Evening star., 1924-01-06
BY HALLETT ABEND.

Special Telegraphic Correspondence TO The Star.
LOS ANGELES, January 4.-Victor
Schertzinger's 1.-THE Man Whom Life
Passed By" made for Metro release,
has been run of for me. 1t is about
seven and one-half reels long and Is
a modern city story, with fanciful
prologue. Percy Marmont, who popu-
larized the abused hero type by his
splendid performance in IF Winter
Comes" Is the leading man, and Jane
Novak stars with him. The support
ing cast includes Cullen Lands, IIo-
bart Bosworth and Eva Novak. Mr..
Schertzinger has had the courage to
make a realistic photoplay with an
unhappy ending, and though the pro-
auction does not live up to the ideals
or the producer, II is nevertheless a
gratifying move against hokum- and
screen nonsense and well worth see
sa me old stuff.
Jane Novak will be starred also in
an almost simultaneous release of
The Lullaby" produced and directed
Ior L. Q; b. release by Chester Ben
nett: This film too, is a play of tragic
realism, and carries Miss Novak
through life from the time she is ar
immigrant bride in her teens until.
years later, she is broken old
woman. who has served a twenty
diq not commit. Her prison born baby
mas peen torn from her and the last
reefs show the broken old mothers
quest M,,,fo for her lost daughter;
1ovsr lillian IN, Hsines. called the perfect
loaned by the Goldwyn Company to
pay the romantic lead opposite Mary
fhiloin in The Inheritors."
'Bowery Title to he Changed.
Meanwhile Universal Is considering
changing the name Of Miss Philbin's
meX. mex release from MY Mamie Rose" to
name is unexplainable The story has
70 do with the Bowery's slums about
the year 1895.
carmel Myers, who has just finished
pIaylng opposite John Barrymore in
Beau Brummel," has been signed by
the schulberg Company to play the
vamp In Poisoned Paradise
Inc william Fox west coast studios
are now the busiest single produc-
t,on apcb. company ,nh in Hollywood. George
aerer, with Frank Mayo, Evelyn
Brent s and Tom Santschi. Tom
buckingham is directing the old
Lincoln J. Carter thriller. "The Ari-
iona Era AZ express" with Pauline starke.
and David Butler in the leading parts
frederick and Fannie Hatton have
thelr desks piled high with manu-
scripts' which they are whipping into
snape Tor production after the
Just OF Broadway" with Marion
Nixon and Jerry Gendron in support
ing roles. Jack Blystone, former
Huster Keaton director. is making
Ia ,ddies ss to Board" starring Tom Mix,
production Of THE Morocco Box
Nellie BLY, Baker, who for years has
worked in the office at Charlie Chap
Iins studio, is to have a prominent
part in the next Chaplin comedv. It
was Miss Baker who, without nrevS
ious experience. enacted the part of
the scornful masseuse in Chaplin 8
"A Woman of Paris"
RoEers' Christmas Cabin.
VIII Rogers built spacious Jog
cabin on the grounds of his VeyeriS
HIS estate for use first for a Christ
mas tree celebration for his thre e
children and permanently for guests
when he gives big western barbecues
Maurice Tourneur has just returned
90 Hollywood from New York bring
ing with him four possible screen
First National production.
Hunt Stromberg has completed
Hlgn Dawn, starring Harry Carey.
Irene Rich has been loaned to Sol
AcSScT Uy w dIner BFOtnerS and will
appear in Baby Peggy's Captain jan
uary."
Betty Compson is being considered
for the lead part in RAIN" by Para
mount
Emery Johnson's next production;
Will be called Swords and Plough
shares" and will star Mary Carr, the
mother of "Over the Hills" 1t will
be story with a mothers sacrifices
in war time.
Aileen Pringle, summoned to San
Francisco a few days ago by the
serious illness of her father, has re-
turned to Hollywood. She will play
the lead in True as Steel" the next
Rupert Hughes production for Gold
wyn. Starting plans have been upset
because of MrS-Hughes' tragic death
in Indo-China.
F1lm to Encourage Thrift.
A film company headed by Ruth
Roland, with WiIfred North as direc-
tor and Charles Forester as the au-
thur Of the script. has applied to the
county board of education for permis-
sion to use the school property and
some Of the pupils for production of a
comedy drama built upon the county's
plan for encouraging savings and
thrift among the pupils OF the public