Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1927, Page 56

MUSEMENTS.’ FILMO GRAMS Bits From the Studios and Theaters. ILL H. HAYS has been requested hy the National League 1o urge theater owners to display a wcreen slide from September 12 to 17 ealling attention to Constitution day, September 17, which marks the one hundred and fortieth anniversary of the Constitution of the United States of America, A good way to kill off a thing you don't like is to give it an ugly or nnj out obnoxious name. For instance, Chicago way they are calling picturs houses which charge an admission of 15 cents or less “shooting galleries.” Columbia Pictures has completed its sereen product for the season “The Swell Head:” Holland's first motion picture studio, &tudio Fureka, has been opened by the Hollando-Beigico Film Maatschap Py at Schiedam, near Rotterdam. T'niversal Picture Corporation is re- leasing in London, Mosjoukine’s pic ture produced under the title “Casa nova” as “Prince of Adventurers,” probably with due regard to box-office | sentiment. Dorothy Gish is given credit by Film Daily’s reviewer with “putting over” Paramount's production of “Madame Pompadour.” The story is said to be fairly interesting, but with- out Dorothy it would not go far. The coming season will stage a news reel race for supremacy which will burn up the dollars, with Fox News, | International News Reel. Kinograms, M-G-M_News, Paramount News and Pathe News as competitors up to date. Fox even threatens a talking news reel. somebody has mot heen in- formed, be it known that the recent visit to Washington of Monta Bell, John Gilbert and Jeanne Eagels, etc., With receptions, parties and screen shooting, etc., was in the interest of £ newspaper story written by Monta Bell himself. Ralph Wilk in Film Dally_suggests that if a new title for “The West Pointer” be needed, they use “Arms and the Woman.” Test Milton Sills is to be starred in Peter | ¥ v, “The Valley of the iginally was intended for the late Wallace Reid. H Florence Vidor's next picture, based, it is said, on a story by Alice N. Williamson, will bear the forbidding title, “Honeymoon Hate.” The report that a tobacco magnate and an automobile manufacturer were dickering for Universal Pictures Cor- poration, Carl Laemmle’s concern, has been denied by the treasurer of Uni- versal and by the tobacco magnate. Mr. Laenmle is in Furope. So there You are! Three stories purchased by Tni- versal, which probably will be included in that concern’s 1928-29 output, are “The Worm Turns” by Ward Rus- top That Man.” a play by George V. Hobart, and “Phyllis of the Follies,” an original by Arthur Gregor. The receipts of the Fox-Roxy Thea- ter in New York, which has been called *“The Motion Picture Cathedral,” have passed $2,000,000 in the 19° weeks of its operation, a new world record. ac- cording to claims of the management. 1t has been announced that George Jessel will make two pictures for First WNational next season. According to a chart prepared by the motion picture section of the Specialties Division, Department: of Commerce. the United States has 20, 500 motion picture theaters; Europe, 19.773; the Far East, 3.692: Canada, 2.000; Latin Ameriem:»1.932; Africa, 490, and the Near East, 69, There are mo differences between United Artists and Corinne Griffith, eccording to Joseph M. Schenck, and Corinne will start in “The Garden of ¥.den,” her next picture, tomorrow, to be exact. One of the millionaire backers of the movies, Frank R. Wilson, pro- duction financier, who is said to have rdvanced $25,000,000 for movie pro- duction within the last three years, is quoted in Film Daily to the effect that *“mediocrity in picturesis driving peo- ple away from the:'box office, and the fooner producers reafize this fact the better it will be for all concerned.” He adds: “The public is sick and | tired of the elaborate auxil 8, meaning thereby stage presentations. The films brought two old vande- | ville teammates together in “Babe Comes Home,” Babe Ruth's picture. Two members of his supporting cast, Arthur Stone and Low. Archer, were “fellow vaudevillians” on Orpheum, Pantages and other circuits. ‘The popular coffee urn in the lounge ©f the ILittle Theater is patterned nfter European theaters, where pa- trons relax and quench their thirst between shows. Bmploves of the Motion Picture Guild's house report many interesting debates between patrons on artistic points of the films on exhibit. During the run of “Secrets of the Soul.” it is said, there was more discussion of psycho- enalysis than one might expect at a meeting of Drs. Freud, Brill and White. . Mauritz Stiller, Paramount direc- needed John Gough for a role Hitting for Heaven.” Gough was in Quincy. Ill, playing on the stage. To meet the order Gough had to get another actor-from St. Louis, teach him his part in one afternoon, and catch a train for California without having time to pack. He arrived at the Paramount studio one hour be- fore the first scene of his character- ization, got into his costume, put on his make-up and was ready for work. Charles Rogers, young Paramount actor who played the leading role in “Wings.” keeps up practice on the trombone by the he worked his way University of Kansas. through Richard_Arlen. the leading man in Fsther Ralston's picture, “After Ofice Hours,” it is said, holds an honorary commission as second Jleutenant in the British Royal F ing Corps. Joan Standing got her start in pictures bhecause she had a wealth of freckles on her face. And for 1that same reason, she was cast as Maudie in Paramount's production of “Beau Sabren Duke Kahanamokn, Hawaifan swimmer, is ecast as a Hawaiian for the first time in his screen career in Clara Bow's picture, “Hula.” Four pletures will {Warner Broe. within the next few Qays—"Roulette,” a temporary title for May MeAvoy's next, to be directed by Ralph Graves; he College Widow.” in which Archie May will di- wect Dolores Costello; “The Silver #lave,” a temporary title for Irene ich's new picture, directed by John {Adelfi, and “A Dog of the Regiment,” starring RIn.Tin-Tin, to be made by Rosg Lederman, just promoted to a directorial post. famous bhe slarted by Michael Curtiz has been assigned to divect “Good Time Charley.” an adap- tation of “The Rainbow Chasers,” by Darryl Francis Zanuck, with scenario by Owen Francis. Warner Rros have given the defi- nite title of “The Desired Woman" to thelr “The Outpost,” recently com pleted with Irene Rich as its star. The basits of this romance of the desert with | | direct *"The Muzzle | spent playing of which | the | Jis a story of Mark Canfield. Michael {Curtiz_is_its director, and William | Russell, William Collier. jr.: Jack | Ackroyd and Douglas Gerrard appenr |In roles of importanc | Billle Dove is to be the star in | “Louisiana,” an adaptation of “The Barber of New Orlenns,” the stage [play by Edward Childs Carpenter, a | story of the Spanish plot to seize the ate shortly after the purchase in 1803, | Richard Rosson and Victor Heer- associated with Famous until recently, have-been en- gaged for Fox Films Heerman's first directorial assign- I ment will he dies Must Dress,” an | oviginal story by Ray Cannon, which | he will make under the supervision of Kenneth Hawk Tyler Brooke. well known musical | comedy player, who has been assigned the role of Reginald Van Bibber in Fox iims’ Van RBibber comedies, | hased upon the stories by Richard | Harding Davis, has started work in his first picture, “A Fool and_His Honey,” directed by Orville 0. Dull. | In the ‘cast are Duane Thompson, Lar: ry Steers. Bess Flowers, Monte Col- Ilins, jr.. and Adele Watson. Brooke succeeded Earle Fox in the character {of Van Bibher when Fox officials de- cided to feature the latter in big productions. | | Alfrea about to b production on t ne story by Author Somers Roche. Olive Borden will be featured. Alfred Raboch, directing Gilda Gray in “The Devil Dancer,” forsook t | career of illustrator to enter the mov- ies. Born in New York of pioneer parents, Rahoch pursued the finer arts mtil he won himself a degree at Co- lumbia_University. He came in con- tact with picture-making as a friend of the late Rankin Drew, son of the late Sidne; Drew, who later was killed in ance. Tniversal has pur Angels,” a current mag: Arthur Somers Roche, and will put it into production almost immediately, with Edward Laemmle directing. ased “Fallen ne serial by George Melford has been assigned to by Peter B. Kyne, the newspaper story which was writ- ten in collaboration with newspaper authorities. Director Irvin Willat is in Wash- ington, D. C., in consultation with United States naval authorities regard- ing various scenes and properties for “The Big Gun” by Richard Barry, which will go into production at Uni’ versal City upon his return. A special trunk to safeguard her press clippings and other souvenirs | of her acting career is part of the personal luggage of Leona Powers of the National Players. In a dozen yvears on the stage Miss Powers has collected a mass of “impedimenta” and her mother, who always accom- panies her, is official librarian. Leona confesses that if she had to do it herself. the clipping books would be far from up-io-date. Director Clifford Brooke of the National Players, who has made sev- eral air-talks this season, was scheduled for another appearance over WMAL Saturday night to en- lighten the public on the pla test being held for the last the Summer season, beginning Sep- tember 5. Balloting by patrons is now going on to pick the most popu- lar play for revival. Five independent productions by United Artists' , indepéndent units have started or will start during the current. month. They apre Corinne Griffith’s, “The Garden. of John Barrymore's “Tempest, Gra The Devil Dancer,” D. W, Griffith’s “A" Romanee of Oid Spain." with Estelle Taylor, and Dalores del Rio’s “Ramona.” Otto F. Beck, concert organist at Crandall's Tivoli Theater, will offer a unique organ recital today and tomor- row in connection with the picture, “Captain Salvation,” including “An Organist’s Infantasy,” which features “Baby Feet Go Pitter-Patter,” accom- panied by illustrated song slides and lighting effects. Mrs. Mirabel Lindsay, concert or- at Crandall's’ Ambassador ter and secr ry of the Ory ists’ Club of the several d: cently investigating the char musical entertainment offered in the Midwest metropoli= and in visiting the Kimball Organ School in that eity. Later she gave a recital in her “old home town,” Towa Falls, Jowa, where she was graduated from high school and Ellsworth College. During the filming of “His First Flame,” which will be shown here this week, Harry Langdon had the services of seven ‘‘gag men,” in addition to Harry FEdwards, the director, and Frank Capra and Arthur Ripley, who wrote the story. Gag men do the work formerly done by the scenario writer or the director, as specialists in fun- making. Louise Fazenda, Hank Mann, Victor Potel, Gale Henry, Billy Franey and Harry Depp, names that sound like the roster of a Sennett comedy, are members of the cast in Metro's photo- play, “Quincy Adams Sawyer,” taken from the famous novel of New Eng- land life by Charles Felton Pidgin. Charles Rogers, one of the Para- mount School graduates, will play the lead with Clara Bow in *“Red Hair.” Rogers will soon complete the lead in Pickford’'s picture, “My Best Acted a;:Hld a Good Time. ENERABLE John Grandetti, whose acres of vineyard and finely kept groves are the pride .of fertile San Fernando Valley. has a new story to tell his grandchildren. Recently scores of his relatives and friends who had gathered to watch Pola Negri make festival scenes for “Sun Kissed” were converted into screen players at the star's sugges- tion. Dozens of beautiful extra girls and handsome extra men who had been Itd for work in the produc- tion found themselves standing on the side lines while Grandetti's friends and kin who had come as spectators acted before the camer: Rowland V. Lee, director, took Miss Negri's suggestion that the valley peo- ple be used to dance the tarantelia and Lotlrer Italian folk dances in the pic- ture. The scene represented the wel- coming of Miss Negri to the ranch home of the man to whom she is be- throthed. Hundreds of brightly col- ored Janterns lighted the groves, tables creaked under Joads of tasty dishes, and song and merriment con- tinued until nearly dawn. Hypno-Musicomania. NINET! per cent of directors and actors in the motion picture busi- | ness are susceptible to hypno-musico- mania, according to Luther Reed, Paramount director. Music, according to Reed, has a hypnotic influence on humans, mak- ling had acting seem good and good acting better. In order to judge calmly the acting of the players on his «et, he has ordered all music stopped during scenes. However, Mr. Reed believes In music hetween scenes, as he claims it entertaine, soothes and stimulates the players, all according to the type of music played. . Green, Fox Fiims director. | | of the stage as Otis Skinner, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, An X-Ray Movie. DURING a recent visit of an educa- tional body to the British Interna- tlonal Studios at Kl England. there was shown what is considered the first film taken at normal speed with the aid of the X-ray. Pictures of the hand, foot and an-: in motion showed the articulation of | the hones with uncanny clearness and another taken right through the chest showed the b ing of the heart and | the movement of the ribs | There seems now no practical rea son why the whole human bony struc- ture should not be recorded in motion for the screen. Its value to medical students, it is claimed, would be incal- culable. Melbille, the X-ray expert of Un- versity College, has been giving his | specialized assistance with these films | for the past 18 months. He was pres. | ent and briefly introduced the film. Tough on Gystav. OTION picture work has been no laughing matter for Gustav von Seyffertitz. He has had eight years of it, it is claimed, and not once in tHat time has he felt the faintest palpitation of a feminine heart against his manly bosom; never has he been privileged to kiss the lips of the heautiful woman stars who are the life blood of the motion picture world. i as been the villain, 2's experience with the theater and its allied arts began 33 years ago. Up to the time he entered studio work he never played other than comedy parts, although most of his effort was given to the direction of stage plays. As a divector for Charles Frohman he guided the courses of such Von Seyffer Barr Burke, C; son. It was Douglas Fairbanks who first saw in him the “villainous art quality” and he gave Von Seffertitz the heavy role in “Down to Earth.” Since then his life has been one suc- cession of hisses, curses and dirty looks, with the blackest of them all saved for the Jast, in the cast of Pola Negri's new pictufe “Barbed Wire," an adaptation of Hall Caine's *“The Woman of Knockaloe.” In this Von Seffertitz plays the part of the neighbor, a scheming back-countr: profiteer, who seeks to turn the war into personal gain. . the late ril Maude John Drew, Billie and Francis Wil SomicHisng ot Werner Kraus, ERNER KRAUS, an actor who has long been mnoted in Ger- many, is just beginning to come into prominence in America. He long since has proven himself one of the most versatile motion picture actors in the world, but his fame in this country has been small because but a few of his productions have been imported, unti! recently. His most famous characterization was that of the doctor in “The Cabi- net of Doctor Caligari.” llis ability to be grotesque was there fully dem- onsfrated. His capacity to play al- most any kind of part however, has been clearly exemplified in his later pictures. Kraus has enacted such di- versified roles as the chemist in Secrets of the Soul,” Jack-the-Ripper in “The Three Wax-works,” Robes. pierre in “All for a Woman,” the half- wit in “The Treasure,” the husband hero in “Jealousy,” and he has had important parts in “Streets of Sor- row.” “Slums of Berlin,” etc. One of his best pieces of work is shown in “Shattered.” an UFA pro- duction in which he plays a stolid ckwalker. Without silly gestures or facial contortions, Kraus manages to convey deep emotion, practically with his eves alone, when the track- walker's home is ruined. A “Bigger" Picture. THE chief statistician at * Para. mount’s studios in Hollywood breathed a triumphant sigh, dashed to . Western Union office and sent to New York the following report: “1,500 persons were employed in making ‘Beau - Sabreur Percival Wren's sequel to ‘Beau Geste,’ star- ring Gary Cooper. “1,000 horses were brought to the desert location ‘at ‘Guadalupe, Calif., from Texas, Arizona, Wyoming, Ore- 8on and California. 200 camels were selected from zoos all over the countr: Y *300 wardrobe workers ‘took 20 days to make the 5,000 uniforms of .the French Leglonnaires and Sahara tribesmen, 135,000 feet of lumber and 726.000 vards of canvas were used in building the ent houses on location, i neras hot 576,000 feet of film in the three months of production. “1 and z-inches of hard lead and | 12 pads of hard linen paper were used compiling these statistics.” After th: Unusual. WITH their destination a secret, even to some executives of Para- mount, the firm which is financing and distributing their productions, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, producers of “Chang” and “Grass, have again dropped out of civilization —with their cameras. - Again thelr trip is a search for a screen history of some little-known race or region. Again their cast will be comprised only of primitive peo- ples or the wild beasts of a little-fre. auented locale. Again nature’alone will act as art dlrector, property man and costumer for these original pro- ducers. So wide has been the success of *‘Chang.” the jungle film: so strong is the faith of Jesse L. Lasky, vice presi- dent in charge of production, that they will again bring back to eiviliza- tion some startling new and absorbing film, that Paramount has given these two cinema explorers carte blanche in their production plans, and confidently awafts word from some far-off land that another great story is in plctures. Baby _Stnu Go Over Top., WO of the 1926 crop of Wampas baby stars already have gone ““over the top” and justified the faith of their sponsors, the press agents, They are Dolores del Rio, the Mexican beauty, and Janet Gaynor. Both of th girls were among the 13 voung actresses picked by® the Hollywood organization a year ago as potential screen uminaries. Both are deemed now to have more than ful- filled the expectations of their back- ers—the Mexican girl, who has been made a United Artists star for her dramatic fuccess in ‘Resurrection,” “What Price Glory “Carmen” and other current films, and Miss Gaynor for her genuine stellar performance in “Seventh Heaven,” the new Fox war film. RN 5 y . Here's a Big Order. A DOZEN assorted children” were ordered recently for Emil Jan- nings. They were needed for a slum nur- nery scene in the character star's new Paramount plcture, in which Jannings plays a_heartless ruffian. “Be cross to them,” sald the dI- rector. Jannings patted the heads of the tots and mumbled: “Be cross to them? That's the hardest thing I've ever been asked to do in a_plcture.” DANCING. PROF. AND MRS, L. A_ACHER § 1127 10th n.w. Classen Mon., Fri. p.m.. with orchestra. Private lessons by ap- . voiuiiment. Franklin'8507. Estalished {60 MIAS GIRARDEATU l"lng} RE—5 priva . Wed. #ona. $5.00: sinkle. Fox-trot, Collegiate Hop. 1 D AD Al rer® B 1110002038 . JOSEPHIN 4 aingle lessol 1: oix, fl Aw Ancccl}"fl: day nights, 1636 10th ot STARS OF “SOFT CUSHIONS” Douglas MacLean and his Chicago “discovery, Randolph Chester stor D. €, AUGUST 14, Weeps Withqq’c _Music. ANET GAYNOR, the 19-yearold | tress who has made a tional hit in the motion pic: “Ith Heaven,” shattered an hon- ored studio tradition while the | picture was in production by refusing to cry to music Of “the many devices which have been used to bring tears “on the lot” inning all the way from telling an tress she has lost her job to making her conceal an onion in her handker- chief—the one which has survived is the playing of soulful music just be- yond the camera range. It was quite natural, therefore, for Frank Borzage, who directed “7th Heaven,” to plant an orchestra, con- sisting of a violin, cello_and a_harp, where it would make Miss Gaynor weep when she heard its strains. But Miss Gaynor would have none of it. So imbued was she with the role she was to play that she felt its pathos she felt its lighter side. summon smiles and langh ¢ the emotions of Diane,’ can summon tears as as strongly a Ll ter to po she said, well.” a matter of fact, Miss Gaynor's rapid success s a screen actress is due in great part to her nnusual abil- ity to register quick changes in emo- tion. Seasoned veterans of the screen have marveled at her ability to go through a scene calling for hoth laughter_and tears without stopping the grinding of the came is worked up to show the 1 Even on the 1 few actresses have the transition convinei has caused an old timer Darnton, formerly dramatic_eritic the Evening World, to hail Miss nor as “the Maud Adams of scereen.” to make fact that like ('] of the To Gegfito the Movies. I.\‘TI-JR\'IE\\'L an average of 250 persons every working day of the year is the {ask of Fred Datig, cast- ing director at the Paramount studios, it is claimed. Datig listens to the ambitions of nearly every actor or would-be actor who comes fo Hollywood, This is what he says: "l have heard the pleas of girls who won beauty contests, the pleas of stenographers whose friends have told them they should enter pictures, the stories of small-time vaudeville actors who ‘knocked them dead,’ in Kokomo, Milpitas and way points, until I know the stories by heart before a job-seeker opens his mouth, “And I want to tell you, you become a rather hard-hearted creature, turn- ing down people becguse you know they have no talent, and trying to treat everybody squarel. It is Datig's duty to see that every Paramount production is properly cast. Tt is a matter of knowing the talents of almost every actor in Tolly- wood. “Properly casting a picture,” he adds, “requires a knowledge that one can gain only through vears of ex- perience and study of vlayers’ talents. If 1 should select a man or a girl to play a certain role, and the picture should fail because one person doesn't suit his part, the responsibility for that failure, comes right home to me. I have spent days sometimes figuring and going through records—and viewing pictures of other studios—try- ing to find a player to fit in an im- portant role.” Datig has been engaged in the cast- ing field for 15 years, the last two| with the Paramount organization. Prior to that he was with Universal. | It was Datiz who started the first casting bureau in Hollywood. Since, his systems of filing and other det have been copied universally He knows almost every actor on the legitimate stage or in the picture| ndustry, and is said to have a **1,000,000-face memory." "Gilda as aAzl;bet Dancer. AMUEL GOLDWYN has disclosed | his intention to give his latest | production, “The Devil Dancer,” some of the elements which certain critics of the cinema art have inferred pro- ducers are not competent to handle. In attempting to meet the wide- spread challenge to place something | new upon the screen, Mr. Goldwyn is to offer one of the most bizarre dra- matic situations yet heayd of in con- nection with motion plcture produc- tion. The action transpires partly in Th)et, the curious and cruel nation in the mountains north of India into which very few white men have ever found their way. This will be the first time that Tibet | has ever been shown as the locale of picture story, and many treasures ave been brought from the sacred city of Llhassa to serve as authentic properties in “The Devil Dancer.” The story itself, written to suit the exotic talents of Gilda Gray, concerns an English girl brought up by Tibetan | devil-worshipping monks as a vestal virgin dancer in their isolated moun- tain monastery. It is from the pen of, Harry Hervey, writer of Oriental stories, and perhaps the only fiction writer who has ever actually pene- trated Tibet. To screen so exacting a story of a strange race and its customs makes necessary a care in production far be. vond the usual. In addition to the re. search services of Mr. Hervey him. self. Mr. Goldwyn has engagzed the Hungarian artist Willy Pogany to | execute the sets and costumes, ogany is especially noted for achicvements n stern art, and to as: e perfec ion in the execution of native dances Ted Shawn, associated with Ruth St. Denis, has heen engaged. The cast will include in_the principal male role Wong, Michael Vavitch, So, Leong. Martha Mattox, Anne Schaef- fer and Barbara Tennant. Clive Brook nna May Type of New He-Star. TYLES change In fllm actors. Passe now is the once adored male star whose every gesture was perfectly noble, but who let a double step into his shoes to receive the punches or endure the risks. Today's demands are for men who can do their own rough and tumble scenes, to bring the sincerity of real- ism to their pictures. Fred Thomson, who ls “Jesse James,” to be released by mount, is announced as a type the 1928 model. “He can outride any of the cowhoys In his cast. He can run, jump, fall, dare and endure beyond any double who could be found for him. Twenty years ago he began smashing athletic records at Occidental College in Cali- fornia. Te won the A. A. U, all- round championship three times—a feat unapproached in all the records of sport—and at the close of the war he went to the Inter-Allied games a5 a_fighting chaplain from the 40th Division and set the present world't record for the hand grenade throw.” of Back to the Old Home. HOMAS MEIGHAN has returned to the scene of his earliest triumph In motion pictures, “The Miracle Man,” to film his latest picture, Following his arrival from New York, executives of the new Para- mount Weat Coast Studio conducted him through the new plant, showed him his new dressing room and asked how he like it. “It is just like coming back home, was his reply. Mr. Meighan explained that in his earliest days with Paramount he w: assigned to the Brunton studios to make *“The Miracle Man.” The Brun- ton_studios were the original plant. “There has been a tremendous ex- pansion since those days,” he de- clared, “but there is still enough left of the old plant to bring back memories. “The Miracle Man' gave me my big chance. 1 am just super- stitious enough to feel that this is my lucky place. That is one reason why I am enxious to do ‘We're All Gamblers' here. The sooner I get into conference with James Cruze and get_started the better I will like it.” “Miss Washington” Day Steamer Hampton Roads Colonial Beach Tuesday, Aug. 16 Bathin, ael cing Warmed by Rattlesnakes. SUE CARROL, a young Chicago beauty, who plays the part of Dorothy Jones in “Slaves of Beaut a film attraction current this week, is convinced that sometimes fate is tough on rattlesnakes. She recently received York, it is announced, a full-length coat made from the skins of rattle- snakes. The coat, which Is revers. ible, is lined with panne velvet of the American beauty shade and was one of the smartest things seen on Holly- wood boulevard this year. Sixty-four snakes, each measuring between 315 to 5 feet, paid the ex. treme penalty that milady might flaunt their gaudy rafment in film- dom'’s capital. The coat was a pres ent from her mother and was the first of its kind seen west of Chicago, Miss Carrol,_thouzh of the soclally elect of the Windy City, chose the screen as an outlet for achievement of something worth while, from New Not Important If_i'rue. J.\u{ DEMPSEY Estelle Taylor, Talmadge calls her “Dutch”; wife, Mary Pickford, “The Bos Glorfa Swanson addresses her hus. band, the Marquis Henri de la Falaise la Coudraye, simply as “Henry.’ Gilda Gray and her husband and man calls his “Babe'; wife, Norma AND MANY MORE FINE AMUSEMENTS EVERY DAY PEOPLES POPULAR - PLEASURE PLACE CARS TO ENTRANGE I 2> ASmBA=ZTH it 1927—PART 3.’ New Shows Begin Saturday EST, it be overlooked, Manager Beatus of Loew's Palace Theater asks that special stress be laid upon the fact that beginning Saturday of this week the new weekly shows presented at that house and at Loew’s Columbia will begin their engagements on Satu day instead of Sunday. Consequently, ce and Columbia_ shows here- will open on Saturday and give st performances on Friday of cach w e Wants a Perfect Irishman. RL LAEMMLE is looking for the perfect Irishman, He wants him to play the role of Kelly in “The Cohens and Kellys in Paris,” at least, so the appeal from hix_publicity office state: Fifty-seven professional Irish char- (cter men have applied to Vietor Nordlinger, casting director at Uni- versal City, it i imed, for the privi- | 1 this role, but all of | them are wrong ; | “I'his Kelly must represent the public’s coneeption of what a typ Irishman looks« like, and the Univer ('ity jury has turned thumbs down on all those who have applied ‘harles Murray idney’'s Cohen in the “Cohens and Kellys” film, it is ex- plained, would do, but Murray is all| tied up with a contract and is not available. So the call has gone forth to every booking agent, every actors’ agent, manager and publicity director. Acting ability, both comic and dramatic, hox-office drawing power, a name well and favorably known to those ho patronize moving picture theaters, would he assets in an Irish- man o the type for which Mr. Laemmle is searching. However, he wants more than anything else an Irishman who looks like an Irishma who lodks as much like an Irishman ag§ George Sidney looks like a Jew on the screen. And he wants him in a hur The reason for this desperate and immediate necess it is_explained, is the decision to make “The Cohens and Kellys in Paris” without delay, Revive Sidney Drew Farces. AYLOR HOLME will be the Polly Comedies. and Leah Baird s of “Henry and modern_ versions of the " famous Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew domestic farces, which will be veleased by Pathe. Should A Mason Tell of these two-reel subjects for velerse on September 18, his new series is heing produced by Gaiety Plctures, Inc., whose presi- dent, Amedee J. Van Beuren, spon- sored the two-reel Drew comedies that became classics of the cinema. What title could better convey a serfes of laugh-producing motion pie- tures on the trials and tribulations of domestic life than the ‘lenry and Polly’ - comedies”” asks Mr. Van Beuren. “"n selecting this title for the series, we hope: to register in the minds of theatergoers the fact that Henry and Polly, a_happily married couple, derive much mirth in the unraveling of numerous domestic tangles. These comedies are to be not unlike the world-famous Drew series of a few years ago, and according to those who have seen the previews, the 1927 cdition of the exploits of Henry and Polly Minor equal the standard set hy their successful predecessors.” A New Colleen Moore Story. MEDIATELY upon her return rom her eastern trip, it has been announced, Colleen Moore will start work, for First National Pictures, on a_story adapted from Howard Irving Young’s play, “I'll Tell The World.” It is doscribed as a rollicking tale of an inexperienced country girl who in- herits a_small fortune and who decid, to invest 7t all on a grand splurge to make herself famous. Accepting the misguiding advice of an unscrupulous 1gent, she assumes a royal, title, -omplic ing when the owner of the title visits this country. She is immediately plunged into many dramatic predicaments. out of which, however, eventually she manages to emerge through various surprising and laugh-provoking schemes. Production will start immediately after Miss Moore's return, the latter part of August. announced = Dickey-Pathe Expedition. HH,\ DED Dickey, explores, Pathe Dr. R members cthnological Herbert Spencer 8., scientist and of the Dickey- expedition sailed from New York on the steamship Francis Saturday, August 6, for an xtended period of exploration in the little known regions of RBrazil and Venezuela to make a study of native life and customs, Dr. Dickey con- tinuing his study of tropical diseases. A complete motion picture record of the expedition will he made by Harold Noice, who is accompanying the expedition as official cinematog- rapher representing Pathe Review and Pathe New The expedition has heen authorized by the Museum of the American In- :1‘Iv:|n. Heye Foundation, New York it Names Not Important. JN the days when the movies were really in their infancy. very few players ever succeeded in getting their names before the public. The Motion Picture Guild, in its search for interesting relics of the early days, has discovered many films in which there were actors, now famous, who did not have their names mentioned even in the cast of char. acters. In fact, it was very seldom that a cast was announced. A good example of this is Essanay's burlesque on *Carmen,” a four-reel feature which was quite the latest word in screen art—in 1916. In it there appear Charlie Chaplin, Eric npbell, Ben Turpin, Kdna Pur- viance, but none of them was billed ete. Mrs. Wilson-Greene’s Concerts Season_1923.28 POLI'S THEATER, 4:30 Artists’ Course Dec. 9. MARION TALLEY Jan. B FEODOR” CHATTAPIN World's Greatest Basso Feb. 7. JASCHA WEIFETZ Violinist (After an absence of fwo years) Mch.5. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SERGP KOUSSEVITZKY. Conductor Mch. 16. GIOVANNI MARTINELLI Tenor, Metropolitan_Opera Philharmonic Course Nov.1.. EDWARD JOHNSON Tenor. Metronolitan Opera Jan.13. FRITZ KREISLER Feb.21. RACHMANINOFF Mch. . MME. JERITZA Fifth Concert to Be Announced. : u]'ilun-Grunc Series ct. 21. “THE BEGGARS’ OPERA” Direct from the Lyric Theater. London Nov. 1. LUCREZIA BORI _ Soprano. Metrovolitan Overa. Nov.18. LAWRENCE TIBBETT Baritone, Metropolitan Opera Nov.29. JOSEF HOFMANN Pianist Feb.17. SIGRID ONEGIN i S M. 6493. v the first | AMUSEME NTS.' Had All the Tria_ls_,__of War. UCIEN HUBBARD, who supervised | the filming of “Wings," the Par mount picture of aerial warfare in France, gives many interesting point- ers on the task faced in its preparation for the screen. “It took a year and a half to com- plete ‘Wings' from the time the story | was written by John Monk Saunders.” | ays Hubbard. An entire general staff ked months to organize the plans | the battle sequences. t it was necessary to fly over | of 10,000 square miles to find | the one spot fitted for the battle ground, a location patterned =uffi- ciently ‘like the San Mihejl sector. “Two camera men in fa scouting plane were blown 100 miles off thei course in a storm and escaped crash ing by a close margin. | “When we were ready for the air sequences a regular mobilization of planes got under way. A pursuit squadron flew to our base at San An-| tonlo, Tex., from Selfridze Field: an | attack group came from veston, | observation balloons w wn from | Scott Field, TIL, and a two-seater need- d made the trip from Langley Field, | “We had to have planes that res bled the Spa the nearest appro MBA type, declared obsolete the last 14 of these in the count and in the filming every one s smashed. Because of this one feature | the picture could never be filmed again, “For the German planes we used the P-1, the type of fast plan in which | Col. Lindbergh made his first flight | circling Washington on his return from France. Two American aces | men, ta crash inte | two who worked in the pictures made the statement that one P-1 plane could have cleaned out the skies in the World War because of its superior maneuvering power over the planes flown in conflict 10 years ago. “William Weliman. who directed the picture, was well fitted for the task, because he was a flyer in the war himself, knew all the risks and diffi- culties, and had everlasting paticnce in the face of dangers and obstacl The director simply had to k avi on as well as direction. “There were many forced land two of them with a hugh Mar bomber, which would _have $40.000 ‘had it crashed. The coolness and skill of the pilot in these emer- ncies were all that saved the bomber. ‘Richard Arlen, one of the leading also had a_ narrow escape Arlen was a flyer with the Royal Ily. ing Corps, received his commission 4nd knew hix business. He had to make a ereek, and before com ing to it drop low and them come over a clump of tre It w A risky hit of w and his plane cleared the treos by inches, air scenes months to ow n required early Motor en cameras were attached to the planes The slightest deflection would throw the object to he photographed out of On one occasion we sent up imera planes and 10 combat planes. 1d formations permitted me to see only 4 planes out of 15 while I was of+ This indicates one of the diffi- s of getting thrilling air stuff he feeding and housing of thou- sands of men was no small itent. The camp San Antonio was run, how- every, with miligary efficioncy.” t cult FROM the office of Winthrop Ames comes the following | “While many ha shouted or mur- mured about forming a repertory | company, Winthrop Ames has quietly | gone about the business of making the dream an actuality. When others | prophesied. Mr. Ames, without any | ballvhooing, established Gilbert and | ullivan repertory. | | “During the past two vears he has | | molded a group of finely trained pl ers into a company whose pe: lighted the most jaded of urban audi- ences both in New York and on the road, “One of the jovs of the coming sea- son is the announcement that the rep- will include not only the former ‘Iolanthe’ and ‘The Jd re,” but two new product. ado’ and “The Gondolie ith a different operetta each night, difficulty in making up his mind as to where he can be certain of an eve ning’'s enjoyment. the_compan Gayety Shows This Season. SAM A. SCRIBNER, president and general manager of the Columbia Amusement Co., through Manager Ira J. La Motte of the Gayety Theater here, sponsors the announcement tha the Columbia “wheel” this s will follow last season’s suc periment in presenting plays that have won fame at high prices, as well as musical revues, cartoon comedies, Black and White” shows and one of colored players. will be seen on the Colum- bia “wheel” for the first time at pop- ular prices, and Leona Earl will be sadie Thompson. Talbot will present, for'a second season. “White Cargo.” the melodrama that broka Columbia_ circuiti records last season, and “Kongo" also will again tour the “wheel. Jimmie .Cooper will be seen as star of his “Black and White Revue” and there will be only one company of en- | tirely colored players — “Darktown | Follies.” Two cartoon comedies will | be presented—"Bringing Up Father | in Politics” and “Mutt_and Jeff in Paris”; the Lander Brothers in their | own revue: Jean Bedini in a new show: “Cook-a-Doodle So0”; Lew Kel- | 1y, the “dope flend” specialist: “Slid- | ing Billy” Watson, Frank X. Silk, and | Billy Gilbert and Bert Bertrand will also appear in new offerings. American Films in Japan. ADITIONAL customs, habits of dress and general living conditions in Japan are, it is said, being power- “ully inflrenced by American-made mo- tion pictures. American pictures ate the | Japanese film market,” des B. P. Schulberg, who has just returned from Japan, “and American s tured in them, is being emuls : Japanese picture patrons. It is not a radical trend, but it is my opinion that the American pictures have contrib- uted greatly toward the Japanese as- similation of Western custom: SPECIAL FEATURE CARL McCULLOUGH Bright Bits of Travesty e CLAYTON & LENNIE “A Sundae in London” JULIUS SCHICHTL'S Jodern Marionettes $ ATIONA $1.10,75c&50c PHONKES MAIN 501 EVA LE GALLIE NEXT WEEK SEATS NOW lin | the undecided theatergoer will have no | AND MAIN 9203 NATIONAL THEATER PLAYERS, DIRECTION CLIFFORD BROOKE, OFFER The Event of the Summer Season Real Répertory. | ter shows a list of names alreads miliar to many There is Lois B nett, who before joining with Mr, Ames sang with the Brahms Qua in vaudeville, in_musical comedy the Follies; Vera Ros wh sung innumerahle musical « ing ‘S0 Long, Letty.” and “The Passing William Williams, first a_dancy er, then actor in “The Mi New Poor,’ ‘Solid Tvory.' Win,' to mention a few; John Bar a well known concert singer, from coast to coast, to sav nothi England with the Beecham j and in France with the Nice Opeia J. Humbird Duffey, whe counts mong i ments Tt Domino,” “The Rose Maid." { Gallo Opera Co. and others; William . Gordon stwhile lumberjack, e has been he: straight co nd in Mr. Ames’ production of | Bethrothal’; Bettina Hall, who was | taken out of the chorus of ‘Iolanthe’ and given a leading part in that play; wissabel Sterling, who pla nd Kate in ‘The Pj Fred Wright, ame here many vears =0 to appear in musical comedies, in- uding ‘An ist ~ Model.' hoolgirl” and “The Pink Lady | “These principals with that | intelligent chorus constitute the reper- ompany which, starting in Sep- tember, will continue to furnish the ource of innocent merriment’ so eagerly awaited by impatient theater- goers and_music_lovers.” in musi Ninth Near F Main 4300 LADIES’ CLUB THEATER Ladies’ Matinee Daily, 25¢ 2:15 Twice Daily 8:15 OPENS SAT MAT., AUGUST 20th TOMMY “BOZO" SNYDER The $100,000 Comedian The Man Who Never Speaks CAST of 40---CHORUS of 24 ADMISSION Matinees, Except Sunday and Holidays, 15¢, 25¢, 50c Nights, Except Sundays and Holidays, 25¢, 80c, 75¢c, 99¢ Including Tax NO HIGHER HS BEGINNING SUNDAY MATINEE AT 3:18 i————— Extra Added Attraction *‘Dear Little Rehel’ with Nancy Gibhs A Musical Iomance of the South, <o BARGAIN MATINEES Sunday and Monday Keith Koolies All Mats. d T Toples of the News Weekly, “Moments Worth While” ED. & LEE TRAVER oo Paragons of Physical Endeavor AULT & LAMARR Laffs & Thrilla” o> 4484, 4185 and 6823 BEG. MON. WED. MAT. ALL SEATS 50 Sat. Mat. 75¢,50 NNE’S TRIUMPH A FERENC MOLNAR’S BEST PLAY The Season's lest Mystery Play “THE DONOVAN AFFAIR”