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Show SCREEN STARS TO TRY 'JULIET' ON THE . FILMS Mary Pickford and Norma, Talmadge Both Will At- -tempt Role of Shakespeare's Shake-speare's Heroine HOLLTWOOn, Pep. 1. 'Romeo, oh Romeo, where art a couple of thoui" i , l Msry rickford and- Norma Tat-i madie may unite their silvery i vokfi In this plea. For both Mary iand Norma are going to film "Rn-mro "Rn-mro and Juliet." each, of cours. aft Juliet. Thle rivalry should prove Intsr-eetlng Intsr-eetlng to screen viewers. The competitors com-petitors in Shakespeare's moat romantic ro-mantic drama will be the acknowledged acknowl-edged two most popular wom-n or motion plrtyj'irJf . Marr inaiurally wants Doug Fairbanks to be hef Borneo on the screen ae well as at home In Beverly Bev-erly Hllle. (And what a balcony scene It would be with Doug, the leaping Mjlnakl of th phutopantomlme, the premier of all cl.mhere Normal Romeo will be that lithe young giant, Joseph Hchlldkraut. i dramatic sensation of New York's Broadway. 1 Schtldkraut Is now doing- his first work before the csmera In "Dust of Desire." an oriental story by Margaret Mar-garet Peterson, that Chestr Franklin Frank-lin and Frances Marlon are codt-i codt-i recti n a. And. In "Dust of Desire. I Schlldkrsut la playing opposite I Norma Talmadge. for nmxr srmxu. It was Schlldkrsut who suggested "Romeo and Juliet" to Norma Tal-mattge. Tal-mattge. He was eager to play Borneo Bo-rneo on th screen, and told Norm he'd like her as his Juliet. A few days later Joseph Schenck (who Is Norma-a husband as well as producer produc-er announced that "Romeo and Juliet" Ju-liet" would be her vehicle next spring. Mary Pickford was the first- to announce her plan to play Juliet. Her announcement came when ahe atKned Ernest Luhttsh. the Austrian Aus-trian spectacle-master, who directed direct-ed her In "Roalta." to direct her In three more plcturs. one a year. And the first was to be "Komio and Juilet." DIRK1TOH- et GOEsTlOW. It Is Interesting to note that the suggestion that Mary Pickford play Juilet originally came from Ferdinand Ferdi-nand Karle. the arttst-dlrector. Karl made the suggestion In self-defense self-defense after Mary announced ahe would play Marguerite In a film version ver-sion of "Faust." This prospect was rather disconcerting discon-certing to Karle. who had put more than a year's time and labor on es-ha es-ha native research In his preparations prepara-tions to present Ooethe's phlloaophi-cal phlloaophi-cal drama In motion picture form. Bo Karle publicly welcomed the lovely and popular Mary as a competitor, com-petitor, but at the same time pointed point-ed out that Marguerite waa hardly Mary a type of role and that the Faust" of Goethe had very little in say shout that feminine character charac-ter anyway. , . Ferdinand Earle urged that Mary appear an Juliet, a claalcal role he paid Shakespeare mght have written writ-ten especially for her. When letters came pouring Into Marv from her myriad friends, most f them taking the same stand. Americas sweetheart shruptly dropped her "Faust" plsns, on which Lubltsch had already done considerable work. fOMPETinOX. poor little Mery mets competition competi-tion whenever etie turns to the classics, II seems. Now here's Norma Nor-ma Talmadge as her rival. No state men I lias tome from the Pickford st tidio sliic Norma announced her Juliet ambitions, hut It Is unlikely Mary will give up this rheriehed idea. Juliet has always been a cause for rivalry among actresses. Last season sea-son saw Kthel Rarrymore and Jane Cowl presenting the role on the New York stage. And back in 191 two film versions of "Romeo and Juliet" were made, one with Theda Bara and the other with Francis X. Bushman and Beverley Bayne. |