Evening star., 1923-11-25
LATEST MOVIE GOSSIP
FROM HOLLYWOOD
Hart Shows New Powers as Actor in Wild Bill
Hickok," a Film Story of Civil War.
Wild ASS Skin" a Balzac Tale.
+. to Have Happy Ending.

ary, announces that work at Uniyer-
! sal city will undergo slackening
until after the first of the year Other
STUDIOS are also slowing down. The
! INDUSTRY races situation of having
produced at a tremendous rate until
there are innumerable very costly
rlms unreleased. The producers want
| 10 see how these productions paw for
themselves before they launch on
more superfeatures. If they are not
as profitable as has been hoped mere
hVe-reel pictures will be made in
the future and fewer of the nine to
twelve reel-length of photoplays.
! Claire Macdonald has been signed
Tor the part of Ramon Navarro's
mother, in Nibbles production Of Thy
Name Is Woman"
Virginia Brown Faire has completed
| "Thunder-Gate" and has been en-
gagged for leads in "Lillios Of the
| Field" and The Woman of the jury"
Norman Kerry has been signed by
Fox to play the lead in The Shadow
of the East
version of Welcome, Stranger the
Sam II. Harris stage success.
Claire Windsor has left for Algiers
via New York and will join Edwin
| Carewe to play d lead in a desert
f1lm which will be made in northern
| Africa.
Mrs. Sessue Hayakawa has arrived
here from London, where she left her
husband. She is TO sell the mag
! nificent Hayakawa villa In Holly
| wood and to return to London befor$
Christmas. Mr.. Hayakawa will be In
England for two years with the
Stoll Film Company.
William Craft, Universal director.
! has begun work on new serial to.
| be called THE Riddle Rider" The
cast will include William Desmonda
! ELLEN Sedgwich, Hughie Mack and
| Helen Holmes.
Ernst Lubitsch and Victor Seastro,-
| is considered among the greatest OF
European directors, expects to settle
in Hollywood permanently. One OF
:, Great" He also directed Pola Negra
| while abroad.
broadway After Dark" will be the
| title of the first picture which Monte
Bell. erstwhile assistant to Charlie
| Chaplin. will direct for Warner
! Brothers. Mr.. Chaplin himself will
| soon begin work on a new feature
/ length comedy. in which he will wear
| his funny pants and trick mustache
| again.
William De Mile has gone to New
York, as has Jesse Lasky.
! Ernst Lubitsch. now making final
cuts on THE Marriage Circle" will
! probably go east. So many directors
| Christmas shopping and a round of
/ the stage plays that the studio will
be quiet until after the first of the
| year
New s3,OOO,00o Company.
! ". F. Wood and Chica go capitalists
! have organized the United Producers
land Distributors and announce
| s3.000.O00 producing plan for 1924.
| Hollywood capitalists are in the new
! venture.
| Helen Gibson Smith, former wife OF
| 'Hoot" Gibson, obtained a second di-
| vorce here when she was freed from
. William E. Smith, man who trains
! horses for movie work. Mrs. Smith.
! who was formerly with the Buffalo
Bill circus, charged intemperance and
| abuse
! Priscilla Moran. enormously known
as Jackie Coogan's adopted sister, is
! the newest child star The Priscilla
Moran Production Company has been
organized and has taken a years
lease AT the Hollywood studio. Local
capital is backing the five-year- old
girl. who is now working in
"DaddieS" at Warner Brothers lot.
Jack Daugherty, husband of Bar
bara La Marr. has gone to New York
in connection with film plans and the
placing of a stage play which he has
just written.
The first announced step In the re-
organiza tion of production methods
at Lasky's studio is the signing of a
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