Evening star., 1926-03-21
Filmograms.

has been signed TO write scenarios and
to edit for First National.
1.-THE Lying Truth" an unpublished
play by Ralph Spence. who wrote
"The Gorilla" and "The Sheil< of Flor.
ida," a short story by George +.
Worts, have been purchased for
screen production by First Nationals
West Coast units.
'"The clothes tear are torn before
I tear 'em: the shoes I wear are worn
before I wear EN- sings Colleen
Moore, who is being outfitted with
ragged, secondhand clothes to be-
worn In the sooty part of Ella Gin
ders."
Harry Langdon appears as an IN
FAINT of 6 months, his own son, in
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" his first
feature comedy for First National.
Hal Roach has signed Mabel Nor
| mand for one short comedy In the
series that has exploited Theda Bara,
Lionel Barrymore, Claude Gilling-
water, Ethel Clayton and other nota-
bles. for release by Pathe. Mabel be
gan in the Vitagroph and Biograph
once since then.
Dorothy Phillips, who Is q college
| girl. says other girls have Just as
| much chance in emotional roles a
| college girls. as emoting is not mat
| ter of brains or education.
| The art of advertising, which re
| ceived its big boost in the theater via
the Shubert curtains, may now claim
| Harry Houdini. the handcuff king
| and Edna Wallace Hopper, the eter-
nal fapper, as its leading artists.
Hal Roach's kids, known as "our
Gang" want to give Farina a water
melon party when he returns to
screen work. but they can't find the
waternelons.
| Ben Turpin recently completed a.
the Mack Sennett studio the camera
work on his first comedy for Pathe
| which he has made in many months.
but the news report does not give its
name.
Jean Jarvis, who plays the adven-
turess-smuggler in Casey of the
Coast Guard" had her first prepara-
ton for a melodramatic career In the
San Francisco earthquake and pol
| 1shed up with much experience In
Mexico during its revolutions not so
long ago.
Monte Banks has been signed BY
Pathe to star in a series of feature
fun films to be made on a more pre-
, tenttous scale than any Of his previ-
Gus. comedy sensations and with thrills
galore.
] Cecil B. De Mile is to star Yer.
Reynolds in four pictures, the first
| Delng an adaptation of sunny Du-
crow, which Donald Crisp will direct
Hell and the Way Out" produced
and financed by the League of Ma
tions Non-Partisan Association. was
recently shown In st. Luke's Episco-
pal Church, New York. It's scenario
was written by DIR. James h. Shields.
Universal is to star Laura Ia
Plante in Madee kennedys play, 'Be
ware of Widows"
| Frank Tuttle who directed Gloria
| swanson in "The Untaned LADY,"
was forced to work from "a wheel
chair. due to friendly little wrestling
match with Richard Dix during the
time they were making "The Luck
Devil at Lakewood, n. j., several
weeks before. A badly injured Iec
| resulted.
| Gloria Swanson, who has perform
ed queer stunts in the name Of photo.
| play art, Is said to have gone into
the engine room of q yacht and helped
stoke the furnaces for scene in
The Untamed Lady"
Lila Lee, whose marriage to James
l>ickwood was thought to have closed
her screen career for all time has
been won back to the camera and
appears in Tom Meighan's new
Florida romance, "The New Klon.
dixie" Lila says she is Just as much
enamoured of matrimopy as ever. but
that 1t is nice to get back in harness
| once in a while and hear the old,
familiar war cries of the director.
| Warnings Pennsylvanias, now on
their way East by gradual stages
! after almost year on the Pacific
| Coast, and augmented to q total
strength of Is, but still under the
| conductorship of Fred Warning, with
Tow Warfng as solist and pianist,
will be heard in the near future
at Crandalrs Metropolitan Theater.
where they scored their first Wash
ington hit.