Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
SCREEN
FROM THE
BY c. e. NELSON.

eight are listed as specials" TIL,
attractions will be as follows: The
Fighting Eagle" starring Rod Ii
ROGUE; THE West Pointer
starring William Boyd; The Wreck
of the Hesperus." with an all-stal
cast; THE Forbidden Woman,
starring Jetta Goudal; Hold EN-
Yale" starring Rod La ROGUE
Power" starring William Boyd
The Blue Danube starring Leatrice
Joy; rip Van Winkle,' with Ru,
dolph Schildkraut; The Country
Doctor" featuring Rudolph Schild-
kraut; THE Rush Hour" starring
Marie Provost; Beautiful But
Dumb" starring Vera Reynolds
Turkish Delight with Julia Faye
and Rudolph Schildkraut; The
Angel of Broadway starring Lea
trice Joy; The Wise Wife with
Phyllis Haver: The Girl in the Pull
man." starring Marie Provost; The
Main Event starring Vera Rey-
nolds; Let 'Er Go Gallagher" fea-
turing Junior Coghlan; In Bad With
Sinbad," featuring Franklin Pang-
born. and Hes Ny Man." featuring
Phyllis Haver. Together with these
pictures will be released many shor,
features, Western pictures and short
reels.
CHARLES FARRELL and Janet
~ Gaynor. stars of THE Seventh
Heaven one Of the big movie hits
OF the season. will be the first oil
the William Fox stars to appear ir
a Casc-Fox Movictone presentation
They will do 10-minute skit, writ.
ten by Farrell. entitled "A Gable
With Cupid Work on the number
will require about two weeks.
A PRIZE of $4,000 was awarded
IA last week by the League for
Better Pictures to Vincent Huidobro
Marquis de Casa Real, a young
Spaniard. for his scenario, "Caglios-
tro," which was submitted in the
contest. Donors OF the prize were
not divulged, but it is said that one
of the persons giving a part Of the
prize is connected with large mo-
ton picture production company.
The winning scenario will be filmed
in this country within a short time.
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HOLLYWOOD went wild when
L L Jack Dempsey recently defeated
Jack Sharkey in New York. Demp-
sey lives in the Hollywood motion
picture colony and has long been a
favorite around Los Angeles. Tom
Moore. Thomas Meighan, Ward
Crane and Tom Mix, we'll known to
photoplay fans. made the trip to New
York to see the big battle. Estelle
Taylor. wife of the winning fighter
remained at her Hollywood home
and heard the fight by rounds over
her radio.
THE death in New York last week
L of June Mathis removes one of
the leading figures in the scenario
world. Her work has been of an
outstanding character. for she was
one of the few who really made a
study of the photoplay and its needs.
When she prepared a scenario for
the screen, it was just about as near
perfect as it could be made before
hand; she knew the screen tech
nique and just what the camera
could and could not do.
Miss Mathis, who was about IS
wears old, was the highest paid
scenario writer in the United States.
She is credited with the discovery"
of Rudolph Valentines screen pos
sibilities, and his first photoplay hit
was from her pen, as she adapted
THE Four Horsemen." Other big
stories which she arranged for the
screen were The Rajah." 1.-THE Ten
Commandments" Blood and Sand
Turn to the Right" and Camille"
She was the wife of Silvanio Balboni
a camcraman of the Hollywood
colony.
TLAIRE MCDOWELL, long a
~ favorite with screen audiences
has been added to the cast of Beau
tiful But Dumb" which stars Vera
Reynolds. Lon CLANCY plays
the part of Scotland Yard detective
in his new picture, "The Hypnotist.
Tom Moore is to play the male
lead in the "The Wise Wife" in
which Phyllis Haver is to be the
star. The Warner Brothers
are completing seven new picture:
and Monte Blue has just made the
final scene in "The Bush Lacquer
.. Conrad Nagel and May Nc.
Avoy appear in Slightly Used.
Rin-Tin-Tin. the dog actor. is
supported" by Helen Ferguson ant
Jason Richards in Jaws of Steel.
Monty OF the Mounted" is the
new vehicle of Lupino Lane, the
comedian. Brandon Hurst play:
the role of Count Karenin If
the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer picture
Love" which is taken from the
Tolstoy novel, "Anna Karenina.
Eulalie Jensen replaces Blanche
Payson i'll the cast OF Esther Raj
ston's starring vehicle, Heaven Hell
the Working Girl" Adolpht
Meniou's next picture will be THE
Musician" which the star says il
one of the best stories he ever reae
for screen use. Neil Hamilton
has been loaned by Paramount t.
Universal for the starring role II
The Arm of the Law" and other!
in the cast will be Ralph Lewis, Dor
othy CULVER and Nigel Barrie.