News of the Movies

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16680, 11 March 1922, Page 16

News of the Movies

BY The Movie Man

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Correspondents desirous of having questions answered in the current issue ar« •'©quested to see that their communications *re delivered at this office not later than luesday afteruoou. Ani,a Stewart. I,ouis B. Mayer otudios. Los Angeles, California. Vivian Martin. care Willis and Inglis,. Wright 5; Building, Los Angeles, California. ‘ Damaged Goods ” was produced at Liberty on January 8, 1920. 1 have no aoubt that the manager would provide tne information were I to ask him. but it would not be for publication. It is not to bo expected that managers will agree to having business transactions publicly reported. rhe Little Un.-J. Warren Kerrigan is an American, born at Louisville, Kentucky, * 111 IPB9- Was on the stage* before appearing in pictures. Stands 6ft lin. black hair, hazel eyes. Florence iFritzi) Brunette is also an American. Born in 1891. Stands sft 3in, black liair, grey* blue ©yes. Red hair photographs black. V.D.E.—Viola Dana, Metro Studios, Los Angeles. California. Louise Lovely, care Willis and Inglis, Wright and Callender Los Angeles, California. She was born in 1896, and has been in pictures about, three years. The postal rate to the United States ip 2d for the first ounce, and Id for each additional ounce. Send the money in international coupons, which are obtainable at the Post Office. Eddie Jones.—Rosemary Tlieby, amongst other pictures, lias appeared >n “ Boston Blackie’s Little Girl. ['he Shooting of Sadie Rose,” “ The Winged Mystery.” “ The Great Love," “Kismet.” “The Dice of Destiny.” Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." and "Partners oT Fate.” Anne Cornwall in “ The Hollow of her Hand.” ” Prunella.” ” Indestructible Wife.” "World to Live In.” "Copperhead.” ” Firing Line,” ” Path She Chose.” and ”La La. Lucille.” Walter Riers in ” It pays to Advertise.” ” Hard Boiled.” " When Doctor-* Disagree.” ” The Fear Woman.” ” SpotV.ght Sadie,” ” A City Sparrow.” “ Sham." “Oh Lady. Lady,” ” The Snob.” and ” Going Some.” Neva Gerber in ” The Awakening,” ” The Prodigal Widow.” "Caught in the Act.” i '* The Spindle of Life,” ” Roped," ” The . Trail 61 the Octopus,” and ” The Streaming Shadow." The following are the r. ousts inquired for:—“The Gentleman Bushranger ’’—Captain Flinch. Arthur Cross; Peter Dargin. Tal Or dell; Ah Worn Bat. John Cosgrove: Richard Lavender. Ernest. T. Hearnc; Will Anson. John M. * Walsh: Tuffy. Fred«lie Touch or t; Kitty Anson. Miss Dot M’Conville; Bushrangers, 41f Scarlett. John Boland, Fred Phillips

Ernest Lubitsch, the famous German producer of “Passion” and “Gypsy Blood,” is on a visit to America for the purpose of investigating American motion picture producing and releasing methods. A committee consisting of Ruth Roland, Wallace Reid and Bryant Washburn decided that the best dancers, male and female* in the Los Angeles film colony wore Gaston Glass and Mar guerite do- la Motte. When the mail left, Alice Brady, who had been appearing in a play called “Drifting,” -n New York, had been compelled to relinquish her part, suffering from appendicitis, and was abuiu to undergo an operation. Dorothy Davenport (Mrs Wallace Reid), who has just returned to pictures, is a niece of the late t anny Davenport, one of the truly brilliant figure® in American theatrical annals. Pictures show Do-rothy with dark hair. Like Olga Petrova’s it is red. Universal, it is said, has commenced a serial on the adventures of Livingstone in Africa. George Walsh, will have the leading part. After Eileen Sedgwick had been selected ifs the female lead it was discovered that there was no part for a white woman. Majorie Prevost. sister of Marie, former Mack Senneit bathing beauty, objects to reflected glory, and so that no one shall he able to say that she gained a position in pictures on the strength of the name of Prevost, she proposes to be known as Marjorie Maurice. Lewis Stone has been selected for the part of Rudolph in “The Prisoner of Zenda. Those who have read the story and have seen Stone on the screen, will hardly regard him as likely to give a suitable rendering of the part of the dashing redheaded Englishman. The public blames poor pictures on the producer ; the producer blames l hem on the exhibitor ; tbe exhibitor blames the public (says an American magazine). Most people, lam in-