Evening star., 1923-12-23
Hollywood Gossip
Picture People Going Into Poltics-Cruze Passes Up
North of Thirty-six Mae Busch Now Star

a character part for most OF the film
and then in the end proves to be the,
hero and leading man. -.
Slim Summerville and Bobby Dunn
have begun making a series of one
reel comedies for Universal. Il.
The cast for Laurette Taylor's film
version of Happiness being made :,
at at the Metro lot here. has been com +,
per. Edith Yorke, Cyril Chadwick,
Patterson Dial and Lawrence Grant. j,
Mae Murray and her husband and 4
director. Robert Leonard, have re-
turned to Hollywood after a confer
ence In San Francisco with Vicente :
Blasco lbanez. who is writing a spe
cial story for Miss Murray While
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night" work upon which is beginning
Conway Tearle will go to New Yor;9'
In February to confer with q Broad I.
way producer about a brief return
to the speaking stage in a play now,
being written. He is now working
in Lilies of the Field"
Lloyd Hughes and his wife, Gloria
Hope. may take months round-the
world cruise. making short motion
pictures at different ports of interest
Atlantic steamship companies ar"
financing the project and special
stories are being written to fit every
new location.
Mary PhiIbin,s Next.
gagged for the part of Mary Philbin q :
grandfather in "The Inheritor ="
; which will be directed by King Bag
gott. The story is by l. A. r. Wylies
lish castle stripped by the poverty
of its owners of all save the glamour
of romance. The barons granddaugh-'
ter finally becomes a Gayety girl in
London.
Yakima" Canutt. champion rodeo
rider of the west has been added to
the cast of THE Riddle Rider" the
new serial being made at Universal
City by William Desmond and Eileen
Sedgwick.
The Goldwyn Pictures Corporation
has purchased the film rights to The
Bandolero.' novel by Paul Wynne".
The story is laid in Spain and the.
film may be made there. Tom Ter
ris. director of THE Heart of Mary
land" and THE Lion and the Mouse.
has been engaged to direct the pic.
ture.
Phys in "The Miracle"
Orville Caldwell, who appeared in
| films here following his New York
stage success in Mecca" has sold
his Hollywood foothill home and will
return to New York to appear op
posite Lady Diana Manners in the
Morris Gest production OF THE Mir
acle."
Shirley Mason has completed a Will
liam Fox picture called South Sea
Love"
Tom Geraghty has been engaged 10
prepare the script for Gloria Swan
sons next picture.
To Film Aztec Ruins.
a group of scientists and adyen
turers recently left here for southern
Mexico to make motion pictures OF
the ruins of Aztec cities and art OBJ
jects. Capt. D. H Corlett heads the
expedition, for which W. ]. Beckway
is camera man.
Cecil B. De Mile has been elected
vice president of the Commercial Ma
| the Bank of Italy and of the Trust
and Savings Bank of Hollywood and
! a heavy stockholder in the Biltmore.
, a new $1,000 900 hotel here.
Herbert Standing, head of the ia
nous family of stage and screen
J actors of that name, died here at the
age of seventyseven. He himself
was well known to stage and screen
! audiences. He leaves widow, Mrs.
Jean Standing; two daughters. Grace
Wyndham and Herbert, jr.. of New
! York, and Sir Guy, Percy and Audrey
. Standing of London.
, Hank Mann, Snitzed Edwards.
! Cissy Fitzgerald and Hugh Fay have
/ been added to the cast of The
, Woman Who Sinned," which is being
| directed and produced by Finis Fox.
: John Griffith Wray is carrying a
broken arm and his head cameraman,
Harry Sharp, is on crutches with
I sprained ankle. Both were injured
when freak wave caught and
dashed thin against a cliff at La
! guna when they were filming a scene
l for Against the Rules" which is .
being acted by cast headed by
, Leatrice JOY and Percy Marmont. and
! has a South sea setting.
Studio LulI Nearly Past.
! Within six weeks the lull in the
{ studios here will be a thing of the
:, past, and even within a fortnight
! there will be gain in activity The
; Robertson Cole studio will begin pro-
lsducing on a large scale at once
, Metro. with only two companies
working now, will be busy before
/ Christmas, and Lasky's will hum
again about January 10. Meantime
Universal is producing briskly and
there are seven companies working
at the William Fox lot.
! The cessation of production by sew
eral of the larger companies will in
evitably result in a famine of pro-
I gram and moderate-priced films. and
as a result picture audiences. except
in flrst-run cities. will be seeing re-
! issues of past successes by March
The costly feature length production
of this year have reduced the usuai
production of five and six reel pic
lures, and the slowing down of pro
duction here since early last month
will make the shortage acute.
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