Evening star., 1926-11-07
Movie Sidelights

BY the Associated Press
A S property boy Lon CLANCY drew
his histrionic inspiration from
Richard Mansfield, king of tragedians.
| Chaney longed to act, and through a
crack in the door he watched Mans
field make up and apply his dis
guises. Then he would study Mans
| fields manners as the tragedian
strode the boards In Beau Brummel"
| OK skunk in the shadows in Ivan the
| Terrible" From the great actor
Chaney learned to study characters.
trait which he applies in his screen
roles.
Moving pictures In which the actors
| remain motionless but the camera
moves around is a novelty. The
effect is an ''impressionistic" por-
| trayal of the love of the hero and
heroine. played by Ramon Novarro
and Alice Terry The picture of the
two embracing dissolves into series
| of shadowy scenes. all the same pose,
but from different distances and
angles.
Noise tiisturbs Ricardo Cortez while
| he is acting before the camera. After
| days work in a studio where several
pictures are in the making he says
IfC AIIuS II uSdtcuIy " S0t UdCk "
the quiet Of his room.
Give Brook. English actor who por-
trays a playwright in his next pic
ture. confesses that the part is not
foreign to his real life. Brook In the
| author of several short stories pub
| lished in British magazines, and he
also has had several one-act plays
produced in vaudeville.
In Old Mexico she has a heritage of
mansion and hacienda, and is much
the prevailing fashion. But the prin-
cess entered the pictures and became
the pauper- in many leads, notably in
What Price Glory"
THE hardest thing to bear" says
Dolores Del Rio ruefully. "is being
assured that l have never been mis-
cast In rags"
Stored away in the old Biograph
Company's studio in New York, now
| occupied by First National. are all
sorts Of picture-making machines Of
long ago. There are old printers used
when Mary P1ckford was at the
studio during her first picture ex
perience. Then there are old pictures
the one and two reelers. All of these
hold a peculiar fascination for ths
oncoming stars. ~, ~'9 - :.
In Difference to taste several large
motion picture companies have
banned all screen displays Of snakes
mice and rats. The action has
necessitated the revision Of a number
Of photoplays In process Of filming
The edict does not. however. include
fieas. which were employed as actors
by Gloria Swanson in "Fine Man
ners."
Patsy Ruth Miller has introduced
the man-sized handkerchief, in colors
Where does Patsy wear it? Not or
| her sleeve, or even In her front
pocket-but, just to show the new err
! Of masculinity. in neat-cut baci
pocket, just below the left hip of I:
smartly tailored sport skirt.
Thomas Jefferson and J. Farrell
Macdonald met after 20 years sepa
ration. jefferson is a SON of the cele
brated Joseph Jefferson.
Hello. Tom!' said Macdonald
Last time saw you, you were sport
ing cane
"Well. I've outgrown the cane. >
crown. They've got some fine trap
pings in this king business. Mac
I've got turquoise bath
| Jefferson plays the part Of king ir
the Fox production of "Gaby."
Richard Barry had movie luck. A
year ago he sold Universal a novelette,
| which had been published in q maya
zine, entitled THE Big Cum" Uni
versal decided to make a war picture
out Of it. . He was commissioned tc
| write new film story, was able to sci
! the new story to the same magazine
a novel combining the two stories to a
| publisher and the newspaper rights
again to Universal. I1e was taken tc
California to adapt the story, there
| occupied James Montgomery Flagg's
| home free Of cost, after making the
| trip overland behind former chauf
| feur Of d. w. Griffith. who offered tc
drive Barry out for nothing because
he wanted to go there himself.
One of the many queer jobs in the
movies is that Of Jack Little, whose
| duties exceed his name, for he has
been powder expert for IS years or
| feature films. His latest assignment
is with Buster Keaton in making 1.-The
General
Little also had charge of the pow
der detail on THE Big Parade" He
has come within an inch of death or
seven different occasions.
In association with E. Ray
Goetz. Irene Bordoni will be presented
In an adaptation by Ashley Dukes ir
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