Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1927, Page 64

-AMUSEMENTS Honor to Clara Bow A BOW, selected by virtually the unanimous vote of the Los Angeles motion picture critics as the winner of the Wampas achievement trophy as the baby star of the class of 1924 who had made signal progress in her streen career, recently received @ big cup in her Bevérly Hills home trom the hands of Alberta Vaughn, another 1924 starlet, instead of before the muititude who attended the an- nual Wampas frolic and ball. Miss Bow was unable to attend the ball: being confined to her home under orders from her physician because of a severe cold, which necessitated sus- pension of production on her current | picture for Paramount, “Rough House Rosie.” When it became known that she would be unable to be present when the trophy was awarded. Miss Vaughn was named to_receive it from Fred Niblo, master of ceremonies at | the ball, and take it to the victor Miss Bow’s record since she w named a Wampas baby star has t one of almost spectacular progre: In the past year her personal t has been so marked that she been raised to full stardom, her now a_ full-fledged T R s "One-Track players" “poxNT player! With this emphatic request, lipm De Mille denounces the casting of ceértain” actors and actresses in the same type of roles “The playerswho can portray con- vincinglv but one type of character is ome of the curses of the industry,” De Mille states. “On the other hand. a versatile actor or actress is one of its blessings. ‘Take little Vera Reynolds, fgr in stance. In ‘Sunny Side Up’ she ‘wod a dancer in a musical revue: in ‘Risky Busiuess' she was a_wealthy society girl and in ‘Corporal Kate' she was a little Irish maniourist who went to war with the Red Cross. All three of these roles were different in turn from the character she gives in ‘The Little Adventuress,’ in which I am now -di- give me a one-track | Wil- | WEEK OF. FEBRUARY 27 Sunday @Y SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 27, 1927 IUSEMENYTY | Thursday Photoplays at Washingfo,n Theaters This Week Friday | Saturday Rin-Tin-Tin Hille_of 'Rentucky " {Ambassad’r | - American Conrad - Nagel in “Tin Hats." Billy "nooley comedy. | B in of Kentucky." ley_comedy. Wednesd:y Ronald_Colman in ‘“The Nigh. of Love." Cameo_coniedy. Bove Danicls in Vera Reynolds tranded in Paris. Togians A “Corporal Kate.” Acsop_Fable. Sennett_comedy, Joygoh Sehildkraut in the Prince. 0! Bello, Begnett, in l Mae Buech in ““Perch of the Devil." Seena Owen in The, Shany Hinaes f \"Berby.+ | “Fiame of the Tukon." “The Brown Derby." Madze Bellamy in “Summer Tiachelors.” Narmand. Apollo abel Madce Ballamy in “Symmer Bachelors.” Corinne_Grifith i ly in Ermine.’ Manel Normand medy. lev_romedd- o Gointn Ave.(imnd'-gu‘w Lt In Brmine. Billy | come | Dark on Sunday | Cameo Mt Roinier. M. ey *“The Lady Bille_Tnol T-nnn Georee, O'Hara in ‘California_or Bust" “Collegians’ oot CGibson in “The Silent Rider. Tmnerial - comed Vera Reynolds (‘urmne ummh Thomas Meighan in “The Canadian.” Apann o) Shirlev ‘ln\nn m of 1 Tenemen Hal_Roach_romedv. Trene Rich i in “My Official Wife." Camen comedy Vera Reynolds Doukias Farbanks in ““The Black Pirate.” Mabel Normand com- Pathe_News. y._Pathe News “Antonio Mor “Love's Blind Emil_Jannincs in “Faust Aeson's F Comedy’ Jimmie Adams com- edy._Fox News Warner Baxter in ‘The Great Gatab Wisecracker conu Review, | Carolina , , Anna Q. Nifseon in “Miss Moo A nn~ Q. Nilsson in Antonfo Moreno in “Miss Nobody." e's Blindnees. Greta_Garbo in “The Temptress. Greta Garho in “The Tempiress. Johnnv Hines in ree Sidnas free ™ “Stepping Alonk." Millionaires.” | | Betty Compson Cenhal By Betty Compson in elle of Broadway.” Lioyd Hamilton corete, Trene Rich in “My Official Wife” | Camen_romedy. Mudge | “Summer Trenn Rich in My Official_Wifo." Camno Tlamy Mudge Bellamy wmufn Boyd n n 5 “Summer Bachelors.” | +Jim the Conqueror, A “Ms Ofmcial Wite." Trene, Rich Rudoln Valentino n “Son of the Sheik." rt_Loke comedv ! Johnny Arthur omediv | Madge Beilamy Alien T i “The Magician® | “Summer “Collesians” \'n v Adsma comedy Anita. Stewart “Whispering Wires." Sennett comedy. Vera Reynolds ,A “Cornoral K-te. Felix cartoon Antonio Moreno in “Love's Rlindness."” A “Love's Blindness.” ntonjo Moreno in Viola Dana in . “Homestruck." House Peters Madee Kenpedy in A Baby. Prln:nrr- of the Milton Sills in “The Silent Lover." Imnerial somedy. Emil_Jannings o | George,_0'Brien Pathe News, “Silver Trensure,” et Comady. Rudoloh Madve Bollamv in “Summer Bachelors.” of Hm Sheik X Bm Lymn “Obey_the Law." Arthor eomeds | fimmy mm- comadt. ~Comedy hard Tamadze in The, Better Man," Sport_vrel Boery and [T | Hippodr'me | .55 Hattong Tanies Raymond Hatton e allace Weery Official war film “Through ~Hell = and In the )uvy Back Aesin With the Tonica Pan yir “The Midnizht Kiss." Comedy. Fiorence Vidor In “The, Povular Sin." aghe News. R Tom Mix_in he. K. & Shirley Mason in “Rose of the Tenements. Art Lake romed- | Home Allen Prngle in Viola Dana "The, Wildernces in “Salvation Jane." Wom; Anern Fante Johnne Arthur comed in “When a Dag Loves. Lew, Cody “The Gav Deceiver. Ctintiane” Now k. | e Turnin comeds Louise z Fazenda “Fincar Printe Neely Edwarie come. Aadxe Kflmet\! Conrad Nagel in “Tin_ Tlate | Leader Bu “The, Tola Negri ok Jones in % « Price, n “The Crown of Lies," Comedy Desert Weekly, oty n “The Crown of Li Comedy. Pola_Negri Richard Dix in “The Ouarterhack,” Fox Weekly, Camedy. Rl(‘hflrd D!‘ i! “The Ouarterineic Fox “p»kl!- Comedy. Alice _Terry in “The Magician.” Alice 'rerrvl in, Leatrice Jov. “The Magician.” “The Clinging Vine.” | Pauline_Stark in Johnny Hines fn Love's Blindness.” | “The Brown Derby.” Buck Jones in “The Flying Horceman.” iLiberty . . Ratmor Baonn Olymplc SR A Sl RO A i o and Marie_Prevost 'mond Il(on in in n the Navy “Man Bait.” Pathe Wask'v Comedy. Doris Kenyo Roven Valgntino i ¢ Tt “The Four " Ho “Missmates," of the Anocalype, Comedy. W Fax Woeldy, Rpdolph Valenting 1 ‘our Horsemen of ;;» Annoatvnse,” A Warldly i Tewie Stone in " ““The Lost World." Cartoon. Park Lewiy Stone ‘The Lofl. Jorld." Teatrive Joy . “Hell's Hirhroad." Imperial vomedy. in “Aloma,of the South Gilda Gray he South Gilda_Gray i in “Aloma of W. C. Felds in “'S0's Your O1d Man “The. Dixie Marchant. Colieen Moore i “Twinkletoes." Princéss Cameds lec B. Francos in Emll Jmnlnn oL | ol Reiurn of Peter Aler, n i .w«. in The Re Jasnet G “The Midnight Kiss." Cartoon. Peter Art Accor ! o “The Scrapping Kid." ! FILMOGRAMS British National Plctures is bidding $1,000,000 for Mae Murray for a year, and Mae says she is only ‘awaiting the arrival of the British agent * final terms.” Carl Laemmle has established the Laemmle award, consisting of 12 an. nual prizes, totaling $5,000, to writers for suggestions to advance the quality | and usefulness of pietures. Frank Borzage, who directed the film version of “Seventh Heaven,” had Albert Gran, who was cast as Boul, make up to look like a statue of the mayor of Montmartre which Borzage had bought in Paris. Allen Dwan, the screen director, was born in Toronto, lived during his youth in Chicago, and was educated at Notre Dame University. He began his career as an actor and then became @ scenario editor for the American Film Co. He produced “Robin Hood" and “The Music Master.” Contending that picture theaters are too dark and that managers have no method of determining the effective- ness of the lighting, Guay A. Henry, general director of the Eyesight Con servation Council of America, urges a code of {llumination for picture atidi toriums, Flim Dalily states that its report has been confirmed that Ostrers Brothers, merchant bankers of London, are steadily buying up theaters through- out Great Britain, and that in asso- ciation with Gaumont are planning ex- tensive production for its chain, which now numbers 35 houses in key cities. ‘While his admirers were celebrat- Ing his sixtieth birthday and "the twenty-first anniversary of his advent ‘to discuss | to the motlon picture business, with a big banquet at the Biltmore in Los Angeles, the proprietors of the Alham- bra_Theater in Milwaukee, Wis., had a Carl Laemmle birthday party, to which every one in Milwaukee who was inteested was invited. The Hal Roach Studios, makers of Pathe comedies, not afraid to gamble on new faces for the screen, have made five-year agreements with Viola Richards, a recent “find"; Stan Lau- rel, Max Davidson and Jesse De- vorska. Georg® J star of “Private Izzy Murphy,” s said to be a descendant of Sir George Jessel of England, royal counselor and master of the rolls in Great Britaln during the reign of Queen Victoria. Edgar Rommell, who appears in a special presentation feature on the stage of the Rialto this week, 1s a brother of Rox Rommell, conductor of the orchestra. Edgar Rommell s aiso an orchestra conductor on his own account on the Pacific Coast. He is a cello sololst of note and a radio broadcasting artist in San Francisco. His cello selections for the week will be “Humoresque” and “Tonight You Belong to Me.” “Convoy,” Robert T. Kane's film record of the Navy at war, is to be re- leased by First National as its first special of the current year. It is rated as in a class with the most ambitious war pictures made to date. It deals with the activity of the Navy from the outbreak of the war to the sign- ing of the armistice. “The services of a comedy instruc- tor are as important to a serious or even a heavy fllm drama as for a farce Will Probe Abyssinia. S. Barfett McCormick, who was promoted last week from the director- ship of thé exploitation ahd publicity department of Pathe to editor of Pathe Review, has made his st big as signment. Reaching out to bring to the re- view events of world significance, Mr. McCormick has obtained exclusive film rights for the Gordon MacCreagh ex- pedition, which will go into the wilds of Abyssinia to secure rare specimens of animals and to attempt to get at the truth of some of the legends con- nected with unexplored terrain in that land. or light comedy So says Stuart Helsler, “expert film editor,” now graduated into the fleld of ‘“comedy construction,” which used to be known by the less euphonious title of “gag- ging.” Helsler recently completed the “comedy construction work” on the }flmt National picture, “See You fn ail.” The filming by Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer of “Tell It to the Marines” is claimed to have benefited the Maririe Corps in more ways than one. In ad- dition to telling the American peopie, via the screen, all about the tradi- tlons and life of the “devil dogs.” it was the means of making Lon Chaney, Willlam Haines, Director George Hili and Assistant Director Wilson commis- sioned officers of the Marine Corps Reserve, Herbert Brenon, veteran directar, who produced for Paramount the epic of the Forelgn Legion, “Beau Geste," | established quite a record for airplane commuting while photographtng_the exterior scenes for the picture at Zula- non, the desert town on the Great American Desert in southwestern Art zona, near the Mexican border. He made weekly week end trips for a pe- riod of three months to and from Hollywood, a roundtrip distance of over 800 miles. e Ralph Gratae comedy. I ack semnet comedy. | our Sin Comeds. Ser: ' Eva Novak “The Country News. Emil Jannings Seenic: Irene Rich in My flfl\"vfl Wd? s Camen_no recting her. “In this picture she is cast as a charming little artist who, under a A Story to Make Your Sides Shake and Your Heart Ache! Hoot | The anm Rider." ibson Bevond. “The Dixte Fiyer." Juvenile comedy. The “mx Sennett_comedy. Savoy ":;:_n men "!d':lmn "".’X 4 romantic spell, elopes with the wrong man. to forget all the characteristics of the herolnes she has played in the past and if she were a ‘one-track player’ she could not do it.” “Crepe de Chine” Pictures “Ifi the crepe de chine picture pass- ing?” “’HH’\m K. Howard, director of “The Thundering Herd, “Gigolo” and other screen plays, thinks so. “The screen is entering upon a new era,” Howard states. “During 1927 I firmly believe we shall see the simpi told screen storv excecd in popularity the tremendously ornate; flu¥y style of remantic drama and spectacle which has held the spotlight in the past. “In ‘White Gold,” which I have just filmed at the De Mille studio, with Jetta Goudal in the starring role, 1 have attempted to bring to the screen a simply but vital siudy in human emotions. There are but four charac- ters to the story and the entire action ‘takes place in less than one day within the confines of a ranch in the drought- In this part she is called upon | Takoma Wallace Beery Besmsand Bation in “We'ro ik the Now." Ne Lon Chaney in “Phantom ot ‘the Onera 9, Navy Comed~ Fai O Malicy sn “'Snangle Comy woatia. ncls wnumld in “Th Deser's Toll." Paghe. Comed 15 Sooring Love Aceon's Fable. Belle Bennett in “Stella Dallas.” Tivoli Corinne Grifin “The Lady n Ecmine. Jimmy Adnme comedt Belle Bernett in “Stella Dallas.” ey Jin Thomae Meighan in “The _Canadian.” Fativ s artnon he Lady in Ermine.” nmy Adams ety Thomas_Meighan n “The Canadian.” Falix_eartoon Hoh’ Dana “The Jeo' F Chanie Chnss ‘2o Mary Pickford in “Spartows." News. York Madge Bellamy ummer Bachelors. 1 Noem: Shirley Nacon in “Rose of the Tenements.” o Cameo comedy. al Trene Rich in My Officia] Wife." Aeson Fable. Anita Stewart ia I “Whisperine Wires." Johnny Arthur comedy. Fred Thomson 3 "‘ Rerular Scomt." “Collexians” No. 8. M‘Ill ln‘ “The | WRon rren comeedy. Takes Leading Role. AULINE GARON has the leading role in the new Pathe picture, “The Princess of Broadway,” which will be released early in March. She has played on the stuge for the past few vears and has also appeared in a num- ber of films for the Warner Brothers. Lowell Sherman, her husband, is an occasional performer before the cam- era, although the greater part of his time is devoted to the stage. stricken Arizona sheep country. “There are no spectacular cavalry charges, no ride-tothe-rescue thrills, vet I belleve it will sweep an audi- ence off its feet more readily than does the most spectacular melodrama.” Babe to Act ABE RUTH is going to have to act before the cameras as earnestly as he plays ball, according to Wid Gun- ning, who is producing ‘“‘Babe Comes Home" for First National, with the diamond star and Anna Q. Nilsson heading the cast. “For what we may safely say is the first time in the history of the motion picture business, a celebrity from the sporting world has been cast because of his fitness to play a certain screen story role,” Gunning declares. “Ordi- narily the celebrity is signed for the sake of his fame,.and’'a story is built around him, so that he will have little acting to do. *‘Babe Comes Home' reverses this n Earnest procedure.. Ruth will have to act. The story was built up from Gerald Beau- mont’s magazine sports classic, ‘Said With Soap,’ to be a big special, and another actor, well known and capa- ble, was first considered for the role. He was an excellent actor, hut not satisfying asy a base ball star type. Then we thollght of Ruth and signed him for the part. Jocelyn Lee, one of the few red- heads in pictures, has been cast by E. H. Griffith to play the vamp in “Afraid to Love,” Florence Vidor's picture for Paramount. Clive Brook is leading man. 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