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Nationals Regular Season.

4 BRILLIANT array of stage attrac-
tions is announced for the com
ing Fall and Winter at the National
Theater following. the engagement, be-
ginning Sunday, September II, of odd
IrOnsides," the Paramount superfilm.
The 1927-192S stage season at the
National will begin September IS with
Charles Wagner's new play, Spring
Board"
Other attractions scheduled for the
coming season are THE Jazz Singer"
George Iessel's great New York sue
cess: Pauline Lord. in n new George
c. Tyler production; The Barker" Il
gripping play of circus life; ever-pop-
ular Fred Stone and his daughter,
Dorothy. in "CrisS-CrOss" Margaret
Anelin. Mrs. Fiske and Otis skinner.
in a brilliant revival; John Golden s
1.-Two Girls Wanted; Earl CARROTS
''Nanties'; Eddie DowllnG's Honey
moon Lane; George Whites Scan
dals"; The Constant Nympth," the
Tyler production of Margaret Ken
nedy's novel; Lenore Ulrich, in Lulu
Belle: the Four Marx Brothers, in
THE Cocoanuts." and Robert Mantell,
in Shakespearean repertoire.
The Burton Holmes travelOSues will
he given for five Thursday afternoons,
beginning November II. and the New
man travel talks on five Sunday after
Moons, beginning January Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-28
By MONTA BELL.

THE primary object of pictures. of
course. is entertainment But back
of that entertainment is something
that makes for improvement in our
lives. Without some sincere message,
a picture is mere froth, with less real
value than child's Mother Goose
book.
Out in Hollywood there is Il cafe
known as the Montmartre. 1t is we'll
known. well patroniZcd. serves good
food and offers entertainment of the
sort usually sought by the younger
Notwithstanding. music and the
like. The place is known the world
over because it has figured in many
| stories and is one of the show places
Of the town-a place where fl I'm people
gather and also where other notabies
are seen nightly.
A tourist who casually drops in will
tell you that the most interesting
thing seen there was Miss SO-and So
famous movie star. who happened TO
lie entertaining friends. But the pa
irons of this cafe, if they think deeply.
will tell YOU that the outstanding fea-
ture of the place is the little cigarette
girl.
Everybody knows her by sight
knows her dignified walk. her poise,
her Graciousness to patrons. her lady
like alOOfness. The man who tries to
get fresh never tries it but once. The
cigarette girls refined demeanor is
enough of a rebuff She il neither
prlggiSh nor arrogant. and the back
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-28
How Bell. Views Life.

ground of hilarity affects her not In
the least.
1t was Ruby McCoy's demcanor
that gave me the inspiration for
after Midnight" / was convinced
that a woman can be ladylike and
maintain her dignity and self-respect
under most circumstances. That is az
much as the little cigarette girl fig
ures in the pictures. The other events
are not taken from her life and have
nothing to do with her actions.
IF this little girl can work for
hours every night in surroundings of
this kind and maintain her dignity.
then no girl has anything to fear from
physical villain" was my thought.
The thing kept revolving in nv
mind until came to the decision that
the theory of young girls always he.
ing in danger of INSCRIPTIONS men is
nothing but bosh. The greatest vii.
lain Of all is Life itself. That is the
basis of After Midnight"
The old saying that familiarity
breeds contempt might we'll he
changed to familiarity breeds at.
tempt" y girls life is usually just
what the girl makes it. That's my
philosophy, and this picture tends to
prove it quite correct.
Life s greatest bit of villajny seems
to be in the fact it often creates the
impression that the saint who 60 pa.
tientlN suffers never gets anywhere:
but the sinner despite his shattering
of conventions, has all the luck and
success.
Any time a decent citizen becomes
convinced that the crook gets the best
end of life there's another crook be.
ing born.
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Lives His Part.

X MIL JANN1NGS is perhaps an out.
standing example of the actor who
lives his role day and night and lit
orally becomes the character he is
impcrsonating.
One result of this idiosyncrasy is
said to he the artistic separations"
which Janninss and his wife effect
during the time the actor has Il par
tictllarly Sordid or brutal characterize
ton To play at the studio. Thus IL
was that Mrs. Jannings returned to
her home IN Hollywood after a
months visit at Del Monte. thankful
that the sIum scenes of The Street
of Sin" Jannings' latest film in which
he plays brutal pug. We're over.
when Emil mas Il role that calls
for IN evil character, says Mrs. Jan
nings, 'he used To NOPE around the
house and get himself all fumed up
with meanness and no matter how
much | love him. it is just impossible
to live with him. SO | so away .
until he is out of character and just
Emil"
During the making of 1.-THE Last
Laugh" in Germany and again dur
ing week of shooting in THE Way
Of All Flesh" Mrs. Jannings resOrted
to artistic separations" She is hop
ing that the Paramount stars next
story will have him cast as a home
loving business man.
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A Picture Unique.

EVERY known theory of motion pic
- ture making, every technical trick
of setting, even facial makeup, are
said to have been disregarded in the
Paramount production, Stark Love"
None Of the players had ever seen
motion picture camera before the
start of the production. In all prob
ability some will never see the finished
product.
1t is the story of the lives of the
mountaineers of the South who have
practically no contact with modern
civilization and who are as primitive
as were their ancestors years ago
when they pushed westward from the
coast in search of new home sites.
The picture was made in the Great
Smoky Mountains of North Carolina
by the people who live there.
This is the first time anything like
this has been attempted, according
to Karl Brown, who did it, Mr..
Brown. who formerly was chief cam
era man for James Cruze, became in
terested in. the Southern mountaineers.
He convinced Jesse l.. Lasky. first vice
president in charge of production of
the Paramount Famous Lasky Cor
poration, that an interesting picture
of these people could be made.
After four months of hardship, dur
ing which he covered five Southern
States. Mr. Brown came back with
clear idea of their lives and customs
and with the aid of Walter Woods
wrote story embodying the conflict
between father and son seeking the
same girl.
Due to the intense hostility to
strangers and complete lack of
knowledge as to what motion pictures
might be. Mr.. Brown had great diff
Guilty securing actors. Finally he
picked a 16-year-old girl, Helen Nun.
day, and young man, Forrest James.
for his principal characters and went
to work. 1t took four months to COM
plete the photography.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-28

TWENTY important pictures We're
in course of production at Para
mount 81 West Coast studios last week,
IN a working program that is taxing
all resources of the huge 26-acre plant
with it's working personnel of 1000
people.
Foremost of the specials is Beau
Sabreur," companion picture to
Beau Geste," which is being made
under the direction of John Waters.
Another is Now We're in the Air." a
nonsense epic co-starring Wallace
Berry and Raymond Hatton.
Others include "A Gentleman of
Paris" starring Adolphe Menjou,
zone Woman to Another" a Florence
Vidor picture; "Beggars of Love-" the
Pola Negri picture, first titled Sun
Kissed; Figures Don't Lie" an
Esther Ralston picture directed by
Edward Sutherland and "The Street
of SIM" the second American-made
Emil Jannings picture, whose title
will be changed.
Three pictures are being cut and
edited for immediate release: "Shang-
hal Bound" Richard Dix picture;
Swim, Girl, SWIM" the Bebe Daniels
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Leona Powers Ponders.

T EONA POWERS, the pretty and
talented leading woman Of the
National Theater Players, who quickly
established herself in high popular
favor this season, is dividing her time
between rehearsals and an intensive
study of resort catalogues and time
tables.
Miss Powers is planning to give her
self a we'll earned vacation after her
engagements in Turn to the Right
and Seventh Heaven" which will
conclude the 1927 season for the popu-
lar Washington troupe.
Whether Miss Powers will spend her
vacation before starting in new and
important Autumn work in this coun-
try or whether she will go abroad Is
not known at present; in fact, that's
just what perplexes Miss Powers.
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Club Dancers In Vaudeville

L1FTON WEBB and Mary HAY.
one of the cleverest dancing teams
the Winter produced, whose antics
made the Club Giro II popular gather.
ing place for Manhattantes, were
among the first to put their club
entertainment into vaudeville
They put on their entire act, or
chestra and all, at the Palace Theater
in New York, with such success that
Harry Richman and his Club Richman
entertainers, Texas Guinan and her
mob, and other night club artists ap-
peared shortly upon the circuit.
Among the recent attractive acts
is that of Florence O'Denishawn, Snow
and Columbus. The latter We're
formerly popular as vaudeville
hooters" but for the past few sea-
sons they have been in Music Box
productions.
Miss O'Denishawn made a big hit
in both the Follies and Music Box
products ions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-28
I'VE Are Kidding Now. .

II L. MENCKEN and George Ber-
- nard Shaw, the iconoclasts and
satirists-Wallace Berry and Ray
mond Hatton, the slap-stick motion
picture comedians.
Can it be that these two oddly as
sorted pairs have anything in com
mon-that is, has their artistry, their
medium of expression, anything in
common?
f.. Lloyd Sheldon. editor-in-chief OF
the Paramount studios, says they
have.
AnalyZed. according to Sheldon. the
comedy of Mencken and Shaw and the
comedy Of Berry and Hatton spring
from a common fountainhead. Menc-
ken and Shaw are essentially lcono-
cIasts. They hurl their caustic 1ibes
at the idols of the populace. TheE
ridicule the figures the public reveres.
They laugh at presidents and kings.
probe beneath the glitter of war ana
rattle the fraudulent contracts OF the
$1-a-year men.
Berry and Hatton are thought TO
work the same psychology. They
have become great comedy team
bv reversing the established tradi
tons regarding the veneration of
popular heroes.
To the American public. soldiers
sailors, firemen and aviators are un'
doubleday the greatest heroes OF fact
and fancy.
THE first comedy of Berry and
Hatton," said Sheldon. was a daring
thing, equally as daring as any OF
the pungent criticisms Of Mencken on
Shaw. Behind the Front in which
Berry and Hatton were couple oi
doughboys, was made at the very
crest Of a wave Of soldeir-hero
worship.
stage. films, pulpit and press and
every other molder Of public opinion
was concentrated on idolization OF Tho
soldier hero.
"'Rehind the Front while lacking
in barbed ridicule. suddenly presente,
the soldiers as ludicrous characters
The idea hit the public fancy like
storm, and overnight people refused
to take the war seriously as far a.
their drama was concerned and fioo'
of war comedies followed.
Behind the Front appealed to low
brow and high brow alike because
in its psychology were the essentia
elements of the Menckenian school %
criticism, while it's broad farcical treat
ment appealed to those unable to com
prehend the deeper psychology he
meath. We're In The Navy Now,
was of the same school of comedy
and so was 'Firemen, Save NJ.
Child
"All of them were tremendous sue
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Nsw-Paramount Pictures.

action comedy with Gertrude Ederle;
and Tell 1t to Sweeney" Chester
Conklin-George Bancroft comedy of
railroad life.
Eleven pictures scheduled for imme.
date camera work include: open
Range" Zane Grey western; Red
Hair" the Clara Bow picture; "She's
A Sheik," with Bebe Daniels in n
"Senorita" role; 1.-THE Gay Defender, "
Richard Dix picture, which is based
on the life of Joaquin Murietta. early
California bandit leader: honeymoon
Hate" Florence Vidor picture;
Rachel" a Pola Negri special; "Vic-
tory" George Bancroft picture
which like Underworld" will be di-
rected by Joseph Won Sternberg: Side
Show" the Chester Conklin-W. c..
Fields comedy of circus life: and THE
Glory Girl" Esther Ralston picture
story of the stage.
Two others are being made ready
for production within month;
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and one
by Ernest Vajda, which will star
Adolphe Menjou. Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes" is awaiting selection of a
T,Orelei
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First National Pictures.

First Nationals West Coast pic.
lures. either in production or
about to be started. include:
I'll Tell the World" Colleen
Moore's next picture.
"The Private Life Of Helen OF
Troy the pre- Grecian satire. with
Maria C0rda and lewis Stone.
mo Place to Co." jazzy story of
New York and the South Seas, with
Mary Aston and Lloyd Hughes.
1.-THE Gorilla the mystery stage
play, with Charlie Murray and Fred
Kelsey.
Home Made" Johnny Hines pic
ture.
Gun Gospel" breezy Western,
starring Ken Maynard.
MAN Crazy" from the Saturday
Evening Post story, "Clarissa of the
Post Road" with Jack Mulmll and
Dorothy Mackaill.
THE Texas Steer" the famous old
Hoyt comedy, starring VIII Rogers.
The Shepherd of the Hills" Har-
old Bell Wright's masterpiece.
THE Valley Of the Giants" Peter
B. Kyne's classic. starring Milton
Sills.
Harry Langdon in an untitled com.
edy.
Louisiana" a story of the early
south. starring Billie Dove.
Pictures completed include:
1.-The Drop KICK" story Of col.
lege life, starring Richard Barthel.
mess.
American Beauty" the story of a
poor girl who played rich, starring
Billie Dove.
1.-THE Red Raiders" another Ken
Maynard Western.
The Life of Riley" a small-town
comedy with George Sidney and
Charlie Murray.
Rose of the Golden West" the
George Fitzmaurice production OF
early California. with Mary Aston and
Gilbert Roland.
The Crystal Cup" from Gertrude
Atherton,s novel, with Dorothy Mac.
kali and Jack Mulhall.
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Vaiida $ Story.
ERNEST VAJDA'S brightness and
- o,.;oipa1itv are said to have cost

ERNEST VAJDA's brightness aho
originality are said to have cost
Adolphe Menjou vacation abroad.
Finished with "A Gentleman OF
Paris" the suave Paramount star
was preparing to take brie1 "TRIP
to Europe when Vajda submitted a
new yarn which so intrigued MenJou
that he dropped all preparations lor
his trip and will soon start Sere-
made" the Hungarian playwright
latest story. under the direction OF
III. D'Abbadie D'Arrast.
The story gives him the role or
Young composer who marri"s the in
SEPARATION of his greatest success. a
love symphony. Fame. comfort ana
adulation turn the poor young com
poser's head and lead him to slight
the woman who had suffered his
earlier trials with him.
"Serenade" will show Menjou as {,
poor and shabby hero Tor the first
time.
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cesses at the box office. All of them
interested intelligent people as we'll as
those who move their lips while
reading.
NOW Berry and Hatton' are re.
peating the formula in Now We're
in the Air. The aviator is at the very
crest OF national adulation. To use
the language of the day, the aviator
is ripe for kidding. Berry and HattOn
have been given the material to Kid
him. Their efforts won't make the
achievements of our aviators any the
less heroic or eXalting. And maybe
the aviators themselves will enjoy II
as much as the public"
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Jesse James Data.

MANY men have come forward
with offers of anecdotes and
facts about the life of Jesse James
since Fred Thomson announced his
intention to film the life of the out.
law as a Paramount picture. The
latest is Frank NJ. Lovejoy of Brush,
Colo, who arrested Robert Ford in
ST. Joseph, Mo, after Ford had shot
Jesse James in the back Of the head
on April 3, 1882.
Lovejoy was a policeman in st.
Joseph at the time. In the years
since he has been a guard at the
Missouri State Penitentiary and
deputy warden of the Kansas State
Penitentiary. Several years ago he
went TO Brush, Colo, 70: his health
and has made it his home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-28
Work of Movie Engineers.

THIS Summer marks the tenth an
= niversary of the adoption OF a pro
gram by the Society of Motion Pic
ture Engineers which has brought
changes of far-reaching type to one
Of Americas greatest Industries. The
founder of that organization was c.
Francis Perkins, Washington Scient-
ist, air pilot. radio engineer and in
ventor of many motion picture and
other devices.
The Society's contributions came
about through the adoption Of pro
gram of standardization which has re-
suited in a vast Improvement i'm the
standards Of smoothness of operation
in the pictures appearing on the
screen.
Early deterioration Of the film, it is
claimed. has been remedied TO a de-
gree which enables n subject to be
shown in more theaters. expensive
hreakage has been lessened. and appa-
ratus of every sort has been made
interchangeable to a degree probably
not equalcd by any other industry.
This progress has been brought
about through voluntary cooperation.
with the result. it is claimed, that
the society speaks with authority con-
corning the industry today.
Probably millions of persons can re
call--perhaps with wince-days
when the motion picture was a flick
ering thing; when frequently the pic
ture jumped so that the bottom part
of the scene appeared at the top of
the screen; when projection booths
were so high up in a theater as TO
cause the images on the screen to be
distorted: when the end of the reel
was marked by a wait While the oper-
ator slipped on the next reel and
threaded it up" through the ma
chine, and when the projection was so
much faster than normal that mem
hers of the cast seemed TO fairly run,
even through the most casual actions.
The change in these conditions is
said to be due primarily to the Society
Of Motion Picture Engineers and TO
the adoption of a long-range policy to
better the industry.
Sporadic efforts had been made to
form such an organization before. but
these had failed because of the suspi-
cion existing between various groups
in the industry.
In 1916, at Mr.. Jenkins invitation,
81 motion picture engineers and others
met in Washington, and one of the
first jobs was to sell" the engineers
the truth of the old adage. United we
stand; divided we fall" and the value
OF suhmerging individual considera-
tions for the greater good of the in
dustry. This was done, it is explained,
by Henry d. Hubbard. executive Off
Ger of the United States Bureau of
Standards, who drew a vivid picture
of what standardization could accom-
plish. After forming an organization,
preliminary work was begun.
1t was recognized that the evils
mentioned were some of the problems
to be solved, also that some of these
arose from the many variations in
types of apparatus then in use.
For instance, movie film was per- l
forated along the edges, so that it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-28
May Robson Ever Versatile

MAY ROBSON, as versatile on the
screen as she was on the stage,
has been cast in more different roles
IN the past few months at the De-
Mile studio than she essayed on the
stage in as many years.
In Pals in Paradise" she was the
Wlfe OF an i'inerant tin peddler in
a gold boom town in the West. Then
came the screen version of The Re.
julenation of Aunt Mary" with Miss
Robson as the wealthy OLE woman
whose Ills were more mental than
physical; then Harp in Hook" in
when she is a hard,boiled tenement
owner, and in THE Angel of Broad
way in which she appears as the
hostess OF a mighty popular New
York night club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-28
Gayety Staff.

MANAGER IRA J. LA NOTE of
the Gayety Theater announces
his house staff for 1929 as follows:
Ira j. La Motto. manager; Eddie Mar
TN, treasurer: Kenneth Hosmer, as
slstant treasurer; Hiram Richie, stage
manager; Harry Watts. property man:
Albin o. Strauss. musical director;
Harry Sellers. advertising agent: IL.
j.. Van Tassel, lithogra pher: Miss
Mamie Wall. chief usher; George
Dixon. door tender; A. Moore. watch
man. and G. Washington, janitor.
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might be held in place in the camera
and in the protector. These perfora-
tions varied. One camera might be
using one size and shape of perfora-
ton. The next might be entirely diff
| ferent. These variations led to griet
for the projecting operator and were
one cause of the jumping or the
picture.
The speeding up of pictures. 1t was
| found, was due to the desire OF some
picture show proprietors to change
audiences as fast as possible. More
| crowds, more money. Distortion OF
! the pictures in some cases resulted
! from the fact that an old "leSitlmate'
| thcater had been remodeled for the
| movies, and that to bring the pro
| iecting machine to a lower level might
cut into the revenue by making q
| certain block of seats useless.
These and other problems were
tackled by the society. 1t took lot
of discussion before there were pro-
mulsated, in 1917, certain standards
which he society adopted to govern
its operations. In some cases 1t pc
cessitated the alteration of machinery
by some of the equipment manu-
facturerS.
Standards adopted by the organiza-
ton defined where the dividing line
between the pictures on the film
should come in relation to the per.
forations; what the size, shape and
position of these perforatonS should
be; and the size of the aperture in
the projecting machine using standard
film. Definitions were set up and
practices outlined for the size of the
standard film, size of the reel on
which the film was wound, the method
of warning the operator that the film
on one reel was nearly run out. and
the tension at which the film was to
be wound.
The society also tackled problems
dealing with projection lenses, their
height. and other matters. And out
of these there came standard lens
diameters that might be used on any
standard protector. Another achieve.
ment was the adoption of a glossary
of terms and definitions applying to
the industry.
When the question Of the angle in
picture projection came up, some
theater owners protested that the
standards were impossible because of
the architectural design of their
buildings. In one case, at least, this
was solved by the use of double mir
rors, somewhat on the idea of the
persCope.
In all of this struggle to better
methods. equipment and practices of
picture-making, Mr.. Jenkins was very
active, and he made a number of in
ventions to further help the industry.
one of them the double lens camera
for the "fade-in' and "fade-out' of
one scene or subject into another,
which Mr.. Jenkins gave to the
industry.
During the entire decade the or
ganiZation has worked INCREASINGLY to
keep standards abreast of new de-
velopments and to improve standards,
a standing committee carrying on this
work between semiannual meetings.
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When Is a Blonde?

was given n screen test. She had
lovely, wavy golden-blonde hair. Miss
Loos was enthusiastic until the cam.
era test was screened, when, lo-the
girl was a brunette.
Inquiry into the apparent mystery
disclosed that golden-blonde hair often
photographs dark, because of the red
in it, since red equals black in black
and white photography.
So. Photographic experts at the
Paramount Studio worked out for
Miss Loos a color card which reveals
at a glance the true actinic value of
the blondes hair. On it are 10 grad
uated shades of blonde hair, translated
into black and white color equalities,
the first five of which are blonde on
the screen in contrast to the second
five, which are blonde to the eye, but
brunette to the camera.