Pictures and the Picturegoer (Jan-Dec 1924)

AUGUST 1924 Pictures and PichjreWer 51 VV/e had an interesting chat with Gloria Swanson, who visited London on her way to Paris to buy frocks for her new film The Woman of Fire. She was horrified to find that The Shulamite was only just about to be released. " You haven't seen any of my good ones," said she, plaintively. Gloria, who has worked very hard to live down the " Gorgeous " which has been tacked on to her for so long, inintended to see most of London's Art Galleries before she left. A long interview appears in the September issue. A lice Terry went to watch Blanche ^^ Sweet at work on Tess of the D'Urbervilles. During a lull in the proceedings Blanche asked Alice regarding the rumour that the Rex Ingrams were going to quit movies and going to live in Algiers, where Rex bought a house recently. Quoth she : " First I hear that rumour Then I hear you will star in his next picture and that it will be made abroad. Then it's ' Rex Ingram will produce The World's Illusion in New York.' What really are you going to do next?" Alice replied with a gesture indicative of complete bewilderment. " I don't exactly know what Rex will do next," said she. Said Blanche, with a similar shrug, " I understand. Mickey's Irish too." As a matter of fact Alice Terry is to appear in The Great Divide, with Conway Tearle opposite. ""The latest regarding Peter Pan is that A Mary Hay is to be Peter. That's only a rumour. These are facts. Herbert Brenon has been chosen to direct it, and Willis Goldbeck, a movie journalist recently turned scenario writer has been entrusted with the script. We'd have preferred Neilan to direct, ourselves, but Mickey wouldn't attempt it. He said, in an interview, that it's a task beyond even him. Dlanche Sweet is the only movie star *-* within our ken who doesn't want to play " Peter Pan." Bravo Blanche ! We always knew you were one of the most level-headed girls on the screen. f riffith announces he will engage en^~* tirely new stars for his next production. Carol Dempster has signed a contract with another film company. /^ne-release runs seem the order of ^ the day in the West End. The Marble Arch Pavilion, which was the pioneer of this sort of thing, has now been followed by the Tivoli and the Rialto. It is nice for the London fans, but makes their country cousins green with envy. VY/'hen Billie Dove and her husband, ** Irvin Willat, who directed her in Wonders of the Wasteland, were on location in Death's Valley, they discovered on the edge of that strangely beautiful place, an Indian, living on an oasis of his own manufacture. Death Valley, you may have heard, came by its ominous title because of its desolation, but this Indian had brought soil, upon which he grows his own food. He boasts also of a water hole for his cattle and swimming pool for himself and his family. Tn The Lost World (Conan Doyle's) which is being filmed by First National, appear Lewis Stone, Bessie Love, Wallace Beery, Lloyd Hughes, Arthur Hugh, Bull Montana and Charles Murray. paramount are going to film Marie Corelli's Sorrows of Satan. It was filmed in England some time ago with Cecil Humphreys as " Satan," and negotiations were in process between Marie Corelli and Paramount ever since 1918. Llarrison Ford is supporting Hope *■ Hampton in her new picture, The Price of a Party; so are Mary Astor, Dagmar Godowsky and Arthur Edmund Carewe. Dola Negri's next is titled Forbidden Paradise, and Lubitsch will direct. The fans say it will be Paradise, without any objective, now Pola and Ernst are together again. f ecil De Mille's latest is called The ^ Golden 'Bed. Comment is needless.