Screenland (Sept 1922–Feb 1923)

on the Dumas romance, wished to ride into Paris on a dashing steed, he choose a sway-back mule. Mule's name was, and still is, Jazbo. Jazbo behaved like a perfect gentleman until* the comedian chanced to touch him with his spur. Whereupon Jazbo went up in the air. Literally. The company was too busy shrieking with laughter to aid poor Max, until Jazbo, with one final heave, shot Linder over his head onto the hard, hard ground. Result: a nice ten-day vacation for the company while Linder vacationed in the hospital. cuing little Frankie Lee from a burning building. It was real fire, too. Just as Glass leaped from the second story the beam on which he had been balancing collapsed. Glass landed neatly — in a nest of rattlesnakes that had been driven from the old house by the flames. Four cameras trained on Glass recorded a streak that was a rattlesnake lunching off Gaston's ankle. victim or a suicide. The police have ' not yet identified the corpse. Pola Emotes in Private Only. On an enclosed stage, where every entrance is barred, Pola Negri made her first Hollywood picture, Bella Donna. All the other Lasky stars have performed in the open, before the enthralled gaze of visitors fortunate enough to reach their sets. Miss Negri made positive demands for strict privacy and in addition requested continuous music, setting a high mark for temperamental peculiarities. Chaplin to Wield the Megaphone. Edna purviance, Charlie Chaplin's leading woman, is becoming a star. Her first offering is an eightreel play, which Chaplin himself wrote and is directing. The story concerns a man's love for two women, the destructive influence of one overcome by the other's purity. It will be interesting to see the Chaplin hobby be come his work. Rodolph Stops the Show. RODOLPH VALENTINO has always refused to make personal appearances, but he made one that wasn't on the cards the other evening in New York. Rudie sneaked into the Rivoli Theatre to see how his new picture, The Young Rajah, went over with the audience. Somebody recognized him; the news that he was in the audience spread, and the crowd applauded until Rudie had to get up and say a few well-chosen words. Charles Ray Turns Auctioneer. Charles ray auctioned off a number of baby pups at the Hollywood Dog Show recently for the benefit of wounded veterans of the World War. Almost every prominent person in filmdom entered a dog in the show. <1 Jean Acker has petitioned the court to allozu her to keep the name of Mrs. Rodolph Valentino. "You are not Mrs. Valentino," says Rodolph. "You're Mrs. Antonio Guglielmi, and you have no right to my stage name." Divorce Put on Business Basis. Dorothy devore, Christie comedienne, is one of the latest on the divorce roll. She sent a note for hubby, asking to please leave the key at the bungalow. The divorce idea in Hollywood is being put on a businesslike basis. "And I'll bet that the fans will say it was a papier mache snake," mourned Gaston, nursing his swollen ankle. "It didn't have a papier mache bite, anyway." Jean Would Keep Rudie's Name. JEAN ACKER'S recent petition to keep the name of Mrs. Rodolph Valentino is not meeting with any enthusiastic concurrence from Rodolpho. Valentino's attorney immediately filed an answer for his client, stating that Miss Acker had no right, by law or equity, to change her name from Mrs. Antonio Guglielmi to Mrs. Rodolph Valentino. Her only intent, the attorney declared, was to profit by the publicity value of her former husband's name. Snakes Get Gaston Glass. LlFE is so interesting in the movies. Just one thing after another to keep the movie star amused. Take Gaston Glass' experience. The other day Gaston was doing a boy-stood-on-theburning-deck scene in The Hero, res Bruin Discovers Corpse. ToM FORMAN stumbled upon a tragedy in real life recently while shooting some scenes for his new picture, Are You a Failure? The scene called for a bear that disappears into the woods with a dog at his heels. When the camera started grinding, Bruin ambled over to a clump of trees and began nosing about the roots. He could not be persuaded to abandon his interest in the dry leaves ; so Tom Fomaan investigated. Half concealed among the trees was the dead body of a man hanging from a limb, a murder Charlie Engaged Again? POOR Charlie Chaplin! Let him even so much as speak prettily to a lady, and presto! The papers announce an engagement. The latest to protest that she was "just a very good friend of Mr. Chaplin's" is Eleanor Boardman, Goldwyn featured actress. In which she follows in the footsteps of May Collins, Claire Sheridan, Lila Lee, Peggy Joyce Hopkins, et alia. Real Drammer for Phyllis. PHYLLIS HAVER, perhaps the most luscious of all the peaches that have bloomed on the Mack Sennett lot, is soon to appear at the head of 44