Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

.'to -»— ^^I* -=^j^f=S-=S3 ^^^^^ <^te^^ Jtt^^y^^ ~S2e^*** Little l/mrPE-aiNc*^ Fro/a EyBR.ywME-p,e IN PLi*y&R,DOA\. Pearl White left New York a few weeks ago for a tour of Europe and a rest. It is expected that she will gather material for several Fox features, also select costumes for forthcoming plays. Milton Sills has been engaged for George Melford's production, "The Translation of a Savage," by Sir Gilbert Parker. Elliott Dexter, Mabel Juliene Scott and Ann Forrest will appear with him. John Bowers has been loaned by Goldwyn to play opposite Mary Miles Minter in her next Realart picture. Seena Owen will appear as Bert Lytell's leading woman in "The Temple of Dawn," a picturization of I. A. R, Wylie's novel. Grace Darling is starring in "The Hidden Path," Burton King's first independent production. Marguerite Courtot is playing the leading feminine role in another Pathe serial, called "Velvet Fingers," an original story by Bertram Millhauser. Constance Talmadge's next picture for First National will be an Emerson-Loos original story, "The Perfect Woman." Jack Mulhall, one of the most popular of the younger leading men of the screen, has been placed under a long-term contract to play leading roles in Paramount-Artcraft pictures. Bryant Washburn's lifelong ambition for a bit of slapstick is gratified in "What Happened to Jones," the Paramount-Artcraft film version of __ George Broadhurst's comedy. Robert C.Bruce, director of "Scenics Beautiful," for Educational Films Corporation, recently made an extended stay in Cuba and Jamaica, where he made a number of subjects. Mr. Bruce's next tour will be to foreign lands. Wanda Hawley's first Realart production will be "Miss Hobbs," by Jerome K. Jerome, which Annie Russell played on the speaking stage. "Buster" Keaton, long identified with screen comedies, plays the role of Bertie ("The Lamb") in Metro's all-star production of "The New Henrietta." Tsuru Aoki is visiting her native home, Japan, and will be absent several months. Ever since "Stella Maris," in which Mary Pickford carried off the honors of her career, she has longed to duplicate her London slavey of that picture. In "Hop o' Me Thumb," the play Maude Adams made famous on the stage, the make-up leaves nothing of the beautiful Mary, but gives, in its place, a cockney laundry drudge, pitiful and comic. The picture is being renamed "The Duchess of the Suds." Joseph de Grasse and Ida May Park will direct Bessie Love in "The Midlander," her first Callaghan production. Truman Van Dyke will play opposite Miss Love. David Butler, "the cheerful boy of the screen," will appear in "Smilin' All the Way," adapted for the screen from Henry Payson Dowst's story, "Alice in Underland." Harry Von Tilzer's newest song hit, "When the Harvest Moon Is Shining," is dedicated to Doris Kenyon, star of "The Harvest Moon," from Augustus Thomas' stage play. Agnes Ayres is being starred in a series of special features (7\in Marshall Neilan-Albert A. Kaufman productions. IAG£ Photo Clarence Bull PAULINE Priscilla Dean's next picture will be "Marama," a story of the Fiji Islands by Ralph Block. As Marama, the young star will have an opportunity of displaying the latest fashions in South Sea feminine adornment. The screen rights to "Wedding Bells," one of the stage hits of the season, have been secured for Constance Talmadge. Carmel Myers, who ran away from the screen a year ago to enter musical comedy, soon will be seen again in the film world under the Universal banner. William Collier, Jr., has been engaged to play juvenile parts in Paramount-Artcraft pictures. Lewis Stone, one of the most distinguished actors on the screen today, has been signed by Thomas H. Ince for the principal role in "Beau Revel," the first of a series of specials by Louis Joseph Vance. Peggy Hyland, brightly charming as ever, was in New York for a few days and entertained our entire editorial staff at dipner at the Hotel Commodore, the night before her sailing for England and Egypt, where she will make pictures for Samuelson Films. Little Virginia Lee Corbin announces that she is signing with a company to produce pictures under her own name, when her Fox contract expires in August. Eddy Polo, under his new contract with Universal, is to make ten two-reel stories of life under the big top. The actor, who is an old-time circus performer, plans to build stories around incidents in his career. Eugene V. Brewster, of the Brewster Publications, is one of the judges of the Hope Hampton prize contest, now running in several of the magazines. The prizes are offered for the best essays of five hundred words or less, answering five questions based on the photoplay, "The Modern Salome." Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian poet and playwright, has completed his first story for Goldwyn and sailed for France. Anita Stewart's next starring vehicle is "Harriet and the Piper," a Kathleen Norris story, that became popular thru its publication as a serial in the Pictorial Review. Ethel Clayton, who has signed another long-term contract with Famous Players-Lasky, will go to London this fall to make two photoplays in Famous Players-Lasky's London studio. Alice Brady's last Realart production, "A Dark Lantern," was made at the Essanay studios in Chicago during her long stage engagement in "Forever After." Norman Kerry will act as Marion Davies' leading man in her next screen production. Shirley Mason's fourth picture in the Fox series and her third supplied by Pearl Doles Bell, is "The Little Pagan," in which the little star will appear in Oriental character. Edward Earle, remembered for his excellent work in the O. Henry stories, has the leading male role in the Charles Miller production, "The Law of the Yukon." STARKE