Evening star., 1923-08-26
LATEST MOVIE GOSSIP
FROM HOLLYWOOD
Mary Philbin, Eishteen-year-old Star, l.
VA Demure, Doesn' Smoke and Wears
Her Hair Down Her Back.

proceed with their plans and thereby
openly contend for screen supremacy,
or whether one of them will abandon
the scheme and select another play.
Ernest Lubitsch, under a new ar
rangement, will direct Miss Pickford
In one picture every year, and he is
said already to have been engaged
for the Shakespearean tragedy Mar
shal Neilan, under contract with
Goldwyn, also will direct one picture
a year with Miss Pickford, and il is
NJ ne VINO Will WELD the megaphone for
dorothy Vernon in Haddon Hail"
In this feature Glare Eames will play
queen Elizabeth.
Universal City is in mourning
Charley, rine-ton trained elephant.
who has appeared in $50 film plays
was ordered killed at the inSistance
OF the humane society. Charley, said
tC be 1S3 years old. of late years has
gone bad several times. Three times
he pulled his chain loose from the
concrete HoorinS and not long ago he
Eearly killed his trainer. In spite
or these occasional RACES. the big
beast has been a pet at the Universal
lot. Officials have been wondering
now they can Kill him instantly. for
II he is merely wounded or poisoned
he is likely to run amuck and Xii
several persons.
What Others Are Doing.
James Ryan, for many years casting
director at the Fox studios In New
ork, has been sent to the Fox Holly
wood studios in the same capacity.
Glorla swanson, who has just COM
pieted Zaza" at the New York studios
OF 'he Lasky company. will make an
other feature, not yet named. there
before she returns to her home in
Ho 'lywood
Pola Negri, who has completed
work III lhe spanish Dancer" will
leave soon for Yellowstone Park. She
VIII be ACCOMPANIED by Eatblvn U-u
liams
Mabel Normand is recovering in a
hospital here from fractured rib and
| broken collar bone She was in
Jured when she fell from her horse at
Coronado
\ big studio is to be built at Big
Bear Lake, about eighty miles from
Eer". The lake is at an elevation of
ahout 1000 feet, is in a heavily tim
bered country and is in a mountain
range. which is covered nearly
half the year 1t is planned to use
the studio and the lake country for
making winter and Canadian and
Raymond Griffith, the young Gold
, "yn star. scores again in Red
Lights" a Clarence Badger produc-
tion for late September release. Red
Lights is an adaptation of the stage
success. The Rear Car" and the story
is better in film form than 1t was as
stage play. In this new production
Mr.. Griffith does even better work in
! the role of crime defector" than
he did in Marshall Neilan's The Eter-
nal Three"
Bessie Love in her work in THE
Magic Skim" which is now in the cut
ting room. is said to be even better
than she was in The Eternal Three"
in which she established herself as a
tragedienne. The BalZac novel has
been considerably changed fer screen
purposes. even to the use of a happy
ending.
Zasu Pitts. her husband. Tom CAL
/ lery and their year-old baby, left for
New York just after Miss Pitts COM
pleted work in the leading part in
Greed" which Eric Won Stroheim
| has made for Goldwyns.
Harold Lloyd has started work on
his first important production for
Pathe release and has tentatively
named the feature The Girl Expert"
Edwin Carewe, who is now cutting
THE Bad Man" will soon take the
film to New York and will then sail
for Morocco. where he will film The
Little White Devil"
Robertson-Cole announces series
of photoplays starring Jane Novak
! and Eddie Hearn. upon which about
Bennett will direct Miss Novak in her
FIVE films, one of which will be Haw-
thorne's Scarlet Letter" and Mr..
Hearn will make six western pictures S
somewhat d1ter tne manner Oh MOOT
Gibson
Metro has purchased "Woman's In
tuition" an original for the screen
written by Howard Higgins and Sada
Cowan.
Hall Gaines Master of Man. which
is nearly completed at Goldwyns. will
be released as The Judge and the
' Woman"
Mary Astor has been loaned by
Paramount TO play the leading fem
mime part in Warner Brothers pro-
duction of Beau BrummeP' in which
John Barrymore. due here september
l. will be starred.
Albert Barrett, who was leading
man in New York on Broadway last
season in THE Last Warning. has
come to Hollywood TO take UP picture
work.
Robert Frazer will play the leading
part in Louis Is. Mayors film version
, Of Cape Cod Folks.
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