Evening star., 1924-02-24
Hollywood Gossip
Seventeen-Year-Old Girl Signed as Leading Woman
Willard Louis Is Chosen for 'Babbitt"-John Barry
more's Beau Brumme" Ranks High

color schemes" Her bathroom, for
instance, has black marble floor
black marble tub and jade green walls
ABOVE black tiling. The living room
furniture is all in red Chinese lacquer.
Valentines ~Monsieur Beaucaire.'
interest here in the dispute as to
whether Bebe Daniels or Helene
Chadwlck will play lead for Valentino
at rest. Miss Daniels will play the
part OF Princess De Bourbon Cont,
Miss Chadwick will be Lady Mary
Carlisle and Lois Wilson is to play
the Queen of France.
Thomas H. Ince has sent the whole
company producing Against the
Rules" to Tahiti Six weeks will be.
spent in the islands getting the nee
essary scenes.
Fred Niblo, who last summer di-
rected a frothy and delightful comedy.
adaptation of Captain Appleja
has further proved his versatility by
filming a tense and tragic drama,
will release next month. This is a.
9,0O0-foot photoplay and about 1000 !:
feet of it takes place in the Kitchen
Of a PEASANTS hut, high in the
Pyrenees. with only one, two or. at
most, three people present.
Without being depressing, sor1id
or overrea1istic, Mr.. Niblo has man
aged to give to the screen an intimate
type of drama all too seldom met with {
in film land. Tragic it is, but it is
SO skilfully was the script written
by Bess Meredyth that it never drags =.
and 1t is not overburdened with titles.
The cast is exceptional Barbara
V. Mong have leading parts and Wal
lace Macdonald. Robert Edeson and
Edith Roberts complete the cast.
Both Mr.. Novarro and Miss La Marr
do the soundest work of their careers,
but I am inclined to give premier
honors to William v. Mong, who plays
the part of an old smuggler. the.
aging husband Of the beautiful and
childless Miss La Mari. His battle
to hold the love OF his wife when she
screen portrayal. Age loses, in the
end, but youth does not win, never
theless.
Stressing of the 1000 feet of film
impression that the picture is drab
or produced with pinchbeck methods.
Nothing could be further from the
truth. There are great mobs OF peo-
pie now and then, and some OF the
sets used in brief sequences are rich
and beautiful, but neither mobs nor
fine sets were used for their own sake
but because they were necessary to
the plot and atmospheric back
grounds. The fact that they are only
the mounting dramatic suspense tells
how fine is the direction of the pro
duction. Barbara La Mari finally
gets away from fine clothes and pos
ing, and Novarro at last gets away
from a hero part. These innovations
will prove helpful to each of them.
What Others are Doing.
Betty Blythe, having spent a year
abroad making "Chu Chin Chow and
1.-The Recoil," is returning to Holly
wood. 1.-The Recoil," most of which
was made in Paris, has been pur-
chased for GoldWyn release.
Lincoln Stedman, in one of the last
scenes of Baby Peggy's Captain Jan
uary," broke his right ankle and will
be home for several weeks.
The Century Comedy Company soon
will begin releasing a series OF two
reel comedies Quilt around the fa-
nous Buster Brown" comic pages,
drawn by r. F. Outcault Buster,
Mary Jane and Tige will, the pro-
ducers say, be faithfully impersonated
on the screen.
Alan Forrest, Winifred Bryson,
Willard Louis and other well known
players are supporting Viola Dana,
in Don't Doubt Your Husband"
which is being directed by Harry
Beaumont
Lucille Carlisle. formerly leading
woman for Larry Semon, has had an
operation on her nose, which she felt
to pictures with a new profile.
George A. Billings, who played
Lincoln, in "The Dramatic Life of
Abraham Lincoln" which made a hit.
at the world premiere in New YORK
has been engaged by John l. Golden
for. part on the stage. Austin.
Strong will write play for him.
This Lincoln picture, reviewed in this
column several months ago and
classed here as one of the finest
photoplays ever made, has received
the same rating by most of the New
York critics.
Thomas n. Miranda Goldwyn's
chief title writer, has been engaged.
ginia Wallis next release, The Signal
Tower"
Conrad Nagle has returned to
Hollywood after spending nine weeks
/, in New York working in The Flame
of Love" for Distinctive Pictures.
Lila Lee, declaring that the notes
signed with her name which have
figured in a bootleg investigation IN
Chicago were signed by her in blank
to help her father out Of financial
difficulties, says she will voluntarily
quit the screen if she is not vindi-
Gated both by officialdom and the
public.
There are now two ]. Warren Ker-
the brand-new nephew of the actor
and the son of the actors brother.
Wallace Kerrigan.
Richard Walton Tully leaves for
New York with his completed print
of 'F1owing Cold" which will be re-
leased this month. Anna Q. Nilsson
and Alice Calhoun have two of the
leading parts and Milton Sills and
John Roche play opposite.
Sea Tale Praised.
The Creative Productions has COM
pleted Independently the filming of
Superstition" a thrilling sea story
in six reels, in which Marguerite De
Lamotte and John Bowers play OPP
posite one another and in which Ed
ward Burns has a prominent part
This is one of those ittle-heralded
Independent productions of the sea-
, son which is nevertheless better than
many of the average feature program
plays put out by the big producers.
, Sheldon Lewis plays the heavy with
telling effect. The production is un-
usually beautiful but the cutting is
somewhat loose and the titling is not
good. The play is sound enough to
overcome these weaknesses and still
give more than acceptable entertain
ment.
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