Evening star., 1925-12-13

You can methodlcally manufacture
the one, but the other are sudden i'm
pulses.
wild Oats Lane" based on The
Gambling Chaplain by Gerald Beau
mont. as dramatic by George Broad
hurst and adapted by benjamin Gla-
Zer, is the story OF girl who never
had a chance and a weak boy, the
victim Of circumstance. In the cast
are a father, a mother, a priest. a
detective, a kleptoma MAC and a gang
ster.
Special religious pictures. based on
biblical themes, will be produced and
distributed by the Religious Motion
Picture Foundation, said TO have been
created by the Harmon Foundation.
with the cooperation of the Federal
Council of Churches and the Motion
Picture Producers and Distributors of
America. VIII H. Hays, president.
"Ben-Hur," starring Ramon No
varro and May McAvoy. it is now def
nitely announced, will receive its first
public showing in New York on
Christmas Eve. The picture was
made by Metro-Goldwyn-Ma in
Italy and has been two years in the
making.
The average school attainment of
the children employed in motion pic
lures is Il per cent above the regular
public school children in the Los An
geles schools, according TO Prof. Ray.
mond B. Dunlap, head of the child
welfare department of the Los An
geles Board Of Education, who attrib-
lNs
cause only the brighter children are
used in the movies. and the other, the
splendid cooperation of viii II. Hays
and the producers as a whole.
"The Voice of the Nightingale. the
short subject of Educational Film Ex-
changes. Inc. has been awarded the
Reisenfeld gold medal for the best
short story subject of the year. 1t
tells why the nightingale sings only at
night. its voice. in the daytime, being
the voice of a child.
Cecil B. De Mile who cast Theodore
Kosloff in the role of a dumb black
smith in THE Eolga Boatman," is
said to be completely puzzled how to
picture the mans aff1iction on the
screen.
The Popular Science Monthly. it is
said announces that music in Colors
has become an actual fact, n machine
having been invented by NJ. Il. Clrich.
of Portland. Greg. which projects
music on the screen in the form of
color patterns that vary in sdeliCate
shade and form according to changes
in the sound vibrations.
Charlie Chaplin is something else
the deal for the merger of United
Artists and Metro Goldwyn- Mayer did
not go. It will be remembered Charlie
was the only one who opposed it in
United Artists, and Doug was quite
peeved about it.
Variety reports that Fox bought
s of the % plays that out of 243
were produced on Broadway, which
would indicate that very small per-
centage of the modern plays seem to
meet the demands of the screen.
Rapid progress is reported in the
construction of the new Colony Thea
ter, apartment and store building at
Georgia avenue and Farragut street
northwest, which, when completed,
Will be the latest addition to the cir
cult of theaters operated by the STAN
ley -Crandall Company of Washington.
The Colony will have a seating
capacity Of 1900 on one floor, and,
it Is said, will be one of the most
beautiful residential houses in the
Capital 1t is planned to have the
new amusement place ready on or
about the first of the year.
The Crandall residential theaters
are already beginning to worry about
obtaining competent "Cheer leaders
for the Cranda1l Children's Community
Christmas celebrations to be held in
all neighborhood houses Christmas s
morning. 1t is desired to secure n
group of singers who will be strong
enough Of voice and sure enough in
attack to, lead a thousand or SO chill
dren in Christmas carols, simple,
cheering and the like.
Some Idea Of the mechanical difficult
ties encountered by the Famous
Players-Lasky Corporation in filming
1.-The Vanishing American" may be
gained from the fact that the Para
mount technical staff had to build a