Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

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Inlays and 7>/o aysTS Real ne>vs and interesting comment about motion pictures and motion picture people. By CAL. YORK 'ILL ROGERS has an encQess supply of two things — ropes and stories. He was explaining the other day why he had 30 many ropes. "You never can tell when vou may be unable to get any more rope," he said. "Of course it wouldn't seem anybody would prohibit rope, hut they might — some folks just love to prohibit, you know. Don't make much difference what it is, so long a? .^omebody else wants it. "Anyway, once I couldn't buy any rope. I went into a store in a part of a town where a lot of Bohemians and Poles and Lithuanians and other folks like that lived. They were noted for being a gloomy bunch and about the only way any of 'em ever seemed to die, was by suicide. Well I asked the man for some rope and he looked at me hard and said: ■ " 'You don't get one inch of rope in this store without a doctor's prescription. See?" "Since then I never mis^ a chance tc buy a little rope." 'ANDA HAWLEY is to be starred. There would seem to be no reason why this up-and-doing young blonde has not attained stellar prominence before this. Realart, an arm of the Zukor octopus, reached out and grabbed Wanda off the DeMille tree, where she lyis been doing faithful leading business foi Wallace Rcid ind Bryant Wajhburn, and whe^e she ccl'utoided J. Hartley Manners' y'Peg o' My Heart" which, by the vvayVwe hope will 50on free itself oPiitigatiopx^nd be released. Miss or Mrs.^^=l-rawley's first individual vehicle will be "Miss Hobbs," a screen translation of Jerome K. Jerome's play. THE little daughJers-Aand almost-grownup nieces of ttfe girlli who used to wor5hip at the shaclbw-throhe of Francis X. Bushman, may hkve a nfcw idol in Ralph Bushman, husky Wi ai>4 heir of the exEssanay king. RaTphr a Christie leading man, isn't exactly handsome, but he seems an athletic and personable enough boy. THE Harold Lloyd company was on "location" in a small Southern California hamlet on the San Gabriel river. All work was stopped for a few minutes to watch an old fashioned colored baptismal service. Producer Hal E. Roach, Harold Lloyd and Harry "Snub" Pollard moved up close thit they might see and hear all that was taking place. One by one the candidates waded waist deep into the water for the solemn ceremony. Finally all had been baptized but one lone mammy. She moved cautiously down to the river's edge, touched her hands in the cold stream and then started walking away. "What's matter. Martha?" shouted the deacon, "Yo' hasn't got cold feet is yo'?" "No, sah," she answered, "An' that ain't all; ah ain't gonna have." GERALDINE FARRAR has put an end to her Goldwyn activities. According lo her present plans, she and Lou TcUegen will go abroafj' sometime this sum.mer. As to her future film plans: a persistent rumor has it that she is going' with the company that Theda IBara made famous. Farrar made one of the greater successes of a career studded with V^ersQil&l triumphs when she created the roleoT "Zaza" in the operatic version of this drama in the Metropolitan opera season of 'lo-co. THE frisky heroine of "Parlor, Bedroom, and Bath" and "Breakfast in Bed"— Miss Florence Moore — soon will make her flicker debut with Metro. YIJP. you're right — Lillian Gish will be "Anna Moore" in Griffith's production of "Way Down East." The heroine of Lottie Blair Parker's famous old melodrama is the real original, we might say, of all those persecuted girls Lillian has been playing in her screen career. Richard Barthelmcss will have the leading juvenile lead opposite Miss Gish. Robert Harron, whom many thought the logical hero of the rural piece, is a candidate for individual stardom. IF everybody on Broadway, New York, doesn't see "The Virgin of Stamboul" it won't be the fault of Universal's publicity department. The astute gentleman comprising it — by name Mr. Harry Reichenbach — recently concocted one of the best campaigns ever "pulled" in Manhattan. An Arabian Shiek, seeking Sari, a virgin of Stamboul, descended upon a surprised and flattered metropolis, registering at one of the better hotels with a retinue of servants and all sorts of mysterious-looking luggage. Sari, you see, was reported to be the missing heiress to several millions of Arabian dollars, and the fiancee of some Amir, or something, of Persia. Almost all the newspapers fell for it. BRYANT WASHBURN is round telling all his friends the latest cute remark of his well -advertised heir, Bryant Washburn IV., generally known as "Sonny." "Sonny" was to speak a piece at an entertainment. His mother toiled long and hard in an effort to teach him his lines, but in all his rehearsals he stumbled over them boldly. The night of the entertainment, however, the five-year-old youngster's inborn histrionic talent came to the surface and he conducted himself like a little hero. When the Father Washburn returned from his studio, his wife told him of the lad's success. But Wa.^hburn wanted to hear the story from his son's lips. "How did you get along, son?" he asked. "Oh." the little fellow answered. "The act went over bis! They called me back!" AN interesting phase of photoplay development is the recent purchasing of old plays first produced some years ago on the screen, for reproduction by different companies. Paramount bought "The Witching Hours" and other Frohman plays from Frohman Amusement Corporation, or Wm. Shcrrill. Christie bought "A Texas Steer," "A Bunch of Keys," "The Milk White Flag" and other old Hoyt comedies from Selig. \ll of thesr will be given new and much more elaborate presentations. Paramount will make over "Snobs," "The Travelling Salesman" and "Brewster's Millions" for Roscoe Arbuckle, and has already revived "The Sea Wolf." Universal will do "Jewel" again. The new "Jewel" of Clara Louise Burnham's book is Edith Robert*; the first one was Ella Hall. 81