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Screen Gossip
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Mayer and others were named as defendants with her, and Vitagraph alleged that it was suing solely to protect its own interests and to test a star's contractural obligations to a producer. Justice Mullen, of the New York supreme court, granted Vitagraph a temporary restraining order, and in April of this year Miss Stewart was ordered to finish her contract with Vitagraph before entering into any other arrangements. Miss Stewart only had been at work a few days under the direction of Wilfred North when she was injured in an automobile accident. The loss of time thus caused made it well-nigh impossible for Vitagraph to hope to complete the feature starring Miss Stewart, as her contract had only to September 3d to run. Accordingly, Mr. Mayer and the Vitagraph attorneys had a conference, and when it was all over Miss Stewart was again a free agent, and Vitagraph accepted the payment of a certain sum of money to cancel its contract with the little star at that date. Miss Stewart's first picture under the new management is to be "Virtuous Wives."
Anita King, who has been seen in many productions of note from various producing organizations in the past, is back again on the screen as the star of the first of the new Plaza pictures, "Petticoats and Politics," which are being distributed by the W. W. Hodkinson Corporation, which also marketed the Paralta subjects. Her second Plaza offering will be entitled "Whatever the Cost," and is from the pen of Captain Leslie Peacocke, scenario writer of
Anita King is to star in the new Plaza productions.
note. Miss King, having successfully screened the first two of her Plaza productions, is now at work on her third release, the title of which will soon be announced.
"Bill" Hart is one star who will certainly never fall in love with his leading woman. He doesn't have time, for he changes them so frequently. Since he started his own company, Bill has had six different leading ladies — all of them pretty — all of them talented — but none of whom lasted over two or three pictures. Wanda Hawley, whom you saw in the Famous Players-Lasky subjects, "Old Wives for New" and "We Can't Have Everything," is the sixth of the ladies to support Hart, and you will see her opposite him in "The Border Wireless," his latest Western subject — a war story without any battle scenes. Incidentally, let it be here recorded that the reason for Hart's many changes in leading ladies lies solely in the fact that Bill insists that his feminine lead fit exactly the character which she is to interpret ■ — and since his stories differ so widely in character, he naturally has to use several leading women.
House Peters, who has been absent from the screen for a long period, is back once more. Perhaps you have already seen him in the film version of Ridgewell Cullum's story, "The Forfeit," in which he appears with Jane Miller, Hector V. Sarno, and a strongcast. This is the first offering of Sunset Pictures, a brand-new film-producing organization, of which Frank