Paramount Pep (1923)

14 Paramount Pep In and Around Paramountown Jacqueline Logan returned to Hollywood this week to play the featured feminine role opposite Walter Hiers in ‘‘Seventy-five Cents an Hour,” a picture which Joseph Henabery is directing. Miss Logan had been away for two weeks on a vacation trip to Colorado Springs, Colo., her old home town. Walter Hiers and his newly wedded wife, formerly Miss Adah McWilliams of Syracuse, N. Y., returned to Los Angeles this week. Mrs. Hiers was a visitor at the Paramount Studio during the early part of the week and witnessed the beginning of her husband’s new starring picture, “Seventy-five Cents an Hour”, which was adapted by Grant Carpenter from a story by Frank Condon, and is under the supervision of production editor Ralph Block. Mrs. Hiers was introduced to Director Joseph Henabery and Jacqueline Logan, who plays the featured lead opposite Mr. Hiers. They are at present residing in a local hotel, but Mrs. Hiers admits that she and her husband are planning to build a home in Hollywood or Beverly. Following the completion of “Prodigal Daughters,” Sam Wood's production, Gloria Swanson is taking a much-needed rest. This has been a particularly gruelling picture due to the many big emotional scenes and thrills throughout. Monte M. Katterjohn wrote the screen version based on the novel by Joseph Hocking. Reports of those who have seen this picture, according to Julia Crawford Ivers, production editor, are that it is the best vehicle Miss Swanson has recently had. A capable cast, including Theodore Roberts, Ralph Graves, Vera Reynolds, Louise Dresser and others, enacted supporting roles. February 8th has been set as a starting date for George Fitzmaurice’s production, “The Cheat.” Pola Negri will be starred in this picture with Jack Holt featured and Charles de Roche also appearing in her support. Ouida Bergere wrote the screen adaptation of Hector Turnbull’s original story. Miss Negri has been sojourning at Del Monte, Cal., following the completion of her last picture, “Bella Donna,” and has just returned to Hollywood. Clara Beranger, who adapts the William de Mille productions, is at present on her semi-annual trip to Los Angeles from New York and is in conference with Mr. de Mille. She brought her screen adaptation of “Only 38,” by A. E. Thomas, suggested by the story by Walter Prichard Eaton. While in conference with Mr. de Mille, Miss Beranger is making plans for the story to follow “Only 38.” Mr. de Mille and Miss Beranger are also editing and cutting “Grumpy,” the Wm. de Mille production adapted from the stage play of Hodges and Percyval. The cast of this coming de Mille production will be announced later. “The Law of the Lawless” directed by Victor Fleming with Dorothy Dalton starred and Chas. de Roche and Theodore Kosloff featured in her support, comes to a conclusion this week. This picture was adapted by E. Lloyd Sheldon and Edfrid A. Bingham from a story of the wandering gypsy tribes by Konrad Bercovici. It has been almost entirely an outdoor picture, colorful in the extreme, with a decided variety of thrills and mystery combined with a passionate and primitive romance of Tartar and gypsy. It promises to be an amazingly entertaining and novel picture. A Studio Visitor While Bebe Daniels was working in the picture, “Glimpses of the Moon,” at our Long Island Studio recently, she received Conrado W. Massaguer, well-known editor and worldfamous caricaturist from Havana, Cuba. Mr. Massaguer was so impressed with Miss Daniels’ type that he sketched her while talking. And just to prove that she was a wizard pencil pusher, Miss Daniels sketched Mr. Massaguer. “Blood and Sand” for Premier Cable reports from Sydney, Australia, received by E. E. Shauer, Director of our Foreign Department, tell of a high compliment paid Paramount Pictures by Premier Hughes at the close of the general election in Australia. Having completed a whirlwind campaign throughout the entire country the Premier sought some means of passing in a restful manner the hours between the closing of the polls and the announcement of the returns. To obtain that rest he disappeared for a few hours, much to the consternation of politicians and friends. Without public announcement, he had made arrangements for a private showing of “Blood and Sand,” and for two hours he and his party were entirely oblivious of the nerve-wracking wait for the election returns. Many complL ments were paid the picture by the fighting Premier and his party. Much valuable publicity was obtained in the leading newspapers of Sydney, which published front-page stories concerning the Premier’s mysterious disappearance and the fact that he had been witnessing a showing of “Blood and Sand.”