Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
FLASHES

comes a dispatch that the auto
mobile manufacturer is dickerlng,
through agents, for one of the larg-
est studios, and that he plans on
going into production on big scale.
1t has been several years since
Ford first attempted to enter the
movies through the industrial and
educational end. But conditions
were not fitting for his ideas. Con-
siderable cash was dropped, for the
plans prepared did not consider all
phases of the problems involved.
The present plans. according to news
from the West Coast, include pro-
duction upon an elaborate scale and
fully organized and equipped ma
tional distribution system, created
through the present automobile
agencies. Industrial and non-the-
atricaI films may also be included in
the general scheme.
If Ford should enter the photopiay
game there is no getting away from
the fact that the move would have
national Importance. 1t would hold
special significance for the independ-
ent exhibitors and smaller producers,
coming at time when the industry
is in the throes of all economic
crisis.
One report from New York has
Ford joining hands with William
Randolph Hearst i'll the photoplay
industry, but this cannot be con-
tirmed at present writing.
GAN DE GRASSE. one of the
- pioneers OF the studios. will play
the part OF TaIleyrand in The
Fighting Eagle starring Rod
La ROGUE. The picture IS being
produced for the De Mile Studio by
Donald Crisp,
WASHINGTON film fans are to
w be favored during the coming
week with an especially good array
OF attractions For instance, rs Eat
So?" with fighting George O'Brlen,
has been hailed as one of the out
standing efforts in that particular
line of comedy.
Pauline Starke and Owen Moore.
. longtime favorites, return in Won
Ell Love Diamonds" which is said
70 be picture with real story.
"Cyrano de Bergerac" returns for
another engagement. 1t will always
be considered splendid picture. and
this may be its farewell tour"
Patsy Ruth Miller and Glenn Tyron,
in Painting the Town. should draw
well. Tor the two starring youngsters
are making their first effort in that
Fine Lon CLANCY comes back in
The Unknown which is one of
those thrillers which delight the
Summer movie audience. Leatrice
Joy, always a soothing delight to
the optic nerves. appears in Vanity"
which should be away above the
average.
CONRAD NEIDT, the imported
~ actor, has started work on his
first Universal starring production,
"A Mans Past" The story is a
screen version OF the novel "Diplo-
ma" and the supporting cast includes
Arthur Edmund Carew. Ian Keith
and George Seigman.
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yNORD from tho Metro Goldwyn-
w Mayer studios is to the effect
that nine films. which will be among
the special releases for the season
OF 1o27-1928. are in the final stages
of preparation and are soon TO go
into production. The first of these
to go before the camera will be IN
Old Kentucky which John NJ. Stahl
will direct. Then. within a week.
Fred Niblo will start on the screen
conception of THE Enemy and
other pictures include Rose Marie"
and The Fair Cold"
Laurence Stallings, who, with
Maxwell Anderson, wrote What
Price Glory?" has prepared the script
of superproduction which will be
known as THE Big Ditch" 1t will tell
the story of the Panama Canal. &C
cording TO those who know. Mock
cry" will be the title OF another pic
ture. and Lon CLANCY will be the
featured player BE Your Age" is
classed as a Sophisticated comedy"
and "Lovelorn' will be Cosmopoli-
tan production.
HOBART BOSWORTH is the latest
addition to the cast OF Mary
Pickfords new picture. my Best
Girl" He will play the role of father
TO Charles Rogers. the leading man.
The picture has established a new
record, as half the film was shot"
before all the supporting players had
been selected.
A THOUGH the idea is not en-
tire1y new, Sidney Lust, who
conducts the Leader, Olympic. Hip
podrome and Elite Theaters of Wash
ington. is taking his audiences into
conference regarding the sort of pic
lures they desire to see. That is,
he is allowing them to have their
say conc erning the revivals of certain
photoplays. Then, if there are
enough calls for a particular pic
ture, Mr.. Lust gives it an engage
ment at one of his theaters. The
method of arriving at a decision re-
garding a picture is not as difficult
as one would naturally suppose.
Printed circulars containing the
titles OF we'll known pictures of the
past are given to the audiences, and
votes are cast on the various pictures
OF the list. If enough votes come in
for a certain picture, its revival is
the next step The list contains the
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