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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1922
Page
6
Barbara La Marr, star of Trifling Women at the Strand, performs an interpretive dance titled The Black Orchid. She is noted as a former well known New York stage dancer.
Mae Murray's Metro picture Fascination, presented by Robert Z Leonard, opens Sunday at the Colonial. Exterior scenes were filmed in Havana with numerous offers for estates and mansions. Leonard, Murray's director and husband, is highly enthusiastic about the results.
Film fans will be surprised to learn Constance Talmadge not only acts but also sews. She designed and wore a dress of her own creation in The Primitive Lover, the First National attraction now playing at the Princess.
Mitchel Lewin returns to the Liberty for a second Terasive appearance with Dorothy Dalton in the Paramount drama On the High Seas. Lewin plays a ruffianly stoker whose tragic end unfolds as the plot advances.
A private shower bath has been built in the stables of the New York Hippodrome for Judy the baby elephant of Better Times, the current attraction. Judy is less than a year old.
Rumor of a studio lockout on Mack Sennett's lot proved false. Within days the Sennett comedians will begin producing many two reel pictures, easing winter concerns even as coal costs rise.
A Fashion Revue De Luxe is announced as a special attraction at the Winter Garden for four days starting tomorrow. Staged by the Florence Shop, it displays the newest creations from world style centers with live arrangements as a prologue to the film Other Women’s Clothes, appearing four times daily.
Jackie Coogan moves toward his second feature after Oliver Twist. The film Toby Tyler is directed by Eddie Cline, loaned to Jackie Coogan Productions by Joseph M. Schenck while Buster Keaton resumes activity.
Jack White supervising director of Educational Mermaid Comedies adds jazz to his films. He notes jazz enhances emotional scenes and atmosphere, citing a cabaret scene where the orchestra energized the comedy. He formed a trio with Jimmie Adama Otto Fries and Jack Lloyd delivering a classy jazz style with diverse instrumental roles.
Dorothy Dalton recently finished the Paramount picture Dark Secrets at a Long Island studio. She spends a few days with her parents in Chicago before heading to Hollywood to commence work in The Law of the Lavender.
Gloria Swanson began filming last Thursday on Prodigal Daughters. The picture is adapted by Monte M. Katterjohn from Joseph Hocking's novel.
Robert Bruce has secured motion pictures of a natural phenomenon in The Natural Born Liar, part of the Wilderness Tales series. Views from a mountain peak show heavy cloud formations with regular wave crests and hollows, breaking against the peak like ocean billows though slower in motion.
Harold Beaudine directed a Christie comedy titled In Dutch about Bobby Vernon striving to win a fraternity pin to gift to his girl. The piece features lively antics as Vernon endures initiation rites in a playful college setting.
Joseph M. Schenck Productions general manager Lou Anger has returned to Los Angeles leading the advance guard for the near future arrival of Norma and Constance Talmadge and Buster Keaton. Each star will make three major pictures this coming year.
A collage of Hollywood trivia mentions Pauline Frederick in The Guilty One stage play and upcoming films. Names include Gloria Swanson, Dorie May, Wallace MacDonald, Laurette Taylor, Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Jane Novak, and others with notes on roles, marriages, and project updates from a 1920s hush of cinema gossip.
RCMP report a robber mutilated Adelina Ziochi for disobeying an order not to scream. The attacker severed her tongue before fleeing.
Actor Thomas Meighan vacationing at White Sulphur Springs West Virginia for two weeks after finishing a Paramount feature directed by Art Green. He is accompanied by Laurence Wheat, noted for work with Meighan at Paramount.
William Beaudine will direct Wesley Barry in three more pictures produced by Warner Brothers. The first film will be shot after Barry completes his current vaudeville tour.
Reports from Philadelphia note Japan embraces American jazz music dances and machines, showing strong fascination with American cultural products and the Philadelphia commerce bureau reports.
A band performed on a lagoon in Venice on December 16 to showcase a new life-saving jacket designed for water safety. The demonstration occurred during a convention focusing on aquatic safety and public welfare.
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