Evening star., 1926-03-28
Filmograns.

EIFTY-TWO complete programs,
carefully selected pictures for boys
and girls to he known as Saturday
morning movies have been arranged
by the motion picture producers and
distributors of America. according to
recent announcement by the VIII II.
Hays offices in New York.
According to q recent report ON mo-
ton picture activities in the Army,
the motion picture attendance at
shows operated by the War Depart
ment was 4 800. 600 last year
The use of motion pictures on Sat
urday morning as a constructive
method of preventing Juvenile delin-
quency has been proposed by leading
ministers of all denominations in
Brooklyn. who met recently III q con-
ference ON crime conditions. The
gathering included Rev = Parks Cad
man. president of the Federal Council
of Churches Of Christ; MonsignOr ].
l.. Bedford, Rabbi Louis l.. Gross.
Rev. John Howard Mellish, Monslgnor
Francis J. O'Hara and Rabbi Alex
ander Lyons.
Both John Barrymore and Walter
Hampden agree that Shakespeare is
still drawing power in America. but
not via the screen, to which, says
Barrymore, "the splendor and beauty
of the poetry. which i'll itself is drama
of the highest type, is not trans
mutable."
Universal Pictures Corporation for
many years has been building up a
fine museum of it's rare collections of
old relics that have been procured
from time to time for use in its pic
lures.
d. w. Griffith. SO news from
Famous Players reports, says it isn't
true that he is thinking of ending his
connection with Paramount because
of friction with the production de
partment due to his slowness in get
ting started on pictures. He takes his
time preparing to start, but when he
starts he goes quickly.
After ELLA Cinders" Colleen Moore
is 10 be pictured in "Delicatessen." ="
from the story by Brooke Hanlon. and
then in Twinkle Toes Thomas
Burke's story.
June Mathis, who is seriously i'll
in a hospital. following a surgical
operation, and who was expected to
return to Hollywood the end of this
month with the script for her first
production for First National. as as
Soclate producer. until now has been
dancer, an actress, a screen writer,
an editorial director, and now is to
become a producer
John Francis Dillon. who directed
planning Youth" THE Perfect Flap
per" and 1--WE Moderns." has been
signed by First National and will
direct Don Juan's Three Nights"
Cora McGeachy, who designs gowns
for First National pictures, is quoted
with saying, "A woman will don a
riding habit when she thinks a bride
has something to do with a bride, and
she will wear knickerbockers when
she thinks golf links are a new kind
Of cuffbutton. but when it comes to a
wedding gown she knows the reasons
and means business"
The motion picture outranks all
other forms of entertainment in the
Navy according to statistical COM
parison presented to Congress by Ad-
miral Shoemaker, chief of the Bureau
of Navigation.
The Federation of Catholic Alumnae
has learned that the better pictures"
policy of Will FL. Hays office needs
and deserves constructive support.
according to Mrs. Thomas A. Nc
Goldrick, chairman of the department
of literature of the International
Federation.
Word has been received that Do
lores Costello has again been selected
to play the leading feminine role oppo.
site John Barrymore in his third War
ner Bros. production, for which Bess
Meredyth is completing the script.
Harold Grieve, who made the beau
tiful interiors for Ernest Lubitsch's s
production Of Lady Windermere's s
Fan" will be borrowed from Marshall
Neilan to assume charge of the art
direction of lie Reveillon."
Four big productions are at present
in the cutting room at the Warmers s
West Coast studios-"Why Girls Go
Back Home" and Hell Bent Fer
Heaven" featuring Patsy Ruth Miller;
'The Hero Of the Big Shows" starring
Rin-Tin- Tin; and "Silken ShackIes, -
Irene Rich's latest THE Passionate
Quest Broken Hearts of Holly
wood" "The Social Highwayman. -
and 1.-The Footloose Widow are the
remaining productions on the present
schedule.
1T is a hard and discouraging bat
tle," says Ben Lyon, but if you have
the courage and the ability you will
get there. / would not advise any one
to start as an extra unless they have
both these qualities and enough money
to keep going when there is no work
to be had. But when people say ex'