Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
FILM OGR A NJ S
: Bits From the Studios and Theaters

WILL II. HAYS has been requested
wv by the National Security League
TO urge theater owners to display 8
screen slide from September t. to j.
calling attention to Constitution day
September II, which marks the one
hundred and fortieth anniversary OF
the Constitution of the United States
of America.
A good way to kill off thing you
don't like is to give il an ugly or an
Chicago way they are calling picture
houses which charge an admission of
is cents or less shooting galleries"
Columbia Pictures has completed its
screen product for the season with
1.-THE Swell Head
Hollands first motion picture studio.
Studio Eureka, has been opened by
the Hollando- Belgico Film Maatschap'
by at Schedam. near Rotterdam.
Universal Picture Corporation is re-
leasing in London. Mosjoukines pic
ture produced under the title Casa
nova" as prince of Adventures, +"
probably with due regard to boX-office
sentiment.
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.
The coming season will stage a 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.
Lest somebody has not been in
formed, be it known that the recent
visit to Washington of Monta Bell.
John Gilbert and Jeanne Eagels. etc.
with receptions. parties and screen
shooting, etc, was in the interest OF
q newspaper story written by Monta
Bell himself.
Ralph WIKI in Film Daily suggests
that il new title for The West
Pointer" be needed. they use Arms
and the Woman
Milton Stills is TO he starred in Peter
i. kyne's story. THE Valley of the
Giants which originally was intended
FOR the late Wallace Reid.
Florence Vidor's next picture. based.
IL is said. on a story by Alice \.
Williamson. will bear the forbidding
title, Honeymoon Hate
The report that a tobacco magnate
and an automobile manufacturer were
dickering for Universal Pictures Cor
pora alton, Carl Laemmle's concern, has
been denied by the treasurer of Uni
versal and by the tobacco magnate
MIR. Laemmle is in Europe. So there
you are!
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" play by
George V. Hobart, and Phyllis of the
Follies," an original by Arthur Gregor
The receipts of the Fox-RoXy Thea.
ter in New York. which has been called
THE Motion Picture Cathedral" have
passed 100000 in the 49, weeks of
its operation. a new world record. ac-
cording to claims of the mana cement.
1t has been announced that George
Iessel will make two pictures for First
National next season.
According to a chart prepared by
the motion picture section of the
Specialties Division, Department. of
Commerce. the United States has 90.
200 motion picture theaters: Europe,
19.773: the Far East. 1852: Canada,
1000: Latin America.gl .932; Africa.
40. and the Near East, SO. s
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.
One of the millionaire hackers OF
the movies, Frank r. Wilson, pro-
advanced $4,000 900 for movie pro-
duction within the last three years, is
quoted in Film Daily to the effect that
'mediocrity in pictures is driving PEG.
pie away from the box office, and the
sooner producers realize this fact the
better it will be for all concerned"
He adds: THE public ia sick and
tired of the elaborate auXiliaries."
meaning thereby stage presentations.
The films brought two old vaude-
willie teammates together in Babe
Comes Home" Babe Ruth's picture
Two members of his supporting cast,
Arthur Stone and Lou Archer, were
"fellow vaudeyillians' on Orpheum.
Pantages and other circuits.
The popular coffee urn in the lounge
of the little Theater IL patterned
after European theaters, where pa
irons relax and querch their thirst
between shows. Employees of the
Motion Picture Guilds house report
many interesting debates between
patrons on artistic points of the films
on exhibit During the run of
Secrets of the Soul" it is said, there
was more discussion of psyche
analysis than one might expect at
meeting of Drs. Freud, Brill and
White.
Mauritz Stiller. Paramount direc-
tor, needed John Cough for n role
in Hitting for Heaven" Cough was
in Quincy. ILL.,, playing on the stage.
To meet the order Cough had to get
another actor. from st. Louis, teach
him his part in one afternoon. and
catch train for California without
having time to pack. He arrived at
the Paramount studio one hour be-
fore the first scene of his character
ization. got into his costume, put
on his makeup and was ready for
work.