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Evening star., 1927-04-17
Naming a Star.

a LACK and alas, the woes of a mo-
= tion picture star,
A month ago Joseph p Kennedy,
president of +. B. O., saw Goldie
Flynn, one of the prettiest chorus
girls in captivity, Cavort ON the Fred
Stone stage, where "Criss Cross" was
holding forth He thought her the
finest screen bet he had seen in a
long time. A screen test next day
convinced Mr.. Kennedy that he was
right, and the pretty little Irish
chlorine was then and there signed to
a flve-year starring contract.
Then came the metamofphosis
Her little girl -ringlets We're piled on
top of her head and her clothes as
sumed more sophisticated proper
tions. With this change in her per-
sonality. it was necessary to change
her chorus -girly name to something
more beftting the dignity of a full
fledged star. After much brain
racking on the part of Goldie, Goldie's
mother and the publicity department
of f. B. O. it was decided that Elinor
King became the personality of the
little star perfectly So as Elinor
King she left New York for Holly
wood, fame and fortune.
But again, alack and alas, no sooner
was Elinor on the Twentieth Century
than came a letter to President Ken
nedy from a young screen actress
called Eleanor King. who stated that
she had been on the screen for six
years, that her name was really
Eleanor King. and couldn't and
wouldn't r.. B. O. do something
about re-changing their stars name 2
The search for another name be-.
gan anew. Names, names, namesl
Finally. after much brain rack, III
was decided that Eileen King was
even more charming than Elinoi.
King. so Eileen Sing the little star.
will be!
Evening star., 1927-04-17
Army Won t Makeup.

TT is impossible to get the United
States Army to use makeup.
even for motion pictures.
Director Alfred Santell. at Camp
Lewis. Washington, with The Patent
Leather Kid" company, is said to
have realized that fact before ne
started the first scenes of the picture.
So Richard Barthelmess, who stars
in the picture. and his fellow actors
from Hollywood will use no makeup
Their faces unadorned with powder.
they acted in scenes with colonels and
Eenerals-so all viii look alike.
Evening star., 1927-04-17
Demi- Bride
sons Commanders.

Easter week attractions announced
for Loew's Palace this week, starting
today, include Norma Shearer, fea-
tured on the screen in the Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer picture, The Demi Bride,
with Lew Cody, Carmel Myers and
Dorothy Sebastian and others in the
cast; Irving Aaronson and his com
manders, as the feature stage attrac-
ton. in a new program of musical
novelties; Peggy English. "the Synco-
pating Songstress," 4" in Blue" songs;
Joseph Cherney, who will conduct the
concert orchestra in the overture, AMI
a special Easter fantasy devised and
produced by Colby Hartman, entitled
Voices of Springs"
THE Demi- Bride" is described as a
farce comedy, which reveals Miss
Shearer as a young French school
girl whose. innocence and self-Con-
fidence gives her the victory in love
over her own StepmOther
The story by +. Hugh Herbert, Brit
ish novelist, and Florence Ryerson, is
an original and was written especially
for Miss Shearer and Cody. Robert
Il. Leonard directed.
Evening star., 1927-04-17

hundreds Of dollars a week. 1T is q
source of intense annoyance to them,
and it cuts into their hard-earned sal
aries-but they don't dare TO neglect
their dear public.
4 4 X X
Who writes all these fan letters?
have at times been privileged to
glance through q few specimens of
movie stars mail. and / have found
them to be very depressing documents.
The overwhelming majority of them
come from people who are almost
utterly illiterate. They are not by
any means ardent film fans; in fact,
many Of them say, Il have never seen
you on the screen, but / want your
picture anyway"
An amazingly large proportion of
the letters come from the industrial
centers in the East, from factory towns
in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and
Ohio. The number of missives from
the largest cities, like New York and
Chicago, is relatively small.
There is also an enormous amount
of mail matter from foreign countries
principally from South America
containing innumerable proposals of
marriage.
Stars who are new to fame make
an attempt to read their fan letters,
or a small portion of them, but they
soon give this up and leave the whole
wearisome task to secretaries.
It's a good thing that they do, for
the mental level of the people who
write fan letters is so shockngly low
that any one who reads their utter
ances consistently is converted into a
hopelessly incurable misanthrope.
He comes to the conclusion that
the public. for whom he works, is
composed exclusively of dumb.bells,
nit.wits. OATS and boobs What's the
use" he is constrained to inquire, ''of
attempting to do anything intelligent,
anything artistic. for crowd of lunk-
heads like that?'
There is no way of preventing peo-
pie from writing these letters-no
way-that. Is, except to ignore them
(which the movie stars refuse to dol
So the flood of fan mail win undoubt-
edly' continue to waste time and
money, and TO render the poor har-
rassed postnlen of Hollywood prema-
turely gray.
Bulletins.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Bebe Daniels
is expected to display the latest styles
In grease in her next picture. Swim,
Girl, SWIM in which she will appear
as a fair athlete who conquers the
Catalina Channel, lie Marquis de la
Falaise de la Coudraie is here on busi-
! ness Chis wife's) and is killing time
selling French automobiles to the
| stars. VIII Rogers is TO return to
the screen sufficiently long to make
1.-THE Texas Steer" Eric Pommer.
imported from Germany to make
artistic films. is to direct Col. Tim
Mccoy in Western melodrarna. So
1t goes.
tcopyright. l927,l
Evening star., 1927-04-17
Crandall Easter Matinees

CPECIAL Easter holiday matinees
- will be given in the Crandall resi-
Dental theaters this week, as follows:
AT Crandall's Ambassador, Monday
Wednesday and Friday; at the Chevy
Chase, Monday and Friday; Apollo,
Monday. Thursday and Friday: at the
Home, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday;
at the York, Monday Thursday and
Friday, and at the Colony on Monday
and Friday.
These are in addition to the regular
matinee performances always given
on Saturday and Sunday afternoons,
and they viii begin at 2 pm. on the
days mentioned.
Evening star., 1927-04-17
Mosquitoes and Movies.

THE humble but pestiferous mos
quito may have been responsible
for the balcony scene in Romeo and
Juliet
AT any rate. it was disclosed by re
search experts recently that mos
quitoes are responsible for the famous
ornamental iron balconies character
istic of Latin American countries.
Mosquitoes rather than bandits and
revolutions are also largely respon-
sible for windowless lower stories in
the same architectural style,
These facts were revealed during
the filming Of Milton Sill's Diamonds
in the Rough" which has its locale
mainly in Brazil.
Mosquitoes, it appears, have habit
of buzzing to limited attitudes only.
Twelve feet above the street level is
their maximum group ascension, only
occas asional individuals venturing high.
er TO peck at groups of fashionable
grandees who enjoy moonlit evenings
on their balconies.
1t is the poor serenader, plunking
his guitar in the street below. upon
whom they concentrate, Sills points
OUT
Evening star., 1927-04-17
RTALTO-"The Third Degree"

RTALTO-"The Third Degree"
Dolores Costello in THE Third d.
gree" the film attraction at the RiaIt,
this week, is an adaptation of Charles
kleiu's stage drama. IL concerns the
strange intermingling of two families
one listed high in the social register Of
New York and the other the almost
nameless circus folk. Romance. mvs
terry, the carefree life of the circus
tent, blackmail and the grilling OF
the third degree figure prominently
in the story.
Annie DAILY, n girl brought up amid
the life OF Circuscs. marries the son Of
n rich uan. The attempt of this pair
to bridge the gap of social caste that
lies between them is on a fair way 90
success when the boys father. who
has refused to recognize the young
wife, sets out To ALLEVIATE the boys
affections from her. The suspicion he
arouses produces tragic results. and IL
is Annie who finally works out the so.
luton of the story
The east includes Louise Dresser.
Jason Robards. Rockiiffe Fellows, Kate
Price, Tom Sanchi, David Terrence
and Mary Louise Miller.
The stage presentation features
Helen Ely formerly featured priima
donna with the Broadway musical COM
edy success, Battling Butler who
viii be heard in a cycle of songs writ
ten especially for her by Harry Rus
kin.
The overture by the RiaHo Orches.
ira will consist Of a group of songs.
composed by RoX Rommell, entitled
Prom Dawn Till Twilight" featur-
ing When Twilight Comes. with
Rommell conducting.
kid George" q two-reei comedy,
and International News round out the
bill
Evening star., 1927-04-17
The Moving Picture Album
BY ROBERT E. SHERWOOD.

4 NY one who is compelled to appear
before the public--as actor, athlete,
writer, politician or even a principal
in criminal proceedings bound to
receive a great many curious speci-
mems of mail matter.
What in your opinion, is the
future Of the radio?'
win you send me your auto
graph?'
What do you eat for breakfast"
How do you feel about a third
term for Coolidge?"
What is your favorite fower?"
WIN you send me 100000"
These and many similar queries and
requests are hurled through the mails
at all those who manage TO attract,
even for a fieeting instant, the spot
light of publicity.
1t seems that there are limitless
numbers Of people who devote their
entire time to writing SIly letters to
overworked celebrities. In the face OF
this apparent popularity, the celebri-
ties are generally supposed TO feel
enormously fiattered. More often,
their sensations are those of acute irri-
tation.
OF course. the various movie stars
have established records for one-way
correspondence which are exaggerated
TO the point of grotesque absurdlty.
The deluge of so-called fan mail
that surges into Hollywood is stag
gering in volume; several thousand
square miles Of giant redwoods are
probably sacrificed each day to pro-
vide paper for this colossal correspond
ence.
When at the height of her popu-
larity, Mary Pickford received as
many as a thousand letters a day;
Rudolph Valentino. dit one time, re-
ceived between 1000 and 5000 week.
The leader now is Colleen Moore,
with an average of 1000 a week. Clara
Bow receives almost as many. The
leading recipient of fan letters among
the male stars is Lon Clancy, curl
ously enough He outdoes John
Gilbert. Ronald Colman, Douglas Fair
banks or any of the others in this
respect.
The great bulk of these letters con-
tain requests for photographs. and
these are usually answered. The
stars feel that they will lose popular
ity If they fail to comply with the dc.
mands of the fans
This is an expensive business.
Famous Players.La and many
others of the big producing companies
have special departments to handle
the fan mail. They send out tens of
thousands OF autographed" photo
graphs the signatures are printed on),
| and this runs into money.
Colleen Moore, for instance is
| forced to send some 10000 photo
graphs month, at a cost of 10 cents
or more each. Rapid mental calcu.
lation viii prove that Miss Moore's
employers pay out at least $1,000 a
month for this one item OF expense.
Many stars have to handle their fan
letters for themselves, at q cost OF
Evening star., 1927-04-17
COLUMBIA-"The Beloved Rogue

Leew's Columbia Theater this week
is holding over John Barrymore in
The Beloved Rogue"
THE Beloved Rogue" notable
contribution to the screen, concerns
Francois Villon, scapegrace rhymester
of Paris in the fifteenth century. who
at times scales the utmost heights and
then slides down TO life's bitterest
dregs.
Conrad Veidt, sterling character
actor Of Germany. has the role of
Louis XI, the arrogant and tyrauni-
cal monarch of Villons time. and
Marceline Day is Charlotte de Vaux-
celles, ward of the king, whose strange
romance with Francois Villon is pro-
ductive of many of the most beauti-
full phases of the picture, which was
directed by Alan Crosland.
The cast includes also Lawson
Butt, Henry Victor. Mack Swain, Jane
Winton, Nigel de Brulier and Lucy
Beaumont.
Evening star., 1927-04-17
Next Weeks Photoplays

COLUMBIA-Gloria Swanson
in The Loves Of Sunya"
RIALTO-L Lois Moran and
Jack Mulhall iii God Gave
Me Twenty Cents.
METROPOLITAN Milton
Sills in THE Sea Tiger"
Evening star., 1927-04-17
Photoplays This Wee


PALACE-"The Demi- Bride" This afternoon and evening.
METROPOIITAN-"Ven OF Venice This afternoon and evening
RIALTO-"The Third Degree" This afternoon evening.
COLUNBIA-The Beloved Rogue Second week. This
and
Evening star., 1927-04-17
MONTE BLUES first Job in the

IL movies was secretary to d. w
Griffith. the producer and director
Rim Tin Tin. the dog star. was
found in the trenches in Alsace-
Lorraine on Armistice day.
Warner Brothers have signed
Warner GLAND veteran character
actor, who appeared recently with
John Barrymore in Don Juan"
Synthetic SIN is the name Of
Colleen Moore's next comedy. 1t is
based on a play by Frederic and
Fanny Hatton and deals with the
adventures of a young actress.
Announcement has been made
that Charlie Chaplin will complete
his picture, THE Circus" in New
York, but the arrangements have not
been made to go ahead with the
work.
Ricardo Cortez has been engaged
for the leading male role in the
Tolstoy story, Anna Karenina.
Greta Garbo will play opposite and
has been named as the star Of the
production.
The world premiere OF the new
war picture, Wings" will take
place soon in San Antonio, Tex.
Mary Astor plays the leading
Knights al an and Madge Bellamy 80 IS S
working in Colleen" for the Fox
company William Boyd appears in
the knights picture.
Don Juan" Beau Geste." "The
Big Parade" and Tell 1t To the
Marines continue their long runs
in New York.
Emil Jannings' pet monkey recently
destroyed about $1,000 worth of
household goods in the Jannings
home He has been replaced by a
parrot. according to word from the
West Coast.
The press agent announces that
| Eddie Cantor has been established as
"a great star" BY his work in the
new picture, Special Delivery" But
the public will make a final decision
in the matter
Esther Ralston is working in Ten
Modern Commandments" on the
West Coast This is Miss Ralston's
third starring vehicle.
Morris Gest has sailed for Europe
to pick the international cast of The
Darling of the Gods" Production
of the picture will start in Holly
wood in July.
"The King Of Kings" will open in
New York Tuesday. This is the
Cecil B. De Mile superfeature, the
making of which has attracted so
much attention in the film world.
Evening star., 1927-04-17

via FrOos may be remembered b1
many as precocious youngster billea
formerly as Baby Sylvia.
Evening star., 1927-04-17

cast for A. serissof comedies based on
6Octayius Roy Cdhen's negro stories.
Evening star., 1927-04-17
Flashes From the Screen
BY {. Z. NELSON.

a book. otherwise we get outside
advice We go to the author, buy
the movie rights, aud read the book
This is absolutely essential, other
wise we might unwittingly follow
the story. The director whose turn
it is TO produce the next story calls
the actors together and they begin
shooting craps for the various parts.
That's why it is called casting.
The director, assistant director
assistants TO the assistant director
camera men and walking delegates
of the Street Sweepers' Union hold
a meeting and offer their sugges-
tions. In the olden days, before we
were so we'll organized, the authors
had habit Of hOrning i'll. but this is
an evil of the past,
~Fifty-Scven reels are made. The
cutting room carefully measures off
seven reelS-any seven will do--and
there you are!
Yet. with all this thought and
energy spent on this feature picture
il may never gross over $l2,000,000" )"
But, aside from the fanCiful story,
there are a few feature and super
feature pictures which seem to have
been made by following the above
recipe very closely. There may be
more truth than humor in this tell
ing the secrets OF the producers
trade
Evening star., 1927-04-17

A NEW profession has been found
"A in Hollywood-that of laugh
clocking." Film producers try out
the new pictures on various types of
audiences in and around Hollywood,
and the reaction 10 dramatic situa-
ton, action and sub titles is carefully
checked by the laugh clocker Fol-
lowing a pre-view, the clocker is able
to tell exactly how many laughs a
comedy received from the pre-view
audience, the length of each laugh
and the total number OF minutes taken
up by laughter during the screening
of the picture. The Metro-Goldwyn
studio gives strict attention to the
detail Of checking laughs and observ-
ing audience reactions, and TO make
a picture suitable for the average
audience it is pre-viewed several
times. II certain action or certain
titles do not meet with the proper
response, such action and such titles
are changed until they pass the test
Evening star., 1927-04-17

I'D WYNN makes his motion pic
IL ture debut in Rubber Heels"
The comedian has starred i'll such
stage successes as The Ed Wynn
Carnival" two editions of the
Ziegfeld 'Follies," The Perfect Fool"
and The Grab Bag" The new pic
ture IS almost ready for exhibition,
Evening star., 1927-10-02
LIGHT TESTS MADE
FOR AUTO DRIVING
Bureau of Standards Aids in
Determining Best Types
of Illumination.

Practical headlight tests through
which investigation of visibility is be-
ing made by setting up dummy the
size and shape of d man and then
observing the effects of various types
of lamps are being carried on by the
Bureau of Standards in cooperation
with the Society of AutOmotive En-
gineers and the Illuminating Engineer
ing Society. The tests also include
a study of illumination when meeting
other vehicles. &.
This work which has been going
forward for several months, is done
late at night on highways in the vi.
cinity Of Washington. The cars used
have been provided with specisrl test
equipment which includes four head
lamps mounted side by side on a
bar so they can be aimed individually
or collectively. These lamps have
interchangeable lenses of various
kinds and the brightness of the lights
is controlled by means of rheostats
The usual method of test is to set
up dummy, about the size and shape
of grown man, and record the va
riOus distances at which it can be seen
and identified under various condi-
tons with various lighting distrihu'
ton, AS might be expected, the dark
er the night the greater the visibility
for given beam intensity and pat
tern. Visibility is found TO be prac'
tically the same for all speeds be-
tween a walk and 40 miles per hour.
The aim of the tests is to ascer-
tain what types of light distribution
are preferable from the automobile
drivers point of view.
Evening star., 1927-10-02

With the motor truck becoming
household needs and solving the prob
lem of rapid transportation of perish
able products from the farm to the
city, an increasing degree Of attention
is being paid to sthe task of brining
the secondary roads up 10 their fieh.
est peak of efficiency.
This is pointed out by the American
Highway Educational Bureau in re-
port on the subject just made public,
which. taking Maryland for an ex-
ample. brings out the fact that good
drainage is the first step in getting
the greatest economic service out of
unpaved roads. The dairy industry
it is shown, stands out as the greatest
single user of highways in the service
Of furnishing highway necessities.
In the State of Maryland, it is
shown, slightly more than 200 miles
OF roadway are in scheduled freight
and express use, and milk trains cover
by far the greater portion of daily
mileage. More than 600 towns and
villages are linked in with this milk
supply line. Motor bus routes cover
approximately 1000 miles in Mary
land. In other States, the report
says, the ratio between scheduled pas.
senger and express service runs about
the same, and in both forms of service
the towns and cities thus served by
scheduled operation on the highway
exceed points served by the railway
about three to one.
Good Roads Needed for Milk.
mo other farm product" the report
continues. SIS 50 dependent upon roads
as milk. 1t Is product that must be
moved with regularity and speed every
"a hours, and the areas In which 1t is
produced largely are not adjacent 10
Evening star., 1927-10-02
The Old Mechanic Saws:

Id much rather have people tell me
how they We're driving the car before
they got into trouble than to have
'em tell me all the symptoms of their
trouble. ] always tell 'em this, and
yet they seem to prefer TO give me a
full description of the trouble rather
than give me the story of how they
came to meet that trouble.
Everything has a cause. Most car
owners, however, seem TO think that
troubles just happen. That COM
plicates the whole business so far as
I'm concerned and puts me in the
same position as anybody workin' in
the dark. In many cases there was
some little thing in their drivin' that
led up to their trouble.
When / try TO find out what this
simple cause is a lot of customers
think l am stallin'. They want to see
me get busy with the wrenches and
rip the car apart. Meanwhile, I'm
tryin' to get at the root Of the trouble.
Otherwise the chances are 10 TO !
that even IL ] remedy the situation
they will repeat their little trick and
have their trouble all over again.
/ don't know much about psyche
analysis, or whatever they call it, but
] guess ] have TO practice lot OF
somethin' like it in the course of a
DAYS work one motorist came in
here with the complaint that the
brakes of his new car We're no good.
Checkin' over them ! found that they
were about as good a set of brakes as
J have ever found On car. That got
Evening star., 1927-10-02
BETTER ROADS MEETING NEED
OF RAPID TRANSPORTATION
Increasing Attention Given Secondary
Highways to Promote Transfer by Motor
of Farm Products to Market.

intercity pavement. 1t must be
hauled first over roadways on which
traffic is not sufficient to warrant
what is generally called a high-type
road, and vet the unpaved stretch OF
road Is just as important to the dairy
plant as the highly-deVeloped route in
it's approach to the city. There prob
ably is no measure by which to esti'
mate the losses that come|to the dairy
industry through inability during bad
weather to reach main-route pave
ment. and yet such losses, taking the
country as whole, undoubtedly run
into large figures.
Tendency In the States.
'In every State there is "a tendency
under the prevailing high pressure
for heavy construction on main routes
to overlook the fact that the so-called
secondary road is main road. so far
as the outlying dairy plant is con-
cerned. and the result of this neglect
is that any savings which may come
to the farmer after he has reached the
pavement will not make up for the
losses sustained in reaching the pave
ment during bad weather.
''All-weather roads between cities,
necessary as they admittedly are from
an industrial and intercity stand.
point, should not cloud the fact that
connecting roads from dairying areas
also have their place in the scheme
of economic transportation. and that
through the simple process ofabetter
drainage they not only will become
more serviceable to the dairy farm
areas but will function as practical
solvents of traffic congestion by serv-
ing as outlets from the crowded main
routes. Compared with the gains
thus insured. better drainage becomes
a good investment for the motorist as
well as for the farmer"