When Donald Crisp returned from
a trip to the South Seas and else
where, he wore a bristling beard
that gave him a decidedly bandit
like appearance. Immediately the,
various members of the staff who
were destitute df hirsute adornment
began to develop mustaches, beards,
etc. Then Mr. Crisp appeared one
morning cleanly shaven and cherub
ic in appearance. That afternoon,
the cameraman, assistant director
and others presented a similar free
dom from every vestige of beard or
mustache. "They always endeavor
to emulate their handsome director,"
observed Mr. Crisp humorously.
William S. Hart has Just return
ed from location at Victorville, Cal.,
and has already left for France to
get more and different scenes for
"Square Deal Sanderson." In the
vicinity of Victorville, which is some
thing over 150 miles from Hollywood
the company discovered a hitherto
untried location in a gigantic desert
once a lava bed from which great
outcroppings of solid rock rise from
tiny pebbles to monster mountains
as big as skyscrappers. Here Mr.
Hart did some breakneck riding
down steep grades and over the lev
els of the -desert.
Allan Forrest, leading man for
Mary Miles Minter in the star's pic
ture plays, is still smarting under
the sting of his failure to see service
in Uncle Sam's Army. When he ap
plied for enlistment he was rejected
on account of physical disability and
told that only an operation would
render him eligible. So he register
ed at a hospital in Santa Barbara,
spent three months on his back re
covering from the effects of the sur
gery and then, during his convales
cence, the little old armistice was
signed. Forrest is back In the stu
dios now, making love to M. M.
