Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

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As We Go to Press: <I The differences between Rodolph Valentino and the Famous Players-Lasky Company have been adjusted, so that Rudy is again a screen actor. By the time you read this, he is probably at work upon his first return-to-the-screen picture, Monsieur Beaucairej by Booth Tarkington. By the terms of the arrangement, Valentino will do two pictures for Famous, after which, on or about July i, his contract for Ritz-Carlton Pictures will begin. Monsieur Beaucaire will be made in the East, with Sydney Olcott directing. It is a romantic story of old Bath, providing Valentino with the picturesque role of a barber who masquerades as a nobleman for his night o' nights. € After Lynn Reynolds had shot the first exteriors of Janice MeredzthjMarion Davies'new production, a change of directors was made. Mason Hopper succeeded Reynolds. The cast includes Maclyn Arbuckle, Holbrook BJinn and Harrison Forde. OCecil de Mille has returned to the coast after the premiere of The Ten Commandments. He is now shooting Triumph, with Rod La Rocque in the leading role. ^William de Mille is in the East making Owen Davis' Icebound, with Richard Dix Lois Wilson in the leading roles. fflNita Naldi recovering from operation for appendicitis at the Lexington Hospital, New York City. OTheodore Roberts still seriously ill in Pittsburgh, where he was playing in Keith vaudeville. QMary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks reported to be going abroad for rest after completion of their present productions. flClara Kimball Young going on the stage in Trimmed in Scarlet, by William Hurlbut. HErnst Lubitsch announces that his second Warner Brothers production is to be a film version of Manon Lescaut. fIRex Ingram, now shooting the exteriors of Edgar Selwyn's The Arab in the Sahara, is to do Wassermann's The World 's Illusion next. Ingram says that in future he will do only two screenplays a year and that likely much of his production work will be done in the actual country of the story. OOfhcial announcement made that George Walsh is to be the Ben-Hur, and that production of the General Lew Wallace romance is to go ahead at once. 0 Two important additions have been made to the Ben-Hur cast. Francis X. Bushman has been signed to play the heavy role of Messala and Carmel Myers for the role of Iris. 0 Richard Barthelmess undergoes minor operation at Polyclinic Hospital, New York, and is rapidly recovering, fl The Harold Lloyds to make vacation trip to Europe, 0 Glenn Hunter soon to start on film version of Merton of the Movies, production being made in Hollywood by James Cruze. 0 Maude Adams to make film version of Aladdin in . colors. ffl Renee Adoree recovering from auto crash injuries in California. U George Fitzmaurice to make Cytherea in Paris and New York with cast headed by Lewis Stone, Alma Rubens? Mary Alden and Constance Bennett. C[ Dimitri Buchowetzski, the Russian director and maker of Peter the Great, is starting on Pola Negri's next picture, Men. 18