The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04
FORTY PICTURES
ON Big RELEASE
BILL This FALL
Unprecedented Program
Is Begun at Paramount
Studios

In the belief that next season will
be the most successful in the history Of
motion pictures. the Famous Players
Lasky corporation, according to an an
nouncement just made, win release
forty pictures from August to 'Febru-
airy /. fu s5e
Several of these productions have al
ready been completed and so that the
an unprecedented production pro-
gram has just been inaugurated at the
Paramount studios in Hollywood and
Long Island City. Fifteen producing
units are now busy, and eighteen pic
lures will be under way before the end
of this month.
This is the most ambitious produc-
tion program we have ever essayed,"
stated Adolph Zukor, president of Fa-
nous Players-Lasky corporation, both
in number and quality. The public's
taste in motion picture entertainment
has been steadily rising, and next fall
we shall release some of the most in
teresting pictures we have ever made"
| Included in the list of releases is
"The Covered Wagon" This picture,
which will end record-breaking run
of sixty-five weeks att the Criterion
theatre, New York, May 10, has not
yet been exhibited in regular motion
picture theatres. 1t will be released
to picture theatres earlya'in Septem-
Der. V, a.
f Valentino Again
The list of forty pictures also in
cludes Monsieur Beaucaire," the pro-
duction which will mark the return of
Rudolph Valentino to the screen after
an absence of two years. This picture,
directed by Sidney Alcott, has just been
completed in the Long Island studio,
and is heralded as one of the most
sumptuously mounted productions ever
made in the east. In the supporting
cast are Bebe Daniels Lois Wilson,
Doris Kenyon. Lowell Sherman and a
number of other prominent picture
players ira 5gt
Peter Pam Barrie.s aira immortal
phantasy. will at last reach the screen
as one of this group of pictures. This
production will be made this summer
and probably will be released during
Christmas week. 1t will be produced
by Herbert Brenon, but who, will play
the role made famous on the stage by
Maude Adams has not yet been deter
| mined.
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mounts first picture entirely in color,
"Wanderer of the Wasteland," a Zane
Grey story, which has been produced by
Irwin Willat, in Death Valley, Cal. 1t
is said that in this picture of life in
the desert color photography reaches a
development surprising anything shown
on the screen so far.
Another novelty will be. picture
version of Merton of the Movies" to
be produced by James Cruze, the maker
of The Covered Wagon with Glenn
Hunter in the star role which he has
made famous on the stage.
Z Two of Cecil b. DeMille's produc-
tons are included. The, first of these
is Feet of Clay" with Red La ROGUE,
'Estelle Taylor and Victor Varconi
Beulah Marie Dix and. Bertram Mil
hauser adapted the screen play from
the novel by Marguerite futile. This
is break in the long series of screen
stories prepared for Mr. aDeMille by
i,Jeanie Macpherson, but, she will do
i The Golden Bed" This lis from, Wal
lace Twins novel, with the same feas
tured players. ai,cs4
Three Gloria Swanson pictures on
the schedule are to be directed by AL,
Ian Dwan. These are i.Manhandled, !"
"A Woman of Fire" and 1.-The Coast
of Folly" 6n9r.s
Thomas Meighan has an outstanding
place in the series. One. of his will
be James Oliver Curwoedis THE Alas
kan,' which Herbert Brenon is to di-
rect. Booth Tarkingtons is writing an
original story for him called whisper
ling Men," which is to be produced by
Victor Herman, and he has another,
THE Honor of His House." by An
drew Soutar, which is to be directed
by Victor Fleming ae .
Valentino will also have another pic
ture in this series, screen version of
Rex Beach's story, "A Sainted Devil"
Joseph Henabery will direct.
The two directors who brought PoIa
Negri her greatest fame abroad are to
make the three pictures in which she
will appear in this group. Dimitri
Buchowetzki, who directed her in sew
eral of her European successes. will
direct her in Compromised Suder-
man story, and in "a Woman Scorned,' -
based on the Owen johnson story.
Those Who Walk lin Darkness -
Ernest Lubitsch, who made Miss Ne
girls greatest European success, PAS
sion," will direct her in Forbidden
Paradise" based on story by Paul
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