davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Static and "Talkies."

EILM beauties may be emotionally
magnetic, but they cannot wear cos
tunes that are electrically magnetic If
they are to succeed in the new talking
pictures. That fact became apparent
during the synchronizing of First Ma
tional productions recently.
For instance, Dorothy Mackaill was
playing cabaret dancer in scenes for
His Captive Woman" the George
Fitzma.=@ise production. In some scenes
there was a static cracking in the
microphones.
What are you wearing under that
ccstume?" one of the engineers asked
her. Miss Mackaill told him. That
ended the difficulty, for the offending
garments were replaced with others not
so static.
In another picture, Naughty Baby"
in which Alice White and Jack Mulhall
are co-featured, a similar question was
put to Miss White.
Her answer, with blush, was:
Nothing that has silk in it," The
fabrics in her dress materials were
found to be too soft to broadcast. Then
the electrical engineer had an. inspira-
ton.
Its your hair" he said PUT some
oil on it. That's where this static is
coming from" he said as he ran his
fingers through her shock of blond hair.
And so silk wear and dry hair are
taboo on the talking stages at First
National.
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Shifted to Hollywood.

THE United Artists singing and talk
ing picture, Song of Broadway"
in which Harry Richman is to star,
will be produced in Hollywood instead
of New York.
Word to this effect has been received
at the United Artists Studio. This
means that John w. Considine, jr., pro-
ducer; Alan Crosland, director; G.
Gardner Sullivan, scenarist: Joe E.
Brown. one of the supporting players,
and other members of the company,
who went to New York to start prepa-
rations month ago are returning at
once to the West Coast.
According to dispatches from the
East, the company was practically ready
to begin shooting when the powers that
be decided that Song of Broadway"
should be made in Hollywood. A post
ponement in start of production until
late Spring or early Summer also is
practically a certainty, for Richman
will not be able to come to Hollywood
until that time.
Richman is the star of George
Whites Scandals" and he also conducts
his own night club and is one of the
prolific makers OF phOnograph records.
After mapping the production schedule
on the basis of utilizing Richman'S serv-
ices in New York motion picture studio
only part of the time, Considine, Rich
man and White finally decided to post
pone Song of Broadway" and make
the entire talking feature on the United
Artists lot in Hollywood next Summer
Irving Berlin has written the songs
and lyrics
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Began With Maude Adams

men. It was in this company that ne
received the best foundation for any
actors success-a thorough training IN
Shakespearean plays, making for an
unusually clear enunciation.
Deciding he was ready Tor Broadway,
Young Capron joined the original COM
pany of Common Clay" in which the
two Youngest members of the cast played
the two oldest men. One was Bob, the
other Alfred Lunt. Capron's first musical
comedy appearance was with Anna Held
in Follow Me-" He also had parts in
"The Masquerador" with Guy Bates
Post, "The Man Who Came Back"
"Penrod" and Good Gracious, Anna
BELLE" following Roland Young.
At intervals he had been approached
with the query. Can you sing and
dance?" to which ne always answered
mo" One day manager told him that
if he could sing and dance, there was
a part for him in Broadway show at
SIS a week. The salary seemed so
overwhelming. he was compelled to say
YES" and at rehearsals he discovered
somewhat to his own amazement that
he really could do both.
Tiring of the Strolling minstrelsy OF
vaudeville, and meeting Charles Emerson
Cook, he joined the Savoy Musical
Comedy Co. at the beginning of its
Canadian engagement. and now is sold"
on musical comedy stock.
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Meniou 5 Talkie.

A DoLPHE MENJOU will break his
"A silence on the screen in his next
picture, a one hundred per cent dia-
logue production of the internationally
famous play The Concert" in which
Leo Dietrichstein starred in New York.
This is regarded as one of the most
important film announcements of the
season.
Not only will Menjou's voice be heard
In the picturization of Hermann BahrS'
stage hit, but Florence Vidor will make
her debut in talking pictures as the
featured feminine principal.
Placing the unlimited resources OF
Paramount West Coast studios behind
the production, Jesse L. LaSky has
assigned it's direction to Lothar Mendes,
who has done exceptional work since
coming to Hollywood. Included in his
career abroad was a period of five years
spent with the master stage artist, Max
Reinhardt. Mendes recently completed
the direction of interference" on
which the all dialogue picture directed
by Roy J.. Pomeroy, is based. =.
Production on "Ta5e Concert" will not
begin uatp FehrpsH. ...l
Evening star., 1928-12-30

A T heart a pacifst-though in reality
"A one of the greatest military gen
fuses the world has ever known. Such
was Napoleon Bonaparte, according to
the conception of Abel Canoe, famous
French motion picture director, whose
Aim spectacle of the Little Corporals
life is on view at the Little Theater
today.
II have always thought of Napoleon
as man who loved peace" M. Gance
is quoted as saying, yet who was
forced to make war because he believed
that would be the only way to prevent
bloodshed in the future. After the
battle of Marengo, Napoleon found the
smell of battle too strong for him, how
ever, and so the remainder OF his
career was devoted to war, even though
he hated it,
IN the film version of the great
generals life" continues the quotation,
81 have attempted to present this side
Evening star., 1928-12-30
A New Napoleon.

of Napoleons character, with many
personal and temperamental traits that
usually escape the historian 'Napo-
leon is not exactly a historical or bio
graphical film, but presentation of
the spirit and glory of the man that
lead him on to undying fame and for
tune. While many of the important
events of his stormy career are pic
tured, they are merely incidental to the
building up of the fundamental char
acter of the man himself.
mo pains were spared to make the
film historically accurate. The filming,
for the most part, was done on the
actual locations and an immense staff
of technical advisers and researchers
worked for months on the details. That
the film is true and beautiful is shown
in the fact that it was first presented
at the National Opera in Paris, being
the first motion picture to be honored
by being shown there. The occasion
was sponsored by the government"
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Mystery Plays Grip.

in the play, of course, when have
to sit tight and try and keep my mind
on the scene at hand-all the while
some one or another in the audience
cries out some sort of warning. And
then the creeps get even me.
THE strange psychology to me Is the
unmistakable evidence the human mind
takes in reverting back to the childish
state. The terrors and mystery in our
play excite and amuse an audience, who
experience vicariously the delights of
my escaping from the mad man and
other haunting dangers. In other words,
people come to experience in the theater
what they do everything to avoid in
reality. And, perhaps, therein lies our
success.
And they laugh heartily, too, for our
play has so many amusing situations to
relieve the tenseness of the drama I
don't know who gets the most enjoy
ment out of our performance-the audi
efice or our company"
Evening star., 1928-12-30
The Barker

THIS new First National picture
The Barker" George Fitz-
maurice special production, stars Milton
Sills and Dorothy Mackaill, with Betty
Compson, Douglas Fairbanks, jr., and
many others in important roles.
Sills is the barker for the Hawaiian
concession with travelling carnival.
His son wants to join and finally does
so. He interrupts love affair with the
hula dancer and the barker. The for
mer is indignant, and gets Lou, girl
friend in the show, to vamp the boy.
Lou falls in love instead, and the two
are wed The barker is wild with
anger. Tragedy looms, but eventually it
is all Strengthened out.
1t is whimsical tale of queer vo-
cation, and is giving the audiences a
genuine treat.
Evening star., 1928-12-30
FILMOGRAMS
Bits From the Studios and Theaters.
paid $7,126,169 of it. The District o
Columbia paid $226,319.13.

paid s7,126,169 of it. The District of
Columbia paid $226,319.l3.
A portable studio lamp that operates
off his automobile storage battery is the
latest invention of Lon CLANCY, to aid
him in his amateur motion picture
photography. He arranged the neS'
light to enable him to take night
scenes" while camping. The star of
West of Zanzibar" has no less than
four motion picture cameras and a
complete miniature studio equipment
A chorus costume worn by Mary
Doran in the Metro Goldwyn Mayer
picture Broadway Melody" is said to
contain $4,000 pearls. half Of them
being used as a spider web effect
draped from the arms.
Chorus chorines in Metro Goldwyn-
Mayors all-talking picture, Broadway
Melody" plaster their bare legs with
makeup on cold mornings, getting the
same warmth, they say, as that pro-
vided by an ordinary pair OF SILK
stockings.
After numerous tests with various
liquid and paste makeup materials 1t
was discovered that specially pre-
pared dry or powder makeup was the
most easily photographed and gave the
best color combinations in Metro
Goldwyn- Mayors new novelty colortone
revues produced by Gus Edwards, Ia
nous song composer and lmpresario.
"The Trial of Mary Dugan" was
called to order at the Metro-Goldwyn-
Maver studio last week with Bayard
WELLER, author of this successful Broad
way play, directing the all-talkin9
screen version.
wild Orchids" is the final title Sc
lected for Greta Garbos Metro
Goodwin Mayer film story of adven-
ture in Java. Nils Asther, who, like
Miss Garbo, comes from Stockholm,
hos the masculine lead
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Famous Dancer Coming.

writer's. painters and people of the high
est social standing in America and Eng
land, on the basis of the singular merit
that sets her apart from other. dancers
of her generation.
Four years ago. almost overnight. Miss
Enters became one of the great Ameri-
can dancers of her day. She is said
to have broken with almost every school
of the dance, from classic to ballet.
She presents nothing that is not en-
tirely her own conception. She does not
initiate Pavlowa or Duncan. What
emerges in her Episodes" is classed
as something of herself rather than Of
either music or setting, steps or
rhythm And this something Is always
unusual.
Her dances are founded on no phys
ical technique. Neither are they based
on the music. They use the music
merely as a background.
Evening star., 1928-12-30

~ ONE sage has advanced the sug-
gestion that the whole problem
Of sound pictures is to bring the
- voice in its perfection to the
screen, If the movie colony can
furnish voices that have been per-
fected in speaking.
Kodak Park plant of the Eastman
Kodak Co. is the first plant in any way
connected with movie production to try
out the five-day working week asked
for by the American Federation OF
Labor. according to Film Daily. If sue
cessful, 1t is stated, the plan will affect
$4,000 employees, 5000 of whom are IN
the Kodak Park plant.
Corinne Griffith has signed a new
fwo-year contract with First National,
which will include talking pictures.
Universal has engaged William M
Marston, lecturer on psychology. at
Columbia University, as director of its
public service bureau, a new department
formed to psyche" the business from
stories to sales, according to announce
ment. Showing that the industry is
willing to try anything to succeed.
The formation of a company cap
ftAlize6 at 5000 900 to produce third
dimension pictures with sound and
color is reported, and Pola Negri's hus-
band, Prince Serge Mdivani, has gone
to Europe, with complete recording
and reproducing unit to form COM
pany to market the devices in all coun-
tries.
Mr.. Nicholas Schenck, who heads the
Ioew circuit, still insists that the In
dustry has gone daffy on sound pic
tures-and that there is a hereafter,
Loew's is said to have done business
of $50 900, 900 last year.
The Nations total tax on entertain
ment admissions for the year ended
June 80, 1929 is reported as SIS, ,675.4l9,
and New York alone is said to have
Evening star., 1928-12-30

DoBERT CAPRoN, who is to play
the Catlett role in George Gersh-
wins Jazz HIT Lady, Be Good" with
the Savoyards at the BelaSco this week,
is said to have schooled his gifts in the
entire gamut of stage presentatlons-
from Shakespeare to song-ano-oance
headliners.
Born in Northboro. Mass, he rounded
out his three RS in Boston and Tor
short period, at the age Of 10, in WASH
tngton, D. c.
AS a schoolboy in Boston, one OF Bob's
best chums was the son OF John Craig
and Mary Young, of the famous Castle
Square Stock Co. 1t was through
young Craig that Bob was introduced to
The mysteries of backstage as spear
carriers in Jeanne dare" which had
Maude Adams for its star. The smell
of grease paint and the glamour OF the
mazdas exerted their spell, and despite
family protest, he hung around the local
theaters until Otis Skinner engaged him
to carry another spear in "Klsmet.'
Then followed an appearance as an
angel in heaven in "n Trovotore" and
monk in Faust"
He became regular actor when Mr..
Craig engaged him for his stock COM
pany at $40 week. Here in the next
four years Bob played everything from
kids in short pants to bewhiskered old
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Comebacks.

NAOMI CHILDERS and Rosemary
Theby two most popular stars be-
fore their retirement, are to return to
the silver sheet in Columbia's Trial
Marriage" after an absence of several
years.
Both players were original members
of the old Vitagraph Co., and achieved
fame in widely different roles. Miss
Theby was one of the most famous
vamps of her day, while Miss Childers,
who has not faced a camera in seven
years, played only straight leads.
Trial Marriage" is a story of the
latest innovation in marital relations,
presenting the two players in the roles
of the first and fourth wife of much
married man.
Evening star., 1928-12-30
A Million in Motors.

OVER million dollars in motors!
- 1t takes more than pit motor
vehicles of more than Is different types
to furnish transportation facilities for
the Metro o-Goldwyn-Mayer studios In
Culver City, to say nothing Of the hun
dreds of privately owned cars Of the
stars, featured players, directors, execu-
tives and employees, says Leslie Small,
head of the automotive department. OF
the Metro Goldwyn-M Mayer studios.
The studio owns and operates IT'S
trucks and passenger cars, declares
Small, land has AZ passenger cars on
constant call for transportation service.
OF the different types owned by the
ccmpany there are Renaults, Black &
White Taxis, American-La France, Bull
Dog Macks, Packards, Wintons, Fords,
Cunninghams, Reos, Graham, Dodge,
Whites, etc.
For example: We have 3 Renault
Evening star., 1928-12-30
UTHE audience is not alone in feeling

U'THE audience is not alone in feeling
and yielding to the subtle spirit
of mystery and the creepy sensation,
with its thrills and chills. created by
our play The Wooden Kimono," said
May Ward, who enacts the role of the
frightened heroine
The actors are as susceptible as the
audience to the plays exciting moments,
despite the fact that they are familiar
with all the lines. situations and devices
used to produce the thrills.
Strange as it may seem. no two
audiences receive the play alike. One
performance they scream and laugh in
unison, while at another the audience
is differently affected. Back of the cur
tain we are constantly getting thrills,
when the audience waits for U.S. Some
times they really frighten us more than
we frighten them, a fact that makes 1t
impossible for any of us to feel COM
pletely at ease. 1t is always like first
performance and almost impossible for
us to throw off our own individualities,
and lose ourselves completely in our
characteristic natural thing to do.
There are times when I am in peril
Evening star., 1928-12-30

THE devotees of the terpsichorean art
have sometimes their short day OF
fame, and sometimes not even that,
but only once in long while does a
dancer arise who can impress on her
era the stamp of her own genuine
originality. Such dancer is Angina
Enters, who is to appear before a
washington audience for the first time
on Friday afternoon, January II, under
the Joint auspices of the Bryn Mawr
and Wellesley Alumnae Clubs, in a
program of Episodes" her own or1gi-
nal compositions in dance form"
Her success in New York during four
consecutive seasons is said to have
been phenomenal. The London OBJ
server remarked of her that already
half of artistic London is talking about
her; her technique is uncanny." Miss
Enters has won tributes from musicians,
Evening star., 1928-12-30
HOLLYWOOD Is Green.

HOLLYWOOD had a green Christ
mas. Green Is the favorite color
out there just now. Jewels, cars.
dresses all are in shades of green.
Dorothy Dwan, Russell Gleason,
Phyllis Haver, Mary Brian drive road
sters of green. James Gleason has a
huge Packard in two tones of this color.
Tom Mix has a Rolls Royce in green,
and Robert Armstrong has a Lincoln
of green hues.
Lucille Webster wears velvet en-
semble of green. Norma Shearer and
Marion Davies also appeared in green
suits recently Evelyn Brent wears
bright green sport suits frequently, and
favors dazzling green felt hats.
Mrs. Robert Armstrong has dull green
kid shoes, with hose to match, which
she wears with a checked sport suit.
Green purses of felts and leather"
are carried by Mrs. Ken Maynard. Lc!s
Wilson and Louise Fazenda.
Evening star., 1928-12-30

town cars and / sedan, 3 Black g.
White taxicabs, go trucks of varied
tonnage, American-La France, White,
Mack, Ford and Graham.
Seven generators are mounted on
White, American-La France and Bull
Dog Mack motor trucks. We have 8
wind machines mounted on 8 Ford
chassis and l Winton.
There are 2 hearses; is a Cum
ningham, the other a REQ. Three
camera cars are motored with Packards.
There are several Cadillac sedans and
touring cars, and l seven-passenger
Cunningham.
And that isn't all by any means.
We have pump engines mounted on
Pierce Arrow chassis, fire engine, 8
tractors, Is trailers, 3 portable Delco
lighting systems and.a huge commissary
wagon.
"Yes, sir! Over million dollars in
nOtorSt"
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Sound and Silence.

traffic, and automobiles and trucks are
now routed through the north gate.
All the First National stars, including
Colleen Moore, Richard Barthelmess,
Corinne Griffith, Milton Stills, Billie
Dove, Alice White, Jack Mulhall and
Dorothy Mackaill, have either had their
baptism of fire" in front of the mike,
or are preparing to have it soon.
The employees tread softly as they
walk from stage to stage. for the
"talkies" are having their inning. They
don't even whistle at their work any
more on the movie lots. They chew
silent" gum instead!
Evening star., 1928-12-30

WITH the completion of the sound
stages and recording rooms, the
work of synchronizing pictures has been
started in earnest at the Burbank lot.
First National stars are laughing off
attacks of Mike fever" caused by facing
the microphone for sound pictures for
the first time. Streets at the studios are
roped off, with large signs reading:
street closed to traffic. Recording on
Stage A." The fire signal is the only
whistle on the lot permitted to be blown
during working hours.
The east gate has been closed to
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Gary Cooper in Jannings
Film,

GARY COOPER in The Wolf Song,
~ Emil Jannings new Paramount pic
ture, will play the role of Swiss artist
in love with the wife of the star char
acter. Esther Ralston will play the
wife.
The story is an original by Victor
Schertzinger and Nicholas Soussanin,
the Russian actor who appeared as
valet ina Gentleman Of Paris"
Evening star., 1928-12-30
More of Mystery.

VIRGINIA VALLI and CASTOR Glass
have been engaged for the roman
tic leads in Columbia's latest thrilling
mystery drama, set against back
ground of political intrigue in a fic-
titious foreign country. The new pic
ture has not yet been definitely titled.
Miss Valli, who is to be cast as an
agent of the secret service in the new
film, was starred in "The Street of Il
lusion" Mr.. Glass has just completed
his first heavy delination in THE
Faker'
Evening star., 1928-12-30

Madge Bellamy's contract with Fox
will soon expire, and it is said she is
going to quit.
Evening star., 1928-12-30

Colleen Moore is soon to make pic
ture entitled when Irish Eyes Are
Smiling"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-15

Benjamin Calder, of Perth, Scot
dad, killed 80 wildcats in one day
on an iInvernesshire estate.
Anew club for women organized
an London requires that candidates
for membership be able to smoke
a pipe properly. :
Sir William rCockerlie, of Hull,
Eng, escaped trial for tax fraud
by paying 100000.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-15

Miss Lucille Rasmussen, Of the
St. Cloud Teachers College, spent
the week end at her home in This
city,,
"A party of friends and neigh
bors enjoyed a farewell dance at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. L. G.
Lisle Monday evening. II
Rev. C. s. Sparkes spent Tues
day in Minneapolis attending ii-
rectors meeting of the Congrega-
tional state conference.
Rev. and Mrs. w. E. Harmon
and family, of Litchfeld, were
guests of Rev. and Mrs. Earl jew
ell, of this city, Monday. ...
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred T. Mossman,
of Ward Springs, spent Wednes-
day in Sank Centre visiting at
the w. E. DeLaurier home.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Gallea and
family motored to Redwood Falls,
Saturday to spend Sunday visiting
with relatives and friends.
M. and Mrs. Victor Flynn, who
are operating a restaurant at Nor
his. Mimi, spent the week end in
Sank Centre visiting with relatives
and friends.
Mrs. Earl johnson and son, of
Minneapolis, arrived in Sank Gen.
| ire Moniay and is spending this
week visiting with her parents-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. john
son.
MI. and Mrs. A. T. Watson, of
St. Cloud, were over Sunday
guests of their children, Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Scott, and family. They
returned to St. Cloud Monday ev-
ening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steve Christie took
their daughter Gladys to Long
Prairie Sunday afternoon to con-
suit DR.. Van Valkenburg for as
thma trouble with which the little
girl has been suffering.
Miss Merle O'Brien, who has
acted as manager of a National
Tea store at Brainerd for the
past few months, recently severed
her connection with the firm, and
last week returned to her home in
this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. C.. Lembke
went to Minneapolis Friday where
they visited with relatives and
friends until Monday. Mrs. Cos
tello returned to Sank Centre with
them after few days visit with
her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Helms.
R. J.. Schoenhoff, student at the
University of! Minnesota, Mime
apolis, came up Saturday evening
for a short visit with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j.. B. Schoenhoff.
Bob returned to his studies Mon.
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. w.. ". Shan
nor and family, Of St. Paul no
toreo up to Sank Centre Sunday
their arrival being a surprise on
the lady's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. "A. Myhre. They spent tie Say
visiting and returned to their
home in st. Paul Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Tang, of
Moorhead, and Mr.. Elmer Kolstad,
of Fargo, N. D., visited Monday,
November IL, with Mrs. C. M.
Magnusen while enroute home
from Minneapolis, where Mr.. Tang
attended conference of educat-
ors. Mr.. Tang is cousin of Mrs.
Magnuson. '-- ..>.',-. >--'-.:sE
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Segrin
expect to leave Sank Centre Sat-
urday by auto enroute south. They
will make their first stop at Mad
rid, iowa, where they plan to
spend an indefinite: time visiting
with relatives As to their final
destination Mr. and Mrs. Segrin
are. undecidedsas yet. p ~ II.
Great Heart. The high heat coal.
Steiner Lbr. Coz W.