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MAE MURRAY
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The Young Americas
HARRY
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Who Figures AVs Surtax
Press Agent Builds Up Annual Income
of More Than Half a Million Dollars for
Famous Black-Faced Singer of Ditties.
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□I, JOLSON. starred annually by
th« Shuberts In a big musical
production, has a contract
which guarantees him 40 weeks' work
each season at a weekly salary of
(5,000. In addition, he has a half
Interest In tbs* profits of every play
In which he appears, and this Interest
continues after he has left the play
and some minor performer has as
sumed his role on tour. He has a
contract with a producer of phono
graph records, under the provisions
of which that company Is bound to
produce not less than 24 Jolson
records each year, and to pay the
comedian not less than (10,000 In
royalties on each record.
Thue the two Items of stage salary
and phonograph royalties give Jolson
an assured minimum Income of (440,
000 a year. The Item of theatrical
profits, In addition to salary. Is not
as large as one might anticipate. The
original Jolson productions are so
costly to equip and operate that
"show profits" are comparatively
small. Undoubtedly Jolson receives
a share of the author’s royalties on
songs which he makes famous and
this Is eminently fair. Jolson does
more for the song than the author
■does, so far as the business of achiev
ing success for It Is concerned. When
he has "worked over" a song to give
It the fullest benefit of his peculiar
nnd original singing style, It often
contains touches which the author
and composer never thought of, and
these are the touches which lift It
to its unusual success. It Is entirely
conservative to estimate Jolson’s in
come from song royalties at $25,000
a year. Hia total Income cannot,
therefore, be less than (515,000 t
year.
Jolson is a good business man and
not a foolish spender. Undoubtedly
he has accumulated a large fortune
and will add vastly to It before his
extraordinary vogue as a tinging
comedian le ended. He ha# but one
extravagant habit—betting on horse
races. He frequently wagers large
sums, hut the bookmakers say that
h# wins more than he loses. "Believe
me," said Bookmaker I>eo Mayer one
day after Jolson had won a very
large wager, "whenever Jolson bets
you can be sure that the horse is
at the an^hoeis ;
trying, that It has a good chance to
Win, and that Jolaon haa got at leaat
a shade the beat of the price.”
William Strong for Art.
Following hie film work for Fa
moui Player* in Hollywood William
Farnum will return to New York to
appear In an Arthur Hopkln* stage
production.
Mr. Farnum I* well known among
old-time theatergoer* for hi* appear
ance In “Ben Hur.” Bill Hart played
In the same company.
It la not necessary any more for
William Farnum to engage in any
sort of labor, he having amassed a
fortune of something more than
$1,000,000, chiefly from hi* film work.
So from now on he 1* strong for art.
William Fox 1* making a picture
baaed on "Dante’* Inferno.” Opposi
tion firm* are bidding heavily for the
film right* to the play "Hell-Bent for
Heaven.
Griffith Always Has
Many Money Troubles
The Italian government ia negotiat
ing with I). W. Griffith for tha pro
duction of Bulwer I.ytton's "I.ast
Days of Pompeii." Mr. Griffith la In
clined to accept. It seems the great
est of all the American directors can
finance his film productions with ease
In every important country abroad,
but always finds difficulty In doing so
in the 1'nlted States. Deaplte hla
many successful pictures. Griffith ie
a comparatively poor man. He al
ways has to pay such rates to finance
his productions that In the end there
Is nothing left for him. At the pres
ent time he Is more than anxloua to
go ahead with hla historical cinema
record of American history, but la
held up by lack of financial support.
Now That Alice 11a* Bobbed
Her Hair She’s Ready to Work
Allra Jove#, last aeen in “The
Green Goddeae,” sailed for England
yesterday to play the principal role
in "The Paaeionate Adventurer.”
which la to be produced by Myron
Selxnlck, of the famous film family
of the same name. Miss Joyce le
Mrs. James B. Regan, Jr., in private
life. Her husband is the son of the
former owner of the late and lament
ed Knickerbocker hotel and bar in
New York.
Alice haa been making Intermittent
appearances on the screen of late,
having become somewha t domesti
cated. However, she haa promised to
appear regularly in the future, and
aa an indication of the revolutionary
mood she la In haa bobbed her hair,
the latter operation being remarkably
successful.
Camera Missed It.
An English picture producer is
making a series of one-reel films to
be called "Fighta Thro' the Ages.”
He is going to start with David and
Goliath and run right down to Demp
sey and Flrpo. The meeting between
Joe Beckett and Carpentier la omitted
as the producer points out that It was
no fight. Aa a matter of fact he
claimed to have tried to get some
slow motion pictures of the battle, but
the English champion kissed the can
vas so quickly that it was Impossible,
even with a super-speed camera.
"His Hour." by Elinor Glyn. will
be produced by T.ouls Mayer. Elfhor
already has seen "Three Weeks,"
"Six Days" and "Her Great Moment"
filmed. She still has the seconds left.
GLORIA
SWANSON
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A SOCIETY
S CAN DAL,
An inside story oP societys
shocking Divorce Scandals !
^ Oloria in sillcs and laces
Gloria in furbelows ^
Gloria wearing ^ovns as
only she can wear them,
^But the vital, flashing,
dramatic Gloria yon- saw
in Zazahnd'^ts Humming Bird'.
ROD LA ROCQUE
headstbe supporting cast
^/t ‘Paramount ‘Picture
Slrarul
Concer-b
Orchestra
Youll enjoy every minute of this comedy
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Real and Unreel
B\ Dan II. Eddy, Hollywood Correspondent of Omaha Bee
Joan I Atwell eaya It would It* a
cinch for Do* Angelo* to get I Id of
lta traffic problem. It would only
be necessary for the council to pass
a law that nobody could drive un
til his car was fullv natd for.
Oh DsJiToii Dealt!
It's a terrible life these movie foiks
have.
Syd Chaplin went out to one of
(he roadhouses the cither night for
dinner, and they had a dancing
contest, and Syd was elected to
count *the ballots. Ho on one of the
first ballots he found In a lady’s
writing.
’’Hello. Syd. old dear! *
So when It came time for the sec
ond ballot, Syd bad the announcer
announce that he, Syd, would like to
have the lady send her phene number
on the next ballot.
And out of the second ballets Syd
garnered 22 phone numbers, six
names and an arldrzsx
Bunk Stays Home.
• Jack Hoxie's got a pup named
’’Bunk." He calls It a pup, but It Is
about as big as a full-grown cow.
They were using it in thia last pic
ture Jack made and when they went
on location up to Truckee, In the
snow, they took the dog.
A promising young property boy
who wanted to get in atrong with
Jack took the dog down to the sta
tion and checked him. They put him
in the baggage car. There is a rule
that dogs have to be muzzled and
chained, but the property boy in
duced the baggageman to forget the
muzzle, also the chain.
During the trip the baggageman
had to leave the car for a few min
utes. When he got back "Bunk’’ had
chewed the baggage check off all the
trunks, also off himself. They had to
hold the train twenty minutes at
Truckee to straighten out the tangle.
Jackie Does North.
Kid Ooogan, who Is one of the
young boye around Hollywood trying
to scrape a living out of the movies,
hsa left ua. He and Ml and Pa
Ooogan are up In Ban Francisco, and
th# rest of the C'ooganltes—camera
men and everybody followed them,
leaving the other day.
They are figuring on making the
next picture up there for some rea
son that we never even bothered to
ask about.
Kid Coogan himself didn’t like it
so well. You'd figure that the hotels
would be tickled to get him. and all
that, and that he could have every
thing but the hot and cold running
bellhops to play with. But the fact
The Man From Brodney's
(See Mmi Adv.)
* Monday—Tuesday
"MORE TO BE PITIED
THAN SCORNED"
- Wednesday—Thursday
FRED THOMSON
lu "MASK OF LOPEZ"
Friday—Saturday
“LIGHTS OUT"
M .___v__
la that tha last time he and hie folk*
were there, the manager eent two
bellhops up to tell him he had to
quit jumping up and down on the
floor.
For some reason—and doesn’t It
seem silly?—the folks In the room be
low failed to leap, and play with glee
when the plaster s'tarted falling down.
People are so unreasonable that way.
We Make a Bow. *
Being a devoted admirer of brave,
strong men, we always admired
Samson.
Berauae we admire fearless cour
age and dauntless strength we al
ways liked to read about the days of
old when knights were bold—although
to tell you the truth after seeing
some of these her* costume picture*
we thought they ought to say when
knights wers bolted. Anyway—
Because ws sdmir* the ability to
take a lot of punishment, and stam
ina, and all that, ws ar* a Jack
L’empeey fan.
But we have a new Idol. We hap
pened to be up to l^ew Cody’s house
the other morning and saw him eat
three pork chops for breakfast.
It Never Happened.
We almost got a squib for this
here col> um the other day. We were
over on Pola Negri's set, Just rub
bering around, and Pola had on a
dress that was made out of fake
pearls—there little hollow beads, you
know.
While we were there she was doing
a scene with Bob Frazer, her new
hero. It was a figit scene. Bob got
rough. They rehearsed It seven
times while we were there. Every
time Bob swung Pola around she shed
a peck of beads.
And Just when it got interesting
somebody called us ifir.
long, laing .Ago.
Talking about young men trying to
get’along In Hollywood, there's Bob
Fraser, who Is Pola Negri's new lead
ing man. Bob can wear a drew suit
now. even when he's not acting,
which Is certainly an advancement.
One time when he was trouptng with
a little one-hoss stock company out of
Boston, the manager came around one
night and said h* couldn't pay sal
aries. It was th* custom for the
management to psv the hotel bills,
too. and they’d been ther* a week and
Bob figured he was struck pretty.
So h* dropped hi* clothes out th*.
window, leaving his trunk, slid down
a water *pout and walked to the next
town, where ha got a Job washing
dishes. After a while ha got back to
Boaton and met the manager of the
stranded show. They were talking
about It and Bob told of leaving hit
trunk.
"You're a nut." aaid the manager,
and pulled out receipts showing he
had paid the hotel bills two weeks In
advance.
Bob sat down and wIYed the hotel
NEIGHBORHOOD THEATERS
GRAND.18th and Binary
Blanch* Swart and William Rutarll
in “ANNA CHRISTIE”
AWa AJ St. Jrhn Comedy
LOTHROr.24 th aad Lethre*
BETTY BLYTHE ia
“Dariisa ef the Rich,'* and a Caaiadv
BOULEVARD - . Ud aad Laevaawerth
Jackie Caagaa la "CIRCUS DAYS"
"Fithtiag Bleed" aad ■ Ceasedy
man to pie*** ship hi* trunk. Tk *
waa tha answer he got. collect, and
he keei* It in a fiaine. now
• You thought ypu w*i* pulling v
faat shuffle on me. didn't you? If
you want your trunk, you can w»,.c
back here and get It.”
But Bob never did.
She's Mill 9*.
May McAvoy got home from N- *
York a couple of weeks ago, but v*
never happened to run Into her unt 1
the other day. She looked Just it*
same as she always looked, wh ■ ,i
Is saving considerable. We asked her
how she waa anil she said, "Still •!, ’
which is what she always says
Mny figures to always weigh M
pounds. When she gets a pound un
der 96 she starts diving Into the old
sugar bowl and eating French pa*,
tries at midnight until she gets beck
to normal. And when she gets over
96—but why get personal?
We asked her whether she waa en
gaged to Olenn Hunter, w-ho la en
gaged to do "Merton of the Movie*.’’
hut she only blushed and wouldn't
say.
Kain, Beautiful Rain.
Her* a little while ago everybody
was hollering because we hadn't had
any rain out this way. And some
towns were figuring on hiring a bird
named Hatfield, who guarantees to
make It rain for so much per rain.
And it was such a tough situation
that nobody ever knew that the mov
lea wanted rain, too—that la, aome of
them did.
There waa a troupe making a opery
named “Code of the Sea,” and they
were laying out In the ocean on boats
waiting for a storm. Jacqueline I-o
gan was there, and Rod LaRocque.
And they waited and waited, but they
got nary a storm.
And then a couple days before Het
Held waa set to do hie etuff, all et
once It started In and stormed and
rained something fierce, and the
troupe got Its storm stuff and every
body was happy except Rainmaker
llat'fleid.
That Would Be Sad.
A pres# •gent send* us this story;
“A big, handsome man knocked on
the door of the publicity office, and
shyly entered.
“ ‘Mr. Publicity Man.' aa!d ha apolo
getically, ‘I read In the papere that
I am the great Swedish director; that
I am one of the greatest director* of
Europe. Won't you please try to
keep such statements out of the
papers? I wish auch extravagant
things wouldn't be printed.’
"The publicity man swooned. After
he had been revived with a pulmotor
and mimeograph he explained, Vic
tor Seastrom. the great Swedish di
rector, picked up hit hat and sadly
walked out. And the publicity man
wrote this story."
it's a good etory. isn't It? The
only trouble is some editor is liable
to take It seriously.
Has a Reason.
A terrible thing has happened to
poor old Jimmy Cruxe.
He is taking his work serlouslv
The reason for it is that he is di
recting Betty Compton, whom he
happens to be engaged to wed as th.s
Is written.
We used to go around on Jimmy's
set and he would be rolling one
cigaret after another and talking to
half a dozen friends at once and mak
ing a picture like a whirlwind.
But we went around the other day
and he was directing Betty, and he
was so darn particular to have every
thing Just right, and he was squint
ing at the lights and talking to him
self and rubbing his heed, and ail
that. And he never even knew a
bunch of his friends waa standing
bark of the camera. But the great
est sign of. his deep mental distress
was that he was even forgetting to
roll cigarets.
1 soles* Occupations.
Mickey Neilan has Inherited Abdul.
Abdul, strange to say. is a Turk.
You would never guesa It from his
name. He used to be a fighter and
wrestler. Still more recently, and for
some years post, he has been Doug
Fairbanks' personal trainer, sparring
partner and target. Doug went to
Europe. Mickey inherited Abdul.
When Ab went on th* Neilan pay
roll. the idea was that he was to keep
Mickey in good physical condition,
get hgn out bright and early every
morning and see that he exercised.
The third morning Mickey devel
oped appendicitis He was giad of it
Nothing on e rth could be half as
painful as Mickey after Abdul got
through working him out. Getting
Mickey to work out is something like
picking spikes out of hardwood logs
with fleece-lined glovea on.
Sam Ooldwyn says he will produce
no more original atorles. Sounds
more tike a threat than a promise.
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This Week—Ending Friday
Geo. Barr McCutcheon’s
Famous Story
“The Man From
Brodney’s”
With
i. Warren Kerrigan
Alice Calhoun, Wanda Hawley, Miss
DuPont, Pat O’Malley,
Kathleen Key
Look to “The MooiT-FOR REEL ACTION
The moat sensational hand-to-hand battle ever filmed! A mad horde of
dark-skinned men attack a castle held by half a dozen whites. To protect
the women they love from a fate worse than death.
Ctming Next Niek-Fstrth Serin “LEATHER PUSHERS’’
