Motion Picture (Aug 1922-Jan 1923)

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It was during some such scene that De Mille "found" Gloria Swanson. Accordingly the stage was filled with half -dressed young ladies and gentlemen who had once been great guns in the movies, but whose star had fallen. They were there acting as extras in the rather pitiful hope that the great De Mille eye would single them out and yank them back to the fame from which they had fallen. It seemed as tho half the people on the set had once been leading men or women. Unless I have become a very bad guesser, this picture is going to be a knock-out. It is the best story Cecil de Mille has ever filmed and ought to be a triumph for Tom Meighan. In that cutback to the days of ancient Rome, he appears as a Barbarian who bursts into a Roman banquet, where a feast of luxurious decadence is in progress. _ Until you see Tommy in a Barbarian suit of skins with a head-dress of horns, with a long whip with which he subdues Leatrice Joy, why — to quote Al Jolson — you ain't seen nothin'. Al Jolson is among us, by the vvay. He says he has no intention of going into pictures, altho he admits having been tempted. Jolson is a great admirer of Hal Lloyd. The first thing he did, on arriving in Los Angeles, was to make a dash for the Symphony Theater to see "Grandma's Boy," which he says is the finest picture he ever saw. He galloped down to Culver City to tell Harold so and got tangled up with a yachting party, and at this writing is cruising somewhere around Catalina Island in Hal Roach's yacht, The Gypsy. Jean Acker has announced that she will be known as "Mrs. Rodolph Valentino" on the screen; she has accumulated a mysterious supply of Eastern capital and is about to start on her own productions. Meanwhile, she will be featured in a special production, called "The Bigamist," under the direction of Captain Leslie T. Peacocke. Jean is a business lady. Inasmuch as the fascinating Rodolph's name is not really "Valentino," but Guglielmo, there would seem to be some doubt as to her legal rights in the premises. Following his various and sundry adventures with the courts, Rodolph is. going ahead with "The Young Rajah," which is a film version of "Amos Judd." In this he appears as a young Indian Rajah, who is living in New England incognito and who has a sack full of jewels and the usual mysterious servants. In the original story, the lovely Rajah was rather tamely killed off in the end of the piece by a couple of energetic burglars. June Mathis, who is writing the scenario, insists that this cant happen in the picture. To all appearances, Rodolph's recent adventure with a bigamy charge, has not hurt his popularity. The flappers almost mobbed him in court. The sensation of Hollywood just at present is Konrad Bercovici, the Roumanian author of Gypsy stories. He has a literary style, a mustache like Bismarck, and an air of mystery. As a little boy, he ran away and lived for some years with the Gypsies, to whom he was tied by blood somewhere in his ancestry. Since he began to write some six years ago, he has been a literary riot, his stories, "Ghitza" and "Fanutza," being picked as the best stories of 1920 and 1921, respectively. His magazine stories now bring one thousand dollars a piece, and his film stories probably a couple of million or more. .'\nyhow, they are in great demand, and Mr. Bercovici himself is the social lion of the hour. He has written a story, called "The Law and the Lawless," especially for Bebe Daniels. Her fiery, flashing beauty should be seen at great advantage in the role. She says she has, all her life, wanted to play a Gypsy role. Bercovici says, by the way, that the unwashed fortune tellers, who swap horses around the country districts of our fair land, are not genuine Gypsies. The only true Gypsies are Roumanian, and they came from Egypt. News that should rejoice the hearts of fans : Eugene O'Brien is again to be Norma Talmadge's leading man. Since the days of "Poppy" and "Ghosts of Yesterday" she has never had another leading man so good. He will play opposite her in a picture to be made from Robert Hichens' "A Voice from the Mineret," with Frank Lloyd directing. Mr. Lloyd created a mild sensation, by the way, by refusing to direct Norma in "The Mirage" on account of the sex stuff. He is soon to start out as a producer on his own hook, Mr. Joe Schenck furnishing the coin. With a never-to-be-released version of "Peg o' My Heart" on the shelves of Famous Players Studio, another picture is to be made from the same play, this one with Laurette Taylor in the name part, and King Vidor directing, at Metro. Wanda Hawley was the star of the other picture, whose showing was made impossible on account of a law-suit between Oliver Alorosco, from whom Famous secured the screen rights, and Hartley Manners, the author. Mary Pickford has cherished an ambition for years to do "Peg," but has yielded gracefully even to the extent of volunteering to advise Laurette Taylor in making this version. While everybody else was talking about it, Edward Laemmle has made a dash for Europe to make a film version of "Ivanhoe" on the native heath. He has engaged studio space, both in England and Germany, for the production, which will take about seven months. After he finishes "Ivanhoe," Mr. Laemmle will go on around the world making Oriental travelogs. He has recently finished a serial nine miles long, entitled "Winners of the West," based upon the building of the Union Pacific Railroad. Harry Carey is making a picture, called "Good Men and True," under the watchful eye of the author, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, who wrote "Overland Red" and other Western stories. Mr. Rhodes used to be a real cowboy in the days before there were wire fences, and his disgust with the usual motion picture cowboy picture is abysmal. Carey's first picture for Robertson-Cole had in the cast Ethel Gray Terry, Henry Walthall, Charles Lemoyne, Mignonne Golden, Jimmie O'Neill, and Vester Pegg. One of the recent crop of divorces is that of Gladys Walton, who told the court that she married when she was seventeen to Frank R. Liddell, who was a gent without a job. She said it mortified her to have people snickering around the sets, asking her about supporting her husband. She is soon to start making a picture out of the old Bret Harte story, "M'liss." The Novak sisters, Jane and Eva, arc to make a picture together, based upon the