Motion Picture Classic (1923, 1924, 1926)

Here is how Norma Shearer will look when she appears as a woman lawyer in "The Waning Sex." She got her pointers from visiting a feminine judge's court To play Buffalo Bill you've got to look and ride like him. That's why Jack Hoxie will play the part in "The Last Frontier." His horse, "Scout," is almost an exact counterpart of the one ridden by the noted Westerner Has Her covered that lie had forged about five-hundred-andseventy-five dollars' worth of checks. Naturally, when the Boyds and a friend of theirs saw Joseph on Wilshire Boulevard one day, they stopped to inquire politely what he had done with the' money. Joseph resented it. He whipped out a knife and a razor and attacked the two men, inflicting a few minor cuts. Of course, after all William's fighting experience in the mo\ ies, he got the better of him in the end, and Joseph is now awaiting trial for forgery. Two Bright Scholars Two of Metro-Goldwyn's recent releases have brought good fortune to their players. Francis X. Bushman, Jr., that fine upstanding whole-wheat boy who played 'William Haines' rival in "Brown of Harvard," has been given a five-year contract by Metro as a result of his work in that picture, which will make him a most excellent provider tor his wife and child. Then Bessie Love, who has wandered a little aimlessly among the studios in the past few years, has been recognized for her fine work in "Lovey Mary," in which she out-Pickforded America's Sweetheart. Bessie is now considering long-term contracts with both Cecil De Mi'.le and First National, I hear. Flaming Youth Conquers A nother bit of news is that Clara Bow is to be starred by Paramount. Ever since Clara bobbed impertinently out of the stowaway's barrel in "Down to the Sea in Ships." she has never ceased to make an impression on the industry and on the public — even tho sometimes it has been a most disagreeable one. She has probably suffered more than any other girl on the screen from bad taste in clothes and in make-up, bad roles, and lack of restraint. Yet her flaming personality has triumphed By Elizabeth Greer over all these drawbacks, and she has emerged as a really fine actress. Clara has an earthy quality that is rare among our screen luminaries. She has what in a man would be termed virility — and lately she has displayed another talent — a great comedy sense — which, Paramount realizes, makes her star material. Her latest performance is in "Mantrap." Marital Murmurings Oints drift in from the Coast that Bebe Daniels may succeed Marilyn Miller as Mrs. Jack Pickford. Everyone has known for a long time that Marilyn and Jack could hardly call their marriage one of those ideal ones that the film colony loves to boast of. And before Bebe went away to college to make "The Campus Flirt."' she and Jack were together enough to cause comment. But that doesn't really prove a thing, for Bebe has been commented on so many times, and Jack is quite a beau in his way. Other reports from the marriage marts this month reveal the approaching marriage of William De Mille to his scenarist, Clara Beranger. The wedding will be delayed for a time to allow both the bride and groom to take the necessary precaution of divorcing their current mate>. They have been contemplating this move for some time, and I do hope they'll find it was worth all that trouble. They're Calling It Barbara Worth I maginf. a piece of land about eighty miles long and twenty miles wide, almost as level as a billiard table, covered with light gray dirt with scarcely a blade of grass or other foliage except on the distant mountainthat border this immense plain and you have the desert on which Samuel Goldwyn is filming "The Winning of Barbara Worth." There is not a drop of water anywhere {Continued on page 91) 61