Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-07

Word comes from Salt Lake City
that, film attractions for which the
charges elsewhere range from 80 cents
TO $50 are shown there al so cents.
A French court refusal to cancel
the contract Of an actress on the
ground that acting in specific pic
tCre would be detrimental to her NOR
ais and ordered that the actress, 81
,uone Genevois. Il years Of age. be
provided with q chaperon.
Film Daily, the movie Bradstreet,
sars that big operators knowing that
the pictures have not hold up, turn
"a to presentations on the stage. Is
It not rather that the cost of presen'
{attons has prevented the pictures
from holding up? The Star pre-.
Aicted that this might be so a long
while ago.
All threat of a salary cut in Holly
wood has been removed, il is reported,
as the result OF a mass meeting of the
Academic of the Movie Arts and
Sciences at which it was resolved that
everybody would economize in picture
making.
Joseph Cawthorne. the we'll known
comedian. is to appear with Janet Gay
nor in Two Girls Wanted" a Fox
picture.
The movies are genuinely scared by
the threat of a general investigation
goVernmentally.
Lillian Gish beat all movie stars to
a frazzle III being sued for S5,000,000.
1t was rather n friendly thing for
Roxy to do when he turned over to the
mothers OF Charles Nungesser and
Francois Coli. the missing aviators,
check for $S1. 1856, the amount raised at
q benefit at his New York theater. Not
many are doing those things these
Gays.
'fThe Four Horsemen Of the Apoca-
Iypse" and Ben Hur" will always re
fleet the greatness of the work for the
screen by the late June Mathis. Be
sides it was she who discovered Ru
dolph Valentino and other stars OF the
screen besides.
Tired Newmeyer, who directed Leon
Errors picture. The Lunatic at
Large" was once a big league ball
player. He started pitching in the
minor leagues and eventually landed
IN the American League. where he
pitched his arm out" after only a
short period. He went TO California
to cure his arm and became a motion
picture director instead.
With completion OF The lu.Ves.
ter" an adaptation from the famous
story by Gene Stratton Porter. Lee
Meenan, +. 3. o. director, is preparing
10 film Little Mickey Grogan," which
will be the first starring vehicle for
frankie Darro, child actor. frankie
did fine work in Judgment of the
Hills" and he also had an important
part in "Moulders of Men"
'Coney Island" a story of Americas
greatest playground. which Ralph
1nce is producing for F. r. O.. was
written by Joseph Jefferson O'Neil,
who gathered the material while work
ing as a reporter on the New York
World.
Roy Darcy, screen villain. made
his first screen appearance as the
Crown Prince in The Merry Widow"
and now bobS up IS comedian be-
cause Of his work in Adam and
Evil"
> Colby Hartman, production man
ager of Loew's Palace Theater, will
Loew's Columbia Theater also in the
same capacity.
Richard A. Rowland, general man.
ager OF First National Pictures. Inc.
has announced the purchase for Mil
ton Sills OF the mos, famous of all
Peter B. Kyne's novels, The Valley
OF the Giants. a story Of the Big
Tree district Of California.
Forty one-reel subjects, ranging in
variety from animated cartoons to
scientific studies, made in the UFA
studios in Berlin. have been bought
by the Motion Picture Guild. One of
them, FLOWING Ornaments" will be
shown here this week.
The Motion Picture Guild is per.
picked. Receiving many requests for
a Valentino picture. the board an
nounced Monsieur Beaucaire" as a
coming attraction, and was Immediate
~ flooded with letters of protest, 1t is
claimed.
One hundred persons We're paid for
eating lunch recently at the Para.
mount studio. Although obscure folk
they were waited upon by an interna
tionally known woman, Pola Negri.
It was difficult work for them as thew
were called upon to eat lunch at fire..
quent intervals. from am. until mid.
afternoon, while cameras recorded a
restaurant scene for Sun Kissed =
Miss Negri's new picture. In which
Miss Negri starts as a waitress
Greta Carlo. suave siren of the
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer studios viii
adopt the Russian hairdress" in her
portrayal OF Anna karenina in
Love" This unusual hairdress, a
serTied mass Of fuzzy curls, is achieved
by the difficult use of more than 100
little curling irons.
Metro oldwyn- Mayer will enter the
short subject field this Fall, distribut-
ing u" famous Our Gang" come.
dies: series starring Charlie Chase:
a series of 'all.star' comedies:
10 unusual dialect comedies, starring
Max Davidson; also d series OF two.
reeiers. called Great Events" based
on outstanding events in America n
history, besides a tficeweekly picture
news service and % UF'A oddities"
Mexico contributes a beauty IN Ho,.
fywood in Gloria DeCota, winner of a
beauty contest in Mexico CITY. WIN
mas arrived in the film capital to EN-.
Dark upon screen career under the
sponsorship Of Cecil B. DeMille. Miss
DeCota is described as a striking
Latin type, and she will make her
debut in The Angel OF Broadway" q
Leetrice Joy feature.
Clara Bow, who in the space Of two
short years has become one OF the
greatest box-otfice stars, has signed a
new long.term contract with Para.
mount. Her next production after
Hula" will be Elinor Glyns Red
Hair"
A STAFF Of IS experts at r1ake.un is
required az the desert location cann
where 1850 actors are appearing in
scenes for Paramount's Beau Sa.