Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

Plays and Players (Concluded) THEDA BARA has gone in for drama. She will do "The Lost Soul" in the legitimate, having agreed to lend her expert vampire services to A. H. Woods, producer. But her new part, we are assured, will not be vampish all the way through; rather, Theda will have a chance to differentiate her dramatic talents. When will she come back to pictures? Oh! When this stage play is off her mind, she will make a picture version of it. M.\URICE TOURNEUR has moved his base of operations from the Goldwyn Studio at Culver City to Universal City, in order to get more room. He has extensive plans in view, but has three or four more pictures still to make for Paramount before he will begin independent production as a member of the Big Six, the new organization of moving picture directors. CREIGHTON HALE, as soon as he finished the D. W. Griffith picture for which he was specially engaged, went into vaudeville in a dramatic sketch. SOME scenario v.riter should use the story of the gay lady from Paris who swindled some film men out of many thousand dollars' worth of film. She came over here, purporting to be the representative of a most reliable Paris firm, and ran up accounts with New York exporters amounting to more than $200,000. She ordered prints of various pictures and at the last moment sent out a hurry call that she must catch a certain steamer and that if the prints were sent post-haste to the dock payment would be immediately forthcoming. She got away with it. The prints were delivered and stowed away on board but the exporters never saw the money. Any number of clever actresses we know of could play that part. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS and his malamute dog Rex went for a walk in the Santa Monica mountains back of the new Fairbanks home one day in January, and were attacked by a pack of half-starved coyotes, according to a report from Los Angeles. Fairbanks was, carrying a heavy stick and between him and Rex they routed the pack. If you don't believe this story, there is a picture of Doug and Rex to prove it. The coyotes are not in the photograph, but that is a small matter anyhow. CONSIDERABLE time may elapse between "Pollyanna" and Mary Pickford's next picture. Shortly after "Pollyanna" was completed, Miss Pickford suffered from a nervous collapse, and a long rest was ordered. She had planned (to begin work at once on Barrie's "Hop o' NMy Thumb," Jack Dillon directing, but this\was /'delayed. Another plan of Miss PickfomJa/is to go to Europe in the spring to make "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and "True Tilda," both English stories. Furthermore, it is said she is considering an invitation to play in the annual British pantomime of "Cinderella" next Christmas. All these matters are undecided pending the star's recovery to perfect health. CONWAY TEARLE, who has been in great demand as a leading man for several years, will be starred for the first time in a production now being made by the Equity Pictures Corporation, "Michael and His Lost Angel," from Henry Arthur Jones' play. The same company will make a screen version of the comedy, famous half a generation ago, "Old Jed Prouty," starring Edward Kimball, father of Clara Kimball Young. ^ fw^r^ Sweet Forget-me-nots IT is just about as impossible to forget the palate-charm of Nabisco, Ramona, or Anola Sugar Wafers, as it is to forget a famous masterpiece or a wonderful sunset. Whether eaten simply for themselves, or for added enjoyment with other good things, each wafer registers a ge;ntle reminder to have anot So/a in the famous In -erseal Trade Mark package NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY ANOLA Two chocolate flavored wafers enclosing a creamy choculafe layer. RAMONA A Cffamycocoanut filling nestling between chocolate flavored wafers. NABISCO Queen of dessert. A delicious, cooling layer between delicate strios Kveiy advertisement In PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE ia guaranteed.