MOVIE NOTES.

Otaki Mail, 10 April 1922, Page 4

MOVIE NOTES.

(By the Movie Man)

For the first time in many years Anita Stewart’s husband, Rudolph Cameron, is to appear with her on the screen. Since his marriage to Miss Stewart he has been her business manager. In Noma Talmadge’s screen version of “Smiling Through,” the costumes have been copied from old colored prints of 1860.

Recently Marshall Neilan, Famous Players’ director, arranged for the patients of a Californian hospital to see a few reels of the film “Penrod.” The pictures were thrown on the whitewashed ceiling of the ward above the heads of the patients. This is not new as one producer .did the sjime fhin|f during the war. Many patients at. the bases were entertained in this -way, and it did much to relieve the monotony of hospital.

James Kirkwood and Elliot Dexter are the latest American stars of the screen to arrive in London. Marie Doro, wife of Elliot Dexter, has been in London for some considerable time now making pictures in England and France.

Theda Bara is not making pictures now and no one seems to know just when she is coming back. “Carnival” is described as the English masterpiece. Matheson Laing is at the head of a splendid cast. Mr Laing took the principal role in “The Garden of Allah.”

After a. long period in serials, Antonio Moreno has come back into drama again.

“Stardust” by Fannie Hurst has been filmed with Hope Hampton in fhe principal part. “Stardust” originally came out in the Cosmopolitan magazine.

For a number of years little was heard of Lionel Barrymore, but now two or three films starring him have appeared in New Zealand. Lionel Barrymore hadn’t deserted the screen, he had been merely working behind the camera instead of in front of it—he had been directing his sister Ethel. The Carter de Havens have made themselves famous by their clever comedies, several of which are adopted from successful stage comedies, “Twin Beds,” “The Girl in the Taxi,” and “His Lady Friends.”' A Yew Near wedding—May Allison and Robert Ellis. Robert Ellis is directing Priscilla Doan’s latest vehicle. “The Morals of Marcus” by Win. J. Locke, has been screened under the title of “Morals.” It stars quite a new actress, May McAvoy; the direction is by the late William Taylor.