Stars of Past Years
^ Trying to “Come Back"
‘‘Comebacks” seem to be )n order
in the picture world this season. Nav
er has a year brought forth so many
avowed intentions from one time
favorites to reclaim their place in
the sun. Francis Bushman and
Beverly Bayne are hard at work on
a new story. Theda Bara hopes to
brush up on her vamping and J. War
ren Kerrigan la to hold the center of
the acreeu in a new super-special
that may agalp mark him as a popu
lar idol.
No matter what the outcome of
these stellar attempts to prove the
fallacy of "the fickle mob,’* self con
fidence appears to be the motive
that inspired them. Whether popu
larity is something that can be picked
up just as it has been discarded will
be an interesting issue.
Perhaps the most courageous and
certainly the most successful essay at
•'coming back” is that nfb.de a few
months ago by Prlscella Bonner who
dates her first film fame back 15
years to stardom in the earliest two
reelers. When she married she an
pounced that she would retire. As
the years passed old ambitions re
vived and when she finally answered
the call of the camera again she
found that new players, new directors
and changed methods of casting had
altered the entire outlook.
Just when the former leading lady
was prepared to take the first open.
Jng as an extra, B. p. Bohulbergt
president of Preferred Pictures, gave
lier a small role In “Shadows." The
part was limited to merely a flash
but in those few feet of film re
^iiewers and theatre-goers recognized
^The qualities that once had made Miss
Bonner a favorite. Because of her
enthusiastic reception she was giv
en other roles, increasing In Import
ance until, when the “all-Iriah-all
afar” cast for Tom Forman's produc
tion, ‘‘April Showers," was formed.
Schulberg again engaged her—thie
time not as an extra but ns a princi
pal in the brilliant cast beaded by
Kenneth Harlan and Colleen Moore.
Old Fiddlers* Contest
At Rialto Thursday
“Old Melody Week” at the Rialto
this week In conjunction with the
showing of the picture founded on
the power of music. "Mighty Bak A
Rose” will be celebrated Thursday
night with an old fiddlers' contest.
Prizes will be offered for the three
best entrants, $25 for first prize, $15
for second prize and $10 for third
prize.
“Does It Pay?” Completed.
“Does It Pay?” has been completed
with Hope Hampton as the featured
player supported by a notable cast,
and directed by Charles Horan.
Youth, 20, Works for $18 a Week to Convince Pretty
Young Bride He Is Worthy of Fortune Left by Uncle
The story of the "poor little rich
boy” who spent so much money that
he had to bo put on an allowance,
Is an old and hackneyed one.
Here la the story of the "poor lit
tle rich hoy" who Is a “rich little
poor boy" because he wants to be.
“I’ve made a fool of myself at
times,” he frankly admits.
*‘l spent money that could have
been well saved. I’m going to' beat
back now, and eave money that
could be well spent. Watch me
go!"
His friends are watching him—
and watching him with interest too.
Because they think they know Vin
cent J. Lamb and they are wonder
ing If he can keep his resolution,
j There is a girl in Hollywood
j watching him too, however, and It
is she that he is eager to please.
“Needles and pins, needles and
pins, when a man marries his
trouble begins," is a rhyme of the
; ages.
Lamb says It’s all wrong.
"When a man marries his trouble
ends." lie declares. "I'm going to
prove It by my case."
In 190S Joe Connor, a wealthy
Omaha grain broker, died and left an
\ (‘state valued at that time at $460,000.
j fine of tlie five heirs was Mrs. Mary
J. Lamb.
But Mrs. Lamb, it happened, was
1 a very well-to-do woman on her own
I account—silver and United States
■ government notes seeming to have a
! nay of running in the family. So she
determined to leave the bequest ln
lact and have it Invested in good,
sound securities and placed in trust
for her three sons, who were nephews
of the grain broker.
Mrs. Jamb was fortunate in her in
vestments and the estate increased
in mathematical progression as the
years passed by. It is now valued at
more than $1,000,000.
But In the meantime the United
States had become involved in a great
war. and Mrs. Lamb sent her three
sons, Including Vincent, into it. Only
two of them came back, the third
giving up his life in France. So now
there are only two sons to share the
| $1,000,000 estate, making $500,000
each.
Sought Good Times.
Back from the war Vincent Lamb
felt the young man’s Inclination to
| have a good time and he satisfied
that inclination with every means at
his command, which were many.
His mother wanted him to go to
I 'chool—gtvlng him the choice of sev
I eral universities. He declined politely
and said he wanted to go west, to
1 Hollywood. Mrs. Lamb went with
I him,
Vincent had good looks and the
i clothes and manners of a gentleman
anil found It easy to get a place in
the pictures." Hut hta mother calmly
pointed out to the producers that he
still was a minor and than any con
tract he might make would have to be
signed hy her to complete Its validity.
When a contract was signed Mrs.
Vincent inserted a stipulation that the
boy's salary should be paid to her.
Cupid Takes a Hand.
That Irked Vincent. He found him
self back on the hated allowance plan
and the money his mother allowed
him as not at all sufficient to en
able him to live ns He considered a
Vincent J. I.amb showing how he
is earning his $18 a week. *
young man of his responsibilities and
engagements should.
Then to complicate matters, hs fell
In love. It wasn’t at all like any of
hts former "caRes” he assured his
mother and friends. This was the real
thing this time and marriage waa
the object, not Just dance* and motor
rides and bridge parties and the ac
customed round of pleasure of the
average wealthy young man and his
best girl friend.
•’Who is the girl?” his mother
asked.
•'Grace Ivers." replied the youth,
whereupon the mother began to look
up Miss Ivers.
Her Investigation brought out facts
that would have been satisfactory to
the most particular parent. Miss
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Ivers was the daughter of a. Denver
banker and had gone to Hollywood,
because she had a pretty face and
felt the call of a career.
"Sho isn't like the other girls here,"
Vincent had told his mother proudly,
have Just the one ambition—to make
a name for herself on the screen. If
she had a second guiding purpose In
her life, it was to help along other
young men and women who she was
convinced, hail ambitions similar to
Mars'. Grace IverJpfttrvp. fy
and Mrs. Iamb found that h# spoka
the truth. Mlsa Ivara had no "vamp
lah” tendencies and paid no attention
to InvItatlonH to the kind of parties
and good times ths sensationalists
Uks to writs shout. She seemed to I
her own.
A romance started and progressed
nicely, but romance doesn't thrive on
the kind of allowance Mrs Lamb gate
her eon, so he returned to Chicago.
“I'm tired of working for nothing
in Holloywood," he announced. "I'm
back here to make my fortune.”
He found friends who were eager
to play around with him, fair weather
friends, many of thorn, who saw In the
"poor little rich boy” an excellent oc
cupant of that rather tiresome posl
tion that It Ijnown aa the Chief Payer
of Checks and of Grand Giver of Good
Times.
One night a particularly tricky party
waa being "thrown” and Vincent
ran out of funds.
"Why not cash a check?" someone
suggested.
"Fine,” was the chorus of reply,
and the person who had the bright
Idea wrote out the check and Vincent
endorsed it. Another check was float
ed in the same manner. No difficulty
was encountered because those who
( ashed the checks knew of the wealth
and position of-the Umb family.
But the check* came back and the
receivers were stunned.
Behind the Bars.
“Not so good,’* they decided, and
they had Vincent and his checkwrit
ing friend arrested. The two spent a
few hours in custody and then the
'Checks were paid and the affair set
tled. But Vincent had learned'a les
son.
He went to a railroad atatlon,
bought a ticket for Denver, where
Miss Ivers ha/1 returned home, He
arlved there last October and had a
serious talk with his sweetheart. Her
father waa consulted and there waa
another talk. The wedding of Vln
cent Iamb and Grace Ivers waa sol
emnised on October 17.
From that day on Vincent was a
changed young man. He went back
to Chicago alone, while his bride re
turned to Hollywood and her screen
work.
Parties were proposed aa soon aa
he folt the pavement of Michigan
boulevard under hla feet, parties that
probably would have had the same
end as the old ones, rolllckers strolling
through restaurant doora and piling
laughingly into motor cars, while Vin
cent stayed behind to pay the check.
His Own Proposition.
"Nothing stirring," he answered.
"I’m going to work and I'm going to
make good.' The old days are over "
His first interview was with the
trustees of the Connor eatats.
"I want things to be arranged so
that I can't get any of the money
until I have earned 110,000 by my
self." he told them.
The trustees looked at him nar
rowly.
"Are you In earnest?"
"Never more so.”
"All right, we ll go through with It."
So, with the consent of Vincent's
mother, the arrangements were made.
The next order of business for the
now "rich little poor boy" was to find
a Job Vincent went at that right
h'artlly and found that the firm of
B. L. Koppenhagen, brokers, with of
needed a young man to take stock
quotations as they came In over the
ticker and write them on a black
board.
"Hyw much does It pay?" Vinoent
asked.
"Kighteen dollars a week,” he was
told. "Nothing that you would touch."
"Oh. wouldn't I?" he demanded,
and snapped up the Job.
And so He Tolls.
He went to work immediately and
has stuck hard hy the task ever since.
For handicaps he has the knowledge
that t'hicago Is doubting whether he
will stick by the ship. For assets
and an urge that drives him forward,
he has Grace’s constant letters say
ing that she knows he will make good
and that she Is believing in him and
pulling for him every minute.
"I'm doing the best I know how and
I want to put myself across without
having anyone know I was different
from the rest of these boys here In
the office, or had any more money,”
he said, "I haven't any more, ss far
as that Is concerned, since it Is all
up to me now and my IIS a week
looks Just as big to me and Is Just as
big as theira is to them "
What is making you do all this?"
he was asked.
"It's my own Idea and it came to
me because of her," he answered “I
met Grace and wanted her and got
her, and then knew It was up to me
to cut out the old life and start all
over again. «
"You see. in the other days, T was
living up to my Income and what I
got from mother and no matter how
high the total amount ran It never
seemed enough. I suppose I would
have gone along In the game way un
til I got my money and then gone at
It the same way If it hadn’t been for
Grace. But she made it all different.
She wouldn't want me If I didn't
make good, even though she had faith
enough irt me ta marry me without
waiting for the test."
No Saving Ilone Tel.
"But how are you going to eave
110,000 on *18 a week?"
“I'm not.” he answered, "That's
redlculcus, but I'm going to work so
hard for that 111 that they will have
to increase my pay, and then I'll be
on my way."
Vincent is living In a furnished
room for which he pays ft a week.
His fr-od. he says, costs him about
J13 a week. The other 83 go for In
cldentals. carfare and the iffce. HI*
clothes, he figures, will last him until
that SIS is boosted.
When Chicago first heard of It*
"rich little poor boy" s<>m«* at rang*
stories came out. They put the
amount of the Connor legacy at |5.
000,000 Instead of the 1460.000 it really
was and they change] the Joe Connor
to Patrick O'Connor and made him
president of the Omaha Board of
Trade instead of a grain broker.
But. Vincent Lamb, who la now Ji:»'
20 years old, Just laughed. And he
laughed at those who doubted his
sincerity. And best of all, for him,
his employers laughed with him
"He's delivering the good*," they
say "He has prospects.”
The girl out In Hollywood isn’t
doubting either.
"And my bosses and my wife aie
all I care shout," says Vincent.
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Ideas in Our Films
Instead of depending upon Europe,
Europe Is depending up< America
for'ld*as for women's f ashions accord
ing to flare West, costume designer
for Cecil B. DeMIlles Paramount pro
ductions.
"The American motion picture has
become virtually the dictator of the
worlds fashions," declares Miss West.
Her Impressions are fresh, because
she has Just returned from a trip to
Europe for the purpose of getting
Ideas and materials for Mr Ihe.Mille's
next production, which Is to be based
upon the 10 commandments.
"Our designers, especially those
whose work is reflected on our
screen Miss We«t continued, "are
months ahead of those of Parts and
I^indon, and the Europeans very evi
dently" realize It. Every advance
trade showing of a big American pro
duetion la a mecca for European
designers, and it won't be long befors
the leaders of the profession abroad
will be sending their representatives
h*re for our American premieres ''
Miss West spent a month In London
and Paris purchasing materials, cma
men's and Jewelry.
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