Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-13
hollywood Gossip
Signal Tower Praised by Reviewer-Gives Up Career
70 Become Wife Of Business Man-Jetta Goudal
French Actress, to Be Paramount Star

! in The End Of the World" Claire
Mcdowell. Ann May and Alec Fran
| els are also in the cast
Mrs. Tom Mix has left for New
York and Europe. She will spend
month in London, month in Paris
and two months in Rome. Mr.. Mi,
| may join her in midsummer
| :, Walter HERS has left for the mid
| die west to make series OF persona
| appearances in cities in Ohio. IN
diana, Illinois and Kentucky.
| Phillip Rosen, director of ''The
| Dramatic Life Of Abraham Lincoln
has been signed By Warner Brother
to direct the screen version of Gracc
Flandreau's novel, Being Respecta-
| BILE"
! All rumors to the effect that tn
! United Artists might break up havr
! been set at rest by the fact that Mar
! Pickford and Douglas airbanks and
| j.. ". Griffith have renewed their re-
| leasing United Artists contracts for
| three years. Chaplin, the fourtl.
/ member, made no renewal. for undeg
! his existing contract he must max
eight more pictures for the organize
! ton. and at his present rate of outpu
J he will just about comply with that
! arrangement hy the time the nov
three-year agreement ends.
, Helene Chadwick Acts
For years ! have entertained the
idea that Helene Chadwick. though
exceedingly easy on the eyes. could
though 1 was right about her beautv
! ] was wrong about her ability, for
f, in Why Men Leave Home" directed
by John Stahl for Louis 3. Mayer. she
I gives promise Of high rank. particu-
larry IN her whimsical condy scenes.
/ and is an admirable foil for Lewis
| stone. The film, to be released this
! month. is a comedy of high order
Mr.. Stahrs direction is deft. as al
| ways. OF the supporting cast Alma
Bennett takes the palm. but other.
William V. Mong. In its stage form
/ Why Men Leave Home rather
| slapped at women in general, but tn"
! him version will please the ladies be
! cause the blame for the domestir
wreck is sltillfully shifted to the huS-
( band.
Billy sullivan's next picture in the
| Fast Stopper" series will be The
Hot Dog Special" adapted from q
! story by Gerald Beaumont. Shannon
| Day will be his leading woman
| Ford Sterling has been given the
! leading character role in We Ar
! French to be directed at Universal
! by Rupert Julian.
The Riding Kid from Powder
! Herbert Knibbs. has been purchased
! for Hoot Gibson by Universal This
feature, 10 be directed by Edwar1-
; SedgWick will be the first of Gibson
more expensive films. Under his new
! contract he will make only FIVE pic
! lures each year instead Of about ten
Nine. De Bodamere. who has for
! years been Mary Pickford's personal
! attendant, has been given a character
! part under Marshall. Neilan in Tess
: of the DUrbervilles"
June Mathis writes from Rome tina.
! preparations are under way TO film
the galley slave scenes for Ben Hur''
+, al Anzi". Italy. Fourteen galleys OF
Roman type have been built at tn
/ Anzio saipyards.
] Child Actress Now FIapper.
Virginia Lee Corbin. long one 81
up and changed her style of parts
! She has just been cast as a young
! fapper IL Mar the Third" which
is being directed by King vidor.
Robert q. Vignola has been signed
| by Metro TO direct a series of four
! pictures. coming to Hollywood from
New York.
Lillian Leighton has been signed by
Cecil Is. De Mile to play a character
part in THE Bedroom Next Door"
Babe London, Christie's perfect
80" has been loaned to First National
for comedy part supporting Colleen
! Moore in THE Perfect Flapper."
which John +. Dillon is directing.
Virginia Caldwell Ruggles. former
| member OF Raymond Hitchcock'S
"Hitchy Koo" Company, admits that
she and her director husband. Wes-
ley RuggleS, have permanently sep
| arated- She says there is no Other
| woman and no other msn and that no
| divorce is contemplated.
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