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a contract with Universal to make ten pictures in two years for the trifling sum of $1,000,000. He should worry if he loses the championship. The first picture is already in the making and is, as all of them will be, on a sporting theme. The scenario is being prepared by Gerald Beaumont, former sporting editor of a Western newspaper. Dempsey's entrance into filmland was celebrated by a big dinner and dance with a dancing contest as a climax.
Another dinner-dance with a dancing contest as the piece de resistance was one given by Carmel INIyers as an an revoir to her friends before sailing for Italy where she is to play Iras in "Ben Hur." The place cards were strips of film bearing the invitations as a title card.
Dorothy Dalton and Arthur Hammerstein driving tandem — the one the former wife of Lew Cody the ingenious he-vamp ; the other thrice married and divorced and nothing loath to put his head thru the halter again. The aflfair started in Palm Beach last winter and culminated in Chicago, Dorothy's old home town where they were married in her apartment in the Drake
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Bert Lytell and Claire Windsor have returned from abroad, where they played under Edwin Carewe's direction in "A Son of the Sahara." The news cameraman photographed them on the deck of the liner with tlie new French dolls which Miss Windsor brought back with her. Montague Love was also a member of this company. . . . He posed for this snap-shot with two supporting members of the cast. The 26th Infantry has an honorary Colonel. Marion Davies was given this office when she was at the Plattsburg Barracks, New York, for the purpose of filming scenes of "Janice Meredith," a story of the Revolutionary War. This picture shows Colonel Davies with Colonel J. Malcolm Graham, commanding officer
tory" for grown-ups, and novi Louis N. Tolhurst is making a film showing the origin of life from the beginning to the end — the evolution of life. Judging from Tolhurst's pictures of insect life, we wont even have to know our A. B. C.'s to get the whole story in one delicious gulp. In his work Mr. Tolhurst has shot the biggest mob scene that ever rioted before a camera's lens — eight million extras, and all confined on a set two inches long, one wide and one-sixteenth of an inch high. The set was glass and the actors those diminutive insect creatures that Mr. Tolhurst makes so human. In the filming of his story on the evolution of life, it has been necessary for him to magnify some of his tiny subjects to the size (Confiuncd on page 80)
Hotel. W'e suppose that Dorothy looked like a million dollars and had quite a few greenbacks in her undert he-arm bag, for Dorothy has been drawing her pay envelope without acting for some months past as no suitable story for her was to be found and it was cheaper, as the saying goes, "to pay rent than to move." .\fter the ceremony the couple left for Europe.
Life in a nutshell is the order of the day; Van Loon gives us "The History of Mankind" in a few thousand words of one syllable more or less, so that children can lap it up without even the aid of a spoon; H. G. Wells goes a bit further and develops "The Outline of His