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ready been filmed by Paramount. The
first, ITO the Last Man." was recently
seen at the Palace and the second,
THE Call OF the Canyon" will be seen
here this Afternoon. Both required
long and arduous trips into the bad
lands OF Arizona for Atmosphere" In
fact, ITO the Last Man. was filmed
In the Tonto Basin country, zoo miles
from the nearest railroad.
Director Victor Fleming took
company OF forty-one players ''out on
location" when he started filming
The Call of the Canyon" and that
number does not. include the men,
bsrs Of the Photographic and me-
chanicai stan.
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The Piano Movers
And the Actress

McDevitt, Kelly and Quinn, in
sThe Piano Movers and the Actress" :"
will head the program OF vaudeville e
and pictures at the Strand Theater
next week.
others will be the Geraldine Mill
er Trio, artistic exponents of ath-
Ietic art; Bert Grant and Mildred
Feeley, popular song composer and
, "the Irish Colleen; Ward and Bohl-
man, in After the Banquet" and
Eddie Cook, with Dorothy and
Gladys Shaw, in a smart production
of harmony songs, dances and in
strumentai music.
Tho photoplay will be Priscilla
Deans Universal production, white
Tiger in its Washington premiere.
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LonChaney 'sUniqueTra g

ton picture camera. His easy facility
of gesture soon made him one of the
foremost players in the silent drama,
In addition to his ability to suggest
ideas by expression and gesture,
Clancy soon, became noted for the
vast variety of facial make-ups
which he devised. So many were
these that few of the millions who
have seen him on the silver screen
have ever seen his own features.
They know CLANCY only as a gifted
player who hides his true self behind
a long procession Of character make
ups.
In "sThe Next Corner he plays for
the first time in nine years with
practically no makeup.
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Story's the Thing. Says Loew

Marcus Loew, head Of Metro, who Is
now in Los Angeles formulating plans
for next seasons productions, thinks
that more care will have to be spent
upon stories. ut matters not who
the stars may be, not the amount of
if the story is not sound the film is
a failure" he says. "a good story will
make a success, even il there is no
star"
Theda Bara is starting work in
rented space at the Goldwyn studio on
a new play written for her by Fred
jackson.
Louis Beachs story 'HThe Square
Peg" has been purchased by War
ner Brothers.
Kenneth Harlan and Marie Provost
have gone east for a series of per-
Evening star., 1923-12-30
Photopla This We ek
At the Photoplay Houses This Week.

METROPOLITAN"de Temporary Husband" after
and evening 1880 ~
PALACEZane Grey Call OF the Canyon this alter
and evening
RIALTO-Rupert Hughes Shown this afternoon and
evening
COLUMBIAMae Murray, in Fashion Row this alter
and "
AMBASsADOR"He Temporary Husband Shown this alter
and evening.
CENTRAL-Brigh Lights of Broadway" this afternoon
and evening.
CRANDALLS"The Mailman" this afternoon and eve
ming. W.
LINCOLN (Colored-Maon Davies Old New York"
Shown this afternoon evening
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7 ON CHANEY'S success upon the
~ silver screen is due to training in
the magnificent pantomimic art,
which began soon after he was born.
deaf mutes. Perfectly normal in
every other way, with particularly
bright minds, the father and mother
taught their children to talk with
their hands. In addition to the deaf
and dumb alphabet, the family devel-
oped language whereby they ex-
and ideas with few gestures.
Trained from childhood in the art
Of pantomimic suggestion, CLANCY
found his life's work before the mo-
Evening star., 1923-12-30
BY HALET ABEyD.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LOS ANGELES necenher %

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LOS ANGELES. December 2s.-The
west coast studios of the William
Fox Company are unusually busy.
George Archibald and his company
have left for Sonora. Calf. to fil,n
'The Plundered," in that old mil ming
camp. Frank Mayo. Evelyn Brent and
Tom Santchi head the cast. Mean
while other pictures in production
are Shirley Mason's starring vehicle.
THE Morocco Box" the Lincoln ].
Carter thriller, THE Arizona Ex-
press" with Anne Cornwall, Pauline
Starke, Francis Mcdonald and David
Butler and Tom Mix's Ladies to
Board"
Norma Talmadge. instead Of taking
long rest journeying to New York
and Florida, will start work within
a fortnight on a Aim version of The
House of Youth" novel by Maude
Radford Warren. Frank Bo-sage Will
direct. Frances Marion is preparing
the script and Eugene O'Brien Will
probably be the leading man.
Kathleen Myers has been engaged as
Herbert Rawlinson's leading woman,
in "The virtuous Crook"
Hoot Gibson's next picture VIII be
"rhe Coco Pah Kid" a story writ
ten by Johnston McCully, the man
who wrote Douglas Fairbanks The
Mark of Zorro" The new role will
show Hoot as a high-hatted gambler
Of the old days of stage coach hold
ups.
Blanche Sweet has signed a new
contract with Thomas II. Ince and has
started work on Those Who Dance"
This will give her highly emotional
This will give her a highly emotion al
THE Cinema Queen" Is the title
chosen for the First Universal serial
now being made by Luciano Albertihi,
the Italian star.
idle Hands" soon to be produced
at the Ince studios. was written by
William Dudley Pelley. 1t deals with
life in a federal prison and has been
SPONSORED by the penal board of the
United States Department Of Justice.
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Performed a Difficult Task

for Barrie as the playwright did for the
actress. -.
Miss Mercer played her first part in
Lena Ashwell. Later she appeared
with Marie Tempest in 'Iady's Name" !"
with Lionell Atwi1l, in The Lodger"; !;
with Otis Skinner, in "Humpty Dump
ty," Three Live Ghosts" and "The
Evergreen Lady,"
Beryl Mercer was born in Seville.
Spain, the daughter of Sheppard Mer-
Ger, an English diplomat. and Beryl
Montague, an English concert singer.
Her mother sent her to Jersey College
in the Channel Islands, where she stu
died for six years. She left college and
made her real stage debut with Lily
Langtry.
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Hardships and Movies.

% EGARDLESS of hts fame as a
N novelist, 1t is doubtful. II Zane
Grey ever becomes highly popular
with screen players. and for very
simple reason. Filming Zane Grey
stories is a task entailing degree
Of hardship that players are none
too fond of. The best movie, from
the actors point of view.is a studio
picture"-one made in the studio
while the worst picture he can imag-
inc is one that carries him. into, the
desert country OF the southwest for
days at time on location, .,
Two of Zane Grey's stories have al
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IN New York in David Carb's and
Walter p. Eaton's Queen Vic
toria" Miss Beryl Mercer, essayed what
few actresses would be willing to at
tempt. Beginning as the sixteen-year-
old girl, she carried through the life OF
Queen Victoria of England until the
golden jubilee. catching both. the iliu-
sion Of youth and the tottering old lady
who sat upon her throne content to
have been "a good queen"
Beryl Mercer made her great Amer
lean success in Barrie's 1.-THE Old Lady
Shows Her Medals" some critics de-
claring that Beryl Mercer did as much
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a m S

, one of the principal bungalow courts
in the center OF Hollywood.
Richard Dix recently completed
work in Joseph Henabery's produc-
ton, "The Stranger" in which he had
a featured role with Betty Compson.
Lewis Stone and Tully Marshall. He
is to begin work soon in William de
Miles next production, "lcebound.
Rod La Rocque has been in two big
productions of recent date, Cecil b.
de Miles "rhe Ten Commandments"
and William de Miles Don't Cali IT
In Gloria Swanson's next picture,
"She who Laughs Last" adapted
from "The Laughing Lady" Alfred
Sutro's play, in which Ethel Barry
more starred last year. As soon as he
will return to the west coast for a
role in Cecil B. de Miles production,
Triumph"
Kathleen Key has the most beauti-
full hair of any brunette screen star,
according to Clarence Sinclair Bull.
who has been photographing screen
celebrities for years
Claire Windsor, on being assigned
the title role in Nellie, the Beautiful
Cloak Modef.:' declared, IT'S my first
chance to get all mussed up"
English mutton chops ftwenty
minutes)."
This is the sign one often sees on
the menu card. De Witt jennings has
fine pair of mutton chops" that it
took him twenty days to get. How
ever, they are the kind that grow on
his cheeks and add color to his por-
trayaI of Dan, the tyrannicaf Manx
farmer in Victor Seastroms produc-
tion, Name the Man!
Mae Marsh made the trite remark
the other day that 1--WE are becoming
a nation of zoophilical lychnobites,"
merely because some one said most
folks like dogs and work more by
electric light than in daylight. OF
course. every one knew at once just
what Miss Marsh meant.
In the first picture he ever filmed
Alan Crosiand directed Erich Won
Stroheim, then an actor. The picture
was made In New York. Now both
land is filming Three Weeks and
Won Stroheim Is making Greed"
Ina Anson. player in "In the Palace
Of the King" has received three Of
the colored wigs now the rage in
Deauville, France. which she will
wear In forthcoming dancing scenes
in pictures. They are red, brown and
green.
Helene Chadwick wore q wig for
the first time In her screen career In
Rupert Hughes new picture, Reno"
which deals with the conflicting d.
vorce laws In the United States
Eleanor Boardman has decided that
her favorite screen role would be
feminine version OF 'Dr. Jekyll and
Mr.. Hyde
Hobart Bosworth. featured player.
.trod the boards OF the famous Dalys
Theater, In New York, more than
twenty years ago. In the company
with Bosworth was Tyrone Power.
Mae Busch, leading woman in Name
the Man" declares there should be
less talk about artistic Aims and more
effort at making them.
The Goldwyn wise-cracker is in
again. III 1t took sthre months to film
Elinor Glyn's Six Days, how long
will it take to make Three Weeks'?"
he asks And when that is correctly
figured out he wants to know. ac-
cording 10 that ratio, how long It
-
Evening star., 1923-12-30
REGRETS a Wild Moment.

HARDIN MEAkIN. the genial scribe
Il of the Variety Clipper bureau.
has been having a wild moment"
He says he signed up for membership
in the advisory council of drama
league and the drama league wants
to raise money and he doesn't like
the idea, and SO he has resigned and
Is sorry he ever had a wild mo-
ment"
Evening star., 1923-12-30


candy and thousands of toys
were given away at the special Gram
dali community celebrations in the
Crandall residential theaters Christ
mas morning. At Crandalis Avenue
Grand and Savoy theaters the crowds
of children were so great that Man.
ayers Lohmeyer and Sherman were
compelled to stage two identical cele-
brations in order to permit all the
theaters.
Two new musical numbers will be
given prominence at CrandalPS Met
ropolitan Theater this week, where
Daniel Breeskin has arranged an
other Of his matchless melody pro-
grams. One Is I'm Love With Love-.
from Jerome kern's pping ,i,s
daughter Dorothy are scoring
smashing hit in New York; the
other sleep" a novelty number that
is a gem.
Paul Tribe, assistant director for
Cecil B. De- Mile. in charge of the
art, wardrobe and property depart
ments, Is assembling his staff in prep
aration for the start OF Triumph.
Mr.. De Miles next picture. 'Trf-
umph" will be an adaptation OF May
Edginton's story.
Thomas Meighan sent the following
cablegram Henry King last week:
Your son made his screen debut
doubling for me today" MIR. King is
in Florence, Italy. directing pic
ture, but his one-year-old son is In
New York with his mother. The baby
appears in the picture as young Jack
1 ~ IL xvl,t tvy, fAfc rl,o
has in the story, "Pied Piper Malone"
At one time in his career Ernest
Terrence. the huge character actor of
the screen, played romantic lover
roles in the Savoy Theater in London
and sang baritone. He recently I'm
ished work at the Paramount Long
Island studio in West of the Water
Tower" Glenn Hunters first starring
picture for Paramount
Charles de Roche, who plays a fea-
tured role opposite Pola Negri in
Shadows Of Paris" starred In the
same role when the play first ap-
Homme." Mr.. de Roche toured the
French provinces for more than a
year after the play went on the road.
ten years standing in America, who
spent all his earlier life on the stage
in his native country makes his first
appearance with Gloria Swanson in
''The Humming Bird"
Gaby Ravine. who scored a success
as the French girl in ''The Mounte-
bank" last season, has been added to
the cast of 1.-THE HImming Bird"
A dozen extras hired for scene in
Alan Dwan's Aim version. of Rex
Beach,s story. big Brother" will see
nothing but their feet in the compiet-
ed picture. They had to walk back
and forth in front of a basement win
dow while a restaurant scene was
being filmed.
Phyllis Haver. former bathing
beauty, who has come to the FORE
ground among screen actresses of
emotional power as leading woman
for William S. Hart In Singer Jim
McKee," has successfully demonstrat-
ed her astuteness as a business wom-
an the past several years by her
transactions in Hollywood real estate.
Recently she became the owner of
Evening star., 1923-12-30
hollywood Cos sip.
Fox Company Busy-Norma Talmadse Changes Plans
Blanche Sweet With New Contract

sonaI appearances at theaters
! Jacqueline Logan has gone to Kansas
| City to make a personal appearance
| at a showing OF THE Light That
| Failed" in which she is starred.
Evening star., 1923-12-30
Next Week s Photoplays

Next Week S Photoplays
COLUM MBIA-Rex Beach's
Big Brother"
METROPOLITAN - Colleen
Moore, in Flaming Youth"
RIALT O. Goldwyn's THE
Rendezvous"
PALACE E-"The Man Life
Passed By"
AMBASSADOR - " Flaming
Youth" ..---..-.-
CENTRAL-K Kenneth Harlan,
in The Virginian.'
>CRANDALLS Jackie Coo
gan. in Long Live the :
King"
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DANCING.

PROF. AND MRS. AcHER's STUDIO, 1921
10th NV. Class Monday and Friday, to
IL pm. Private lessons by appointment.
Phone Franklin s5e7. Estsbiished iS0O i.
DAVISONS sst5 rssf1 yoa tG f.% Ssnss is..Sos sss
,.a.P PTSf. e ~ nr, Strictly private, any hour.
Main 1872. day Evening with Orches-
ira. New Dances, "Bambslina Fox Trot" and
American Tango" All the latest variations.
8is
franklin 1485-W. no. 9. Dupont Gree
GLADYSE WILBUR
Dupont Studio.
Fancy. Toe Ballet. 1allroom, ohiidren.s olasss,
MISS CHAPPELEAR
Private lessons by appointment.
Phone North 5197. 1918 18th ST
Rightway Studio
5i4 18th ST. NV. tnear ~.
Our methods are easy, but sure. Teaching
Fox Trot. etc. ALI uplto-dste steps. No ap-
polntment required. Hours 10 I'm. to 10 IN.
Catherine Bale, 719 9th ST. NV.
Frank. 650e We teach you to dance in few
lessons. Private and class. Reduced rates. !;
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should have taken to film Nine.
Gyms THE Great Moment"
Evening star., 1923-12-30

Kathleen Key has the most beauti-
full hair of any brunette screen star,
according to Clarence Sinclair Bull.
who has been photographing screen
celebrities for years.
Evening star., 1923-12-30

Claire Windsor, on being assigned
the title role in Nellie, the Beautiful
Cloak Modef." declared, IT'S my first
chance to get all mussed up"
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News sandCon1nent
By w. H. Landvo;gt.

ETROSPECT may be productive good with
are accustomed to be guided by believed the
average human rule merely
Evening star., 1923-12-30

Carey Wilson wrote the continuity
Of Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
in five DAYS
Evening star., 1923-08-15
DAVIS DISMISSAL
.DEFENDEDPY WORK
Says Engineer No Longer of
First Importance in
Reclamation.

Abolition of the post OF director of
the reclamation service, involving the
retirement from office of Director A.
p. Davis, was said today by Secretary
Work to be due to the natural de-
velopment of reclamation work past
the stage where the services of en-
gineers were to be considered the first
consideration.
Replying to the American Society
of Civil Engineers, which had made
representations as result of Mr..
Davis separation from the govern
ment service, Mr.. Work declared that
instead of engineering problems. the
government now faced the necessity
of dealing with the problems of
water users and the collection of the
original cost of the projects as con-
templated by the law"
The Interior Secretary's answer
to the society was made in a letter
to It's secretary, James II. Dunlap of
New York, and contained the state
ment that unless conditions which
have obtained hitherto are improved
many reclamation projects will be
abandoned entirely by settlers.
Evening star., 1923-08-15
PASSES DIVIDEND,
DROPS FOUR POINTS
Sudden Slump of Mexican Seaboard
0il-American Issues With
stand Pressure.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, August 15.-The sud-
den dtop of over four points in Mexi-
can Seaboard OIL was in direct re-
sponse to the failure of the directors
late yesterday to pay the regular So
cent quarterly dividend. At todays
low prices this stock was selling at
only third of it's value at the high
point earlier in the year and at ap-
writing price year ago. The fact
that Mexican Seaboard reported
deficit of over $4,000 after interest,
but before depletion, for the second
quarter, threw further light upon the
earnings position of this company and
explained the passing of the dividend.
Attention has been attracted to the
way in which the Pan American
issues have withstood the selling
pressure eXerted against the oils. The
company is credited with having cur
tailed the output of fuel oil during
the overstocking of gasoline, and as
being a ready seller of gasoline in
face of the slump.
Information regarding the current
operations of the Studebaker corpora
ton available today, was OF especial
interest. 1t was reported that the
Studebaker corporation from January
to date had produced and sold over
one hundred thousands cars, against
$4,000 cars in 1922. and that unified
orders are for over 1900 cars. In
the first ten days of August Stude-
baker produced 5,059 automobiles as
compared with $500 in 1922, and has
sold 1000 more cars than 1t sold last
August.
Evening star., 1923-08-15
SEES GASOLINE LOWER.
Denver Expecting Further Cut by
Large Distributor.

DENVER. August Is Especially D.-It
is expected here that the Continental
Oil Company, the largest distributor
in Colorado, which cut gasoline prices
l to cents a gallon Tuesday, will
make further reductions in the next
few days and that its competitors
will meet the cuts. Leading oil men
here are unanimous in the belief that
the gasoline price war will bring
drastic cuts in crude oil. They assert
the only salvation of the refiners is
to withdraw from the field entirely
or post lower prices for crude until
the industry has been stabilized.
Analysis of our gasoline prices. said
President Thomas A. Dimes OF the
Midwest Refining Company, shows
that we make a very moderate profit
on our refined products. Naturally
we cannot be expected to eliminate
all our profits, and the only way
We can continue TO operate is to lower
the price of raw materials"
Independent gasoline distributors
descended in force on Gov. Sweets
office 20 protest against state inter-
ferencrt declaring they would be
ruined if the price of gasoline were
hammered down to Is or II cents.
Evening star., 1923-08-15
Market Flashes
at Today's Close

The Iron Age says: The change 10
shorte. work day that will be made
this week at various central western
iron and steel plants has had no trace
able effect on orders or prices. There
Is a similar lack of definite data on
increase in cost due to employment
of more men for given output
Industrials continued to display con-
ndent tone in stock market in early
afternoon and gains scored in morn
ing dealigs were easily maintained
United States Steel reached new high
on move above 90, but its strength
was not so marked as that IF inde-
pendents, despite its relatively bet
ter position in matter IF unified
bookings.
Cotton market has been presenting
an unsteady undertone for greater
part of the session and though eli
matte conditions apparently show nc
change for betterment. The acute de-
rnand appears to have been somewlIa
satisfied momentarily and offerings
seem to be forthcoming from Hose
who feel that the recent sharp ad
vance has somewhat altered the tech
nical position of the market and are
now inclined to make sale; on the
reaction theory.
Inc dlSpOSltlOn TO eSchange stocks
whose present business conditions
are not good or the continuance of
the dividends on which is ques-
tionable for the better class of stocks
has again been the real feature of
todays market.
No new wheat export business re-
ported on last nights cabled offers.
This, with somewhat better weather
in the northwest and Canada, has
kept the wheat market in a narrow
trading position since the opening,
with no new features.
Wall street had a well founded
report in late morning that operators
prominent on the bear side since
March had reversed their position
and were prepared to make a play
on the side of rising prices.
1t is estimated that Copper sales
for twenty-four hours to domestic
consumers will total 100000 pounds.
Price was 14ls cents a pound, deliv-
cries to extend over the next three
months. Buying was mainly by wire
mills, although foundries took fair
tonnage.
Evening star., 1923-08-15
SITUATION ABNORMAL
IN GASOLINE AND OIL
EARLY Termination of Distress
Prices In California Predicted
by the Operators.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SAN FRANCISCO. August 15.-Oil
men throughout California today
characterized the gasoline and crude
oil situation, as 1t has developed in
the last few days. as abnormal and
predicted it would be short-lived.
Tremendous overproduction in the
California and midcontinent fields,
coupled with a falling off in gasoline
and crude oil consumption, was de-
clared to be the cause. During June
consumption of California crude was
650,345 barrels a day. a falling OF OF
26, $50 barrels daily from May and, while
figures are not available for July, the
decrease Is believed to have been equal
ly great.
This tremendous production is said
to have shut off markets to hundreds
of small producers. who have been
"peddlfng" their products considera-
bly, under quoted market figures. This
has enabled some independent re-
finers to buy big stocks of crude at
distress prices and turn out gasoline
under the level maintained by the
larger companies. California mo-
torists today were obtaining high
grade gasoline for II cents in many
cities. but bootleg" gasoline was
being sold at IS cents a gallon in
places where ordinances do not nix
gravity standards.