Hitchcock Is Cast in Cosmopolitan Picture

Other Noted Actors Appear In Channing Pollock’s” Beauty Shop”

Cosmopolitan Productions announces a roster of popular players for its screen version of ”The Beauty Shop,” a musical comedy written by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolfe.

Raymond Hitchcock, who starred in the original stage production, will head the cast.

Story of Production
”The Beauty Shop” concerns the affairs of Dr. Arbutus Budd, a famous beauty specialist who is mistaken for a long lost baron and returns to the Principality of Bolognia to get the family fortune. He finds many things but not the fortune and the complications that arise from his assumption of the baron’s name and uniform bid fair to be among the funniest ever contrived for the films.

Billy B. Van and James J. Corbett will play the parts of prominent Bolognians who conspire to make Dr. Budd’s life in their native country a series of highly uncomfortable thrills. Montagu Love has the role of the heavy. The Fairbanks Twins — Marion and Madeleine — will be seen as two dancers.

Louise Fazenda in Cast
Louise Fazenda, creator of many laughs in scores of comedies, has a comedy role. Diana Allen, a Follies girl, will grace the production as niece and ward of Dr. Budd. Laurence Wheat, familiar in musical comedies and on the screen, completes the cast.


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