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Page Twenty-two "The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry" CAMERA ! Netus from New York Seena Owen is recovering from a fracture of the knee, an injury sustained in riding cn skis while being towed by a swiftly moving aeroplane. The accident occurred during the filming of a thrill for Cosmopolitan's forthcoming release, "Snow-Blind." Raymond McKee and Marguerite Courtot will be married April 4th, in New York City, in the Little Church around the Corner. All Hollywood is invited! Glen Hunter, star of "Merton of the Movies," this week signed a five-year contract with Jesse L. Lasky, to star in Paramount Pictures. Mr. Hunter will make four pictures a year and will have a voice in selecting his director and cast. Mary Astor this week signed a five-year contract to support Glen Hunter. The engagement follows a search of several months for her type. Miss Astor's first picture will be "This Side of Paradise." "The Covered Wagon" had a triumphant opening at the Critei-ion Theatre, March 16th. It really deserves to be called a big picture. While simple in theme, it is of epic simplicity and has the breadth and sweep of human nature in the rough with a background of material nature in all its relentless grandeur. A breathing thing and a faithful reproduction of life of the hardy 49 ers. "The Covered Wagon" is dedicated to the memory of Theodore Roosevelt. He would have loved the picture. Jim Cruze is working at the Paramount Studios w^ith his "all-star" cast of extras, filming "Hollywood." He was present at the premiere of his picture "The Covered Wagon." Pauline Frederick opened March 20th in "The Guilty One," a drama at the Selwyn Theatre. Alice Brady is another star who will "speak for herself," on the stage, after the movies. She will come out as a Charles Frohman star in "Zander the Great." The Motion Picture Directors Association has sent a wire from L. A. asking F. Ray Comstock for permission to produce "Polly Preferred," out there with a cast of movie stars and let Hollywood have a view of this comedy of the film colony in order to get the inside dope about itself on the stage. We understand the cast will include "Doug" and Mary, Charlie and Pola, Norma, and Tommy Meighan. Agnes Ayres came all the way from Hollywood to work and was hit by the "flu." She is doing nicely although still under the care of doctors. . New Yorkers are laughing themselves sick at Charlie Chaplin's "The Pilgrim." Still the censor of Pennsylvania comes forward and makes themselves foolish in the eyes of the world by saying the film cannot be shown in their state. That is a greater laugh than the picture. A body of New York City ministers voted "The Pilgrim" nothing but a pure laugh-getter without vulgarity. Anna Mae Ford D.C., Ph.D. Office Ground Floor G. Henry Ford D.C., Ph. C. CHIROPRACTORS 5911 Hollywood Boulevard 10 to 12—2 to 5 Mon., Wed., Friday Evenings. C to 8 Miss Lois Wilson has been nominated as the candidate of the motion picture industry for New York's good will delegation to France. This delegation will be sent to France by Miss Anne Mor gau's American Committee for Devastated France. Everything in New York is Egyptian, the influence being exerted on civilization by the discovery of King Tut-ankh-amen's tomb. Leading theatrical producers are planning Egyptian shows, designers are making dresses that look like the bottom of the Nile and which give our slim citizens an opportunity to look more like a meridian of longitude, or Cleopatra's needle, and of course Theda Bara, Cleo's tAvin, is looking for a play wherein she may dress as they did 3000 years ago. "Humoresque," the Fanny Hurst play, is at the Vanderbilt Theatre. Laurette Taylor plays the mother and copes with the situation nicely. She has a penetrating sense of humor and wears a make-up that gives her the appearance of nine years older than Adam's wife. The stars acting is one of the unique performances of the age, as far as could be imagined from Peg. Miss Hurst has contrived an excellent first act, and the rest of the play reeks of mostly atmospheric touches, including a dog who takes the place of Peg's Michael. "Down to the Sea in Ships" is causing a sensation at the Cameo Theatre. It is in its fifth week at that theatre and there is no let-up in sight. Mauguerite Courtot and Raymond McKee are the featured players. These are hectic days for Charlie Murray and Raymond McKee. This week they returned from their second trip within the month to Florida, and now they are on their way to Bermuda, their second trip there this winter, on account of the New York snows, 56 inches so far. — Raymond McKee. The chief excitement of the cast now playing in "The Fog" is the fact that Cullen Landis, leading man, has been driven from the house that he had rented in San Mateo by a ghost. It's not a publicity ghost either, but the i-eal thing, and a nice rough ghost, who not only kept the nights noisy, but awakened Cullen with cold fingers, and as a last insult slapped his face. As Cullen didn't relish the role of "He Who Gets Slapped," at least by a ghost, he moved out of the house, and back to the calm of the Plaza Hotel. As production proceeds on "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," starring Lon Chaney, talk is rife in the film city concerning "The Acquittal," the Rita Weiman play which Universal has purchased and which will be cast from the topmost ranks of stars. It will be a production of superlative style. Thomas Edison, in a newspaper interviewon his 76th birthday, declared that Tom Mix was his favorite movie actor. "Do you read anything?" an interviewer asked Richard Dix at the Goldwyn studio the other day. "Anything," replied Dix. 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