MOVIE NOTES.

Otaki Mail, 20 February 1922, Page 2

MOVIE NOTES.

(By the Movie Mail). Mr and Mrs William Barnum have recently returned from an extensive tour of Europe. -Mrs Farnum’s stage name is Olive White, although it is many years now since she appeared there. fvou and then she has had small parts ia her husband’s films. ‘‘A Tale of Two Titles” or ‘‘The Orphan” being some of them. Mi i'ui-y num is back again at. tie, studio, \ ,rt- , ing hard to make up for his year’s aV sence. Bill linri is married at. last. Every--j one thought it. would be Jane Novak; but it is Winifred Wealover. Winifred lirst acted with Bill Bait in ‘‘.loin Petticoats.” More recently she i.m been with Belzniek, one of ihe late-t?.;.] being ‘‘Js Eife Worth Living” v.ithj Eugene O’Brien. Mrs Hart hails Lon Sweden; It is rumoured that Mary pickroa ... and Douglas Fairbanks are returning !<■ England to make some pictures. >'■ is quite the thing now for the star, ti make one or two pictures in Bilgdaru. Paramount have a permanent stu'E just out of London. This should licit to make the films more interesting, <U we have had too much American Ms. of recant years. A change of scenery directing and ideas in general will b . acceptable. Wyndhani Standing has been mad' l star. He has appeared with many fas--OUB stars, Elsie Ferguson, Pauline Fits , crick, and Norma and Constance Tai madge, and his good work has been re cognised at last! Constance Talmadge, who is maids?,. : pictures in Los Angeles, recently >-

sued a statement, indignantly tleay.t: reports of her divorce from .loan i‘-| golu. Her husband haw objected to hej continuing her screen career, but * - stance won '' give it up. <>he adi “Don’t take that as, an indication lit : lam about to sue for a divorce. Be;” cause I am not. I think my hasbam-, will sec the light soon.” Buck .Tones, the Fox star, is an r: phan. He has no knowledge of wtgjigf and where he was born, or who hi* p*f‘® SJ® ents were. William Fog has ' un-starred' Eiie® Perey. She was made a star about ’ year ago, but evidently her Sims dids* suit Mr Fox. The real reason probai’7,is that he is economising. Nearly the him companies are cutting down ©' penscs. Too much money has be® spent on lavish sets, when a more simple one would have dona quite as •«- — and looked apjilb more natural :: most caatai. Foreign actors arc getting popular 5 * 1 | America. Pola Negri, the Cena**:yj star. Rudolph Valentine, an ItalA* ® •Toser-h Schildkraut. a Kouxoaniar., ***'& big favi.rites in the .State. ~ - • m