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Show Mary Pickford as r Juliet With : Forrest Copvrlght. llll. In V 8. snd (Ireat Britain by the North Americas Newspaper Alliance.) i LOS AN'OKLES. Aug. II. Conald-erabls Conald-erabls wurprlsa has been occasioned hcra by ths forms! gnnouncsms.lt that Mary Pickford will make "Ha- , meo and Juliet as soon as sha com pletet Torothy Vernon of Haddog! J Hall1" Work will be begun upon I I the latter In A week or two. with 1 Alan Forrest, little Klckford'g hue- 3 rand In the male lead role. Ths , I pickford annnuncemett about "Ho-j .1 meo and Jttllet" has esused A stir I . because leea than a month ago Jo-i ( r-eph M. Rchenck announced that In j i March, when Joseph flrhlljkreiit re- i i turns from New York, he IntendeJj !i to make a production of "Itontea i sad Jnllsl" silt ssais Talnssdsai I I and Mr. S.hlldkraut In the tin- '( parts. pperiilatlon Is now rife whether both will proceed wltn their plans snd thereby openly con-' tend for screen supremacy. ' or I whether one of them will abandon ilia at heme and select another play.! Krnst Ijihits.h. under a new arrangement, ar-rangement, will direct Miss Pick- , ford In one picture every year, and i he la said already to have been engaged en-gaged for the Shakespearean tragedy. trag-edy. Marshall Nellan. under contract con-tract with Xioldwyn. will also direct , , one picture a year with Mlsa Pickford. Pick-ford. and It la he who will wield the meesThons fnr "lorothy Vernon Ver-non of Hatldoq Hall." I this feature fea-ture Clare Karnes will plsy Queen s Kllrabeth. KMCPHA'XT TO DIB. 1'nlversal -lty Is In moumlng. Charlie, nine-ton trained elephonl W w-hlch has sppesred In lHO film e plavs, must be killed st the Insistence Insist-ence of tne humane society. Chsrlle , Is 13 yeara old. but of late r ' has "goie bid" seversl times. Three j limes he pulled his chain loose from' ths concrete flooring and wrecked i several small houtiea on ths Vnlver- aal lot. and not long ago he nearly ; killed hla trainer. In spits of these occasional rares the big beast has been pet at the I nlveraal lot. of- t flclala are now wondering how they i can kill hltn Instsntly. for If he Is merely wounded or poisoned he Is i llkelv to run amuck and kill several peraons. Jamee Pyan. for manv years cast. Ine; director at the Wllllsm New York studios, hss been sent to the Fog Hollywood studios In -hs s.ime capacity. OlorlA Hwaneo.i. who has )i:st completed " the New York studios of the lsky company, will make another unnamed un-named feature there before, she rs-i turns to her horns In Hollywood. . Tola Nexrl. who has eompls'ed work In "The Bpsnlsh Hanrer," will leave soon for Yellowstone perk, fj'ie will bs Accompanied by Katnlya w ilHama - - '"", ' T WILL II K llflTMKIl. "I have been the family meal ticket for years, and have now nothing noth-ing left to show for mr yesra of hard work aa a minor.' declarea Mary Mlks Mlnter. former film stsr. who hsa served her mother. Mis. Chsrlotte ffhelbv. and her als'er. Margaret fhelby, with notice thst she v. til file suit for an accounting for more than l.0.o. "1 hate monev; I hae earned heaps of It, and 1 hsvs none of It now," she enys. Miss Mister, whose real name I la Juliet Itellly, left her mothers home last ttclober when she became of age. Nlie says her mother has. always eollec'ed her earnings, audi that she now wants an accounting of the more than l,inoum sns earned whlls shs s,so a lasky gtar. A big studio Is to be built at m Pear lake, about eighty miles from here. The lake Is at an elevation of about IO"o feel, la In a heavily timbered country, and Is In a mountain moun-tain range whlrh Is snow-covered nearly half of the year. It Is planned plan-ned to ue the studio and the lake country for making winter and Canadian Ca-nadian and Western scenes. Bv.nnir. ixvrr film. Itavmond Griffith, the young Ooldwvn liar, scores eirsln In "ited Lights." a Clarer.ce Hedger proJuc-tlon proJuc-tlon for lsts September release. Itd Mghta- la an adaptation of the stsge success, "The Ilesr Car.' and the story Is b'U'r li film form than It was as a isge play. In tula new production Mr Griffith dr ea even better work In the role of a "crime deflector ' than he did In Marshall Nellan a "Ths eternal J Three." I Bessie t.ovtj. In her work In "The I Magic Hkln." which Is now In the cutting room. Is said to be evei bet- p tr thsn she wss lit "The K'ernal L: rliree" In which she established W herself as a tragedienne. The Hal- I rr.c novel ha been conaiderably I hanred for screen purposes, even to ths use of a happy ending. I |