Evening star., 1924-05-11
Hollywood Gossip
New Combination Stirs Producers-New Para
mount pictures-Raymond Hitchcock
VIII Be the Caliph

Dallas" ready for release next fall al
the same time that Mrs. Leslie Cartef
role of the stage version of the novel
in New York.
Mr.. Goldwyn's filming of ''Tarnish"
goes into production here May IL,
with George Fitzmaurice directing.
Dolores Roushe, another Follies
girl from New York who is trying for
film fame, has just completed a small
part supporting Herbert Rawlinson
in Dark Stairways."
Johnnie Walker has been engaged
by Universal to play the lead In
Judgment of West Paradise" which
will be directed by Nat Ross. Gladys
Hulette and Billy Sullivan will also
be featured.
"Counterfeit- to BE Filmed.
Production of the film version OF
Leroy Scott's Counterfeit" will be
begun by the First National May 10.
Colleen Moore and Conway Tearle
will be starred in it A director has
not yet been selected 1t Is story
of society and politics. Joseph Poland
Is writing the adaptation Other
manuscripts in preparation for First
Nationals spring schedule are Will
derness," by Marion Orth: the "Eter-
nal Lamps" by Charles Maigne; Edna
Ferber's so Big" (Which will be
Miss Moore's second vehicle) and
Kenneth 3. Clarke's comedy drama,
"Out Where the Worst Begins,
which will probably feature Ben
Lyon.
Cecil b. DeMille has sailed away
in his private yacht for the Mexican
coast off Lower California. The trip
is partly pleasure and partly ousl-
ness, for he took a cameraman along
to get shark fishing scenes for MS
next photoplay, Feet of Clay
William Farnum, Wallace Worsley'
6iractnr and ranpraman nave
gone to Yosemite Valley for 1eW
snow scenes for '"The Man VINO
Fights Alone" Meanwhile Lois VII
son, who will play opposite Mr. Far
whole company will be ready for
work when star and director return
to the studio.
William c. DeMiIle has gone to New
York to supervise the cutting and
titling Of his next release, The BED
room Window"
George Melford is at the Lasky
studio in Hollywood, cutting Tiger
Love-" which features Antonio MO-
reno and Estelle Taylor. 1t is an
adaptation of a Spanish opera, Ell
Cato Monies"
Leatrice JOY has completed work in
a comedy, changing Husbands
Walter Woods has completed the
screen adaptation Of Harry Leon
Wilson'S Merton Of the Movies" and
Glenn Hunter, who has the title part,
is in Hollywood James Cruze is to
direct.
William S. Hart asserts. in for
NAL legal answer filed here to his
wife's suit, in which she tries to set
aside that portion of their property
settlement which forbids her return
to the screen, that his wife has an
income from his trust fund OF s9,e3o
year, that her screen value has de-
Perforated, and that she merely wants
to "commercialize her unhappy do
m estic difficulty" Mrs. Hart on the
other hand, says her income is too
small for her needs, and that she nov
has a standing offer OF salary OF
$500 a week to work in pictures.
English Beauty Signed.
George Archainbaud. making For
Sale" has signed an English beauty
and star. Marga Ala Rubia, for one
of the leading parts. Miss Ala Rubia
was reared in India, her father being
an English army officer. She drove
an ambulance in France during the
world war. For one season she
headed her own company at the Gar
rick Theater, London.
Gene Stratton Porter, novelist, has
purchased a six-acre estate IN the
mountains between Hollywood and
the sea and will make her permanent
fnce str o supervising the filming Of
Max is working on the final
editing 1.-THE Wise Son" After
taking tn, rint to New York he will
return to lywood 10 begin casting
for his neA PRODUCTION. Footsteps"
Flight" an original for the screen
written by @ Gardner Sullivan. has
been chosen n Norma Talmadge.s
next picture. \iugene OBrien viii
again be her le>,ding man. Sidney
OIcott, now directing Rudolph VAL
entino in the final sequence of Mon
sieur Beaucaire" at the Lasky studio
on Long Island. will direct Fight"
Rex Ingram, who is now reSung IN
Florida, will return to his Moorish
palace in Algiers in mid-June, ac-
cording to his wife, Alice Terry. now
visiting her mother in Hollywood.
Mrs Ingram will join her husband in
New York and go with him to north
ern Africa for an indefinite stay. 1t
is uncertain when he will direct an
other picture, she says
Mack Sennett has sailed for Turtle
Bay, Mexico, on his private yacht for
a fortnight of fishing.
PoIa Applies for Citizenship.
Pola Negri, applying for American
citizenship papers, gave her name As
Countess Apolonia Domski and said
she was divorced from Count Eugene
Domski. Lipno, Poland, was given as
her birthplace. She swore to being
twenty-seven years of age, gave her
weight as 125 pounds.
The Goldwyn studios have been for
mally taken over by officials of the
new MetroGoIdwyn-M Mayer merger.
The usual speech making marked the
turning over of the keys
George Edward Lewis, director. has
left for Seward, Chilcott Pass and the
Yukon, accompanied by company
which will film 1.-The Eternal From
tier" in Alaska this summer. The
story was written by Harvey Gates.
Dorothy Devore has finished work
in Hold Your Breath"
Cdward Everett Horton. who played
the title role in "Ruggles of Red
Gap" will support William Farnum
in his next Lasky film.
Mrs. Sidney Drew, who retired from
the screen when her husband died.
has contracted to make a series of
five-reel domestic comedies.
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