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OUT at Universal City a most exciting and what threatened at first to be a fruitless search for a pair of twins has finally been ended through newspaper methods.
Dorothy Phillips plays a dual role in her latest feature, "The Right to Happiness," and had nee*d of a pair of twin girls to take the part of the Russian sisters when they were children. The casting director made known his needs at every cinema exchange in the city, and though there were plenty of twins to be had, no pair filled the specific requirements, i.e., that they be girls, both dark and foreignlooking, and not older than three years.
Then Ham Beal, head of the Publicity Department, got on the job. He had been in the newspaper game for many years and knew the tricks of the trade. He got the birth records of Los Angeles County for three years ago, went through them systematically for twins of the feminine gender, and sent automobiles out to locate the addresses given. It proved a long and tiresome job. Most of the families had moved away, or else the twins were blondes and thus unavailable. When the twin crop of Los Angeles County had been exhausted, neighboring counties were subjected to the same minute search ; and at last, in Alahambra, the twins were discovered, Rachel and Esther Molene, daughters of Russo-Italian parents, and just three years old.
Now the twins are on the Universal lot, portraying the childhood of Dorothy Phillips, who takes the "grown-up" roles herself, and all is well.
There's nothing like having a newspaper brain, says . Ham Beal.
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T is rumored that Bill Hart and Anne Little are going to collaborate in writing a popular song, with some
such title as "Down Beneath the Sheltering Yucca," or "Carrie, My Cactus Queen."
When the company was on the desert getting locations for "Square Deal Sanderson," Hart got the inspiration for such a song, as he claimed that every kind of wooing had been exploited, from moonlight serenades in Venice to Hula Hula love-making on the beach at Waikiki ; but the possibilities of the yucca, sage brush and cactus have been overlooked.
"The trouble is," objected Anne, "methods of wooing on the desert are so restricted. You can't bask in the shade of the yucca, because it doesn't give a shade; you can't sit down and talk it over on the cushion of a cactus, because it's darn prickly sitting; and if you offered your adored one a bouquet of sage brush, she'd probably send you a healthy rattlesnake in return. Anyhow," Anne finished, "you can't find a word that will rhyme with 'yucca." "
"Oh, yes," replied Bill Hart thoughtfully; "there's 'stuck-a.' "
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MARY MacLAREN'S favorite sport, besides motoring, is playing croquet, and she has a fine lawn set out in front of her dressing-room at Universal, where she can indulge in her whim between hours of working.
Jim Corbett, who makes serials at Universal, also uses Mary's croquet grounds occasionally, but he plays in a way all his own. He insists on handling the mallet handle like a billiard cue, and in putting the balls through the wickets with a reverse English. He's ruining the morale of the place, says Mary MacLaren.
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Pauline Frederick answers her own "fan letters " instead of letting a secretary do it.
The twins who were located after a month's search in Los Angeles for a " special type.'''