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Gossip of the Eastern Studios
THE new Long Island studios of llie I'^amous Players-Lasky Corporation are now running in full force. It's a big, model plant, and an ideal creative home for the photoplay.
Motion picture stars are still coming and going abroad. Dorothy Gish has returned with her mother. .She i.s going to rest a while, making a trij) to California before she resumes production. Blanche Sweet recently sailed for Paris. . Herbert Brenon, fresh from interesting activities along the Mediterranean and in Italy, has been visiting in New York. Very possibly he may go back to make a few more pictures. As The Cl.\ssic goes to press, this is still pending.
Some interesting news comes from Realart way. They say that Constance and ['"aire Binney are to appear together, playing the sisters in the new novel, "Christopher and Columbus." By the way; Constance is going to play behind the footlights again, alternating with her screen work. It will be in a Rachel Crothers drama. "Nice People."
The<la Bara returned from an interesting trip abroad and is again on tour in her .stage play, "The Blue Flame." Rumors are current regarding a return to the screen next .summer. Be that as it may, it is an interesting possibility.
Madame Olga Petrova made a flying trip to England on business and returned to open a t w e n t y-w e e k vaudeville tour of the Keith Theaters. This will take her to the middle west.
The remarkable — and even sensational — success of David Wark Grififith's super-picture, "VVay Down East," is the talk of the motion picture world. "Way Down East" is doing an absolute sell-out business at the Forty-fourth Street Theater in New York, and is playing to S. R. O., (Standing Room Only), in Boston and Philadelphia. A Chicago presentation is about to be made.
There is much talk about David Wark Griffith's future plans. The tragic death of Bobbie Harron, of course, upset things a great deal and activities at the Mamaroneck plant ceased for many weeks. Griffith always personally supervises the presentation of his productions in the various cities. Following the launching of the Chicago run, it is likely that he will again turn to production immediately. He has another superproduction in mind, one in which Dick Barthelmess will be featured. After this, Dick is to be starred.
Charlie Chaplin lias been seeing New York very much incng. He dodges interviewers, but cap be occasionally seen at the theater and at evening roof entertainments.
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George Fitzmaurice who once was an art student in Paris, looks over a studio "prop" in the upper picture. In the center, Constance Binney pauses for a cup of tea between scenes of her latest Realart production. Below, Thomas Meighan confers with his father, John A. Meighan