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

CAMERA! "The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry" Page Seven Artists in Springtime and Miss Dupont for One Time B$ RAY H. LEEK This is the season of the year when screen idols, stage players and literary lights sojourning here turn to planting and pruning of fig trees, delving into vineyards and irrigating their orange groves. Visitors at the film capital daily report the conflicting sensations resulting from a glimpse of the romantic Bert Lytell hoeing potatoes, Barbara La Marr shaking a table cloth over a back porch, or Charlie Chaplin in the very serious business of looking into the possibilities of city property. Just now the conversion of a modern Apollo to domesticity is the wonder of those who make up the "seeing-fllmland" tours. For Orville Caldwell, the six-feet-three of muscular activity whom Morris Gest called "a modern reincarnation of Apollo," and whom Elinor Glyn calls "the most physically perfect man of stage or screen," is engaged in the completion of a pretentious foothill home and the setting out of the ever-present shrubbery that is of greater importance than the mere house here. In the semi-privacy of overhanging trees Caldwell's bulk has been glimpsed in the rear of his house in the same abbreviated costume that made him famous as a discus thrower and all-round athlete during his university days at Oakland, a few years ago. And those who have been curious enough to peep between the trees insist that the domesticated Caldwell is just as interesting as the romantic figure in "Mecca" which first attracted the attention of Miss Glyn and several million women who saw him in person or in the widely circulated pictures of the picturesque sultan of the extravaganza. Miss Dupont, she of the economical name but unstinted allurements to the masculine eye, is the latest to sign a B. P. Schulberg contract. Although the present contract is merely for one role — an important one in the Tom Forman Production of "The Broken Wing" — it has been* the occasion for numerous rumors. "Is Miss Dupont called 'the most beautiful blonde in America', often characterized as a 'more vivacious edition of Katlierine MacDonald', being groomed to follow in the footsteps of the retired Katherine?" The youthful producer, however, has failed thus far to enlighten those asking the question. It is known, however, that when he concluded the contract under which Miss MacDonald was starred a few weeks ago, he announced his intention not to make any more "star pictures." He has kept his promise, thus far, by concentrating on productions like "Shadows," "Thorns and Orange Blossoms" and "The Hero," in which all the roles were assigned to players who seemed best to fit the parts. * * * Good news for the boys — those whose ages range from six to sixty. A local statistician has just reported that not fewer than six pirate pictures either are under way or are about to be filmed. Captain Kidd will figure in person, or under some easily recognizable alias, in all of them. Probably the most important of the cutlass crew will be Doug Fairbanks, who is letting his hair grow to the proper piratical length in anticipation of his contribution to the series of maritime thrillers. One way to gauge the activities in picture productions is to watch the transactions in favored players. During the lulls of the summer months the agencies that handle these loans usually report no re(Continued on Page 20) YES, THE irtFMTS ARE IKl THE INDUSTRY WiTrt A VEhlGEft^CE APPOI.O HAS BEEN DOMESTICATED AtfD IS KrWfJ HERE AS OR\Au.E CALDWELL DO0G IS OdE OF THE SI* PRODUCERS MAKING PIRATE PICTURES TOR US BOYS