Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

CpP^8§^ j]|9@£^ ~-SE^ Little VHifPE-aiNc^ Fro/a EvettywME-a& In PL^y&R/DOAv Ruth Roland is working on her second serial production, entitled "Broadway Babs." State Department officials in Washington are searching for Victor O. Kubes, of New York City, formerly a lieutenant in the Signal Corps of the United States Army, who entered Soviet Russia last November and has not been heard from since. Kubes is a motion picture camera man and an employee of Fox News, the news reel published by Fox Film Corp. Antonio Moreno took a trip in his automobile from Los Angeles to Tia Juana, Mexico, to see a bull fight. On the trip he had four blowouts, two punctures, broke the windshield and killed a dog, but it was worth it, he says. Tony comes from Spain. William Courtleigh, one of the most conspicuous figures of the American stage, has been added to the cast of "Children of Destiny," a Lawrence Weber production. Vicente Blasco Ibanez, brilliant Spanish writer, is in this country and has gone to Metro's western studios to see his great novel, "The Four Horsemen," take shape for the screen. After an absence of two years spent on the spoken stage, Patsey de Forest has returned to the screen as leading lady for Montgomery and Rock. D. W. Griffith has purchased from William A. Brady the motion picture rights to one of the classics of the American theater, "Way Down East," paying, it is said, the highest price ■ ever paid for the photoplay rights to any story or play. The play is being produced at the new Griffith studios at Mamaroneck, N. Y. Irene Castle, one of the best dressed women of the screen, has signed a contract to design dresses and wraps for one of Chicago's largest mail order houses. A special "Elephant Luncheon" was given by William Fox recently in honor of Pearl Doles Bell, the author of "Her Elephant Man," in which Shirley Mason is starred. Some one sent Alice Brady a chameleon as a delicate compliment, implying that the popular actress is as versatile in assuming new roles as the little lizard. Miss Brady says she is glad that the gift wasn't a police dog as the upkeep of the chameleon is much less. Craufurd Kent has the pleasant habit of entertaining the kiddies in Bellevue and other hospitals in New York with pianologs and whistling solos. He makes a big hit always and has a better time than the children. Besides being an actress, a beauty and a scenario writer, Olive Thomas is an interior decorator. Recently, she furnished an apartment, the furniture and fittings for which were made from designs executed by herself. Frank Mayo says that he is tired of pictures featuring mud, fights and rain scenes. His next picture will be "The Girl in Number 29." Mrs. Carilyn Lee, who appeared with Mary Miles Minter in "Anne of Green Gables," and who has been associated with (TNmany stage and screen productions, died recently in New York. Ufi£ Photo by Evans, L. A. ENID BENNETT Constance Binney says she likes her role in "The Stolen Kiss" because it gives her a chance to wear pretty clothes, also to do a bit of dancing which permits her to revive her first and best loved art. At the close of the filming of "Old Lady 31," the thirty old ladies, (Old Lady 31 is really a man, so was_ not included) presented Director John Ince with a gold cigaret case in appreciation of his direction of the famous play. Theda Bara has deserted the screen for the stage in a unique drama fashioned by George Hobart and John Willard, entitled "The Blue Flame." Douglas Fairbanks is working on his third "Big *i Four" picture. The greater (U part of the action takes part I| in Arizona with a generous J share of outdoor scenes. .( A famous trio graced our luncheon table one day recently— Mrs. Gish, Dorothy and Lillian. It was a great treat. We feasted our eyes upon Mrs. Gish and Lillian, who are equally sweet and adorable, . the while we listened to Dorothy, who kept the whole table in an uproar and was altogether charming and Dorothy Gish-ish. After nearly ten years of continuous appearance before the camera, during which time she has appeared in nearly one hundred successes, Mary Pickford will make a com■plete tour of the world. During this time she will produce two or three plays for the screen, using the locals of different countries for the exterior settings. Herbert Rawlinson will star in another J. Stuart Blackton production called "The Soul Spinners." Montagu Love and Pedro de Cordoba appear with Alma Rubens in her latest picture, "The World and His Wife." Georges Clemenceau, "The Tiger of France," has become an author for the screen thru his book "The Strongest," which has been filmed by Fox. Leo Delaney, one of the most popular men in pictures at one time, died from pneumonia recently after only a few days' illness. Mr. Delaney was one of the oldest motion picture players from point of service and will be remembered as one of the first Vitagraph stars, playing many leads during the days of Maurice Costello's fame as a star. Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright, will contribute and co-operate in production of one picture a year. "The Blue Bird" and other of Maeterlinck's plays have been done in pictures, but this is the first venture of the great playwright in writing plays directly for the screen. Billie Burke has interrupted her stage play "Caesar's Wife," at the height of its popularity in order to begin her next picture, "Away Goes Prudence." Percy Marmont will play the leading masculine role. Gertrude Hoffmann, famous dancer and star, indignantly announces that a certain Gertrude Hoffmann exploited in connection with a film entitled "The Perfect Model" is another person, absolutely, and in no way related to or connected with herself.