Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
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.YLvANUS STOKES, Jr., million
- aire yachtsman of New York City
: being exploited by First Nationa
IS a hired extra to furnish ''atmos
here for a picture called His Son.
Film Daily. the Movie Bradstreet
'OreseeS three tremendously poweffu
heater chains blanketing the country
rom end to end within year.
Four hundred films are said to bt
low in preparation by the recently
founded Cinematographic Education
and Propaganda of Italy to further
Iussolini's idea of exploiting Italy's
@reatness. Eminent authorities IL
every line of the world of Rome have
neen enlisted in this work, it is said.
Charles Emmett Mack, who plays q
nart in THE Rough Riders" was
killed in an automobile accident al
, riverside, Calf, March H.
Gloria Swanson has gone to Cali
fornia to make two pictures for
United Artists. after which she will
lake a years vacation in Europe, 1t
IS reported.
The interesting historical series of
two-reelers known as Chronicles OF
America" it is announced, is to be
continued for Pathe. Fifteen of the
series of 80 originally contemplated
have been finished. Research and
experimentation work is being con
Quoted under the supervision of DR.
Daniel c. Nolan of Yale University.
At what is called The Naked
Truth" annual dinner, April 2, Will
II. Hays is to be POSTMASTER; Secre-
tarv Herbert Hoover, Mayor James
]. Walker of New York and two
South American Ambassadors are II
be the speakers and every South
American country, it is said, will be
represented with distinction. Maj
Edward Bowes will direct the staging
of the entertainment.
Laurence Stallings, author of
"The Big Parade" has been signed &c
write exclusively for Metro-Goldwyn'
Mayer and is now at work on his first
story under the contract, which is said
to call for at least three original
stories.
Film Daily stamps Metropolis di.
rected by Fritz Lang, the noted Ger
man director, as "a technical marvel,
but is not so complimentary of the
which was recently shown at the
Rialto Theater in New York.
1t is reported that Herbert Brenon
as an independent producer, is to
make "Sorrell & Son" for the United
Artists release.
Universal has decided to cut Les
Miserables" down from Is to II reels
and to run it as one picture, or rather
at one showing for the entire picture,
instead of at two, as at first proposed.
This is the noted French picture
which was shown here privately some
time ago.
Hans Dampf in Allen Gassen" will
be the first picture to be made by
Roscoe C"Fatty') Arbuckle under his
fve-year contract with Abe Carlos for
the production of pictures in Ger
many. Doris Deane, Arbuckle's wife.
will appear in the picture.
And now comes the conservative
Film Daily with the most extrava-
CANT praise of THE Rough Riders"
+. pronouncing il a directorial gem by
Victor Fleming and that it is des-
tined to crash its way to box Office
fame.
In his first lecture before the Har-
ward Graduate School of Business Ad-
ministration, March Is, viii Fl. Hays
said in part: There is no such thing
as standardization of product lin mo.
ton pictures). Every successful pic
ture must be different from any that
has gone BEFORE" He declared that
1.-The old, careless. helter-skelter days
in the industry are now over and
today the ethics of competition in the
business are constantly higher"
Thomas Meighan denies that he is
going to retire, and adds that he has
four pictures to make for Famous
Players-Laskey under his present con-
tract.
United Artists officials, it appears,
have been besieged with inquiries as
to where Costa Roja" is, for that is
where they have laid the story of
''The Dove" which is to have Norma
Talmadge for it's star. The answer is
that there amt no such place; Costa
Roja is just a make-belieye country
on the Red Cost. /"
Rex Ingram, now at Nice, France,
seems to think he has discovered an
other Ramon Novarro in a young man
1ldH3Su VINO Is getting
his first motion picture experience in
1.-THE Garden of Allah" which Ingram
is producing for Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer.
Film Daily states that the Keith
AIbee office has issued an announce
. ment indicating a purpose to ban ar
lists, who appear in singing or talk
ing pictures, because high-salaried
artists who broadcast their PERSONAL.
: ties and material in speaking films
over the radio or before clubs are
worthless to vaudeville houses" aft
erwards.
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer has secured
for distribution &c selected one-reeI
/. productions OF 800 made by Ufa, and
they will be released next September.
Although Roxy'S first weeks re-
: ceipts amounted TO S127 GIL, says Film
Daily, it put no crimp in the business
of the other Broadway" theaters, IL
OF which crossed S468,760 for the
week, although 10 theaters showed a
drop Of only 1920. The explanation
was given that this is due to 1.-The
tapping Of new sources of income"
AT the end of it's thirty third week in
New York, Don Juan" starring John