The New Pictures

Stephen Steps Out. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR., WEDS DOROTHY STONE should be next among the numerous nuptials of the show world. " Should be" because it would provide the respective press agents with high grade copy. YOUNG STARS WHO GAINED FAME AT DEBUTS. Columns and columns of comment with pictures of the agile parents, Fred and Douglas, bounding over the church steeple in their ecstasy.

All this to indicate that Douglas, Jr., duplicated at his first performance the sensational success attained a fortnight ago by Dorothy Stone at hers.

Douglas, Jr., had rather a thin and weakling play on which to test his histrionic sinews; yet, seasoned by a good cast and gloriously spared the sickly meringue of lovemaking, it sufficed.

Stephen flunks out of preparatory school because an honest, old professor does not consider Stephen's family name (Harlow) sufficiently important to offset his egregious ignorance of Turkish history. An irate headmaster peremptorily ousts the professor; Stephen goes to Turkey and makes history for subsequent Stephens to study. In the course of activities he acquires the Grand Cross of the Crescent for the honest, old professor.

Douglas, Jr., has the sudden smile of his father. He acrobats.

Lest the more naive readers of this page buy wedding presents for Douglas and Dorothy, hereinbefore intimately mentioned, it may be said that no wedding is actually contemplated. Dorothy is 17; Douglas, 14.

Wild Bill Hickok. William S. Hart has emerged after two years of intellectual contemplation--the study of American history (at least so the wondering world has been informed) The problem is "Why?" His new picture is a typical Will Hart Western. Possibly his historical details are increasingly accurate. What of it? He was always inimitable--the greatest cowboy that ever faced a camera. Even William S. Hart by taking two years' thought cannot add one cubit to his stature.

Ponjola is a picture of the regeneration of an African mining expert. Mainly important because Anna Q. Nilsson cut off her hair to play the "man " -- later the woman -- who accomplished the regeneration. Ponjola is the Kaffir word for whiskey.