Evening star., 1923-02-04
Waldemar Young has begun work
on the adaptation OF "Salomy Jane"

Waldemar Young has begun work
on the adaptation OF "Salomy Jane"
Tragedy seems to be Dorothy Gish's
new love. She Is now appearing in
the leading feminine role opposite
Richard Barthelmess In Fury" tale
of the sea, which will be released
quite soon.
According to present plans. Para
! mounts reproduction of THE Cheat"
will be started January 20 as
George Fitzmaurice production, star
ring Pola Negri. with Jack Holt fea-
pore nd Ths Rork was as pro
duced by Cecil b. DeMille in 1915,
and was very successful. Fanny
Ward and Sessue Hawakawa ap-
peared in 1t.
A symposium in which every ex-
hibitor in the country expressed his
or her opinion as to the best inde-
pendent production of the last year
gave the honor to 81 Am the Law"
This picture of the Canadian North
outdoor pictures on the market sev-
eral months ago, and Is still going
; strong In many parts of the world.
In his acting for the screen, Lionel
Barrymore, 1t seems. cannot free
| himself from the Russian situation.
| In THE Face in the Fog" he imper-
| sonated Boston Blackie," reformed
crook who saved the Grand Duchess
/ Tatiana from the Russian Bolsheviki
and also saved the Russian crown
| jewels. In his next picture. The
! Enemies of Women" Barrymore ap-
pears in the role of Prince Lubimoff,
and in one scene is pictured in an
other realistic fight with the Rus
sian Reds"
| johnny Hines in his latest picture,
; Luck" had TO have coal mine.
The Pennsylvania coal mines were
but a few hours travel from the
| studio. Yet Johnny built a real mine
outside of the studio, burrowlug deep
l into the ground, built miniature
railroad and had everything else Dut
f; the coal. Why. Because Johnny had
I to blow up his mine at the end.
The extravagances that had much
| to do with the Russian revolution Of
| 1917 and the reign of terror whi' b
| followed in the wake of the over
| throw of the czar are realistically
revealed in THE Enemies of Women"
Eugene Sues masterpiece, "Mys-
teries Of Paris,' has been brought to
\ visual life by Mastodon Films, Inc:
Of New York. by its production OF
Secrets OF Paris" The cast has
Il
| Gladys Hulette. Rose Coghlan, Will
liam Collier, jr., and a host of others
equally well known.
| Agnes Ayres has started work in
| her next picture. "Contraband." 1t is
| from magazine story by Clarence
| Burlington kelland.
| Filming of THE Rustic of Silk" in
which Betty Compson and Conway
m T.
| started. 1t was adapted from Cosmo
| Hamiton's novel by Sada Cowan and
| Ouida Bergere.
| In William de Miles new produc-
+; ton for Paramount. Grumpy" May
| McAvoy and Conrad Nagel, two Of
! Paramount's best known featured
players are cast Theodore Roberts
| also is featured.
Violet Mersereau, the dainty little
! actress. who was lost to the screen
| for a short while is back again as
Johnny Hines leading woman in
Johnny's latest melocomedy Luck -
which will appear soon.
Pedro de Cordoba, who gave such a
| striking portrayal of the Duke Of
Buckingham in When ,he1 n, knighth9od ia nj hoe"
Enemies of Women" by Blasco Ibanez
In this picture de Cordoba impersonates
Atilia Castro, an aristocratic Spaniard.
| Although an American by birth. he is
directly descended from Gonzaivo de
Cordoba. who drove the Moors out OF
Spain and became one OF the most
heroic figures in Spanish history.
"Oh Ye Fools" is the name of the
story which Edgar Lewis has written
1t is an ironic treatment of life in the
years since the end Of the great war.
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| William Norris, who was the aged