Evening star., 1924-03-23
BY HALLET ABEND.

Los ANGELES, March 21.--Rumors
Hart are engaged to be married are
met with silence by tho two principals.
Miss Garden delayed her departure
for the east for one day and then
Mr.. Hart went cast, supposedly TO his
Connecticut farm. Hart's divorce suit,
long pending, has not yet been. settled
and he is still legally welded to Win
fired Westover
Hollywood gives credence to re-
ports cabled from abroad that Rex
ingram, who has bought All Arab
house in Tunis, will quit the picture
game AS soon as his contract with
Metro has expired. Mr.. Ingram, il is
known, has always intended to re-
tire from directing when he felt he
was Independently wealthy and could
afford to give all his time 10 the study
of sculpture
The Vitagraph studio here will
hereafter turn out one picture a
month, Albert II. Smith and J. Stuart
Blackton alternating in production.
VIII Revive "Peter Pan"
Marilynn Miller. Jack Pickfords 9
wife, has received word from New
August 70 begin srehearsaIs for 4 re-
Vtval Of Peter Pan" Meanwhile ne
gotIations are under way to buy the
screen rights for sally" her stage
success. and if the purchase is closed
she will make the finn here during
the summer, using Mary Pickfords s
studio while Miss PiChford and Doug
Fairbanks are abroad.
Anna q. Nilsson has been signed
IN support Of Alice Calhoun and Lou
Tellcgen for tn" Nitagraph's produc-
tion Of "a Woman Between Friends"
nj Z
Mayo and Phyllis HaN"r have been
signed for the cast which viii sup
port Colleen Moore in The Perfect
Flappsr."
Ruth Roland's feature film has un-
dergonc u change Of It'll. from "EX-
vagancc' to "A Dollar Down"
Mary Astnr and her mother and IA
ther, Joseph NJ SChenck, producer,
and Wallace Beery have hastened to
New York. Miss Astor was sum
mofed by wire orderins, her to re-
port i'll four days for work at the Fa
nous Players Long Island studio.
Sh~ will co-Star with Richard Dix in
Saturday Evening Post story called
Face" Mr. SChcnck went on pro-
duction business and to attend the
madGe's ''S@crrts. Mr. B""ry n"nt
I" work III d tim to be mad in New
York.
Thomas Miranda has been engaged
10 cut and till" Reginald Denny 5
Universal picture. Love Insurance"
Nigel De EruIier j. leaving for ia. y
to play Simonid"s in the GoldHyn
production Of "Hen Hur.'
Robert bradbury and Charles
Hutchinson have each rented stage
spac" at tho Goldvyn studio and are
producing f'atur. films not Hst
:'Hoid Your Breath. has been chosen
as the title for the first feature riIu
starring Dorothy D.Nore, which is
row being ,rade ~ IT. christie stu
dio.
Hobart Hetley has begun work on
Free Love" Tor MIR" release.
Adolphe Meniou has or u tho rrlu-
Cipal parts.
william MrHar='s Wine" las b.-en
purchased by Universal ana will
be produced ti4i$ summer as an all
star special. It il all expose Of IN"
liquor traffic similar to the expos" Of
the white SIaVe traffic embodied in
Traffic in Souls" several years ago.
"Headlights' Is another Universal
feature soon to go into production.
Dark StairwayS." u mystery play
filmed Ey Herbert Eawlinson. is now
in the cutting room.
Jack paugherty, Eileen Sedgwi ick k
and company have gone 10 Warner
Hot Springs for eXteriors for The
Fight ting Ranger"
samuel CioIdwyn and Cieorge F'itz-
maurice have decided TO let the vote
OF picture play fans decide whether
or not the film version of Hcrge-
sheimer's "Cytherea" shall end trag-
ically. as the book ends, or whether
a happy ending shall be devised.
Frances Marion. who wrote the see
mario. has prepared both n tragic and
a happy ending.
spoiled Her beauty.
Mrs Sydney Chaplin, wife OF the
comedian and Sister-in-law of Charles
Chaplin. has filed, suit for 800
0o0 against a local physician and
plastic surgeon charging that by an
operate to beautify her nose he has
ruined her appearance forever. Nose
operations have been quite a fad late
ly in film circles and most of them
have been successful. Helen Fergu-
son has achieved n decided improve
ment in her profile by such an opera
tI0n.
Sada Cowan and Howard Higgins
have completed the screen adapta tion
for Roles" Lcatricc joys first star
ring feature for Famous Players
I.asky They have also done -
Lighter Of PLANES Tor Bill Hart and
Broken barriers" for Mayer.
Anita LOoS. the worlds highest
paid 50 tenario writer, has arrived from
New York. 1t Is possible She will
prepare an original for constance
Talmadge. The stage play which
she wrote with her husband John