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Speaking of Engagements
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JUillian Tashman, that decorative young lady of stage fame, is in Los Angeles as the guest of the parents of Edmund Lowe, well known stage leading man who is playing Don John in In the Palace of the King. I'll bet they're engaged !
Mary on Goldwyn Lot
-ARY Pickford come over to Culver City to pay Abraham Lehr and the Goldwyn lot a little visit the other day. Immediately all the publicity hounds were out with their cameras, and all sorts of rumors ran rife. Now what significance had the visit of Mary?
Did You Know That
_oscoe Arbuckle appears before you in Hollyzvood, the James Cruze production for Lasky? When Angela, the heroine, tries to find work at the casting window of one of the big studios, she turns away hopelessly to give place to a gentleman of generous proportions. The casting director takes one look at that rotund countenance and slams the window shut. Although they do not tell us so, the actor is none other than our own 'Roscoe — more power to him ! Watch for him, you fans who have been hungry for sight of that genial face.
The Motion Picture Exposition
The Motion Picture Exposition, celebrating the Centennial of the Monroe Doctrine, was expected to be an affair that was going to make the San Francisco exposition look like an Elks' minstrel show in Paducah. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the hip, and we regretfully announce that the exposition was more or less of a flop.
The exposition was held on a huge park, very beautiful to look at in the evening, when the colored domes of the buildings gleam under the electric lights. On the opening night, tickets were ten dollars apiece. The visitors paid and paid and paid, and when they got past the eagle-eyed guardians of the gate, they thought at first that all they had purchased was the right to go in and spend more money at the Owl drug
A chic glimpse of Carmelita Geraghty, daughter of the redoubtable Tom Geraghty and now making a name for herself at the Goldwyn studios.
store booth, at Brandstatter's cabaret, and at the other booths scattered around the grounds. But later they found their way to the Coliseum, where a three-ringed circus was going on, punctuated by the exhibition of stars, driven around the' arena in their motors to be stared at by the tourists.
Fred Niblo, the noblest master of ceremonies of them all, announced them. He worked hard, did Fred, that night. In fact, he got a greater amount of applause than any of the stars, especially when he introduced his wife, Enid
Bennett, with the remark, "This is Enid Bennett, and I think she's sweet !" She looked sweet, too.
Last year, under the supervision of Daniel Prohman, the picture people put on an outdoor-performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream which was enormously successful. Never will I forget Charles Ray as Thisbe, nor Viola Dana as a hard-boiled little Puck !
'Although Jackie Coogan prefers his toy motor cars, he was persuaded to try out this bit of rolling stock at the Pasadena Ostrich Farm.