Evening star., 1927-04-03

VIII nave featured roles.
Maj Edward j. Bowes, radio i'm
presario and director of the Capitol
Theater. New York City, it IS said,
will sail for Europe in June.
Warner Bros. guardians of the
Nitaphone, are talking back to vaude-
Vile for threatening to boycott Vita
phone vaudeville stars, saying they
can afford to pay as big salaries and
will--so there!
Breaking Chains" a Russian pic
ture. has been withdrawn in CleVe-
land by the head of the censor board
as a Soviet propaganda picture.
Men of Daring" a Universal from,
tier picture dealing with the gold
rush, Indian fighting days of Dead
wood, S. Oak, so years ago, is to be
released by Universal June S. n was
to be relea sed as The Overland Trail"
last Fall, but was held back because
of the company's picture, THE Flan'
ing Frontier"
George Beban is to quit the screen
and start a school for actors, it is re-
ported.
Janis Muncis, producer of the Arts
Theater, Riga Latvia), is in Holly
wood arranging for the production of
"Ligatura,' play by Karl Abeles.
Shades of Simon Legree! Vivian and
Rosetta Duncan, in their screen ver-
sion of 'Topsy and Eva" are intro
ducing a synthetic bloodhound in the
form of a good-natured st. Bernard
into their revised Uncle Toms Cabin"
George Jessel is about to be filmed
by Warmers in THE Jazz Singer" Al
Cohn, who adapted THE Cohens and
the Kellys," THE Cat and the Ca
nary" and Sally" will write the see
mario, and 1t Is provided that the scene
where Jessel sings in the synagogue
on the Day Of Atonement will be done
with the Vitaphone.
The evolution of a movie is described
by Give Brook, who says: I'm my next
picture. I'm in love with Jocelyn Lee;
the scenarist marries me to Florence
Vidor. What am 1 to do? I'm afraid
to love Miss Lee when Miss Vidor is
around, and so, naturally, actually
fall in love with my wife. No wonder
they call the picture Afraid to Love
Cecil B. De Mile will speak on mo
ton Picture Directing" before the
School of Bushes Admins
tration next week: Milton Sills on
Acting" and Earl w. Harmon on
Short Subjects" These are lectures
in course of expert talks before the
graduate school of the university.
Bebe Daniels claims to be the proud
owner Of one of the only two Schnau-
sers in California. A Schnauser is the
last thing in dogs. 1t is of German
origin, and Miss Daniels calls hers
Irish"
The closing of the season of select
ed programs for children on Saturday
from October 80 to March
26, at the Stanley -Crandall Tivoli and
Chevy Chase Theaters under their
public service and educational depart
ment, brought not without its note Of
sadness. despite the special features
offered many, expressions of regret
among adults as we'll as children that
there would be no more delightful
juvenile mornings with movies until
next Fall.
These programs have met with
great approval and command.
They have demonstrated that there
are many mothers in the District of
1OIuIIlDId ana lis eHNlTOIS WHO wait
and appreciate motion picture pro-
suitable to their age and understand
ing.
Marie Dressler has been wooed
back to the screen, thanks to the over.
lures of Metro o-Goldwyn-M Mayer: She
will have an important role in '"The
Galatians and the Murphys." Kath-
leen Norris story. This will be Miss
Dressler's first appearance since she
made memorable TITLES Punctured
Romance" with Charles Chaplin in
the old keystone days.
Dolores Del Rio will play the feri-
nine lead In Goldwyn- Mayors
ambitious screening of Robert w.
Services "The Trail OF '9S" following
Carewe, to whom the actress Is under
personal contract.
During the observance of the Pearl
Jubilee go years. Of the League OF
American Pen Women at the May.
flower Hotel, April IA to 16, inclusive,
Harriet Hawley Locher, director of
the Public Service and Educational
Department of the Crandall Theaters,
now operated by the Stanley -Crandau
Co. of Washington. will address the
organization on the subject OF Chill
dren's Films" Mrs. Locher also has
been invited to speak as one Of the
featured participants at the conven-
tion Of the Indiana Endorsers and Ma
tional Endorsers of Photoplays in In
dianapolis on April 20 and 21.
H. M. Warner, president Of Warner
Brothers Pictures, has announced that
beginning with the f1rst release for
next season every picture coming
from the Warner Studio will be ac-
companied by a Vitaphone musical
score. This will be made possible by
the recent acquisition of a studio for
Vitaphone on the coast.
Convoy" which Is said to have
been officially approved by Secretary
Wilbur and ranking officers OF the
Navy Department in Washington.
D. c., has for the bulk of its war Sc
quences actual film records taken by
the Allies and Central governments
during the world conflict and loaned
for insertion in the epic. Dorothy
Mackail, Lowell Sherman, Ian Keith,
Buster Collier and Laurence Gray
head the cast.
What is claimed to be the first one
reel comedy ever photographed in nat
ural colors, "a Greenwich Village Ro-
nance" has just been completed as a