.


p>Ars n..p 100 stills of adams Rib,
It seems to me that Cecil De Mile has
produced one Of the most distinctive
pictures yet made in America. The
photographers indicate that it is as uu-
usual in settings and story as The
Cabinet of DR.. Caligari."
"-uline aron, flapper, loves Elliott
J.; ter, anthropologist. Many of the
scenes concerning them take place in
a great museum, where giant replicas
Of prehistoric monsters serve as back
ground
Anna Q. Nilsson, the flapper's moth
or. is about to desert her husband, Mil
ton Stills, for a king, Theodore koslott,
when the daughter ayerts tie domestic
tragedy
The professor in his museum traces
back the history Of his specimens TO the
beginning of man to show Pauline that
the sex triangle has always existed. DE
Mile. in this flash-back, places his &C
ton in great forest, the largest forest
scene ever built in q studio. Garon,
Dexter, Nilsson, kOslOff and Sills ap-
pear as primordial humans.
IL the motion picture holds up to the
still specimens of il, De Mile has. made
the greatest picture of his career The
story is by Jeanie MACPHERSON.
: Reading that Mary Pickford has more
wealth than any other person in the
film business. i am reminded of story
Jeanie Macpherson told me the other
: day. She thinks Mag is the lo,yellest
woman in the world. S.hey have known
each other for many years.
The story had to do with Mary $
first increase in salary. Her salary in
those DAYS was not large and the in
crease was not large. There were many
/ things Mary wanted to do wits that
! first increase. Things for her mother.
! for Jack and for Lottie that she wanted
I 10 buy, But down in her heart Mary
| had long cherished something very fem
| mine. She left the studio without haV-
: ing decided what to do with her salary
. increase. .,
When she returned to the studio 1t
was evident that the feminine longing
/ had triumphed. "She was wearing the
longest ostrich plume ever saw" Miss
} Macpherson relates. There was little
! Mary with plume that seemed to reach
across the room"
; How the movies have grown! In
those old days, Mary's contract supu-
lated that she could wear long dresses
in her. films. She was quite a small
slip of n girl. but she didn't want al
ways TO be a child.
Ii was lust about that time that Maui
nee Costello signed a new CONTRACT
which raised his salary from SIS to S2I
a week. And the contract stipulated
that he should not be asked TO help
thift scenery when not acting!
What's New in New York.
Saw Jeanne MACPHERSON, scenario
writer. Viewed from some angles she
Is more beautiful than many stars; iron
other angles her face is ordinary. She
hasn't n camera face. but she has 6
camera mind. Saw Gimme" IL
which film Rupert Hughes says he be
lieves a brides most embarrassing mo
ment is when she first asks hubby To-
money. Saw THE Hummlni
BIRD" Of which play Maud Fulton II
playwright, star and composer OF IN
incidental music. Saw The fabl'
q a Fishermsn's Jinx," Just about tn
cleverest animated cartoon L ever uI'
see. Saw Robert Bruce, who toll
me ne Ndlltu hdg AtA ANNA
sunshine TO photograph few scene
for one Of his evidences Tales.
SO Saw Charlie Chaplin in 9Th
Pilgrim" which is not his funniest com
Hpdy, but in it his art is at its highest
-. Saw Dudley Digges. stage actor
lwho was with George Arliss in Dis
yseli." He told me how Arliss prac
lfieed one bit of pantomime for the stag
play several days. l know now VIII.
Arliss was so good in the film version
of il. . - Saw Bertha Kalich in 'Jit
,ta's Atonement," a TeutOnic plot gar
lnished with shavian epigrams.
LSaw "The Christian" Maurice Tour
lneur's finest photOplay. Mae Busc
and Phyllis Haver do the best wOr
of their careers in it. Saw Barre
rEiesling Of Hollywood. He says tn
good things ABOUT the movie colony
such as Conrad Nagel being churc
usher and Lois Wilson being Sunia
school teacher, are never printed.
Saw the Moscow Art Theater player
in "The Lower Depths" but 4 hadn'
previously read the play in English 1,
have known little of what it was al
about. - Saw Mary Miles Minte
and Maurice Lefty) Flynn in Drum
of Fate" in which an African jungl
is transported TO a Hollywood studio
49, Saw Pauline GarOn. Shall writ
more of her anon.