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Screen Gossip
Beatriz Michelena, of the California Motion Picture Corporation, who has been temporarily absent from the photo-play screens of the country, is coming back soon, and stronger than ever. A film adaptation of the opera "Faust" will be the new vehicle in which she will appear, and, naturally the role of Marguerite is the one which will fall to her. Captain Leslie Peacocke, versatile scenario writer, is the author of the working script from which the picture was made.
Hard on the heels of the announcement that Selznick Pictures have taken over the former Biograph studios in New York City — the same plant which George Kleine leased for production of the "Gloria's. Romance" picture featuring Billie Burke, comes the statement that Robert Warwick, for some months a World Film Corporation star, has resigned from that organization to
become the featured personage of the Robert Warwick Film Corporation, which will release its output through Selznick Pictures. Harry Rapf is president of the Robert Warwick Film Corporation, and it was he who arranged with Lewis J. Selznick for an outlet for the new series of productions, as well as for Mr. Warwick to stage his pictures in the newly secured studio mentioned above. Ralph Ince, former Yitagraph director and brother of Thomas H. Ince, is to be Mr. Warwick's director in the new organization. Some great productions ought to result.
The long-awaited "Garden of Allah" production from the Selig studios is at last cut, tinted, and ready for the screens. To those who have been privileged to give this masterpiece the "once over" in the Selig projecting rooms prior to its first public showing the dictionary is all too small to contain adjectives enough with which to describe it. Helen Ware, as the heroine, is seen at her very best, while Thomas Santschi, in the role of Boris, gives one of the most vivid characterizations of his entire career. The tage settings, costuming, and lighting are perfection itself, and the "Garden of Allah."