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story Miracle" Alma Rubens and
Percy Marmont have the principal
roles.
Buster" Collier has just begun
work on THE DEVILS Cargo" a Vic
tor Fleming production for Para
mount, in which other featured play
ers are Wallace Beery, Pauline
Starke and Claire Adams. Mr.. Col
lier, as the male lead in this stirring
drama of California in the SOS. has
the role of John Joyce. Boston pub
Usher and young crusader, who is as
sociated with the vigilantes in their
attempts to bring order into the
midst OF careless living. There is
also stormy romance.
Corinne Griffith is now free TO give
her entire mind TO "Declassee," which
will be the fourth of the Corinne
Griffith productions, and, 1t IS SAID.
will be one of the big pictures OF the
year, for the best technical and art
skill available have set their forces
in motion TO provide the setting and
equipment for this stupendous pro-
duction. The picture will be elabo-
rate and Miss Grifhth's most ambi-
tious effort. Her work in Wilder
ness" is finished.
George Hackathorne has finished
an engagement in The Lady with
Norma Talmadge playing one of the
important roles and in the most dra-
matte sequences of the picture, in
Gluding the fadeout that il warrant
ID TO make an audience fairly gasp.
Mother love and the fine instincts of
Z: gentle heritage are brought to-
gether in a gripping scene. Nnlle Mr.
Il -
TO great footage, it is said to lie DIS
ringuished.
David Torrencc has been signed for
an important role in the next Fran K
Lloyd production, adapted from a
story by May EdEinton in the sat
urday Evening Post entitled 'JudS-
ment" The picture went under pro-
duction October L.
Raymond Hatton, ono Of the fore
most character actors on the screen
has been placed under a lonE-terN
contract to appear exclusively ir
Paramount Pictures. His first picture
under the new contract will be Con
traband." He was one Of the first
players to appear in pictures madc a:
the L.aSky studio. when II was first
launched by Jesse l.. Lasky and Cecil
B. DeMille. He has played in Java
Head" "Ebb Tide" Joan the Woman
and The Whispering Chorus" his
most recent being The Top of the
World"
Frank Tuttle, who will direct Bcbe
Daniels in Miss Bluebeard," has re-
turned to the Famous Players Long
Island studio from Asheville, N. c.
where he and Townsend Martin
scenarist, prepared the script.
Paul Bern, Paramount director. has
departed for a camp in the Sierra
Madre Mountains of California, TAX
ing with him the script of his next
production, "Tomorrow's Love" The
screen play was prepared by Howard
Higgin from the story by Charles
Bracket. Agnes Ayres is to be the
star.
After having realized her ambition
to wear blonde wig, Pauline Starke
is playing the feminine lead in The
Devils Cargo" with her hair "au
naturel'-dark brown.
Pola Negri is taking a short vaca-
tion. When she returns to the studio
she will Immediately begin work in
East of Suez." Somerset Maugham's S
story.
Ernest Terrence is paying the PEN
atty Of genius. He works all day in
scenes of North Of So" in a big To-
cation camp in Texas and spends most
of his evenings playing the piano for
the benefit of his fellow players.
When he Is feeling especially ener-
getic he also sings for them.
"Bucky' Harris and Al Schacht of
the Washington base ball team were
callers at Loew's Palace during the
week, and 1t is needless to say Law
renee BeatuA, manager Of the Palace,
received them and rendered the privi-
leges of the theater.
Robert G. vignola, who made When
Knighthood Was in Flower" and
"Yolanda" for the Cosmopolitan Cor
poration, is making his bow to mo-
tion-picture audiences as the latest
addition to the directoral ranks of
the Metro-Goldwyn Corporation, with
married Flirts."
Officials of Loew's Columbia are
preparing to play host during the
current week to Mrs. Mary Roberts
Rinehart. Washington's famous wom-
an novelist, whose latest fiction sue
cess, Her Majesty. the Queen
reaches the Columbia screen this aft
ernoon under the title of Her Love
Story" Mrs. Rinehart is expected to
view the picture during its engage
ment
Baroness Franziska de Hedemann
of the Rumanian court Count Andre
Tsapalos de Czernoviz of the Greek
nobility. Gen. Lodijensky and other
former Russian officers were all per-
suaded to accept parts in Gloria
Swanson's new picture. Her Love
Story"
The Saturday morning special pro-
grams for children at Crandalls Tiv-
oil Theater at 1890 o'clock are rap
idly increasing in city-wide popular
ity. Yesterdays bill consisted entire
.1y of short subjects and offered en-
tertainment of unusual variety. In
addition to the pictures, Peggy AL
bion, whose fame as a friend and
champion of the kiddies has been es-
tablished over the radio, appears in
person and tells a group of her ia
nous stories.
r. Wesley Etris. manager Of Gran.
dall's Apollo and Strand Theaters, in
Martinsburg. w. Va. was a visitor al
o the Crandau executive offices in this
city Thursday. Mr.. Etris is a son OF
Robert Etris, manager of Crandalrs
Ambassador.
Phil Rosen, the noted director, ha.
been engaged by the Warmers to put
The Bridge of Signs" on the silver
screen.
Tho National Committee for Better
Films, affiliated with the National
Board of Review Of Motion Pictures
recommends, in a recent circular, fol
special family audiences and children
Of high school age, "Trouping With
Ellen" the story Of q girl who leaves
homo to become q chorus girl, fighti
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