Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-25


Baltimore has enacted legislation
not only TO restrict theater. construc.
ton, hut the remodeling OF theaters
as well.
The German board OF censors has
banned "Potemkin," which was her.
aided as the Russian Sovietts greatest
production effort.
What Price Glory and Seventh
Heaven" has been booked for long
runs in Los Angeles -theater that
charges $l.65 as its top prize. We
shall hear more of this later. .
The Warmers have loaned Svend
Gade TO direct Corinne Griffith IN "The
Lady in Ermine."
While the price of pork goes up i'm
the States, Canada il adding vaude-
vile acts to it's picture exhibitions
and reducing the cost OF admission
The Palace Theater at Ottawa has
done this
The ice man doesn't make a good
picture star, apparently. Red
Grange, who Is reported had been sub
sidized by the screen, after making
his first picture, decided to return To
his SIS per week on the ice wagon In
the old home town. Four weeks Of
screen art was enough.
1.-The Cheerful Fraud" will he Reg
inald Denny's next for Universal with
William Setter directing.
Morgantown, w. Va. evading a
Sunday blue law, started a picture
show Immediately after midnight on
Sunday night and turned EN- away.
I Pauline Garon. it is said, proposes
to have herself billed hereafter as
Mrs. Lowell Sherman, for such she is.
Mrs. Leslie Carter has filed articles
of incorporation for the Mrs. Leslie
Carter Film Co.. and there you are.
Glen Hunter, Merton OF the Nov
les, is taking a rest from them this
Summer with a stock company IN
Rochester. n. Y.
Harry Beresford, an old stage actor,
is to show the evolution of a father.
from a foot baller of 1899 TO q. fellow
student of his son in 1926. in The
Quarterback.
( AS Red" Grange fades. out as a
great star. Gene Tunney, the prize
fighter slides in. and according to re-
ports Is an honest-to.goodness. ''ar-
tist."- - 49, =
Clara KimbaH Young's old picture,
"The Eyes of Youth has been.
bought. and is to be made over for
Gloria Swanson.
Evelun Brent having amicablY ter
minated her connection with Film
Booking ONCE will now. free lance,
so it is reported.
Anne Robinson, formerly with Roxy.
Is playing the West in s. presentation
act at the Colorado Theater- Denver.
Gladys Hulette is 10 play the lead
in Unknown Treasures. opposite
Robert Agnew.
Corinne Griffith is now pushing
"Just OF Broadway" for First Ma
tional
DR.. Arkalov, director of The Cabi-
net OF DIR. Caligari." doesn't ike
screen vampires" and he advises
American producers against giving
Europe a false and very misleading
impression of American women.
Ziegfeld's ''Follies' girls have been
heavily advertised I'm moving pictures.
One would think there were thousands
"A
few have ever appeared in moving
pictures. One of these few is Jane
Reid, who has been assigned to play
opposite Nelly Edwards in q. series OF
comedies to be directed by Edgar Ken
nedy. alternating with Jay Belasco.
Curtis Benton is adapting King
Baggot's Universal-Jewel Down. the
Stretch" from the late Gerald Beau
mont's 1.-The Money Rider" As a
racetrack story this will be unique.
1t has no Kentucky colonel, no mint
tuleps, no doped racehorse or Jockey,
no mortgage on the old homestead
and no girl riding the horse to a. whtrl-
wind victory. King Baggot is looking
for a Theepian Jockey.
Although Universal City has ac-
quired one of the verY few existing
plans of the old houses OF Parlia-
ment, about which much OF the action
of Victor Hugo's story. 1.-THE Man
Who Laughs" revolyes. 1t has not
been definitely decided whether this
production will be made in Universal
City or in Paris. Definite decision rests
with Carl Laemmle, and be viii .not
make It until he has thoroughly re
covered from the operation for appen-
dicitis which was performed IN a. Lon
don hospital. 1t is predicted he Will
be up ana about inside q week,
Clarence Thompson, a Harvard
graduate, society youth and pFotege
Of Arthur Brisbane, who has q Ave
year acting contract with Universal,
will have his first novel, The House
of Love-" issued in September by
Boni & Iiveright. He has just com
pleted an important role in Butter
flies I'm the Rain in support OF laura
La Plante. Ez.l
Al Cohn has been assigned TO write
a screen scenario Of THE Cats and
the. Canary for Paul Leni's- sGest
American-made picture. as9Thfversal
has great confidence in Mrs. Cohn on
account of the way in which His
People" and The Cohens and
Kellys" registered at the box otfaca..S
Rex Taylor is writing the conttnu.
ity for 1.-THE Wrong Mr.. Wright. by
George Broadhurst, which wiz he
made on the Universal City lot wfthin
the next few months, with Jean Hers
holt in the feature role.
BEGINNING August 10, Crandalls
newly refurnished Metropolitan The
alter will offer an innovation that will
again place the stamp of originality
upon its weekly offerings. The
novelty will be permanent ard will be
fully set forth at later date. Watch
for tits worth it,