Evening star., 1924-03-16
BY HALLETT ABEND.

LOS ANGELES. March 14.-Now
has almost exhausted itself the pub
lie. instead of having a diversity of
film fare, will probably have forced
upon it a great flood of modern So
'ciety dramas" because few smashing
successes have been made by that
kind of photoplays.
Everywhere there is talk of costume
stuff being dead and those who talk
most say 1t is still too soon for war
films. The wild and woolly westerns
we have with us always and now and
then we get rural drama on the
screen, but for the next few months
most producers, unless all signs fail,
will spend their energy and their
money producing photoplays peopled
with well dressed rich folks of to-
day. Jazz and bootegging, divorces
and motor cars-these Will be main
props until the belief gains credence,
as Il did a few years ago. that so
ciety stuff is dead" Then We shall
have another change.
CyeIops IL Sold.
The Cyclops, famous old three-mast-
ed schooner, which has been used in
countless motion pictures, is at last
to have real adventure. She mas
been purchased by company or Ia
anu lneS Will Sdif a." "a ,
in the old ship the first week in April,
bound for the coast of Siberia, on a
old-hunting expedition. The vessel
is now being reinforced to Withstand
the pressure of ice foes in the Arctic.
All the men will share alike III the
labor and profits. The soviet govern
ment has granted a charter giving the
explorers full rights of settlement ano
mining and will. receive 6 per cent
of the profits. Two of the organizers
were in the Siberian region several
years ago on a geodetic survey. the
district is far north and is snow COW
cred for most OF the year.
Kenneth L. Roberts, magazine
writer of fiction, is in Hollywood ex-
ploring the studios, meeting stars ano
directors and gathering material TOT
Hollywood articles and short stories.
Erie c. Kenton has begun the d'rec-
jtion of new series Of Andy Gump
comedies at Universal. Joe MURPHY
land Fay Tincher will again play Andy
and Min. Mr. Kenton is writing the
stories himself. Andy's "combinat tion
,hairbrush" will figure in the series.
Lubitsch to Direct Pola.
Ernest Lubitsct, who made Poia
INegri famous with passion" will
again direct the Polish star. Miss
INegri, now completing Men, under
Dimitri Butchowetski,. will make one
more Butchowetski film. "A Woman
of the Night" and then Mr.. Lubitsch
will direct her in a play not yet
William De Mile has returned TO
Hollywood after completing Ice
bound in New York" He will begin
work at once on '"The Inside Story,
an original by Clara Beranger.
Jack Holt, kathlyn Williams, Moan
Beery and the company that has been
making "Wanderer of the Waste
Land" under Irving, Willats dlrec-
ION the Arizona desert.
Victor Fleming has begun mining
Code of the Sea-" which will co-star
Rod La Rogue and Jacqueline Logan.
Edmund Mortimer will direct Shlr...
lev Mason in "A Strange Woman,
the first of a series of six pictures
called for by her new contract win
Fox Theodore Won Eltz will be her
Heading man.
Mildred Harris is opening an
'Orpheum circuit tour.
Harry Rapf has left Warner
Brothers. having completed Broad
way After Dark" for that firm. :.
Erich Won Stroheim has filed suit
for $4,000 against Miss Georges
Lewys, a writer, who has published
novel called Merry Go Round. He
says he gave her a copy of the see
mario of his photopiay OF that name
and discussed the advisability OF
novelizing ii. Then, he charges, she
his manuscript. He also
seeks an injunction to prevent fur
ther printing or circulation OIL the
novel published by the young woman.
Chaplin Signs Leading Woman.
HOLLYWOOD has known for some time
that Charlie Chaplin has been seeking a
na,,- leading woman Now the suspense