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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Discusses Comedy.

RAYMOND GrifYith. the Paramount
comedy star. like others who have
preceded him. believes that making
people laugh Is the most difficult, deli
cate and interesting Job in the world.
about the funniest thing in the
world" he says, lis a motion picture
company at work, for about the only
thing you see Is group Of men, sit
ting around with their chins in their
hands figuring out situations to make
audiences laugh.
discontinue. probably, is the basis
of nearly all comedy. Seeing some
one else in an embarrassing situation
always brings q smile and we laugh,
for instance, when father Is shown
walking the floor with an infant at
in the morning.
"But," he points out. repetition is
not always funny. You can do a
stunt once too often. In most instances.
too, the audience likes to be in on the
plot. Fooling the movie goer Is a
fatal mistake in comedy.
eve all like what is known In com.
edy circles as 'bob-ups. II the hero
pulls q. drowning man from the water
only to discover that he Is the villain.
an audience will roar.
Comedy should always be clean
and wholesome" he adds. That's
very important to remember.
"The camera lens doesn't lie," says
Griffith, in conclusion. "If an actor
Is egotistical, it Is revealed on the
screen. The player must keep the
common touch and remember he's
lust another Of the pebbles on the
beach,"
And after all is said and done,
'What does 1t natter"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17

HAVE you ever wondered how the
voice of your favorite screen star
sounds?
That has always been one OF the
great screen mysteries. Somebody has
solved it and ventures the following:
Clara Bow, that faming-haired flap
per, has a voice that suits her looks to
a 'T." It is coquettish, to be sure.
but 1t has little tinkle that attracts
ones ear Immediately on hearing 1t.
Then, too. it has little touch Of Erin.
Bebe Daniels may act clownish and
put on comedy antics. but when one
meets her one is impressed by the mu-
steal softness Of her voice, really pleas
ant to hear.
Pola Negri, that charmer from
across the seas! There's just a tiny
note of accent, but hers is a voice with
finesse, with a somewhat throaty quail
ity, that makes her extremely inter-
esting.
Esther Ralston talks like an aver.
age person, If you understand that.
Her voice is not high pitched, nor does
it reach the alto notes. It's between
the two.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Still Hunting Gold.

SEVENTY miles from Suffers
Creek, where California gold was
discovered in 1S49, there are still pros
pectors struggling through the forests.
on the mountains, with burros and on
foot, seeking the yellow metal. For
some Of them it Is almost as risky
as in the early days of the famous
rush" Large tracts are owned by
big mining companies and lumber
companies, and they treat trespassers
roughly. Rumors of rich finds still per-
sist. however.
Recently Richard Dix and Mary
Brian. with a company Of players and
technical assistants, went into the
Sierra Nevada Mountains to make
scenes at the Melone Dam for Dix's
new Paramount production, Man
Power" The dam Is only a few miles
from the deserted village at the
famous Rawhide Mine, where Mark
Twain once worked and wrote. Guides
told the story that $3.50. 900. 900 had
been taken from this ancient pocket
In two generations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Will Rogers on the Job.

WILL ROGERS is back in Beverly
w Hills for period of conva-
lescence after his operation in the
California Hospital, and announce.
ment was made today that Will will
be read to go to work about August
/, as originally scheduled.
The globe-trotting humorist will be
the star Of "A Texas Steer" the IA.
nous Charles H. Hoyt play. in the
role of Maverick Brander, the Texas
cattleman elected to Congress by well
meaning friends against his own
wishes.
"a Texas Steer" will be a comedy
special feature of First National Pic
lures and Will Rogers is going to do
the titles.
Production Of the photoplay starts
In Washington, D. c., then shifts to a
Texas ranch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Will Economic Fairly.

the part of every one that production
costs must come down. AS result
of our meeting each person asso.
ciated with ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS will
do his or her full share in attaining
this end.
To-day a. greater spirit Of co-opera.
ton than ever before exists within our
plant. Specific policies, tending to
bring down costs, will be instituted
Immediately. This Is not a matter OF
classes. 1t is not a matter Of one
versus the other. 1t concerns all of
us. If we are united in this cause we
will all benefit. Every person from
office boy to executives can help, and
at Metro-G oldwyn-Mayer every one
will help to make pictures at more rea.
Sonable costs.
Direct action has already been in.
stituted to speed up production and
to eliminate the possibilities Of waste.
This depends entirely upon 100 per
cent cooperation from every one, and
we feel that this necessary co.opera-
ton has been achieved"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17

ITUST as the dowager queens Of
mighty Kingdoms retire to seclu
sion with the passing Of their kings
so are the dowagers of that greatest
of monarchies-the screen--passing n
favor of newer, younger and more
spirited beauties.
With exceptions that might be
counted on the hand of the once cele
bratee "Three Fingered" Brown, every
queen Of the screen who held her au
diences enthralled six. seven and eight
ye>rs ago has passed or is passing
gracefully into retirement, many with
high honors, but all quietly and un
noticed by their millions of subjects
scattered over the earth.
Dynasties of the screen are not as
soundly founded even as the racial
monarchies that tottered less than a
decade ago. They reign only so long
as the whims of their followers die
tate; they are subject to the caprice
of their people.
"The queen is dead-long live the
queen.'
This reverent cry. which is heard
once in a generation where women are
the rulers of nations, is common
thing in cinemaland.
The great producers Of the cinema
kingdom, who are its ministers OF
state, its ministers of foreign affairs
and chiefly its ministers of finance
and war, are quick to recognize the
waning of allegiance to its rulers.
They are constantly on the alert for
personalities around whom cinema
dynasties may be built. They go 10
all corners of the earth in search OF
beauty and talent to mold int queens
of the screen-stars OF the picture
armament.
William Fox and Winfield r. Shee.
han. president and vice president OF
Fox Film Corporation, are said to
have conducted the most extensive
SCI. 4 for new beauty of all o. screen
lands leaders. For three years ennis
saries of these men have trave-ed IN
many countries making screen tests
of candidates for queenly honors.
South America in it's entirety has
been secured by Fox cameramen;
beauty contests have been held in
Spain and Italy; representatives have
searched England, Germany, Norway
and Sweden-everywhere charges
d'affaires of this great company IN
every country on earth, excepting
Russia, have been commissioned 10
seek beauty.
From five nations have come candi-
dates for the screens highest honors.
Girls representing the youth ana
beauty Of half a dozen nation nave
been signed to appear in Fox produc.
tions-a bevy of princesSeJ deemed
worth to ascend screenland's throne,
to receive the homage or people VINO
insist upon youthful queens.
Though she was found in America,
in the romantic blue grass State Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Dramatized News

HOLLYWOOD, Calf. @.-Pictures
dramatizing the news will furnish
much of the screen entertainment in
store for film fans this Fall.
Bebe Daniels is at work on a ro-
nance of Channel swimming, Swim,
Girl, SWIM" with Gertrude Ederle.
Universal Is preparing to Aim 1.-THE
Vikings" a story built around the
transatlantic flights.
Richard Dix is working on "Shang-
hal Bound" which will attempt to
make something out of the tangled
Chinese situation which a film fan
can understand.
Gang warfare in a big city is the
theme of Thomas Meighan's next ve-
hicle; 1--WE Americans" will endeavor
to dramatic the Americanization
problem, and Richard Barthelmess'
latest, t'The Drop-Kick,'' will be
sprung on picture-goers at the height
Of the foot ball season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Reduce for Arts Sake.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf. @.-In
Hollywood the sight of a fire en-
CINE does not necessarily mean there
ID a fire. or even a make-believe fire.
The horse-drawn engine. which
puffed and wheezed outside q stage
at the Christie Studio recently. was
merely there to help some bathing
girls to reduce.
Eight beauties clad In bathing suits
spent three consecutive days m
sweat cabinets fed with steam from
the fire engine outside. It was part
of the filming of a Turkish bath
sequence in a comedy featuring Vera
Steadman. BY the time the scenes
had been filmed satisfactorily about
80 pounds of pulchritude had been
melted of the eight bathing girls.
Miss Steadman did not occupy a
cabinet, but might have seized the
opportunity II her weight had been
above normal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Record Long Shot.

THE longest '1ong shot" ever made
on a motion picture set will be
taken shortly for 1.-THE Gaucho."
Douglas Fairbanks new production,
at the United Artists Studio.
The scene will depict a street in
a South American city, at the end of
which is a palatial shrine against a
background representing the Andes.
This street Is 60 feet wide and 500
feet long. A plaza, with large resi-
dences thanking 1t. and mountains in
dicating a height Of miles are in
cluded In the long shot, which will
be made at a distance Of approx
mately 1000 feet.
According to Carl Oscar Borg, de-
signer~ OF the set and art director for
Fairbanks, 700 workmen are now
completing thf set, and 1000 players
will appear in the scene.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
An Aviator in Wings"

FLIRTING with death is his pro.
fession; crashing airplanes with
out serious injury to himself his spe-
cialty--that is what they say of Dick
Grace, daredevil pilot and stunt man
of the skies, who has just had his
twenty-fifth airplane crash in attempt.
ing to take off from a Hawaiian
beach for a long-distance flight from
Hawaii to California.
His twenty.second, twentythird and
twenty-fourth crashes were at San An
tonic, Tex, when he cracked up for
Paramount, to whom he was under
contract, in the filming Of Lucien Hub
bard's production, wings" the spec
tacular production dealing with the
Air Service, which will have its pre-
miere in New York August 1.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Ancient Yet Modern.

THE scenario Of 1.-THE Private Life
of Helen of Troy" from John
Erskine's novel, will be prepared by
Carey Wilson, who will also produce
the picture, a First National.
Maria Korda will be featured in the
title role, while her husband, Alexari-
der Korda, will direct the picture.
I'VE intend to make this picture
something distinct and novel In pic.
ture production" explains Wilson.
ut will be ancient in costume and
setting, but modern in its satire and
thought. The setting and costumes
will be historically correct of the Pc
riod, 1900 B. c., while the acting and
situations will be treated after the
manner Of thought and habit Of 1927.
However, there win be no modern
props--that is, there won't be any
taxis running around or the like. But
we will emphasize the type Of things
we have now which they might have
had, in modified form, at that time.
The story Is distinctly a modern satire
Of thought. CARRIED in ancient cloth.
ing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17

nISCOVERED-a book that contains
~ the sources of all present-day
motion picture gags!
According to Douglas MacLean. 1t
is the Arabian Nights" He made
the discovery while conducting his re-
searches before filming soft Cush'
IONS" the modern comedy tale with
an arabian Nights" setting.
"Humor changes in its form with
the age, but the fundamental thing
that makes a given incident funny
hasn't changed since somebody drop
ned the first banana peel' MacLean
claims. 1.-THE proof of it Is that
ARABIAN Nights tales contain the
basis for every comedy gag developed
by our funniest modern humorists.
1.-THE late George Randolph Chester,
who wrote the original screen story
of Soft Cushions realized this TACT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
She Is fundamental"

ONE of the saddest things in literary
~ life is when a press agent with
ideas tackles difficult feat Of public
ity and his ideas will simply not rise
to the occasion.
Recently, very recently, in fact. one
of our local literary Pegasuses, recall
ing that "ambidextrous" meant two
handed, or the ability to use either
hand with equal dexterity and facility,
sought to link the fact with the YER
satile talents Of Frances Marion. the
gifted scenario writer, by making her
fundamental.
Now Frances Marion won real fame
as the scenarist OF Abraham Lin.
coin" and stella Dallas" She also
prepared the scenarios for ''The Scar
let Letter." for "Lightnin' and for
"The Dark Angel" as well as for
Potash and Perlmutter." 1.-THE Cal.
lahans and the Murphys." for "Grau.
stark" and for Paris at Midnight 81
But just how that makes her "ambi'
mental" whatever fundamental" may
mean, Is rather difficult for the aver.
age movie fan to comprehend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Source of Movie Gags.

That is why it was possible for him
to evolve an absolutely modern COM
edy-one that could be played just
as we'll in the present day clothes and
settings-against the more colorful
background of the Orient thousand
years ago.
Chester wrote a fast-moving story
with plenty of screen gags. Our staff
writer's, independently, added more
gags Despite the ancient background
Of the story. everything in it is mod
ern. Yet thorough reading of the
Arabian Nights will prove that the
staff writer's are all unconscious
plagiarists: every funny thought that
has been suggested has its roots in
this older record of cotemporary
humor!'
MacLean believes he has tapped a
new vein of screen humor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Six-Seat Movie Theater.

IT is one Of the smallest theaters
in the world. but it will be one of
the hardest to get into-the new pro-
lection room built next to the offices
of Jesse L. Lasky. Walter Wanger
and B. P. Schulberg, chief production
officials at the Paramount studio.
The miniature theater will seat six
persons luxuriously. Being 40 feet
long, it might seat a few more with
comfort, but Lasky, Wanger and
Schulberg want it for undisturbed
contemplation of the daily work Of
directors and stars on their pay roll.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Here's a Starlet.

JUNIOR COGHLAN, the stowaway
- Of the Yankee clipper. the mascot
in "Slide, Kelly, Slide" and the little
ruffian in ''The Last Frontier" at the
time when other actors are still play
ing marbles, has found the heights.
Due to the talented youngsters fine
work ever since he first entered the
films in Cecil B. De Miles THE Road
to Yesterday" over two years ago. he
has steadily risen until now. it is said,
he has earned starring roles.
Under long-term contract to De
Mile, Junior will have for his first
starring vehicle Let 'Er Go CAL
lagher," a fast moving story OF a
metropolitan newspaper by Richard
Harding Davis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Not Lost in the Shuttle.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf. H9.-Al of
fllmdom's interesting people are not
working in so.called feature films.
Playing in one-reel comedies at Uni.
versal City Is Lydia Yeamans Titus.
who years ago popularized "Sally in
Our Alley" and pleased the late King
Edward SO much with her singing that
he gave her a gold brooch fashioned
in the likeness of a bar Of music from
the song: golden music in which the
notes are diamonds.
She still has the brooch and a smile
as sunny as the one she wore so easily
in her heyday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Serials for Next Season.

FOR the season Of 1929 Pathe an
nounces five serial productions,
all from the pens of prominent au'
thors, featuring we'll known players
and directed by megaphone artists of
proven ability.
They are 1.-The Hawk Of the Hills, VI
1.-THE Masked Menace" 1.-THE Man
without a Face" 1.-THE Fellowship of
the Frog" and "The Terrible People.
"The Hawk of the Hills" an origi.
nal story by George Arthur Gray. dt-
rected by Spencer Bennett, fea.
lures Allene Ray and Walter Miller.
1.-THE Masked Menace" was adapted
from Clarence Burlington Kelland' s
Saturday Evening Post story, "Still
Face" by Paul Fairfax Fuller, Arch
Heath directed, and Larry Kent, Jean
Arthur and Thomas Holding are fea-
tured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Goat Actor Knows Stuff.

4 HAL ROACH company was max
"A ing a Pathe comedy, Flying Ele-
phants," on location in mountainous
section recently.
Finishing up some scene for q pre-
historic comedy. Tommy, the trick
goat, was being filmed in action. Just
as his trainer. standing on the edge OF
q bluff, commanded him to come
hither, a rock gave way under his feet,
landing the trainer on the earth some
feet below. Tommy. displaying more
discipline than horse sense. ran and
jumped over the edge, landing on hts
trainer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Lure Of the Movie

HOLLYwOOD'S lure. which has
II drawn thousands of boys and girls
from hundreds of towns to try to get
into the movies" has penetrated the
stole calm Of the Oriental.
Richard Dix went to Sacramento
three weeks ago with company or
SO people to film scenes for his
Yangtze River picture, "Shanghai
Bound" Ten Chinese he took with
him were augmented there by zoU local
Chinese in the mob sceueA
Recently IA of tho Sacramento
Chinese returned to Hollywood with
Dix. They will be movie actors. they
calmly announced. One of them, Carl
Lysing, a 20-year-old Cantonese. Is
known in Sacramento as THE Chinese
Valentino"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17

4 THOUGH 1t still Is rare to find a
- woman directing a motion picture,
there seems to be an increasing mum.
her OF film uses for women aside from
their conventional employment as
actresses.
Assisting Lois Weber in the produc-
ton Of 1.-THE Angel of Broadway" are
four other women in strategic posi-
lions: Lenore Coffee, who wrote the
story and continuity; Julia Heron. as.
sistant art director; Florence Swan,
assistant cutter, and Margaretta
Houghton, "gag woman" And the
star of the picture is Leatrice Joy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Theodore Roberts Back.

THEODORE ROBERTS, grand old
man Of the screen, is back in
Hollywood after a years absence tour
ing a vaudeville circuit.
So far as is known, Roberts Is the
only man in the picture business hold
ing a life contract. Paramount has
an agreement for his services unit
the end Of his days.
Although he still supports himself
with a crutch. he says he has almost
entirely recovered from the long siege
of illness that kept him at deaths
door for many months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
First Time a Civilian

NORMAN KERRY'S fans will have
~ their first opportunity to see him
play through an entire picture In
civilian clothes when "The Invincible
Lover" reaches the screen.
In "The Merry Co Round" 'The
Hunchbach of Notre Dame" 1.-The
Phantom of the Opera" Annie
Laurie" and 1.-THE Claw" Kerry did
his romantic love-making in uni
form.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Discovered Underfoot

IN the search for new faces the
= movies sometimes see those who
work within 10 feet of the camera
Ernie Johnson toiled for four years
as a property boy. Actors and direc
tors who noticed him at all observed
dramatic qualities in his face, al
though they admitted they could not
describe its type exactly.
Then Director Mauritz Stiller. look
ing for some one to play Smith, the
puzzled. timid religious worker In
Emil Jannings' picture, Hitting fol
Heaven" CHANGED to glance at Ernie
with that face why haven't yor
been an actor?" he shouted, and cast
Ernie for the part.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17

An all-star team Of comedy con.
structors was assembled to lay laughs
end to end without number for Wed
ding Bill$," Raymond Griffith's new
picture. One of the deans of celluloid
comedy construction, Grover Jones.
heads the imposing aggregation. which
includes Keene Thompson, Jack Casey
and George c. Dromgold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
VICE PRESIDENT MAYER of
Metro Goldwyn. Mayer has issued

Metro Goldwyn-Mayer has issued
the following statement:
"The Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer Produc-
ing Organization has united in one
common cause. That cause involves
the determination on the part Of ev-
cry one at the studio to do away with
any necessity of uniform salary cuts.
either on August or any other time.
1t has been established that a uni.
form 10 per cent salary cut is wrong.
I am happy, therefore, that it will
not be instituted.
1T is not and never was the inten-
ton of Metro Goldwyn-Mayer to do
anything that is unfair. At the same
time the fact that something must be
done Immediately to relieve the pres
ent crisis, involving high production
costs, is thoroughly appreciated by
every one in our organization. Dis
cussions emanating from the uniform
salary cut idea served one good pur-
pose. and that was the realization on
Nogales international., 1927-01-02
A. C. STEARNS =

A. G. Stearns, manager of thS
Mexico-Arizona Trading Compa-
ny, -"There has been much
said about the future prosperity
of Nogales and that business
would pick up rapidly when raik
road connection was made with the
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Nogales international., 1927-01-02
Must Hav e Paving
TO Become First
Class City

Nogales can never become a
first class city until paved streets
are laid here.
This is the opinion of Bracey
Curtis, president of the First Nat
ional Bank, in a statement made
Wednesday to the Nogales Inter-
national.
"Nogales will never be a first
class city until we get paving, and
with paving Wen save money over
our present antequated method.
Morley avenue, Grand avenue,
and some of the streets over the
hills should be paved" said Mr..
Curtis.
"The only thing the taxpayers
insist on is that paving shall be
put down under expert paving en-
gineers' advice, and that the
drainage from Mexico be handled
in an intelligent way and that we
receive a. near one dollar worth
Nogales international., 1927-01-02
IMPROVEMENTS AT
INTERNATIONAL
BUILDING

Extensive improvements are u1-
der way at the Nogales Interna-
tionaPs building, 225 Grand ave-
nue.. The entire interior, both shop
and office, are being painted, and
work of painting the front Of the
luilding, and remodeling the
roof and interior, has just been
completed.
When all the repairs are COM
uleted the structure will be one OF
the most beautiful newspaper
plants in Arizona in city the
size of Nogales.
In addition to improvements The
International is receiving each
week new equipment to add to its
plant to expedite work OF turn
ing out numerous orders FOL
printing.
The year 1925 was a banner
one for The international and the
new year starts off with indicat
ions for twice the volume of bust
ness that was done during the ole
year.
Nogales international., 1927-01-02
Annual Dinner Of
Chamber Commerce

Mayor John White, of Tucson is
expected to be among out of town
speakers at the annual get-together
dinner of the Chamber of Com
merce at z o'clock Thursday ev-
ening at the Firemen's Club.
A very fine program is being
arranged and covers are expected
to be laid for practically every
business man on the border.
Secretary J. B. Bristol to-
morrow will send out ballots to
members of the chamber for
election Of board Of thirty di-
rectors to serve during the year
1927. The ballots will be de-
posted on the night Of the din
ner.