Evening star., 1924-08-03

| role OF THE Last Man on Earth" at
the Fox West Coast Studios, has to
do some tall thinking and acting, for
he certainly has no model to follow.
The movie directors are finding diff
hculty in getting the chfppy choppy.
stde-swaggering jazz ladies to dance
the graceful old waltz of their grand
sidered an honor to dance with a
lady, and her partner tried to be a
chevalier instead of a daring pal"
Somehow they don't fit.
Norman Trevor will appear with
Gloria Swanson In Wages of Virtue"
Mr.. Trevor was seen recently on
Broadway. in The Goose Hangs
High, and is remembered for his
work as Maude Adams leading man
in "A Kiss for Cinderella"
Forrest Halsey, who adapted "Man-
handled" for Paramount and who
is the author of same of Gloria Swan
sons other productions, has been
commissioned major in the Reserve
Corps.
The Ten Commandments" Cecil
B. DeMille's production for Para
mount, is to be shown in New Zea-
land in the thousand-year-o Maori
temple near Rotururo. Washington
may see it some day.
AT the age of 21 William Farnum
| had the distinction of having played
all the principal male characters
from Shakespeare.
Ben Lyon, who recently played
with Pola Negri in Lily of the
Dust" will play opposite Gloria Swan
| the Foreign Legion in Algiers.
Effie Shannon and Florence Bill
lings were the final additions to the
cast of SINNERS in Heaven" which
| Bebe Daniels and Richard Dix have
| just finished at the Long Island stu
| dio under the direction of Alan Cros-
land.
Adolphe Menjou. in recognition of
his fine work in recent pictures and
| his rapid rise in popular favor, re-
Gently has been signed to appear
exclusively in Paramount pictures
under a new long term. contract. His
''Open All Night" in which he ap-
pears with Jetta GoudaI. Viola Dana,
Raymond Griffith, Maurice B. Flynn
| and Gale Henry. Paul Bern directed
and the screen play was written by
Willis Goldbeck. who adapted THE
Alaskan" and Peter Pan" to the
screen.
Mary Pickford's Dorothy Vernon
| of Haddon Hail. has been listed as
| one of the exceptional photoplays of
the year in the official bulletin of
the National Board of Review.
Vitagraph provides school teachers
to teach children who work in the
production of Capt. Blood" by
! Rafael Sabatini, which David Smith
is directing. The California law per-
mits children to work in motion pic
hut i'm SiSfS n faa Oh ha
supplied for each six children. In
Capt Blood" the children are
dressed in the costumes, of the 18th
| century, in which they study.
Violet La Plante. one of the pret-
test of Hollywood's debts" is play
ing an important role in "The Clean
Heart" which J. Stuart Blackton is
producing.
Irene Rich. who has the leading
role in Behold This Woman" paid
rare compliment to Marguerite de
| in Hollywood episodes. You almost
took the picture away from me-" she
said after seeing the finished print.
| have the leading role in The
Boomerang. screen version OF
David Belasco's play, soon to be
started under the direction of h. T..
Schulberg.
Not one leading man. but four are
provided in the Thomas II. lnce pro-
! duction, Christine of the Hungry
Heart''-Olive Brooks, Ian Keith,
Warner Baxter and Walter Heirs.
Florence Nidor is the feminine foil.
Motion picture rights to "Entice-
ment." by Give Arden. British
author, as yet unpublished in this
country, but a novel which is said to
have attracted wide attention in
England, have been secured by
Thomas Ince, who declares the story
has unusual picture values.
Mary Philbin is at work on her