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the head, another over the foot and
the third looking down over the CEN
ter.
Evelyn Pierce, formerly an extra,
has been acclaimed discovery, after
screen tests made at the Metro-Goid
wyn-Mayer studio. She Is claimed to
be a distinctly American type OF
beauty. Aside from appearances a.
a dancer, she has had little experience
on stage or screen.
Richard Dix's next Paramount pic
ture, The Maker of Gestures" Is be-
ing adapted by Gerald C. Duffy from
short magazine story by John Monk
Saunders. Paul Sloane will direct.
Irene Nora has returned to Los
Angeles with the film of The Rag
Man." Jackie Coogan's next picture.
Miss Nora is editing and expects TO
have 1t ready for release when the
Coogans return from Europe
Reginald Barker has announced
the complete cast of Dixie" Gerald
Beaumonts story adapted by Waldo
mar Young. Frank keenan,. Claire
Windsor and Lloyd Hughes have the
leading roles. Others are John Saln-
polls. Otis Harlan, Joseph Morrison,
Otto Hoffman, Edward Martindel.
Ruth King, William Qu,rk, James
Quinn, Loyal Underwood. Bert LIND
ley, William Orlamond, Milton Ross
and ]. P. Lockney.
c. Gardiner Sullivan, dean OF scena-
| rists, who recently formed his own
production company, was formerly a
newspape: man. He learned his terse
style and gift os accurate character
ization while reporting big news
| events for New York papers.
One green jersey dress, $40; on.
cape to match "a loan from a friendl:
one blue tam m-o'-shanter, survival of
high school days: one cotton dress
from the family wardrobe, complete
the outfit Of Louise Fazenda as the
daughter of the lighthouse keeper in
The Lighthouse by the Sea.
The gold media! of honor awarded
annually by the Photopiay Magazine
for the best picture oe the year has
been won for 1928 by the Paramount
| production. The Covered Wagon"
This award Is made by the votes Of
| the two and half million readers of
| the magazine. This Is the fourth
medal awarded by Photoplay. The
| first. in 1920, was awarded to "Hu-
moresque," the next to "Topabie Da-
vid." the 1922 medal to Douglas Fair
banks for Robin Hood"
When the Famous Players-Lasky
! Corporation acquired the screen
rights to Doris Keane's play THE
Czarina," Pola Negri was selected to
| play the Doris keane role Jesse j..
Laskey then discovered that Warner
| Bros. had no immediate production
pending for Lubitsch, and he per
suaded his producing rivals" to lend
| Lubitsch for this one picture, which
explains how. once again, the direc
tor and star of Passion" and Gypsy
Blood" are brought together-for this
| first time on this side of the Atlantic.
A sad face won Pauline Starke, who
supports Pola Negri in Forbidden
Paradise" her first wors before the
camera. d. w. Griffith found her
outside his studio and led her inside
Here's a girl with real sad face"
said Griffith, to his casting director.
| Keep her around: I think we can
use her" And Griffith did later much
to Pauline's delight.
"Tammany" Young. whose fame as
a. "gate crasher'' has been somewhat
overshadowed by certain "One-
Eyed Connolly. exercised his curious
art recently by "crashing'' the gate
of the casting directors office at
Paramount's Long Island Studio and
winning place for himself In the
cast of Rudolph Valentines latest
! picture, "a Sainted Devil
Helen Daley, Valentines leading
woman IN "A Sainted Devil" came
| from Madrid year or two ago with
her brother. Ziegfeld gave her a
season in the "Follies" and then she
| tried motion pictures, with indIffer-
| ent success. Like Merton, she got
her big chance at the studio lunch
| counter, for 1t was there that Valen-
| tino heard her talking Spanish, took
second look and adopted her on the
spot, as 1t were. as his new leading
| woman.
| Archer Whitford, monopolist OF the
motion picture slide industry in Sgd
ney, Australia. publisher of the only
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