When the Messrs. Shubert presented
! at the Century their spectacular pro
duction of the Leo Fall operetta, 'The
Rose of Stamboul," which ran for two
years at the "Theatre an der Wlen,"
Vienna, the first curtain disclosed the
Harem of Kemal Pasha at Stambyul.
the residence suburb for diplomat* of
, conferring over "Nice People" the com
! edy by Rachel Crothers, which he Is
; getting ready for the screen. Though
! Ills brother, Cecil B. De MUle, Is said to
; be still in an unsatlsfnctory condition,
I plan.* are still being talked over for the
j production of "Manslaughter," the adap
1 tatlon of Alice Oner Miller's novel. In
! which Thomas Meighan is to be the chief
1 votive offering.
j
The attendance on the pictures of one
?>f the actresses mentioned in the Taylor
i case has fallen off two-thlrdn, so no
doubt the film world la now shaken to
Its depths.
Occasionally publicity departments
trlve birth to something that maken even
themselves pause. Recently an en
thusiastic Fox press agent In Rome,
I v here the Tlb"r and the tipple still flow
with equal fluency, cabled to the New
' Vork office that in order to make "Nero,"
I the Fox spectacle which will be shown
' on Uroadwty soon, historically correct
i in every detail, the director, J. Gordon
Bd wards, had obtained the precise fiddle
: 'in winch the ern|>eror played while Rome
? burned. Ar?4 ti<sr the Fo* prens gentry
here are wondering how to handle the
j story vlthout sorching their Angers.
