Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1919)

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Screen Gossip 295 commission. Any army recruiting officer can furnish details. Every little while we discover that another of our favorites in the screen world has yielded to the persuasions of the powers of the First National Exhibitors' Circuit. Marshall Neilan packed up his megaphone and went over to their side a while ago, and some of those who saw him act in "Daddy LongLegs" with Mary Pickford — a production which he also directed — rather hoped that he was going back to acting. But not so. He bought a number of wellknown books and plays as a starter when he signed his contract, and plans some new productions that will show what he really can do with a picture when he has his own wav. Famous PlayersLasky is to have a new studio before long. It's now being built at Long Island City, near New York, and it is to have, aside from the usual stages and other equipment, such luxuries as a separate projection room for each director, a fully equipped theater, a barber shop, hairdressing parlors, Turkish baths, clubrooms, a gymnasium, and various other little accessories. He is round and chubby and rosy, and he answers now to the name of Walsh, since he's been adopted by Raoul Walsh and Miriam Cooper, his wife, who are in California making a gigantic production of Longfellow's "Evangeline." And there's nothing about the youngster's smiling blue eyes to indicate the tragedy which gave him into the hands of the Walshes; if it weren't for the way he starts at loud sounds, like the slamming of a door or the bursting of an automobile tire, one never would know that the four-year -old youngster was a survivor of the Halifax disaster, in which his parents were killed. "He was staying w i t h relatives in New York when I s a w h i m first,'' Mrs. Walsh explained to me, "and I fell madly in love with him on the spot, and rushed away to get my husband. He felt just as I did about the little chap, and now he really and truly belongs to us, and we're all pergnno to each other." Micky " Neilan has a free hand now. fectly happy belon First we hear a rumor that William S. Hart is to return to the stage, and then we hear that he isn't. When we asked him about it he declared that if he was being besieged by theatrical managers he didn't know anything about it. "And I wouldn't return to the stage under any conditions," he went on. "I haven't signed with any company for next year, and I don't know that I shall: I still think I'd like to retire