Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-19
MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE
BY MoLLIE MERRICK.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf. December 19
| (NANA).-Thev village which yester-
day stood for 1T" fol- extravaganza, for
rash and raucous romance in: plenty.
today appears in new light. It's
younger members, STEPPED IN new WorK
which demands all their time. atten-
ton and nervous energy. leave the
headline making to two aging Romeos
who once we're matinee idols IN the dim
Movie heads wag in smiling wonder
over the ScrapeS of William Farnum
and Maurice Costello, both of the pro-
fessional boards for some time now:
IF they'd been making talkies, there'd
been no time for such nonsense" was
the consensus of hard-driven directors
and actors.
Costello will acquire new son-in-law
in Lowell Sherman, whose engagement
to Daughter Helene is announced. This
new responsibility may cool his zest Tor
romance.
as saying that this is the last mention
/ shall make of Clara Bows engage
mentp It has suffered another sea
change. Harry Richman is leaving
town shortly and announces that the
marriage. which had been planned for
January /, will be put of until April
perhaps April l. Who knows? This
ceremony doesn't seem to move on
schedule.
The favorites of grandma's day were
holding the limelight on one talkie
stage yesterday. There, reading their
lines in voices which attest to the supe-
rior enunciation of the generation
passed, were Fay Templeton. Josephine
Sabel, De Wolf Hopper, Barney Pagan,
Weber and Fields, William Collier, ST.,
and Louis Mann.
Barney Pagan is 80 young. Doug
Fairbanks has no lighter step than this
octogenarian, who faces the camera for
the first time in his long and interest
ing career.
splendid" confided the director. But
YOU should have seen and heard them
at this morning. when they had to be
made up and on the set. They've been
a 12-o'clock breakfast gang all their
long lives. Movie studios interfere bit
with lifelong habits"
De Wolf Hopper, coming through the
studio gate, ran plump into one of the
ex-wives-Hedda Hopper. There was
startled moment. then the gracious
Hedda, dimpled pleasantly and wished
him good-morning and good luck. One
of the trials of frequent marriage. and
divorce is this occasional running across
souvenirs.
When talent Is assembled and time is
short, the talkie show must go on. Thus
it was that one of the men holding the
megaphone on a big talkie feature of
next years schedule had boy at this
elbow to remind him of what he had
just said and done. His favorite sister
was being buried that afternoon, and
the tremendous amount of money in
volved in cast and scene prohibited his
leaving the set.
Now that George Cohan is entering
the village ranks. it is natural to pre-
sumo that red white and blue will blaze
through techni-color scenes and that
Yankee doodles will blazon forth from
the horns.
We now have Pulitzer prize winners,
Sidney Howard and Lc = Bromf1eld.
Beauty prize winners became stale long
ago out this way, but brains are having
their long delayed innings.
Every producer in the business has
tried to coax Cohan out here since that
first day talkie screen began to sing
successfully. But Joseph Schenck has
something persuasive about his bank
roll apparently. He manages to Sue
coed where others fail.
At a recent conference a magnate
opined that three weeks was entirely