Evening star., 1926-10-24
Flashes From the Screen
BY G. e. NELSON.

We are to lose another character
of the pictures if the protest finally
reaches Mr.. Hays and receives
proper attention.
The photoplay has entered the
present campaign, and a voice-syn-
chronized moving picture showing
President Coolidge delivering an ad-
dress will be sent over the State of
Massachusetts, during the next cou-
pie of weeks. The talking cinema"
was demonstrated in the headquar-
ters of the Republican State COM
mittee irS Boston few days ago, and
the President makes his economy
speech on the White House lawn.
Many of the larger producing COM
panies have given up the making of
pictures on the East coast, and their
efforts will be turned to the foreign
countries, particularly the continent
Announcement was made few days
ago that Colleen Moore, First Ma
tional star, will make several pic
lures abroad next year, and this is
torerunner of series of such state
ments from other photoplay pro-
ducers.
At the present time the foreign
market is having big influence on
the picture industry Of this country.
A large part of the profit of Amer
ican pictures is garnered abroad. and
for this reason the products must
have an international appeal.
Other stars who will probably
make European pictures in the near
future include Richard Barthelmess,
Anna Q. Nilsson. Lewis Stone and
Harry Langdon
Pola Negri is said to be one of the
biggest drawing cards of the Amer
ican photoplays in Europe, yet she
has never appeared particularly to
please American audiences in the
pictures made in this country. Her
first work, in the European studios.
is her best. If Pola can take her
place as drawing card in this coun-
try, she will become the leading in
ternational star.
The success of such films as Ben
Hur" and THE Big Parade" has
caused much thought among the
producers, and now the Warner
brothers have turned to the Bible
for spectacle. 1t is to be called
"Noah's Ark and those who have
started work on the production say
it is to be the greatest spectacle
ever seen on the screen"
Such statements remind one of
"the greatest show on earth," which
arrived with each one-ring circus in
the Springtime. The photoplay
press agents have used all the pet
adjectives, following their circus
brethren, and new photoplay produc-
tions will hereafter be advertised as
most gigantic spectacle" Michael
Curtiz will direct "Noah's Ark"
Concerning stars and near-stars !:
Buster keaton is completing his
Civil War comedy spectacle, "The
General" One scene of the picture,
with a locomotive plunging off a
=. Lew Cody will play opposite
Norma Shearer in After Al1," which
Robert Leonard will direct. &.
Wallace Beery and Roymand Hatton
have been engaged for Casey at the
Bat" after the completion of Were
in the Navy Now" According
to all signs, "The Four Horsemen"
may become the greatest money
maker of American film production
The demand for the picture is grow
ing each week. Dolores Cas-
sinelli, former screen star, who re-
Gently developed a voice of grand
opera caliber, is now with the Man
haitian Opera Co. Her first concert
appearance was made at the Town
Hall, New York, last March. .
Richard Barthelmess, sailing for Eu-
rope a few days ago, stated that he
did not intend to apply for divorce
in Paris. Dick has just finished
The Black White Sheep" j..
From the West Coast comes the
news that Elinor Glyn is to have a
part in the filming of her story, 1T"
However, Clara Bow will have the
part of at" Charles Previn,
one of the we'll known younger
Americans in the musical world, has
been engaged as musical director of
the new Roxy" theater in New
York. Charlie Chaplin, in a
special dispatch, denies the report
that he will retire from the screen.