Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1927, Page 48

AMU SEMENTS. The Moving‘ Picture Album BY ROBERT E. SHERWOOD. TA NY ONE who has formed the per- nicious habit of writing about mo- tion pictures knows taat the months of May, June and July are virtual washouts In so far as material is con- cerned. Practically no good pictures are re- Jeased during that dead period, and if it wasn’t for an occasional wedding or a somewhat less occasional divorce in Hollywood, the cinema scribe would be painfully hard pressed for subjects. This Summer hasn't been as bad as most; it has brought forth, among others, such worthy productions as “The Way of All Flesh,” “Seventh Heaven,” ~“Resurrection” and “The Blood Ship.” But even these advan- tages have been insufficient to over- come the depressing influence of the seasonable humidity. Now, however, things are beginning to look up. The next few weeks will witness the arrival of many pictures which, from this observation post, ap- | pear promising. | * K ox ¥ First and foremost on the list is “Wings,” the latest Paramount super- feature, which has been “respectfully dedicated to Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh.” (It is not known whether Col. Lindbergh has heard of this honor, or, it so, what he intends to | do about it). | “Wings.” as its title suggests, is an | epic of the air and is adorned with stirring views of our bovs in action above, on and below the flelds of France during the war. William Well- man directed “Wings,” and his em- ployers confidently believe that his work on this picture will make him famous. Heading the cast are Clara Bow, Jobyna Ralston and Charles Rogers. Another Paramount picture which is | awaited with almost breathless antici- pation is “The Wedding March,’ h von Str vear effort since “The Mer it is rendered additionally Dby the fact that he himself will ap- pear in its casi. * * ¥ There are three important events on the Metro-Goldwyn schedule: “The | Student Prince,” directed by the great | Lubitsch, and_starring_both Norma Shearer and Ramon Novarro; “The | Garden of Allah,” a new version of | the famous story produced in North- ern Africa by Rex Ingram. The cast is headed, of course, by Alice Terry and *Le "’ adapted from “Anna Karenina,” with those two expert romancers, John Gilbert and Greta Garbo. From United Artists will come Douglas Fairbanks' new picture, “The Gaucho™; Mary Pickford in “My Best Girl” and Charlie Chaplin in “The | Kick," Circus,” if and when he ever straight- ens out his numerous legal difficulties. Universal has two big one cards—"Uncle Tom's Cabin has been in preparation for time, and “The Big Gun,” spectacle. Firt National will offer Richard Barthelmess in “The Patent Leather Kid,” the story of a prize fizhter who went to war. It has been produced on a highly ambitious scale, and is the first super-special that Mr. Barthel- mess has made since he departed from the Griffith studio seven years ago. 3 S With “The Patent Leather Kid," “The Big Gun.” “Wings” and “The Wedding March” in prospect, it seems that the saturation point in war films has not as yet been reached—not by any manner of means The dummy howitzers, whizzbangs and machine guns will continue to roar and rattle in southern California this season, and handsome leading men will continue to fix their bayonets and set their lower jaws preparatory to dashing over the t This sudden renaissance of interest in “the late unpleasantness” is both unexpecte and unaccountable. It was to be expected that a certain tendency toward war dramas would follow the play, “What Price Glory?’ and the picture, “The Big Parade, is no way of explaining why the craze happened to continue for two ar: It is bound to end some time or other, when the movie scenaro writers have finally exhausted all the possibili ties in the last war. Then it will be up to the diplomats to get together and cook up a new world conflict. The silent drama must have material! RULLETINS. HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Among the callege pictures on tap for next season re Richard Barthelmess in “The Drop ' Marion Davies The Fair Co-Ed.” Dolores Costello in “The Col- lege Widow" and Buster Ki “College,” and several from Fi tional featuring the 10 undes ates selected in a recent collegiate heauty contest There will also be two West Doint pictures, one With William Boyd and another with John Gilbert. . . . NEW YORK, N. Y.—“The Big Pa- rade” will close its extraordinary run at the Astor Theater here early in Sep- tember, after nearly a hundred weeks of profitable business at high prices. g Fur coats are being worn in the on_ the which long naval a a fce-cooled movie palaces these hot days, several cases of grip having been re- ported among film fans due to over- exposure. (Covyriht. 192 Will Begin Week Sat- urday. OEW'’s Palace and Columbia Thea- ters will inaugurate a Saturday opening policy on August 20, when the motion picture season of 1927-28 begins here. This means that the stage and screen programs at both Loew’s Pal- ace and Loew's Columbia will be changed entirely on each Saturday, except where feature fllms are held over for two or more weeks. The action was taken, it is an- nounced, at the direction of Marcus Loew, who feels that the best: inter- ests of the theaters and the public will be served by the new plan. Not Burlesquing Lindy ONTY BANKS, screen comedy star, has taken decided exception to a recent newspaper story which stated that “An Ace in the Hole,” the Pathe fun feature he is now filming, 18 based on a comedy flight across the Atlantic. “Not only would a comedy bur- lesqueing Lindbergh's superb achieve- ment be in the poorest possible taste,” is Monty’s opinion, “but it would be extremely foolish from a business standpoint. “A new York newspaper columnist rightly summed up this gallant young aviator’s place in the hearts of Amer- ica when he called him ‘citizen No. 1." Every man, woman and child who thrilled to the story of this hero's lone flight across the ocean would quite rightly resent any attempt to undignify it. “The story for my new picture, ‘An Ace in the Hole,’ was written by Charles Horan several months ago. ‘While it is an aviation comedy, it deals neither with war nor trans. oceanic flights. We are simply try- ing to capture all the laughs that may center around an embryo aviator who is up in the air in many more ways than one.” o Blondes and Brunettes. ITHE eternal conflict between blondes 112 and brunettes is under way at the DeMille Studio. A recent inventory of the tresses of the players of the DeMille Stock Co. disclosed the fact that there are 11 feminines in the stock company, and of that number only four are blondes, while the brunettes number seven! Seena Owen, Sally Rand, Jeanette Loff and Phyllis Gibbs hoid up the blond banner and Julia Faye, Jac- queline Logan, Elinor Fair, Virginia Bradford, Lena Malena, Josephine Norman and Gloria deCota make up the ranks of the raven-haired mem- bers It is interesting to note that from far-off Australia comes Phyllis Gibbs, after having won a_continent-wide beauty contest and the title ‘“Miss Australasia.” Being a decided blonde, with fair and wavy long hair, she is in' direct contrast to Miss Gloria deCota, who garnered the name of “Miss Mexico” and {s a dark-haired girl with glossy bobbed tresses. o Praise for Negri Picture. OLA NEGRI has received the fol- lowing tribute to her Paramount | plcture, “Barbed Wire.” “As chairman of the film and on of the Union Ministe tion of Los Angeles, the man’s Brotherhood and other kindred bodies—I am pleased to inform you that, I not only indorse your Para- mount picture ‘Barbed Wire'—hut urge every one to view it. I of the outstanding pictures of the year. It is a at picture in which You have proved yourself an actr of unusual ability “The picture, iigelf, contributes to a reunion and goed will among the na- tions, and to the high standard you have reached in it.” Chinese Aspire. OLLYWOOD'S lure, which has drawn thousands of hoys and girls from hundreds of towns to try to “get into the movies,” has penetrated the stoic calm of the Orienta Richard Dix went to Sacramento some time ago with a company of 50 people to film scenes for his Yangtze River picture, *Shanghai Bound.” Ten Chinese he took with him were mugmented there by 200 local Chinese in the mob scenes, Today 14 of the Sacramento Chinese returned to Hollywood with Dix. They { will be movie actors, they calmly an- nounced. One of them, Carl Lysing, fm @0-yearcld Cantonese, is known in {&&ramento as “The Chineso Valen- aino.” ST 7 ra— is one | Newman in Russia M. NEWMAN, the well known travel lecturer, who has com- pleted his work in Russia, where he made many interesting pictures both still and in motion, writes from Len- ingrad that he was privileged to pho- tograph the treasures of the Hermit- age, one of the priceless collections of art and one of the finest and most complete in existence, and that he also visited the palace of the former Czar and made pictures of the royal fam- ily's living rooms which have been kept just as they were when the Czar abdicated, and his pictures give an intimate glimpse of rooms never seen by the public during the old regime. Mr. Newman says also he is return- ing with a complete and graphic story, beautifully illustrated. Byrd Sympathizes 'OMDR. R. E. BYRD has expressed deep sympathy for Robert Molin and Maxim Dely, the Pathe News cameramen who were injured in an automobile accident while racing from Paris to Ver-sur-Mer to film the wreck of Byrd's plane, “America.” The commander. in a letter to the cameramen expressed his regret at their injury and stated that he feit somewhat responsible for the accident through having come down at Ver- sur-Mer rather than at the Le Bourget fl!eld near Paris—his intended destina- tion. “ables from Harry Harde, manager of the Pathe News Bureau in Paris, report Molin and Dely on the road to recovery. cogesiid Topsy and Eva" Going Well THE Duncan Sisters, who are ap- pearing personally with their United Artists picture, “Topsy and Eva” thelr initial film effort, will make a ten-week tour of the United States with the production and then accompany the picture to England, where the Paladium, in London, has offered them a liberal guarantee to appear in thelr act as a prologue to the film. In New York they are to fill an engagement of three weeks at the Rivoli. They are booked in Chicago for another three weeks and will then appear in person with the picture in St. Louis, Buffalo and Boston. A few other cities may be added to the itin- erary. The Duncan Sisters are sald to have established a record which will prob. ably stand for all time in their world premiere engagement at Grauman's Egyptian Theater, Hollywood. Should Appc;I ;o Foreigners. OT an American is to be found either In the roster of important players or in the, directorial ranks of the company now filming “The For- bidden * Woman,” which stars Jetta Goudal for Cecil De Mille. Miss Goudal hails from sunny France; Paul Stein, her director, ar- rived in Hollywood from Austria ‘only 14 months ago: Victor Varconi is a Hungarian; while Joseph Schildkraut is a native of Austria, and Ivan Lebedeff, who completes the list, is a Lithuanfan, recently arrived 1in America. But “The Forbidden Woman” was ten by Elmer Harris, and Clara ranger adapted it for the screen. wr Be Hunga ry's Molnar Busy. HI'N’},\RY‘S foremost author prob- ably, is Ferenc Molnar, author of Swan,” “Lillom” and ‘“The the Thing,” this last having 1 Holbrook for more than a full son on Broadway the current year. Molnar’s second claim to distinction is his energy, which finds him at his desk with all the application of a cler] He is now, according to Emil Lengyel, friend, admirer and also playwright, working on three new plays, one of which he will select for final elaboration. Molnar's system of writing is to have several pens in the ink. When one subject temporarily fatigues him he elaborates upon the other. He will work on a pl for five or six weeks, then put it away to retouch a totally different theme. He I8 reported as rushing work on the one play he will select for pres- entation this year, so as to be able to come to America with his wife, Lily Darvas, a Max Reinhardt sta who will tour this Fall with a German troupe, “The Swan,” it will be remembered, was last seen hers with E lienne, but there | LeCal-~ THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. A New Waterfall, wonderful waterfall, never seen by tourists, forms a background for Richard Dix's new Paramount picture, “Man Power.” Up In the deserted gold mining re- | glon of the Sierra Nevada Mountains | where the Stanislaus River cuts into a narrow gorge on its way down to the San Joaquin Valley a big con- crete dam was finished about Christ- mas, 1926, after 18 months’ construc. tion work. It is 640 feet across and nearly 400 feet high in the middle. During the early Spring months when the snows began to melt in the Sierras a lake formed for miles in the forked valleys on the upstream side and the water flooded back to the town of Melone, about 15 miles away. When Clarence Badger took his “Man Power” company into the moun- tains for scenes the snows were melt- ing rapidly and the water was flow ing over the dam nearly 3 feet deep at its rim for the entire width, filling the canyon below with a smother of white spray. The roar could be heard for miles. Engineers claimed that the volume of water equaled the American side of Niagara and was much more spec- tacular because of the mass of jagged rocks onto which it was falli Both day and night taken in the vicinity. For the day scenes Dix and Mary Brian were bal- anced on a shelf of rock. At night enormous searchlights were trained on the dam, unusual photographic ef- fects being obtained. Gayety Opens Aug. 20. GI'INHRA\L MANAGER IRA J. LA MOTTE has just received word from New York that the opening at- traction at the Gayety Theater, in- augurating the season of 1927-1928, will be “Bozo" Snyder and his new Musieal Revue, with his old “side partner,” Sam Green. a local boy. “Bozo” will be remembered as the man who never speaks while on the ;mze. being stageland's silent come- jan. The new season opens at the Gayety Theater with the matinee performance Saturday, August 20. The theater has been renovated and _redecorated throughout, from the entrance lobby to the back stage door. Tribute From Beery FOLLOWGING its triumph in New York “The Way of All Flesh” got off to a strong start in Los Angeles despite hot weather. | At a brilllgnt_night premiere Emil | Jannings and Victor Fleming were given a real ovation. Wallace Beery, as master of cere- monies, sald, “I ‘want to introduce a man who I consider is the world’s greatest actor. Some day I hope to have the honor of playing in his sup- port in a picture.” Stars galore, lights and all the varied excitement of a Los Angeles first night gave a truly brilliant testi- monial welcome to Jannings. A S — Work at Fox Studio. HOLLYWOOD, Calit.—With eight companies working at Fox Films West Coast Studios, General Supt. Sol M. Wurtzel announced that the Fall and Winter months will find some of the best known directors npd actors actively engaged with Fox | pictures, Among the directors now at work are: John Ford, Albert Ray, Howard | Hawks, John G. Blystone, David Butler, Alfred E. Green, Zion Myers, Robert Ray, and others. James Tin ling is preparing. Stars and featured players now in production include: Olive Borden, Lois Moran, Janet Gaynor, Greta Nissen, Charles Farrell, Glen Tyron, Tom Mix, Buck Joneg, Edmund Lo: Earl Foxe, Lawrence Gray, Sl‘uflrh Sally Phipps and Richard Walling. Others seheduled to start in the near future include: Madge Bellamy, Clifford Holland and Mary Dunca Included in the list of current pro. ductions are “Two Girls Wanted,” di. rected by Alfred E. Green; “Publicity Madness,” Albert Ray; “Grandmother Bernle Learns Her Letters, Ford; “Pajamas,” J. G. Bl high school story, David Butler, and “Bride of the Night,” Howard Hawks, James Tinling, launching his first dramatic production for Willlam Fox, will have Madge Bellamy, Clifford Holland and Mary Duncan in his cast. This starts within the next few days. . Jed Harris Productions. JED HARRIS has announced that in association with Crosby Gaige, he will present Helen Hayes in “Co- quette,” a drama by George Abbott and Ann Preston Bridgers, in Wash- ington on October_10. “The Royal Family,” a comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, will have its premiere on either Octo- ber 31 or November 7. Both plays are now in the process of casting. Other items in the Harris schedule are a comedy drama of newspaper life by George S. Brooks, as yet unnamed; a romantic comedy by John Erskine, also untitled, and “My Public,” a comedy by Martha Madison and Eva K. Flint. Mr. Harris also explains: “I have developed a certain reluctance about announcing extravagant production plans. This reluctance is inspired by my premature manifesto in which I enumerated ‘Berkley Square’ and presentation. ‘Coquette’ and Royal Family’ are certainties. I am going to withhold announcements on ;}:: u;}:e{ three until the opening dates set. An Indian .\Vill Direct. NE of “the first Americans” will direct one of the greatest of Amer- ican love stories, which fs another way of saying Edwin Carews will di- rect Helen Hunt Jaskson's “Ramona,” (':‘lluxssmed as America’s greatest love e. “Ramona,” as is known, is a story of the Indian—his trials—his tribula- tions—his love—his sorrow. Carewe himself is part Indian. He was born on an Indian reservation in Oklahoma. He is from the Cherokee Tribe, his father being one of the im- portant members of that race. Unbobbed Girls Win. HE unbobbed girls are said to be stealing the parts from their shorn sisters in the movies. Latest of the long-haired sisterhood to draw down a big part is Shirley O'Hara, the “unknown” selected as leading woman for Adolphe Menjou in “The Gentleman from Paris. For exactly 17 years Shirley has successfully resisted all temptation to shear her beautiful dark-brown tresses. The aura of demureness they lend her was instrumental In obtaining her the leading role in the Menjou picture. Shirley was born in New York City, attended Horace Mann School there and then went to Mexico City to live, where her father was In the consular service. Shirley's Next. HIRLEY MASON'S first picture for Columbia Pictures this season will be “Sally in Our Alley,” one of the company’s eight specials. This fourth feature in the series was chosen be- cause of the success of “Sweet Rosie O'Grady” last year. Like its predecessor, “Sally in Our Alley” deals with the rise of a tene- C.. AUGUST 7, IN THE DOUG FAIRBANKS PICTURE Lupe Velez, who plays the leading feminine role in the new Douglas Fairbanks production, “The Gaucho. beyond the Rio Grande. Senorita Velez hails from the section Power of Sugg’estion p(‘l\\‘ER of suggestion is the great- est force in conveying an idea to a motlon picture audience, says Wil liam K. Howard, director for Pathe- De Mille Studios. Howard, who is said to hold a unique position among Hollywood's di- rectorial geniuses, has developed a screen technique that has reached an advanced stage. According to his be- lief the strength of suggestion in the presentation of a picture has an un- limited scope. The faintest touch of an idea on the screen opens the way for the person viewing the film to let his own imagination and experlences enter the situation. He can fit his own ideas to it and let his mind carry on where the picture gave the impetus. When an entirely cut and dried picture, one that presents each detail and action, is show the spectators have no chance to give their minds freedom, to Instill their own opinions and experiences. “White Gold,” which Howard directed, is claimed to show conclusively that the power of sug- gestion is by far stronger than tell- ing a story with every angle covered minutely. Car, is directing g out this idea, Mr. Howard “The Main Event” with Vera Reynolds as the star. “The Main Event” was written for the screen by Rochus Gliese, former di- rector and writer for Ufa, from hat Makes Us Even" by Paul Alli- son. *“Much Ado About_l_\lot}u'ng'“ OME idea of the importance movie makers attribute to the names of thelr pictures is gleaned from the fact that Harry Langdon is said to have spent 10 weeks in findin “Three's a Crowd” for the title of his new laugh epic for First National Pletures. During those 10 weeks, it Is ex- plained by the publicity man, more than 1,000 titles were suggested and rejected as unsuitable. Langdon and his entire editorlal staff worked for more than a month trying to find an apt title, but did not succeed. As a last resort, Langdon sponsored a contest among all the workers at which | the big studio, offering a cash prize for an acceptable title. Electricians, carpenters, stenographers, office boys, representatives of every branch of the industry participated. Ten weeks from the time the search began “Three’s a Crowd” was found and selected. The title was suggested by a workman, who, besides the cash prize, received a_vacation on pay. Langdon’s mode of operation is said to be entirely different from that em- ployed by* some producing companies. Many of these select a catchy title and have a_story writter around it. Langdon finds his story and then looks for a title to fit it. Still a Heroine ISKING her own life to save 19- year-old Mary Ashcraft from drowning, Gertrude Fderle of Eng- lish Channel fame thrilled 2,000 spec- tators at Santa Monica Beach re- cently, The rescued girl Is an extra with Bebe Danlels’ “Swim, Girl, Swim,” company. Miss Ederle, who has a prominent role in the picture, was eating lunch on the sand with other members of the company when suddenly she caught a call from Miss Ashcraft, who had taken the luncheon hour for a swim. Before lifeguards could reach the girl, Miss Ederle had leaped through the breakers and dragged her ashore. Miss Ashcraft lives at the Placion Apartments at Sycamore and Haw- thorne streets, Hollywood. ARY PICKFORD can argue as well as act. When Kathleen Norris, reputed to be the world's highest paid fiction writer, who gets on an average, $1 a word for serials exclusive of motion picture rights, had finished her new novel, she gave it to Miss Pickford to read. Mary Pickford finished the story at a single reading and made a bid for the movie rights. Collier's Magazine had the right un- der contract, to give the piece a title. Three or four were suggested, but finally, Miss Pickford decided to call the story “My Best Girl.” So success- fully did she argue by a cross-ex- change of wires with the editors, that they finally acquiesced. Mary's clinching argument was: “Every man has had a best girl and every woman has been or is one.” — Ederle as Film Actress. GHRTRUDE EDERLE'S first im- pression of motion pictures has been a favorable one. The first woman to swim the Eng- lish Channel has not yet made up her mind as to whether she will follow the screen as a career, but she finds the work very much to her liking. “At first,” she says, “I was puz- zled at what seemed to be a great deal of delay in actually photographing the scenes, but now I realize that each and every detail must be perfect. “For example, while we were mak- ing ‘Swim, Girl, Swim,’ in which I have a part with Bebe Daniels, the Paramount star, there are a great many sequences which are shot in a swimming tank. I thought that I would just plunge in and do my bit, but it took more than one hour to line up the lights and get everything in readiness. The problem of lighting is only one of many, particularly when water is included in the scene. “It mystified me to have to go through the same scene two or three times, but I soon learned that two or three ‘takes,’ as they call them, are quite essential for the director. One or two might not be good and it would be costly to go back again. “All of these things one must learn in motion pictures which are so dif- ferent from appearing on the stage. “Vaudeville contracts must be ful- filled now, but perhaps later on shall take another ‘dip’ into plcture: sald Ede: E—3 private Jo- Fox-trot, Waltz, agur MISS GIRARDEA wons. $5.00. single. Collegiate Hop. CI, 11153, 203 n.W. p.m. ment Cinderella, but it will e an urlzlrml twist Instead of the tradiitional Ficl n-poor-girlmarriage ending. PROF_AND MRS, L. A_ ACHEI 1127 10th n.w. ~Classes Fr p. with orchestra. Pri boiniment. Franklin 8507, STUDJO. KA (ibTianed 1000 st Vo *Vagabond King." RUSSELL JANNEY is annduncing that his entire “Vagabond King” company will visit the principal cities of the United States and Canada. The company is made up of the cream of his three organizations of last season, with Carolyn Thomson, the originai Lady Katherine, heading the cast, and Edward Nell, jr., as Francois Villon. The comedy role of Guy Tabarle will again be piayed by Will H. Philbrick, and Cooper Cliffe is to be the wily old Louls XL | The company is expected to reach Washington March 26. Characters Without Names. ~THE universality of motion pictures, 80 oft limned by twangers of the publicity lyre, is said to be coneretely exemplified in the announcement by United Artists that neither Buster Keaton’s “College,” nor Samuel Gold- wyn's “The Magic Flame,” nor Charlie Chaplin’s “The Circus” will contain any characters bearing proper names. In “College,” Buster Keaton is a son; in “The Magic Flame,” Ronald Colman is the clown and the count, while Vilma Banky is the aerial artist, and in “The Circus” Mr. Chaplin is a tramp. It is Interesting, in this connection, to note that in recording cinematically his philosophical ruminations upon the figure of man, Mr. Chaplin’s film character never has borne a_proper name. Always he has been “The Im- migrant,” “The Pllgrim,” “The Pros- pector” ‘or some such character un- bounded by nationality. Launches New Comedian. HEY claim it takes about three years for an actor of actress to make a mark in motion pictures. Jess DeVorska, who has been de- clared the comedy find of the year at the F. B. O. studios, where he is engaged in making his first big pic- ture, “Jake, the Plumber,” came to Hollywood in 1924 and scraped along as best he could. King Vidor gave him a small part in “The Big Parade,” and he made the best of that opportunity and got another chance in “The Unknown Soldier.” Then he played in two- reel comedie: A “bit” came his* way in “Clancy’s sher Wedding.” Then Willlam LeBaron, vice presi- dent in charge of production, saw his work, and immediately signed De- Vorska to play the featured role in “Jake, the Plumbe; DeVorska was in the Russian army during the World War and obtalned a reprise as he was standing before a German firing squad to be shot as a spy. He escaped from a German prison camp and came to the United States where he began a successful career as a dancer. During several years on the stage he appeared with Irene Castle and other famous terpsi- chorean exponents. He is said to be a master of pantomime. AFTER A DELIGHTFULLY COOL RIDE [N CARS OF WASH. RY. & ELEC. CO. MARKED CABIN JOHN OR GLEN ECHO DIRECT TO THE ENTRANCE OF ECHO PARK ¥OU WILL FIND WHOLESOME RECRE. ATION FROM MORE THAN FIFTY AMUSEMENTS. PICNIO GROVES AND PLAYGROUNDS. ADMISSION IS FREE | known. in Germany as a poet and | Skipworth, ,.MERIAM C. COOPER and Ernest B. 1997—PART 3. An American Premiere. “THE GARDEN OF EDEN,” a comedy adapted by Avery Hop- wood from the German of Rudolph Rernauer and Rudolph Ostreicher, will be presented for the first time in America Monday night, August 8, by Edwin H. Knopf, in association with Arch Selwyn, at the Baltimore Auditorium. The event is regarded of importance, as the play has already had long runs in Vienna, Milan, Amsterdam and‘ the London company, with Tullulah Bankhead in ‘he leading role, is still said to be playing to_capacity houses. Avery Hopwood is sald to have ‘made an excellent adaptation of the original work of Messrs. Bernauer and Ostreicher. Rudolph Bernauer is as- sociated with several Berlin theaters as general director. He adapted Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” for the musical comedy, “The Chocolate Sol- dier,” and also wrote the original book “Maytime” (“Wie Einst Im Mai"), adapted to the American stage by the late Rida Johnson Young. He is philosopher. Rudolph Ostreicher is the librettist of the original German book of the musical comedy, “Katja, the Dancer.” Members of the Auditorium com- pany who will appear in “The Garden of Eden” are Sylvia Field, Allison | Douglass _Montgomery, | Robert Rendel, Gi t Douglas, Elliot Cabot, Doris Rankin, Nancy Baker, Julia ~McMahon, John Washburne, Harlan Briggs, Walter Geer, Stuart Brown and Donald Angus. In Search of the Unusual. Schoedsack, producers of “Chang, the fllm sensation of the vear, have again dropped out of civil These adventurers, months ago returned to New York after nearly two years in the jungles of Slam, are on another expedition in search of the unusual for the screen. | Their destination i d to be a secret even to the Paramount officials, who back their ventures financially and distribute their productions. “Chang” is a melodramatic picture of man’s struggle against the wilder- ness. No picture in recent years is said to have thrilled Broadway like “Chang.” “Lindbergh Flies Alone™ *'] INDBERGH FLIES ALONE,” Pathe's two-reel special showing the American Lone Eagle in scenes of his air achlievements and triumphs, was prepared and released to provide the public with a complete “Lindy’ subject. This interesting film fs said to re- veal the interesting happenings con- nected with the great flight from the time of “Lindy’s” arrival at Roose- velt Field and his announced inten- tion of entering the New York-to- Paris race, right on _ through his European triumphs and the spectac- ular welcomes #ccorded him in his native land—the good old U. S. A. Hobart ];osworth. HOBART BOSWORTH was born in Ohio and ran away to sea at the age of 12, ‘After a varled experience as sailor, boxer, wrestler and ranch hand, he made his first stage appearance in 1895. He traveled in various stock companies over the Pacific Coast and through Mexico, eventually making his way to New York, where he joined the Augustin Daly stock company. After 10 years of dramatic work, including playing leads with Julia Marlowe, Mrs. Fiske, Henrietta Cros- man and Amella Bingham, his health broke and he came West again, fight- ing tuberculosis in Colorado and Arizona. In 1909 he had made a complete recovery und joined the old Selig- Polyscope organization as an actor, writer and director. In 1913 he formed his own company, Bosworth, Inc., which made Jack London’s “Sea Wolf.” Following a year with Uni- versal, he played roles with the Lasky Film Co. and then entered vaudeville with his tabloid version of “The Sea Wolt.” The late Thomas Ince persuaded Bosworth to return to the screen, and he made “Behind the Door,” “‘Sea Lion” and other films for Ince:. Sub- appeared in “The 'Winds of Chance,” and “The Nervous Wreck.” He is now with Mary Pickford in “My Best Girl.” .. Leon Errol as a Film Star. LEON ERROL, who is starred in the picture comedy, “The Lunatic at Large,” has been on the New York stage since 1911, when he first joined Ziegteld's Follles. His famous col- lapsible legs brought him instant fame —to say nothing of his ability as a comedian. Then he appeared on the screen in “Sally,” in the same part he had played in the musical comedy. First National signed him to a contract, and he followed “Sally” with “Clothes Make the Pirate” Now he will be seen in “The Lunatic at Large,” which has been filmed from J. Storer Clous- ton's three famous books that have had England laughing for years. The picture was directed by Fred Newmeyer, long the director of Harold Lloyd. Newmeyer was loaned to First National by Lloyd, expressly to direct Errol. Trojan Helen Modernized. MPORTANT additions to the cast of “The Private Life of Helen of Troy,” the fllm version of Prof. John Erskine’s novel, are: Alice White, in the role of Adraste, confidante, per- sonal maid and mimic to Helen, and Lucien Prival as Peires, the male modiste of the period. Maria Corda will play the role of Helen; Lewis Stone is to be Menelaus, and Virginia Lee Corbin will appear as Hermione. The picture will be di- rected bz Alexander Korda. Mrs. Wilson-Greene’s Concerts Seasonm 1937-28 POLI'S THEATER, 4:30 Artists’ Course Dec. 9. MARION TALLEY rano Metropolitan ra sun. 25 FEODOR CHALIAPIN ‘World's Greatest Basso Fob. 7. JASCHA HEIFETZ (ARIE an) s o twel.reare) wes. S BOSTON SYMBHONY ORCHESTRA SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Mch. 16. GIOVANNI MARTINELLI Tenor Metropolitan Opera Philharmonic Course Nov. 11. EDWARD JOHNSON litan Opera Tenor Metro] Jun. 13"FRITZ RREISL Feb. 21. RACHMANINOFF Mch. 7. MME. JERITZA Yyfi Concert to Be Announced. Wilson-Greene Series Oct. 21. “The BEGGARS’ OPERA” Direct from the Lyric Theater, London Nov. 1. LU IA BORI soprnow Moetropolitan Nor. 181 anqn'n'fi:Tr Al L Nor. 20, JOSEF HOFMANN Stockholin, | AMUSEMENTS."” 'HE news reel cameraman is the modern romantic. He has displaced the colorful and fascinating adventure of the newspaper reporter of the Richard Harding Davis era whose as- signments took him to the ends of the h dangers and hard- Swift development in the ans of communication, as well as.a closer organization of the world, has made the newspaper reporter's job humdrum. The cameraman is the dashing ad venturer of romantic fiction. He walks with kings and makes them lik: it. He looks into the mouths of vol-| canoes. From the air he photographs the triumphant aviator steaming up the bay in a battleship. He follows | armies and photographs the bursting shells. In the jungle he holds his camera steady against the leap of the tiger. Because his orders are “Get the picture!” he must be always on the scene, a colorful, romantic figure. Emanuel Cohen, dean of news reel editors, who has just launched the first edition of Paramount News, the latest entry in this field of the cinema, could talk for days on the daring ex- ploits of comeramen that have come | to his attention during his 15 years of news reel activity. There is Jake Coolldge of Boston, familiarly hafled by President Coolidge as “Cousin Jake.” It was he who managed, when accompanying Presi- dent Wilson on his first historic voy- to France, to get through for- iading official barriers and make his | way from ship to shore in time to photograph the war President’s arrival at the port of Brest. The French minister of marine had issued orders that no passenger was to be allowed to land until one hour after President Wilson had put his foot on French soil. Joe Johnson of Los Angeles was as- signed to cover the Pershing expedi- tion into Mexico, It was forbidden that cameramen should go with Pershing into Mexico. For a time Johnson was missing from his usual haunts. When he returned he had thousands of feet of news film show- ing significant incidents attending Pershing’s pursuit of Villa. To get them he had to go into Mexico over the burning sands, up mountains, across wild terrain, carrying his heavy camera, carrying his food and precious water, and he had to go alone. Henry De Siena was a star cameras man in Washington. On dull days it irked him to realize that no motion picture eamera had ever been allowed in the august Senate chamber. Champ Clark died. His body lay in state in the Senate chamber. That was news. De Siena carried his camera to the entrance of the Senate wing of the Capitol, The guards, of course, stopped him. © He explained that he “had an engagement” with their chief inside. So he proceeded into the building and on up to the Senate gallery. He shot his film. The chief approached, more than irate. Di Siena explained that he had ‘“hoped” the chief would per- mit him to photograph such an impor- tant spectacle. “Get out,” was the chief’s retort. Out went De Siena. A few hours later the scene in the Sen- ate chamber was on the screens of nearby theaters. De Siena was the hero of Washington cameramen. But his days of usefulness in Washington were ended. He was transferred to New York, where the ire of officials could not interfere with him. George Ercole was in Austria on a roving assignment, picking up what- ever scenes that appealed to his news judgment. Cohen, in New York, saw the Turko-Greek controversy rising to a dangerous pitch. He cabled: “Er- cole to leave for Constantinople imme- diately and cover the Turkish-Greek war.” Krcole followed the Turkish Nationalist “army advance, obtained pictures at Tchatalja showing the Turkish advance and watched the Greek advance on Smyrna. Smyrna was reported in flames, so Cohen or- dered: ~“Rush all pictures Smyrna fire.” Ercole needed no such order. He had already photographed the monstrous fire from the air, had it shot from the water front, had pictures ATIONA Pride in Announcii Great Star— J ” . THE ARTIST WHO GAVE THE > “LULU BELLE” Feb. 17. SIGRID ONEGIN . Contralto, Metropolitan i it e agerda $1.10,75¢&S50c PHONES MAIN 0501 AND MAIN 9203 Modern Romantic Newsmen taken in the blazing streets. Guard- ing his great scoop with his own per- son, he rushed in a plane to Paris There the picture was prepared with utmost speed for shipment on a fast liner already leaving the dock several hundred miles from Paris. Another plane was started. It sped after the departing ship. Three hours after the vessel had left her berth the plane dipped low over her deck, dropped the film aboard, with instructions to ex- pedite it to headquarters, and returned to_Paris. While smoke still rose from the ruins of Smyrna, 6.000 miles away, the pictures of its destruction were being shown on Broadwayv. Mean- while, at Cohen's direction, S. R. Sozio had rushed from Paris and re- corded the terrifying scene which de- veloped at Smyrna after Ercole's de- parture. Bixio Alberini of Rome numbers among his adventures the climbing of Mount Vesuvius while it was in erup- tion while every one else was getting out of the way as fast as possible. An airplafie used in the war carried him and his camera over the smoking crater. He also made shots from points of vantage that were anything but comfortable and far from safe. ‘When Hugo Stindt, Berlin bureau manager, heard that Clarence Cham- berlin seemed quite likely to make a successful landing in Germany, he put his camera in an airplane at Tempel- hofer Field and waited for further word from the intrepid American. He had some time to wait, but finally he learned that Chamberlin and Levine had ended their hop with a forced landing at Kottbus. A roar of the motor and Stindt was off in his big Junker to get the picture. He was the first man on the job, and he got ex- clusive pictures before the other cam- eramen arrived of the wrecked plane and of Chamberlin and Levine just after the landing. Joe Rucker, who makes his head- quarters at San Francisco for Para- mount News, has just returned from China, where he photographed the ac- tivities of the Cantonese armies and where he obtained pictures of the ad- vance and attack upon Hankow. Rucker had spent some time. in the Far East, and therefore was brought back and relieved by another staff man, E. Carl Wallen.™ Andre Glattli, Paris bureau manager, got a cable one day from Cohen sug- gesting that he look into the Riffian war. Glattli understood that no cam- eramen were desired at the front in Moroccé. The French government had made this clear on several occa- sions. However, he hired a plane to fly him to Fez, and when he got there was promptly arrested by the French military authorities. Then came the question of what to do with him. It finally was decided that it would be easier to have him make the pictures than to keep him in captivity. He got the pictures, and e got the first and only pictures made during the French unpleasantness with the Riffs. “The motion picture camera paints the drama of moving life with the broad brush of a realism within the understanding of every one,” says Mr. Cohen. = “The news reel in the 17 years of its existence had earned rec- ognition as a vital institution, playing an important role in news communica- tion and in the life of the Nation. “Like the great news syndicates, the Associated Press, the United Press and the International News, of whose tremendous service the public is fully aware the Paramount News is world- wide in_scope, reaching out for the L’wt; of life in every part of the earth.” — Two outstanding playrights have completely reversed their respective styles in their later years. 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