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Evening star., 1925-06-14
Grave or Gay, as You Like It.

1.-THE BEST PEOPLE,. at first a
magazine story written by David
Grayson, was so well received that
the author decided to turn it into a
play. He did so and it was produced
under the title of Goodness Knows
In it's first presentation it was de-
signed to be serious drama, and it
discussed the problem-very frankly
too-of the troubles of parents in
bringing up their children in the
way they should go. While it was
well received in this form. the pro-
ducers decided il wasn't quite right,
so they called in Avery Hopwood as
gagmaster and had him do the doc
toring.
Hopwood saw the story from an
entirely different angle and made
comedy of it, almost a farce, and 1t
was rechristened "The Best People" !"
Sent into Chicago on three days no
tice, the house was sold out the first
week and the play remained in the
metropolis of wind and speed for 20
weeks-a run which was duplicated
in New York
Early in the season just ended the
piece was brought into New York and
again there was an effort to recon-
vert it into a serious play. The Chi
cago run and the opposition of Hop
wood did not deter the owners from
making the attempt, but it was found
to be no good and the cast was in
structed to play IT exactly as they had
done in Chicago. 1t was seen here
under the direction of the Charles
Frohman interests this past season
and was played then as IL was in
tended to be played-as a comedy
1t seems needless to state that that
is the way Clifford Brooke Is direct
ing the National Players to present IT..
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THE titles of attractions announced
on the new seasons program of
the Warner Brothers. with the au-
thors and featured players, are as
follow:
The Limited Mail" Elmer E.
Vance, with Monte Blue; The Wife
Who Wasn't Wanted" Gertrude
Wentworth James, with Irene Rlch;
"Bobbed Hair," 20 famous authors,
with Marie Provost and Kenneth
Harlan: Three Weeks In Paris,
Gregory Rogers. with Matt Moore ana
Dorothy Devore: Below the Line,
Charles A. Logue. with Rln-Tln-i I'M
Satan in Sables,' Bradley King
with Lowell Sherman; THE Man on
the Box" Harold McGrath, with Syd
Chaplin: Rose of the World" kath-
leen Norris. with Patsy Ruth Miller
"Hogan's Alley" with Kenneth Harlan
and Patsy Ruth Miller; two Ernst
Lubitsch productions: Red Hot
Tires" Gregory Rogers. with Monte
Blue: "The Pleasure Buyers Arthur
Somers Roche, with Irene Rich;
Wanted BY the Police" with Marie
Provost; His Majesty Bunker Bean,
Harry Leon Wilson, with Matt Moore
and Dorothy Devore: THE Clash OF
the Wolves" Charles A. Logue, with
Rin-Tin-T1n; The Love Toy" anony.
nous, with Lowell Sherman.
THE Social Highwayman, eliza
beth Phillips Traine. and one other
picture, with John Barrymore; The
Fighting Edge" William Mcleod
Raine. with Kenneth Harlan and Pat
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Warner Bros. New Season.

sy Ruth Miller: THE Golden Cocoon, :
Ruth Cross, with Helene Chadwick;
1.-THE White Chief" Bess Meredyth,
with Monte Blue: THE Third De.
gree" Charles Klein; Compromise,
Jaw Gelzer, with Irene Rich; why
Girls Go Back Home" Catherine
Brody, with Marie Provost: THE In
evitable Millionaires," Z. Phillips OPP
penheim, with Matt Moore and Dor.
othy Devere: 1.-The Fighting Chance"
Temporary title). James Oliver Cur
wood. with Rin-TinTin; THE College
Widow" from the novel by Frank r;
Howe, with sgd Chaplin; wild
Youth" Sir Gilbert Parker, with Ken
meth Harlan and Patsy Ruth Miller;
Hell Bent for Heaven" Hatcher
Hughes, with Monte Blue; THE Ven
geance of Durand," Rex Beach, with
Irene Rich; THE Gay Ones Charles
Hanson Towne. with Marie Provost.
1.-The Honeymoon Express" Joseph
w Herbert and Harold Atteridge; a
snow picture, with Rin-Tin-Tin; The
Cave Man." Gelett Burgess, with Ken
meth Harlan and Patsy Ruth Miller;
THE Barrier That Was Burned" Rex
Beach. with Monte Blue; "Silken
Shackles," Charles X. Harris, with
Irene Rich THE Passionate Quest,
E. Phillips Oppenheim, with Marie
Provost: "The Sap" William A. Grew,
with Matt Moore and Dorothy De-
wore; 1.-The Priceless Pearl" Alice
Duer Miller, with Kenneth Harlan
and Patsy Ruth Miller; Broken
Hearts of Hollywood" Gregory Rogers.
Rogers
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Best Pictures.

D EGULARLY once a year the film
~ dailies and magazines send out in
quiries to the four corners of peace
ful country seeking to ascertain the
10 best pictures And soon after
the dramatic critic of the crossroads
vies with the real thing of the me-
tropolis in guessing the answer. SO
often, so very often, even the best of
them disagree.
Now the directors are undertaking
to settle the vexed question of what
is their best picture. And Film Daily,
the photoplay Bradstreet, gives them
leave TO print. Here is what they
think:
Herbert Brenoh, Peter Pan; Rob
ert u. Leonard Peacock Alley:
Monta Bell, Pretty Ladies'; Victor
Seastrom. 'Eyvind of the Hills" made
in Sweden in 1917; Fred Niblo, Ben
Hur"; John NJ. Stahl. THE Dangerous
Age; Hobart Henley, THE Gay Old
Dog; John L. McCutcheen, THE Law
and the Lady; John S. Robertson
Sentimental Tommy; Whitman Ben
nett, The Iron Trail: King Vidor,
THE Big Parade; Dimitri Buchowet-
Xxi, "Graustark" ALI Goulding, "Ex-
cuse Me-; Frank P. Donovan, "Silas
Mariner; John Ford, THE Iron
Horse; Kenneth Webb, 1.-The One 1
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Ain t Coin to Close No Mo

The Earle Theater, it is announced,
is not going to close.
When this magnificent theater was
opened the keys were turned over
to the night watchman, it is said,
with instructions that the locks be
so adjusted that the keys would work
only at night.
A little thing like competition from
its own roof, where motion pictures
are now being presented. is not going
to change all of this. Should a regu-
lar patron of the theater proper fail
for just once to attend the vaudeville
and motion picture program below The
roof, the management hopes to get"
the roof.
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NATIONAL-"The Whole Towns
Talking"

With their ear close to the ground
TO catch the popular drift, the man
agement of the National Theater
Players, for next week, have shifted
their original plans and will present
THE Whole Towns Talking" a big
farce comedy success in New York
last season, which is said to be G.
sparkling, frothy delight in situations
and dialogue.
It concerns a philandering middle
aged gentleman who seeks to hide one
of his gay episodes from a doting but
suspicious wife, while his partner is
sprucing up to represent himself as
"a gay dog in order to interest the
daughter of the middle-aged party
sufficiently to marry him, With the
basic foundation resting on these
facts the plot thickens, widens and
rounds out into rolliclling farce that
involves a movie vamp and jealous
fianCee.
Minor Watson and Leneta Lane will
have the support of the other players
Of the brilliant little company at the
National Theater, which, under its
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Lower Prices Unlikely

THE splendid character of the stock
entertainment now being offered
al the National Theater and the an
nounCement of "A new season try-out
of "The Butter and Egg Man" at the
Shubert Bella SEQ, with big cut in the
price for seats suggested the inquiry
as to whether this indicated a dispo
sition to bring theater prices down for
the coming season.
Manager l.. Stoddard Taylor of the
Shubert Belasco thinks not.
The reduction of the Summer sea
son, Mr.. Taylor explains, is due to
the fact that at this time of the year
II is possible to secure some of the
best professional talent at far less
than must be paid them during the
regular season. In the Winter 1t
would he impossible to do this.
AS to The Butter and Egg Man,
he says. We probably shall not make
q farthing in actual profit, even with
good business, unless 1t be very
exceptional. The play is presented
now in order that those interested
may learn in advance whether or not
they have a play ready for metropolis
tan production, If defects be ascer-
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Beauty and Humor

mud you want in any self-respecting
back yard?
1.-The hands should be given careful
treatment because it is said that a
woman's hands are first to tell her
age. Dish water is wonderful soft
ener for the hands. The grease makes
the use of creams unnecessary and
the exercise gives them grace and
suppleness.
''Of course. diet Is the only thing
that can really help you 10 regain
your girlish lines. SO many people
complain about dieting, but l have
discovered a wonderful way of doing
it-you won't mind 1t at all. Eat five
pounds of chocolates at one sitting.
You'll never eat another as long as
you live.
IF men refuse to stare at you
when you walk along the streets un-
leashed. just stick your tongue out at
them. They'll look at you just as long
you are in sight.
You don't have to be beautiful to
be stared atr'
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Another Def. "

Warner Bros. are about To start
building in Hollywood the finest first
run theater in the world, at cost
of 81 500 900. 1t is planned to make
il one of the show places of the Wes.
Coast, as another blow for 'inde-
pendence.
Harry NJ. Warner states that the
Hollywood house is only the first of
their theaters planned in big cities
where they have been unable TO OBJ
tain a show for their product Be
fore they are through, he stated, they
intend to lease or build theaters IN
all big cities where first runs are now
denied them.
Evening star., 1925-06-14
Colonial Beach.

The steamer st. Johns is now max
ing the 40mile moonlight trips down
the Potomac every evening excepting
Saturday and Sunday, leaving the
Seventh street wharf at 715 and
returning to the city about / O'Clock
A popular feature is free dancing on
the deck to music furnished by the
Sokolov'S Jazz Orchestra.
A special attraction in the nature of
a vaudeville act will be presented on
the dance deck on the Sunday morn
ing trip, and again on the return trip
Sunday night. as we'll as on the 40
mile trip tomorrow night. II is
called The Four Horsemen" in Some
Syncopated Stepping" by Mulroc
kuehling, Rafferty, and Bishop.
Saturday the St. Johns leaves At
2:30 pm. for trip to Colonial Bea ch.
returning the same night and leaving
again Sunday morning at 2 O'Clock
Stops are made at Alexandria every
trip.
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tanned now. they can he corrected be-
fore the Autumn. These tryouts give
the producer a chance to test his
wares in advance, and often New
York managers will come to see them
with a view to their engagement for
their own theaters later on. Wash
ington. he says. happens to be an in
tellectual, critical center. Ii a play
gets over here, it argues well for It's
future.
Il do not see how good play can
be presented in the regular season at
less than the $3.50 scale. nor big
spectacles and musical productions
unless very much more is charged
The mechanical operation of the stage
costs great deal of money. Fifty
thousand dollars can easily be spent
long before first-night audience can
see the play.
'If the theater could he assured of
selling its entire seating capacity at
every performance, a reduction In
price scale might be among the pos
sibilities: but certainly not now, II
those interested in production and ex
hibition are to receive only a. fair re-
turn for their outlay"
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Outdoor Attractions.

the steamer Charles Manchester, has
shady picnic groves with Fairgrounds.
sand boxes for kiddies, free dancing
in the pavilion to music by McWil-
liams Orchestra, aeroplane swings and
roller coaster, a carrousel and joy
josher, bowling alleys, shooting gal
lery and other features.
The steamer Charles Manchester
makes three trips daily, leaving the
Seventh street wharf at 10 am. 2:30
and 6:45 pm, and on the 10 am. and
2:3O pm. trips stops are made at
Mount Vernon,
Evening star., 1925-06-14
Leon Errol' s Annals.
7 con Erroi's experience has been
nniuQe

7 con Erroi's experience has been
unique.
Born in Sydney. Australia, he start
ed life with he idea of becoming a
surgeon He attended the University
oe Sydney School of Medicine and
Surgery. but his natural instincts for
clowning predeninated, and he he
came a different sort of "cut up than
he had planned.
\ quarrel with college professor
resulted in his drifting away from
school to the stage. Comic portray
ais of none too sober men were his
first roles. and they have stuck.
In those days the standard make,
up for a comedian was brilliant red
nose baggy trousers and slip-shod
red tie In a college operetta which
he wrote he adopted this makeup
with great success. His mother wept
at the performance, and believing he
had disgraced the family, he went
home humby prepared to renounce
Evening star., 1925-06-14
HOTEL. WASHINGTON ROOF.

High in the air and overlooking the
night lights of Washington, the newly
opened Hotel Washington Roof Gar
den will welcome pleasure seekers and
dancers, starting Wednesday eve
ming, with Brooke Johns, feature of
the Follies and of musical comedy.
with his own orchestra of Oklahoma
Collegians, an octet of versatile and
accomplished musicians with an in
strumental outfit of 35 pieces.
Following his brief engagement
here. it is announced, Mr.. Johns will
leave for Europe to succeed Ted Lewis
as purveyor of mirthful melody at
the world famous Kit Kat Club of
London. Every member of his orches-
ira is said to be an Oklahoman and
all are college bred men.
Evening star., 1925-06-14

the stage. Then he learned that his
mothers tears were those of laughter,
He came TO America, and his stick,
spats and cut of clothes made him
an object of derision in the streets
of San Francisco. His English &C
cent made it hard for him to get
theatrical employment.
His first work was in a beer garden
in Frisco. The manager thought his
street clothes we're a character make
up. and he went ''as was" He sang
coster songs and was pelted with pea
nuts. He tried dancing. The crowd
liked II. TIE management told him
to dance, not sing, He did.
John Cort, the theatrical manager,
discovered him. He played stock In
Salt Lake City. He tried writing,
producing and acting his own pieces.
He drifted to New York in burlesque,
and there F'lorenz Ziegfeld saw and
grabbed him.
And now the movies have worked
their spell over him.
Evening star., 1925-06-14

T OITISE FAZENDA, one of the pop
ular screen players, who, by the
way, has an important role In "A
Broadway Butterfly is essaying to
be humorist Here is recent ef-
fort:
After all. beauty is only skin deep
deep enough, I'll say, so we'll begin
there.
Some people think there is no
remedy for wrinkles, but there is.
Heat curling iron and apply 1t to
the wrinkles. After a few weeks,
when the burn has healed, you will
find that the new skin is as smooth
and white as an infants.
Why pay huge sums of money for
mud packs when you can get all the
Evening star., 1925-06-14
lie PARADIS ROOF AND
CHATEAU.

The lie Paradis town and country
amusement ensemble includes the pop
ular lie Paradis Roof Garden and the
charming Chateau LIE Paradis at Am
mendale, Md, with its Partisan atmos-
phere.
The La Paradis Roof Garden Band is
led by Harry Albert, one of the clev-
crest of the Meyer Davis leaders. while
the Meyer Davis Tent Band, led by
Nathan Brusiloff. is the featured at
traction at the Chateau lie Paradis.
Director Brusiloff is a master of mod
ern dance music, with its rhythm and
gayety.
Both the Chateau lie Paradis and
the LIE Paradis Roof are under the su-
pervision of Robert kehl.
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CHEVY CHASE LAKE.

A surprise feast of jazz is promised
Chevy Chase Lake patrons by Pete
Macias and his own band on the upper
pavilion of the popular dance resort
Director Macias ranks among the no.
table dance orchestra leader in Wash
ington and in many respects as a real
musical prodigy. He plays entirely
by ear.
Ben Levin. banjoist and comedian,
favorite Lake feature, specializeS
in the type of comedy jazz that is
preferred by the younger generation.
The Lake is a charming resort and
is attracting heavy patronage. Verd-
ant woods and the mirror-like lake.
with thousands of electric lights fes-
tooned around. make a picturesque
setting for dancers and those who pre-
fer only to watch them. Bowling ia
cilities also are available.
Evening star., 1925-06-14
CHESAPEAKE BEACH.

Chesapeake Beach, the Maryland
bay resort just an hours ride from
Washington, boasts a mile boardwalk
and scores of varied amusements built
over the bay and at night the beau
tiful reflection of d myriad vari-cel-
ored electric lights in the water. Picnic
grounds. shady and verdant, are on a
prominence commanding fine view
of the broad bay.
Bathing is one of the big attrac
tons. with d sandy beach that has a
gradual slope with no step-offs. The
entire bathing area is inclosed in a
wire net. Music is furnished by Austin
G.. Gettings' Dagmoir Orchestra.
The beach is open daily, with special
train service on Saturdays and Sun
days
Evening star., 1925-06-14
Glen Echo Park.

Glen Echo Park, Washington free
admission amusement park, is reached
by a trolley trip along the Potomac
or by motor via Conduit road. The
new ballroom is the mecca for dancers
on week nights, from $50 to 1870.
with Happy Walkers The Golden
Pheasants" Band furnishing the mu-
sic
Other attractions include the froliC.
the big dips, the derby races, ginger
snap whip. caTrousel, old mill big mid
way and penny arcade with over 100
machines. For all-day outings, SHADY
picnic groves are available, with tables
and benches, summer houses and run
ming spring water
Evening star., 1925-06-14

Am Going to Make Next: George
Beban, THE Sign of the Rose; Tom
Terriss, His Buddy's Wife,: William
Haddock, Paid in Full: Robert
E'laherty, .'Moana of the South Seas;
Carlyle Ellis, We'll Born; Charles NJ.
Seay. "Timothy's Quest; Ray G..
Smallwood, Camille; Elmer Clifton,
Down to the Sea in Ships: Tod
Browning, THE Unholy Three; Ben
iamin Christensen, The Witch;
Romaine Fielding, For the Freedom
of the World: John S. Lopez, 1.-The
DEVILS Confession: Chester Franklin.
THE Song of Love-: Sidney Franklin,
'sSmilin' Through; John Levering,
'"The Victim," and Edwin l.. Holly
wood, Columbus, the first of the
Chronicles of America series made for
Yale University
There are some of the great di-
rectors missing from this list, but
compare 1t with the many guesses of
''the 10 best pictures" according 10
the Judgment of the motion picture
scribes.
"The Family Falling" play by FL
freda and Clarence Derwent, was of
fered at the Princess Theater, New
York, last week. 1t has been produced
Evening star., 1925-06-14
Beauty in a Bunch.

Joseph NJ. SCHENCK has an
> nounced the signing of the 40
most beautiful extra girls in Holly
wood, which Fanchon, the noted bal
let master, will undertake to teach
the intricacies of theatrical dance
steps, and to write. rehearse and stage
an 1S-scene revue with the extra girls
as actresses, as feature of Constance
Talmadge's new picture, Her Sister
~
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Earl Carroll" -"Vanities.

DEARL EATON, sister of Mary
Eaton: Marjorie Peterson, re-
Gently of the Greenwich Village Fol-
lies; Helen Ward, speciality dancer
from the Parody Club, and the Cardell
twins. Edith and Marion, are recent
additions to the new Earl Carroll
Vanities" formerly called Who
Cares?'D which opens at the Earl Car
roll Theater. New York, June %.
Julius Tannen. popular Chatter
box" from vaudeville, will act as mas
ter of ceremonies throughout the
action of the new show, which has
been announced as a combination of
revue and cabaret, with much of the
action taking place from the audi
ence.
Evening star., 1925-06-14

THE Emperor Jones" with The
Rope" as a curtain raiser, will be pro-
duced in London in the Fall by II. M.
Harwood and Sir Alfred Butt. James
Light of the Provincetown Players
will be the director.
Evening star., 1925-06-14

Ann Harding will play the leading
role In "The School Mistress, to be
produced by Henry w. Savage. She
will leave the cast of THE Green Hat
for that purpose, by arrangement with
A. FL Woods
Evening star., 1925-06-14

The name of the new revue about
to be produced by Mulligan. Fischer &
Treb4tsch has been changed to "kom-
les of 1926"
Evening star., 1925-06-14

The Shanghai Gesture by John
Cotton, is announced for Fall produc.
ton by Sam Harris, with Mrs. Leslie
Carter in the leading role.
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Coming Attractions

capable director, is providing Wash
ington playgoers with theatrical de-
lights that defy even the weather.
Evening star., 1925-06-14
KEITH'S-Ina Claire.

II o-knd SfdHt.
Ina Claire. who played most of last
season in Grounds for Divorce" will
headline the bill at b. F.. keiths
Theater next week in a comedy play
let by Gene Markey entitled, Right
You Are!'
Featured for the week will be Mr..
and Mrs. Cleveland Bronner, in a
resume of their most successful ef-
forts in Broadway productions which
they call Memories"
Earle-King Neptune Bathing Girls.
For next week the Earle Theater is
the original King Neptune
of the Atlantic City pageant of 1928
"a, with bevy of bathing girls, also
Ben Welsh, blind comedian assisted
by Frank +. Murphy, with other usual
features.
The photoplay will be Paramount's
School for Wives" with Conway
Tearle featured. This will be its first
showing in Washington.
Evening star., 1925-06-14

e. X. Nadel, the producer, announces
"Smithereens of 1926" an intimate
revue; Sweet Adeline, " a musical
comedy; Maybe She Would" farce,
and Gross Currents" a comedy
drama. all by Paul Gerard Smith, for
Fall production
Evening star., 1925-06-14

FEAR by Owen Davis, will have
try-out tour at Hampstead,
Long Island, tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1925-06-14

'Tsu Tsan,. or the Bridge of Dis
tance," is announced for production
on October by the international Play
house, Inc, as it's first offering of the
new season. 1.-The subway" by Elmer
Rice will be the second
Evening star., 1925-06-14

When Ferenc Molnar's play, The
Tale of the Wolf" which once was
THE Phantom Rival" returns TO
Broadway, Phyllis Povah will have the
leading feminine role, and Wallace
Eddinger and Roland Young the prin-
cipal male parts.
Evening star., 1925-06-14

Mabel Norman will appear on
Broadway next sea son as a dramatic
actress. according to word from Los
Angeles. She has signed Il five-year
contract with A. IT. Woods. Her first
play will be The Five O'Clock Man"
to open in New York August "a
Evening star., 1925-06-14
Marshall Hall.

Marshall Hall, the pleasure resort
located on the Potomac, reached by
Evening star., 1925-06-14

Four plays will be produced in Prov
incetown. Mass, by the Wharf Play
ers this Summer. under the direction
of Helen Ware and Frederick Burt.
Evening star., 1925-06-14

Antoinette Perry, who achieved
personal success in The Ounce Boy"
and George Riddell will have impor-
tant roles in the production of En-
gagged" by the Stagers in New York.
Evening star., 1925-06-14

Nina Gordoni. Il young lyric So
prano, who recently arrived in New
York from Europe, has been signed to
three-year contract by the Shuberts.
She goes in new musical comedy to
be produced this Fall.
Evening star., 1925-06-14

"Laf That Off" which opened in
Atlantic City last week, goes into New
York tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1925-06-14

George White has perfected ar
rangements for the erection in Miami,
Fla, of a theater and Office building to
cost $500, 900.
Evening star., 1925-06-14

Gabrielle Ravince, the young French
actress who came to this country to
appeas' in the original production of
"Pierrot the Prodigal," died last week
at Saranac Lake. She was the wife
of George Renavent, an actor.
Evening star., 1925-06-14

John Meehan, formerly general stage
director for George NJ Cohan, has
sailed for London TO supervise prepa
rations for the production there of
THE Gorilla -
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Ruth Chatterton is rehearsing in
New York in new play entitled 'The
Man With Load Of Mischief" 1t
will be tried out in Newark before
being seen in New York The author
is Ashley Dukes. Ralph Forbes, Nc
Kay Norris and Bertha Mann are in
the cast.
Evening star., 1925-06-14

Gilda Gray, dancer, who created
something of a sensation by her work
with the "F'ollies," has signed a con-
tract to star in Paramount Pictures,
according to Jesse L. Lasky. Miss
Gray will start her screen career i'm a
story written by Robert f. Sherwood
and Bertram Block