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Evening star., 1923-07-08
What Others Are Doing.

Kenneth Harlan. who has just COM
pleted one-year contract with r. P.
SchulDerg for Preferred Pictures. has
been signed to a three-year agree
ment.
Mary Miles Minter is considering q.
vaudeville contract offered by the
Keith syndicate.
Louis b. Mayer announces pro-
duction program calling for an out
lay of S3,000,000 within the next
twelve months. The first of the new
films will be pleasure Mad" and Regi-
nald Barker will direct It.
Edmund Lowe, now playing oppo-
site Blanche Sweet in I'm the Palace
Of the King" is being considered for
the title role in Ben Hur"
Anita Stewart writes from New
York that she will not return to
Hollywood this summer. but will re-
main in the east and play in a Aim
version of III. c. WitweTs Cain and
Mabel" After that she will probably
go to England.
Preferred Pictures has purchased
the screen rights to Zona Gales
Faint Perfume" which was pub
published in the. Century Magazine.
After three changes. Viola Dana's $
new photOplay has finally been named
The Social Code"
Mary Thurman and Riley Hatch
have been added to the stellar cast
supporting Gloria Swanson in the
Lasky production of "Zaza."
Camille Deslys, sister of the fa-
nous Gaby. is in Hollywood and will
probably try out in the films She Is
just eighteen. she says, and is a
dancer.
Priscilla Deans next Universal pic
ture will be The Storm Daughter"
Charles Rays "Courtship of Miles
Standish" will be handled as a road
show, as was Griffith's Birth of d
Nation"
Universal will make 'Ivanhoe" late
this year, and King Baggot will prob
ably direct.
Evening star., 1923-07-08

THAT crisis in the wanderings of
the children Of Israel from Egypt
to Canaan, when they turned to the
worship of the calf of gold at the
foot of Mt. Sinai is being put into
motion pictures this week near Holly
wood. 1t is one of the final spec
tacles in the biblical prologue which
Cecil Be DeMille is making for his
Paramount picture. The Ten Com
mandments," the story of which was
written by Jeanie Macpherson.
1t was necessary to resort to the
scene painters art to secure realism,
and Francis MCComas, famous water
color artist, was commissioned to su-
pervise the construction of a canyon
that would make it possible to film
that portion of the story of the book
of Exodus where. after Moses has
ascended Mt. Sinai to receive the
craven tablets, the children of Israel
break out into revel before a calf
of gold.
This will be the closing scene of
the prologue before the picture fades
into the modern story.
While Mr. DeMille and huge COM
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Some Weep.

WHILE the thermometer in New
w York was breaking heat records
of thirty years, Gloria Swanson set
record for sustained emotionalism In
a scene for "Zaza," which Allan Dwan
is now producing, at the Paramount
Long Island studio. Miss Swanson, 1t
is said remained in tears constantly
during five hours of one of the most
dramatic. scenes of the picture. so
far as is known she established
record for work of this kind that
has never been reached by any screen
star.
Tears rolled from Miss Swanson's
eyes throughout the entire sequence.
When the electricians were changing
the lights for new Photographic an
giles of the action she sat in corner
and cried softly, keeping In character T
from the time Director Dwan started
the scene until he finished IT four
hours later, without a break except
for necessary technical delays.
"She is one of the most remark
able actresses have ever seen on
stage or SCREEN" declares Mr.. Dwan.
cher work in this picture has been
amazing. There seems to be no limit
to the deapth and variety of her
emotions" --A-.n-4A-a-
Evening star., 1923-07-08

Copyright 1923, in United States and rGeat
Britain, by North American Newspaper Alli-
ance. All rights reseryed.)
BY HALLETT ABEND.
LOS ANGELES. July Sit must be
all of ten years since. in the Pacific
northwest, 1 saw Nazimovas stage
production of "Comtesse Coquette."
That was the only time I saw
Nazimova in a comedy on the stage
and 1 enjoyed her work to the full.
hut until yesterday 1 had not thought
of the performance for several years.
Yesterday afternoon. however, as
stood In the dusk of the big stage
at the Warner Bros studio. just out
side the glow of many lights trained
upon a lavish set, I remembered one
frances
1t was Hope Hampton who stirred
the recollection--Hope Hampton as
she swept on to the set before the
camera, her chin in the air, the fash
of anger in her eyes. Miss Hampton
was enacting scene from "The Gold
Diggers" and she was doing IL very
well. Even Harry Beaumont. who as
director is highly critical, was sat
isf1ed with the one rehearsal and or
dered the cameras to grind at once.
While the scene was being photo
graphed ! passed the time by inspect
ing the other persons on the set. and
decided that THE Gold Diggers' has
been admirably cast for type Louise
Fazenda was there looking her part
and doing the sound work which she
always does. And Johnny Harron.
evidence. The others 7 did not know
by name, but they all looked their
parts.
Later. while Harron and some dark,
short f1apper were having a scene of
their own. Hope Hampton and 1 sat
apart in the semi-dusk and talked.
The Gold Diggers" is Miss Hamp-
toms first comedy.
do you know I'm liking it i'm
mensely and my liking surprises me-"
at doing this part. 1 admitted the
play was fine. but doubted ever sue
ceeding as comedienne. Now that
I'm well into the work. 1 like it even
better than the kind of roles 1 have
handled in the past
The public will soon have an op-
portunity to judge for itself the kind
of part in which Miss Hampton ex-
cells. Her next release will be Does
1t Pay?" in which she plays the part
of straight vamp. Her second re-
lease will be Lawful Larceny" in
iHc young WlIc-dn
emotional part: Then will come The
Gold Diggers,' in which she will be
seen as the comedienne.
My guess is that the last of the
three will win the largest public, for
Miss Hampton has. l think. the equip
ment for handling polite comedy
parts. In the first place. she can put
on to the screen her vitality, which
seems to come from an inexhaustible
spring. Then. too, she acts from her
q N nf Io &c
put into play. So many people who
try comedy use only their faces and
forget that a body line. a shoulder,
an arm. even in repose, has a tre-
mendous value. 1 commented on
these elements of her method.
DO l do all that?" she asked IF
/ do il is instructive"
But from the smile in her eyes and
the serious bend of her lips I wonder
if she was really in earnest
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Outdid the Pioneers.

FNTER making many pictures of
life in the rugged and primitive
west" says Victor Fleming. 'T am be-
coming convinced that motion picture
companies suffer much more hardship
than the people they initiate.
According to the stories of these
oldtimers themselves, they suffered for
the lust Of gold and the spirit of ad-
venture. Motion picture people climb
mountains, sleep in the open, and un-
dergo a multitude of Inconvenience
so that the American public can he
entertained. They suffer uncomplain-
ingly, always hoping that the finished
picture may be an epic of the screen.
''In the making of my present picture.
To the Last Man. which has been
adapted for the screen from Zane Grey's
famous story / feel sure that we outdid
the primitive Arizona cattlemen in the
strenuousness of our lives.
"All luggage had to be brought into
location by pack horses over thirty
miles of steep rock-strewn trails. BY
this route. too. came all messages from
the outside world. For two whole
weeks we climbed each morning from
our camp to location $500 feet above.
Evening star., 1923-07-08
METROPOLITAN - Katherine
Macdonald in Money, Money,
Money."

The bill arranged for this week be-
ginning this afternoon. at Crandall's
Metropolitan Theater. Will include
Katherine Macdonald, " the American
beauty" in Money, Money. Money:
Larry Semon. in his latest Vitagraph
comedy. The Barnyard." with Kath-
lyn Meyers. and orchestral numbers.
under the direction of Daniel Brees-
kin-Tobanis "Creme d" la Creme"
potpourri of the worlds greatest
musical gems. including Sweet Alice,
Ben Bolt" Moszkowskys "Serenade," )"
Wcber's Invitation to the Waltz"
Iiszt's Second Rhapsodie and the
Pizzicato Polka. with "A Perfect
Day" by Bond; the Metropolitan
World Survey. a scenic and other
short reels.
Money. Money. Money" was writ
ten by Larry Evans and is a simple
tale of small-town Americans-one
family rich the other in moderate
mStances-picturing the star in
q plain gingham frock, into whose
life comes the son of city manufac-
turer who has tried for years to buy
out her father without success. The
village banker, however. thinks he
sees way to turn the trick by means
that are decidedly shady. The man.
ner in which Priscilla Hobbs salvages
the family fortune and puts the
quietus upon the unscrupulous banker
comprises the cruX of the play.
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Smoking Flappers of Yore.

E-SMOKING fappers of
~ today are only mild limitations
of the girls who used tobacco 400
years ago. when instead of merely
Drawing the frowns of the old people
in those days, the girls faced the ter
rors of accommodation from the
church and the death penalty.
And instead of the delicate, fragrant
cigarette of modern times, they in
dulged in husky whiffs from pipes.
This modern study of the ways of
fappers of olden times was made re-
Gently at the Paramount West Coast
Studio. where Herbert Brenon is pro-
ducing THE Spanish Dancer" with
Pola Negri in the stellar role. Being
a screen adaptation of the story, Don
Caesar de Bazan." the time is that
of Philip w of Spain. Tobacco had
been introduced into Spain only 10
few years before and its use had be-
come widespread. both for smoking
and in the form Of snuff. Needless to
remark, Pola Negri has had some
special kind of imitation snuff made
for the picture.
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Seek Summer Diversion

THERE will be a general exodus of
Crandall executives from Wash
ington, beginning about the middle of
the present month. Harry NJ. Gram
dali, owner of the Crandall theaters;
Mrs. Crandall and Misses Mildred,
Olga and Dorothy Crandall; Joseph
p. Morgan. general manager. and Mrs.
Morgan, and John J. Payette, assist
ant general manager, are planning a
months frolic at Lake Hopatcong,
N. ]. Upon their return, Nelson B.
Bell. in charge Of advertising and
publicity, will depart for the vast
open spaces, and William c. Ewing,
staff artist, will make q bee-line for
New England. ~
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Here S Another Thriller!

4 y interesting phase of the picture
business came to light recently.
when the Los Angeles Office of a big
international insurance company re-
fused to issue an accident and life
policy on Percy Hilburn. chief camera
man of the Reginald Barker company
at the Louis B. Mayer studio.
The reason given was that his work
placed him in the extremely hazardous
class heretofore occupied almost ex-
clusively by aviators. This is the first
case on record where personal indem-
nifty was ever refused a cameraman
on the grounds of his occupation.
Citing Hilburns activities as head
photographer of the coming Metro re-
lease, 1.-The Master of Woman" as the
cause of this decision, the insurance
company particularly based their reason
on the great risk incurred by the
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Has His Old Cast.

HARRY GREEN, who comes back to
Washington again with his first
success. THE Cherry Tree" in which
he has the role of George Washing
ton Cohen. little Jew. who, like the
father of his country. could not tell
lie, has been abroad for several
years, during which he played the
sketch in the English provinces be-
fore presenting in London the full
length Aaron Hoffman play. wei
come, Stranger which ran for al
most a year before he carried it to
the provinces and even to Scotland.
On returning to America, however,
he wanted to play The Cherry Tree
again, and with the original cast,
many of whom had other engage
mentS in which they were achieving
more or less success. It's members in
cluded Walcot Allen, Denis Auburn.
George Parks and Florence Johns
He secured them, but it cost him
something. Miss Johns alone, who
had been playing in Abraham Lin
coln," the Galsworthy play. cost him
five times her original salary. he
says. but he wanted her and was hap
Nv when he got her
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Baked at Getting Wet

A BONUS of fried chicken and
: watermelon was the inducement
used by Director John Griffith Wray
to get a number of thrilling scenes
in "Her Reputation" a Thomas H.
Ince Production. A big Mississippi
river flood that destroys several river
bank villages carries one of the
punches of the picture.
The flood scenes were filmed at
Yuma, Ariz., and to get the negro
population for his river settlements.
Director Wray had to send all over
Arizona. Five hundred finally were
signed up and shipped to Yuma. Re-
hearsals for the scenes, however. got
no farther than explanations. When
the negroes understood they really
had to get wet, no amount of money
offered looked big enough to them.
1t took the promise of a big dinner
of fried chicken and watermelon
all they could eat-as well as cash
bonus to lick them into shape.
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Nazimova Back to Stage.

Nine. ALA NaZimova, who is spend
ing the summer al her Beverly Hills
villa, will not make any film plays
this year. but will put on a new stage
play in New York in the fall.
Wallace Macdonald and Doris May
(she is Mrs. MacDonald) will make
a trip to New York as soon as they
complete their co-starring venture call
ed why Do We Live?'
At Universal City work has been
begun on three new films. William
Desmond took the opening shots of
Sentenced to Soft Labor: Gladys
Walton began in The Wild Party"
and Reginald Denny started on round
6 of the third series of The Leather
Pushers." Denny has new leading
woman in Velma Connor, former
Universal also announces that when
Denny completes the present "Leath-
er Psher" film he will be made a Uni
versal Jewel star and will make only
four feature films each year.
The same ranking has been given
to Mary Philbin. who achieves re-
markable success in Merry Go
Round"
Finis Fox has started work upon
the fourth of his Independent fea-
ture films. 1t is to be called bag
and Baggage" and has a cast which
includes Gloria Grey. John Roche.
Paul Weigel, Wadel Harrington and
Carmelita Geraghty.
House Peters has been signed by
Metro for the lead part in Held to
Answer" an adaptation of Peter
Clark McFarlane's story.
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Apollo.

Today and tomorrow, Betty Comp
son and Conway Tearle, in "The Rus
tie of Silk" and Buster Keaton, in
The Love Nest; Tuesday and Wed
nesday, Bebe Daniels and Antonio
Moreno, in "The Exciters," and Bobby
Vernon. in Take Your Choice:
Thursday, Success" and Dorothy De-
vore, in Winter Has Came; Friday,
Ethel Clayton. in THE Remittance Wom-
an and George O'Hara, in Fighting
Blood" No. z; Saturday, Dorothy Dali
ton, in Fog Bound" and Stan Laurel,
in collars and Cuffs"
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Barred From the Movies

BECAUSE they didn't look Spanish
- 200 Spaniards will not be allowed
to appear in Pola Negri's new picture,
''The Spanish Dancer"
When> Herbert Brenon sent out a
call for Spanish types to play in
this colorful drama of old Spain, he
stipulated one thing. Spaniards must
look like Spaniards. Out of over 200
applicants only a half dozen or so
were able to qualify.
The question has now arisen,
when is a Spaniard not a Spaniard?" ?"
According to the casting director,
the answer is: "!When he looks like
a Scotchman." There was no dearth
Of Spaniards who were willing to
play, but the traditional features
were very. hard to find. Only after
long and careful search was the
casting director able to secure the
required number who looked like
Spaniards.
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Cleopatra a Menu Vamp

THERE have been various opinions
on the vamping methods of
Cleopatra. Historians do not seem to
agree on just how the famous vamp
captured the men.
Nita Naldi, one of the best known
screen vamps, who has just played
the part of Cleopatra in a prologue
for Allan Dwan's screen production
of Lawful Larceny" has opinions of
her own on the subject. And, why
shouldn't one vamp's idea Of another
be just as good as historians
opinion?
According to Miss Naldi, Cleopatra
was probably "a yoluptuous, red
haired woman who had marvellous
cook and q good wine cellar.
'The fact that she spoke sixteen
languages is not what fascinated
Antony" explained Miss Naldi, but
the good spaghethti and the wine she
served at her table. You can not
make me believe that men fall en-
tirely for the intellectual attainments
of a woman. There is something in
the old adage that the way to a
mans heart is through his stomach"
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Lon Clancy as Quasimodo

T ON CHANEY, who is said to add a
- monster creation to his gallory Of
character portraits as Quasimodo, in
'"rhe Hunchback of Notre Dame" just
completed at Universal City, besides
studying for months the great French
classic to sense the soul Of the mis-
shapen man-brute," as he expresses it,
had the aid of the conceptions Of all Of
the famous French illustrators who ex-
pressed the form of the creature
Brion, De Beaumont, Steinheil, De Rud-
der, De Lemud and others. And to the
composite of all of these ne has added
his own conception.
The result is declared vividly i'm
pressive picture Of deformity. 1t is a
mystery OF makeup, so far, for he has
always been alone when effecting the
transformation, and he consumes at
times four hours in the work.
Evening star., 1923-07-08

cameraman in photographing the
thrilling rapids episode in the picture.
According to the story, a canoe
carrying Renee Adoree and Earle Will
hams shoots" dangerous river rapids
running through narrow canyon,
finally captivating near the head of a
waterfall. The Seymour canyon rapids
near north Vancouver, never before
conquered by boat, were used for
the scenes. In order to record this
thrill in its full value, Hilburn got most
of his close shots from an improvised
cage suspended over the waterfalls by
a trolley line.
The long shots were secured by
lowering the cameraman down the
canyon wall by means of rope, and
here, with his camera set on a jutting
rock, a hundred feet from the top Of
the precipice and a bare twenty feet
above the rushing water. he registered
the canoes wild trip through the rapids
in way that leaves no doubt of the
daring reality of the scene
Evening star., 1923-07-08
CRANDALL'S-Jack Holt in The
Tigers Claw"

Jack Holt, as Sam Sandell young
American engineer. clawed by a tiger,
stricken with fever and nursed hack
to health by a half-caste native girl
in India, in The Tigers Claw" will
be the feature the first three days of
this week at CrandalFs Theater.
complications set in as soon as it is
revealed that the girls father is a
thug chief intent on terminating the
invasion of his native land by whites,
The cast includes Eva Novak. Rer-
tram Grassby, Aileen Pringle, Ca ~
Stockdale and Robert Cain. The com
Sexes"
Walter HERS. in Sixty Cents an
Hour, will follow on Wednesday and
Thursday. The story concerns the
adventures of 300 pounds of soda
1eiker, who nurtures a warm desire
10 marry the daughter of the village
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Avenue Grand.

Today and tomorrow, Bebe Daniels.
in The Exciters," and Bobby Vernon
in Take Your Choice: Tuesday and
Wednesday, Betty Compson and Con-
way Tearle, in The Rustic of Silk"
and Buster Keaton. in The Love
Nest; Thursday, Dorothy Dalton, in
Fog Bound and Stan Laurel, in
collars and Cuffs; Friday, Success"
and Dorothy Devore. in AWinter Has
Came; Saturday, Walter HERS. in
Sixty Cents an Hour" and Harold
Lloyd, in Haunted Spooks."
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Chevy Chase.

Tomorrow and Tuesday. Jack Pick
ford. in "Garrison's Finish; Aesop's
Fables. The Burglar Alarm" and
Kinograms: Wednesday and Thursday,
Leatrice Joy and Jacqueline Logan,
in Java Head; Lige Conley. in Hold
Tight" and Kilograms; Friday, Tom
Mix, in stepping Fast; Stan Laurel,
In Pick and Shovel" and Oregon
Trail No. II; Saturday (open 8 p.m.),
Frank Mayo. in The Bolted Door:
Century comedy. Hold On" and Pearl
White, in "Plunder," No. 49,
Evening star., 1923-07-08
"Confederate Bob.

THE Confederate bob" which is
really not a bob at all. but looks
like one, has suddenly become popu-
lar in Hollywood and vicinity. Leaf
rice Joy began it.
While the new hair arrangement
seems new to the younger people 1t
really dates back to civil war days
1t is produced by drawing the tresses
close in tightly curled tendrils be-
hind the ears and at the back of the
head. Loose ringlets at the top, en-
tirely exposed ears, and forehead
partially covered with curled
frisette are features Of this 1861
renaissance.
Miss Joy wears this new hair ar
raneement in 1.-The Silent Partner"
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Savoy.

Today and tomorrow, Bebe Daniels.
in THE Exciters," and Lige Conley, in
This Way Out; Tuesday and we'd
nesday, Betty Compson and Conway
Tearle, in "The Rustic of Silk" and
Buster Keaton. in THE Love Nest"
Thursday, Dorothy Dalton in Fog
Bound" and Neal Burns. i'm BE Your.
SELF; Friday, Success" and Stan
Laurel, in Under Two Jags" Satur-
day, Walter HERS. in Sixty Cents an
Hour" and Harry Pollard. in ''Whera
Am I?'
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Eayorte.

Today, Has the World Gone Mad;
tomorrow. Gladys Walton, in Cos
sip; Tuesday, Herbert Rawlinson, In
, "Nobody's Bride; Wednesday, Doris
May, in "The Understudy"; Thursday,
Norma Talmadge, in Secret of the
Storm Country; Friday, Ethel Gray
Terry, in What Wives Want; Sat-
urday. Hoot Gibson, in Single
Evening star., 1923-07-08

Ivor Novello. who Is d. w. Griffith's
leading man in THE White Rose" is
an interesting personality-in fact
British notable. He was chosen for
the fallen man" in The White Rose"
after some screen experience in Lon
don, where he Is prominent as a
composer and music publisher. He Is
the author of Keep the Home Fires
Burning" the wartime song which
helped recruiting so greatly in Great
Britain. He wrote six musical shows
before he was twenty-six. each of
which had not less than six months
Of performance on the London stage.
Evening star., 1923-07-08

The second is a taupe gabardine
street suit with a jacquette designed
in the loose-fitting Russian style,
with sleeves bound at the wrists and
a slight sag at the shoulders
For the last of her three creations
Miss Chaffin adapted the broad band
circling the hips, still clinging to
tie loose-fitting blouse and straight
lines She also borrowed" the swag-
ger stick, although not quite SO large
as that Of the Russian miss.
Evening star., 1923-07-08

and Anna Q. Nilsson,- in "The Isle Of
Lost Ships and Aesop fable,
"Spooks"; Tuesday and Wednesday,
Rupert Hughes Souls for Sale" and
Jimmie Adams, in THE Dude. Thurs
day, Jack Holt, in The Tigers Claw"
and Harold Lloyd, In Haunted
Spooks": Friday. Mary of the Nov
les" and George O'Hara, in Fighting
Blood" No. z; Saturday, "The Famous
Mrs. Fair" and Stan Laurel, in Col
lars and Cuffs"
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Elite.

Today and tomorrow, Senna owen.
In "The Go-Getter"; Tuesday. Charles
Richmond. in Has the World Gone
Mad?": Wednesday, Marion Davies,
In Adam and Eva; Thursday, Helen
Chadwick and Richard Dix. in
"Quicksands": Friday, Gloria Swan
son, in "Prodigal Daughters; Satur-
day, Mary of the Movies"
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Home.

Today and tomorrow, Elinor Fair,
in DRIVEN; Tuesday, Gladys Walton,
in Crossed Wires; Wednesday,,
Mary Miles Minter, in Trail of the
Lonesome Pine; Thursday, Marian
Mack, in Mary of the Movies; FRI
day, whats Wrong With the Wom-
en?" Saturday, Agnes Ayres, in
"Racing Hearts"
Evening star., 1923-07-08

domestic responsibility that paves
the way to trouble and divorce, until
the wife, in desperation, prevails
upon her father to discharge him, and
at one stroke of q pen he is reduced
to poverty and made to face actu-
alitieS.
Evening star., 1923-07-08
Circle.

Today and tomorrow, Ralph Lewis
and all-star cast, in "Westbound
Limited; Tuesday. Estelle Taylor. in
"A Fool There Was; Wednesday,
Madge Bellamy, in Soul of the
Breast; Thursday and Friday, Mary
Carr, in Silver Wings; Saturday,
Agnes Ayres, in Racing Hearts"