Paramount Pep (1923)

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12 PARAMOUNT PEP Shirk’s Gossip of the Studio By Adam Hull Shirk Special to PEP Hollywood, April 25. Well, Mary Astor has arrived “in our midst" and we’ll say she is as charming as advance information has given us to believe. The first thing she did on arriving at the studio with her mother was to be photographed by Eugene Richee, the publicity portrait artist. Then she came in and got acquainted with the Publicity boys and all voted her a delightful young woman and sure to be one of our biggest favorites. She starts work this week under direction of Alfred E. Green, producing “To the Ladies,” and is co-featured with the buoyant Robert Agnew — “Bobbie” as everyone calls him. Now Sigrid Holmquist, Swedish actress of beauty and talent, is to be seen as leading woman for Jack Holt, popular star, in “A Gentleman of Leisure." Jack says that the title is a misnomer. “How can I be a gen. of leisure when I’m working like the deuce on the picture?” he asks. Miss Holmquist is busy getting a lot of new gowns unpacked and preparing for a season of activity in Paramount pictures. Gloria Swanson says she knows now how it feels to be a mummy. In a big Egyptian sequence for “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,” a Sam Wood production, they brought the fair star into the set in a mummy case. Over her pretty features was a mask. She was swathed in yards and yards of silk. When this was unwound, she did a dance a la Rameses and a lot of Theodore Kosliff’s ballet beauties helped in the ensemble. “Only,” says Miss Swanson, “I didn’t much like the feeling of being a mummy 1” Herbert Brenon has gone to New York to dig up material for his next Paramount production, and returns in a fortnight. He completed “The Woman With Four Faces,” featuring Betty Compson and Richard Dix, and immediately entrained for the far East. And the picture is going to be a regular stemwinder with thrills by the dozen — sheer entertainment 1 People who think California scenery has all been used up by picture producers had better wait for George Melford’s “Salomy Jane.” The backgrounds being secured for this picture up at Boulder Creek, Cal., are simply marvelous. And what a picture ! Jacqueline Logan, George Fawcett and Maurice Flynn featured — and a whopping big cast besides. Real old Forty-nine stuff — just as Bret Harte wrote it and on the very ground, too. That’s the modern way of making photoplays. ( Continued on page 15) Nita, the Popular This is the invincible Nita in one of her latest creations worn in Allan Dwan’s production, "Lawful Larceny,” now being made at our Long Island Studio. Nita is exceedingly popular, if not the most popular individual at our Long Island Studio, which is in a great measure due to her genial personality, cleverness and adaptability for remembering those whom she meets. It is only recently that Nita attended a dinner given by the scenic artists and electricians at the studio. It is needless to say she was the honor guest and had a real lively enjoyable evening. Our hats off to the invincible Nita. Nita Naldi