Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27
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GEORGE NJ. CONAN is seeking per
- manent fame in the movies. Not
only will Herbert Brenon, one OF the
incorporates. film 1.-The Song and
Dance Man." but George collaborated
on the story to make certain 1t would
not be Cohan iZed by the movie process.
D. W. GHnth offers a silent protes,
that directors are making well con-
structed pictures which. under pres
ent methods of exhibition. are shown
to audiences last end first, due to the
continuous method of admitting spec
tators long after a picture has been
started on the screen. We might as
well go back to plotless one and two
reel pictures, he says.
News reports say that the Germans
have made a picture with Henry Ford
as the hero, only he is billed as Henry
F'lips. The picture is called Curve
to the Left. Drama of Mechanism. "
Gilda Gray. back from Paris, has
started in the film production of
''Aloma of the South Seas"
Now they are saying that the new
Miss America" who is to be filmed
as THE American Venus" rivals in
art measurements the Venus Of Milo
THE Family Upstairs" now play
ing on Broadway. has been bought
for film production by William Fox,
according to a news report.
George Melford is to film Rocking
Moon" at Sitka, Alaska.
Alice Juyce has signed a contract
with Paramount for long term and
will be starred first in "Mannequin,"
with James CruZe directing. Name
quln' is Fannie Hurst's $50 900 prize
story.
Adolph Zukor OF Paramount has
pledged himself to raise $1,000. 900
from theatrical and film industries for
the Federation for the Support of
Jewish Philanthropic Societies.
News comes from Los Angeles via
cable from London that John Drink
water. the noted dramatist. may try
his hand at moving picture work.
The Warmers are said to be paying
John Barrymore $4,000 a week,
which Is a direct challenge to the
"articulate" stage.
Century is making a novel two
reeler. Little Red Riding Hood"
with Baby Peggy and Peter the Great
as its stars.
The Chronicles Of America Corpora
ton, which has been tracing the his
torical development Of America in two
and three reelers. is about to resume
activity. Eleven scripts already are
in readiness. but it is proposed to
have IS before starting actual pro-
duction. The sketches are made from
scenarios which have to be approved
by a committee of Yale historians.
and they are screened on the exact
historical locations of which they
treat. America cannot have too many
Of this class If pictures.
Mack Sennett says the stampede Of
producers toward comedy production
this season is due to the fact that the
laugh is the only universal idea. 1t
catches old and young, big and little,
always.
At no time since the Introduction of
the five-reel picture, 1t is said, has the
shorter product received the attention
it is getting today.
The Standard Productions, Fred
Jefferson director and Ray Garon
cameraman, are producing Screen
Smiles,' a series of illustrated jokes
with stars to interpret them.
British Aim producers are consider
ing the erection of a million.dollar
studio. as If Britain could initiate
America when it comes to the mere
matter of money.
The Warmers have bought for pro-
duction The Footloose Widow" by
Beatrice Burton, and white Elan.
nels." by Lucian Cary.
Dorothy Gish has sailed abroad to
appear in Nell Gwynn" for Herbert
Wilcox Productions.
Fred Niblo. who is supervising the
editing of Ben Hur," reports the pic
ture complete, except the chariot race.
The new cast for Moomaw's How
to Train a Wife" is headed by Virginia
Valli and Eugene O'Brien, and in
cludes Jean Hersholt, George Nichols.
Boris Karloff. Bryant Washburn and
Cissy Fitzgerald.
Famous Players will organize new
classes every six months for the Para
mount Theater Managers Training
School. The next class will be formed
in January.
Corinne Griffith's next picture will
be Tolstoi's Anna Karenina."
Harry Langdon, who is said to have
been sought by nearly every impor.
tant company in the industry, has
signed a long-term contract with First
National.
State authorities and Aim producers
have been consulting on the subject o.
filming THE Birth Of Texas The
story was written by Mrs. Betty B.
Strong.
Edwin Carewe's 1.-THE Sea Woman
will be released as "Why Women
Love-" and Spanish Sunlight" has
been changed to THE Girl From Mont.
martre." Both are First National pro-
auctions.
Jack Daugherty will next star In
1.-THE Radio Detective" an Adventure
Picture by Arthur B. Reeve, creator
Of Craig Kennedy, the fictional detec-
tive wss) vies with Sherlock Holmes
and Arsene Lupin in modern litera-
ture.
Richard Dix has left New York for
the Blakely ranch, near Houston, Tex,
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