Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09
FLASHES
FROM THE
BOUT the biggest bit of news
Of Moviedom-at least from
the producing standpoint
BY c. E. NELSON.

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{ ~ Of Moviedom-at least fror
IA the producing standpoint
"a concerns the activities O
Omitted Artists and the announce
sment that Max Reinhardt, famou
Jas stage producer and manager
Twill direct a picture for that or
sganization. Hugo Won HofmanE
sSthal, Viennese author of de
RoSenkavalier," Electra" an;
g'Everyman," has written the Stor,
and Lillian GiSh will be the star
sAt the present time Miss GiSh
Won HofmannSthal and Reinhard
are working on the story in Salz'
burg.
Reinhardt, who presented ii
america 1.-THE Miracle" Every.
man." 'The Living Corpse" ant
other works, and who has Offered
upon European stages the plays
of Strindberg, Schiller, Wilde
Shaw, Gorky, Maeterlinck, Ibsen
Shakespeare, SchnitZler and
Bjornson, will arrive in Hollywood
in November. During the past
season he has been successful
with his considerably altered YER
sion of the play, "Burlesque," of
fered to Berlin audiences. and
with his presentation of Schiller'S
SThe Robbers" at Salzburg.
Among the Hollywood notableS
who began their theatrical careers
under the banner of Reinhardt
are Emil JanningS, Ernst Lubitsch,
Conrad Veidt. Rudolph Schild-
kraut and Joseph Schildkraut.
United Artists has also en-
ployed S. M. -Eisenstein, director
of the Sovkino- made picture,
"Potemkin," and he will arrive in
the motion picture colony before
Reinhardt. The young Russian
attracted the attention of Douglas
Fairbanks and Mary Pickford,
who saw "Potemkin" in a Paris
projection room, and when they
arrived in Moscow they tried to
borrow the director for one pic
ture. That was more than year
ago, and recently Joseph M.
Schenck, head of United Artists,
succeeded in employing EisenStein
for a single film.
Then United Artists has signed
Irving Berlin, George White and
Harry Richmond, all well known
on the speaking stage, and the
three of them will turn out talk
ing or singing picture, which will
be made in the Eastern studios.
The picture, "Say 1t With Music"
has been Scenarized by Berlin, and
It is said to be a tale Of Tin Pan
Alley, a song writer and his. love
for the daughter of a veteran bal
lad writer. Richmond, well known
for his work in George Whites
Scandals" will play the role of
the song writer. George White
will aid Berlin in supervision OF
the picture and in arranging GER
tain dance numbers that are to
be recorded in the film.
Constance Talmadge, one OF the
United Artists stars, arrived in
New York last week. en- route to
Paris and Nice, where she will be
directed by Louis Mercanton, one
of the French film makers. She
has not had a picture since
breakfast at Sunrise" a First
National product. and she joins
the United Artists with her new
French picture.
So United Artists is recruiting
from Russia, Germany. France.
Austria. Times Square, Hollywood
and the Bowerv
X X X X
PAYING particular attention to
4 "the shadows that cast them
selves before" one is inclined to
the opinion that the coming sea-
son will be about the most active
ever encountered by the photo
play business - both production
and exhibition. Not since the first
were made, over 50 years
ago, has so much activity been
noted within a short space Of
time. Talking pictures, all sorts
of standardization, have showed
the matter of expense into the
sidelines, and exhibitors are in
step with the move for bigger and
better things.
Heretofore American producers
have easily controlled the photo
play market, but they will be up
against pretty stiff competition in
the future. British, French, Rus
sian and German producers are
getting into the field; they are
sending their products to this
country, and many of their pic
lures have been popular with
American audiences. Coalitions
are forming here, there and every
where with only one idea in mind
the breaking down Of the Amer
lean supremacy.
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GLORIA SWANSON announces
that she has arranged with
the Radio Corporation Of Amer
lea to record her voice in Queen
Kelly" her new picture, by the
Photophone device. A complete
musical score and sound effects
eiSo will be a part of the film.
The arrangement was made by
Miss Swanson as an independent
producer who distributes her own
pictures through the United Ar
fists Corporation.
Work on the new picture was
started September 3, and among
those supporting the star are
Walter Byron, Tully Marshall,
Maude George and Albert Cont.
Erich Won Stroheim, director OF
"Greed" and THE Wedding
March," will direct Miss Swanson
It is planned to complete the pic
ture by December IS, when three
copies of the negatives will be de-
livered to United Artists. One
silent negative is for America
another silent one for the foreign
countries and one sound negative