News of the Movies

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20043, 4 September 1920, Page 3

News of the Movies

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Correspondents desirous of having questions answered, ih the current issue ate requested to see that their communications are Oolmred at the office not later than Tuesday avemng.

ANSWERS - TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mirror.—Too late for this issue. Letter did

not reach ms till Thursday morning, Ellen.—Harrison "Ford, Paramount Pictures Corporation. 483, Fifth Avenue, New York City,

Inquirer.—A New York cable message recently published in Australian papers mentioned the return to America of Mary Pick ford and. Douglas Fairbanks. Pop.—Approximately the seating accommodation at the local picture theatres, in remind numbers, is as follows; Liberty IMP, Crystal Palace WOO, Everybody's and Grand 1100, Queen's 930, Strand 800. Cannot ascertain anything with respect to , “ The • Seven Pearls.” Nazimova.—The nest Kasimova production is expected to be ‘‘The Brat,” but the date of screening is not yet fixed. Prom what I can ascertain there is no immediate prospect of " Tho Miracle Mam ” being re-sereenecl’ here. You- surely would not deny managers the opportunity for a little extra, publicity when something above tho average comes along. They only adopt the usual. .means employed by basinass men of_ informing the public that a special attraction ia on view, » Mono Kid.—Pleased to learn that the spasm has passed away. By all means retain your views. As you speak as you find things, your view# are to bo respected oven if others differ. I did not see “ Satan Junior.” Viola. Dana was born in 3S9S; the " Studio Directory " does not give the ago of Milton Sills. I am quite unable to say which serial has claims to be regarded as the best, There were fifteen episodes in “Wolves of Siiltur.” Alice Joyce is now Mrs James Regan. Her husband is son of the owner of the Knickerbocker, one of the largest hotels in Now York. T.B.—Theda Kara was horn in' 1890. She stands sft bin, and has dark brown hair awl eyes. The best authorities give her birthplace as Cincinnati, Ohio, and her baptismal name as Theodosia Goodman. Before taking up screen, work sho appeared on the stage in small parts, under the name of Theodosia de Coppet. In her screen plays ehe usually took "vampire” parts, aud her record in this type of picture ■has Tiot boon equalled by any oilier screen actress. A few of her productions are:

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Miss Marguerite Clark has decided.to retire from pictures, according to a report from New Orleans, which now is tier home city. Her husband, H. Palmer Williams, is a wealthy business man, _ and by retiring she is said to be acceding to bis wishes. When Richard Rarthlemass, hero in many of Dorothy Gish’s pictures, was married recently to Mary Hay. a, Ziegfeld girl, oyer 8000 pipe organs, and theatre orchestras throughout thd 'limited Stajtfes played Mend'elasohn , '(' Wedding March at the time the marriage ceremony took place. A new York paper states that Douglas fair-banks has purchased the rigbes to picturi.'fe the story, The Curs© of Capistrano,” and that Mary Pickford will ha in the cast. * Doug will have i double role—that of a Spanish cabal-, lero and a, masked bandit. H© will need a large sized mask to hide his famous smile. The Fox Corporation expects to liar a a big money getter in. a version of Justin Huntly McCarthy's successful novel and play. <; lf l Were King,” William Farnum has the part of Francois Tillou. and this includes the author. Justin According to those who have seen it—Huntly M'Cartliy—it is on© 0f... the biggest pictures mad© this year To compare the Mary Pickford of ‘‘Suds” with the Mary Pickford cf ” Stella. Maris ” is to compare, a pebble to a diamond (says an. American critic). “ Suds”.is nit that its name imples, a thumb-nail sketch of laundry life, a sudsy succession. of .washday events, culminating in an anti-climax,,in which the one and only Pickford ingenue submerges her much loved beauty in a dingy iole-all for art’s sake. A London paper understands that D. W. Griffith, the .famous producer, has succeeded iii forming a new producing, renting and exhibiting organisation, under the title of ”T>. TV. Griffith, 1n0.,” with a capital of fifty million dollars. This is interesting/ because it represents the high watermark ,6f .financial enterprise on the part of any single producer ; A message from New York- to the Sydney “Sun” (.July 28)/ slated' that, returning from their European honeymoon, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary