Evening star., 1926-05-30

fees. His original contract was WIN
Arrow Pictures Corporation.
Howard Douglas. chief censor for
the Calgary Province. in Canada. in
recent address said there was less need
of censorship today than at any time
in the history of the industry. He
also said he had grown up with the
! business.
Paul Ludwig Stein. German director
will produce for Warner Brothers
featured.
No story ever written for the screen
| could be more dramatic, VIII Hays
says, than the story of the screen
| itself.
Trixie Friganza missed fire with
Weak Sisters" and now is trying it
again with almost a Lady"
! Karl Mayer is to adapt a Sudermann
novel for screen production by f. w.
Murnau, the> German directors first
| picture for Fox.
| Heart of Maryland" which was
first made by Tom Terriss for Vita
graph, is to be made over again by
| Millard Webb for the Warmers. with
Charles Emmett Mack and Dolores
| Costello featured.
Pathe is planning to reissue six
Harold Lloyd comedies-'Step Lively,
Are Crooks Honest?", ,"Swat the
Crook" Ring Down the Curtain"
Count Your Change" and kicked
Out"
keith's Palace in Cleveland has
started a Summer policy Of three
shows a day and a combination of
| vaudeville and a picture; the first,
''The Volga Boatman," on Sunday.
Zelda Sears has been engaged to
write an adaptation of Corporal
Kate" for Vera Reynolds.
Lewis Stone and Anna @. Nilsson
will be the high lights in Midnight
Lovers" soon to be started.
London" is the title of the picture
being made by British National, with
Dorothy Gish as its star. The story
Is an original by Thomas Burke, and
Herbert Wilcox will direct.
Vivian Moses says for Fox Films
that the 'fer.- eXclamations which
were feature of the stage play" will
be filmed on non-explosive film stock
in the Fox screen production of
What Price Glory?"
Director Clarence Brown goes in for
"the psychological punch" to replace
1.-The physical kick of old.fashioned
pictures. THE Big Parade" and
''Stella Dallas" he says, has the
psychological punch. Mechanics as in
forest fires, earthquakes and things
like that supplant what he calls "the
physical kick"
Mr.. Brown gets close to the truth
when he says Audiences want enter
tanning, convincing stories woven
about characters that are under
standable."
The continuity Of "Men of the
Night" Milton Sills' next picture for
First National, is being written by
Carey Wilson, who is using as basis
for his story an adaptation of Lud-
wig Bros Hungarian play, Der
Legionaer."
Dorothy Seastrom plays the girl
friend Of Colleen Moore in ."Delica.
tessen," a quaint tale Of young love
and the effect of delicatessen upon IT..
Frank Borsage, the Fox director.
is said to have travelled all the way
from Los Angeles to Albany. n. Y,
to see the John Golden play, Seventh
Heaven" just to get pointers for its
screen production in California.
Joseph Conrad's man in the raw"
called "Nostromo," played by George
O'Brien. one Of the huskiest Of the
silver sheet, and Lou Tellegen. once
ha 0f hA cfo AT
up the thrill fight of the picture in
''Silver Treasure" Fox picture.
Janet Gaynor is to be Lady Shiela
O'Hara, the bright-eyed. brown-haired
colleen of Peter B. Kyne's story, in
the Fox picture, THE Shamrock
Handicap
Fox's What Price Glory?" is said
to furnish a wonderfully realistic
replica Of Barbecue, capital Of the
Department of the Meuse, which
figures in the story of the picture.
David Mir, Elinor Glyn's protege,
has been cast as Algy in Marshall
Neilan's production Of Diplomacy.
Mir is said to have been born in
Russia, of royal blood, and with his
family to be a victim of the revolution
in that country.
William Slavens McNutt, fiction
writer, has been engaged to work on
the story of 1.-The Quarterback" :"
Richard DiX's next Paramount film,
which will be based on an idea of w.
o. Mcclellan, New York sports
writer.
Robert MCGOWAN has completed the