Evening star., 1925-03-01
FILMOGRAMS

CPECIAL Inauguration day matinees
- will be held in all the Crandall
photograph houses, including the
Ambassador, Appolo, York and Savoy,
starting at pm.
Famous Players-Laskey has an
nounced that Pola Negri has signed a
new contract with that organization,
effective in April, when her present
contract expires, whereby she will
make four pictures, with the option
of making four more if it be agree
able.
Henry King will make for Robert
Kane a production of ANY Woman, -
with Alice Terry heading the cast, at
the Thomas II. Ince studios before
they pass into the hands of Cecil B.
De Mile. Arthur Somers Roche wrote
the story of ANY Woman"
Cecil B. De Mile announces that he
has bought four plays and the screen
rights TO eight novels for production.
Emil Jannings, the noted German
star. refuses to be tempted by Amer
lean offers so long as he can find work
in his native land. This is set forth
port.
Whether she is 4 great actress or
not, Gloria Swanson's illness is said
to have affected the stock market.
Hunt Stromberg is to direct THE
Romance of an Actress" for Chad
wick Pictures, instead of Sunshine
of Paradise Alley" which he was to
have made and which will be directed
by Edmund Lawrence.
Erie. the Partisan designer. has
been engaged by Metro -Goldwyn to
design fashion gowns for the Metro
Goldwyn players and he has already
arrived in this country.
A writer in Printers Ink, who has
made a careful survey of the situa-
ton, states that in his opinion motion
picture men are seeing the error OF
their ways in bad taste and misrep-
resentation of their product and are
remedying them-a very hopeful sign
He states that they felt their mistake
in their pocketbooks, where public
opinion registers its judgments.
At the Metro studios. 1t is reported
sets valued at 100000 were torn down
to prepare for the filming of scenes
for Ben Hur."
Gov. Smith of New York has ap-
pointed Mrs. Elizabeth V. Colbert
wife of a local physician and prom
inent in politics, as a member of the
New York Moving Picture Commits
sion, at salary of $500 year.
After a considerable period of quiet
the Cosmopolitan Studies, New York
are again humming with industry
Earl Hudson has taken over the
studio for the filming of the big
scenes of "Chickie'' and also will
make the biggest scenes of THE
Necessary Evir' there.
Greta Nissen, whose acting and
dancing In the stage version of THE
Beggar on Horseb back" were a feature
of that production, is to play a lead
ing role in the Paramount picture
I'm the Name of Love-" an original
story by Sada Cowan, to be directed
by Miss Cowan and Howard Higgins.
Lora Sonderson, musical comedy
favorite, seen in the Music Box
RevGs" and mo, No, Nanette," is
playing the part of Bess Abbot in
| "Chickie" Earl Hudson's new produc-
tior.
Breaking the lee is the name of
the current comedy featuring Ralph
Graves. AS an ice man, Ralph Is an
eight-letter word, vertical-dumbbell
for he gets stuck at a crossword
puzzle by a three-letter word mean
ing refrigerated water"
Lowell Sherman, now playing in
High Stakes" in Chicago, has been
signed by Warner Bros. to appear in
several pictures on their new seasons S
program. He will report at the
Hollywood studio at the end OF the