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Show THE OGDEN POST Stud 10 Flashes William Demarest, who scored successes by reason of his excellent interpretations of difficult roles in "Finger Prints" and "The Cay Old Bird" starring Louise Fazenda, has been signed to a long term contract by Warner Bros. It was a somewhat dampened troupe headed by Charley of Chase, the Hal Roach star in Pathe fun-maker- a, comedies, who returned by boat from g San Diego after filming scenes for Charleys next vehicle aboard the S. S. Ruth Alexander. sea-goin- When Queen Marie sailed out of New York harbor she carried with her a complete pictorial record of her American trip presented to her by Pathe News for placement in the archives of the Kingdom of Roumania. Of all the honors and courtesies bestowed upon Her Majesty, the gift of this reel should prove the most lasting as a vivid recollection of her ban been in tar are Finar Hanson, Ward Crane, title .o "Fa,t and Furious.changed is Francis X. Bushman and Jane Keck-ley- . This un original himself. composition by In more than half of Anna Q. Nils-f-'- v ,.maA her last name is spelled Nilison. Miss Nilsson, who is now on long term contract with First productions as a featured player, and who, by the way, be reached care of that studio, may at California, gives the following to remember the proper spelling: Tin Swedish, she says, ana com? from the ancestral stock that orginally added son to a first name in order to form the name. Thus, John's son became family John-?o- n ani Nils, a common first name in Sweden became Nilsson Nils son. you see? Ns-tion- Bur-oan- al k, "a' Beautiful Billie Dove demonstrated her culinary ability on the set at J lrt National studios the other duy by turning out a goulash, a roast and a P,e that were voted distinctly palatable by Director Millard Webb, A1 Rockett, producing the aa well as the two other playerspicture, featured with Miss Dove Lewis Stone and Lloyd The picture is "Three in Hughes. and the viands were prepared The Hal Roach comedy upon which by the fair hands of Billie Dove while Mabel Normand is at work should be the cameras were grinding lustily. a Hale and Hardy" production. At Ian Keith, remembered for his outleast, Creighton Hale has the leading male role, and Oliver Hardy is also standing rolea in Sunya with Gloria of the cast. Eugene Pallette also Swanson and in "The Prince of Tempters, has been assigned the leading figures prominently. male role opposite Pasty Ruth Miller Without a doubt "Michael Strogoff" in her first starring picture for Warhas handed the moving picture indus- ner Bros, "What Every Girl Should try one of the biggest surprises of Know. trip through the United States. last year. Universal released this stirring melodrama from the pen of Jules Verne at a time when moving picture prognosticators had agreed that melodrama was a back number, that it had become subordinated to war pictures, sex dramas and farce comedies. Its chances were not regarded as much. But Universal ignored the prophets and set to work in its own way. When "Michael Strogoff" began to hit various strategic points in Universals carefully planned test runs, its strength and drawing power were received by the wise ones with a knowing smile. They knew that Universal bunch. 'i The next picture to be shown on Broadway l.y Warner Bros, will be John Barrymore in When A Man Loves. In this feature Barrymore is supported by Dolores Costello, the 'Varners beautiful and sensational star, who came to the front overnight leading woman to Barrymore in Tlie Sea Beast. Bess Meredyth made the adaptation and Alan Crosland directed. To the best cast that Universal ever assembled for a picture h&8 been added the name of Lucien Littlefield. This cast is the one interpreting John Willards The Cat "Matinne Ladies," one of the Twenty-- and the Canary now being filmed Warner winners, has been start- under the direction of Paul Leni. Here six ed on the Warner lot in Hollywood. are the others in the cast: Laura La Byron Haskins, camerman, won the Plante, Creighton Hale, Arthur Eddirectorial post and will start shoot- mund Carewe and Martha Mattox. ing as soon as a cast has been assembled. Universal, as a Christmas present for Reginald Denny, bought for him Rupert Hughes will be master of last Friday The Third Party, the ceremonies at Carl Laemmles sixtieth famous Taylor Holmes play of several anniversary banquet at the Hotel Bilt-- seasons ago by Mark Swan. The play has been held by the Shuberts at more, Los Angeles, on January 17. all-rou- nd Carl Idtcmmle will ho the honor guest and IHnigla Fairbanks and Mary Bickford will be host and hostess at a "Sixty Year" dinner to le given by the employees of Universal City, January 17. The date is the sixtieth birthday of the founder and president of Universal and, moreover, begins his twenty-firs- t year in the film industry. The dinner will be in the form of an alumni banquet to the players and directors of the industry who were associated with Mr. in the first days of his career as a film producer. famous in Mr. Mary Bickford, pictures in those days before her name was known to the public, will preside at the banquet. "The most photographed girl in the plays a prominent role in "Take It From Me, a Universal Reginald Denny production, and the girl is Jean Tolley. Miss Tolley acted as photographic model for advertisements for years, and saw her portraits reproduced in newspapers and magazines all over the world. It wras not until she entered pictures, however, that she had the pleasure of receiving credit for her likenesses. world The Story of My Life (Continued from Bag- 2) two blue Persian vases at the entrance gate to the doll residence. I haw digressed from my straight story long enough to show you that, odd though it may seem, my "dolly complex has persisted even up to the present time. Now to go back. My education in convents continued up to the time I was fifteen, and after that 1 had a tutor who came tu our house to give tm advanced studies. In HUt, our family moved to Chicago. An uncle of mine, Walter llowey, had lived in Chicago for some years anil was managing editor of the Chicago American. It was Uncle Walter who introduced me to W. D. Griffith, and the great director asked my mother if he might try me out for pictures. ljut she has had no experience in stage work, my mother truthfully She has played the piano explained. in recitals, but has never sung in public or taken parts in professional plays. A number of my featured players had no previous experience before they liegan screen work, said Mr. Griffith. Td like to give her a aix months trial in California and by the end of that time I ran tell whether 1 think she will lie successful or not. Of course, there were family conclaves over the offer. I will never forget how broad minded, how generous and kind my family were in discussing this subject. They showed no suspicious bigotry, or no prejudice - You get the feel of the Follies! All that is needed is to happen upon the set for An Affair of the Follies, First Nationals new picture featuring Lwia Stone, Billie Dove and Lloyd Hughes, while they are shooting scenes in the permanent theatre representing a Follies performance in full against the stage or acting as a proswing. fession. Their ehief concern was whether the venture would make me "A small Town Frincess," featuring I know that some young peoMadeline Hurlock and Billy Bevan, happy. are threatened and scorned and ple will be another item on the bill. This otherwise if they as much Sennett comedy marks the debut of as mentionmaligned to follow a stage wishing the fair Madeline as a featured Player, career, but were not dear my family For several years the vampire ae luxe that way. Even grandmother, of Sennett comedies, she blossoms you would think would he the who very forth as a stellar player for the first one 0 object the moat, waa not only time in this comedy. willing I should try my wings, but even offered to go to California and stay with me during my six months of trial performance. My father didn't like the idea too well, but I suppose he knew more about the dangers of the world and "Beau Geste," the photoplay which felt his duty as s protector. Mother comes to the Orpheum next Sunday pled for me. Its a great opportunity for four days, has Ronald Col man as for Kathleen," she said. "What if she stayed quietly at home and then had an unhappy marriage after all? 1 feel she would in some way blame us for preventing this opportunity. Now, Beau Geste Coming to Orpheum Sunday Lyceum Theater $20,000. Emory Johnson, ever since comOther Reginald Denny news this pleting "The Fourth Commandment, one of Universal's big pictures for morning Universal bought a plav next year, has been working on a for him entitled Completely At Sea" police picture entitled "The Arm of by Gladys Lehman. Kingsley Benedict has been added to Dennys curthe Law." rent picture, "Slow Down," now being Beatrice Van has completed the directed by Melville Brown, adaptation of Owen Davis' farce, Beware of Widows. Wesley Ruggles .Nat Ross has finished his first picis only waiting until Laura La Plante ture of the new "Collegians" series, finishes her role in "The Cat and the written by Carl Laemmle, Jr. It is Canary" to start production on this entitled "Crimson Colors." Broadway theatre success which starFor the supporting cast in the new red Madge Kennedy. Charles Puffy series of Octavus Roy Lynn Reynolds will make one more Cohen stories, Harry Sweet has nomHoot Gibson picture entitled "Hey, inated Gloria Grey, Arthur Rankin, Hey, Cowboy " before undertaking Lydia Yeamans Titus, James Brad"The Big Gun" by Richard Barry. The bury and Bud Jamieson. cast of "Hey, Hey, Cowboy" consists A dispatch comes post haste from of Nick Cogley, Kathleen Key, Wheeler Oakman, Clark Comstock, Hollywood to the effect that after Mills Davenport, Monte Montague, interviewing a score of available blondes Johnny Ilines ' said he preJim Corey and Slim Summerville. ferred Edna Murphy, and promptly Norman Kerry celebrated New signed her to play the leading femiYears day by starring The Claw nine role opposite him in his forthcomby Cynthia Stockley under the direc- ing First National picture, "All tion of Sidney Olcott. Aboard." Others engaged for the supporting cast are, Sojin, Frank Ilagney, Reginald Dennys current feature, Babe London, James Leonard and lots of horses and camels. SATURDAY Tom Tyler Wild to Go Cor-inn- NOW PLAYING Thursday, Friday and TOU Saturday Constance Talmadge stars in the role of a cook, with Antonio Moreno enacting the part of a rich American artist in her newest First National picture, The Vamp of Venice, first called "Carlotta," the production of which has just been started in California under the direction of Marshall Neilan. The story is by Hans Krsly, who wrote "Her Sister From Paris, in which Miss Talmadge achieved a hit. if wv ill low i.rr to she un fvl . Hut ' didn'tgi, giv,thin ihiim-cAnd if she fails, Mu will at h'Hst h o thr s;it isfart ion of she tritti, hikI she uni then hin'umg ilismi-- s the id-of a siTivn career fnuii Imr iniiul hi1. I di, hat her s.sw the logic in th.it fur he knew t lint it only brings life mm t to Htiihlmriily thwart children's dearest desires. So I started out mi my screen career in the very happiest ami best way, with the inspiring assurance that my fumily loved me and believed in me and were going to la enthusiastic over my successes ami sympathetic over my failures. 1 hat's the sort of home morale a girl needs! And so grandmother und I set out for California. Of course the ami country the climate were all new and strange to us, hut we had no trouble st, hut we rented a house up in the far from the Fine Ait studio. Mr. Griffith's old studio ucd to occupy the ground at the corner of Sunset and Hollywood Boulevard, hut now rows of smart shop have since been built along that front-iigalthough part of the old buildings occupies the hack part of the ground ami independent companies , produce there. My. 1 can tell you 1 was thrilled to in see Lillian Gish and Bessie real life. 1 had long admired these two girls on the screen. Dorothy and Lillian Gish amt Constance Talmadge were at the studio too, and these three girls hail already liecomc Griffith stars. Pauline Stark, Mildred Harris, Carmel Myers, Alma Rubens, Winifred Westover und Bessie Ioive were also there when I first came west. Mr. Griffith used Alma Rubens for vamp roles and Pauline, Mildred and mylearning to love California. Grand- self were always cast us the little mother am! I had no relatives in the girls. - hi-- wi f"o: hills ami not el.-ii.- " Mum-thin- c, COLONIAL THEATRE Saturday YANKEE SPEED With Kenneth McDonald. PUPPY LOVE TIME A Pulhocomcdy, Sunday and Monday THE ONLY WAY Thu dramatic version of Dickons groat story, A Tale of Two Cities. SMITHS BABY It the title of the Mack Sennett comedy. Tuesday and Wednesday LOVES BLINDNESS An Elinor Glyn production featuring Antonio Moreno, luulino Starke, Lilyan Tashmun and Sam De Grasse. WIDE AWAKE Featuring Liege Conley. Thursday and Friday A IIEKO OF THE BIG SNOWS Featuring Rin Tin Tin and Alice Calhoun. ON THE FBONT PAGE Is a Pathccomedy featuring Lillian Rich. Jack Daugherty in The Runaway Express the hero, and a list of actors and actresses that make up one of the most important casts of any film in the MONDAY Beauty and the Bad Man last decade. The picture is based upon life in the Foreign Legion and was adapted from a book of the same name by Maj. Christopher Wren. The prologue n of the film shows three child actors taking the rolea of the three brothers about whom the story is written. Then the story shifts to the present, with Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton and Ralph Forbes tak ing the roles of the brothers. Noah Beery is also a member of the brilliant group of film celebrities play' ing the role of Sergt. Lejaune, the cruellest beast and bravest soldier of the Legion. William Powell, Alice Joyce, Mary Brian, Norman Trevor, Victor McLag-leand others have important roles, Much attention has been paid in the film to the desert effects, and Brenon, the director, has introduced many pic turesque scenes. In one scene thousands of colorful Touaregs are seen sweeping across the sand plains; in another scene a detachment of the Foreign Legion rush es over the desert to relieve a fort which has been attacked. The magnificence of the desert and its tragedies are both emphasized in the picture. The film will be shown first Sunday night and then will be shown twice a day thereafter. STARTING SUNDAY ANOTHER GREAT SHOW PETEAD.KVNCS Per-civ- al TUESDAY well-know- Constance Talmadge ' in The Duchess of : A Buffalo First National Picture WEDNESDAY Corinne Griffith n Into Her Kingdom A First National Picture THURSDAY Dorothy Mackaii Subway Sadie Richard Talmadge in Broadway Gallant scenes filmed at a but now abandoned track at Riverside appear in Universal's Take It From Me," starring Reginald Denny. The old track was brought to life and peopled again with crowds, bookmakers, jockeys and horses for a day during the making of the scene. California, once very enthusiastic over the sport of kings, passed a law against betting some years ago, and its many tracks have fallen into disrepair since that time. Horse-racin- once-famo- r SUNDAY - Don Ryan, former Los Angeles newspaper man and magazine writer, who recently transferred his writing talents to the screen, has been engaged e by Producer E. M. Asher to title Griffiths most recently completed First National starring vehicle, The Lady in Ermine." Ryan has just completed the titling of "The Overland Stage," the latest Ken Maynard feature for Charles R. Rogers. 3 g us Adapted iy WI LL M. RITCHEY DIRECTED IV GEORGE Pooovcioiv SEITZ metropolitan' PICTURES CORPORATION Grant Clarke, head of a large New York music publishing house and one of the most successful lyric writers in the country, has been engaged by Edward Small to write the titles in the film version of the famous old stage play, "McFaddens Flats," which will be a First National release with Charlie Murray and Chester Conklinin the William Boyd, the popular Cecil B. DeMille star, who was featured in The Volga Boatman, in a Peter B. Kyne story of the West which is now running in Colliers Magazine. Added Features A New Snookum's featured roles. "The Lady in Ermine," from the famous operetta by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernest Welisch, has been transferred to the screen with Corinne Griffith starring as the Countess Mariana Beltrami. The story is laid in the year 1810 at the time of the Austrian invasion of Italy, and gives Miss Griffith one of her most romantic vehicles to date. Appearing in support of the B. The life of Ogden centers at the White City Garden's famous ballroom ; dancing every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday to Jack Passeys Greater Band. Many big improvements and rides are promised to be added to this most popular park this coming spring and summer. Latest Pathe News Comedy On the Stage Edward Hill, Concert Pianist NO ADVANCE IN PRICES Its Fireproof |