Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1919)

I( West, is being filmed, for the most part at Lake Louise, British Columbia, in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. The production is beins made independently by Mr. Stone with Frank Borzage as director and Andrew Callaghan as manager of the company. THEY better hadn't say to Tom Meighan fo.' a while at least. In the leading role of Cecil DeMille's screen version of "The Admirable Crichton,"' Tom was shipwrecked off the rocky coast of Sania Cruz Island somewhere between Hollywood and Honolulu with a heavy loss of epidermis before he was rescued from the swirling waters of the Pacific. Then the sun and salt air caused an epidemic of facial blisters with Tom the leading victim. Then came the scenes in which the only apparel worn was constructed from goat skins and portions of his anatomy not hitherto affected underwent some scorching that made life miserable the rest of the time. ANEW male star is to illumine the film heavens before long in the husband of a well known screen personage. He is Bernard Burning, the handsome young husband of that very young luminary Shirley Mason. "Bernie' had about sLx years experience with Edison and Metro in the directorial end of the game at which he was perfectly willing to remain, but the magnates declared that he was too good looking to be a director and drafted him for the actorial side. His first stellar appearance will take place in the visualization of Charles Neville Buck's "When Bearcat Went Dry." HAVLXG completed what will perhaps rank as her greatest film subject, "In Old Kentucky," Anita Stewart has started on a big vacation which is expected to last well into the fall. Accompanied by her managerhusband Rudolph Cameron, the First National star will take a yacht cruise on the Atlantic and maybe a few aeroplane tours, as Rudie used to pilot an over-water boat for Secretary Daniel.:. "In Old Kentucky," a version of the old stage melodrama by Charles Dazey, for the film rights of which the latter received ^30,000 plus some royalties, was directed by Marshall Ncilan. Director "Mickey" is now engaged on the first of his own productions with pretty little Margery Daw as the star. It will be known as "The Eternal Three," the visualization of a Randall Parrish novel. Miss Stewart's next production is to be "The Yellow Typhoon," adapted from the story by Harold McGrath. Plays and Players (Continued jrom page 102) NAZIMOVA, in her recent trip to New T^ARLE WILLIAMS has been doing lead York, brought back to Los Angeles LLi stuff in a Los Angeles court in the with her a scries of celluloid frogs and toads, which she toys with as she takes the regular Saturday nighter. In addition, she discovered a new brand of perfumed cigarettes, together wiih a protegj, who used to "water stuff" be known at the World as Jeanne Acker, breach-of-promise suit brought by Roma Raymond, tn actress, and just finished, with a verdict of $50,000 in her favor. Miss Raymond filed her first charges against Williams almost immediately after the star's marriage in the East to a capitalisfs daughter. Williams, whom Miss Raymond charges with having misrepresented to her when he was at Vitagraph in the East, claims that he does not know her. She, however, brought a number of witnesses from parts in the East, and has shown a bundle of letters as Exhibit A. Williams refuses to discuss the "matter," although the plaintiff has not hesitated to tell her story to Los Angeles newspapermen. Mrs. Wilhams has remained at all times placid and confident in her husband, according to reports. On Sunday afternoon, June fifteenfK, on tlie la-wn o£ <Ke Sctienck-TalraaJge home in Bayside, Long Island. Anita J^oos, the soubrctte o£ screen literature, became Nlrs. .ToWn Emerson, thus domeslicising " a long and successful dramatic partnership. Not many people -were there — a fe^v good friends of the Emersons: Eugene O'Hrien, Merceita Esmonde, Frances Marion, and the Talmadges, en famillc: mother Peg, Norma Schenck, and sister Constance N' rAOMI CHILDERS is apparently tired of flickering. Wants to go back onto the stage, and it is very probable that she may be launched in a new Broadway vehicle in the Spring by George Tyler. Meanwhile, Miss Childers is at work at Goldwyn. having finished her work in support of Geraldine Farrar. THE title is out! The stupendous production which Goldwyn provided for the Farrar summer vacation, whose title and details have been jealously kept a secret, is named "Potters' Clay." It is an original story that deals with the Roosians and the Bolsheviki, written by Thompson Buchanan, the Kentucky playwright . Something like ten reels long, with momentous settings by Hugo Ballin after the Bakst style, and with Farrar more willowy than she was when she played Joan. A' ND Dustin Farnum may go back on the boards. A playwright in New York who is an old friend of his, has written a vehicle for him. As yet Dusty is undecided whether to keep on catching tuna at Santa Catalina or to occupy his erstwhDe berth at the Plaza. but who now prefers to call herself Jeanne Mendoza. And she is playing at Metro opposite Bert Lytell, — the protege, of course. NELL CRAIG who used to be an Essanay * star is a recent acquisition at Universal City. She has the lead in a sto-^y based on the nationalization of women in Russia, which Paul Powell is directing. MADGE KENNEDY doesn't want to be separated from friend husband any longer. Longdistance marriages aren't to her liking, she says, and when she left the West for New York fears were cnted.aLned that the Goldwj'n star would not return. Her husband, Capt. Harold Bolster, is a stock broker in Nassau street, whose business keeps him in N'Yawk. Miss Kennedy has therefore had to be content with telephone calls and a very oc(Contimied on page no)