| Show I I I I WEEKLY E NEWS LETTER I II i iA A postgraduate ua applied to Harry B. B Harris the director for a aI part in What hat Can Y- Y Tou Yu u Expect Gladys Waltons Walton's forthcoming tion To further her cause she said kittenishly Another director just told me that I sU suggested a poem to him Was Vas It Annabelle Lee X asked Harris narrIs I How does that start eagerly asked the antediluvian ian Many and many years ears a ago o. o began besan the Universal director as the maiden maiden- stalked away A director friend of Norman Dawn WhO who is producing Mv My Iy Lady of th the Island starring Edith Roberts was wa s passing his opinion of ot the which was taken from a recent magazine maga masa- aloe zine ir story o y b by Beatrice a Its It's l a yb b big story Norman and d will hold hll the attention of the audience bu buit's but t its it's not plausible They rhey dont don't have an any y more mol mt crews on the Pacitia Pa Pa- i so 50 close to the American shore A dl day or two later the newspapers newspaper s i carried a sensational story of ot a mutiny y aboard a coastwise steamer not man many y I mites miles off the shores of Lower California Califor Califor- nia I Jack O OBrien O'Brien leading man who i is s I ng opposite Edith Roberts s in in M Mv y v sv Lady Lal v of the island f the he Universal feature fea- fea I tune ture being directed by y Norman n Dawn Is s being reminded of his first film tUm en engagement en- en while eng engaged ged at Universal l City Eleven years ears ago v when hen Jack was wasa a bo boy bol he Io appeared in a I. I reel one-reel drama at the imp studio on sixth Fifty street New ew York The Imp studio was the germ of the present Universal and there m most moat st of the big stars of the screen from Mary l PIckford down had their l' early camera experience When Jack OBrien O'Brien came to Universal to to- appear in the Edith Roberts Roberta pintor he found at the studio King Baggot Bag the former Imp leading man directing Carmel Myers and William Welsh a another Imp favorite playing with Priscilla Dean Harold Miller the handsome young California leading man who recently played opposite Gladys Walton Valton in the ersal Universal feature Desp Desperate rate Youth has been engaged to support this youthful youth youth- ful star in her her- next story What story What Can You r Expect which h will be starred at Universal City this week under the direction di di- di of ot Harry B. B B. B Harris The old expression As funny funny funny-as as crutch is coming home to lo Fred LeRo Granville the director Granville got his his his' feet tangled up trying to to- to follow tollow Frank Mayo fayo around the set act at Universal Universal sal City where where he is filming Three in a Thousand and fell tell with the custom custom- ar ary dull thud In falling he struck an attitude that would take take- a a contortionist contortion contortion- 1st seven years to learn He sprained a a a limb a leg limb limb- limb ta to b be by exact He lie now urges himself along llong on crutches Gladys Walton celebrated her eighteenth eight eight- Mn h birthday the other day f ing by starting start start- work ork on her sixth role Her latest feature is What Can You l- l Ex Et- a study of the crowing growing generation generation genera genera- tion from a a. recent Saturday Evening ening Post story by Alice L L. Harry Tildesley-Harry Harry lurry B. B h Harris arris will wield wIel the megaphone Eddie Eddie Polo Iho t thrill king wl will l start immediately on a series of six siz short shott reel rel features dealing with the further further adventures of Cyclone South Smith I original Western rn character which an he created for the screens a about ut three e years vears ago The new series will be he known Imo as The Hetu Return n of of Cyclone I Smith and will be directed by Jacques Jaccard who also produced the former thrillers at Universal City I I Carmel Myers has has seen ver very little sunlight for tor the past ten days as all I f the Hie he scenes In her hei latest feature The Scarlet Shawl have been shot hot at night and sho has spent the daylight hours it in it I sl sleep ep Tho bl big scenes of the story which is by Johnston McCully and directed dl- dl di I by Jack Conway occur during a a. moonlight fiesta in the early Califor Califor- I nia na days s. a. and the director has been taking taking tak tak- ing advantage of the clear nights to photograph the required e episodes Human Hearts which Universal will produce as a super feature under tho the dir direction cUon of Rollin Sturgeon was one of the perennial stage hits of a a. dozen years Jears ago It was written by Hal lIal Reid neld the father of Wallace allace Reid and played on the tho melodramatic circuit year jear ear after year jear ear with ever increasing I I popularity But its was not I due so much to Its strong situations and spine chilling climaxes as to the I I undercurrent of human interest and its wealth of domestic affection Sturgeon is s now selecting a cast to interpret the drawn character chu-acter roles loles f Tod Tad Bro Browning r who Is ls s now producing ing Fanny Herself at Universal City is s considering the production of a oneat one- one art act comedy for vaudeville using as his material the tho opening sequence In the l I Edna dna Ferber stor story v. v which he has been transplanting transplant ng to the films during the past two weeks This sequence is is' is j comedy of a wholesome wholesome a and hilarious I nature and and andIs is b being enacted by 1 layers I Iwho I who have made audiences laugh laugh- laughon on the I vaudeville and legitimate sta stage e. e Max Davidson as the meek Mr r. r Snits Edwards as the eccentric music teacher er E E. A A. A Warren Warrens Warrens' as as s' s the kindly I Rabbi Thalman and Grace Marvin as the motherly Molly w l I fit into the sketch If Browning decides to put It in vaudeville 1 More than than- 3 p people c p have have visited ted th the Monte Carlo Carl set used In the Von Stroheim production of Foolish Wives at Universal City during the past few days When the he first night shots were begun on this set the gates were thrown throw n open to the public and ana vast crowds availed d themselves s of ot the tIle opportunity to view the tire most elaborate structure ever erected for a 0 picture The I effect achieved in the scenes with with the the vast Monte plaza under the glare of scores of sun arcs and the hundreds of professional players augmented by bv bya a thousand smartly dressed men an and l women selected from nm among among n the Visitors visitors I tors is said to tobo bo be picturesque I IThe The entire zoological al collection of L-Ko L studios where Century comedies i iare are produced Is is being moved to the Universal City arena which will give i the worlds world's film capital the largest ass of of- wild animals In captivity The animals are being moved b by A. A C C. Stecker Sleeker chief of ot the Universal ersal City arena and and will be under his its c care rc at the big pig studio |
