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Evening star., 1924-05-04
"America' and Its Making

The larger battle scenes were made
near the Putnam county border in
New York state.
With his players and staff, he then
went to Westover, on the James
River. one of the greatest OF the old
estates, where Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Crane, present owners. welcomed the
taging of the scenes that brought to
life the legends of revolutionary war
times. He also went to Shirley, on
the James River, the famous old
King Carter estate, through the hos
pitabl courtesy of Admiral and Mrs.
Oliver and Mrs. Bransford, who live
there at present. Scenes in York
town were secured on the actual site
where CORVALLIS surrendered to
George Washington's army. The War
Department permitted Col. Hamilton
Hawkins to aid Mr.. Griffith with the
crack Sd United States Cavalry at
Fort Myer, Va, in scenes as Morgan's
Rangers. Maj. J. N. Wainwright
[----,umanded the troop and took part
in TIE action.
wkile Mr.. Griffith was away his
staff at the studio had erected the
huge sets, replicas of the House of
Parliament in London, Independence
Hall. the House of Burgesses in Vir-
ginia and the home Of England's king,
George III.
America" then, is accurate as well
as dramatic. Every historical scene
is played as it actually occurred, with
no liberties taken for dramatic con-
venience.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Why They Parted.

All sorts OF unpleasant things were
conjectured, yet no word OF denial
or affirmation was forthcoming from
either side, and rumor undenied wakes
fat
Now. on the eve of the presenta-
ton Of The White Sister" in Wash
ington, the Metro film organization
announces that financial circur1
stances alone dictated Miss Gish'S ap
pearance under q new director, and
that there exists no reason why Miss
Gish, at some future time, should not
again appear in Mr.. Grifith's produc-
tionS, il she cares to.
Grifiths method has always been
hard on his stars. To begin with, he
makes few pictures. comparatively
speaking. and long periods of idleness
festly impossible. under such circum-
stances, for him to keep famous play
ers on a permanent pay roll at fancy
salaries.
1t was this circumstance that forced
Richard BarthelmesS, after he be
came famous under Griffith, to seek
different production field. 1t was un-
fortunate, for il ended a remarkably
fine professional association. The
same applies to Miss Gish. who nat
urally seeks an opportunity for the
more frequent expression of her gifts
and to capitalize her work to an ex-
tent commensurate with her genius.
Mr. Griffith was one of the first TO
congratulate her on the splendid ar
tistry of her performance in Tho
White Sister" and to wish her well
in her new field
Evening star., 1924-05-04
BY HALLETT AHEND.

LOS ANGELES, May Norman
Dawn, who returned several months
ago after making two pictures in
Alaska, has again left for the north
with whole company and will di-
rect a special feature to be called
The Passion of the Frost" The first
shots will be taken in Nome and then
the company will go to Katmai Vol
cano and complete the story in the
crater, which is called "the valley OF
ten thousand smokes" Arthur Jas
mine, who was featured in Dawn's
last Alaskan picture, will be starred
in the new one.
Flying Fists" will be the title OF
series of twelve two-reel fight pic
lures which will star Benny Leonard
the boxer. They will be made in New
York.
Norma Shearer, now Jack Pick
fords leading woman, will head the
cast for Victor Sessions next Cold
den."
Alice Lake, who recently went east
for honeymoon trip, announces she's
going to try vaudeville.
Carmelita Geraghty has been sign
ed by Universal to play leading parts
opposite Jack Dempsey.
Universal Changes Titles.
Universal has been having an cpl
demic of title changing, and now
seven pictures will go out for release
under titles different from those un-
der which they were made. Mary
Philbin's THE Inheritors'' will be
The Gayety Girl; Reginald Denny's
Fearless; Hoot Gibsons "CouItin'
Calamity" will be 1.-THE Sawdust
Trail; Denny's Love Insurance" has
been changed to The Reckless Age;
I'VE are French" will be released as
Glory: .'Mitzi" has been titled The
Rose Of Paris" and *" the Mary
Roberts Rinehart story, starring Vir-
ginia Valli, will be released as THE
Unknown"
Mitchell Lewis has been added to
and Enid Bennett in The Red Lily"
which Fred Niblo is directing.
Pat O'Malley's three daughters, all
youngsters, will appear with him in
Bread" but the script calls for fam
lily Of five, SO two other girls will soon
Marion Harlan. daughter of Otis Har-
Ian, will be Hoot Gibsons' leading
woman in Hit and Run" Harold Good
win also will support the star in this
production. which deals with sagebrush
Tom Ferris, directing THE Bando-
lero" in Cuba for Goldwyn, is nearly
through with his location work. Rene
Adoree and Pedro De Cordoba head the
cast.
Maurice Tourneur. having completed
THE White Moth,' has left for a tour
Of Mexico.
William Duncan ard Edith Johnson
and company have returned from Nc
Call, Idaho. where they spent eight
weeks making snow stuff for a serial
called Wolves Of the North"
Sydney Replaces Bernard.
George Sydney, popular stage actor
of the east. has been signed by Samuel
Goldwyn to play the part Of Abe in
Potash and Perlmutter in Hollywood"
This is the part that was to have been
played by Barney Bernard, who died a
few weeks ago.
Helene Chadwick's Divorced has
been renamed Loves Of Women"
Vera Reynolds, who made a name
for herself in Chaplin's "A Woman of
Paris" is playing an important part in
For Sale The cast includes Claire
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Ambassador why Men
Leave Home" and War
ins's Pennsylvanians.

"Why Men Leave Home" John NJ.
Stahrs perturbation of Avery HOP
woods play, will be shown as the at
traction at CrandaIPs Ambassador the
first four days of this week, begln-
ming today at pm. The added at
traction will be furnished by war
ing's Pennsylvanians, the popular
novelty chestra, which will be neard
in a new program. Short reels ana
pipe-organ music will be added:
"Why Men Leave Home" is said to
be one of the most amusing releases
of the season, the story having an
original twist that sets it apart from
the usual tale of domestic infelicity.
Loves whirlpool" the film fea,,
ture of the bill for Thursday and
Friday, has James kirkwood, Lila
Lee and Madge Bellamy In its prfn-
cipal roles. The story is one of con-
fiict between two opposing strata of
society. With this bill, which in
cludes abbreviated camera subjects,
the Pennsylvanians will offer new
group of dance and song hits.
Saturday Wesley Barry will be seen
in "The Printers Devif' and Stan
Laurel in his latest comedy, "Smithy."
Today and next Saturday Fred
Waring and his colleagues will be
heard four times, with two nightly
performances the rest Of the week.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Columbia-"BluH.' -

The adventures of smalI-town girl
who outbluffed New York and won
both fame and happiness are pictured
in Sam Woods new Paramount pro-
duction, Bluff featuring Agnes
Ayres and Antonio Moreno, which
will be shown at Loew's Colun bia
Theater this week, beginning this
afternoon.
The cast includes L. H. Calvert,
Clarence Burton, Fred Butler. Jack
Gardner, Pauline PacQuette, Roscoe
Karns and Arthur Hoyt. The story
itself is by Rita Weiman and Joseph
inc L. Quirk. Willis Goldbeck, VINO
wrote the continuity for Ingram's
"Scaramouche," scenarized the pro-
duction.
The story concerns young COS
tune designer who invades New YORK
seeking fame and fortune. Her
brother is injured by the motor car
of a big politician. who, angered when
the girl refuses to settle for a paItry
sum, is determined to get" her. Ihe
girl, almost penniless, spends her iaSs
cent for beautiful gowns in a bold
effort to outbluff the New YORK tnat
will not recognize merit unadorneo'
with thrilling consequences.
news, the Literary Digest and an
tnterlude by the Columbia Orchestfa
will be added attractions.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Rialto-John Barrymore in
Beau Brummel."

Beau Brummel" the screen adap-
tation of the Clyde Fitch play, opens
a weeks engagement at Moore's
Rialto today, with John Barrymore
playing the title role. Although orig
Of the legitimate theaters at ad-
vanced prices, this picture will be
presented with the theaters regular
scale of admission prevailing.
The personality of Beau Brummel
has captivated the imaginations of
men and women by his grandeur. and
during the heyday of his popularity
he was king or dandies, the little
lsovereign of a futile world, who has
sis divine right and his raison d'etre
has said. He had perfect taste in
at1othes, vanity and inso1ence carried
n such unheard-of lengths that they
ceased to offend, but became instead
RRngIands nobility, therefore making
5,Irs one OF the most vivid figures in
.hat country's social history. Yet
haneath IL all he had broken heart,
srhich he tried to conceal beneath his
nriiliant wit and by masqnerading as
inver Of clothes. How he rises to
aeights where he treated the Prince
~ wales as an equal and then be-
..arnes a paupered exile is all brought
to life again in this magnificent
The supporting cast includes Mary
Astor, willard Louis, Irene Rich,
LAC b. Francis, Carmel Myers, Will
liam Humphreys, Richard tucker,
Andre de Beranger, Claire de Lorez,
:aRehael Dark Templar SAKE and Cla-
,,.issa Selwynne.
Due to the length OF the production
cha usual program of short attrac-
lions will not be shown, the bill being
t.sr,Cleted by an orchestra score ar
-snged BY Director George Wild
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Metropolitan why Men
Leave Home"

why Men Leave Home" John N.
Stahrs perturbation of Avery Hop
woods stage success, will be pre-
sented as the feature of the bill for
this week at Crandalrs Metropolitan.
Lewis Stone and Helene Chadwick
appear in the roles of husband and
wife, who began as all honeymooners
do, only to find at the end Of year
that the husbands Indifference to the
little things and the wife's longing
for diversion have combined to bring
their married life to a crisis. A
pretty stenographer tips the crisis in
the direction of the divorce court and
a denouement is brought about by
the scheme of the first wifes grand
mother who admits that the first
fifty years are the hardest" Mary
Carr. William v. Mong, Alma Bennett,
Hedda Hopper. Lila Leslie and How
ard Truesdell are included in the sup
porting cast.
Supplementary attractions will in
clude a comedy, the latest issue Of
Metropolitan World Survey and spe-
ciaI music by the orchestra,
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Two New Plays.

TWO new attractions under the di-
rection of Richard Herndon are
announced for immediate production.
Tomorrow night, at Jolson's Fifty
ninth Street Theater, New York, he
will present Peg O. My Dreams" the
musical version of Peg O. My Heart"
and Tuesday night he will offer, at
the Belmont Theater, "Catskill Dutch"
new play by Roscoe w. Brink.
Peg O. My Dreams" is the joint
work of J. Hartley Manners, Hugo
Felix and Anne Caldwell, who wrote
the book, music and lyrics, respec-
lively. 1t has been staged under the
direction of Hassard Short. Promi-
nent in the large company will be
Suzanne Keener, G.. P. Huntley, Roy
Royston, Oscar Figman, Roberta
Beatty, Paul kleeman, Chester Hale,
Albertina Vitak, Lovey Lee, Gilberta
Faust, Joseph Medallion and William
Ladd.
"Catskill Dutch" is a play dealing
with life in the seventies in a quaint
Dutch American settlement in the
foothills of the Catskill mountains.
Mr.. Brink, its author, is a graduate
of the Harvard A Workshop. Robert
Milton is the producing director, and
the cast includes Frank McGlynn, Gre
ator of the title role in Drinkwater'S
Abraham Lincoln; Ann Davis, Min
ME Dupree, Louis Wolhein, Kenneth
MacKenna and Frederic Burt.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Palace-"The White Sister,

Lillian Gish is featured at Loew's
Palace this week, in "The White Sis
ter" the beautiful Henry King pro-
duction that was recently shown here
at the National Theater as SO at
traction.
The White Sister" is a picturiza-
tion of the famous novel by F. Mar
ion Crawford, which was dramatized
years ago and in which Viola Allen
played the title role. There, however,
1t is said. the comparison between the
stage and screen productions ends, for
the screen version was filmed in Italy
amid the actual settings of the story,
sible in camera art.
MISS Gish appears as the daughter
or an Italian prince, madly in love
with and adored by a young Italian
youth Her father suddenly killed in
hunt, the girl finds herself deprived
OF her fortune by sister while, add
ing to this calamity. is a call to mill
tary duty that separates her from
her sweetheart Word reaches the
girl that her young lover has been
Arabs, and her every worldly hope
gone. she enters the convent Of the
White Sisters. Her lover was not
killed. but after being held captive
for three years, returns. Calling at
the convent to visit his brother a
scientist, who has been studying VOL
canhc eruption, the young soldier
recognizes his sweetheart among the
nuns.
Henry King, the director in this
production, is said to disclose real
artistry. The cast includes Ronald
Colman, Gail Kane, J. Barney Sherry.
Charles Lane and italian artists of
the highest standing i'll the Italian
theater.
Owing to the unusual length of the
production supplemental features will
Evening star., 1924-05-04
A Woman s Reason.

that distance? The very idea, but IT
never occurs to her to protest against
the same number of steps in the
theater."
But if an actress marries, was
ask she give up her stage
career?
Yes, / think she should" replied
Miss Saki. Marriage is another
thing again If / should marry /
would retire immediately-in fact.
that would be one reason for getting
married. because / wanted to leave
the stage"
Miss SakTs full name is Hatsuk o
Sakakihara. She feels, however, that
Marion Saki expresses her bifurcated
extraction more clearly. She was
born in Sundai, a suburb of Toxic,
and her instruction in the art of
dancing began early.
Miss Saki was four years old when
she left Japan with her parents, but
even at that age she had ma stored
the rudiments and sensed the spell
of Sahara -Sakimo," the cherry
blossom dance, with which Japan
greets the springtime.
So far as is known there is no girl
on the American stage of similar ex-
traction-her mother being Ameri-'
can her father Japanese
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Hollywood GOSSIP
Norman Dawn, in Alaska. Viii Use Crater of Volcano
Epidemic of Title Changing Gives New Names.
George Sydney Replaces Barney Bernard

Windsor, Mary Carr Adolph Meniou.
Robert Ellis and Tully Marshall.
Robert G. Vignoia has arrived from
New York to work at the Metro studio
on special for Metro-Goldwyn release
Lois Wilson has returned to Holly
wood after spending several months In
New York and will soon start work
Fights Alone
Noah Beery for the first time in
anG well trimmed. He has been
working in series of Zane Grey pic
lures which called for a beard and a
tousled head of hair; He must now
for his part in Pola Negri's next pic
ture, Compromised"
First National has purchased the
screen rights to Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle's fantastic story. The Lost
World"
Elinor Glyn, who is in Hollywood
from London, accompa by her
daughter, Lady Williams, will make O.
series of special "Elinor Glyn produc-
tons for Louis 3. Mayer, who will
They will all be from Mrs. Glyn's own
stories.
Ethel Delrs novel, "of Her own
Free Will" has been Helene Chad
wick's final selection for her first in
dependent starring venture
Jesse D. Hampton is undecided
whether his next production of
Rex Beach story shall be "The Bar
rier" or ''The Auction Block" the
screen rights of both Of which he now
owns. Last year Mr.. Hampton pro-
duced 1.-The Spoilers for Goldwyn
release.
Abraham Lehr. for the last six
years vice president in charge of pro-
duction for the Goldwyn Pictures
Corporation, will not be an official of
al ht,r
will become an independent producer
as soon as he can turn over the reins
to Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg
and Harry Rapf. who will be in
companies. Mr.. Lehr will make his
pictures in Hollywood.
Marshall Neilan. directing Blanche
Sweet in Tess of the d'Urbervilles,
has taken his whole company to San
Francisco for exterior scenes and
rural locations. When they return
there will be only a few days photo
graphing necessary to finish the pic
ture.
sReeofl- Finished Abroad.
King yidor has completed the work
of directing the film version of the
Rachel Crothers play, Mary the
Third"
]. Parker Read cables from Paris
that he has completed the filming OF
Rex Beach'S "Recoil." The whole
picture was made abroad, the story
dealing with life in Paris, Deauville
and on the Riviera The cast in
cludes Betty Blythe and Mahlon Ham
ilton. The picture will be a Metro
Goldwyn release.
Rupert Hughes. director. announces
that he has contracted to complete
twenty-five magazine stories, a novel
and a stage play for David Belasco
within the next twelve months.
Meanwhile he will continue to make
pictures from his own stories.
Viola Dana is starting work on
''Wickedness Preferred" an original
for the screen by Garrett Fort.
Katherine MCGUIRE has been given
leading role in 'The Traitor"
western melodrama to be directed by
Edward Laemmle.
Harry Leon Wilson's new novel
"Oh, Doctor" has been purchased for
Universal and will be made in mid
summer.
Copyright. 1924. in United States and Great
Britain by North American Newspaper
Alliance. All rights reserved)
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Producers Awakening.

story that was not as strong
as we thought. 1t seemed to lack
enough entertainment value to rank
it as special" So, what did we do
eve rushed out and hired expen-
sive actors; we put in mobs: we added
a few cabaret scenes; we built elab-
crate sets; we ordered quantities OF
colorful costumes. Until now this
method, in most instances, has work
ed. The public was entertained by
bigness. But the public is tired of il
now. They demand stories.
Book publishers have learned that
they can't sell elaborately bound
books, filled with colorfuI illustra-
tions, unless there is a good story to
back up the binding and the pictures.
We're in the same situation
II believe that every producer sees
the writing on the WALL
Evening star., 1924-05-04

EVER since Henry King, tho photo
play director, announced his plan
to screen F. Marion Crawfords ia
nous novel, "The White Sister," in
Italy, with Miss Lillian Gish in the
title role. screen fans have wondered
just what combination Of circum-
stances brought about the profess
sional separation of Miss Gish and
D. w. Griffith.
For years Lillian Gish had been D.
w. Grifhth's greatest star. 1t was
under the Griffith direction that as
girl in her teens she first appeared
before the camera with her sister
Dorothy, and it was Miss Gish who
was usually the heroine of Griftith's
Birth of a Nation" Hearts of the
Broken Blossoms"
So close had become the profes
sional relationship that screen circles
long since had come to regard the
partnership as permanent, say, as
that Of Belasco and David Warheld.
A big Griffith picture without MISS
Gish in the title role called for gen
eral comment.
Accordingly. when Miss Gish ac-
cepted Henry Kings offer to go to
Italy to do 1.-The White Sister"
whole crop of rumors arose, and IN
some quarters it was limited that Mr.:
Griffith and his famous star had
ouarreled; that Griffith had grown
too temperamental for Miss Gish or
Miss Gish was too unruly for Grtfnth.
Evening star., 1924-05-04

speed, accuracy and clevernesS found
an appreciative spectator in Lonsda1e,
and Denny was made a protege of
the lord.
Nourishing food, relief from worry
and advice from skilled trainers soon
had their effect. Reginald forged his
way to the top of England's long list
of amateur boxers. Unwilling to be-
come a professional boxer, and hav-
ing reached the top of the amateur
ladder, he looked about for another
profession. r
Finally he decided to doff the mitts
and don the makeup, and was tour
ing the world with a theatrical
troupe when war with Germany was
declared, and he hurried back to Lon
don to enlist
For four years he served in the
Royal Flying Corps, and after the
armistice went on the stage, but his
company was stranded, and he
worked his way back to London as
professional pugilist. Employment
was hard to find and he decided to
try his luck in the United States,
where with his dramatic experience
he soon was in demand as a. leading
man.
Denny is regarded as the logical
successor to the late Wally Reid in
portraying roles of athletic. o0Gag-
Ing and alert young manhood.
Evening star., 1924-05-04

IN May, 1928, the Daughters of the
American Revolution addressed a
letter to the motion picture industry,
inQuiring why a film of the revolu-
tionary war had not been undertaken
and suggesting it should not be de-
layed.
Will III. Hays received the letter
and asked D. W. Griffith to undertake e
the work. Before doing SO, Mr.. Grif
fifth made trip to Boston, visiting
all the shrineS of patriotism in that
vicinity. He went to the old North
Church, motored along the ride that
Paul Revere made, crossed the bridge
at Concord, and lay on the bank in
the hot spring sun for more than an
hour directly where "the shot heard
round the world" was fired.
That night he decided to make the
film, not to show in chronological de-
tail the incidents Of the war, but to
portray the spirit of sacrifice which
encouraged the little band of Ame-:-
cans, unframed in war, to defy and
conquer the hosts of the invading
enemy. He believed it would be of
moral value as well as passing en-
tertainment for the American people.
Through Secretary of War John W.
Weeks, Mr.. Griffith received the as
sistance of the United States Army in
arranging the battle scenes. Mai
William c. Rose Of Governors Island
sent the 18th and 18th Infantry, un-
der command OF Capt. George T.
Shank.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
A Vaudeville Hit.

willie, and Miss Beecher, Miss WyIId
hams sister, and Miss Kemble-Cooper
volunteered to go in with them pro-
vided a suitable sketch could be
found.
Howard Lindsay and Elliott Nugent
heard of the music hall ambitions of
the four actors and Immediately be
gan work on Apartment to Let"
The sketch, with its four roles ali
balanced and giving each artist an
equal break, was at once accepted as
an ideal comedy act, was put into
rehearsal and the quartet booked at
the Palace after one week of tryout
time. The teamwork Of the four is
said to be good and the comedy
values of the piece are minted into
laughter with much skill.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Japanese "Fireproof."

THE unique regulations Of the Jap
anese railroads governing the
shipments of motion picture films
have been forcefully impressed upon
William Fox representatives at Toxic
and Kobe, who attempted to express
pictures in fireproof tins.
Official instruction brought with it
the information that all film is to be
shipped in large canvas bags wrapped
in straw. 1.-The Imperial railway
will accept no shipments not encased
in cover of straw was the gist OF
the notice. and there you are. Like
methods introduced into other coun-
tries, especially in Australia America
and Europe, would cause quite 9
furore,
Evening star., 1924-05-04

no actresses always love their pro-
~ fession? Do they find it all that
life calls for?
This was asked of pretty little
Marion Saki, one of the young enter
tainers in the musical comedy, plain
Jane"
The answer to the question is not:
"Yes-we have no bananas" although
Miss Saki's reasons as to why she
loves the stage are not much more ex-
plicit.
"One just loves it-thats ALL" she
says. II don't know why Some
times when things go wrong one
says, I am going to give all this up,
the glamour, the excitement, the
lights, the music-but one never
does.
"I cannot tell you why. but it is
certainly a fascinating life. An ac-
tress will run up and down four or
five flights of stairs to her dressing
room and never murmur. Suppose
that same actress is seeking an
apartment and one is shown her that
is four fights up and no. elevator
will she take it? i should say not
Not on her, young life; walk up all