Evening star., 1924-02-10

Pennsylvanians are unique in that
they are collegians assembled from
Penn State by Fred Waring, their con-
ductor.
Buster Keaton has completed cast
Ing the principal roles of. his third
Metro feature-length comedy. "Sher-
will consist of Kathryn Mcclure,
Ward Crane, Jane and Erwin Con-
nelly, Joseph keaton. Busters father;
Ford West, John Patrick and George
Davis. sherlock Junior was writ
ten by Jean HaveZ, Joe Mitchell and
Clyde Bruckman.
If Thomas Meighan were a candi-
date for PUBLIC office he probably
would not shake hands with more
people than he did recently. when
making his latest picture, pied Piper
Malone" The hand-shakers were not
voters They were fifty youngsters.
ranging from one to ten years of
age. who came to greet their favorite.
Some were more fortunate and re-
ccived kiss on the cheek-espe-
cially the blue-eyed girls--from Mr.
Meighan.
Patsy Ruth Miller has been signed
by Paramount to play the leading
feminine role in the forthcoming pro-
duction, The Breaking Point" Mary
Roberts Rhinehart's popular story.
Authors seem unable to resist the
lure Of watching their stories being
canned for the screen. Homer Croy
declares he lost two months from
work watching Paramount make
West of the Water Tower"
Emma Dunn, star Of "old Lady 81"
Is taking flyer in the films. She has
the role Of mother in Tom Meighan's
new picture. pied Piper Malone"
Viola Dana has five star boarders
and she doesn't know what to do with
them. She has supported them for
some time now and they have never
paid her anything in return. More
over, they refuse to leave. is they
have no visible means of support.
It's crisis in Viola Dana's life.
Something has got to be done, The
boarders are very youthful Chow
dogs. sons and daughters Of Wow
WOW.
Agnes Ayres. who has the leading
role in Souvenir" will introduce a
novelty to the, screen when she ap-
pears as a blond Russian. Screen
tradition has IL that all Slavs must
be swarthy, with black hair and eyes,
but both Agnes and her director be-
lieve that truth is better than tradi-
tion. SO she has had TO endure the
discomforts of wearing blond wig.
The SelZnick Distributing Corpora
tion, which sells and distributes mo-
tion picture films to theater owners
and managers throughout the coun-
try. has paid off almost million dol
lars OF the debts against the COM
pany since its REORGANIZATION eleven
months ago, according To the state
ment OF W. G. ]. Doolittle, president.
Even the distribution OF photoplays
seems profitable.
Strongheart. wonder dog of the
films. posed for his statue last week
as the first step in a plan to provide
toy replica of the famous animal
star! The images will vary in meas
urement from small models to life
size reproductions.
When d. w. Griffith's America"
has its world premiere in New York
February Il the fans will find, in
addition to Carol Dempster, Neil
Hamilton and Lionel Barrymore,
host of favorites in excellent roles,
among them Lucille La Verne, whose
performance in Sun Up" is one Of
the triumphs Of the stage year. and
Louis Wolheim, whose performance
in The Hairy Ape" is still vivid in
the minds of all who saw 1t.
After six months of work on her
second pretentious picture in year
Mary Pickford has completed "Doro-
thy Vernon of Haddon Hall and has
it ready for a New York debut.
There was much competition for the
film rights to this story.