Evening star., 1927-10-02

Bits From the Studios and Theaters.

THE Circus" on the West Coast. Eff
teen hundred extra players are being
used in the picture.
over the Andes the Doug Fair.
banks picture. has been completed ana
will be exhibited soon.
Buster Keaton and his company
have started work on Steamboat
Bill. Jr" being made for United Art
lists. Ernest Terrence is one OF the
supporting players. and he is playing a
straight comedy role. The leading
! feminine role has gone to the 17-year-
| old Marion Byron. Other principals
are Tom Lewis of the Ziegfeld Fol
! lies and Tom Mcclure.
Lewis Milestone is directing the new
Corinne Griffith picture THE Garden
of Eden.' In the cast are Charles
lfav. Louise Dresser. Lowell Sherman.
Naude George and Hank Mann.
Paul Whiteman, All Jolson. George
Gershwin and Ann Pennington. togeth-
er with 20 other Broadway celebrities.
gre brought together in Words and
Music" an intimate Pathe Review.
The movies have found "the perfect
hard-boiIed type" He is Arthur Tha-
lasso, who has q part with Monty
Banks in "a Perfect Gentleman"
George Bancroft, who came to the
front in "Old Ironsides" and Under.
world" is to become star. "Honky
Tonk' will be his first starring ve-
hicle. The story is by Houston
Branch, and the casting of the sup
porting roles will be started within
few days.
Gene Delimur, imported from Paris
bv Paramount, has been assigned to
the Job of technical adviser in the
West Coast studio. He is preparing
the continuity of THE Legion Of the
Condemned" a sequel to Wings"
Mark Swain, we'll known as a char
acter comedian. has been added to the
cast of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
After he completes work in "Sere-
made" Adolphe Menjou will be starred
in THE Beauty Doctor" Ernest
Vajda, the Hungarian playwright,
whose pen has supplied Emil Jannings
and Pola Negri with starring vehicles,
wrote the piece for the screen. Lothar
Mendes is to direct, and the casting
will start within two weeks.
Marion Morgan and so of her dane
ers have a part in the new Clara Bow
picture. The studio has been closed to
visitors.
Chester Conklin and w. c. Fields
have added a merry -go-round to the
attractions of their new picture, THE
Side Show"
The premiere of Hotel Imperial"
starring Pola Negri, in Budapest. is
claimed to have been a triumph for
the motion picture industry" High
government officials and leaders in
business and social life attended the
performance. The picture was exhib-
tied in Washington several months
ago.
Every one of the male principals
who appears in the American uniform
in the motion picture What Price
Glory" had to submit to Marine
haircut as soon as he was assigned to
his role, and during the seven months
OF production work had to refrain
from patroniZing any barber except
the one authorized by the directors
A photoplay of unusual interest,
which is on its way to a local screen,
is Paramount's production of "The
first time the event which lifted Theo-
dore Roosevelt into international fame
as the background of a stirring story.
In the cast are Noah Beery, Charles
Farrell. George Bancroft, Charles En-
met Mack, Mary Astor and Frank
Hooper, with thousands in support.
Wallace Beery: and Raymond Hatton
prove beyond all doubt that they are
gentlemen in Fireman, Save My
Child" There are three girls in the
picture-Josephine Dunn. Nancy Phil
lips and Thelma Todd-and all three
are the blondest of the blonde. I'VE
prefer Them" says Beery and Hatton.
Daniel Breeskin, conductor of the
Metropolitan Theater Symphony. this
week again offers a concert interval
Of a, novel nature. The solo instru-
mentalists will be heard in a sym
postum Of Fritz Kreis,er's best known
compositions under the title of "Kreis-
leriana." Among the number will be
1.-The Old Refrain "Schoen Ros-
narin,' Caprice Viennois," "Liebes-
freud" and selections from Apple
Blossoms"