Motion Picture Classic (May 1921 - Dec 1927)

The Hollywood Boulevardier Chats ( Continued from page 62) Betty Compson is to play a half-caste Hawaiian girl in her picture, “The White Flower,” for the making of which she is on her w’ay to the islands. In the story she is torn between two lovers, a native and an American. Every time a picture appears in which the villain is an Italian, Rome literally howls ; when the villain is topped by a sombrero and decorated below with peon pants, a shriek from Mexico. Wherefore, Irving Thalberg of Universal City has issued orders that every villain in the “U” pictures is henceforth and forever a man without a country. An interesting study of for an old Beatrice Joy is calling down the wrath of the high gods upon all press agent fakers, past and present. Reason : she borrowed a pair of Chinese slippers that belonged to the Princess Ching Chin Wang Chi Erli Ke Ke ; they were the property of a woman friend in Los Angeles : they were priceless relics of a fallen dynasty. Miss Joy lost one of the slippers out of her car. Absolutely heart-broken and panic-stricken, she implored the Lasky press department to appeal to the papers to help find them : but the fake-scarred city editors would only smile in a pained way and implore the p. a. to “find a new story.” So if anybody finds a gold brocaded slipper two inches long, belonging to a lady with bound-up feet, send it to Leatrice. Theodore Kosloff is supposed to be the star for whom Photograph by Mandeville Buster Keaton’s real reason for going East was to see the World Series. Fox will produce Sudermann’s “Song of Songs” with Barbara Castle^on as Lily. Bull Montana is finishing “A Punctured Prince.” Lewis Stone, Edith Roberts, Ruth Clifford, Cleo Madison, and Myrtle Stedman will be among the old favorites in John M. Stahl’s version of “Dangerous Ages.” Hal Roach is building the largest light studio in the West. Rumor is that Will Rogers will work there. James Kirkwood doubling Roman coin Pola Negri, the biggest diamond ever seen in Hollywood, and stereopticon pictures have all arrived in a bunch. Mme. Negri’s advent was a solemn occasion. Western journalism, dressed and polished, motored to meet her in Pasadena. Jesse Lasky gave a big luncheon for her, at which the guests were all writers ana at which the chief object of interest was Pola’s enormous solitaire diamond. All other Hollywood sparklers now timidly shrink into insignificance. As this is written, she is preparing to begin work at the Famous Players-Lasky Studio in “Bella Donna.” She expressed herself as greatly surprised at the size and the quietness of the studio. The first stereopticon pictures were shown the other night by the Perfect Pictures Company. They are the invention of a ( Continued on page 82) had been working all night on a big scene in one of the Morosco pictures at the L’nited Studios. Just at daylight, Richard Dix, the hero, grabbed Miss Chadwick into a place of safety and Noah Beery as the villain came crashing after. Miss Chadwick made a miscue with her revolver and inflicted a very dangerous wound in Beery’s anatomy. He went on pluckilv to the end of the scene, when he collapsed. Miss Chadwick had hysterics, and a grand time was had by all. From his home, where the doctors treated his w'ound, Beery sent reassuring messages to the remorseful gun-lady. One day, some years ago, a very small baby girl with very black, snapping eyes got a job at the old Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, in the part of the baby in the “Squaw Man,” in which Lewis Stone was playing the lead. Her name was Bebe Daniels. Now the black-eyed girl is playing again with Lewis Stone. “Paths of Glory” is the name of the picture, made from an original story by Clara Beranger. It is the first time Bebe and Lewis Stone have played together since her baby days. Harrison Ford and Katherine Williams are also in the cast. Lasky is buying the film rights for “Deburau.” Charlie Chaplin made a tragic mistake in letting that story get away from him. Mr. Kosloff, who has taught nearly every star on the Lasky lot to dance at one time or another, is about to open a school for Russian dancing and Russian art in Hollywood. * * * Rex Ingram is to produce Rafael Sabatini’s “Scaramouche,” a story of the French Revolution. It is generally felt in Hollywood that Rex has made Barbara Le Marr a star by the work she did in “The Prisoner of Zenda,” but that his “find,” Ramon Novarro, is something of a disappointment. It is hard to say just what Rodolph Valentino’s appeal is; but, apparently Novarro hasn’t it. * * * On her return from Europe, Norma Talmadge will produce “The Garden of Allah” (to be made here and not in Egypt as planned), “Once to Every Woman,” and “Within the Law.” Constance will return to California, but her stories have not been selected as yet. ( Sixty-eight )