Evening star., 1923-06-03
Latest Gossip From Holly1UO0d

! Then Pola. continuing. promised
| that in her next picture. THE Spanish
| Dancer" she will play the part as she
thinks it should be played.
| The public. l feel and hope. wants
| Pola Negri. the actress. in sincere
work. not Pola. the denatured Holly
! wood vampire. l shall do my best
and hope to make them forget the
disappointment of the Bella Donna,
| fasco. Frankly. It bored me to DEATH
| she admitted at the close of the inter-
view.
| Richard Travers, film idol of four
years ago. has resumed his picture
career under Marshall Neilan in ''The
Rendezvous"
William Collier. jr.. will be seen in
! Frank Borzage's next Aim.
Lillian and Dorothy Gish are to CO.
star in George Eliot's "Romola," with
Lillian in the title part and Dorothy
as the little italian girl whom Tito
loves
John Currie. colored, who Was born
| and reared a slave in Georgia, 10 en-
teTing motion pictures at the age of
104 years. He has been given a char
acter part in THE Day of Faith"
which Tod Browning is directing for
Goldwyns. Currie once belonged to
the family Of Maj. James Conner of
Atlanta.
Charles Ray announces that the first
showing of the "Courtship of Miles
{
at Springfield. Mass. to the delegates
of the National Council of Congrega-
tional Churches.
Roscoe Z. ("Fatty') Arbuckle. who
has been directing comedies here for
several months. is in Chicago on a
musical comedy contract with Mari
gold Gardens for eight weeks at $4,000
| a week.
Evelyn Brent. brought here from
England to play lead for Douglas
Fairbanks. has given up her contract.
II have already waited six months to
start work" she says. II know the
salary is nice, and some people may
like to be paid for idleness, but I can
not afford to be absent from screen
releases for eighteen months. The
fully leaving the Fairbanks studio"
Hollywood is interested deeply in
the new policy announced by Jesse L.
planned for the next year is fifty
two. as against some eighty-odd re.
leases for the last year. The day of
stars ss done, Mr.. Lasky declares. and
hereafter Paramount will give up
program pictures" and will make
alI-star super productions"
After saying this, however, he an
nounced the signing of Douglas Fair
banks, jr., an untried boy OF thirteen,
At a salary of $1,000 a week, and said
the youth Will De maze q tedtuEeu
star. The lads father has made no
comment, except to say that he is
sorry his son is being put to work
before he has finished school and cpl
lege. Doug, jr.. is in custody Of his
mother. who has remarked since she
obtained her divorce.
Nell Craig has begun work as Mary
Todd, in Abraham Lincoln"
For the. first time in their screen
careers Mr.. and Mrs. Bryant wash
burn are co-starrinE in Mine to
Keep"
Hal Roach has reorganized his pro-
ducing company, given up active
management and. placed the conduct
Of affairs in the hands Of Warren
Doane, Harry NJ. walker and Tom K.
Crizer.
Norma Talmadge's Ashes of Ven
Eeance" has suffered a change Of name
and will be released as Purple Pride. -
Universars S1,000.000 production,
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
will be completed by June 10.
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