Evening star., 1924-06-22
Filmograns.

WILLIS Go1DBEcK' who prepared
the scenario of Paul Bern's first
picture. open All Night" is consult
ing with him upon details of produc-
tion. Bern, in turn, is rendering a
similar service to Dimitri Buchow-
etzki, for whom he acted as scenarist
for The Passionate Journey" The
Passionate Journey" is a Pola Negri
picture, from the novel by Hermann
Sudermann and play by Edward Shell
don, entitled The Song of Songs"
Booth Harrington, whose humorous
writings are outstanding American
classics. is now completing the see
Thomas Meighan. 1t is tentatively
| titled whispering Men" and will be
| filmed late this summer. Harrington
recently received the honorary degree
| of doctor of laws from Columbia Uni
versity.
There are more bow-legged actors
on Broadway than any other place in
the world. says William Cohill. cast
ing director for Famous Players. He
made the startling discovery while
casting men to appear as lackeys,
servants, guards, soldiers and cour,
tiers tier in Monsieur Beaqeaire; 1catn al AZ
Xv's time, and bowlegs look very
prominent in silk breeches.
William J. Locke's story. The
duced as a Paramount picture by
Herbert Brenon, with Ernest Tor
renee and Anna Q. Nilsson featured.
is to be released under the title, The
Side Show of Life
Her Love Story has been decided
upon as the title of Gloria Swanson's
picture now being made by Allen
Dwan at the Long Island studio. 1t
is an adaptation by Frank Tuttle of
Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Queens
Love Story" Production was begun
under the tentative title, "A Woman
of Fire"
Famous Players has prepared
roster OF famous people who have
seen The Ten Commandments" that
includes the younger members OF the
British royal family, sixteen COVER
taries, flock of literati, all the song
birds of the Metropolitan, everybody
in movies, a bevy of bishops, pha-
lanx of fashionableS and representa-
tives of big business" ranging from
Otto II. Kahn to Lord Beaverbrook.
Tyrone Power and Ivan Linow will
be seen in STORY Without a Name"
Paramount, with Agnes Ayres and
Tony Moreno featured.
James cruze has completed the pro-
duction of Merton of the Movies"
Glenn Hunter, who is starred in it,
has returned to New York and will
resume the road tour of the stage
version. Mr. Cruze will begin work
soon on "The Cafe of Fallen Angels"
story by F. Leroy Scott.
The mysteries of motor car driving
are too much for Pola Negri. She is
a fearless horsewoman, but several
DAYS ago gave up trying to handle
the wheel of her machine after at
tempting to drive it to the studio.
Balkan soldiers captured Fort
Schuyler, near New Rochelle, last
week. Allan Dwan was using the
place for scenes in stas,r Gloria swanson's
Amelia Elter Of Czechoslovakia is
the latest European player to be
brought over here by Cecil B. De
Mile. She has appeared in a number
of. European films, is said to be
striking brunette and an athlete, and
for some time did aquaplane scenes
in feet of Clay, near the Catalina
Islands.
Another Belasco graduate has been
added to the cast of "The Female.
Betty Compson's new picture. He is
Freeman Wood, blonde young athlete,
who has recently become popular in
pictures. During his years on the
stage he appeared in "Seven Chances"
Grace Georges Ruined LADY," Just
Around the Corner" and THE Man
Who Came back"
Rodolph Valentino has become a
camera man. For his own amusement
he recently took pictures of scenes
in "a Sainted Devil" in which he
does not appear. He intends to keep
the film record himself.
Paul Bern. recently appointed a
Paramount director, has started the
production Of his first picture at the
west Coast studio. It is "Open All
Night" by Willis Goldbeck, suggested
by the stories of Paul Morand.
The task of Transforming a newly
corked ginger-ale bottle into twen-
ty-year-old bottle of wine with the
aid Of labels and cobwebs was only
one of many difficulties which con-
fronted the property man attached to
the Compromised" company.
Jack Pickford is on crutches as the
result Of a bad fall taken recently,
when he leaped from a burning build
ing which was part of the set for
his new picture, and tore the liga-
ments of his right leg.
A buffalo head five feet high, said to
be the largest ever mounted. has been
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