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Had All the Trial of War.

7 UCIEN HUBBARD, who supervised
~ the filming of wings" the Para
mount picture of aerial warfare in
France, gives many interesting point
ers on the task faced in it's preparation
for the screen.
1T took a year and half to com
plete Wings from the time the story
was written by John Monk Saunders"
says Hubbard. An entire general staff
worked months to organize the plans
for the battle sequences.
First it was necessary to fly over
an area of 10000 square miles to find
the one spot fitted for the battle
ground. q location patterned sutfi-
GENTLY like the San Miheil sector.
Two camera men in "a scouting
plane were blown 100 miles off their
course in a storm and escaped crash
ing by a close margin.
when we were ready for the air
sequences a regular mobilization of
planes got under way. \ pursuit
squadron flew to our base at San An
tonic. Tex. from SelfridSe Field: an
attack group came from Galveston,
observation balloons were flown from
Scott Field, ILL.,. and two-seater need
ed made the trip from Langley Field,
Va.
I'VE had to have planes that resem-
bled the Spads used in France, and
the nearest approach to them was the
MBA type. declared obsolete. We got
the last il of these in the country
and in the filming every one was
smashed. Because of this one feature
the picture could never be filmed
again.
For the German planes we used
the P-1, the type of fast plan in which
Col. Lindbergh made his first flight
circling Washington on his return
from France. Two American aces
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Weeps Without Music.

as strongly as she felt its lighter side.
eff ] can summon smiles and laugh
ter to portray the emotions OF Diane"
she said, II can summon tears as
Woll."
AZ a matter of fact. Miss Gaynors
rapid success as ii screen actress is
due in great part to her unusual abil
ity to register quick changes in emo
ton. Seasoned veterans of the screen
have marveled at her ability to go
through a scene calling for both
laughter and tears without stopping
the grinding of the cameras while she
is worked up TO show the latter.
Even on the legitimate stage very
few actresses have been able to make
the transition convincing. n fact that
has caused an old timer like Charles
Darnton, formerly dramatic critic of
the Evening World, to hail Miss Gay
nor as 1.-The Maud Adams of the
screen"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
To Get Into the Movies.

talents Of almost every actor in Holly
wood.
Properly casting picture" he
adds, requires a knowledge that one
can gain only through years of ex-
perience and study of players talents.
If l should select a man or girl to
play a certain role, and the picture
should fail because one person doesn't
suit his part, the responsibility for
that failure comes right home to me.
| have spent days sometimes figuring
and going through records-and
viewing pictures of other studios-try-
ing to find a player to fit in an inn
portant role"
Datig has been engaged in the cast
ing field for Is years, the last two
with the Paramount organization.
Prior to that he was with Universal.
1T was Datig who started the first
casting bureau in Hollywood. Since.
his systems of filing and other detail
work have been copied universally,
lie knows almost every actor on the
legitimate stage or in the picture
industry, and is said to have a
1 900 .00O-face memory"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

who worked in the pictures made the
statement that one P-1 plane could
have cleaned out the skies in the
World War because of its superior
maneuvering power over the planes
flown in conflict 10 years ago.
William Wellman. who directed the
picture, was well fitted for the task,
because he was a flyer in the war
himself, knew all the risks and diff
culties. and had everlasting patience
in the face of dangers and obstacles.
The director simply had to know
aviation as we'll as direction.
There were many forced landings.
two of them with hugh Martin
bomber. which would have cost
100000 had it crashed. The GOODNESS
and skill Of the pilot in these emer-
gencies we're all that saved the
bomber.
Richard Arlen, one OF the leading
men, also had narrow escape.
Arlen was flyer with the Royal Fly.
ing Corps, received his commission and
knew his business He had to make
a crash into a creek. and before com.
ing To it drop low and them come over
a clump of trees. II was n risky hit
trees by inches.
The air scenes required nearly
two months to get NOtor.driven
cameras were attached To the planes
The slightest DETECTION would throw
the object to be photographed out Of
vision. On one occasion we sent I'D
camera planes and 10 combat planes.
Cloud formations permitted me TO see
only 4 planes out of Is while | was
alof1. This indicates one of the diff
cultics of getting thrilling air stuff
The feeding and housing of thou
sands of men was no small item. The
camp at San Antonio was run, how.
every. with military efficiency"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

YAEET GAYNOR. the 19-year-old
actress who has made sensa-
tional hit in the motion picture.
~ 18th Heaven" shattered an hon
ored studio tradition while the
picture was in production by refusing
to cry to music.
OF the many devices which have
been used to bring tears ION the lot
running all the way from telling an
actress she has lost her job to making
her conceal an onion in her handker-
chief-the one which has survived Is
the playing of soulful music just be.
yond the camera range.
1t was quite natural, therefore. for
Frank Borzage, who directed 18th
Heaven" to plant an orchestra. con-
sisting of violin. cello and a harp,
where it would make Miss Gaynor
weep when she heard its strains. But
Miss Gaynor would have none OF it..
So imbued was she with the role she
was to play that she felt it's pathos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
After the Unusual.

WITH their destination a secret,
even to some executives of Para.
mount, the Arm which Is financing and
distributing their productions. Merriam
c. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
producers Of Chang" and Grass"
have again dropped out Of civilization
with their cameras.
Again their trip Is search for a
screen history of some little known
race or region. Again their cast will
be comprised only OF primitive peo.
pies or the wild beasts of little fire..
quented locale. Again nature alone
will act as art director. property man
and costumer for these original pro-
ducers.
So wide has been the success OF
Chang" the jungle film: so strong Is
the faith of Jesse l.. J4asky, vice presi.
dent in charge of production, that
they will again bring back to civiliza.
ton some startling new and absorbing
film, that Paramount has given these
two cinema explorers carte blanche in
their production plans, and confidently
awaits word from some far-off land
that another great story is in pictures
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
Revive Sidney Drew Farces.
TAYLOR HOLMES and Leah Ha;rl

TAYLOR HOLMES and Leah Baird
will he the stars of Henry and
Polly Comedies" modern versions of
the famous Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney
Drew domestic farces, which will be
released by Pathe.
"Sho1ld A Mason Tell?". the first
of these two-reel subjects is announced
for relef, sc on September is.
This new series is being produced
by Gaiety Pictures, Inc, whose presi-
dent. Amedee j. Van Beuren. spon.
sored the twO-reel Drew comedies that
became classics of the cinema.
What title could better convey a
series of laugh-producing motion pic
lures on the trials and fluctuations of
domestic life than the Henry and
Polly comedies?" asks Mr.. Van
Beuren. an selecting this title for
the series. we hope to register I'm the
minds of theatergoers the fact that
Henry and Polly. a happily married
couple. derive much mirth in the
unraveling Of numerous domestic
tangles.
These comedies are to be not unlike
the world-famous Drew series of a
Few years ago, and according to those
who have seen the previews, the 1927
edition of the exploits of Henry and
Polly Minor equal the standard set by
their successful predecessors"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

FROM the office OF Winthrop Ames
comes the following:
while many have shouted or MUIR
INJURED about forming repertory
company. Winthrop Ames has quietly
gone about the business of making
the dream an actually. When others
prophesied. Mr.. Ames. without any
ballyhooing. established Gilbert and
Sullivan repertory.
During the past two years he has
nodded a group of finely trained play
ers into a distinguished repertory
company whose performances have de-
lighted the most faded of urban audi
ences both in New York and on the
road.
Zone Of the joys of the coming sea-
son is the announcement that the rep
ertOry will include not only the former
successes IOlanthe' and The Pirates
of PenZance." but two new productions.
The Mikado' and The GOndOliers.'
With a different operetta each night.
the undecided theatergoer will have no
difficulty in making up his mind as to
where he can be certain of an eve
ning's enjoyment.
"A glance over the cOmDany'S rOS-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
Gayety Shows This Season.

GAM A. SCRIBNER, president and
- general manager of the Columbia
Amusement Co. through Manager Ira
j. La Motto of the Gayety Theater
here, sponsors the announcement that
the Columbia wheel this season
will follow last seasons successful ex-
pertinent in presenting plays that
have won fame at high prices, as well
as musical revues, cartoon comedies.
BLACK and White" shows and one
company of colored players.
Rain will be seen on the Column
bia wheel" for the first time at pop
ular prices. and LeOna Earl will be
seen as Sadie Thompson. Talbot will
present. for second season. white
Cargo" the melodrama that broke
Columbia circuiti records last season,
and "Kongo" also will again tour the
wheel"
Jimmie Cooper will he seen as star
of his BLACK and White Revue" and
there will be only one company of en-
tirely colored players - ''Darktown
Follies." Two cartoon comedies will
be Bringing Up Father
in Politics. and Mutt and Jeff in
Paris: the Lander Brothers in their
own revue: Jean Bedini in a new
show: Cook "a -Doodle 500; Lew KEEL
ly, the dope fiend" specialist; Slid
ing Billy" Watson, Frank Y. Silk, and
Billy Gilbert and Bert Bertrand will
also appear in new offerings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

INTERVIEWING an average of $50
persons every working day of the
year is the task of Fred Datig, cast
ing director at the Paramount studios,
it is claimed.
Datig listens to the ambitions of
nearly every actor or wouldbe actor
who comes 10 Hollywood. This is
what he says:
II have heard the pleas of girls
who won beauty contests. the pleas of
Stenographers whose friends have told
them they should enter pictures, the
stories of small-time vaudeville actors
who knocked them dead in Kokomo.
Milpitas and way points. until I know
the stories by heart before a job-seeker
opens his mouth.
And l want to tell you, YOU become
a rather hard.hearted creature, turn
ing down people because you know
they have no talent. and trying to
treat everybody squarely."
1t is Datig's duty to see that every
Paramount production Is properly
cast. 1t is a matter of knowing the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
A New Colleen Moore Storv

IMMEDIATELY upon her return
from her eastern trip. it has been
announced. Colleen Moore will start
work. for First National Pictures. on
a story adapted from Howard Irving
1oung's play. I'm Tell The World"
1t is described as a rollicking tale of
an inexperienced country girl who in
herits small fortune and who decides
to invest IT all on grand splurge to
make herself famous. Accepting the
misguiding advice of an INSCRIPTIONS
press agent. she assumes a royal title.
with complications arising when the
owner of the title visits this country.
She is Immediately plunged into many
dramatic predicaments. out of which.
however, eventually she manages to
emerge through various surprising
and laugh-provoking schemes.
Production will start immediately
after Miss Moore's return, the latter
part of August.
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Gilda as a Tibet Dancer.

SAMUEL GOLDWYN has disclosed
his intention to give his latest
production, THE Devil Dancer" some
Of the elements which certain critics
of the cinema art have inferred pro-
ducers are not competent to handle.
In attempting to meet the wide
spread challenge to place something
new upon the screen, Mr.. Goldwyn
is to offer one of the most bizarre dra.
matte situations yet heard of in con-
nection with motion picture produc.
ton. The action transpires partly in
TIBET, the curious and cruel nation in
the mountains north of India into
which very few white men have ever
found their way.
This will be the first time that Tibet
has ever been shown as the locale of
n picture story, and many treasures
have been brought from the sacred
city of Llhassa to serve as authentic
properties in THE Devil Dancer"
The story itself. written to suit the
exotic talents Of Gilda Gray, concerns
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
A Bigger Picture.

THE chief statistician at Para.
mounts studios in Hollywood
breathed triumphant sigh, dashed to
a Western Union Office and sent TO
New York the following report:
800 persons We're employed in
making Beau Sabreur. Percival
Wren's sequel to Beau Geste,' star
ring Gary Cooper.
1000 horses were brought to the
desert location at Guadalupe. Calf,
from Texas, Arizona, Wyoming, Ore.
gon and California.
900 camels were selected from ZOOS
all over the country.
300 wardrobe workers took 20 DAYS
to make the 5000 uniforms of the
French I.egionnaires and Sahara
tribesmen.
$4,000 feet of lumber and 10000
yards of canvas We're used in building
the "a tent houses on location.
IL cameras shot SIC 900 feet of film
in the three months of production.
Il and u inches of hard lead and
IL pads of hard linen paper were used
compiling these statistics"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
Acted and Had a Good Time,

VENERABLE John Grandetti. whose
acres of vineyard and finely kept
groves are the pride of fertile San
Fernando Valley. has a new story to
tell his grandchildren.
Recently scores Of his relatives and
friends who had gathered to watch
Pola Negri make festival scenes for
Sun Kissed" were converted into
screen players at the stars sugges.
ton. Dozens of beautiful extra girls
and handsome extra men who had
been called for work in the produc.
ton found themselves standing on the
side lines while Ora ndetti's friends
and kin who had come as spectators
acted before the camera.
Rowland V. Lee. director. took Miss
Negri's suggestion that the valley PEG.
pie be used to dance the tarantella and
other Italian folk dances in the pic.
ture. The scene represented the wei.
coming OF Miss Negri to the ranch
home Of the man to whom she is be.
throthed. Hundreds of brightly col.
ored lanterns lighted the groves.
tables creaked under loads of tasty
dishes, and song and merriment con.
tinued until nearly dawn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
Baby Stars Go Over TOP.

TWO of the 1925 crop Of Wampas
baby stars already have gone
"over the top" and justified the faith
Of their sponsors. the press agents.
They are Dolores del Rio, the Mexican
beauty. and Janet Gaynor.
Both of these girls were among the
10 young actresses picked by the
Hollywood orga IMITATION a year ago as
potential screen summaries. Both are
deemed now TO have more than full.
filled the expectations OF their back
ers-the Mexican girl. who has been
made a United Artists star for her
dramatic success in Resurrection"
What Price Glory" Carmen" and
other current films. and Miss Gaynor
for her genuine stellar performanc
in Seventh Heaven" the new Fox
war film
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
Dickey-Pathe Expedition.

HEADED by DIR. Herbert Spencer
Dickey. T.. X. G.. y. scientist and
explorer. members of the Dickey-
Pathe chronological expedition sailed
from New York on the steamship
Francis Saturday. August 8, for an
extended period of exploration in the
little known regions of Brazil and
Venezuela to make study of native
life and customs, DIR. Dickey con-
tinuing his study of tropical diseases.
A complete motion picture record
of the expedition will be made by
Harold Noice, who is accompanying
the expedition as official cinematog-
rapher representing Pathe Review
and Pathe News.
The expedition has been authorized
by the Museum of the American In.
dian, Heye, Foundation, New York
CITY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
An X-Ray Movie.

Turing a recent visit of an educa'
~ tional body to the British 1nterna-
tional Studios at Elstree, England.
there was shown what IL considered
the first Aim taken at normal speed
with the aid of the N-ray.
Pictures OF the hand, foot and knee
in motion showed the articulation OF
the homes with uncanny clearness and
another taken right through the chest
showed the beating of the heart and
the movement of the ribs.
There seems now no practical rea
son why the whole human bony struc-
ture should not be recorded in motion
for the screen. Its value to medical
students, 1t Is claimed, would be meal
culable.
F. Melbille. the N.ray expert Of Uni
versity College. has been giving his
specialized assistance with these films
for the past Is months. He was pres.
ent and briefly introduced the film.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
Here's a Big Order.

" 4 DOZEN assorted children" were
- ordered recently for Emil Jan.
nings.
They were needed for a Stun nur.
sery scene In the character stars new
Paramount picture, in which Jannings
plays a heartless ruffian.
BE cross to Them" said the di.
rector.
Jannings patted the heads Of the
tots and mumbled: BE cross to them?
That's the hardest thing I've ever
been asked to do in a picture"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

NINETY per cent of directors and
actors in the motion picture bust.
ness are susceptible to hypno-musico.
mania. according to Luther Reed,
Paramount director.
Music. according to Reed. has a
hypnotic influence on humans, max.
ing bad acting seem good and good
acting better. In order to Judge
calmly the acting Of the players on his
set. he has ordered all music stopped
during scenes.
However, Mr.. Reed believes In
music between scenes, as he claims 1t
entertains. soothes and stimulates the
players, all according to the type Of
music played.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
American Films in Japan.

TRADITIONAL customs, habits of
dress and general living conditions
in Japan are. it is said. being power
fully Influenced by American-made mo-
ton pictures.
american pictures dominate the
Japanese film market" declares r. =.
Schulberg. who has Just returned from
Japan, and American society. pic
tured in them. Is being emulated by
Japanese picture patrons. 1t is not Il
radical trend, but it Is my opinion that
the American pictures have contrib
uted greatly toward the Japanese as
sanitation of Western customs"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
New Shows Begin
Saturday

7 EST. it be overlooked, Manager
- Beatus of Loew's Palace Theater
asks that special stress be laid upon
the fact that beginning Saturday of this
week the new weekly shows presented
at that house and at Loew's Columbia
will begin their engagements on Satur.
day instead of Sunday. Consequently
the Palace and Columbia shows here
after will open on Saturday and give
their last performances on Friday OF
each week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
Not Important If True.

TACK DEMPSEY calls his wife.
- Estelle Taylor, Babe: Norma
Talmadge calls her sister. Constance,
Dutch; Douglas Fairbanks calls his
wife. Mary Pickford. 1.-The Boss" and
Gloria Swanson addresses her hus-
band. the Marquis Henri de la Falaise
de la Coudraye, simply as Henry
Gilda Gray and her husband and man
ager. Gaillard T. Bong. call each other
by the same name, GIL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

Ralph WIKI in Film Daily suggests
that il new title for The West
Pointer" he needed. they use Arms
and the Woman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

The coming season will stage news
reel race for supremacy which will
burn up the dollars, with Fox News,
International News Reel. Kilograms,
M-G-M News. Paramount News and
Pathe News as competitors up to date.
Fox even threatens a talking news
reel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

Dorothy Gish is given credit by
Film Daily's reviewer with putting
over" Paramount production OF
Madame Pompadour." The story is
said to be fairly interesting. but with.
out Dorothy it would not go far.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

Florence Vidor's next picture based.
IL is said. on a story by Alice y.
Williamson. will bear the forbidding
title, Honeymoon Hate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

1t has been announced that George
Iessel will make two pictures for First
National next season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

Milton Stills is TO be starred in Peter
i. kyne's story. "The Valley of the
Giants which originally was intended
for the late Wallace Reid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

The report that a tobacco magnate
and an automobile manufa cturer were
dickering for Universal Pictures Cor
pora ton, Carl Laemmle's concern, has
been denied by the treasurer of Uni
versal and by the tobacco magnate.
Mr.. Laemmle is in Europe. So there
you are!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14


in wings" keeps up practice on the
trombone by the playing of which
he worked his way through the
University of Kansas.
Richard Arlen. the leading man in
Esther Ralstons picture. After
ONCE Hours" it is said, holds an
honorary commission as second
lieutenant in the British Royal Fly
ing Corps.
Joan Standing got her start in
pictures because she had a wealth
Of freckles on her face. And for
that same reason. she was cast as
Maudie in Paramounts production
of Beau Sabreur." -.-
Duke Kahanamokn, famous
Hawaiian swimmer is cast as a
Hawaiian for the first time in his
screen career in Clara Bows picture,
Hula"
Four pictures viii be started by
Warner Bros. within the next few
days--"Roulette, a temporary title
for May McAvoy's next, to be directed
by Ralph Graves; 'The College
Widow" in which Archie May will di-
rect Dolores Costello; 'The Silver
fslave,' a temporary title for Irene
S1lch's new picture, directed Dy Jonn
Adolf, and "a Dog Of the Regiment"
starring Rin.Tin-Tin, to be made by
Ross Lederman, just promoted to a
directorial post.
Michael Curtiz has been assigned to
direct Good Time Charley" an adap.
tation of The Rainbow Chasers," by
Daryl Francis Zanuck, with scenario
by Owen Francis.
Warner Bros have given the def
mite title of THE Desired Woman" TO
their THE Outpost" recently com
pleted with Irene Rich as its star. The
basis Of this romance Of ths desert
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

Three stories purchased by Uni
versal, which probably will be included
In that concerns 192S-29 output, are
''The Worm Turns by Ward Rus
sell: stop That Man" a play by
George V. Hobart, and Phyllis of the
Follies," an original by Arthur Gregor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

The receipts of the Fox-Roxy Thea.
ter in New York. which has been called
''The Motion Picture Cathedral" have
passed $4,000, 900 in the 49, weeks of
its operation. new world record. &C.
cording to claims of the mana cement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14

There are no differences between
United Artists and Corinne Griffith.
according to Joseph NJ. Schenck. and
Corinne will start in THE Garden of
Eden" her next picture, tomorrow,
to be exact,