Pictures and the Picturegoer (Jan-Dec 1925)

JANUARY 1925 Pictxjre s and Pichjre Over 67 MEW York and Milton Sills have taken very kindly to each other. Milt went there to film Interpreter's House, and is staying to make The Making of O'Malley, the story of a New York policeman. Milt says his garden at home will go to rack and ruin but business is business. Mrs. Milt said a whole lot besides that. June Mathis, who was specially engaged to do the script of Rudy Valentino's new story The Scarlet Power, has resigned and is going to prepare the scenario of Sally for Colleen Moore instead. The Scarlet Power was written by Natacha Rambova Valentino, under the pseudonym of " Justres Layne," and the authoress and the scenarist disagreed upon the development. The script went to June Mathis for final revision and adaptation and during the course of this a disagreement occurred, and June Mathis retired. Detty Blythe's next will be Folly of *-* Vanity, a Fox special which Maurice Elvey will direct. Betty scored her first bulls eye at Fox's in The Queen of Sheba. l_Jenry Edwards and Chrissie White shot many scenes for The Man Worth a Million Pounds between stage appearances in " The Man Who Came Home." The film is an ambitious one and Edwards thinks it will take quite a year to complete. Both players find a hearty welcome wherever they appear " in the bulk," as Henry Edwards expressed it in a speech one evening. Their play, which was filmed under the title of The Bargain is good melodrama, and Henry Vibert, who has shared so many of this, clever couple's screen successes, comes in for a goodly portion of applause in the play. They have an excellent villain, too, in the person of Wilfrid Carthness. [ ewis Stone and Alice Terry are to share leading honours in Kings in Exile, which Seastrom is directing. Sounds like a second Zenda, only better, all things considered. LJelene Chadwick had a beautiful Christmas gift sent to her in the shape of a huge vase. Whilst her furniture, etc., was being arranged in her ltew Beverly Hills home, the vase fell from its pedestal, and as it was a big one, inflicted a painful injury on Helene's foot. Of course it got into the papers, and evidently caught the donor's eye, for she received a large bundle from him containing a crutch, and the words : " Just learned what my gift did to your foot. Accept my regrets and this crutch," \Torma Talmadge, Joseph Schenk, * Lola Bara (Theda's sister), Sidney Franklin and Hiram Abrams are in Europe and will not be back home in Hollywood again for three months. ' | lie screen has lost one ot its hardiest villains. For Alan Hale has decided to leave acting alone for a while and is going to direct Shirley Mason in The Scarlet Honeymoon. [ ila Lee is back at Paramount studios again, opposite Tom Meighan in Coming Through. YY/e've heard a whole lot about stars and their good-luck bringers of late. Leon Errol, who plays the "Duke of Checkergivinia" in Sally (he created the role on the stage also) has one in the shape of a pair of shoes. They arc old and disreputable, 'almost on a par with a pair of Chaplins, but Errol wore them in the first role which brought him to his manager's notice. He got a larger part and wore the shoes the first time he played it. The role of the waiter in " Sally " was the third first night on which he'd worn them. So .he brought them to Hollywood and is hoping they will bring him another film engagement. /^"odfrey Tcarle just hates publicity. ^"* That is why very little noise has been made over the fact that he has made a film for Paramount under Sidney Olcott's direction. It is an East Side story Salome of the Tenements by the authoress of Hungry Hearts, and Godfrey plays the role of " Manning," the English millionaire. Jetta Goudal is his leading lady. We're strong for Godfrey as both stage and screen actor.