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Evening star., 1927-07-03
Fox-Roxy Opening Picture.

4 ANNOUNCEMENT has been made
"A by Winfield r. Sheehan. vice
president and general manager Of the
Fox Film Corporation. that Seventh
Heaven" the Fox super picture. will
be the first attraction to be shown at
the new FoxRoxy Theater, when its
doors are opened early in September.
This picture is one of the Broadway
hits, and has been shown to capacity
audiences for over a month at the
Sam H. Harris Theater, Broadway and
Forty-second street, New York.
Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor.
it's stars, are being ranked by some
of the critics as great actors. Broad
way has received them with open
arms. Incidentally. Charles Farrell.
the Fox star, is now topping the
boards at three of the Broadway So
road show houses. Critics have high.
ly praised him for his excellent work
in "Old Ironsides" and THE Rough
Riders"
Seventh Heaven" tingles with &C.
ton, but it's outstanding charm is the
exquisite love story 'twixt Janet
Gaynor and Charles Farrell. 1t was
daring to intrust Miss Gaynor with
powerful role so brilliantly depicted
by Helen Menken on the stage. Yet
Miss Gaynor, it is said. at no time
falters in the portrayal of character
hat rises from its ragged timidity to
great strength in the live of head
strong. fearless boy, who teaches her
always to look UP.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Pola in Sun Kissed"

DOLA NEGRIS next Paramount
picture. selected as the result Of
the recent postponement Of a previous
announced story of the California vine-
yards, is called "Sun Kissed"
''Sun Kissed is about orange grow
ers. The setting will be endless acres
of orange groves. and Pola will be cast
as an American girl of foreign parent
age.
1t was written by Rowland v. Lee,
q Paramount director. who directed
"Barbed Wire," the Pola Negri film
scheduled for release later in the Sum-
mer and heralded by the producers
as one Of the big pictures Of the year.
Author-Director Lee is a veteran of
the World War. He was wounded in
the battle on the Somme. On his re.
turn to America he was signed by Fox
to direct and later went to Paramount.
He had had experience as an actor
and assistant director before going to
war.
He has produced about a dozen
films. '"The Whirlwind of Youth" was
the last of his pictures to reach Broad.
way.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Novel Dramatic Training.
IF you want to be a good actor
make a study Of bad acting.

IF you want to be a good actor
make a study Of bad acting.
On such theory Walter Miller
Pathe serial star, says he works, and
it must be a good idea, for Walter is
reckoned one of the keenest students
in the motion picture profession.
Miller believes in making every
movement count for something-he
abhors useless action or gestures as
the tricks Of incompetence. To learn
what is useful and what not, Walter
has followed a unique method, which
he describes as merely wanting tt
please the public.
when I hear Of screen perform
ance that Is bad." declares Miller, 81
lose no time going to see that picture
and find out for myself what it is that
makes it a poor performance, in the
opinion of the audience.
1T see more pictures for this reason
than see from choice, but it Is worth
while, for I find that learning what
not to do from inferior acting is more
constructive than seeing what Is done
by superb performers. My system
simply, is to learn what the public
does not want-and then avoiding it.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
College Discoveries
In Cast.

THE 10 winners in the First Ma
tional. College Humor screen tests
conducted at 33 of the country's col
leges and universities, will make their
first screen appearance at First Ma
tional's Burbank studios. in the new
Richard Barthelmess picture, "The
Dropkick," a college foot ball story
adapted from Katherine Brush's nov
ell, GLITTER"
The 10 winners are John Westwood
Of Princeton, Richard Miles Glendenin
of the University of California, Leland
s. Wilcox of the University of Michi-
gan, John Vancleave Morris of Pur.
due, Stuart Clayton Knox of Yale,
Walter Graham Smoot of Northwest
ern, Thomas Kelsey Denton Of Michi-
gan, Edward E. Karges of Northwest
ern, John Howard Stambaugh of Chi
cago University. and Daniel c. Cassidy
Of Georgia Tech.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Master of Makeup.

CCREEN makeup, which can trans
- form 20-year-old actors and ac'
tresses into their own grandfathers
and grandmothers. sylphs and satyrs
and beardless boys into bearded buc'
cancers, has developed new art In
the motion picture capital.
The first expert to win the title OF
makeup technician," it is said. is
Robert Stephanoff. who has been
signed by John w. Considine, jr., gen
eral manager of the Joseph M.
Schenck organization, to head the
makeup department at the United
Artists Studio.
Stephanoff is regarded as one of
the worlds foremost makeup artists,
an authority on the characteristics and
customs of many races, and before
coming to America in 1910 he studied
in practically every European country.
He also Is said to be a noted linguist
and master of English. French. Tur.
kish, Russian, Bulgarian. Greek, Ser
bian, Polish, Montenegrin, Bohemian,
Albanian. Belgian and Spanish Ian
guages.
Born Of Bulgarian parents in Tur-
key. he pioneered in motion pictures.
and by 1913 was playing leads in the
one-reel features" Returning to the
spoken stage, he toured the country
until 1919, when he decided to special
ize in screen makeup.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
A Shakespearean Gesture.

FINE Shakespearean performances
were gwen for one week at the
New Amsterdam Theatre by the mem
bers and under the auspices of the
Players Club, under the general di-
rection of Daniel Frohman.
So much popular interest was dis
played in the revival of Julius
Caesar" that the members of the club
have formed a new company to pre-
sent the Shakespearean tragedy for a
series of half dozen special perform
ances at some of the more popular
and fashionable resorts along the
Atlantic Coast.
Artistically, these open-air perform
ances Of Julius Caesar" will be under
the direction Of Erich Pape and the
presentation win be enhanced by
scenic settings used at the New Am
sterdam Theater, which were designed
by Norman bel Geddes. The Players
have also permission to use the special
musical settings composed by Charles
L. Stafford.
The cast, composed of members Of
the Players Club, will be as follows:
Brutus, Tyrone Power; Cassius. John
Craig; Marc Antony, William Court
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Canine Movie Temperament

ATMOSPHERIC !" melody" is said to
"A be conducive to a screen actors
greatest work. but perfect silence is
necessary for a dog film performer to
emote realistically before the camera.
In the seclusion of the De Mile
Studio absolute silence is maintained
by Frank Urson during the direction
of Beautiful but Dumb" Vera
Reynolds latest picture, in which
three thoroughbred CANNES are used.
In order that the dogs may have
surroundings that enable them to do
their best work perfect quiet is kept
on the set. Not sound is permitted
during the rehearsals or the final
taking Of the scenes. Only the steady
grinding Of the cameras can be heard
when the action scenes are being
filmed, broken now and then by the
gentle but commanding voice of one
of the trainers.
The story in which these dog screen
stars appear was suggested by the
Richard Harding Davis novel, THE
Bar Sinister" and is being filmed
under the personal supervision of
William. G. De Mile.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Famous Aviator Compliments

WHEN Lieut.. Leigh Wade. famous
air pilot, called at the New York
Hippodrome to see the Pathe News
pictures of Capt. Lindbergh, on leav-
ing the theater he left his personal
card. upon which he had inscribed a
tribute to Pathe News.
1t ran as follows: You are to be
congratulated upon your film paying
tribute to our hero, Capt. Lindbergh.
May 1 extend my personal felicita-
tions. Leigh Wade, NJ. S., pilot of
Boston.world flight"
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Movies Are Saving Now.

A SILVER mine, with an annual
"A production of exactly $76,559.7S
worth Of metal, has been discovered
in Hollywood at the corner of Selma
and Argyle avenues. one block from
busy Hollywood boulevard.
1t Is a one-man mine. no digging is
required, no ore is handled and no
refining Is necessary. 1t is probably
without question one Of the most won
derful mines in the world.
1t is operated by the Paramount
Pictures Corporation to recover silver
from the chemicals and baths used to
develop exposed film. Silver is the
chief component in the emulsion used
to cover the thin strips Of gelatine
negative. The action Of light on this
silver makes pictures.
The development bath cuts away the
silver where 1t is not needed to bring
out the picture, and were 1t not for
the battery Of recovery watts in the
basement Of the laboratory this val
liable metal would go down the sewer.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Daphne Pollard in Films.

DAPHNE POLLARD, vaudeville
~ personality, who recently played
the Orpheum Circuit of theaters, has
been persuaded by Mack Sennett to
make two-reel comedies, one why Is
a Bathing Girl?" in which she will
have a chance to do some Of her in
dividual dancing.
Sennett's present plans contemplate
a series, a study in evolution OF bath
ing girl comedies from the days when
a few sweet things in abbreviated
suits capered by the sad sea waves
down to the present day. The pictures
are to burlesque the picture comedy
idea.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Reilly to Produce Story
by Mary Roberts Rinehart

recall Mrs. Rinehart's description of
the adventures of Sara Lee Kennedy,
who set forth with a stout heart, the
pledge of 500 per month from the
Ladies' Society of the First Methodist
Church and score of gorgeous
recipes for beef stew, chicken gumbo
and clam bouillon to establish a soup
kitchen behind the Belgian lines.
For the role of Sara Lee Mr.. Reilly
announces the engagement of Helen
Chandler.
Like "Pickwick," Mr.. Reilly will
first present THE Amazing Interlude"
in Washington early in November,
and if his treatment of the Dickens
immortal "Pickwick" is anything to
forecast by, those who enjoyed Mrs
Rinehart's characters of Sara Lee,
Henri and Jean will not be disap-
pointed when they see them in the
flesh. It will be directed by Campbell
Gullan, the English director who
sta ced "Pickwick"
Evening star., 1927-07-03

UTHER H. JEE of Shanghai,
China, representative for First
National Pictures in that country and
president of the Shanghai chapter of
the Rotary Club, Is in New York
consulting with Richard A. Rowland,
general and production manager of
First National, and other executives
of the company relative to plans for
the distribution of films in his native
land.
Mr.. Jee, who is a graduate of the
University of California and Harvard,
in a recent talk, gave an interesting
picture of conditions now existing in
China. He said:
'China is going through a lot of
trouble at the present time, but we
believe that China will come out all
right and forge ahead as she has done
in the past 1000 years of her exist
ence."
First National pictures in China
have set a model, he declared. Miss
Colleen Moore is the model of our
Chinese f1appers," he said Milton
Evening star., 1927-07-03
The Movie IN China.

Sills sets the standard for manliness
among the Chinese youths, and Harry
Langdon is amusing the younger
generation.
1--WE have a territory there larger
than the whole of the United
States, with transportation facilities
very limited. We distribute pictures
1000 miles into the interior, taking
40 days from Shanghai, the seaport
on the Pacific. We distribute from
the borders of Siberia, that is, in
Manchuria in the north to the borders
of India in the south, so that you can
readily realize the territory that we
have to cover.
Just before I left, I was compar-
ing the releases we are making III
Shanghai with the releases made in
the British Isles, and find that our
releases in Shanghai, China, are
much earlier than the releases in
London.
1--WE are taking out to China a Sc
lected group of pictures because
there are certain types of pictures
which are not suited for the Chinese
audiences"
Evening star., 1927-07-03
All About Clara Bow.

CLARA BOW is 5 feet 3l5 inches
tall. has fiery red hair, agate
brown eyes and weighs 110 pounds.
Born in Brooklyn, n. Y. Daughter of
Robert and Sarah Bow. Mother died
in 1928. Father lives in Hollywood.
Father, English and Scotch. Mother,
Scotch and French. Maiden name
Sarah Frances Gordon.
Was attending Girls High School at
Bayridge, Long Island. in junior year,
when she entered magazine beauty
contest. of which the judges were Har-
rison Fisher, Neysa McMein and How
ard Chandler ChriSty.
Was called with a few others for a
screen test Contest closed in Novem-
Der, 1922. and she won first prize.
William Christy Cabanne gave her
q small part in Beyond the Rainbow"
featuring Billie Dove. She was told to
cry, the tears made a wreck of her ap-
pearance, and Cabanne cut the en-
tire sequence out of the picture, and
Clara then gave up pictures to enter
q business school.
Three months later Elmer Clifton,
following a test, offered her $50 a
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Belasco Said They Could Act.
HOLLYWOOD bootblack. Osc'

4 HOLLYWOOD bootblack. Oscar
Smith, who has shined the shoes
Of the greatest stars Of the picture
business for a long time, has sud.
denly been discovered as possessing
dramatic ability himself, perhaps alb
sorbed from the men and women
who have sat on his stand and laughed
at his typical Afro-American effer-
vescence, while oscar deftly rejuve-
mated their brogans.
Richard Dix is credited with the
discovery of Oscar.
When the picture. "Manpower," was
finished and viewed by executives, it
was suddenly realized that a colored
actor had long been shining shoes
at the studio stand.
Now Oscar is to get chance as a
real actor. He has been cast as the
heroic Senegalese soldier. Djikki, in
Beau Sabreur," P. c. Wren's meio-
drama Of the Sahara Desert, which
Paramount will produce as a com.
panion picture to Beau Geste."
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Another Discovery.
7 ANE CHANDLER. who has bee

I .ANE CHANDLER. who has been
signed to a five.year contract by
Paramount. and who has started on
his first starring picture. "open
Range" Zane Grey's latest melodra-
ma, seven months ago was the pas
senger agent for the Yellowstone Park
Co. at Old Faithful Inn.
An Independent producer who came
there on location met Chandler and
seeing in him the ideal type of West
ern hero, signed him for a small role.
Upon completion Of the picture, the
director suggested that Chandler come
to Hollywood. He called on Fred
Datig, casting director for Paramount,
was given a screen test and four days
later was signed. And now just as
he Is to start on his first starring
picture, word comes that he has been
signed to a long-term Paramount
contract.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Needs Less Imitation.

One producer makes a successful pic
ture on the Irish-Jewish order, and lit
orally score follow. Harold Lloyd
makes an outstanding foot ball COM
edy. and pigskins fly all over the
screens for months.
"A war picture meets with happy
vogue, and producers turn them out
until every theater in the country
reeks with the smell of powder and
flying mud-not forgetting few pies.
Now the death knell of the war come.
dy has been sounded, and producers
will be floundering around until an
other big success appears.
Naturally there are only few
leaders in any industry, but in the mo-
ton picture business these pacemakers
are watched more closely than in any
other line of endeavor.
Evening star., 1927-07-03

leigh; John Westley as Trebonius;
Joseph Kilgour. julius Caesar; Edwin
Emory. the cobbler; Frederick Trues-
dell. Casca; Harry Davenport, Flavius;
Bertha knight, Calpurnia; Mary
Young, Portia.
At the close Of the brief outdoor
Shakespearean season the Players
have projected courteous and artis-
tic, as well as an enormously practical
gesture, as part of Americas volun-
tary contribution to the rebuilding Of
the Shakespeare Memorial Theater at
Stratford-on-Avon. The entire com.
pany will go to England to give open
air performances for the benefit of this
memorial fund. first at Stratford,
afterward at oxford and Cambridge
Universities, and in all probability
under the auspices Of the universe
ties at Dublin, ireland. and Edin.
burgh, Scotland.
It is proposed that every penny of
the receipts of these American per.
formances of Shakespeare In the
British Isles go to the memorial fund
as direct contribution from the
Players Club Of New York and in
memory of that clubs founder, Ed.
win Booth.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Screen Star s Encourage.

AN average of 20 assistants are re-
quired for every actress working
before motion picture camera. Ac.
cording to a census in the Paramount
studio. 1t was revealed that upon an
ordinary motion picture employing six
featured actors an average of 120 as.
sistants are engaged behind the
scenes. The number is divided as fol.
lows: One director, 1 assistant direc.
tor, / script girl, film cutter, 1 title
writer, / scenario writer, IL carpen.
ters, Is painters, 2 architects, Is elec-
tricians, set dressers, story adapter,
8 camera men, 1 research worker, IL
dressmakers. designers, plasterers,
1 property man, business manager.
l wig maker, 8 chauffeurs, stenogra'
pher, accountants, clerk, make
up experts. / watchman, 1 projections
ist, hairdressers, tailor, 1 paper
hanger. casting director. 1 executive
location expert, janitors, l drapery
worker, wardrobe assistants,
maids. technical assistants, 5 com
mon laborers, blacksmith, l time
keeper.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Mrs. Schildkraut Succumbs

ELISE BARTLETT, in private life
= wife of Joseph Schildkraut and a
stage player of ability, has finally
been lured before the camera.
Known throughout the country for
her work in the spoken drama,
prominent in the New York Theater
Guild and more recently leading
woman of 1.-THE Firebrand," Miss
Bartlett found her first motion picture
role opposite her father-in-law at the
Metropolitan studios.
Renaud Hoffman, directing Harp
in Hook" realized the ability and
talents of Miss Bartlett and matched
her with Rudolph Schildkraut in this
story of the Ghetto.
Junior Coghlan, Bessie Love and
Joseph Striker are also in the cast,
which includes as well the nationally
famous May Robson.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
FOLLOWING the New York premiere

FOLLOWING the New York premiere
of "Pickwick' at the Empire
Theater on Labor day, and notwith-
standing the previous declaration
that his next production would be
relatively small, compared to Pick.
wick" in point of cast and scenic eff.
fects, Frank C. Reilly announces an.
other fascinating undertaking.
1t IS the presentation of 1.-THE Amaz-
ing Interlude," based upon Mary
Roberts Rineharts famous Saturday
Evening Post serial, one of that
novelist's most popular stories.
Mrs. Rinehart has consistently de-
clined to consent to either dramatiZa-
ton or filming of THE Amazing In
terlude," the story being endeared to
her because she personally had lived
through so much Of its action and the
fear of its possible mistreatment in
translation to stage or screen.
Saturday Evening Post readers will
Evening star., 1927-07-03
"Hard-Boiled Herman

WILLIAM KENT, the original
w "Hard-boiled Herman" in New
York's production Of Rose Marie, "
recently returned from London, Eng
land, where he was starred in Lady
Be Good" will appear at B. F.
Keith's Theater this week in his sur
prise comedy, "Shivers." from the
pen of Mr.. Kent himself. 1t has
been a laughing hit wherever he has
played.
Kent has long been ranked among
the great comedians. Not only is he
a master of comedy, but a sterling
actor as well. AS a dancer he is a
star of the first magnitude.
Kent carved himself a niche in the
hall of theatrical fame when he made
New York scream at his playing of
the part of "Hard-boiled Herman" in
the comedy "Rose Marie"
Evening star., 1927-07-03

WHAT the motion picture industry
w needs right now, and needs very
badly, is whole lot more imagination
and considerably less imitation, in the
opinion Of William r. Fraser. general
manager Of the Harold Lloyd Corpo-
ration.
Limitation Is the sincerest form OF
fiattery," Mr.. Fraser said, "but it does
not help raise the standard Of enter
tainment. Nor is it dealing fairly
with the motion picture enthusiast,
who has been surfeited in recent
months with one brand of picture un.
til he has almost given up hope of
ever seeing anything new. This Is es'
pecially true of comedy and farce.
1.-THE industry never has seen such
flock of sheep productions. They all
look alike, and vary little in theme.
Evening star., 1927-07-03

week to appear in "Down to the Sea
in Ships" as the young stowaway.
During the % weeks it was in produc.
tion she was beaten, thrown around
and subjected to other realistic bits
of acting. but she fitted into the part
so well that Clifton built it up and
her performance was an outstanding
feature in the production.
Miss Bow was then given the leading
role in Crit" opposite Glenn Hunter.
B. P. Schulberg. then an independ-
ent producer placed her under a long
term contract. and when he became
associate producer at the Paramount
West Coast studio in 1925 he took
Miss Bow with him, and she played
in Dancing Mothers" 1.-The Run
away" "Mantrap," and kid Boots. -
Following her personal success in
"Mantrap" and kid Boots" she was
signed to a new contract in August,
1926, as star, and her first picture
''It" proved a sensation. She was next
co-starred with Esther Ralston in
Children of Divorce" resuming her
individual starring career in Rough
house Rosie"
Evening star., 1927-07-03

HOLLYWOOD, Calf. @.-Fred
Niblo intends to make film in Russia
which will attempt to dramatize the
life of an average peasant during the
tumultuous years following the over
throw of the Czar.
It will be picture of revolutionary
Russia as seen through the eyes of
an ordinary muzhik.
Plans for the production still are in
a formative state. Niblo has decided
however, to recruit all his actors
abroad.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Jannings' Second Picture

EMIL JANNINGS has started his
= second American production at
the Paramount Hollywood studios, sup
ported by Olga Baklanova, under the
direction of MaruitZ Stiller, and its
tentative title is Hitting for Heaven" :"
Fay Wray, the Hollywood high school
girl discovered by Erich Won Stroheim.
will be Jannings' leading woman in
the production.
Fitting for Heaven" was written
especially for Jannings by josef Won
Sternberg. It's scenes are in the Soho
dLlrict with Jannings as a bullying
leader of London's riff raft, and Fay
Nray as the Salvation Army lassie.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Stock Excellence.

the way of keen appreciation and
patronage.
Save in a few exceptionally large
cities, the American theater profes-
sionally has shown unmistakable signs
of a decline; and the evidence Is be-
coming pronounced, in the Little
Theater movements that have sprung
up in every direction and in the fact
that in most Of the cities the stock
company is coming back into its own.
Time was when the stock company
was the very foundation Of the Ameri-
can theater and the fountain source
from which sprung it's greatest and
it's most finished players. Many be-
lieve this situation is the only solu.
tion to present difficulties in the
theater.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
Will Rogers Better
Than Ever

I Attest reports from Los Angeles.
where Will Rogers is in the Cali
fornia Lutheran Hospital, recovering
from an operation, indicate that the
comedian, in better condition than
ever, will soon start work on ''The
Texas Steer" Sam e. Rork, producer
of the famous farce by Charles H
Hoyt, is said to be preparing to have
everything in readiness to begin
shooting scenes early in August. Dur
ing his convalescence Rogers will
have an opportunity to go over the
script of the picture and to assist in
the production details.
Evening star., 1927-07-03
DANCING.

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Lessons in all styles of dancing.
Studio. 1850 Biltm0re ST.. Col. 2002. So
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Summer class opens about July nth.
Acr0batic and Tap Dancing. Special terms.
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