Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06

opening of the Film Guilds Lit
tie Theater ON Ninth street
Photoplay critics have placed
this picture among the ten
best" The cast is composed of
actors of the Moscow Art Thea
ter.
T@HIS is to be a big year for
photoplav audiences if the
plans OF inventors and pro
ducers do not miscarry. The
wonderful Nitaphone. although it IS
still a novelty, is the big feature OF
the present. but other marveiS are
lust over the horizon. If one Is to
believe all he hears. Jacques Burk-
hardt and his brother Emil. Swiss
inventors. are said to be the origina-
tors Of form Of stereoScopic pho
Biography which will revolutIonlze
the film industry" H. II. Hoffman.
we'll known as the vice president OF
Tiffany Productions. Inc. has just
returned from Europe. announcing
that he has acquired the rights to
the Swiss invention OF third dimen-
sion films. By the new wrinkle. the
new pictures will show length,
breadth and width on the screen,
which the motion picture industry
has been dreaming about and eN-
perimenting with for many years.
ITO those who have followed the
u photoplay through its career
there are manE incidents that tax
the creduity OF even the most naive.
The movies furnish startling cpl
sodes, and the latest to reach the
public prints is sent direct from the
Metro Goldwyn- Mayer Offices. A
dispatch states that an entire lumber
mill has been chartered to secure
enough lumber to make a floor for
German palace scene III old
Heidelberg
1t appears that the floor of the
great hall must be made entirely of
brentwood blocks. and it was found
by the undismaycd officials of the
producing company that only one
lumber concern in the country could
furnish birch blocks in sufficient
quantity to make the floor, which
covered large stage OF the Culver
City studio Therefore, the entire
output of the Mill was taken over
for the work
The ways OF the press agent are
strange ones, and they lead into
queer places. He does not state
why birch blocks were demanded,
but there probably was some techni-
cal reason for the whole scheme
Norma iShearer is to be one OF the
stars i'll old Heidelberg" with
Ernst Lubitsch directing.
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THE United Kingdom, according
l. to a report of the motion pic
ture section of the Department of
Commerce, is fertile field for
American films. London leads the
cities. with U.s. movie houses. while
Manchester has AIS, Glasgow 457,
Birmingham ISL and Leeds 4o5.
Berlin leads Germany. with SAP
theaters. Nearly all OF these houses
show American films.
x !. X
MARIAN MACK. Buster Keaton's
Az leading lady in THE General"
Halls II OH I-ul end, AldH. Inc PIC
ture portrays her as the 1860 type
of fapper. few of her dresses re-
curing Is yards of perfectly good
material. 1t has been estimated that
from the material of one of her
frocks the modern fapper could con-
struct complete wardrobe for the
Summer, with enough dry goods left
over TO fashion few frocks for the
Winter at Palm Beach.
But, speaking of the. solemn faced
Keaton. the comedian had quite
stage career before he turned his
labors toward the studios. AS
child. keaton cnce appeared upon
the same vaudeville program with
Sarah Bernhardt-not as member
of her company, but as the tiniest
player in his fathers company. The
child was thrown about the stage
like base ball, but he never touched
the ground. However, Bernhard.
watching the act from the wings,
was terrified to see. this mite handled
in such a manner. She told the
manager of the theater that the
baby must have come from an
, orphan asylum. that he was un-
doubtedly being mistreated and that
she meant to inform the police. The