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Show IUTTLE YARNS ABOUT FILMS, STARS, PLAYS AND LIFE IN MOVIES . I I Br JAHE8 W. DEAN. NEW YORK. Juno 17 You want -W a lob in the movies. If you don t H somebody you know docs. The on? I tiuestlon asked thousands of time- in V fan mail Is "Whal nro my r-hancos oi cttlnR Into Ihc movlrH" ' This ques- tion iK usually prefaced with a dc- scrlptlon of the !ipiranl. Robert H. Melntyre, easting fllfSc- tor for Ooldwyn. recently looked over fl 1600 applicants. Ho chose two, Ele:i- nor Boardman of New Y..rk and WU- Hani Hainen of Stanton, Ya. Miss Hnardm;Mi Ik 2 1. five fopt six. I bax gray eyes and brown hair and ; T.-elphs 125 "pounds Haines is 2 2, six foet. has black hah arid hrown eyes and weighs 172 Few sue. casful screen actresses are taller than Miss Tioardman Height i.- the most Important factor. Face, figure, carriage and that vaun 0,1 tribute known as "personality ' tti largelv dependent on heltrht. J Maay feminine applicants were ' more prepossessing in the flesh thin Vlisa lioardman But they dldn'l H screen well. Her flrt screen tests unfavorable. A make-up expert thought the fault was In her makeup make-up He attended to that and on her -econd test she gained Mclntyres ap-H ap-H proval. Well, what did these fortunate :vbung people gain11 Stardom" No The arc now working US extras and fining to school for six months. At the end of that time they may be given small parts In pictures. I lt'6 a hard, long grind to movie stardom these days. If that is your goal, don't go to Hollywood unless you have the wherewithal for board and lodging for six months of unem ployment I Let those who consider the stage ji higher form of ait than the screen attend a showine of Sonn nu! ard Barthelmcss' latest release The MAge plav met with indifferent success. suc-cess. The film is Barthelmess' greatest great-est vehicle and probably will be recorded re-corded as one of the great pictures of the year. The stage was so limited in lis scope of action that the story was padded with song and dance number; to make it entertaining The film is a. far more graphic presentation Barthelmess' Bar-thelmess' sincerity and sense of senti- I mental balance make the picture a dramatic masterpi' Roscoe Arbuckle. since he has been banned b Will Hays as a Him acto;-. has written a script for a conudv called "Th. Vision" and has pffered It to Buster Kcaton for production. Agnes Avres. like Gloria Sw ineon TPon stardom through t he merit of her acting Now. like Gloria Swanson. she Is making a style mannequin of herself. Thus she detracts from the quality that won her favor In The Ordeal" she changes rostumc for v- I ery scene and in most eases iooks as ML If 'she wer preparing to attend a dog. M flht. R AT STI DIO Ki: YHOL.ES. W L. J Gasnier has started to film W " Rich Men's 'Wives." BB' BBJ m Claire Windsor has named her new Hi wire-haired terrier "Radio " Say- It 9r hair acts a? antenna. w ... n It took more than ten weeks to film 9 the flood Scene for The Town That God Forgot." pSJflBJ B; Marilyn Miller says she may ap- B pear in one picture with Ja k Pick- H ford, to whom she i.-- engaged M; Maurice Tourneur. now directing1 j the filming of "The Christian," played I 400 roles on the French stage before: i entering the movie i . j Mae Busch, who has always ap-j nearcd in films as a vamp, plays thei role of a minister's daughter in "The1 Christian " I ... Too many cooks spoil the broth,! f igurativ;iy and elnetjraphlcally speak-1 Ing. The proof Is In the celluloid pudding pud-ding served to the public under the title of "Golden Dreams." Zane Grey's story only suggested the plot One director and three asslst- ant directors and three film editors eollaljorated in the production. The rrsul: is a picture of hop-skip-and-a-juuip continuity the firs! thou-; vind feet serving merely for the in- t troduction of characters Impolitely interrupted in-terrupted by flashes of pleasant sren-j ei v fnVtflrinf a box hedge and a shaggy dog. neither of whLch have anything to do with the stor . The slorv Is melodramatic A i Spanish Villain seeks to wed an heiress 'to dellwr hlmsolf (rorn financial troubles trou-bles She Is engaged to another. For I the sake .if melodrama the hero must be put In danger of hit. life and then eventually defeat the villain and win : the. girl. I This plot is evolved with several I SltUatlOfla that are calculated to put the Spectator In suspense A heavy , pulley Is dropped from the top of an oil derrick narrowly missing the hero A revolver is hidden In a cabinet clock wllb n device to discharge it at a certain hour A monkey from a clr. us eti into the room and plays with the bund of the clock dls barg-Ing barg-Ing the revolver prematurely. A hireling of (he villain Is forced to confess hv being thrown into ft cag( with a hungry tiger The hero defeats flown or more of the villain's vil-lain's gang in a rough-and-tumble fight, ''the flee m panic when anl-mals anl-mals of the circus are turned loose. The hero. With his heroic right arm I in a heroic sling, takes the heroin 'heroically Into his ordinary left arm in the final fado-out. , AO Oll LATION. Moments of suspense in "Golden DfeamS" are ineffective because the action is not accumulative. Each thrilling episode Is a separate crisis The best Illustration of accumulative accumula-tive action which comes to mind Is Tachaikowskv's "1812" overture. That Is an account In inusl.' of how the natives of Moscow fired their City after Napoleon had occupied the Kremlin and forced the French conqueror con-queror to withdraw Here action is plied upon action until the story ends in ..ne crashing I male thai makes the most unmusl- I oal s oil realize drama Is being en a ted In Sound and rhythm. . i I believe many movie directors could if i n (Irfinlt. Idea of continuity continu-ity and dramatic accumulation through a study of "1812." t .GANTVOOUT Carl Gantvoort Is the hero In ' Gold en Dreatna.' He Is h finished actor, j He is handsome Athletic. Heroic in stature. He has not yet attained a place of great popularity because of the Inherent weaknesses of the ve-I ve-I hides In which he has appeared. A DeMllle, a Griffith or an Ingram could make of him a great star in one picture. pic-ture. . . OCEAN OF cixns Th.' most unusual scenic picture this writer has Been Is Robert C. Bruce's Mv Country." One sequence of thai was taken from a mountain peak above the clouds The clouds roll by. billow upon billow, like some groat ocean breaking upon the mountain sides. The surge of water upon a rocky shop- se ms to he reflected ' the sky STUDIO GOsslP. "The Son of Madame Sans-Gene," an IfalKn-made picture, wll be released re-leased 'n this country by Goldwyn under un-der the title, "A rauohter of Paris' I'hiyton Hamilton Is editing it. "The Face in the Fog," a magazine maga-zine story, is being filmed under the direction of Alan Cropland For those who like llmplloity In titles "John Smith Thats th name of Fugene ORriens next a Three men sat down on a grae-stone. grae-stone. The clock In the church tower pointed to 20 minutes till 12. It was' eW Year's Eve. The) Were three human wreck?, jthrown together in their sodden m. -lery Each with a bottle partly tippled tip-pled .ni.;: brain partU twisted, they waited for the stroke of the clock to drink a curse to the new year. One of theni Was David Holm who ! despite a cynicism born of u Wasted life, still possessed a sense of humor, i "I'll tell you a little story to go With the gravestones." he said And this 4.-- the ftory he told: Holm had a friend. Geller, another wastrel who entertained a peculiar I fancy. Geller believed that a dead wagon made the rounds of the unl-. vere stopping wherever there wna sorrow Or crime, or despair, to gathn up the souls of the new dead Whoever died on tho stroke of midnight or a new year was assigned to drive the wsgon for the next year And so Geller always refrained from drink on New Year Ev He took no chancer with Death on that night But it had been his lot to die on the stroke of 12 the previous New Year Eve and now If his belief were true, ho would be driving his grisly cart waiting to be relieved of his gruesome task. Th" telling of thai story amuoed Holm He laughed In n. derision as he ended it. Then a Salvation Army worker . nine to him. A lassie, who had tried to be Holm s friend, was dying and wanted to see him When Holm refused to go, his companions com-panions sot upon him and boat htm. toovlng him ior dead upon the grave The clock struck 1 J The spectral wagoner drove up The .iris or got down 'Come nut. you jirlnoncr. from your prison!" be demanded de-manded The spirit of Holm looked up and behold the splrll of Geller. Tho spirit of Holm was afraid of Death and tried to hide In the miserable miser-able corpse that had been Its haven in life But the spectral wagoner loaded Holms spirit Into the wagon and drove away to the home of the dvlng Salvation Army laerUe. Thence tr Holm's former home the place whore dwelt the wife he hd beaten, the children he had neglected neg-lected lespalr had settled on that honif The wife was mixing a poi-non poi-non potion to end her misery and thai of the children The (Spirit of Holm got down on itl kneeti in prayer. "Oh, my soul 'what shall I do? W-hat are tin- words, the prayei the words ' Lord of Dlfe and Death, save them! ' Holm came to He had not died when his companions attacked him He raced home And now he is lllng i happily with hi wife and children, 1 doing his best to make them forget the rotter he WOS. I All of the above Is the story of 'The Stroke of Midnight." the movie made in Sweden from 'The Death Wagon. the story by Dr Srlma Lagerlof, Nobol prize winner. It wuh adapted and directed di-rected bj victor Beoetrom He Is also the principal player The film is having hav-ing Its premier American showing at the Criterion, New York. 1 believe no better dire, ted picture has ever been mode Stark reality and sheer Imagery have been combined combin-ed so deftly that one la hardly distinguishable dis-tinguishable from the Other, Hilda BorgStrom, Astrld Holm and Tore Svennborg support Beoetrom. The actmp. ? those four is a work of Inspiration. unlv players Inspired with the belief that they wore living their parts could havo acted as they did. D VS. Griffith is preparing to hang more start- in the cinema heavens He has just completed the cast and Is shooting opening scenes of his next picture, a comedy drama by Irene Sinclair with the working title of 'At the Grange.' It will be In seven reels D. V will introduce a number of new faces to the silver bcrecn. And Orlffith has a way like Cecil DeMllle 'of fashioning celebrities from nonen tities Diehard Barthlemess. Tor instance in-stance The cast of the new picture in-1 eludes Tarol Dempster, Porter Strong, Henry Hull. C H Croker-Dale, Croker-Dale, Frank V-underlce, Frank Sheridan Sheri-dan and Irma Harrison. Hull Is best known on the stage for his work In "The Man Who Came Back" and "The Cat and tho Canary' Ca-nary' Croker-King was the star of Bull Doff Drummond " Most of the others are well-known on Broadway but little known in the photoplay provinces. Lillian dish's new series of starring star-ring pictures will soon start also under un-der tho supervision of Griffith. Although Al-though she will have her own company rln- pictures vlll he made In the Griffith Grif-fith studios. Richard Barthelmess was the first ol the Griffilh-fleveloped stars to "go U .-.lone' His Success was one of the sensations of th year In film circles. Phyllis Haver, as you perhaps know. .. II have an Important role In the film version of "The Christian." And S vou also undoubtedly know, Phyllis performed In bathing girl romedles The names of Others who thus started In the movies and are now recognized htars presents an Imposing list Gloria BwanflOn. Bet;;. COmpson, Alice 1-ake , Marie prevoat, Mary Thurman Bobn D.tniels. 'er,i BtSdmahi md Doulse KazendK. o i One of the mot refreshing comedies in many a moon is "SUPPl) and PS mand, ' first of a new series featuring Johnny Jones. This Is one of those little. lit-tle. Ahlmsical affairs of the adolescent age A group of children band together to sell rat trajis for which there i9 I no demand The devlpus ways in which they create a demand fur- !nlShes a comedy that crowds all the outhful pranks of "Pcnrod" Into It wo reels I European notes: 'The Diva's Ruby" ,U11 bo filmed In Italy. "The King or the- Beggars," a serial that has provided pro-vided a Sensation in Paris, will be sent to the United States. "The Vallo of NgumbO." and The White Desert" are being filmed In Germany, using wild animals of the Hagenbeck collection Constance Blimey will make a feature in Dondon. . . Dllllan Glsh is ! expected to make a personal appeal -lanCS tour with "Orphans of the Storm" I in England. . . . The Tragedy of Russia" Is a six-reel film showing the fall of the czar and the rise of tho Ibolshevist government . . Among the new Gorman films are "The Round of IDeath," 'The Princess of Tuscany." The Empress Elizabeth," "The Murderous Mur-derous Governor" and "The Ascension of Hcnrele " . . THE MOVIE CH ATTERBO X Edward Burns will be Constance Talmadge's leading man in "East Is i Ycst." Ramsey Wallace will play the lead In "The Gamin Girl," starring Alice Calhoun. Alan Forrest plays opposite Shir-!lev Shir-!lev Mason In "The Dlttlest Teacher." What next? Katherlne MacDonald shows us first "The Woman's 81de," land then "White Shoulders." ' Colleen Moore's hint to vacation-, vacation-, lite Don't loave all your best clothes behind you may meot someone ! vou'd like to dross up for Maurice Tourneur has completed Itho exteriors for "The Christian" at Epsom Downs and the Isle of Man land Is on his way to America to take i the Interiors. Now come tho dog days of filmdom. IThat means meagro fart- for the faithful faith-ful who like their .Jumping tintypes In July as well as in December. In the old day of stuffy, storeroom store-room movie theatres the exhibition business slumped in the sultry monthi and exhibitors wouldn't pay big money for films Now. with hundrd of big theatre! equipped with devlrn that make them cooler than the average city home, the old belief still holds Producers and distributors hold back their big productions until fall because be-cause few exhibitors will buy them. Tho good pictures this summer will be few nnd far between. The only exception will bo such films afl are now being placed on ex hlbitlon for long runs In New York and a few other key cities These long runs make effective exploitation for the pictures when September rolls around. The ploturas are heralded In this manner '"Jumping Jupiter, tho sen- satlonal film that ran umsteen weeks on Broadway." One picture that ought to be well patronized during the torrid days Is "Over the Border." It has more snow-In snow-In It than half a dozen Jnmos Oliver Curwood films. And It has a lot of comedy. BVSfl though much of It wasn't mount as I such j The best bit of comedy I have ob-I ob-I served In a long time Is In the fade-lout fade-lout of "Over the Broder " Betty jf 'ompson, the dear girl, stands there OH the border of the V H. A. and I Canada after a long hike through a ibllE7ard with snow waist-deep. 1 She looks up to the heavens and Into the camera and. blens my soul. If she ain't got her eyelashes headed and the rouge on her lips showing. It was a terrible day. girruls, to b way out there the only lady In the company and not a vanity COSS In the whole bunch. And the next time I see Penrhyn Stanlaws, who directed "Over the Border," Bor-der," I'm going to ask him how . ome the superior officers of the Royal' Northwest Mounted Police saluti first In meeting men of lesser rank. It Wasn't that way In "this man s arm.' 1 "It's the women who pay for tho, realism wrought In some pictures. I Consider T. Roy Barnes and his better half. When he was selected to plaj the part of the tramp in The Qld Homestead" he started to grow a rard. Mrs. T Roy didn't Object to that although she looked as If she' were leading the wild man of Borneo when she v. ent out with him Then one day he brought home dog. It was of doubtful origin and of doubtful habits in reeairl to th Saturday night hath It WmB Barnes' Idea of realism that he and the doe, would grow accustomed to the ldlo- syncrasles of each other If they lived together several weeks "Well, you'll not keep him in the house, declared Mrs. Barnes 'Pul him in the garage "But ho has to be near me all the' tlmo so he will follow me around. ' BameS protested i CariM stay In the garage Latest report from Hollywood do not iav whether ' Whiskers," the dog,; is sleeping in the house with BarncH, or Barnes In the garage with the dog . ( NEM IGRAMfi Antonio Moreno has lier-n selected,' for the male lead In 'Captain Black-1 bird." Harry Myers,, George Sieg-j man and William V. Mong ore also; In the cast. Four hundred and fifty thousand gallons of water were used for thej flood scene in The Town That God, Forgot." The Head less Horseman" v. ill be the title of Will Rogers' n-t suir-rlnr suir-rlnr vehicle instead of "The leeen of Sleepy Hollow." as previously announced an-nounced Filming of ' The Abysmal Briue, bj Jack London, has started at Universal City. 9 e e Much talent is wasted on worthless Htorlcs In the movies. The public cries lor hotter stories. No ono knows heater hea-ter than the producer that 1 the stor 'S the thing." Selection of stories to serve OS photoplajs is largely arbitrary with one or two men In a producing organization organi-zation Hugo Ballln has a new Idea He going to ask the public to name the !mor or novel on which he will base his next picture Ballln says he will film the stun not previously ploturised, which receives re-ceives the most votes. That, pr. ,.!-ed ,.!-ed some other producer has not purchased pur-chased screen rights to it. Such a protect should prove Boublj interesting it would show to what extent the public is really interested In the nature of Btorlea and would show what type of photoplay is most interesting THE KICK-PACK. If Ballln films a story selected by a large number of film fans he will haVi a hard task before him Ever) las' mothcr'r. son and daughter of them will have a definite Idea of how that story' should be filmed and few will have tho same Idea And each will be a critic ready to sit In judgment on Ballln's work. 9 9 1 A DOG. They call her "Lassie'' In 'Sonny I forget Just what they called her In "Tol'able David" and In "The Bashful Bash-ful Suitor" But what matters her name? She 'a Just a little mongrel dog. A pathetic little dog that seem-, to cherish tho love that lies in the touch of human hands a dog that "plays dead" in a way that makes you feel she would gladly die for the mostei she serves that is this little ohagg) dog "Teddy" and "Brownie" and Pal" have made their marks as canine comedians. ' Strongheart" In "The Silent Call" showed great intelligence But this little dog, about which I have never seen a line of recognition, haa more of that Ineffable, affectionate quality that endears a dumb bea-st to a human than any dog I have evor seen except the one that was mine when I was a boy MRS. ILVMMERSTEIN'S DEBUT. Mrs. Oscar Hammersteln, widow ol the New York nnpre.ssarlo, now reported re-ported engaged to an Italian prince ls making her debut as a movie actress ac-tress in "What's Wrong With the Women?" The story is by Daniel Car-r.on Car-r.on Goodman. The cast is pretentious Including Wliton Iackaye. Barbara Castloton, Montagu Love, Rod La Roque, Hedda Hopper. Huntley Onr-don. Onr-don. Julia 8wayne Gordon, Constance Bonett. The last named Is a daughter daugh-ter of Richard Bennett, the actor CAMERA! CAMERA! Louise Fazenda Is to be featured In a new aeries of Mermaid- comedies. m 9 9 "Golf." Larr Semon's next comedy com-edy Lots of comedies under that title, not all In the movies. Sidney Olcott will direct the filming film-ing of Kate Douglas Wlggln's 'Tlm- qggg othy's Quest." Gladys Leslie. Mur- I, 'aret Seddon and Vivian Ojfden aro In the cast. 9 19 9 One exhibitor recently said he didn't care much whether he booked the film version of If Winter Comes" 88 his audience doesn't care for snow pictures any more, anyhow a P.rudley King Is writing h story called "News" to bo filmed by Thomas II. Ince. I,lla Lee will hi- co-tnrred with Jamea Klrkwood in Kbh Tide." Edith M Hell, novelist, may be, r.amrl a mnvl( r-onsor In Iindoa 1 Jackie Coogan has completed 'Oliver 'Oli-ver Twist' 'in eight reela a Work ha started on "Goblin Point " directed by Uoyd Ingraham and starring star-ring Carmel Myers. Patsv Ruth Miller will appear with Karle Williams In "Dicky " Nlles Welch will have a part in "FYom Hag to Riches." "The Love Nest." filmed on Ma-tlnlCUS Ma-tlnlCUS island, off the Maine coast. ha been completed. Jean Scott and Richard Travers are featurpd. |