Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1925)

EAST AND WEST % Cal York After six months' separation, Alice Ten-y joins her husband, Rex Ingram, at Nice, Fratice, where Rex is filming "Mare Nostrum." Antonio Moreno is taking them for a ride to show them the sights of the Riviera The heroine of Robert J. Flaherty's new picture, "Moana of the South Seas." She is a native of the South Seas, selected by Mr. Flaherty for her beauty and grace. The photograph was made by Frances Hubbard Flaherty which figured in Lillian's suit against Charles Duell, although the two organizations have some film properties in common. The new Inspiration Company is headed by Walter Camp, =on of the late athletic authority, to whom the film business is more or less of a side issue. But the general manager is still T. Bovce Smith, former law partner of Charles Duell. THE career of Inspiration has been both ex-L citing and picturesque. It was given its name, so it is said, by Lillian Tucker Duell, then the bride of its president. Its first picture was made to star Teddy Gerard and was called "The Cave Girl." The second production, "Tol'able David," won the Photopl.w gold medal and established Richard Barthelmess as a star. Nearly e\erj-one connected with the company has been involved in a law suit, probably because the officers of the company have been lawyers. Lillian sued Charles Duell. Henry King also brought suit. Barthehness once threatened court action. Mrs. Duell should have christened the concern Litigation Pictures. Inc. Director and Mrs. John Robertson have stayed out of the legal war, however. Yes, an excellent short story could be written about the amateurs that venture into the maelstrom of the movies. Meanwhile, the younger Inspiration Company feels that it is in duty bound to do the right thing by Dorothy, since its older brother enmeshed Lillian in a tangle of difficulties. Lillian, you know, was awarded a large sum of money from the original company. gMALL theaters in little towns often don't get the best in movies. .\nd when they do get the best, the film is usually shopworn and in bad condition. It is streaked and scratched and shows the effects of much usage. Jackie Huff, Marion Davies' young discovery, was taken to see "The Covered Wagon" in a small theater near Los Angeles. The next day, Marion asked him how he liked it. "Oh," he said, "I liked it fine, but it rained all during the story." /'^AN you imagine spending two winters in ^New York, with your charming apartment facing on Central Park West and a pair of perfectly good ice skates in a trunk, and then coming to Southern California in the summer time to learn to skate. This is what May Allison has done. I called her at the Gaylord apartment the other morning and imagine my surprise when the maid informed me "Miss ,Allison is at the rink taking a skating lesson." But then all of Hollywood is doing it these days. If you drop over to the indoor rink )'ou are almost sure to see some of our very biggest stars endangering life and limb in a skating lesson. Blanche Sweet and Bessie Love are there almost every spare minute, Kath Bennett, sister of Enid, and Ivy Shilling, noted English dancer, the two Tahnadges. Norma and Connie, Norma Shearer, Lois Wilson and just scads of others have the skating fever, and now May has joined their ranks. By the way. May has returned to Hollywood and her host of friends there, after more than a year and a half in New York, to do one of the featured roles in "The Viennese Medley," which is to be First National's most ambitious effort of the year. June Mathis, who was swept to fame by the success of "The Four Horsemen," will supervise this picture and will ha\-e complete charge. She has chosen for her director the chap who was Rex Ingram's assistant when they made that great masterpiece. In addition to Miss Allison, the only other member of the cast who has been selected is Araia Q. Nilsson. ^ GROUP of tourists were paying a visit to the Famous Players-Lasky studio on Long Island. Naturally they were looking, with eager eyes, at all the wonders of those strange movies. Standing near one of the sets was Bebe Daniels' maid. While Bebe worked, she had placed her jewels in charge of the maid and Elizabeth had decided to wear them for safety. On her arms were several diamond bracelets, and she sported some valuable rings. "Who is that girl?" asked one of the tourists, indicating the bejeweled Elizabeth. "That's Miss Daniels' maid," answered the guide. "Think of that!" gasped the tourist. "And just look at her jewels. What salaries the maids of those movie stars must earn!" TOM MIX and John Barrjmore returned al*■ most simultaneously from triumphs abroad. Mix had been exercising Tony on the Strand and the Rue de la Paix. Barrymore had been playing "Hamlet" in London. MLx got all the applause in the newspapers, which doesn't prove anything except that Barrymore doesn't like to be interviewed and that Tom Mix does. Both left immediately for the Coast. Barrymore to go to the Warner Studios and Mix bound for the Fox lot — the great open spaces. T~\ON'T smile. But they do say that the pro-'-'duction of "Ben Hur" has been suspended again. Perhaps it was consuming too much of the valuable time of the valuable Ramon Novarro. Any\vay, Novarro is to appear in a story called "Messmates," to be filmed at the