Screenland (Sept 1922–Feb 1923)

► MOU.VWOOO C*k**OAM*« IB) oily wood neth Harlan, there must have been at least an understanding between them. That's etiquette in Hollywood. You always deny your engagements and marriages until they prove them on you. Then you say, oh how happy you are! Now Marie is being deliciously happy over her engagement to Kenneth. Laskv headquarters seem to signify that the Valentino contract may be sold to Goldwyn, with Lasky holding a share in the profits of all Valentino pictures made with Goldwyn. Goldwyn wants Valentino. That much is certain. And if it gets him. it's dollars to doughnuts that Rudie •plays the title role in the Hen Hur production, for which Goldwyn is said to have paid a cool million. Significance is lent to the situation by the fact that June Mathis, Rudie's loyal friend, who did the continuities for his biggest successes. The Four Horsemen and Blood and Sand, is to adapt the storv. And though the Culver City studio has had the screen rights to the story for some time, they have delayed choosing the star. Lew Cody to Play "Rupert." REX INGRAM'S Prisoner of Zen da went over so big with the fans, if not with the critics, that Myron Selznick felt an inspiration coming on and went out and bought the screen rights to the sequel of the Zenda story, Rupert of Hentzau. And thanks be, he secured no other than Lew Cody to play the part of the fascinating scoundrel, Rupert. Ramon Navarro, who was Rupert in the Ingram picture, made him out a fop, merely a ladies' man. The real Rupert was a man as well as a villain. Bert Lytell will be Rudolph Rassendyll and Victor Heerman will direct. Old Plot Bobs Up Again. EnID BENNETT, who appeared so charmingly as Maid Marian in Robin Hood, will have the feminine lead in Your Friend and Mine, from the Willard Mack story. She will play the part — that dear, familiar old part — of the neglected wife of the successful business man who thinks of nothing but making money. "Robin Hood" in Burlesque. Naturally, a big success like Robin Hood cannot be permitted to escape without at least one burlesque. Bull Montana is filming a take-off on the Fairbanks film that he admits himself is a knock-out. Rob 'Em Good is to be the title, and, of course, Bull will play the sprightly lord of Sherwood Forest. Star Deserts Screen. Bryant vvashburn and his pretty little wife, Mabel Washburn, have deserted the film colony to do a turn in vaudeville. They are taking a very clever little skit around the Orpheum circuit, while the little Washburns are staying with a doting grandmother. Marie Accepts Kenneth's iv >i Ring" MARIE FREVOST has gone and done it. After denying it all this time, too ! We might have known that when she protested so hotly against rumors of an engagement with Ken Agnes Steps on Gas. W ITH Wally Reid temporarily, at least, hors du combat with Klieg eyes, etc., Agnes Ayres is carrying on with the racing pictures in which Wally's soul delighted. In her newest picture she will have to do 105 miles an hour In her Deusenberg racer, in competition with real racing drivers. The racing scenes will be shot out in the Mojave desert, where Agnes will have lots of room if she starts to skid. W Jazbo Has Temperament, Too. E do hope the camera caught this one. When Max Linder, in filming hi^ The Three Must-Get-T heirs parody <J When star meets star, then comes the htg-of-war. Pitta, Neon demanded the death of all the cats at Lasky' s. Gloria Swans ou protected them. The cats arc still thriving. 43