Evening star., 1926-05-09
Flmograns.

| appeared in Berlin, according to Film
! Daily.
| Georg Jacoby, German producer, is
to make a trip around the world with
| a staff of actors and camera men tC
shoot eXteriors for production.
A school for film designers has beer
established in Paris
Film Daily's Berlin news also states
! that Werner kraus has appeared In
a psychoanalytic film, called 1.-The
| Mysteries of the Soul" as nervous
wreck. giving his impression of the
psychology of sick man.
w. Bonsel's novel, "Maja, the Bee. -
| has been filmed in Germany, with live
bees playing all che parts. 1t took two
years to work UP the effects.
Eva Novak has joined Hal Roach to
play in two-reel comedies for Pathe,
one of them being Say 1t With Ba-
! bies." in which Glenn Tryon also ap-
! pears.
Connie Talmadge is now doing, if
she hasn't done. THE Duchess of Buff
banks .Pickford studio.
May MacAvoy, Louis Willard and
Louise FaZerda appear in 'Tl1e Pas
| sionate Quest" which j. Stuart Black
| ton is making for Warner Bros.
Cold" said to be the first picture
ever written around the discovery of
gold at Kramer City, Calf, is now
INV
Rumor has it that Alan Crosland is
going with John Barrymore to United
Artists to direct the stars first picture
under the Schenck banner, according
to Film Daily.
"Laddie," from Gene Stratton Por-
ter's book, is to be filmed, with J. Leo
Meehan directing for +. B. o.
Joe Rock is to start another two
reel series, featuring a gang of kid.
dies. for Bray, Inc, half of each COM
edy to be a cartoon and the other half
real life action.
Virginia Valli and J. Farrell Mac
Donald are to be featured in "The
Family Upstairs for Fox.
The Paramount School graduates
need not feel lonely. Mary Brian has
been loaned to Fox for the feminine
lead In More Pay, Less Work." a
Peter B. Kyne story.
Film rights to Gene Stratton Por.
ter's latest novel, THE Magic Gar.
den," have been acquired by f. B. o.
Director Dimitri Buchowetzki has
gone to Europe for a brief vacation.
The Warmers announce nine addi.
tional specials to the 26 originally pro-
posed for the 1926-27 season, and each
Will have a musical synchronization
prepared by the new recording ma.
chine recently announced. The list
will include two John Barrymore pic
lures, Don Juan" and "NIanon Les.
caut': THE Better ole" and two more
sgd Chaplin features; two Lubitsch
pictures and "Noah's Ark" and
BLACK Ivory" All are being pre-.
pared for Broadway, at 81 the top
price.
William Goodrich, not John S. Rob
ertson. will direct, and Owen Moore
will play the male lead in Marion Da.
vies' new picture. THE Red MILL
George Seigmann, Tully Marshall.
Karl Dane and Otis Harlan will be
in the cast.
Bebe Daniels was thrown from a
horse recently and injured.
Berlin, Germany, is to have a film
seminary to teach young folks not
| only how pictures are made, but also
how to present educational pictures ir
schools and how to operate projecting
machines.
Victor Fleming, who directed Arthur
Trains romance of the New York
| Criminal Court. "The Blind Goddess. ,
| is an enthusiastic amateur aviator
but during the duration of his present
| contract, he is obliged to forego in
dulging in his hobby, by Jesse L
Laskey.
Painting "Jewelry" on the skin il
watercolors is said to be Hollywood s
latest device to avoid high rental
| charges Of jewelry used in film pro
ductionS. Esther RalSton wears sew
eral pieces in THE Blind Goddess
Richard Dix, seems to be definitely
established as q screen comedy star
through such hits as "The Lucky
Devil 'Womanhandler' and Lets
Get Married"
"Gunboat' Smith, the pugilist, who
| apparently has abandoned the square
| circle for the Kleig lights, is seen a:
| a. hard-boiled detective in Richard
DiX's latest comedy, Lets Get Mar
ried."
Marshall Neilan will film "Diplo
macy" the Victor Sardou play which
! for years served as a vehicle fol
Sarah Bernhard. in modern Euro
pean and American settings, with thu
! characters clothed in 1926 garb. Lon
don, Nice, Paris, Deauville, Moscow
and Washington are among the cities
to be used as backgrounds. Blanche
Sweet has the Bernhadt role and Gus
tav Won Seyffertitz the heavy.
/ Hollywood's new clearing house TO
extras, the Central Casting Corpora
ton, sponsored by the VIII H. Hay
organization. had busy day recent!
when it supplied 1000 extras TO
James Cruces naval epic, "Old Iron
Sides; 500 we'll groomed men AM
women. who formed a theater- audi
ence for Florence Vidor's Love. tn
Magician; 200 players for Herber
Brenon's Beau GeSte," and 200 hard