Evening star., 1926-11-07
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CAMUEL GOLDwYN is to tender a
- print of 1.-THE Winning of Bar
| bara Worth" to the proposed his.
| torical Aim archives in Washington.
Jackie Coogan is to star for Metro
| Goldwyn- Mayer instead of making In
dependent productions.
If President Coolidge's standard of
advertising is to be followed in the
| movies many of it's ad writer's, known
as press representatives and the like,
will have to change their styles.
The American College of Surgeons
in Montreal, Canada, has appointed a
special committee to develop the use
| of motion pictures for use in the prac-
tice of medicine and surgery.
Lou Berman and Harry Weiner,
who will handle Columbia productions
| in Philadelphia, have announced
plans for a new theater in Washing
| ton. according to Film Daily, the
movie Bradstreet.
f. A. Dupont. the foreign Aim
director who quit Universal and re-
turned to his home, explains that his
health gave way under the obstacles
| placed in his way to hamper his
artistic freedom, according to a Paris
note in Film Daily.
Jugoslavia. has barred the showing
of The Merry Widow" in that
country.
Eva Tanguay is appearing as "a
presentation" in movie theaters.
Rudolph GAM, conductor of the ST.
Louis Symphony, criticizes the play
! ing in movie houses of selections for
orchestras numbering 70 instruments
by ensembles of 80 or thereabouts.
Film directors and others of the
industry who crowded the theater
at a $3.50 show to hear the Vitaphone
and see, John Barrymore's Don
Juan" are said to be wondering what
| the advent Of the Vitaphone will
mean to the production branch of
the industry.
Clarence Brown. the producer. is
ssid to be dickering for the screen
rights to Rupert Hughes biography
of George Washington. which re
Gently has~ aroused much comment
and strong protest.
| Universal has bought the screen
| rights to Jerome K. Jerome's "Three
Men in a Boat"
A Fox news note states that Allan
| Dwan will start filming 1.-The Music
Master" at once. Sam Corso is de
signing the sets and George Webster
will he in charge Of the photography
Ivan Lebedeff shas been loaned by
d. W. Griffith to Gloria Swanson for
! the role in "Sunya" (new version OF
Eyes of Youth'D in which Rudolph
| Valentino first gained attention.
| Ed Wynn Ia soon to leave for
| Florida for preliminary work on 1.-The
Perfect Fool" Wynn's initial starring
| picture.
David Wark Griffith, it is reported
| Is to direct the production for Uni
versal Of the Edna Ferber story
'Show Boat" dealing with life
aboard Mississippi River boat.
A rival to the vitaphone, the Pal
lophotophone. with the Radio Cor
trio Co. and the Fox Film Corpora
ton credited as it's hackers. has come
to light.
The scrappers of the movie industry
are finding arbitration a boon. Gov
Milliken Of the Will II. Hays organi
zation estimates a saving of AZ pei
! cent yearly to both contractual
, parties and bearing in mind that over
a half million contracts are signed
yearly in the industry, this saving
means much.
Motion pictures Of the Eucharistic
Congress held this year In Chicago
were scheduled for showing In New
York today. Fox Films and Cardinal
ated in making the pictures.
! Dinitri Buchowetzki is to direct the
production of the Tolstoy story
Anna Karenina," for Metro Goldwyn
Mayer.
Gilbert Roland is to be the Armand
to Norma Talmadge's Camille.
The London County Council eng
land has refused to equip the school.
with screens for movie education.
Midnight shows are said to be popu
lar in Kansas City.
The hand of Will H. Hays agair
comes into evidence In the settlement
of the squabble over "arbitration" IL
the movie industry. Mr.. Hays ha.
decided that "arbitrators, in the fu
ture, will make their decisions a!
! their consciences and good judgmen
may dictate,'" according to a recen
Film Daily story.
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