Screenland (Sept 1922–Feb 1923)

her own company. Sennctt is being very mysterious about the name and nature of the picture, except to say that it just suits her. A bathing suit, perhaps ? Made. is swanking in a regular How Movies Are Lionel belmore around the Goldwyn lot Knights-of-Pythias uniform, his manly chest covered with medals. He has a featured role in Jazzmania. "What are all the medals for?" asked Richard Dix. "Search me," said Lionel. VVc haven't got that far in the script yet." Ralph to Be Fond Papa? RALPH GRAVES, the handsome youth who caused so many susceptible feminine hearts to palpitate in Griffith's Dream Street, is lugging home weighty volumes on "The Care and Training of Infants" these days. The stork has a calculating eye on the Graves household. Mrs. Graves was an actress on the legitimate stage before her marriage two years ago. Stanlaws' Criticism Is Sensation. All Hollywood chuckled when the Los Angeles Herald, a Hearst publication, reprinted from the January Screenland the Penrhyn Stanlaws story, What's the Matter With Our Hollywood Women — and left out all mention of Mr. Stanlaws' criticism of Marion Davies, Cosmopolitan star. "Marion Davies' face has a fault that is not common among beautiful women," commented Stanlaws in Screenland. "Her brows are too low, too close to the eyes. The eyes are colorless, and the nose too flat on the end." C. B. Buys Fast Launch. SPECIALIZING in concealed telephones and bathroom dramas has its compensations — financial ones. C. B. DeMille has just launched his speedy motor-boat, Miss Cecelia, in Los Angeles harbor. Walter Hiers Is Wally's Successor. The best joke of the month is Walter Hiers' elevation to stardom to fill none other than Wallace Reid's shoes. A year ago who would have thought that the rotund Walter could ever be thought of in the same breath as Wally, the Perfect Lover? Wallace has of late been going over to the farce drama, and when illness prevented him from taking the starring role in Mr. Billings Spends His Dime, Lasky turned over the role to the other Paramount comedian, Hiers. Walter's excellent work in recent pictures has earned him the promotion. The promotion comes as a nice wedding present, by the way, as Walter was married on December 28, in Syracuse. N. Y. The bride was Miss Adah McWilliams, a wealthy society girl. Would Snatch Rudie's Crown. A.NOTHER candidate for the Valentino laurels is with us. Charles dc Roche (yes, he is a count) recently burst upon a palpitating Hollywood, clad in shrieking checks and a worldweary expression. His press agents shucked him of the checks and dressed Lubitsch to Direct Mary. The rumor is abroad in Hollywood that Mary Pick ford has engaged Ernst Lubitsch to direct her in Dorothy Vernon of H addon Hall. If true, it means that Mary will be really directed for the first time in years, as she has done most of the directing herself of late. It is said our Mary wants a director whom she cannot boss. A Charles Dickens Just Loved "Peaches." STORY that is causing many chortles over the spaghetti in the film colony is that anent Peaches Jackson's mother and one Mr. Dickens. Mrs. Jackson, in talking to a newspaper reporter, resented the fact that Peaches was not cast in Oliver Twist. "If Mr. Dickens could have had his way, Peaches would have had a good part in the picture," declared the good lady. "Do you mean Charles Dickens ?" exclaimed the astonished reporter. "Oh, yes, Mr. Dickens was out here all last summer, and he thought Peaches was a little genius." q The owner of this Louis XIV bedroom is the young man sticking his head so coyly from behind the door. We hasten to add, however, that Harold Lloyd docs not sleep in this rose and gold boudoir. It is merely a Quest chamber in his palatial Hollywood home. * Photo by Stagg. Art Demands Such Sacrifices ! BOB FRAZER, whom you will remember as the toreador in Mae Murray's Fascination, is complaining of his new role in Jazzmania being hard on his feet. "My pants are so tight I don't dare sit down," says Bob, who wears a most gorgeous white and gold uniform. before to see spilled him in a more subdued suit they permitted the reporters him, but Charles' exuberance over into his conversation. He informed the press that Valentino was a pretty boy, but that he, Charles, would take great pleasure in showing the ladies of America what a real, continental heart-smasher was like. It is said the irreverent of Hollywood have dubbed the blithe Charles "Lasky 's mistake." Enid Bennett to Play Priscilla. ENID BENNETT looked so pretty as Maid Marian in Robin Hood that Charles Ray immediately signed her up, to play Priscilla in his new picture, The Courtship of Miles Standish. Bert Loves His Art. BERT LYTELL has joined the ranks of drug-store blondes. Honest, girls, he has. Bert just naturally hates and despises wearing a wig. His new role as Rudolph Rassendyl in the Selznick picture, Rupert of Hentzau, called for a blonde shock of hair. So Bert invested in some peroxide and has bleached his brown locks. Moreno Supports Mary Miles. INSTEAD of pinch-hitting for Valentino, as Hollywood gossips predicted,. Antonio Moreno is playing second fiddle to Mary Miles Minter, in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. This is the last picture Mary Miles will make for Paramount, as her very remunerative contract, calling for a salary of $7,000 each and every week, has expired. (Continued on page 70)