Evening star., 1926-03-14

by Inc orchestra under Ddnlel Eree
skin at Crandall's Metropolitan this
week. During its rendition many
familiar Irish airs will be sung by
Charles Raymond. Washington
tenor. Romberg's Come Bach
Sweet Dream" will be the basic theme
of the orchestral accompaniment, ami
'Jn Ny Gondola" win he the exit
number.
For the first time since its opening,
CrandalI's Tivoli Theater will show !,
Charlie Chaplin picture. The Gold
Rush" today and tomorrow. This
is the picture by which Chaplin has
said he wishes TO be judged as an
author. an actor and a director.
Daniel Ereeskin. conductor of the
Metropolitan Symphony. last week.
for his accompaniment TO the comedy
picture. reduced the volume of Or
hestral sound almost to a pianissinlo.
as an experiment. 1t is said to have
been highly successful in securing
deeper attention to the action of the
picture itself.
Mack Swain and Chester Conklin.
famous old pie-throWers of the days
of Keystone comedy, are making q
great comeback this season. Both
have appeared in several more or
less dramatic productions. and Swain
makes his latest appearance in Allan
Dwan's production. Sea Horses
William Powell, the drunken beach
comber husband in Francis Brett
Young's "Sea Horses will be re
called as the husband Of Eileen VII
son, a former Washington stock IA
vorite with the Garrick Players.
Rin-Tin-Tin, the screen dog star. Is
now making personal appearances
throughout the country. He is booked
for Baltimore March %. but no men,
ton is made of Washington In his
itinerary.
"Black Ivory" described as power
full historical spectacle. laid in roman
tic old New Orleans during the Creole
days. from the novel by Pollen Banks.
is to be made into u picture for
Warner Bros.
Eliza crossing the ice was TO J."
filmed at Franklin. Pa, for HarrE
Pollard's production of Uncle Toms
Cabin" but the scientists broke up the
.Au Sable Chasm.
Dorothy Gulliver, Salt Lake City's
entrant in q recent beauty contest, IL
said 10 have proven so adaptable to
screen work that she has been give"
the leading feminine role in Jack
Hoxies Forthcoming picture, The
Fighing Three"
George Orliss says when you ar
watching 10 see if a player is really
acting watch his or her eyes.
Screen players are said TO be pro
testing the studio habit of shooting
Winter pictures in Summer and vice
versa.
\ film library established in Holly
wood. in which actors file films u
themselves, is said To now enable d.
rectors to select players they nee,'
without the necessity OF first. giving
them screen tests.
Collecting and the Charleston arr
said to be the two things liked in com
mon by Norma and Constance Tai
madge. The collecting is said to refer
to readable books and the Charlesto!
to--oh, we'll. anybody can guess tha;.
Flora Finch, who used to make 'eIn
.augh in the days of John Bunny. nov
says she is going back in the movies
to make two-reel comedies.
Will H. Hays. the Judge Landis o;
Filmdom. according to Danny Of Film
Daily. the Bradstreet of Filmdon.
after four years on the job. can sit
back and cheerfully contemplate the
wonderful things he has accomplished
in making the movie respectable AMI
it's makers harmonious.
The activities of the Sennett studio
in Hollywood received a two-week
vacation as the result Of generous va.
cination activities.
King Baggott will direct Bessi
Love in "LOvey Mary for Metre
Goldwyn-Mayer.
Carl Laemmle was so overwhelmed
with letters and kilograms OF con-
graduation and with floral tributes III
commemoration of his twentieth ami
versary in the movies that he had I"
express his gratitude In full page al
in Film Daily to save his office force
from being submerged.
Representatives of the Metro.Gold.
wyn-Mayer Co. are in the gold region
Of the Klondike making arrangement
for the filming there of a motion pic
ture epic of the famous gold rush
days.
It is to be directed by Clarence
Brown and will be q screen version
Of Robert W. Services story ''The
Trail Of '9s" The adaptation Is being
done by Benjamin Glazer.
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