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Screen Gossip
chat with the famous producer. It might also be casually mentioned that during a momentary pause in Chicago on his way West, Mr. Griffith severely jolted a lot of Triangle "fans" by saying to a newspaper critic: "I haven't seen a Triangle production in four months. I have never produced a Fine Arts picture, and the words 'supervised by David W. Griffith' were put on the screen without my knowledge. My time has been spent in making 'Intolerance/ which has occupied all my waking hours."
Remember Harry Lyons, one of the prominent members of the Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran Nestor Company? Don't be surprised if in the future you look in vain for his name on the cast of the Nestor comedies. You won't find it, but you will see a Harry Nolan mentioned. Rest easy; Harry Nolan and Harry Lyons are one and the same. Harry found it expedient to change his cognomen recently in order to avoid a political mix-up. In Los Angeles County, out in California, there is a State senator named Harry Lyons, and the two were continually getting then mail mixed up. Harry Lyons, the senator, kept getting the mash notes of Harry Lyons, the actor, and Harry Lyons, the actor, received daily invitations to speak at political rallies, to forward silver mugs to babies that had been named after him, and to hurry up this or that bill of interest to his local constituents, all of which were undoubtedly intended f o r John Emerson, who is
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Harry Lyons, the senator. At last, in desperation, the actor man went into court and had his name changed to Harry Nolan. Simple when you understand it, isn't it ?
Reference to the Fox organization calls to mind the fact that Harry Benham, known to every film fan since his days with Thanhouser, and more recently as a Universal star, is now in the employ of William Fox. Mr. Benham will make his debut as a Fox star opposite June Caprice.
Douglas Fairbanks and John Emerson, his director, are again a team. Emerson was loaned by Triangle to the Famous Players Company, and worked for nearly two months in the Eastern studio of that corporation. He is now back "on the lot" in Los Angeles, with smiling, happy Douglas Fairbanks, hard at work on some more comedies of the type of "His Picture in the Pa
back directing Douglas Fairbanks" pictur