Paramount Pep (1923)

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14 Paramount Pep A Muddy Trip Pola Negri To Be Starred in New Version of “The Cheat” Fitzmaurice to Direct and Jack Holt and Charles De Roche to Play Leading Male Roles Pola Negri is to be starred in a new production of “The Cheat,” which will be directed by George Fitzmaurice, according to an announcement by Mr. Lasky, who stated also that Jack Holt will be featured with the star and that Charles De Roche will head the supporting cast. The picture will be started at the Lasky Studio about January 22. Produced originally nearly eight years ago by Cecil B. De Mille, “The Cheat,” written by Hector Turnbull, is still regarded by many as the greatset problem-melodrama ever placed upon the screen. At the time of its release it was declared by dramatic critics to be the first motion picture of perfect dramatic construction, and its scenario has been used as a model in many books which have been written upon the art of scenario-writing. Ouida Bergere is adapting the Turnbull photodrama. It is being entirely rewritten and modernized and will be produced with all the modern effects made possible by the advance of motion pictures during the eight years that have intervened. In the new version Miss Negri, Mr. Holt and Mr. De Roche will play the parts originally played by Fanny Ward, Jack Dean and Sessue Hayakawa. The heavy role made Hayakawa a star. This role has been altered to a Latin type and in the hands of Mr. De Roche is certain to gain both strength and realism, in the opinion of Mr. Lasky. Mr. Fitzmaurice has long desired an opportunity to make this picture, since it appealed strongly to his sense of the intensely dramatic and possessed possibilities for acting and investiture seldom equalled in a story. Requests that it be re-produced have been received from all parts of the world and it is admitted that no roles in fiction or drama ever offered greater opportunities than those now afforded to the principals chosen. Cecil B. De Mille Rescues Mechanician Cecil B. De Mille was the hero of a fifteenminute struggle for life in the Pacific Ocean a mile from Los Angeles recently. Mr. De Mille and his mechanician, A1 Fear, were tuning up the De Mille speed boat, “Miss Cecilia,” for an important race under the auspices of the California Yacht Club and the Los Angeles Athletic Club Motorboat Racing Association, when backfire from the carburetor spread to the gasoline tank under the sea. Both men, who were heavily bundled in sweaters, were hurled into the water and the mechanician quickly lost consciousness. Mr. De Mille held him up until rescued fifteen minutes later by a motorboat owned by Nat Walsh. Fear was soon revived and was found to be uninjured. Mr. De Mille, however, was not so fortunate, as it was found that his eyelashes had been burned off and his eyebrows badly singed. The speed boat, which was entirely destroyed, was built specially for the three days’ race meet, which started Friday. The race for which “Miss Cecilia” was being tuned up was won by the world-famous “Miss America,” owned by Gar Wood, of Detroit, with the same owner’s “Miss Detroit VI,” finishing second. “Mystery,” owned by Frank Garbutt, also a Famous Players-Lasky executive, was third. The winner maintained an average speed of nearly sixty miles an hour. While we do not wish to take on the aspect of advertising the Packard car, nevertheless we must give due credit to the old “boat” above. This car transported the principals to and from Camp Cruze and Milford, Utah, for the location scenes on “The Covered Wagon.” Tom White, the Production Superintendent, can be seen standing at the side of the car. Many thought it was an impossibility for a car to make the trip from Milford to the wild section of the plains where Jim Cruze and his company were operating, but as Tom White says, “It stood the gaff wonderfully well.” Melford Has Begun Next George Melford has begun production at our Long Island Studio of his new picture, “You Can’t Fool Your Wife,” an original story for the screen, by Waldemar Young. A cast of stellar proportions has been selected to enact the principal roles and includes Leatrice Joy, Nita Naldi, Pauline Garon, Lewis Stone, Rose Tapley, William Burress and Tom Kerrigan. “You Can’t Fool Your Wife” is a modern tale with a new vamp angle, which is said to give Miss Joy and Miss Naldi a chance for unusual screen characterizations. Exterior scenes for the picture will be made in Florida and Nassau following the completion of the work in the studio. Bert Glennoq, who photographed “Java Head,” Mr. Melford’s last picture, will be the cameraman for this production and Cy Clegg will be Mr. Melford’s assistant.