Camera - April 14, 1923 to February 16, 1924 (April 1923-February 1924)

Page Fourteen Weekly Wake-'Em-Up — CAMERA'S News Section CAMERA ! Wko's Who and What's What in Filmland This Week Eva Novak has completed "Temptation" for the Wilnat Production Company. Michael Dark has completed his role of Lord Balfour in the Charles Brahin production "Six ' Days." Arthur Stuart Hull is finishing his role in the new Clara Kimball Young production tentatively titled "La Iiubia." Lillian Lawrence has completed her role of the mother in the new Vitagraph production starring Alice Calhoun. Ernest Butterworth, Sr., actor and author, has again taken up the pen and joined forces with the Harry Eduiondson unit. Eva Novak's series of articles now published in book form will be off the press in a few days. The title is "Beauty Hints For the Blonde." Nelson McDowell has just completed his role of "Sonora Slim," in the Edwin Carewe production of "The Girl of the Golden West." Taylor Graves has completed "Only 38," under the direction of William de Mille. Others in the cast are Elliott Dexter, May McAvoy, and Lois Wilson. Huntly Gordon is in Catalina making water scenes for the new Lasky production, "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife." Gloria Swanson is starred in this production. Cullen Landis has returned from San Mateo where "The Fog" was made for Metro. The entire production was made "on location" and at the Pacific studios there. "Bull" Montana, Metro's, cave man comedian, led the orchestra on the occasion of the opening of his burlesque, "Rob 'Em Good," at Loew's Warfield Theatre in San Francisco. Ethel Grey Terry is at work on the new Jack Dillon produc tion, "A Self-Made Wife." Miss Terry is playing the title role under the direction of Mr. Dillon at Universal City. Myrtle Stedman is again playing a "modern mother" role in the new Goldwyn production, "Six Days," now in process of production under the direction of Charles Brabin. Carl Gerard has completed his role of the juvenile in the new Cosmopolitan production featuring Anita Stewart. The title is "The Love Piker," and was written by Frank R. Adams. Myrtle Stedman is playing Olive Kingston, mother Corinne Griffith, in the Charles Brabin production, "Six Days," from the pen ol Elinor Glyn. Taylor Graves has completed t he juvenile role in the William De Mille production "Only 38." The production was made in twenty-two working days. Huntly Gordon has returned from Catalina, where water scenes were made for the next Gloria S w a n 8 o n production, "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife." Nelson McDowell, having finished with "The Girl of the Golden West," has gone over to the Universal lot to play a minister for Richard Stanton in his Northwestern production. Harold Shaw, who will direct Viola Dana in Rita Weiman's "Rouged Lips," while in England directed Cyril Maude in the only motion picture in which this famous stage star ever appeared. Lionel Belmore and Lillian Leighton have been added to the cast of "Other Men's Money," under the direction of Richard Thomas, which is in production at the Hollywood Studios. Mae Murray's portable dressing room built especially for her use during the filming of "The French Doll," for Metro, is quite as elaborate and bizarre as some of the dazling settings in this picture. Metro has dispatched "location scouts" to Wyoming to choose the natural settings to be used in the filming of Katharine Newlin Burt's "The Eagle's Feather," under the direction of Edward Slonian. Otis Harlan has been assigned the role of a Chief Eunuch, in the forthcoming Maurice Tourneur production, "The Brass Bottle," now under way at the United Studios for First National release. -Margaret Landis has returned from Truckee, where snow scenes for the new Harry Carey production were made. The title of this new Carey production for Rol.ei tson-Cole is "The Miracle Baby." Fred Huntly, well-known character actor, and Charles Stevens, one of the screen's "dirtiest guys," have been added to the cast of "The White Silence," which Chester M. Franklin is directing for the Warner Brothers. "Main Street" which has just been completed at the Warner The cutting and titling of Brothers studio, is going forward rapidly under the guiding hand of Director Beaumont and film editor Lewis Milestone. James Kirkwood. who is now enacting the leading male role in Mrs. Wallace Reid's antinarcotic film, "Human Wreckage," this week branded the report of his engagement to Lila Lee as "idle gossip." Lincoln Stedman is playing the role of Barth, the office boy, in the Sol Lesser production of "The Meanest Man in the World." This is the screen version of the George M. Cohan production. Lincoln Stedman is busy these days playing the role of the office boy in the Sol Lesser production "The Meanest Man in the World." Eddie Cline is directing this screen version of the George M. Cohan hit. Edwin Moulten, who played important parts in the Universal serial, "The Phantom Fortune" and Roy Stewart's "Blue Blood and Red," is supporting Ann Little in "The Eagle's Talons," Duke Worne's latest serial for Universal. B. P. Fineman has announced the signing of House Peters, sterling dramatic actor, for the leading part in "Don't Many for Money," the production which will mark Mr. Finenian's return to West Coast activities alter an absence in I he East of a year. E. de B. Newman and Kobert Thornbury of the Courtland Productions are filming "The Man from Ten Strike," a Guy Bates Post special, on the Thomas H. Ince lot. The story was written by James Oliver Curwood. Fred Myton arranged the scenario. Not only does Viola Dana have to perfect herself in some difficult chorus steps for her new Metro picture, but she must also learn the Highland Fling and the Irish reel for "Rouged Lips," Rita Weiman's story of the stage which will be the first of her new Metro starring pictures. Burnell Manly, who Seenarized "Women Wake Up" for King Vidor, adapted Daniel Frederick Whitcomb's original screen story, "Other Men's Money," for Richard Thomas, which the latter is directing at the Hollywood Studios. Like the other Thomas features, "Other Men's Money" will be 1 published in six-parts. Three of the costumes that Lewis Stone wears in his portrayal of the Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr in Rex Ingram's production of "Scaramouche," weigh 30 pounds apiece and are typical of the sartorial accouterments of a French' Nobleman in the Eighteenth century. George O'Hara completed this week a thrilling fight faction in "The End of a Perfect Fray," tenth in the Witwer "Fighting Blood" series, his adversary being Morry Lux, noted ring veteran. The new vehicle has some delightful home scenes, comedy touches and the usual charming romance. Mai St. Clair directs. Joe Butterworth, brother of the well-known juvenile, Ernest Butterworth, has been engaged by the J. K. McDonald company at Hollywood Studios. He is playing the part of Sam in the First National attraction, "Penrod and Sam," while Ben Alexander enacts the role of Penrod. Harold Lloyd has purchased the site of the old Pass school, located at Sunset Boulevard and Gordon Street for a price of $55,000. In contradiction to circulated reports, the property was purchased as an investment, and will not be the location for a new studio to house future Lloyd activities. Madeline Hurlock, leading lady to Ben Turpin in Mack Sennett comedies, was granted a divorce from her husband, John Sterling, on the grounds of cruelty and desertion. Miss Hurlock termed her husband a "love pirate," and declared he had married Florence Wright of New York, under the pretense that he had been divorced. Senorita Marina Vega, the Mexican girl who attempted suicide recently at the home of Charlie Chaplin, will be returned to Mexico City by officials of the county charities, under whose observation she has been since her arrest, when information was received from Mexico to the effect that sensational attempts at suicide were an obsession with her. Cinema stars will play a big part in staging the "Charity Circus," which will be held at Praeger Park, May 4 to 13 inclusive. Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Ray and Tom Mix will act as aides to Capt. George K. Home. Marian Fairfax and Mrs. Cecil B. DeMille will have charge of the presenting of the "King Tut Harem," in which many of filmdom's most prominent and beautiful ingenues will appear. Mrs. Charles Ray has been assigned the position of supervising balloon sales at the circus.