Evening star., 1926-03-28

tras cannot rise to prominence must
disagree
]. Stuart Blackton has departed for
Grass Valley. with his daughter Mar
ion, to Whit into shape the script for
THE Passionate Quest by T.. Phillips
Oppenhcim. Miss Blacktou. who
made the adaptation Of Hell Ecnt Fer
Heaven" viii add the Oppenhcim
novel to a long line Of successes.
"Mismates." a screen version Of Ny
ron Fagan's play. has been started At
First Nationals New York studios
Doris Kenyon will have the featured
role. Charles Brabin will direct
Nicholas T. Barrows viii be the gag
man" and George Folsey Will do the
photography.
Frank Tuttle, Paramount director.
who is recuperating from an attack Of
influenza. left FRIDAY for Nassau. Ba
hama Islands Mr.. Tuttle has been I'll
since March 10, when he was forced
to relinquish the dictatorship of Gloria
Swanson's Paramount picture. Fine
Manners" 10 Lewis Milestone Mi
and Mrs. Tuttle probably will stay in
Nassau for q month.
Einar Hanson. Swedish screen star.
who recently came to Hollywood has
been assigned the leading role opposite
Corinne Griffith in her new production
Into Her Kingdom from story by
Ruth Comfort Mitchell.
Lothdr Meudes. the German diret--
tor schooled in the UFA studios of
Berlin. who has been signed by Rob.
ert Kane, was born in Berlin in 1924
and attended the same high school as
Ernst Lubitsch. He directed Iva de
Putt. the German actress. who recent
iy arrived in this country. in some Of
her earlier pictures. He is now in
New York seeing Broadway plays and
pictures and reading stories that have
been tentatively selected for his first
production in this country.
The power of public opinion" saws
Representative Harry r. Ilawes Of
Missouri lis born in the home. edu-
Gated i'll the school. and refined and
purified in the church--a power which
rests upon divine law and requires no
written declaration or statutory enact
ment 10 establish it as binding upon
the conscience and conduct of men.
Forty-three carpenters and technical
experts have gone to Catalina Island
to begin the construction of old Trip
oil. city of a thousand terrors, to he
used in the filming Of James Cruces
film epic. old Ironsides." The city
will be built according to old engrav
ingS and wood cuts. TO conform with
the real iripoli as it was in 1904.
The role of Amiel chief aide ami
disciple of Satan in "1he Sorrows of
a h fF.h 4.
ducing on lavish scale. has been as
signed to Ivan Lebedeff. member of a.
long line of Russian nobility and -
refugee from soviet Russia.
Dorothy Gish came 5000 miles tu
visit her famous sister. Lillian Gish
for week in Los Angeles. Otherwise
she would not have seen her for a
year, as she was due to sail for Eng
land March 20. Miss Gish's latest pic.
ture. Nell Gwynn." made under con.
tract with the British National Pict-
lures. Ltd. will be released by Para
mount this Fall. In England Miss
Gish will make three features, one of
them Mime. Pompadour.'
About 500 representatives OF the
Paramount Company from the East.
South and the West, arrived in Allan
tic City last week for Paramount's see
ond international convention of dis
triCt and branch managers. statesmen
bOokers and sales representatives, ex
ploitatiOn men, foreign representatives
and members of home office depart.
ments, to discuss company policies
the new seasons 8 product and the for
eign situation. AT a banquet last
night, Otto Kahn, Senator Capper and
d. w. Griffith were speaking guests.
Eight men and eight girls. after
eight months in the movies without q
cent of salary have had that grand
and glorious feeling" following the
first payment of a regular salary.
They We're the Paramount Junior
stars, who Under the terms OF Para
mount contracts awarded them at the
graduation exercises OF the Paramount
Picture School faced the cashiers
window at the Paramount Long Island
studio. No one was absent, no one
was even tardy.
Josephine Dunn and Jack Luden.
Paramount junior stars, and George
Gurrie, principal of the Paramount
Pictures School, are to appear in TITS
the Old Army Game" w. e. Fields
first starring picture, and which the
Fields troupe is now filming in Flor
ida.
Clarence Brown, the produCer-direc
tor. considers that Robert w. Services
''The Trail of '9S," which he is to
make for Metro Goldwyn-Ma offers
an opportunity to make an epic truly
international He explains that 1.-THE
Covered Wagon" THE Pony Express
and 'The Vanishing American" dealt
only with phases of American history,
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