Notes

Jackie Coogan's next product will be Long Live the King, from a story by Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart.

Douglas Fairbanks has completed a spectacular romance, The Thief of Bagdad, which will shortly be presented to the country.

Elmer Clifton and the city of New Bedford, Mass., set out to make a whaling film, and the upshot was Down to the Sea in Ships, the movie which all last Winter sent thrills up and down many a landlubber's back. In a casual reference to this seamark of the cinema, TIME (July 30) spoke of Maurice Tourneur's clever handling of a large rubber whale in one of the heaviest northwest gales that ever struck the screen.

It was not so. The Whaling Film Corporation of New Bedford tells the true story: The whale was not rubber, but real flesh, blood and blubber. He was not one, but several. Mr. Clifton (not Mr. Tourneur) found him in the Caribbean and " spent almost two years in making the picture real." Blubber is stranger than rubber.