Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1920)

PnOKlPr.AY iNI VC.AZIXE — Al)\ Kit I I.SIN(. Sl-;( TION in Plays and Players ( Continued J ETHEL BARRYMORE will do 'Declasse" for the screen. Paramount Artcraft, which was to have presented all three Barrymores in a screen version of "Peter Ibbetson" will present, sometime in the future, this individual success of Miss Barrymore's latest season. Reasons for dropping the "Peter Ibbetson" plans have been given by Mr. Lasky. He says he thinks the public wouldn't be much interested in seeing a brother and sister in sentimental sequences on the screen. So when this play is finally produced, it probably will contain only one Barrymore — John. HERE is hard news, so prepare yourself for a blow. William S. Hart says he is going to leave the screen for good and all. Five more pictures and then all is over between him and the public. After that, it's the lone trail. Hart was badly injured in IMay when he was thrown from his horse while riding at breakneck speed past the camera. He broke several ribs and was considerably shaken up, but is reported to be convalescing rapidly. Al H. Woods tried to capture Hart for a stage production. Mr. Woods has been making so much money with Theda Bara"s play that he has decided to go in for screen stars with the same intensity with which he cultivated bedroom larces. Mabel Xorniand is also mentioned as another Woods possibility and so is June Elvidge. It is ;aid that Mr. Woods has gone a-gunning in the studic ind has succeeded in interesting several celebrities in stage contracts. ALL who know her will testify that Alice Joyce is probably the most crowd shy star in motion pictures. She was in New Orleans on location recently, stopping at the leading hotel of the city. Her arrival was heralded in advance and she was a constant subject of newspaper comment and compliment. The result was that she was stampeded by fans, and the rush became so great one day that she had to ask the management of the hotel for a guard. Mothers with children who were certain to be great picture stars waylaid Miss Joyce in the lobby, they waited by her car and they even got past the sharp-eyed clerks and arrived unannounced, at Miss Joyce's door. One of these, a be-diamonded lady, became very indignant when Alis.Joyce's maid informed her that the star was dressing and could not receive visitors. "I do not see why," snapped the woman "Miss Joyce is a public character and public characters are public property.'' Exit lady, angrily, and Alice learned something new about the law of possession. DORIS KE.AXE, statuesque star of "Romance''— more than 2,000 of them — is an ardent fan of Mary Pickford. An English cinema manager likes to tell how Doris came into his office about four years ago when she had just arrived in London to play in her great success. "I want to know where I can see Mary Pickford's pictures," she said. The manager found his schedule and told her where she could go. 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